Cannot convert UnityEngine.Gameobject[]...

[Stabbarey]

Hello,

I have a lot of “pillars” in my scene which i have tagged “pillar”. I want to be able to change the color of the particular pillar I’m shooting at, as of right now though I’m trying to just change the color of all the pillars at once, but i get an error message.

Cannot convert UnityEngine.Gameobject to UnityEngine.GameObject…

I assume i want a for-statement here or something, I’m not entirely sure how to go about this.
Here’s my code:

#pragma strict

var ammoLeft : int;
var distanceToGround : float;
var clickedColor : Color;
var pillars : GameObject;

function Start () {
ammoLeft = 3;
pillars = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag(“Pillar”);
}

function Update () {

var hit : RaycastHit;

if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")) {
	if(Physics.Raycast(Camera.main.transform.position, Camera.main.transform.forward, hit)) {
		distanceToGround = hit.distance;
		pillars.renderer.material.color = clickedColor;
	}
}

}
Also: trying to learn C-sharp but Javascript is much easier…

As said, I want to get every pillars tag, shoot at one of the pillars, and get the color to change.
Thanks in advance

[HarshadK]

You need to make your pillars an array of GameObject since GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag will return an array of game objects.

Then you can access the specific element from your pillars using: pillars[index]

You code becomes:

var ammoLeft : int; 
var distanceToGround : float; 
var clickedColor : Color; 
var pillars : GameObject[];

function Start () { ammoLeft = 3; pillars = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Pillar"); }

function Update () {

var hit : RaycastHit;
 
if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")) {
    if(Physics.Raycast(Camera.main.transform.position, Camera.main.transform.forward, hit)) {
        distanceToGround = hit.distance;

        // Here the consideration is that you want to set all the pillars to a specific color
        for(int i=0; i< pillars.Length; i++)
        {
            pillars*.renderer.material.color = clickedColor;*

}
}
}
}