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How to access an inactive gameObject with tag
Hello. I have a gameObject called playerWeaponsPrefab which has 4 children, the first child is tagged as PrimaryWeapon, the second is tagged as SecondaryWeapon, the third is tagged as Knife and the forth is a grenade, I want to select these weapons in game by pressing 1,2,3 and 4 buttons ( while a weapon is selected others must be inactive). I put these weapon gameObjects in 4 variables and used GameObject.FindwithTag(exampleWeapon) for accessing to them but I can not access to them and it returns null because the gameObject is not active. I was shocked when I saw GameObject.FindWithTag doesn't work on inactive Objects. what Should I do to access my inactive weapon? thanks for help in advance.
Leave them enabled in the editor, get them with Start() and after you have them disable them.
You could also try making 4 public gameObjects and just drag your weapons in there.
private void Start()
{
weapon = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("tag");
weapon.SetActive (false);
}
Nice! Could you mark the question as answered and accept my answer?
You should have a pre-defined array with the weapons or a list if you want to add more in the future, i think it's better than always using any GameObject.Find
Yeah I agree, that would be more efficient. He could also just make his gameobjects public and assign them from the inspector. Just drag and drop
He could and that what i meant sorry if i wasn't clear :)
