Inspector Not Updating When Values Are Changed In Code

Question

I'm having trouble with my inspector and I'm not sure what I did. Before this problem, when I would update a variable in my script, it would show the new value in the inspector when I saved the code. For some reason all of a sudden, this stopped happening. I'm not aware of any changes I made to the inspector or code that would have caused this. Is there some sort of setting to adjust this functionality? I've been pretty much working with a default unity installation and doing C# in Visual Studio. I've seen other similar problems on the web but no answers that quite fit the issue I'm having.

Here is an example variable with two different values. Basically, I initialized it in C# code with a value of 2f. Then, later on I updated the same C# code with the value 3f and saved. Normally, the inspector would update to reflect this new value but it no longer does.

Variable in Code

Variable in Inspector

Answer 1

That is because the fields in the Inspector are serialized and get always overwritten with the serialized values stored in your Scene or Prefab asset.

A later change in code of the default value has therefore no effect.

So I doubt it has done it before.

The only thing that does change it would e.g. be if you rename the field.

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As already mentioned by Yash Vakil you can Reset the entire component and all its field via the component's context menu.

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But afaik you can also reset individual fields by directly right click the field and click Reset from this context menu. Not 100% sure on that one though.

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The little bit dirty hack around would be to make one compilation where this value is not serialized anymore.

E.g. by making it

[NonSerialized] public float jorneyTime = 3f;

let it compile once and then change it back by removing the [NonSerialized] again. This forces Unity to lose the serialization of that field entirely.