Instance reference problem

Unity Engine
1

SOLVED.
Thank you PraetorBlue for helping me out!

I’m trying to make teleporters and I have the base code mostly set up but I’m running into some error issues. Some way to fix the error or make my code better would be very appreciated.
Code:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class teleporters : MonoBehaviour
{
public Vector3 teleporterExit;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
teleporterExit = gameObject.Find(“teleportExit”).GetComponent.transform();
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{

}

public void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
if(other.gameObject.tag == “TeleporterEntrance”)
{
transform.position = teleporterExit;
}
}
}

Error message:
Assets\teleporters.cs(13,26): error CS0176: Member ‘GameObject.Find(string)’ cannot be accessed with an instance reference; qualify it with a type name instead

2

gameObject is a property of your MonoBehaviour which refers to the GameObject your MonoBehaviour is attached to.

GameObject is the name of the GameObject class.

In order to call a static method such as GameObject.Find(), you must use the class name to call the method. That’s because static methods are not related to a specific instance of a class, they are part of the class itself.

You can tell Find is a static method because it is marked as static in the documentation page: Unity - Scripting API: GameObject.Find

To fix your issue you need to just change gameObject.Find("teleportExit") to GameObject.Find("teleportExit") with a capital G.

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3

Please use code tags, it’s easier to read and we haven’t got to count the lines to find out the line number :slight_smile:

Probably typo on 13, pretty sure it’s GameObject.Find() not gameObject.Find().

4

See what happens with that is I have to do instead of .transform and then it gives me this error:
ArgumentException: GetComponent requires that the requested component ‘Vector3’ derives from MonoBehaviour or Component or is an interface.
UnityEngine.GameObject.GetComponent[T] () (at <31d5d65b32ec483292e13e8ae4100b93>:0)
teleporters.Start () (at Assets/teleporters.cs:13)

and this error:
Assets\teleporters.cs(13,26): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type ‘UnityEngine.Transform’ to ‘UnityEngine.Vector3’

5

A Transform component itself is not of type Vector3. It’s of type Transform. You probably want GetComponent.position.