Do I need to use a Baker to bake GameObject prefabs into entities ? Or is there an API for that ?

[wise river]

All is in the title.
If I want Designers to add Prefab to a game I currently find myself doing something like :
1 - Building the GameObject Prefab
2 - Creating a Scriptable object fo T type to hold a reference
3 - Create an empty Baker the loop throught all the T Type either with adressables or the resources or any folder
4 - for each SO found I Do A Get Entity on the prefab GO reference
5 - Then store the reference somewhere for later use by the rest of the game

Is there any other way than doing the 3 - 4 steps ?

Like is there a function that exist that could be called outside of a baker that basically do the same thing ?

[tacit lance]

you can use asset postprocessor to detect if prefab has specific monobehaviour you want

and add label to it

then use filter in AssetDatabase.FindAssets

to get only those prefabs

alternatively, your designers can add those labels

but you do need baker to bake entity

no other way around