Object

class in UnityEngine

Description

Base class for all objects Unity can reference.

Any public variable you make that derives from Object gets shown in the inspector as a drop target, allowing you to set the value from the GUI. UnityEngine.Object is the base class of all built-in Unity objects.

Although Object is a class it is not intended to be used widely in script. However as an example Object is used in the Resources class. See Resources.LoadAll which has [[Object[]]] as a return.

This class doesn't support the null-conditional operator (?.) and the null-coalescing operator (??).

Properties

hideFlags	Should the object be hidden, saved with the Scene or modifiable by the user?
name	The name of the object.

Public Methods

GetInstanceID	Returns the instance id of the object.
ToString	Returns the name of the GameObject.

Static Methods

Destroy	Removes a gameobject, component or asset.
DestroyImmediate	Destroys the object obj immediately. You are strongly recommended to use Destroy instead.
DontDestroyOnLoad	Do not destroy the target Object when loading a new Scene.
FindObjectOfType	Returns the first active loaded object of Type type.
FindObjectsOfType	Returns a list of all active loaded objects of Type type.
Instantiate	Clones the object original and returns the clone.

Operators

bool	Does the object exist?
operator !=	Compares if two objects refer to a different object.
operator ==	Compares two object references to see if they refer to the same object.

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