koobas.hobune.stream
Instantiating Button/Text Prefab Does Not Work
Hello, I am quite new to Unity and so this may seem quite simple, but I've been stuck on this problem for a while. I want the user of my app to be able to create text and buttons during runtime. I am trying to instantiate the text and button prefabs, but it will not work/show. I've tried instantiating simple things like a basic sphere and it appeared perfectly on the world space. I've read in several threads that I need to set the parent of the prefab to the canvas, which I am trying, but that does not seem to work. Here is a snippet of my code. Ignore the _quad, that is necessary for the prefab positioning. If I accidentally stripped too much code, and you feel there is more details needed, please let me know.
public Text TextPrefab;
public Canvas ControlCanvas;
public void InstantiateTextPrefab()
{
Vector3 SurfacePoint = eventData.pointerCurrentRaycast.worldPosition;
Canvas newCanvas = Instantiate<Canvas>(ControlCanvas);
Text newText = Instantiate(TextPrefab, _quad.OffsetForDrawing(SurfacePoint), Quaternion.identity) as Text;
newText.transform.SetParent(ControlCanvas.transform, false);
}
I think I've found the reason for the bug: I'm getting an ArgumentException: The Object you want to instantiate is null. What I can't figure out is why I'm getting that exception. I've dragged the Text Prefab and Canvas Prefab into their respective positions in the inspector view of the script, and the Prefabs definitely do exist.
