How to move the parent object to a child of one of its children?

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I want a parent Game Object to parent itself to one of its children. How do I do this?

Answer 1

Answer by Joxev · Mar 05, 2020 at 02:46 AM

Can you explain in more depth? A parent GameObject is already a parent of it's children. Do you want the parent to become a child of it's children?

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maw0041 · Mar 05, 2020 at 03:15 AM 0

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Yes. I want to move a parent to become a child of it's children. how to do this?

Answer 2

Answer by tecses1 · Mar 05, 2020 at 04:55 AM

If you know exactly what GameObject you want to set as the parent (Make your current parent a child of) then you can just use a reference of it.

 Transform child; //Set the child object
 transform.SetParent(child); //Set this transform to be a child of that object.

If you're unsure what child specifically... It becomes a much harder problem. If you have a way to identify it however, you could later use:

 Transform child = GameObject.Find("Object Name").transform;

String finds are messy though, I'd recommend something a little more deterministic.

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