About Vector3 (If statement)

Hello:
I was trying to make camera's x stay between 5 and -5. (as example) And I know what I must do. And I did! Check out!

Code (CSharp):

1. public Transform atmost;
2. public Transform atleast;
3.  
4. atleast = transform.Translate (-5,0,0);
5. atmost = transform.Translate (5,0,0);
6. if(atmost += transform.Translate(5,0,0))
7.         {
8.             atmost == transform.Translate(5,0,0);
9.         }
10.  
11.         if(atleast -= transform.Translate(-5,0,0))
12.         {
13.             atleast == transform.Translate(-5,0,0);
14.         }

Is it wrong?
Do you have a better code?
Please share!

/thanks/

 

that's wrong... the += and -= operators return a value so long as the two operands are the same type (or they can be implicitly converted), so those ifs are always going to be true because if(something) is true so long as "something" isn't null. In order for the above code to return null it would have had to error so it wouldn't work anyway.

also, transform.Translate(...) doens't have a return type so the assignments at the top wont work and should be throwing errors...


not to mention it's not even a valid file structure for either js or c#

 

Hey! Another question:
You can see those atmost and atleast , right? I'm trying to give them a vector 3 x,y,z. So... How?
I'm sure these don't work:

Code (CSharp):

1. atleast = transform.Translate (-5,0,0);
2. atmost = transform.Translate (5,0,0);

 

No they are also wrong. You translate the position like that two times. Once 5 units along the negative x axis and than back.
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.Translate.html

If you want to keep it within -5 and 5, you can do something like that:

Code (csharp):

1. Vector3 position = transform.position;
2. position.x = Mathf.Clamp (position.x, -5, 5);