Prefabs and Instantiate

Unity Engine
1

Hi.
I want to instantiate a prefab and save the modified new prefab object as an atribute of another Gameobject to access it later.
But if I access i get only the value of the origin prefab and dont the changed values.
Why is it so?

Her some code:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections;

public class LevelDungeon1 : MonoBehaviour {

    public GameObject prefab;
    private GameObject childObject ;
    private List<GameObject> list;

    void Start () {
        list= new List<GameObject>();

        //start
     
        //change prefab attributes with methods
        //..... prefab.GetComponent<Script1>().method1();
        //..... prefab.GetComponent<Script1>().method2();

        childObject = Instantiate(prefab) as GameObject;
        list.Add(prefab); //Here I want to save the modified prefab in a list. so i can later access the modfied values.
        childObject.transform.parent = this.gameObject.transform;

    void Update () {
    
    }
}

In the script of the prefab i change for example:

void Start() {
    this.name="newName";
}

but if i check the value it is the origin prefab name, originName …

2

I guess you’re mixing up prefabs and instances.
Instantiate creates a new gameobject (the instance) from the prefab (the template). It does not change the prefab itself, nor it does create a new prefab.

3

ok! I created a level complete level with this script above. The level parts are in another script. There i save start and exit gameobject. the Vector2 is important for me i want to access later. The values are right i see it at runtime in the inspector but now i want to access these attributes (start/exit) of the levelpart. but if i want Gameobject.Find(“part1”)… there comes NULL. in the Start method. i want to access the level part what i see in the inspector there are the correct values.
What is my mistake?

My idea:
-create a whole level in one script
-create levelparts with another script
-access start and exit to connect the parts like a puzzle :slight_smile:

and I cant access the Gameobject start, exit i got the prefab values or the last created one.

How is it possible to create an instance of an prefab an save the created gamobject reference in an attribute?

4 
// the name on the prefab template, doesn't change as the script attached to it isn't
//"running" because there isn't a gameobject for the script component to be attached to
prefab.name;

// the name of the instance created by using the prefab and instantiate
// name changes once Start has run
childObject.name;