How to know if multple gameobjects are of the same prefab?

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Hello,

I have multiple gameobjects that have the same component but are of different prefabs with different component values. I need to be able to differentiate these gameobjects based on their prefab. Is there any way I can do this? I thought InstanceID would be the key but apparently it’s not.

At the moment I am just applying the InstanceID of the prefab to a field on the instanced prefab.

Thank you.

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Assuming you’re not talking about an editor script, your current strategy is pretty much as good as you’re going to get. There’s no built-in way to check this in Unity. You could of course use an external mapping like a Dictionary that maps clones to their parents in some central place, but the effect is the same.

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In Editor scripts, you can use PrefabUtility: Unity - Scripting API: PrefabUtility

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You could probably use something like this, many with name instead of tag???

throw everything into an array or debug.

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Thanks for your answers guys. I guess I can understand why it doesn’t exist. Thanks for your solutions regardless!