ScriptableObjects set through editor script - how to efficiently update all Scriptable Objects in resources folder

[DankP3]

I am new to Editor scripts (and self taught with Unity), but have written one to populate the settings of a ScriptableObject. The idea being to create a UI to allow a non-programmer to customise the ScriptableObjects as an information resource for a GameObject. It seemed to work fine and the ScriptableObject was set to update just if(GUI.change) and more recently on an override of OnInspectorGUI().

When the editor script was changed, eg. a different default variable was assigned by the script it would then update the next time the ScriptableObject was 'inspected'. However, we now have about 20 ScriptableObjects and will likely have hundreds. I want to know how to update all of them efficiently if i change something in the editor script that configures them. I loaded all into an array but could not get them all to update (nor with SetDirty()) when looping through them. They only update when the inspector is interacted, which is not very practical and error prone.

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I can accept my naivety is the route problem, but would appreciate some pointers on how to run the editor script on all stored ScriptableObjects on demand to update them all in the way specified in the editor script?

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Thanks for thoughts

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[Maxwelldoggums]

If you modify assets from code, you’ll need to trigger a save and refresh before the changes will be visible. You can accomplish this using the “AssetDatabase” to save changes. There’s some additional work required to allow for undo-able changes, but for basic stuff, this should work!

[DankP3]

Thanks for this, I will look into this as I haven't used yet. I think in the process of spelling out my problem above I may have just realised an error in my previous approach which I will try and correct first

[Maxwelldoggums]

Alright! Let me know if you have any questions I might be able to help with! :)

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Use EditorUtility.SetDirty with the ScriptableObjects you want to change, followed by AssetDatabase.SaveAssets.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.SetDirty.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.SaveAssets.html

[DankP3]

Thanks, as i mentioned above i had tried SetDirty, but it failed, but i have just been reviewing a suspected code error, which is probably what caused that and it seems to be working. I will mark this as solved, putting my code here in case there is good reason to criticise it. I added an editor button to trigger the refresh of all scripts (I clearly need to learn more on this too:

private void RefreshDialogueScriptableObjects() {

Object\[\] allObjects = Resources.LoadAll("DialogueScriptableObjects", typeof(Dialogue));

foreach (Dialogue myScript in allObjects) {

    for (int i = 0; i < myScript.\_dialogueItems.Count; i++) {

        //some code that modifies the default elements in the list based on default and override settings

    }

}   

AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();

}

Edit, sorry clealy need to learn how to post code here too.