↕️┃editor-extensions

[waxen sandal]

        newAttackComponentsListView.Add(attackComponentsArrayField);```
This whole bit makes no sense if you're also creating a propertydrawer for the same element

Just delete it

[golden grove]

Oh okay, but don't I have to make a ListView in order to override the "unity-list-view__add-button" or can that just be done with a propertydrawer?

[waxen sandal]

In some cases yes, but in this case, since your attackComponents is always an array you can deduce that it'll always draw a listview internally

[golden grove]

Ah, I see!

[waxen sandal]

PropertyField just matches the type to the right ui components, so integers get an inputfield with whole numbers, arrays get listviews, etc...

[golden grove]

Ah, so a "ListView" is just the name of what is displayed when an array is declared by default with the "add and subtract" buttons?

[waxen sandal]

Yeah

[golden grove]

I see, so would my root just be what I should directly add the array reference to once it is declared as a PropertyField?

SerializedProperty attackComponentsArray = property.FindPropertyRelative("attackComponents");
var attackComponentsArrayField = new PropertyField(attackComponentsArray);

root.Add(attackComponentsArrayField);

[waxen sandal]

Yeah

[golden grove]

Then I assume I query the root itself directly for the button as it's a propertydrawer?

[waxen sandal]

Nah you can query attackComponentsArrayField , so it'll only search in that element

(Rather than potentially any other elements added to the root)

[golden grove]

Ah sure, since it's already been added I understand

Alright, I'll test it!

[waxen sandal]

Yeah that's probably still the same issue as this

[golden grove]

Ah, I see.

[waxen sandal]

Not sure atm what the easiest way to fix that is

[golden grove]

I'm confused as to why this is so complicated especially with an updated system, I could imagine quite a few reasons someone would need a button to add a specific type to an array, is there potentially a better way I could do this without needing to override the "add" button?

[waxen sandal]

I'm not aware of any

[golden grove]

Could I maybe draw a new button after each instance of my "frame" class?

I'm not sure if that's possible in an array, though.

[waxen sandal]

Sure, you can just add an extra button, but it'll still show the original button

[golden grove]

Oh, yeah that's fine. Can't that be disabled in ListView anyway?

[waxen sandal]

You can just add a new Button() to your root

Yeah I think so but you also have to replicate the remove button then

[golden grove]

Yeah that'd be fine, would there be a function that removes the highlighted item in an array that you know of?

[waxen sandal]

maybe on ListView

Not sure

[golden grove]

Alright, I'll have a look! Appreciate it.

[golden grove]

Yeah, this worked pretty much instantly! Haha.

Unfortunately adding the component to the array isn't working as intended with another not very specific error.

void OnAttackComponentSelected(AttackComponent component) 
{
var componentScriptableObject = Activator.CreateInstance(component.GetType());
attackComponentsArray.InsertArrayElementAtIndex(attackComponentsArray.arraySize);
attackComponentsArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(attackComponentsArray.arraySize - 1).managedReferenceValue = componentScriptableObject;
}

[waxen sandal]

is that array a SerializeReference?

[golden grove]

It's a SerializedProperty

SerializedProperty attackComponentsArray = property.FindPropertyRelative("attackComponents");

[waxen sandal]

What's the definition of your list

[golden grove]

do you mean this?

[waxen sandal]

No

Your Frame class

[golden grove]

[System.Serializable]
public class Frame
{
    public AttackComponent[] attackComponents;

    //private void AddMovementData() => attackComponents.Add(new MovementData());
}

It's an array

and I am attempting to add a "MovementData" class which is a subclass of the "AttackComponent" class

[waxen sandal]

You probably need to add the SerializeReference attribute as it will not allow subclasses at the moment

[golden grove]

Yeah that worked! I'm now not getting any errors but it still isn't populating in the inspector's list.

[waxen sandal]

You might need to apply the serializedObject, e.g. attackComponentsArray.serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties()

[golden grove]

Amazing! It's perfect.

[waxen sandal]

Also add some text to your button lol

[golden grove]

I really genuinely appreciate all the help, I'm sure this was painful to explain everything truthfully I think i'd be here another few more days if it weren't for your help haha!

[golden grove]

😭 Yeah, I was just trying to test to make sure nothing was gonna break on me haha.

Also, right click functions still work so I don't even need a delete button it doesn't seem like.

[waxen sandal]

Cool

[golden grove]

I still get the default "Delete Array Element"!

[waxen sandal]

Did you not hide the default buttons?

[golden grove]

No not yet, I'm honestly not too sure how to give ListView parameters if I am not actually declaring a ListView, gonna look into that now. I'm also wanting to rename the default "Element 0" texts.

[waxen sandal]

Not sure about renaming but I think the list might just be

list.Bind(attackComponentsArray);

root.Add(list);```

And disable that setting

[golden grove]

Oh alright! I'll try that now. But if it starts acting up again I might just move on for a bit haha.

Yeah, same issue as I encountered before since it's a SerializedProperty. I'm pretty sure I need to be referencing an actual object to bind it, and .BindProperty I don't think worked but I should actually try that again.

Oh actually, since I am declaring a blank list I think I need to set the height or else it'll be invisible huh, that might be what I was dealing with before haha.

[waxen sandal]

Uhh might have to set bindingPath to attackComponents and then bind to attackComponentsArray.serializedObject

Not sure how sizing works tbh

[golden grove]

list.bindingPath = property.FindPropertyRelative("attackComponents").propertyPath;
list.Bind(attackComponentsArray.serializedObject);

Yeah, I think this does the same thing as "BindProperty". Same output in the inspector but no errors either way.

I just need to figure out how to set dynamic height as I don't think it's default.

Yep! got it working.

list.BindProperty(attackComponentsArray);
list.virtualizationMethod = CollectionVirtualizationMethod.DynamicHeight;

Setting the virtualizationMethod seems to work property.

