Unity - Prefab with Sub-Elements Expansion Button Missing in Project Panel - unity3d

I have been following along with a course. In this course a GameObject called "Path (0)" is added, this GameObject then has three sub-GameObjects ("Waypoint (0/1/2)"). In the tutorial, the guy drags the parent GameObject "Path (0)" into a folder called Paths in the Project panel to create a prefab. This prefab is shown with a handle to expand it. He then expands this prefab to see the sub-elements which can be dragged into the Inspector, as shown below (expand button highlighted with red box)
When I perform these operations, the Project panel does not have an expand button on the "Path" prefab (see below)
Why does my prefab object in the Project panel not have these expansion buttons?
Basically, what he does is he creates a script component with enemy prefab.(attached bellow). and the childobject "waypoints" are marks in scene where enemy will move. I uploaded a part of tutorial on youtube, which i will delete once the problem is solved. if youtube dosent delete it. Please help i am half through the tutorial.
https://youtu.be/NGpaHSmktic
public class EnemyPathing : MonoBehaviour {
[SerializeField] List waypoints;
[SerializeField] float moveSpeed = 2f;
int waypointIndex = 0;
void Start()
{
transform.position = waypoints[waypointIndex].transform.position;
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
Move();
}
private void Move()
{
if (waypointIndex < -waypoints.Count - 1)
{
var targetPosition = waypoints[waypointIndex].transform.position; // this is where we go to
var movementThisFrame = moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime; // this is how fast we want to go to
transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, targetPosition, movementThisFrame);
if (transform.position == targetPosition)
{
waypointIndex++;
}
}
else
{
Destroy(gameObject);
}
}

It must be because you don't have the same unity version.
Simply double click on Path0 and it will open it. In the Hierarchy tab, you will see the asset and its elements.
If you drag back Path0 to the scene, its children will appear too.
It's because you're not supposed to drag a child asset away from its parent.
I don't know how it is used in your tutorial, but if needed, you can make a child prefab too by dragging it to the folder (After double clicking on Path0).
Edit :
I don't really know what you can do to have the exact same situation, but here is another way :
-create a tag 'waypoint' and set this tag for Waypoint0, Waypoint1 and Waypoint2 (in your asset, or before creating it).
-In the Start method of your EnemyPathing.cs add this :
this.waypoints = new List<Transform>();
foreach(GameObject g in GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("waypoint"))
{
waypoints.Add(g.transform);
}
So, it will automatically add your waypoints, even if you have more or less than 3 in your scene.

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Teleporting in Unity3d

enter image description here I am instantiating prefabs and listing them on a scroll list. I am trying to teleport the player to instantiated prefab position when I click its reference on scroll list listing?
All suggestions are welcome.
From what I understand about your problem (explained in the comments rather than the question), you should be able to do this:
You can instantaneously move an object camera by setting its transform's position to the instantiated prefab's position when the click has occurred. For a camera, you probably have the camera view in X and Y dimension, so you want to move it to the new X and Y position but leave the Z-position as it is.
One potential solution: Add the following script to the GameObject with your Button component. Then add an event-listener on the Button component that points to the newly added script component and choose the MyTeleportingButton.OnClick as the target method. You also need to drag in the camera as a reference in the new script component.
public class MyTeleportingButton : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject camera;
public void OnClick()
{
// casting to Vector2 in order to move in 2D only
var currentPosition = camera.transform.position;
var newPosition = transform.position;
// set same depth as camera
newPosition.z = currentPosition.z;
camera.transform.position = newPosition;
}
}

GameObject (Prefab object ) created by script does not appear in Game View but appears in Scene View in Unity3d

