What is a child GameObject?
This means that the gameObject is now a child of our character. Once again, a child gameObject will have its position relative to its parent, not the game world. Meaning if you set the position to (0, 0, 0) , a child gameObject will get positioned in the dead center of the parent gameObject, not the screen.
What is child class Oops?
In OOP, a parent is one class, and a child is another class that inherits all of the attributes and functions assigned to the parent class.
How to set the child transform relative to the parent?
The parent object is not positioned at 0, 0, 0, so it’s not just that the child object position is set relative to 0, 0, 0. So how do I programmatically set the position of the HUD camera so it is relative to the parent transform position, if not by just setting it as a child of the parent object and then setting its position?
How to set child rotation to parent in Unity?
You have to do the parenting prior to setting the localPosition, which is the offset to the parent (with Vector3.forward it’s one unity infront of it). Setting the rotation always works, because it’s always in world space. neatgadgets likes this. For some reason it seems to work. Doing it the other way produced unpredictable results.
How to set position of child transform in Unity?
The Unity tutorial here… …seems pretty clear that, once an object is made a child of another, its position is relative to the parent object (from about 45 seconds into the video). But is there a difference between doing this programmatically and manually in the Unity editor?
Why does the rotation always work in neatgadgets?
Setting the rotation always works, because it’s always in world space. neatgadgets likes this. For some reason it seems to work. Doing it the other way produced unpredictable results. Ok after some intensive playing around and reading I finally figured it out for picking up an object.