Cannot convert to unityEngine.GameObject

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1

I am encountering two errors

Assets/checkPaper.js(12,64): BCE0022: Cannot convert ‘paperScript’ to >‘UnityEngine.GameObject’.

Assets/checkPaper.js(14,25): BCE0019: ‘theMessage’ is not a member of >‘UnityEngine.GameObject’.

I have been shifting around where to put the variable and trying to make it public. I tried including it in the Start() function and changing Start() to Awake(). I’ve tried assigning it in the start/awake but each thing (whether in the update, start/awake, or outside of all the fuctions) comes with a different error. The only instance in which I got it to work forced more errors to occur that prevented the game from fucntioning correctly after, so I backed up and tried to do it as the debug console instructed me (in the start/awake) but nothing has changed.

Anything I searched did not bring up results accurate (or modern) enough to be useful (though I did try some of the ideas involved in each).

#pragma strict

var paperImage : GameObject;
var paperSource : GameObject;


function Start () {
	paperImage.SetActive(false);
	paperSource = gameObject.Find("starPaper").GetComponent(paperScript);
}

function Update () {
	

	if (paperSource.theMessage == true){
		paperImage.SetActive(true);	
	
	}
}

So how do I fix this error?

2

paperSource should have the type paperScript and not GameObject (see line 4)

3

You should declare the variables correctly. It must be type of what you want to assing to it.

 var paperSource : paperScript;