Turning Models/Meshes into Prefabs

[Olafson]

Hello there.

I have two objects. One Fence Prefab and one Fence Mesh/Model. Obviously, I would usually use the prefab in my scene.

Now, I accidentally dropped the model into the scene, did not notice it, and multiplied it several hundred times. I wanted to change my prefab, but after changing, I noticed that all the fences in my scene are models and not prefabs. That is not really ideal.

Is there any way to turn the fence model into a prefab? I already tried dragging and dropping one of the fences from the Hierachy into the Project view, but that only made that one fence model into a prefab. All the other copies of that fence are still models.

I would really like to find a way to just turn the fence model used in the scene into a prefab, so I do not have to completely rebuild the scene…

Thanks in advance, I hope that it is somehow fixable.

My English is not the best, nor do I know how to explain this properly. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

[iwaldrop]

There are some tools you could use out there, and you could also write your own simple script to do it.

Just do a foreach over all GameObjects that match your selected game object. Store it’s Transform information, destroy the original, and instantiate the prefab in it’s place.

Otherwise, if you can’t find a ‘replace all’ tool, or can’t write a simple (I’m talking like 10 line max) editor script that does it for you, then you’ll have to do it by hand. Lesson learned, huh?