Question 2D Instantiated Obj is unlit in Game view window (global lighting is on)

Resolved: For anyone experiencing this in the future, I had to totally delete my object and recreate it from scratch including re-importing the sprites and building the animation

Whenever I instantiate my 2d object it looks correct in the scene view. But when playing in Game view, the object is blank and unlit.

I have confirmed that the global light includes this object's layer, so I'm not sure what's happening. I've also confirmed the object's alpha is not 0 or low and the base color is 255 white.

I am using a unity UI object to instantiate a sprite/animation game object when the player clicks a corresponding button in the UI.

I am instantiating it in this way, because when I do so without specifying the parent, the UI child object that calls this method is becoming the parent and the object is hidden behind the UI regardless of which sorting layer I indicate. So by making the parent a higher order object, it seems to inherit its UI sorting order. Without doing it this way I could not see the instantiated object at all.

Code (CSharp):

1. [SerializeField] private GameObject AnimationObject;
2.  
3. // Method to confirm allocation
4. public void ToggleConfirmed()
5. {
6.     // If confirmed do nothing (locked)
7.     if (NodeConfirmed) {  return; }
8.     NodeConfirmed = true;
9.     // Visual effect
10.     Instantiate(AnimationObject, this.transform.position, Quaternion.identity, Mgr_UI.Instance.transform);
11. }

The Mgr_UI.Instance is a static singleton that the UI is built from

Edit: I tested placing a prefab of the object directly in the scene, and it has the same behavior. Normal/lit in scene view, black/unlit in game view. So I don't believe the parent object has anything to do with the issue.

 

Resolved by completely remaking the object