Parenting GameObject to another animated GameObject

What's the best way to parent GameObject to anoter animted GameObject? It seems like Unity locks all transforms in the hierarchy of the animated object. I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about:
1) Parent object A to animated object B via SetParent(Transform). Everything is ok, object A keeps its global scale
2) On LateUpdate() parent object A to another non-animted object. Expected behaviour - object A keeps its global scale, real behaviour - object A keeps its localScale therefore modifying its global scale and in my case becomes smaller and smaller with each reparenting.

Thanks in advance.

 

If your issue is scale then the only advice I have is to leave your object scale as 1 as much as possible.

If your issue is parenting an object to an animated object, it may depend on whether it was from an FBX or from mechanim, although I imagine in both cases you'd probably have to expose the bone objects and parent your target object to the animated target bone.

What exactly are you trying to achieve though?

 

Hi, thanks for response.

It's exactly what I'm trying to achieve - parent an object to the animated bone. It works fine, but whenever I try to detach said object from animated bone via SetParent(Transform) it keeps its localScale resulting in different global scale each time I do it.

To be more specific:
We have an animated character who has a slot in his hand for different kinds of objects, whenever collision is registered I attach incoming object to the bone via SetParent(Transform). You can remove attached object by dragging it, whenever this happens I remove object from character hand by setting it transform to root of our scene, but it results in object keeping it's local scale. It works fine with animator disabled.

edit: btw, our object is animated via mechanim.

 

SetParent takes an optional second parameter. Try setting it to true or false. One of them works.

 

SetParent(Transform, bool) second parameter determinates should object keep its global position, rotation and scale. Default value of this parameter is true and it's exactly what I need.