Setting Text Mesh with a variable

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1

I’m just starting unity and making a card game. I have a Quad GameObject “CardQuad” with a bunch of child objects, some of which are TextMesh objects that will represent the card name, abilities, health, and attack of the card. I am trying to set the TextMesh in Update(). I can set it to a quoted string, but when I try to set it to a string variable it comes out as blank when I hit play.

I’ve set my public variables in the UI.

Debug.Log shows:

"Rampaging Rhino of the Jungle
UnityEngine.Debug:Log(Object)
CardCreator:Start() (at Assets/CardCreator.cs:19)"

So I know my string assign is working.

Why is it not setting the TextMesh.text to my variable though?

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class CardCreator : MonoBehaviour {

	public string prefix;
	public string suffix;
	public string creatureType;
	public int attack;
	public int defense;
	public string abilities;
	public char color;

	string cardName;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
		cardName = prefix + " " + creatureType +  " " + suffix;
		Debug.Log (cardName);
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
		GameObject g = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag ("CardName");

		TextMesh t = g.GetComponent<TextMesh> ();
		Debug.Log ("Name = '" + t.text + "'");
		t.text = "some new string";  //this works and updates the card name
		t.text = cardName;   //this makes the card name blank
	}
}
2

Updated by code and added more debug logs. Hopefully this can shed some light:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class CardCreator : MonoBehaviour {

	public string prefix;
	public string suffix;
	public string creatureType;
	public int attack;
	public int defense;
	public string abilities;
	public char color;

	string cardName;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
		Debug.Log ("Card Name before Start = '" + cardName + "'");
		cardName = prefix + " " + creatureType +  " " + suffix;

		GameObject g = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag ("CardName");
		TextMesh t = g.GetComponent<TextMesh> ();
		t.text = cardName;
		Debug.Log ("Card Name after Start = '" + cardName + "'");
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
		Debug.Log ("Card Name in Update = '" + cardName + "'");
	}
}

Output in the console:

71763-console.png