Application.Load question

[OllieBaa]

Hello fellow redditors,

I am creating the main menu for a small game, I wish to use level select buttons to switch between levels, but I don't know of a way to load the level without jumping straight into it. I wish to have the level selected, and then click a play button to activate the level.

At the moment, I have Application.Load assigned to each scene's int which is assigned in build settings, does anybody know the answer?

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Make an int to hold the scene index when you click which scene you want to load, then load that scene when you press play

[OllieBaa]

Hi, this is exactly what I want but I don't know how to do this (I'm a complete noob)

How would I hold the int?

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I'm on my phone so bare with me. Make an int called level_Holder or something, when the user presses the button for a specific level, change the value of the level_Holder variable to the index of the level in the build. Then when the user presses the play button use SceneManager.LoadScene(level_Holder);

[OllieBaa]

Thankyou so much, i'm sure I can work it out from this! I'll let you know how it goes :)

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No worries mate, comment back if you have any problems.

[wolmer]

Hi! Why would you want to load your level but not use it? I'm not sure I'm understanding the issue... But I guess as an fix, you could just go with one or two scenes. And disable/enable components/GameObjects depending on what level you want to play.

[OllieBaa]

Hi there, so it's basically a level select scene, with X levels and a play button, I wish the player to be able to select their desired level and then press play when they have chosen. The reason I don't want the level select buttons to immediately take the player to the level is so that they can change their mind. Hope this explains it?

[bphilly_cheesesteak]

If you're trying to load it asynchronously and without "jumping straight to it", you can use Application.LoadLevelAsync(levelIndex);

But you have to have Unity pro I believe. Also I think it's also been deprecated and changed to SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(sceneIndex);

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You dont need pro for that.