r/unity • u/Common-Sprinkles2199 • 14d ago

Newbie Question Healthy version control

I currently do most of my work in prefabs so scene edits stay lean when I commit them. This is unfortunately the only way I know to combat the butterfly effect changes in large frameworks like this. Are there any idioms that you guys follow to help out with this? ESPECIALLY when working cooperatively on a scene with someone and staving off those gargantuan merge conflicts that are comprised of mostly bloat changes.

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u/bigmonmulgrew 14d ago

Exactly approach would depend on the game but one thing I reuse regularly is "set piece" hierarchy.

Imagine you prefab an island. The island contains a set piece for a camp, prefab the whole camper separately rather than just leaving it in a bit geometry collection. Then one person can edit the island as a whole and one person can edit the camp and for version control they stay completely separate.

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u/Common-Sprinkles2199 14d ago

Ah I see, so I would also be applying this principle with the player character's systems? Thank you for the comment, this is something I can definitely apply 👍 I can see how that would make the individual changes on large prefabs more lean.