Can't get objects to stop moving after Pausing

Hi I'm creating a Mobile endless game. I have some code in my GameManager script for a Pause button. I have a pause menu that comes up. The menu comes up just fine, and it will pause the game, but if an obstacle was already spawned before I hit the Pause button then that obstacle keeps moving even when I paused it and the menu appears. Any ideas on how to prevent the obstacles from still moving? I can't find this anywhere online for Mobile. Just want to pause everything basically.

I didn't post my entire GameManager code, just the part where i coded the Pause button. Thank you for any help.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. public GameObject pausePanel;
3. public static bool GameIsPaused = false;
4.  
5. public void Resume()
6.     {
7.         pausePanel.SetActive(false);
8.         Time.timeScale = 1f;
9.         GameIsPaused = false;
10.     }
11.  
12.     public void Pause()
13.     {
14.         pausePanel.SetActive(true);
15.         Time.timeScale = 0f;
16.         GameIsPaused = true;
17.     }
18.  
19.     public void LoadMenu()
20.     {
21.         Time.timeScale = 1f;
22.         SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu");
23.  
24.         if (instance == null)
25.         {
          
26.            instance = this;
          
27.            DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
      
28.          }
      
29.          else
      
30.          {
          
31.             Destroy(gameObject);
      
32.          }
33.     }
34.  

 

1. make sure your objects move according to Time.deltaTime. If not, they'll continue to move

2. make sure your Pause function is actually being called:
- make a Debug.Log() call inside it
- display the Time.timeScale in the log during your Update() loop to make sure someone else isn't setting it back to 1

 

It would be helpful to see the code that is controlling the movement of your obstacles, but yeah pretty much what Kurt said. If you are not incorporating either Time.deltaTime or Time.time into the calculations for the motion of your obstacles, they won't care at all about what the value of Time.timeScale is.

 

Hi thank you for responding. Here is my obstacle movement code

Code (CSharp):

1. public class ObstacleMovement : MonoBehaviour {

    
2.  
3. [SerializeField] float moveSpeed;

    
4. public int ColorID;
    
5. public bool isEnemy = false;
    
6. public float yThreshhold = 10f;
7.  
8. [HideInInspector]
    public bool isDying = false;
9.  
10. 
     private void Awake()
    
11.      {
          
12.          isDying = false;
        
13.          moveSpeed = Random.Range(0.04f, 0.04f);       
    
14.      } 


    
15.  
16.    void Update()
    
17.     {
        
18.            Vector3 currentpos = transform.position;
        
19.            currentpos.y += moveSpeed; // * Time.deltaTime;      
20.            transform.position = currentpos;
21.  
22. 
            if (transform.position.y > yThreshhold || !GameManager.instance.bGameStarted) 
        
23.             {
                      
24.                 Destroy(transform.gameObject);
        
25.             }
    
26.       }

    
27.  
28.     private void FixedUpdate()
    
29.     {
30.      }

31. }
32.  

When I uncomment the *Time.deltaTime in the Update function, the obstacles don't move at all.

 

They are moving, just really slowly. Your movement speed is set as .04 units per second. Try increasing the movementSpeed.

 

Nice. You’re absolutely right. I bumped up the speed a little bit and didn’t do much but now I bumped it up to 3f and they moved just fine. My bad. Thank you again for your help.

 

Thank you for your help! Works good now.