Attaching a game object as a child during runtime?

Questions & Answers
1

//Put the portal outside of the screen by attaching it to the camera as a chile outside the camera view
transform.position = Camera.main.transform.position;

Hi,

I’m trying to attach a GameObject to a parent prefab Main Camera during runtime. However, I also wanted it to be offset outside of the screen. The code above works at the Main Camera’s position but how do I make it offset outside the screen?

Thanks.

2

transform.position = Camera.main.transform.TransformPoint(-Vector3.forward * offsetAmount);

Where offsetAmount is the distance behind the camera you want it to be.

3

you code doesn’t attach your portal to the camera but instead just copy the camera position into your portal object position…

I guess want you want is to set the parent of your portal transform to be your camera transform

check that :
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Transform-parent.html

4

var offset : Vector3 = 3, 0, 0;
var wanttobeparent : GameObject;

function Update()
{
     transform.parent = wanttobeparent.transform;
    transform.postion = offset;

}