hello everyone!

i'm trying to create a ‘disable’ method in the player movement script so that when certain things happen in other scripts, the method is called and the player stops moving. for instance, player dies = movement disabled. i've created a short method inside the ThirdPersonMovement script called Disable that contains a bool “disabled”, which inside the method is set to true.

afterwards i took all of the movement script and put it inside an if(!disable) statement. so far so good.

now i'm trying to call this method from a different script, by using ThirdPersonMovement.Disable(true); but i get an error saying "no overload of method ‘Disable’ takes 1 argument.

thanks, here is the movement script:

using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Threading;
using UnityEngine;


public class ThirdPersonMovement : MonoBehaviour

{


    public CharacterController controller;
    public Transform cam;
    public float speed = 6f;
    public float turnSmoothTime = 0.01f;
    float turnSmoothVelocity;
    bool disabled;

    void Update()
    {
		if (!disabled)
		{
            float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
            float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
            Vector3 direction = new Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical).normalized;
            
            if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f)
            {
                float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.x, direction.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg + cam.eulerAngles.y;
                float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity, turnSmoothTime);
                transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f);

                Vector3 moveDir = Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetAngle, 0f) * Vector3.forward;
                controller.Move(moveDir.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime);
            }
        }
    }

    public void Disable()
	{
        disabled = true;
	}

}

@Juliean guess you're right hmm… just finished about a week of learning from a tutorial where the guy Sebastian Lague) actually used the method i wrote so i figured it would work in other projects. guess i'm missing something.

@Juliean sure. i'll do both.

this is actully the same code from my other post, but i'll share it again any way. afterwards will be the link to the video

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class WomanNPC : MonoBehaviour
{
    private GameObject triggeringPlayer;
    private bool triggering = false;
    public GameObject dialogueBox;
    //public string name = womanNPC;



    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (triggering)
        {
            if (Input.GetKey("e"))
            {
                //this works
                dialogueBox.SetActive(true);
                ThirdPersonMovement.Disable(true);
                
            }
        }
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Escape))
        {
            //this does not
            dialogueBox.SetActive(false);
            ThirdPersonMovement.Disable(true);
        }
    }


    //this sentence means that the program will check if the player is triggering with an NPC
    public void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {

        //this statement comes to check if the 'other' (which is the object we are colliding with) is tagged as "NPC", triggering is going to happen
        if (other.tag == "Player")
        {
            triggering = true;
            //this next line means the the other thing we are interacting with and it's definition is the triggering NPC private variable. 
            triggeringPlayer = other.gameObject;

            FindObjectOfType<TextSpawner>().OnTriggering();



        }


    }

    //this sentence means that the program will check if the player isn't triggering with an NPC
    public void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.tag == "Player")
        {
            triggering = false;
            triggeringPlayer = null;
            FindObjectOfType<TextSpawner>().OnNotTriggering();

        }
    }

    
}

i will for the record say i've started another tutorial playlist but this is my “progress project” that i come back to every few days to see if i can implement new things i've learned. it's getting there lol.

the part where he explains the disabled method starts at around 03:19.

thanks for the help dude. i very much appreciate it.

@Juliean well when i built his game it worked, maybe the rest of the video shows some other code that completes it? while i was looking about in my scripts i cou;dn't find other relevant things but i could be wrong.

i would like to ask you however for recommendations on tutorials, this is one of the best channels ive found so far but i'd love one that is more comprehensive in terms of teaching code.

learning by doing simple games is great, but if you know of more basic ones that really put an emphasis on c#, i'd be really happy to know. including from this site btw, i still haven't checked it thoroughly.

and once again thanks for your replies.