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[wide plover]

im not sure if anyone would like to help, but i am a total beginner, i was just gonna follow some tutorials and tweak things. i tried using a plugin called unisense, because i was thinking of making this a ps5 game. little did i know that this was gonna have 0 guides online and no guis. not beginner friendly. so if anyone would like to help me with this, that would be amazing (lol)

[molten crater]

Hello,
I am trying to use the GraphView in the Experimental Unity Editor namespace, but I cannot import the library.
I have tried to search it in the Package Manager with no luck, also nothing in the store.
What am I missing to use the experimental library?
I am using the latest alpha release 2023.1

[gloomy chasm]

It is just shipped with unity. No need to any additional package or anything 🙂

[molten crater]

Strange, because I cannot get the namespace import to work. Perhaps it has a different namespace in the nee version and I am looking at old docs?!

[molten crater]

Installed the LTS version and now it is working. I guess I will stick with the stable version.

[candid bolt]

How can I check whether the mouse is currently over the editor application?

I'm getting occasional null reference exceptions when using thiscs if (mouseOverWindow != null && mouseOverWindow.titleContent != null && mouseOverWindow.titleContent.ToString() == "Scene") { mouseOverScene = true; }

[gloomy chasm]

It strikes me that there might be an internal callback or bool for it. I know there is one for if the Unity application is focused.
What are you trying to do? There might be a different/better way to go about it.

[candid bolt]

I’m working on an editor tool that checks the title content of the mouse over window. It’s basically a mesh painter tool that tracks when the user is painting (holding left click). But if the user leaves the scene window I want to force the painting action to be false regardless of it they are holding left click.

[gloomy chasm]

What... so all you want is to only paint in the scene view window?

[candid bolt]

Maybe there is a better way to see if the user has left the editor Scene window than checking the title content?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah there is a number of ways to do it. And this is definitely not one of them haha.
Where are you doing the painting. I mean where are you calling the code?

The basic idea would be to do this

if (Event.current.type == EventType.MouseDown)
  Event.current.Use();

[candid bolt]

Well I'm already doing that

I'm calling input checks from OnSceneGUI and OnGUI

[gloomy chasm]

Can you share the code? Or part of it?

[candid bolt]

Yeah one sec let me snip out the relevant part

The issue is that EventType.MouseUp won't get called if the user has the left the Scene or GUI window since I'm using OnGUI and OnSceneGUI so I need to force the painting action to happen and set painting back to false when the mouse leaves the scene window.

[gloomy chasm]

Where is this called?

You might try doing Event.current.GetTypeForControl(id) to get the event type instead.

[candid bolt]

OnGUI and SceneView.duringSceneGui

It's basically working perfectly as is, just getting the occasional null reference thrown when mousing between Unity and other windows. It's not a huge deal but annoying lol.

[gloomy chasm]

Well, for one, don't check the title, just check the window type 😛

[candid bolt]

For sure! That would be ideal I just couldn't find a way to check the type for the editor window

[gloomy chasm]

typeof(SceneView)

[candid bolt]

🙏

[visual stag]

or window is SceneView

[candid bolt]

Worked! However the null reference still happens

@gloomy chasm obviously this is a ridiculous way to show the issue but it still happens quite a bit organically and can be quite annoying to see errors for this

[crude lagoon]

I have been trying to make a simple propertyDrawer, but for the life of me, I can't get the PropertyField to align itself with other unmodified properties as the window resizes, it always ends up as this awful mess.

Could anyone help me?

[agile badger]

Anyone know if there's a way to add an option to the context menu of a message in the Console? I'd like to right-click on a message and be able to read it aloud through a TTS voice, my eyes are just too damn blind to read error messages without it

[gloomy chasm]

Show code please.

[crude lagoon]

[CustomPropertyDrawer(typeof(Optional<>))]
public class OptionalPropertyDrawer : PropertyDrawer
{

    public override void OnGUI(
        Rect position,
        SerializedProperty property,
        GUIContent label
    )
    {
        var valueProperty = property.FindPropertyRelative("value");
        var enabledProperty = property.FindPropertyRelative("enabled");

        EditorGUI.BeginProperty(position, label, property);

        position.width -= 24;
        EditorGUI.BeginDisabledGroup(!enabledProperty.boolValue);
        EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, valueProperty, label, true);
        EditorGUI.EndDisabledGroup();

        int indent = EditorGUI.indentLevel;
        EditorGUI.indentLevel = 0;

        position.x += position.width + 24;
        position.width = position.height;
        position.x -= position.width;
        EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, enabledProperty, GUIContent.none);

        EditorGUI.indentLevel = indent;
        EditorGUI.EndProperty();
    }
}

This is code mostly from a tutorial I was following

[gloomy chasm]

Do you have an example of what you want it to look like?

[crude lagoon]

The modified property is the "Direction Boost Multiplier", I would simply like the actual input field, containing the number to be in line with the other (Unmodified) Values.

[gloomy chasm]

Read my comments and try this.

[CustomPropertyDrawer(typeof(Optional<>))]
public class OptionalPropertyDrawer : PropertyDrawer
{

    public override void OnGUI(
        Rect position,
        SerializedProperty property,
        GUIContent label
    )
    {
        var valueProperty = property.FindPropertyRelative("value");
        var enabledProperty = property.FindPropertyRelative("enabled");

        EditorGUI.BeginProperty(position, label, property);

        position.width -= 24;
        EditorGUI.BeginDisabledGroup(!enabledProperty.boolValue);
        EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, valueProperty, label, true);
        EditorGUI.EndDisabledGroup();

        // You don't want to mess with indentation.
        // If a field of this type was ever shown for example in a foldout (like it is a field of another class), it will show at the far left side instead of being indented properly.
        // int indent = EditorGUI.indentLevel;
        // EditorGUI.indentLevel = 0;
        
        // I could be doing it wrong in my head. But I think this would start the "enabled" field 24px *after* the end of the "valueProperty" field.
        //position.x += position.width + 24;
        // This is the same as "x + width". Just nicer.
        position.xMin = position.xMax;

        // Don't do this. Not for a technical reason. But it simply makes the code harder to follow and isn't atually what you want. The height *could* be set to another number than the normal line height of 21px.
        // What you really want is for it to be 21px. So set it to that.
        //position.width = position.height;
        position.width = 21;

        //position.x -= position.width;

        EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, enabledProperty, GUIContent.none);

        //EditorGUI.indentLevel = indent;
        EditorGUI.EndProperty();
    }
}

Well there is the userData from the importer. I don't think there is any other way. You could add hidden subassets to the main asset which you can then add whatever metadata you want to.

Maybe with more context I might be able to suggest something else.

[crude lagoon]

I agree that the modified code is much better, but it still has the same problem.

[candid bolt]

What's the proper way to use Undo.RecordObject / add custom actions to the Undo system? I'm attempting to record the deletion of a game object through my custom editor and recording the object before deletion doesn't add it to the Undo history.

[waxen sandal]

IIRC there's a specific delete object call

[candid bolt]

Not ‘DestroyImmediate’ ?

[waxen sandal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Undo.DestroyObjectImmediate.html

[candid bolt]

Excellent thank you! 🙌

[crude lagoon]

Also, I just confirmed, this only happens in my unity 2022.2.0b1 project. I don't know why I didn't try this earlier, but exactly the same code, works fine and lays out correctly in unity 2020.20f1. Could this be a bug?

[gloomy chasm]

Ah, quite possible. In 2022.2 they changed the inspector to use UIToolkit by default instead of IMGUI. Anyway, isn't 2022.2 out of beta now? Or in late beta? 2022.2.0b1 is a very early beta. For sure update! 🙂

[visual stag]

b1 is very old

[crude lagoon]

That's true. I just finished updating to b9, seems to work now. Thanks for all your help.

[dusky lake]

So I'm jumping into the deep end and I want to extend the Animator and tinker with it. My base goal is to have a way to make it run scripts, either as a new state object (in the right click menu) or as a State Behavior (which I think would be less than ideal, but I'd still tinker with it). I'm not looking for a hand hold, I'm just looking for the right nudge in that direction to start myself in

[gritty yew]

I've been really curious about UI Toolkit as I'm coming from web background. One of the downsides was that it supports only css (uss), so I made custom importer for sass - supports imports, writing css with less code, nesting and in general much easier to read (you can check it out here: https://github.com/LonelyVertex/unity-sass-importer). My problem is that currently I have to use reflection to import the file after the code generation runs because StyleSheetImporter is internal whereas other importers are available. I'm not expecting anyone here to know why, but maybe there is a better way how to achieve something similar - Is there a way how to import sub-asset by a different importer without creating it as a file maybe?

[peak bloom]

there's a toggle to turn on the IMGUI in the project settings

not following the conversation above just randomly saw the comments 😆

[gloomy chasm]

Is there really?? I wonder if they have/will kept it in 2022.3

[visual stag]

It's all the way at the bottom of the Editor tab

[gloomy chasm]

Oh that is just a tiny bit of reflection. But no, as far as I know there isn't another way to do it. But also of note, when getting in to editor scripting it s very common to use reflection the deeper you get in to editor scripting. 🙂

[gloomy chasm]

Not really sure what you are wanting to do tbh, sorry. Maybe you could try explaining it a bit more in-depth what you want to do?

[gritty yew]

I know, I don't have necessarily problem with it, I just hoped it could be done in a "nice" way, but I guess not 😄 Especially when there are some importers are accessible 😄

Also I hoped I could trigger importer for sub assets, but couldn't find anything

[peak bloom]

yes, proly will be there for a while, also see Vertx comments above

lots of their customers would throw rocks at them if they suddenly removed imgui entirely 😆

[gloomy chasm]

That would never work because the way importers work is they basically (sort of kind of) recreate the object and all subobjects when (re)imported. So if you made changes to the uss file it would clear whatever subobjects you added to it.

[gloomy chasm]

All they did is switch from default drawing of the object editors from IMGUI to UITK. IMGUI still works fine 😛

[gritty yew]

I'm doing that already anyway, every time I import the .scss, I recreate the subobjects

[peak bloom]

it's more of a fallback option I think.. but yeah imgui still working fine

[gloomy chasm]

You recreate the subobjects for the scss file though right? Or are you adding sub-objects to the uss file?

[gritty yew]

I don't have .uss file, I have only .scss file that is imported as .uss with importer (calls sass process, creates compiled .css that is then imported with unitys stylesheet importer and that instance (StyleSheet) is added as subobject to the .scss file)

[dusky lake]

In a basic sense, I want to be able to use an Animation Controller as a logic loop for a custom API for things to use that is sandboxed to that Animation Controller that the GameObject is a part of, to do things programmically instead of solely animation based

It's probably really dumb, but it's just an idea I had in a haze and I've been tinkering with it in my head for a bit

[gloomy chasm]

Isn't that just a state machine?

[half dune]

Hm... I could use pointing in the right direction.
I have a ScriptableObject where I define frames for a sprite animation. I'm creating a custom inspector that will show a preview of that animation running. However, I'm finding OnInspectorGUI doesn't run often enough to show my animation frames.
I'm wondering what I should be doing instead. While researching, I'm stumbling into "HasPreviewGUI" and am wondering if that is the right direction to go.

Here is my code if relevant.

        private void DrawPreviewAnimation(SpriteAnimationConfiguration spriteAnim)
        {
            const float FRAMES_PER_SECOND = 6;

            var time = EditorApplication.timeSinceStartup / (1 / FRAMES_PER_SECOND);
            var frameIndex = (int)(time % spriteAnim.Frames.Length);
            var frame = spriteAnim.Frames[frameIndex];

            if (frame != null)
            {
                DrawPreviewSprite(frame);
            }
        }


        private void DrawPreviewSprite(Sprite sprite)
        {
            var texture = AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview(sprite);
            var rect = GUILayoutUtility.GetRect(GUIContent.none, GUIStyle.none, GUILayout.Height(texture.height), GUILayout.Width(texture.width));
            
            GUI.DrawTexture(rect, texture);
        }

[gloomy chasm]

You can call Repaint() in your OnInspectoGUI to force it to repaint each frame.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Editor.Repaint.html

[half dune]

@gloomy chasm That doesn't appear to be changing the behavior.

Correction: that is working (I had a compilation issue elsewhere that threw me)
Thank you.

[short prawn]

does anyone know why I get a 0 pixel width from an element with width set to 100% when it says in the layout its pixel size?

