How do I Re-parent an entity but maintaining the entities original proportions?

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Hi, when I reparent an entity to some other parent the entity takes on the scale and proportions of the new parent. How can I prevent that?

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Hi @Grimmy,

Check this post, it provides a way to get around that: [SOLVED] Retain global position and scale of element when reparenting

3

Thanks, that looks incredibly complicated for what it does:).
As a wishlist item; maybe it would be an idea to have an argument in the Reparent api which you can set true/false to adopt or refuse to adopt the parents transforms?

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Yeah, that can be useful, though I think scaling isn’t so straightforward.

Try posting a feature request in the engine repo about it.

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Yeah, I’m trying the workaround for the post you mention but scaling doesnt seem to do anything?

this.sc =this.my_tracked_clone.getScale();
this.my_tracked_clone.reparent(this.entity);
this.my_tracked_clone.setLocalScale(this.sc);//Doesn't do anything..same scale as before

Does getScale() even exist in the api?

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No it doesn’t, scaling is local.

Make sure to follow the exact code, it involves using the world matrix (I haven’t tried it myself):