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Starting a thread

so we don't spam the main channel more

lemme look

[meager schooner]

Ok.

[whole tree]

So you want this CowboyAnimationScript to refer to teh XR Origin?

[meager schooner]

yes

but the CowboyAnimationScript is inside of a prefab

not the hierarchy

like thsi

[whole tree]

well here's one easy way to do it, from the script that spawwns the cowboy:

(I'm assuming the xr origin is the player and you want the cowboys to look at the player)

[meager schooner]

yes

the xr origin is like a vr player

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public Transform player; // assign in the inspector to the player object in the scene
public CowboyAnimationScript cowboyPrefab; // assign in the inspector to the prefab from the Project window

void SpawnCowboy() {
  CowboyAnimationScript newCowboy = Instantiate(cowboyPrefab);
  newCowboy.LookObject = player;
}

Again this would be in the script that spawns the cowboys

the spawner script

basically you just keep a reference to the player here, and share that reference with the newly created cowboy instances as you spawn them.

[meager schooner]

k that could work

but i am spawning them in waves so i have something like tihs already Instantiate(waves[currentWave].GetCowboySpawnList()[i], FindSpawnLoc(), Quaternion.identity); so if i did that then i would get rid of the waves[currentWave] bit so it would not work

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[whole tree]

why would you get rid of that

it's the same thing

take the result of Instantiate

assign the reference to it

YOu're probably using a GameObject reference which makes your life harder here. I recommend switching to a CowboyAnimationScript reference directly. Otherwise, you'll need to call GetComponent on the returned object to get the script, then assign the reference

[meager schooner]

I tried this but it gives me this error, but i dont understand because we assigned it in the code

[whole tree]

nonono

you're now creating a whole separate instance

[meager schooner]

oh k.

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CowboyAnimationScript newCowboy = Instantiate(waves[currentWave].GetCowboySpawnList()[i], FindSpawnLoc(), Quaternion.identity);```

however as I said earlier

you probably used GameObject as your prefab reference

so you either need to change that to CowboyAnimationScript or do this:

GameObject newObj = Instantiate(waves[currentWave].GetCowboySpawnList()[i], FindSpawnLoc(), Quaternion.identity);
CowboyAnimationScript newCowboy = newObj.getComponent<CowboyAnimationScript>();```

[meager schooner]

like this

if i replace the g in getComponenet with G

[whole tree]

yes

[meager schooner]

oo it working

tysm

[whole tree]

No problem. Do you understand what the code is doing?

[meager schooner]

yes

however

the cowboy is nolonger stopping to punch the player when colliding

it is just continuing to walk

[whole tree]

well that's a completely separate issue

[meager schooner]

yes

nvm i fixed it