How to cycle through children?

Unity Engine
1

I am making a script that starts an animation at a random spot in the animation cycle. My current Code is:

function Start () 
{ 
   animation ["Take 001"].time = Random.Range (0, animation ["Take 001"].length); 
   animation ["Take 001"].speed = Random.Range (0.21, 1.01);
   animation.Play ("Take 001"); 
}

My problem is that I have ~30 of these objects and am still tweaking them in Maya. So I don’t want to break the prefab by attaching a script. So my solution would be to make an empty game object and make all of the prefabs children of this object then attach a script to that empty game object and apply the script to each child individually.

So how to I cycle through the children and apply the script to each one so they all get different values?

2

You can just do “apply changes to prefab” after you break the connection.

–Eric

3

You can use GameObject.GetComponentInChildren(Animation) with a for loop. I had to do this myself recently to add – at runtime – a rigidbody component, convex mesh collider, and apply a random rotation and velocity to about 30 pieces of debris that I had thrown into an Empty, so I wouldn’t have to faff about with defining new prefabs.