Post #1024747

2026-03-27 07:07 UTC

I have been working on data inheritance recently. The kind of stuff that you usually see with prefabs, but I believe that all the assets should support data inheritance. I just released an article how to do that on property and container level. It tries to cover both the low level bits and the UI. It&#39;s one of those problems that have to be worked as a whole. https://github.com/memononen/data_inheritance

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@MikkoMononen@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-27 07:12

I tried to keep things simple and used Dear ImGui for the example code, i n the hopes that someone can pick up the ideas and run whit them. Thanks @ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place for awesome support!

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@pervognsen@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 10:07

@MikkoMononen@mastodon.gamedev.place Nice article! Even augmented with some of the additional information (e.g. the override flags), the derived data still feels more like a snapshot representation than a delta/change-based representation. My intuition is that a delta representation would be better at capturing the user's intention and therefore be better for rebasing, but I haven't thought deeply about it.

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@seb_degraff@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-02 19:09

@MikkoMononen@mastodon.gamedev.place Thanks for the article, this kind of stuff is super-valuable! I tried to build the project out of curiosity but got an error referring to a local path on your computer I believe. I'm a bit scared of CMake so I didn't dig deeper, but I thought I'd let you know!

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