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Question by UnnamedGameDev · Mar 02, 2014 at 03:22 AM · gameobjectinstantiateprefab

Instantiate as a child on a certain point?

Im trying to make a backpack appear on my character whenever purchased, ive managed to spawn a backpack on my players exact position but what i really want to do is to place it on a different location on my player. I have made an empty gameobject on the point i want to spawn the backpack.

I'm currently getting the error : "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"

 var BackpackSpawn : Transform;
 var BackpackType : Transform;
 
 
 function AddBackpack () {
 
 var clone : Transform;
 clone = Instantiate(BackpackType, new Vector3(BackpackSpawn.x,BackpackSpawn.y,BackpackSpawn.z), transform.rotation);
 
 }

BackpackSpawn is the point and BackpackType is the object i want to spawn. I also want to spawn it as a child of my player so it will stay attached.

Help appreciated, much thanks!

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Answer by whydoidoit · Mar 02, 2014 at 03:28 AM

Well to spawn it in the location of BackpackSpawn you would need to use

   var clone : Transform = Instantiate(BackpackType, BackpackSpawn.position, transform.rotation);

The null reference must be coming from one of those two variables not being initialized in the Inspector - so check that out and make sure you've dropped in the right references.

To make it a child:

    clone.parent = transform;



  
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Worked as a charm! Thanks alot.

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