I created a pin object by script attached it to a sphere object .
using UnityEngine;
public class InstantiateMarkerPin : MonoBehaviour
{
public float Xpos;
public float Ypos;
public float Zpos;
public GameObject gameObjectPinInstantiate;
// Start is called before the first frame update
private void Start()
{
Xpos = 0.09f;
Ypos = 0.50f;
Zpos = 1.1f;
//The original object, where to instantiate, and the orientation of the new object
GameObject marker = (GameObject)Resources.Load("gameObjectPin");
Vector3 location = new Vector3(Xpos, Ypos, Zpos);
Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);
//The object the script is attached to
GameObject world = this.gameObject;
//Instantiate the prefab
gameObjectPinInstantiate = Instantiate(marker, location, rotation, world.transform);
Debug.Log("InstantiateMarkerPin class : Marker Location 2 :X, Y, Z : " + gameObjectPinInstantiate.transform.position);
}
// Update is called once per frame
private void Update()
{
}
}
This script is attached to the sphere Object .My sphere Object have shader material of earth image (globe).
This Instantiated Prefabs (gameObjectPin) on sphere surface appears on scene but not on game screen ,When I select the camera object in the camera preview also this object does not appear .
Scene view
Scene View when camera is selected
I am new to Unity what should I check or correct to appear my created object on the sphere
basically I am trying to add pins to corresponding country and label it .Similar to the globe on this http://kitsdmcc.com/news
Gameobject is created when Play is clicked on the sphere object
When the Pin Object is selected on play mode
Oh now I see it! What you did was only setting its GIZMO via this menu
which is only displayed in the SceneView.
This has nothing to do with the rendering in the GameView but is just a way for easier seeing and finding certain types of objects in the SceneView since usually they would be invisible if not selected.
From the Glossary:
A graphic overlay associated with a GameObject
in a Scene
, and displayed in the Scene View
. Built-in scene
tools such as the move tool are Gizmos
, and you can create custom Gizmos using textures or scripting. Some Gizmos are only drawn when the GameObject is selected, while other Gizmos are drawn by the Editor regardless of which GameObjects
are selected.
As noted in the comments there is no Component at all on your GameObject so nothing is rendered in the Gameview.
Of course now you could enable Gizmos also for the GameView via the Gizmos toggle
but I guess what you rather are trying to achieve is rather rendering that icon in the final App.
You probably would like to use e.g. the SpriteRenderer component here. And simply drag in your Icon to the Sprite property.
You might have to change the Pin Texture's TextureType to Sprite (2D and UI).
In general I would also recommend to Create a Prefab instead of using the Resources folder here.
There are also some changes I would do to your code in general:
public class InstantiateMarkerPin : MonoBehaviour
{
[Header("Settings")]
// directly use a Vector3 for setting the values
// | default value for this field
// | (only valid until changed via Inspector!)
// v
public Vector3 TargetPosition = new Vector3(0.09f, 0.5f, 1.1f);
// Instead of using Resources simply reference the
// created Prefab here
public GameObject gameObjectPinPrefab;
[Header("Outputs")]
public GameObject gameObjectPinInstantiate;
private void Start()
{
// Careful this currently ovewrites any value set via the
// Inspector. Later you will probably want to remove this.
TargetPosition = new Vector3(0.09f, 0.5f, 1.1f);
//As said I would rather use a prefab here and simply reference it above in the field
//gameObjectPinPrefab = (GameObject)Resources.Load("gameObjectPin");
//Instantiate the prefab
gameObjectPinInstantiate = Instantiate(gameObjectPinPrefab, TargetPosition, Quaternion.identity, transform);
Debug.Log("InstantiateMarkerPin class : Marker Location 2 :X, Y, Z : " + gameObjectPinInstantiate.transform.position);
}
// Always remove empty Unity methods
// They are called as messages if they exist
// and only cause unnecessary overhead
}

Unity2D: play instantiated prefab's animation when prefab is being dragged

I have a prefab that is instantiated when the user buys the item from my In-game store, how ever many is instantiated, the all of prefab has a start position of a certain position. The prefab can be dragged around the scene using this TouchScript package I found online! My issue: I want to play the prefab's animation every time the user is dragging the prefab around the screen, I attempted this by creating a RaycastHit2D function that would allow me to detect if the user has clicked on the prefab's collider, script below:
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0)) {
Vector2 worldPoint = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint (Input.mousePosition);
RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast (worldPoint, Vector2.zero);
if (hit.collider != null) {
if (this.gameObject.name == "Item5 (1)(Clone)" +item5Increase.i) {
monkeyAnim.SetBool ("draging", true);
Debug.Log (hit.collider.name);
}
} else {
monkeyAnim.SetBool ("draging", false);
}
}
However if I were to buy more than one prefab, all instantiated prefabs will play it's animation when I start to drag only one of the instantiated prefabs, hope I'm making sense. Can some one help me? Thank you!
I faced a similar issue with platforms in my 2D game. The solution I would suggest is to create a GameObject that acts as the current item you wish to animate, and a LayerMask that acts as a filter for which objects your raycast can hit. You can use this LayerMask in conjunction with the Physics2D.Raycast API, which has an overload method that takes a LayerMask as a parameter.
Start by creating a new layer, which can be done by going to the top right of an object in your scene and accessing the "Layer" box. Once you've created a new layer (I called mine "item"), make sure your prefab's layer is assigned correctly.
Then, create an empty object in your scene, and attach this script to it. On that object you will see a dropdown menu that asks which layers your raycast should hit. Assign it the "item" layer; this ensures that your raycast can only hit objects in that layer, so clicking on anything else in your game will produce no effect.
using UnityEngine;
public class ItemAnimation : MonoBehaviour
{
private GameObject itemToAnimate;
private Animator itemAnim;
[SerializeField]
private LayerMask itemMask;
private void Update()
{
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
CheckItemAnimations();
}
else if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0) && itemToAnimate != null) //reset the GameObject once the user is no longer holding down the mouse
{
itemAnim.SetBool("draging", false);
itemToAnimate = null;
}
}
private void CheckItemAnimations()
{
Vector2 worldPoint = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(worldPoint, Vector2.zero, 1, itemMask);
if (hit) //if the raycast hit an object in the "item" layer
{
itemToAnimate = hit.collider.gameObject;
itemAnim = itemToAnimate.GetComponent<Animator>();
itemAnim.SetBool("draging", true);
Debug.Log(itemToAnimate.name);
}
else //the raycast didn't make contact with an item
{
return;
}
}
}

