Prefabs Transforms

Unity Engine
1

Hello,

I have a Strange thing going on and need a solution if anyone knows?

I have a Enemy who’s AI “Looks At” my Players Transform which is a variable in the Inspector.

If I drag and drop my Player from the Scene View onto the Player Variable (for LookAt) everything works fine and the enemy is always going after my Player.

Heres the Problem:

If I instantiate the Enemy at runtime it wont remember or hold my players Transform, So Im thinking I need to add its Prefab.

If I drag my Players Prefab onto the var Player (for Look) At the Enemy will go to where the players prefab was and not go after my player???

I need use the Players Prefab because when I instantiate the Enemy its the only way for it to Hold My Players Transform.

Ahh… this is confusing anyone ever run into this problem? and would anyone know how I would solve this?

myCode:

var awareDistance : float = 15.0;
var scaredDistance : float = 10.0;
var player : Transform;

var runSpeed : float = 4.0;

enum AIStatus {Idle = 0, Scared = 1}
private var status = AIStatus.Idle; //by default

var controller : CharacterController;

private var moveDirection = Vector3.zero;

//function Start loop animations
function Start()
{
	//set all animations to loop
	animation.wrapMode = WrapMode.Loop;		
}

function Awake()
{
	//maybe replace character controller with box collider  rigidBody for gravity
	controller = GetComponent(CharacterController);	
}

function Update()
{
	CheckStatus();
	
	switch(status)
	{
		case AIStatus.Idle:
		Idle();
		break;
		
		case AIStatus.Scared:
		RunAway();
		break;
	}	
}

function Idle()
{
	animation.CrossFade ("idle2");	
}

function RunAway()
{
	//transform.eulerAngles.y = -player.transform.eulerAngles.y; //gets thier rotation from mine
	
	// give enemy thier own rotation
	transform.LookAt(player.transform);
	
	//to make them run the other way add 180 degrees 
	//transform.eulerAngles.y += 180;
		
	moveDirection = Vector3(0,0,40); //help our robot know hich way to go create a float variable to test it.
	moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection); //converst it to worldSpace
	moveDirection *= runSpeed; //times 4.0 above
	controller.SimpleMove(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime); // moves our enemy
	animation.CrossFade ("relax_walk1"); //and plays the run animation	
		
}

function CheckStatus()
{
	//player.position is what ever enemy I drag into the player varable above in the inspector
	var dist = (player.position - transform.position).magnitude; //returns the length for dist 
	
	if (dist < scaredDistance)
	{
		status = AIStatus.Scared;	
	}	
	else if (dist > awareDistance)
	{
		status = AIStatus.Idle;	
	}
}
2

Wowowow

A lot of headaches but I found the solution one simple line of code needed to be in the start function.

player = GameObject.FindWithTag("myrobot").transform;