Child/Parent aren't moving together (so it seems)

1000h

When I print the spatial's vector and then it's skeleton child's vector, they differ.  This is unexpected, I did not expect them to differ. var character = (path to spatial_with_skeleton_as_child_with_meshinstance_as_child.scn).instance() add_child(character) #adds character as child to main scene's root node var vector = vector3(x,y,z) character.translate(vector) #print spatial translation print(character.get_translation()) >>>(x,y,z) #print skeleton translation print(character.get_child(0).get_translation()) >>>(!x,!y,!z)

Megalomaniak

Could it be that the child is represented in local space relative to the parent? (to be fair I just woke up and I could be completely off my game here still)

Ross

I haven't used 3D at all, but I believe Megalomaniak is right. Get_translation() is local, so it's just relative to that node's parent. Godot generally lacks functions for dealing with global transformations easily. From the looks of the docs, 3D might actually be better in that area though. get_global_transform().origin should give you the global translation.

quickmind2020

Yes Megalomanial is correct in what he says. get_transform is local space transform. It gets the difference between the global transform of the parent and the global transform of the child. To retrieve the global transform of the child you need to call get_global_transform(). This will proved what you should be looking for.