Ignore parent's scale | Bevy | Page 1

rigid jungle Mar 14, 2024, 4:43 PM

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Is there a way for a child entity with a Transform to ignore its parents Transform scale?

Or maybe something that acts like "applying a scale" in blender. As in the new scale because the 1.0 scale value.

chilly ridge Mar 15, 2024, 2:08 PM

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No, currently there isn't. You'll have to write a system yourself that scales the child component to counter the parent.

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Your issue is tracked here: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/1780

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Allow specifying which transform components are relative to the par...

What problem does this solve or what need does it fill? An example use case is a tank with a child turret entity. The turret should inherit location and scale from the tank, but should rotate indep...

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What I mean is that if your parents scale is 2 then the childs scale needs to be 0.5 because 2 * 0.5 = 1

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You have to be a bit careful when doing this because it is easy to get a one frame lag which isn't visible in most circumstances but if you for example is changing the scale of the parent every frame then it would be visible.

rigid jungle Mar 15, 2024, 11:52 PM

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chilly ridge What I mean is that if your parents scale is 2 then the childs scale needs to be...

this is what I started doing and it started to feel hacky so I justed backed off! makes sense if that is th way to do it at the moment.

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