How to make an actor spawn at a fixed position

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1

I am making an app where I want the player to be just a little bit off the left side of the screen. When I play in unity my player is just a little bit the the right of the left edge. But when I test on my phone, the player is halfway off the screen. How do I make it consistent throughout all devices so that it is always on the screen but close to the end?

2

Solving just for position, use Viewport coordinates. Viewport coordinates start at (0,0) in the lower left of the screen and go to (1,1) in the upper right:

 transform.position = Camera.main.ViewportToWorldPoint(Vector3(0.5, 0.5, 10.0));

This line (Javascript/UnityScript) would place the pivot point of the object at the center of the screen 10 units from the camera.