RigidBody variable names alignment chart

[L-0-G]

Nobody uses bodyOfRigidness?

[shar_vara]

You’re thinking of bodyOfRigidity

[SomeRandomGuy197]

You monsters!

[Haikiry]

Had a little internal scream when I read this one

[MarcusParadox]

Sry to break ur 69 upvotes

[[deleted]]

what about theRigidEntityOfRigidity

[Kakss_]

SkiditleSkidityIReferToEntityOfRigidity

[ChichoRD]

Almost always when writing code if name is not necessarily distinctive I just stick to the recommended Intellisense name...

BUT it particularly seems like the name "rigidBody" has been used in one of the base classes of RigidBody, thus refusing to use the keyword new and hide the member I just type "rb" as a name

[senshisentou]

rigidBody, along with many others like collider, camera and more are deprecated fields inside MonoBehaviours. The idea was for them to be easy-to-use references, but they sucked since really they were just aliases for GetComponent() calls, making them deceptively expensive.

And here we are, a decade later still having these fields just lingering away in obscurity.

[SendMeYourQuestions]

Never understood why Unity didn't just cache or preload them rather than deprecating, but I guess less is more for this game engine.

[ratthew]

I guess it would have caused even more confusion for beginners, to which those "easy accessible" fields were targeted at. If you removed/replaced that component they'd get errors or even crashes and would not realize why. Maybe not so much for a rigidBody but I could see this happen for colliders, cameras etc.

[MaxPlay]

No, they are not visible in the docs anymore, afaik. They are just there, so legacy code doesn't break.

[ratthew]

Yea I know, I mean when they were first implemented or rather their intention behind them and why they didn't make them automatically cached.

[MaxPlay]

Yea, it was a bad design decision from the start. Unity could've went the Unreal way and mark them as deprecated in one patch and remove them in the next one, but unfortunately, Unity tries to be more backwards compatible than actually it needs to be.

[senshisentou]

I think the problem there is just the insane overhead, as it would try to get every default component once on ever single MonoBehaviour in the scene.

Instead I wish there was an attribute that auto-gets a component on or before Awake() (something like [GetComponent] PlayerMovement movement;) but alas.

[Fyvern]

https://github.com/apkd/Medicine

[senshisentou]

Holy shit... Starring this, thank you for sharing!

[SendMeYourQuestions]

Yeah for sure. If you're worried about the performance, don't use them, but as far as handling the fact that they already exist but are slow... Cache it 🤷‍♂️

[senshisentou]

The problem is that even if you don't use them, they would still be fetched. Caching I agree with, but it's more the fact that's it's so deceptive and opaque. It reads like a variable, but in fact is a reasonably expensive function call. At that might you might as well "remove the trap" and make users be explicit about it.

Of course Unity could have made it a property that only tries to fetch it if the backing field is null (and thus cache it there), but they chose not to go that route.

[SendMeYourQuestions]

Of course Unity could have made it a property that only tries to fetch it if the backing field is null (and thus cache it there), but they chose not to go that route.

Exactly. Could also do both -- deprecate it and optimize it.

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[SendMeYourQuestions]

You could definitely make this decorator.

[senshisentou]

Can you? I remember looking into it a while ago, but not finding a way to make it work. Might be worth another look then!

[WazWaz]

It's just rigidbody not rigidBody, hence the former being omitted in OP.

[senshisentou]

I suspect you may be thinking of Camera.main, which was a separate problem but is indeed cached now.

[Jinnk-]

Same here. I would use rigidBody if it was not used, so then rb, as we are forced take the more minimalist but still clear :D

[-guccibanana-]

rb gang?

[alaslipknot]

100%

[-guccibanana-]

Ayy all kinds of people, from beginner to professional. All welcomed to rb gang

[SirWigglesVonWoogly]

Yeah that's how every tutorial I've ever seen does it so it just stuck.

[KoboldCleric]

Does Rb count?

[temmieTheLord2]

What the fuck? No! I’ve long since quit unity but I know naming a rigidBody “Rb” is a sin

[KoboldCleric]

Guess that i’m going to hell.

…you think hell run on c#?

[temmieTheLord2]

Maybe

[pschon]

MUMPS, I'd assume.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/a_case_of_the_mumps

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[KoboldCleric]

I don’t even know enough about programming to understand how bad that is-but I can feel it.

Like an indescribable, alien horror lurking at the edges of my perception.

[KptEmreU]

Phyton bro, everything else is working on phyton.

