Unity enable/disable component script from component on same gameObject

Question

Preamble

I am currently making a game where a player can go from third person view, walking around to transition into a vehicle.

I have thought about using a transmitter/receiver type set up, but I think my way of simplifying it isn't correct.

I am using assets from third parties for controllers that use inputs. My plan was to enable/disable the appropriate script and camera from the object I want to control. I've gotten as far as being able to disable the previous controller and enable the next, though I can't go back to enabling since the script obviously doesn't run anymore.

Question/Request

I'd like to be able to reference the pawn's input component script in a different component script on the same gameobject to then be able to enable/disable the aformentioned component, though the issue is that the input controllers have variable names (Different names depending on the third party on each pawn).

Here's how I have it set up: I have a PlayerTransmitter that handles the basics of turning things on and off. I tried making this where all of the inputs are being handled, but I don't want to have to change the original controller scripts to look at this script. This is on an empty game object and handles the 'state' of the player, (walking or in which vehicle).

on each pawn gameobject (The walking pawn CleanerPawn and the vehicle TractorPawn), I've added a script called InputReceiver. This was originally intended to pass the inputs from the PlayerTransmitter to the actual controller on the object itself.

Right now, the walking pawn has a component called AdvancedWalkerController (You may know the one I'm talking about) that controls the player walking movement and the vehicle has a component called VehicleController which controls how the vehicle moves and handles.

CleanerPawn

TractorPawn

The two images above show that I am using the same InputReceiver component on both pawns. My plan was to pass in each pawn's input controller (temporarily named CleanerController) and then enable/disable that input controller depending on the PlayerTransmitter 'state'.

The InputReceiver currently looks like this:

    public bool isEnabled;
    public Component CleanerController;

    public void TurnOffControls()
    {
        isEnabled = false;
    }

    public void TurnOnControls()
    {
        isEnabled = true;
    }

In each pawn's input controller, I added a line to the Update() function: enabled = gameObject.GetComponent<InputReceiver>().isEnabled;. Two problems with this; 1. I don't want to change any code in the input scripts (I hope this is possible) and 2. Once it's disabled, it won't read an update to enable itself again.

I was hoping I could just use the reference to the component CleanerController to say CleanerController.enabled = true; or false with that reference being just that one component, though I'm missing something here.

My final thought which I am going to try is to allow/disallow the input controls within each input script depending on my isEnabled boolean. Though again, I would have to change the original scripts to accommodate this.

Answer 1

What speaks against

public Behaviour CleanerController;

and then

CleanerController.enabled = false; // or true accordingly

See

• Behaviour

  Behaviours are Components that can be enabled or disabled.

• Behaviour.enabled

  Enabled Behaviours are Updated, disabled Behaviours are not.

  or in other words: If a Behaviour is set to enabled = false then it's Update (and similar event methods) is not called anymore.