Unique prefabs?

Questions & Answers
1

I have a script of formations that my enemy ships go to but they go to a prefab called “4 Slot Formation” I want to have like 10 of these on the map and my enemies go to the formations that are empty till all are full of their slots, I’ve got the logic on how they go to 1 of them, but I don’t really know how to make them go to other ones because they are not unique, and or I don’t know how to script them to all work together. Here is my script of how the fighters go to the “4 Slot Formation”

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;


public class Fighter_AI : MonoBehaviour {
    
    
    
    // Access Formation AI
    public GameObject script;  // Access for getcomponent<Formation_AI>

    // Smooth Move to formation
    public float smoothTranslateSpeed = 0.3F;  // Speed for going from spawn to formation with lerp

    public Transform playerTarget;      //Target for the enemies to target the player and lookat
    public Transform playerDist;        // Going to use this for mutants they will freely come to the player but always stop at a certain distance, maybe it can be a random range too so it looks interesting
    public Transform fightFormTransform;   // Think this is for the formation transforms

    // Setup for the sockets
    public Transform FormTarg1;  // Formation socket1
    public Transform FormTarg2;  // Formation socket2
    public Transform FormTarg3;  // Formation socket3
    

    // Variables
    public bool emtyS1;
    public bool goToSlot01 = false;  // For the logic
    public bool goToSlot02 = false;  // For the logic
    public bool goToSlot03 = false;  // For the logic

    // Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
      playerTarget = Player_Controller.playerTransform;    // The player target declaration
      playerDist = Player_Controller.playerTransform;      // Player Distance declaration
      fightFormTransform = Formation_AI.FormTarget;        // formation target declaration
       
      // Targets for the Sockets  
      FormTarg1 = Formation_AI.Form_Slot1;  
      FormTarg2 = Formation_AI.Form_Slot2;
      FormTarg3 = Formation_AI.Form_Slot3;
     
 

	}

    void Awake()
    {
        script = GameObject.Find("4 Slot Formation");
        //Formation_AI script = GameObject.Find("4 Slot Formation").GetComponent<Formation_AI>();

        if (script.GetComponent<Formation_AI>().isEmptySlot1)
        {            
            script.GetComponent<Formation_AI>().isEmptySlot1 = false;
            
            goToSlot01 = true;
            goToSlot02 = false;
            goToSlot03 = false;
        }

        else if (script.GetComponent<Formation_AI>().isEmptySlot2)
        {
            
            script.GetComponent<Formation_AI>().isEmptySlot2 = false;
            
            goToSlot01 = false;
            goToSlot02 = true;
            goToSlot03 = false;

        }
        else if (script.GetComponent<Formation_AI>().isEmptySlot3)
        {
            
            script.GetComponent<Formation_AI>().isEmptySlot3 = false;
            
            goToSlot01 = false;
            goToSlot02 = false;
            goToSlot03 = true;
        } 
        
                
    }

    

	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
        transform.LookAt(playerTarget);
                       
        if (playerDist)
        {
            float dist = Vector3.Distance(playerDist.position, transform.position);
           //Debug.Log("Distance to other: " + dist);
        }

        if (goToSlot01)
        {
            GoToSlot01();
        }
        else if (goToSlot02)
        {
            GoToSlot02();
        }
        else if (goToSlot03)
        {
            GoToSlot03();
        }

	}

    // Moves the ships to the right spots. May need to replace the target with a variable that gets adjusted by how many formations are added
    void GoToSlot01()
    {
        transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, FormTarg1.position, Time.deltaTime * smoothTranslateSpeed);
    }

    void GoToSlot02()
    {
        transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, FormTarg2.position, Time.deltaTime * smoothTranslateSpeed);
    }

    void GoToSlot03()
    {
        transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, FormTarg3.position, Time.deltaTime * smoothTranslateSpeed);
    }
}
2

I think what you would want to do is set up a system of checks with variables. When a ship is added to the first prefab, set it counter variable to + 1. When it reaches its max, make the ships go to the next prefab, and so on.

3

I’d use GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag() to find all of your formations (of course, you’d have to tag your formations). This returns an array of all your formation variables; you can then proceed to cycle through your array until you find an empty spot and then assign your fighter to that slot.

Something like:

GameObject[] allSpots = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Formations");
for(int i = 0; i < allSpots.Length; ++i)
{
     if( /* your logic to determine if a spot is free */ )
     {
          //assign that spot
          break;
     }
}

Does that make sense?

Also, I’d avoid calling GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag() more often than you need to; maybe store this in a variable that only gets updated when new formations are created - but that’s something you can worry about more once you have your base functionality working.