Cannot cast from source type to destination type. Can't figure it out!!

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1

Hello, I am making a damage pool and I keep getting this error. I googled it for at least 25 min now and I am getting off track. I need to get back to work as soon as possible so here is the code. The error is pointing to the line where I call `Instantiate

Error:

InvalidCastException: Cannot cast from source type to destination type.
GameController+<spawnDamageTexts>c__Iterator1.MoveNext () (at Assets/Scripts/GameController.cs:52)
UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour:StartCoroutine(String)
GameController:initializeGame() (at Assets/Scripts/GameController.cs:27)

Code:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class GameController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [@HideInInspector]
    public Queue<GUIText>       damageTexts;
    public GUIText              damageText;

    void initializeGame()
    {
        StartCoroutine("spawnDamageTexts");
    }

    IEnumerator spawnDamageTexts()
    {
        //Spawn damage texts over time
        while(damgeTextsToSpawn > 0f)
        {
            GUIText clone = (GUIText)Instantiate(damageText, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity);
            damageTexts.Enqueue(clone);
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
        }
    }

}
2

Try casting it to GameObject, then using GetComponent(), as such:

GameObject o = (GameObject)GameObject.Instantiate(damageText,Vector3.zero,Quaternion.identity);
GUIText clone = o.GetComponent<GUIText>();

The reason your code doesn’t work is that Instantiate() returns a reference to the Object created - in this case, a GameObject is created with a GUIText component attached, not a GUIText on its own. So you’re trying to cast from GameObject to GUIText, which means your source type (GameObject) is different to your destination type (GUIText) since one doesn’t derive its type from the other.