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I’m trying to make a turret that shoots a game object with the tag “targetObject”, however I keep on getting the same error and thanks to MonoDevelop’s very unclear debugging system, I’m not sure how to fix it. (I am new to Unity) Thanks!

#pragma strict

var turretsOn : boolean = true;
private var targetPosition : Vector3;

function Start () {
	aimStart();

}

function aimStart() {
	
	//Just a loop :)
	while (turretsOn === true) {
		
		//We only want the turret to aim every second, for perfromance and gameplay.
		yield WaitForSeconds(1);
		targetPosition = GetClosestObject("targetObject");
		
		
		Transform.LookAt(Vector3(targetPosition));
		
	}    
	}

	
function GetClosestObject(tag:String) : GameObject {
	
	var objectsWithTag = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag(tag);
	var closestObject : GameObject;
	for (var obj : GameObject in objectsWithTag) {
		if(!closestObject) {
	    	closestObject = obj;
	    }
	//Compares distances
	    if(Vector3.Distance(transform.position, obj.transform.position) <= Vector3.Distance(transform.position, closestObject.transform.position)) {
	    	closestObject = obj;
	    }
	    }
	return closestObject;
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Just like the error is telling you, your function

function GetClosestObject(tag:String) : GameObject

returns a GameObject and you are trying to assign that gameObject into a Vector3 variable

private var targetPosition : Vector3;

If you are trying to store the position of that gameObject, reference it’s position vector and store that

targetPosition = GetClosestObject("targetObject").transform.position;