In GameStatus.cs, would it be ok to follow the "cached reference" method?

[punkysuen]

public class GameStatus : MonoBehaviour
{
    // config params
    [Range(0.1f, 10f)] [SerializeField] float gameSpeed = 1f;
    [SerializeField] int pointsPerBlockDestroyed = 1;

    // cached reference
    TextMeshProUGUI textMeshProUGUI;

    // state var
    [SerializeField] int currentScore = 0;

    private void Start()
    {
        textMeshProUGUI = FindObjectOfType<TextMeshProUGUI>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        Time.timeScale = gameSpeed;
        textMeshProUGUI.text = currentScore.ToString();
    }

    public void AddToScore()
    {
        currentScore += pointsPerBlockDestroyed;
    }
}

The code works fine, but it is quite different to the answer in the course video shown.
I wonder if it works just for the current stage, but get different errors later on…

[Nina]

Hi,

FindObjectOfType returns the first object it finds, whatever Unity defines as “first”. If you have only one TextMeshProUGUI object in your scene, your approach is perfectly fine.

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