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PlayMaker Feedback => Action Requests => Topic started by: westingtyler on October 13, 2016, 09:02:07 AM

Title: create prefab called [string] from array?[SOLVED]
Post by: westingtyler on October 13, 2016, 09:02:07 AM

Basically, you click an icon of a chair. that icon game object is called "oak chair."

I want to create a prefab of "oak chair" when I click that icon. I just want to save the icon name string, then create a prefab from a list of prefabs, that is also named what the string is named.

Also, there are like 100 different chairs to do this with.

Can I do this with a 1.8.3 array, or should I use arraymaker, or some other method? I am really stumped. I really don't want to have to make a string switch with 100 options in it.

Title: Re: create prefab from array based on string?
Post by: terri on October 13, 2016, 09:08:14 AM

with arraymaker you can have a hashtable where the key is the icon's name string and the value is the corresponding prefab

Title: Re: create prefab called [string] from array?
Post by: westingtyler on October 13, 2016, 09:47:18 AM

thanks. it works, and here is a picture of the action I used.

ps. does this need to be an "action sequence"? I am afraid it may try to do the second action first if I don't specify they should go in order?