Trying to setup a multiplayer camera. c#

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.     public CameraManager CameraManager;
3.  
4.     void Awake()
5.     {
6.         CameraManager = GetComponent<CameraManager>();
7.         if(networkView.isMine)
8.         CameraManager.target = transform;
9.     }
10.  

This is basically what i have, this is being called inside my characters movement script, CameraManager is my camera script and inside that script i have a variable called target.

I am getting a null reference exception whenever my character is spawned.

Can anyone see any problem or work out where i am going wrong, thanks in advance.

I am new to c#.

 

Are you sure you have a CamerManager monobehaviour attached to this gameobject? If you do confirm that it also has a networkview.

 

This is my camera, like i mentioned before i am fairly new to to both unity and c# so sorry if it's anything obvious.

 

It appears you're trying to get a component off of your camera but the script you're calling GetComponent<T> from doesn't actually have the behavior on it. CamerManager is on your Camera gameobject while, I'm assuming, your player's movement behavior is on your player.

You may be best off using the Camera.main to get the gameobject of the camera and then call GetComponent<T> on that or use the various other versions of GetComponent depending on your object heriarchy, such as ComponentInParent or ComponentInChildren or etc.

At the moment it just appears that the actually behavior, CameraManager, is not on the gameobject that the movement behavior is on.

 

I really appreciate the replies, however i am still struggling, i think i am on the right path now though,

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.     void Awake()
3.     {
4.         if (networkView.isMine)
5.             Camera.main.GetComponent("CameraManager").target = transform;
6.     }
7.  

but now it's saying UnityEngine.component does not contain the definition target.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

 

That's because you're using firstly the non-generic version so the return type is just Component. Either use GetComponent<T> or check for null and then try down casting to CameraManager.

My recommendation is to stick with the generic GetComponent<T>.

 

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.         if (networkView.isMine)
3.             Camera.main.GetComponent<CameraManager>().target = transform;
4.  

This is what i got working in the end, turns out i was missing the parentheses () at the end.
Hopefully this will become useful to anyone else in the future, thanks for all your support Glader.