confused about position and rotation after parenting;

i am trying to place something as a child of an object and set its position and rotation to that of the parent, but it refuses to work. you can see in the screen shot, the knife should be in the holster


here is the code

Code (CSharp):

1. knife.parent = _Holster;
2.         knife.position = Vector3.zero;  //_Holster.transform.position; // Vector3.zero;
3.         knife.eulerAngles = Vector3.zero;  //_Holster.transform.rotation; //Quaternion.identity;

if you look at the inspector, the position and rotation are not zero, even through i have that in the script.

if i manually set pos and rot to 0 in the inspector, like this

its perfect.

i've tried several options, setting pos and rot to same as the parent after parenting, setting pos and rot to same as the parent before parenting, nothing seems to work. any ideas how to do this simple thing.

by the way, i know in the models the position and rotation are all lined up to fit perfectly without moving or rotating because i set it up in blender.
thx

 

You want to use localPosition and localEulerAngles, otherwise you are setting the knife to be the global zero.

The inspector modifies local position/angles.

 

that did it, thanks