need help with error cs0246

Unity Engine
1

i was following a tutorial about 2d shooting in unity to see id it would help with my script and some of it did so i copied some of that code into my game in its own separate script, i then saved the script went back to the unity editor and was met with this error Assets/enemys/patroll guard/ patrollLook.cs(6,7): error cs0246: the type or namespace ‘player’ could not be found(are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

here is my code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class patrollLook : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float seeDistance, damage;

    public Transform tr;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(tr.position, tr.TransformDirection(Vector2.up), seeDistance);
        Debug.DrawRay(tr.position, tr.TransformDirection(Vector2.up), Color.green);

        if (hit)
        {
            Debug.Log(hit.transform.name);

            player Player = hit.transform.GetComponent<playerMasterScript>();

            if (Player)
            {
                Player.TakeDamage(damage);
            }
        }
    }
}
2

I’m guessing the line
player Player = hit.transform.GetComponent<playerMasterScript>();
Should be
var Player = hit.transform.GetComponent<playerMasterScript>();

Are you sure you copied both the script and the error message right? Because the line number doesn’t align with your code here…

I urge you to read and implement the Microsoft C# naming convention / code style.
It is hard to read your code when you are using uncapitalized class names and capitalized local variables when the quasi standard is the other way around.

3

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The important parts of an error message are:

  • the description of the error itself (google this; you are NEVER the first one!)
  • the file it occurred in (critical!)
  • the line number and character position (the two numbers in parentheses)

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