How to correctly use GetComponentInChildren

Questions & Answers
1

I have a bunch of nested objects (or will, if I get this to work) that will look like this

XXX
-y
–z
-y
-y

I’m trying to run this script (from the top, at XXX) to go through each of the children and turn off their renderer.

public Component[] ourRenderer;

	if(inRadMenu == false)
	{
		

		ourRenderer = GetComponentInChildren();
			foreach(Renderer renderer in ourRenderer)
			{
				renderer.enabled = false;	
			}
		return;
	}

However, I keep getting "Cannot implicity convert type ‘UnityEngine.Renderer’ to `UnityEngine.Component'. Is renderer not a component?

2

GetComponentInChildren returns a single instance. You’re trying to assign the result to an array.

Looks like you probably want to use GetComponentsInChildren.

3

I would change a couple of things.
(but i use C#) .
At the moment your your Array is of type component - which is weird (at least to me) . make it Transforms or GameObjects.
then in your foreach loop. what do you want ? - you want to go through all the elements( that are now specified as GameObjects or Transforms ) of ourRenderer and turn them off.

so I would go with foreach (GameObject temp in ourRenderer) {

temp.renderer.enabled = false;
}

//
(or SetActive(false) or something like that)

however , I have not tested my approach and would -just for preference reasons use a regular for loop.