Find a GameObject for a PreFab

Hello!
Sorry ... I have a "Enemy" that has a reference to another Gameobject to access its script:

Code (CSharp):

1.  public GameObject fartPoint;
2. private FartScript fartScript;
3.  

I have this "fartScript" in a (of course!) fartPoint GameObject.

With my Enemy still in the Hierarchy I can "drag & drop" that GameObject in editor, but ... when I make my Enemy a PreFab ... It loses the reference, so I need to assign fartPoint that is a CHILD of another gameObject to my Enemy via script.

How can I achieve this?

I have something like

Player
I -> FartPoint (and here I have that script I want to access)

So I need to access that (Player's) child game object before that script.

Thanks for your help!

 

If you have only one FartScript, you can just use FindObjectOfType<FartScript>() to find the reference from Start.

If you have more than one FartScript, then you'll need to first find the Player using some method (if you add a Player component to it you can use FindObjectOfType<Player>), and then you can use GetComponentInChildren to find the FartScript from the child GameObjects of the player.

Code (CSharp):

1. void Start()
2. {
3.     var player = FindObjectOfType<Player>();
4.     fartScript = player.GetComponentInChildren<FartScript>();
5. }

 

Hi SisusCo!
Thanks for your reply! I have only one fart script, but I would instantiate different Enemies! Anyway It gives me an error.

There is "no reference" for <Player>

 

Since only one instance exists in the scene you can use this:

Code (CSharp):

1. void Start()
2. {
3.     fartScript  = FindObjectOfType<FartScript>();
4. }