Reference Public Transform Prefab

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Hi, I was just wondering how I would search for a public transform in my script attached to my instatiated enemy prefab?

public Transform targetFront;

Would I use FindGameObject or GetComponent or another one?

Thank you in advance

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More context is needed. Are you trying to assign to this field? Do you want some other component to be able to get this reference?

Describe your end goal here.

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Hey sorry, yes so i would like to assign this field once the enemy has been spawned in.
So I can usually attach this object to the enemy, but now it is a prefab i cant assign it

So i need to attach it in script and since its not a Public GameObject, i’m not sure how to to do

I hope that helps, i can rephrase it if it still does not make sense

Thanks

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So is targetFront what this enemy is targeting? Such as the player or something?

If it’s meant to find the player, I’d set up a singleton pattern on your player so other scripts can easily find it’s location.

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I have a target front and a target back, it is essentially a crude way for me decide which side of the player to attack when it collides

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I’m still genuinely confused. Is this object on the same game object or a child game object of the enemy? Or is it on another game object?

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The target front and back objects are attached to the player

The “public transform target front and back” are in my enemy script, so i would usually drag those objects to the enemy in the inspector, but now trying to find it through the enemy script once the enemy has spawned

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Then yeah, give your player some kind of singleton pattern instance that can allow other objects access to it’s properties.

If you don’t know what that means, there’s a million tutorials on the pattern out there.

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Thank you for your help, I think i’ve solved my issue by adding a tag to the object and using

targetFront = transform;
        GameObject front = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("front");
        targetFront = front.transform;

Not sure if this would cause other issues but seems to be working

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In general it’s best to avoid using .Find and any similar methods. They are not performant, and become a crutch that if you lean on too often, will make designing more involved systems impossible.

I strongly suggest looking up an learning some fundamental patterns like the singleton pattern. It will be of much more use to you than relying on .Find and similar.

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I will take a look another time, thank you for all the help though, much appreciated