Cannot find child entity of parent "Root" - Editor error, can't delete entities

Natalia_Quinde · July 25, 2022, 10:11am

the project still fails with the below message.
https://playcanvas.com/editor/scene/1481874

yaustar · July 25, 2022, 10:12am

Have you taken the steps above in the first post to attempt to fix the issue?

Natalia_Quinde · July 25, 2022, 3:46pm

No, could you help me

yaustar · July 25, 2022, 3:46pm

Are you okay with me adding myself to the project to fix?

If so, can you give me the project ID please?

Natalia_Quinde · July 25, 2022, 3:47pm

Yes please

yaustar · July 25, 2022, 3:47pm

Can you give me the project ID please @Natalia_Quinde ?

Natalia_Quinde · July 25, 2022, 3:48pm

https://playcanvas.com/editor/scene/1481874

yaustar · July 25, 2022, 3:49pm

That has the scene id, I need the project id to add myself to the project. Please post the URL to the dashboard

Natalia_Quinde · July 25, 2022, 3:50pm

https://playcanvas.com/project/961730/overview/casa-embrujada

Natalia_Quinde · July 25, 2022, 3:51pm

Is it this one?

yaustar · July 25, 2022, 3:54pm

This has been fixed for you @Natalia_Quinde

I also noticed that you were out of storage so I added an extra 1GB

Natalia_Quinde · July 25, 2022, 4:00pm

Ok thank you very much

Nicholas_Taylor1 · September 26, 2022, 2:48pm

I know this sounds dumb but I need someone to fix it for me, my school computer has things disable like the browser dev console, so if someone can fix it for me, the project is PlayCanvas | HTML5 Game Engine

yaustar · September 26, 2022, 3:18pm

@Nicholas_Taylor1 This has now been fixed for you using this method that doesn’t need the dev console

Nicholas_Taylor1 · September 26, 2022, 3:42pm

Thank you, you’ve saved my game.

Cheers and very many thank yous
------Nicholas

kpaligsa · October 19, 2022, 2:47pm

yaustar:

There is a infrequent bug that we have been unable to reproduce on our team where users are unable to delete entities in the scene and will have some error when opening the Editor like this:
Cannot find child entity 2fba0d54-fba5-4aae-bfc4-7c56602ec495 of parent "Root" (3272fa01-fd89-11eb-9b62-026349a27a7c)
This is because there is an extra entity under the parent entity that doesn’t exist.

To fix this, you can do the following:

Make a checkpoint

Branch off the checkpoint

Switch to the new branch

Merge the branch immediately back to the original

OR you can do the following:

Make a branch or a checkpoint

In the browser dev console: const entity = editor.entities.get('XXXX') where XXXX is the GUID of the parent. In the example above, this would be 3272fa01-fd89-11eb-9b62-026349a27a7c

Copy and paste the following code in the browser dev console where XXX would be the child entity GUID
(function(removeGuid) {
    const children = entity.get('children');
    const newChildren = [];
    for(let i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
        if (children[i] !== removeGuid) {
            console.log(children[i]);
            newChildren.push(children[i]);
        }
    }
    entity.set('children', newChildren);
})('XXXX') // This would be '2fba0d54-fba5-4aae-bfc4-7c56602ec495' in this example
Refresh the tab

If you do hit this issue, please do let us know in this thread and any information you can remember of the steps you did to get to this point. Any information will help us find a reproducible case of this issue happening.

Make a checkpoint
Branch off the checkpoint
Switch to the new branch
Merge the branch immediately back to the original

Hello there! I tried following this but it didn’t seem to work. It’s only my second time using Playcanvas and I’m really lost on what to do… Please help! [PlayCanvas 3D HTML5 Game Engine]

yaustar · October 19, 2022, 4:10pm

@kpaligsa I can’t see the issue in your project. Do you still need help?

Tirk182 · October 31, 2022, 12:19am

@yaustar So it looks like this issue has hit one of my projects. I add a piece of fence and then it occurred when I moved the fence near the pumpkinTall. I have not been very successful and hoping you can recover this for me.

This is a backup I made when it happened.
https://playcanvas.com/project/1002406/overview/halloween-jauntback

This is the link I am trying to recover.
https://playcanvas.com/project/999242/overview/halloween-jaunt--remix

Having a hard time restoring my project following the instruction above. I hope you will be able to help.

Edit: I have been able to recover using the merge back method above.
PlayCanvas 3D HTML5 Game Engine

The other is the original and I see a lot of differences in the merge. Please have a look but I now have forward motion again.

yaustar · October 31, 2022, 9:47am

This is the only change I see in the merge and that’s expected as it’s removed the orphaned entity

Tirk182 · October 31, 2022, 9:55am

@yaustar I will have another look.
Update: I did have a further look at this and got everything restored. Thanks for looking at it for me. I assume that the links I sent didn’t help nail down a future solution for this?