Instantiating a object in a certain position..

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Ok, well I have this really simple C# script and there is this one stupid litttle thing I can’t figure out, yes I have search the web. But I could not find any answers…

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Terrain : MonoBehaviour {

public Transform[] trees;
public Transform user;
public Transform terrain;

private bool getTerrain = true;
private bool terrainComplete = false;

void Update(){

	if(getTerrain == true)
	{
		Instantiate (terrain, transform.position, transform.rotation);
		Instantiate (user , transform.position , transform.rotation);
		getTerrain = false;	
		terrainComplete = true;
	}
  }
}

What I would like is that when the terrain is made, the user spawns. But I wanted it to be in the middle of the terrain, not the edge where the user just… fall off.

I have tried doing stuff like Vector3(50, 2, 50) but somehow, that does not work in C#. how else could I make the user spawn in the middle of the terrain. by the way, the terrain is positioned at 0, 1, 0.

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You could use the terrain collider.bounds.center to define the user position:

...
private float offset = 2.0f; // define the height the user will be spawned at

void Update(){
    if(getTerrain == true)
    {
       Transform terr = Instantiate (terrain, transform.position, transform.rotation);
       Vector3 pos = terr.collider.bounds.center + offset*Vector3.up;
       Instantiate (user, pos, transform.rotation);
       ...

Or even define the spawning point with Vector3, as you already tried (but place a new keyword in front of it):

void Update(){
    if(getTerrain == true)
    {
       Transform terr = Instantiate (terrain, transform.position, transform.rotation);
       Instantiate (user, new Vector3(50, 2, 50), transform.rotation);
       ...