Get a camera by tag

Unity Engine
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Hi everybody,

EDIT : I just found how to get any GameObject by tag (GameObject.FindByTag), but I have to get a Camera object and I cannot typecast the GameObject returned in a Camera, Camera derives from Behaviour which derives from Component…

Is there anyway to get a camera by its tag or name ???

Thanks

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Yes, you get the camera object as usual, but to access the camera Component (there’s the hint) you use either the shortcut myObject.camera or use GetComponent.

-Jeremy

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I have the same access problem to a second camera. It’s tagged but I can’t find a way to access to it by this way.
GetComponent() gets an “Unknown Identifier” error because I’m in a particular case : The prefab which needs to access camera isn’t instantiated at the beginning.
I know I can access to all cameras but I need to send a message to the one with a specified tag. How can I do ?

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for any one else looking for this answer, i came up with a method of doing it. c#

public Camera catchingCamera;

if (catchingCamera == null)
catchingCamera = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag(“CatchingCamera”).GetComponent() as Camera;

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