Delay between each instantiation

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1

Hi guys. I'm kind of new to this. I want cubes to spawn randomly in the game every, let's say, 5 seconds. I have this code so far:

var object:Transform;
var x = 12;
var z = 12;
var y = 5;

function Update () {    

    var position = Vector3(Random.Range(-x, x), y, Random.Range(-z, z));
    Instantiate(object, position, Quaternion.identity);

}

I tried using yield WaitForSeconds(5.0) but it messed things up... Thank you in advance.

~Bumbaz

2

you can't use yield in Update(). you should do it in start(), Awake() or custom functions like this:

function Start(){
  DoInstantiate();

}
function DoInstantiate(){
  while (true){
    yield WaitForSeconds(5.0);
    var position = Vector3(Random.Range(-x, x), y, Random.Range(-z, z));
    Instantiate(object, position, Quaternion.identity);
  }

}
3

C# code I would recommend:

public GameObject spawnObject;
public float xRange;
public float zRange;
public float y;
public float spawnRate;

void Awake ()
{
    InvokeRepeating("Spawn", 0f, spawnRate);
}

void Spawn () 
{
    Instantiate(spawnObject, new Vector3(Random.Range(-xRange, xRange), y, Random.Range(-zRange, zRange)), Quaternion.identity);
}
4

ok in java script for unity this is how you get the script to spawn a item and when it gets destroyed to let it spawn agein.

var bullet : GameObject;

var bulletbackup : GameObject;

function Update () { if( Input.GetButton(“fire1”))

{bulletbackup = Instantiate(bullet, transform, rotation,))}

}

Now to make a spawn time on a object is like this

var spawntime : float = 1;

var resetnumber : float = 10;

function Update (){Time.deltaTime * ++spawntime;

}

That might help but the best way Ive made a spawn time is by useing the animation tool

But I hope this helps.

Oh and im not for sure on the script with the spawn time but that is done in Java