Access to gameobjects by name (Newbe needs help)

Schnappi

How I can get access to the game objects in a sceene by name in a script to enable / disable the object renderer (visible on/off).
A code example would be good.

Thanks!

Schnappi

Super! Thanks HoloSheep!

HoloSheep

@Schnappi

If the script is attached to the gameobject in question, you can reference the gameobject with the "this" keyword:

this.gameObject

with that reference you can then turn on and off rendering with routines that enable and disable the gameObject's Renderer components:

 public void OnHide()
    {
        Renderer[] rendererArray = this.gameObject.GetComponentsInChildren<Renderer>();
        foreach (Renderer r in rendererArray)
        {
            r.enabled = false;
        }      
    }

    public void OnShow()
    {
        Renderer[] rendererArray = this.gameObject.GetComponentsInChildren<Renderer>();
        foreach (Renderer r in rendererArray)
        {
            r.enabled = true;
        }        
    }

If the script is not attached to the game object that you want to show or hide and you don't have a reference to it already you can get a gameobject reference with GameObject.Find code like:

GameObject targetGameObject;

 targetGameObject = gameObject.Find("TargetGameObjectsName");

where the string "TargetGameObjectsName" is the name of the gameObject in the scene object hierarchy.

Similar code to the show and hide routines could then use the targetGameObject reference to disable and enable the renderers for the game object.

Alternatively you may also be interested in using the reference to just disable the gameObject with GameObject.SetActive but enabling and disabling the renderers is a better way to go if you want to control the gameObject's visibility.

HTH.

Schnappi

Super! Thanks HoloSheep!