Namespaces not being recognized

October 31, 2022

I have the following class

namespace _Scripts.EnemyStuff
{
    public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour, IDamagable
    {
    }
}

And then when I try to use the class Enemy I need to specify that it comes from _Scripts.EnemyStuff even if they share the same parent.

The following code doesn’t detect the Enemy class. I need to specify EnemyStuff.Enemy in order to make it work.

namespace _Scripts.Managers
{
    public class EnemyManager : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public Enemy firstEnemyGO;
    }
}

Why is this happening? Also, why it doesn’t work if I use

using Enemy = _Scripts.EnemyStuff.Enemy;

>Solution :

They do not really

share the same parent

Your namespace hierarchy looks like

_Scripts
|-- EnemyStuff
|   |-- Enemy
|
|-- Managers
    |-- EnemyManager

c# looks for the type recursive up in the parent path (_Scripts.Managers.XY or _Scripts.XY) bu doesn’t bubble back down all possible sibling namespaces.

So yes in this structure you will need to provided the namespace and use e.g.

public EnemyStuff.Enemy firstEnemyGO;

the EnemyStuff actually can be found looking in the common parent namespace _Scripts so you can omit the _Scripts.

Either

using System;
using UnityEngine;
using Enemy = _Scripts.EnemyStuff.Enemy;

namespace _Scripts.Managers
{
    public class EnemyManager : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public Enemy firstEnemyGO;
    }
}

using System;
using UnityEngine;

namespace _Scripts.Managers
{
    using Enemy = EnemyStuff.Enemy;
    
    public class EnemyManager : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public Enemy firstEnemyGO;
    }
}

using System;
using UnityEngine;

namespace _Scripts.Managers
{
    public class EnemyManager : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public EnemyStuff.Enemy firstEnemyGO;
    }
}

work perfectly fine for me