A couple of questions from a newbie

Unity Engine
1

Ok, since i am pretty new to unity (just 30 days and counting) and i am trying to start a decent project I’d have a couple of questions for you, and sorry if they sounds too noobish.

  1. I have a GameObject, let’s call that House1 and I want to send all childrens a message, or tell them to execute a function
  2. In this GameObject, i want to execute a code for every child in this object parent ( I know how to use loops, etc, it’s just the way to know how many childs has the script parent that i don’t know)

Pseudocode:

var thisObject :GameObject

function Start()
{
     thisObject = ThisScript.parent
}

function Update()
{
     thisObject.SendMessage("newHouseCreated")
  
    for (i = 0; thisObject.childCount > i; i++) 
    {     //See N°2 in the post, if  you skipped it
        executethatcode       
    }
}

Thanks for any help
EDIT = corrected the pseudocode

Philip

2

newHouseCreated() would be in the script on the children

3

Yeah, i Saw that, but maybe i misinterpreted GameObject.Broadcastmessage…

Isn’t GameObject a gameObject variable you have to provide? much like

thisGameObject.BroadcastMessage
or
newHose.BroadcastMessage

or if i write down
“GameObject.BroadcastMessage”
it is broadcasted to this gameobject and all it’s children?

4

Well, if any script on that object says gameObject.BroadcastMessage(“FunctionName”, passedVariable), then every single script in the GameObject and its children with a function named FunctionName will run that function. The passedVariable is just where you put the first input for the function you’re calling.