cannot implicitly convert type unityengine.vector3' to unityengine.transform'

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 public TextMesh PartAmountTextMesh;
 public void AddBodyPart()
 {
     Transform newPart;
     if (firstPart){
         newPart = (Instantiate (BodyPrefab, new Vector3(0, 0, 0), Quaternion.identity) as GameObject).transform;
         //Error in this Line Bellow
         PartAmountTextMesh.transform.parent = newPart.position + new Vector3(0, 0.5f, 0);  //Error here
         firstPart = false;
     }
     else
     {
         newPart = (Instantiate(BodyPrefab, BodyParts[BodyParts.Count - 1].position, BodyParts[BodyParts.Count - 1].rotation) as GameObject).transform;

         newPart.SetParent(transform);
         BodyParts.Add(newPart);
     }
 }

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Answer by Matt1000 · Nov 15, 2018 at 01:49 PM

Its simple acutally. You are setting a transfor, not its positon. Among other things, the transform controls position, scale and rotation. So, if you want to assign a new position to a certain transform you should do it like this:

 PartAmountTextMesh.transform.parent.position = newPart.position + new Vector3(0, 0.5f, 0);

And that's it. Hope it helps ; )

EDIT:

As @Bunny83 pointed out, perhaps you didn't want to access the parent but just set the position and the predictor changed it. if that's the case just change parent for position and you're good to go.

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Bunny83 · Nov 15, 2018 at 02:04 PM 0

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I would assume he wanted to write:

 PartAmountTextMesh.transform.position

instead of

 PartAmountTextMesh.transform.parent

but code autocomplete has picked "parent" instead of "position". Anyways you are correct about the error.

cannot implicitly convert type unityengine.vector3' to unityengine.transform'

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