My instantiated object won't appear at the parent position

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1

So I have a “home location” for the objects I want to instantiate. In the parent script, I have the below code:

Instantiate(ant,transform.position,Quaternion.identity);

When I write transform.position to the console it’s correctly returning the co-ordinates, e.g. -77.5,22.3,0.0 . But the child object always spawns in the middle of the screen. Why isn’t it spawning correctly at the given co-ordinates?

2

@MrTeddyBearr as the instances? with a lightning launch or spawned in front of the player, say more details in these cases, if it is with a lightning launch, use this

Vector3 nin= hit.collider.transform.position + hit.normal;

Instantiate (ant, nin, Quaternion.identity);

3

Sorry @MGUELfig189 let me expand a bit. So I’m first spawning a series of prefabs using the below:

//Get the boundaries
Vector2 screenDimenions = new Vector2(Screen.width,Screen.height);
Camera mainCam = Camera.main;
Vector2 worldBoundaries = mainCam.ScreenToWorldPoint(screenDimenions);
//Take off 20% to give a buffer
float x = worldBoundaries.x * 0.8f;
float y = worldBoundaries.y * 0.8f;

//Spawn starter colonies
spawnColonies(x,y);

Then:

private void spawnColonies(float x, float y){
    for(int i = 0; i < colonyCount; i++){            
        Vector2 colonyPos = new Vector2(Random.Range(-x,x),Random.Range(-y,y));
        Instantiate(colonyPrefab,colonyPos,Quaternion.identity);
    }
}

Now, the colony prefab has a script attached to it. What I want to do is spawn the ant prefabs at the colony position, so then within the colony script I’m calling the below code:

public void spawnAnts(GameObject ant){
    for(int i = 0; i < colony_size; i++){            
        Instantiate(ant,transform.position,Quaternion.identity);
    }
}

Now I expected the ants to spawn at the same position as the colony, but for some reason they just appear in the middle of the screen.