---
title: PHASEObject
framework: phase
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: phase/phaseobject
---

# PHASEObject

An object in the scene.

## Declaration

```swift
class PHASEObject
```

## Mentioned in

Playing sound from a location in a 3D scene

## Overview

Overview This class models a member of your app’s scene by defining a 3D position and orientation. The following subclasses derive from this class: The children array holds instances of this class to position and orient them relatively.

## Topics

### Creating an Object

- [init(engine:)](phase/phaseobject/init(engine:).md)

### Managing the Hierarchy

- [children](phase/phaseobject/children.md)
- [parent](phase/phaseobject/parent.md)
- [addChild(_:)](phase/phaseobject/addchild(_:).md)
- [removeChild(_:)](phase/phaseobject/removechild(_:).md)
- [removeChildren()](phase/phaseobject/removechildren().md)

### Defining a Pose

- [transform](phase/phaseobject/transform.md)
- [worldTransform](phase/phaseobject/worldtransform.md)

### Inspecting the Orientation

- [forward](phase/phaseobject/forward.md)
- [right](phase/phaseobject/right.md)
- [up](phase/phaseobject/up.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [NSObject](objectivec/nsobject-swift.class.md)

### Inherited By

- [PHASEListener](phase/phaselistener.md)
- [PHASEOccluder](phase/phaseoccluder.md)
- [PHASESource](phase/phasesource.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Soundscape Creation

- [PHASESource](phase/phasesource.md)
- [PHASEListener](phase/phaselistener.md)
- [PHASEOccluder](phase/phaseoccluder.md)
- [PHASEShape](phase/phaseshape.md)
- [PHASEShape.Element](phase/phaseshape/element.md)
- [PHASEMaterial](phase/phasematerial.md)
- [PHASEMaterialPreset](phase/phasematerialpreset.md)
- [PHASEMixerParameters](phase/phasemixerparameters.md)