However, I am noticing "ListView" by default seems to create a "Size" parameter which is replacing the "AttackComponents" title, not sure about that.

[blissful burrow]

Is there a proper way to ensure shaders can read the/a scene view camera depth texture?

it feels a little bit of a hack to enable the render depth flag in the scene view camera behind the scenes

[short tiger]

The post processing view in the scene view must be doing it somehow, maybe you can find how that's done.

[golden grove]

How do I set the title of an array element at index as follows?

attackComponentsArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(attackComponentsArray.arraySize - 1). // <- Here

I've tried ".FindPropertyRelative("name")" which works until I add a new instance of the array elsewhere, which will throw an error. Just wondering if there's an easy native way of setting the name of an element in an array?

[gloomy chasm]

You can't. IIRC it just uses the .displayName property which Unity sets.

[golden grove]

ah, dang. Do you know of any way to override ".displayName" it's mostly for organization in the inspector.

[gloomy chasm]

There isn't a way. You either draw the element, or you add a property to the element called Name since it will automatically pick that up.

[golden grove]

Okay, thanks. I'll try that, I tried finding it and by default when creating the element it wasn't being found. I'm sure adding a property would work!

[gloomy chasm]

A say property, but I mean a serialized field, and I think it just has to contain the world 'name' in it.

[golden grove]

Ah okay, I'll try that! Just heading back now, I'll let you know if it works.

[golden grove]

I can't seem to figure out how to add a property to it, since it's returning a "SerializedProperty" itself I don't think it gets any Add functionality to my knowledge, I'm not too familliar with Editor scripting so I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious haha.

[blissful burrow]

okay it looks like Unity's scene view camera does render depth, but, only if there's an enabled camera in the scene that also renders to depth

trying to override the scene view camera's depthTextureMode doesn't work on its own even

maybe it's easier for me to just render a depth texture on my own using the same camera

[snow stag]

        GameObject obj = new GameObject();
        obj.transform.position += transform.right;
        var objFilter = obj.AddComponent<MeshFilter>();
        var objMat = obj.AddComponent<MeshRenderer>();

        objFilter.mesh = _fileMesh;
        objMat.material = mat;
        obj.name = transform.name + "_baked";

[visual stag]

#💻┃unity-talk message continuing from

You need to use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Undo.RegisterCreatedObjectUndo.html
Eg.

var go = new GameObject();
Undo.RegisterCreatedObjectUndo (go, "Created go");```

[snow stag]

thanks let me try

[snow stag]

works, thank you

[limber trellis]

Hi there. Is anyone aware how I could call "Download" from Package Manager via Script? There's nothing official, but I'm seeking the internal API calls within PackageManagerWindow.cs etc.

Background: During pipeline/CI calls, we want to download a package (.unitypackage) and import it headless.

---

Update: So they are internal functions called for downloading within UnityEditor.PackageManager.UI.Internal.PackageDownloadButton
Let's see if I can copy&paste some functionality to redo the download within an EditorScript.

[waxen sandal]

There's a package manager api

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/upm-api.html

[wicked orbit]

I feel like this is a basic question, but one that's got me a bit stumped and google isn't helping: How can I do some initialization code (like Awake) when an asset (in this case, a ScriptableObject) is first created in the editor via duplication (control D)? The reason I want to do this is the ScriptableObject I want to duplicate has a UniqueId field that I want to regenerate when duplication happens. Thanks.

[gloomy chasm]

You would use an AssetPostProcess and then check the ID to see if it is duplicated.

[heavy path]

Are there any assets that automatically add namespaces to my scripts depending on the folders? SmartNS is pretty good but it doesn't allow for you to change the space it leaves between the class and namespace. It also does

namespace nameHere{

Instead of

namespace nameHere
{

I'm really not looking to go through SmartNS and adjust things but if I have to I'll sit down and do it tonight

[gloomy chasm]

Rider, and I think also VisualStudio will do it and/or have options for it if you create the class through them instead of inside of Unity.

[heavy path]

Should definitely be something Unity supports. I'm really lazy when it comes to manually writing out namespaces lol. I'm looking into rider but I don't know if I can pay monthly for that sort of thing right now. VS does support this but there's no way to exclude part of the namespace (it always does solutionName.folderPath as the namespace no matter what) which really annoys me but it works for now I suppose

[gloomy chasm]

You can use Assembly Definitions, which you can set a default namespace for, for any scripts created inside of it. Not per-folder though.
For what its worth Rider is a perpetual license for I think $90 USD (I find it to be well worth it. But that is besides the point for this channel).

[plucky knot]

In both VS and Rider you can right-click a folder, open its properties, and turn off NamespaceProvider

[visual stag]

Post the actual error and !code. Also not sure why you've confusingly quoted yourself but it makes the question hard to read

[grave hinge]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[floral tangle]

I have a project with separate assembly defs for Editor and Runtime, including an Editor utility for managing configuration assets and the like.

I'd like the ability to have a single interface for loading these assets, and swap it out based on whether it's being called from the editor or runtime. I'm haven't been able to solve this without moving my editor code out of the editor assembly and using preprocessors / Application checks, which I'd prefer not to do.

I'd be fine with something like an adapter class that uses #UNITY_EDITOR checks, but that doesn't actually seem to be workable due to the sequestering of the Editor code. Really I'm just trying to avoid moving a bunch of editor-specific logic out of the Editor assembly just to enable this interface.

Are there any patterns or workarounds for this kind of problem that any of you have found? Or am I chasing my own tail here?

[gloomy chasm]

Not sure I really follow, but it sounds like you are already trying to mix editor code in to runtime code. If you want a interface they both use, why would it not just be in runtime?

[visual stag]

https://unity.huh.how/building/cs0246

You can't include editor code in the build. You need to exclude it, or not use it at all.

