Same objects following different tags in Unity3D

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Hello! I've been trying to make an object follow another object, which I managed thanks to the community. The object follows his target fine, but here's the issue. I want to make objects of the same prefab follow targets with different tags. Is there a way to do that?

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Answer by PlatPlayz · Jan 27, 2018 at 07:38 PM

Thank you for your answers. I will just make a few prefabs with different follow tags to make it easier. I just wanted to make it cleaner using code, but that's too complicated for my level.

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jman12EX · Jan 26, 2018 at 10:11 PM 0

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Doing it in the same prefab it not the way to go. You should make each of them a different prefab and name them accordingly. Then in the script ins$$anonymous$$d of haveing it where it says

{ Your_Variable.GetComponentTag<“player”>; }

You should make the script say

{ Public GameObject Track_This;

Your_Variable.GetComponentTag; }

This is so you can change it in the inspector

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Answer by LTonon · Jan 25, 2018 at 07:06 PM

Sure, you could create a string variable "followTag", for example, that has to be public or have an attribute [SerializeField], so you can see and change it on the script inspector. Then for each of those game objects in the scene you need to manually give a specific tag name to chase, using this followTag variable in your script to define what it's going to follow. Would this fix it, or this solution does not go along what you were thinking?

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PlatPlayz · Jan 25, 2018 at 07:11 PM 0

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If I did it this way, would I not need to create multiple prefabs to follow different tags?

LTonon PlatPlayz · Jan 25, 2018 at 07:52 PM 0

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No, doing it this way you could have only one prefab, but everytime you this prefab to the scene you would have to give it a tag to follow manually on the inspector. All you have to do is avoid hitting "Apply", which would make all prefabs have the same tag to follow. It's okay for each prefab to have it's own characteristics when in scene.

PlatPlayz LTonon · Jan 25, 2018 at 07:54 PM 0

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But what if I wanted to instantiate them with script? Would that work?

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