Changing a single component of a Vector3

I am working on a project where I need to change just the z component of a transform. What I currently have is:

transform.position.z = x;

but there is a compile error.

EDIT: Solved

I just made a new Vector3 to set the value to and just set the individual components.

transform.position = new Vector3(0, 0, x);

 

It generally helps if you state what the error was.

But if I recall correctly, transform.position is a property, not a field. That means any time you access it, it looks like you're accessing a variable, but actually behind-the-scenes you're calling a method--either the "get" method, which returns the transform's current position as a Vector3, or the "set" method, which accepts a Vector3 as a parameter and changes the transform's position to match.

So it should work fine to do this:

Code (CSharp):

1. Vector3 temp = transform.position;
2. temp.z = 0;
3. transform.position = temp;

But you can't (or at least shouldn't) say "transform.position.z = 0" because that technically translates to "call a method that returns a Vector3, and then change the z value of the returned value, and then throw away that value because I'm not assigning it to anything".