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Opening prefab stage for non prefabs

Discussion in 'Prefabs' started by joshcamas, May 6, 2019.

  1. joshcamas

    joshcamas

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    Is it possible to open a prefab stage for something that is not a prefab? It would be so awesome to do this! Imagine the possibilities!
     
  2. mgear

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    that sounds cool!

    like an "isolate" tool to work on some gameobject or so?
     
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  3. joshcamas

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    Yes! For example, I have a toolset for creating "avatars", (characters with collision, skinned meshes, etc generated and merged at runtime) and it would be so nice to be able to edit the avatar in a stage. :)
     
  4. Probably not, I guess, but you can code it easily. If you create a button which reacts to selection, you can make a prefab of them/it, open the isolation, then when you close it off, you just convert the prefab back to game object. I think you have all the tools to do this. BTW, I think this is a very good idea.
     
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  5. joshcamas

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    Yeahhh that's what I was going to do, but it would be even better if this was possible without creating a prefab :3 I'm guessing its not for now though
     
  6. mgear

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    btw. looks like 2019.3 already has isolate tools
    upload_2019-6-4_23-24-41.png
     
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  7. joshcamas

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    Also a cool feature, although not the same as having separate stages ^_^