Question Destroy is not working

Im trying to makea pong game. Whever the score reaches 7 for one of the players, the game is over and you can restart. I'm trying to though when the game over screen pops up i don't want you to be able to move the paddles nor the ball.

In my if statement where it says the score is greater than 7 i added a destroy function to destroy the script as it would not be needed.

The code is not giving me any errors however when the score does reach 7 I can still move my paddle. I DONT want to move it.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using TMPro;
5.  
6. public class PlayerScore : MonoBehaviour
7. {
8.     private TMP_Text _score;
9.     private int _newScore = 0;
10.     [SerializeField]
11.     private GameObject _ball;
12.     [SerializeField]
13.     private GameObject _gameOverScreen;
14.     private PlayerMovement _playerMovement;
15.  
16.     // Start is called before the first frame update
17.     void Start()
18.     {
19.         _score = GetComponent<TMP_Text>();
20.         _playerMovement = GetComponent<PlayerMovement>();
21.     }
22.  
23.     // Update is called once per frame
24.     void Update()
25.     {
26.         if ((gameObject.name == "Player1Score") && (_ball.transform.position.x <= -10) || (_ball.transform.position.y <= -7))
27.         {
28.             AddScore();
29.         }
30.         else if ((gameObject.name == "Player2Score") && (_ball.transform.position.x >= 10) || (_ball.transform.position.y >= 7))
31.         {
32.             AddScore();
33.         }
34.         if (_newScore >= 7)
35.         {
36.             _gameOverScreen.SetActive(true);
37.             Destroy(_playerMovement);
38.         }
39.     }
40.  
41.     [ContextMenu("Add Score")]
42.     private void AddScore()
43.     {
44.         _newScore += 1;
45.         _score.text = _newScore.ToString();
46.         Debug.Log("Score Added");
47.     }
48. }
49.  

 

Have you even gone as far yet as using Debug.Logs to ensure the code is even running?

 

Yes, I tested it out with a debug.log. The _gameOverScreen.SetActive(true) is also working.

 

Destroy the paddle and ball…..not the script…

Or stop it from being able to move. It looks like you’re trying to destroy the code attached to the paddle…to me anyway.

 

You are destroying Script and not gameObject. Just replace line 37 with this

Destroy(_playerMovement.gameObject);

However to me make more sense just enable movement only under some condition

if(playerScore<7>

for example. But there is a millions of ways hot to do it.