Make prefab unique

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Hi, I have a 2D platformer game with a player that I have made into a prefab. Today I wanted to make an NPC and thought to duplicate my player object to get a nice base to build from.

Now I realized that my NPC is just a variant of the player prefab.

How can I make the NPC variant into its own prefab without messing up anything else?

Thanks in advance!

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Answer by tormentoarmagedoom · Jan 20, 2019 at 07:09 PM

Good day.

Its simple, drag your prefab player to the scene.

Change the object name to something like 'enemy npc'

Drag this enemy npc object to assets folder to create the new enemy prefab

So now you have 2 prefabs, the player and the enemy.

Bye!

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mats1105 · Jan 20, 2019 at 07:51 PM 0

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Thanks! I thought this was the case but I had already done changes to the NPC and didn't want to mess anything up.

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Answer by LordHudson · Sep 18, 2021 at 10:15 PM

You could do what @tormentoarmagedoom said and duplicate the prefab. You could also create a variant of the prefab. This will handle everything that is the same but allow you to make changes to the variant such as adding NPS scripts and such.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PrefabVariants.html

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