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var health = 10; var TakeDamage : boolean;

function OnTiggerEnter(other : Collider){ if(other.tag == "Player"){ TakeDamage = true; } }

Answer 1

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The function is OnTriggerEnter not OnTiggerEnter unless you are referring to the children's comic character!

answered Jul 04 '12 at 05:42 AM

whydoidoit
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xD

+1

Jul 04 '12 at 11:20 AM Bunny83

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var health : int = 10; 
var TakeDamage : boolean;

function OnTriggerEnter(other : Collider){ 
  if(other.tag == "Player"){ 
   TakeDamage = true; 
  } 
}

Please use code formating (select the code text and click the 1010101 button) when posting, as well as a copy of the error message in the future.

answered Jul 04 '12 at 05:41 AM

Linus
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You still have the Tigger thingy so it won't do. Also,

var health = 10;

does work. The compiler will cast the variable to the appropriate type.

Jul 04 '12 at 05:48 AM fafase

Yup, updated just now. And yes it is valid. Without the #pragma strict. I usually get error on those. Credit goes to Mike

Jul 04 '12 at 05:51 AM Linus

No, you don't get an error with var health = 10;
The type is determined by type inference. This is not the same as dynamical typing. The type is still statically typed. This does also work in C#

var health = 10;         // int variable
var health = 10.0;       // float variable
var TakeDamage = false;  // boolean variable

In this cases the compiler can determine the type from the value you're assign to it, but that doesn only work when you assign a value at variable declaration. This will type the variable dynamicly:

var health; // no type, so it's a dynamic variable
health = 10;
health = "foo";

Avoid dynamically typed variables. They are slow and can cause strange errors at runtime. The compiler can't detect such errors since the type isn't known at compile time.

Jul 04 '12 at 11:19 AM Bunny83

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