Cycle weapons script

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1

I’m learning Unity and trying to wrap my brain around a script to change weapons. I’m using an HTC Vive but I don’t think this matters so much. I’ll try to be as detailed as I can.

This is the SteamVR Camera Rig. It has two Controllers.

Model is the built in one that I have disabled for now. MyMachinePistol and Pistol 1 are the two models I want to swap between, both have the tag Gun.
I have the following script so far:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ChangeWeaponScript : MonoBehaviour {


	private GameObject[] guns;

	void Start () {
		GetComponent<SteamVR_TrackedController>().PadClicked += new ClickedEventHandler(PadClicked);

		guns = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag ("Gun");

	}


	void PadClicked(object sender, ClickedEventArgs e)
	{
		Debug.Log ("pad clicked");
		//Put code here to disable the current model and enable the next
		//Something like guns[0].SetActive(false); guns[1].SetActive(true);        
	}
}

The PadClicked function fires fine. My problem is if I disable one of the models (to make the other one the starting model) .FindGameObjectsWithTag won’t put the disabled one into the array because it can’t see disabled object.

So then I thought I would just put the gun models into an empty gameobject and hide them somewhere off screen, but then I don’t know how to move/remove them from Controller (right) in code.

Is there a better way to do this that I, as a beginner, haven’t seen?

2

This works, making the guns a public serialized field and dragging the guns into them.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ChangeWeaponScript : MonoBehaviour {

	[SerializeField]
	public GameObject[] guns;

	public GameObject controller;

	void Start () {
		GetComponent<SteamVR_TrackedController>().PadClicked += new ClickedEventHandler(PadClicked);
	}


	void PadClicked(object sender, ClickedEventArgs e)
	{
		if (guns [0].activeSelf == true) 
		{
			guns [0].SetActive (false);
			guns [1].SetActive (true);
		}


		else if (guns [1].activeSelf == true) 
		{
			guns [1].SetActive (false);
			guns [0].SetActive (true);
		}
	}
}