Question about parenting and join

[you]

use Ctrl + P to parenting 

use Ctrl + L to joining 

it seems like that joining will inherit transformation as well as texture ,whereas parenting only inherit transformation

just wondering what’s the main difference between these two ? and is there any thing that i should pay attention to ?

Thank you

[spikeyxxx]

The hotkey for joning is: CTRL+J!

This makes two or more Objects into one. It will take the Name and Modifiers of the Active Object and keeps the colors as they are.

Joining these two Objects:

will give:

But changing the Active Object to be the Plane:

will result in:

When Parenting, you will keep the seperate Objects, but when you Transform the Parent, the Child(ren) Transform(s) along.

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