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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Pickups Script the Fly Movement

Ranvir Sahota
Ranvir Sahota
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Posted by Ranvir Sahota
Ranvir Sahota
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Geometry Game Object?

Can someone explain geometry game object and how it allows the fly to rotate around it? Basically, I want to know the purpose of the geometry object.

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Alan Mattanó
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Alan Mattanó
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Alan Mattanó
Alan Mattanó
Courses Plus Student 12,188 Points

What do you mean for "geometry game object". Each Game object is empty. Do not contain components. Game Object are only a point in space. They contain the transform with the position. Now if you put a new Game object as a child, this second game object also gas his own point in space that is childe of the parent. So is you rotate the parent, all the game object that are child will rotate with it. So if the child game object is a fly it will rotate around itself. But if you move this fly child object and you rotate the parent , than the fly will look like is flying around. Make an experiment and rotate the parent to get an idea.