OnMouseDown - sending object name to another script problem c#

Unity Engine
1

Hi all,

I have a gameobject called plane and I’ve got a script that instantiates 10 clones, they get a number added to the end of them so they all have a unique gameobject name, so I end up with 11 gameobjects which are : plane ( original ) and the clones are named plane0, plane1 etc.

I have a script called playerscript attached to plane and all the plane clones.

I have another gameobject called Tower with a script called Controller attached to it.

What I want to do is, when I click on a plane I want the variable “idtext” ( which is in the Controller script ) to contain the gameobject name of the object I just clicked on.
What actually happens is if I click on the original plane idtext does equal the name “plane” as it should BUT when I click on a clone idtext doesn’t equal anything.
The debug.log shows the proper gameobject name in the console if I click on a clone but this just isn’t getting transferred to the idtext variable for some reason.

Each clone has a Box collider & a Rigidbody
Note : I have dragged gameobject Tower to Target in the inspector.

public Transform target;


void OnMouseDown(){
        // this object was clicked - do something
       
        Controller targetScript = target.GetComponent<Controller>();
         a = gameObject.name;
        targetScript.idtext = gameObject.name  ;  // this works with original but not a clone
       
 Debug.Log (" plane clicked is  " +  a);



}

Any help is appreciated - thanks.

2

a is always the owner of the script.

To get differnt planes, you need to use a raycast, hit.

Make sure you have one controller that fires the ray, not each of the clones each using an input.

3

If a is always the owner of the script why does my Debug.Log show the correct clone in the console ( i.e plane4 )

4

The general approach should work

target is probably not being set in clone properly - you could probably check this by adding debug.log and printing it out first.

A slightly different approach might be to set each objects controller variable in awake and get it via a tag…
This has the benefit of only making call once and u can be sure it is set