Why does this wont work? transfor.find()

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the code exaple is self explanatory, why does this not works? i dont understand, this should work, but it just returns null, yes the player has its tag assigned, and the name of the childs path are correct, i dont understand, im doing something wrong?

 private Transform target; // The position that that camera will be following.
 private GameObject player;
 
 player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
 target = player.transform.Find("PlayerTurret/PlayerAimPoint").transform;

thanks in advance!!

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Answer by fafase · Oct 31, 2015 at 12:26 PM

Is player hierarchy:

 Player->PlayerTurret->PlayerAimPoint

or

 PlayerTurret->PlayerAimPoint

if the second then you need:

 target = player.transform.Find("PlayerAimPoint");

Also Find returns a transform so no need to get the transform.

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LunaTrap · Oct 31, 2015 at 12:34 PM 0

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Nevermind, i just found what was the problem, after about 2 hours of triying, your comment helped me, thanks a lot! it turns out the path i was using was incorrect :)

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