Week 7 Blogpost#6 A few days before submission

For this week my goals were to add audio ,add a little more functionality and  polish the game and submit it by the end of the week.

Firstly I started off by using   Time.Timescale to 0 and freeze the game by default but it only freezes or pauses functions that be dependent on the frame rate   then I set up the start button to play a method on click to set the timescale back to 1.Firstly, a few things to be noted while using timescale is that 0 freezes everything based on the frame rate and 1 unfreezes it while using any float between 0 and 1 would slow down the scale for example if Time.timescale  = 0.5f time will work but it will be 2 times slower than it normally is  . Secondly you should probably know that everything timescale affects all the time variables of the time class. 

 Here is a screenshot showing how I used it.

After using timescale in the start method I noticed that the distance counter would start on 0.2f even though it was being called thus I moved the timescale to void awake to counter this bug in the game. The reason I used Void awake was that I would only need the method to be called once when the game was initialized and I would call another method to set the timescale back to 1 .To understand using timescale and void awake better I would recommend reading unity docs and there is a reference to it in the references section . (Unity, n.d.) (Unity, n.d.) 

The reason I am passing a Boolean pause in the method is because I wanted to check if it is clicked before it would set the time scale back to 1 in addition to passing the method into the button's OnClick .

After working on the instantiation for a while I noticed that some of the sprites were spawning with a rotation as I had instantiated them that way so that the coins patterns rotation can be changed while instantiating. The root cause for this was that I rotated the coin prefab while making coin patterns but could not change them thus as a quick fix I rotated some sprites if they had certain tags which was a quick fix for my game.If i were to encounter such a problem again i would definitely not apply a quick fix but take the time to change the rotation prefab and recreate the coin patterns   .

Here is a screenshot showing how I used it.

lastly i needed to pause the audio while the pause button was pressed but I needed to access the audio component from the script first this was easily accomplished by accessing the audiosource class  after which accessing the  audio component using GetComponent and muting it  using audio.mute = true within a function that muted the audio 

Here is a screenshot showing how I used it.

  

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 References

Unity. (n.d.). Unity - Scripting API:. Retrieved November 10, 2015, from http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-timeScale.html

Unity. (n.d.). Unity - Scripting API:. Retrieved from http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.Awake.html