↕️┃editor-extensions

[gloomy chasm]

This is how Unity does it https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/uGUI/blob/2019.1/UnityEditor.UI/UI/MenuOptions.cs#L210

[native geode]

Thats basically what i was looking for, thanks ill see it

[native geode]

But its internal so i have to copy the function :/

[gloomy chasm]

Yup

Or reflection

[native geode]

left it with validator and enable creation of item only on canvas 😁

[shadow minnow]

A few days ago i wrote a monobehaviour to draw a grid in my scene window using gizmos, but some of the scripts im referencing throw errors when im not in edit mode, and im unable to compile my game without commenting this out

public class RoomGrid : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Grid Grid;
    public Color GridColor;

    
    public void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        Gizmos.color = GridColor;
        SceneView sceneView = SceneView.lastActiveSceneView;

        float x;
        float y;
        float xSize = Grid.cellSize.x;
        float ySize = Grid.cellSize.y;

        Vector2 origin = sceneView.camera.ViewportToWorldPoint(Vector3.zero);
        Vector2 extent = sceneView.camera.ViewportToWorldPoint(Vector3.one);

        origin.x = origin.x.FloorTo(416); origin.y = origin.y.FloorTo(240);
        extent.x = extent.x.CeilingTo(416); extent.y = extent.y.CeilingTo(240);

        int xCount = Mathf.CeilToInt((extent.x - origin.x) / xSize);
        int yCount = Mathf.CeilToInt((extent.y - origin.y) / ySize);

        
        for (var i = 0; i < xCount; i++)
        {
            x = i * xSize;
            Gizmos.DrawLine(new(origin.x + x, origin.y), new(origin.x + x, extent.y));
        }

        for (var i = 0; i < yCount; i++)
        {
            y = i * ySize;
            Gizmos.DrawLine(new(origin.x, origin.y + y), new(extent.x, origin.y + y));
        }
        
    }
}

i think that i need to turn this into an editor script, but im not really sure how to go about that

when it's an editor script, even though it's a monobehaviour im not able to attach it to a gameobject

i dont necessarily need the reference to the grid object, since the grid is always a fixed size anyway

i guess what im asking is, is there a way i can make an editor script update once per frame, like a monobehaviour?

and can i use an editor script to draw gizmos onto the screen?

if not, is there some alternative to this i could use

for what it's worth, the entire reason i even need this script in the first place is because the grid component in unity has it's own gizmo, but for some reason it's insanely dim and becomes downright invisible if i zoom out to the scale i actually need to work at

[gloomy chasm]

What you would is create a Custom Editor and put the code in the OnScneGUI method, link to the manual page for it (scroll down to the bottom)
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/editor-CustomEditors.html

The quick and dirty way to do it is to surround your code in your class with #if UNITY_EDITOR so that the code will be excluded from build.

[shadow minnow]

looks like i cant use gizmos from this, is there some alternative ill need to use to draw the lines on my UI

switching to handles worked

Only issue now is that the grid only displays when an object of the given type is selected

is there a way i can make a custom editor display at all times? or when a child of an object of the given type is selected?

got it, found this

https://answers.unity.com/questions/654423/keep-my-custom-handle-visible-even-if-object-is-no.html

thanks for the help, i wouldn't have thought to use CustomEditors based on the name, lol

[wraith raptor]

Hi all, I'm looking for an editor to edit bezier curves like AnimationCurve does. Basically I want to open a graph window to edit 4 points of a bezier curve, is there any Editor component to do it? If not, what would be the approach to code something like this? Thanks

[gloomy chasm]

There is not. And there is no 'easy' way unfortunately. There are a bunch of ways you could go about it though.
If you are using IMGUI, you could use the Handles API to draw the curve (iirc that it works), and create some simple custom controls (using rects, get mouse down and see if it is in rect, if so than move it as the mouse moves).
Another options if you are using IMGUI, is to draw the curve with Graphics.DrawMesh.

If you are using UIToolkit, it has an API for drawing meshes which you can use to draw the curve. Or if you are on 2022.2 (iirc) they have a nice API for drawing curves. You would then just add some VisualElements with absolute positioning and register mouse down to drag them.

This is how the AnimationCurve window handles drawing for reference
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/Animation/AnimationWindow/CurveEditor.cs#L1023
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/Animation/AnimationWindow/ControlPointRenderer.cs

Hope that helps

[wraith raptor]

Sure helps, thank you!

[dreamy dagger]

Hi, hoping I could get an answer on this. Trying to create a context menu item on an array but need to know which array element was clicked (to act upon). Is this something that required custom editor?

[gloomy chasm]

You can't get the selected element on the array itself without drawing it yourself in a custom editor. But you can add an context menu item to the array elements using this: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorApplication-contextualPropertyMenu.html

[wraith raptor]

Coming back to this. Using handles worked just fine at start, but now I need it to work 'outside' a MonoBehaviour. My object is a property of two distinct MonoBehaviours, is there a way to apply a Handle as a ProperyDrawer or something similar? Thanks

[gloomy chasm]

Handles isn't tied to MonoBehaviours, you can use them in any GUI method

I am not really sure what you are doing currently without seeing the code.

[dreamy dagger]

Thanks. Not sure how this can be implemented for the array elements but I'll take a look.

[gloomy chasm]

For an element in a array? It 1000% can as I have done it before 😛

You check if the path ends with ], that is how you know it is an array element

[dreamy dagger]

So inside this array element i have a property that i want to set..i can get the index out of this then? maybe i have to try this out first since not sure how this works. 🙂

[stable crane]

any idea why the texture goes past?

[gloomy chasm]

Because you set its y position to be the bottom of the properties height

[stable crane]

yeah but i add on its height in GetPropertyHeight?

[gloomy chasm]

yeah, but you put its position at the bottom of that height 😛

I assume this is a property drawer?

[stable crane]

position starts from top left doesnt it?

yes it is

[gloomy chasm]

You want textureRect.y = position.yMax - PREVIEW_HEIGHT;

EditorGUI.GetPropertyHeight(..) returns the height that you are returning from your override float GetPropertyHeight(..) {}

[stable crane]

ohh

makes snse

[gloomy chasm]

Also is redundant because position.height will be that height already

[stable crane]

no but now it doesnt work

well

it hides all the other fields

[gloomy chasm]

Can't do much without seeing the code

[stable crane]

i tried textureRect.y = rather than += too but thats what gives me the issue i just said btw

[gloomy chasm]

What does it look like in inspector?

[stable crane]

oh ive solved it now

in GetPropertyHeight i used EditorGUI.GetPropertyHeight rather than base.GetPropertyHeight

[gloomy chasm]

What? In the code yo are showing you use base....?

[stable crane]

yeah

i changed it to EditorGUI

and that fixed it

sorry i worded it weirdlyt

[gloomy chasm]

Oh

oooh yeah because base defaults to a single line height

[dreamy dagger]

Figured it out! thanks a lot for the suggestion.

[quick crypt]

Not sure if this covered by someone else, but UI Toolkit has the Curve component, but only for the Unity editor, not for a game.

[wraith raptor]

I started with a Curve component, that's what I meant with 'editor like AnimationCurve', but I needed something that could do a 'spiral' in some way. I end up using a Handle.BezierCurve on scene view.

Btw, thanks @gloomy chasm

[normal ocean]

May i know which font and theme u are using?
It looks good

[stable crane]

font is Iosevka semibold, theme im not sure i think its called bearded something in the vs code extensions

[pine gale]

Is there an existing unity editor extension for code editing on the asset store? Looking for things like code search and template files for ScriptableObject, interfaces, JSON files, and other common Unity/C# constructs. If not, would people be interested in using an extension like this? What features would people want to see?

[normal ocean]

ok

[gloomy chasm]

Yup, there is. For editing there is Script Inspector, and JetBrains has something as well for free. For creating templates files there definitely is. Sometimes they will only do some, like only SOs, and some are wrapped in large packages. You can search for keywords on the store to try and find things and see if they already exist.

[pine gale]

Ah, you know, I guess Rider does a lot of what I need too. Thanks!

[flint garnet]

im still on the way learning UI Toolkit for editor, and i found USS way better to styling my Editor GUI, compare to using GUI Style, like simply changing background color, any way, my question is, i did see before there is .FromUSS, and assume from the name, maybe i can use USS in unity editor scripting using IMGUI, but i can't find that again, anyone know about that (.FromUSS)

[waxen sandal]

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/70832e6c5b834ed12c9c19d91d6b710c55dfea67/Modules/StyleSheetsEditor/Converters/GUIStyleExtensions.cs#L134

Looks like it just maps some specific properties to the GUIStyle

Definitely not a complete mapping

(besides, it's missing all flexbox things from parent containers)

[flint garnet]

i will take a look, thx

[night totem]

how to remove these elements in visual code 2022?

[night totem]

front name?

[waxen sandal]

Idk go ask visual studio code people

[patent venture]

Why do you want to remove them?

[stable crane]

Iosevka semibold

[night totem]

they bother me

[night totem]

I don't have that font

[stable crane]

get it then

[night totem]

how?

[stable crane]

google and click download

[night totem]

ty

how to turn it off?

[night totem]

How to disable it in the rider?

[gloomy chasm]

This is not related to creating editor extensions, or unity. I recommend looking up the documentation for Rider, and asking on their forums (if they have one) or contacting their support if you still can't figure it out. However it does not belong being asked here. Best of luck!

[hollow rampart]

Is it possible to add webview on editor?

[waxen sandal]

I don't think there's anything built in

[hollow rampart]

Do u know any way?

embed chrome?

[waxen sandal]

I haven't really investigated it, there's probably a bunch of resources online with info

But it's probably not simple

[gloomy chasm]

I don't think so no.

If you want to share what you are doing there might be another way to do it?

[thorny rock]

public override void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
        base.OnInspectorGUI();
        serializedObject.Update();
            
        // ScriptableObject
        SerializedProperty guardVisionSO = serializedObject.FindProperty("_GuardVision");

        // SphereCollider child
        SphereCollider sphereCollider = Selection.activeTransform.GetComponentInChildren<SphereCollider>();
        var sphereColliderSO = new SerializedObject(sphereCollider);
        sphereColliderSO.FindProperty("m_Radius").floatValue = scriptableObjectReference.radius;
    }

I'm trying to read the data of a ScriptableObject and pass it to a collider that sits on a child-gameObject. In this case my SO tells my collider how big it is (how big the vision radius is).

So basically the question boils down to: What is the proper way to get access to the variables in a ScriptableObject via an editor script?

var guardVisionSO = serializedObject.FindProperty("_GuardVision").objectReferenceValue as GuardVision;
sphereColliderSO.FindProperty("m_Radius").floatValue = guardVisionSO.Length;
sphereColliderSO.ApplyModifiedProperties();

This works.

[regal forum]

Hi. Is GUI.Box immutable?
I did this for my custom editor for Inspector:

