koobas.hobune.stream
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Can't find gameobjects by name?
I have 13 gameObjects in my scene, which are named like this:
colored1
colored2
...
colored13
When I run this script, all instances of the GameObject.Find() invocations return null:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class MainScript : MonoBehaviour
{
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
for(int i = 1; i <= 13; i++)
{
string scope = "colored" + i;
Debug.Log("Searching for " + scope);
GameObject tile = GameObject.Find(scope);
if(tile == null)
{
Debug.Log(scope + " has been found");
}
else
{
Debug.Log(scope + " could not be found");
}
}
}
}
However when I run THIS script, all gameobjects are found correctly (after I tagged them with "Tile"):
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class MainScript : MonoBehaviour
{
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
GameObject[] tiles = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Tile");
foreach(GameObject gameObject in tiles)
{
Debug.Log(gameObject.name);
}
}
}
When I run that second script, all of the names of the gameObjects are also printed in the console correctly, colored1, colored2 and so on... why does the GameObject.Find() function not return any of them when I apparantly search for the correct names?
Looking at your code, it returns that it could not be found if it wasn't null and states that is has been found when it is null which is backward. If it is null, then it hasn't been found.
I'm not a finding by tag or name. I would have a script on the tiles which adds them to a list in their awake call. I tend to use scriptable objects for things like that.
Your if statement is checking if the tile is Equal to null. If it is, then the debug.log will say the object is found. Else it will say Object is not found. Swap the == for a != in the if statement.
Here's my solution. This version checks if the object is equal to something rather than null. If null then the object is not found. If equal to something then the object is found.
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
for (int i = 1; i <= 13; i++)
{
string scope = "colored" + i;
Debug.Log("Searching for " + scope);
GameObject tile = GameObject.Find(scope);
if (tile != null)
{
Debug.Log(scope + " has been found");
}
else
{
Debug.Log(scope + " could not be found");
}
}
}
Original checks if the tile is Equal to null and saying that the object is found. Else the object is not found. So if the script actually finds the object in the scene it will say the object + " could not be found". BUT if the object is not found in the scene it will say the object + " has been found".
So I swapped the "==" for a "!=" to get the desired result.
$$anonymous$$y bad, I thought the OP wrote
if(tile == null)
{
Debug.Log(scope + " could not be found");
}
else
{
Debug.Log(scope + " has been found");
}
