Instantiated Prefab's GameObjects not all showing in Game.

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This code below instantiates a prefab that has a sprite, with a 2D light as a child. In the editor, when I manually drag in one of these prefabs, everything works fine. But when the prefab is spawned via code in-game, the prefab is spawned, as confirmed by a Debug.Log, but only the child light is visible, not the parent sprite.

In the image below, the left is when I drag in a prefab. On the Right is the light working, but the sprite not visible. I was thinking this issue might be layers/sorting, but If it all works when dragging it in, would that mean the issue lays elsewhere?

Any help is appreciated!

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private void PlayerShoot()
    {
        GameObject  ChosenMuzzleFlash = muzzleFlashArray[Random.Range(0, muzzleFlashArray.Length)];
    
        Quaternion newRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(muzzleFlashPoint.transform.position, Vector3.up);
        var muzzleFlashInstance = Instantiate(ChosenMuzzleFlash, muzzleFlashPoint.transform.position, newRotation);
        Debug.Log("Terst" + muzzleFlashInstance.name);
    }

Did you open the inspector and try finding the instantiated object? Check for attributes like the scale and make sure that they are correct.

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The sprite could be hiden by something indeed. Create a new Vector for your position with a bigger z

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Thanks for the comments, after checking into the inspector, I found that everything was set to 0 on the Z for the position. After changing the Z to 1, I was able to see sprite in game!

I was able to simplify code as well;

private void PlayerShoot()
{
        GameObject  ChosenMuzzleFlash = muzzleFlashArray[Random.Range(0, 
        muzzleFlashArray.Length)];
        muzzleFlashInstance = Instantiate(ChosenMuzzleFlash, muzzleFlashPoint.transform.position, 
        muzzleFlashPoint.transform.rotation);
}