[indigo crescent]

Unfortunately, I can't fix it.

[visual stag]

You are going to have to elaborate. Your code is using Spline.Unity.Editor code, that code is Editor-only

[indigo crescent]

thank you very much you solved it I LOVE YOU

[atomic sable]

Is there any way to override property height in a property drawer? I created an attribute that hides a field in the inspector if another field is null, and I want to allow multiple of these attributes on a single field. It successfully hides/shows the field when there’s multiple, but it looks like GetPropertyHeight is only called once or something as when there’s two (and one condition is false and one is true), it hides the field in the inspector but still has the height set to single line height (as this is what it gets set to when the condition is false)

[minor cloud]

I've dealt with this problem by creating a variable to store the value of the base.GetPropertyHeight method (or UnityEventDrawer's one) if the property is supposed to be visible or change it to 0 if the property is supposed to be hidden. Then I override the GetPropertyHeight method to return the cached variable. It looks a bit messy, but it does the job.

[atomic sable]

I would do this but i have multiple attributes… i do have a base class. I guess I’ll just have to use reflection to get all attributes on the field?

[gloomy chasm]

I think that would break for Lists

[minor cloud]

I've just tested it out a bit more and turns out it also has issues with extra lines when the results are in a particular order (extra line is added when the first attribute doesn't try to hide it). It reminded me that when I had this problem I have remade the attribute to be able to handle multiple parameters (as in the screenshot).

[gloomy chasm]

Is ValueType a Enum by chance? Or just a struct?

[minor cloud]

Enum. It works for other types, although the code looks messy.

[minor cloud]

Seems like you're right, turns out my attribute doesn't work for lists at all.

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh, then I would just make it a flag enum, then you can do ValueType.fractionOfModifiedAttribute | ValueType.FractionOfSourceAttribute to have both at once.

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, it is cause Unity re-uses the property and decorator drawers for the elements in a list

[minor cloud]

True. I suppose I overdid it. On the positive side my solution will work with non-enum types, but I doubt it will be used that way.

[atomic sable]

Yea im thinking i’ll do this… like make a struct for each attribute like this and have params of that struct

Ok i think i have a plan

[atomic sable]

oh... attributes cant take structs lol. Welp, back to where i was.

[atomic sable]

I think ill probably end up doing this, a param of some enum that has a lot of conditions and a big switch statement. It's less elegant but because of the restrictions on attributes I think it's the best I can come up with.

[golden grove]

Hey! Just quickly wondering if anyone knows how to create a custom editor for all children of a type? I'm currently trying to create a custom inspector for my "Weapon" class which stores my custom class for "attacks" which stores my custom inspector for type "Frame", however when trying to create a custom inspector for my "Weapon" scriptableobject I get a popup at the top of the inspector saying "multi-object editing not supported". Any help or references would be greatly appreciated! I've tried enabling the bool to enable "editorForChildClasses" in the "Weapon" custom editor to no avail.

Or if anyone even has any reference to understanding the different types of "Editor" base classes and their use-cases because I am thoroughly confused as to what type of base class I should even be using for my specific use-case atm.

[CustomEditor(typeof(NewWeapon), true)]
public class WeaponInspectorEditor : Editor
{
    private SerializedProperty _attacks;

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        _attacks = serializedObject.FindProperty("attacks"); 
    }

    public VisualTreeAsset VisualTree;

    public override void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
        EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(_attacks);

        serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();
    }
}

But yeah, not super sure why that would be happening. I am searching for the property "attacks" which contains the "Frame" class with the custom inspector so that could be a cause?

[golden grove]

This is how it should be drawing using the custom editor of my "Frame" class. Instead I am getting the "No GUI Implemented". Any help would be amazing!

[visual stag]

You are mixing IMGUI and UI Toolkit.
If you only used UITK then you will not have this issue

[golden grove]

Ah okay, I see. I'll look into it when I get home. Thanks!

[dark prairie]

Hello, Is there a way to change these values ​​via script ? I have many small textures with similar settings, can I write a script that will analyze their file names and assign values ​​here based on that ?

[brave herald]

Hello i am Currently working on a Custom Editor Test script; but ive ran into a big issue:
I set my animator to display in xyz spot but i cant set the animator in the unity editor.
Not even the DrawDefaultInspector(); one.
Ive tried Propertyfield, Objectfield
Code in Thread

[golden grove]

Worked, thanks! Also started looking into UXML integration and it's fantastic, as a web designer it is making me very happy haha!

[minor cloud]

Try using TextureImporter or TextureImporterSettings depending on your needs. Here is an example:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TextureImporter.SetTextureSettings.html

[dark prairie]

Thanks, I will check this

[outer crystal]

Anyone know/remember if Unity has a method to clean/remove illegal characters from a string for use as a file path? I've got working code using .net 'Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars' working, but I know it doesn't account for more unusual aspects such as forbidden names in root drive etc. So just trying to remember if Unity had a similar builtin method that might be better.

[regal oxide]

So you can set a tint to the editor for when you enter playmode in preferences, can you set a tint for when you're NOT in playmode tho I cant seem to figure that out

[elder wasp]

Is there any way to get a reference to the current Inspector Window?
I want to open an EditorWindow right next to it, and it requires a type to find a window (in this case I would like inspector) and open it docked

Managed to do it like this

            var requiredAttribute = typeof(EditorWindow).Assembly.GetType("UnityEditor.InspectorWindow");
            InfiniteLandsGraphEditor wnd = CreateWindow<InfiniteLandsGraphEditor>(requiredAttribute);

It seems that the inspectorwindow class is internal and I can't reference it

[gloomy chasm]

I am doing some GL calls inside of a IMGUI scrollview. The issue is that I think the clip rect for the scrollview is messing with the GL drawing, any ideas why?
Here is an example of it (the Audio clip preview is what is being drawn.

