Create a function that spawn player (wich datas are stored in an array) randomly

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I’m trying to make a function that spawn player stored in an array randomly but I’m having this problem": i don’t know how to take each value ( for ex. each firstname, lastname) of each user. The array is like this:

[{“firstname”:“daniele”,“lastname”:“daveri”,“username”:“dany”,“gender”:“male”},{“firstname”:“admin”,“lastname”:“admin”,“username”:“admin”,“gender”:“male”},{“firstname”:“prova3”,“lastname”:“prova3”,“username”:“prova3”,“gender”:“male”},{“firstname”:“pp”,“lastname”:“pp”,“username”:“pp”,“gender”:“male”}]

So for example for the player : “daniele” the system spawn a male player prefab and so for all player stored in the array.

Thanks!

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You can do random spawning many ways however having learned my lesson from doing it all programmatically, I’d suggest doing it only partially.

In your scene you could make a game object for each valid spawn location and tag it as “spawnLocation”. Then using GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag(“spawnLocation”) you can an array of valid locations. Grab a random index from this array and use the object’s transform.position.

This allows for more control of what’s a valid location and avoids issues where the player could spawn in the terrain for instance.

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If you’re using the first name to look up the rest of the information, you might like to use a Map. Maps are data structures that associate one piece of data (called a Key) with another (called a Value). So you would have a map like this:

PlayerData daniele = PlayerDataMap.get("Daniele");
//More code here

I know this isn’t a complete answer for you but hopefully it might help! Here’s some info on Dictionaries in C#, which have this feature: C# Dictionary Examples - Dot Net Perls

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ok thanks ! however i don’t know how to take each values for each player in the array.
thanks!

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You can do this by inserting an array into an array, here’s a small example of how the idea works (if i understood you correctly);

var mainarray : new Array();

mainarray.Add("firstname","daniele","lastname","daveri","username","dany","gender","male");

var playertospawn = mainarray[0]; /// gets first entry of the mainarray //

var playername = playertospawn[1]; /// gets 2th entry which is daniele //