Place object relative to player location

[RickyCharles]

Firstly I’d just like to say that this community so far has been invaluable to me!

Secondly the question, I’m trying to place an object (at the moment a cube) into the world via a keypress. I know the key press is all functional and everything, and I can place the object fine. I’m just not sure how to transform the object location to say 4 blocks infront of the player. I’ve been reading the transform.position help and to be honest I’m just not sure how to apply it.

Just to give as much info as I can, the script for this key input is on the player object which is called surprisingly “player”. At the moment the cube is placed directly on top of the player. I can see that you can create objects at certain locations but I’m just not sure how to get the player’s location, store that as a variable, then do object location = player.x + 4 in a sense.

Thanks!

	private string message = "";
	 public Transform building;
 
void Update()
{
 if (Input.GetKeyDown("h")) // You must use 'Input' only at the 'Update' functions
 {
    if(variablesResources.GetWood() >= 3)
    {
      message = "YOU BUILT A HOUSE";
      variablesResources.SetWood(-3);

		Invoke("HideMessage", 3);
		var house = Instantiate(building, transform.position, transform.rotation);  
    }
    else
    {
         message = "YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH WOOD";
						Invoke("HideMessage", 3);

    }
  }
}
	void HideMessage()
	{
		message = "";
	}

void OnGUI() // Is not static and you should not be making it so
{
    GUI.Label(new Rect(50, 50, 300, 20), message);
    
	}
}

[whebert]

var is valid C#, since C# 3.0 I think.

Anyway, if you always want to instantiate the object some distance in front of your current location, this would do the trick (using 4 as distance).

float distance = 4.0f;
		
Instantiate(building, transform.position + transform.forward*distance, transform.rotation);