Can't get Transform.LookAt to work

Questions & Answers
1

Trying to get an enemy to look at the player. Simple script. Doesn’t work. Here’s the code. Its attached to the enemy game object.

private var player : Transform;

player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player").transform;

function Update() 
{
 	transform.LookAt(player.transform);
}

Yet it does nothing. Any ideas? Something I might be missing? All help appreciated, sorry for the noob question.

2

As far i can see , player object is already a Transform. perhaps you can try

transform.LookAt(player);
3

This:

player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player").transform;

Looks like it should run during Start():

function Start() {
    player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player").transform;
}

It is possible to initialize variables outside of a function, but usually only a good idea when using constant expressions (like 5, "chicken", 3.14, etc.).

Past that, is the script attached to anything in the scene? You can check to make sure a function is being called with a simple Debug.Log() call:

function Start() {
    Debug.Log("Start is called");
    //other code
}

You might also check to make sure that the player transform is, indeed, being found:

function Start() {
    player = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player").transform;
    if (player != null) {
        Debug.Log("Found player");
    } else {
        Debug.Log("No player found");
    }
}
4

So it turns out that because the levels are additively loaded, the find with tag function wasn’t working as the player hadn’t as yet been loaded into the scene. I put the findwithtag function inside onUpdate, and now it works. One small problem… all my code says is “rotate toward player”… my wolves have started flying. Now I’m really confused.