Name and tag

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Unity has API that allows you to find a game object via name and tag. When is the appropriate time to use one over the other?

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Answer by ScroodgeM · Sep 05, 2012 at 07:14 PM

you can have objects like 'rat', 'dog', 'crocodile' and all of them marked as 'enemy'

also you can have some set of elements 'wall' and it can be marked as 'destroyable', 'solid', 'virtual' etc

depends on your gameplay

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Superboonie88 · Sep 05, 2012 at 10:06 PM 0

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Can you have multiple tags per game object?

ScroodgeM · Sep 06, 2012 at 04:31 AM 1

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A GameObject can only have one Tag assigned to it.