jacol ima create a thread so its easier

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thread

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alright

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okay perf

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this is my start screen in my hierachy

i kits unorganized for now

know*

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so what scene are you currently in? you can see by the very top item in your hierarchy?

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dcont worry thats fine

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its called sample screen

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do you know where that scene is located in your assets?

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yes

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and its a file not an object in the hierarchy

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in my scenes folder

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perf

yep. should look something like this:

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yeah

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now that is bassically a file that contains everything in your heirarchy

tell me if you understand all of this and ill speed it up

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yeah i understand for now

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i just wanna make sure you understand exactly what scenes are first

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now i understand

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yeah

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so do i create a new scene

for the menu

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yes

the reason you were getting your error was because you were trying to add a scene that was already added

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ok i made a new scene

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you will then use code to transision between scenes

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ok

but how do i move my StartScreen folder to my Menu

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so your assets and your hierarchy are two different things

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ok

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so like if you look at this screenshot

im currentrly in the menu scene. you can tell that because you can see the name of the scene in the top left above the hieracrhy

sorry for my spelling lmao. im sleepy

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ur good

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now my hierarchy contains everythign within that Menu scene

my assets folder is the thing below

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yes

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inside of there are your project files. these files can be dragged into any scene

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ok

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think of your hierachy being like a google doc and then a file on your computer that has images that you want to drag onto the google doc being your project files

you can drag anything from the project files unlimited times into unlimited documents

so what you are gonna wanna do is take your new scene you made and drag it into the build settings

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so do i drag my menu scene into my hierachy

ok

now the error message doesnt show up anymore

but ny button wont work

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then in your code, do something like this:

using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;




public void LoadGame()
{
  SceneManager.LoadScene("NAME OF SCENE (CASE SENSITIVE)" OR INT VALUE OF YOUR BUILD INDEX);
}

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only for the load game?

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so when you click play you want it to load this next scene right?

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yes

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if you wanna quit you wanna close the game right?

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yeah

but i already have a script for this

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so quit you have working fine because you wanna quit the game not load a scene. for the loadgame button you want it to load the scene

yes but your script wont work with the code you had previously

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ah ok

can i delete that script then?

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keep your script if you wanna use it to load the next scene

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ok

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i can also call if you wanna screenshare to make it easier for you to understand

its a little complicated lol

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yeah so for loading a scene, you want to tell it the name of the scene you want to load or its build index

oh wait your code is not formatted right so it won't work

go back to your previous script you were changing

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the one that i asked if i could delete?

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this one

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ok

im in it

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so just so you understand tell me what you want to do when you press quit game

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When i press quit game i want the game to close

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perfect

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which is Application.Quit

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and what function is currently set to do that?

whats the name of that function?

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public void QuitGame()

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perfect

and you have your button set up to call that script correctly from in the inspector?

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yes

it works

bottom left it says Quit!

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perfect

now tell me what you want to do when pressing play

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I want it to change to my scene called SampleScene

which is my main scene

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i thought you were in your main scene

dont you wanna go to the new scene you created?

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isnt the scene i just created specifically for my menu?

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isnt your menu scene the one with the play and quit?

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well yes

but i created a new scene called menu

for those

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do you have a game created?

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yes

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OHHHH

i see what you are saying my mad

okay perf

so you wanna load into samplescene

do you wanna rename samplescene?

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yeah

what should i name it

Game?

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is it gonna contain your game?

so yeah I would rename it to Game

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ok

i changed the name

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perf

is your loadgame script attached to a game object within your menu scene?

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so

when u say loadgame

is it

the script with the quit and play

or just the play that u gave me

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yes

to the script with quit and play

sorry!

my brain lol

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so do i need t he one u gave me?

cause its causing errors

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your gonna use my code but replace the line where you are reloading the scene with this: cs SceneManager.LoadScene("NAME OF SCENE (CASE SENSITIVE)" OR INT VALUE OF YOUR BUILD INDEX);

replace line 10 in this picture with my code above

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ok

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send me a screenshot of your code after you put all this in

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ok

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perfect

and is "Game" like exactly how its spelled

remember its case sensitive

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yes

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perf

and just for future reference that value can take an int as well

so like if its #1 in your build index you could put a 1 in there instead of game

i usually go with strings though cause its more readable

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Alright

now

it works

but

the menu doesnt disapear

when i click play

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it does go to the game scene?

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the button works

it makes me spawn at the spawnpoint

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do you have identical UI in your Game scene you still need to delete now that you moved it to the menu scene

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and quit works

oh

probably

yes

it works now

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perfectr

does that all make sense?

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thank you so much for this great help

yes

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yes ofc!

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i understand everything much better now

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how new are you to game dev?

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i started today

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oh awesome

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its for a school project

im usually doing 3d models on blender

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ive been doing this stuff for 4 years now haha so its hard for me to remember when I started. but it took a while to understand everything cause there is so much to learn lol

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yeah seems pretty complicated

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well good luck! feel free to dm me if you ever have questions

and remember to look at documentation

also Code Monkey and Brackeys are good youtube resources for coding stuff. Brackeys doesnt make videos anymore but he has a huge catalog of stuff

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Ok thanks alot man

Goodnight