How to access Instantiated GameObject's attached script's values?

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1

I have a CrewSpawner.cs to instantiate crews available to hire, which works.

crew = Instantiate(prefab) as GameObject;
            crew.name = "crew1";

The crews have a prefab with a component CrewStats.cs:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;


public class CrewStats : MonoBehaviour {
    public int fishingSkill;
    
    
	
	void Start () {
        fishingSkill = Random.Range(1, 11);
        
        
        }	
}

How can I (from a 3rd script) access the instantiated’s .fishingSkill? With

public GameObject crew;
public Text text;

void Update () {
crew = GameObject.Find("crew1");
        text.text = crew.name;
        }

I can get and display it’s name, no problem but using crew.fishingSkills gives the error

Assets/Scripts/ShowCrewSkill.cs(16,26): error CS1061: Type `UnityEngine.GameObject' does not contain a definition for `fishingSkills' and no extension method `fishingSkills' of type `UnityEngine.GameObject' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

16,26 is the fishingSkills part of crew.fishingSkills obviously.

When I type “crew.” I already see that none of the CrewStats things are in the dropdown menu, nor is CrewStats itself, like so: crew.CrewStats. In the Inspector I can see the crew1 object’s fishingSkill etc, so they do get created as planned.

2

set a private CrewStats reference and then use GetComponent.

private CrewStats myCrewStats;

crew = GameObject.Find("crew1");

myCrewStats = crew.GetComponent<CrewStats>();

You can then reference the fishingSkill with myCrewStats.fishingSkill