Hi all, I am foregoing the baking process and am creating and managing my entities at runtime to facilitate a hybrid approach. This is serving me well so far, but like the title says, whenever I give an entity the Parent component it automatically un-parents itself in the following frame. The paren…

I’m not in Unity 6 but I’m also using Entities 1.2. May I ask for the code that managed your entity (where you add components, the Parent component in particular)?

[image] Neil-Corre: I’m not in Unity 6 but I’m also using Entities 1.2. May I ask for the code that managed your entity (where you add components, the Parent component in particular)? Of course, thank you for taking a look! For completeness’ sake I’ve included the full file just in case, but …

Thanks for the script! Right off the bat: Did you test the while loop in the BuildChildEntityMap? It might cause a bug because it’s not changed inside the loop. This can be converted to a better recursion method instead. I don’t have a safe scene to test this but, I quickly dropped it in a scene a…

The building of the entities is working as expected. If I pause the editor before hitting Play, I can see all the right entities, with all of their correct components and relationships. The problem is that the parent-child relationship is immediately broken the following frame, and I can’t for the l…

AddComponentData(Entity, new Parent { Value = parentHost.Entity }); Are you missing the Entity part here?

[image] Trindenberg: AddComponentData(Entity, new Parent { Value = parentHost.Entity }); Are you missing the Entity part here? I exposed some methods with identical names in my EntityHost MB to more easily allow my runtime “bakers” to add components. So good catch, but nope!

ParentSystem code suggests LocalToWorld is needed for the hierarchical entities. Try adding that.

[image] Spy-Master: ParentSystem code suggests LocalToWorld is needed for the hierarchical entities. Try adding that. Dang, I was hopeful for a second. But no dice, it still un-parents after 1 frame

Did you add LocalToWorld on the parent?

[image] Spy-Master: Did you add LocalToWorld on the parent? …I did not. Great catch, thank you so much! I can sleep easy tonight haha

Creating entities at runtime: Any entity I make a child immediately unparents the following frame

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Senshi May 14, 2024, 8:41pm 9

Dang, I was hopeful for a second. But no dice, it still un-parents after 1 frame

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Creating entities at runtime: Any entity I make a child immediately unparents the following frame

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