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Question by Akrone · Jul 17, 2018 at 03:25 PM · gameobject child component

Adding components vs child

Hi guys,

I was wondering what is the difference between adding a component vs adding a child in a prefab ?

For instance, i could add a Sprite Renderer component on my game object or I could add a Sprite child. are there specific cases where adding a compoment is better than adding a child ? (I'm comming from Godot 3 where everything is node based)

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