The button has successfully been replaced and still has the reference to the door, so it still works! This is a good candidate for replacement, so we first drop our scene object into the Smart.Replace window, then the better button prefab, make sure that the door reference will be maintained after replacement and then we hit replace. It looks a bit different, but also contains the ButtonClick component and can therefore be used like our current button. There is also another button prefab, as you can see in the project view, called Button 1. The button has a script called Button Click that contains a reference to the door object, so it can open or close the door when clicked. The example images below show a scene with a button and a door.

So if you have a level with only the dummy prefabs, but you want to replace all of them with your new, better version, Smart.Replace can help you. In the later stages of game development, a better version of this button will be created - with prettier models, textures, shaders and so on. Often in game development, dummy prefabs are created to test a particular functionality of a game elememt. Settings of unity components are currently not supported, with the exception of transform values.Īfter these settings were made, you can hit Replace and the prefab link will be restored without losing the changes you've made to your object in the scene. Under Transfer component values you can select all components that may have changes you want to preserve. Next find the original prefab in the unity project window and drop it on the fresh prefab field. In order to restore a prefab link of a scene object, first drag the scene object into the corresponding field of the window. There is also a video on youtube that explains the plugin more vividly. The following examples will show the main use cases of the plugin. NET 4.x Equivalent SetupĪfter downloading and installing the package you can open the Smart Replace window by navigating to Tools -> Replace prefab. NET version via: File -> Build settings -> Other settings -> Configuration -> Scripting Runtime Version ->. NET version is required to be set for your project. Besides from that, it can also replace prefabs in the scene with similar prefabs that contain the same scripts without losing any changes or object references. Smart replace is a Unity plug-in that helps you to restore broken prefab links.

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