Instantiated Prefab instantiated at random position (randomly)

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I’m creating a boss that needs to instantiate a bunch of ‘particles’ which launch left and right. The particles are instantiated from an animation with event triggers (The code below is the entire code, in-case the problem may be in the code itself);

public class CandyBoss : MonoBehaviour 
{
	public GameObject CandyCone, CandyConeColliders, CandyConeColliders2, ParticleRT, ParticleRB, ParticleM, ParticleLT, ParticleLB;
	public Transform CandyConeTransform, ParticleInstantiater;
	public Shaker ShakerScript;
	public GameObject[] Platforms;
	private Animator Anim;

	void Awake()
	{
		Anim = gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>();
	}

	public void Turn()
	{
		if(transform.localScale == new Vector3(1,1,1))
		{
			transform.localScale = new Vector3(-1,1,1);
		}
		else if(transform.localScale == new Vector3(-1,1,1))
		{
			transform.localScale = new Vector3(1,1,1);
		}
	}

	public void Bumped()
	{
		for(int i = 0; i < Platforms.Length; i++)
		{
			Platforms*.SetActive(true);*

  •  }*

  •  ShakerScript.Anim.SetBool ("Shaking", true);*

  •  Instantiate (CandyCone, CandyConeTransform.position, gameObject.transform.rotation);*

  •  Destroy(CandyConeColliders);*

  • }*

  • public void StartThrowing()*

  • {*

  •  Anim.SetBool("Throwing", true);*

  • }*

  • public void ThrowRightTop()*

  • {*

  •  Instantiate(ParticleRT, ParticleInstantiater.position, gameObject.transform.rotation);*

  • }*

  • public void ThrowRightBottom()*

  • {*

  •  Instantiate(ParticleRB, ParticleInstantiater.position, gameObject.transform.rotation);*

  • }*

  • public void ThrowMiddle()*

  • {*

  •  Instantiate(ParticleM, ParticleInstantiater.position, gameObject.transform.rotation);*

  • }*

  • public void ThrowLeftTop()*

  • {*

  •  Instantiate(ParticleLT, ParticleInstantiater.position, gameObject.transform.rotation);*

  • }*

  • public void ThrowLeftBottom()*

  • {*

  •  Instantiate(ParticleLB, ParticleInstantiater.position, gameObject.transform.rotation);*

  • }*
    }

I have no idea what I’ve done wrong, but the particles are not always instantiated at the ‘ParticleInstantiater’ position (The instantiater is immobile ). Instead, they have some sort of 50% chance to be instantiate BELOW the transform (and how low it is is also random). If I lower the game’s speed (Time.timeScale = 0.2f), then the chance to instantiate below the transform is lowered. I have tried using an array to instantiate the particles, but the result is the same. The build version doesn’t change this either.

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I fixed this problem, and the instantiater now instantiates the particles at the correct position all the time. All I had to do was to remove the instantiater from being a ‘child’ of the boss, though I still don’t understand why it would cause such a problem…