Is it possible to extend my Class form the Transform class

Unity Engine
1

Hi.

Is it possible to extend a Class form the Transform class?
like

public class myWheel : Transform
{
    public myWheel() { }
}

thanx in advance

2

I don’t think it is. And even if it were, how would you go about replacing the existing transform of a GameObject by your own implementation?

Why do you want to inherit from Transform? I don’t really see why that would be useful.

3

Well… I have made a truck wich is one solid mesh with all wheels attached. These wheels are transformable by bones.

Therefore i’ve made a Truck controler script.
In this script i’ve made 4 public Transform properties for the wheels. So i can attach each wheel to the apropriate Transform. What i want to do is that each wheels rotation is calculated by its displacement.
so i thought, if i can extend from Transform. i can create 1 script for all wheels. so they can rotate independetly.

en btw ik zie dat je uit Nederland komt. Wat leuk…
En nog werkt in Utrecht ook…

4

With unity, you would typically just make each wheel a child of your truck/chassis object and ensure that each wheel has the same script component to control it’s behavior.

The wheel offset and rotation is then maintained in relation to the main object.

5

I was looking for this as well. I wanted to inherit Transform and limit access to some things, like making Transform.position a property with private setter access, etc.

I guess I’ll just have to roll my own wrapper.

EDIT: Actually a wrapper won’t work because I can’t substitute it where the expect type is Transform =(

6

You’d actually want to extend both GameObject and Transform in order to do the implementation correctly. That being said - I would lean towards using the framework as intended and making those objects children of the overall Truck parent.

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@KelsoMRK Hi, I beat a dead thread to extend the discussion of extending Transform. I didn’t mean to cause replies to the OP from 2009. Sorry for not being clear. The goal in my case is to limit public write access to some members.

8

Oops - my fault. I should have looked at the post dates. :slight_smile: