Failure to pass Bool. Help pls

New to Unity and Coding in general. Trying to click on an enemy and when I do that change a bool. Enemy script has reference to Manager script where the bool is. Super confused why its not doing anything> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Enemy Value script is trying to access the bool passer on the Conflict Manager script.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class EnemyValues : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     public int enemyHealth = 100;
8.     public int enemyThingees = 2;
9.     public GameObject managerRef;
10.  
11.     public void Start()
12.     {
13.         managerRef.GetComponent<ConflictManager>();
14.         ConflictManager conflictManager = managerRef.GetComponent<ConflictManager>();
15.     }
16.     public void OnMouseDown()
17.     {
18.         if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
19.         {
20.             conflictManager.passer = true;
21.         }
22.     }
23. }
24.  

Code (CSharp):

1. public class ConflictManager : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     public GameObject playerValueRefrence;
4.     public GameObject enemyValueRefrence;
5.     public bool passer = false;
6.  
7.  
8.     private void Awake()// passing variable from another script and printing it
9.     {
10.         playerValueRefrence.GetComponent<PlayerValues>();
11.         PlayerValues playerValues = playerValueRefrence.GetComponent<PlayerValues>(); // name after what object is
12.  
13.         enemyValueRefrence.GetComponent<EnemyValues>();
14.         EnemyValues enemyValues = enemyValueRefrence.GetComponent<EnemyValues>();
15.        
16.      
17.    
18.     }
19.     public void Update()
20.     {
21.         if (passer == true)
22.         {
23.             Battle();
24.         }
25.     }
26.  
27.     void Battle()
28.     {
29.         Debug.Log("You gave away a Thingee");
30.        
31.     }
32. }

 

Your EnemyValues script won't compile as written. "conflictManager" is defined as a local variable in Start(), but you're referencing it in OnMouseDown(). That's not legal C#. You would have to make it an instance variable to access it across methods.

Anyway, there's a simpler way. Instead of using

public GameObject managerRef;

and then calling GetComponent, just make it a ConflictManager reference directly:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. public class EnemyValues : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     public int enemyHealth = 100;
7.     public int enemyThingees = 2;
8.  
9.     // Assign this value by dragging and dropping in the inspector
10.     public ConflictManager conflictManager;
11.  
12.     public void OnMouseDown()
13.     {
14.         if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
15.         {
16.             conflictManager.passer = true;
17.         }
18.     }
19. }

Then you can drag and drop the ConflictManager reference in the inspector the same way you did for the GameObject and you're good to go.

 

Thank you for the help.