Dynamic Instantiate from Prefab.. help!

Unity Engine
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If I create a public gameobject and then drag the prefab into the inspector slot on the script it works fine when I instantiate it.

However what I want to do is have that gameobject change depending on which button is clicked in the interface. As a simple example, I have created blue, green and red cubes. Depending on which color button is clicked in the GUI, then when the user clicks on screen I want that corresponding cube to be instantiated.

While the simple example has 3 items, in reality I have about 100 so while I could create 100 public variables and drag all the prefabs into each corresponding slot I don’t think this would be the recommend way of doing this.

Any advice, recommendations or tutorials you can point me towards?

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You could do public GameObject[ ] prefabs;

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Didn’t even think of that!

Of course I still have to drag in 100 objects, but then I can just refer to them by index which will work just fine for what I’m trying to achieve.

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You don’t have to drag in 100 objects. Multi-select in the project view and drag once to the slot.

Also, if you have that many objects you’re probably better off with a data-driven approach rather than creating 100 prefabs. You could use a ScriptableObject with the base prefab, then have 100 entries that specify what is different about the prefab, color and so forth.

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The prefabs are all (at their core) Blender FBX files. But unfortunately not just one shape with different materials. There is a bit of duplication but that only accounts for about 25% of the objects, the rest are all unique from each other.