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in the Atari 2600 game Adventure there is a mechanic in which the play runs into and object and the object become the child of it, i want to make the player in my game essentially do the same thing, i need an object to become the child of the player on collision if any one could help me with the script that would be great ,there is a game for the Atari 2600 called adventure, if you have played it, you are aware that there is a mechanic that when the player "collides" with an item, they "pick it up", i know that the developers just made the item become the child of the player until they press the button that ends the relationship with the child. I'm trying to basically replicate that but am having no success some help would be great with this

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Answer by meat5000 · Dec 07, 2017 at 02:15 PM

Using the returned collision hit data you can simply set the parent directly

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-parent.html

It's a very common question with more than one method.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=unity+parent+on+collision&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&dcr=0&ei=9HQpWtnACoWAgAbTxpCwCw

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RAND0MP1N3APPL3 · Dec 07, 2017 at 03:01 PM 0

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but on collision thats for abutton

RAND0MP1N3APPL3 · Dec 07, 2017 at 03:09 PM 0

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nevr$$anonymous$$d i got it

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Answer by Vilhien · Dec 07, 2017 at 03:07 PM

I do this with triggers on my ships. When a player enters the ship they become parented to the ship clone.

Make a trigger and a boolean for if the state is available.

if pickup true, on collision with tag "item" obj set parent transform.

on button press, pickup false(cancel it being picked right back up), set parent null.

Meat5000 is correct.

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