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Question by omnirusted · Sep 11, 2013 at 10:34 PM · variablerandomvalueassignprivate

Assign a random value to var personality" upon asset creation (Java)

I am attempting to make a game where a building spawns a Unit with a random personality assigned to each, and it keeps that the entire time it exists. I am unsure what to use to do this.

Firstly: I'm assuming I put the starting variables under function Start. Secondly: I'm assuming I make each 'var' 'private var' in order to make then unique to the Unit (hp, hunger, ect). Thirdly: I found Random.range in the Unity Script Reference, but I'm not exactly sure how I would apply this to my code.

Thanks in advance!

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You can use Random.Range to select a field of values from a pre-populated array.

And yes, use private

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Answer by Benproductions1 · Sep 11, 2013 at 11:21 PM

Hello,

private just means it can't get accessed from outside of the script, it has nothing to do with that variable's value or how it works inside of the script. (It's just a property of the variable. Technically you can still access private variables from outside of the script).

If you want something to be randomised when the script is Instantiated, simply put the randomisation code in either the Start, which is called just before the first Update, Or Awake which is the first things that gets called after the script is instantiated.

Heres an example just to make it more clear:

 //This randomises the "value" variable when the object is created
 var value:float = 0;  //should be between 0 and 100
 
 function Awake() {
     value = Random.Range(0, 100);
 }

Hope this helps,
Benproductions1

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