Question by TRAsmile · 5 days ago · pathfinding car game

Can't add new gameobject (car) on a specific node of a path (car AI)

So there is a list of nodes which are children of a path. I built tens of those and made cars randomly spawn on each of the nodes with a small delay with an intention to make them continuing their move to next node forgetting about nodes before them. But every spawned car is just moving to the first node.

I tried to implement some ideas to every script of the game, but due to the fact I am a noob I ve failed.

Here is a script for the "path"

 public class path : MonoBehaviour
 {
      public Color lineColor;
     
         private List<Transform> nodes = new List<Transform>();
     
          void OnDrawGizmosSelected()
         {
             Gizmos.color = lineColor;
     
             Transform[] pathTransforms = GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>();
             nodes = new List<Transform>();
     
             for(int i = 0; i < pathTransforms.Length; i++)
             {
                 if(pathTransforms[i] != transform)
                 {
                     nodes.Add(pathTransforms[i]);
                 }
             }
     
             for (int i = 0; i < nodes.Count; i++)
             {
                 Vector3 currentNode = nodes[i].position;
                 Vector3 previousNode = Vector3.zero;
                 if (i > 0)
                 {
                     previousNode = nodes[i - 1].position;
                 }
                 else if (i==0 && nodes.Count > 1)
                 {
                     previousNode = nodes[nodes.Count - 1].position;
                 }
     
                 Gizmos.DrawLine(previousNode, currentNode);
                 Gizmos.DrawSphere(currentNode, 0.3f);
             } 
     }

And here is a piece of the AI from "carEngine" script

 public class CarEngine : MonoBehaviour
 {...
 public Transform path;
 private List<Transform> nodes;
 private int currentNode = 0;
 ...
 void Start()
     {
 
         GetComponent<Rigidbody>().centerOfMass = centerOfMass;
 
         Transform[] pathTransforms = path.GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>();
         nodes = new List<Transform>();
 
         for (int i = 0; i < pathTransforms.Length; i++)
         {
 if (pathTransforms[i] != path.transform)
             {
                 nodes.Add(pathTransforms[i]);
             }
         }
 }
  private void FixedUpdate()
     {
 ...
 CheckWaypointDistance();
 }
 
 private void CheckWaypointDistance()
     {
 
         if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, nodes[currentNode].position) < 5f)
         {
                 if (currentNode == nodes.Count - 1)
             {
                 currentNode = 0;
             }
             else
             {
                 currentNode++;
             }

How can I make new spawned cars ignore first nodes and make them follow the nearest next one?

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