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[grave beacon]

Hello! can you explain what button you want to press?

[summer patio]

im making a 3d runner and the player needs to freeze when i press the pause button and i cant find out how to disable the script of the player running when i press pause

This is where im up to

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class PauseMenu : MonoBehaviour

{

[SerializeField] GameObject pauseMenu;

public void Pause()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
}

public void Home()
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu");
}

public void Resume()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(false);

}

}

[grave beacon]

It may not be the best way to do it but if you want to disable the script, you use:

enabled = false;

[summer patio]

ill try it

[grave beacon]

it might be better to have a paused variable somewhere your player can check in update() and return before doing any work.

[summer patio]

yeah

so ive added this little bit at the bottom but it said that "Player Movement is a type but not a vairiable"

public void Pause()
{
pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
PlayerMovement = false;
}

[grave beacon]

you need the instance of PlayerMovement used by your player

[summer patio]

so how would i make PlayerMovement a vairiable

[grave beacon]

you can have a serialized field and assign this in your scene or use FindGameObjectEtc..

Do you create/destroy your player during gameplay?

[summer patio]

i have tried using serialize field but i kept on getting errors

[summer patio]

no

[grave beacon]

Then put;

[summer patio]

ok

[grave beacon]

public YourMovementClassName thePlayer; at the top

and use thePlayer.enabled = false;

[summer patio]

ooo ok

[grave beacon]

then assign the player to this in your scene just like you did for the pause menu UI

[summer patio]

ok

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class PauseMenu : MonoBehaviour
public PlayerMovement ThePlayer;

{

[SerializeField] GameObject pauseMenu;

public void Pause()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
    Player.Enabled=false;
}

public void Home()
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu");
}

public void Resume()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(false);

}

}
im still getting many errors any other thing maybe i did smthin wrong

[grave beacon]

too high

public PlayerMovement ThePlayer;

[summer patio]

ohh

[grave beacon]

this needs to go inside the class

after the {

[summer patio]

sorry where

so inside public void pause

[grave beacon]

public class PauseMenu : MonoBehaviour

• public PlayerMovement ThePlayer;

{

public class PauseMenu : MonoBehaviour
{

public PlayerMovement ThePlayer;

[summer patio]

ohh ok

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class PauseMenu : MonoBehaviour
{
public PlayerMovement ThePlayer;
}
{

[SerializeField] GameObject pauseMenu;

public void Pause()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
    Player.Enabled=false;
}

public void Home()
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu");
}

public void Resume()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(false);

}

}

is it this

[dense locust]

I also reckon .enabled is lowercase,
If you have your code editor properly set up you should get little red squigglies when something is mistyped. And if not, I think getting it set up would make things a lot easier for you :D

[grave beacon]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class PauseMenu : MonoBehaviour
{
public PlayerMovement ThePlayer;
[SerializeField] GameObject pauseMenu;

public void Pause()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
    Player.Enabled=false;
}

public void Home()
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu");
}

public void Resume()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(false);

}

}

[summer patio]

ok thanks sm ill try it

[summer patio]

ok thanks

YESSS i got no errors thanks sm

[grave beacon]

cool beans

[summer patio]

so on the right ive got the script attached but it is not stopping the player

[dense locust]

Are you calling the Pause() function from your pause button?

[summer patio]

so i need the player to be able to attach a script to it

[summer patio]

it should be

so on the right i need the PlayerMovement script to be there to disable it

[dense locust]

You've already specified the script type (PlayerMovement) in the script, so the selection window will display all gameobjects with that script attached to them. All you need to do is select gorilla player from the list.

[summer patio]

i have but it wont freeze the gorilla

[dense locust]

Does your pause button gameobject actually invoke the Pause() function though?
And keep in mind that your Lava Monks also seemingly has a PlayerMovement script, which won't be disabled from your current script.

[summer patio]

i know i will have to add the lava monks in but im just trying to get the first script right

[broken harness]

What currently calls Pause()?

[summer patio]

the pause scene

[broken harness]

Show where you call Pause() from

[summer patio]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class PauseMenu : MonoBehaviour
{
public PlayerMovement Player;
[SerializeField] GameObject pauseMenu;

public void Pause()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
    Player.enabled = false;
}

public void Home()
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu");
}

public void Resume()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(false);

}

}

this is my script

[broken harness]

That doesn't answer me

Where do you call Pause()

[dense locust]

Show us a screenshot of the inspector window for your pause button gameobject. You need to have a button component and hook up the OnClick event to the Pause function.

[summer patio]

im not sure

[broken harness]

It doesn't matter what the function does if you never actually call it anywhere

[dense locust]

pause Button, not pause menu ;)

[summer patio]

ik

[dense locust]

You have to make sure that clicking the button actually calls your new Pause() function.

[summer patio]

it dose

[dense locust]

Yeah that looks correct to me

[broken harness]

Okay, there we go. Other than your apparently missing scripts which you should probably get rid of. Assuming that you dragged in the Pause Menu you showed in the previous screenshot, that should call the function when you click on it

[dense locust]

I suspect PlayerMovement might only be in charge of player controls (left-right) and not the actual gameplay loop

[summer patio]

so instead of pause menu i put paus button

[dense locust]

No, your setup there looks right

[summer patio]

no it has the player forward speed

[dense locust]

And there's no other script under eg. "LevelControls" doing stuff?
( Might help if you post the PlayerMovement code too )

[summer patio]

YESSSSSSS

I got it

Thanks so much guys

i had the script on the gorilla aswel so i got rid of it and it worked

so ive got the player stopping but ive done the exact same to the lava monks but it aint working any idea?

[dense locust]

You might want to try a different approach to pausing that's gives you a bit more flexibility.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class PauseMenu : MonoBehaviour 
{
    public static bool IsPaused = false;
    [SerializeField] GameObject pauseMenu;

    public void Pause()
    {
        pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
        IsPaused = true;
    }

    public void Home() {
        SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu");
    }

    public void Resume()
    {
        pauseMenu.SetActive(false);
        IsPaused = false;
    }
}

Then you simply do

public class MyOtherScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Update()
    {
        if (PauseMenu.IsPaused) {
            // By doing this IsPaused check here and calling return,
            // the rest of the code in this method won't run
            return; 
        }
        
        // Other code (that won't run when the game is paused)
        Blabla();
    }
}```

👆 This way you can easily check for IsPaused in any method you want to not run when the game is paused.

[summer patio]

so "is paused" is another way of saying "Player.enabled=false"

just shorter

[dense locust]

Player.enabled will disable the whole script component.
IsPaused is just a variable we set to true or false, to indicate whether the game logic should run or not

[summer patio]

can i ask what a bool dose

[dense locust]

a bool is just true or false,

[summer patio]

ohh k

so i have done the same thingto the lava monks but it is not working ive changed the script so it is not the asme a sthe player one but it isnt pausing the lava

i have a seprate script for each one naming them 1 2 3

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class Lava1movepause : MonoBehaviour
{
public LavaMovement1 Lava;
[SerializeField] GameObject pauseMenu;

public void Pause()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(true);
    Lava.enabled = false;
}

public void Home()
{
    SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu");
}

public void Resume()
{
    pauseMenu.SetActive(false);
    Lava.enabled = true;

}

}

why might this not be working

[dense locust]

The honest and kinda boring answer here is because you don't really know what you're doing. I think learning by doing is great and I hope someone else chimes in ( I have to hop off )- But until then I'd really recommend you check out some beginner C# tutorials (not necessarily Unity related).

I really like Mosh' stuff :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfkTfcpWqAY&list=PLTjRvDozrdlz3_FPXwb6lX_HoGXa09Yef