How can I rotate a GameObject without rotating the GUI?

Questions & Answers
1

Well, heres my problem. I am creating a 2D game where I have to instantiate 30 different pieces where I have to set a piece and accept it in its position. Positioning includes rotation, however, I currently have the GUI set as a child of a gameobject. I can get the buttons of the canvas to not rotate using the following:

#pragma strict
function Update () {

	transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;
}

However the location of the canvas still changes as if it is rotating, as depicted in the images below.

76951-no-rotate.png

76952-rotate-90-ccw.png

I want this to work the most efficiently as possible. I want to find a way to make it so it isn’t rotating. The only reason I did it this way was because it needs to be able to follow all 30 pieces after they were instantiated in runtime. I figured the easiest way was to add the canvas to the prefabs and then SetActive = false; until they were ready to be used.

Ideally I would like it to be separate where 1 canvas and buttons control them all as they are instantiated. However, if this is difficult/impossible, then I would like to figure out a way to prevent the canvas from moving.

Also it is set to world space because the other options are not adjustable to what I need, if there is anything else that might be useful in this, any help is good help. Thank you in advance.

2

You will have to rotate the children of this object in the opposite direction.

for(int i = 0; i < transform.childCount; i++){
transform.GetChild(i).rotation = transform.rotation*-1;
}
3

For those experiencing the same problem, I had to separate the canvas from the parent object and link the GameObject to a variable in what was the parent object script, using the inspector in Unity. I was then able to tell it where to position itself using the variable in the script.

#pragma strict

// Variable that holds the panel GameObject

public var guiPanel : GameObject;

function Update () {

// Position the Panel -2.5 below the game piece

	guiPanel.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y - 2.5, 0);
}

This does work, and I can use the same menu for all the game pieces instead of 1 for 1. This also prevents having unruly coding within the scripts trying to reverse rotation.