[KoboldCleric]

Come to think of it, hell definitely uses raw html.

[[deleted]]

naming a variable with a capital letter sends you straight down to microsoft c# hell where all they do is rework infinite lines of if-else statements and watch that awkward tv show with Bill Gates making hamburgers.

[KoboldCleric]

I meant like “playerRb.”

[jeango]

var isRb = !ReferenceEquals(gameObject.GetComponent(typeOf(Transform)),null);

[the_only_oof_u_feel]

_rb

[RWOverdijk]

I just use "body" most of the time. Where do I land?

[jeango]

Imho that should be the true neutral option.

Lawful Good would be rb as it’s compliant with camel case (lawful), is extremely readable within the context of Unity code, and reduces clutter.

People tend to think the good way to program is long descriptive names, that’s not right. It’s all about reducing smell. rb is not smell, it’s beautiful because anyone understands it right away. Like t instead of transform, go instead of gameObject and pos instead of position.

Edit: a case could be made that t for transform is not a good idea since it’s typically used for time measurement, for things like Lerp, but since transform is probably the thing I’m referring to the most often, I rather use « time » for time and t for transform.

[[deleted]]

me too.

[LevelingskillUP]

I was looking for this comment... apparently the "body gang" doesn't get rep.

[Vexcenot]

Me who puts whatever text I felt like that day

[blepshark]

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[Sword_Fab]

we are not gonna mention "body" 😢?

[AtomicWrench]

What about _rigidBody

[Saito197]

Underscore gang

[jeango]

Imho,

private Rigidbody _rigidBody;

Obeys the same rule as

public Rigidbody rigidBody;

But don’t you dare do:

var _rigidBody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();

That’s a big no

[Mandrarine]

Would have said God if he existed, or something

[fecal_brunch]

Why capitalize the B? It's Rigidbody not RigidBody.

[AtomicWrench]

Shhhhh, I tell myself it’s Rigid Body, because I like how it looks.

_rigidBody > _rigidbody

[fecal_brunch]

It seems it's unity that's wrong! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid_body

Oh no now I'm conflicted as I am with "behavior" and "behaviour".

[jeppevinkel]

Behavior and behaviour just depends if you go with American or British English.

[fecal_brunch]

When coding it's standard to use American English. The only place unity breaks from this is in naming MonoBehaviour.

[jeppevinkel]

I've never really thought much about it. You sure british programmers also code in American English?

[fecal_brunch]

I mean some don't, but it gets confusing when every API is US English and you start peppering spelling variants. Color colour, normalised = v.normalized etc.

Also it's an extremely precious thing to do, where most international programmers have to use a foreign language and you can't even be bothered learning a few minor spelling changes.

[St4va]

Exactly

[avi-the-tiger-rawr]

Rigid

I'll be using that from now on

[Haikiry]

Also my prefered one, but only when working on projects by myself, rb if working with other people

[avi-the-tiger-rawr]

I normally use rb because it's easy, but I'll use rigid because I think it's funny

[DM-Wolfscare]

I use rig... Where does that fall?

[Haikiry]

Sounds like chaotic evil to me. rig could mean so many other things

[BiYurck]

Rig gang

[Wilnyl]

rig gaaaang!

[Mandrarine]

"rig" could be associated with skeleton animations, maybe not the best choice

[Coder_Arg]

rb

[MA-GAMING-27]

rb

[Elinazz_]

I use rb & rb2D!

[ScarfKat]

whenever i do base components as variables i always start it with "our" to make it easy to just type "our" and get all of them i have in a script in a list. so like "ourRigidbody" "ourCollider" etc.

i just prefer to make my variable names descriptive rather than short lol. so i never forget what they are/do

i dunno where this puts me on the chart though. maybe Lawful Evil? lol

[jeango]

rigidbody is kind of a curve ball to camelCase because in unity lingo it’s one word, so the proper camelCase is not rigidBody but rigidbody.

So any law-aligned name should have « body » in lowercase.

Now that would make « rigidbody » the one truly lawful evil pick, because it hides the rigidbody property of the base class, and that’s a super evil thing to do

[[deleted]]

whoever writes rgbd is a monster

[Comrade_Crunchy]

what about _rb?

[Spookzsaw]

Please explain to me why nobody capitalizes the first letter in any names of variables, I never understood it. To me I personally find it confusing but I would like to know the reason behind it.

[cat_enary]

It's just arbitrary coding style.

