Creating a Score Display Error 00002

Unity Engine
1

I am trying to create a score marker for my space shooter game. I ran into this error I have seen before, but I still don’t know how to fix it. Can someone help me?

The error is,

“Assets/Scripts/DestroyByContact.cs(7,17): error CS0246: The type or namespace name `GameController’ could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?”

Here is my code

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class DestroyByContact : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int scoreValue;
    private GameController gameController; //The error shows up here. 


    void Start ()
    {
        GameObject gameControllerObject = GameObject.FindWithTag ("GameController");
        if (gameControllerObject != null)
        {
            gameController = gameControllerObject.GetComponent <GameController>();
        }
        if (gameController == null)
        {
            Debug.Log ("Cannot find 'GameController' script");
        }
    }


    void OnTriggerEnter2D (Collider2D other)
    {

        if (other.tag == "Boundary")
        {
            return;
        }

        Destroy (other.gameObject);
        Destroy(transform.gameObject);

        gameController.AddScore (scoreValue);
        Destroy(other.gameObject);
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}

Thank you for the help!

2

Try removing the private

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3

Also your GameObject shouldn’t be used for Controllers say instead:

void Start()
{
       gameController = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("tag").GetComponent<gameController>();
}
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4

Removing the private did not fix the issue and I fixed the code like you suggested. Thanks for the help! Do you have any other ideas?

5

The access modifier and usage of GetComponent have absolutely nothing to do with this error message.

Show us how your GameController class is defined.

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6

I think I may have just realized the problem after your comment. I don’t have a GameController class. Ill post again if I need more help, but thank you for the help!

7

Yeah that made the code work. I still have some more work to do, but changing class names around fixed the issue!