# How to determine rotation of object to stage?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-determine-rotation-of-object-to-stage/290746
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**Created:** [June 19, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-determine-rotation-of-object-to-stage/290746 "2009-06-19T01:02:01Z")
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### Author: ![Shaedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@Shaedo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Shaedo)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-determine-rotation-of-object-to-stage/290746/1 "2009-06-19T01:02:01Z")

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Hi,

How can I get the X, Y, and rotation values, relative to the stage of a child of unknown number of parents?

What I am doing is:  
I have a ‘stick’ object, that creates a child ‘stick’, that creates a child ‘stick’, etc a random number of times.

The end stick then creates a leaf.

Each new stick rotates a little bit randomly.

As a result when my leaf falls off the final stick it flies off in a strange direction.

How can I get the leaf to fall down (eg y++ relative to stage)?

Alternatively I thought I could dispatch an event that has a leaf created at the stage level but then I really need to know what the X and Y co-ordinates of my final stick is realtive to the stage.

Thank you for taking the time to look at this.

Even advice on what terms I should be searching for would be helpful at this stage!