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gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:02 PM

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i have the entity script attached to my enemies, this is the script for the gun. i'm trying to figure out how i would write this

pine moat Feb 15, 2026, 4:02 PM

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If you want to get the entity from the thing you hit, why not get the component from the thing you hit

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:02 PM

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writing TryGetComponent, or any method really, on its own results in this.TryGetComponent

pine moat Feb 15, 2026, 4:02 PM

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Instead of this

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:03 PM

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you still have not answered this

pine moat Feb 15, 2026, 4:03 PM

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You already know how to get a component from the thing you hit, you're getting the hitbox

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:04 PM

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rugged oracle you still have not answered this

i don't really know how to answer it, i thought i did. i'm trying to check if the ray hit the hitbox of the enemy

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:04 PM

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rays don't hit random components

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they hit colliders

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the collider is the "hitbox", i honestly have no idea what this Hitbox component is supposed to be

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but yeah even in your previous code, you check if the thing you hit has a hitbox component and then try to use the entity component. you just haven't checked for the entity component

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:11 PM

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rugged oracle the collider is the "hitbox", i honestly have no idea what this Hitbox component...

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it gets added to every collider when the enemy is spawned in

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well every limb

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:13 PM

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...so that has an OnRayCastHit that's calling Entity.TakeDamage, why aren't you using that

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:16 PM

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because i'm confused and i'm not sure how to

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something like this?

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:28 PM

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you have to actually use the Hitbox you got from GetComponent

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with GetComponent, you have to receive the return value and then check that

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alternatively with TryGetComponent, it returns a boolean and gives an out parameter to receive the argument

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:31 PM

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so Hitbox.OnRayCastHit instead?

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:31 PM

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that doesn't do what i said, no

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:32 PM

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i don't know what you mean by use the hitbox

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:34 PM

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use the one you get from GetComponent

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GetComponent returns a value

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surely you've used GetComponent before?

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:37 PM

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i've used getcomponent before but i'm not sure what you mean

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:39 PM

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ComponentType componentInstance = targetGameObject.GetComponent<ComponentType>()

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:43 PM

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i don't understand how to implement this into my code

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i'm sorry

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are you able to tell me what i actually need to write instead of hitbox.onraycasthit? i feel that would help me elarn better, so i can refer back to it in the future if i have the same problem

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:46 PM

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you would use that same line of code, but you would have to actually grab the hitbox from the GetComponent rather than, presumably, a dangling field that never gets assigned to

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:46 PM

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right, but how do i do that?

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:47 PM

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Hitbox hitbox = ...GetComponent<Hitbox>()

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or as aforementioned, similar with TryGetComponent

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hitbox isn't going to magically refer to the one you want, you have to tell unity what to do

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:49 PM

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where am i writing this though

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in the brackets?

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:50 PM

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you would do this before the if and then check for hitbox

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:51 PM

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rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:51 PM

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well now you're just getting the Hitbox from the current object instead of from the thing you hit

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:53 PM

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forgive me for being obviously stupid but i just wrote exactly what you told me to write?

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:53 PM

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the ... in my example is omitted code

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:54 PM

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i don't understand what you've omitted though

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:54 PM

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x.GetComponent gets the component from x

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you put in whatever you want to get the component from

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:56 PM

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so what do i actually need to write then? i feel like i'm learning nothing without actually seeing the full solution

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:56 PM

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rayHit.collider.GetComponent<Hitbox>()

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have you gone through like, beginner c# courses or are you just winging it

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:57 PM

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rugged oracle `rayHit.collider.GetComponent<Hitbox>()`

is that not exactly what i've wrote there?

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:57 PM

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not for the Hitbox hitbox = line, no

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:58 PM

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like this?

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:58 PM

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sure

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 4:58 PM

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rugged oracle have you gone through like, beginner c# courses or are you just winging it

i've done some beginner ones yes

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but mostly winging it

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:58 PM

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gleaming steeple like this?

and then notice you have duplicated code, so you can remove the second GetComponent call by just checking hitbox

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this makes it clear that you're calling hitBox.OnRayCastHit only if it's valid

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 4:59 PM

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gleaming steeple i've done some beginner ones yes

i feel like this is a pretty simple sequence of logic...

x.GetComponent<T>() gets a component T from x
you want to get Hitbox from rayHit.collider
thus, you do rayHit.collider.GetComponent<Hitbox>()
and youve done this once already, in the if statement

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 5:00 PM

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like this?

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 5:01 PM

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yeah

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 5:03 PM

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it's still throwing up the same error, is that because it's not calling the onraycasthit ?

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it's on that line

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 5:07 PM

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is it pointing to the same line, or is it pointing to Hitbox.cs:9

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 5:07 PM

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wtf i just rewrote it and it's working now

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thanks so much for your help i can imagine it was testing your patience a bit

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appreciate it

rugged oracle Feb 15, 2026, 5:08 PM

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probably didn't save/recompile

gleaming steeple Feb 15, 2026, 5:08 PM

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i think i'd used hitBox instead of hitbox

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lol

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but thank you

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