Enemy Spawner creates broken GameObjects

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I’ve attempted to create an enemy spawner for this 2D arcade-style platformer defense game, but the spawner doesn’t produce any actual enemies, only blank game objects at position (0, 0, 0) that cannot move or be seen.

Here’s the code I’m using for the spawner. It’s very rudimentary, and could definitely be improved.

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

public class EnemySpawning : MonoBehaviour
{

    [SerializeField] private GameObject enemy;
    [SerializeField] private float startTime = 2.0f;
    [SerializeField] private float spawnTime = 0.3f;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        enemy = new GameObject();
        Vector2 spawnerPosition = new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y);

        InvokeRepeating("spawnEnemy", startTime, spawnTime);
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    
    void spawnEnemy()
    {
        Instantiate(enemy, this.transform);
    }
}

What should I change so that it spawns enemy GameObjects at the spawner location? Is this code too simple? I’d like to implement random y-axis spawn locations too, but I don’t know how to do that yet.

2

Your code exactly spawns empty gameobjects. The enemy variable is set to a new GameObject in start which would be an empty one.

enemy = new GameObject();

IMO, the simplest way would be set your enemy variable to public and then drag your enemy prefab into the variable slot and get rid of the enemy = new GameObject(); Hope this helps.