Where to use a Transient variable.

[wilberolive]

@joeGraf;195386

Transient properties are always initialized to zero and are not serialized to disk. The time to use one is if the object at runtime will set the variable. For instance, let’s suppose you had a character that has MaxHealth as a value setup by the designer, which you treat as const at runtime. At runtime, you’d copy that value into a transient called CurrentHealth. CurrentHealth would go up or down and can be compared to MaxHealth.

This makes no sense to me. Firstly he says to use Transient to disable serialization. However then gives an example using CurrentHealth, which goes up/down through game play. When the player stops playing, wouldn’t you want to serialize CurrentHealth so it can be restored latter when they continue playing from where they left off. You wouldn’t load the game with the player back at MaxHealth.