Why does things always become a child?

WhyAreLess

Hi. I got a label in my project and wanted to added a TextureFrame to be the background of the scene but it always becomes the child object of the label. How can I stop this from happening?

I want to be able to have the Label infront of the background and not be a child of the Label.

I'd love to have it not do this by default and instead just make it a parent directly instead of a child of another parent. It's really bothering me.

danjo

There can only be one parent per scene. You should read the docs: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/step_by_step/scenes_and_nodes.html

WhyAreLess

@danjo said: There can only be one parent per scene. You should read the docs: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/step_by_step/scenes_and_nodes.html

Thank you. I'm sorry, I should have read up on the documentation before asking the question but there was no way to stop the thread from getting posted. Haha.

PaulMurray

If you ever wish to change a parent type after you've added children, you can right click it and select "Change type" from the menu. No need to delete and re-add.

WhyAreLess

@PaulMurray said: If you ever wish to change a parent type after you've added children, you can right click it and select "Change type" from the menu. No need to delete and re-add.

Useful. Thanks! :smile:

danjo

But make sure to save anything unsaved before doing that. Godot likes to crash when I do that. (Changing type of node).

About that doc thing: It wasn't meant like you shouldn't have asked this question, i just wanted to get you to the relevant section in the docs and encourage you to get used to using it. You won't regret it ;)