Remote Instantiate

Hello. I've been brainstorming a few ways to remotely instantiate objects on client machines. Ideally you would want a way to map them to IDs so that you don't have to deal with pesky string allocations and such over a network.

I've experimented with AssetDatabase, which allows you to return all of the prefabs in a certain folder with a GUID tagged to them along with a way to lookup the path using the GUID. Great! But you can't use it in a build.
Next I found Resources.LoadAll() which can return all of the prefabs in a specified folder, but doesn't return the path to them or any way to tag them to an ID.

Are there any clever hacks for this? Or should I just bite the bullet and use strings?

 

I am writing a custom framework. Regarding the link you sent, it seems a bit annoying to have to register every prefab that you want to spawn. I guess that's the answer to the problem then. I looked at photon and it seems that they don't do this, and that with their method you just place a prefab in the resources folder and attach their component to it, then instantiate via string. Very interesting.