I am making a system in my game where the player can build custom turrets by unlocking parts. I learned a little about PrefabUtitlity and learned how to save a prefab at run time. The problem I’m having is I’m trying to have my script get reference to the turret during runtime. When the player mak…

EDIT: Yeah, you essentially need a load / save system that handles what you need to reconstruct the objects in code based on what you created and saved. EDIT: never mind the following, it’s still true, but I misread the question: I’m a sucker for good old Resources.Load() Others like addressables…

[image] Robster95: Ok so I’ll have to find a new way to save these prefabs. Do you have any suggestions on how to grab the prefabs though? I’m working on a way to set the custom turrets to be a child of an empty object which will be the prefab and when the changes are made the player basically j…

I’ll definitely look into it!

[image] Kurt-Dekker: EDIT: Yeah, you essentially need a load / save system that handles what you need to reconstruct the objects in code based on what you created and saved. EDIT: never mind the following, it’s still true, but I misread the question: I’m a sucker for good old Resources.Load() …

[image] Robster95: Would this be a viable option for that? Resources.Load / LoadAll is to get an undefined amount of things you made in the unity editor: “gimme all turrets” “gimme all bases” Letting the user edit what is what and then capturing that data so you can essentially play it bac…

[image] Kurt-Dekker: Resources.Load / LoadAll is to get an undefined amount of things you made in the unity editor: “gimme all turrets” “gimme all bases” Letting the user edit what is what and then capturing that data so you can essentially play it back when you load the model, has nothing to…

How to get a prefab from code

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chemicalcrux February 10, 2023, 9:54pm 2

PrefabUtility is part of the UnityEditor namespace, so it’s not gonna’ be available in builds.

You’re going to need to work out another way to handle this.

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