Making prefab as children of...

Unity Engine
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Hey guys! I’m working on card game, and I totally lost my mind with prefab. The code bellow works, but makes CardPrefab independant object. I want it to be child of let’s say Hand GameObject, because I want to store cards in hand :slight_smile:

Any idea how to fix it? I went through some threads where this was already asked, but it didn’t work for me… I must be doing something wrong.

public class MakeMeACard : MonoBehaviour {

public Transform CardPrefab;

void Start () {
Instantiate(CardPrefab, new Vector3(400, -85, 4), Quaternion.identity);
Debug.Log(“Card made!”);
}
}

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public class MakeMeACard : MonoBehaviour {

public Transform CardPrefab;
public Transform HandGo;

void Start () {
GameObject go = Instantiate(CardPrefab, new Vector3(400, -85, 4), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
go.parent = HandGo;
Debug.Log("Card made!");

}
}

obviously youll need to link the transform of HandGo to your parent object

3

Attach the transform of the instantiated object as a child of the hand object.

public class MakeMeACard : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform hand;
    public GameObject cardPrefab;

    private void Start ()
    {
        GameObject newCard = Instantiate(cardPrefab, new Vector3(400, -85, 4), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
        newCard.transform.SetParent(hand, true);
        Debug.Log("Card made!");
    }
}
4

How do I correctly “link” the transform to parent object?
This must be what I’m doing wrong…

5

Just use the code @ThermalFusion gave you, which should work fine. Instead of hand, put your Hand object reference, or drag Hand object into hand property from the MakeMeACard object in unity editor

6

It works!! :smile:
Thanks guys. I just needed to change your boolean in transform.SetParent to false from true and it works perfectly :slight_smile:

7

When using a function which you are not familiar with, please check the documentation so you can be 100% that you do or don’t need that “false”