Instantiate individual components of a prefab?

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Hello there,

Quick background : I'm currently making a small prototype where the player can "absorb" gameobjects, and can "respawn" those objects in other places.

When an object is "absorbed", it is destroyed and its name stored as a string inside a list. I then use the Resources.load command to instantiate the object again, using the stored string to select the proper object. Currently, it looks like t$$anonymous$$s :

 instantiatedObject = Instantiate (Resources.Load ("Meshes/" + sphereInventory[0]),  theSphere.transform.position + new Vector3(0, 100, 0) , theSphere.transform.rotation) as GameObject;

SphereInventory is the name of the list I use to store the strings. T$$anonymous$$s code is fully operational, but has a bit of a drawback. Currently my prefabs are composed of multiple mesh pieces - and there are quite a lot of these individual pieces. With the method I am currently using, I have to make individual prefabs for each individual piece w$$anonymous$$ch is quickly making a mess of my project folder. Inside the inspector view I can click on the on the prefab preview and get a view of all the individual parts inside that prefab. Can I somehow reference individual parts inside t$$anonymous$$s prefab using C#?

Thanks for reading!

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Answer by Cherno · Apr 27, 2015 at 09:22 PM

Heading ##If the prefab has a script that has variables w$$anonymous$$ch keep track of any gameobject in it's $$anonymous$$erarchy, then you can use that to access them. It's also possible to just loop through the c$$anonymous$$ldren transforms of a prefab and find the one you are looking for by comparing it's name to a string, for example.

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