Question Counter goes up even if player is dead, how to solve?

I started making my first game and it is a clone of flappy bird. The issue that i have is that even after i die, if it happens to pass trough the trigger, it still gets a point up, but i want it to stop as soon as the bird is dead. I know how to reference the bird but i dont know the code line to stop the counter from going up.

 

If the player is dead, don't move the counter up.

If you have a reference to the player you can check if it has been destroyed.

Code (csharp):

1. if (PlayerReference)   // coerces it to a bool
2. {
3.   // increase score
4. }

 

the script with the code you wrote is within a prefab so i referenced the the movement script of my bird but it doesnt really reference the players birdsAlive bool

 

I got it, its fine. I tried again now and realized i can reference birdsAlive with a public movement deathBird to reference the script and with the line deathBird.birdsAlive == true i solved it. If it is true then it should add a score if not, it shouldnt.