Instantiate prefab text into Canvas

Questions & Answers
1

So I’m new to Unity and I’m trying to instantiate text when another prefab is created.
Think of it as putting a nameplate/healthnumber above a new enemy. However for the text to be diplayed it needs to be a child of a Canvas. How do I get my Canvas so I can implement:

public Text DistanceText;

Text tempTextBox = Instantiate(DistanceText, pos, rot) as Text;
tempTextBox.transform.SetParent(Canvas.transform, false);

I think there should be an easy solution to this but after trying/searching for hours I have no clue how.

3

Your code is ok, you only need to add the Canvas as a parent:

tempTextBox.transform.SetParent(renderCanvas.transform, false);

2

Create an empty game object and attach a TextMesh, these do not require a canvas.

then you should be able to do the following.

//Insert the empty game object with the TextMesh attached
public GameObject distanceText;

//Instantiates the Object
GameObject tempTextBox = (GameObject)Instantiate(distanceText, pos, rot);

//Grabs the TextMesh component from the game object
TextMesh theText = tempTextBox.transform.getComponent<TextMesh>();

//Sets the text.
theText.text = "The Text";