C# the position of the object

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Hey guys,

I need to know the position of a child to the parent position. I have a script that uses transform.translate so colliders don’t work anymore. it needs to stop at -5.5 and 5.5 so I thought an if statement. `

public class SideMove : MonoBehaviour {

public float amountMove = 0.05f;

void Update () {

	if(Input.GetButtonDown("Left"))
	{
               if(position <= -5.5)
                  {
                   //don't go further
                  }
            
            else{
	   Vector3 position = transform.position;
	   position.x -= amountMove;
           transform.position = position;
	 } 
	
	if(Input.GetButtonDown("Right"))
	{
               if(position >= 5.5)
                  {
                   //don't go further
                  }

                else{
		Vector3 position = transform.position;
			position.x += amountMove;
			transform.position = position;
	        }
              }
}

}`

sorry if the “{}” are messed up, I tried to fix it. Anyway how do I set the current position so I can use it in a if statement?

sorry for the bad english

Thank you

2

use transform.localPosition to get the the object position in its parent space.