Why does my Gem counter not work? (screenshot included for explanation / easy code)

[nathanvj]

Hey everyone,

I have four UI text on my canvas:

• blueGemText
• greenGemText
• redGemText
• diamondGemText

Now, I have this following script attached to each of the Text elements.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class GemCounter : MonoBehaviour {

	static Text scoreText;

	//bools
	public bool blueGem = false;
	public bool greenGem = false;
	public bool redGem = false;
	public bool diamondGem = false;

	void Start () {
		scoreText = gameObject.GetComponent<Text> ();
	}

	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {

		if (blueGem) {
			scoreText.text = Score.blueGems.ToString ();
		} 
		if (greenGem) {
			scoreText.text = Score.greenGems.ToString ();
		}
		if (redGem) {
			scoreText.text = Score.redGems.ToString ();
		}
		if (diamondGem) {
			scoreText.text = Score.diamondGems.ToString ();
		}
	}
}

On each UI Text I set the correct boolean. For example on the blueGemText I checked the ‘blueGem’ boolean set to true. Now when I run the game only the blue gem counter gets updated every time I pick up a blue gem. The green, red, and diamond counter all stay the same. (However, when I die, and the scene resets, it suddenly starts counting the green diamonds and the rest stays the same)

I already also tried using ‘else if’ statements and using tags, but that didn’t work either.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks in advance – Nathan.

Including screenshot for reference:

[DiegoSLTS]

static Text scoreText;

Remove that “static” keyword. All the scripts are overwriting the same variable with it’s own reference to a text component, and after that they all update the last one.