Move a Control to a different parent but keep the old rotation

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Godot Version

4.4-dev1

Question

Hello everyone and hope you are doing fine :slightly_smiling_face: I’m learning Godot and would like some help with something I’ve been stuck at.
I want to move a Control to a different parent but would like to keep the old transform. I used
card.reparent(dest, true)
but this seems to keep the position only (confirmed with the documentation). The destination parent is rotated and how matter how much I play with rotation and offsets it seems to never keep the old position and rotation. Anyone has faced this before?

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You can save the rotation before and then apply it again later, right?

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The rotation is always 0, it gets rotated because of the new parent transforms.

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And whats the problem with just setting it to 0 after reparenting?

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Does this help maybe? https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/s/57uoVxyzwz

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I added an image to explain what I’m trying to achieve. I’m building a card game and I want to tween a card between the deck and the hand.

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This didn’t seem to help. The card always ends up in the top left corner of the screen.

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It will something like this if you want to keep the rotation same even if it change its parent.

var rot = 0 #that you want as default to keep
rotation = rot - get_parent().global_rotation
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Thx for the suggestion. So that doesn’t work because of the card pivot offsets. However if I set them to (0, 0) it works. However when I put them back the card changes position drastically.

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