Can you make a child in prefab not take the parent transform?

Hi,

If I have a prefab containing a child can I make it so the child doesn't take and translation/rotations applied to the parent in game?

I have an object that I want to indicate to the player that it can be picked up. So, I have a cube (the object) and above it is an arrow. I want to make the cube spin but doing that makes the arrow spin around as well, I want that to remain in the original position it is setup in the prefab.

Cheers,
Bob

 

You could adjust the object hierarchy and then rotate the inner one:

Code (csharp):

1. Health Pack
2.   |-- Mesh  (spin me instead of root object)
3.   |-- Arrow

another example:

Code (csharp):

1. Health Pack
2.   |-- Container  (spin me instead of root object)
3.         |-- Mesh
4.         |-- Something Else
5.   |-- Arrow

 

I have found a way to do this by doing the following:

In the parents Update function

find the childs transform and setting its parent to null

continue to modify the parents transform in the update function as required
at the end of the update set the childs transform.parent back to the parents transform

Seems to work well

 

cheers numberkruncher, I found a way that is easy to do

I think your "adjust the object hierarchy" is what I am doing by removing the parent from the childs transform temporarily

 

Much easier to do what numberkruncher suggested. No need to unparent and reparent every frame. Seems like a hassle.

 

I remade my prefab with the hierarch numberkruncher suggested. It was a bit more work to do it that way but in the end I didn't like switching the parent on the fly as it did seem to be going against the grain somewhat. Cheers for the help