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Data Inheritance

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Mikko Mononen

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GitHub repository by Mikko Mononen that pairs a written article with C prototype code for data inheritance: creating variations of existing data, overriding values, and propagating base changes into derived assets. The README on the repo root holds the full explanation.

It covers inheritance for prefabs and other asset types, explicit override flags versus delta diffs, value-drift pitfalls, per-field and bitflag override metadata, and how arrays complicate the scheme. Concrete struct examples show set and update routines for derived objects.

Aimed at engine and tools programmers building prefab variants or custom data stacks. Readers should know C-like structs and editor asset workflows.

Free public GitHub repository with README diagrams, sample C snippets, and images. Clone or browse the sources; there is no separate paid product page.

Useful when designing override semantics so derived assets stay stable as base data evolves in production prefab systems.