Fetching Prefabs and putting them in a list?

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1

I’m attempting to generate a list of corporations, each one with randomized values. So far, this is working, but I can’t help but think something in here could be done a lot better. Specifically, the code to fetch the Corporation prefab takes three lines, and requires the corporation to be in a “resources” folder instead of just in the asset folder.

Is there a simpler way to fetch an object? Is this janky fix how it actually works?

void generate() 
	{
		int corpsToMake = 10;//# of corps to make
		corpSet = new Corporation[corpsToMake];
		shares = new int[corpsToMake];
		
		for(int i = 0; i < corpsToMake; i++) 
		{ 
			GameObject tempCorp = (GameObject) Instantiate(Resources.Load("Corporation"));
			corpListSize++;
			Corporation corp = (Corporation) tempCorp.GetComponent("Corporation");
			corpSet *= corp;*

_ Corporation cs = (Corporation) corpSet*.GetComponent();_
_ cs.setName(nameGen());_
_ //cs.setName(Random.Range(1,100).ToString());_
_ cs.setShares(Random.Range(50,100));_
_ cs.setID(i+1);_
_ }_
_// GameObject player = (GameObject) Instantiate(Resources.Load(“Corporation”));_
_// playerCorp = (Corporation) player.GetComponent(“Corporation”);_
_// playerCorp.setID(100);_
_// playerCorp.setName(“LevelZero”);_
_// playerCorp.setShares(10000);_
_// playerCorp.player = true;_
_ afterGen(); _
_ }*_

2

Well, what are you trying to do? If you just need a link to the prefab, make a public variable and instantiate it. If you do that you end up with 1 line of code to create the copy.

corpSet *= (Corporation)Instantiate(corporationPrefab);*

You could also come up with a factory method to create a random corporation, something like
public static Corporation Corporation.RandomCorp() { … }