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Bug Prefab is attached to a gameobject instead of becoming a new gameobject in the scene

Discussion in '2020.2 Beta' started by Rowlan, Oct 26, 2020.

  1. Rowlan

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    When I take e. g. the default VFX prefab that comes with HDRP and drag the butterflies into the scene with a terrain, the VFX gameobject is attached to the terrain. If I have a grasspatch there, it would be attached to the grass patch.

    That's definitely not good :)
     
    Last edited: Oct 28, 2020
    Rowlan, Oct 26, 2020
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  2. LeonhardP

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    Hi @Rowlan,

    There's a new option to set up default parents for new GameObjects in 2020.2:

    Editor: Added "Set as Default" option to Hierarchy objects to allow setting a custom parent for objects dragged into the Scene/Hierarchy Windows and objects created via the GameObject menu.

    Could you please check if it's related to that? If not, please submit a bug report for it.
     
    LeonhardP, Oct 28, 2020
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  3. Rowlan

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    I'm not aware of that feature, but I did find that menu option in the gameobject of the hierarchy itself. Or is this some global setting? Just to visualize the problem:

    dbug.gif

    You see the ButterFlies are added as child to the Terrain gameobject. But I want them as a separate one. More problematic would be if I'd drag it to a grass gameobject, then they'd become a child of the grass.

    Please let me know if there's another setting to try or if you want me to file a bug report. However that's not intended behaviour :) If I'd want it as child of the Terrain, I'd drag it into the Terrain hierarchy, not into the scene view. That would be much too inaccurate to position / parent correctly.
     
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    Rowlan, Oct 28, 2020
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  4. gabrielw_unity

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    Hi Rowlan, agreed, this doesn't feel like expected behavior - I'll check and see where this changed! :)
     
    gabrielw_unity, Oct 28, 2020
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  5. gabrielw_unity

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    Note: "Set as Default Parent" doesn't appear to be activated (the "Terrain" item would be Bold in the Hierarchy), so I don't think that is the issue. Could you log a bug directly? (Help > Report a Bug) - thanks very much!
     
    gabrielw_unity, Oct 28, 2020
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  6. Rowlan

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    Yeah sure. I tried reducing the scene to the core. But noticed that it doesn't eg happen if I create a cube as prefab. It seems to affect the VFX prefabs (is VFX a prefab?) only so far.

    Gonna file a bug report nontheless and update this post with the bug number when it's done.

    Edit: Case Id is 1288444
     
    Last edited: Oct 28, 2020
    Rowlan, Oct 28, 2020
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  7. LeonhardP

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    LeonhardP, Nov 5, 2020
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