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I’m trying to make a random object appear in a random location. Neither are actually truly random… I have 4 objects(weapons) and I want to spawn one at one of 3 spawn points.

I started out with this code to get my random spawn location-

//Have 3 slots in my Inspector, into which I drag/drop my 3 empty game objects (SpawnPoints)

#pragma strict

public var spawnPoints : GameObject[]; //This allows me to make a list/group of Objects
public var randomNum : int; //This denotes that the variable randomNum will be a whole number


function Start()
{
	randomNum = Random.Range(0,3); // generates random number between 0 and 3.
    
    	transform.position = spawnPoints[randomNum].transform.position;
    	//Assigns the number generated in the previous line to the 'spawnPoints' variable
    	//Which then dictates which spawnPoint(location) is used (spawnPoint1, spawnPoint2, spawnPoint3)
	
}

This worked great and gave me 3 different spawn locations. I’ve then tried to advance the script to pick one of 4 random (suedo random) objects which will then spawn at the above location.
Gotten this far, but not sure how to tell it to pick one of the random objects?

//Have 3 slots in my Inspector, into which I drag/drop my 3 empty game objects (SpawnPoints)

#pragma strict

public var spawnPoints : GameObject[]; //This allows me to make a list/group of Objects
public var randomNum : int; //This denotes that the variable randomNum will be a whole number

public var wepType : GameObject[];
public var wepNumber : int;

function Start()
{
	randomNum = Random.Range(0,3); // generates random number between 0 and 3.
    
   	transform.position = spawnPoints[randomNum].transform.position;
   	//Assigns the number generated in the previous line to the 'spawnPoints' variable
   	//Which then dictates which spawnPoint(location) is used (spawnPoint1, spawnPoint2, spawnPoint3)

	   wepNumber = Random.Range(0,4); // generates random number between 0 and 4.

       wepType = GameObject[wepNumber];

       Instantiate(wepType, spawnPoints[randomNum].transform.position);
		
}

I’m now getting these two error messages -

Assets/Scripts/RandomSpawnLocation.js(21,19): BCE0048: Type ‘System.Type’ does not support slicing.

Assets/Scripts/RandomSpawnLocation.js(23,20): BCE0023: No appropriate version of ‘UnityEngine.Object.Instantiate’ for the argument list ‘(UnityEngine.GameObject, UnityEngine.Vector3)’ was found.

Would really appreciate some help guys ?

(excuse all the // commenting. Its my way of trying to teach myself…lol)

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it looks like you are using wepType in your instantiate func, which im pretty sure is an array.

public var spawnPoints : GameObject[]; //This allows me to make a list/group of Objects
 public var randomNum : int; //This denotes that the variable randomNum will be a whole number
 
 public var wepType : GameObject[];
 public var wepNumber : int;
 
 function Start()
 {
        randomNum = Random.Range(0,3); // generates random number between 0 and 3.
     
        transform.position = spawnPoints[randomNum].transform.position;

        wepNumber = Random.Range(0,4); // generates random number between 0 and 4.
 
        GameObject chosenWeapon = GameObject[wepNumber];

        Instantiate(chosenWeapon, spawnPoints[randomNum].transform.position);
         
 }

have a go, im tired so might be off a bit