newbie to unity and failing at the first hurdle

Hi Guys

I have downloaded Unity 5.5.1f1

I have been trying to follow the tutorial by Adam Buckner 2D Scolling Backgrounds

I have just created the scipt to scroll the material on the quad and when I try to run it, it gives this error

Assets/_Scripts/OffsetScroller.cs(18,26):
error CS0120: An object reference is required to access non-static member `UnityEngine.Renderer.sharedMaterial'

this is my copy of the script

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class OffsetScroller : MonoBehaviour {
5.  
6.     public float scrollSpeed;
7.  
8.  
9.     // Use this for initialization
10.     void Start () {
11.  
12.     }
13.  
14.     // Update is called once per frame
15.     void Update () {
16.         float y = Mathf.Repeat (Time.time * scrollSpeed, 1);
17.         Vector2 Offset = new Vector2 (0, y);
18.         Renderer.sharedMaterial.SetTextureOffset ("_MainTex", Offset);
19.  
20.     }
21. }

when I type the Renderer. monodevelop does not give any help filling in the sharedMaterial etc

has unity changed the way this is done ???, or did i miss some other setting ????

 

hi

Figured it out, yes the code is old and outdated, after going back to the location of the tutorial I noticed the code had been updated ( teach me to look first next time ). therefore did a quick copy/paste BUT then unity informed me that parts of the code was outdated and and gave the option to update the code. therefore the new code and it does work ( for now) is as follows:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class OffsetScroller : MonoBehaviour {
5.  
6.     public float scrollSpeed;
7.     private Vector2 savedOffset;
8.  
9.     void Start () {
10.         savedOffset = GetComponent<Renderer>().sharedMaterial.GetTextureOffset ("_MainTex");
11.     }
12.  
13.     void Update () {
14.         float y = Mathf.Repeat (Time.time * scrollSpeed, 1);
15.         Vector2 offset = new Vector2 (savedOffset.x, y);
16.         GetComponent<Renderer>().sharedMaterial.SetTextureOffset ("_MainTex", offset);
17.     }
18.  
19.     void OnDisable () {
20.         GetComponent<Renderer>().sharedMaterial.SetTextureOffset ("_MainTex", savedOffset);
21.     }
22. }

hopefully if someone else has the same problem then they will find the answer here ( unless they change it again )

 

Use code tags, not red text if you want programmers to bother looking.

 

sorry, I have changed it
I'm new here and didn't know how to do it, also I posted in the wrong place, thanks to who ever moved it.

 

I know I don't keep up on updates as well as others do, but did I slip into a coma and miss a couple releases?