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Question by oliver-jones · May 18, 2014 at 07:17 PM · instantiateprefabclone

Instantiate Clones Itself - Rather than Prefab

I don't really understand what I'm doing wrong here - might just need a fresh pair of eyes to look for me.

I'm building a 'wall building' system for my game - where you place a wall post down (post A), and if you place another wall post (post B) inline with each other - a load of other wall posts will be Instantiated between post A and post B.

The problem I'm having is that my wall post is a prefab. When that post 'sees' another post, it will Instantiate that wall prefab. The problem is, is that it seems to clone itself, and not use a fresh prefab. I know this because all my variables within my scripts are the same (even though they are blank/default in my prefab).

This script 'looks' on the left side of the wall - to see if a raycast as hit any other posts

     var cube : GameObject;
     var c : WallDefense;
     var wall : GameObject;
 
     for(var pLeft = 1; pLeft < leftPoints.Count; pLeft++){
 
         cube = Instantiate(wall, transform.position, transform.rotation);
         cube.transform.position = leftPoints[pLeft].position;
 
         cube.transform.position.y = 0;
         cube.transform.name = "Defense_Wall";
         c = cube.GetComponent(WallDefense);
         c.US = US;
         c.wall = wall;
     }

'Wall' is the prefab of my ... Wall. Although, when running the game - if I select the variable within the Inspector, it highlights itself in the scene, instead of the prefab in the prefab folder.

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