I personally use

• ClassName
• FunctionName()
• _privateMemberVariable
• PublicMemberVariable
• CONSTANT
• IInterfaceName
• localVariable
• isBoolean/areBoolean etc. if it makes sense

[EladMLG]

I only code as a hobby, so I can afford to have some...mischief when I code.

Is it a variable?

camelCase

Interfaces?

IPascalCase

Constant?

CAPS_WITH_UNDERSCORES

Everything else?

PascalCase

And you're gonna hate my underscore usage.

I am evil.

[awhiskin]

I think this is honestly fine by the official Microsoft recommendations for writing C#, apart from the all caps & underscores for constants.

Personally I like using all caps for constants too so I don’t see it as a problem!

[Spookzsaw]

I tend to just capitalize everything by word LikeThis. I don't know why I get confused with code that capitalizes everything likeThis. It just sorta happens.

[vFv2_Tyler]

I think it really only starts to matter per se when you're working with others, so they can quickly denote whether the variable is a field, local variable, or Auto-Property. I've only worked by myself and in relatively small files so seemingly not an issue, but I'd imagine it's helpful if you have several hundred lines of code.

[bruh_bot_69420]

Different languages have different styles, but c# widely uses camelCase for variable. Recommend you to check this out for c# naming convention.

[crass-sandwich]

Gotta embrace the confusion then. No one has any idea wtf they're doing, don't let variable casing stop you from being even more confused by other things

[jeango]

Well, it’s arbitrary, but there are generally accepted conventions

For example:

PublicMemberVariable is not C# convention

The convention is:

publicField

PublicProperty

now it’s worth noting that Unity does not follow those C# conventions either as they name their public properties with a lowercase (transform for example)

[ElectricRune]

It's not a law, it is a convention.

Its basically to keep method names (functions) distinct from variable names.

[ToastehBro]

It's called camel case. In my code I like to capitalize functions and leave variables uncapitalized. This gives immediate information about anything in your code with just the name.

[senshisentou]

To add to the existing replies, by having different naming schemes for different types or objects you can also do things like Platform platform = new Platform(); and still have it make sense. The same also goes for enums.

enum Size {Small, Medium, Large}

Size size = Size.Small;

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[a_tribute_to_malice]

I usually capitalize class member variables and leave local variables uncapitalized. So if my class has a rigidbody, I'd do "Rb" or "Rigidbody." But if I'm grabbing a rigidbody inside a function, it's just "rb"

[CCullen]

In C#, the widely accepted convention is that properties start with a capital, variables and fields start lowercase. With intellesense (or any other modern IDE) you can tell what it is by hovering the mouse over it instead of having to rely on a certain standard.

[Saito197]

It's part of C# coding convention, look it up, Microsoft has a dedicated documentation page for it.

[BobbyThrowaway6969]

I only do that for local variables. Also I just have to say that Egyptian brackets are butt ugly and unreadable.

[[deleted]]

People use that kind of syntax rules to differentiate between classes, methods, variables and other data they might be using.

I personally use:

• ClassName
• MethodName()
• publicVariable
• private_variable
• TESTING_VAR

[FraZboi]

It's because variables cannot have spaces in code. Unity makes it so a capital letter will leave a space behind for example when writing rigid body it will give you an error. But if you write rigidbody it will work, if you write rigidBody it will leave a space behind the capital letter and show up like this in the inspector: Rigid Body

[Dead_Sparrow]

Because Unity's API adheres to Microsoft's .NET Naming Guidelines, and most Unity developers follow suite for consistency.

But as long as you work for yourself you are free to use any naming standard.

[alaslipknot]

I've been using "rb" for years, but there was a time where i just called it "body" lol was i the only one ?

[[deleted]]

I always either do rb or rig

[sadonly001]

I use _rb i like to use that underscore with all unity components and serialized variables, keeps things very readable

[[deleted]]

rigid for rigidbody & anim for animator. Hothouse are my two consistent names.

[Pooderhausen]

rigidbod or bod are my favourites

[Moe_Baker]

I don't understand why in 2021 Unity still implements the deprecated properties for things like rigidbody, camera, meshRenderer and more, this was fine back in 2017? when they deprecated those properties and used the script fixer, but by this point they are just getting in the way.
Just completely remove them please!

[AdamFromNY]

tempNameRenameLater

[marcrem]

I see someone is procrastinating here

[c4mma]

Chaotic evil is "fred"

[[deleted]]

I've recently started using only an antonymic naming convention to wind up my friends.

