A couple days ago Leonidas told me to add a parent entity and set it as a child and rotate it 100 degrees to fix the enemy not looking at me with animation. How do I add a parent entity and set it as a child?
Do you know what parent and child entities are?
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When people talk about parents and children entity, they refer to the relationship between the entities. These are common terms used in graphs and tree structures: Tree (data structure) - Wikipedia
Using PlayCanvas as the example here:
Entity A has children that are Entity B and Entity D and Entity A is the parent of Entity B and D.
Entity C is the child of Entity B and Entity B is the parent of Entity C
When a parent moves/rotates/scales, the children are also affected relative to their parent, so they will move/rotate/scale with their parent.
The technique mentioned by Leonidas is a common technique to apply a relative positional or rotational offset to it’s parent so when the parent is moved/rotated the child is facing the ‘correct’ way.
You can see it being used in this example: Point and click movement | Learn PlayCanvas
Where the cone for the nose is positioned and rotated as child to point in the direction that the Player is facing:
This way, wherever the Player is moved and rotated, the Cone is always going to be positioned and rotated as an offset to the parent.
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