#I checked and all of the gameobjects are

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shadow hemlock
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Can you run me through your problem again? I'm trying to piece it together, but it got lost in all the messages haha

steady lily
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IM SORRY! i had to go eat

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essentially, im trying to destroy block thats part a prefab, without breaking the actual prefab

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more info is here

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"soo could anyone help me with destroying just the instance of a prefab? currently im trying to destroy whatever object touches me. but it also destroys the actual prefab, not that induvidual instance

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so if i ever want to summon the prefab again, its missing all of the parts i destroyed"

shadow hemlock
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Hmmmm

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What is the role of this in the destroy method?

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Is that how you work with prefab instances?

steady lily
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to get this script, and then the gameobject

steady lily
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:)

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holy crap that seemed so passive aggresive on a second read mb

shadow hemlock
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Not very good with them yet

steady lily
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*yet

shadow hemlock
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Let's see if we can figure it out

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So I'm not seeing where the instance of the prefab is instantiated

steady lily
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wdym?

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ohhh

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no its in a seperate script

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ill pull it up

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big block of code but im not sure which parts are important to you

shadow hemlock
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Aha

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So I'm new to unity as well, but I'm a software engineer

steady lily
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(yes there is lego terrain, yes this is a game jam)

steady lily
shadow hemlock
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And I'm wondering if this means anything at all

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It would make sense in something like JavaScript

steady lily
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well it only runs when destroying the threshold.

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or chunk loader, whatever you want to call it

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HOLD ON I GOT IT

shadow hemlock
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Hmmm

steady lily
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ITS DESTROYING THIS GAMEOBJECT

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NOT THIS INSTANCE

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at least i think lol

shadow hemlock
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What is this game object? I'm not sure what this script is attached to

steady lily
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its attached to the chunk loader

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so if the player runs into an invisible super tall object, this runs

shadow hemlock
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Hmmm

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Possibly

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What if you do Debug.Log(this)?

steady lily
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i could try

shadow hemlock
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Let's see what it spits out

steady lily
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i put it in the projectile's script, should i put it in the chunk loader one too?

shadow hemlock
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Wherever you're calling destroy

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I'm also surprised it's not complaining about the recursion in the destroy method you define

steady lily
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in which script?

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oh the bite one

shadow hemlock
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Yeah

steady lily
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i have crappy code, and the cooldown hasnt been implemented for the bite yet so the log is just filled with the same log

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might take a minute to fix at most tho

shadow hemlock
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No worries

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There's no such thing as bad code

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Only bad choices

steady lily
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there you go

shadow hemlock
steady lily
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....

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i think im close mabye?

shadow hemlock
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Haha

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It seems it's just understanding it as some sort of object

steady lily
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creating a new chunk loader makes it work fine

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im wondering if its cloning itself instead of the prefab

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is it possible to find objects that are only in your files, using code?

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nvrmind thats a google question oops

shadow hemlock
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Hmmm

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So walk me through the chunk loader's logic

steady lily
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when you walk into it it summons a random prefab from one of 3 arrays, at the end of each prefab or "chunk", theres always another chunk loader

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so theoretically thats infinite generation

shadow hemlock
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If a player collides with it, and the "game controller" is grassy, it does something

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Oh I see

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So lemme try to say it back to you to see if I understand

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You've got a chunk of playable area

steady lily
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havent coded the other terrains yet but their the exact same

shadow hemlock
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And when the player reaches the edge, you want to spawn another chunk where they went to

steady lily
shadow hemlock
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And you want the same thing to happen if the player reaches the edge of that chunk too

steady lily
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if there's a way to find gameobjects through files then my problem is fixed

shadow hemlock
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Ok I think we need to step back a little bit

steady lily
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OK

shadow hemlock
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I think part of the problem is the chunks are managing part of the system that spawns other chunks

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It's basically a house of cards

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I think you need a separate thing that manages the spawning

steady lily
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I think that would work much better than what im doing actually

shadow hemlock
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I think the chunks need to be decently removed from that process

steady lily
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i could also keep an offscreen instance of each terrarin prefab, and reference that to make sure i get the actual prefab instead of the wrong one, but that bring many more problems than your idea

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sooo is that the fix? thank you so much for your help, like seriously. between homework and other stuff I haven't had the brainpower to fix this but you've been a lifesaver

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:)

shadow hemlock
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I think the chunks can fire an event or something when something enters the region of the chunk that triggers the spawning

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Or maybe the main controller can simply manage the collision objects for where it knows it hasn't spawned chunks yet but might need to

steady lily
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*am

shadow hemlock
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Nice

steady lily
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well i finally have an excuse to play around with for loops

shadow hemlock
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Excellent

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Don't forget about foreach loops. Those are handy