how would I set an instantiated prefab as a public reference object?

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1

I’ve been looking around Unity Answers for a while and there’s a lot of similar questions as this one, but they don’t achieve the result I’m looking for.
here’s the problem:

public Transform fire;
public GameObject clone;


void Update () 
{
if(Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.F))
	{
		clone = Instantiate(fire,transform.position,transform.rotation) as GameObject;	
		
	}
}

when I press ‘F’ in game though, the gameobject ‘clone’ still shows ‘None’ in the inspector. How do I make the instantiated prefab go there?

2

One way, make both object of the same type.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Example : MonoBehaviour 
{
	public GameObject fire;
    public GameObject clone;
     
     
    void Update ()
    {
	    if(Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.F))
	    {
	    	clone = Instantiate(fire,transform.position,transform.rotation) as GameObject;
	    }
    }
}

Or you can Instantiate the ‘fire’ Transform’s gameObject component.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Example : MonoBehaviour 
{
	public Transform fire;
    public GameObject clone;
     
     
    void Update ()
    {
	    if(Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.F))
	    {
	    	clone = Instantiate(fire.gameObject, transform.position, transform.rotation) as GameObject;
	    }
    }
}