GUI.Box(
  dropArea, // this is "Rect"
  evt.type == EventType.DragUpdated ? BOX_RELEASEHERE : BOX_DROPHERE, 
  GetStyle(GUI.skin.box));
```But my Box is displaying only the text of `BOX_DROPHERE`, even when i drag an object over the `dropArea`.
How do i update the text to change when i'm holding an object over the Rect area?
Is it impossible? 

> I read all the related classes on the scripting API, even removed the GuiStyle, tried to use `GUIContent` to see if the reference would update the text, but nothing is changing the text after the first time it draw the call _(i think)_.

[gloomy chasm]

Probably have to call Repaint()

[regal forum]

Solved it.
@gloomy chasm thank you for replying me, but the issue was the condition i was checking.

if (dropArea.Contains(evt.mousePosition) && DragAndDrop.objectReferences.Any()) 

This solved my problems.

[tawdry kraken]

Hey. I'm trying to animate a radioButton selection, like with AnimBool and EditorGUILayout.ToggleLeft().
Haven't found anything on google. Anyone know a way?

[waxen sandal]

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/SkyboxPanoramicShader/blob/master/SkyboxPanoramicBetaShaderGUI.cs maybe?

[true crow]

hi all, is there like a brush tool in unity to make plains in a 3d project

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean? Probably nothing built-in.

[tawdry kraken]

I'm making an EditorWindow, and am trying to use EditorGUIUtility.PingObject() on an asset, after is has been imported.
I have not been able to find a suitable CallBackFunction for this scenario.
The pinging itself works fine if I re-ping it manually after the automatic process.
My attempts to poll for this scenario have failed, lastly using a bool and EditorApplication.isUpdating

It could probably work if I wait 1 second after isUpdating was last true. But I'm not sure how I could make a timer for an EditorWindow, and I don't think a Coroutine is a good idea for an Editor script.

Any ideas?

[waxen sandal]

EditorCoroutines are a thing

And have you tried delayCall?

[tawdry kraken]

I have not, but by its description I don't think it will help much.
When the button is clicked, one or more .png files are generated, which cannot be pinged until the editor has had ample time to process them.
My solution waits until the last item has been processed, and then pings it.

But right now it executes too soon.
I will look into EditorCoroutines.
Though I did just find that using OnInspectorUpdate and EditorApplication.realTimeSinceStartup gives me a working counter inside OnGUI

[tawdry kraken]

delayCall did not work.

[waxen sandal]

It's hard to say without seeing some code what's going on really

Guessing it's not done importing?

[tawdry kraken]

Pardon the late reply. I've been hard at work.
I was eventually successful in implementing a time-delay which did ping the newly created asset.
At that point, I started stripping away stuff to see if there was less required.
And it seems I have had a case of an Empty string; it was being initialized at the wrong time, and a / too many.

Now it all works without the delay.

directly inside OnGUI
(PS: For anyone researching. The example in screenshot has one error - Refresh() needs to be moved two lines up.)

[waxen sandal]

Glad you got it working!

[stoic heart]

Are EditorTools not allowed to draw interactive handles?

nvm you just put it into onToolGui, though that's not specified by the hint

[wary jungle]

Anyone know if there are extensions for VS Code that will do the following?

1. Make curly brackets drop a line when created.

//Like This
if(Test)
{

}

//Not Like this
if(Test){

}

2. Be a bit smarter about auto-completing.... for example VS would know that I want "GetComponent<Animator>()" the second I typed = g whereas VS Code is like "For this animator you want to get!!!!! ??? Get what you tell me!!" 😂

[stable crane]

1. if you use vs codes format document command (i think ctrl shift i by default)it should format it like that if you have omnisharp working

and for 2) it sounds like you dont have the unity stuff properly configured

[stable crane]

is it broken just for me or do packages like
https://github.com/SeaeeesSan/SimpleFolderIcon
or
https://github.com/WooshiiDev/Unity-Folder-Icons
not work anymore?

[stable crane]

ok ive got them to work by modifying them a little bit

not sure why but projectWindowItemOnGUI doesnt get invoked

but projectWindowItemInstanceOnGUI does

so i just changed it to that and used AssetDatabase.TryGetGUIDAndLocalFileIdentifier(instanceID, out string guid, out long _);

to get guid from instanceid

[wary jungle]

Any idea what might be missing? Most of the auto complete works, just not all of it 🤔

[stable crane]

@pure quartz sorry for ping first mod i saw

[pure quartz]

thx!

[tardy pecan]

Any way to change the title bar of a component? I just want to modify the text according to some variable

[stark yoke]

The title bar is named after the script/component itself, if you wanna rename the title, then rename the script and the class names

[tardy pecan]

Yes but I'm looking to change it based on properties from the component. If I have 3 of the same component to a game object, it makes it hard to identify which one is doing what

If I have something like this, I'd like to set the title to VoidEvent (name of the event property)

I know there's a plugin on the asset store that does this, so it must be feasible

[stark yoke]

You can make multiple event fields in one component

[tardy pecan]

Not with the way my system works no

[stark yoke]

Hmm, I will think about it and tell you if I find a solution

[tardy pecan]

Thanks! I've seen a few threads saying that you can but yeah it's not explained

Update: Looks like this is the private property to set via reflection in the editor

Doesn't seem to allow me to set it using set value

[stark yoke]

That's cuz it's locked, the unity default variables cantbe changed until they're supposed to

And I'm pretty sure I can find a solution to your problem if I spend more time on it

[stark yoke]

But I'm not on my PC rn

Plus I need to see at least a bit of your code

To see if there's a way of having one script instead of two

[tardy pecan]

Yeah the CanWrite flag of this property is set to false

[stark yoke]

Three*

[stark yoke]

Yes

[tardy pecan]

There's no way of having one script, it's a generic system so I can have 5 events or 100, also I have more types of events like int, booleans, etc...

I mean technically I can have an array of events for each type but it's definitely not as convenient and clean

https://github.com/Felis-Major/FM-Core/tree/main/Runtime/Systems/Events

Here's the code if you want to take a look tho

[stark yoke]

But I think it's more convenient than having to remember which script is which

[tardy pecan]

Even then I would have to open the thing and find the right event

[stark yoke]

Yeah but what do you want me to look at lol, you neither told me what it's supposed to do nor told me where to find it lol

[tardy pecan]

Oh well looking at it is not gonna help on this just sharing haha this is the event system I'm working on

The issue I have doesn't have anything to do with my code specifically it's more a general question

[stark yoke]

Ok, um gonna check and try and find an answer as soon as possible 🙂

[tardy pecan]

Thanks so much! I'll update here if I can find anything because damn I can't be the only one looking for this lol

[gloomy chasm]

iirc it is just the m_Name field of the MonoBehaviour

Setting the monoBehaviour.name to something should change it I think

[tardy pecan]

When I call the name thing on the target object it usually refers to the GameObject name, are you talking about a property that I need to access through reflection?

[barren moat]

Is it possible to draw a property drawer for a generic type?

[waxen sandal]

Explorer?

[blissful burrow]

does anyone know how to detect right click on a Handles.Disc() in the scene view?

I feel like I'm getting lost in hotControls and IDs and no events seem to line up ;-;

[blissful burrow]

okay I got it, but man,, ahha, I'm guessing there's an easier way to do this?

// oh boy this is a hack
int discID = GUIUtility.GetControlID( "DiscHash".GetHashCode(), FocusType.Passive ) + 1;
Quaternion qNew = Handles.Disc( q, pos, axis, handleSize, false, 0 );
EventType discEventType = Event.current.GetTypeForControl( discID );
if( HandleUtility.nearestControl == discID && discEventType == EventType.MouseDown && Event.current.button == 1 ) {
    Debug.Log( "RMB on disc " + discID );
    Event.current.Use();
}```

[blissful burrow]

alright, this works for one handle, but I can't get it to work for something with multiple handles, eg Handles.RotationHandle

tried porting over all the handle IDs but only the first ID is responding

[waxen sandal]

Have you looked at the source for how unity handles rotation controls internally?

[gloomy chasm]

Nope, not a hack. That is literally how you are meant to do it and how al the Handles controls do it 🙂

[gloomy chasm]

You can see Unity's implementation for the handles here. Looks like they have premade ids for the handles https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/280b05a874443464be435c70f26644d1703e272a/Editor/Mono/EditorHandles/PositionHandle.cs#L240

[pine gale]

Has anyone else run into an issue in Unity 2023.1.0a16 with undo/redo selection in a custom graph view? I can restore most selections, but when I deselect all elements, it adds an undo entry which selects the last selected elements, instead of deselecting all elements. I have almost no code in this GraphView - I just create the elements by loading it from a ScriptableObject, I've disabled all code to sync the changes from the GraphView to the ScriptableObjects. Anyone seen this before? Maybe a bug in 2023.1.0a16? Attached a recording.

Okay, this seems to happen in the Visual Effects graph too. Must be a bug. EDIT: Must be this line of code, which doesn't work with empty selections https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Modules/GraphViewEditor/Views/GraphView.cs#L152

[blissful burrow]

yeah, like, I could copy/extract all that code and add RMB detection in there, but, I'd prefer not to do that

[blissful burrow]

yeah, the issue is that the +1 trick doesn't work for handles with more than one thing in it. for some reason

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean +1 trick?

[blissful burrow]

the +1 in my code

it's a hack to get the next generated ID

when the handle kicks in

[gloomy chasm]

wait, why are you trying to get the next generated ID?

[blissful burrow]

I don't know how else to get the handle IDs of those functions

as in, handles.disc and the multiple handles in RotationHandle

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah I don't get what you are wanting. You wanted to get right click on a handles disc, yes? So you figure out. Now you want to get right click on a sub-handle from RotationHandle?

[vapid prism]

0

[barren moat]

drawer

wrote the wrong word

I got my thing working sufficiently

[robust plume]

It's possible, but you might have issues in specific cases.
Like, you can have a base editor/inspector, and then a derived version of that same editor for any derived types of your base generic class.

But if you try to put these into a reorderable list in the inspector, you'll run into issues it seems. Unless this is fixed in 2022

At least when using visual elements

[gloomy chasm]

Yes [CustomProperty(typeof(MyGeneric<>))] (just do <> with nothing there)

[robust plume]

Am I allowed to post .cs files to reproduce an error I'm getting?

[visual stag]

#854851968446365696 for how to post large codeblocks

[robust plume]

Ok, so I'm having this problem with generic lists and custom property drawers using the UIElements library.
When I reorder items in the list that are of different types, it causes the errors to show up like:

SerializedProperty items.Array.data[2].value has disappeared!
type is not a supported float value
UnityEditor.RetainedMode:UpdateSchedulers ()

This also happens in a more complicated custom editor I have when I delete an element and a differently typed one takes it's place, but that behavior doesn't seem to show up in this basic example.

Version of Unity is 2021.3.2f1
Code for reproducing: https://paste.ofcode.org/yFDGtMp4TYzTEcvN5J2jwi

[waxen sandal]

Try IMGUI instead? I've done something similar in IMGUI and that worked before

So would be good to see if it's a regression or bug in UITK

Could also be caching of your propertydrawer and the element in the list

Aka, it assumed it can reuse the element and jsut rebind but it can't since they're different types

Guessing it's the latter tbh

[barren moat]

Ah, interesting. I ended up just selectively applying it to one specific generic type which was sufficient for my case. But I think I could potentially make it work with a switch case or something. It's just Editor so hacking it in is sufficient.

[barren moat]

oh really? I thought I tried that and it didn't work!

ah no I only tried that for custom inspector. Alright I'll give that whirl.

[waxen sandal]

Probably have to pass true as second parameter for derived types

[robust plume]

In my more complex solution, I've tried using a list view with a custom binding method that removes the existing PropertyField and replaced it with a new one, but it still had this issue.

[robust plume]

It's annoying because it seems like it does fix itself after it actually updates.

[robust plume]

Ok, I'm officially calling this a bug. This problem is way too easy to run into.

[agile badger]

Anyone know how I could get an event when the user attempts to close my custom editor window, and ask them if they want to exit without saving changes?

I wanna make sure that they can cancel the close request if they did it by accident without saving

[waxen sandal]

I think you can use EditorUtility.ShowDialog

But you can't cancel the close

in OnDestroy

[agile badger]

Could I possibly just have it re-open the editor window and restore the state of the destroyed one?

Surely there's a way to do this because I know the Input Actions editor does this type of thing?

[waxen sandal]

Well, packages are open source so take a look

[agile badger]

I don't see any custom editor extensions in here https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/InputSystem

[waxen sandal]

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/InputSystem/tree/develop/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem/InputSystem/Editor

Not sure which window you mean but it should be in there

[agile badger]

That'll be it https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/InputSystem/blob/develop/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem/InputSystem/Editor/AssetEditor/InputActionEditorWindow.cs

[gloomy chasm]

Did you figure it out?

[agile badger]

Bit hacky but yes

[shell beacon]

Guys, is there a better way to open this shortcuts window from my editor script?
Because it's "inaccessible due to its protection level" I tried something like this using reflections

    EditorWindow.GetWindow(typeof(Editor).Assembly.GetType("UnityEditor.ShortcutManagement.ShortcutManagerWindow")).Show();```
Which works, but I don't like it 😛

[waxen sandal]

ExecuteMenuItem

[shell beacon]

Cool thanks!

[waxen sandal]

Neither is really better tbh 😛

[shell beacon]

lol yea it's subject to changes

It's way more elegant tho 🙂

Another question, is it possible to go to a specific category in this window (if it's already open or not)?

[waxen sandal]

Probably with more reflection

Would have to go dig through the source though

[shell beacon]

Yea what I thought lol

I think I'll keep it simple

Thanks 🙂

[alpine bolt]

Is it possible to override CTRL+D for certain Scriptable Objects selected in project view? Or any shortcut related with asset manipulation.
I have this duplicate method that deep copies a SO and its content, but if I duplicate via CTRL+D in project, it will make a shallow copy

[waxen sandal]

Not really afaik, I guess you could try to detect it using import callbacks

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1274030/unity-duplicate-event.html or this

And use Selection.ActiveObjects

[near wigeon]

I'm trying to set the initial assetimporter properties of a newly created asset, but unfortunately it's not taking. I think the reason is because the meta file which stores the import settings has not been generated yet. Do I need to create the asset, refresh the asset database, and then reimport with my initial properties? Or is there some hidden API to do what I'm trying to do?

[waxen sandal]

Show code

[near wigeon]

my plan is to store the import settings in the asset when I create it, read them in a asset preprocess, and apply them to the importer if there is no meta file

hmm there is a lot of code noise. will take a second to distill

//create the asset
  var asset = ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<MyCustomAsset>();
  string path = AssetDatabase.GenerateUniqueAssetPath("some/path/NewCustomAsset.custom");
  AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(asset, path);
  AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
  AssetDatabase.Refresh();
//set the asset import settings to initial values
  MyCustomAssetImporter assetImporter = AssetImporter.GetAtPath(path) as MyCustomAssetImporter;
  assetImporter.setting1 = "..."; 
  assetImporter.setting2 = "..."; 
  assetImporter.setting3 = "...";
  assetImporter.SaveAndReimport();

of course, this doesn't work as the meta file doesn't exist when I try to set the initial import settings, so thinking I have to store the data on the scriptable object itself

[alpine bolt]

First time I heard of it

[alpine bolt]

        void OnValidate()
        {
            Event e = Event.current;
            if (e?.type == EventType.Used)
                if (e.commandName == "Duplicate")
                    // HANDLE DUPLICATION
        }``` this seems to work

[visual stag]

Instead of SaveAssets and Refresh, try using ImportAsset on your newly created asset (haven't tested that, but it's what I would have started with)

