Can't add TransformObjectToWorld component

Hi there!
I'm trying to add a TransformObjectToWorld component to an entitiy. I have tried

• the editor => the component isn't listed
• over code => I get an error that the component is already there

When I try to access the component though it throws another error:

ut.World.getComponentData(): Entity "Sprite"[141:1] does not have an instance of component ut.Core2D.TransformObjectToWorld (Component ID 48).

This seems to either be a bug, outdated/deprecated functionality or a user error on my end but I can't quite tell ^^

 

The documentation for this component is:
"The UpdateWorldTransformSystem system adds and updates this component, which
provides direct access to the cached Object to World space transform. This
component is readable and writeable."

It seems that this component is only meant to be used internally by Unity Tiny itself. What is your usecase exactly for why you would like to add this component?

 

Yes, I might have understood it incorrectly maybe. My understanding is that it is automatically added when a script tries to access it. This is not how it works in reality though, so I'm trying to add it but that also doesn't seem to work.
The reason I want to access it is to set the coordinates of a child entity to those of its parent.

 

I don't think that you are looking for this component, as far as I can see, it's only meant to be read, and not meant to be used to set an entity's position. If you simply want the child to have the same position as its parent, you could probably just set it via the ut.Core2D.TransformLocalPosition on the child-entity. Setting the ".position" value of this component to new Vector3(0, 0, 0) would position the child-entity at the location of its parent.

 

Oh... of course ^^ thank you so much! I still don't understand how I would go about reading the component but it seems like I don't need to after all.