variable not being changed outside of a method. [C#]

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Hi, guys, hard to explain my issue in the title so I am glad you have clicked this :smiley:

Basically, I have a variable called housingNode that increases by 1 when a button is pressed, this works as tested with a debug.log but then in another method i have a variable called populationNode that is supposed to by housingNode multiplied by 5 yet it is always equal to 0 when called.

I hope these pictures help:

Imgur: The magic of the Internet This picture is of the Population class that is what I was referring to. I know the GainPopulation() works as It was successfully making populationNode equal to 1 * 5 but not equal to housingNode * 5, it always equaled 0.
Imgur: The magic of the Internet This picture isn’t really needed but it just shows where the GainPopulation method is being called every second, this works as I have tested it but it may help in resolving the issue.
I hope I haven’t missed the obvious due to not having coded in a while. Thanks in advance for your help :smiley:

I managed to fix the issue. Well, kind of a workaround more than fix it I believe but it works now.

I created a new function in my Global_Tick script that, when called, ran the GainHousing() method from the Population script via an instance of the Population script.

thanks for the help.

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Based on the screen shots you shared.

Are you calling population.Gainhousing() further down the script shown that handles the GlobalTickfunction() ?

By what you’re describing and what you’re showing in the screen shots I think you’re calling the methods on different instances of your population class.

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Firstly: make sure you are calling the GainHousing() function (can’t see it called in the pictures provided). Otherwise housingNode will always equal zero.

Second: where is your button pressed function? If it is inside Global_Tick, population.GainHousing() will work. Otherwise you need to go through your Global_Tick class variable. eg. Global_Tick.population.GainHousing().

Hopefully this helps!

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I managed to fix the issue. Well, kind of a workaround more than fix it I believe but it works now.

I created a new function in my Global_Tick script that, when called, ran the GainHousing() method from the Population script via an instance of the Population script.

thanks for the help.