Deleting Children of Prefab

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Hey! in my game, I have "Room" prefabs, that basically are reusable areas, that are randomly re-instantiated as a new "Room" every time the player finishes a "Room" (think, infinite runner?) - While, in that room, some objects in it get deleted.

When the room is re-created, it is instantiated without the objects, that were deleted (in scene). Is there a way to only delete the objects, from the currently created room, that does not affect the prefab of it?

Thanks!

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Answer by FortisVenaliter · May 13, 2016 at 08:42 PM

It shouldn't happen that way... Are you sure you're actually deleting the objects in the scene and not the objects in the prefab? The prefab should never be affected by the behaviour of instances in the scene.

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Fingerlights · May 13, 2016 at 09:04 PM 0

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Hey! that's what I thought... and thanks for the swift reply -

So (note this is very bad code, this is my second ever game, my first, not being very big...) this is a small sample of the code that is being called, that is deleting the object.

 void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
     {
         if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("StartRight"))           
         {
             rRig.Send$$anonymous$$essage("Set$$anonymous$$oveNowTrue");
             Destroy(gameObject);
         }
 
         if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("StartFloor"))
         {
             manager.Send$$anonymous$$essage("StartFloor");
             Destroy(gameObject);
         }

But when I re-instantiate the room (with this code, (note: currently there is only one room, but using random range to randomize which room it spawns)

 roomSelect =  Random.Range(0, 0); // change max number
             if ( roomSelect == 0 ) 
                 {
                 Instantiate(roomZero, roomArea.transform.position, roomArea.transform.rotation);
                 }

The objects I've deleted, and only those objects, are definitely missing.

TBH, I didn't even realize it was possible to affect the prefab, without changing it in the inspector (again I am very new to this) ...

Any help would be $$anonymous$$assively appreciated!

P.S Sorry for the sloppy code.

FortisVenaliter Fingerlights · May 13, 2016 at 09:51 PM 0

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Are you sure roomZero is always referring to the Prefab, and not the instantiated scene?

Fingerlights FortisVenaliter · May 13, 2016 at 10:01 PM 0

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Just went and double checked / reconnected it. it's definitely connected to the Prefab.

I think I might have isolated the problem ( I haven't tested it out, because I'm not entirely sure how to) but if the item in scene, is there from the beginning and isn't a (clone) would affecting it, affect the prefab? if so - how would I alter it, so it can exist on load, while not needing having it be "connected", would I have to instantiate it @ load time, or is there a way to do this (changing the objects name?) ? --- sorry if I'm being confusing =D and thanks.

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