Why wont my script instantiate multiple instances?

Questions & Answers
1

I’m trying to make a script that instantiates a slot prefab into a UI Panel multiple times. After instantiated, the slots need to be given a parent.
This is a snippet of my code:

function createInventory () {

	for (var i: int = 0; i < 10; i++) {
		var Clone = Instantiate(slotObject, inventoryParent.transform.position, inventoryParent.transform.rotation);
		Clone.transform.parent = inventoryParent.transform;
	}
}

It only seems to be instantiating one slot at the moment. What can I do to fix this? Thanks in advance!

2

Hi,

First I think you don’t need to set the same position and rotation as inventoryParent to Clone because Clone is a child of inventoryParent.

 for (var i: int = 0; i < 10; i++) {
     var Clone = Instantiate(slotObject);
     Clone.transform.SetParent(inventoryParent.transform, false);
 }

Have you added a Layout Group to inventoryParent ? If no, maybe your Clones are all at the same position and rotation. Try a VerticalLayoutGroup for example :wink:
And if your Clones size shrinks to 0, add a Layout Element to your prefab to define a min and max size.