How to handle mass cloning of objects when "deep clones" are required?

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I have an enemy entity that I wanna clone lots of times (~100) and set each clone to a different position.
When i change the position of 1 clone all the other clones get the same position, since cloning does not “deep clone” components.

I also have self written scripts on the enemy.

I’m kinda lost, any ideas?

2

Hey! According to clone documentation, clone() creates deep copy of an entity.
Can you share your code of cloning so that it may get easy to understand the issue?

3

https://playcanvas.com/editor/scene/944722

You can see in EnemySpawner that i spawn 3 enemies (clones) but they all land at basically the same position no matter what values i use.

4

We cannot use setPosition function for rigid bodies as it will overrided by physics calculations.
Just add this line

dasher.findComponent('rigidbody').entity.rigidbody.teleport(new pc.Vec3(posX,0,posZ));

instead of

dasher.findComponent('rigidbody').entity.setPosition(posX, 0, posZ);

and it will work fine :slight_smile:

5

Thank you SO MUCH! Spent two hours debugging T.T

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