Uploading changes to prefab

Unity Engine
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I’m creating my models in Blender. When I import them into Unity I have to manually add the texture, and sometimes rotate/scale my meshes. I’m trying to figure out how to upload my changes to the prefab. When I drag the object into my scene, make my changes, and then go to GameObject->Upload Changes to Prefab, nothing happens. When I drag a second instance of the object into the scene it doesn’t have the new settings, it still has the original settings.

What could I be doing wrong?

Here is the exact list of my steps:

  • Drag blender object from Project View to Scene View
  • Change rotation from 270 (default for some reason) to 0
  • Drag texture from Project View to the mesh of the object
  • Make sure the object is selected
  • Go to GameObject->Upload Changes to Mesh
  • Drag a second instance of the same blender object from Project View to Scene View
  • Changes made to the first instance are not in the second instance, the rotation is still 270, and there is no texture assigned.
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If you break the prefab connection anywhere in those steps (the gameObject is no longer blue in the hierarchy), you might want to try creating a new prefab from the modified object (create a prefab using the button in project view and then drag the gameObject onto it). Then you can delete the non-prefab and add the prefab, which should preserve your changes and automatically update when you edit the mesh of the texture.

3

I don’t think the “prefabs” automatically created for Blender meshes like that are “real” prefabs. Same thing happens here, though I’ve always done Create->Prefab and then drag my objects onto that (which does work as you’d expect), so I wasn’t aware of that issue.

–Eric

4

Yup, the method of creating an empty prefab certainly works well. Thank you.