Newbie here. I’m trying to make a shell of an RTS. I have a unit script that I attach to each unit that contains that unit’s individual properties (HP, etc), and that is attached to each individual unit. I have another script that is attached to no individual unit that takes care of actions pertaining to all units. However, I would like to make a script to pertain to only some units. It would be a “battalion” script that would group together and work with, say, four units as time. My instinct for making this would be to make a script called battalion and to create a new instance of it, once for every group of four units, and have this script attached to no individual unit. However, I’m seeing a lot about how calling constructors on scripts is something you really should not do in Unity, so I’m confused as to how to proceed. Could someone help out?
There are no ‘scripts’ in Unity (as opposed to say Python). Anything that doesn’t declare a class in UnityScript is automatically declared as a class (using the file’s name), and it extends MonoBehaviour. Anything that doesn’t declare a class in C# just won’t compile.
You can’t use a constructor of a an object which extends MonoBehaviour. If you create your own class extending “not MonoBehaviour”, you can call the constructor all you want. You have to use AddComponent for Component-type classes because Unity needs to do behind-the-scenes stuff to get everything working for you.