How to assign a Transform variable to a spawned prefab

New to Unity, so not that sure about the terminology, but I'll explain:

I'm doing a simple detect-and-chase scenario, while getting to know UI and the basics of Unity. The enemy is supposed to move around turning randomly at random intervals, until player comes within a certain radius from it. After it detects the player within this radius, it turns itself to face the player and starts to chase it. I have done this by using a public transform variable, which is used for getting the players position. I then assign the player object to by dragging it to it's field in the inspector. Then I cloned the enemy object to get more than one, and it works fine, so no worries there.

But then I thought it would be nice if the enemies would spawn at certain intervals instead of just being the from the beginning, so I made the enemy a prefab, created an empty game object and wrote a script that spawns the prefab, and the actual spawning works just fine. What DOESN'T work, however, is the actual movement of the enemies. Now that the enemy object is a prefab, I can't assign the scene's player object to it's transform variable in the director, which makes sense. But at the moment it's the only way I know how to assign it.

Wat do? How to I get my spawns of cubical nature to behave as if I had made one in the scene, and then just cloned it?

 

There are many ways to find another object in the scene. Try GameObject.Find or GameObject.FindWithTag.

 

Yup, that worked, thanks.