[mossy wren]

How do I get visual studio working with Unity again? The link busted since I had to restore windows. https://old.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/z9a45y/i_reverted_windows_to_a_restore_point_now_visual/?

I think visual studio doesn't understand if there is a solution or something

[short venture]

#854851968446365696

[fossil plume]

what if you set the initial settings in https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetPostprocessor.OnPreprocessAsset.html ?

[near wigeon]

Part of the problem that I failed to articulate is that all assets have different initial import settings (different source assets) that are defined by the asset creation script.

What I ended up doing was writing all this out to the asset file itself and then read it on import if there is no import settings yet.

public override void OnImportAsset(AssetImportContext ctx)
{
  if (importSettingsMissing)
  {
    MyCustomAsset myCustomAsset;
    using (var reader = new StreamReader(ctx.assetPath))
    {
      myCustomAsset = JsonUtility.FromJson<MyCustomAsset>(reader.ReadToEnd());
    }
    setting1 = myCustomAsset.setting1;
    setting2 = myCustomAsset.setting2;
    setting3 = myCustomAsset.setting3;
    ...
  }
  ...
}

[short tiger]

I have a custom ScriptedImporter that I'm trying to make work with the cache server (Unity Accelerator). There's a property in the ScriptedImporterAttribute for this, AllowCaching, which I have set to true.

I can see in the Editor.log that it requests the asset from the cache server, but it always leads to importing locally and uploading it to the server.

When I try importing from other computers connected to the same cache server, the same thing happens. It requests the asset, but ends up importing locally and uploading, under a new artifact ID each time.

The computers are using the same Unity version, same build platform. I'm starting to think ScriptedImporters just don't work with the cache server. Has anyone here gotten them working together?

The two examples of "real-world use of Scripted Importers" in the documentation page, Alembic and USD, both don't have the AllowCaching property set :/

[waxen sandal]

Does it say why?

Hashes don't match?

[short tiger]

The log just shows this:

Querying for cacheable assets in Cache Server:
    a02a15ed177f1324799d510af869c2e5:Assets/Some/Asset.asset
Start importing Assets/Some/Asset.asset using Guid(a02a15ed177f1324799d510af869c2e5) Importer(-1,00000000000000000000000000000000)  -> (artifact id: '86e37929ed0591015b6e0a36d7d561d2') in 45.094459 seconds 
Artifact(artifact id=86e37929ed0591015b6e0a36d7d561d2, static dependencies=7fab308d41bf758d740a910e050c7e25, content hash=7d01985cdef3d7b328a3f9384256403f) uploaded to cacheserver

The GUID is the same in all the logs, but the other ids/hashes after importing are different.

[waxen sandal]

Guessing something is messing with the hashing

[shell beacon]

How can I create a custom toolbar like this one in the scene view?

[shell beacon]

Oh man.. is that it?
https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Overlays.ToolbarOverlay.html

[waxen sandal]

Think so yeah

I always forget what it is called

https://forum.unity.com/threads/overlays-public-build-available.1018858/

[shell beacon]

Thanks!

[cyan ginkgo]

Totally realized I was one done from the right channel, my bad!

[median ore]

Hey there!

Hope y'all are having a good day

So I have a videogame and suspect there are memory leaks, but that's just a hunch

I want to check

So I installed the memory profiler package and started following the instructions provided in the Unity docs to detect memory leaks

My problem is the sixth step

In which I am supposed to load two empty scenes?

I am not sure if I understand what they mean

My knowledge is quite limited when it comes to Unity

But iirc to load a new scene you have to either put some sort of scene transition in your code or stop the player and manually open the second scene

But I think that when you stop the player, everything that is stored in the memory just gets freed

So I just wanted to confirm if in order to follow the tutorial I need to set up some sort of scene transition from within the game's code?

Code that takes me from the first empty scene to the main game scene, then to an empty scene and another empty scene

[gloomy chasm]

You could also just call Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets() instead of loading a second scene.

[median ore]

That makes sense

Something of a more general question about what it is I am trying to do, however

So what I am doing is basically comparing three snapshots of the game:

1. An empty scene (no variables or assets loaded into memory yet)
2. The main scene with all its assets loaded in memory
3. Another empty scene where all assets would have been theoretically unloaded

To find out what the difference between what an empty scene looks like vs a supposedly empty scene

And if there is anything left over from the main scene that I want to test's snapshot, then that means that there might be a memory leak in my code?

Meaning UnloadUnusedAssets just removes assets that have been properly disposed of in code?

[worldly ginkgo]

anyone know the path to add a MenuItem to the context menu of scenes in the hierarchy? Or how to find out?

[worldly ginkgo]

Actually I'm now looking at the source code, and it doesn't seem possible/supported

[whole steppe]

anyone know how to change the cursor for the whole screen in unity editor? I want do make a position picking tool and change the cursor, when active

[soft kiln]

To change the cursor for the whole screen in the Unity editor, you can use the Cursor.SetCursor method. This method takes two arguments: a Texture2D object that represents the cursor image, and a Vector2 object that represents the cursor hot spot (the point on the cursor image that is used as the reference point for cursor position).

[reef trail]

Anyone else use Rider?

Sometimes, it'll stop auto formatting. Simple things like automatically adding a closing brace when I type an opening brace

Can't indent multiple lines of code with tab'

Basically anything beyond raw text stops working.

[timid coyote]

Im trying to take a ScriptableObject's fields and draw them in a custom window, but when i edit them into the window, they dont get saved, even thought im calling EditorUtility.SetDirty

private void DrawSentences(DialogueData dialogue)
        {
            if (dialogue == null)
                return;

            var dialogueProperty = new SerializedObject(dialogue);
            using (new GUILayout.VerticalScope())
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < dialogue.Length; i++)
                {
                    var sentencesProperty = dialogueProperty.FindProperty("sentences");
                    
                    if(i == 0)
                        Helpers.DrawHorizontalLine();

                    GUILayout.Label("Sentence " + (i + 1));
                    
                    var sentenceProperty = sentencesProperty.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i);
                    EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(sentenceProperty);
                    
                    GUILayout.Space(5f);
                    Helpers.DrawHorizontalLine();
                }
            }
            
            var nextDialogueProperty = dialogueProperty.FindProperty("nextDialogue");
            EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(nextDialogueProperty);
            
            EditorUtility.SetDirty(dialogue);
            
            GUILayout.EndHorizontal();
            GUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            
            DrawSentences(dialogue.NextDialogue);
        }

[blissful sigil]

Hey guys,

Does anyone know weather or not Unity allows custom asset updaters? Meaning I've an asset which I want to use my own updater to update it though my server.

[gloomy chasm]

You are never applying the changes.
dialogueProperty.ApplyModifiedProperties();(Also, I recommend changing it to be dialogueObject or dialogueSerializedObject so it is easier to tell what it is).
Also, no need to set dirty if you are applying changes via a SerializedObject

[gloomy chasm]

You mean download stuff yourself? Yeah that is fine iirc. You can always read the publisher EULA. It isn't that long 🙂

[blissful sigil]

My concern is that it might not be allowed, since what I want is to be able to update my asset DLLs with new builds from my server. And since it can potentially be dangerous (since new builds will be downloadable without being reviewed by Unity).

[halcyon forum]

Hi, I have a really simple question, how can I toggle a field based on an enum in the inspector?

[clear kite]

Use EditorGUILayout.Toggle for the toggle and call EditorGUILayout.TextField only if the toggle returns true

[timid coyote]

why does my Dialogue Data field shrinks whenever i add a new element to the list?
i use EditorGUILayout.PropertyField to draw both Dialogue Data and the elements
(Dialogue Data and Next Dialogue should be the same length)

[waxen sandal]

That's weird, you can override the with by changing https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorGUIUtility-fieldWidth.html

[gloomy chasm]

A bit of a long shot and I don't think there is. But anyone know if there is a way to get if a object is currently being moved in the scene via the transform handles?

[waxen sandal]

Isn't that just selection.activeobejct?

Selection.transforms

looks like it

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/GUI/Tools/BuiltinTools.cs#L193

[gloomy chasm]

That is just the selected transforms, not if they are actually being changed. But I will look in that BuiltInTools thing, there might be something in there I could use.

[waxen sandal]

Oh I misread

I thought you meant the objects being moved not if they are moving

[gloomy chasm]

Ah

[waxen sandal]

Probably have to do something with the controlId and OnSceneGUI (and GUI Event)

[gloomy chasm]

Looks like I could maybe add a callback to the currentSceneGUI and get the hot control, check if it is a transform id, and check if selection has my object

Thanks Navi for the help!

[timid coyote]

var eventsIdProperty = sentenceProperty.FindPropertyRelative("eventsId");
EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(eventsIdProperty);

this time, this string array doesnt let me modify it, and i dont understand why.

but i can add elements to it, that are saved in the struct that is a part of a list

[whole steppe]

Does this work outside of the game mode

[waxen sandal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorGUIUtility.AddCursorRect.html

[primal atlas]

Hi, I need help with vs code with unity. Every time I open unity scripts on unity, it tells me to download mono every time. (I'm using mac)

[wispy delta]

My memory and googling skills are failing me. Is there a way to lock the editor while performing some async operation?

[waxen sandal]

There's that progress bar thing

[wispy delta]

I tried it but was still able to use the editor behind it

referring to EditorGUI.ProgressBar();

[vale berry]

I could use a hand; I'm trying to open an editor window from a custom property drawer. How can I edit the property in the window? Casting the type to property.objectReferenceValue gives me errors when I try to edit it.

[waxen sandal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar.html?

[gloomy chasm]

If memory serves you gotta copy it first.
var propertyToGiveToWindwow = myProperty.Copy();

[vale berry]

Copy it and then assign it back once done?

[gloomy chasm]

No, just myPropertyInWindow.serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties()

Though maybe just passing the window the object and path would be better...

[vale berry]

I plan to use the attribute in more than one place, so the number of objects that may end up using it is something like 3 or 4

[wispy delta]

er sorry that's what I meant. That does not lock the editor for me

[sudden wasp]

I'm working on writing a custom importer to set up animation events. I've already created the list of animation events from a .xml file in OnPreprocessModel, but it doesn't seem to want to apply them to the clip in OnPostprocessAnimation. I was under the impression that AnimationUtility.SetAnimationEvents(clip, eventList.ToArray()); should add my desired events eventList to the clip being supplied to OnPostProcessAnimation. However, once the import is done and I look at the animation clips attached to the .fbx file, they do not have any animation events

https://pastebin.com/eZyA4jq4

it should be noted in that code animationEvents is a temporary scriptable object created in OnPreprocessModel, and clipLookup is a dictionary that gets populated by that same scriptable object. clipLookup is keyed by the animation clip's name, and holds a custom class AnimationClipEvents with a list of AnimationEventMarker (themselves holding a float time and string value which is parsed to get the function name and any parameter to pass)

I've also tried duplicating the animation clip from the .fbx and saving it separately like so, but it doesn't seem to want to create a .anim file (animation clip) this way for some reason:

    AnimationClip CreateAnimationClip(AnimationClip importedClip)
    {
        
        string path = AssetDatabase.GenerateUniqueAssetPath(assetPath.Substring(0, assetPath.LastIndexOf("/")) + importedClip.name + ".anim");
        AnimationClip temp = new AnimationClip();
        EditorUtility.CopySerialized(importedClip, temp);
        AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(temp, path); //create instance at newPath 
        AssetDatabase.SaveAssets(); //save the asset database to keep this item

        return temp;
    }

The idea being that I would instead put the animation events on the duplicate, but I can't do that if I can't save it

[sudden wasp]

Scratch that, turns out it is saving after all (verified with debug logs). But for some reason the animation clip doesn't show the event in the inspector?

[obtuse basin]

Hi guys! I'm hoping to get some help. I'm trying to set up some custom things to hide/show in the inspector but I don't have the typical case. I'm using generic class as Serializable which is used within a scriptable object (list). Any ideas how to manipulate this in this case? Help would be greatly appreciated! 🙂

[gloomy chasm]

If you want to change how a plain old C# object is drawn, then you create a PropertyDrawer for it. Editor is only for objects that inherit from UnityEngine.Object

Use SerializedProperty and SerializedObject to get and manipulate data in the Unity editor. That way you can ensure changes are saved and undo operations are registered for the changes. You can see the pinned message in this channel for links to the docs.

But to answer your question for how you are doing it now. You set type in the CustomEditor to be the SO (typeof(SO_Dialog)). And then in your OnInspectorGUI() you do var targetDialog = target as Dialog;

[obtuse basin]

Thanks, will give it a look!

[candid bolt]

When you right click on an asset and go 'properties', Unity opens a nice little properties inspector window specific to the asset. I'd like to make a button in a custom inspector that opens the properties window for a given asset via script. Anyone know this can be done?

I don't want it to select and view in the current inspector because I'd like both to be viewable simultaneously. Just unsure what Unity calls these Properties windows.

[candid bolt]

Well this seems a little roundabout but it works cs EditorApplication.ExecuteMenuItem("Assets/Properties...");

[meager lynx]

Do you guys know how I can get the values from an array on a ScriptableObject to a property drawer field within that Scriptable Object? I need to fill a dropdown with the values of the "Object Events".

[alpine bolt]

What are the best ways to try and get SO duplication Awake/OnEnable/OnValidate methods fired just once?

[alpine bolt]

property.FindPropertyRelative("MyPropertyWithinProperty")?

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean?

[alpine bolt]

Every time I duplicate a SO manually, fires those event functions twice. I tried adding a runOnce bool, not doing the trick

[gloomy chasm]

Are you sure it is the same object running it? And how are you duplicating?

[alpine bolt]

Pretty sure. CTRL+D

using TG.Utilities.Extensions;
using UnityEngine;

[CreateAssetMenu()]
public class TestSO : ScriptableObject
{
    private bool testBool;

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (Event.current.IsDuplicate() && !testBool)
        {
            testBool = true;
            Debug.Log("Awake " + GetInstanceID());
        }
    }

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        if (Event.current.IsDuplicate() && !testBool)
        {
            testBool = true;
            Debug.Log("OnEnable " + GetInstanceID());
        }  
    }

    private void OnValidate()
    {
        if (Event.current.IsDuplicate() && !testBool)
        {
            testBool = true;
            Debug.Log("OnValidate " + GetInstanceID());
        }
    }
}``` you can test it out

[short venture]

Debug.log the instanceID

[short venture]

you would need to Serialize testBool if you want it to persist

[alpine bolt]

I've edited my script to better show that even without setting testbool as false, OnValidate runs twice

[alpine bolt]

[SerializeReference, SerializeField] private bool testBool;``` Doesn't seem like it

[short venture]

Can you see a difference in the call stack between the 2 logs

[alpine bolt]

both print

UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object,UnityEngine.Object)
TestSO:OnValidate () (at Assets/TestSO.cs:34)
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallGlobalEventHandler ()

public static bool IsDuplicate(this Event e) => 
e is { type: EventType.Used, commandName: "Duplicate" };
```btw, this is my IsDuplicate extension method

