#nested prefabs

[thesourcegame]

Updating after a year of updates

A short little update on what I have been doing the last couple of days. When I started this project it was around januari 2018, at the time the stable release was 2017.3. During the first months of the project I didn’t really use Unity because I was still figuring out, what kind of game I was going to make and I was still learning how 3D modeling, texturing and rigging worked in video games. As of now I have a playable character with almost all functionality working but no level design or puzzles are made.

For this reason I have done a lot of research because I wasn’t sure what the pros and cons where. I have to say I was a bit afraid of breaking everything, but luckily this wasn’t the case. I only encountered some issues with the Post Processing Stack v2, but this was resolved within minutes. I can’t wait to get my hands on nested prefabs, prefab mode and the new stuff Unity 2018.3 has to offer.

[rhostatemachine]

Nested prefabs in Unity

I’ve been thinking of a way to have nested prefabs in Unity and I came up with an idea a couple days ago that could work.

The idea is having a script that has a reference to the prefab and then having the options to save and load the prefab with a custom editor and an option to update all the nested prefabs in the scene. It’s a manual system but it works.

To use it you have to add a CPrefab script to your GameObject, there you’ll have a button “Create prefab”, when you click it, it will create a prefab of that GameObject in Assets/Prefabs (you can move it afterwards) but it won’t be linked to it, it will be referenced in Source.

After you create the prefab, the menu will change, you will have the option to **Save **which will update the prefab, **Load **which will update the GameObject and **Update all prefabs **which will load all CPrefabs in the scene, when you use this tool, the parent prefabs are applied so they don’t lose the connection, the same option is under RhoTools/Update all nested prefabs.

The load tool copies the prefab on the same location as the game object and erases the original game object, so use it with caution. In the future I’d like to make it work like an actual prefab and only change what hasn’t been modified.

If you want to use this, you can download it as a unityPackage or a zip file here.

I just created it so I haven’t tested it enough, so I’m open to bug reports and suggestions.