How to create a

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Hey guys, i'm struggling a little bit with creating new instances my problem is pretty simple, in my code im importing an instance of an object, this object inherits from AbilityEffect, however the object itself is a seperate class that inherits from AbilityEffect(Just reiterating), what i want to do is create a new instance of the imported object of the same class, I want to beable to pass information into the constructor... I pretty much just want to beable to choose type based on imported type!

 public class EffectHandler : MonoBehaviour {
     
     private AbilityEffect abilityEffect;

     //let inAbilityEffect be effect1 which inherits AbilityEffect for example.
     public void performEffect(AbilityEffect inAbilityEffect) 
     {
         abilityEffect = new (inAbilityEffect.getType())(//Classconstructor);
         abilityEffect.performBehaviour();
     }
 }

Hopefully this isn't too vague, i found this hard to put into words hence why i couldn't find this in the search bar.

Thanks for your time, Bazzalisk.

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Answer by Malleck666 · Jul 09, 2016 at 08:03 PM

How about...

 Type t = Type.GetType(inAbilityEffect);
 
 Object abilityEffect = Activator.CreateInstance(t);

Then invoke the members as required.

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Bunny83 · Jul 09, 2016 at 10:29 PM 0

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Your probably mean

 Type t = inAbilityEffect.GetType();
 abilityEffect = (AbilityEffect)Activator.CreateInstance(t);

Bazzalisk Bunny83 · Jul 10, 2016 at 12:23 PM 0

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this worked! thank you very much.

Malleck666 Bunny83 · Jul 10, 2016 at 12:34 PM 0

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Yours is probably a little more elegant than $$anonymous$$e Bunny83, but both work all the same!

Bazzalisk · Jul 10, 2016 at 12:16 AM 0

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Thanks Bunny and $$anonymous$$alleck, this seems to have worked but how do i call the constructor of the script? it seems to be calling the default constructor script?

Bunny83 Bazzalisk · Jul 10, 2016 at 02:03 AM 1

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Just check the $$anonymous$$SDN docs about the Activator class. Createinstance has multiple overloads and this one takes an additional array of parameters. The Activator class is part of the reflection system to allow dynamic access to class constructors. Since you don't know the type at compile time you can't simply call the constructor since the compiler doesn't know which constructor it has to call.

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