Programmatically positioning within camera view

[mygamingproject]

I think I am probably making this difficult for myself but I simply want to spawn a prefab in a position that is always within the camera view.

The issue I think I am having is I'm confusing pixels with Screen points in my positioning so some appear and some others don't but nonetheless can't work it out.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

[unikronsoftware]

What camera settings are you using?

[mygamingproject]

Its a tk2dCamera

With the following settings:

http://imgur.com/L5QpgpO
http://imgur.com/KJxMxLh
http://imgur.com/5SlH4lU

Setup to handle iDevice resolutions

[unikronsoftware]

camera.transform.position will put something at the bottom left of the camera.
you can then use tk2dCamera.ScreenExtents to work out the extents of the complete visible area of the camera.

[mygamingproject]

Yep that did it thanks

My camera origin was actually marked as center so I came up with the crude code as follows which works

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Vector3 cameraPosition = camera.transform.position;

Rect extents = camera.ScreenExtents;
float screenX = Random.Range(cameraPosition.x -  (extents.width * 0.5f), cameraPosition.x + (extents.width * 0.5f));

blockPrefab.Spawn(new Vector3(screenX, 26.0f, 0.0f), transform.rotation);