How do i spawn a new GameObject(Player) while deleting the old one to maintain on one clonene at a

here's my code so far how can i better this for the above stated goal? i need the old or existing clone destroyed while the new one stays so there's only one GameObject of player at a time in the scene

 

thankyou. let me try this. much appreciated...

 

Make the if statement lowercase. My phone capitalized it and I didn’t see.

 

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hi dios, thanks for helping me out. This is what to achieve, i need the spawn player to spawn at the playerPos(player position) which are objects i've placed in the scene for which i want the spawn to get the position and rotation from and match those so i control where the player spawns and what direction or rotation the have. when i press the button the player prefab should spawn at the respective playerPos and any given time there should only be the player spawn that is at the position that the button press represents.

tried to modify the script as follows below but its not helping...

 

hi. i managed to correct that. picked upon it thanks.

 

Ah sorry I forgot a small yet important part. I edited the above code. Try that and let me know. I’m not at my computer to test but that should work.

I think if you try destroying it before the edit it will throw an error about to prevent data loss etc.

 

thanks let me try it

 

above is the way the button is set up...

Above is the object to which i've attached the script and how i've set it up...

above shows what happens everytime i click on a button to spawn and the respective player position. might be messing it up somewhere i dont know. newbie coder here...let me know what changes i should make. appreciate the help

 

Okay, It’s hard for me to read and look over everything clearly right now but we should get this working. Let’s start simple..

If you click the spawn button, is it deleting the current GameObject that’s instantiated for the button or is it spawning multiple without deleting the current spawned? (Clone).

I don’t see anything in your scene view that represents the spawn point and where the game object is being spawned at. Are they not spawning in the same location in the scene view?

 

in answer to your first question yes its spawning a clone every time i click the button as shown in the image below.

in answer to the second question here below are the spawn positions. when i start the scene the player spawns at the position of the player position attached to the script. every button press keeps it spawning at the same place like in the image provided.

below is the player spawning at the same location every buttomnpress


below this is how i have set up the button


below is how i have set up the gameobject with the script attached

 

So if you click button (1) three times. Does only one clone appear or 3?

the reason they are spawning in the same location is because you only have one spawn location setup in your script. Is the clone spawning at the spawn pos 1 location? Use a cylinder as player model to give you a visual instead of an empty transform

 

Also I edited the above code. So now it will not spawn one at the start. Use buttonpress as your buttons function instead of the spawnplayer

 

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in answer to the first question they're appearing as many times as i click, so 3 click is 3 clones.
in answer to the 2nd question they're spawning at position one cause that's the only position attached to the script. let me try the cylinder suggestion so we have a visual que to help

 

thanks et me have a look...

 

Okay they should only have one clone appear per button click. Meaning if you click the button one it should spawn one, then if you click again it should delete the current and spawn a new.. so only one instance should exist per button. So I will look back over the code again.

 

how do i make a provision for multiple spawn positions with the code we have at the moment? it only has room for one spawn position check image below. as an update now its only spawning once per button click. progress at last

 

Okay so changing the button function fixed it? I don’t usually use built in I hard Code mine so I was hoping changing the button function would work.. so for the spawn points. You’ll want to do the following..

For each of your spawn points, make them a child of your spawn manager. Make sure they are the only child objects. I’ll work up the code while you do that and post it. Give me a few minutes as it’ll take me a little bit to do right now on my phone lol

 

now its doing that. with your last edit. there's only ever one clone in the scene at a time. we just need to work on making it spawn to the different points.

as an update when i start the scene and click on a button it always goes to the spawn point attached at the time...i duplicated the script in the scene 4 time and attach each to a respective button n on scene start it moves to whatever button i press first n then there's not more movement or cloning done

 

yes, changing the button fixed things. cool. no problem will wait on u. thanks again...

 

done making the spawn point the children of the spawn manager.

 

Okay I edited the above code it should work. Place all your spawn buttons into an empty game object and drag that empty game object Into “Spawners”. You’ll want to indent everything correctly though. I couldn’t get it to do properly from my phone. It may need some tweaks to function right but try that as of now and get back to me with what happens and then I’ll be able to set it right. Like I said I don’t have a computer to test it for functionality

 

that's fine. let me try what u've suggested thus far. will back in bit

 

these are the errors so far...