[gloomy chasm]

I could be wrong, but what might be happening is the instance is created which fires the events, then the fields are copied and applied which calls it again. Again this is just a guess, as I am not able to test it out atm.

Is there a reason you want to only call the methods once?

[meager lynx]

This is what I use for all my properties within my property drawer, but it doesn't seem to work for my object events. It's because I have a couple layers of classes using each other.

[waxen sandal]

What's an object event

[alpine bolt]

I was about to ask that

[alpine bolt]

[SerializeReference] private NodeTree nodeTree;

private void Awake()
{
    if (Event.current.IsDuplicate() && !checkingDuplicate)
    {
        checkingDuplicate = true;
        if (this.IsUnique())
            Debug.Log(Title);
        else
        {
            Debug.Log("Duplicating " + Title);
            Clone();
        }
    }
}```
```cs
public bool IsUnique()
{
    return GetInstanceID() == this.NodeTree.objectOwnerInstanceID;
}

in the NodeTreeScriptableObject. I'm trying to handle object duplication whenever I manually duplicate a ScriptableObject.
Clone() basically Binds a new context to the NodeTree POCO object: changes Node GUIDs inside NodeTree POCO Object, iterates some lists, etc... Basically handles duplication to make everything unique. But every time it runs twice. It sort of seems it is async or runs twice because it's using 2 different copies, BeforeSaveAsset and AfterSaveAsset.

[gloomy chasm]

Awake runs at the start of the editor and stuff. I would instead use an asset post process to check if it is duplicated

Because imo it isn't really the objects responsibility to know if it has been duplicated in this sort of scenario.

Iirc the way I have done it in the past is to store the GUID of the asset in the asset. Then in the post process I compare the stored GUID with the actual asset GUID. If they are different that means it is a duplicate.

[alpine bolt]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetPostprocessor.html this?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, this one specifically https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetPostprocessor.OnPostprocessAllAssets.html

[alpine bolt]

Alright I'll test it out. Not knowing some classes exist is the real issue 😛 Thanks

[gloomy chasm]

Sure thing! Best of luck!

[alpine bolt]

One more thing, is it normal for an importedAsset to also be the duplicated FROM asset?

Duplicating one, imports FROM and TO objects. Weird

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean?

Oh nvm I misread. Uhh... idk, try in a new project if you are not sure 🙂

[pure siren]

Is there a way to get current inspector height for custom editor?

[alpine bolt]

I think you can get that in ‘OnInspectorGUI’

[pure siren]

how though?

[alpine bolt]

[CustomEditor(typeof(MyScript))]
public class MyScriptEditor : Editor
{
    public override void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
        base.OnInspectorGUI();
        Debug.Log(Screen.height);
    }
}```

[pure siren]

What if I want to use UIElements though with CreateInspectorGUI?

[alpine bolt]

Don’t remember. Try the same Screen.height and see if it works

[pure siren]

Doesn't seem to work, I tried like this:

root.schedule.Execute(() =>
{
    Debug.Log(Screen.height);
}

It returns the game views resolution set height, but if I move my mouse over the inspector it returns the inspector height

[gloomy chasm]

rootElement.panel.visualTree.worldBounds.height

[pure siren]

You're literally a hero, root.parent.parent.parent.parent.worldBound.height seems to get the height of the section that CreateInspectorGUI takes up, which is actually what I need.

[gloomy chasm]

Just do root.worldBound.height then.... That should get you the height of the are taken up by the CreateInspectorGUI

[pure siren]

Sorry I mean the entire available space that inspector scrollview's viewport shows

[oblique sky]

is there a way to make InfoBoxes in Odin appear below the properties? having them above the property is pretty unintuitive and clunky imo

[gloomy chasm]

Probably not, but I would ask on the odin server since people there are more likely to know. 😉

[oblique sky]

thanks 👍

[gray cedar]

How can I get the System.Type of a field with [SerializeReference]?

Nvm, solved the issue

[oblique sky]

man that server is an absolute ghost town. Asked yesterday and not so much as a word from anyone

fun seeing what people create with odin though

[gloomy chasm]

It is a weekend, and they have one guy who answers 'all' asked questions every couple of days.

Or every day for an hour or two I can't remember which

[oblique sky]

seems like every server has one of those. And they always answer questions for years it seems like

I know this one girl on an art server I've been in for like 2 and a half years and she's STILL on there answering questions every day

[gloomy chasm]

He is an employ 🙂

[short venture]

Please bear in mind, as publishers we generally do not charge for support. If you have no support contract with unity and raise a support ticket you would be lucky to get any kind of answer within 15 days

[oblique sky]

I mean I appreciate the reply but I just had a basic question, not something I'd ever submit a ticket over

to be honest even joining another server to ask the question was a bit beyond the value I'd get out of the answer but my curiosity won over so

[bronze knoll]

Does anybody know how these are implemented, if they're instantiated from prefabs or created entirely from code?
I want to imitate them for one of my own things.

[gloomy chasm]

Created from code but the mesh is loaded

[bronze knoll]

Is there anything to find about it in the Unity C# reference?

[gloomy chasm]

I mean, you can see the implementation?

[bronze knoll]

If possible, yes! I'd love to see how it's implemented!

[gloomy chasm]

Then, you can go look at the source code linked in the pinned message

[bronze knoll]

Excellent. Thank you very much!

[gloomy chasm]

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/Commands/GOCreationCommands.cs#L279

[bronze knoll]

Oh, wow. Thank you so much! 🙇 🙇

[gloomy chasm]

Actual implementation https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/ObjectFactory.bindings.cs#L121

Nothing complex as you can see

[jovial plaza]

Hi Folks, I am trying to create a list of points around a race track (In order to determine the percentage around the track for a race-timing asset I'm working on). I was wondering if there is a way to edit these points on the screen without having to create temporary game objects?

I am using OnDrawGizmos to visualise a list of Vector3s like this: -

Is it possible to select these dots and allow the user to move / delete them?

I was thinking that perhaps Handles would work? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Handles.PositionHandle.html

[gloomy chasm]

That is exactly what you want. But not inside of the OnDrawGizmos method

[jovial plaza]

but I'm not sure how you'd only show the "selected" one

[gloomy chasm]

You mean only show the handle for the selected point?

[jovial plaza]

@Oh cool, I am on the right track

I mean I have all the Vector3s in a List in a ScriptableObject

I doesn't have any concept of selected

I just want them to be visible / editable in the Editor

[gloomy chasm]

If you have a component then you would create a custom editor for it and use the OnSceneGUI method and draw the handles in that

[jovial plaza]

I have a TrackMarkerManager to hold them all

[gloomy chasm]

Nice, so you create a custom editor for that. And instead of drawing gizmos, you do something like Handles.DrawSphereHandle because you can get when that is selected. If it is selected, you store that index in a field and than instead of drawing the sphere you draw the position handle

[jovial plaza]

Cool, does that mean each SphereHandle is individually selectable (even through I'll draw one for each point)

Thanks for your help btw, I really appreciate it 🙂

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah! You will need to read the docs and probably a bit of googling, but it shouldn't be too bad (iirc you will need to do stuff with controlIDs to give you a push in the right direction)

[jovial plaza]

Brilliant, sounds exactly what I need, thanks for your help!

[gloomy chasm]

Your welcome and good luck! 😄

[gloomy chasm]

Oh one last thing. If you are setting values of a component or ScriptableObject inside the editor it is best to use SerializedObject and SerializedProperty because that will make sure the values are saved and automatically handles undo/redo. There are links to the docs in the pinned message in this channel.

It is more work, but it is definitely worth it.

[jovial plaza]

Yeah, definitely sounds worth doing. Thanks again!

[flint garnet]

.pa-style-utilites__horizontal-group:active
{
    background-color: yellow;
}
``` why this active state not working to change my visual element background color??, this is apply to foldout anyway

[hoary sparrow]

received this error randomly, is this something to be concerned about?

[alpine bolt]

When my editor window is open, something is causing to lose focus of the selections I have in Project tab. What could it be? I’m using packages like UIToolkit and GraphView

[alpine bolt]

Figured out I had been calling the editor window GetWindow() in a GraphView.Node class and was causing these problems.

[alpine bolt]

What is the exact intended behavior of the foldout for you to say it's active?

https://forum.unity.com/threads/active-selected-styling.698765/ this might be of help

[hoary sparrow]

hey wondering how i can make my public strings be large like you see in text mesh pro component's strings?

[waxen sandal]

You meant textarea?

[hoary sparrow]

perhaps?

[waxen sandal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TextAreaAttribute.html

[hoary sparrow]

ah im already using that, that doesnt really look like text mesh pro's one though

hold on ill send a screenshot comparing

[waxen sandal]

Idk waht the text mesh pro one is

[hoary sparrow]

this is the text mesh pro one

[waxen sandal]

Probably the same with just minLines set to something higher?

[hoary sparrow]

this is text area

[hoary sparrow]

ooh, ill try that!

yup it fixed it, thanks so much!

[weak spoke]

why not open the script that hold the inspector of that component and take a look at it

[alpine bolt]

How do I run a .package file?

[waxen sandal]

A what now

[alpine bolt]

Rephrasing: How do I execute a .unitypackage file in project via code

And with this I understood I was searching the wrong extension in google and found the answer now, easily :c

[whole steppe]

I'm trying to set the position of sub-state machines in (this) example => https://paste.mod.gg/hrhzegsbvsfh/0;

however, they don't seem to change position at all, do you have any idea?

[waxen sandal]

That's very niche but I'd recommend to look at the animator source to see how they change it

[whole steppe]

do you happen to know where could I find that?

[waxen sandal]

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference should be in here somewhere

[whole steppe]

which one of the following am I better of => off going with for a popup menu?

thiscs private int selected_resolution; private string[] resolution_options = new[] { "32", "64", "128", "256", "512", "1024" };``````cs selected_resolution = EditorGUILayout.Popup("texture resolution:", selected_resolution, resolution_options);``````cs private int GetSelectedResolution() { switch (selected_resolution) { case 1: return 64; case 2: return 128; case 3: return 256; case 4: return 512; case 5: return 1024; default: return 32; } }
or thiscs private ResolutionRatio selected_resolution;``````cs selected_resolution = (ResolutionRatio)EditorGUILayout.EnumPopup("texture resolution (enum):", selected_resolution);``````cs private enum ResolutionRatio : int { _32 = 32, _64 = 64, _128 = 128, _256 = 256, _512 = 512, _1024 = 1024 }

[whole steppe]

yes? no? nothing?

[gloomy chasm]

Well, what is the end use going to be?

