How to access scripts with an object that has just been instantiated?

Unity Engine
1

I’ve been playing around with various methods, but I’m having trouble, I was trying to use findwithtag but that didn’t work,

function OnTriggerEnter (collider : Collider) {
if (collider.gameObject.tag == ("tag")

collider.gameObject.GetComponent(script);
script.float = 2;
}

I also tried collider.gameObject.GetComponent() but that didn’t work either, if anyone can help thanks

2

Don’t name the parameter “collider”. Try renaming it to something else.

Same with float.

3

that was just an e.g. the actual looks like this

    function OnTriggerEnter (collider : Collider) {
    if (collider.gameObject.tag == ("1player"))

    var script2 : moveandjump = collider.gameObject.GetComponent(moveandjump);
    script2.speed = 2;
    }

I’m getting this error (
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
testno15.OnTriggerEnter)
on line 5

Its saying that I didn’t declare the object (script2) and yet I did it in the line before, whats going on? How do I fix this

4

Do it like this:
GetComponent();

5

Also - the instructions in your if statement aren’t wrapped in { } so it will only execute line 4 when the statement is true - therefore line 5 is always out of scope and doesn’t know what script2 is. Lastly - GetComponent will return null if there is no component of that type on the object.

6

I just tried that and it gave an error :
Assets/testno15.js(9,63): BCE0019: ‘GetComponentmoveandjump’ is not a member of ‘UnityEngine.GameObject’. Did you mean ‘GetComponent’?

7

No, leave the < and > around ScriptName.

8

thanks Kelso that fixed it, I’m gonna read some more about if and else statements now, I wasn’t aware of that, I thought it was just a shortcut to apply if you only got the if statement to excecute