Property 'rotateY' does not exist on type 'GameObject'

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Hello! I’m following your simple use case example of adding a Rotate.ts script to a game object here. The generated C# file is getting created in Unity, and I’ve added the script to my game object. But it’s not rotating, and I’m seeing this error: Property 'rotateY' does not exist on type 'GameObject'.. Which when I print this, that is correct in saying the method rotateY does not exist, but I was wondering, if that’s not correct, is it possible these docs aren’t up to date? Or am I missing something else that makes this a rotate-able object?

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by user 690021744479830061

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The error is not correct. Sometimes VSCode is confused or doesnt have all the info yet. Try to restart vscode

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You can see the same here: StackBlitz

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The error in VSCode comes in & out but the main issue is that the game object doesn’t seem to be rotating? When I look at this.gameObject in the console, I don’t see a rotateY method in there, so that might be why it’s not working?

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by user 690021744479830061

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Have a look at the prototype
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it’s not on the mesh itself but the Object3D. Is it perhaps using instancing? (e.g. has the material gpu instancing enabled in Unity)

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rotateY is a method by three.js

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Ohh! I see

by user 690021744479830061

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If you have instancing enabled try marking it dirty by calling the static method on InstanceUtil

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So these are actually all just writing in Three.js?

by user 690021744479830061

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InstanceUtil.markDirty i think

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exactly

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I started adding more docs about the last couple of days Scripting Introduction | Needle Engine Documentation

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It’s basically three.js + integrations into Unity/Blender and a lot of other features :stuck_out_tongue:

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So is there a place/way that I can actually inject some custom code on scene initialization? As opposed to adding code to a specific game object?

My goal right now is to add a GLB model into the Unity scene, but if I can do it more three.js-ey that would be ideal. So in Three.js I would just write something like:

const loader = new THREE.GLTFLoader()
const modelFile = './assets/mesh.glb'

loader.load(modelFile, (gltf) => {
   scene.add(gltf.scene)
})

Can something like that convert/display into the Unity scene?

by user 690021744479830061

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that would basically be this part
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There are some callbacks during initialization.

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What do you mean by convert/display into the Unity scene?

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You can download the glb and just add it to the scene in Unity too.

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The recommended way (depending on what extensions your glb brings) would actually be by using our AssetReference type. e.g.

ContextRegistry.addContextCreatedCallback((args) => {
  const context = args.context as Context;

  const glbReference = AssetReference.getOrCreate("some_id", "the/url.glb", context);
  glbReference.instantiate(context.scene);
}