How to create a bullet?

Unity Engine
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Hello,
I’m new in Unity, so I’m making small games to get more practice.
Now I have this (trivial?) problem:

I have a cannon, and I need to create a bullet (a prefab) when the player press “fire”. In my mind I created a bullet in prefab, then I wanted to instantiate it when player fires a bullet. But it seems I need to make an instance in the game, else I cannot access (unless I use Resources) to the bullet prefab. It does not seem the right way.
So, please can you suggest me how to dynamically create a bullet at runtime when the player hit “fire”?
Do I need to put a bullet instance in the game (and “disable” or make it not visible?)?

Thank you for your help!

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You’d better keep that function in mind !

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But in order to use that function (I tried it) I need to create an instance of the object in the game (then I can “clone” it as many times I want).

EDIT: it means an object instance must already exist.

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Yea, you could create a bullet as a prefab object set it up how you want it to look size, texture…etc then you can call it with Instantiate…

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copy this for the cannon in java script it works heres some scripts
401803–13808–$GUI Style Script.js (323 Bytes)401803–13809–$killmeovertime.js (83 Bytes)401803–13810–$textcontroll.js (418 Bytes)401803–13811–$turrent colision.js (259 Bytes)401803–13812–$healthcontroll.js (821 Bytes)

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Ok, I red your suggestions and the official manual (read again and again!).
I understood that I need to create a var … and using DRAG-DROP I can “attach” the prefab that will be instanced.

Thank you for the help!