I get 0 from debug logging the layout.width
the UITK Debugger says width: 100%, and also shows a pixel width value in the layout style bit

Thoroughly confused

[peak bloom]

try getting the worldBound size instead VisualElement.worldBound.size

see what it will say

[short prawn]

still 0

[visual lynx]

Hello! I'm working on a tool to manipulate animations. I'm having a hard time finding how to map a texture change on a UI.Image component. When I loop through the propertynames of the animation this keyframes doesn't show up. Anyone knows where unity stores this info?

[gloomy chasm]

Where/when are debug.logging it?

[gloomy chasm]

What info? The texture used in the UI Image component? that is just imageComponent.sprite.

[short prawn]

Currently i've got it set in 3 places, all returning 0, all at stages where it is set to have a width

[gloomy chasm]

Can you show the code?

[short prawn]

Give me 2 mins and I'll try and make it something I can share

[vapid prism]

Assuming a property drawer: [CustomPropertyDrawer(typeof(MyReference<>), true)] Can I somehow get what the T would be for this drawer, so I can feed it to an ObjectField? T is guaranteed to inherit from ScriptableObject

[gloomy chasm]

fieldInfo.FieldType.GetGenericTypeDefinition()

[vapid prism]

Oh right, I keep forgetting that fieldInfo is part of the drawer, thanks a lot!

[visual lynx]

Sorry I wasn't more specific. I'm going trough the property names of an animation. ex: if you wanna change the position in a recttransform the property is "m_AnchoredPosition" while in the Transform is "m_LocalPosition"
In my animation there's a texture swap and the problem is this info is not showing up when I loop inside the the animation
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationUtility.GetCurveBindings.html

[vapid prism]

Actually this returns MyReference`1 and not MyReference<MyType> so the ObjectField doesn't know what to pick. It's recognized however.

also how the heck do you escape a ` in a code block

[glad pivot]

random question. Is it possible to render something like particles on top of the editor? like similar to this https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hoovercj.vscode-power-mode ?

[gloomy chasm]

Yup, but not without a good bit of work and maybe some hackery.

There are a couple of ways to do it. Both share the same core idea. You would basically draw a texture over wherever you want the particles to be shown.

One way is to fake the particles in a shader and then draw the texture with that shader. The other is to have a preview scene, play the particles in that scene and have it render to a render texture which you then draw.

[glad pivot]

Id probably do it through a shader and fake it if i can figure out how to do the shader

Since im learning shaders so i could learn from that

[thorn raptor]

does anybody know why my EditorGUI stuff aren't editable when I have variables in the Rect?

they still appear with no flickering I just cant interact with it

it recognises hovering

I somewhat think the cumulativeHeight variable here is the reason it isnt working

I've tried using a temporary variable and doing the EditorGUI.BeginChangeCheck() stuff to no avail

god this is frustrating beyond belief

i havent been able to get this work on/off for 2 days

thats just how it is ig

[gloomy chasm]

Can you show the inspector? Also, what exactly isn't working?

[thorn raptor]

sure

hang on ill just post the entire script

cos I think it'll be relevant for this to work

i forgot the name of the website I used to use to dump code

[gloomy chasm]

https://gdl.space/

[thorn raptor]

oh it was hatebin but i suppose that'll work too

[thorn raptor]

https://gdl.space/iyiruyozek.cs

it displays fine

but I cant edit anything, nor do the buttons push in

[gloomy chasm]

Okay, firstly I would recommend switching over to using GUILayout as it is much easier to see and follow the code.

[thorn raptor]

2021.3.9f1 if thats relevant

[gloomy chasm]

Also, non of your buttons do anything because you haven't set them up to do anything

[thorn raptor]

fair, but I did want more control over the look

[thorn raptor]

well they should still click right

and one of them is

the "top" one

and it doesnt do anything

[gloomy chasm]

Oh I see

[thorn raptor]

to clarify, it hovers, but clicking down the mouse doesn't register a press

it just stays the same colour as it is when you hover

oh one thing worth noting

the dropdown and button at the top work

these 2

[gloomy chasm]

So it is just the stuff in the for loop that doesn't?

[thorn raptor]

mhm

HUH

I TRIED USING THE TAB KEY ON A WHIM AND IT WORKED

so its just the mouse that isn't working????

[gloomy chasm]

Tab to do what?

[thorn raptor]

let me try changing some code and see if it retains what I typed

switch what I had selected

why is the mouse not working then?

yeah I altered the code and it retained all the info

okay so how do I get the mouse to work

theres so little past questions on google about custom editors

[gloomy chasm]

Try hitting escape and then trying to use a field using the mouse

[thorn raptor]

nah

not working

I've tried removing the DrawRect in the past too in case that was relevant

but that didnt do anything either

[gloomy chasm]

Hmm, what I think is happening is something is grabbing the mouse input.

Have you tried restarting Unity?

[thorn raptor]

this has been a problem persistent between different computers and days so

including today and I've closed unity since then so

[gloomy chasm]

Guess I will pop open a unity instance for you and take a quick look

[thorn raptor]

thank you

[gloomy chasm]

Well I do get the same issue. So that's good at least

[thorn raptor]

okay so its not an install problem

nor a version specific problem unless ur also on 2021.3.9f1

this is super strange

i dont understand how others havent had this issue before

i presume my approach is beyond unconventional

i tried moving to ReorderableList but i was struggling to understand it and it wasnt working

am I supposed to code my own mouse logic?

[gloomy chasm]

Well using GUILayout works

[thorn raptor]

yeah

[gloomy chasm]

OOOH

[thorn raptor]

so does EditorGUI at the beginning

[gloomy chasm]

No, nvm

[thorn raptor]

lmao

[gloomy chasm]

Well yeah it should be working.. no idea why it isn't

[thorn raptor]

i've noticed something

[gloomy chasm]

I do feel like there is something off

[thorn raptor]

when I take the theoretically pointless EditorGUILayout.Space()es out

tab no longer works

[gloomy chasm]

My spidy sense is tingling when I look at this code. I'm just not sure why

[thorn raptor]

yeah its really odd

yeah no thats a consistant thing

I can't use tab to switch between these if I take out the EditorGUILayout.Space()es

and those are the only thing I use from EditorGUILayout

aight well if you've given up thank you for the help

[gloomy chasm]

Nope, I didn't give up. Well now I did. Something funny is going on. Just plain old text field with nothing else isn't working...

Well anyway. Just use GUILayout

[thorn raptor]

i dont know how to do that tho

because like

then i cant control how it looks

like how do I do this with GUILayout

okay ill summarise the problem for those who dont want to read back

essentially

https://gdl.space/vixofuxiro.cs

the problem is that its not letting me interact with it but it displays correctly

buttons respond to hovering but dont click, I cant edit text fields, etc

the only thing that works is the dropdown and button at the top

2 other people havent been able to figure it out yet

[gloomy chasm]

GUILayout works fine

[thorn raptor]

i got the tab thing working again

[thorn raptor]

HUH

HOW DID U

[gloomy chasm]

https://i.imgur.com/kSKmGbd.gif

[thorn raptor]

woah that was some fast gif creation

how did you manage to get that

i didnt think you could have that much control with GUILayout

there didnt seem to be a way to do rects and such

[gloomy chasm]

https://gdl.space/feqolajere.cs

Oh, there is

Also, every GUILayout method can take 'layout options'. So you can do things like GUILayout.Button("Example", GUILayout.Width(50), GUILayout.ExpandHeight(true));

[thorn raptor]

wow this is very structurally different

and way easier to read lmao

[thorn raptor]

👀

[gloomy chasm]

LOL, that is why I was saying to switch to it 😛

[thorn raptor]

true

i just thought u didnt get many options

[gloomy chasm]

Also, I really recommend using SerializedProperty instead of getting and setting the fields of the object directly

[thorn raptor]

that was the part of the ReorderableList thing I didn't fully understand

i dont fully understand what serializedproperty is, but tbh im not very confident with my understanding of serialization as a whole

i kinda get it

[gloomy chasm]

Do you know what c# reflection is?

[thorn raptor]

im bad with terminology

I might be farmiliar with the way to do it but not the word to refer to it

like how earlier i didnt know what polymorphism was until I realised it was something I was already doing

[gloomy chasm]

No big deal then.
Basically SerializedProperty and SerializedObject allow you to access the serialized fields of the object directly.

[thorn raptor]

right

is that different from my approach?

like just setting fields of the object variable

[gloomy chasm]

Yes.

// Find the field we want.
SerializedProperty myFloatProperty = serializedObject.FindProperty("myFloat");

// Set the value of it.
myFloatProperty.floatValue = 5;

// Save the changes
serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();

Doing it this way has a number of advantages. Undo/redo support automatically. Supports prefab overrides automatically. Will always save, so no need to dirty anything.

[thorn raptor]

👀 that seems ideal

until now the only thing I'd ever use custom editors for was adding buttons to the inspector

so it made sense for just calling functions from the inspector

this seems a better approach

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, Unity honestly just shouldn't even allow (or heavily discourage) the setting of fields directly.

Oh, another neat thing is you can just do EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(myFloatProperty);

[twin dawn]

Is this the right way to get the scene view camera inside OnSceneGUI?
SceneView.currentDrawingSceneView.camera;

[gloomy chasm]

Yup

[thorn raptor]

what does this do

as in like

automatically figures out the constraints for a field?

[gloomy chasm]

It just draws a float field for the property for you. Instead of having to do EditorGUILayout.FloatField(myFloatProperty);

Also, you can just do EditorGUILayout.FloatField(myFloatProperty) instead of myFloatProperty.floatValue = EditorGUILayout.FloatField(myFloatProperty.floatValue);

[thorn raptor]

oh thats fire

that seems to have fixed it

[twin dawn]

Ok something really weird is happening with my code then...
I expect this to draw a cube on the X/Z plane. But it's acting weird
https://hatebin.com/ppumvqqqrb

[gloomy chasm]

Try simplifying the code. Try like, from the center of the screen?

[gloomy chasm]

I figured it out I think!

In the plane constructor it should be the normal and then the point

You have it the point and then the normal

[twin dawn]

oh goddamnit

thanks

[thorn raptor]

one more question sorry

[twin dawn]

yep works pefectly now 🤦

[thorn raptor]

the reason I couldnt figure out how to do ReorderableList was cos I didn't know how to get SerializedProperty in terms of the classes

like

with Dialogue and CameraAction deriving from ConversationSequence

how do I get the serialized fields of a subclass from each object?

[short tiger]

Inline hints have saved me from this headache many times

[thorn raptor]

i guess ill just use the class reference for now

[twin dawn]

Should I be using SceneView.RepaintAll(); ? Seems like if I don't do that, I don't get frequent updates to my handles

[visual stag]

What are you needing these frequent updates for

Generally if you're interacting with a scene view that should give you all the updates you need

[thorn raptor]

and is there an option that will make it so these are equally spaced?

this wasnt working for me

actually maybe I need to store that value as a float

instead of recalculating it every time

[visual stag]

If you're setting widths so aggressively it would be better to avoid GUILayout

[thorn raptor]

that was my initial approach

[twin dawn]

I'm trying to make a custom interaction in the scene view where I can enable/disable certain squares of a grid. Without calling HandleUtility.Repaint() or SceneView.RepaintAll() it seems like it doesn't actually redraw my handle until I stop moving my mouse

[thorn raptor]

and then my mouse couldnt interact with anything

I could tab-key through the options

only when I added some GUILayout.Space()es as well though

[visual stag]

Moving the mouse over the scene view will be already calling a repaint though 👀

[thorn raptor]

switching to GUILayout made it start working

i dont really mind if they're not equally spaced its just slightly bothering me

so I wanted to know if it was possible to make them of equal widths

[twin dawn]

It doesn't 🤔 I only seem to get the mouseMove events until I stop moving. Then I get Repaint at the end

so it looks like that

With manual repainting calls I get this

[visual stag]

Perhaps HandleUtility.Repaint is what you want then 🤷

[twin dawn]

The code:
https://hatebin.com/dbcphcvtrg

Yeah I'm using HandleUtility.Repaint now, seems to work as well

just... doesn't seem like I'm supposed to need it? 🤔

[thorn raptor]

🤣 its technically working

i just need an even-lettered synonym for "Top"

[visual stag]

If you find you need it, you need it

[twin dawn]

Ok I figured it out:

// This one I run for the Repaint event
private void DrawBox() {
    if (!draw) return;

    Handles.color = Color.green;
    Grid grid = target.Grid;
    Vector3 cellCenter = grid.GetCellCenterLocal(cell);
    Matrix4x4 mat = Matrix4x4.TRS(target.transform.position, target.transform.rotation, Vector3.one);
    using (new Handles.DrawingScope(mat)) {
        Handles.DrawWireCube(cellCenter, grid.cellSize);
    }
}

// This one I run for the mouse move events
void CalculateBoxPos(Event evt) {
    Grid grid = target.Grid;
    Plane p = new Plane(target.transform.up, target.transform.position);
    Ray ray = HandleUtility.GUIPointToWorldRay(evt.mousePosition);
    draw = p.Raycast(ray, out float enter);
    Vector3 worldPos = ray.GetPoint(enter);
    cell = grid.WorldToCell(worldPos);
    HandleUtility.Repaint();
}```

when the mouse moves, I recompute the box position and then tell it to repaint

for the repaint event, I only draw the box

[thorn raptor]

where should I put this

for a custom editor script

its made the compile C# scripts/reload assemblies time notably longer

[gloomy chasm]

It shouldn't have. Try using AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtpath<Texture2D>("Assets/Some/Path.png"); since that is what is actually being used. The EditorGUIUtility.Load method just tries a few other loading methods first

[gloomy chasm]

Now resize the inspector, and see how well it works 😛

[thorn raptor]

its okay I made icons

[thorn raptor]

It shouldn't have
mightve been my laptop - the surface laptop studio dies in like 80 minutes with unity running, even when outside of playmode 💀

im at my desktop at home now so it shouldnt be a concern anymore

idk how but I wish I could make tose icons fill up more of the button

[gloomy chasm]

For that style of icon it is normally (stylistically and UX wise) better to have them without the background that buttons have. Like how buttons in the toolbar look. But to answer your question you would create a custom GUIStyle and change the padding.

