Gameobject: 3D Text, how to change text?

Questions & Answers
1

I’m an absolute beginner to Unity and as a non-native English speaker I don’t fully understand all the errors the console is throwing at me.

I have a scene, in this scene I have two gameobjects.
Object 1 is a Cube with a C# script attached to it.
Object 2 is a 3D Text, this 3D Text has a TextMesh and the text has a value of “Lives:”.

I want to change the text of the TextMesh of object 2, with the script that is attached to object 1.

Now I know that I need to use the following to change the text:

GetComponent(TextMesh).text = "What I want the text to become.";

But I can’t figure out how I access this component from the gameobject.
Here are a few things I tried:

void Start (){
	GameObject textObject = GameObject.Find("object2");
	textObject.GetComponent(TextMesh).text = "Test";
}

This gives me a whole bunch of errors on the second line, the .text part is also red so I must be accessing it wrong.

void Start ()
{
	SpawnBall();
	GameObject textObject = GameObject.Find("object2").GetComponent<TextMesh>();
	textObject.text = "test";
}

Again, I can’t access .text this way at all.
And I tried at least a dozen of variation of the code above but after an hour of messing with it while looking though other questions that seem the same I have to admit I can’t figure it out and need somebody to spell it out for me.

2

Should be;

void Start ()
{
    SpawnBall();
    TextMesh textObject = GameObject.Find("object2").GetComponent<TextMesh>();
    textObject.text = "test";
}
3

//Inside your class:

public TextMesh TEXTMESHES = new TextMesh[0];

//Change the size of TEXTMESHES in the Inspector Panel to something higher than zero

//Asign the 3DText Object to the script element list & Call with the following:

TEXTMESHES[0].text = “lol”;