Unity Game Optimization - Third Edition

Assigning references to pre-existing objects

A simple approach to the problem of inter-object communication is to use Unity's built-in serialization system. Software design purists tend to get a little combative about this feature since it breaks encapsulation; it makes any field (the C# term for a member variable) marked private act in a way that treats it like a public field. However, it is a very effective tool for improving development workflow. This is particularly true when artists, designers, and programmers are all tinkering when the same product, where each has wildly varying levels of computer science and software programming knowledge, and with some of whom would prefer to stay away from modifying code files. Sometimes, it's worth ...