Select Starting Point from Menu

Unity Engine
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Hi everyone,
I looked up for tutorials and articles about it but seems like it’s not a common topic, so apologies if it seems a dumb request.

I created a scene in Unity which the user can explore and interatct with. I read about script to select between different scenes in the application, but couldn’t find one where I have ONE scene (I took a random axo on internet), and different starting point I decided for the user to use as start point for the exploration:

Is there a way to “select” them from a starting menu? Or as a menu/option inside of the scene? Any reference on this?

Thanks to everyone!

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You could do something simple like:

  • For each possible starting/spawn point, create a GameObject there with a new script you create called “SpawnPoint”. Give that script something like a “SpawnNumber” variable, and se them all to different things in the inspector. Then, from your main menu, you let the player choose a spawn number. Transfer the chosen value across scripts using a DontDestroyOnLoad GameObject.
  • When your exploration scene loads, read the chosen value and spawn or reposition the player to the chosen spawn point.
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Adding to the suggestion above, you can make an Array of starting points that transform player position to the gameobject transform.

e.g. Menu Select Screen → Location0Button → int startLocation = startPoint[0] → transform player position to startPoint position.