koobas.hobune.stream
Randomly choosing 5 gameobjects?
Hello, and thanks for taking the time to read this. If I have 100 gameobjects, is there anyway to just randomly select 5 of these and then execute some code on only 5 of these randomly selected objects? For example, I randomly select gameobject, 34, 1, 78, 38 and 43, and then I can delete them, lets say. Optimally the base number 100 doesn't matter and the same code could work if there were only 50 instead or some similar situation. I don't really have any leads on this, but if someone could just steer me in the right direction in what to do that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Just use the same method card games use to deal from the deck of cards.
1. Make a list of all the objects. Make a new empty list (pulledItems) to save the retrieved items.
2. Create a random number from 0 to size of list -1. The size of list will decrease each iteration.
3. Remove that indexed item from the list and save it into the pulledItems list.
4. Repeat steps 2 through 4 until you have your N items needed.
5. Process the pulledItems list as needed.
Look at card games for other examples.
I'm still kind of confused though, could you provide a short code example of what you mean? How do I pull out the indexed number? Thanks.
I would add that there are also data structures Stack/Heap that allow you to pick items from a collection which would save you a bunch of trouble.
Just randomise them when populating the data-structure then pop or dequeue the items as needed until empty.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.stack-1?view=net-5.0 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.queue-1?view=net-5.0
Thanks for the speedy reply, that was fast!
