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How to Organize Hierarchy at run time?
I'm procedurally generating content but it shows up in the hierarchy root at run time. Is there any way to change parent/child relationships in the hierarchy at run time to organize the game objects.
Example. I'm creating a 2D scrolling level at run time by creating X game objects, assigning sprites to them, and rendering them one after the other. I have an empty game object acting as an organizational element called "Level" with children "Foreground", "Playarea", and "Background". I want my generated content to show in it's appropriate relative parent/child relationship within the hierarchy.
Does anyone know how I can accomplish this programmatically?
yes of course!! just go:
private GameObject parent;
public void CreatIfNeeded (string objectName)
{
parent = GameObject.Find (objectName);
if (!parent)
{
parent = new GameObject(objectName);
}
}
private void Fire ()
{
GameObject newGameGeneration = Instantiate (projectile) as GameObject;
newGameGeneration .transform.parent = parent.transform;
newGameGeneration .transform.position = //Whatever the position is that your spawning it at;
}
so basically what this is going to do is check if there is a game object by the name of objectName. if there isn't, it will create one called parent. All created content, when instantiated, could be put as a child to it like how I have it in the script above.
sorry about some of that, I took it from my own scripts so ignore the "projectiles" and "Fire" as names for the function and what it would be spawning.