Probably the enum would be better as you could use it for other things and it is more constrained and explicit than an int

[whole steppe]

as the name suggests, it's supposed to represent a texture resolution of a 1 : 1 ratio, casting the enum returns the assigned value, I needed to ask first as I've been recommended to use the default popup menu before compaired to the enum one...

however, in this case, it seems the right choice!

thanks for feedback sir

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah it is the case of what the right tool for the job.
You don't want to create an enum just for the popup. You would use the normal popup for that then.

[whole steppe]

I luv u, plz marry me!!!!!

[hearty basin]

Hello ! I'm not sure where to post my question. Does somebody here have already use the Unity Python package ? I would like to integrate a Python Lib for a custom tool, but I can't find a way to get a return value from the two exposed methods to run python code : PythonRunner.RunString() and PythonRunner.RunFile(). Does somebody have already achieve this ?

[grave kite]

I'm wanting an editor button for some debugging stuff that'll start the game with some simulated start, then drop me off at that point, is there a method or something that starts the debugging? all I really need is an entrypoint to start the run and play editor function, and then run some code right after

[foggy cairn]

How did you do the drop-down options?

[whole steppe]

mate, I don't know what to tell you!... it's all in front of you, just, um... look at it.

[foggy cairn]

Oops I didn’t see the other screenshot 😂💀

[foggy cairn]

Thx

[whole steppe]

the other what now?? y'know what... you're welcome!~

[tranquil sage]

Is it possible to add another custom filter for logging in addition to these three?

[blazing juniper]

anyone know why my width and height aren't editable? I want to run the generate grid function when they change but I can't change their value in editor
https://pastebin.com/dLd3A6N8

or to better ask it does intfield on it's own let a value be editable or is there a step my smoothbrain is missing

[visual stag]

EditorGUILayout is IMGUI (immediate mode GUI), it returns the modified value immediately, you need to assign it back to the variable to change it

[blazing juniper]

got it thanks

[visual stag]

Also, without Undo or SerializedProperty it will not persist changes because the serialization system will not be aware of it

#↕️┃editor-extensions message

[blazing juniper]

so if i understand correctly dirtying is a way to set up your changes in the inspector to be saved and undone?

[gloomy chasm]

Not without code injection like the C# Harmony lib.

[blazing juniper]

is there any equivelant to BeginChangeCheck i can use because what I've got ain't working
https://pastebin.com/dLd3A6N8
(editor script on the bottom of the normal one)

just want to call generategrid when width and length change

[visual stag]

what's wrong with just using change check

[blazing juniper]

doesn't work

huh

it works

ok one question is there a on undo event i could use? for when i undo specific variables

[unkempt fern]

Guys, how can i force update edit mode ? I tried

UnityEditor.EditorApplication.QueuePlayerLoopUpdate();
UnityEditor.SceneView.RepaintAll();
UnityEditorInternal.InternalEditorUtility.RepaintAllViews();

But it'll only work if the scene view is opened. If the scene view is closed, the game view will update with lag. Any ideas ?

[narrow cipher]

if i downloaded vcs (visual code studio) separate from unity how add it to unity or do i have to download from unity?

[radiant radish]

is there a way to load VST plugins yet?

I know you can build audio effects and stuff with JUCE, I've done that

but I want to use some other vst, a synth, to dynamically produce effects

[short tiger]

Have you tried VST.NET

[radiant radish]

no, I haven't stumbled upon that in my research

going on the github page, it says its used to build vst plugins

[short tiger]

It can also be used to host VST plugins

[radiant radish]

how?

[short tiger]

https://github.com/obiwanjacobi/vst.net/tree/master/Source/Samples/Jacobi.Vst.Samples.Host

[radiant radish]

ok so this would compile out to dll which can be interfaced to with unity

[short tiger]

The library, yeah. The sample I linked is how you would use the library in a WinForms application to host VST plugins.

[radiant radish]

it looks pretty straight forward, get the plugin path, then just pass in the parameters I need through a linked mono behavior that is FFI'd in

which means i have to remove the form, make everything that is done through the form, made possible through the linker

[velvet badge]

Hello guys! I have a question regarding recompile times when i change a script in Unity. So i am aware of assembly definitions already and i can see how this will improve the issue. Another thing i am thinking is that for now i keep my projects on a HDD so anything Unity loads it loads it from the HDD. Will switching to an M2 SDD like the Samsung 980 Evo that also has a built in DRAM help me lower those times?

I am not sure if the hard drive matters when recompiling stuff, but it seems to me that it probably does and if it does then that switch combined with assembly definitions could eliminate the problem for me

[tranquil sage]

That library is wild. I can barely wrap my head around it. It goes and copies all your built functions and stores them away while allowing you to override them with custom code?

[frozen perch]

Hiya, I'm trying to make 2 fields appear next to each other in the inspector:

I would like to forgo the names ("Sprite" and " Frames"), and have the two fields next to each other

Here's the current implementation:

and base class:

[gloomy chasm]

container.style.flexDirection = FlexDirection.Row;

[frozen perch]

you are a god ❤️

I imagine there's a similar line to have them extend to the size of the Inspector?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, it will be style.flexGrow = 1, but I don't remember if you call that on the container or the property fields. I recommend reading some Unity docs on this as it will be a lot easier for you in the long run 🙂

[frozen perch]

I had a feeling I had, so I started splitting them anyways. Thx!

like a charm 🙂

👌

[bronze knoll]

is there a way to add properties to an inspector that don't exist in the type being inspected?

[gloomy chasm]

Create a custom editor for it

[bronze knoll]

Oh, I did mean in a custom editor. Is there an example of this in the documentation?

[gloomy chasm]

Are you using UIToolkit or IMGUI (CreateInspectorGUI or OnInspectorGUI)?

[bronze knoll]

IMGUI

is one preferable to the other?

[gloomy chasm]

myInt = EditorGUILayout.IntField("This isn't on the object", myInt);

myInt can be from anywhere, you can define it on the editor class itself.

[gloomy chasm]

UIToolkit is newer and UI is being changed over to use it. But both options are fine, just different.

[abstract solar]

how do I make clicking a ScriptableObject asset in the asset browser open it in my custom editor?

[gloomy chasm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Callbacks.OnOpenAssetAttribute.html

[quaint zephyr]

What PrefabUtility method will allow you to input a game object instance and get back its Prefab asset?

[abstract solar]

Okay, now, how do I save it?

[crimson yarrow]

I have a question about code suggestions between VS Code and VS Community although im not sure if its the right channel to ask

Im trying to get this kind of smart suggestion on Vs Code but can't seem to figure how

[visual stag]

If you have no suggestions at all, configuration instructions are in #854851968446365696.
That specific autocomplete looks like GitHub Copilot

[crimson yarrow]

This is the autocomplete i have, im guessing it's working fine

[visual stag]

That's configured, yes

[crimson yarrow]

Although I've never tried to use Github Copilot on VS community, im guessing it's there by default

[visual stag]

I don't think it's default for any IDE

[crimson yarrow]

Well I've only downloaded VS community 2022 and added the Unity module

I've been trying to figure out how I can get this smart completion on Vs code

[visual stag]

Copilot costs money, you can look into it if it interests you https://github.com/features/copilot

[crimson yarrow]

alright thx

also I've been having a Project loading failed which looks weird but Im not sure if it's affecting auto completion

I tried looking up how to fix it although the error is too big to give a search with an accurate solution

[peak bloom]

MaterialProperty.vectorValue How would I get vector2/vector3?

[spark lotus]

Why would you want a Vec2 or Vec3? The return value is that of the material often interpreted as Mat4 (Matrix)

[peak bloom]

I don't know man 🤣 , I was tasked to make a material property binder like the one used in ue which my 1st time ever touching custom editor for a material 😄

With the help of a colleague it's solved now 🔥 ... Employee of the month right here 🥳

[grave mortar]

Greetings. This is my first time taking a dive into Custom Inspectors. Here is what I'd like to achieve, but not sure if its possible:

I'd like an expandable array/list/dictionary/table (not exactly sure what it would be) that is like a row, with three columns of data:
VariableType Dropdown (maybe this is an enum?);
An Object Field (this is actually going to be a place to drop in an InputActionReference);
And then a name for the variable (move, jump, etc)

Is this even possible if the original monobehavior doesn't have these variables?

[waxen sandal]

You can draw whatever you like but you can't really save it if it's not on your mono behaviour

[olive falcon]

how would you change the label in the editor where it says 'element 0' I want it to match the name of the 'product' variable i have

[vestal forge]

Am I doing something wrong here? For some reason when I view this window from certain monitors it just breaks the layout. The monitors that break it are 4k while the ones that work are 1080p and 1080p ultrawide. The code for the window is quite literally just three rects with their height being set to (Screen.height/sectionCount)*sectionNumber

The button I set to print out the resolution of Screen.height and Screen.width and the output is what I expected it to be

[vestal forge]

I think the issue comes from the actual scaling of the monitors, since disabling scaling in preferences fixes it...

[robust mantle]

hey guys, im currently confused. i try to duplicate an shadergraph (premade template) per button. so i created a simple static function for it :

but i have issues to get Type,name,and Duplicate Access. what confuses me because AssetDatabase is there any idea?

[waxen sandal]

DuplicateAsset is not a public api

Also, you're using system.object not UnityEngine.Object

You can use CopyAsset instead

Idk why Type doesn't work but probably because you forgot to include system

[robust mantle]

Thanks the Duplicate one, what showed me up was the issue it seems. didnt noticed thats not a public api because it showed up. thanks again!

yea only the name will not work yet for any reason. but only replacing the Duplicate solved all the rest :

strange

[waxen sandal]

this

[robust mantle]

doesnt solved it. also with System.Object name not works

[waxen sandal]

What did you change

[robust mantle]

the unity Engine. i removed object is enough at all. and on asset variable i added system.Object but name is still same

[waxen sandal]

Your sentences makes no sense

But (once again) system.object is the wrong type, you need to use unityengine.object

[robust mantle]

no my wierd english explained wrong i meaned i removed the System.Object like u mentioned and added the Engine one. is working now thanks again

[gaunt oxide]

That specific autocomplete looks like GitHub Copilot
VS 2022 intelisense can generate something ike that too

[waxen sandal]

Lets not turn this into a chat on how to configure your IDE

[gaunt oxide]

If it wants to, it's kinda inconsistent

[gaunt oxide]

GitHub Copilot does to it so Ig you were right after all, whoops

[alpine bolt]

Anyone knows how I can trigger GraphView.Edge on drop?

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean?

[alpine bolt]

So I want to drop the edge and trigger a contextual menu. I've tried to get the edge from GraphViewChange.elementsToRemove and it seems that the edge was never there to begin with

[zealous coral]

is there where i can ask about ScriptedImporter?

i am facing the trouble of getting a consistent reference to extra objects thats created & added during the import of an asset with ScriptedImporter

[brazen solar]

Anyone with experience in working with the Playfab SDK here?

[alpine bolt]

So I solved it. Node has Ports and Ports have overridable methods called OnStartEdgeDragging and OnStopEdgeDragging. So the movable ghost edge exists not in the GraphView but exists in the Node > Port

[sour plinth]

anyone know why my unity 2021 doesn't have visual scripting? I'm watching a video and it says I should not have to import anything and that it would already be there, but it isn't for me

[gloomy chasm]

Just ask here and share the relevant code.

[gloomy chasm]

This is not the right channel for asking this sort of question as this is for making custom editor windows and things. #💻┃unity-talk is probably the correct channel. 🙂

[zealous coral]

it's part of a bigger package called SuperTiled2Unity but let me try to simplify it and focus at the main parts

during the import process, these 4 main functions will be called (labelled 1 2 3 4)
functions 1~3 is there by default and everything works well
function 4 is a new function i added for my custom needs

at the end of BuildTileset is this function which creates a lot of SuperTile instances (a class that inherits from Unity's Tile class) and they all gets added to the main asset

[alpine bolt]

Is it possible to "fake" a ContextualMenuPopulateEvent object?

[zealous coral]

this is the first time i am seeing this API, what does it do

(let me finish describing my issue 1st anyway)

[alpine bolt]

I used to have a code like this. I gave up doing AddObjectToAsset and converted everything to a POCO stored in a ScriptableObject.

[zealous coral]

and then, inside function 4, i need to get references of those tiles created during function3, and put those object references inside another scriptable object

[zealous coral]

nope, in this case it is not possible. That would change how the whole package work inside out, as well as my existing development pipeline

[alpine bolt]

That was what I had to do 😛

I had so many issues I couldn't figure out

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah you can dispatch any events.

[zealous coral]

inside function4, i can get all the references i need
the thing is, when this import process finished and i check things at my scriptableobject (which acts like a database), all my references become missing references

[zealous coral]

I debug.logged the instanceID of things like wad's shown at the bottom of this image
the instance ID from the log, and the actual instanceID shown when i selected the same object using Debug Mode inspector, is different

[alpine bolt]

Do you happen to have an example? It's easier to reverse engineer.

[gloomy chasm]

The docs 😉
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UIE-Events-Synthesizing.html

[alpine bolt]

InstanceIDs change when you reload an object. I don't know if that's your problem. What are you trying to do with Instance ID

[zealous coral]

so it SEEMS like, the objects that are created during this process, and what's ACTUALLY being "registered" to the assetdatabase, is different?

