Scene and Prefabs? or Scene and Nodes ?

[Nodragem]

Hello,

I know that I am going very far in the road map but for now it seems that we can only create a scene and nothing else. No prefabs and no nested prefabs.

This concept of prefab is useful in order to save reusable objects on the hard drive / asset folder, and then add them to any scenes.

However, Unity approach may not be the best. I would like to attract your attention to an alternative and maybe simpler but yet powerful way to do things: Scenes and Nodes. You can find more information in this article from Godot Engine's documentation: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/getting_started/step_by_step/scenes_and_nodes.html

After trying Unity and Godot, I can tell that Godot approach is more fun. A scene can be saved on the hard drive and added to any scene. Every scene is a tree of nodes and any branches can become a tree and so a scene. Hence, there are no prefabs, just scenes: a scene for your main character, a scene for the enemy, a scene for your level, a scene for the main menu.

Hope that can help opening a discussion :)

[julien-moreau]

Hey this is planned in my head but the link you shared may be really useful. I keep it in my TODO list as I would like the editor to be stable before starting this kind on feature right now :) Anyway, I tag this issue and will let you know once I start working on it! Thanks!

[julien-moreau]

I'm not adding this feature in the V2 milestone. But I keep the issue open in order to implement in the next step! :)

[Nodragem]

Yeah, I was also thinking that was more of a long term goal, if it becomes a goal :)

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[Nodragem]

did you go for something similar to Godot (nodes) or Unity (prefab)?

[julien-moreau]

Good question! For performances reason and feature request reasons I used a kind of prefabs features. It is absolutely not finished (you cannot really edit prefabs for instance) and I would like to work with scenes like Godot but needs more time for me :)

[Nodragem]

Sounds good, take your time to make it great :)

[julien-moreau]

TODO: use asset containers of bjs to work as "scenes in scenes"

[julien-moreau]

Starting with prefabs from now Opening a new issue to focus on prefabs