placing children objects in different places

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I’m making a script where the player can chop down trees with an axe and it’s going pretty good so far. However I’ve hit a small obstacle now. At a certain point, I want to respawn the trees (multiple objects per tree) in the same spot they were at. However I can’t seem to figure out how to give each object a unique position. I’ve got my tree prefab and I want to set up the tree exactly how that is. Right now I just check each child object and put it back at a certain position but obviously this is going to be the position for each object. Is there a better way or similar way that works to do this?
Heres the code I’m using right now.

var treeDead : boolean = false;
var treeHealth : int = 5;
var logWorth : int = 1;

function Update() {
	if(treeHealth <= 0) {
		if(!treeDead) {
			treeHealth = 0;
			TreeRespawn();
		}
	}
}

function OnTriggerEnter(itemHit : Collider) {
	if(!treeDead) {
		if(itemHit.tag == "Axe") {
			treeHealth -= 1;
		}
		if(itemHit.tag == "Chainsaw") {
			if(treeHealth >= 5) {
				treeHealth -= 5;
			}
			else {
				treeHealth -= treeHealth;
			}
		}
		if(itemHit.tag == "Big Chainsaw") {
			if(treeHealth >= 10) {
				treeHealth -= 10;
			}
			else {
				treeHealth -= treeHealth;
			}
		}
	}
}

function TreeRespawn() {
	for(var child : Transform in transform) {
		child.rigidbody.isKinematic = false;
	}
	treeDead = true;
	yield WaitForSeconds(50);
	for(var child : Transform in transform) {
		child.localPosition = Vector3(0, 2.75, 0);
	}
	for(var child : Transform in transform) {
		child.rigidbody.isKinematic = true;
	} 
	treeDead = false;
}

The lines in question are 44 and 45
[for(var child : Transform in transform) {
child.localPosition = Vector3(0, 2.75, 0);
}] Which is obviously just setting each objects position to that.

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You could store a List or array of localPositions, one for each child, in your Start() function. Then, when respawning your tree, do something like…

var transforms : Transform[]; // Array of all Transforms
var transformPositions : Vector3[];  // Array of all positions
var transformRotations : Quaternion[];  // Array of all rotations

// ... after your WaitForSeconds() in TreeRespawn

for (var i = 0; i < transforms.Length; i++) 
{
     transforms*.rigidbody.isKinematic = true;*

transforms_.localPosition = transformPositions*;
transforms.localRotation = transformRotations;
}*
treeDead = false;_