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Why can't I acces my global variable?
I have a tool in the game I am making that is supposed to absorb one unit of water and then place it somewhere else when you fire at the other place. I want to make it so that the player could only collect one unity of water at a time so I made a global variable called waterfull to see if the player's watertank is full or not. Its supposed to not absorb water when the tank is full. However when I try to check if the global variable waterfull is fall (true) or empty (false) from a different script unity says BCE0005: Unknown identifier: 'WaterApparatus'. WHY???? All the script reference says To access it from another script you need to use the name of the script followed by a dot and the global variable name.print(TheScriptName.someGlobal); TheScriptName.someGlobal = 10;
As far as I am concerned that is what I did. How I declared the variable in a separate script called waterApparatus:
static var waterfull : boolean = false;
Where I am trying to use this variable to check if the player has already absorbed water:
function OnTriggerEnter (other : Collider) { if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("water") && waterApparatus.waterfull==false){ WaterApparatus.waterfull=true; Destroy(other.gameObject); } }
I answered but this site hates my freedom.
Change the third line from Pascal case WaterApparatus
to camel case waterApparatus
.
Or, alternatively, do the right thing and replace waterApparatus in your class name with WaterApparatus. Upper case for type names, lower case for member names.
Answer by Mikbe · Oct 18, 2011 at 04:04 AM
On the second line you have waterApparatus
but on the third line you have uppercase WaterApparatus
.
function OnTriggerEnter (other : Collider) {
if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("water") && waterApparatus.waterfull==false){
WaterApparatus.waterfull=true;
Destroy(other.gameObject);
}
}
Answer by Eric5h5 · Oct 18, 2011 at 03:42 AM
Static and global are two different things, and shouldn't be conflated. Anyway, check your spelling, you made a typo in the script.
Your "answer" is why I think I'm giving up on this site. You have tens of thousands of points but don't bother to actually help where I have none and can't help because I have no points. This StackOverflowification of communities is destroying them. I'm out.
@$$anonymous$$ikbe, you've been here for less than 2 weeks, and made exactly 4 posts. Of course you don't have many points yet! Post good answers, and you'll get upvoted.
@$$anonymous$$ikbe: perhaps you can point out where I "didn't help". Take your antagonistic attitude elsewhere, please.
@Eric5h5 Saying "you made a typo" to a novice is just more of the tired old anti-new person attitude rampant in the computer world. If you don't want to help, don't answer.
@$$anonymous$$ikbe: There are two lines of code, and once it's pointed out that's it's just a typo (as opposed to a logic error that needs to be explained), it should be apparent. If I was "anti-new person" then most of my posts here and on forum.unity3d.com wouldn't exist. You're obviously projecting some issues you have onto me; I think you should resolve them elsewhere.
Answer by aldonaletto · Oct 18, 2011 at 03:48 AM
C# and JS can't see each other during compiling time. If one of them is already compiled, the other can see it (but not the other way around). There exists a predefined order that you can use to determine which scripts compile first (read about this in Script Compilation).
EDITED: OOPS! Your variable declaration is JS too, so forget about this C# rubbish. @Mikbe is right, it's just a typo in the 2nd or 3rd line (one says waterApparatus, the other WaterApparatus). If you place #pragma strict in the first script line, errors like this one will be flagged by the compiler.
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