Objective
The main objective of this blog post is to give you an idea about ScriptableObject in Unity.
What is Scriptable Object?
What is the difference between ScriptableObject and Monobehaviour class?
What are Pros and Cons of Scriptableobject?
How to use ScriptableObject?
Let’s undertstand all the questions by taking one ride of this blog about ScriptableObject
According to Unity API documentation,
"ScriptableObject is a class you can derive from if you want to create objects that don't need to be attached to game objects."
Confuesed..?
Don’t worry, if you didn’t get it. Here, I will Explain what it means.
As we know, with Unity, everything is an Object.
Monobehaviours are one of the Objects.
GameObjects: In your scene, you can move around with transform.
ScriptableObject is a kind of Object but, it can only Contain Data.
So, they don’t get involved in the actual game.
I hope you understood the definition of ScriptableObject.
Let's discuss Pros and Cons of ScriptableObject.
Prose of ScriptableObject:
Built into Unity
They’re very well maintained by Unity.
You can interact with them very easily in Unity inspector.
Can be saved as Assets
You can create it as a mini file inside your project.
You can update that and save that as per your game requirements.
Can save during runtime
If you change something during runtime it will actually remember that.
Internal Solution
When you are trying to get the data during run time of the game, you don’t worry about parsing external files which will come into play more.
Large amounts of Data
You can save millions of integers inside of a ScriptableObject.
So, there’s a lot of space(no size limit function).
Add to Structure as you go
As you’re building a scriptable object and create few instances of it and realize ,ohh I need a new setting for ‘moveSpeed’ or whatever additional variable you need you can add, it won’t disrupt your variable.
Deleting variable can have a little bit negative impact.
Cons of ScriptableObject:
Requires an editor scripting
If you want to make assets out of scripting then you have to know a little bit about it.
Can’t edit outside Unity
If you’re working strictly with Unity that’s not really a huge issue.
But if you have like team base solution, where you want to send files to someone and have them edit then it won’t work.
Can’t save once deployed
