Question about Instantiate

[Morphosys]

Hello and thanks for stopping by, here’s my scene starting point :

I’m trying to instantiate prefabs in my scene and make them spawn around the initial prefab
(the square in the image).

I’ve got a somewhat working code that does instantiate the prefab under it, and I now know how to make it spawn around. The problem is that it’s not scalable : I would have to write in my code the position of each prefab…

Any ideas on how to do that ?
Thanks for reading.

(Here’s my current code) :

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Spawning : MonoBehaviour {

    public GameObject Tile;

    [SerializeField] private int TotalTilesSpawned = 0;
    [SerializeField] private float xAxis = 0f;
    [SerializeField] private float yAxis = - 2f;

    void Update(){

        if (Input.GetKeyDown("s")){
         Instantiate(Tile, new Vector2 (xAxis, yAxis), transform.rotation);
         TotalTilesSpawned += 1;
         yAxis -= 2;}

    }

}

[Mrnoobik]

You can do this:

public List <Vector2> positions = new List<Vector2>();

And then in Update():

Instantiate(Tile, new Vector2 (xAxis, yAxis), transform.rotation);
positions.Add (new Vector2(xAxis, yAxis));

Hope this helps you.

[Morphosys]

Thanks for answering !
Your solution helps keeping track of the positions of each instantiated tile
but doesn’t solve my initial problem : how can I make them spawn all around the first tile in an infinite number without having to write it’s coordinates for each tile ?
Example :
Here’s the scene when starting :

And here’s the scene after some tiles got spawned :

Please excuse my lack of photoshop skills ^^

Thanks for the help !