Ammo Script Problems. :)

Hiya. Having problems setting up a ammo script for the GUI text I've attached to the camera to track ammunition (tennis balls).
This is the shooter script:

Code (csharp):

1. public class Shooter : MonoBehaviour {
2.  
3. public Rigidbody bullet;
4. public float power = 1500f;
5. public float moveSpeed = 2f;
6.  
7. void Update (){
8. if(Input.GetButtonUp("Fire1")){
9.  
10. Rigidbody instance = Instantiate(bullet, transform.position, transform.rotation) as Rigidbody;
11.  
12. Vector3 fwd = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward);
13. instance.AddForce(fwd * power);  }
14. }
15. }

And this is the Ball Counter script:

Code (csharp):

1. public class BallCounter : MonoBehaviour {
2.  
3. public int ammo = 10;
4. public uitext;
5. void Update() {
6.   if(uitext != null) {
7. uitext.text = ammo.ToString();
8. GameObject.Find("Ammo_Counter").GetComponent("Ball_Counter").text = myCounter.ToString() + " / 10";
9. }
10. }
11. }

I'm not familiar enough with coding to be able to figure out what I'm doing wrong here unfortunately. Trying to build the script so I have a maximum with ten shots firing the Tennis Ball prefab I've attached to the shooter script.
If someone can help me then it would be gratefully appreciated.

 

Please use code tags!

 

Code (csharp):

1. public uitext;

no type for this declaration... and if you want to use canvas classes you need

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. using UnityEngine.UI;
3.  

at the top of the file, then the type is just "Text"

 

changed

Code (csharp):

1. public uitext

into

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine.UI;

But don't understand what you mean with

 

er, no...

by "at the top of the file" I mean, at the top of the script you are writing with all the other "using blahblahblah"


basics of declaring a variable
[accessor][type][variablename];
so

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. public Text uitext;
3.  

 

Okay, heres current version:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. using UnityEngine;
3.  
4. using System.Collections;
5.  
6. using UnityEngine.UI;
7.  
8. public class BallCounter : MonoBehaviour {
9.  
10. public int ammo = 10;
11.  
12. public Text uitext;
13.  
14. void Update() {
15.  
16.   if(uitext != null) {
17.  
18. uitext.text = ammo.ToString();
19.  
20. GameObject.Find("Ammo_Counter").GetComponent("Ball_Counter").text =
21.  
22. myCounter.ToString() + " / 10";
23.  
24. }
25.  
26. }
27.  
28. }

problem with Text from 'public Text uitext' the type couldn't be found. And for 'UnityEngine.UI', UI doesn't exist in the namespace UnityEngine.

 

Look at your own post. Does that look legible to you? It's really hard to help you if we can't read your code!

Anyways, what version of Unity are you on? UnityEngine.UI has been around for well over a year now. If you get an "UI doesn't exist in UnityEngine" error, it sounds like you're on a Unity version that's older than 4.6.

 

I think mine's U 4.5? was planning to get it updated once I didn't need it for latest project (S*** download rate at home).

 

The GUI text system doesn't exist in 4.5, so it'll be pretty hard for you to use it!

You can either use the old OnGUI system, or upgrade to a newer Unity version (5.4 is the latest). Note that there were a bunch of breaking changes from Unity 4 to 5.

You can also get the latest version of 4 if you dig around on the download sections.