Unity2D: currentSelectedGameObject panel disabled

Okay, so I have a click to move game and a panel in which I do not want my player to move towards. However the panel is disabled at first (for an effect I'm doing) until the user clicks on a button to SetActive the panel. I used currentSelectedGameObject to block my player going to towards the panel but it isn't working, maybe because the panel was disabled in the first place, I not sure just spitting out ideas. Hopeful someone can help me.
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
public GameObject currentSelectedGameObject;
public void Update () {
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0)) {
if (EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject)
return;
Vector3 mousePosition = Input.mousePosition;
mousePosition.z = 10; // distance from the camera
target = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint (mousePosition);
target.z = transform.position.z;
}
transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards (transform.position, target, speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
}
Thank you. :)
Use the button to setactive the panel and if not , you are not using the public GameObject currentSelectedGameObject variable in your code , do this :
if (EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject == currentSelectedGameObject) // now this is your variable that you declared being used in the if statement
I cant remember correctly but mb its like this EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject.name

Drag and Drop between 2 gameObjects

I have 2 Spheres in my scene. I want to be able to drag and drop my mouse from one sphere to the other, and have an indicator (a straight line for example) while dragging. After releasing the mouse button, I want to store in the first sphere the other sphere (as GameObject).
I need this in UnityScript, but I can accept C# ideas.
So far I have thought about onMouseDown event on the first Sphere, and then onMouseEnter to the other sphere, I'll store the data in some global variable (which I donno how to do yet) and in case of onMouseExit I'll just put the global variable as null.
Then onMouseUp on the first Sphere I'll store the global variable in the pressed object (the sphere).
Any tips and tricks on how to do it?
Assumptions/Setup
You're working in a 2D worldspace; the logic for dragging the object for this part of the solution would need changing.
Setting parent after click drag, referred to setting the object you didn't click to be the child of the parent you did click on.
The camera should be an orthographic camera; using a perspective camera will cause the dragging to not align with where you think it should be.
In order to make the dragging work, I created a quad that was used as the 'background' to the 2D scene, and put that on a new layer called 'background'. Then setup the layermask field to only use the background layer.
Create and setup a material for the line renderer, (I'm using a Particles/Additive shader for the above example), and for the parameters of the line renderer I'm using Start Width: 0.75, End Width: 0, and make sure Use World Space is ticked.
Explanation
Firstly setup the otherSphere field to be pointing to the other sphere in the scene. OnMouseDown and OnMouseUp toggle the mouseDown bool, that is used to determine if the line renderer should be updated. These are also used to turn on/off the line renderer, and set/remove the parent transform of the two spheres.
To get the position to be dragged to, I'm getting a ray based off of the mouse position on screen, using the method ScreenPointToRay. If you wanted to create add smoothing to this drag functionality, you should enable the if (...) else statement at the bottom, and set the lerpTime to a value (0.25 worked well for me).
Note; when you release the mouse, the parent is immediately set, as such both objects end up getting dragged, but the child will return to it's former position anyway.
[RequireComponent(typeof(LineRenderer))]
public class ConnectedSphere : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField]
private Transform m_otherSphere;
[SerializeField]
private float m_lerpTime;
[SerializeField]
private LayerMask m_layerMask;
private LineRenderer m_lineRenderer;
private bool m_mouseDown;
private Vector3 m_position;
private RaycastHit m_hit;
public void Start()
{
m_lineRenderer = GetComponent<LineRenderer>();
m_lineRenderer.enabled = false;
m_position = transform.position;
}
public void OnMouseDown()
{
//Un-parent objects
transform.parent = null;
m_otherSphere.parent = null;
m_mouseDown = true;
m_lineRenderer.enabled = true;
}
public void OnMouseUp()
{
//Parent other object
m_otherSphere.parent = transform;
m_mouseDown = false;
m_lineRenderer.enabled = false;
}
public void Update()
{
//Update line renderer and target position whilst mouse down
if (m_mouseDown)
{
//Set line renderer
m_lineRenderer.SetPosition(0, transform.position);
m_lineRenderer.SetPosition(1, m_otherSphere.position);
//Get mouse world position
if (Physics.Raycast(Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition), out m_hit, m_layerMask))
{
m_position.x = m_hit.point.x;
m_position.y = m_hit.point.y;
}
}
//Set position (2D world space)
//if (m_lerpTime == 0f)
transform.position = m_position;
//else
//transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, m_position, Time.deltaTime / m_lerpTime);
}
}
Hope this helped someone.