Question Assigning all Transform Properties at Once

Is there a way to assign all the properties of a gameobject's transform (i.e. position, rotation, scale) to that of a second game object with one line of code? I've been typing it out like this:

transform.position = otherObject.position;
transform.eulerAngles= otherObject.eulerAngles;
transform.scale = otherObject.scale;

Surely there's a way to assign all values at once? I would also like to do the same thing for the UI Image "Rect Transform" component using the TMPro namespace. This contains a number of properties including position X, Y & Z, as well as width and height, plus anchor values including scale and rotation. In short, a lot of fields, so assigning them all at once would be a lot more convenient.

 

I don't think there is...

Beware that this:

may have very wonky things going on.

Try instead:

Code (csharp):

1. transform.rotation = otherObject.rotation;

Here's why:

All about Euler angles and rotations, by StarManta:

https://starmanta.gitbooks.io/unitytipsredux/content/second-question.html

 

You can call SetPositionAndRotation or SetLocalPositionAndRotation.

There's no scale because it's rarely updated every frame.

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.SetLocalPositionAndRotation.html or
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.SetPositionAndRotation.html

nothing that includes scale as unless you wanted to create like matrix and assign it. would just do it manually.

Is this for Editor time or Run Time, since if its for a tool and not used while the game is running, there are a few ways to copy all serialized fields from one object to the a other

 

I assume (if it matters to you) you could write an extension method and it would be available to your Transform objects. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/d...g-guide/classes-and-structs/extension-methods

 

Having methods like

SetPositionAndRotation

isn't about aesthetics. It's a performance improvement since Unity won't refresh its scene graph twice with separate position and rotation calls. It does once after set the position and the rotation. These scene graph updates can add up if you do it in

Update

or something and you have many of them since they need to update the transform-graph (parent-child relationships between game objects).
Making an extension method by you (or anyone else, really) is an aesthetic choice, since you would still call Unity's API separately. Which can be done, just we should recognize, it is not the same thing.