Parent a prefab to another prefab

[Rabagast]

Hi!

I need to parent a prefab to another prefab. But I get an error.

"Setting the parent of a transform which resides in a prefab is disabled to prevent data corruption."

I tried to store the Prefabs in a Game Object variable, but it doesn't work.

How can I do this?

[Lane]

Nested prefabs are not supported in Unity 4.x but Unity 5.0 is supposed to have support.

Currently if you add prefabs to the scene, parent them, etc, then make that a prefab then it will simply create the prefab and the sub-prefabs are turned into unique objects.

I haven't seen that error though, how are you getting it?

[Rabagast]

Hi!

I was thinking the same. :-)

I get the error if I use "Set Parent" and use Prefab A as game object and Prefab B as parent.

[Lane]

Ah, well, if you're targeting the prefab in the project hierarchy that wouldn't work anyway, Unity doesn't allow that. You need to target a scene object.

[Rabagast]

My plan was to create a two prefabs in the scene where one of the prefab will parent the other. But I find another way. Thanks!

[mweyna]

You could do something where you set a global variable upon creation, Set Game Object Parent and then on the next prefab, have an action where it sets that global variable object as it's parent. Just have to make sure your timing is right with the actions.