Question by sovredcat · Feb 06, 2014 at 09:47 PM · pause timescale main menu load level resume

2D main menu as a different scene - pausing and resuming

I am wondering how to go about this.

What I have is:
- When I press the PLAY button it starts playing the game.
- When I press ESCAPE on my keyboard it sets Time.timeScale to 0 and then loads the main menu scene.

What I want is:
- Load a 2D main menu scene when pressing escape and pause the current scene.
- When clicking on "resume" in the main menu it would continue the game.

My issue is.. how do I continue the game? I have tried simply setting Time.timeScale to 1 under Start() but that just makes the game start from the beginning again.

I would like to do it this way because that'll separate the game itself from the main menu and I find it much more overviewable instead of having everything in one scene.

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Maui-M · Feb 06, 2014 at 10:30 PM 0

You'll have to save information on where everything was last at and load that again when you change back to the game scene.

I would suggest using just one scene.

Instead of changing the time scale set up a state machine(google it). Then when its in the game state have only your game code run. If its in the menu state only have the menu code run.