place sprites in grid pattern within an area

first time here, have some time to kill so this is what I did. I'm assuming this is in a gui/2d game. This is what i did to get it to work.

create a canvas and add 4 UI images. These act as the 4 points(vector3's) create a script and setup a way to draw lines so that you know that you are getting the right positions

using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; public class drawAndCalculate : MonoBehaviour { public GameObject topLeft,topRight,bottomLeft,bottomRight,cube; GameObject [] copyCube; void OnDrawGizmos(){ //fix the positions to make "perfect" straight tines Vector3 topRight_pos = topRight.transform.position; Vector3 botLeft_pos = bottomLeft.transform.position; Vector3 botRight_pos = bottomRight.transform.position; //adjuest them topRight_pos.y = topLeft.transform.position.y; botRight_pos.x = topRight_pos.x; botLeft_pos.x = topLeft.transform.position.x; botLeft_pos.y = botRight_pos.y; //save them back topRight.transform.position = topRight_pos; bottomRight.transform.position = botRight_pos; bottomLeft.transform.position = botLeft_pos; Gizmos.color = Color.red; Gizmos.DrawLine (topLeft.transform.position, topRight.transform.position); Gizmos.color = Color.green; Gizmos.DrawLine (topRight.transform.position, bottomRight.transform.position); Gizmos.color = Color.blue; Gizmos.DrawLine (bottomRight.transform.position, bottomLeft.transform.position); Gizmos.color = Color.cyan; Gizmos.DrawLine (bottomLeft.transform.position, topLeft.transform.position); } } 

now you can move the images to make any rectangle. Now that you have the info is a matter of slicing into even proportions, so:

1. create an array of gameobjects,
2. get the width and height of the rectangle
3. resize each gameobject to the width/5 and height/5
4. position them in within the rectangle

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// Use this for initialization void Start () { //original is 100 by 100, Lets make o copy that is 50'50 //original question only want a SX S = 25 cubes //get the size of the rectangle that the cubes wilt be placed //using Local position since they are all inside canvas to get the actual values float rectwidth = topRight.transform.localPosition.x - topLeft.transform.localPosition.x; float rectheight = topRight.transform.localPosition.y - bottomRight.transform. localPosition.y; copyCube = new GameObject[25]; //make 25 for (int i = 0; i < 25; i++) { copyCube [i] = Instantiate (cube) as GameObject;//crate them copyCube[i].transform.SetParent (this.transform.parent,false);//set the parent so that the scale is the some copyCube[i].transform.localScale = new Vector3(1,1,1 );//set scale just in case. size is based on scaLe of 2 copyCube[i].transform.GetComponent<RecTransform>().sizeDelta = new vector2(rectwidth/s,rectheight/5);//resizethen //place them in the cube for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { for (int j = 0; j <5; j++) { //figure out the location float xpos = (rectwidth/5) * j; float ypos = (rectheight/5) * i; //remember to add the offset of where the cube starts //in unity, origin(0,0) is on the bottom Left not top Left Like Java //and add half of o cube because of the cube having the pivot in the middle xpos..bottomLeft.transform.localPosition.x.(rectwidth/5)/2; ypos += bottomLeft.transform.localPosition.y +(rectheight / 5) / 2; copyCube [j+(i*5)].transform.localPosition = new Vector2 (xpos, ypos);//set the position copyCube[j+(i*5)].name = "pepe"; } } } 

done should be good to go!