subclass default values in list

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1

Any idea why the test variable default value isn’t -1 in the inspector? It’s always 0 no matter what I define in the script.

	[Serializable]
	public class BaseClass {
        public int test = -1;
	}
	
	[Serializable]
    public class ListClass {
		public string foo;
						
		[Serializable]
		public class SubClass : BaseClass {
			public string bar;
		}

		public SubClass subClass = new SubClass();
    }
	
	public List<ListClass> listClass = new List<ListClass> ();

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2

The inspector overwrites values of serialized items after construction. For the behavior the you want, you can set values on the constructed Data instances in Start or OnAfterDeserialize.

Take a look here:

3

Anyone still looking might wanna take a look at this answer
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