Inspector Position not matching position obtained in script

Unity Engine
1

Went to move a GameObject that contains child GameObjects, but wanted to move certain parts at different speeds/directions. Couldn’t get the results I was aiming for and finally figured out why… the positions of my parts in the inspector are not the positions I obtain in my scripts using part.transform.localPosition. Because of this, I get unexpected behaviors. Attached are screenshots of my issue:

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I’m running version 5.1.1f1. Any suggestions?

2

Yeah, I’m really not sure why this is but I’ve come to accept it as part of unity. transform.localPosition seems to always return the world-space position of the transform.

To get the local space position, try this:

Vector3 localPos = transform.position;
if (transform.parent != null)
{
    localPos -= transform.parent.position
}
3

If you debug log the vector3 it will show rounded values. Logging the individual axis’ will show the accurate values.

4

Thank you Gambit MSplitz. Ended up going that route because my parent GameObject wasn’t at the origin. Come to find out that it was the parent/child relationship (scaling) that was causing problems.