What is a good way to instantiate new prefabs via script?

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I'm working on a prototype for a tree sim game. The tree is made up of multiple pieces and right now, I want a new piece to appear when I click an existing piece. The new piece's scale, location, and rotation are based on the piece that was clicked. The pieces are based on a TreePiece prefab. I tried creating a Transform variable in the TreePiece's script and assigning the TreePiece prefab in the editor. In script, I used Instantiate to create a new piece. The problem is, each new piece's name adds an extra (clone) to the end (for example: TreePiece(clone)(clone)(clone) ) and weird things are happening like existing pieces re-sizing when I try to resize new pieces. I'm certain this is due to the way I'm trying Insantiate new pieces.

Can someone explain why this might be happening? Is their a better way to instantiate new prefabs via script? Each piece needs to be able to create new pieces and more code will be added to them later as I build the game.

By the way, I'm fairly new to Unity.

Thanks a lot!

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Answer by jkramar · Jul 22, 2014 at 07:25 PM

try this

 public GameObject prefab; //Make sure to set this in the editor
 
 //Call this when you want an object instantiated
 void YourFunction() 
 {
     GameObject instantiatedGameObject = Instantiate(prefab) as GameObject;
     
     instantiatedGameObject.transform.postion = Vector3.zero; //Or wherever you want it to go.
     //do anything else you want,like change name or quaternion etc.
     
 }

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Benji771 · Jul 26, 2014 at 12:17 AM 0

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Thanks a lot! That worked perfectly!

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