GameObject.Find not working

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 [SerializeField]
     GameObject player;
 void Awake()
     {
         player = GameObject.Find("Game/Player/Chest");
     }

so the problem is this is not working and I don't know why and any help is much appreciated.

(Note: The gameobject that this script is in is Disabled but the gameobject that im finding is not)

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Answer by LowTierCoder · May 15, 2020 at 04:52 PM

 player = transform.Find("/Game/Player/Chest").gameObject;

I found a way to do it and this is how I did it. I just changed it to this.

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Answer by Saiansh2525 · May 15, 2020 at 04:35 PM

I think you need to put another slash before the Game in the string.`player = GameObject.FInd("/Game/Player/Chest");`

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LowTierCoder · May 15, 2020 at 04:39 PM 0

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It is still not working, actually that was the first thing I did but it's still not working. Thx for the help tho.

Answer 3

Answer by diwang · May 15, 2020 at 04:55 PM

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1374581/start-and-awake-not-called-on-monobehaviour.html

https://forum.unity.com/threads/gameobject-setactive-vs-enabled.195658/

https://forum.unity.com/threads/is-awake-no-longer-called-on-inactive-objects.461394/

First of all , the term "disabled/enabled" is only for component , for gameobject it's called "active/inactive" , Awake() will not get called on inactive gameobject , Awake() is still get called in disabled script as long as the gameobject is active .

So the problem here is that it's not the GameObject.Find that isn't working , but the Awake() itself never get called since the gameobject is inactive.

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Answer by N-8-D-e-v · May 15, 2020 at 10:33 PM

Don't use find, it isn't very reliable, try just getting a reference from the inspector using

 public GameObject player;

then drag and drop

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