Find a GameObject for a PreFab

Unity Engine
1

Hello!
Sorry … I have a “Enemy” that has a reference to another Gameobject to access its script:

 public GameObject fartPoint;
private FartScript fartScript;

I have this “fartScript” in a (of course!) fartPoint GameObject.

With my Enemy still in the Hierarchy I can “drag & drop” that GameObject in editor, but … when I make my Enemy a PreFab … It loses the reference, so I need to assign fartPoint that is a CHILD of another gameObject to my Enemy via script.

How can I achieve this?

I have something like

Player
I → FartPoint (and here I have that script I want to access)

So I need to access that (Player’s) child game object before that script.

Thanks for your help!

2

If you have only one FartScript, you can just use FindObjectOfType() to find the reference from Start.

If you have more than one FartScript, then you’ll need to first find the Player using some method (if you add a Player component to it you can use FindObjectOfType), and then you can use GetComponentInChildren to find the FartScript from the child GameObjects of the player.

void Start()
{
    var player = FindObjectOfType<Player>();
    fartScript = player.GetComponentInChildren<FartScript>();
}
3

Hi SisusCo!
Thanks for your reply! I have only one fart script, but I would instantiate different Enemies! Anyway It gives me an error.

There is “no reference” for

4

Since only one instance exists in the scene you can use this:

void Start()
{
    fartScript  = FindObjectOfType<FartScript>();
}