This week’s lab involves experimenting with arrays.<\/p>\n
Start with the following behaviour:<\/p>\n
Task 1:<\/strong> Complete the Store a reference to each flower you make in the Task 2:<\/strong> Complete the To do this, you will need to use a for loop to look at all the flowers in the Test your code with different numbers of flowers. Does it work with 10? 100? 1? 0?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week’s lab involves experimenting with arrays. Start with the following behaviour: \/\/ Flowers.js var flowerPrefab : GameObject; var heights : float[]; var flowers : GameObject[]; function Start() { \/\/ make as many instances of the prefab \/\/ as there are entries in the ‘heights’ array \/\/ scale each one according to the height \/\/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[630],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\/\/ Flowers.js
\nvar flowerPrefab : GameObject;
\nvar heights : float[];
\nvar flowers : GameObject[];<\/code>
\n
\nfunction Start() {
\n \/\/ make as many instances of the prefab
\n \/\/ as there are entries in the 'heights' array
\n \/\/ scale each one according to the height
\n \/\/ store them in the flowers[] array
\n}<\/code>
\n
\nfunction Update() {
\n \/\/ Find the smallest flower and make it grow a little
\n}
\n<\/code><\/p>\nStart()<\/code> method so that it creates multiple instances of the prefab with the specified heights. Make them stand in a line (or, if you’re more adventurous, a circle). Add the script to an empty object (lets call it the flowerbed) in the world and test it out with different values of the heights array.<\/p>\nflowers<\/code> array, so we can access them in Update().<\/code><\/p>\nUpdate()<\/code> method so that on each frame the whichever flower is currently smallest and make it grow a little.<\/p>\nflowers<\/code> array and check its height against the smallest you have found so far.<\/p>\n