Accessing Variables within another gameobject's script

Questions & Answers
1

So far I have two game objects, one which has to change one of the variables in the first one’s script. So far, I have this,

private var firstObject : GameObject;

function Start () {
	firstObject = GameObject.Find("yellowBarrel");
	firstObject.RollingLogic.values = 4;

}

and in the other script…

public var values: int;
[...]

(The script containing the variable is called RollingLogic)
I know the yellow barrel was found because I can apply a transformation to it, I just can’t figure out how to access it’s variables. Thanks for any help!

2

If RollingScript is attached to yellowBarrel, than it is one of yellowBarrel’s components. You have to access it using GetComponent method.

3

The problem is that your firstObject variable is defined as a GameObject. In order to access the values in your RollingLogic script, you need to store that instance of the script in a variable of type RollingLogic. To do this, first find the GameObject, then get the RollingLogic Component from that GameObject. For example:

private var firstObject : RollingLogic;

function Start() {
    firstObject = GameObject.Find("yellowBarrel").GetComponent(RollingLogic);
    firstObject.values = 4;
}