Is there any analog of GameObject.Find() function?

Questions & Answers
1

There are a couple of other ways, but all are similar. For example you ca use a tag and use GameObject.FindWithTag(). But typically what you want to do is to cache the Find() for future use:

private var player : Transform;

function Start() {
    player = GameObject.Find("Player").transform;
}

Then anytime in the rest of the code you want to set the position, you would do:

player.position = Vector3(3,0,0);

You can also use drag and drop. That is if you have a public variable:

var player : Transform;

or in C#:

public Transform player;

Then you can drag and drop the player game object on the ‘player’ variable in the Inspector to form a link.

GameObject.Find() is not very efficient, so you want to avoid calling it every frame.

2

There are many ways to locate and manipulate game objects.

GameObject.Find(string name)

FindObjectOfType()

FindGameObjectWithTag(string tag)

Transform.Find(string name)

and many more!

You can also declare a public GameObject at the top of your script, and then assign it in the Editor with drag-and-drop.