Make node a child of other node

[emmettwager]

Godot Version

godot4

Question

i have a world node and its children are gun and player.
I want to make the gun a child of the player.
how do i do this

[fireside]

Just drag it onto the player node in the editor.

[emmettwager]

sry, i mean in code

[fireside]

Do you have bing?
I just type this in the editor:
godot code to move a node from one parent to another
bing gives the code:

func move_to_selected(node, old_parent):
    old_parent.remove_child(node)
    selected_node.add_child(node)
    node.set_owner(selected_node)

[emmettwager]

@fireside

func move_to_selected(node, old_parent):
    old_parent.remove_child(node)
    selected_node.add_child(node)
    node.set_owner(selected_node)

thnx that worked. also, wdym i have bing? I dont have it

[fireside]

bing is the search engine for Microsoft Edge.

[emmettwager]

i see, so ur saying you found that with bing?

[gertkeno]

you can also use reparent

node.reparent(new_parent)

[fireside]

Yeah, try it out. It’s really handy. Just type “godot code for …”