Position of parent from grandchild

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I am trying to find a position of gameObject. Script is attached to a text which is in canvas (to render properly) of gameObject. I am trying to render the position of gameObject (Hexagon). I tried using transform.local.Position but it gives the position of text on screen.

Text is attached like this. alt text

This is the script I have.

 public class DisplayInfo : MonoBehaviour
 {
     Text text;
 
     void Awake()
     {
         text = GetComponent<Text>();
     }
     void Update()
     {  
         Vector2 pos = transform.parent.parent; //this gives me error cannot implicitly convert type 'unityengine.transform' to 'unityengine.vector2

         text.text = pos.ToString();
     }
 }

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Answer by MickyX · May 03 at 04:45 PM

Its a little hard to help with the information you have provided but a couple few things
.

Can you use TextMeshPro instead of Text? (Text is depreciated) and TextMeshPro can be used without a canvas which would remove your grandparent
Assuming the hexagon is a 3d object which it looks like, You can't access the Vector 2 position as it doesn't have one it is a vector 3 and the Hexagon is in 3d space. If you only want to show two positions x and y you can get them from the vector3

If you really want to use what you have above try this and see if it gives you what you want.

 void Update()
      {  
          Vector3 pos = transform.parent.parent; 
          text.text = pos.x + " " + pos.y;
      }

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tomiw04 · May 03 at 05:59 PM 0

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Thank you for your response. I tried your method but it still gives me error. I managed to make it work throught GamjeObject.Find. Here is the code i you are interested:

  var gobj = GameObject.Find(hexagon.name);
   
         if(gobj)
         {
             Vector2 vector = gobj.transform.position;
             text.text = vector.ToString();
         }

Position of parent from grandchild

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