Accessing variable from a method in another script and gameObject

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Hello. I know this question is kinda basic, but searching through the internet I can’t really seem to find an answer. What I want, is to grab a variable from a public method (“public void FireBullet()”) in another script from another gameObject. Without the variable being set outside of the method. Because I know that i can access these variables like this: Derp d = (Derp)GetComponent("Derp");

So a visual example of what I want kinda looks like this:

Derp d = (Derp)GetComponent("Derp")

//this is what my brain is thinking (syntactical facepalm, though):
hpLost = d.FireBullet().damageDealt

Any enlightenment here would be greatly appreciated. I’ve stumbled across this before, and I just had to resort to finding a way to use it as a public variable outside of the method, but it seems like overwork, the list of public variables outside of the methods will get very big.

2

This:

d.FireBullet().damageDealt

Makes no sense. That’s not how syntax works. If the FireBullet method returns a float value, then you do

hpLost = d.FireBullet();

If d saves damageDealt as a public variable after the bullet is fired, you do this:

d.FireBullet();
hpLost = d.damageDealt;
3

First You can call Variables on class object only or a static reference of class . Second if you are making a variable inside a method means it is local to that and its scope will be only in that Function.You should consider these are some basic points of progarmming. What you can do you can make that A data type something like this

public float damageDealt{get;private set;}

then call it as usual

`hpLost = d.damageDealt`