Instantiating a game object at mouse position?

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Hello there,
So, I’m making a 2D puzzle platformer game in Unity3D, and I wanted to instantiate an object at the current mouse position. The player would move the mouse to the desired position and then press and hold a button -in my case it’s the ‘C’ button- to instantiate the object. Here’s my code:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class RainAdd : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject cloud;
    Vector3 mousePos;
    int x = 1;

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        mousePos = Input.mousePosition;

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.C))
        {
            while (x != 0)
            {
                Instantiate(cloud, mousePos, Quaternion.identity);
                x = 0;
            }
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.C))
        {
            Destroy(GameObject.Find("Cloud(Clone)"));
            x = 1;
        }
    }
}

The problem is this: The object does get instantiated but it’s not visible neither in the scene view nor in the game view, and I have tested this code with various other positions, and every time it works fine, except with the mouse position. Any idea why?
Thanks in advance!

2

See the example for Input.mousePosition. You need to convert the mouse position from screen space to world space somewhere in front of the camera.