• Products
  • Solutions
  • Made with Unity
  • Learn
  • Support & Services
  • Community
  • Asset Store
  • Get Unity

UNITY ACCOUNT

You need a Unity Account to shop in the Online and Asset Stores, participate in the Unity Community and manage your license portfolio. Login Create account
  • Blog
  • Forums
  • Answers
  • Evangelists
  • User Groups
  • Beta Program
  • Advisory Panel

Navigation

  • Home
  • Products
  • Solutions
  • Made with Unity
  • Learn
  • Support & Services
  • Community
    • Blog
    • Forums
    • Answers
    • Evangelists
    • User Groups
    • Beta Program
    • Advisory Panel

Unity account

You need a Unity Account to shop in the Online and Asset Stores, participate in the Unity Community and manage your license portfolio. Login Create account

Language

  • Chinese
  • Spanish
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese
  • Ask a question
  • Spaces
    • Default
    • Help Room
    • META
    • Moderators
    • Topics
    • Questions
    • Users
    • Badges
  • Home /
avatar image
0
Question by HauntedHotPocket · May 18, 2015 at 06:01 PM · static-function

Static vs Non-Static Methods

This is one of those little basics that seems to have slipped through the cracks on me. I'm a little embarrassed to ask but, why would you declare a method static? Variables make sense, to hold a value across classes, but a method doesn't hold a value so...what would be the difference?

Comment
Add comment
10 |3000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded
▼
  • Viewable by all users
  • Viewable by moderators
  • Viewable by moderators and the original poster
  • Advanced visibility
Viewable by all users

1 Reply

· Add your reply
  • Sort: 
avatar image
0

Answer by tanoshimi · May 18, 2015 at 06:07 PM

Static methods can be invoked without an instance of the class to which they belong. Very common for utility functions. E.g. Utility.ConvertSomethingToSomethingElse()

Here's something to help fill your crack, as it were... https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/intermediate/scripting/statics

Comment
Add comment · Share
10 |3000 characters needed characters left characters exceeded
▼
  • Viewable by all users
  • Viewable by moderators
  • Viewable by moderators and the original poster
  • Advanced visibility
Viewable by all users

Your answer

Hint: You can notify a user about this post by typing @username

Up to 2 attachments (including images) can be used with a maximum of 524.3 kB each and 1.0 MB total.

Welcome to Unity Answers

The best place to ask and answer questions about development with Unity.

To help users navigate the site we have posted a site navigation guide.

If you are a new user to Unity Answers, check out our FAQ for more information.

Make sure to check out our Knowledge Base for commonly asked Unity questions.

If you are a moderator, see our Moderator Guidelines page.

We are making improvements to UA, see the list of changes.

Follow this Question

Answers Answers and Comments

20 People are following this question.

avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image avatar image

Related Questions

static-function new() MonoBehaviour warning 1 Answer

GetComponentInChildren not working in a function, help please? 2 Answers

When should i use static functions? 2 Answers

Static Function Aliases? 4 Answers

InvalidProgramException: Invalid IL code - when using static function 1 Answer

  • Anonymous
  • Sign in
  • Create
  • Ask a question
  • Spaces
  • Default
  • Help Room
  • META
  • Moderators
  • Explore
  • Topics
  • Questions
  • Users
  • Badges