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# setWorldTransform(_:)

Sets the world transform applied to the node.

```
func setWorldTransform(_ worldTransform: SCNMatrix4)
```

## Parameters

`worldTransform`

The new transform matrix, relative to the scene coordinate space, to apply to the node.

## Discussion

A world transform is the node’s coordinate space transform relative to the scene’s coordinate space. This transform is the concatenation of the node’s [`transform`](/documentation/SceneKit/SCNNode/transform) property with that of its parent node, the parent’s parent, and so on up to the [`rootNode`](/documentation/SceneKit/SCNScene/rootNode) object of the scene.

## See Also

[`simdWorldTransform`](/documentation/SceneKit/SCNNode/simdWorldTransform)

The world transform applied to the node.

[`parent`](/documentation/SceneKit/SCNNode/parent)

The node’s parent in the scene graph hierarchy.


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