Very basic Prefab question

Unity Engine
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Hi,

I’m dynamically creating an instance of a prefab. The prefab has code attached to it. Inside the prefab I have an animated mesh (A character walking) called “body”

How can I get my C# code to reference the “body” inside that instance, and only that instance?

If I use:

pBody = GameObject.Find("body");

I often get the body attached to a different prefab instance.

I hit google for quite while but no luck.

Thanks!

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While instantiating the prefab, you can assign it to a variable, depending on what it is. Then you just look up its animation component:

Transform pBody = (Transform)Instantiate(body, Vector3.zero, Quanternion.identity);

It would be wiser to have the character control itself, though (since you already have a script in the prefab, you can make the pre-fab autonomous from the spawning entity)

3

Sounds like you want Transform.Find instead.

GameObject b = transform.Find("Body"); // returns child GO named Body
GameObject c = GameObject.Find("Body");  //finds a GO in the world named Body