Everything you need to know about prefabs in Unity | Prefabs Explained ft. Lego Microgame

In this detailed breakdown, you will learn everything you need to know about prefabs in Unity! With this 12 minute guide, prefabs will be explained in a step by step process, and the knowledge gained will save you time and headaches as you develop your own games. It will even help you implement better game design!

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Intro: 0:00
What is a Prefab: 0:32
How to Make a Prefab: 0:57
What do Prefabs Do: 1:42
GameObjects Explained: 2:25
Enemy GameObject Example: 2:57
Problems With GameObjects: 3:29
GameObject Problems Explained: 3:53
Making Prefabs With Our Enemy: 4:17
What are Prefab Instances: 4:33
Prefab Benefits Explained: 4:42
Prefab Overrides Explained: 5:38
Prefab Mode Explained: 6:37
Transform Override Outlier: 7:28
Other Benefits of Prefabs: 8:00
Making Other Kinds of Enemies: 8:15
Prefab Variants Explained: 8:45
Nested Prefabs Explained: 9:37
Instantiate Prefabs Explained: 10:20
Unpacking Prefabs Explained: 10:52
Making Prefabs in the Lego Microgame: 11:15
Next Time: 11:37

[lukegf]

Thanks for another awesome game dev video!

[Ryan-wwun]

Your explanation of variants and nested prefabs really helped me!

[pierreroquin]

This video is a must see for anyone working in a team on a Unity project, I often share it to people, great work !

[nightstorm]

Can we get a vid were you setup movement using rigidbodies and show all the ways to move using a rigidbody

[SnakeEngine]

Great Content! This guy is not just for show, he can go! :)

[elsam_]

You need more views for this quality content!

[signalised]

This was awesome! I've looked at the trello board and I'm excited for what's to come!

[JeffKomarow]

Thank you for this explanation of Prefab Variants!

[FAISAL-kyps]

Unpack Prefabs and Prefabs Variant, now i understand about that :v

Waiting you explain Shader and Lighting

[Babush]

Thanks for the great video!
Another great benefit of prefabs would be performance since the prefabs are all just references of the original GameObject

[turkeyjerkey]

I love your pace and presentation! Good job covering Nested Prefabs! Maybe not "everything you need to know" about Prefab Variants, though. ;-) Unity's "The Journey: Ep.5" YouTube video discusses Prefab Variants and Prefab workflows in some detail, including how they 'inherit' properties from base prefabs, but can also override some properties (in more detail than your video). They also point out that since the original prefab (and all variants) are connected to the original FBX file, changes to the FBX file (e.g., in Blender) will modify all the variants in Unity too! With a full prefab (instead of Variant), the link to the original FBX file is replaced with a generic game object instead, and this doesn't happen!

[LarryMcCormick-neto]

Thumbs up to you! That was really really great! I decided that I need to make a folder called Great Unity Tutorials and put your tutorial in it. I plan on watching this again. Thank you so much for putting your heart into this and doing a really professional, well delivered, expert training video. Thank you.

[itzavi]

I am really waiting for that character controller movement with animation videos

[phantomprogramming]

A very well-put-together video! Nice job!

[moniques]

Very helpful reference video! Great work & thank you 💜

[odinniereece]

Wonderful video.. This explanation help me understand somethings I never knew ..

[Director]

Amazing video, many thanks!! 😊👍👌
It's the nesting of multiple prefabs and what changes apply to either child or parent prefab that confuses me the most.

[herbf]

What old version of Unity is the cut-off for nested prefabs? And what happens if you try to move stuff betwixt the versions that arent' necessarily compatible? And are there any differences between how versions use the prefabs other than the nested prefabs being a new thing? And is there a way to find the holy first prefab that controls the rest?

[darkdoom]

I made audience by creating a humanoid with animator controller, I wanted all the prefabs in the scene to play a certain animation on a UnityEvent Invoke, but only the prefab which was mentioned in the Event was triggerred and the rest were not

[zubankesari]

Is there anyway to repack an Unpacked prefab based on its original prefab?
I did an oppsie in my project please help..