Should player & pickups be children of the level, or keep them separate?

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This is a question about best-practice rather than anything technical, and the answer might be personal preference.

So I have a level which is one mesh, imported from 3Ds max. I have trigger objects in the level (lets call this "level1"), as well as pickups. I've put these gameobjects as children of level1 because I thought that'd make sense in case I ever needed to move or scale the level. It'd save time having to reposition everything separately.

But I'm having problems with local positions. An example is that Y position of 0 is very different to the global y axis, and it's getting a bit confusing and annoying.

Do you guys add collectable items as children of the level, or keep them separate? Should the player be a child of the level too?

Here's my game, it's 3D but most of the action happens on a 2D plane (although I always use vector3, which might be the cause of my headaches tbh). game

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Answer by PlanetVaster · Jul 04, 2015 at 05:09 AM

It's all about personal preference, I usually don't have them as children of the level and you said it was causing positioning issues so it's probably best to not have them as children of the level.

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Answer by W.Walter · Jul 04, 2015 at 02:20 AM

Best answer: I don't know. - depends on what you think you should do. To simplify your local/global coord headaches, its always a good idea to place any 'heireachy only' game objects at 0,0,0. So whenever your using game objects to organize your level/scene/whatever, put them at the origin (with no rotation, or scale). This stops random rotations, scaling, and position offsets in your scripts and everything else.

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