Trouble with spawning an object

Unity Engine
1

I’m trying to figure out the best way to do the following:

I have an object in the scene. When the user clicks on this object, I want it to spawn another object (a cube) somewhere else in the screen.

So far, I can get the cube to spawn within the clickable object itself with the following code:

var cube = GameObject.Find("OrangeCube");

function OnMouseDown () {
 
Instantiate(cube, transform.position, transform.rotation);
}

Can anyone help? I understand it involves creating a Gizmo (which I was able to do), but I’m not sure how to link the two, or write the code that says “spawn the cube where the gizmo is”

Thanks in advance!

2

With the code you posted you are spawning the object at exactly the same position and rotation of the object you click on. No need to create a Gizmo or anything like that. Just give the Instantiate function a position and rotation of where you want it to spawn.

var cube = GameObject.Find("OrangeCube"); 

function OnMouseDown () 
{   
   var distance = 5.0;
   var randPos : Vector3 =  Random.onUnitSphere + transform.position * distance;
   Instantiate(cube, randPos,   Random.rotation); 
}

The code above will spawn your cube a distance of 5 units from the gameObject you have this script attached to in a random direction.

3

Thankyou! That’s so much easier to handle than what I thought I had to do.

I’ve been playing around with the code to try and get it to spawn in a specific location. For example, higher on the y-axis.

My code is as follows:

var startingPoints: Vector3; 
startingPoints = Vector3(transform.position.x,transform.position.y,transform.position.z);
var cube = GameObject.Find("OrangeCube");

function OnMouseDown ()
{   
   var distance = 1.2;
   transform.position.y = transform.position.y + distance; 
	Instantiate(cube, startingPoints,   transform.rotation);


}

What that code does, is move the object I’m clicking on up the y-axis.

What I was aiming to do, was take the original co-ordinates of the clickable object, increase the ‘y’ co-ordinate and place my cube in that new position.

Sorry if it’s a really obvious thing to do - coding really isn’t my strongest asset!
Thanks again.

4

quick monday morning bump :smile:

5

Try this :

var distanceIncrement : Vector3 = Vector3 (0, 1.2, 0);
var cube : GameObject = GameObject.Find("OrangeCube");

function OnMouseDown () {   
	Instantiate(cube, transform.position + distanceIncrement,   transform.rotation);
}
6

Thanks! I can get that working much better now.