Different sons of inheritance or a different parameter in construction

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Hi,
I’m trying to have a script control when and how an explosive missile explodes. It looks, on collision, for a SphereOverlay of colliders and then looks at the tag of each of them, to see if they have to be damaged, so it can make a sendMessage to each of the targets.

The problem is that I want both some enemies AND my main character to shoot this type of missile. So I don’t know what’s better:

  • OPTION A) Inherit from a central explosionMissile and each of the sons of the inheritance would check for the corresponding tag (“enemy” or “player”)

  • OPTION B) Have the same class for both but set a parameter on instantiation (can it be done) and this parameter wouuld be the String of the tag, so it checks differently each time.

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You want to go with option B.

Make a public variable on your script - then after Object.Instantiate, set it to a value you want to use.

Make sure that you do this though. If your prefab is a transform - do

var myNewObject : Transform;
myNewObject = Object.Instantiate(whatever, somePosition, someRotation);
myNewObject.GetComponent(MyScriptName).myProperty = whateverValue;