how can I set an amount of game objects to spawn?

Question

here is my code and i have no idea how to work it up. im a beginner in c# and this is for our project. the project is about a balloon popper and i am having trouble to set an amount of balloons to spawn. I am planning to set the amount of balloons to spawn at 5, 10 even 20 and after that, the spawning will stop.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class SpawnScript: MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform[] spawnPoints;
    public GameObject[] balloons;

    public float spawnTime = 0f;
    float spawnTimeLeft = 0f;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Update()
    {
        if (spawnTimeLeft >= spawnTime)
        {
            int randBalloon = Random.Range(0, balloons.Length);
            int randSpawnPoint = Random.Range(0, spawnPoints.Length);

            Instantiate(balloons[randBalloon], spawnPoints[randSpawnPoint].position, transform.rotation);
            spawnTimeLeft = 0f;
        }
        else
        {
            spawnTimeLeft = spawnTimeLeft + Time.deltaTime;
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Add a variable to the class for the maximum amount. Have done this as public so you can set it in the inspector to the amount you wish.

Also add a counter variable and set it to 0. This is private as nothing but this class needs access to it. Do serialize this field.

public int spawnAmountMax = 5;
[SerializeField]
private int spawned = 0;

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Start the Update() with the next check, return from the method when it evaluates to true.

if (spawned >= spawnAmountMax)
    return;

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Than after instantiating the GameObject, increase the variable:

spawned++;

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The adjusted code

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using static System.Windows.Forms.VisualStyles.VisualStyleElement.TaskbarClock;

public class SpawnScript : MonoBehaviour
{

    public int spawnAmountMax = 5;
    private int spawned = 0;

    public Transform[] spawnPoints;
    public GameObject[] balloons;

    public float spawnTime = 0f;
    float spawnTimeLeft = 0f;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Update()
    {

        if (spawned >= spawnAmountMax)
            return;

        if (spawnTimeLeft >= spawnTime)
        {
            int randBalloon = Random.Range(0, balloons.Length);
            int randSpawnPoint = Random.Range(0, spawnPoints.Length);

            Instantiate(balloons[randBalloon], spawnPoints[randSpawnPoint].position, transform.rotation);
            spawnTimeLeft = 0f;

            spawned++;

        } else
        {
            spawnTimeLeft = spawnTimeLeft + Time.deltaTime;
        }
    }
}