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The document discusses class inheritance in Godot and GDScript. It explains that a subclass inherits from a superclass, gaining its functions and variables. Subclasses can override superclass functions. Inheritance allows for cleaner code and easier definition of classes by allowing the reuse of classes. The tutorial uses an Animal superclass and Horse subclass as an example, showing how the Horse class inherits health and a getHealth() method from Animal and can override the attack() method.

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The document discusses class inheritance in Godot and GDScript. It explains that a subclass inherits from a superclass, gaining its functions and variables. Subclasses can override superclass functions. Inheritance allows for cleaner code and easier definition of classes by allowing the reuse of classes. The tutorial uses an Animal superclass and Horse subclass as an example, showing how the Horse class inherits health and a getHealth() method from Animal and can override the attack() method.

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Class Inheritance
Class inheritance is a mechanism where you can derive a class from another class for a hierarchy of classes that share a set of attributes
and methods

To inherit from a class, use the extends keyword:

# Animal.gd
extends Node2D # Inherits from the Global Node2D class

class_name Animal

# Horse.gd
extends Animal # Inherits from the Global Node2D class

class_name Horse

Animal.gd

Horse Inherits from Animal

Horse.gd

In this case, the Animal class is called a superclass, while the Horse class is called the subclass.

When a subclass inherits from a superclass, the subclass gets all the functions and class variables of the superclass.

# Animal.gd
extends Node2D # Inherits from the Global Node2D class

class_name Animal

var health: int = 100

func getHealth() -> int:


return health

# Horse.gd
extends Animal

# Horse class has the health variable and the getHealth() method

class_name Horse

func newlyCreatedFunction() -> void:


print(getHealth()) # 100

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# Animal.gd
extends Node2D # Inherits from the Global Node2D class

class_name Animal

var health: int = 100

func getHealth() -> int:


return health

# Horse.gd
extends Animal

# Horse class has the health variable and the getHealth() method

class_name Horse

func newlyCreatedFunction() -> void:


print(getHealth()) # 100

Overriding a Superclass Function


You can override a superclass function by merely writing out the function in the subclass.

# Animal.gd
extends Node2D # Inherits from the Global Node2D class

class_name Animal

func attack() -> void:


print("Animal Attacks")

# Horse.gd
extends Animal

# Horse class has the health variable and the getHealth() method

class_name Horse

func attack() -> void:


print("Horse Attacks") # Override function attack()

Why is using inheritance necessary?


Inheritance allows for cleaner code, and it makes it easier for us to define classes.

Basically, you use inheritance when you want to reuse a class.

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