Question by nschrag · Mar 09, 2012 at 07:43 AM · editor prefab hideflags

Is there a HideFlags.DontSave equivalent for preventing child objects from being applied to a prefab?

I have a prefab that adds GameObjects as children of itself on Start(). I want this to occur in the editor (using ExecuteInEditMode) so that I can preview the scene without actually playing the game. By using HideFlags.DontSave on the generated GameObjects, I can keep them from being saved to the scene. However, the flags appear to have no affect on Apply to Prefab. When I Apply, the GameObjects get added to the prefab. Is there any way to prevent this?

Add comment · Show 11

BigDawgKS · Aug 17, 2013 at 05:10 PM 0

I would also like to know if this is possible. I wish to achieve essentially the same thing. I have tried also setting HideInHierarchy/HideAndDontSave HideFlags but these don't appear to prevent saving the objects to the prefab.

Brackman · Jan 27, 2014 at 10:07 PM 0

I would also like to know this...

vexe · Feb 19, 2014 at 01:21 PM 0

yea me too

iwHiteRabbiT · Feb 26, 2015 at 08:05 PM 0

Up please, this issue is really a problem, is it concidered as a known bug ?

frarees · Mar 21, 2015 at 09:34 AM 1

AFAI$$anonymous$$ GameObject Inspector's Apply button does a ReplacePrefab with the ConnectToPrefab option. ReplacePrefab is defined in unmanaged land (i.e. C++ side), so there's no chance we can see how this works internally... but it seems to me it collects the hierarchy without taking into account each object hide flags. So... I'm afraid there is no way (as of Unity 5.0.0f4) to prevent children being applied to prefab via hide flags.

This seems an consistency issue I$$anonymous$$O. $$anonymous$$aybe it's a good idea to report/discuss it with the $$anonymous$$m itself? If there's a reason this should be working the way it is, I'd like to know..

Show more comments