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Proper way to change parent

Discussion in 'Entity Component System' started by rjohnson06, Feb 21, 2020.

  1. rjohnson06

    rjohnson06

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    Does anyone know the proper way to change an entity's parent? I am able to change the parent, but I get a ton of errors after doing so:

    ArgumentException: The entity does not exist
    Unity.Entities.EntityComponentStore.AssertEntityHasComponent (Unity.Entities.Entity entity, Unity.Entities.ComponentType componentType) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.entities@0.5.0-preview.17/Unity.Entities/EntityComponentStoreDebug.cs:231)
    Unity.Entities.EntityComponentStore.AssertEntityHasComponent (Unity.Entities.Entity entity, System.Int32 componentType) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.entities@0.5.0-preview.17/Unity.Entities/EntityComponentStoreDebug.cs:239)
    Unity.Entities.ComponentDataFromEntity`1[T].get_Item (Unity.Entities.Entity entity) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.entities@0.5.0-preview.17/Unity.Entities/Iterators/ComponentDataFromEntity.cs:133)
    Unity.Transforms.LocalToParentSystem+UpdateHierarchy.ChildLocalToWorld (Unity.Mathematics.float4x4 parentLocalToWorld, Unity.Entities.Entity entity) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.entities@0.5.0-preview.17/Unity.Transforms/LocalToParentSystem.cs:31)
    Unity.Transforms.LocalToParentSystem+UpdateHierarchy.Execute (Unity.Entities.ArchetypeChunk chunk, System.Int32 index, System.Int32 entityOffset) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.entities@0.5.0-preview.17/Unity.Transforms/LocalToParentSystem.cs:65)
    Unity.Entities.JobChunkExtensions+JobChunk_Process`1[T].ExecuteInternal (Unity.Entities.JobChunkExtensions+JobChunkData`1[T]& jobData, Unity.Jobs.LowLevel.Unsafe.JobRanges& ranges, System.Int32 jobIndex) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.entities@0.5.0-preview.17/Unity.Entities/IJobChunk.cs:208)
    Unity.Entities.JobChunkExtensions+JobChunk_Process`1[T].Execute (Unity.Entities.JobChunkExtensions+JobChunkData`1[T]& jobData, System.IntPtr additionalPtr, System.IntPtr bufferRangePatchData, Unity.Jobs.LowLevel.Unsafe.JobRanges& ranges, System.Int32 jobIndex) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.entities@0.5.0-preview.17/Unity.Entities/IJobChunk.cs:192)
     
    rjohnson06, Feb 21, 2020
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  2. rjohnson06

    rjohnson06

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    Actually this looks like it's really an issue with destroying an entity that has a parent
     
    rjohnson06, Feb 21, 2020
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