 

Lol yeah doing this on phone driving isn’t easy... Let me go fix real quick

 

Okay should be fixed now. Copy and paste the entire thing and then fix the indenting.

when you pasted a few lines you forgot a bracket

 

Lol... Cool will wait on u. I understand. Serious newbie here. I get the logic still learning the syntax... Architectural background.

 

Woops forgot to correct the spawn info function. Just did that so that should be good now. Sorry for the mistakes man I’m driving so I’m not really reading over everything or double checking

 

No worries man. Ur helping a tone. Will be back in a bit

 

one last set of errors...


managed the others except the above

 

I just made the change above. I was thinking of list not arrays. Look above at edit and try that

 

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cool. will do

 

the good news is there's no errors and we only have one cylinder at any given time. plus immediately after running the scene the cylinder spawns to the relevant cylinder position. though pressing the subsequent buttons does nothing. below is the setup for the spawn manager and the buttons just incase am doing something wrong

spawn manager


buttons


we almost there...

 

the reds are the spawnpoints

 

Debug.log(I);

place that right beloW

Code (csharp):

1. if(RectTransformUtility.RectangleContainsScreenPoint(Spawner[I].transform as RectTransform, Input.mousePosition, Camera.main)

see if it prints anything in console. It should be a different number for each button

 

cool. let me try that

 

that's the problem area. its showing the same number every time i press a button

 

Aha I figured... let me get out of traffic and I’ll send an update

 

Just to be sure do

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Debug.log(Spawner[I]);
3.  
4.  

 

cool...thanks...

 

let me try that

 

this is what am getting

 

Same for every button?

 

Post the entire code here using tags so I can edit my original post. It’ll make it easier for me to look at

 

yes pressed everyone and that's the only log am getting...

 

cool...

"
public Transform[] SpawnPoint;

public Button[] Spawner;

public GameObject Spawners;

public GameObject player;

void SetSpawnInfo()
{
SpawnPoint = this.GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>();
Spawner = Spawners.GetComponentsInChildren<Button>();
}

void ButtonPress()
{
SpawnPlayer(player);
}

public void SpawnPlayer(GameObject newPlayer)
{
for (int I = 0; I < Spawner.Length; I++)
{
if (RectTransformUtility.RectangleContainsScreenPoint(Spawner.transform as RectTransform, Input.mousePosition,
Camera.main))
{
if (newPlayer != null)
{
Destroy(newPlayer);
}

newPlayer = player;

if (newPlayer != null)
{
newPlayer = Instantiate(newPlayer, SpawnPoint.position, SpawnPoint.rotation);
Debug.Log(I);
Debug.Log(Spawner);
}
}


}
}
"

 

Place it inside code tags so it’ll format

 

Code (CSharp):

1. public Transform[] SpawnPoint;
2.  
3.     public Button[] Spawner;
4.  
5.     public GameObject Spawners;
6.  
7.     public GameObject player;
8.  
9.     void SetSpawnInfo()
10.     {
11.         SpawnPoint = this.GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>();
12.         Spawner = Spawners.GetComponentsInChildren<Button>();
13.     }
14.  
15.     void ButtonPress()
16.     {
17.         SpawnPlayer(player);
18.     }
19.  
20.     public void SpawnPlayer(GameObject newPlayer)
21.     {
22.         for (int I = 0; I < Spawner.Length; I++)
23.         {
24.             if (RectTransformUtility.RectangleContainsScreenPoint(Spawner[I].transform as RectTransform, Input.mousePosition,
25.                 Camera.main))
26.             {
27.                 if (newPlayer != null)
28.                 {
29.                     Destroy(newPlayer);
30.                 }
31.  
32.                 newPlayer = player;
33.  
34.                 if (newPlayer != null)
35.                 {
36.                     newPlayer = Instantiate(newPlayer, SpawnPoint[I].position, SpawnPoint[I].rotation);
37.                     Debug.Log(I);
38.                     Debug.Log(Spawner);
39.                 }
40.             }
41.  
42.  
43.         }
44.     }

 

Wait... I think I just seen the issue.

change this

Code (csharp):

1. (RectTransformUtility.RectangleContainsScreenPoint(Spawner.transform as RectTransform, Input.mousePosition,
2. Camera.main))[

To this

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. (RectTransformUtility.RectangleContainsScreenPoint(Spawner[I].transform as RectTransform, Input.mousePosition,
3. Camera.main))
4.  
5.  

 

cool...

 

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