Counting A Certain Game Object Type With A Tag

Unity Engine
1

Not sure what to do here. I have multiple types of gameObjects that share common color tags. So I want to count all the “Boxes” tagged “Red” - This is what I thought I needed to do; but doesn’t work.

//CountWithTag
static function CountTypeWithTag(game_Token, thisTag) {
	//get all the same type gameObjects
	 gameTokens = FindObjectsOfType(game_Token);

	//loop over the result and store in an array
	var taggedGroup = new Array();	
	for (var gameToken in gameTokens) {
		//pick out all the ones of thisTag
		if (gameToken.tag == thisTag) {taggedGroup.Add(gameToken);}
	}
	//then return gameObjects with tag
	return taggedGroup.length;
}

Thanks for reading, and even more for helping :wink:
-Cheers,

2

try changing: if (gameToken.tag == thisTag) {taggedGroup.Add(gameToken);

to: if (gameToken.gameObject.tag == thisTag) {taggedGroup.Add(gameToken);

also, try printing gameTokens.length.

Is it possible to pass types through functions like that? How do you call it?

TomsScript.CountTypeWithTag(CubeToken, “red”);

Like that?

3

Error Message:

Updated Code (no longer static):

//CountTypeWithTag
function CountTypeWithTag(game_Token, thisTag) {
	//get all the same type gameObjects
	 gameTokens = FindObjectsOfType(game_Token);
	print ( "Number of Game Tokens" +gameTokens.length );
	//loop over the result and store in an array
	var taggedGroup = new Array();	
	for (var gameToken : GameObject in gameTokens) {
		//pick out all the ones of thisTag
		if (gameToken.gameObject.tag == thisTag) {taggedGroup.Add(gameToken);}
	}
	//then return gameObjects with tag
	return taggedGroup.length;
}

Called Via:

CountTypeWithTag(Candy, "Red")

Where Candy is defined and assigned via inspector as…
var Candy : GameObject;

Then I tried where Candy is only the name of the script that a gameObject has – Candy.js (see error above)

4

…if someone’s will have problems with identify the objects…
I wrote (C#)

Component []ListObj=FindObjectsOfType(typeof(your object type)) as Component[];
		if (ListObj==null){
				print("no way");
		}else{
			int parkll=ListObj.Length;
			for(int i=0;i<parkll;i++){
				if (this.name=="Main Camera"){
					print(ListObj[i].name);
					if (ListObj[i].name=="the name"){
					<your code>						return;
					}
				}				
			}
		}

If U connect a script to an object , (I connected to main camera…I supposed was for this) the script will be executed as many times as many are the objects.So , I resolve the problem with a ol’ good
if (this.name==“the name of the object U connect the script”){
execute the script
}else{
return
}

Try and hope!