Unity Script Reference

Transform Inherits from Component, IEnumerable

Position, rotation and scale of an object.

Every object in a scene has a Transform. It's used to store and manipulate the position, rotation and scale of the object. Every Transform can have a parent, which allows you to apply position, rotation and scale hierarchically. This is the hierarchy seen in the Hierarchy pane. They also support enumerators so you can loop through children using:

JavaScript

// Moves all transform children 10 units upwards!
for (var child : Transform in transform) {
    child.position += Vector3.up * 10.0;
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class example : MonoBehaviour {
    void Example() {
        foreach (Transform child in transform) {
            child.position += Vector3.up * 10.0F;
        }
    }
}

import UnityEngine
import System.Collections

class example(MonoBehaviour):

    def Example():
        for child as Transform in transform:
            child.position += (Vector3.up * 10.0F)

See Also: The component reference, Physics class.

Variables

position	The position of the transform in world space.
localPosition	Position of the transform relative to the parent transform.
eulerAngles	The rotation as Euler angles in degrees.
localEulerAngles	The rotation as Euler angles in degrees relative to the parent transform's rotation.
right	The red axis of the transform in world space.
up	The green axis of the transform in world space.
forward	The blue axis of the transform in world space.
rotation	The rotation of the transform in world space stored as a Quaternion.
localRotation	The rotation of the transform relative to the parent transform's rotation.
localScale	The scale of the transform relative to the parent.
parent	The parent of the transform.
worldToLocalMatrix	Matrix that transforms a point from world space into local space (Read Only).
localToWorldMatrix	Matrix that transforms a point from local space into world space (Read Only).
root	Returns the topmost transform in the hierarchy.
childCount	The number of children the Transform has.
lossyScale	The global scale of the object (Read Only).
hasChanged	Has the transform changed since the last time the flag was set to 'false'?

Functions

Translate	Moves the transform in the direction and distance of translation.
Rotate	Applies a rotation of eulerAngles.z degrees around the z axis, eulerAngles.x degrees around the x axis, and eulerAngles.y degrees around the y axis (in that order).
RotateAround	Rotates the transform about axis passing through point in world coordinates by angle degrees.
LookAt	Rotates the transform so the forward vector points at /target/'s current position.
TransformDirection	Transforms direction from local space to world space.
InverseTransformDirection	Transforms a direction from world space to local space. The opposite of Transform.TransformDirection.
TransformPoint	Transforms position from local space to world space.
InverseTransformPoint	Transforms position from world space to local space. The opposite of Transform.TransformPoint.
DetachChildren	Unparents all children.
Find	Finds a child by name and returns it.
IsChildOf	Is this transform a child of parent?

Inherited members

Inherited Variables

rigidbody	The Rigidbody attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
camera	The Camera attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
light	The Light attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
animation	The Animation attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
constantForce	The ConstantForce attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
renderer	The Renderer attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
audio	The AudioSource attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
guiText	The GUIText attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
networkView	The NetworkView attached to this GameObject (Read Only). (null if there is none attached).
guiTexture	The GUITexture attached to this GameObject (Read Only). (null if there is none attached).
collider	The Collider attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
hingeJoint	The HingeJoint attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
particleEmitter	The ParticleEmitter attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
particleSystem	The ParticleSystem attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
tag	The tag of this game object.
name	The name of the object.
hideFlags	Should the object be hidden, saved with the scene or modifiable by the user?

Inherited Functions

GetComponent	Returns the component of Type type if the game object has one attached, null if it doesn't.
GetComponentInChildren	Returns the component of Type type in the GameObject or any of its children using depth first search.
GetComponentsInChildren	Returns all components of Type type in the GameObject or any of its children.
GetComponents	Returns all components of Type type in the GameObject.
CompareTag	Is this game object tagged tag?
SendMessageUpwards	Calls the method named methodName on every MonoBehaviour in this game object and on every ancestor of the behaviour.
SendMessage	Calls the method named methodName on every MonoBehaviour in this game object.
BroadcastMessage	Calls the method named methodName on every MonoBehaviour in this game object or any of its children.
GetInstanceID	Returns the instance id of the object.
ToString	Returns the name of the game object.

Inherited Class Functions

operator bool
Instantiate	Clones the object original and returns the clone.
Destroy	Removes a gameobject, component or asset.
DestroyImmediate	Destroys the object obj immediately. It is strongly recommended to use Destroy instead.
FindObjectsOfType	Returns a list of all active loaded objects of Type type.
FindObjectOfType	Returns the first active loaded object of Type type.
operator ==	Compares if two objects refer to the same.
operator !=	Compares if two objects refer to a different object.
DontDestroyOnLoad	Makes the object target not be destroyed automatically when loading a new scene.