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Setting a class-wide attribute at startup in Boo
In my main Unity script I access other game objects frequenty, e.g. the camera. Since I do not want to call GameObject.Find("Main Camera") in every Update(), I want to keep a reference to the instance as a class-local variable.
However when I try
import UnityEngine
class PlayerBehaviour (MonoBehaviour):
main_camera as GameObject = GameObject.Find("Main Camera")
I get "UnityException: You are not allowed to call this function when declaring a variable. Move it to the line after without a variable declaration."
When I move this to Start()
import UnityEngine
class PlayerBehaviour (MonoBehaviour):
def Start ():
main_camera = GameObject.Find("Main Camera")
return
I get "Assets/PlayerBehaviour.boo(25,9): BCE0005: Unknown identifier: 'main_camera'."
How can I assign a local variable to the instance of another GameObject at initalisation, using Boo?
EDIT: The camera is just an example. I am looking for a Boo technique to cache a reference to any GameObject.
I am writing in C#, not Boo, but my guess is that the solution would be the same.
Try separating the variable declaration and assignment.
Instead of
main_camera as GameObject = GameObject.Find("Main Camera")
Try
main_camera as GameObject
def Start ():
// This line should go in Awake() or later
main_camera = GameObject.Find("Main Camera")
return
This line should also work, if it is in Awake() or later, but then your variable is local to Awake()/Start() and not global, but you can test with this, just to see if its working.
main_camera as GameObject = GameObject.Find("Main Camera")
(I am assuming varname as type is how you declare variables in Boo)
Separating declaration and binding does the trick. That is a bit counterintuitive in Boo. It also works in Start(). Thanks. If you like, you can upvote the question.
