Why isn't LateUpdate detecting changes from Update?

Questions & Answers
1

I’m having a problem where in the Update of one script, I set the transform of an object, then set a variable in another script to true.

movingPiece.transform.position = temp;

		NewTurn ();

		BoardSetup.updateBoard = true;

Then, in the BoardSetup script, in Update, it tells each space of the board that it needs to update.

	void Update () {

		if (GameControlScript.endOfTurn || updateBoard) {

			UpdateBoard();
			updateBoard = false;

		}

	}

	void UpdateBoard() {

		foreach (GameObject boardSpace in boardSpaces) {

			BoardSpaceScript spaceScript = boardSpace.GetComponent<BoardSpaceScript>();
			spaceScript.needToUpdate = true;


		}
	}

Finally, in the BoardSpaceScript, in LateUpdate, it checks if there’s something above it.

	void CheckOccupier() {

		RaycastHit hit;

		if(Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.up, out hit, 3f)){

			occupier = hit.transform.gameObject;
			isOccupied = true;
			BoardPieceScript pieceScript = occupier.GetComponent<BoardPieceScript>();
			if (occupier.tag == "Piece")
				BoardSetup.gameBoard[xPos,yPos] = pieceScript.pieceID;

		} else {

			isOccupied = false;
			occupier = null;
			BoardSetup.gameBoard[xPos,yPos] = 0f;

		}
	}

However, it won’t detect the object if it’s transform wasn’t above it in that frame. Shouldn’t it already have moved over it by the time LateUpdate is called?

2

Those 1st two code chunks just confused me.

I’ve never had a problem with it, but, from the docs “If you move colliders from scripting or by animation, there needs to be at least one FixedUpdate executed.” I think this may also depend on rigid body status (but, again, script-move+raycast always works for me.) But I’d only suspect this if everything else in LateUpdate is for sure working, and the problem was narrowed down to the raycast.

If you have a grid, you could not raycast. You can just compute the square(s) you’re in. If squares are 2 units wide, and DinoBoy is at x=5.5, he’s leaving square 3, and mostly in square 4.