[BlackBoard] Point to Reference BB and instance on start?

[matt-newcombeParticipant]

Hi There,

So I have a question. I have 10 (or really N) game objects that share a FSM asset and have identical BlackBoards.

At runtime I want all of these black boards to be independent so that they variables can have different values. However at Edit time, I really want them all to point to the same ‘proto’ blackboard. So I can just adjust one BlackBoard and reflect the changes.

So, if I could make them a prefab this would work perfectly, I can just change the prefab and reflect the changes. BUT for various reasons I can’t actually make these objects prefabbed.

Is there anyway to achieve this without prefabs? Like having a blackboard as a SerializedObject and a saved asset, but then instancing it on start for the FSM?

Thanks in advance,

Matt

[GavalakisKeymaster]

Hello Matt,

That is really interesting. Unfortunately there is no proper way of doing what you are after here, at least yet, (other than using prefabs of course).
One feature I once had in mind and is probably very well paired with your request here, is the ability to -like you said- be able to create Asset Blackboards, and have those blackboards be referenced for the GraphOwner to use instead of one found attached on the gameobject as an option.

I wasn’t actually thinking of making it a local instance of it at runtime though, but rather as a way for GraphOwners to share the same Blackboard Asset and thus variables. I could though add an option in the GraphOwner inspector to make a local blackboard instance at runtime, or simply use the reference itself.

Please let me know if you think that this will work for you and if so, I will move the feature higher in the priority roadmap list 🙂
Thank you!

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