[zealous coral]

i am not doing anything with the InstanceID, i am just using that to cross-check whether i am getting the same object

[gloomy chasm]

Can you show the code of where you get them and where you assign them?

[gloomy chasm]

Hmm, what do you mean 'reload an object'? That isn't a specific thing in Unity to 'reload' an object. You can unload and then load it again, or you can create a new instance, but not 'reload'.

[zealous coral]

TryGetTile is also what the package itself actually used to "locate" a Tile as well when it tries to find a Tile and change properties in it (and of course it worked well on its own)

so i simply used the same method to find a tile, and then put it inside my "WangTile" scriptableobject

while i step through the code line by line during the import process, everything works well and looks well inside VisualStudio's watch list

the tile references are all there, with proper name and everything
but as soon as the whole import process is done, and i check things at this WangTile object, the references are all "Missing references" (or whatever the actual wording is, u get wad i mean)

[zealous coral]

(which then made me tried checking whether i actually retrieved the correct object by checking InstanceID of things here and there as i mentioned here)

[gloomy chasm]

I have been looking at the source for the package and I'm not sure what to tell you, it looks okay and like your code should work. Though it does strike me that something is off, I just can't put my finger on what exactly. You might be able to find something with google

[zealous coral]

i tried googling, nothing came up

¯_(ツ)_/¯

it does look and feel more like an "Unity issue" to me, i know what i am doing
the funniest thing is, the asset itself managed to do similar thing somehow

this is the main asset

[gloomy chasm]

Well the issue is referencing other subassets from the subassets correct?

[zealous coral]

inside the inspector (in debug mode), it has this SuperTileset script which stores all the tile references

[zealous coral]

more like referencing subassets from another individual scriptableobject

[gloomy chasm]

Hmm, the only thing I can think of is that it is a order issue maybe? Are you adding the subassets before referencing them?

[zealous coral]

NewWang Tile is my "database" and i wanna get references to those Tile_Tilesetxxxxxxxxx subassets

[zealous coral]

by adding u mean AddObjectToAsset right ?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah

[zealous coral]

the Tile subassets are definitely being added to the mainobject 1st, that's done in function 2

and i am retrieving the references in function 4

[gloomy chasm]

Oooh, I missed this! This is 99% the issue then. I think what is happening is when Unity finish importing the asset it 'recreates' the UnityEngine.Objects that were created and 'moves' them to the asset database.

[zealous coral]

righttttt

that's what i am guessing too

[gloomy chasm]

easy fix

Just use the global callback for when an asset is imported

[zealous coral]

is there one ?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.4/Documentation/ScriptReference/AssetPostprocessor.OnPostprocessAllAssets.html

[zealous coral]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm alright, will try that

not the cleanest way, but at least it can be filtered/limited somehow

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, will need to check the file extension and if it is your extension than you use LoadAllAtPath and then add them to the manager SO. Might need to do a check if they are already added or something

[zealous coral]

will need an update to my implementation, but at least there's a way now i believe
thanks for the help!

[gloomy chasm]

Sure thing! Best of luck! 😄

[zealous coral]

nice, it finally worked

it should have worked last thursday

[alpine bolt]

var evt = new Event()
{
    type = EventType.MouseDown,
    keyCode = KeyCode.Mouse1,
    modifiers = EventModifiers.None,
};
_contextualMenuPopulateEvent = ContextualMenuPopulateEvent.GetPooled(evt);``` I've been trying to figure out how to use. There's some value it needs that I'm not feeding and I can't figure out what it is.

[gloomy chasm]

Try so

var triggerEvent = new Event()
{
    type = EventType.MouseDown,
    keyCode = KeyCode.Mouse1,
    modifiers = EventModifiers.None,
};
var menu = new DropdownMenu();
using (var pooled = ContextualMenuPopulateEvent.GetPooled(triggerEvent, menu, target, this))
        target?.SendEvent((EventBase) pooled);

[alpine bolt]

trying to figure out what to place instead of this still

[gloomy chasm]

I did it quick and dirty so I didn't read it fully so that is on me sorry.
This is where I got it from. Looks like you can't use it directly, maybe with some reflection.
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/ModuleOverrides/com.unity.ui/Core/ContextualMenuManager.cs#L36

[alpine bolt]

Oh ok, thanks anyway. I’ll get all managers via reflection when I get back

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, sorry I couldn't be of more help! Best of luck! 😄

[brazen anvil]

idk if this is a place to ask this question but what does this error mean in the bottom right corner

[whole steppe]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/mac-vsc-unity-some-projects-have-trouble-loading-please-review-the-output-for-more-details.1001014/

I imagine that's it

Just follow the step by step that is success

[vivid flower]

Not truly extensions, the Editor Inspector Presets feature... I've been using forever, but have just found it not storing object assignments in fields within the Inspector... is this a known bug?

[green zenith]

Hi there!

I'm currently implementing my own Terrain solution and I'd like to add some editor tools for the user.

I came across the EditorTool-API that allows me to add a button to the Unity's default GameObject tools (like Rotate, Move, Scale, ...). Together with a EditorToolContext the toolbar will show the custom buttons only if e.g. an GameObject with a certain component is selected.

For example, the Splines packages is using that to provide specialised spline editing tools when you switch the context.

In my case, I want to have a EditorToolbarDropdownToggle which is the perfect control for my use case: When clicking the dropdown-button I want to show a selection dialog of paint that the user can choose from. Then, if you click the toggle button you can enable/disable paint mode.

I have achieved this using my own overlay: [Image 1]

You can see the overlay at the button with a EditorToolbarDropdownToggle. However, I want to integrate that into the toolbar above, like the Splines package does: [Image 2]

However, I was not be able to use an EditorToolbarDropdownToggle in that menu. The EditorToolAttribute works for classes that inherit from EditorTool only.

The thing is, having a second toolbar just for my terrain would be fine. However, I fear that it will somehow interfere with the current active GameObject tool.
I was thinking about providing an empty EditorToolContext so it does not interfere with it. But that looks like a strange hack to me.
Another thing could be using the ToolManager somehow to change active tool. However, it also needs to be a class inheriting from EditorTool.

The best thing would be the integration of the dropdown button into the Unity toolbar.

Thanks!

(cross post from the forum: https://forum.unity.com/threads/can-you-integrate-a-editortoolbardropdowntoggle-with-an-editortool.1376739/ )

[steel cedar]

I'm writing a PropertyDrawer and it seems like it's drawing 100s of times pr second! My screen is only 60hz so this seems kind of overkill... Is this normal??? Is there a way to tell Unity only to redraw at a certain time?

[loud steppe]

how do i replicate the modern list field editorgui into a custom editor?

[eternal girder]

How does one make a scriptable object be based on what is currently selected in the project explorer?

As a material does to a shader for instance

when you right click the shader and select create material, it creates a material based on the shader

is there anyway to do this with custom scriptable objects?

there must be a way

[weak spoke]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/472808/how-to-get-the-current-selected-folder-of-project.html

that way you get the path then you can get the asset via the asset database

[eternal girder]

But how do I run this when the scriptable object is created?

[gloomy chasm]

You make a script in an Editor folder and use the [MenuItem] attribute to add the item to the context menu.

You can scroll down a bit on that answer that Malzbier linked and there is a longer answer that has more info in it

[gloomy chasm]

ReorderableList, or if you mean in 2022.2, you use ListView with UIToolkit

[rigid smelt]

Hey guys

currently trying to import a package from git to unity

but it isn't working

shows an error

any clue why that might be?

I really don't know what's the problem

or what it seems to be

[twin dawn]

looks like possibly you tried to do "add by name" but then used a git url? Should be "Add from Git URL..."

https://github.com/garbles-labs/Solana.Unity-SDK#-installation

[rigid smelt]

I did add with git

It still isn't working but I imported in a different way

Ty tho

[last wolf]

Anyone know how to move the red up to the blue?

[waxen sandal]

Change the priority parameter

[last wolf]

how would i do that?

[waxen sandal]

It's in the MenuItem constructor

[last wolf]

ah alr thanks man

[pine gull]

hey so I have a rather complicated type of custom editor inspector window but I want to enable the ability to select multiple gameobjects with the script and modify them all at once
now what makes this complicated is that in each gameObject instance with script, theres several settings
in the image per say, the selected material changes an array index that the rest of the variables write to(so I can have mulitple "materials" and edit them from one thing)
How do I make it so I can select multiple gameobjects and still modify say the first array index in all of them?

that makes no sense.,. lemme try again
basically I have a gameobject with say 4 materials
the SelectedMaterial directly maps to the those materials
clicking it changes which material your modifying, and the sliders below change the values of the material selected
how do I make it so I can select multiple gameobjects and change the first material attributes of all of them?(they dont actually map to the material directly, its just easier to consider that they do)

adding the thing of CanEditMultipleObjects doesnt work, I assume because of the array thing

[gloomy chasm]

Is it a custom editor? And what do you mean 'it doesn't work'?

[pine gull]

it doesnt edit multiple only the last one selected
and its a custom editor inspector script

[gloomy chasm]

Are you using SerializedProperties, or are you editing the values directly?

I assume directly because otherwise it would just work 😉

[pine gull]

I have them like this in the editor script:
and I have the actual variables serializedfields

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah so you should use SerializedObject and SerializedProperty instead.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializedObject.html

[pine gull]

oh? ok!

[gloomy chasm]

using that will get you multi object editing, saving changes, undo support, and prefab overrides all for 'free' without any extra work

[pine gull]

thanks!

will this screw things up?

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean?

[pine gull]

will this way of doing things screw things up?
this controls which material I am editing

[gloomy chasm]

You just get the serialized property for the different arrays you have and then get the element at the selected index and set its value

[pine gull]

how do I get the array element of a serialized property?

[gloomy chasm]

You are literally doing it like 4 lines...

Unless you just copy pasted code without actually reading it 👀

[pine gull]

no this is my own

been awhile since I wrot eit

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh

Look at what you did with Names

[pine gull]

because I understand like .GetFloat
but how do you do like.GetArrayVector

[gloomy chasm]

No, .GetArrayElementAtIndex(index)

[pine gull]

oh!

[gloomy chasm]

That gets you the serialized property that contains the value

[pine gull]

whats the way to get a vector3 from this?

[gloomy chasm]

property.vector3Value that is how it is for all 'basic' values

[pine gull]

ahhh thanks couldnt find it

[gloomy chasm]

typeNameValue

[pine gull]

wait what if its an enum

[gloomy chasm]

Then use the properties with enum in their name 😛

[pine gull]

ahhhh thanks

yep that works! thanks!@

[limber geyser]

Is it possible to see the hierachy live for a development build?

Everything works great in editor play mode, but theres a bug after building.

Some shader values seem to be wrong, and Id like to verify the values

[fervent kelp]

Hello, I need to make my own graphview thing and was wondering if there is a way to get the inputPorts to go on the top and bottom. I know the API is based on the shader graph that unity does so i am guessing its impossible?

thanks in advance

[fervent kelp]

idk about the hierachy but i think by default all builds are in debug mode, which means you can open up the console and look at FPS and stuff like that

[gloomy chasm]

I think there is a bool or maybe enum property on the nodes. But I could be wrong...

[fervent kelp]

there is a proprety on the lines being horizontal or vertical which in it self is broken too and was going to be my next question if someone managed to have an answer lol

[gloomy chasm]

Oh lol

[fervent kelp]

you see?

[gloomy chasm]

No that is correct

[gloomy chasm]

I think you might have to roll your own nodes that inherit from GraphElement

[fervent kelp]

it is correct yes but, by broken i mean visually

[fervent kelp]

ah ok i will look into that thanks

[gloomy chasm]

No? How would you expect them to look if they are horizontal and told to connect vertically.

[fervent kelp]

i had an instance where the down side Line actually went downwards, which in that case would have been fine

but now isnt doing it anymore

but its ok dude its nothing major tbh

[gloomy chasm]

Probably the difference between an input port and an output port. Could be wrong. Anyway, it is beside the point as you say. Good luck! 😄

[fervent kelp]

oh yh could be but thanks anyway, i will look into the Graph element thing

[gloomy chasm]

I would probably look at the source code for the Node element and basically just copy it, but arrange the elements vertically

Thinking about it you could probably inherit from Node and manually rearrange the child elements, but that seems pretty hacky and gross to me.

[alpine bolt]

Yeah it’s common to inherit some classes or create new ones mimicking already existing classes to solve problems in GraphView.

[pine gull]

Hey so with this, how do I tell when an object has been edited?
Currently I call a function if GUI.Changed inside OnInspectorGUI, but that doesnt work if I am editing multiple objects at the same time(I do this because there can be thousands of these and I dont need them all updating every frame)

[gloomy chasm]

What? Just so you know, OnInspectorGUI is only called for what is shown in the inspector window.

[pine gull]

yeah im realizing that now... so I need to do trickery with Selection to update objects that are selected right?

how expensive is this to do?

[gloomy chasm]

No, no no.

serializedObject gives you everything you need

[pine gull]

oh really?

