Problem with assigning a gameObject via Script [SOLVED]

Questions & Answers
1

In this example I have two fighters - left and right.
I’ve declared them like this :

	public GameObject leftFighter;
	public GameObject rightFighter;

And I assign them in the Start function

	void Start (){
		leftFighter = GameObject.FindWithTag ("Left Fighter");
		rightFighter = GameObject.FindWithTag ("Right Fighter");

However in the rest of the code I have referenced components of these Game Objects.

		if (leftFighter.MainCharStats.initiative >= rightFighter.MainCharStats.initiative)

When I use the script inside unity, though, it gives me this compiler error :

error CS1061: Type
‘UnityEngine.GameObject’ does not
contain a definition for MainCharStats’ and no extension
method `MainCharStats’ of type
UnityEngine.GameObject’ could be
found (are you missing a using
directive or an assembly reference?)

My guess is that for a script to work every variable including GameObjects must be defined, but in my case I don’t know how to assign a GameObject to a script without it giving those compiler errors.

How can this be fixed?

2

You need to use the GetComponent method to access components attached to your gameobjects.
This should work:

 if (leftFighter.GetComponent<MainCharStats>().initiative >= rightFighter.GetComponent<MainCharStats>().initiative)
3

Save a reference to each MainCharStats the same as you have with the fighters, so…

MainCharStats LFighterStats;
MainCharStats RFighterStats;

void Start(){
 LFighterStats = LeftFighter.getcomponent<MainCharStats>();
same for right here.
}

Then you can say

if(LFighterStats.initiative >= RFighterStats.initiative){
     debug.log("We're in luck");
}

This should work… Hope it gets you started at least.