I have occasionally parented props to body parts and later decided I no longer wanted the prop to be parented to anything. The only thing I could do was delete it and add a new one.
There is no "parent to none" option, like there is a "conform to none option".
Just how do you un-parent a prop in a P6 scene?

Parent to UNIVERSE.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Contact Me | Kuroyume's DevelopmentZone

^^ yep.  It is a little counter intuitive.

My Freebies

Thought I tried this and it didn't unparent.
Well, off to try again.
Thanks guys.

Parent to Universe is correct - usually...

But if the prop is parented with "Inherit bends of Parent" checked (and you can't know, if it was a 3rd-party prop), then unparenting can cause problems.

If "Parenting to Universe" causes the prop to do something wierd, the alternatives that might work are (IIRC):

• Export the prop (still parented) as a .OBJ file, remembering to check the "Include Existing Groups" (or whatever the option actally is..) delete the original and imort the saved .OBJ
• Select the Prop, use the Grouping Tool and "Select All" then "Create Prop". Save it if necessary (as a new prop). This latter gets a little more complex if the prop in question has more than one group...

Hope that helps,
Cheers,
Diolma

Interesting.
Thanks Diolma.

I think if you just open the prop with out enything present to parent to, and resave it, it looses all parenting.

But it couldn't be that easy, could it?  ;-)

"*I think if you just open the prop with out enything present to parent to, and resave it, it looses all parenting.

But it couldn't be that easy, could it?*   ;-)"

Come to think of it, yes, it probably is that easy. In fact, just re-saving back to the props library (when parented) should work, just say "NO" when you get the dialogue asking "Save as a Smart Prop"?

Although I would always advise saving as a new prop, rather than overwriting the original...

Cheers,
Diolma