How to get continuous reference to a GameObject's position?

Question

Say, its a 2D word falling typing game, the words are individual GameObjects. How do I check the y position of each word GameObject falling down the scene and then trigger the Game Over text when it passes a certain y position?

Word GameObject Prefab

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 [System.Serializable]
 public class Word {
 
     public string word;
     private int typeIndex;
     WordDisplay display;
 
     public Word (string _word, WordDisplay _display)
     {
         word = _word;
         typeIndex = 0;
         display = _display;
         display.SetWord(word);
     }
 
     public char GetNextLetter ()
     {
         return word[typeIndex];
     }
 
     public void TypeLetter ()
     {
         typeIndex++;
         display.RemoveLetter();
     }
 
     public bool WordTyped ()
     {
         bool wordTyped = (typeIndex >= word.Length);
         if (wordTyped)
         {
             display.RemoveWord();
         }
         return wordTyped;
     }
 
     void Update()
     {
         if(Transform.position.y == -328.1865)
         {
             GameOver.turnon = true;
         }
     }
 }

Event script

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 public class GameOver : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public Text gameOverText;
     public static bool turnon;
     // Start is called before the first frame update
     void Start()
     {
         gameOverText = GetComponent<Text>();
         gameOverText.gameObject.SetActive(false);
         turnon = false;
         
     }
     void Update()
     {
         if (turnon == true)
         {
             gameOverText.gameObject.SetActive(true);
         }
         
     }
 }

Answer 1

Answer by tormentoarmagedoom · May 06, 2019 at 11:37 AM

HEllo.

I did not read the code, but for your question, I think is better to use a collider to detect when a word reaches a "zone" to be deleted.

Also for your question i see you are pretty new at Unity/scripiting. I strongly recommend to spend 4-5 hours waching some basic tutorial about colliders, about gameobjects, etc...

Good luck!

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Answer 2

Answer by Hellium · May 06, 2019 at 12:42 PM

  // Word.cs
  void Update()
  {
      if(display.transform.position.y <= -328.1865f )
      {
          GameOver.turnon = true;
      }
  }

 // WordManager.cs
 void Update()
 {
     foreach( Word word in words)
        word.Update();
 }

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