Unity3D Instantiating as GameObject

Question

My code look like that:
if (Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire2")) {
        GameObject transparent = Instantiate (building, new Vector3 (0, -10,0), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;
}
Where building is public GameObject which I add through unity Inpsector. After using right click GameObject is instantiated, but transparent variable has null instead of the instantiated GameObject. If I change type of transparent to Object and I remove 'as GameObject' cast, everything works good.

Ok, I find out what was wrong. My building wasn't GameObject, it was Building (class which inherits MonoBehaviour, so have gameobject in itself). Now I instantiate building.gameobject and everything is ok.

is building in your prefabs folder? Did you add building to your script? — Burak Karasoy, Nov 14 '15 at 17:22
I said building appears in game view, but transparent gets null as a value instead of reference to the spawned gameobject. Building is in the prefab folder and added to script in inspector. — Konrad, Nov 14 '15 at 17:39
Problem is that Instantiate don't want to return other type than Object even with casting to GameObject or Transform. — Konrad, Nov 14 '15 at 17:40
try `GameObject transparent=((Transform) Instantiate(stuff)).gameObject;` — Marc Guiselin, Nov 14 '15 at 18:03
Everything is OK now? Congratulations! But I think maybe post an answer to tells other that you found the solution is better than edit your question :) — Remi Guan, Nov 15 '15 at 06:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '15 at 13:33

It turned out that I initiated 'building' as a Building class (Building is my own class and inherits MonoBehaviour), not as a GameObject so unity had problem to put Building into GameObject. It's looks like that now:

if (Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire2")) {
    GameObject transparent = Instantiate (building.gameobject, new Vector3 (0, -10,0), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject;

}

Unity3D Instantiating as GameObject

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