Array items' default values won't show in inspector for classes that are not MonoBehaviour, fix?

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1

I have this class:

[System.Serializable]
public class Dialogue
{
    public string displayName;

    [TextArea(3, 10)]
    public string sentence;

    [Range(1, 120)]
    public float textSpeed = 30f;

    [Range(0, 3)]
    public float pitch = 1f;
}

And also this class:

public class DialogueTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Dialogue[] dialogues;
    public string[] choices;

    public void TriggerDialogue()
    {
        FindObjectOfType<DialogueManager>().StartDialogue(this);
    }
}

However, in the Unity inspector, when I add a DialogueTrigger component to a game object, and then change the size of Dialogues from 0 to anything else, the new Dialogues won’t show in the inspector with their assigned default values (ie textSpeed = 30f, pitch = 1f), instead they will all default to 0. It’s something I can live with, but it’s pretty annoying. Anybody knows how to fix this? Thank you very much.

2

I found a temp fix:

public class DialogueTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Dialogue[] dialogues = new Dialogue[1];
    public string[] choices = new string[0];

    public void TriggerDialogue()
    {
        FindObjectOfType<DialogueManager>().StartDialogue(this);
    }
}

This will force any new DialogueTrigger to start with a default Dialogue which will now have the correct default values. If you then increase the size of the array in the inspector, new Dialogue elements will copy the values of the last one. Still I’d like to know if there’s any way to make the inspector default to the class defaults and not copy the previous item values when increasing the array size.