How to move an object a fixed distance along one of its axis

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A newbie question: In my Update function I want to move a gameObject along one of its axis, by a fixed distance (its own width), irrespective of its World rotation transform.

The value against which I check the gameObject’s width to stop the translate should be the object’s own transform.position.x but this value varies depending on the gameObject’s World rotation transform.

Is there a way to extract the object’s local transform.position.x ie: relative to itself?
Or is there a better way to stop the translate loop at a given value?

This script is dynamically attached to game objects of various dimensions and positions, so the given value has to be from the object’s own transform.

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I’m not entirely sure this answers your question, but hitting the low hanging fruit first: You can access an entity’s local relative data by using

transform.localPosition

Some additional notes that may help you: You can also get your object’s relative axes by using the following:

transform.forward; //local Z Axis
transform.right; //local X Axis
transform.up; //local Y Axis