koobas.hobune.stream
Setting camera target after I instantiate the gameobject?
Newbie question on syntax...
I have the mainCamera in the game and I have attached the smoothfollow script to it.
I instantiate the gameobject when the game starts dynamically that I want the camera to follow so I can't set the target in the inspector.
After I instantiate the gameobject what is my syntax in javascript to assign the gameobject I just instantiated to the mainCamera's smoothfollow script?
Thanks for any help.
Something close to this:
var sf : SmoothFollow = Camera.main.GetComponent(SmoothFollow);
if (sf)
sf.target = myNewObject.transform;
You could use the function GetComponent and assign the instantiated GameObject to the variable "target" of the script:
var script : SmoothFollow; script = Camera.main.GetComponent("SmoothFollow");
var prefab : Transform; var clone : Transform; clone = Instantiate (prefab, ... );
script.target = clone;
I'm having the same problem as the person who asked the question, and I originally had the prefab set as "var prefab: Gameobject" because when I set it to a transform it would instantiate clones over and over, but when I set it to a GameObject it gives me the error "cannot convert UnityEngine.GameObject to UnityEngine.Transform. Any idea what's wrong with it?
I'm having the problem described in the title here, but I'm not understanding the suggestions.
I'm thinking there's something wrong with my order of operations because everything looks correct in the Inspector on play but the camera doesn't follow the player.
Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?:
var useCamera : Camera;
var player : GameObject; //player doesn't exist until prefab is instantiated
var spawnPnt : Transform;
function Awake ()
{
SetCamera();
SpawnPlayer();
}
function LateUpdate ()
{
useCamera.transform.LookAt( player.transform );
}
function SetCamera()
{
useCamera = GameObject.FindWithTag ("$$anonymous$$ainCamera").camera;
}
function SpawnPlayer()
{
Instantiate(player, spawnPnt.position, spawnPnt.rotation);
}
I found a solution to my particular problem. $$anonymous$$y camera was set to look at the prefab and not the instantiated (clone), so I added
var camLookAt : Transform;
and:
function SetCamLookAt()
{
camLookAt = GameObject.FindWithTag ("Player").transform;
}
to run after SpawnPlayer();
Then updated:
useCamera.transform.LookAt( camLookAt );
