I'll try to explain this the simplest way I can, and I'll be happy to provide more elaboration as needed.

I've created a class, class playership, as part of a little strategy game for my own practice.

I've created the instance of a playership object in my main form using the following code:

Code:
Public Class Form1

Public mainship As New playership

End Class
I need to access this object from another windows form, a dialog box to be exact, to set its properties.

However, when I attempt to set the properties of the object in the dialog box's code, as such:

Code:
Public Class dialog1

Sub whatever() 'Stats are set within an event in the code
     mainship.setstats(attacktoset, defensetoset)
End Sub

End Class
I'm told that: "mainship is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level."

I'm a little confused about this because I thought a public object or variable could be accessed from anywhere within a project. So, my question is, what can I do to make this object accessible from anywhere in my project?

If you need more elaboration, please let me know. I greatly appreciate the help.