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Question by Gilead7 · Apr 26, 2021 at 06:20 PM · c#inventorydisplayslot

Slot Prefab instantiating outside of set parent

I'm working through a tutorial from a few years ago so it's doubtful I'd get any help from the original video, so I turn to you. This script is attached to an image inside of a canvas, inside of another canvas. At this point in the video, the instantiated prefabs are inside of the image, but I must be missing something. I would rather have the prefabs instantiate on a panel, but I'm getting the same results.

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class Inventory : MonoBehaviour
 {
 
     RectTransform inventorySlotRect;
     float inventoryWidth, inventoryHeight;
 
     public int slots;
     public int rows;
     public float slotPaddingLeft, slotPaddingTop;
     public float slotSize;
     //public Transform InventoryDisplayParent;
 
     public GameObject InventorySlotPrefab;
     List<GameObject> allSlotsList; 
 
     // Start is called before the first frame update
     void Start()
     {
         CreateInventoryLayout();
     }
 
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update()
     {
         
     }
 
     void CreateInventoryLayout()
     {
         allSlotsList = new List<GameObject>();
         inventoryWidth = (slots / rows) * (slotSize + slotPaddingLeft) +slotPaddingLeft;
         inventoryHeight = rows * (slotSize + slotPaddingTop) + slotPaddingTop;
         int collumns= slots/rows;
 
         inventorySlotRect = GetComponent<RectTransform>();
         inventorySlotRect.SetSizeWithCurrentAnchors(RectTransform.Axis.Horizontal, inventoryWidth);
         inventorySlotRect.SetSizeWithCurrentAnchors(RectTransform.Axis.Vertical, inventoryHeight);
         
         for(int y=0; y<rows; y++)
         {
             for(int x=0; x<collumns; x++)
             {
                 GameObject newInventorySlot = (GameObject)Instantiate(InventorySlotPrefab);
                 RectTransform inventorySlotRect = newInventorySlot.GetComponent<RectTransform>();
 
                 newInventorySlot.name = "Slot";
                 newInventorySlot.transform.SetParent(this.transform.parent);
 
                 inventorySlotRect.localPosition = inventorySlotRect.localPosition + new Vector3(slotPaddingLeft * (x + 1) + (slotSize * x), -slotPaddingTop *(y +1)-(slotSize *y)) ;
                 //inventorySlotRect.transform.SetParent(InventoryDisplayParent);
                 inventorySlotRect.SetSizeWithCurrentAnchors(RectTransform.Axis.Horizontal, slotSize);
                 inventorySlotRect.SetSizeWithCurrentAnchors(RectTransform.Axis.Vertical, slotSize);
 
                 allSlotsList.Add(newInventorySlot);
             }
         }
 
     }
 }

Would someone give this a once over and see where the problem lies? All anchor points are set to upper left and I've tried every layout component to no avail. Thanks!

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Answer by hirenkatira · May 08, 2021 at 09:47 AM

Hello,

This is probably due to the set parent statement. Please check below

 // your current code
 newInventorySlot.transform.SetParent(this.transform.parent);  // current gameobject's parent
 
 // what it should be to make it child object of the Image/current object
 newInventorySlot.transform.SetParent(this.transform);  // current gameobject
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