Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Time for action – keeping track of the bounces

Let's introduce a few more variables to record how many times the player has bounced the heart.

1. Change the code to add these three variables at the top:

   var hitCount:GUIText;
   var numHits:int = 0;
   var hasLost:boolean = false;
   var velocityWasStored = false;
   var storedVelocity : Vector3;

2. Save the script and return to Unity.
3. Select the Heart in the Hierarchy panel.
4. We've created a variable (bucket) to hold a GUIText object. Drag the Bounce Count GUIText GameObject from the Hierarchy panel into the GUIText slot of the heart in the Inspector panel (or choose it from the pop-up menu). Now, whenever we refer to hitCount in our script, we'll be talking about our GUIText GameObject.
5. Add the following code to the ...