Using GetComponent and it’s variants in UltEvents is fairly simple, although a little bit odd.
GetComponent can be used for multiple things - one example would be breaking a plunger and destroying the joint created by it. Let’s get into it: First, let’s make the example I mentioned above. Here’s how it would look like:
We’re getting the component in the first event using GameObject.GetComponent(string type) - we don’t need to get a type for this one.
Then, we just use Object.Destroy(Object obj) to destroy the returned component.
This will get way more advanced in the following chapter.
Using GetComponent with methods that don’t take a generic Component (THE RED)
If you try to use the returned Component from the GetComponent method you would see that you literally can’t.
There is a reason behind this though; although every component derives from Component, it’s not it.
To solve this, we literally just tell it “do it anyways!“. We do this by using the Debugger and setting the argument into a return value, and the Int to the place of the GetComponent event in the array. (Starts from 0).
Using GetComponent variants
Using other types of GetComponent (e.g GetComponentInChildren, GetComponentInParent etc etc..) is a bit different since you have to get a Type. It’s fairly straight forward, you just need to run System.Type.GetType(string). It should look something like this:
That’s all for now!