Make parts spawn in random places

[ashen parrot]

i made a script to randomly pick an ore to spawn inside of a cave thats owned by a player , but the ores are all spawning in the same spot , how can i make it so the ores can spawn in different spots inside the tunnel and not inside each other? im very beginner level at coding and roblox studio

[somber surge]

You can make multiple parts and place them around the cave then loop through them, add them to a table and select a random position then spawn the ore at that position

[orchid kernel]

yep just make the parts invisible and canCollide = false

[ashen parrot]

oh i have one big part for that , thats what nodeSpawn is

should i just make a bunch of those instead of 1?

[somber surge]

yes

[ashen parrot]

see the highlighted part is an invisible part in the actual tunnel floor

so i should make multiple parts for spawning ores , then add another loop to pick one of the parts and have some way to randomly pick a position on the part to actually spawn the ores

[somber surge]

yeah

[ashen parrot]

thanks guys ill try to figure it out!

[ashen parrot]

ive made multiple parts for ores to spawn on and i added them into a table , but im stuck right now trying to figure out how to randomly pick one of the spawn points , then randomly pick an ore , then randomly pick a spot on the spawn point while also making sure the ores dont spawn inside of each other

[vital prairie]

I would do something like:

local randomNodeSpawn = NodeSpawns:GetChildren()[math.random(1, #NodeSpawns:GetChildren())]

local xOffset = (math.random() - 0.5) * randomNodeSpawn.Size.X
local zOffset = (math.random() - 0.5) * randomNodeSpawn.Size.Z -- math random gives a random decimal from 0 to 1, so if you minus 0.5 you can get a range of -0.5 to 0.5. You scale this to the size of the node, so you get a random distance from the centre of the node without it going out of it

local randomSpot = randomNodeSpawn.Position + xOffset + zOffset

local randomOre = Ores:GetChildren()[math.random(1, #Ores:GetChildren())]

Then you would clone the randomOre and set its position in the randomSpot

Actually no the randomspot wont work as the spawn is a vector3 and the offsets are numbers

I would say make it a vector3.new() but because the nodespawns are rotated it wont really work

local randomSpot = randomNodeSpawn.Position
+ randomNodeSpawn.CFrame.RightVector * xOffset
+ randomNodeSpawn.CFrame.LookVector * zOffset