(I keep the mouse over it just because I have it so it only actually draws when the mouse is over it. It can be ignored)

[brave herald]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1272146985608151074

[ashen wyvern]

Can I ask unity for only direct dependencies? 🤔
I am using EditorUtility.CollectDependencies but it lists dependencies of dependencies (A.K.A Transitive dependencies)

interesting, it seems that AssetDatabase.GetDependencies(path,false); does the trick but CollectDependencies can't do it 🤔

from

Object[] dependencies = EditorUtility.CollectDependencies(new Object[1] { obj });

to

Object[] dependencies = AssetDatabase.GetDependencies(AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(obj), false).Select(x => AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<Object>(x)).ToArray();

[elder wasp]

Has anyone used SearcherWindow before? Trying to use it to create my graph editor, but it's adding that rectangle on the rignt, not sure why

It seems that that is the helper space, but i somehow need to disable it

Alright, managed to do it ina relly ugly way XD

Created an adapter that just implements part of the interface

        private class Adapter : ISearcherAdapter
        {
            SearcherAdapter BaseAdapter;
            public string Title => BaseAdapter.Title;
            public bool HasDetailsPanel => false;
            public bool AddAllChildResults => BaseAdapter.AddAllChildResults;
            public bool MultiSelectEnabled => BaseAdapter.MultiSelectEnabled;
            public float InitialSplitterDetailRatio => 0;

            public Adapter(string title){
                BaseAdapter = new SearcherAdapter(title);
            }
            public VisualElement Bind(VisualElement target, SearcherItem item, ItemExpanderState expanderState, string text)=> BaseAdapter.Bind(target, item, expanderState, text);
            public void InitDetailsPanel(VisualElement detailsPanel)=>BaseAdapter.InitDetailsPanel(detailsPanel);
            public VisualElement MakeItem() => BaseAdapter.MakeItem();
            public SearcherItem OnSearchResultsFilter(IEnumerable<SearcherItem> searchResults, string searchQuery) => BaseAdapter.OnSearchResultsFilter(searchResults, searchQuery);
            public void OnSelectionChanged(IEnumerable<SearcherItem> items)=> BaseAdapter.OnSelectionChanged(items);
        }

This is way cleaner

private class Adapter : SearcherAdapter
{
    public Adapter(string title) : base(title){}
    public override bool HasDetailsPanel => false;
    public override float InitialSplitterDetailRatio => 0;
}

[viral grail]

I have a List<Vector3> and would like to visualize these positions in world-space in the 3d scene view.

What is an approach that I could take for this?

[fringe cairn]

I have no idea what channel is appropriate for this, so I'll just put it here for now. I have a grid/tilemap set up, but I see that isn't actually entirely centered. I have a cube gameobject outside the grid/tilemap system at 0,0,0. However, it's not fitting snugly into the grid. Any help?

[ashen wyvern]

I just saw a video about it today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HHeIUGsuW8

[elder wasp]

Neat! Yeah that's what the MonoBehaviour search window looks like, But I wanted to use the new search window that ShaderGraph uses. There's barely any documentation about it, but managed to get it working with what I mentioned :))

[queen wharf]

I know theres some helper functions i have being used here but any reason why rich text wouldn't be working here?

            GUIStyle style = LabelUtilities.CreateStyle(enableRichText: true, new Color(0, 0, 0, 0.5f));
            GUILayout.BeginArea(LabelUtilities.GetMousePositionRect(50, 0, 250, 120), style);
            GUIStyle labelStyle = LabelUtilities.CreateStyle(true);
            labelStyle.richText = true;
            GUILayout.Label(tileInfo, labelStyle);
            GUILayout.EndArea();

[gloomy chasm]

Hmm, well I don't think the formatting is correct for the size. So that might be it?

You are not closing the size tag

[queen wharf]

oh frl? its how TMP expects it, lemme check that. suprised it would kill the other formatting though?

im closing the size it's just offscreen

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh, well you could try with just bold to be sure

Also it doesn't support % only pixels

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@3.0/manual/StyledText.html

[queen wharf]

ahh ok tyvm, missed that

was hoping i could just use my cool tmp tags for this 1:1 but i see i have run out of luck

[marsh lichen]

Hey,

Can anyone help me figure out how to display these two variables in the inspector like they are shown at the bottom of the image, compared to the top version?

[waxen sandal]

You make a slider from 0-1 then convert that into an hour/minute and back

[elder wasp]

How can I detect Ctrl+S (aka save action)

i need to do something right before it executes the Save action but I can't find a way to handle that

Also, how can I find the MousePosition at any point in the Editor?

[tropic silo]

Is there a way to somehow ask the AssetDatabase whether a refresh is available (i.e. some assets have been added/changed but not imported)? I would like to make a visual indicator around the play button that would tell if you've done changes to your code but not refreshed the asset database.

I don't like the Auto Refresh feature (Preferences > Asset Pipeline > Auto Refresh) but at the same time I occasionally forget to refresh manually with Ctrl+R and then start debugging why something is not working only to find out that I forgot to refresh.

[regal abyss]

Hello!
So ive been making a simple editor tool based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_3DXBrH-Is
And so far it works as I would like with one small exception.

please pay attention to the top feild in the right section

if a field it is selected it dosnt update when switching between items

if the content is not selected it works as expected

All of the fields are drawn using the following function as taught in the tutorial i linked

protected void DrawFeild(string propertyName, bool relative, bool showLabel = true)
{
    if (showLabel)
    {
        if (relative && currentProperty != null)
        {
            EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(currentProperty.FindPropertyRelative(propertyName), true);
        }
        else if (serializedObject != null)
        {
            EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(serializedObject.FindProperty(propertyName), true);
        }
    }
    else
    {
        if (relative && currentProperty != null)
        {
            EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(currentProperty.FindPropertyRelative(propertyName), new GUIContent(""), true);
        }
        else if (serializedObject != null)
        {
            EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(serializedObject.FindProperty(propertyName), new GUIContent(""), true);
        }
    }
}

i understand this is probably not enough info to pinpoint an exact solution

but before i set up a minimal reporduction project to share I would just like some hint of what could possibly be going wrong.

