trouble with GetComponent

Unity Engine
1

Hi guys, I’m sort of new to scripting but I’ve followed several guides and instructions to the letter and cannot figure out why this isn’t working -

The basic idea of the script is that when the player clicks on something it will check what the object is - if it is a chest then I want to check that objects variables to see a few things about that chest, starting with if it has been looted already, however get component is not working.

here are all the relevant lines of code, please help!

public class Interact : MonoBehaviour {
private Vector3 playerLoc;
private Vector3 interactLoc;
public GameObject player;
private GameObject interactedObject;

void Update ()
{
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0))
{
GetInteraction ();
}
}

void GetInteraction()
{
Ray interactionRay = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (Input.mousePosition);
RaycastHit interactionInfo;
if (Physics.Raycast (interactionRay, out interactionInfo, Mathf.Infinity)) {
interactedObject = interactionInfo.collider.gameObject;
playerLoc = player.transform.position;
interactLoc = interactedObject.transform.position;
Debug.Log (“you touch” + interactedObject);

// Check if object is a chest
if (interactedObject.tag == “Chest”)
{
float dist = Vector3.Distance (playerLoc, interactLoc);
Debug.Log (dist);
if (dist >= 1.8f)
{
Debug.Log (“You need to get closer to open that.”);
}
else
{
ChestAction ();
}

//Interact with Chest script
public virtual void ChestAction(){
Debug.Log (“You are close enough to the chest.”);

bool lootable = interactedObject.GetComponent.chestLooted;

if (lootable == (false)) {
}
}

And here is the code from the ‘InteractChest’ script that is attached to the chest object that should be getting interacted with.

public class InteractChest : MonoBehaviour {

public int chestGold;
public bool chestLocked = (false);
public bool chestLooted = (false);
public string chestItems = (“None.”);

void Awake(){
chestGold = Random.Range(5, 32);
}
}

No matter where I search, I can’t find a way on how to get the information from chestLooted that is attached to whatever chest is being interacted with, what am I doing wrong? :frowning:

2

you are missing “()” after GetComponent

3

omg please kill me, I was putting the () after .chestlooted, wow was it really that easy? ive been stuck on this for like 2hours ; ;

4

You are calling the generic GetComponent method with <> and as it’s a function it needs the braces, yes.

5

Thank you a lot for the help. Now it’s calling a new error from that line saying Object reference not set to an instance of an object, which doesn’t make sense as all the names are correct.

6

That can only mean that either the InteractChest-Object is not assigned or that it doesn’t have the InteractChest component attached. Just check it for null before accessing its variables