Possible to *not* Bake certain objects.. [SOLVED]

[chilly oxide]

I have a parent object in my subscene which uses child gameobjects to get values etc however i'd like the children to not be baked/converted to entities - is this possible?

[silk ridge]

From memory, add the BakingOnlyEntity component to them

Oh or easier
add BakingOnlyEntityAuthoring to the gameobject

    /// Add a BakingOnlyEntity authoring component to your game object to mark it as Bake Only. It and all children will be
    /// stripped out before they appear in the live game world. Its additional entities and its children additional entities
    /// are exempt from this and will appear in the live game world.
    /// </summary>
    [DisallowMultipleComponent]
    public class BakingOnlyEntityAuthoring : MonoBehaviour { }```

[chilly oxide]

Aha! Thanks.. how did you find out about this? I've been trawling decompiled IBaker etc trying to find a way..

Sadly getting some errors from this 😐

[silk ridge]

What errors?

[chilly oxide]

I've managed to get rid of it and can't get it back, but i can reproduce part of the problem:

It was two errors relating to invalid entity

So the other part that i can reproduce was:

part of the hierarchy of one of these child objects was a gameobject that is also used in a prefab that is referenced and baked in a separate baker object

so that gameobject wasn't being removed by the BakingOnlyEntityAuthoring that was applied to the parent

everything was being removed, except from these certain objects

i think the reason these objects were tripping it up, is that they share a 1/1 relationship with the prefab version 🤷

so - the objects that were not being removed, just happened to also have prefabs based on them

hard to explain

luckily i didn't require them to be part of this hierarchy so just removed them