Access Child position of Parent

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Hi, I am trying to access the transform.position of the first child of the parent. The heierachy is as follows:

Parent

–Camera1 (First Person Camera)

–Camera2 (Third Person Camera)

–Bip01

In a script attached to the parent, we have:

public class Projectiles : MonoBehaviour {
    public GameObject prefab;
    private void Start() {
        GameObject FindFPC = GameObject.Find("Camera1");
        Debug.Log("FPC Position is: " + FindFPC.transform.position);
    } 
}

The parent is at the vector3 position: 0,0,0 The camera is at the vector3 position: 0, 10, 0

and for some reason the debug statement is showing 0,0,0 as the position of the FPC varaible.

Basically, I would just like to always instantiate projectiles forward based on the position and rotation of the FPC (first person camera)..So i the same script:

private void InstProjectiles() {
    GameObject go = (GameObject) Instantiate(prefab, FindFPC.transform.position, FindFPC.transform.rotation);
    go.rigidbody.velocity = go.transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward * 100);    
}

but it is a little inconsistant, even when I don't move the player. Some of the projectiles are lower the the first..

Has anyone had this problem before?

2

You can use Transform.Find from the parent. GameObject.Find just looks for the first object with that name anywhere, so maybe you have duplicate objects and it's returning one you don't want.