Question Using MoveTowards with prefabs gives different outcome than using them with the objects in hierarchy

Sorry for the bad wording of the problem. Let me explain in a clearer way.

This is the script that makes the enemy chase the player (vampire survivors clone (of course))


When I drag and drop the "Player" in hierarchy to the "Object To Follow", it works as intended however if I drag and drop the "Player" prefab, the enemy just goes to the middle of the plane and stops right there.


I'm new to this (started just a month ago) so sorry for the lack of information for you to figure out what the problem is. I can provide more if you tell me what is missing to find out the problem.

 

The player prefab is not the same as the player in the scene.

Scene prefabs are just copies of their respective prefabs in your project assets, so referencing one is not the same as referencing the other.

 

Prefab is a file in your project and not an object in your scene. Objects within prefab do not exist in your scene.

So when you try to follow the prefab, your script will try to follow coordinates stored within prefab. Prefabs are often placed at zero coordinates, that's why your script goes to the middle of the plane.

 

Then how can I make enemies follow the prefab?
It is not an issue in this case since the player always exists on hierarchy but when I start working with enemy spawners I need to use the enemy prefab because there is not always an enemy in hierarchy.

 

You don't want them to follow the prefab, you want them to follow the instance that exists in the scene. Thus, you want to give the enemies some way to access the position of the player instance in the scene.

There's a few ways to achieve. The most basic and common would probably be a singleton.

 

You can't follow a prefab, because prefab is not an actual object in the scene. It is a template that you use to create objects.

Spawn your prefab and follow the spawned object instead.

 

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Please create thread in relevant sub forum. In this case will be Getting Started, or Scripting.