help! how to reference 2 players in a scene instead of only one

Hi Team,

So I have 2 players in my game, only one active at once and by a press of a button, they get swapped out for each other. At the moment my scripts are only really working with one player and not both. For example an enemy will chase 1 player but as soon as i change, he ignores the other. I am currently using "findobjectswithtag" in the start function. i understand having it occur in update is possible but that is very demanding. How else can I go about implementing this?

Thanks

 

At the same script you switch between the 2 players use a member that is a reference of the current active player.
Give the enemy a reference to the same script and you'll easily be able to grab the active player from there.

Code (CSharp):

1. public class SwitchPlayersScript : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     public GameObject ActivePlayer;
4.  
5.     [SerializeField]
6.     private GameObject _playerOne;
7.  
8.     [SerializeField]
9.     private GameObject _playerTwo;
10.  
11.     private bool _isPlayerOneActive;
12.  
13.     private void Start()
14.     {
15.         ActivePlayer = _playerOne;
16.         _isPlayerOneActive = true;
17.     }
18.  
19.     private void Update()
20.     {
21.         if (Input.GetKeyDown("space"))
22.         {
23.             SwitchPlayers();
24.         }
25.     }
26.  
27.  
28.     private void SwitchPlayers()
29.     {
30.         _playerOne.SetActive(!_isPlayerOneActive); // if _isPlayerOneActive = true deactivate playerOne
31.         _playerTwo.SetActive(_isPlayerOneActive); // if _isPlayerOneActive = true activate playerTwo
32.         _isPlayerOneActive = !_isPlayerOneActive;
33.  
34.         ActivePlayer = _isPlayerOneActive ? _playerOne : _playerTwo; // Set the newely activate player
35.     }
36. }
37.    
38. public class EnemyFollowScript : MonoBehaviour
39. {
40.     [SerializeField]
41.     private SwitchPlayersScript _switchPlayersScript;
42.  
43.     private void Update()
44.     {
45.         FollowPlayer(_switchPlayersScript.ActivePlayer);
46.     }
47.  
48.     private void FollowPlayer(GameObject activePlayer)
49.     {
50.         Debug.Log($"Follow {activePlayer.name}");
51.     }
52. }