Placing an object in front of the camera

Question

This should be an easy task, and I have googled it, but I can\'t figure out why any of the examples are working for me.

Basically, I want to place tiles on the ground in

Answer 1

Thanks for all the useful suggestions, everyone! I came up with the following code which suits my needs:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ConstructionController : MonoBehaviour {

    private Camera playerCamera;
    private GameObject itemObject;
    private float distance = 3.0f;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        playerCamera = GetComponentInChildren<Camera>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update () {

        if ( itemObject != null ) {
            itemObject.transform.position = playerCamera.transform.position + playerCamera.transform.forward * distance;
            itemObject.transform.rotation = new Quaternion( 0.0f, playerCamera.transform.rotation.y, 0.0f, playerCamera.transform.rotation.w );
        }

    }

    // Start constructing an item
    public void StartConstructingItem ( Item item ) {
        Object itemPrefab = Resources.Load( "Prefabs/" + item.prefabName );

        itemObject = (GameObject)Instantiate( itemPrefab );
    }

}

Answer 2

You could use the forward vector of the object, something like this:

public GameObject frontObject;
public float distance;

void Update () {
    frontObject.transform.position = Camera.main.transform.position + Camera.main.transform.forward * distance;
}