how to differentiate clones?

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Hi!

I want to have my character with the input of "fire1" to instantiate around 5 flying daggers gameobjects(prefab) around him and then give them a x velocity, but each at a different time.

so forgive me since it would make this 2 questions.

//Insantiate a rigidbody then set the velocity var projectile : Rigidbody; function Update () { // Ctrl was pressed, launch a projectile if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")) { // Instantiate the projectile at the position and rotation of this transform var clone : Rigidbody; clone = Instantiate(projectile, transform.position, transform.rotation);

// Give the cloned object an initial velocity along the current // object's Z axis clone.velocity = transform.TransformDirection (Vector3.forward * 10); } }

This is the code I got from the script reference. The first question is: how can I loop the instantiate part of the code to create the 5 projectiles. The second question is: once the 5 daggers are created, how do I point to them individually?

Or would it be easier to have each of the projectiles their own script that sets their velocity?

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Answer by 3dDude · Aug 02, 2010 at 06:25 PM

try this :

//Insantiate a rigidbody then set the velocity

var projectile : Rigidbody; var velocities : Vector3[];

function Update () {

// Ctrl was pressed, launch a projectile

 if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")) {

 // Instantiate the projectile at the position and rotation of this transform
 for(i=0;i&lt;velocities.length;i++){

 var clone : Rigidbody;

 clone = Instantiate(projectile, transform.position, transform.rotation);


 // Give the cloned object an initial velocity along the current 

 // object's Z axis
 clone.velocity = transform.TransformDirection (velocities[i]);
 }

so just fill out the array of velocity Vector3's and then it will clone as many as you say.

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Roux69 · Aug 03, 2010 at 04:19 AM 0

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Firstly thank you for answering. There are a few things I don't understand though. Vector3 is supposed to be an array of 3 variables (x,y,z). what I don't understand is why you put vector3 in velocities and then call velocities.length (I most usuall used length to measure a string, not an array...)

And most probably this will then explain why when I put the 3 xyz in the [ ] at line 3 it give me an error: ; expected at end of line.

Roux69 · Aug 03, 2010 at 04:19 AM 0

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Also... as I see the script you've shown me it would create a projectile and then fire it in on loop pass. What I'm looking for is a loop that will create all, say, 5 projectiles, have them float in the air for a second and then fire them one at a time (like a magic spell). But at the moment, this way is fine... as long as I get to have a few nifty projectiles flying in the right direction. (oh and sorry for not mentioning that before, but I'm making(trying to) a 2d scroller castlevania clone)

Thank you for the time you put in helping me figure this out.

3dDude · Aug 03, 2010 at 01:41 PM 0

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so.. does it work know? i'm not clear on that :)

Roux69 · Aug 03, 2010 at 04:03 PM 0

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no it doesn't work... like I said in my first comment, it gives me an error at line 3 ; expected at end of line

john 2 · Aug 20, 2010 at 06:24 PM 0

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