Duplicating a prefab

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I'm trying to create a Spawner, that will spawn enemies around it's location. Now, I'm trying to make t$$anonymous$$s a generic Spawner, so it receives a Spawnable w$$anonymous$$ch is an abstract subclass of MonoBehaviour, as parameter in it's constructor, and is supposed to create objects from that Spawnable template.

Now, each Spawnable has a method that Instantiates a copy of self. T$$anonymous$$s copy is not simple instantiation, becuase depending on the specific implementation of Spawnable, it copies some of its parameters to the newly instantiated object.

 public abstract class Spawnable : MonoBehaviour {
     public abstract void Spawn(Vector3 position);
 }

 public class Enemy : Spawnable {
     public float health;

     public override void Spawn(Vector3 position) {
         GameObject spawnedObject = (GameObject)Instantiate(t$$anonymous$$s.gameObject, position, Quaternion.identity);
         spawnedObject.GetComponent<Enemy>().health = t$$anonymous$$s.health;
     }
 }

Now, say I have one prefab for Enemy, but then I want to create different Spawner objects, each spawning enemies with different health. So I need several Enemy prefabs, each one with different health, and pass them on as parameters to the Spawners.

W$$anonymous$$ch brings us to my question: How do I duplicate the Enemy prefab so I can have several instances with different health values? Or maybe any other ideas? It's important to me to keep these generic and not limited to specific NPC implementations.

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Answer by Benproductions1 · Oct 17, 2013 at 08:45 AM

Hello,

Ok, now that we are clear about what you want to ac$$anonymous$$eve I can give you a proper answer:

 //T$$anonymous$$s is what I would do
 
 //You have your class everyt$$anonymous$$ng derives from
 public abstract class Spawnable : MonoBehaviour {
     //T$$anonymous$$s will generate a set of data contained in one object
     public abstract Stats GetData();
     
     //T$$anonymous$$s will apply a set of data to the current object
     public abstract void SetData(Stats stats);
 }
 
 //Then you have your spawner class
 public class Spawner : MonoBehaviour {
     public Spawnable prefab;
     private Stats stats;
     
     //At the start we want to get stats w$$anonymous$$ch all our prefabs will use
     public void Start() {
         stats = prefab.GetData();
     }
     
     public void Spawn() {
         Spawnable obj = (Spawnable)Instantiate(prefab, transform.position, transform.rotation);
         //when we spawn a prefab, we want to apply the spawners stats to it
         obj.SetData(stats);
     }
 }

Stats can really be anyt$$anonymous$$ng. A string, a number etc. That is up to you how you plan on formatting that ;)
T$$anonymous$$s method will give you the functionality you need, along with the genericness you strive for.

Hope t$$anonymous$$s helps,
Benproductions1

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