A child gameobject is giving me some trouble...

Hello,

I have a 'player' prefab that has two text objects as children.

One of them (the 'name' object) works just fine - I can modify the transform.position etc.

However, the second one ('points') is not responding to manipulation through script. I can't figure out why - although I'm guessing that the fact that it has a blue 'prefab' icon next to it and not a 'gameobject' icon is a clue...

Can someone help me out? I've attached an inspector image.

 

These are UI objects. I guess that Player 0 has some component on it that automatically positions its child objects. If you look carefully at the RectTransform component of Points, I bet there's even a message there telling you that some properties are controlled by such-and-so.

 

I don't that's the issue. I think the issue is my code is operating on a prefab and NOT an instantiated instance of it.

If I click the NAME OBJ in the inspector, it highlights the NAME child of Player 0 object in the hierarchy... but if I click on the POINTS OBJ in the inspector it highlights the PREFAB folder and the actual prefab in that folder.

 

Well I solved my issue. I was correct - somehow my prefab wasn't correctly made. I had to make a new one a couple times until I got it right. Not sure I fully understand it but I suppose the more I do it the more I will.

 

I wanna make a card game, I bet it's fun.