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 this :

 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. This 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 which 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 this 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 which keep track of any gameobject in it's hierarchy, then you can use that to access them. It's also possible to just loop through the children 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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