[gloomy chasm]

What are you trying to do exactly?

[pine gull]

so I have say 5000 gameobjects with a specific script
Whenever a value changes in one of those scripts, I need to add it to a que so it can be updated without updating EVERY gameobject with the script
this script is the same script that the custom inspector window leads to

[gloomy chasm]

So when a value changes on one of them you just want to change that one and not all of the other?

[pine gull]

yes

this is fine usually cuz I can just use OnInspectorGUI to update only the selected one

but this doesnt work with mutliple selections

[gloomy chasm]

That is exactly how the editor works... you have to put in a lot of work to make it not work like that...

[pine gull]

yes

wait what

OnInspectorGUI is supposed to be called on all objects selected?

[gloomy chasm]

OnInspectorGUI is called only for the instance or instances that are shown in the inspector window

You can lock the inspector window or open property windows, so what is shown in the inspector does not necessarily mean that is what is selected.

[pine gull]

hell ok

so is there any way to do this then

[gloomy chasm]

my man... I am telling you that it literally does 100% exactly what you want

as is

[pine gull]

hmmm so why dont it be workin

[gloomy chasm]

Well, since I have no idea what your code looks like I really can't say 😛

[pine gull]

fair

OH HECK OK I SEE

OnInspectorGUI updates the currently selected object in the inspector

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah

[pine gull]

or rather whichever one I tab over

in the case of selecting multiple its whichever one you selected last

no thats not right either

[gloomy chasm]

You will notice that there is target and targets

[pine gull]

oooo

[gloomy chasm]

That is why you use SerializedObject as you just set the value and it sets it for all of the targets and handles the UI if the values are not the same for all of the targets

[pine gull]

got it

I think

so doing serializedobject.FindProperty("property").GetArrayElementAtindex(a).floatValue = E
will set that property for all objects?

what if one propertyof them is inconsistent?

or different
for instance an array with a different length

[gloomy chasm]

Sets them all to the value

[gloomy chasm]

iirc it sets it for the ones that it exists for or it throws an error when you do GetArrayElementAtIndex I can't remember the exact behavior

[pine gull]

it yelled at me

but this is where it yelled

it said t1 was out of range

[gloomy chasm]

Makes sen... what are you doing...??

[warm axle]

how do you make a custom editor script?

[whole steppe]

for some reason I keep getting the error in the image below...

It's originating from a CustomEditor that's meant to draw the inspector of a StateMachineBehavior

how to fix it/make it stop?

stupid me! I should've googled that way before! found (this) to be useful => https://forum.unity.com/threads/the-property-database-library-search-propertydatabase-db-is-already-opened.1285634/;

[whole steppe]

what do you need it for?

[warm axle]

i want to make a weapon script with an enum when melee is selected it will show variables like damage and range and when gun is selected it will show variables such as fire rate, damage etc

[short venture]

Did you consider googling 'unity how to make custom editor'?

lots of resources

[warm axle]

I always first google my problems but it didn’t give what I was looking for

[gloomy chasm]

Try googling unity editor how to show field based on enum value

[short venture]

well you are unlikely to get something doing exactly what you want but if you cannot figure it out from the resources available it's probable that custom editors are not for you

[gloomy chasm]

No, you can find exactly what he wants, it is super common thing to do haha

[warm axle]

Well you are correct but I am a beginner so can’t say I would be able to achieve much

[short venture]

I think he wanted copy/paste code

[gloomy chasm]

Lets not assume things. We are here to help 🙂

[warm axle]

I mainly write my code but when it is an entire different topic that I don’t understand I tend to understand it first then code 🙂

[gloomy chasm]

Feel free to ask if you have more questions after looking at the results of what I suggested to google. But I think it should give you what you want.

[warm axle]

Thanks 👍

If there are two editor scripts will unity use the one that was edited recently?

[short venture]

what? You cannot have more than 1 script to edit an object

[wispy delta]

you can using inheritance

derived classes take priority. this is how you can provide custom editor to replace/extend ones written by unity

but also the custom editor attribute has an isFallback flag and unity prefer custom editors where the value is false

[warm axle]

I downloaded an Asset and it had an editor script so I was just wondering if the one I created and the other one would clash

[gloomy chasm]

Do you mean an Editor folder?

[warm axle]

Yes

[gloomy chasm]

Oh, you can have as many of those as you want

[warm axle]

Thanks 👍

[short venture]

But you still cannot have 2 scripts which edit the same object in the inspector

[polar seal]

hi

idk why but the Destroy() is not working

what should i do

[gloomy chasm]

Are you trying to Destroy in the editor or in playmode? if it is in Playmode than #💻┃code-beginner or #archived-code-general is the correct channel.

[polar seal]

but isnt it a problem with the editor

cause in the course its working

[gloomy chasm]

This channel is for discussing creating custom editor windows and custom component editors and things like that

[polar seal]

oh alr

[gloomy chasm]

As you can see by the description of the channel at the top 🙂

[polar seal]

alr mb

[gloomy chasm]

No problem

[whole steppe]

hey! sorry had to leave at that time, so yea, do what you've been recommended to so far!

I understand your situation, it's not easy as it seems at first, however! It's super easy!
no magic required, just logic.

to start off, Unity likes your Editor scripts inside a folder named Editor, if I'm not mistaken you can have it anywhere in your project.
I'd still recommend to have it in the Assets root to make things simple. you can read more about this here => https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SpecialFolders.html;

second, have to make a new script which inherits from the Editor class instead of MonoBehaviour. here's info about it => https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Editor.html;

this script should have the CustomEditor attribute on the top of its class, this takes a type parameter, the type of YourScript, more about it here => https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CustomEditor.html;
this will tell Unity which script this editor is for.

third, override the OnInspectorGUI() to begin creating your own GUI, for the sake of getting a grasp of this Editor thing, will do it the easy way:

you'll have to declare `SerializedProperty`s to store your `YourScript` variable values temporarily, those can hold a lot of data types! more about them here => https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializedProperty.html;
you'll need to feed the actual variable values to those serialized properties in the `OnEnable()` method to minimize calls, then using the `serializedObject` => https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Editor-serializedObject.html;
property, you call the `FindProperty()` method to get the values by passing their declaration name as string parameter => https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializedObject.FindProperty.html;

hold up there's more!

now using the selected Enum value something like this per se: SerializedProperty tempEnumType; then tempEnumType.enumValueFlag with maybe a switch you can draw a property GUI with => EditorGUILayout.PropertyField();
just make sure to call serializedObject.Update(); before changing the value and serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties(); after the value has been changed!

more about them here: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializedObject.Update.html, https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorGUILayout.PropertyField.html, https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties.html;

[whole steppe]

I don't know about you, but imma a copy/paste person, (here)'s a visual example if that makes it easier => it has been updated it doesn't completely represent what has been described above but works similarly https://paste.mod.gg/aiikrzhatitn/0;

not that I'd recommend you to do it that exact same way, but this should helpfully get you started.

[visual stag]

why are you doing _ = everywhere?

Also, it should be intValue, not enumValueFlag

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah... why are you? Just to indicate that it returns a value?

[waxen sandal]

Wrong channel

Go ask tabnine for help

[whole steppe]

yea! I like doing that whenever there's a returned value that's not gonna be used atm, just to know that it does return a value when it's used as a void method.

[whole steppe]

got this! will keep that in mind! thanks

[humble walrus]

I'm trying to make an attribute that shows the property if a condition is true, so i did:

public override void OnGUI(Rect position, SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label)
    {
        if (isConditionTrue(property))
        {
            EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, property, label);
        }
    }

to show the property, it works for things like bool, string etc. But for list it only hides the elements and not the label etc.

[whole steppe]

I'd use the EditorGUILayout.BeginFadeGroup() method like this:

if (EditorGUILayout.BeginFadeGroup(isConditionTrue(property) ? 1F : 0F))
{
    EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, property, label);
}

EditorGUILayout.EndFadeGroup();```which *should* work as you're expecting in your case, could also make the check method return the float directly too.

[visual stag]

Property drawers only affect elements, not collections. There is no way to do what you're looking for without a custom editor, or an asset that implements one for its attributes

[whole steppe]

and apparently the EditorGUILayout class (is) => isn't meant to be used in a PropertyDrawer... so please ignore the above suggestion of mine.

[blazing juniper]

if I know a couple of scripts are always gonna be on the same object would implementing an interface in an OnEnable function in the editors of each script to Get the other components a bad idea
IE an IGetRequiredComponents<T> thing (I'm not even sure if this is possible)

I know I could have a public function and drag and drop or do stuff on start but I'm getting into editor stuff and need the references in the editor and want a foolproof way that in the future everything will have the stuff it needs
basically make it idiot proof so me and anyone working on this project can focus on other stuff instead of sorting out dependencies

[whole steppe]

but<T>

[blazing juniper]

sorry been at it for a couple hours hahaha didn't realize my brain was putty till now. my b

[gloomy chasm]

What?

[whole steppe]

The

[gloomy chasm]

What did you mean by "but<T>"?

[whole steppe]

butt

[timid whale]

Repost from ui-toolkit text channel.

CreateInspectorGUI is being called every editor frame for the Inspector, during UnityEditor.RetainedMode.UpdateSchedulers(). This causes massive lag. Anyone encountered this yet?

Unity 2022.2.1f1

[brazen frigate]

I wanted to know how to install Netcode without the unity package manager. Someone pls help me

[obtuse plover]

So i got a quick question. I'm working on some editor tools for 2019.4 (VRChat specific tools.) and i've noticed that when I run a longer running async task that it completes significantly faster in play mode than it does in Edit mode... been googling for a day or two now to try and find the cause and or solution to this but no luck so far, anyone have an idea why this might be the case?

(simple Async method using Task.Yield())

For some reason running that method in Edit mode takes ~6 seconds.
but when I run it in play mode it suddenly completes in like ~3 seconds.

it's not really crucial but I'm highly curious why there's such a significant speed difference here.

that's edit mode vs playmode.

[gloomy chasm]

I believe it is because either the editor has a lot more going on or because the update/run rate of the editor is less frequent. Remember it is still executing on the same thread, just not blocking it.
(I just woke up so if I said something dumb in there, forgive me haha)

[obtuse plover]

I'd imagine the editor would have less going on in edit mode then in play mode.
so I think the editor just intentionally runs slower in edit mode.

which while sensible. is a shame in my case

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah I think it is the latter.

[obtuse plover]

only other method i found to achieve what i'm working on is currently impossible because of bugs in the version that i'm working in but i'm locked into this version considering what i'm making the tools for.

so slow mode it is i guess

[gloomy chasm]

Care to share?

[gloomy chasm]

You could do a non-async method? Open a blocking popup window so the editor doesn't just freeze.

[obtuse plover]

the async is on purpose to visualize the process of what it's doing. it's mostly for debugging/flair. if i run this synchronous it runs sub 0ms lol. it's mostly a curiosity thing then a problem really.

[gloomy chasm]

Ah, I would probably do it as a coroutine then maybe?

[obtuse plover]

keep running into wierd rendering related issues with unity tho.

namely that Graphics.DrawMesh (and it's variants) and any form of line drawing utilties all remain until the editor is refocused rather than per frame like they are supposed to. they work fine per frame in play mode. but the second you use any of them in edit mode it results in wierd duplicating behaviour

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh that is not a weird bug.

[obtuse plover]

the bug is that these functions are supposed to draw their output for 1 frame. yet for some reason they stay much longer then that. causing dozens of duplicate meshes. only in edit mode. the second you go to play mode it works perfectly.

[gloomy chasm]

What is happening is that the editor does not update the visuals (called repainting) every frame because that would be wasteful since things rarely change from one frame to the next. Instead it does it on specific events, like when the mouse moves a certain amount, when focused, if the GUI layout changes, etc.
So you are basically seeing a 'ghost' of the Graphics method drawing.

[obtuse plover]

the Debug and Handles line tools have the same problem. that where they're supposed to draw something for 1 frame, their output stays indefinitely

[obtuse plover]

even forcing a repaint doesn't cause these object to go away.

[gloomy chasm]

Are you drawing them in the scene view?

[obtuse plover]

yes.

[gloomy chasm]

How are you repainting?

[obtuse plover]

I've tried:
Sceneview.RepaintAll();
Sceneview.LastActiveScene.Repaint();

and a few other ways i found online but i've forgotten at this time.

[gloomy chasm]

Where are you drawing from?

[obtuse plover]

currently SceneView.DuringSceneGui because i'm using Handles.DrawLine at this point as it's the only one that does properly erase in this usecase. the problem with it is that handles is not really optimized for the amount of things i'm displaying here so it's causing a very notable drop in framerate.

i've also tried a few others but same as above.

[gloomy chasm]

Graphics methods should all work perfectly in SceneView.duringSceneGui.

[obtuse plover]

to give an example of what's happening

this is a quick example using Debug.DrawLine but it's the same issue

all of these lines were drawn individually one at a time. the scene is repainted between every line manually. yet for some reason all the lines stay.

the second i go to playmode tho it does always display only 1 line at a time.

