Dev Log
Unity Object Swapper
A while back I found myself looking at a Unity scene with several hundred trees that each needed to be updated and the connection to the prefab had somehow broken... Rather than spent hours replacing each one I spent almost as much time writing an editor extension to do the same thing.
I'd forgotten about the tool, until a student of mine ended up in a similar position. Which made me revisit the tool a do just a bit of fine tuning.
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| Screenshot of the editor window |
It's a pretty simple script, but handy all the same. If I find the time I might add it to the Unity Asset Store as a free asset. Until then, assuming this looks like useful, you can download it from this link (box). There's no documentation, but it should be pretty self explanatory- the search is case sensitive.
Older Posts
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April 2024
- Apr 10, 2024 Ready for Steam Next Fest? - Polishing a Steam Page Apr 10, 2024
- Apr 1, 2024 Splitting Vertices - Hard Edges for Low Poly Procedural Generation Apr 1, 2024
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November 2023
- Nov 18, 2023 Minute 5 to Minute 10 - Completing the Game Loop Nov 18, 2023
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September 2023
- Sep 13, 2023 Visual Debugging with Gizmos Sep 13, 2023
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July 2023
- Jul 4, 2023 Easy Mode - Unity's New Input System Jul 4, 2023
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May 2023
- May 19, 2023 Level Builder - From Pixels to Playable Level May 19, 2023
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April 2023
- Apr 11, 2023 Input Action in the Inspector - New Input System Apr 11, 2023
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February 2023
- Feb 26, 2023 Tutorial Hell - Why You're There. How to Get Out. Feb 26, 2023
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December 2022
- Dec 31, 2022 Upgrade System (Stats Part 2) Dec 31, 2022
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November 2022
- Nov 10, 2022 Stats in Unity - The Way I Do it Nov 10, 2022
- Nov 5, 2022 State of UI in Unity - UI Toolkit Nov 5, 2022
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August 2022
- Aug 17, 2022 Knowing When A Coroutine Finishes Aug 17, 2022
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April 2022
- Apr 23, 2022 Unity Input Event Handlers - Or Adding Juice the Easy Way Apr 23, 2022
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March 2022
- Mar 15, 2022 *Quitting a Job I Love Mar 15, 2022
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February 2022
- Feb 8, 2022 Split Screen: New Input System & Cinemachine Feb 8, 2022
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January 2022
- Jan 24, 2022 (Better) Object Pooling Jan 24, 2022
- Jan 19, 2022 Designing a New Game - My Process Jan 19, 2022
- Jan 16, 2022 Strategy Game Camera: Unity's New Input System Jan 16, 2022
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December 2021
- Dec 16, 2021 Raycasting - It's mighty useful Dec 16, 2021
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November 2021
- Nov 22, 2021 Cinemachine. If you’re not. You should. Nov 22, 2021
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August 2021
- Aug 3, 2021 C# Extension Methods Aug 3, 2021
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June 2021
- Jun 27, 2021 Changing Action Maps with Unity's "New" Input System Jun 27, 2021
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May 2021
- May 28, 2021 Unity's New Input System May 28, 2021
- May 8, 2021 Bolt vs. C# - Thoughts with a dash of rant May 8, 2021
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March 2021
- Mar 10, 2021 Coroutines - Unity & C# Mar 10, 2021
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January 2021
- Jan 14, 2021 Where's My Lunch? - January Devlog Update Jan 14, 2021
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December 2020
- Dec 27, 2020 C# Generics and Unity Dec 27, 2020
- Dec 7, 2020 Steam Workshop with Unity and Facepunch Steamworks Dec 7, 2020
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November 2020
- Nov 27, 2020 Simple Level Save and Load System (Unity Editor) Nov 27, 2020
- Nov 9, 2020 Command Pattern - Encapsulation, Undo and Redo Nov 9, 2020
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October 2020
- Oct 28, 2020 GJTS - Adding Steamworks API and Uploading Oct 28, 2020
- Oct 9, 2020 Game Jam... Now What? Oct 9, 2020
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August 2020
- Aug 16, 2020 Strategy Pattern - Composition over Inheritance Aug 16, 2020
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July 2020
- Jul 24, 2020 Observer Pattern - C# Events Jul 24, 2020
- Jul 15, 2020 Object Pooling Jul 15, 2020
- Jul 3, 2020 Cheat Codes with Unity and C# Jul 3, 2020
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June 2020
- Jun 16, 2020 The State Pattern Jun 16, 2020
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August 2019
- Aug 12, 2019 Easy UI Styles for Unity Aug 12, 2019
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July 2019
- Jul 3, 2019 9th Grade Math to the Rescue Jul 3, 2019
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June 2019
- Jun 12, 2019 Introducing My Next Game (Video DevLog) Jun 12, 2019
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May 2019
- May 29, 2019 Programming Challenges May 29, 2019
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March 2019
- Mar 2, 2019 Something New - Asking "What Can I Learn?" Mar 2, 2019
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November 2018
- Nov 30, 2018 A Growing Channel and a New Tutorial Series Nov 30, 2018
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October 2018
- Oct 11, 2018 Procedural Spaceship Generator Oct 11, 2018
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July 2018
- Jul 11, 2018 Implementing SFX in Unity Jul 11, 2018
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May 2018
- May 31, 2018 Prototyping Something New May 31, 2018
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April 2018
- Apr 17, 2018 When to Shelve a Game Project? Apr 17, 2018
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February 2018
- Feb 9, 2018 State of the Game - Episode 3 Feb 9, 2018
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December 2017
- Dec 16, 2017 State of the Game - Episode 2 Dec 16, 2017
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November 2017
- Nov 7, 2017 The Bump From A "Viral" Post Nov 7, 2017
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October 2017
- Oct 30, 2017 NPC Job System Oct 30, 2017
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September 2017
- Sep 1, 2017 Resources and Resource Systems Sep 1, 2017
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August 2017
- Aug 3, 2017 State of the Game - Episode 1 Aug 3, 2017
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June 2017
- Jun 20, 2017 Resources: Processing, Consumption and Inventory Jun 20, 2017
- Jun 15, 2017 Energy is Everything Jun 15, 2017
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May 2017
- May 16, 2017 Graphing Script - It's not exciting, but it needed to be made May 16, 2017
- May 2, 2017 Tutorials: Low Poly Snow Shader May 2, 2017
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April 2017
- Apr 28, 2017 Low Poly Snow Shader Apr 28, 2017
- Apr 21, 2017 Environmental Simulation Part 2 Apr 21, 2017
- Apr 11, 2017 Environmental Simulation Part 1 Apr 11, 2017
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March 2017
- Mar 24, 2017 Building a Farming Game Loop and Troubles with Ground Water Mar 24, 2017
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February 2017
- Feb 25, 2017 The Inevitable : FTF PostMortem Feb 25, 2017
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December 2016
- Dec 7, 2016 Leaving Early Access Dec 7, 2016
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November 2016
- Nov 28, 2016 Low Poly Renders Nov 28, 2016
- Nov 1, 2016 FTF: Testing New Features Nov 1, 2016
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October 2016
- Oct 27, 2016 Watchtowers - Predictive Targeting Oct 27, 2016
- Oct 21, 2016 Click to Color Oct 21, 2016
- Oct 19, 2016 Unity Object Swapper Oct 19, 2016
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September 2016
- Sep 18, 2016 Testing Single Player Combat Sep 18, 2016
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May 2016
- May 25, 2016 Release Date and First Video Review May 25, 2016
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March 2016
- Mar 26, 2016 Getting Greenlit on Steam Mar 26, 2016
