Is there a way to get the transform of an Object (not GameObject)

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I am instantiating an object, and I need the instantiated object’s transform. Problem is, the instantiated object is an Object, not a GameObject - so I cant seem to access its transform. So I tried to type cast it using player = (GameObject)Instantiate… but it says its an invalid cast.

How can I get the transform of my instantiated object??’

Thanks very much.

This is my spawn script:

	private GameObject player; // reference to instantiated player
	private Transform playersTransform;
	private Camera camera; //referemce to camera.
	private CameraControllercs target;

void SpawnBlueTeamPlayer()						//find BLUE spawn points and put them into an array.
	{
		blueSpawnPoints = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("SpawnBlueTeam");
		
														//randomly select one of the spawn points
		
		GameObject randomBlueSpawn = blueSpawnPoints[Random.Range(0, blueSpawnPoints.Length)];
		
														//Instantiate player at the randomly selected point.
		player = (GameObject)Network.Instantiate(blueTeamPlayer, randomBlueSpawn.transform.position, randomBlueSpawn.transform.rotation, blueTeamGroup);
		
		playersTransform = player.transform;
		camera = Camera.main;
		target = camera.GetComponent<CameraControllercs>();
		target.target = player.transform;
	}

Target goes to my camera script which sets the target of my camera.

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Depends on what “blueTeamPlayer” actually is. Lets assume it is some sort of MonoBehaviour. Then your code would be:

MonoBehaviour playerBehaviour = (MonoBehaviour) Network.Instantiate(blueTeamPlayer, randomBlueSpawn.transform.position, randomBlueSpawn.transform.rotation, blueTeamGroup);
player = playerBehaviour.gameObject;

Think of Instantiate as a smart ‘Clone()’ method. Therefore Instantiate(…) always returns the same object type as the prefab you pass in. The returned object will be a deep-clone, and will come with a new game-object.