Feedback Scene should be contains global components

Hi @all,

sometimes I need in a scene global components they must exists for this scene. To use it I must currently create an empty game object in the scene graph. If I search for something global components I must search it in the big scene tree. That is very confusing and make it harder to service the game / software or to deliver it to some other developer.
Instead the global scene components should be added directly to the scene. In code you access it so:

gameObject.scene.GetComponent<MyComponent>();

So I can search for the components under the scene root node. This make it easier to use this.

What you think about this?

 

If it is working for you, sounds good to me! But honestly I didn't understand your question. Would GameObject.Find work for you also?

 

I don't exactly understand your question, but using singletons or static class properties/methods are common ways of doing what I think you mean.

 

OP is basically asking for a method like

Object.FindObjectsOfType<T>()

, but a method that only searches a specific scene.

This would be a convenient feature, but it's also not difficult to do yourself:

Code (CSharp):

1. GameObject[] objArray = scene.GetRootGameObjects();
2. List<T> foundList = new List<T>();
3. foreach (GameObject currentObject in objArray)
4. {
5.     T[] foundInChildren = currentObject.GetComponentsInChildren<T>();
6.     foundList.AddRange(foundInChildren);
7. }
8.  
9. // foundList is now a list of all instances of component "T" in the scene