Grabing and moving a box(C#)

Questions & Answers
1

I´m working on a game where the player has to solve some puzzles by moving boxes around, He has to grab(hold) them and place at the right place.
I have my character moving around(3rd person), he moves forward, backwards and strafes to both sides, the mouse controls the camera like in World of Warcraft.
What i need to know now is how can i make it grab the box by pressing a button and move it around with him, only releasing the box when i release that button. Thanks

codes need to be in C# pls

2

Reparent the box to the player (or some part of the player)

obj.transform.parent = player;

or something like that. To release, just set the parent to null.

3

"Reparent the box to the player (or some part of the player)

obj.transform.parent = player;

or something like that. To release, just set the parent to null."

I’m not sure how do this, what I tried to do is

using UnityEngine;

class MoveBox : MonoBehaviour
{

void OnCollisionStay(Collision col)
{
    if (col.gameObject.tag == "Player" && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E))
    {
        this.transform.parent = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player");
    }
    else
        this.transform.parent = null;

}

}

Doesn’t work tho…I get the error “Cannot inplicitly convert type ‘UnityEngine.GameObject’ to’UnityEngine.Transform’”…

And I also wanted the code to be on my player(otherwise I’ll have to add the script to every single box…and there will be many), but I couldn’t find a way to get it to work.
Thats my player script:

using UnityEngine;

class Move : MonoBehaviour // Sempre que houver a necessidade de mexer na cena tem de herdar a classe MonoBehavior
{
public int vel = 5; // Se não colocar nada o programa entende a variavel como privada
public Transform spawPoint;
public Transform focoVisao;

public void Update()
{
    //transform.LookAt(focoVisao);
    transform.Translate(vel * Time.deltaTime * Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, vel * Time.deltaTime * Input.GetAxis("Vertical")); // Time.deltaTima representa o tempo de resposta entre os frames
}

public void OnCollisionEnter(Collision hit)
{
	if(hit.gameObject.tag == "rochas")
	{
		transform.position = spawPoint.position;
	}
	
}

}

I’m still trying to find a way to solve the “LookAt” problem (so it doesn’t move on the Y axis)… help pls

4

Thanks @syclamoth, unfortuntelly I don’t have enough knowledge on C# to write that code, could you please help me with some? I’ve been trying to make it work for a long time and can’t get it =/…Can you help me with some code pls? or point me to somewhere where i can learn about it. Usually stuff I find is a bit hard to understand as I don’t know much about C# yet. Thanks