How do I spawn an array of prefab clones as children of an object?

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I'm currently using the following to spawn the "spawnClone" prefabs where they need to be and it is doing that just fine, however, I need them parented to "spawnLocations" and am unsure as to how.

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class Structure_Spawner : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public Transform[] spawnLocations;
     public GameObject[] spawnPrefab;
     public GameObject[] spawnClone;
 
 
     void Start(){
         spawnSomething();
     }
 
     void spawnSomething(){
         spawnClone[0] = Instantiate(spawnPrefab[0], spawnLocations[0].transform.position, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0)) as GameObject;
         spawnClone[1] = Instantiate(spawnPrefab[1], spawnLocations[1].transform.position, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0)) as GameObject;
         spawnClone[2] = Instantiate(spawnPrefab[2], spawnLocations[2].transform.position, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0)) as GameObject;
         spawnClone[3] = Instantiate(spawnPrefab[3], spawnLocations[3].transform.position, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0)) as GameObject;
         spawnClone[4] = Instantiate(spawnPrefab[4], spawnLocations[4].transform.position, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0)) as GameObject;
         spawnClone[5] = Instantiate(spawnPrefab[5], spawnLocations[5].transform.position, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0)) as GameObject;
         spawnClone[6] = Instantiate(spawnPrefab[6], spawnLocations[6].transform.position, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0)) as GameObject;
         spawnClone[7] = Instantiate(spawnPrefab[7], spawnLocations[7].transform.position, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0)) as GameObject;
     }
 
 }

Answer 1

@jordaneden

This is a simple system that does what you are looking for but using Lists instead of Arrays (more efficient)

I am sorry that I missed that.

See my updated code below

 using UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 
 public class Structure_Spawner : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public int numberOfItemsToSpawn = 7; // modifiable in the inspector
     public List<Transform> spawnLocations = new List<Transform>();
     public List<GameObject> spawnPrefab = new List<GameObject>();
     public List<GameObject> spawnClone = new List<GameObject>();
 
     void Start()
     {
         for (int i = 0; i < numberOfItemsToSpawn; i++)
         {
             if ((i < spawnPrefab.Count) && (spawnPrefab[i] != null) &&
                 (i < spawnLocations.Count) && (spawnLocations[i] != null))
             {
                 if (spawnLocations[i].parent != null)
                 {
                     // this line spawns a prefab a an objects position
                     spawnClone[i] = Instantiate(spawnPrefab[i], spawnLocations[i].parent.position, Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0)) as GameObject;
 
                     // this line makes the spawned prefab a child of the parent the prefab was spawned from
                     spawnClone[i].transform.SetParent(spawnLocations[i].parent, false);
                 }
             }
             else // this can else block can be removed
             {
                 if (i >= spawnPrefab.Count)
                     Debug.Log("spawnPrefab.Count = " + spawnPrefab.Count + " - Trying to spawn item number " + (i + 1)); // i is zero based
                 else if (spawnPrefab[i] == null)
                     Debug.Log("spawnPrefab[" + i "] is null";
 
                 if (i >= spawnLocations.Count)
                     Debug.Log("spawnLocations.Count = " + spawnLocations.Count + " - Trying to spawn item number " + (i + 1)); // i is zero based
                 else if (spawnLocations[i] == null)
                     Debug.Log("spawnLocations[" + i "] is null";
             }
         }
     }
 }

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