programatically making a object a child of something.

anon_61641311 · February 7, 2009, 11:09pm

I need to programatically make a object a child of another object, and I have searched documentation, but I can’t find anything. Any ideas?

Eric5h5 · February 7, 2009, 11:49pm

transform.parent

–Eric

anon_61641311 · February 7, 2009, 11:55pm

Thanks! Will this change the scripting so that something like GetComponentInChildren() will work?

Eric5h5 · February 8, 2009, 12:01am

I’m not quite sure what you mean…look up transform.parent in the docs.

–Eric

anon_61641311 · February 10, 2009, 9:30pm

heh,

Checked up the unity docs, it will do a physical parenting, but I don’t believe it will make it so you can use something like GetComponentsInChildren()

Eric5h5 · February 10, 2009, 9:45pm

Why not? There’s only one kind of parenting. Either an object is the parent of a child or it’s not.

–Eric

AaronC · February 10, 2009, 10:05pm

Should work fine, but you have to do the parenting then search for the components. Use a yield statement if necess and Debug along the way.

AaronC