instantiated child prefab invisible

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Hi everyone,

When I load a prefab sprite using…

GameObject g = Instantiate (Resources.Load ("Prefabs/" + unitName [0])) as GameObject;

…the child object is not rendered. When searching for answers there were many posts on this. However none of the solutions fixed my problem.

  • the instantiation is not done in Awake() so that can’t be the problem.
  • The child prefab is not rotated during the instantiation.
  • I changed the sorting layer of both the parent and child prefab but the child remained invisble.
  • The order in layer of the parent prefab is 2 and the child is 3 so that should be OK as well.
  • In scene view I am able to click on the child prefab. So during instantiation it’s placed in the right position and rotation.
  • When I manually drag the prefab into the scene it’s displayed correctly.

Does anyone have a clue what could be the problem here ? Thanks so much for any help.

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i just spent hour trying to solve this problem. and i finally got it.

for me this was the problem.

Step one : make sure your object is for sure in camera view.
Step two: make sure your object is in front of background/ not on it not behind it.
Step three: remake your prefab

and my objects are now instantiated and visible…

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@blober81 I know this is super late but I had the same exact problem and it was really frustrating. I’m surprised no one answered this question but this is how I solved it:

I put the spawn point under a sprite. You can leave the sprite field in the sprite renderer empty and it looks like a regular empty 2d point.

I was just trying random shit and have no idea why this works.

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This may be a bit late but I’ll put this here for others who come across this thread

if the z position of the spawn point and the player are not both equal to 0 then it will spawn invisible

hope this fixes your problem :slight_smile: