Scriptable Objects

One of the reasons I hate, hate, hate Unity is that all the best documentation is Youtube videos, and I want a book.

Here’s the Brackey’s Scriptable Object tutorial, followed by my transforming the bits I care about into text, for future reference.

Righteo, let’s go:

• Scriptable Objects exist to be a container for reusable code/data that shouldn’t be a component. Especially universal stuff. (e.g. an enemy type Scriptable Object might be used to create a goblin asset that is assigned to all of your goblins).
  • Bonus awesomeness: because they are assets and not components, changes to them during play mode persist after the play session ends. I should’ve used these suckers to handle, e.g. tweakable character platforming constants (jump force, drag, etc) instead of using fields on a component. Oh well.
• Derive your class from ScriptableObject instead of MonoBehavior.
• Decorate your class with [CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "New X", menuName = "X")]. This allows you to make an instance of your asset using the normal Unity Asset Creation pipeline.
• Et viola.

Did that need a 9-minute video? No. No it did not! (Nothing but props to Brackeys for the knowledge and stamina to produce said video, however!)

Hey, I can use Scriptable Objects to come up with character archetypes for my Piqha RPG, as well as combat moves. How convenient!

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