How to change parent at run time?

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Hello,

I'm trying to change the parent objects at runtime and can't seem to get the code right, When the function "DeadBalloonBack" is run i'd like the other 2 gameObjects to become children of rhinoParentBack Any ideas would be great.

var rhinoParentFront : GameObject;

var rhinoParentBack : GameObject;

var rhinoRotateModel : GameObject;

var BalloonCountBack : int = 3;

 function DeadBalloonBack() {

 BalloonCountBack --;
 rhinoRotateModel.parent = rhinoParentBack; 
 rhinoParentFront.parent = rhinoParentBack;

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Answer by dhendrix · May 13, 2010 at 05:15 AM

You have to access the parent through the object's transform, like so (the parent itself also refers to the transform of the object):

rhinoParentFront.transform.parent = rhinoParentBack.transform;

Or for that matter:

var rhinoParentFront : Transform; var rhinoParentBack : Transform;

rhinoParentFront.parent = rhinoParentBack;

Either way would work of course.

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ThumbStorm · May 13, 2010 at 03:02 PM 0

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I could swear i tried both of those but it didn't work for me. It works great now though, thanks for the help.

bbyford · Aug 15, 2015 at 10:50 PM 0

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this also works in C# obj.transform.SetParent(objParent.transform);

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