Prefab doesn't hold prefab of itself, Instead just copies itself on Instantiate()

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An object named BuildingParent has a script called BuildingParentScript. That script should hold the prefab GameObject BuildingParent (not a copy of itself but it's own prefab). And when I assign it in the Inspector it seems to work. Bottom GameObject But if I leave and re enter the prefab editor in seems to set the GameObject to itself instead of its prefab. So when I instantiate it, it makes a copy of itself, that copies all the children. This object can hold up to 500 children, so just deleting them seems bad for performance. Any ideas?

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Answer by Pokedlg3 · Dec 22, 2020 at 10:54 PM

try adding this to your script:

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;


 public class BuildingParentScript : MonoBehaviour
 {
   public GameObject newParentGO; // place the prefab building _parent here
   public GameObject prefabReserve; // place the prefab building _parent here

   void Update()
   {
    if(newParentGO != null)
    {
       newParentGO = prefabReserve;
    }
   }
 }

I did the test and it worked

(Don't change the script, just add)

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