How you set up references to objects in game?

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HI,

this is more of a best practices question.

I have some game objects with components to which I would need access from scripts on other objects.

The simplest way would be to name object with a tag, find it by tag on Awake/Start and set it to a variable and reference component with this variable. But as far as I understand - GameObject.FindWithTag() is pretty slow.

The other idea is to have a script with public variables corresponding to game objects. You set them manually in editor. Then in Start you set every GameObject variable to a public static variable and you can reference components on those object through this static variable. But this solution looks clunky.

So, how you do it? What are your best practices?

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This is not a question for Unity Answers, this belongs to the forum. Look at the FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions - Unity Answers

The first point is that this is not for discussions. Talking about best practices is a LONG discussion, each method has it’s pros and cons and would fit better in different scenarios.