[thorn raptor]

yeah I did try that, it was weirdly stretched though. I personally dont entirely mind the look, it's okay I just made the bin icon read better at small sizes

[gloomy chasm]

You can change settings whether it stretches (in the texture import settings).
If you want consistent sizing for the icons it is best to make the textures be 16x16 as that is what the default icons are.

[thorn raptor]

ah i was making them 64x64 but it makes sense that would be way too large

theres no way to change the margins for GUILayout is there

[gloomy chasm]

Margins where?

[thorn raptor]

its kinda bothering me how it aligns with the edge but has an offset on the left

[gloomy chasm]

The margins where? Also you use a custom style and change the margins in that.

[thorn raptor]

oh good point the rect is not being set by GUILayout

but still theres clearly an uneven alignment

[gloomy chasm]

A common pattern for custom styles is to have a nested static class in your editor class.

class MyObjectEditor : Editor
{

  public override void OnInspectorGUI()
  {
    if (GUILayout.Button("My Button", Styles.SmallMarginButtonStyle))
      Debug.Log("Pressed");
  }
  
  private static class Styles
  {
      public static GUIStyle SmallMarginButtonStyle;

      static Styles()
      {
        SmallMarginButtonStyle = new GUIStyle("Button");
        // I can't remember if this is the exact right API call, but it is close enough to get the idea.
        SmallMarginButtonStyle.margins = new RectOffset(0, 0, 0, 0);
      }  
  }
}

[thorn raptor]

and you have to add that to everything?

ouch

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean?

[thorn raptor]

in every like

GUILayout.Button and EditorGUILayout.TextField

etc

every UI element

[gloomy chasm]

Well, yeah...

[thorn raptor]

rip

[gloomy chasm]

It has to know what style to use

Are you thinking of adding padding to the right side of everything...?

[thorn raptor]

i just kinda want it aligned in the middle

[gloomy chasm]

No

[thorn raptor]

so id want what kinda offset on the right is necessary for it to be in the middle

[gloomy chasm]

Don't do that. Firstly that make it inconsistent with the entire rest of the editor. Also, it doesn't make sense.

The reason there is more padding on the left is because it is in a foldout

[thorn raptor]

mmmm

not in the case of this UI ive constructed but it makes sense

idk i just want it to look cleaner if I wanted to create a lot of these

[gloomy chasm]

If you look at the component header, it's content is all the way to the left. And it has a foldout, so all the properties are within that foldout so are indented

[thorn raptor]

since there would be a tonne of them in the game

[gloomy chasm]

You might want to look in to using UIToolkit. It sounds like you might like it better

[thorn raptor]

i think I tried to learn it a while ago

and stopped because it looked really daunting

[gloomy chasm]

class MyObjectEditor : Editor
{
  public override VisualElement CreateInspectorGUI()
  {
    // This is the object that will hold all the UI.
    var root = new VisualElement();

    // This element will hold all teh buttons and uses it's style to determin how they are layed out.
    var buttonsContainer = new VisualElement();
    
    // This will make it so the children (buttons) will be arranged horizontally.
    buttonsContainer.style.flexDirection = FlexDirection.Horizontal;
    // This will make the space between the children be even (iirc).
    buttonsContainer.style.justifyContent = Justify.SpaceBetween;
  
    // Add the container to the root so it will be in the UI.
    root.Add(buttonsContainer);

    var upButton = new Button(() => Debug.Log("Up"));
    upButton.text = "Up";
    buttonsContainer(upButton);

    return root;
  }
}

It isn't too bad. Just different.

[thorn raptor]

👀

[gloomy chasm]

It can do some cool style stuff like borders, rounded corners, background color opacity, all without having to create custom textures for any of it.

[thorn raptor]

thats pretty useful

i feel like it might be a bit pointless to rewrite the entire system custom editor to look a little nicer

but im definitely gonna keep that in the back pocket

[gloomy chasm]

Also if you use uss files you can create a style in uss

.my-cool-button {
  background-color: rgb(.25, .25, .25);
  margin: 2;
}

In C# you can do upButton.AddToClassList("my-cool-button"); and it will have the styling from the uss

[thorn raptor]

ah so thats what the documentation meant by having a lot of overlap and shared concepts with web dev

i think

[gloomy chasm]

Yup

[thorn raptor]

im pretty sure thats a similar layout to that stuff in inspect element

[gloomy chasm]

Yep it is basically 1 - 1

[thorn raptor]

i never really did any web dev related stuff despite how babies-first-steps web dev seems to be

im not sure how accurate that is i just know my friend started that way

theyre not still doing any coding tho

i did have one more question

say I modified one of these classes

one of the subclasses

how would I prevent the serialized data from being read as like unrecognised

cos whenever I'd alter like an enum or something it'd know that there's elements in the serialized list but it wouldnt display them

[gloomy chasm]

You mean when using SerializeReference?

[thorn raptor]

mhm

[gloomy chasm]

yup...

[thorn raptor]

lmfao

so im assuming its way easier said than done

[gloomy chasm]

No

[thorn raptor]

if thats the case I can just get the sequences planned out in word or something and wait until the system is essentially finished to add them in

[gloomy chasm]

The answer is just "deal with it" 😛

[thorn raptor]

lmao figures

thats why I added a clear button

[gloomy chasm]

It was added more recently and has a bunch of issues. Though I think in 2022.1 it is better at handling changes like that

[thorn raptor]

yeah im on 2021.3

[gloomy chasm]

At least it doesn't throw exceptions in 2022.1 if you remove/rename a class that you had a instance of serialized 🙃

[thorn raptor]

ive always been very arbitrary with which version I use for games actively in development

[thorn raptor]

yeah lmao

[gloomy chasm]

Still better than having to use or write a custom serializer for polymorphic serialization

Been there, done that. Not a lot of fun believe it or not lol

[thorn raptor]

im assuming thats different to polymorphism

lmao

again, awful with terminology

not in university yet so literally everything has been what ive taught myself

which was what was needed to get by

[gloomy chasm]

Nope, it is the same thing. Polymorphism is the concept, but you have things that are polymorphic

[gloomy chasm]

All good! I am all self taught too.

[thorn raptor]

oh so was it a typo or just actually that form of the word polymorphism

[thorn raptor]

looks like ive got a fair bit of learning to go

lmao

[gloomy chasm]

You would say "This API uses polymorphism to be easy to extend". And "This class is polymorphic". You use the words sort of like you would use he/him. They refer to the same concept/subject but are used differently

[thorn raptor]

so polymeric was a typo?

lmfao

got it

[gloomy chasm]

oh.. well.. oh...

[thorn raptor]

yeah sorry i didnt communicate the misunderstanding very well

[gloomy chasm]

My bad, I didn't see I mistyped it haha

[thorn raptor]

thats aight i do it all the time

thanks a lot for all the help btw

youve been a huge lifesaver

god knows i wouldnt have been able to navigate these systems otherwise

[gloomy chasm]

You're welcome! I love editor tooling so always happy to help people with it!

[thorn raptor]

it is pretty neat having robust tools to make your life easier

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah!

[thorn raptor]

uh oh new issue

those scriptableobjects are not saving properly when I close the editor

wait I think i remember seeing the solution to this accidentally when I was trying to solve a different problem

yup

setdirty moment

[gloomy chasm]

Wouldn't be a problem if you were using SerializedObject 😉

[thorn raptor]

i mentioned what the issue was with that earlier though

I wasnt sure how to like typecast the object as a subclass

unless I dont need to

[full badge]

How do I get an AudioClip from a SerializedProperty?

[full badge]

nvm I figured it out

[arctic island]

Hi, I'm wondering if any XR dev here has any experience using the DirectPreview (with the VIVE Focus 3) feature for the Wave XR Plugin
I can get it working without any problems with a project using the build in pipeline but not for a project using URP
From what i can gather from the WaveXR Unity Doc it should work with URP
Any help/ideas regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated :)

[candid bolt]

How can I toggle these settings via script?

[hollow sigil]

it helps in my 2D game, when I zoom in my Game View I stop seeing the whole game, including background pictures

[weak spoke]

this class should be able to
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tools.html

[short thorn]

is there a way to hook in to the sln file generation for visual studio? (unity 2020 LTS) trying to add an .editorconfig file to the solution automaticly

[peak summit]

how hard is it to make an editor extenstion that shows scriptable object properties in the inspector while you're inspecting an object that has a reference to a scriptable object

[crude relic]

not especially difficult

try this method using the type of the scriptable object https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Editor.CreateCachedEditor.html

and then draw the editor gui

[peak summit]

awesome thank you

[hardy vault]

Having some trouble with understanding ScriptableSingleton. I see that it does survive domain reload, but it doesn't save its state to the file unless I manually call ScriptableSingleton.Save Is that how it works? But how it manages to survive domain reload if it's not saving to file

[waxen sandal]

You should add a FilePath attribute that lets you tell it where to save it

Not sure what the default is

https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/FilePathAttribute.html

[hardy vault]

yeah, I've added one and I see the file in project folder. The thing that I don't understand, do I have to manually save it?

[waxen sandal]

Yes

[hardy vault]

cool, just looking at the source, don't understand how it supports domain reloading

[waxen sandal]

Well it's saved to disk and reloaded magically

[hardy vault]

probably yeah. it just saves state to different file in domain reload from the file in attribute
looks like it's something happening in this InternalEditorUtility.LoadSerializedFileAndForget

[waxen sandal]

It shouldn't be

[hardy vault]

well, it is for me...

[waxen sandal]

Or do you not call save and it's still surviving?

[hardy vault]

yeah, I'm not calling Save and it's surviving domain reload
but if I'm not calling it my next session will be with the original state

[waxen sandal]

Not 100% sure on the internals but other scriptableobjects(like editor windows) also do survive domain reload when the fields are properly serialized

[hardy vault]

oh, you're right! as it's SO it makes sense
I was just assuming that being static field it should be reset on domain reload

anyways, look like Save is for saving state between unity sessions and nothing for domain reload
(still looks strange, may be it's something with my setup)

[waxen sandal]

Technically yeah but tbh calling save always is better

[worn marsh]

does anyone know what causes horrendous slowdown in editor when in a long session

generally, not regarding any specific extension

[clear kite]

Not #↕️┃editor-extensions question, try to ask on #💻┃unity-talk

[stark ice]

Hi, I'm trying to make a toggle which displays whether it's "child" toggles are all true / all false / mixed and allows me to change its children. Basically what you've got in the "Toggle visibility of gizmos" dropdown in the editor (see image).