Alternatively a way to deselect a feild when the button is pressed would also work i think.

i havnt worked much with unity's editors before so im having trouble debuging this

thank you in advance

[waxen sandal]

Try doing GUI.FocusControl(null); when you switch

It's probably a safeguard to prevent the user's input from being lost when you change it programmatically

@regal abyss

[regal abyss]

thank you ill give it a shot and report back in a couple mins!

[regal abyss]

it worked thank you so much!

[elder wasp]

Hellou, so Im trying to work with Undo.Record but I can't quite figure out if Im doing it right or not.

Basically this method

public InfiniteLandsNode ConfigureAsset(InfiniteLandsNode node, Vector2 position){
    Undo.RecordObject(node, "Configuring it");
    node.guid = GUID.Generate().ToString();
    node.position = position;
    node.name = node.GetType().Name;
    node.ClearConnections();

    Undo.RecordObject(this, "Added node");
    nodes.Add(node);
    
    AssetDatabase.AddObjectToAsset(node, this);
    return node;
}

I first start recording the node, i do some modifications to it. Then I record the main object to which I add the node and add the SO to the asset as a child.

Am I doing this right?

[tribal glacier]

EditorGUILayout.LabelField("Current Action", "None", EditorStyles.boldLabel);

anyone know how I can make only the "current action" bold? right now it makes "none" bold

[simple cove]

Begin change check or smth

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

Alternatively you can use Flush for more explicit control https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Undo.FlushUndoRecordObjects.html

I’m not sure if Flush will make all actions register as a group by default. IIRC it might though

[elder wasp]

Im not sure i follow, what are yoy suggesting?

[simple cove]

I’m suggesting utilizing the information that’s inside the links I posted for you to read

[simple cove]

This one in particular might be exactly what you want

Calling flush will finalize the record object

[elder wasp]

I guess i didn't explain myself well. I WANT to be able to undo/redo, I'm just asking if I'm doing it right. I'm not sure how FlushUndoRecordObjects would benefit me

The code it's working, just wondering if the structure is how it should be or not

One addition that i made is using https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Undo.IncrementCurrentGroup.html to group those recordings

Thank you for trying to help, thats more than most, but throwing a link with no context whatsoever (and assuming i didn't read it) doesn't help at all

[real spindle]

Yeah the links have nothing to do with "begin change check"
But to me the code looks fine, unless you have to also SetDirty afterwards. But maybe AddObjectToAsset takes care of that

[plush spade]

hey all , is there a way to capture custom editor window and record a video ?

unity recorder does not capture that i guess also in obs i cant capture only the editor window, window must be docked to editor

[simple cove]

alright, I get it.. I was from phone and it was hard to type lol, sorry.

So the one issue I was trying to make you notice is that Undo.RecordObject(..) requires Undo.FlushUndoRecordObjects to actually register the changes

which usually happens at the end of the frame anyway, as long as there are any pending Record requests, but it's sometimes not safe or desired to let the editor do that

in your case a potential issue would be that your Undo.RecordObjects might or might not be passed on the same group by default

iirc the actions are grouped no matter what until the pending undo stream is flushed, so not sure Undo.IncrementCurrentGroup actually does anything except calling Flush, lol

and what I'm suggesting is:

Undo.FlushUndoRecordObjects(); // optional if you wanna make this a standalone undo operation
var curGroupID = Undo.GetCurrentGroup();

Undo.RecordObject(node, "Configuring it");
// ...do the configuration things
Undo.RecordObject(this, "Adding node");
nodes.Add(node);

EditorUtility.SetDirty(this);
EditorUtility.SetDirty(node);

Undo.CollapseUndoOperations(curGroupID);
Undo.FlushUndoRecordObjects();
// ...

I haven't used IncrementCurrentGroup admittedly so not sure whether it could replace GetCurrentGroup() + CollapseUndoOperations(..), but might do

[elder wasp]

I see! That makes a lot more sense. Thank you! It seems that I was trying a couple more thing wrongly. I was also making use of the SetCurrentGroupName and I thought that that was equivalent to

Undo.CollapseUndoOperations(curGroupID);
Undo.FlushUndoRecordObjects();

The only note is that in theory, acording to wiki, we don't need to manually set items dirty if we are using record object https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.SetDirty.html

If you do want to support undo, you should not call SetDirty but rather use Undo.RecordObject prior to making changes to an object,

[simple cove]

ah nice.. yeah I wasn't sure about whether SetDirty was needed, good find

[simple cove]

I think their Undo system has nice potential especially architecture-wise, even if it's a little unintuitive.

Undo.FlushUndoRecordObjects();
var curGroupID = Undo.GetCurrentGroup();
Undo.RecordObject(this, "Adding node");
Undo.RecordObject(node, "Configuring it");
// other undo actions
Undo.CollapseUndoOperations(curGroupID);

// ...do the configuration things

Undo.FlushUndoRecordObjects();

e.g.: this would make a correct undo thingy -- preferably you'd also set the name just to not have a weird autogenerated name for it

[elder wasp]

Yeah! But there are still some weird stuff, for example:

 Undo.IncrementCurrentGroup();
Undo.SetCurrentGroupName("Copy pasting");
var curGroupID = Undo.GetCurrentGroup();

for(...){
    //Call to another method that handles their own undo redo actions
    {
      Undo.IncrementCurrentGroup();
      Undo.SetCurrentGroupName("temporal Action");
      var temp= Undo.GetCurrentGroup();
        //Do some stuff
      Undo.CollapseUndoOperations(temp);
      Undo.FlushUndoRecordObjects();
    }
}
Undo.CollapseUndoOperations(curGroupID);
Undo.FlushUndoRecordObjects();

