Trouble setting object position when calling factory.create() (SOLVED)

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Hello,

I am attempting to create an object with a supplied position. I have a script that creates an object via a factory and does not take the position I expect:

		local pos = vmath.vector3(400, 400, 1)
		print("creating enemy at " .. pos)
		local newId = factory.create("/EnemyFactory#factory", pos)

When it creates the object, it creates it at effectively (0,0,0).

Can anyone tell me what Im doing wrong? thanks.

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That is surprising. I can’t see anything wrong. What if you do go.set_position(pos, newId) on the line after factory.create()? What if you print(go.get_position(newId))?

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Is the sprite at 0,0,0 in the game object?

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So I added the lines:

        local pos = vmath.vector3(s.xPos, s.yPos, 1)
		print("creating enemy at " .. pos)
		local newId = factory.create("/EnemyFactory#factory", pos)
        -- new debug lines
		go.set_position(pos, newId)
		print(go.get_position(newId))

and the results I get are the box at the same position

and the following debug messages:

DEBUG:SCRIPT: creating enemy at [72.000000, 2500.000000, 1.000000]
DEBUG:SCRIPT: vmath.vector3(72, 2500, 1)

I will also mention that my GameObject has a gui component (with a red box under it) and a collisionobject component

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I think I have fixed my issue. I realize while posting my previous post, I was using a GUI with a box in it to represent the enemy and I would probably be better off using a sprite

so I made an image and rigged a sprite to the Game Object I was using instead of a Gui, and now everything is working as intended. Im not sure about the interaction of go.set_position() with an object with a gui for a child but I think I have solved my problem.

thanks

Also for some reason all my other posts have been flagged as spam and hidden?

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GUIs are (by default) rendered in a separate pass in screen space so the position of the game object you put the GUI component in does not matter at all.

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Yeah, new users are flagged if more than 3 or so images are posted to the same url within some time limit. It’s Discourse default settings.

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Thanks!

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And individual gui components are moved in a .gui_script file attached to the .gui file using gui.set_position(node, position)