Resolved Boolean won't let me change it when the game is running.

Code (CSharp):

1. void Update()
2.     {
3.         if (shouldFadeToBlack)
4.         {
5.             fadeScreen.color = new Color(fadeScreen.color.r, fadeScreen.color.g, fadeScreen.color.b, Mathf.MoveTowards(fadeScreen.color.a, 1f, fadeSpeed * Time.deltaTime));
6.             if (fadeScreen.color.a == 1f)
7.             {
8.                 shouldFadeToBlack = false;
9.             }
10.         }
11.     }

This code is meant to fade the screen to black whenever the boolean shouldFadeToBlack is true, and yet for some reason unity won't even let me make the value true in the editor.

It's hard to demonstrate, but in the video below whenever the game is running it won't let me change the value of shouldFadeToBlack, but when the game isn't running I can change it just fine.

does anybody have an idea what the problem is?

 

are you sure fadeScreen.color.a is set to 0 when the boolean is set to true? it looks like the alpha channel is never reset

 

Figured it out. The alpha value was already 1 so it kept turning the value false, i just couldn't see that because I deactivated the image

 

yeah that was the problem lol, i just had the image deactivated so I didn't notice

 

Yes: when the game is running, your code is setting shouldFadeToBlack to false as soon as you're clicking it true.

I don't know why exactly, but that's what's happening. I use bools to trigger things from the inspector sometimes, resetting them to false in code, and that's the behaviour I see: I never get to see the tick.