How do I?

[Steve_Mudge]

I wonder if there is a way to make a static player object?

Wouldn’t this make using that player object simpler? (not having to getcomponent or findobjectoftype)

Thanks

[Brian_Trotter]

We call this a Singleton. Just for fun, in Google, type “Singletons are” and follow some of the suggestions. My personal favorite is Singletons are Pathological Liars.

In order to exist in the scene, the player does have to be an instance of a GameObject, with it’s classes bound to the player as MonoBehaviors (you cannot have a static class derived from MonoBehavior.

What you could do is create a dummy Player class and put it in RPG.Core (remember, we’re trying to reduce dependencies, and avoid inversion of dependencies, so what we don’t want is a direct hook to PlayerController if we can help it…

So here is the dummy Singleton Player class, which you can put on the player, and always reference the player with a simple call:

namespace RPG //by using RPG without core, it's available in any RPG.X based class.
{
     public class Player:MonoBehavior
     {
           public static Player Instance => FindObjectWithType<Player>();
     }
}

Then in any RPG. You can reference the player with Player.Instance;