How to duplicate a cube?

Hey, I am making a 3d board game. I don't want to add each tile and script it, it would be very ineffecient. So how can I make one cube, that, upon play, duplicates itself about a hundred times and spawns them all next to each other like a 10x10 board.

please help no one responded last time.

 

Create your tile object, with any needed scripts attached, store it as a prefab in your project.

Create a "BoardManager.cs" script or the equivalent, which takes in a variable of type "Gameobject". Add this component to an object in your scene, drag in the prefab you created to its variable of type GameObject, then inside the Start() function of BoardManager, Create your board by instantiating the prefabs.

 

Ok that helps alot thanks!

 

Okay dokey. I made a script like this before, where in a for loop i would repetedly use the GameObject.CreatePrimitive to create a cube. Here my script (Dont rage at me if there is a typo or some error in the script):

Code (csharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class BoardManager : MonoBehaviour {
5.  
6.     public GameObject tilePrefab;
7.     public int x,z;
8.    
9.     public bool randomColor;
10.     public Color[] colorChoices;
11.    
12.     public void Start () {
13.    
14.         for (int a = 0; a < x; a++) {
15.             for (int b = 0; b < z; b++) {
16.                 GameObject cube = GameObject.CreatePrimitive(PrimitiveType.Cube);
17.                 if (randomColor) {
18.                     cube.renderer.material.color = colorChoices[Random.Range(0, (colorChoices.Length)) ];
19.                 }
20.                 cube.transform.position = new Vector3(a, 0, b);
21.             }
22.         }
23.     }
24. }

 

Thanks for posting your code. But please use

Code (csharp):

1. -Tags next time. It will format the code so that everybody can read it :)

 

Well I am alot better at java then at c#, but this makes some sense to me. Except, from this script, it looks like you are just creating multiple cubes, than transforming them to the same position, right? Or am I missing something?

Forgive me, I am really bad at c#...

 

c# and js are the same where you are talking....

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. cube.transform.position = new Vector3(a, 0, b);
3.  

can be used in JS, and it means the same... place a cube at every point from 0 to x and 0 to y in a grid.

the a++ and b++ mean that they add 1 each go around in the for statement. ( I am sure you know that )

hence, they are not put in the same place.