What a Mesh! Array Building

Unity Engine
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I’m trying to find a way to create an array that contains all the meshes that are in a model I’ve imported into my project. At the moment I have a model made up of 16 meshes. I need a reference to each mesh as the game plays, so I can swap them in and out. Right now I’ve done this by hand by creating the array, var theseMesh : Mesh[ ]; then hand placing each mesh from the project window into the array in the inspector. Can this be automated?

Along the same lines, I have another array that I would like to contain a bunch of gameObjects from the scene. Since I’m using GameObject.active, I want a reference to the game object itself, and not a component, as in Component.GetComponentsInChildren (and putting all the objects into a single group). Again, I’m not sure how to do this better than placing them in by hand. Help please!

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Figured out the second question, Using GetComponentsInChildren after all. I had to loop through the list of components and build a new list of the GOs.

var fullComponentList: Component[] = GetComponentsInChildren(MeshRenderer);
var gameObjectList = new Array();
for(var i = 0; i < fullComponentList.length; i++){
  gameObjectList.Add (GameObject.Find(fullComponentList[i].name));
}

edit1: and i just realized I dont need to use Find
gameObjectList.Add (fullComponentList*.gameObject);*