How to change the parent of current node.

Question

I am trying to change the parent of my current node.

get_parent().remove_child(self)
get_parent().get_parent().add_child(self)

Answer 1

When you unparent a node, the return value of get_parent() will be null. So you cannot use get_parent() when it has no parent.

var new_parent = get_node("/root/AnotherParent")
get_parent().remove_child(self)
new_parent.add_child(self)

Reference the parent before you unparent:

var new_parent = get_parent().get_parent()
get_parent().remove_child(self)
new_parent.add_child(self)

Comments

somehow I get 'addchild' in base 'null instance' after removechild
func _process(delta): if target and get_parent() != get_node(target): var new_parent = get_node(target) get_parent().remove_child(self) new_parent.add_child(self)