Parenting of prefabs?

Unity Engine
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Hi,

for my little I’m-learnign-Unity project I created a bunch of different colored spheres which I instantiate at runtime. As I create lots of those, the hierachy view gets immediately flooded with all the new spheres. So basically I search for a way to group all of the new spheres into one root/parent object. If I understood the manual right, I needed to create an empty game object container which I did, but how can I now make this new gameobject the parent of the prefabs when I instantiate them from code?

I tried searching for “parent” and “root”, but didn’t find appropriate stuff (or overlooked it :slight_smile:

Thanks for any help.

Martin :slight_smile:

2

What you’re looking for is to set yourInstantiatedObject.transform.parent to the transform of your empty holder object.

3

Ah, great, thanks. Can this be “baked” in already for the prefab or do I need to assign this when instantiating the prefab?

4

No, you have to set it in code whenever you instantiate it.

5

Awesome, thanks for the quick reply. I’ll give it a try tonight.

6

Works super. This is how I did it:

I created an empty GameObject called “BallContainer”.

Then I created an instance of the sphere by this line:

clone = Instantiate(prefab1, pos, Random.rotation);

and then fetched the BallContainer object:

var groupParent : GameObject = GameObject.Find(“BallContainer”);

and now the magic - parent the instanced sphere:

clone.transform.parent = groupParent.transform;

That’s all. All new spheres are created as childs of the game object. :slight_smile: