Custom property in a class derived from Ability

[FadelMS]

Hi,
Is there a way to add a custom property to a class derived from Ability?
And then access the property from the return of GetAbility()?
For example:

public class MyAbility : Ability
{
  [HideInInspector][SerializeField] public float myProperty;
  public float My_Property { get => myProperty; set => myProperty= value; }
}

And then in a MonoBehaviour class, I access the custom property as follows:

Ability myAbility = m_characterLocomotion.GetAbility<MyAbility >();
myAbility.My_Propery = 1;

 

[Justin]

Yes, what you are doing makes sense. The code that you posted should work. GetAbility will cast to MyAbility and then you can access the property.

 

[FadelMS]

Thanks Justin,
It seems I'm missing something. The code mentioned above does not work. It works only if added to the base Ability class.
I guess GetAbility() returns an instance of the base Ability class not the derived class. Casting to MyAbility didn't work either.

 

[Justin]

GetAbility<T> will return an instance of that class, not the base ability class. I just tried the following and it worked:

            var jump = m_CharacterLocomotion.GetAbility<Jump>();
            jump.Force = 4;

 

[FadelMS]

Now it works.
The problem was in this line of code: (My mistake)

Ability myAbility = m_characterLocomotion.GetAbility<MyAbility >();

I changed the code to:

MyAbility myAbility = m_characterLocomotion.GetAbility<MyAbility >();

Thanks Justin for your help.