cube bumping will make it black (with a video!)

[anon_76427345]

Hi! it’s my first time with the unity Answers and as you will see, I’m kinda new to unity itself. I’m at the learning process of understanding the basic of this great software.

I have addressed earlier on unity answer what challenge I am facing and a gentleman helped me with this code

Attach this to the character controller object →

var otherTag : String ; //assign in inspector the tag of the cube
                         // make sure you tag your cube also
var otherColor : Color ; //pick a color in the inspector to change the cube to
 
@HideInInspector
var controller : CharacterController ;
 
function Start(){
controller = GetComponent(CharacterController) ;
}
 
function OnControllerColliderHit(other : ControllerColliderHit){
   if(other.gameObject.CompareTag(otherTag)){
      other.gameObject.renderer.material.color = otherColor ;
   }
}

I’ve did it by addapting the variable name to mine and it gives this

static var Bipolair : String ;
var Black : Color ;
private var controller : CharacterController ;
 
function Start()

{
controller = GetComponent(CharacterController) ;
print (controller);
}
 
function OnControllerColliderHit( other:ControllerColliderHit)
{
	if(other.gameObject.CompareTag(Bipolair))
	{
		other.gameObject.renderer.material.color = Black ;
	}
}

but it doesnt work. I’ve made a video about it so it can be better for pointing out the problem that is, I am sure, very obvious for an advance unity user.

I recommand puting it full screen at 1080HD

- YouTube

thank you n_n

[wccrawford1]

Bipolair is a static string that is never initialized. You’re checking for a tag of null, instead of whatever string you tagged the cube with.

[anon_76427345]

I’m sure it make sense but I dont understand how to initialize it. I thought it would be initialize when a collision will happen… but how would I initialize it then?

[KelsoMRK]

More specifically, you never give Bipolair a value.