Trying to run Method in all tagged GameObjects.

Unity Engine
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Hey, First time posting for help. I guess that means I’m doing better than I thought, haha!

I’m trying to run a method on all tagged “Minions” at the same time, but even though I beleive I’m declaring them correctly, it’s throwing “An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property ‘Waypoints.minion’” at me.

Here’s my code.

using UnityEngine;
public class Waypoints : MonoBehaviour
{

    public static Transform[] points;
    public static Transform goal;
    //starts at 1 since Spawn is 0
    public static int counter = 1;
    MinionController minion;
    GameObject[] minions;


    void Awake ()
    {
        points = new Transform[transform.childCount];
        for (int i = 0; i < points.Length; i++)
        {
            points[i] = transform.GetChild(i);
        }
      
    }

    void Update ()
    {
        goal = points[counter];
    }

    public static void WaypointReached()
    {
        counter++;
        GameObject[] minions = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Minion");
        for (int i = 0; i < minions.Length; i++)
        {
            minion = minions[i].GetComponent<MinionController>();
            minion.Celebrate();
        }
      
    }

}

It’s the 2 minion lines at the bottom that are giving me grief. Both of them think they need an object reference.

I also tried the suggested outline in the unity API and got the same thing.

        public static void WaypointReached()
        {
            counter++;
            GameObject[] minions = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Minion");
            foreach(GameObject minion in minions)
            {
                minion.Celebrate();
            }
        }

Any thoughts?

Let me know if anyone needs the MinionController class.

2

Your method is static, but minion, which is declared at the top of the class is not. Which means, minion needs to belong to an instance.

In truth, you might want to consider a singleton, or just have minion be a local variable to the method. Pretty sure either of those would fix it.