Help - parent or unparent moves object - why?

dream-weaver

Since a few days I'm getting the problem that whenever I parent or unparent an object to or from a character, the object is moved in space and turns its axis etc.
Why is that happening?

Usually these objects kept their position while making it parent or unparent.
For instance, when I place a glass into the hand of a character and then parent it to its hand, it stayed in that exact position (from the moment it was unparented to then being parented).

Did I activate something?

Richard Haseltine

You have presumably turned Parent Items In Place off - if you use the Change parent dialogue it is a checkbox at the bottom, if you drag and drop it is a toggleable entry in the Scene pane option menu (the line/"hamburger" button in the top corner). Changing it in one place changes it in the other too, they are just different ways to reach the same option.

dream-weaver

That's it, thank you.