Destroy Object and Instansiate it in the middle of Canvas

Question

I have a character that I can drag and drop around the canvas.

If you drag it onto a square, it dissappears.

All of that works well, however I want to Instansiate a clone of that character in the middle of the canvas again once it has been destroyed.

My code to do that so far is;

var clone = Instantiate(gameObject, startPosition, Quaternion.identity);
iTween.ScaleTo(gameObject, new Vector3(0, 0, 0), 2f);
Destroy(gameObject, 3f);

However the object is being cloned I think but I can't see it, and I also have no idea where it is.

Any advice?

you should be able to find it in the scene view and then be able to work out why you cant see it — BugFinder, Feb 24 '20 at 12:15
You are scaling to 0, isn't it? If you scale something to 0, is so little that you can't see it! — Lotan, Feb 24 '20 at 12:19
@BugFinder Thanks, that helps a lot. So it turns out its not Instantiating inside the canvas, which I fixed, but now its absolutely huge. Do you have any idea why that is? The original character is 400x400, when it gets cloned its 1000x1000 — Chud37, Feb 24 '20 at 12:26
Also, you need to look into the anchoring and size delta of your new object. — Everts, Feb 24 '20 at 12:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '20 at 12:29

UI objects have to be somewhere nested under a Canvas .. if you use Instantiate without passing any parent the GameObject is instantiated on root level without any parent => Your UI stays invisible.

Either pass it already to Instantiate

var clone = Instantiate(gameObject, startPosition, Quaternion.identity, parentWithinCanvas.transform);

directly set transform.parent

clone.transform.parent = parentWithinCanvas.transform;

or use transform.SetParent

clone.transform.SetParent(parentWithinCanvas.transform, false);

where the last parameter decides whether the object should keeps its current position in the world or not.

Destroy Object and Instansiate it in the middle of Canvas

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