Random.Range NOT WORKING J.S.

[system]

var prefab : GameObject;
var timer : float = 0.0;
var respawnrate : float = 120;

function Start () {
    timer += Time.deltaTime;

    if(timer == respawnrate){
        var position = Vector3(UnityEngine.Random.Range(-10, 10), 0, Random.Range(-10, 10));
        Instantiate(prefab, position, Quaternion.identity);
    }
}

/* The command prompt says Range is not a member of random....HELP*/

[anon95292375]

try using UnityEngine.Random.Range()

[Statement]

The command prompt says Range is not a member of random....HELP

I find the only possible explanation for this error that your script is called Random.js, in which case Random.Range would try to access the function 'Range' in your class 'Random', which doesn't exist.

To solve this issue you must type out the full name of the UnityEngine.Random class, or rename your class to something else. You had correctly qualified the first call to Random.Range, but not the other. The below code should work fine.

var prefab : GameObject;
var timer : float = 0.0;
var respawnrate : float = 120;

function Start () {
    timer += Time.deltaTime;

    if(timer == respawnrate){
        var position = Vector3(UnityEngine.Random.Range(-10, 10), 0, UnityEngine.Random.Range(-10, 10));
        Instantiate(prefab, position, Quaternion.identity);
    }
}

[anon21219440]

Hello Kyle.

The problem you're having is that you don't need to use the UnityEngine prefix.

Random.Range should do the work.

Also to note is that you're saying Random.Range(-10, 10). -10 and 10 are both of type int, and the script reference for Random.Range (min : int, max : int) says that min will be inclusive and max exclusive in the range. Thus, you will have every integer between -10 and 10 only. You can also use variables of type float instead of int to include every single number (including decimals) in the range of -10 and 10 (when using float, both numbers are inclusive).

Example:

function Start () {
    timer += Time.deltaTime;

if(timer == respawnRate){
    var random1 : int = Random.Range(-10, 11); // Every integer between -10 and 11 (excluding 11).
    var random2 : float = Random.Range(-10, 10); // Every real number between -10 and 10 (including 10).
    var position = (random1, 0, random2);
    Instantiate(prefab, position, Quaternion.identity);
}

}