koobas.hobune.stream
Is there something more "public" than public?
I am now making a Skill tree system...of course I need to add some variables than will change based on what the user raises. I did declare public at the beginning, however, I think it's tedious to search everytime for X.GetComponent("variable"), in any other script I make and want to access this.
Is there any way I can make it readily available, like GameObject, Time, etc?
You can store global things like this in a static class.
public static class Globals
{
public static SkillTreeSystem SkillTree;
}
You access the static fields by referencing the class name, not an instance of the class...
x = Globals.SkillTree.SomeSkillProperty;
You'll need to initialize the static properties somewhere before using them.
I think what you're looking for is a singleton. It's basically a glorified global. There are some nice implementations **here**. Just make sure you use the MonoBehaviour version for unity scripts and the non MonoBehavious one for the others. If you want to understand the singleton pattern more, there is a ton of information all over the web.
Here's a way to make it so that other component scripts are easily accessible by name, like renderer, collider, transform.. things like that.
http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post404_script-templates-and-base-classes
