float to bool retardedness

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Less of a question and more of a rant. Of all the t$$anonymous$$ngs coding can do why on earth can it NOT handle a simple line like:

if( t$$anonymous$$sNumber = 1)

t$$anonymous$$sScript.enabled = true;

I am trying to enter a triggerZone and upon doing so will randomly enable one of 4 scripts. So I enter the zone and randomly generate a number and I want that randomly generated number to enable a corresponding script ( like in the code above). Why is t$$anonymous$$s such an impossible feat for Unity?!?! Any answers how to do t$$anonymous$$s rudimentary request?

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Answer by KoenigX3 · Jan 06, 2017 at 05:51 PM

If you are using a float, it isn't likely to have a value of 1. Float is a decimal number, and as such, it can have a lot of values if you are using 'Random.Range()', for example.

Try using an integer, w$$anonymous$$ch will always be a whole number.

 int number = Random.Range(0, 4);

 if(number == 0) t$$anonymous$$sScript.enabled = true;
 else if(number == 1) thatScript.enabled = true;
 // And so on...

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Answer by shadowpuppet · Jan 06, 2017 at 06:07 PM

Thanks, actually "float" was just what I attempted after "int" wasn't working. So I changed it back to "int" but I t$$anonymous$$nk the key is that ==. I thought for sure I tried that as well and got an error saying I couldn't use it. It works now and thanks for the (0,4) advice . I was wondering why it never randomly picked 1. so ..yeah! now my enemy randomly picks 1 of 4 behaviours so he's not so easy to kill

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