Find GameObjects and put them in an array

Unity Engine
1

Hi
I have a empty object that is a parent to many different objects. Basicly imagine 10 swords,10 shields… I want to create a script that would always load whatever gameObject is a child of the first empty object akka parent. So if I want to add another sword I can just place the model under the parent and when I run the game it loads the new sword model instantly. The gameObjects would be stored in a array.

I tried various ways,but couldnt figure it out. The closest I got was storing 1 GameObject in the array.

I use java,so please post answers in java as well. Tnx

2

To loop through the children of a GameObject, just a foreach loop:

foreach(Transform child in gameObject.transform)
{
     Debug.Log(child.name);
}

So you could build your array or list from that.

I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to do – your phrasing is a little confusing, possibly due to a language barrier – so if you try to clarify further I’d be happy to help more.

3

Tag your GameObject you want to be your parent and put all item as his childs, then tag the main Gameobject that is your Player
GameObject player =GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag(“Player”);
GameObject parent = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag(“GAMEOBJECTTAG”);
parent.transform.GetChild(NUMBEROFCHILDINHIERARCHY-1).transform.parent = player.transform;

I think that is what you want

4

Tell me in your player do you have only Weapon child or you have more than one?

5

I am acutally have 4 different parts.
For example:
Swords parent has many different sword child models under it.
Shiedl parent has many different shield child models under it.
…
If I can establish how to get sword child models I will be able to do the others as well since they are the same.
I wanted to avoid tags.(can one object have more than one tag? for example tag player & sword)

What I want is that this script does everything automaticly so that I dont have to worry.about it later.
So that I can just add new models in game and the script automaticly loads the model and later automaticly ads it in menu where people can select it.

Btw,how would I load stats of the model from a txt file?
For example when I run the game the txt file is created and all the loaded models names are written on that txt file and then I just edit the file and add stats next to each name.

Hope it’s a bit clearer now :wink: