unity gameObject set id before instantiation

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Hi guys so Im creating an multiplayer game and i need to instantiate a gameobject called ship

the ship has a script that containes the ships ID, the script is called shipsettings

the thing is I would like to set the ID of the ship in the shipsettings before ship object is being instantiate, is there any way to do that?

thanks in advance

Gal

3

And so what’s the problem?

If it is a prefab then just load it from somewhere to object:

Object myPrefab = Resources.Load("myPrefab");

Do whatever you want with it and then:

Object afterInstantiation = Instantiate(myPrefab, myPosition, myRotation);

And do something afterwards if you need.

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In the ShipSettings script make the ID variable public and static (for example “public static int ID;”).

Then right before you instantiate the ship, you can say

ShipSettings.ID = 0; //Whatever int you use to set the ID here

and then instantiate the ship.

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This won’t work, all the prefabs will have the latest ID, that is if you change the prefab ID then all instantiated objects get it as well.
In my test I have an ID variable in the prefab code, I have a counter in the main game code, every time I instantiate I increment the counter, before I instantiate a new prefab I set the prefab ID to the counter.
But when I look at the prefab ID it’s incrementing all the time as each new instantiate happens.
I’m looking for exactly the same solution…I’ll post here when I find it!
Ok so here it is!

Works perfectly for me, I now have all prefabs with unique IDs.