Skills

[terse brook]

So you want to be able to add a random component from a list of skills?

@tribal nimbus

[tribal nimbus]

Hi there, thanks for messaging 🙂

Yea thats basically what I want to do. I know how to add components and stuff, the only thing im stuck with is to get them in a list / dictionary / whatever where I can add them to the game object after being randomly selected without instantiating them.

[terse brook]

This is an experiment, just from me searching around and what I’ve seen on the discord.

Add a list of skills: public List<Skill> skills;
Then when you add the component
AddComponent<typeof(skill[randomIndex])>();

The problem now I think is referencing them since Monobehavior’s might need to be on an object to be referenced although I’m not sure

[tribal nimbus]

Let me give you a little more perspective

I'm actually working on a little "hospital" simulator for practing and dealing with (patients) illnesses instead of skills. Each illness has a chance to randomly add another illness to the patients, just like in real life.

[terse brook]

@tribal nimbus oh and I forgot. Someone else was doing something similar a couple days ago, using strings to map to components. Might be worth to check out

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763495187787677697/1040480659220738068/image.png

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[tribal nimbus]

Let me try real quick

Yea I guess I got it working

Thanks for your assistance. I wonder if that's the best way tho lol

[terse brook]

Just had the time to read this
Use Component[] diseases = GetComponents(typeof(Disease));
Then AddComponent<typeof(diseases[randomIndex])>();

Get components creates an array of all components of a parent class into an array
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.GetComponents.html

@tribal nimbus is that kind of what you were looking for?

[tribal nimbus]

Well wouldn’t that only work if the scripts are actually attached to the game object to begin with?

[terse brook]

Oh they aren’t?

Hmm

[tribal nimbus]

No the gameobject spawns with like 1 to 3 diseases and each of these have a random chance of adding a new „follow up“ disease to the game object which I can now define on each illness thanks to your support. Maybe I’ll find I better way but it certainly works for now 🙂 thank you