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Question by jamsjar · Jul 03, 2017 at 02:12 PM · scripting problemswitch-case

Is there a more efficiant way of randomly generating directions?

My game involves the player flying a spaceship through rings. When the player flies through a ring, a new group of rings are spawned - 4 of them trigger a game over and one will generate new rings, with a random one being the one the player has to go through.

So far I've handled the random generation by using a switch statement, but I'm having to use lots of if else statements to determine how the next set of rings are spawned - mainly the rotation. Here's a quick example

 switch (rand)
             {
                 case 0: //straight ahead
                     {
 
                         // max left/right, no vert
                         if (vertCount == 0 && (count == -2 || count == 2))
                         {
                             centreText.GetComponent<Text>().enabled = true;
                             StartCoroutine(killTextCentre());
                             newPosition = (thisPosition + new Vector3(0, 0, 0));
                             Instantiate(centreTrack, newPosition, Quaternion.Euler(0, 180, 0));
                             Debug.Log("case " + rand);
                             camera.GetComponent<randRemember>().giveRand(rand);
                             return;
                         }
                         // max left/right, going up
                         else if (vertCount == 1 && (count == -2 || count == 2))
                         {
                             centreText.GetComponent<Text>().enabled = true;
                             StartCoroutine(killTextCentre());
                             newPosition = (thisPosition + new Vector3(0, 0, 0));
                             Instantiate(centreTrack, newPosition, Quaternion.Euler(-45, 180, 0));
                             Debug.Log("case " + rand);
                             camera.GetComponent<randRemember>().giveRand(rand);
                             return;
                         }
                         // max left/right, going down
                         else if (vertCount == -1 && (count == -2 || count == 2))
                         {
                             centreText.GetComponent<Text>().enabled = true;
                             StartCoroutine(killTextCentre());
                             newPosition = (thisPosition + new Vector3(0, 0, 0));
                             Instantiate(centreTrack, newPosition, Quaternion.Euler(45, 180, 0));
                             Debug.Log("case " + rand);
                             camera.GetComponent<randRemember>().giveRand(rand);
                             return;
                         }
                         // going right
                         else if (count == 1 && vertCount == 0)
                         {
                             centreText.GetComponent<Text>().enabled = true;
                             StartCoroutine(killTextCentre());
                             newPosition = (thisPosition + new Vector3(0, 0, 0));
                             Instantiate(centreTrack, newPosition, Quaternion.Euler(0, 90, 0));
                             Debug.Log("case " + rand);
                             camera.GetComponent<randRemember>().giveRand(rand);
                             return;
                         }
                         // going right and up
                         else if (count == 1 && vertCount == 1)
                         {
                             centreText.GetComponent<Text>().enabled = true;
                             StartCoroutine(killTextCentre());
                             newPosition = (thisPosition + new Vector3(0, 0, 0));
                             Instantiate(centreTrack, newPosition, Quaternion.Euler(-45, 90, 0));
                             Debug.Log("case " + rand);
                             camera.GetComponent<randRemember>().giveRand(rand);
                             return;
                         }


count is there to keep track of what direction the player is going in i.e. left or right, and vertCount does the same for up and down.

Someone just told me that there's likely to be a more efficiant way of doing this (which makes a lot of sense really). Is there a more efficiant way of doing this with less code?

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