Here I would expect one big group that undos/redos all of the actions of the for loop, with the name Copy Pasting. However it ends with a big group with the name of temporal Action (this is pseudocode of something i just tried)

[simple cove]

Undo.IncrementCurrentGroup(); should be equivalent to Undo.CollapseUndoOperations(Undo.GetCurrentGroup()), I'm not 100% sure whether it flushes too

based on your test results, it doesn't flush 😛

[elder wasp]

XD

[simple cove]

hmm very strange though that even calling flush manually doesn't end the group 🤔

[elder wasp]

One solution to that test code, is just setting the name before finishing

So basically you start an undo operation with

Undo.IncrementCurrentGroup();
var curGroupID = Undo.GetCurrentGroup();

Then we call all the methods, regardless of they are subgroups ore not

and we finish with

Undo.SetCurrentGroupName("Copy pasting");
Undo.CollapseUndoOperations(curGroupID);
Undo.FlushUndoRecordObjects();

This ends up with one operation named Copy Pasting that will undo/redo all the actions that happened inbetween

[simple cove]

have you checked whether curGroupID increases here? or on your test code after a for iteration (after Flush)

[elder wasp]

The Flush is actually not needed btw

Let me check on that

Yup

So first value is before I start anything, second is the first call to Increment, then I go through the for loop and call three times a method that internally has an increment and stuff going on, so we see third value, and then i call collapse from the 1240 value

[simple cove]

OH CollapseUndoOperations might be for collapsing multiple groups together then 😆

In all use-cases the issue I was wanting to solve was to not have multiple undo operations on the same frame, so this never failed me lol

[elder wasp]

hahahaha

alright neat, now it seems all to be better structured

[elder wasp]

Is there any easy way to replicate the Preview Mesh window of unity in a diferent place? Like that small window that allows to see meshes, and move around, is there a class that handles it and that I can use in an editor window?

I mean this window

[real spindle]

It also says:

In the case of ScriptableObject, call both SetDirty and Undo.RecordObject, if you want to register the change and support undo.
Is InfiniteLandsNode a SO?

[elder wasp]

Oh lol, how didn't I see that, yeah it is

Altough I did end up doing it anyways because some parts wheren't working as expected

[atomic karma]

The class 'Editor' was depricated in the latest version of Unity (6.0.15), but the link in the release notes as to why wasn't put in. What should we be using instead of deriving from Editor? It's caused havoc in the project from all the editor scripts that derived from Editor. Anyone know how to handle this yet?

[waxen sandal]

Excuse me what

Docs don't mention it

You sure you're using unityeditor.editor

[atomic karma]

https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/6000.0.15#notes

When I change to using Editor = UnityEditor.Editor I get these error instead.

Assets\Plugins\PuzzleForge\Editor\PFSimpleMoveEditor.cs(9,6): error CS0576: Namespace '<global namespace>' contains a definition conflicting with alias 'Editor'
I have hundreds of similar messages. Editor is not defined in the project.

Was working fine with Unity 6.0.14

[waxen sandal]

It sounds like you either have a class or namespace called Editor

Which is conflicting

It's probably not related to the unity update but rather happened to be at a similar time

[atomic karma]

The project was updated from 6.0.14 with no code changes. Searching the project and all plugins / packages
Only one class in a unity namespace is called Editor under a performance namespace.

Found the issue. Probuilder 6.0.2 introduces "Editor" as a root namespace which breaks literally everything. So don't update probuilder. Reverted to probuilder 6.0.1 with Unity 6.0.15 and it's fine. How do they not QA this?

[waxen sandal]

They do, there's just a missing test case

And maybe a junior pushing something accidentaly that didn't get reviewed properly

[ebon oxide]

Anyone know how to prevent sharing violations with a scripted importer?

I have this simple importer but sometimes when editing the file itll give me a sharing violation and destory references to the asset

[short tiger]

Either you're reading the file somewhere else in Unity and not cleaning it up, or the file is open in exclusive mode in another program. You can't bypass it, it's at the operating system level.

[ebon oxide]

it cant block until its open? lol

oh well

[short tiger]

You can implement that way if you want. Catch the error, thread sleep, try again.

But there's no guarantee it will be unblocked any time soon. If another program has it open, it will likely keep it open until the user does something to close it.

[plush spade]

        public override VisualElement CreatePropertyGUI(SerializedProperty property)
        {
            VisualElement root = new VisualElement();
            PropertyField propertyField = new PropertyField(property);
            SerializedProperty enumProperty = property.FindPropertyRelative("NodeType");
            SerializedProperty extraVariableProperty = property.FindPropertyRelative("SelectionData").FindPropertyRelative("_valSerialized");
            PropertyField extraVariableField = new PropertyField(extraVariableProperty);
            UpdateFieldVisibility(enumProperty, extraVariableField);
            PropertyField enumField = new PropertyField(enumProperty);
            enumField.RegisterValueChangeCallback(evt =>
            {
                UpdateFieldVisibility(enumProperty, extraVariableField);
            });
            propertyField.Add(extraVariableField);
            root.Add(propertyField);
            return root;
        }

        private void UpdateFieldVisibility(SerializedProperty enumProperty, VisualElement field)
        {
            if (enumProperty.enumValueIndex == (int)GPElementType.SELECTOR)
            {
                field.style.display = DisplayStyle.Flex;
            }
            else
            {
                field.style.display = DisplayStyle.None;
            }
        }

I want to render an extra variable according to the value of the enum, but I am trying to add it not to the root but to the propertyField, that is, in the property view that is already there, or it moves out but I cannot add it.

When I add it to root, it appears to overflow out of the main class, but when I add it to the property field, nothing appears.

