Instantiating prefab on a tile

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Hello,
I am having a bit of trouble instantiating a prefab on a tile cell position.
I am working on a farming game and i want to instantiate a plant prefab on the field tile the Player is standing on.
I tried to parent the grid while instantiating but that just spawns the plant right under the player.
I want it to snap to the middle of the cell.
Here is my code :

void Update()
    {
        if(Input.GetButtonDown("Interact") && tilemap.GetTile(tilemap.WorldToCell(transform.position)).name.Contains("GrassTile"))
        {
            tilemap.SetTile(tilemap.WorldToCell(gameObject.transform.position), FieldTile);
        }
        else if(Input.GetButtonDown("Interact") && tilemap.GetTile(tilemap.WorldToCell(transform.position)).name.Contains("FieldTile"))
        {
            Instantiate(Plant, transform.position, Quaternion.identity, grid);
        }
    }

Im sure there must be a simple solution to this that im not finding.

2

The second parameter to Instantiate is the position. You’re passing transform.position; I’m guessing this script is on the player, so that would put it at the player position. If you want it at the position of the grid object instead, use grid.transform.position.

3

Thanks,
but that instantiates the prefab on the pivot point of the grid game object instead of the tile.
I use this code now which works fine for me.

spawnPoint = tilemap.GetCellCenterWorld(tilemap.WorldToCell(transform.position));
            Instantiate(Moonfruit, spawnPoint, Quaternion.identity, grid);
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