I couldn't find anything that specifically allows me to draw such a ui object out of the box but I also can't find a way to make a toggle box that can have a minus in it, indicating that it's children are mixed values. So if anyone knows how to do one of these, it would be really appreciated. If you need any more info let me know

[stark ice]

Found a slightly sketchy solution
Slightly simplified from actual code:

                    GUI.Toggle(r, curValue, GUIContent.none);
                    if (togglesState == ToggleGroupState.Mixed)
                    {
                        r.y -= 1;
                        GUIStyle guiStyle = new GUIStyle(GUI.skin.label) { fontSize = 20, fontStyle = FontStyle.Bold };
                        GUI.Label(r, "-", guiStyle);
                    }
                    r.x += 15;
                    GUI.Label(r, name);

[gloomy chasm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorGUI-showMixedValue.html

[stark ice]

That makes it cleaner, thanks!

[willow wadi]

i have no idea where to send this so correct me if i'm wrong

i'm trying to make an animation rig but it gets sent all the way over here and plays the cursed falling animation

nevermind i somehow fixed it by selecting legacy

[main radish]

Hello, does anyone use I2 localization?

[tight python]

Just ask the question 😅 .
Also for general "asset" help the #💻┃unity-talk channel might get you better results

[main radish]

Oh thank you very much yes that was a mistake. There is definitely someone using it on the 90 thousand-person server 🙂 Let me ask the question here, and I will ask it in unity-chat. Thank you so much.

I have such entity in my project but I need to localize it.
Although I have read the documentation in detail, I haven't been able to figure it out yet.
https://gyazo.com/5a6bbff6a865fb185293827b1c29796a
Thanks

I can't localize it as my asset doesn't have "Add component" in it, but there must be a way. I request your help for this.

[tight python]

Yeah. Your "TheTipList" class probably has an array/List of String @main radish
You should replace that with "LocalizedString". That will allow you to select a term from your language source.

[main radish]

You are really a sweet friend of the world. Thank you very much, but I don't know how to do this. Could you give me some guidance?

[main radish]

When I use this way, will it automatically localize according to the available language list?

[tight python]

I am sorry I do not have time for this 😅 . Maybe someone else can help you? It's not that complicated.

[main radish]

Which script file should I change in I2 plugin? I also need to change it to read it from within google spreadsheet. Because my game uses live translation support. I would really appreciate it if you could at least provide a source for this. I've been researching this since morning. 🙏

[tight python]

You don't need to change anything in the I2 plugin. Just how your data is structured.

http://inter-illusion.com/assets/I2LocalizationManual/LocalizedStrings.html

[thorn raptor]

does anybody know how to stop EditorGUILayout.TextArea from cutting the edges off

unless the top bit is meant to not turn blue when it's selected

it looks quite awful next to TextField elements

[gloomy chasm]

Try using the textfield style for it?

[latent bison]

Is it possible to pull a project from a Plastic account using the CLI?

[weak spoke]

looks like it
https://blog.plasticscm.com/2019/04/command-line-interface-redesign-and-upgrades.html

[thorn raptor]

yeah that did the trick, thanks man

[whole steppe]

Hello

I have a editor problem

Version:2021.3.5f1
It would be really helpful if anyone could tell me how to solve this

[waxen sandal]

Check the log file, there's usually more info there

And this should probably go into #💻┃unity-talk or #💻┃code-beginner

This channel is for developing extensions and not help with using the editor

[peak bloom]

how can I filter out if a file is an .fbx or not in custom editor?

it's for uitk ObjectField

uielement.objectType = typeof(whathere!!);

[waxen sandal]

FBX specifically or models?

[peak bloom]

.fbx in the project folder

[waxen sandal]

I don't think you can without making a custom object selector

[peak bloom]

dang it 🥲 .. and thanks 👍

[high pagoda]

Just use icons instead

[vapid prism]

Is it not possible to use a PropertyAttribute on a struct? I have the attribute like so [MyAttribute] public MyStruct _myStruct; and then I simply draw it using (in a CustomPropertyDrawer) cs public override void OnGUI(Rect position, SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label) { EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, property, label, true); } But for some reason this makes my struct unmodifiable?

[hoary sparrow]

Hi! Bit of a noob when it comes to custom editor scripts, how would i make certain fields appear only if a bool is true, or an enum is something

[hoary sparrow]

figured it out, turns out there is this neat thing called conditional field!

[thorn raptor]

yeah i did later on in that chain

[vital zephyr]

I have an EditorWindow tool that I'm using to generate random game data. One of the things I'm doing it generating textures from a RenderTexture. The problem is that when I make changes to the scene from the EditorWindow script the RenderTexture is not updated unless I'm actively clicking around in the Scene view window.

Is there some way to force the scene view to be "active" in from with the EditorWindow script?

Nevermind i think SceneView.RepaintAll(); is what I'm looking for

[candid bolt]

I'm trying to hook into the Unity undo system for my custom vertex painter. Undo.RecordObject seems to be what I need. However undoing a paint action using Ctrl+Z doesn't revert the mesh appearance until after I start painting again. Anyone know the proper way to do this?

[gloomy chasm]

Did you mark them dirty?

Show code pls?

My first recommendation is to use SerializedObject and SerializedProperty. No need for this PrefabUtility stuff.
Second is if you do use it. Make sure you calling it after the modification like the documentation says.

GameObject gameObject = Selection.activeGameObject;
Undo.RecordObject(gameObject.transform, "Double scale");
gameObject.transform.localScale *= 2;
PrefabUtility.RecordPrefabInstancePropertyModifications(gameObject.transform);

Okay

[high pagoda]

I can now preview audio clips from the inspector directly.

Here's the original repo I've got the inspiration from (https://github.com/samsawyer85/Unity3D_PropertyDrawer_AudioClip)

[wanton sundial]

Hello everyone !
I don't know if it's normal but when i'm using EditorUtility.SetDirty(gridData), my cursor is spinning everytime...
Why needed ?
My 4 directions are stores in an enum of directions and when i'm pressing one of this buttons, it's adding or removing the direction from GridDirections enum... And the only solution i found, cause unity erase my data, was to add this function.
Thank's in advance !

[summer obsidian]

Just updated Unity versions. What the fuck is this? Why does the play button have graphical artifacts?

[waxen sandal]

You're way to passionate about something that doesn't actually matter and you're posting in the wrong channel, actually should be a bug report and not go on Discord at all

[whole steppe]

Who knows. I Know one thing though, it doesn’t matter at all lmao

[glad pivot]

how can i save my custom editor windows into a layout? id rather not keep opening the window every time i need a layout

or just into the current editor settings i suppose would keep the last editor view right?

[primal atlas]

Hi, I have a problem with autocompleting and code coloring with vs code

I have followed most of the configuration methods on the tutorial

[high pagoda]

You mean this?

[glad pivot]

yeah, my custom window isnt saved when i try doing that

[primal atlas]

But the autocompletion and coloring only works on one of my projects

[glad pivot]

neither is it between unity sessions. (closing and opening it)

[high pagoda]

What version are you using?

[glad pivot]

i am using Unity 2021.3.9f1

[high pagoda]

It could be a version related bug or you're doing something wrong with your editor window. Does it affect other custom editor windows as well or just this one?

[glad pivot]

dont know, i only have this one

[high pagoda]

Can you share the menu item function section of your script

[glad pivot]

so there isnt anything extra i need in the script so save its position or anything?

[high pagoda]

[MenuItem("Windows/Example")]
static void OpenWindow()
{
    var window = GetWindow<ExampleWindow>();
    
    ...
}

[glad pivot]

one sec

    [MenuItem("Multi Scene Workflow/Scene Manager")]
    static void Init()
    {
        // Get existing open window or if none, make a new one:
        SceneManager_window window = (SceneManager_window)EditorWindow.GetWindow(typeof(SceneManager_window));
        window.titleContent = new GUIContent("Scene Manager", "Loads, Unloads, and Saves Scene Collections");
        window.Show();
        if(MultiSceneEditorConfig.instance)
            MultiSceneEditorConfig.instance.setInstance();
    }

[high pagoda]

Hmm.. everything seems fine here.

You don't have to do anything special. Unity just handles itself when derived from the EditorWindow class.

You should try it in a different version of unity, it's probably a bug

[glad pivot]

weird, i suppose i could. i think i have one other version downloaded

urgh, the other unity version i have is too different so everything breaks if i attempt to

i guess ill have to download a more recent one to the one i havge

[glad pivot]

ok so i have now tried with Unity 2021.3.11f1 and it still doest remember my window

[sharp glacier]

hey everyone, so Ive been doing custom editors for the past week

but I wanted to try to make an abstract class that was a scriptable object, so I created something simple like this

I dont 100% understand the issue, but i get this error on the inspector which won't let me edit it

"multi-object editting not supported"

im not quite sure where I'm editing multiple objects in my code

[peak bloom]

that happens bcos you're selecting multiple objects

[visual stag]

Sometimes it happens right after you compile, but you reselect the object and it goes away

[proper harbor]

I'm currently working on an inspector ui along with my monobehaviour script. I have an array of strings in there and I managed to access the values by using:
serializedObject.FindProperty
and
GetArrayElementAtIndex

Problem is I wanna change the values inside them. Is this possible somehow? 🥴

[visual stag]

just set the right Value property

https://help.vertx.xyz/programming/editor-issues/serialisation/serializedobject-how-to is my how-to

[proper harbor]

sweet, thanks @visual stag I'll have a read through and see if I get any smarter

[proper harbor]

helped tremendously. Reallyt nice page!

Thanks again @visual stag

[ashen delta]

how could you get all subfolders inside a folder eg : folder/subfolder but not any folders inside that folder,didn't find anything in the repo that could've helped me

[agile badger]

Anyone know how to get mouse movement and click events in an EditorWindow? Even checking Event.Current in OnGUI just gets me layout and repaint events

[gloomy chasm]

Use the System.IO.Directory class

[ashen delta]

oh right that thing exists,thanks

[gloomy chasm]

This should work.

public void OnGUI()
{
  var e = Event.current;
  if (e.type == EventType.MouseDown)
    Debug.Log("Clicked");
}

[agile badger]

It indeed does. But I'm unable to get MouseMove which I also need

I want to use MouseMove to check if I'm hovering over something inside a RenderTexture

So that I can then click on objects inside that RT, move them around, etc

I looked into using Handles for this but using them outside of Scene View (outside of just drawing them) is impossible

nvm, EditorWindow.wantsMouseMove must be true, fixed

[ashen delta]

how would I go about building an asset bundle foreach of those folders?

[dapper olive]

I'm modifying variables on a prefab from script in the editor, but I'm having trouble getting instances of the prefab to reflect those changes. I've tried using SetDirty, but it doesn't update the instances of the prefab until I select the prefab in the editor. How can I get it to update from script?

[gloomy chasm]

You should be using SerializedProperty and SerializedObject to set fields in the editor. Especially when dealing with prefabs. Checked the pinned messages for a link to the docs

[dapper olive]

I'm sorry for the delayed response, I was working on something and then dug into learning about SerializedProperty and SerializedObject but I'm a little confused on how to use them in this case. I'm not experienced in this area.

I'm trying to sync the data on a prefab with the data on a scriptable object so that when I change data on the scriptable object the data on the prefab is updated. This is for an inventory system and I'm doing it this way because I need the inventory to be able to be modified at runtime (otherwise I'd use the scriptable object directly), but want to be able to modify the inventory on the scriptable object and have it update the inventories of any prefabs using it at editor time.

Currently I keep a reference to each prefab on the scriptable object and when I make changes to it, loop through them and rebuild the inventories. This works, but does not by default update the instances of the prefab.

I've managed to navigate to and iterate over my inventory slots like this:

                   var inventorySO = so.FindProperty("characterInventory").FindPropertyRelative("inventory");
                   Debug.Log("Display name: " + inventorySO.displayName);
                   var inventorySlotsSO = inventorySO.FindPropertyRelative("inventorySlots");
                   Debug.Log("Array size: " + inventorySlotsSO.arraySize);
                   var enumerator = inventorySlotsSO.GetEnumerator();
                   var counter = 0;
                   while(enumerator.MoveNext())
                   {
                       counter++;
                       Debug.Log("Enumerator counter: " + counter);
                   }```
but I'm not sure from the documentation how I would rebuild these inventory slots. Should I do ClearArray and then InsertArrayElementAtIndex and then add a reference to the item to the empty elements somehow?

Or am I just completely going in the wrong direction with this whole thing?

