Help with Instantiating

Unity Engine
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Hey guys, I am trying to make a tile map for a board game. I have two scripts to generate the map that I thought would work.

The first script is on an empty object

SOOO… that script works just fine. When I play the game a row of (mapsize) length tiles are generated. BUT, this next script is where I have trouble.
This script I place on the Tile prefab…

Now, this script should have created a line of (maplength) length cubes along the y axis of every cube. But, here is my problem.

The cubes infinitely generate along the y axis, because EVERY tile has that script on it… I guess I need to ditch the second script and make the GameManager generate y axis and x axis cubes. But, in order to do that, I would need to name the instantiated cubes along the x axis in the first loop, right? and then for each cube generated along the x axis, make a row of y axis cubes branch off of it.

sigh… I am bad at explaining this, if you need more info please ask. How would I do this?

2

Please edit your post and use -tags

3

this is my ultimate question:

How would I generate cubes in an x axis line using a loop, name those generated cubes, and then generate more cubes along the y axis of every named cube from the first loop?

4

Depends on your naming rules.

but an example would be as follows: assuming you are using the naming convention of TileX-Y

#pragma strict
var maplength = 10;
var mapWidth = 10;

public var Tile : Transform;

function Start () {
	for(var y : int = 0; y < mapWidth; y++){
		for(var x : int = 0; x < maplength; x++){//nested within Y loop
		    var curTile:Transform = Instantiate(Tile, Vector3(x * 1.0, y*1.0, 0), Quaternion.identity);
		    curTile.name = "Tile"+x+"-"+y;
		}
	}
}