NGUITools.AddChild from prefab doesn't use same scale vlaues

[bagomints]

When I add a child with NGUITools.AddChild from a prefab, it's correctly adding but it's not using the same scale numbers as the prefab.

My Sprite prefab has 182, 178 for scale, but when I use AddChild, it didn't show up on the screen even though it worked, so I looked at the clone made from the prefab, and the clone's scale was 1,1.

Is this normal behavior? If not, am I saving the prefab incorrectly?

Right now I have to code the change in scale to the added child's with transform.localScale += a Vector3 with the hardcoded numbers and it works fine but I'm wondering why it won't take the prefab's scale values.

[Nicki]

This is normal behavior.

Instantiating a prefab always sets its scale to 1,1,1.

Have a common object at the "root" of the prefab with position 0,0,0, rotation 0,0,0, scale 1,1,1 and an object lower in the hierarchy that sets everything up, then it works fine.

[bagomints]

Ahh I see.

Can you tell I'm new to Unity too :p?

Thank you for explaining though, I fixed it.