How to use the results of a dice roll?

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1

Lots of tutorials on how to make a dice script. Very few on how to use dice results to do something.
I’m wondering how in this script I get the RollTheDice method to “publish” the finalSide result so that I can use it? Or how do I get a method to look inside RollTheDice and find finalSide? I’ve been stuck on this for days now. Trying different things. I’m too new to programming to really understand.

using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class Dice : MonoBehaviour {

   
    private Sprite[] diceSides;

  
    private SpriteRenderer rend;

	
	private void Start () {

   
        rend = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();

     
        diceSides = Resources.LoadAll<Sprite>("DiceSides/");
	}
	
  
    private void OnMouseDown()
    {
        StartCoroutine("RollTheDice");
    }

    // Coroutine that rolls the dice
    private IEnumerator RollTheDice()
    {
     
        int randomDiceSide = 0;

      
        int finalSide = 0;

       
        for (int i = 0; i <= 20; i++)
        {
           
            randomDiceSide = Random.Range(0, 5);

           
            rend.sprite = diceSides[randomDiceSide];

            yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.05f);
        }

      
        finalSide = randomDiceSide + 1;

  
        Debug.Log(finalSide);
    }
}
3

Here’s an example that adds a function to call at the end. @rallyall

 using System.Collections;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class Dice : MonoBehaviour
 {

     private Sprite[] diceSides;
     private SpriteRenderer rend;
     
     private void Start ()
	 {
         rend = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
         diceSides = Resources.LoadAll<Sprite>("DiceSides/");
     }
     
   
     private void OnMouseDown()
     {
         StartCoroutine("RollTheDice");
     }
 
     // Coroutine that rolls the dice
     private IEnumerator RollTheDice()
     {
         int randomDiceSide = 0;
         int finalSide = 0;

         for (int i = 0; i <= 20; i++)
         {
             randomDiceSide = Random.Range(0, 5);
             rend.sprite = diceSides[randomDiceSide];
             yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.05f);
         }
         finalSide = randomDiceSide + 1;
         Debug.Log(finalSide);
         DiceComplete(finalSide);
		 yield return null;

     }
	 
	 private void DiceComplete(int dieRoll)
	 {
		//Do whatever you want with the dieRoll here
	 }
 }
2

try removing randomDiceSide = 0;
because you are setting the variable on the coroutine but the coroutine doesn’t stop so it sets it to 0 every 0.05 seconds
if im wrong im sorry im kinda new to cs