[dapper olive]

This seems to work as expected as far as modifying the amount value:

                   var inventorySO = so.FindProperty("characterInventory").FindPropertyRelative("inventory");
                   var inventorySlotsSO = inventorySO.FindPropertyRelative("inventorySlots");
                   inventorySlotsSO.ClearArray();
                   for (int j = 0; j < inventory.inventorySlots.Count; j++)
                   {
                       inventorySlotsSO.InsertArrayElementAtIndex(j);
                       var itemData = inventorySlotsSO.GetArrayElementAtIndex(j).FindPropertyRelative("itemData");
                       var amount = inventorySlotsSO.GetArrayElementAtIndex(j).FindPropertyRelative("amount");
                       amount.intValue = inventory.inventorySlots[j].amount;
                   }
                   so.ApplyModifiedProperties();```
but I still have to select the prefab in the inspector to get it to update the instances. I'm also not sure how to set a reference this way for itemData.

[ashen delta]

Didn't find anything about it

Wait I think I found the correct overload

BuildAssetBundles(string outputPath, AssetBundleBuild[] builds, BuildAssetBundleOptions assetBundleOptions, BuildTarget targetPlatform);

But how would I still do it?

[hollow mirage]

Hi, I accidentally pressed the Disable All button in Project Settings > Physics > Layer Collision Matric! Is there anyway to restore them? Because ctrl+z does not work!

[waxen sandal]

Revert it in your version control

[hollow mirage]

Thanks got it to work

[vast vault]

How can I make a grid of booleans in the inspector? Something that looks like this (which is from the project settings ofc).

What I need to know
1. How do I make a boolean show in the inspector.
2. How do I set its position?
3. How to hide other inspector elements

I just learned about editor scripting, and I am having a hard time finding the right search terms to find the answers myself

I found out that I can use cs GUILayout.BeginHorizontal(); and cs GUILayout.EndHorizontal to put them side by side. Can I make them have a fixed spacing?

This turned it into boolean check boxes

Now I just need to know how I can set their positions

[gloomy chasm]

You can set their width like EditorGUILayout.Toggle(false, GUIlayout.Width(21))

[vast vault]

Thank you for the answer. I actually just found this out. However, I do need to be able to set their individual positions as I want to arrange them in a circle lol

[gloomy chasm]

You would want to use the GUI and EditorGUI methods along with GUILayoutUtility.GetLastRect()

[gloomy chasm]

Er, I mean you want GUILayoutUtility.GetRect() https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GUILayoutUtility.GetRect.html

[vast vault]

Thank you! I will read it now 🙏 🙏

[vast vault]

In the example they use OnGUI. Can I ignore that and do it in OnInspectorGUI?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah. It works the same as OnInspectorGUI

[vast vault]

This is so cool. Thank you 🙏 🙏

[vast vault]

My toggles don't seem to be working. Whenever I click them they don't change

How can this be? This is my code

I read something about serialized properties, but I am so confused

tower is the target

I am directly changing its variable sizeOnGrid. Is this wrong? And how do I fix it?

[visual stag]

I would look at how it's done in the Unity source, and I would avoid GUILayout because you can't control whether it might overlap controls under certain conditions, causing input issues. It's also way more performant

Also, that's not how Toggle works, you should be always assigning the result back to the source

@vast vault

[vast vault]

How?

[visual stag]

Look at the docs

[vast vault]

Is there a thing like auto scale?

I need something like this

-----------OO---------

(The "-"s simulate empty space)

I know that I can use EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal and EndHorizontal to make the two "O"s have the same amount of space

I was thinking that I can put EditorGUILayout.Space on either side to make the "-"s

But can I use auto scale inside the Space()?

[gloomy chasm]

GUIlayout.FlexSpace()

[vast vault]

So that they would take up as much space as possible

[gloomy chasm]

use it on either side

[vast vault]

And that works?

Thanks

[gloomy chasm]

Yup, that is why I said it 😛

[vast vault]

GUILayout.FlexibleSpace() you mean this right?

[gloomy chasm]

Pfft yeah that is the one

[vast vault]

Great, thanks 🙏 🙏

[gloomy chasm]

Idk why they named it different than everyone else haha

[vast vault]

Nah, kinda weird. I only know flex from CSS tho.

        int firstWalkable = (tempGridSize + 1) / 2;
        for (int i = 0; i < tempGridSize; i++)
        {
            EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            GUILayout.FlexibleSpace();
            for (int j = 0; j < tempGridSize; j++)
            {
                if (j >= firstWalkable && j - firstWalkable <= tempGridSize - 1)
                {
                    // This tile is part of the hexagon
                    tempGrid[j, i] = EditorGUILayout.Toggle(tempGrid[j, i]);
                }
            }
            GUILayout.FlexibleSpace();
            EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();
            firstWalkable--;
        }``` There seems to be a problem

They are not centered

[gloomy chasm]

Set the toggle to expand false

[vast vault]

I'm sorry, but how?

[gloomy chasm]

Toggle(yourBool, GUIlayout.ExpandWidth(false))

[vast vault]

Thanks. It still looks kinda weird tho

[gloomy chasm]

What are you trying to do...?

[vast vault]

Let me go in MS Paint

[vast vault]

Something like this

With just one it is not centered either

Now this is sorta it

But if I go any higher there is this line on the left touching the side

It's like the GUILayout.ExpandWidth(false) is being ignored

.

