Game Programming with Unity and C#: A Complete Beginner’s Guide

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C. HardmanGame Programming with Unity and C#https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9720-9_4

4. Parents and Their Children

Casey Hardman¹  

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West Palm Beach, FL, USA

 

Now that we have our floor set up, let’s dive into some very important concepts employed by game engines. Unity allows us to attach individual GameObjects to each other in a system known as “parenting,” where “children” are attached to a “parent” GameObject and thus move, rotate, and scale with it. This creates a distinction between two ways of looking at an object’s position: its world position, which resembles where it is in the scene, and its local position, which resembles where it is in relation ...