[gloomy chasm]

Can you share the code?

[obtuse plover]

sadly i no longer have the code for the graphics part. already threw that out yesterday cuz i couldn't get it working

[gloomy chasm]

Haha, how it goes

[obtuse plover]

as for the little yellow line render test there

        public static async void DrawTest(GameObject target) {
            foreach (SkinnedMeshRenderer renderer in target.GetComponentsInChildren<SkinnedMeshRenderer>()) {
                Vector3 vA = Vector3.zero;
                Vector3 vB = Vector3.zero;
                for (int i = 0; i < renderer.sharedMesh.vertices.Length; i++) {
                    vA = renderer.sharedMesh.vertices[i];
                    if (i + 1 < renderer.sharedMesh.vertices.Length) vB = renderer.sharedMesh.vertices[i + 1];
                    Debug.DrawLine(vA, vB, Color.yellow);
                    SceneView.lastActiveSceneView.Repaint();
                    //or SceneView.RepaintAll();
                    await Task.Yield();
                }
            }
        }

this was just a quick cruddy way of setting up an example with what i had at hand lol

run it in playmode. it does exactly what you expect. https://gyazo.com/cbc2157a5a0390cbac100e101d8625f4

single line segment zipping around rapidly

https://gyazo.com/fe52eec72850ff62bad077447678631c run it in edit mode tho. and the whole thing stays behind.

for some reason it's like it's buffering all these things and just never discarding them.

and apparently this has been an issue since 2011 already.

[gloomy chasm]

huh, I see what you mean

[obtuse plover]

and the Graphics. functions suffer from this same problem. where drawing in edit mode never erases the previous frame. it just remains indefinitely until something causes a proper refresh (tabbing out of unity and back in causes it to clear up properly)

but when you're using it to draw an overlay, rapidly stacking a mesh like that just murders the framerate.

starting to think my best options is gonna end up being just instantiating an object in the scene and modifying that.. will likely end up being more reliable that way.

tho i had hoped not to cuz it's probably gonna get in the way of things since it'd become a clickable object.

[gloomy chasm]

You could probably get what you want by having a field with the current index, and draw at index, set index to next, repaint, return. Instead of doing async stuff

[obtuse plover]

you made me realize something but it's gonna need some testing to double check that..

could very well be that the quick/dirty async trick is that's causing the issue in the first place

since it's kind of a hacky way of doing things..

[gloomy chasm]

That was kind of my thinking as well

[obtuse plover]

nope.

public static void DrawTest(GameObject target) {
            SkinnedMeshRenderer renderer = target.GetComponentInChildren<SkinnedMeshRenderer>();
            Vector3 vA = renderer.sharedMesh.vertices[vertI];
            Vector3 vB = renderer.sharedMesh.vertices[0];
            vertI++;
            if (vertI + 1 < renderer.sharedMesh.vertices.Length) vB = renderer.sharedMesh.vertices[vertI + 1];
            else vertI = 0;
            Debug.DrawLine(vA, vB, Color.yellow);
        }
``` even with proper non async code it has the same issue,

that still only draws 1 line segment per 'frame' they still all stay behind.

glad to know it's not the async trick at least.

https://i.gyazo.com/16b6c72c43a9b26ea7a1c651068b17f5.mp4

it got the zoomies in playmode tho. lol

i did however notice that this does solve 1 issue i had before..

the refresh rate this way seems to be the same rate as in play mode at least.. which fixes the very first issue i was talking about. where for some reason the async function ran much slower in play mode then it does in edit mode.

seems i got a few methods to refactor.

[obtuse plover]

sadly doesn't solve the rendering issue for the other stuff tho.

[ripe kite]

Does anyone have a technique for getting an editor callback (i.e. not playmode) when you attach a child object to a parent object? Ideally I'd want to define the callback on the child object.

OnValidate kind of works, but it seems to get called a lot, including on side threads and at runtime. If I went that route, I'd want to figure out a way to filter out the false positives.

[gloomy chasm]

Not editor only, but there is https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnTransformChildrenChanged.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnTransformParentChanged.html

[ripe kite]

This is really promising, thanks for the tip!

[ripe kite]

Looks like OnTransform[Children|Parent]Changed requires ExecuteInEditMode. For my use case, I could probably just use Awake if we're doing execute-in-edit mode.

I think I'll keep poking around, since I'm hoping to avoid adding that attribute to anything that isn't purely visual.

[gloomy chasm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ObjectChangeEvents.html

If you want a global event that should do it for you

Specifically this kind https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ObjectChangeKind.ChangeGameObjectParent.html

[ripe kite]

Nice, that's also really useful.

I'm not sure if this will shake out in the long run, but the pattern I'm going for right now is basically OnValidate() with an editor-only guard condition for stuff I only want in the editor. It means that there will be redundant processing (i.e. not just when the parenting occurs), but for this use case I might be able to write the logic so that it's valid to run at any time within the editor itself.

[jovial plaza]

Hi Folks, I'm trying to figure out how to do serialization with SerializedProperty and serializedObject. I've got a custom editor TrackMarkerEditor with a target type of TrackMarkerManager.

This TrackMarkerManager has a SerialisedField of type TrackMarkerScriptableObject which contains a list of points around a racing track (i.e. [SerializeField] public List<Vector3> trackMarkers;

I'm not sure how to get the serialised object from the scriptable object when I'm in the Editor. This is what I'm trying at the moment, but the. trackMarkers (SerialisedProperty) is null

private void OnEnable()
        {
            TrackMarkerManager trackMarkerManager = (TrackMarkerManager) target;
            trackMarkers = serializedObject.FindProperty("trackMarkers");
            Debug.Log(trackMarkers);
            trackMarkerManager.Initialise();
        }

Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

[gloomy chasm]

Because you are trying to get a field on a different UnityEngine.Object then what the serializedObject is for

var trackmarkerProperty = serializedObject.FindProperty("TrackMarkerScriptableObject");
using (var trackMarkerSerializedObject = new SerializedObject(trackmarkerProperty.objectReferenceValue))
{
  var trackMarkerers = trackMarkerSerializedObject.FindProperty("trackMarkers");
            Debug.Log(trackMarkers);
}

[jovial plaza]

@gloomy chasm Aha! I understand how it works now from your code :). I've managed to get it working now :). Thanks!

@gloomy chasm I'll need to use trackMarkerSerializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties(); when the trackMarkers are modified in order to enable undo/redo?

[gloomy chasm]

Yes

Simply before the end of the using block

[frozen perch]

Hiya,I would like to make a box that loops through the sprites that are asigned in the fields above it. Any idea how I can achieve this?

[frozen perch]

I think I might've found a package to help with this: Editor Coroutines. Just gotta make sure they disable everything when the editor in question is not in focus

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean?

[frozen perch]

Basically, I want an animation to show in the big gray square, and the animation is looping through the sprites I assign in the Idle Animation list.

I managed to get EditorCoroutines to work nicely, and figured out how to access the data of the monobehavior (i.e. the "target") that this is linked to

I am currently struggling to get a link to the uxml element though 😐

[frozen perch]

it's still not polished, but this is what I wanted to achieve 😄

[gloomy chasm]

If you are using UIToolkit, look in to the scheduler instead of EditorCoroutines 🙂

[jovial plaza]

Hi Folks, is there a way to stop my gameobject that I am currently editing being deselected when I shift+click (to add another point on my racing track)? I tried to e.Use(); but it doesn't seem to stop propagation of the event

[gloomy chasm]

Gotta .Use() the mouse up event

[tacit kiln]

This might be of interest to some people – I've been learning Python and ML and have been enjoying working with Jupyter Notebook which offers live coding with in-line output and preserved local variables.

So I rebuilt it in Unity!

https://github.com/mstevenson/UnityNotebook

[jovial plaza]

Sorry just getting to try this now, can you think of any reason why the MouseUp event wouldn't be fired? I never get this LogError message

private void HandleInputEvents(TrackMarkerManager trackMarkerManager)
        {
            var e = Event.current;
            int controlID = GUIUtility.GetControlID(FocusType.Passive);
            var eventType = e.GetTypeForControl(controlID);

            if (eventType == EventType.MouseDown)
            {
                HandleMouseClickInput(trackMarkerManager, e);
            }

            if (eventType == EventType.KeyDown)
            {
                HandleKeyboardEvents(trackMarkerManager, e);
            }

            if (eventType == EventType.MouseUp)
            {
                Debug.LogError("MouseUp");
                e.Use();
            }
        }

[whole steppe]

nooo

[weak lotus]

Test scripts not showing in the test runner. Although I have added test scripts in a folder with its assembly definition. Any guidance ?

[whole steppe]

have been creating 131072 animation clips since yesterday using the AssetDatabase.CreateAsset() method, it started off pretty fast, but then begun to slow down as time passes, it just keeps getting slower and slower, I thought maybe if I kill the task and restart from the last one created, it would be fast again in the beginning, but nah, still pretty slow... any idea what else can be done?

[visual stag]

have you wrapped the create calls in a block like this one https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.StartAssetEditing.html

[whole steppe]

no... I'll do just that now!

just to make sure because my example is in a loop, does this look right?```cs
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
{
if (!File.Exists(path))
{
AnimationClip clip = new AnimationClip();

    clip.SetCurve(relativePath, typeof(MeshRenderer), $"material.{propertyName}", AnimationCurve.Constant(0F, 0F, 0F));

    try
    {
        AssetDatabase.StartAssetEditing();

        AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(clip, path);
    }
    finally
    {
        AssetDatabase.StopAssetEditing();
    }
}

}```or maybe I should have the SetCurve() method inside the try block?

[visual stag]

that's doing nothing. The point is to wrap all your calls in one block

so they are batched together

put the entire loop in the block

[whole steppe]

oh! alright! I'll do that!

[visual stag]

also, what's the point of creating all these identical assets. Presumably your code doesn't look like this?

[whole steppe]

yea, I just made it shorter for the sake of not having to send a link with the entire code...

and if I understood anything from this conversation, this means I'd need to wrap not this loop, but the very first loop in the method where all the other loops are nested inside of it, because the loop in the above example is the final loop and doesn't determine the total amount of creations.

[visual stag]

Sure, whatever has all the AssetDatabase calls in it that you want to batch together

[topaz imp]

hi guys, I'm trying to register a callback for the mousedownevent on the rootVisualElement but it never trigger

here is an example of what I'm trying to do https://gdl.space/iciwevezeh.cs

I'm drawing a grid as the editor background and I want to move it when I drag with the mouse

[dusk mason]

is it possible to change these icons?

[gloomy chasm]

You can't have both OnGUI and CreateGUI.

[gloomy chasm]

No, you just have to draw over them as far as I know

[topaz imp]

@gloomy chasm ah interesting, and where would I draw the line at every re render of the ui ?

[gloomy chasm]

UIToolkit has an API for creating and rendering geometry. Depends on what version you are using. Iirc 2022.2 has a nice higher level Vector API

[topaz imp]

I'm using 2021.1, I'm using handles

but my question was more about should I pick one of those two methods and do the drawing there ?

[gloomy chasm]

Well idk what you are doing so can't really say

[topaz imp]

thank you, I will read the documentation for the methods, unfortunately I didn't find a nice overview of these concepts, I didn't know this two methods were not supposed to be used together

[gloomy chasm]

Unity has 2 UI systems. Immediate Mode GUI (IMGUI) which redraws the whole UI 'every frame'. It uses the OnGUI method, and the GUI, GUILayout, EditorGUI, and EditorGUILayout classes.
The other newer UI system is UIToolkit (UITK), it works by building a structure of elements and only redrawing specific elements when things change on those elements. The type of UI is called a retained mode GUI.

[topaz imp]

thank you, very helpful

just out of curiosity, way is it possible to mix these methods ?

[gloomy chasm]

Do you mean why is it not possible?
Because they have no way of talking to each other so the best case is they would simply overlap and draw on top of each other. It would also get messy, like which one draws on top of the other and which one gets input etc.

You can use a IMGUIContainer if you want to use IMGUI within UIToolkit, but if you can help it, it is better to do it within UIToolkit instead

[topaz imp]

no, I mean, why is it possible to define an ongui method on a class inheriting from EditorWindow and having the imgui system stepping in

but I guess your last sentence says why

[gloomy chasm]

Do you mean how?

[topaz imp]

yeah, I mean, why they decide for this to be possible, instead of making these libraries in a way they couldn't interact with one another

you can only pick one

but I imagine they might be using reflection on the classes under the folder Editor

instead of like a plugin system based on types

[gloomy chasm]

Ah, because you still need basically everything else on the EditorWindow, and the OnEnable, OnGUI, Awake, etc. methods are 'special' Unity methods that it finds simply by their name. So there isn't really a way to restrict the user.
The only other way is if they instead had a base EditorWindow class and two subclasses, one for IMGUI and one for UIToolkit, but doing that would break every editor window anyone has ever made since the EditorWindow class would no longer be able to have the OnGUI method.

So instead, they just have an option to use one or the other

[topaz imp]

I see, thank you, very helpful

this clarified lot of doubts

[gloomy chasm]

Glad I could help