Class not using default values in inspector

Maybe I'm overlooking something silly here:

Code (CSharp):

1. public WeaponData[] weapons;
2.  
3. [System.Serializable]
4. public class WeaponData {
5.     public GameObject weapon;
6.     public bool active = true;
7.     [HideInInspector] public MF_BasicWeapon script;
8. }

In the inspector, 'weapons' is an array of size 0.
When I type in a new number, new array items are created, but the value of 'active' is always false, and not true like I've set in the class.

 

resizing arrays in the unity inspector actually doesn't create new instances of the class and serialize that. Instead it duplicates the last entry in the existing serialized representation of the array. If that serialized representation is empty, it creates them with the default values of the types for those fields.

It's just the weird way unity serializes arrays.

 

public List<WeaponData> weapons = new List<WeaponData>();

don't know if resizing arrays in inspector works so well as @lordofduct said.

 

Lists are treated nearly the same exact way during serialization.

 

ah, yes you are right. @lordofduct