GameObject.Find() can't find object after loading the scene

Question

I have 2 scenes in my project, MainMenu and Game.

MainMenu scene contains 2 buttons, 'Hide Black' and 'Hide White'. Game scene contains 2 panels, 'Black' and 'White'. When the user clicks any of button from main menu, I wanna hide the corresponding panel in Game scene and also load the scene. This is the script for the same.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class MainMenu : MonoBehaviour {
    public void HideBlack() {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(1);
        GameObject black = GameObject.Find("Black");
        black.SetActive(false);
    }

    public void HideWhite() {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(1);
        GameObject white = GameObject.Find("White");
        white.SetActive(false);
    }
}

But it turns out that GameObject.Find can't find the panels in my Game scene. I looked my forums for help but I find them confusing. What's going on here?

EDIT - This is not from my actual project. I created these scenes just to explain the problem better. I must use 2 scenes in my actual project as I have 3D objects in Game scenes.

Answer 1

I just figured in out. I wanted to load the same scene but with different UI on two different options. So I needed to hide other UI elements. To solve my problem I assigned Hide.cs script to an empty game object in my Game scene.

using UnityEngine;

public class Hide : MonoBehaviour {
    public GameObject black, white;
    public static bool hideBlack;

    void Start() {
        if(hideBlack) {
            black.SetActive(false);
        } else {
            white.SetActive(false);
        }
    }
}
 

And this is MainMenu.cs

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class MainMenu : MonoBehaviour {
    public void HideBlack() {
        Hide.hideBlack = true;
        SceneManager.LoadScene(1);
    }

    public void HideWhite() {
        Hide.hideBlack = false;
        SceneManager.LoadScene(1);
    }
}