An instance of type 'UnityEngine.Behaviour' is required

Unity Engine
1

I have a script that disables my mouselook,

MouseLook = gameObject.GetComponent("MouseLook");
MouseLook.enabled=false;

and I want to add a line in another script, on the same object to re-enable mouselook.

I tried adding

MouseLook = gameObject.GetComponent("MouseLook");
MouseLook.enabled=true;

but I get

An instance of type ‘UnityEngine.Behaviour’ is required to access non static member ‘enabled’.

Where am I going wrong? I’m using an Input.GetKey to disable it on one script and an Input.GetKeyUp to enable it on the other.

2

Hello,

The problem is that your variable name is the same as the class name. You have a script named ‘MouseLook’, but you also have a variable named ‘MouseLook’. So naturally, Unity gets confused. It is standard convention to lowercase the first letter of variable names anyway, i.e:

mouseLook = gameObject.GetComponent("MouseLook"); 
mouseLook.enabled=false;

Good luck!

-Lincoln Green

3

Oh dear…

Thanks for pointing that out, I’m learning as I go and it seems so easy to overlook things like that.

Off to bugger something else up now :frowning: