C# Access Script in Closest Object

Questions & Answers
1

Basically, I’m trying to chop down trees using AI. I have multiple objects in the scene with the same name, but the tag “tree”.
My pathfinding finds the closest object with the tag “tree” and walks over to it. Now, I need to check if the tree he is near has fallen. My logic is to access the script attached to the closest tree and run a function to check this status.

My question is, if I use GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag(“Tree”) and assign that to a new GameObject, how can I access the individual script within this GameObject and not all scripts attached to the general tree prefabs?

2

What you are looking for is the command GetComponet
say the GameObject tree is your tree you are targeting,

example:

yourScriptNameHere yourScript = tree.GetComponent < yourScriptNameHere> ();

yourScript.aMethod();

this allows you to access a certain script that a GameObject has and call its methods. access its public variables.