OK so I have used the Unity Event Trigger many times to check for on-screen button presses for Android games. One example I have made many times is a left and right arrow button, which moves the character. There is OnPointerDown() and OnPointerUp() methods which i am utilising (or trying to at least!).
So I have a bool called isLeftToggled and its initialised as 'false'. OnPointerDown/Up both link to a method called ToggleButtonLeft():
public void ToggleButtonLeft(){
Debug.Log ("LEFT TOGGLED" + isLeftToggled);
if (isLeftToggled)
{
isLeftToggled = false;
}
else
{
isLeftToggled = true;
}
}
That Debug.Log above reads out ok, it toggles between true and false (although puzzlingly the first log i get is 'True').
However in my update method I have it constantly inform me if its true or false, and it is false for every single call.
I verified this because the ship (game character) doesnt turn when I try to use the bool to turn it. If I initialise the bool to 'true' and remove the toggle by comments, the ship turns fine.
I have the Event Trigger on the button game object, I didnt remember if I had to add something else to make it work. But I am fairly sure the button is working, because it always prints the Debug.Log thats inside the method being called by the two buttons.
Any ideas why the bool is 'false' for every frame. Shouldn't my code above toggle it to true whilst the finger is held on the button?
Here is the whole class (nb. i thought about trimming out the irrelevant parts but didnt want to miss something important out so decided to post whole thing):
public class Player : MonoBehaviour {
float rotationSpeed = 360f;
float currentThrust = 0f;
float thrustDecay = 0.02f;
float accel = 0.25f;
float maxThrust = 150f;
float thrustAngle, prevThrustAngle;
float maxTurningThrust;
public GameObject laserStartPoint;
float laserFireRate = 0.5f;
private float laserFireTimer = 5f; // the 5 is a random amount just to make sure no delay at the beginning
public GameObject laserPrefab;
private List<GameObject> lasers = new List<GameObject>();
private Collider gameArea;
private GameObject afterburner;
public GameObject explosionPrefab;
AudioSource audioSource;
public AudioClip laserSound, deathSound, deathExplosionSound, thrusterSound;
float deathWaitTimeBeforeDestroy = 2f;
bool isDying;
GameObject shipModel;
private bool isLeftToggled = false, isRightToggled;
void Start () {
isDying = false;
gameArea = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("GameArea").GetComponent<Collider>();
maxTurningThrust = maxThrust * 0.012f;
afterburner = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Afterburner");
afterburner.SetActive(false);
audioSource = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
shipModel = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("ShipModel");
}
void Update () {
if (isDying)
{
shipModel.SetActive(false);
deathWaitTimeBeforeDestroy -= Time.deltaTime;
if (deathWaitTimeBeforeDestroy <= 0)
{
Destroy(this.gameObject);
GameController.instanceOf.PlayerLoseLife ();
}
}
else
{
HandleInput();
CheckScreenBounds();
laserFireTimer += Time.deltaTime;
}
Debug.Log("is left toggled: " + isLeftToggled);
}
void HandleInput(){
// activate weapon
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space))
{
FireWeapon();
}
// Rotate left
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A) || isLeftToggled)
{
transform.Rotate(0, -rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime, 0);
}
// Rotate right
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))
{
transform.Rotate(0, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime, 0);
}
// activate thrusters
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
{
//audioSource.clip = thrusterSound;
audioSource.PlayOneShot(thrusterSound, 0.25f);
afterburner.SetActive(true);
prevThrustAngle = thrustAngle;
thrustAngle = transform.eulerAngles.y;
if (currentThrust < maxThrust)
{
if (prevThrustAngle != thrustAngle)
{
if (currentThrust > maxTurningThrust) {
currentThrust = maxTurningThrust;
}
}
currentThrust += accel;
}
}
else
{
afterburner.SetActive(false);
if (currentThrust > 0f)
{
currentThrust -= thrustDecay;
}
}
// Move the ship in the direction it was facing at point when thruster button was last pressed
transform.position += new Vector3(Mathf.Sin(thrustAngle * Mathf.Deg2Rad), 0, Mathf.Cos(thrustAngle * Mathf.Deg2Rad)) * currentThrust * Time.deltaTime;
if (currentThrust < 0f)
{
currentThrust = 0f;
}
}
void CheckScreenBounds()
{
if (transform.position.x - (GetComponent<Collider>().bounds.size.x / 2) > gameArea.bounds.size.x / 2)
{
transform.position = new Vector3(-gameArea.bounds.size.x / 2, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
}
if (transform.position.x + (GetComponent<Collider>().bounds.size.x / 2) < -gameArea.bounds.size.x / 2)
{
transform.position = new Vector3(gameArea.bounds.size.x / 2, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
}
if (transform.position.z - (GetComponent<Collider>().bounds.size.z / 2) > gameArea.bounds.size.z / 2)
{
transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, -gameArea.bounds.size.z / 2);
}
if (transform.position.z + (GetComponent<Collider>().bounds.size.z / 2) < -gameArea.bounds.size.z / 2)
{
transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, gameArea.bounds.size.z / 2);
}
}
void FireWeapon()
{
if (laserFireTimer >= laserFireRate)
{
GameObject tempLaser = laserPrefab;
tempLaser.transform.position = laserStartPoint.transform.position;
tempLaser.transform.rotation = laserStartPoint.transform.rotation;
Instantiate(tempLaser);
lasers.Add(tempLaser);
laserFireTimer = 0f;
tempLaser = null;
audioSource.PlayOneShot(laserSound);
}
}
public void Die()
{
GameObject explosion = GameObject.Instantiate(explosionPrefab);
explosion.transform.position = transform.position;
audioSource.PlayOneShot(deathSound);
audioSource.PlayOneShot(deathExplosionSound);
isDying = true;
}
private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
if (other.tag == "Asteroid" || other.tag == "Saucer" || other.tag == "LaserEnemy")
{
Die();
}
}
public void ToggleButtonLeft(){
Debug.Log ("LEFT TOGGLED" + isLeftToggled);
if (isLeftToggled)
{
isLeftToggled = false;
}
else
{
isLeftToggled = true;
}
}
public void ToggleButtonRight()
{
Debug.Log("RIGHT TOGGLED");
if (!isLeftToggled)
isRightToggled = true;
else
isRightToggled = false;
}
}
here is screenshot of unity. I think it sums up the problem quite well, the Event Trigger on the right shows its calling the method in the class I posted above, the log even shows its getting toggled to True when i push the button, but the ship doesnt rotate, and as you see in the log the bool is 'false' on every frame:
if (isLeftToggled = false)\$\endgroup\$