increasing the scale of a Object by a non integer number

Unity Engine
1

I’m trying to increase the scale of an object by .1 or .1, but it only allows a scale increase of 1 from what i’ve been tring.

A snippet of the code:
void Update () {
if (experience >= requiredExperience) {
experience = 0;
level += 1;
requiredExperience *=2;
attributePoints += 5;
transform.localScale += new Vector3 (1,1,1);

2

Use code tags:

Also, localScale is a Vector3, it stores floats, it should easily support incrementing by fractional values.

What sort of error are you getting?

3

You need to add “f” at the end of your floating point numbers, as in “.1f”. This is because in C#, floating point numbers are seen as the “double” type by default, whereas Vector3 is a struct of three “float” type floating point numbers. The little “f” at the end of a number denotes that it is a float, not a double.

If you want to know more about float and double and value types in general (and you should, if you want to take programming seriously), read up on 'em.

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4

I’ve tried those methods but this is what I get. And sorry I saw the code button on another forum but didn’t see it here.

    void Update () {
        if (experience >= requiredExperience) {
            experience = 0;
            level += 1;
            requiredExperience *=2;
            attributePoints += 5;
            transform.localScale += new Vector3 (.1,.1,.1);

        }
5

You were right Thomas, adding the F at the end worked just fine. Thank you. I’m used to coding is JS and Java so I was a bit lost why this didn’t work. I’m a bit new to C sharp, but after I get the syntax down, it should be easy.

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