How do I go up from child to parent?

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I am assuming I switch between hierarchy levels to accomplish tasks on each gameObject. I don't want to change the child's parent to another parent. I want 'navigate up' to the child's parent as in I want to change 'to' the child's parent.

I have this code:

         // We can use a 'current' transform to help transverse
         Transform current = transform; // current transform is Ring Gen
         Debug.Log(current.name);
         current = current.GetChild(0); // current transform is now RingPair (0)
         Debug.Log(current.name);
         current = current.GetChild(0); // current transform is now TSPair (0) Pos
         Debug.Log(current.name);
         current = current.GetChild(0); // current transform is now TSPivot (0)
         Debug.Log(current.name);
 
         //this current gets null when clearly there are 
         current = transform.parent; // Navigates up one to TSPair(n) level
         Debug.Log(current.name);

The transform.parent is not going up to that childs parent. Null is returned in last debug line. alt text

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Answer by GenericToast · Feb 08, 2019 at 07:39 AM

Shouldn't it be

 current = current.parent;

What you're doing now is getting the parent of Ring Gen

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Chimer0s · Feb 08, 2019 at 08:47 AM 1

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How do I go up from child to parent?

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