Request : Baker On scriptableObject

[shadow canyon]

Why is this not a thing yet ? any specifics reason why we can't do something like what's in the code block.

It Could help A Lot by avoiding redundancy and useless authoring components for nothing 🙂

Plus it could be compatible with addressable & Avoid Subscene Cluttering with SettingAuthoring overload.

    [CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "GameTickSettings", menuName = "ScriptableObjects/GameTickSettings", order = 1)]
    public class SoGameTickSettings : ScriptableObject, IGameSettings
    {
        public GameTickSettingsData Data;

        public class GameTickSettingsBaker : Baker<SoGameTickSettings>
        {
            public override void Bake(SoGameTickSettings authoring)
            {
                Entity current = GetEntity(TransformUsageFlags.None);
                AddComponent(current, authoring.Data);
            }
        }
     
        [Serializable]
        public struct GameTickSettingsData : IComponentData
        {
            public float TickLength;
        }
    }

[nova gulch]

I would say that scriptable objects should usually bake to BlobAssets instead of entities. And I guess this is why it is not as simple as it seems to make it work with a baker similar to MonoBehaviors

[shadow canyon]

Humm if that is the case that's definitely an overlook on my side then ...

[slate niche]

🥲 I would like official to change ScriptableObject default behavior to become exactly like game object prefab that able to reflect and update new changes and just trigger baker to do new update but sadly current ScriptableObject requires you to ctrl + s to trigger baker update which make it extremely hard to make some kind of custom tooling to work properly. Until now I still can't find the way to get the exact behavior like game object prefab

[shadow canyon]

I'm not even sure what the correct pipeline should be. Would love a real life example on that x)

[round plaza]

it is already like that. DependsOn makes sure baker will retrigger when SO changes.

Your best bet as of now is to just modify target data/blob via inspector

[slate niche]

I know there's DependsOn API. But what I say is about scriptable object improvement. Currently u still need to ctrl+s to trigger baker

[shadow canyon]

@slate niche you can have a scriptable that trigger a baker ??

how ?

[slate niche]

From what I understand u still need to implement baker at game object and then reference scriptable object into game object

[shadow canyon]

huuuuuuuuuuh

that's a pain that's what I'm doing with a custom interface that trigger a conversion method at runtime