Confused about Meshrenderer renderer

[Treister]

Hi, sorry if this is a stupid question but I’m a bit confused: why do we type Meshrenderer renderer instead of Meshrenderer = renderer or something like that? Can other variables be declared without = signs as well? This is my first go at coding so maybe I missed it earlier but I can’t figure it out.

Thanks for any help in advance!

[bixarrio]

Welcome to the community @Treister

This is how we define variables in C#.

MeshRenderer renderer;

In this case, we are saying that we want a variable called renderer and it must be of the type MeshRenderer. The name of the variable can be anything as long as it’s not a word reserved by C# and it doesn’t start with a number. So, we could call it anything

MeshRenderer myVariable;

We need a variable before we can assign values to it

MeshRenderer renderer;
renderer = GetComponent<MeshRenderer>(); // for example

[Treister]

Thank you very much @bixarrio for your prompt and detailed reply! I think I understand a little bit better. I imagine as the course goes more depth will be explored and more things will make sense so I’ll mark this as the Solution. Cheers!