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I am having trouble finding a way to set a gameobject's position with regards to the screen size. I am building a 2d game that I will be putting on iPhone, iPad, and Android. I need to be able to set the object's position to a percent of the view.

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It would be useful if you could show what you've tried already. Giving us something to build off of, helps you get a better answer. – Byte56 Sep 19 '12 at 14:54
I am not sure where to start. I am checking out camera.WorldToViewportPoint. I think this might be what I need. I just need to figure out how to change it in viewport and give it back in world. – Bryan Williams Sep 19 '12 at 15:01
When you say you need to set the object's position, do you mean you need to set the position to something like 75% to the left of the screen, or do you mean something more advanced like scaling up/bringing forward so that it fills a percentage of the screen? The former is easy, just use docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/… – Tetrad♦ Sep 19 '12 at 16:16
Yeah, it ended up being viewportToWorldPoint. Thanks for the help guys. – Bryan Williams Sep 19 '12 at 17:24
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You should post an answer detailing your method then. That way future readers can learn. – michael.bartnett Sep 20 '12 at 2:09

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The solution ended up being pretty simple. What I had to do is use the conversion of ViewportToWorldPoint.

Camera.main.ViewportToWorldPoint(Vector3(.05, .90, 3));

The decimals are percentages of the screen. and the Z is distance from the camera.

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