Weirdest increment problem

Hello All,

Either I have encountered the weirdest bug ever or I'm braindead. Most likely the latter. Anyway, the problem in a nutshell. I cannot get a variable to increment! I'm pasting the relevant part.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using System.Collections;
4.  
5. public class test : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7. int SpawnCounter = 0;
8. int testme = 0;
9.  
10. void Update()
11. {
12.  CurrentTime += Time.deltaTime;
13.         if (SpawnTimes[SpawnCounter] <= CurrentTime)
14.         {
15.             testme += 1;
16.             SpawnEnemy(SpawnList[SpawnCounter],SpawnLane[SpawnCounter]);
17.             SpawnCounter += 1;
18.         }
19.  
20. }
21.  

The problem is "SpawnCounter" stays at 0 while testme is incremented correctly. No other part of the code modifies SpawnCounter. I'm wondering how could this be possible?? Any thoughts?

 

Was this pasted in? You have an increment on "SpawnCounter" but a private field called "SpawnCount" which is initialized to 0, is that just a typo?

 

Umm, you declared the variable as "SpawnCount", yet use a variable called "SpawnCounter"

Edit: Ninja'd

 

Sorry that was a typo.

 

Not related, but another problem I see:

Code (csharp):

1. CurrentTime += Time.deltaTime;

...couldn't you just do this instead?

Code (csharp):

1. // Click on the Time.time to learn more about it!
2. CurrentTime = Time.time;

 

Yes, I should probably do that

I've tried couple of stuff and found out that. it's impossible to change that variable's value. I've changed it's name, assigned other variables to it, etc. Nothing. It's stays at zero no matter what???

 

Where are you displaying the value of SpawnCounter?

 

If your testme variable is incrementing correctly, then the only I can think of that would break execution of your SpawnCounter increment would be an exception that's being thrown by the line before it. Are you sure that you aren't getting any errors logged to the console? Try removing the call to your SpawnEnemy method and maybe adding the following method to your test : MonoBehaviour

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. private void OnGUI()
3. {
4.     GUILayout.Label(string.Format("SpawnCounter[{0}]", SpawnCounter));
5. }
6.  

You should see its value on the game screen incrementing, which would narrow your issue down to that SpawnEnemy method.

 

Try this:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using System.Collections;
4.  
5. public class test : MonoBehaviour {
6.  
7. int SpawnCounter = 0;
8. int testme = 0;
9.  
10. void Update() {
11.         if (SpawnTimes[SpawnCounter] <= Time.time) {
12.             testme += 1;
13.             SpawnEnemy(SpawnList[SpawnCounter],SpawnLane[SpawnCounter]);
14.             SpawnCounter += 1;
15.         }
16. }
17.  

you could even change:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. //FROM
3. testme += 1;
4. SpawnCounter += 1;
5. //TO
6. testme++;
7. SpawnCounter++;
8.  

 

Thank you all for helping. As Roland pointed out issue was related with SpawnEnemy method. However, console didn't log any exceptions. I moved the increment code above the SpawnEnemy method and it's working fine now. I'll take a deeper look at that method when I have some time.