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Scene Graph Parent Child

Parent one entity to another and the child moves WITH the parent: attach a weapon to a hand, lights to a ship. The hierarchy makes groups move as one.

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In UEFN you can attach one game object to another — like bolting a lantern onto a ship. Nest the child under a parent, and wherever the parent goes, the child rides along.

Think of a blueprint that stamps out a ship with lights welded on. The ship is the parent; the lanterns are children. Move the ship and every light follows automatically — they're one group.

We call Lantern.GetParent to find the ship it's nested under. GetParent can fail if there's no parent, so we gate it with the if-brackets. Once we have the parent, we can read its transform — the lantern's whole world is driven by it.

Parent an entity to another and they move as one — that's how hierarchies keep your ships, lights, and weapons glued together.

ShipEntity := Lantern.GetParent[]
if (Parent := Lantern.GetParent[]):
    ShipPos := Parent.GetTransform().Translation
    Print("Lantern rides with its ship")

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