Parent and Child Class Question

All I want is to get my player to retrieve the type of spell that is being cast.

I have a parent class spell that has a member called type. Then I have another script who inherits that type and on start() it assigns the type to "Something". Parent class has a function getType which returns string type.

Note that before I did this I had set the Parent's type to "poop", just to see if I would get it. It worked, however when I took that code out of the Parent's script and assigned the Child's type to something the game stayed retuning poop. So now, as funny as it is, I can't stop getting "poop". I want to get "Something"

this is the parent class

Code (CSharp):

1. public class Spell : MonoBehaviour {
2.  
3.     protected string type;
4.  
5.     public virtual string getType()
6.     {
7.         return type;
8.     }
9.  
10. }
11.  

this is the child class

Code (CSharp):

1. public class ChildSpell : Spell {
2.    
3.     public void Awake(){
4.         type = "Something";
5.     }
6.  
7.     public override string getType ()
8.     {
9.         return type;
10.     }
11. }

my playerClass

Code (CSharp):

1. public class Mage : MonoBehaviour {
2.  
3.  
4.     public Spell[] spellbook;
5.  
6.     public void Update(){
7.  
8.         if(Input.GetButtonDown("Spell1")){
9.             Debug.Log(spellbook[0].getType());
10.         }
11.     }
12.  
13. }

There is code that i took out of the playerClass because it doesn't have to do with the problem. But the ChildSpell was assigned to the Spell array via inspector. Again the problem is that it is still returning "poop" even though the code doesn't have it anymore.

 

Put a Debug.Log in ChildSpell's Awake(), make sure that that is getting called.

 

I believe you might have to make a virtual Awake method in your base class and override it in your child class. I vaguely remember some quirky behavior around that.

 

Thanks for the help but it still didn't work. I think there is a problem with the way I am constructing my classes.

 

I did this and it was it sending me back the message, so Its going through the right Awake but it is not actually setting the type to anything.

 

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All I want is to get my player to retrieve the type of spell that is being cast.

I have a parent class spell that has a member called type. Then I have another script who inherits that type and on start() it assigns the type to "Something". Parent class has a function getType which returns string type.

Note that before I did this I had set the Parent's type to "poop", just to see if I would get it. It worked, however when I took that code out of the Parent's script and assigned the Child's type to something the game stayed retuning poop. So now, as funny as it is, I can't stop getting "poop". I want to get "Something"


I created a cast function as my init function
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this is the parent class

Code (CSharp):

1. public class Spell : MonoBehaviour {
2.  
3.     protected string type;
4.  
5.     public virtual string getType()
6.     {
7.         return type;
8.     }
9.  
10.     public virtual string cast()
11.     {/*mt*/}
12.  
13. }
14.  

this is the child class

Code (CSharp):

1. public class ChildSpell : Spell {
2.  
3.     public override string getType ()
4.     {
5.         return type;
6.     }
7.  
8.     public override string cast()
9.     {
10.         type = "Something";
11.     }
12. }

my playerClass

Code (CSharp):

1. public class Mage : MonoBehaviour {
2.  
3.  
4.     public Spell[] spellbook;
5.  
6.     public void Update(){
7.  
8.         if(Input.GetButtonDown("Spell1")){
9.             spellbook[0].cast();
10.             Debug.Log(spellbook[0].getType());
11.         }
12.     }
13.  
14. }

This code worked.