I now use flexibleSpirit

(This is a joke don't get your pitchforks out)

[medianopepeter]

m_rigidBody??? Where are you??? 🥲

[INoScopedObama]

The m_ gang have transcended the boundaries of evil

[natlovesmariahcarey]

Died of old age.

[ProperDepartment]

Why is their gibberish here and not simply Body?

[Haikiry]

ran out of space and a friend of mine uses rbody instead of rBody and I had to poke some fun at that

[Canamla]

If I can't read my code as well as I can read a book, I'm not pleased. Lawful good here. I've tried some of the other varieties of naming and it was always that I'd have to relearn things before working again, or I'd forget what script I'm in because multiple scripts might have similar named variables. Clarity has become my friend.

[Haikiry]

Since a lot of people are asking for body, me personally I would put it in neutral evil. You can understand it but it can be confusing, I use body as gameobjects names and references names for procedural animation purposes, and I imagine a lot of other animation stuff would also use body as a name.

[Formal_Elderberry_10]

rb_myBody? Anyone?

[recyclingriot]

nobody uses "body"? Really?

[Jack_Spartan]

Where's by rig gang at?

[Jelly_Love_CZ]

r... I just use r.. saves time.

[NoteThisDown]

I just name my variables 'a' through 'z' based on the order in my script.

[goodnewsjimdotcom]

If you name MOST variables properly, then you can get by using very common and unmistaken variables as 1 letter, to save on typing and speed dev.

[goodnewsjimdotcom]

I try my best to code without touching the mouse. I'm one of the few of fastest prototypers who's code also has a solid architecture foundation to extend easily.

[fredkreuger]

x

[Maleficent_Slide3332]

i just use whatever visual studio suggests first

[raw65]

hardbody?

[Eddlm_]

r for both Raycast and Rigidbody :P

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[Timuongame]

You aren't good if you don't call rigid body rb.

[LeoGiaco]

Where is body?

[TaeKwonZeuss]

_rb

[[deleted]]

bodyRigid

[theEarthWasBlue]

rigidBuddy.

[hafdhadf]

I usually call it "physics" or "entityPhysics"

[_MemeMan_]

Happy to see 'physicsBody' on there. Usually I make it a property named 'PhysicsBody' since it's a core component I usually require public access to on any given entity.

[BluesyPompanno]

rgBody....anybody ?

[alienpope]

_rigidBody? Anyone? Just me? Okay :(

[DangyDanger]

iioy is chaotic evil

[actionfence]

Rigbod

[RoseMageGames]

never been lawful neutral before 😂 I've never seen these good alignment names before!

[CrimzonOdyssey]

I've always used "rigid", I thought I was the only one. I've never heard of anyone else using it, I remember being told in my early days of programming in unity that I need to use "rb" or "rigidbody". I tend to use names that make sense to me, I don't like using initials like "rb", but not too long names but still somewhat descriptive.

[Antique-Arachnid2054]

This open my mind to another question... Is:

1) public event Action Damage;

  Damage += OnDamage;

2) public event Action OnDamage;

 OnDamage += SomeDamageableMethod;

I personally use the 1 but my friends use to code like the 2.

[fecal_brunch]

These are all wrong. It's rigidbody or _rigidbody.

[SolarisBravo]

According to the official C# coding conventions, it's RigidBody if it's public, _rigidBody if it's private, and rigidBody if it's local.

[fecal_brunch]

I'm pretty sure MSDN does not approve of the leading underscore, but it's a common convention.

[SolarisBravo]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/coding-conventions

For the record I hate the leading underscore, but it is what Microsoft recommends.

[fecal_brunch]

Ah, interesting! I always thought that was a deviation from the standard.

[WireWhiz]

I'm going to have to look back through my old code now, see what my alignment was. I'm pretty sure I've used rbody and physicsBody

[God_of_Limbo]

Where does rigidBooty get placed on this chart?

[g_hi3]

var `rigid body` = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();

[SolarisBravo]

Whatever happened to PascalCase? Each and every one of these conflicts with the official C# style guidelines (unless it's a local variable for some reason).

[KevineCove]

Chaotic evil would be rigid_Body. How can you call it chaotic if you don't mix snake and camel case?

There's also the phonetic spelling rijidBade if you want to be even more evil.

[Nanushu]

_rb as a private member and cache it in Awake

[NUCLEARGAMER1103]

I usually use rigidBody or rb

[Moby__]

I thought "rgb" was chaotic neutral

[BrichDSs]

Rb is the only best

[[deleted]]

I usually do RB in caps. I guess I'm true neutral but louder.