Health in UI not updating when player dies

Hi, I'm very new to C# and programming in general but I've been trying to make a basic platformer. However, the UI that I just added to the script won't update the player's health to 0 when the player's gameObject is destroyed and the gameOver panel pops up. It just remains at whatever health the player has before the player dies.

Also, as a side question, I've been trying to use Debug.Log(health); to show me what the health is every time it's being updated, but for some reason health isn't showing up in the debugger? Are there specific places in code where I'm limited to using this? I clicked all three of the error types on the right of the console and the debugger is working for my score variable in another script, so I'm really confused.

I've been following simple 2D tutorials from Blackthornprod and Brackeys for most of the code. I've been stuck on this same bug for hours, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Code (CSharp):

1. public class Player : MonoBehaviour {
2.     // player health
3.     public int health = 3;
4.  
5.     // establishing a fall boundary
6.     private int fallBoundary = -20;
7.  
8.     // object to display game over panel
9.     public GameObject gameOver;
10.  
11.     // effect to be used when game is over
12.     public GameObject obstacleEffect;
13.  
14.     // variable to display health
15.     public Text healthDisplay;
16.  
17.     private void Update () {
18.         // display health by converting to string
19.         healthDisplay.text = health.ToString();
20.  
21.         // damage player a lot if player falls
22.         if (transform.position.y <= fallBoundary){
23.             DamagePlayer(health);
24.         }
25.     }
26.  
27.     // player dies if health goes below 0
28.     public void DamagePlayer(int damage) {
29.         health -= damage;
30.         // kill player by destroying game object
31.         if ((health <= 0) && (GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player") != null)) {
32.             gameOver.SetActive(true);
33.             Destroy(gameObject);
34.         }
35.     }
36. }

 

The console window has a few colored buttons in the upper right corner, one for log, warning and error. Make sure they are enabled otherwise that type of message will be hidden.

If those are enabled, then the likely explanation is that your code is not actually being called.

 

Thanks for the reply!
I enabled all three of those buttons. The code apparently is only being called when the player hasn't died yet, which is bizarre to me.

 

Editing to say I fixed this, I feel so stupid now. I moved

healthDisplay.text = health.ToString(); 

after

if (transform.position.y...

, and I also added a second

healthDisplay.text = health.ToString(); 

after

gameOver.SetActive(true);

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