HUD Text issue

[will_brett]

Hi everyone,

Just purchased HUD Text and its a pretty neat little package. However I think Im using it wrong.

I create a UI and under the panel create a sprite and attach the UIfollowTarget script. This works perfectly but I am attaching i am following an enemy that when I destroy posts out a load of errors saying the script is looking for the target but it is not there.

Should I create the UI under the enemy object itself? This would mean having multiple UI's and the enemies are prefabs that keep re-spawning.

Sorry if this is obvious but could do with some guidance.

Thanks

[will_brett]

Thinking about it I think I need to make a script the instantiates the HUDText for each enemy under the UIRoot. Not to sure how I would go about this

[will_brett]

This didnt work but is it on the right track?

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class InstantiateHUDText : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.  
7.         public GameObject hudText;
8.         public GameObject parent;
9.  
10.         // Use this for initialization
11.  
12.         void Start ()
13.         {
14.                 hudText = NGUITools.AddChild(parent);
15.  
16.         }
17.        
18.         // Update is called once per frame
19.         void Update ()
20.         {
21.  
22.         }
23. }
24.  

[will_brett]

Got it to instantiate the correct prefab in the correct place using:

1. hudText = NGUITools.AddChild(parent, hudText);

However the "UI Follow Target" script has lost the gameObject it is meant to follow and both cameras.

So I guess my new question is how do I get the the script to keep the target objects so that when it is instantiated it will know exactly which target to follow bearing in mind I will be instantiating multiple enemies all with the same tag.

[ArenMook]

Prefabs can't reference objects and scripts that are not a part of the prefab. It's a Unity limitation that makes perfect sense if you think about it. You will need to set those references after instantiation.

[Rollingdjs]

did you get this working? I have been trying to set the hudtext properly, but it never follows the target.