How to reference a script asset

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Hello everyone,

I am trying to get a reference to a script in my assetsdirectory from the inspector.

NOT a already instanced script component in the scene!

What I tried was using the Object type as a SerializeField.

 [SerializeField]
 Object checkable;

This was the result: Result

However this is too much of a choice for users and I need the selection window to only filter certain scripts that inherit from either a MonoBehaviour script or best would be from an Interface. It definitley should exclude Folders, Materials, Meshes etc...

In the end it should look like this:

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Answer by JusSumGuy · May 19, 2019 at 01:20 AM

You can make a empty gameObject to hold your script. Then when you need it you can access it through the empty game object.

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MarkLazarevski · May 19, 2019 at 10:15 AM 0

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That's one possible way I already thought about.

But I will only do this if there is no other way around.

Because:

When using the selection the user will also see all the other GameObjects and then there is a risk of the user choosing a wrong Prefab and thus creating bugs.

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Answer by user75641 · May 19, 2019 at 02:19 PM

i mean maybe you could get a public array of scripts for the user to chose and then just use an index of the array

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user75641 · May 19, 2019 at 02:20 PM 0

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other than that than idk unless you like use tags or something

MarkLazarevski · May 19, 2019 at 03:02 PM 0

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This would require me to manage some hard references to the scripts in the resources and I'd like to definitley avoid this essential complexity.

user75641 MarkLazarevski · May 19, 2019 at 03:07 PM 0

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oh ok, other than that idk sadly sorry

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Answer by dythervin · Feb 01 at 12:08 PM

Use UnityEditor.MonoScript, however, will work in the editor only.

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