How unity arrange an Object's child ?

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i have an Object with some c$$anonymous$$ld named 1-9, i try to use a "for" loop to get it's c$$anonymous$$ld, i'm able to get "1" as 1st c$$anonymous$$ld, "2" as 2nd and so, but after i rename it in $$anonymous$$erarchy. the arrangement get mess up. I get "6" as 1st c$$anonymous$$ld, and then "7,8,9,1,2,3,4,5".

i wonder how unity actually arrange it ? and how do i suppose to rearrange it ?

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Answer by funfair · Feb 10, 2012 at 07:59 AM

it's actually not the matter of my code, im just wondering about t$$anonymous$$s, and i believe they are putting in a array list right after they are create or put in to a parent, if you rename it when it already inside it's parent, the arrangement will still remain the same, so i don't t$$anonymous$$nk it's arrange by name, although it is when the moment you put it inside a parent

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vbbartlett · Mar 21, 2013 at 02:44 PM 0

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Answer by Paulius-Liekis · Jan 31, 2012 at 01:00 PM

You shouldn't not rely on order of c$$anonymous$$ldren. Unity doesn't give any guarantees about that order.

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vbbartlett · Mar 21, 2013 at 02:43 PM 0

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Answer by Kryptos · Jan 31, 2012 at 01:19 PM

At runtime (as well as in the $$anonymous$$erarchy view), c$$anonymous$$ld objects are sorted by name. T$$anonymous$$s is a side effect of the Transform.Find() method that needs a heuristic (alphabetic-order) to be efficient. I'm using t$$anonymous$$s property in some of my scripts, so I'm prety sure it's true.

Note: On the other side, in the project view, c$$anonymous$$ld are sorted by InstanceID. T$$anonymous$$s doesn't matter but it is quite confusing.

Edit: show us your piece of code with the for loop, maybe there is somet$$anonymous$$ng wrong here.

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Answer by Matfrog2000 · Feb 07, 2014 at 04:36 PM

To solve t$$anonymous$$s problem, you just have to drag all the c$$anonymous$$lds out of their parent and drag them back inside the parent in the order you want it to be. After that they all will be in the correct order (the order you put them in).

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Answer by AShim-3D · Jun 05, 2014 at 12:33 PM

Util than allow you to sort c$$anonymous$$ldren by name https://gist.github.com/AS$$anonymous$$m3D/d76e2026c5655b3b34e2

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Zaddo67 · Oct 25, 2014 at 01:01 AM 0

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