It shouldn't be so hard to show a field connected to a state, I really hate the editor part.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[unreal light]

I'm making a "global" editor setting storage system for a package i'm working on and currently i just got curious about something.

Editor wise, what's the lifetime of a public field that's not serialized by unity? something like public object boxedValue

does the value inside "boxedValue" set to null each time there's a domain reload?

[molten bolt]

How can I (assuming it's possible), bind a UI toolkit property field to a member of the Editor script, rather than the object being edited?

[unreal light]

Create a SerializedObject for your Editor instance, and bind the property field to the Editor instance's SerializedObject

[unreal light]

Unsure whats the behaviour here, but from what i remember, PropertyFields get their containers wiped whenever Bind is called, it might happen that youre adding it to the property field before unity calls bind to it

[plush spade]

If I understand, I think the problem will be solved with ISerializationCallbackReceiver in the serialize / deserialize section or you will write AssemblyReloadHandler and listen to the reload process do somthing in beforeReload , afterReload functions

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

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

[unreal light]

I'll read into this if what I did doesn't work

[gloomy chasm]

A couple of things. For global editor settings, ScriptableSingleton is a great way to do it. The serializable settings persist for the entire editor session and between sessions if you call the Save() method on it.

You can have your settings show up in the Preferences or in the Editor Setting windows by using SettingsPovider.

And any non-serialized field gets reset to its default value at domain reload. Meaning yes, boxedValue would be set to null each domain reload.

[unreal light]

yes thats what i'm using

basically this is the setup i got atm

https://hastebin.com/share/damucemobu.csharp

so technically speaking

the value for "boxedValue" inside a EditorSetting's SettingValue should persist even between domain reloads, yes?

there's also one i made for user preference settings

but point is, it should survive domain reloads since its a ScriptableSingleton, right? @gloomy chasm

[gloomy chasm]

Nope, as I just said, boxedValue will get reset to null on domain reload becuase it cannot be serialized by Unity by default.

[unreal light]

ah, reading comprehension error, lol

well, but with what i have with making sure boxedValue is not null by deserializing whatever value it has should theoretically work at leas

that way i dont have to do expensive string parsing for values

[gloomy chasm]

yeah looks like you have a way around it.

[unreal light]

perfect

[supple willow]

It's strange to me it asks you for color space though, it can find out the project's color space from project settings

Oh gotcha! Thanks

[tough cairn]

anyone knows why unity version 2023.2. doesn't have the older method overflow as listed here ? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetImporters.TextureGenerator.GenerateTexture.html

im looking for TextureGenerationOutput that has the NativeArray<Color> colorBuffer argument

here is what my version shows when navigating inside the source code

#region Assembly UnityEditor.CoreModule, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
// D:\UnityHubEditors\2023.2.18f1\Editor\Data\Managed\UnityEngine\UnityEditor.CoreModule.dll
#endregion

using Unity.Collections;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Bindings;
using UnityEngine.Scripting.APIUpdating;

namespace UnityEditor.AssetImporters
{
    //
    // Summary:
    //     Experimental utilities for generating Texture2D.
    [MovedFrom("UnityEditor.Experimental.AssetImporters")]
    [NativeHeader("Runtime/Serialize/BuildTarget.h")]
    [NativeHeader("Editor/Src/AssetPipeline/TextureImporting/TextureGenerator.h")]
    [NativeHeader("Editor/Src/AssetPipeline/TextureImporting/TextureImporterTypes.h")]
    [NativeHeader("Editor/Src/AssetPipeline/TextureImporting/TextureImporter.bindings.h")]
    public static class TextureGenerator
    {
        public static TextureGenerationOutput GenerateTexture(TextureGenerationSettings settings, NativeArray<Color32> colorBuffer);
    }
}

[outer crystal]

Didn't know about the InternalEditorUtility, but i've been using UnityEditor.Screenshots for as long as I can remember.
It has a bunch of methods, from setting the MainWindowSize to 1024x768 to screenshotting the GameView, or any other selected view, including tabs like Inspector. I think some like the active toolbar are broken now, but that could also be due to using scaled up interface. Not tested in 2023 or Unity 6 yet. Here is my script https://gist.github.com/noisecrime/3cb57c2618c7ade9d4398fe7f3835e34

[outer crystal]

Maybe documentation error? It wasn't in 2023.1 so 2023.2 is the first version to 'claim' to have it.

[outer crystal]

Maybe it only went in for 2023.2.20f - its present in the online c#references on github for it.

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/2023.2/Editor/Mono/AssetPipeline/TextureGenerator.bindings.cs

[outer crystal]

Cool extra info - I think I stumbled across the class ( as one does ) while looking for something else and reading the c#references. It was immediately useful so I never bothered digging any deeper, but seems like there is more to explore here. I wonder if some of the other stuff has been added/exposed more recently.

[unreal light]

my gut tells me i should ask about this in here.

I'm trying to figure out a specific styling modification to the base editor's controls and property fields, something i really dread about UIToolkit is how it makes labels with very long names look... awful, compared to something like IMGUI.

what i mean mainly is that in IMGUI (pic 1). the label just gets cut off, if the label is too large to display in the current size, just cull the text that overflows.

However, using VisualElements with the default stylings. (Pic 2) The label pushes the control and causes all the controls to no longer be aligned, which in my opinion looks dreadful and i dont know how i could fix it.

i know i can actually overwrite the styles from the default controls but no matter what i try i havent been able to crack it yet

[outer crystal]

Some interesting choices in your version - will have to dig into them when I get a chance. I think the main reason I went with using the 'UnityEditor.ScreenShots' instead of digging deeper is my 'expectation' that Unity might just keep it updated as it seemed obvious to me it was heavily used for producing screenshots for the manuals etc. Maybe that is a bit naive, especially these days with how UT seems to work 😉

[outer crystal]

I've steered clear of UI toolkit - but if I was trying to fix this ( which I totally would, that looks so annoying) i'd be looking to see if any of the other elements will clamp the overflow and copy how that element does it.