It actually works perfectly if I manually set the width of the toggles with

GUILayout.Width(19)```Instead of 
```cs
GUILayout.ExpandWidth(false)``` Thank you again 🙏 🙏

@gloomy chasm

[gloomy chasm]

Glad you got it figured out! 😄

[proper harbor]

not sure what I should search for on this one so I'll take a stab here.
When letting the user supply a prefab (gameobject), in the inspector, they can either supply a prefab from disk or from the scene they have opened. Later on I'm instantiating their gameobject which doesn't work unless it's a prefab on disk. Can I filter out so they can only supply that kind of gameobject?

[gloomy chasm]

Only way would be to write a custom editor

[proper harbor]

I have one already so that's cool

I'm thinking of forcing it to be null if it's "incorrect"

[gloomy chasm]

EditorGUILayout.ObjectFeld has a overload that takes a bool parameter for whether scene objects are allowed 🙂

[proper harbor]

ooh sweet

Thanks @gloomy chasm! That worked perfectly

[quasi depot]

How do I make a custom inspector for non-monobehaviour classes that are set up inside of the list of a monobehaviour script?

[visual stag]

Make a PropertyDrawer

[quasi depot]

There appears to be like 300 ways to set up a property drawer, Im not sure where to start.

[visual stag]

Well, if you're familiar with IMGUI, use that, if you're familiar with UIToolkit, use that. If you're not familiar with either... use UIToolkit I suppose

The only difference between the two is whether you're overriding OnGUI (and potentially GetPropertyHeight) and using immediate-mode, or CreatePropertyGUI and having everything stateful

[remote plume]

Hey, I'm looking for a Unity extension that can do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhZvB2TLLtg

It's exactly what I'm looking for, though I can't find any free extensions for it.

(Apart from polybrush but I've had some bad experiences using that)

[peak bloom]

you can just use unity's terrain editor

[vast vault]

So I have this editor script: https://pastebin.com/NV9t7e9a. It controls this ScriptableObject script: https://pastebin.com/yri9EBCY. Everything works great except when I make a change to either of the scripts. In that case it seems that isOnGrid is null again. I don't understand how this could be and would appreciate some guidance

[candid bolt]

How can I turn off the cursor visibility in the scene view? I'm using Cursor.visible = false; in SceneView.duringSceneGui and it's not doing anything

[gloomy chasm]

That is because Unity can't serialize 2D arrays

[vast vault]

I realize this, hence the custom editor. The problem is that the values get set back to null if I fx. add a variable to the TowerSO script

[gloomy chasm]

Having a custom editor doesn't change anything. It still won't be serializable. Meaning it won't save when the domain reloads (scripts recompile, or enter playmode). Or when you save the editor, or close the editor, etc.

[vast vault]

😭

[gloomy chasm]

Also, in your editor script you never dirty the asset so it will never be saved

[gloomy chasm]

In your ScriptableObject you can implement the ISerializableCallbackReciver and serialize the 2D array to a 1D array and then deserialize it back to 2D

A quick google should show you how if you need more info

[vast vault]

That's pretty smart. I think I will just make a "normal" 1D array in the TowerSO and convert it in the editor script

[visual stag]

I would try using https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorGUIUtility.AddCursorRect.html with a custom blank cursor

[vast vault]

I tried this, but I got confused

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean... what was confusing? If you make a change then you do EditorUtility.SetDirty(target);

[vast vault]

Every time? So if I set a variable in the target I do that?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah

Though really it would be better if you used SerializedProperty instead of setting the values directly.

[vast vault]

Thank you. Can I make changes to multiple variables and then set it as dirtyÅ

[vast vault]

That's what I got confused about

[gloomy chasm]

Setting it dirty just tells the editor that the object has changed and will need to be saved to disk when the editor saves later on.

[candid bolt]

Sounds like a good idea, thanks! How do you set it to a custom texture/blank? Just see existing options for zoom, arrow, orbit etc

Also unsure of how to set the rect for the mouse position here

[vast vault]

Thanks

[candid bolt]

Nvm, this did the trick:

EditorGUIUtility.AddCursorRect(SceneView.lastActiveSceneView.position, MouseCursor.CustomCursor);
Cursor.SetCursor(cursorTexture, Vector2.zero, CursorMode.Auto);

[short prawn]

in a TextField in UIBuilder, is there a way to disable newline, tab etc symbols? \t \n \r etc

I'm either going crazy or I can't find anything for this, apart from escaping them myself?

[hoary belfry]

Is there a tool or asset on the asset store to merge or layer shaders?

Like for instance let's say I have this outline shader and a matcap shader (I know there's options that have these two built in using this as an example) but I have a million different shaders and would like to combine at least two of them.

[gloomy chasm]

Short answer is no. That is like asking if you can combine two components in to one.

[hoary belfry]

Not even with vertex painting and assigning a different shader to that or am I thinking of something else?

[short thorn]

Hey guys, working for a company that makes products aimed at children, working on some automation in our internal framework and I'd like to auto set the coppa compliance in the services section of the Project Settings. Any1 have any idea how I could go about doing this?

[peak bloom]

UnityChanToon shader which is owned by Unity can do both in 1 shader (outline + matcap)

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.toonshader

And avoid using the tesselation version, unless you know what you're doing

goodluck

[main scarab]

do you have any idea why I can't install ironsource, when I click install I got this error. I delete all module and re-download but not working at all.

[thorny rock]

I'm sure there is a more elegant way to solve this. If mode == a draw struct A, else draw struct B is what I am basically doing. What's the more clever way?

[short venture]

movementData and pauseData are both SerializedProperties so you dont need 2 varaibles
have isMovement return the name of the property to find

[thorny rock]

That sounds simple and reasonable. Thanks!

[nocturne cypress]

hey, is it possible to make a custom editor window with its own scene view displaying a separate scene from the one currently loaded, spawn a gameobject and run animations on it? like, the user wouldn't be able to manually do anything in that scene, it'd just be used to preview animations and do some other stuff with custom tools

[hoary belfry]

Was mainly using it as an example. I know there are options that include both, but I have a lot of cool shaders like that I would like to be able to experiment with

[gloomy chasm]

Yup. There is a undocumented class called PreviewRenderUtility that helps do that. You can also do it manually be creating a PreviewScene, adding a camera to it, and having the camera render to a RenderTexture that you then display in your editor window.

[nocturne cypress]

thanks

is there any doc on preview scenes themselves? I can't find anything about them except a couple functions with unhelpful descriptions

[gloomy chasm]

Haha, no. You can look at the source code for the PreviewRenderUtility

[nocturne cypress]

okay, thanks

[gloomy chasm]

Here is how you get it up and running. Pretty simple

var scene = EditorSceneManager.NewPreviewScene();

var camGO = EditorUtility.CreateGameObjectWithHideFlags("Camera", HideFlags.HideAndDontSave);
camGO.AddComponent<Camera>();
SceneManager.MoveGameObjectToScene(camGO , scene);

[vast vault]

Multi-object editing not supported. It also says 27 Mono Behaviours, but they are ScriptableObjects. Is this because of the editor script I have made for the scriptable objects?

If so, what can I do aboout it? Can I turn off the editor script when I need to use multi-editing?

[twin dawn]

Have you added the multiple object editing attribute? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CanEditMultipleObjects.html

[pliant hill]

Hiiii i aksed a question about a unity tools based on the timeline and the recorder (with the function ApplyTo() ) :
I get this error : Could not udpate a managed instance value at property path '_accumulationSettings', with value '1'

my code and the details are here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74121677/could-not-udpate-a-managed-instance-value-at-property-path-accumulationsetting

ping me if you can help me 🙂

[vast vault]

No, I wasn't aware that I had to do that. Thank you

[gloomy chasm]

Are RecorderControllerSettings or RecorderControllerSettingsPreset your class' or are they part of the Unity Recorder?

[pliant hill]

Its à class of the unity recorder

[gloomy chasm]

Looking at the source code I don't see anything. It would be coming from the Unity Preset class. Try to simplify what you are doing. Like, already have a preset created and already have a controller settings created, then just load them and apply

[pliant hill]

Ok i will try

[floral forum]

Hey, I'm trying to package an editor extension into a Unity asset. What should the folder structure look like? Should my asset's folder be under Editor, like Editor/CSVReaderTool? I don't think it will work if it's CSVReaderTool/Editor as I assume there needs to be one Editor folder under Assets in a project that holds all Editor scripts?

[gloomy chasm]

They have a handy submission guidelines for this https://assetstore.unity.com/publishing/submission-guidelines#2. Product Content

[floral forum]

Thanks 🙂 It doesn't actually mention where Editor scripts should go. I looked it up and you CAN in fact have multiple editor folders, so the folder structure should be [Asset Name]/Editor, not Editor/[Asset name]

[gloomy chasm]

That is correct because it is not one of the special folders mentioned. you do YourAsset/Editor

[brittle acorn]

is there any way to make floating windows act like actual windows? 90% sure this used to be possible on PC but regressed somewhere between 2019 and 2020

eg. open a shadergraph window, do some stuff, minimize it or tab back to main layout, and then be able to go back to the shadergraph window without having to reopen and drag it every time

[gloomy chasm]

Nope

[brittle acorn]

alright cool

can you validate my feeling that this is kind of a baffling omission from a UX angle

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah it is something people have asked for for a while

[brittle acorn]

cool thx @gloomy chasm

[fervent jacinth]

How do I check if the editor is in safe mode?

[torn lantern]

Editor scripts don't run if the editor is in safe mode, so you can't

[timid torrent]

Hey guys, do we have tools like automate collidiers creation from mesh, like a huge castle mesh ?
If I use that 2mil tris mesh for mesh collider I think it will not be good

Placing primitive colliders by hand on that huge castle would be exhausting

[gloomy chasm]

Nope. Only option is to roll your own solution or to get an asset that would.

[timid torrent]

Yup I’m asking if the store has something like that

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah. Did you try looking for "Collider" on the store. A number of things come up that may work for you.

[timid torrent]

As far as I see there is not a thing for complex thing like castle, only for individual objects

[gloomy chasm]

This channel isn't really for discussing assets in this manner. That would be better suited for #💻┃unity-talk. And without knowing what you actually need it is hard to make recommendations. Best suggestion after a quick search on the store would be "Easy Wall Collider"

[timid torrent]

Thanks I’ll migrate

[pliant hill]

I'm Unity tools developper and i want to create an event when the user import a .FBX file

My code :

using System.IO;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEditor.Experimental.AssetImporters;
using UnityEngine;

[CustomEditor(typeof(EmptinessImporter))]
[CanEditMultipleObjects]
public class EmptinessImporterEditor : ScriptedImporterEditor
{
    //Let the parent class know that the Apply/Revert mechanism is skipped.
    protected override bool needsApplyRevert => false;

    public override void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
        // Draw some information
        EditorGUILayout.HelpBox("Because this Importer doesn't have any settings, the Apply/Revert buttons are hidden.", MessageType.None);
    }
}

[ScriptedImporter(0, ".fbx")]
public class EmptinessImporter : ScriptedImporter
{
    public override void OnImportAsset(AssetImportContext ctx)
    {
        Debug.Log(ctx.assetPath);
    }
}

Error :

Scripted importers EmptinessImporter and EmptinessImporter are targeting the fbx extension, rejecting both.
UnityEditor.Experimental.AssetImporters.ScriptedImporter:RegisterScriptedImporters()

But that don't work, i'm working on Unity 2019.4.9f1

[visual stag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetPostprocessor.OnPostprocessModel.html

[pliant hill]

perfect !! thanks 🙂

[reef hornet]

Hello there
does anyone know a way to draw the default inspector of something that isnt an UnityEngine.Object?
I'm trying to create a custom editor that has a list of LocalizedStrings but cant draw the field

[waxen sandal]

You can't really, you gotta get a serializedproperty somehow

[peak bloom]

We can now can't we? New api introduced in 2022 or 2023, there's a post on the forum I think about this

[waxen sandal]

Oh I don't know about that then

[velvet aurora]

hey all, I'm trying to make an editor tool to help with my project, and I need it to make an asset. However, when I run the tool, I get these two errors. How can I fix this?

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;
[ExecuteInEditMode]

public class CardCreator : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static HealthCardSO healthCard;
    [MenuItem("Tools/Create Card/Health Card")]
    public static void CreateHealthCard()
    {
        healthCard = new HealthCardSO();
        if (healthCard != null)
        {
            AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(healthCard, Application.dataPath + "/Scriptable Objects/Health Cards");
        }
        else Debug.LogError("Health card variable is not assigned. Please assign the health card template and try again");
    }
}

[visual stag]

You don't create ScriptableObjects with new, you create them with CreateInstance (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ScriptableObject.CreateInstance.html).
Also, scriptable object paths should end in .asset, and you should just do "Assets/Scriptable Objects/Health Cards.asset" instead of using dataPath.

[velvet aurora]

so instead of asset database, use Create Instance?

[visual stag]

You still need both

instead of new you use CreateInstance

[velvet aurora]

nope, still getting those same two errors

[waxen sandal]

You probably need an extension

Anyway, there's also CreateAssetMenuItem or something like that

[velvet aurora]

Finally got it working

just need it to go where I need it to go XD

[whole steppe]

I'm trying to create a MeshRenderer then add a Material to it from Assets and then apply all of it to a GameObject that already exists in the scene, I'm getting this Unity Message:Component 'MeshRenderer' should not be instantiated directly.Also I'm not sure if this is the way to properly register the change to the Undo Stack

void Setup()
{
    GameObject go = GameObject.Find("foo - bar");
    if (!go.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>())
    {
        MeshRenderer mr = new MeshRenderer
        {
            material = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<Material>("Assets/Materials/Material.mat")
        };

        Undo.RegisterCreatedObjectUndo(mr, "Created MeshRenderer");
        Undo.RecordObject(go, "Add MeshRenderer");
    }
}```

[waxen sandal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Undo.AddComponent.html

Then just do Record object before setting the material

[whole steppe]

Like this?

GameObject go = GameObject.Find("foo - bar");
if (!go.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>())
{
    Undo.AddComponent<MeshRenderer>(go);
    Undo.RecordObject(go, "Loaded Material");
    go.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().material = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<Material>("Assets/Foo/Bar.mat");
}```

[waxen sandal]

Something like that yeah

[whole steppe]

Umm... Why do I need to Undo.RecordObject again? Wouldn't Undo.AddComponent be enough to undo the whole change?

[waxen sandal]

Oh yeah I guess

I assumed you wanted separate steps for them

Since that's what your code looks like it would do (albeit incorrectly implemented since recordObject should go before the change)

[whole steppe]

Thanks for the info! I didn't know that! As you couldn't tell by now lol, I'm not even sure what I'm doing here, guess just trying to practice here and there in my free time... Thank you Navi : wonderful person, I really like when I get helped by people, helpfully you're receiving a fair amount of support when needed as much as you're helping other lost fellas like me! ❣️

[alpine bolt]

Problem:
I've AssetDatabase.AddObjectToAsset and I Undo.RecordObject that action. Whenever I Undo the object added with Undo.AddObjectToAsset remains in that Asset but shows no Inspector data. If I duplicate that Asset, it finally updates to the correct state

[gloomy chasm]

AssetDatabase.Refresh()

[alpine bolt]

Figured out (with some help) that it's SaveAssets, to apply unsaved changes

[simple cove]

is there a way to reproduce the behaviour of the 'Apply' button under Project Settings --> Project --> Player --> Other Settings --> Script Compilation? 😛

I'm looking to toggle WWISE on and off under some conditions, then apply and force a recompilation
currently doing it like this, which works:

but if there are build errors, RequestScriptCompilation() will not force a recompilation

tldr what I'm looking for is a way to force recompile. Knowing what the 'Apply' button does under the hood would help but I'm very much open to workarounds

[gloomy chasm]

If you are in 2021 you just pass the clearbuildcache as the param

https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Compilation.CompilationPipeline.RequestScriptCompilation.html

[simple cove]

This doesn’t trigger a recompilation either

[gloomy chasm]

Show code please

[simple cove]

it was this but with RequestScriptCompilation(Compilation.RequestScriptCompilationOptions.CleaBuildCache); instead of RequestScriptCompilation(); 😛

gave up actively looking for now since it's late, but I'm still looking for any insight on how to approach this

I want to change the define symbols and trigger a recompilation, even if there are active errors before changing the define symbols

example of something that blocks recompilation but should recompile if symbols are properly updated:

class RandomScript : MonoBehaviour {
#if WWISE
  klaksdjlaksdja; //some nonsense
  void (void(m //that don't compile
#endif
}

[whole steppe]

I'd like to have a texture on an EditorWindow to display it as part of the UI BG, the texture is in a local directory, I tried thiscs Texture2D tex = new Texture2D(960, 540); tex.LoadImage(File.ReadAllBytes(path)); GUI.DrawTexture(new Rect(0, 0, tex.width, tex.height), tex);And thiscs Texture2D tex = new Texture2D(960, 540); tex.LoadImage(File.ReadAllBytes(path)); EditorGUI.DrawPreviewTexture(new Rect(0, 0, tex.width, tex.height), tex);But for some reason they make the Unity Editor unbearably laggy... I've done it in the past with great result! I just forgot what I did back then, might be the even a different method I used, I remember being able to crop it in a circle shape from within the Editor!

[waxen sandal]

Well don't load it every frame

[whole steppe]

How?

[waxen sandal]

OnEnable?

[whole steppe]

Didn't think of tha, I put it somewhere else just before and it complained about it not being inside the OnGUI but I'll give a try!

[waxen sandal]

Well yeah you shouldn't DrawPreviewTexture in OnEnable

Also, you can use AssetDatabase to load if it's in the assets folder

[whole steppe]

I'm just extra silly sometimes sorry!

[whole steppe]

ok now it works great! thanks again Navi!

[safe shore]

Hello guys, I would like to work with my teammates using PlasticSCM. I am being provided the Team Edition License by my school, however I am unable to find a tutorial on how to use it. I have set up a repository but I don't know how to share it with my teammates. I need help if anyone knows, much appreciated

[vapid prism]

How can I get the value of a SerializedProperty as a string? Trying to make some search function so I don't really care what the real value is, I just need the string representation

[waxen sandal]

I think you need to make your own method that checks the type and then reads the right field

[vapid prism]

Dang, luckily it's pretty straight forward

[stable nebula]

Are there any callbacks for when an element is added/removed from an array in a custom editor? I'm drawing the array through EditorGUILayout.PropertyField

[waxen sandal]

Nope

You can make your own ReorderableList instance though and subscribe to the right events

But it's more work

[vagrant bison]

Guys i need some help

how can i fix this

[flint garnet]

        public override bool CanCacheInspectorGUI(SerializedProperty property)
        {
            return false;
        }
``` what is this CanCacheInspectorGUI in property drawer actually does??, what is they will cache, what condition we override it to become false, original return value is base.CanCacheInspectorGUI and i believe its true, but on many example i see after looking for other github they usually make it to false

[gloomy chasm]

When true (default) the inspector will only create a single instance of the property drawer, and will just pass different serializedProperty instances to do to draw.

So for example if you want to store a state (like if something that you draw is selected or not), if the PropertyDrawer is cached, all properties would share that state.

[flint garnet]

oo i think i get it, thanks, and that why most of example i see on people github they make it to false

[vast vault]

I have an editor like this. cs [CustomEditor(typeof(TowerSO))]. I have another script that derives from TowerSO, but the editor script only works on the TowerSO scriptable objects and not the new ones that derive from TowerSO. How can I change that?

