Generating Type of Class OnClick() event

Unity Engine
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I need help. I have two classes, Warrior and Healer (for example’s sake.)
Both Classes use a random.range system to set starting attributes and gender. For example, the Warrior class is something like this:
public int gender;
public in health;

//set gender through if, return
//set health through if, return

Next, I have a menu system, and the goal is for the player to trade his coin for being able to recruit a random instance of either the Warrior or Healer (player’s choice)

Thus, I have corresponding buttons. The ‘Recruit Warrior’ Button and ‘Recruit Healer’ both have the RecieveCharacter.cs attached to their button, with a public function that checks which public variable has been set for adventurerClass. So it is something like this:

public string adventure class;
…
public void theFunctionTheButtonUses(){
if(adventureClass ==“Warrior”){
//generateclass
}
}

…and you get the idea. Now comes my question… I want to instantiate an instance of the class the player picks (either warrior or healer) and I want to ensure the stats are randomized like I put in my code. The classes work fine, and the button works fine. I’m not having problems with broken code… I just don’t know the syntax to implement my instance. I have an empty game object called ‘AdventurerGameObject’ set to 0,0,0 in my scenes. I wanted a class instance to spawn at runtime OnClick, but I don’t use prefabs. I wanted to class instance to directly be created as a child of the AdventurerGameObject. I also need to check for gender and set the according portrait and stats to display in a panel on it’s own, though I haven’t gotten to that point yet.

I’ve been looking for help in documentation and all I can find is instantiating objects from prefabs. Any help or direction towards a tutorial would help me. Thank you.

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You can instantiate a prefab and set its parent, if you weren’t sure about that.
You can create a new game object and assign components to it.
You can instantiate a game object using another game object that’s already in the scene.
And if you just want to attach a script (or alter its stats) and assign a portrait, then you can just… do that. That wouldn’t even necessarily require instantiating everything, provided that you have a child game object there that you can use.

So, choose whichever of those that makes sense.

As for the stats, once the object is there, you can use a method to setup the starting stats.

Please clarify if I misunderstood something or add any information which may better help to pinpoint your issue (/question). :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the reply. I ended up just using a structure, same thing I guess, really… and get/set at my variables, then public Warrior (string name, int stat1, int stat2, ect…), private Warrior and this. with random.range… then public static return new Warrior name, and finally making a method that returns when invoked by another script attached to my button. That’s in summary of course, but essentially when I use a constructor that I create myself, it is not null since I fed it values, correct?, and not up for garbage collection since I’m not doing anything in particular with it? So if I have used:
WarriorClass warrior = WarriorClass.GetRadomChar(“Robert”);
…then I have created Robert, and he essentially exists without fear for anything happening to him?
I was planning on doing as you say, methos, and feeding his stats into a display within the built-in UI.

I don’t think there is anything other than that I have a question on, so thank you.