CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#unity-game-engine
brunit
brunit

Reputation: 45

I can't get the position of a game object into a vector3 variable

As you can see I am trying to create a vector3 variable that stores the position of the gameobject and I'm getting the following error:

A field initializer cannot reference the non-static field, method, or property

I have tried turning the gameobject into static variable but then I get another error inside Unity:

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

How can I fix this?

public GameObject playerobject;

private Vector3 playerposition = playerobject.transform.position;

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1396

Answers (1)

Programmer
Programmer

Reputation: 125375

You have to initialize the playerposition in a function instead of where it is declared. The Start or Awake function is fine for this. If you need to update the playerposition variable every frame then do it in the Update function. The reason for this is that the variable you use to initialize another variable outside a function must be a static or const variable.

I am sure you don't want the playerobject to be static or const because you want to assign it in the Editor so doing it in a function is the correct way to do this.

public GameObject playerobject;
private Vector3 playerposition;

void Awake()
{
    playerposition = playerobject.transform.position;
}

After that, make sure to apply an Object to thethe playerobject slot in the Editor.

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions