Accessing Instantiated Primitive from A Seperate Class

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Question pretty much says it all, guys. Say I have a class named Tim and a class named Bob.

In class Tim, the GameObject of Tim is instantiated, and let’s say there’s a getter function:

GameObject Tim;

void Start() {
     Tim = GameObject.CreatePrimitive(PrimitiveType.Sphere);
     Tim.renderer.material = TimMaterial;
     setTimPosition(new Vector3(0f, 600f, 1550f));
}

public GameObject grabTim {
     get { return Tim; }
}

Now in class Bob, Bob needs to know the location of Tim to setup his initial position. So let’s say in class Bob, I create a new Tim object by doing:

Tim timObject = ###;

What actual code would replace the “###” to assign a value to the timObject variable? I know I need to assign the instaniated gameObject, but how?. In order to retrieve the position of Tim, I figured I could try something like:

void Update() {
         if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) {
              Debug.Log("Tim's position: " + timObject.grabTim.transform.position);
         }
    }

But I can’t access anything within the Tim class because the timObject variable is returning null because it isn’t being assigned an actual value.

2

Well, if you do not have any classes or objects with a reference to the Tim object then you would have to search for Tim instead:

Tim timObject = GameObject.FindObjectOfType(typeof(Tim)) as Tim;

This works if you have only one Tim in your scene, if you have multiple objects of Tim then the function above will return the first one it finds.