(4.6 UI) Canvas position resetting itself to (0,0,0) when instantiating a new prefab with the canvas as child?

Questions & Answers
1

I have a unit prefab which has a canvas as a child. The canvas contains an image used as a health bar. The position of the canvas on the prefab is something like (0, 2.8, 0), and stays in position for units that I played in the scene BEFORE runtime, yet when I instantiate a new unit from the exact same prefab, the canvas is at (0,0,0). Why?

2

You got to set the slider anchors around the health bar slider, assuming you’ve used slider for your health bar. Setting the anchors in a correct manner will help you get rid of this issue.

THIS LINK

shows you how to create a Health bar using slider and set the anchor points of the slider.
Hope this help!!

3

I had this same issue, like AleKahpwn said I have resorted to setting the Canvas component position via code:

var canvas = gameObject.FindInChildren("Canvas");

            var canvasePos = canvas.GetComponent<RectTransform>();
            canvasePos.localPosition = new Vector3(0,8,0);


            var objectName = gameObject.FindInChildren("PlayerNameText");
            var playerName = objectName.GetComponent<Text>();

            playerName.text = "FINALLY";

public static GameObject FindInChildren(this GameObject go, string name)
        {
            return (from x in go.GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>()
                     where x.gameObject.name == name
                     select x.gameObject).First();
        }