C# Calling Variables From Other Scripts

Hello everyone!
I've been trying to find the solution to my problem for more than and hour now, and I can't find one.

I have two scripts: Player Controller (which is also used for other things, and not just player movement) and API Script. I released my game to Gamejolt, and I'm making trophies for it. My game is advanced roll a ball.
For unlocking the second trophy, you need to have 6 points on level 4.
I want to acces the "count" int (which are the points- having 6 points advances you to the next level, but I haven't made level 5 so I can't use if (SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name=="Level5" to award the player the "You've completed level 4" trophy) which is in the PlayerController script, and see if it has a value of 6 in my API Script.
Here is my API Script:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
4.  
5. public class APIScript : MonoBehaviour {
6.  
7.     GameObject Player = GameObject.Find ("Player");
8.  
9.     void Start ()
10.     {
11.         if (GameJolt.API.Manager.Instance.CurrentUser == null)
12.             {
13.             GameJolt.UI.Manager.Instance.ShowSignIn ();
14.             }
15.         if (SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name=="Level3")
16.         {
17.             GameJolt.API.Trophies.Unlock (46732);
18.  
19.         }
20.         if (SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name=="Level4" /* I want count (instead of this comment ) to be the count int from my PlayerController class and see if it is 6*/ )
21.         {
22.             GameJolt.API.Trophies.Unlock (46733);
23.         }
24.     }
25.        
26. }
27.  

And here's my PlayerController script:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3. using UnityEngine.UI;
4.  
5.  
6. public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {
7.    
8.     public float speed;
9.     public Text CountText;
10.     public static int count;
11.     public Text WinText;
12.     public AudioClip[] audioClip;
13.     public PlayerController ThePlayer;
14.     private Vector3 StartPosition;
15.     private Quaternion StartRotation;
16.     public DeathMenu TheDeathScreen;
17.     public Text tip;
18.  
19.  
20.     void Awake ()
21.     {
22.     }
23.  
24.     void Start ()
25.     {
26.         count = 0;
27.         SetCountText ();
28.     }
29.  
30.     void Update ()
31.     {
32.     }
33.  
34.     void FixedUpdate ()
35.     {
36.         float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal");
37.         float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis ("Vertical");
38.  
39.         Vector3 movement = new Vector3 (moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);
40.  
41.         GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce  (movement * speed);
42.  
43.     }  
44.  
45.  
46.    
47.     public void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
48.     {
49.            if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("PickUp")) {
50.  
51.             PlaySound (1);
52.             other.gameObject.SetActive (false);
53.             count = count + 1;
54.             SetCountText ();
55.             }
56.  
57.         if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("Wall"))
58.         {
59.             PlaySound (0);
60.             other.gameObject.SetActive (false);
61.             count = count - 1;
62.             SetCountText ();
63.         }
64.     }
65.  
66.     public void PlaySound(int clip)
67.     {
68.         GetComponent<AudioSource>().clip = audioClip[clip];
69.         GetComponent<AudioSource>().Play ();
70.  
71.     }
72.     public void SetCountText ()
73.     {
74.  
75.         CountText.text = "Points: " + count.ToString ();
76.         if (count >= 6)
77.         {
78.             //Application.LoadLevel ("Level2");
79.             Application.LoadLevel(Application.loadedLevel + 1);
80.         }
81.         if (count <= -2)
82.         {
83.             ThePlayer.gameObject.SetActive (false);
84.             TheDeathScreen.gameObject.SetActive (true);
85.             tip.gameObject.SetActive (false);
86.         }
87.     }
88. }
89.  

 

Not sure I understand everything that's going on here.. But since your int count is public and static, you should be able to access it from everywhere by simply writing PlayerController.count

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. private int a; // only accessible from within the class
3. private static int b; // only accessible from within the class, shared between every instance of the class
4.  
5. public int c; // anyone who has access to the object can access this property
6. public static int d; // can be accessed from anywhere by ClassName.d; shared between every instance
7.  

I'm not sure if your logic will still work, because you are apparently checking the achievement unlocks in a Start() method, so your PlayerController.count will be exactly 0 or 6 anyways, since you advance the scene when it's 6 and reset it to 0 on PlayerController's Start() method. I'm assuming that the Start() method is called when a new scene is loaded but I'm not 100% sure if that's the case

 

Why not just tag player controller object as "playercontroller" and use GameObject.FindObjectByTag("playercontroller").GetComponent<playercontroller>()

Or in API just do PlayerController.count since its static

 

PlayerController.count doesn't work, and I don't understand- where do I put in GameObject.FindObjectByTag("playercontroller").GetComponent<playercontroller>()

 

I haven't made level 5, so as I said, I can't use (SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name=="Level5") .

 

PlayerController.cs

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. PlayerController pControl = GameObject.FindGameObjectByTag("playercontroller").GetComponent<PlayerController>();
3.  
4. int count = pControl.count;
5.  

Make sure you add a new tag to tags in designer and set the playercontroller GameObject's tag to playercontroller

Edit sorry this is in api script not playercontroller.cs

 

I'm getting two errors:
Assets/Scripts/APIScript.cs(8,48): error CS0117: `UnityEngine.GameObject' does not contain a definition for `FindGameObjectByTag'

Assets/Scripts/APIScript.cs(10,21): error CS0236: A field initializer cannot reference the nonstatic field, method, or property `APIScript.pControl'

 

I'm sorry it's findgameobjectwithtag, I'm still fairly new to unity and typing on iPad

 

It doesn't matter, thanks for taking your time and helping me anyways
I'm getting Another error now(Yes, I did type in FindGameObjectWithTag)
Assets/Scripts/APIScript.cs(10,21): error CS0236: A field initializer cannot reference the nonstatic field, method, or property `APIScript.pControl'
I'm sorry, I'm new to scripting.

 

Remove static keyword from your player class count variable

And put the find method inside your start method in Api script

 

Since you've made your 'count' variable public and static, You can access it from anywhere with just this:

Code (csharp):

1. if (PlayerController.count ==6) {

 

Hmm..Thanks for your answers, I'm getting no errors in the console but the gamejolt servers are offline (for me at least) so I'll see if it works tomorrow.