Timing a Game Over

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Hi!

I did the game over scene appear by creating a new script called gameOver.cs, here’s the code:

public float gameOverInTime = 5;
	void Update () {
		gameOverInTime -= Time.deltaTime;
		print (gameOverInTime);
		if (gameOverInTime <= 0) {
			LevelManager nextScene = FindObjectOfType<LevelManager> ();
			nextScene.LoadNextScene ();
		}
	}

I did the countdown there and attached this script to the Player GameObject at scene 2.
I think this way is better because the way that was done in the lectures the LevelManagerScript is always doing an if statement each frame to see if it has to do some countdown, the way I did it it only does it if there’s a player playing!

I hope this helps someone :slight_smile:

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Nice work. There are ways we can improve the efficiency even further with Coroutines but that level of efficiency is overkill.

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Hi =) New to C# here!

Actually would someone kindly explain why I can’t use if (timeUntilNextLevel == 0.0f)? I originally used this operator but that doesn’t seem to work. Should I always use (< 0) when I count down or is it something else?

Thanks!

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Hey!
That won’t work because timeTillNextLevel might (most cases actually) go from 0.02 to - 0.32 for example, so it was never equal to 0. Console log timeTillNextLevel so you’ll see for yourself.
So, yes you should always use (<0)

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Yes, it’s as @Luis_Egan says. It’s rather subtle @Talyta_Lam