Question Alternatives to Instantiate to copy or 'clone' gameObject?

Can anyone tell me is using Instantiate
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html
the ONLY way to duplicate or clone a game object in your scene?

I need to dynamically create 'walls' from a floor plane in my scene.
The easiest way would be to simply duplicate or clone my floor, offset in either x or z direction, then rotate 90 degrees.
However duplicating an object in this fashion doesn't seem possible.
Anyone?

 

The answer is yes, but why do you think that that means you can't clone your floor and offset it? That's exactly what Instantiate does.

 

Totally possible. Do it, and when it fails, press pause and look in the scene to find out what went wrong.

Is the wall actually in the right place after all?

Are you perhaps not using the right offsets to the new position? Fix that.

Do you perhaps have a root animation driving the object back to somewhere? Remove that!

etc. etc.

To help gain more insight into your problem, I recommend liberally sprinkling Debug.Log() statements through your code to display information in realtime.

Doing this should help you answer these types of questions:

- is this code even running? which parts are running? how often does it run?
- what are the values of the variables involved? Are they initialized?

Knowing this information will help you reason about the behavior you are seeing.

 

Thanks. Well thought out response.

 

If there are a fixed number of possible new walls, in preset positions, it's often easier to create them all, leaving them inactive until needed.

Otherwise, to be clear, you almost never want to Instantiate from a gameObject in the scene. Your floor may have had it's color changed, or whatever else. It's safer to make a prefab and Instantiate that.

 

I have the same issue, I want to use a prefab as a template for a game object but it's a reference