Got an error that i can't fix. error CS1061:

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Made a damage script but got an error dont know what it means so i google it cant find anything i go to unity forums and post the full error message ‘error CS1061: ‘Target’ does not contain a definition for ‘TakeDamage’ and no accessible extension method ‘TakeDamage’ accepting a first argument of type ‘Target’ could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)’ and the code

using UnityEngine;

public class Gun : MonoBehaviour {

    public float damage = 10;
    public float range = 100f;

    public Camera fpsCam;

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update() {

        if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
        {
            Shoot();
        }

    }

    void Shoot()
    {
          RaycastHit hit;
          if (Physics.Raycast(fpsCam.transform.position, fpsCam.transform.forward, out hit, range))
          {
              Debug.Log(hit.transform.name);

              Target target = hit.transform.GetComponent<Target>();
              if (target != null)
              {
                  target.TakeDamage(damage);
              }
          }
     }
}
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Are you simply not reading what people are writing back to you? You’ve already gotten one (correction, TWO!) of your posts locked for spamming and you are still spamming!

I’ll post it again.

Remember: NOBODY memorizes error codes. The error code is absolutely the least useful part of the error. It serves no purpose at all. Forget the error code. Put it out of your mind.

The complete error message contains everything you need to know to fix the error yourself.

Always start with the FIRST error in the list, as sometimes that error causes or compounds some or all of the subsequent errors.

The important parts of the error message are:

  • the description of the error itself (google this; you are NEVER the first one!)
  • the file it occurred in (critical!)
  • the line number and character position (the two numbers in parentheses)

All of that information is in the actual error message and you must pay attention to it. Learn how to identify it instantly so you don’t have to stop your progress and fiddle around with the forum.

Since you are clearly fatfinger-typing this in from a tutorial, this will save you a lot of time:

How to do tutorials properly:

Tutorials are a GREAT idea. Tutorials should be used this way:

Step 1. Follow the tutorial and do every single step of the tutorial 100% precisely the way it is shown. Even the slightest deviation (even a single character!) generally ends in disaster. That’s how software engineering works. Every single letter must be spelled, capitalized, punctuated and spaced (or not spaced) properly. Fortunately this is the easiest part to get right. Be a robot. Don’t make any mistakes. BE PERFECT IN EVERYTHING YOU DO HERE.

If you get any errors, learn how to read the error code and fix it. Google is your friend here. Do NOT continue until you fix the error. The error will probably be somewhere near the parenthesis numbers (line and character position) in the file. It is almost CERTAINLY your typo causing the error, so look again and fix it.

Step 2. Go back and work through every part of the tutorial again, and this time explain it to your doggie. See how I am doing that in my avatar picture? If you have no dog, explain it to your house plant. If you are unable to explain any part of it, STOP. DO NOT PROCEED. Now go learn how that part works. Read the documentation on the functions involved. Go back to the tutorial and try to figure out WHY they did that. This is the part that takes a LOT of time when you are new. It might take days or weeks to work through a single 5-minute tutorial. Stick with it. You will learn.

Step 2 is the part everybody seems to miss. Without Step 2 you are simply a code-typing monkey and outside of the specific tutorial you did, you will be completely lost.

Of course, all this presupposes no errors in the tutorial. For certain tutorial makers (like Unity, Brackeys, Imphenzia, Sebastian Lague) this is usually the case. For some other less-well-known content creators, this is less true. Read the comments on the video: did anyone have issues like you did? If there’s an error, you will NEVER be the first guy to find it.

Beyond that, Step 3, 4, 5 and 6 become easy because you already understand!

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Whatever Dude

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A more useful response might be,

“Here is the code for my Target class, see how it has the method void TakeDamage(float damage); and yet still I get this error.”

But you have not done this. Why?

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Your error message clearly says what the problem is, your class Target doesn’t have the method TakeDamage. Fix that and you won’t get an error. But since you didn’t post the what the clase Target contains, this thread is pointless and closed. Use the learn section and read the rules before posting again.