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Hi - i'm instantiating a prefab at runtime, and trying to set the gui text of a nested gameobject, but my syntax isn't working. This is my code:

var scoreBoard = Instantiate(scoreBoard, Vector3 (0, 0, 0), Quaternion.identity);
var yourScore = transform.Find("YourScore"); //YourScore is a child of scoreBoard.
yourScore.GetComponent(GUIText).text = userScore; //yourScore has a GUIText attached to it, and userScore is a stored String.

how do I do this properly?

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Seems you mean:

var yourScore = scoreBoard.transform.Find("YourScore"); //YourScore is a child of scoreBoard

answered Jul 28 '11 at 10:11 PM

Waz
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thanks - that worked. Revised code as follows:

var scoreBoard = Instantiate(scoreBoard, Vector3 (0, 0, 0), Quaternion.identity); var playerScore = scoreBoard.transform.Find("YourScore"); playerScore.guiText.text = scoreTextRef.text;

Jul 29 '11 at 03:07 PM heaversm

While this is correct, it's bad form to use the same name for your new local variable as the name of the member variable, so either name the member to eg. scoreBoardPrefab or the new local variable to eg. scoreBoardInstance.

Jul 29 '11 at 05:27 PM Waz

Gotcha, thanks.

Jul 29 '11 at 06:00 PM heaversm

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