Question Can we force a certain Baker to run? Or is there another way?

We have a scriptable object which just contains a list of AssetReferenceGameObject. This SO is then referenced by a MonoBehaviour that has a Baker and thus it's under a subscene. What this Baker does is convert the GameObject prefabs into entity prefabs using Baker.GetEntity(). We then store the entity prefabs in a NativeHashMap somewhere. We did this so we can instantiate entity prefabs by using some id.

Here's the problem. The designers/artists are the ones who will add the prefabs on the scriptable object. The amount of prefabs will grow. However, the Baker may not run because the scene with subscene where the SO is referenced is not opened like say the designer is working on another scene. Thus, the newly added prefabs are not converted to entity prefabs. On play of the game, they get missing prefab errors.

Is there a way to force the prefab loader Baker to run again to account for the new prefabs? Like say when the SO is updated or even at runtime?

 

Scenes don't need to be open to bake, just sounds like you're missing correct DependsOn in your baker to track changes.

 

Ok, that's new. How do I use that? Is there a documentation?

 

Well it's not new, it's been there since baking become a thing


https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@1.0/manual/baking-baker-overview.html

 

I mean it's new to me.

 

So I tried DependsOn() but it doesn't seem to work for ScriptableObjects. It only works when the scene with the subscene that references the SO is opened.

 

I can say that it definitely works as my entire settings setup depends on it and I never have open subscenes.

The one gotcha is that you need to save your scriptableobject before changes will be detected.

 

Ah, I see.

 

Still doesn't work. How do you save your scriptable objects? Is this the same as File > Save?

 

maybe this:
Unity - Scripting API: AssetDatabase.SaveAssets (unity3d.com)

 

Yeah just ctrl-s/file - save. Just tested this and it does rebake the updated scriptableobject's data inside a closed subscene.

 

Is the scene with subscene opened? It has to work while this scene is not opened (like another set of scenes are being worked on).