Need help with something that I thought is fairly straightforward

Hey all, I need a little help with this.

I've an empty game object with 2 meshes whose renderers I would like to disable.

I've got this coded as such:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. public class LocatorRendererControl : MonoBehaviour {
3.  
4.    public Renderer renderLocator;
5.    public Renderer renderLocatorFp;
6.  
7.    // Use this for initialization
8.    void Start ()
9.    {
10.        renderLocator = GetComponentInChildren<Renderer>();
11.        renderLocatorFp = GetComponentInChildren<Renderer>();
12.  
13.        renderLocator.enabled = false;
14.        renderLocatorFp.enabled = false;
15.    }
16.  
17. }

The problem I'm running into is that, renderLocatorFp NEVER gets disabled per code. Somehow, the Locator is the only one that gets disabled.

Here's the setup

What's happening during runtime

Thank you in advance.

 

They are both finding the same object. Manually assign the references in the inspector or use get componentS [0] and [1]

 

GetComponentInChildren is going to return the same component, so both renderLocator and renderLocatorFp both point to exactly the same renderer. Hence, you are disabling the same renderer twice.

I would suggest removing those 2 lines, and manually dragging and dropping the renderer onto the field in the inspector.

 

Thank you, changed it to

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.     public Renderer[] renderLocator;
3.  
4.     // Use this for initialization
5.     void Start ()
6.     {
7.         renderLocator = GetComponentsInChildren<Renderer>();
8.        
9.  
10.         foreach(Renderer rLocator in renderLocator)
11.             rLocator.enabled = false;
12.        
13.     }