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Question by Sawka · Aug 04, 2020 at 09:45 PM · gameobjectarraypositionswap

How to make 5 GameObjects swap between 5 predetermined positions (1 gameobject occupy 1 position per time)?

First things first, I'm pretty much a newbie (I've started learning programming 2 weeks ago)... So, I have one simple code. It contains a variable, which I call "trocar", and two arrays: "posicoes", which contains 5 Vector2, and "tijolos", which are my 5 game objects. In another script, I'm incrementing my variable "trocar".

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class TrocarBarra : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public static int trocar;
     public Vector2[] posicoes = new Vector2[5];
     public GameObject[] tijolos = new GameObject[5];
 
     void Update()
      {
         if (trocar == 10){
         // here goes the script I need
         trocar = 0;
          }
      }
 }
 

What I'd like to have in this script is: whenever "trocar" reaches the value 10, I swap my GameObjects "tijolos" so they occupy all of the 5 Vector2 "posicoes", in a way that only one of them can occupy a position per time.

I tried it with "if's" but it's not good, since there are 125 combinations. Also, I tried to create something like this:

         int pos1 = Random.Range(0, posicoes.Length);
         int pos2 = Random.Range(0, posicoes.Length);
         int pos3 = Random.Range(0, posicoes.Length);
         int pos4 = Random.Range(0, posicoes.Length);
         int pos5 = Random.Range(0, posicoes.Length);

         while (pos2 == pos1)
              {
                  int pos2 = Random.Range(0, posicoes.Length);
                 // etc etc
              }

until I had the following:

 tijolos[1].transform.position = posicoes[pos1];
 tijolos[2].transform.position = posicoes[pos2];
 tijolos[3].transform.position = posicoes[pos3];
 tijolos[4].transform.position = posicoes[pos4];
 tijolos[5].transform.position = posicoes[pos5];


but it won't work, since pos2, pos3, pos4 and pos5 can't be used inside the while loop within what I wrote above. With all said, I'd appreciate if anyone can help me!

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Answer by Sawka · Aug 05, 2020 at 12:49 AM

Here's an update:

I managed to get this code for the last part:

 for (int i = tijolos.Length-1; i >= 0; i--)
         {
             int random = Random.Range(0, pos.Length);
 
             tijolos[i].transform.position = pos[random];

Now all of my objects are changing randomly, but they still overlay (I knew this would happen because the code allows overlay right now, I just wanted to share the new code lines).

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