Text anchors to top left.

Unity Engine
1

I’m having a little problem. I have an array of cubes that act as spawn positions and a prefab that includes text anchored to the top left. I want to be able to instaniate the text prefab at every cube in the array. Yet when I do this the text is anchored to the top left.

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This is my script:

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

public class ObjectSpawn : MonoBehaviour {

    public GameObject textPrefab;

    public Transform[] spawnPos;
    
    int count;

    void Update ()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < spawnPos.Length; i++)
        {
            TextCreate ();
            count += 1;   
        }

    }

    void TextCreate ()
    {
        Instantiate (textPrefab, spawnPos[count]);
    }

}

This make the text a child of the spawn positions, while still being anchored to the top left. How would I make the text position the same as the spawn position?

For extra info, the prefab is this:

vTextPrefab
    vCanvas
        Text
   EventSystem

Hopefully this makes sense!
Thanks,
Dream.

2

I had an idea. Would it be possible to remove anchoring from the the text, so it could move freely?

3

If the text is meant to go “above” the game object in the world, you could use a world space canvas or you can set it up so the text is displayed in the screenspace (or viewport) area.
Is that what you’re looking for/thinking of?

4

That would work fine, but the idea I had would be to set the TextPrefabs X, Y and Z position to the same as the empty spawn position’s X, Y and Z position.

Although your idea sound like the best, so I will try it.
Thanks,
Dream

5

Well, they were 2 ideas. One sounded like what you were maybe trying to do already. Not sure if you were using a world canvas and was it setup correctly?

The other idea was something I’ve tried before and it works pretty well.

Hopefully you get it working. :slight_smile:

6

I’ve got it working, but with a few problems. One the text is very pixelated and blurry, two when the scripts spawn the text, the text is at least 4/5 grids in front of the spawn position.

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For clarification, the green box is the spawn position (theres 5 of them, hence the 5 texts) and as shown they are way in front of the spawn positions.

EDIT: the text is normal in the scene view, it’s only blurry in the game view.

Dream

7

Well, got it working with what method? :slight_smile:

8

Setting the canvas to ‘World Space’ adding text and making that a prefab. I scaled the text down beacuse it was very large which could have caused the pixel effect.

9

Found the problem!
The TextPrefabs ‘Z’ position was 6, so it was 6 grids in front of the spawn position.

Thanks methos5k for the help! :smile:
Dream

10

Great, glad you worked it out :slight_smile: