What is generally a good habit, parenting or grouping meshes? (In Maya)

Welcj

I am still, a newbie and I have little knowledge and experience of how this hierarchy system works down the line on a working environment/pipeline. That said, what are the pros/cons of these two methods, are there any, or does it matter at all?

I kinda brushed a bit on learning rigging but one thing I know is parenting is a must in the rigging process, what I am thinking is if I used to group a lot it would cause me problems in the future when doing a full asset project.

jStins

Is this for an asset that's going to be animated? Grouping is essentially the same as parenting. You're just parenting objects to a node that's invisible (but still has transforms). In general I use groups for scene organization, but for rigging purposes it's better to parent things and use locators instead of groups when needed. This is a nice little video that covers the fundamentals of how hierarchies work in 3D: 

https://youtu.be/P4JzUvxtMpg

Welcj

@jStins thank you so much for the insight!