How do you reference a GameObject in a C# script that is a part of that GameObject?

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I am instantiating a prefab GameObject that possesses a C# script. Within this script I need to reference the same GameObject that possesses this script. How do I do this? I will have to do this for multiple instantiations of the GameObjects. Not that it’s particularly relevant, but I am wanting to reference the GameObject so that I can change the layer value. Much thanks in advance to any help given.

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From any script, on that game object, you can use ‘gameObject’ (with a small ‘g’) to reference the game object itself. So you can do:

gameObject.name = "NewName";
gameObject.layer = 2;

Note that often you will end up with other components of other game objects. Like it’s collider or its transform.

other.gameObject.name = "foo";