Time.deltaTime issue

Unity Engine
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1

I meant Time.timeScale in title --sorry

OK you can see the below script and this has worked in the past to pause a game. Since I have upgraded to 3.4 it seems Time.timeScale only effects the script that you change it in. For example if I print(Time.timeScale) from this script I get 0 as expected when I hit pause button. However if I print print(Time.timeScale) from any other script I get 1 wether I hit pause button or not – am I missing something? Shouldn’t Time.timeScale effect all active scripts?

#pragma strict
var paused : boolean = false;
var pauseToggle : int;       
    
    
    
  function Awake(){
  	
  	useGUILayout = false;
  	
  }  
    
    
       
 
function Update () {


  
     if(pauseToggle == 1){

       if(!paused){
      Time.timeScale = 0;
      paused=true;

       }
     }
        else{
 
         Time.timeScale = 1;

         paused=false;

      }

}





function pauseGame1(){
	if (pauseToggle != 1){
			
			pauseToggle = 1;
    }
	else{
		pauseToggle = 0;
		
		}
	
}
2

Time.timeScale is project-wide, not per-script. Maybe your debug messages are misleading, such as having “collapse” on in the console.

–Eric

3

Well why is it not stopping everything then? it always has in the past now it isn’t since the upgrade how do you explain this?

4

ok I just put Time.timescale=0; in one of the updates on another script – no conditions – everything keeps right on moving.

The interesting thing is if I add it to a prefab then instantiate with Time.timeScale=0; in Update or Start it stops everything in their tracks.

I think this might be a bug or something. I also added an empty game object with Time.timeScale=0; in Update and Start and nothing stops.

5

I can’t tell from the code you posted. Time.timeScale = 0 works the same as always here.

–Eric

6

Ok well I deleted my game objects and reattached everything – it is now working. I have no idea what happened but thanks for the replies.

I likely did something wrong or missed some detail.

7

Or some script was out of date and messed it. Doing a reimport on the script folders you have in your project can normally resolve such things :slight_smile: