How Can I Change The Sprite of A Child

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Hi, and thank you in advance for helping me with this, it's my first Unity question. I am currently attempting to assemble a system in which a character is represented by 2 sprites, a head and a torso, which are swapped out based on variables (right now with teams to keep things as simple as possible).

I figured that the easiest way to do this would be to create 2 child game objects (named head and torso). I've been attempting to figure out how to change the sprite of a child object based on variables assigned in a spawn script.

Here is the section of the spawn script where I set the variable:

 public class Spawn : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public int Team = 1;
     [SerializeField] private Boolean incapacitated = false;
     [SerializeField] private Boolean alive = true;
 }

And here is the script to draw the torso as one of two options (a neutral option and a blue option). The code is a bit of a mess due to about 3 hours of tinkering + searching the forum and not finding results, but hopefully someone will be able to point me in the right direction:

 public class DrawTorso : MonoBehaviour
 {
     private SpriteRenderer sprites = this.transform.GetComponentsInChildren<SpriteRenderer>(); //which torso is selected
     private Sprite body_neutral;
     private Sprite body_blue;
     private SpriteRenderer spriteRender;
 
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update()
     {
         if(team == 0)
         {
             if (this.transform.Find("Torso"))
             {
                 this.transform.GetComponentsInChildren<SpriteRenderer> = body_neutral;
                 Torso.SpriteRenderer.sprite = body_neutral;
                 Debug.Log("neutral torso");
             }
         }
         if (team == 1)
         {
             if (this.transform.Find("Torso"))
             {
                 this.transform.Find("Torso").GetComponents<SpriteRenderer>();
                 Debug.Log("blue torso");
             }
         }
         else //if for some reason this person doesn't have a team throw them into neutral
         {
             if (this.transform.Find("Torso"))
             {
                 this.transform.Find("Torso").GetComponents<SpriteRenderer>();
                 Debug.Log("neutral torso");
             }
         }
     }
 }

Answer 1

Hi everyone. After a long process of tinkering and working with a friend, I've figured out the solution. I figured I'd throw it here in-case anyone else wants to change the sprite of a child object in the future.

 using System;
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Resources;
 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 
 public class DrawTorso : MonoBehaviour
 {
     private int Team;
     [SerializeField] private Sprite body_neutral;
     [SerializeField] private Sprite body_blue;
     public SpriteRenderer torsoSprite; //which torso is selected
 
     void Start()
     {
         torsoSprite = this.transform.Find("Torso").GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
         Team = this.transform.GetComponent<Spawn>().Team; 
     }
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update()
     {
         Team = this.transform.GetComponent<Spawn>().Team;
         if (Team == 0)
         {
             torsoSprite.sprite = body_neutral;
             Debug.Log("neutral torso 0");
         }
         if (Team == 1)
         {
             torsoSprite.sprite = body_blue;
             Debug.Log("blue torso 1");
         }
         else //if for some reason this person doesn't have a team throw them into neutral
         {
             torsoSprite.sprite = body_neutral;
             Debug.Log("exception torso, value of team is:" + Team);
         }
     }
 }

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