koobas.hobune.stream
Accessing prefab components
Given the following code:
GameObject myGameObject = GameObject.Find("instance3");
MyScript script = myGameObject.GetComponent<MyScript>();
The script variable is always null when myGameObject is a prefab I dragged into the scene, but fine when I make it from scratch my making a GameObject and adding the components manually.
If I click on instance3 in the scene and look at the inspector, I can see it definitely has a MyScript component, so why is it coming back as null?.
Am I using prefabs wrong, or have I fundamentally misunderstood what they are for?
Are you sure that you should be using "instance3" in your GameObject.Find and not "instance3 (clone)"? Check the inspector.
Do you need to find a specific instance of a certain type of game object? Otherwise I would say use another function that will return the script directly (FindObjectOfType).
MyScript script = (MyScript)FindObjectOfType(typeof(MyScript));
// OR
MyScript script = (MyScript)FindObjectOfType<MyScript>();
Note: You need to cast, as this function only returns an "Object" type. Hope that helps.
