Roll a ball in JavaScript

I have just recently started a game development course at my school and we will be coding in JavaScript or unity-script for the creation of scripts for our games, so I was looking to become more familiar with this language. I started to create the roll a ball game in JavaScript and when I was creating the script to move the player I stumbled upon the problem of not being able to create a variable in the script that is able to be edited from the inspector menu like the speed variable in the video. If anyone could help me to remedy this problem it would be greatly appreciated as this will be a skill that I will most likely need in the future for other projects.

 

Make sure the variable is public
I use C# but in C# if you just put something like "float Test" it would be private, and if you put "public float Test" you will be able to edit in the inspector. I think it's the same in JS, I would google it Hope I helped, to me that seems to be your problem.

 

Thank you for your comment but in JavaScript all variables are public by default so I don't think that this is the problem. I did however google it beforehand and I have yet to find a solution, but thank you for taking the time to read this post and try to help me out!

 

no problem, good luck

 

Can you show the script?

 

This is what I have so far

#pragma strict

function Update () {

var horizontal : float = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
var vertical : float = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
var speed : float = 10;

Debug.Log(horizontal);
Debug.Log(vertical);

rigidbody.AddForce(Vector3(horizontal, 0.0, vertical) * speed);

}

 

var speed : float = 10; needs to go outside the Update(), then it should display in the inspector

 

Thank you mgear, I just changed this now and it works perfectly!

 

Assets/scrip/my ball chater.js(12,11): BCE0019: 'AddForce' is not a member of 'UnityEngine.Component'.
need help plzzzz

 

This is almost always because of abusing UnityScripts dynamic typing. Solutions, in order of merit.

1. Upgrade to C#
2. Use pragma strict to force C# like typing
3. Manually type your variables like in C#
4. Learn the intricacies of UnityScripts dynamic typing.

Actually on a second read through it's because this script is really old, and was built using the Unity 4 quick accessors. These no longer exist in Unity 5. That's the problem with necroing old threads, they quickly become out of date.

Solutions, in order of merit

1. Use C# and the latest version of the roll a ball tutorial
2. Downgrade to 4.6
3. Replace rigidbody with the appropriate GetComponent call

TL;DR: Use C#!

 

Make your own thread, hijacking is against thread rules.