I am working on a tower defense project, and I cannot come up with an effective script that picks a random model inside a folder.
Example: a folder has 3 models named "NormalZombie", "SpeedyZombie" and "SlowZombie" and I want the script to take one of them randomly everytime a function is fired.
Any help?
To pick things randomly, I usually use the math.random function which picks the number within range : `math.random(--[[Smallest Num--]],--[[Largest Num--]].
In your case, you want to pick things within your zombie folder so you would do
local folder = --[[Your folder that contains zombie--]]
local pickedZombie = math.random(1,#folder:GetChildren()--[[putting "#" will gets the amount of child in your table.--]])
Then you would want to create a clone for that object. You can get the thing inside your folder using table[pickedZombie]. By the way, GetChildren() returns a table of children of that folder.
local cloneZombie = folder:GetChildren()[pickedZombie]:Clone()
Last, you would want to set the parent of cloneZombie to workspace and you will soon be spawning armies of random zombies!
local table = {~,~,~,~} -- your table, ~ can be anything, it is basically the contents of your table
while true do
for i, v in pairs(table)--[[the tables name, if it were a model named car, find it by typing : game.Workspace.car into the parentheses]] do
local generator = (math.random(1,4))--[[make it so it counts from 1 to how ever many items your
table has]]
print(table[generator])-- do what ever you want to the items
wait(1)
end
end
Hope it helps
First, put all of the models in a table:
local table = {}
for i, v in pairs(folder) do
table[i] = v
end
Then, run through a loop to pick what item from the table you want:
local number = math.random(1, #table)
You can then find the randomly generated zombie by using table[number]
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Don`t forget to use the wait() in while loop or the game will crash
theres no need for a wait in the while loop, since it revolves around the for loop which already has a wait.