Referencing non-static variables - boolean

Question

I'm making a basic basket ball game and i have a public boolean called dunkComplete which activated after the ball is dunked and is attaced to the ball script, i am trying to reference this boolean in a game manager script but for some reason even though dunkComplete becomes true its game manager counterpart doesn't, heres the game manager script for reference.
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class game_manager : MonoBehaviour {
public GameObject Basket;
private float x_value;
private float y_value;
public GameObject ball;
private ball_script basketBallScript;
private bool dunkCompleteOperation;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
basketBallScript = ball.GetComponent<ball_script>();
Vector2 randomVector = new Vector2(Random.Range(-9f, 9f), Random.Range(0f, 3f));
Debug.Log(randomVector);
Instantiate(Basket, randomVector, transform.rotation);
Instantiate(ball, new Vector2(0, -3.5f), transform.rotation);
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
dunkCompleteOperation = basketBallScript.dunkComplete;
if (dunkCompleteOperation == true)
{
Vector2 randomVector = new Vector2(Random.Range(-9f, 9f), Random.Range(0f, 3f));
Instantiate(Basket, randomVector, transform.rotation);
}
}
}
Any help would be greatly apreciated thanks.

Answer 1

Your basketBallScript does not refer to the ball_script that the ball object that you instantiate. You should keep the reference to the GameObject that you created and then assign the basketBallScript.
Try this:
public class game_manager : MonoBehaviour {
public GameObject Basket;
private float x_value;
private float y_value;
public GameObject ball;
private ball_script basketBallScript;
private bool dunkCompleteOperation;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
Vector2 randomVector = new Vector2(Random.Range(-9f, 9f), Random.Range(0f, 3f));
Debug.Log(randomVector);
Instantiate(Basket, randomVector, transform.rotation);
// Get the ref. to ballObj, which is instantiated. Then assign the script.
GameObject ballObj = Instantiate(ball, new Vector2(0, -3.5f),
transform.rotation) as GameObject;
basketBallScript = ballObj.GetComponent<ball_script>();
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
dunkCompleteOperation = basketBallScript.dunkComplete;
if (dunkCompleteOperation == true)
{
Vector2 randomVector = new Vector2(Random.Range(-9f, 9f), Random.Range(0f, 3f));
Instantiate(Basket, randomVector, transform.rotation);
}
}
}
Also, just for making your code easier to follow to the others in the future, you might want to check out the general naming conventions.