Getting prefab to load a hierarchy object into transform.

Unity Engine
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How do I get a prefab to load an object that is in the hierarchy, into it’s transform node?

I guess I could make it do a search for the object. but that is slow I’ve been told.

2

If I understand your problem correctly I believe you could do it with transform.Find http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Transform.Find.html . Notice how you can search down the hierarchy by using “/”. I agree in the fact that this is a slow function. However, there is nothing bad about calling this once in your Awake function and storing the link in a local variable so you can access the object once more during the update.

private Transform aTransform;

void Awake()
{
    aTransform = this.transform.Find("ObjectToLookFor/DownTheHierarchy/EvenFurtherDown");
}

void Update()
{
    // Now I can use aTransform as many times as I want without incurring the "Find" performance cost.
}

I hope this answers the question.

Cheers,