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Unity - Persistent objects btw. scenes in a simple way

Problem

Unity has multiple ways to keep data or objects persistent between scene loads. E.g. DontDestroyOnLoad, Singletons, ScriptableObjects. Some are better, some are worse and they are all not ideal. But there is a really smarter path I stumbled upon during my private gaming project. Keep persistent objects in a persistent scene.

Solution

Unity has been able to handle multiple scenes at once for a long time. This is great for dynamic loading and unloading of scene parts e.g. chunks in a voxel like environment, single map-parts etc. but also for your object management. To keep your objects persistent, put them in a scene which you won't unload at runtime and is always loaded. This persistent scene is the only scene which is already loaded at game start and decides which additional scenes should be loaded and unloaded. This is possible due to the SceneManager's additive loading mode.

Example

Imagine we want to have always only one persistent scene and one map scene active in our game. Map scenes are the part we want to load and unload dynamically and containing for example a tilemap of a level.

https://gist.github.com/Nano222/1635e4a936ec812915369c1a71ca1974

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Test on android device📱. Motion control isn't ideal yet, a little too sensitive.

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Intro

Hi everyone 😁,

i decided to make a little dev blog about my hobby stuff i’am working on. I don’t now how this will end up but i give it a try 🤷‍♂️.

.... and also links to my social-media 😇.

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Notes:

At the moment i’am working on a 2d action rpg in 16bit style. Therefore i use the ManaSeed pixelart game assets from SelieltheShaper. So all credits for the amazing pixelart with the corresponding tags goes to seliel.

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