Create a prefab of custom type

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Hey there! I'm trying to create a prefab from an object of type "Skill":

 UnityEditor.PrefabUtility.CreatePrefab("Assets/Resources/prefabs/skills/" + skills[i].name + ".prefab", skills[i].GetComponent<Skill>());

Which gives me an error "can't convert "Skill" type to "Object"".

That variant is working well:

 UnityEditor.PrefabUtility.CreatePrefab("Assets/Resources/prefabs/skills/" + skills[i].name + ".prefab", skills[i].gameObject);

But I need that prefab to Instantiate other Skill-type objects, and

 Skill prefab = UnityEditor.AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath("Assets/Resources/prefabs/skills/" + skillNames[i] + ".prefab", typeof(Skill));

gives me an error obviously, because it can't convert a gameObject-type Prefab into a Skill-type one.

Is there any way I can make a Skill-type prefab?

Thanks!

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Answer by UnityCoach · Apr 15, 2017 at 08:42 AM

A Prefab is nothing but a serialised gameObject. While it allows you to keep instances of a game object up to date in the editor, at runtime, it's nothing but a gameObject you can instantiate. Notice that PrefabUtility is part of UnityEditor assembly, thus unavailable at runtime.

The PrefabType is an Editor enum to differentiate an imported 3D model from a user created prefab, and a Prefab Instance from a Prefab.

If what you want is to store data to be used by a MonoBehaviour, I would recommend using a ScriptableObject. It allows you to create different data types, to store several data of a same type and load them at runtime.

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