How to easily unparent a child via hierarchy in the editor

vit_the · February 26, 2018, 3:40am

I am working in a scene and noticed there is an object with children which don’t belong as children to said object. I can’t seem to just drag these things off of being childed in the hierarchy considering it is a very big list of game objects clogging the hiearchy. Is there a hotkey where I can select the child and press such hotkey that the child object will move up out of its parentage?

Antony-Blackett · February 26, 2018, 3:46am

try opening a second hierarchy window and drag it from one to the other.

vit_the · February 26, 2018, 4:33am

The solution works, thank you. I’m still open to a hotkey for moving things up or down in its hierarchy

mgear · February 26, 2018, 5:33am

you could make editor script to do that hotkey,

something like,

github.com

UnityCommunity/UnityLibrary/blob/master/Assets/Scripts/Editor/Hierarchy/UnparentMe.cs

// unparents selected gameobject in hierarchy (by moving to grandparents if available)

using UnityEditor;

namespace UnityLibrary
{
    public class UnparentMe
    {
        // https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MenuItem.html
        // shift U shortcut key
        [MenuItem("GameObject/Unparent #u")]
        static void UnParent()
        {
            // TODO: add undo
            if (Selection.activeGameObject != null && Selection.activeGameObject.transform.parent != null)
            {
                Selection.activeGameObject.transform.parent = Selection.activeGameObject.transform.parent.parent;
            }
        }
    }

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How to easily unparent a child via hierarchy in the editor

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