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Question by dovster1 · Dec 18, 2018 at 07:11 AM · c#movementgameobjectparent-childfollow player

Making an object follow another object C#

Hello everyone, I am trying to make an object follow another object after colliding with it. First I tried making the object move towards it (towards its position) but that didn't work. Instead, I decided to switch the gameobject from one parent to another (the second parent being the object I want it following). So it works perfectly except when I want the object to switch back to its original parent it only works 50% of the time. It's very odd. Sometimes it will work great but other times it will not switch parents. The code I'm sure looks messy but that's because I have been trying many different things for it to work. In case your wondering its a capture the flag game and I want the flag to follow the person. Thanks! This is the code: using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour { public GameObject BluePlayer; public GameObject target;

 public GameObject RedFlagParent;

 private Transform tempTrans;

 public GameObject RedPlayer;

 public GameObject RedFlag;
 public GameObject BlueFlag;

 public GameObject BlueX;
 public GameObject RedX;

 public Transform TeleportLocationBlue;
 public Transform TeleportLocationRed;
 public Transform TeleportLocationRedFlag;
 public Transform RedPlayerTransform;
 public Transform RedFlagTransform;

 public float moveSpeed = 05f;
 public VJHandler jsMovement;

 private Vector3 direction;
 private float xMin, xMax, yMin, yMax;

 void Start()
 {
     //Initialization of boundaries, used to be 50
     xMax = Screen.width - 15;
     xMin = 15;
     yMax = Screen.height - 15;
     yMin = 15;
 }

 void Update()
 {
     //RedFlag.transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, BluePlayer.transform.position, 2f);
     direction = jsMovement.InputDirection; //InputDirection can be used as per the need of your project

     if (direction.magnitude != 0)
     {

         transform.position += direction * moveSpeed;
         transform.position = new Vector3(Mathf.Clamp(transform.position.x, xMin, xMax), Mathf.Clamp(transform.position.y, yMin, yMax), 0f);//to restric movement of player
     }
 }

 private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
 {        
     if (collision.tag == "BLUEPLAYER")
     {
         if (BlueX.transform.position.x <= 394)
         {
             BluePlayer.transform.position = TeleportLocationBlue.transform.position;
             //RedFlag.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(RedFlag.transform.position, BluePlayer.transform.position, 0.3f);
             Debug.Log("HIT");
         }


         else if (BlueX.transform.position.x >= 394)
         {
             RedFlag.transform.SetParent(RedFlagTransform.transform, true);
             RedFlag.transform.position = new Vector3(730, 262, 1);
             RedPlayer.transform.position = TeleportLocationRed.transform.position;
             Debug.Log("Not Hit");
         }
     }

     if (collision.tag == "RedFlag")
     {
         RedFlag.transform.SetParent(RedPlayerTransform.transform, true);
         Debug.Log("Flag Hit");
     }
 }

}

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Answer by dovster1 · Dec 18, 2018 at 05:17 PM

Nevermind, I got it.

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