Creating GUIText through Script

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1

I’m new to unity and working on a settings page for a basic Falldown-type game. After referencing a few things online, I’m rendering text for a GUI through script by creating a new game object for each one:

void Start()
    {
        GameObject set1 = Instantiate(new GameObject(), guiLocation(1), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
        set1.AddComponent("GUIText");
        set1.guiText.text = "Sensitivity";

        GameObject set2 = Instantiate(new GameObject(), guiLocation(2), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
        set2.AddComponent("GUIText");
        set2.guiText.text = "Music";

        GameObject set3 = Instantiate(new GameObject(), guiLocation(3), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
        set3.AddComponent("GUIText");
        set3.guiText.text = "Sound Effects";
    }

it seems to work well enough, but it seems like there is probably a better way to do it; for some reason, this method creates two gameObjects for each chunk, and I’m having trouble finding out why.

Thank you guys for any help!

2

Instantiate creates copies of things, typically game objects. These game object can be prefabs, but it can also be an object in the scene. ‘new GameObject()’ creates a new game object in the scene, so your code is first creating a game object in the scene, and then your code is making a copy of that game object.

Typically what you are doing would be handled by a prefab. You would create a prefab that already has a GUIText component. Then all you would have to do is:

GameObject set1 = Instantiate(prefab, guiLocation(1), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
set1.guiText = "Sensitivity";

If you really wanted to make one from scratch, consider doing it this way:

GameObject set1 = new GameObject();
set1.transform.position = guiLocation(1);
set1.AddComponent<GUIText>();
set1.guiText = "Sensitivity";

F.Y.I. GUITexts use viewport coordinates which start at (0,0) in the lower left of the screen and go to 1,1 in the upper right.