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Vector2.Distance syntax {java}
I'm trying to use Vector2.Distance to find the distance between two gameObjects in 2d, but I can't figure out the syntax & none of the answers I've found give me an explanation of how to reference the gameObjects in question. Let's call the two objects "gameCube" & "gameSphere".
var distance = 0.0000000;
function Update () {
distance = Vector2.Distance(gameCube.transform.position, gameSphere.transform.position);
}
This didn't work, so I tried listing the gameObjects as strings:
distance = Vector2.Distance("gameCube".transform.position, "gameSphere".transform.position);
It just tells me 'transform' is not a member of 'string'. Finally I tried listing the game gameObjects as variables:
var gameCube = GameObject;
var gameSphere = GameObject;
var distance = 0.0000000;
function Update () {
distance = Vector2.Distance(gameCube.transform.position, gameSphere.transform.position);
}
& that just tells me 'transform' is not a member of 'system.type' Am I missing something? Any help would be much appreciated ;-;
This doesn't really have anything to do with Distance. this is about how to get two game objects into a behavior. Also, this is not a Java question. It's a JavaScript question. Right?
It is javascript, & I don't know what you mean by behavior ^^; I'm trying to get it to give me a number that gets bigger the farther away the two objects are away from each other, & smaller the closer they are
Your title says "{java}", which is misleading but only slightly so as I'm not aware of any way to use Java in Unity. Behavior meaning implementation of $$anonymous$$onoBehaviour, which is what you use to script game objects. The fact is just hidden from you in JavaScript scripts.
In the third block, you are not correctly declaring your GameObjects. The lines you have written mean:
var gameCube = GameObject; // gameCube is now equal to the GameObject TYPE
var gameSphere = GameObject; // gameSphere is now also equal to the GameObject TYPE
Note that neither of these ARE GameObjects. They are the effectively nicknames for the TYPE GameObject.
The first error is telling you that the GameObject type itself does not have a .transform component (but objects of type GameObject do).
In your second block, you are trying to find the .transform of a string, which also doesn't exist.
You should use:
var gameCube : GameObject; // gameCube is now an object OF type GameObject
Then your first attempt to find the distance will work.
Cool All I had to change was = to : & the whole thing worked the way I thought it's supposed to Thank you ^-^
First of all, make sure you keep the windows rolled up and the doors locked when you're writing JavaScript.
Here's an example of computing the 2D distance between two things and putting the result into a text field.
#pragma strict
var t1: Transform;
var t2: Transform;
var output: UnityEngine.UI.Text;
function Update() {
output.text = '' + UnityEngine.Vector2.Distance(t1.position, t2.position);
}
Drag the two things you want to measure the distance between into the editor boxes in the inspector for the appropriate instance of the script as well as the label to hold the result.
