Nested prefabs and prefab edit windows spotted on Unity github?

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/PrefabFrontEnd/tree/prefabsprototype/Editor

I see things like "PrefabWindow" and "PrefabInheritanceTreeView" in the sources.

Could it be... ?

 

Perhaps

 

In the spirit to spread some rumors... Maybe that's the reason why the new input system disappeared from roadmap (see), because runevision is now working on a nested prefab prototype rather than input.

 

Alternatively they uploaded an early prototype and have either abandoned it or simply failed to announce it. After all the last prototype for the input system is up there and it most definitely is abandoned in favor of an unreleased newer system.

 

This starts to sound like those "half life 3 confirmed" rumors.

 

Hahahaha that's hilarious.

 

When I saw the opening post and no one had replied yet I felt a strong urge just to write "half life 3 confirmed" as a reply, but I felt like that'd be pointless trolling, so I didn't do it.Good to see others thought of it as well.

 

well it's not completely baseless. I mean... you can go through the whole source code and you'll see it literally is a visual prefab inheritance/dependency editor, with a custom editor window that opens the prefab in a scene view and lets you make modifications without having to put the prefab in an actual scene.

In PrefabModifications.cs there's even WIP code for adding a gameobject (prefab) instance to an existing prefab

But it doesn't work in any available unity versions yet. Maybe 2017.3, or maybe even later

So yeah, it may not be 100% confirmed yet, but it certainly looks like nested prefabs. Besides, it would be crazy for unity to do anything prefab-related without thinking about nested prefabs. They'd have a mob of angry villagers at their door otherwise

 

the repository has mysteriously vanished

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