How to move a child to the world vector 3 position?

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I have something that is a child of the player and i want it to still be the child because it will make my game neater and i need it to stay at the global 0 position regardless of where the player is.

UPDATE**** I feel so stupid i thank you guys for your help... the problem was i put it on a script that is most of the time disabled... wow.... well thanks for your help anyway.

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Answer by almo · Jul 26, 2011 at 08:27 PM

Doesn't

childobj.transform.position = Vector3.zero

Do this? The docs say transform.position gives the world coordinates of the object.

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Transform-position.html

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ninjaoboy · Jul 26, 2011 at 08:30 PM 0

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i tried that already doesn't work i will just have to have a confusing mess in my assets.

Scribe · Jul 26, 2011 at 08:55 PM 0

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I think what Almo wrote should work, where in your script have you put this. put it in your function Update () at the start with no if's so that at every frame it resets to vector3.zero

ChristmasEve · Jan 01, 2021 at 07:25 PM 0

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I know this post is old but I'm using 2020.1.17f1 and his actually doesn't work. I have no idea if there has been a change. This is insane. I absolutely cannot set the world position of a child or do it the other way - instantiate an object at a world position and then try to parent it. The first thing I tried is this - parent it and then set its transform.position. When that failed, I tried transform.SetParent() with a true for keepworldposition. I've tried TransformPoint. I've tried a half dozen other things besides this too, and the object keeps moving on me. One thing to note, the parent I'm trying to attach it to is a descendant of a huge twisted mess of a tree with many rotations and scales. For the life of me, I cannot set the absolute position.

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Answer by flaviusxvii · Jul 26, 2011 at 09:02 PM

I appreciate that you think you game structure will be 'neater' but using the Transform parent child relationship for organization that doesn't mirror what the Transform actually represents is folly.

If you TRULY want to do this.. then you need a new script called something like AlwaysAtOrigin and in its Update function just have the line "transform.position = Vector3.zero;"

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