Setting a gameobject in one script from another at runtime?

I've given up trying to figure this out for myself after many hours and I assumed it should be simple.

How do you assign a gameObject from 1 script to another? ScriptA which is my main gameEngine has 11 players inside an array. ScriptB does all sorts of player animation and IK.

Obviously it works fine if I drag and drop a gameObject in the inspector but I am using UMA to dynamically build the 11 players so I need to do it in the code at runtime.

What am I missing that should be simple?

ScriptA

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. public GameObject[] players;
3.  
4. player[0] = ................................
5. player[1] = ................................
6. player[2] = ................................
7.  

ScriptB

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. public GameObject character;
3.  
4. void DomyStuffhere(character activeCharacter) {
5. ...............................
6. }
7.  

 

Are you talking about a assigning a prefab to it? Or just another object in the Hierarchy?

If it's the second, you can access it as...

Code (csharp):

1. playersObject.getComponent<YourScript>().players[index] = gameObject;

With playersObject being the object with the first script attached, YourScript is the name of the script attached to it, and index is an index in the array. This is where you'd access it from the second script.

Erik

 

Hmmm either I'm confused or we both are I'll try to explain a little better.

I have 2 scripts assigned to empty gameObjects. 1 script is the Game Engine. the other assigns some IK to an avatar created using a UMA generated GO. UMA generates 11 characters for me in the gameEngine.cs file (code not shown). Once generated I then assign all of those created players gameObjects to an Array (shown below in gameEngine.cs).

The UMAFBBIK.cs file does the IK... eg: It will have a certain player bend over and pick up a ball
What I need to do is in my gameEngine.cs assign at runtime the gameObject called umaCharacter inside the UMAFBBIK.cs file from the gameEngine.cs script. I want to specify which player is going to use IK to pick up the ball.

gameEngine.cs

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. public GameObject[] players;
3.  
4. void Start ()
5. {
6.    //Find all the GO's whcih have a tag of 'Player' and assign to an array
7.    players = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Player").OrderBy(player => player.name).ToArray();
8. }
9.  
10. void Update () {
11.  
12.   //Have player pick up the ball
13. //What is the script in here that I need to assign the gameObject???
14.  
15. }
16.  
17.  

UMAFBBIK.cs

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. public GameObject umaCharacter;
3. public BipedReferences references;
4. public Vector3 leftHandOffset;
5. public FullBodyBipedIK ik;
6.  
7. void Update () {
8.  
9. if (umaCharacter != null){
10.  
11. BipedReferences.AutoDetectReferences(ref references, umaCharacter.transform,  BipedReferences.AutoDetectParams.Default);
12.  
13. ik = umaCharacter.AddComponent<FullBodyBipedIK>();
14. ik.SetReferences(references, null);
15. ik.solver.SetLimbOrientations(BipedLimbOrientations.UMA);
16.  
17. umaCharacter = null;
18.  
19.   }
20. }
21.  
22. void LateUpdate() {
23.    if (ik != null) {
24.       ik.solver.leftHandEffector.positionOffset += ik.solver.GetRoot().rotation * leftHandOffset;
25.    }
26. }
27.  
28.  

 

give gameengine a reference to the umafbbik script and drop it into the slot in the inspector, you can then either directly do a

Code (csharp):

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2. myUMAFFBIKScript.umaCharacter = players[i];
3.  

or you can add a function to the umabbfik script where a gameobject is passed as a parameter and it assigns it to the umacharacter reference. Adding a function is preferable as you can do some checking and error handling before the reference is set.

 

I tried doing this earlier but for some reason didn't work. For instance I had this in my UMABBFIK.

Code (CSharp):

1.    
2.  
3. public void setUmaCharacter(GameObject character) {
4.  
5.    umaCharacter = character;
6.  
7. }
8.  

But whenever I tried to call this from gameEngine.cs I was getting issues. I assumed I had done it wrong.

What would be the best way of assigning say player[4] gameObject to this function within umabbfik.cs?

 

such as?

 

Sorry I removed the code because I couldn't get it working... object not set to reference of an object or something similar.

How would you assign the players[4] gameObject to that function?

This was what I was told to do... but didn't work.

gameEngine.cs

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.  
3. public UMAFBBIK fbbik;
4.  
5. void Update() {
6. fbbik.gameObject.GetComponent<UMAFBBIK>().setUmaCharacter(players[0]);
7.  
8. }
9.