[gloomy chasm]

[CustomEditor(typeof(TowerSO), true)]

[vast vault]

Thanks

[errant slate]

ok so. I'm having this issue where I have a StorageContainer component that stores inventory items. the inventory items are represented by a serializable standalone class that does not inherit from MonoBehavior. Inside this class there is a serialized field which is a reference to a UnityEngine.Object.

I have an editor script for the storage container that allows me to add UnityEngine.Objects to the component, and if that Object implements the interface IStorageItemTarget (which basically just means that it's a UnityEngine.Object that has a storageItem property that returns a StorageItem instance which represents the object when the property is accessed) or if it's a gameObject that has a component which implements that inferface, then the StorageItem object is retrieved from that implemented property and stored in the container.

This is all well and fine BUT for some reason whenever I add ScriptableObject assets that implement that interface to the storage container, it adds them, however, it loses the serialized field reference to that original asset whenever I do a script reload or close out of unity.

anyone might know what the issue is?

[gloomy chasm]

My first guess is you are not properly dirtying/saving the changes.

[errant slate]

Thanks! It's true they weren't being marked dirty properly, but it turns out the issue was that I was actually trying to serialize a reference of an interface

[zinc spoke]

Hey, anyone have any clue how to reset prefab variables?

Resetting added / removed GameObjects and Components was supper easy with "PrefabUtility.GetAddedGameObjects", "PrefabUtility.GetAddedComponents" and "PrefabUtility.GetRemovedComponents".

But there is nothing like that for component variables! There is "PrefabUtility.GetPropertyModifications" but it returns "PropertyModification" witch has no "Revert" function and the "RevertPropertyOverride" accepts only "SerializedProperty"!!!!!

I have been trying to do this like 2h now and the Unity documentation is literally useless with all of these functions?!?!?!?
Here is the code: https://pastebin.com/eFQZRG8e

[waxen sandal]

You make an SO of the target and then findProperty(mod.propertyPath) and revert that

Oh you also asked in #archived-code-advanced ._.

[errant slate]

Hey so you know how you can add multiple unity objects to a List field in the inspector for a script with a List variable? Is there a way to handle dragging multiple unity objects like that for a custom editor script?

[gloomy chasm]

You want to look in to the DragAndDrop class

[errant slate]

thanks man! I think this is what I'm looking for

[whole steppe]

So there's a few custom method in my editor, and I'd like to use the EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar() method to display the duration a method is taking to complete, I used the System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class like so```cs
void SomeMethod()
{
Stopwatch stopwatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();

// Code here...

stopwatch.Stop();

float duration = stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds;

for (int i = 0; i < duration; i++)
{
    EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar("Title", "Info", duration);
}

EditorUtility.ClearProgressBar();

}```However, this will only get displayed when the method has already completed, which is useless, is there a way to display the duration a method is taking from start to finish?

[visual stag]

show the progress bar while you're doing your "code". If your code doesn't have a point where it loops and you can get a current point in its duration, you can't show a progress bar for it

[whole steppe]

Oh does that mean I have to use the while statement with true?

[visual stag]

No, it means you have to actually have points in your executing code where you can call the progress bar method

if for example your code was just one call to a big method, then there's no place there to tell the progress bar any information

(unless that code was threaded and happening in the background)

[whole steppe]

I think I don't understand what points are in this context, sorry!

[visual stag]

void SomeMethod()
{
  try
  {
    for (int i = 0; i < work; i++)
    {
       PerformSomeWork();
       EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar("Title", "Info", i / (float)Mathf.Max(1, work - 1));
    }
  } 
  finally
  {
    EditorUtility.ClearProgressBar();
  }
}```

Without work having the ability to be broken apart so there's places you can tell the progress bar what you're up to, then there's no way to get a relevant progress bar

[whole steppe]

Is "work" the Action delegate?

[visual stag]

No, it's a meaningless part of the example as I have no idea what the code you're waiting for is

[whole steppe]

Just a bunch of random code... there's different things foreach method...
Here's an example => ```cs
private void Setup()
{
GameObject go = new GameObject("MutyCon", typeof(MeshRenderer));

go.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().material = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<Material>(MaterialPath);
    
go.transform.SetPositionAndRotation(new Vector3(0.0f, 1.5f), Quaternion.identity);
    
Undo.RegisterCreatedObjectUndo(go, "Created MutyCon");
    
EditorSceneManager.SaveScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene());
    
Repaint();

}```

[visual stag]

If there's a foreach method then you can increment the progress bar in each iteration

[whole steppe]

I mean sure, but there isn't, if that means I can't get an EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar() to display a method's progression, it's fine, I just thought it'd be cool to let the user know...

[visual stag]

If your work isn't threadable, and you can't place the call to DisplayProgressBar in the work somewhere, then there's no place in the execution that would be able to update a progress bar's progress.
You can still pop up a progress bar before you start the work, but it will just be a modal that doesn't show progress, and instead just shows some work is being done.

[whole steppe]

I see, thanks for the help so far!

[glad pivot]

what is the differences between editor windows and scriptable wizards?

[vapid prism]

The wizard is like a pop-up window to help you with something. The Editor is what you see in the inspector. So for instance you could make some "Create new player" Wizard where the user can supply some initial values or similar, then create the object.

[glad pivot]

Isee

[rotund solstice]

hey,
im trying to add a field for a class in an editor script

[waxen sandal]

Cool, read the file as text and add the field?

[rotund solstice]

I usually just use something like intFeild = EditorGUILayout.IntField("value:", intFeild);, and that works, but how do U do the same for Book which is a class type instead of int ?

[waxen sandal]

Right

Use SerializedProperties

https://help.vertx.xyz/programming/editor-issues/serialisation/serializedobject-how-to

[rotund solstice]

@waxen sandal i didnt get it , what do I input on the first argument ? bookFeild = EditorGUILayout.PropertyField( ?? );?

no one cares about the editor channel 😄

[visual stag]

A serialised property of course. My guide that was linked goes over that fairly quickly.

[waxen sandal]

Oh forbid me from going to sleep to serve you answers on a silver plate

[rotund solstice]

Thanks ❤️

[rotund solstice]

I wasn't directing it at anyone, but since you have mentioned it, it depends, Do you think its ok to give up your support for some silly like sleeping ? "literally doing nothing on a bed for hours ? ... is that is ur excuse ? 😛

[tepid roost]

Is there a way to listen for when the Build Settings Window is opened

[waxen sandal]

You can poll it

[tepid roost]

assuming you mean just via HasOpenInstances<T> ?

more or less got a window of additional build settings i want to open at the same time as the regular build window

[waxen sandal]

Yeah

You coudl also use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorWindow-focusedWindow.html

Since it opening the window would also focus it

But I guess you don't know when it closes without polling

[median kraken]

Hello, how can you change the color of a custom timeline marker?

[iron mica]

Has anyone worked on Licensing for extensions?

[shy locust]

Hello, I am trying to copy an asset but I don't want to copy it as its own asset, I want to copy and paste it into another object. Anyone willing to help?

[frigid maple]

I'm trying to make colapseable inspector categories without writing too much code

but I can't use structs because I can't give them values

any suggestions?

[visual stag]

Use a class

Or assign the values in the constructor when you declare it

[frigid maple]

Hmm, it also seems like structs don't make inspector categories

[visual stag]

They do

you haven't declared a variable of that type anywhere

[frigid maple]

Hmm, is there a way of declaring it, and not needing to reference that every time I need to access the variables?

Like, I want to do playerSpeed = 5 not mySettings.playerSpeed = 5

[visual stag]

No. You would need to use properties that accessed the struct you declared

[frigid maple]

damn

[visual stag]

which means you would have to declare things twice

[frigid maple]

This all seems like too much work for colapseable categories

surely there's a [header()] thing I can do

[visual stag]

[Header("Blah"] adds a bold header

[frigid maple]

Yeah, but it's not collapsible :(

[visual stag]

If you just wanted a collapsible inspector you can either make a custom editor, or you can use Foldout from https://github.com/dbrizov/NaughtyAttributes noting that NA performs some tricks to make it possible that may be incompatible with other extensions

[frigid maple]

This is what my script looks like now, and I plan to add a bunch more public variables that I can tinker with

[whole steppe]

Is there a way I can check if the console is populated with logs?

[whole steppe]

didn't think it would've been this easy... thanks to this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40578161/19919105
did this:```cs
bool CheckForLogs()
{
object hasLogs = Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(Editor))
.GetType("UnityEditor.LogEntries")
.GetMethod("GetCount")
.Invoke(new object(), null);

if (hasLogs != null) return true;
else return false;

}```

[visual stag]

Uh, I don't think that logic makes sense

(int)Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(Editor))
    .GetType("UnityEditor.LogEntries")
    .GetMethod("GetCount", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static)
    .Invoke(null, null) > 0;

Makes sense to me

[whole steppe]

lol, I just needed any way to get that to work, and since I've had already posted my question here, thought I might as well tinker a bit until something actually works, and that's what I ended up having...
however, I greatly appreciate your logic! making use of it...

[hollow rampart]

Is there a way to create an attribute to make some variables of scriptable objects null on build?

or default(T)

public int Damage;

something like this and Damage gets compiled as 0 on client build

public class ServerOnlyAttribute : Attribute
{
    #if !UNITY_SERVER
     /// somehow set property to default value before building
   #endif
}```

[waxen sandal]

There's some prebuild events that you can listen to and go through your code to set values to default

[hollow rampart]

I have tried it but i need to undo the changes after building

Is it possible?

Or not save at all?

[waxen sandal]

You can save what you changed it from and restore it after build

Or just revert it in your version control

Or not mix your server data with your game data

[hollow rampart]

It is easier to mix

easier to develop

git can work but it feels bad

[waxen sandal]

Easier to wrk but you have to do hacky things like this

[rough cypress]

I'm getting a strange error ive never seen before. I'm updating a custom editor and in the OnEnable method I'm loading a ScriptableObject asset using AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath. Unity is throwing this error :

"UnityException: LoadAssetAtPath is not allowed to be called during serialization, call it from OnEnable instead. Called from ScriptableObject 'CustomStatisticsDatabaseEditor'."

I'm already calling the LoadAssetAtPath from the OnEnable method... Not sure when I should load this SO Asset into my Editor if not in the OnEnable method. I've tried putting it in a few other places and it keeps throwing the error. Anyone know how I can fix this?

[waxen sandal]

Sounds like you're calling it from the constructor maybe

[barren moat]

Anyone know why my text is rendering in black?

      static void Heading(string text) {
        EditorGUILayout.LabelField(text, new GUIStyle { fontStyle = FontStyle.Bold });
      }
      Heading("Cheats");

[waxen sandal]

It's a new style so it has the default value for color

[barren moat]

I can't see a color field

Is there an easy way to do just a "heading" type thing?

[waxen sandal]

Use EditorStyles

[barren moat]

thank you!

LOLOL

      var headerStyle = EditorStyles.foldoutHeader;
      headerStyle.fontSize += 2;
      void Heading(string text) {
        EditorGUILayout.LabelField(text,  headerStyle);
      }

It grows every time I move the mouse

[waxen sandal]

Also, that might be a reference

[barren moat]

Hm... how do I duplicate one of these style

Yeah, it is

That's why it's happening

[waxen sandal]

So you might want to do new GUISTyle(style)

[barren moat]

Ah, nice

Thanks, wasn't sure how to copy

Thank you @waxen sandal 🙏

[pseudo dagger]

There any way to easily extend the editor to create widgets like the ones here highlighted?

[gloomy chasm]

Yuuup https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/overlays-custom.html

[pseudo dagger]

my man

[rare surge]

Is there any possibility to show icon or something else if there is a tooltip like sometimes unity uses [?].

[grave lintel]

why wont it let me install community visual studio 2022? it only shows the 2019 version

[visual stag]

Just install it manually using the instructions in #854851968446365696

Though it says 2022 is already installed, so you don't need to do anything

[grave lintel]

oh thanks

[long osprey]

Hey! I'm looking to build an editor extension that allows a screen reader to read a component. Does anyone know if something like this has ever been done?

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean "read a component"?

[long osprey]

Like take the text of a component, the name, and read it back to you

[weak spoke]

this may work or may be worth a look
https://github.com/frastlin/ScreenreaderAccessibleUnityTemplate

[stable nebula]

I guess this is an editor extension scripting question. About AssetDatabase.FindAssets. I can use it to find assets with a specific type, including types further up the inheritance chain (i.e. "t:ScriptableObject" gets all instances of subclasses of ScriptableObject). I'm trying to find assets with a type that is inheriting from a generic type. So basically TypeA<T> : ScriptableObject, TypeB : TypeA<TypeC>, I have assets of type TypeB and want to find them. Is that possible?

