Dropping ScriptableObjects into scene

Hello friends!

I have some scriptableobjects called ItemData. I am wanting to make it so when you drag and drop the object onto the scene, it creates a spawner (which is a monobehavior of mine)

Any thoughts?

Josh

 

ScriptableObjects can contain code, but they don't get most of the usual Unity callbacks and they can't be attached to GameObjects. They can be instantiated into a scene, as they are merely code instances...

Am I understanding that your SO contains all the data you need to create your spawner?

Also, is this at runtime? or during edit time?

 

Edit time. And what I'm envisioning is some sort of editor code that detects a certain scriptable object has been dropped onto the scene window, and then creating a gameobject and adding some different monobehaviors and such

 

I've never created "droppable" editor code, but I assume it's possible.

If I were making a window, I'd have a variable that I could plug in an SO into and use that as the data...

Not sure if that helps.

I suppose the question is less the SO, but the *droppable* part.

 

Right, I'm trying to figure out how to detect when I drop a UnityEngine.Object onto the scene window pretty much.
It would be even cooler if I could detect when I drag it over it, but just drop works as well