Type-casting problem...

Unity Engine
1

I need some help here. I am probably missing something but this script returns "Cannot convert UnityEngine.Component to CharacterMotorMovement. I am trying to access Unity’s character controller so that I can implement sprinting to it. Here’s my code:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PlayerSprint : MonoBehaviour 
{
	public int sprintModifier;
	private CharacterMotorMovement movement;
	
	void Awake()
	{
		movement = (CharacterMotorMovement)gameObject.GetComponent("CharacterMotorMovement");
	}
	
	void Update()
	{
		while(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftShift))
		{
			movement.maxForwardSpeed = movement.maxForwardSpeed + sprintModifier;
		}
		movement.maxForwardSpeed = movement.maxForwardSpeed - sprintModifier;
	}
}
2 
movement = (CharacterMotorMovement)gameObject.GetComponent<CharacterMotorMovement>();

or

movement = gameObject.GetComponent<CharacterMotorMovement>() as CharacterMotorMovement;

and why are you using a while loop ?

3

Same error in both cases: The type CharacterMotorMovement' must be convertible to UnityEngine.Component’ in order to use it as parameter T' in the generic type or method UnityEngine.GameObject.GetComponent()’

I am officially stumped. LOL About the while loop, would it work correctly with an if statement?

4

change while(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftShift) to if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift)))
otherwise you will create a infinite loop.

and the problem is that there is no component called CharacterMotorMovement in the standart assets. there is only CharacterMotor

5

Well actually there is. It is a class in the CharacterMotor file. Isn’t that registered as a component?