Once again, I'm too dumb to use discords inline code markup, but I guess it's readable enough

Sorry, to be clear, I want to find them without directly having to know of TypeB, just that it's a type inheriting from TypeA<TypeC> (and I have both TypeA and TypeC). Otherwise I could just filter for TypeB of course.

[waxen sandal]

I don't think you can

Unless you know TypeB somehow

Which you could figure out by going through all types https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.reflection.assembly.gettypes?view=net-7.0

[simple cove]

List<MyBaseType> allObjects = AssetDatabase.FindAssets($"t:{typeof(MyBaseType).Name}", new[] { scannedPath })
    .Select(guid => AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(guid))
    .Select(assetPath => AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<MyBaseType>(assetPath))
    .ToList();

you can ditch the second parameter in FindAssets to search the whole project

I guess your MyBaseType can be TypeA<> but the .Name won't look good.
Whether it works or not depends on how Unity's ProjectWindow thingy handles generic type names 😛

[stable nebula]

That is the point. As far as I can tell, it doesn't handle generic type names at all. Either way, I'm just going through reflection now as Navi suggested.

[simple cove]

alternatively you could go with

List<MyBaseType> allObjects = AssetDatabase.FindAssets($"t:{typeof(ScriptableObject).Name}", new[] { scannedPath })
    .Select(guid => AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(guid))
    .Select(assetPath => AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<MyBaseType>(assetPath))
    .Where(obj => obj.GetType().IsAssignableFrom(typeof(TypeA<>))
    .ToList();

wait.. the opposite -- typeof(TypeA<>).IsAssignableFrom(obj.GetType())

[fresh briar]

Is there any way I could add a keyboard command to load certain scenes?

[whole steppe]

sure, we use alot of stuff like that when our game is in dev mode

[whole steppe]

hey, in this line: BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Static, can you explain why you've chosen the | operator rather than ||?
from my understanding, the | operator will check every given argument, even if one evaluates to true, however the || only accept the first argument that evaluates to true. can you explain why you put it that way? just curious...

[visual stag]

https://help.vertx.xyz/info/bitmasks#combining-masks

It's how you combine things in binary representation, bitmasks, which enum flags are.

[whole steppe]

so so so...! your code will return the Method we're looking for if it's Public and Static or either or them?

[visual stag]

The method is public and static, so I provide a BindingFlags which is both of those

If you don't provide it, sometimes the method will not find anything

[whole steppe]

alright! uhh, yes thank you! leaving silently without understanding but it's okay lol!❣️

[stray badge]

How would I serialize a square for a custom script like with boxCollider2d?

[sterile jay]

Anyone know to embed youtube live stream content inside Unity Video Player

[rocky yarrow]

Hi, is there a way to AddComponent in an editor script? I can't believe how hard it is to just have a button that'll add a specific component for you.

[waxen sandal]

You can just call AddComponent on a gameobject

Or use Undo.AddComponent to also support undo

[slender girder]

Unity is focused more on using collision/trigger functions to add/change functionality rather than adding entire components at runtime.

I suggest either caution when doing such or to try and change the way your scripts are written.

[rocky yarrow]

I did (target as GameObject).AddComponent...

But target as GameObject yielded null

[short tiger]

target is probably the Component, not the GameObject

[rocky yarrow]

omg

yeah, Selection.activeGameOject worked

thank you so much guys. I can finally sleep now

[vapid prism]

Does anyone know if LoadAsset causes some kind of internal caching? It seems first load is slow but sequential ones are fast. If so does the cache get released at some point?

[short tiger]

Probably when Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets is called, which can be done manually, but it's also called automatically during scene loads.

And it will only be unloaded if there are no references to it anywhere

[waxen sandal]

Even then only on certain moments like entering exiting play mode

They don't follow normal gc rules

[vapid prism]

Yeah that seems correct, trying to figure out how I can ensure that my custom assets don't get unloaded as they take quite some time to load back in because of their size. But I suppose simply having the reference alive should be fine? If so I'd have to serialize the list that hold the ref in my window I suppose?

[vapid prism]

I realised that I could manage my objects manually by setting the DontUnloadUnusedAssets flag in HideFlags

[rugged urchin]

any perspective on how to author a custom lightmapper (as an alternative to GPU (Preview), CPU, Enlighten, etc.)? my goal is not to make a good lightmapper, but to create a stub that generates black lightmaps instantly

[whole steppe]

How do you check if an AnimationClip is Humanoid?
I did this:```cs
ModelImporter importer = AssetImporter.GetAtPath(path) as ModelImporter;

if (importer != null)
{
if (importer.animationType == ModelImporterAnimationType.Human)
{
// TODO: Some code here...
}
else
{
Debug.LogWarning("AnimationClip is not Humanoid");
}
}
else
{
Debug.LogWarning("The 'importer' var is null");
}```However, it's always logging that the importer is null... What am I doing wrong here?

[whole steppe]

This seems to work...```cs
string[] guids = AssetDatabase.FindAssets($"t:{nameof(AnimationClip)}", new[] { "Assets" });

foreach (string guid in guids)
{
string path = AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(guid);

AnimationClip anim = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<AnimationClip>(path);

if (anim != null && anim.isHumanMotion)
{
    Debug.Log($"{path} is Humanoid");
}

}```

[median osprey]

Does anyone know why GL calls (red lines) only render in the top right corner of the scene view?

The only reference to an issue like this I could find is this forum post, but my code is being called directly from OnSceneGUI.
https://answers.unity.com/questions/1251058/gllines-renders-in-a-single-quadrant-of-the-screen.html

Here's my code -

// Called from OnSceneGUI
static void RenderTestWireCube(Vector3 pos, float scale)
{
                GL.PushMatrix();

                // NOTE: I am probably misunderstanding how the below works, enabling and disabling this line appears to do nothing.
                //GL.Viewport(new Rect(0, 0, SceneView.currentDrawingSceneView.camera.scaledPixelWidth, SceneView.currentDrawingSceneView.camera.scaledPixelHeight));

                GL.MultMatrix(Matrix4x4.TRS(pos, Quaternion.identity, Vector3.one*scale));

                mat.SetPass(0);

                GL.Begin(GL.LINES);

                GL.Color(Color.red);
                // Vertices For The Cube
                GL.Vertex3(1, 1, 1);
                GL.Vertex3(-1, 1, 1);
                // ...skipping this, Yadda yadda ya, a bunch of GL Vertex3 with various signs , you get it...

                GL.End();
                GL.PopMatrix();
}

As you can see, handles and Gizmos are working fine!
(The shader for 'mat' is "Unlit/Colored Transparent", Unity 2019.4.34f1)

[visual stag]

If you're rendering to the scene view why not just use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Handles.DrawWireCube.html?

Or gizmos

[median osprey]

I'm trying to draw more complicated things, this is just a test case to get up and running!

[visual stag]

well, I just tested it on 2022.2 URP and it seems fine

perhaps try Camera.SetupCurrent on the scene view camera and see if that changes anything

[median osprey]

It didn't seem to do anything but black out this top toolbar... Hmm. I hope this isn't an unresolvable editor bug.

I appreciate your taking the time, btw

Maybe I should render into a scene view sized RenderTexture and then draw that over the scene view in a GUI call? :/

Seems like overkill but if it's workaround time, it's workaround time

[whole steppe]

Kinda dumb, but sometimes effective, try restarting Unity lol

[median osprey]

you're right

it didn't work this time, but you're right haha

[median osprey]

Yeah I'm gonna do a wacky GUI texture workaround. Thanks for the input, y'all!

I really do appreciate it.

[stone sleet]

Does anyone know how to solve this dawn issue in 2021.3.10?

[waxen sandal]

Wrong channel

[long osprey]

GitHub - frastlinScreenreaderAccessible...

[somber cypress]

I made an editor script, I want to know how to set a value of a component on a gameobject though my script rather than doing it with the mouse.

Here is my script

[dusty sable]

Hi I am looking for an editor tool that would help me create a scriptable object from an existing gameobject component and copy over all the values to an instance of that scriptable object.
i have a script with a fair number of variables - wanted to convert those fields to a scriptable object. Then i wanted to copy the current values from an instance of that script component and assign it to an instance of the new SO
if there was no utility to help create the SO then I could do it manually but wanted to avoid having to reenter all that data in each instance of the SO, I want to copy the values from the script instance in the inspector to the the new SO
Anyone heard of such a utility?

[twin dawn]

No but you can probably fake it with JsonUtility

as long as the two objects have the same or close to the same json representation you can serialize to json then https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/JsonUtility.FromJsonOverwrite.html to deserialize into the new object.

[dusty sable]

Thanks for the lead - will check it out.

[errant parrot]

files with special extension not shown in the editor

how to fix it

[lone halo]

Hey, how can loop over the meshes in an fbx in AssetPostprocessor using ModelImporter?

I want to disable Mesh Renderer component for all models with a certain name prefix

[waxen sandal]

I don't think the gameobjects are generated on import 🤔

[lone halo]

Thing is if I export an fbx from Maya and some of it's submeshes are hidden, they are hidden by default in Unity, that is their Mesh Renderer is unchecked

So that is the component I want to access

(Models exported from Blender do not get treated this way, but that's probably just Blenders fbx exporter being bad)

[waxen sandal]

You can do LoadassetAtPath<GameObject> but I'm pretty sure that won't let you save it again

And I don't see (or remember) an api that lets you access the GO from teh modelimporter

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ModelImporter-transformPaths.html there's this but I doubt you can edit the transforms

[lone halo]

Right ok, so it's kinda limited to just showing the the FBX status

[pliant elbow]

Hey, I have accidentally imported a restricted asset in a game I would like to publish. Is there any way I could remove that asset from my project? And is it still illegal to have it there if it is not in use?

[waxen sandal]

You can just delete the files

[whole steppe]

How to deal with methods that would take too much time to finish? I'd like to speed up the processing if possible...
I tried the System.Threading.Thread class with lambda, however, almost every method must be called on the main thread, therefore, I can't really make use of it and don't have much knowledge on making things be processed in a an asynchronous style...
What possibly can be done to at least not block the main thread?

[waxen sandal]

You can't but you can separate it over time, so you do idk 10ms of work each "frame"

[finite agate]

hi guys i want to implement this library in unity. Do i need to build the dll?

https://github.com/ThomasMiz/RectpackSharp

[gloomy chasm]

No, you can just clone or download it directly and use the files. As it says in the top of the description 😉

[finite agate]

yep i think that's the fastest way, in fact i tried it and it seems to work

ty for your reply btw

[whole steppe]

Sounds like better than nothing, how the method called? Like, what am I supposed to do in order to get this kinda of procedure?

[grand matrix]

https://github.com/IvanMurzak/Unity-Mouse-Parallax

[visual stag]

Please don't cross-post. One channel, ie. #archived-resources was enough. #502171717544968212 is also not for things that are not on the asset store!

[jagged mirage]

sorry if its a bit of a dumb quesiton, but im having trouble with EditorGUILayout.Slider in a custom shader editor. it's just appearing as a box and not a slider no matter the editor's width, although it does apply the constraints of a slider. here's an example of how I'm using it:

shaderProperty.floatValue = EditorGUILayout.Slider("My Property", shaderProperty.floatValue, 0f, 1f);```
Am I doing something wrong? It works for setting the value on the material and everything, it just doesn't appear as a slider like it does in the docs. (Unity 2019 for reference)

[whole steppe]

How does it look like? Screenshot if possible

[jagged mirage]

It just shows up as a FloatBox for some reason, although I fixed it by using GUILayout.HorizontalSlider in combination with a bit of formatting in a horizontal row to try and emulate how it should look.

[whole steppe]

Can you show more of your code? I just don't understand what this is: shaderProperty.floatValue....

[jagged mirage]

It's a float of the MaterialProperty class in a ShaderGUI

It holds the actual value of the material property, assuming it's a float

A quick example:

// get the property from the material
MaterialProperty myProperty = ShaderGUI.FindProperty("_MyProperty", shaderProperties);
// allow it to be changed
myProperty.floatValue = EditorGUILayout.Slider("My Property", myProperty.floatValue, 0f, 1f);```

Everything in regards to that was fine and all. Just the slider didn't wanna slide I guess

[whole steppe]

oops, seems a little complicated to me...