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Pipes spawning in the same position every time calls for a very boring game. Let’s add some randomization to the gap heights.
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Alright, so we want to randomize our pipes
a bit on the Y axis
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to give it a bit more of a challenge,
so let's jump straight into it.
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Let's open up our pipes spawner script.
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We're instantiating our pipes
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prefab here, and currently we're just
putting 0f as the value for the Y axis,
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so we know this is the value
we want to adjust.
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But we don't want to just hardcode
another number
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in there,
we want something random each time.
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Lucky for us, Unity has a built-in class
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for this, so let's make some space above.
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We just type random with a capital
R and a dot.
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The method we want to use is called range.
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If we hover over it, we see it returns
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a random float in between a minimum float
and a maximum float value.
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Since it's difficult to tell from our IDE,
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let's make some serialized fields
to figure this out in Unity.
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I'd to present this to you
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as a mini-challenge,
as we've created a few variables already.
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We're working with floats,
so what we need are two private
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float variables,
and I'd them to be serialized.
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You can name them anything you
but try to have them make sense.
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Also, we don't need to provide any values
to them yet. Ready?
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Pause me and give it a go.
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How'd you do?
No worries if you got stuck.
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So up top, let's create
a serialized field,
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private, float, and name it minYPosition.
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If you're using VS Code,
you can hold Shift and Alt or Shift
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and Option on Mac and hit the down arrow
to duplicate this line.
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Or you can just copy and paste it too.
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Let's change the variable
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name to maxYPosition.
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Since we haven't provided random.range
any values yet,
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we can see it's giving
us a red error line here.
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If there's ever any errors in your code,
Unity will not be able
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to compile the scripts,
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and we won't be able to see our changes
or playtest our game.
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Here, I'll show you real quick.
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You can see here
we're getting this red error
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in the console stating no overload
for method range takes zero arguments.
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Basically meaning
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that there are a few different ways
to use this range method or overloads
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and none of them work without giving it
some values as arguments.
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So let's just go comment this line
out for now
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and we'll get back to it momentarily.
Save this, and let's go back to Unity.
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Okay I'm going to
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select our pipes object
and hit W for the move tool.
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I'll drag these up until the gap is up near
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the top of the camera
but not going past it.
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I think negative 2 looks good.
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So on our pipes manager, I'll add that in
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as our maximum Y value.
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I'll reselect the pipes and move them down
near the ground.
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Negative 7 looks good to me.
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I'll use that as my minimum value.
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Feel free to use any values
you choose here, as long as they're
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within the camera's view.
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If you have different transform values
on your pipe's objects,
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or something
isn't lining up exactly mine, don't fret.
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Just adjust your highest and lowest points
to what works on your screen.
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Let's head back to the script.
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So we could type this random.range method
directly
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into this vector3 here in our y position,
but to keep things readable and clean,
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let's create
a local variable for this up here.
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Let create a float, name it randomYPosition,
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and set it equal to this method.
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Now we need to plug in our new variables
as the two arguments
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minYPosition
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comma maxYPosition
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This will now return a random float
in that range and save it to this
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new variable.
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Now we just need to plug this variable
into our vector3 down
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here.
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Let's save our script and go test it out.
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Awesome, it's working great!
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We're getting some nice randomization
to our obstacles.
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Okay, we can safely delete
this pipes instance from our scene,
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now that we're spawning
these through our code.
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To get one to spawn
right at the beginning, without waiting
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for our timer initially,
let's pop back into our pipe spawner
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script again.
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Here in the Start method,
we can simply make a call
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to our SpawnPipes method to trigger
one right at the beginning.
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Perfect!
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In the next video,
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we'll handle the logic
for when the player hits a pipe and loses.
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