Components

[hot fern]

how to know where to get the component from
for example:

Animator: gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>();

BasicRagdoll: gameObject.transform.root.GetComponentInChildren<BasicRagdoll>():

[gusty hedge]

depends on what you're doing

[hot fern]

im just asking for the future

perhaps it is somewhere in assembly-csharp

[gusty hedge]

can you provide more context?

GetComponent gets the component on the same GameObject so if you know it's the same then call that

[hot fern]

i just don't understand when you need to get a component and when you need to get it from the parent or child

this is the main problem for me

[gusty hedge]

right

you'd need to know the hierarchy of objects

e.g. a player model may have multiple hitboxes, so you'd need to find it in the parents
though HitboxIdentity caches the target player

why do you need to do that for BasicRagdoll in the original message thuogh?

are you doing collision checks?

[hot fern]

just as example

[hot fern]

where can I find out this hierarchy?

[gusty hedge]

i guess what you can do is try GetComponent first, if that fails, use GetComponentInParent

[gusty hedge]

well

you can print it out

[hot fern]

theres no other way?

[gusty hedge]

nope

in what scenario do you need to do this though