[unreal light]

i'm on 2019.4

if that helps

they probably fixed it in future versions but at least in 2019 it looks like this

[outer crystal]

its cool - always good to learn new things. stylistically i might not agree with some choices, but i'm intrigued by 'Unsupported.GetTypeFromFullName'

[unreal light]

Aight so, fiddling with the UIElement Debugger i managed to make it align by basically locking its width to be 150, which is the min width for all control labels

however, doing so i cant just drag the left side of the window to the left to show the label as the size is now static

i think i gotta do some dynamic fiddling

im curious to see if what 8chan said is true, so i'll boot up unity 6 and see the behaviour there

yeah the behaviour is different in unity 6

good thing, i'm going to check if i can see if the change was purely stylistic

if it was actual code then... crud

yeah as i said, this seems to be related to post 2019 changes

i'm using 2019.4

thats awful

thanks unity

unity 6 seems to do some width changing magic when the window gets resized

since changing the width of the window i can see the width value of the element changing with it

i genunely prefer using visual elements for editor UI but christ things like these makes me wish i could bear the pains of IMGUI

yeah this is very painful and seems to be locked behind some UIToolkit magic present in future versions

oh well

[unreal light]

Clearly I must make a script that transforms VisualElements into IMGUI

That'll totally work

Lol. I know that the IMGUI container exists

Thanks for your enthusiasm tho

Assuming these methods and fields exists in 2019 then probably

Otherwise I'll just cut my losses or find a compromise

I'd test it now, but I'm in bed

[unreal light]

There might be hope then

I'll let you know if it works

Thanks for this

[unreal light]

Thanks, I'll try out these once I'm back home

[unreal light]

8chan, gonna test these out

[unreal light]

funny thing this just causes the control to vanish out of sight, cant even make it appear in the debugger

and this just aint possible cuz text overflow doesnt exist in 2019

but oh well

thanks for the help

this does actually work but unlike IMGUI where you can resize the window to show the full label, resizing does nothing sadly

oh well

[whole steppe]

can we add a button in here?

[whole steppe]

or better, an object field

[gloomy chasm]

Not natively, but this package lets you https://github.com/smkplus/CustomToolbar

[whole steppe]

this is pretty handsome, thanks!

wonderful, thank you very much random citizen

the fast mode is so op

[outer crystal]

I'm everywhere 😉

[neon birch]

Is it possible for a custom inspector to add a MonoBehaviour to a GameObject? The use case being to add MBs which the "Add Component" menu can't see because they're generic.

[clear kite]

You can with Undo.AddComponent but I doubt it will work if the menu doesn't support generics either

[lunar spindle]

I've found this editor plugin https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/integration/etchi-mbpt-264079 that's supposed to make a Multi-platform builds without switching platforms, so I can build like Windows, Android and iOS builds all the same time. have anyone tried it or know about it?
also this should work with building a XRTK build for Windows with Steam and Android for Oculus Quest?

[waxen sandal]

I'd be pretty skeptical 😛

Even if it does what you think, you'll likely be resource starved

[lunar spindle]

but if it does it this will save me a great deal of time

at least in matter of letting the pc building all over the night and waking up to the final builds :xD

[waxen sandal]

Just sequential builds is pretty easy 😛

Or just run a build machine

[neon birch]

Yup, it didn't work. Thanks anyways!

[reef hornet]

HI there
does anyone know if it's possible to create an Inspector that allows me to edit child components of a specific type from within a parent component?

[unreal light]

https://i.gyazo.com/fddc9b6a9c9193e41066702e34fd3c95.gif

Decided to do it myself

its not perfect yet but i'm getting somewhere

https://i.gyazo.com/110b029549b81171c6401f5421ca6d5d.gif Fixed the issue when the width of the rect was too small, but its basically complete other than the weird behaviour the Control's width has

unsure how to fix it other than tweaking how i'm doing things, i think i'll post the hastebin for it in a bit

https://hastebin.com/share/olazozaxop.csharp

here it is, the code i made to have not cancerous labels in 2019 using uitoolkit

[subtle cliff]

hey y'all, is OnValidate supposed to be running in scripts that are NOT in the scene? it's being called on project load from WITHIN prefabs that are just sitting in my project's assets, and in some cases causing actual changes to the prefabs that show up in version control

[real spindle]

Pretty sure it gets called when the object is loaded into memory

Including assets

So be careful with onvalidate

[subtle cliff]

dang, ok, good to know... i'm looking at !PrefabUtility.IsPartOfPrefabAsset(gameObject) for now then

[outer crystal]

nice work - this was for 2019 right? Do we know what version Unity fixed the issues?

[outer crystal]

Not sure about the point of this, surely it has to do everything that Unity would do when switching platform anyway? I mean apart from swapping per platform prepared assets you have to recompile scripts to account for code defines that set up specific per platform settings. Sure assets can be cached, even some compiled dll's, but there is more to switching platforms than that. It sounds more like its an automated build pipeline to swap between platforms in sequence ( not sure why it claims to do it all 'simultaneously' ). The video isn't very helpful, doesn't show anything about the actual process.

I guess if you don't have the coding skills to whip up an automated build piepline it might be useful, but nothing on the asset page really explains how it does what it claims, so i'm skeptical its doing anything amazing.

[unreal light]

i havent tested

but at least Unity6 has proper label widening

but yes it was for 2019

probably earlier versions also had this issue

[bitter crater]

Hi, I'm making a Custom Editor for a script, I would like to know if it's possible to know which index/element in the array is removed when you click the minus (-) button.

In this screenshot I have Element 1 selected, and if I clicked the minus button it would remove that element from the array.

I'm new to editor scripting and coding in general so forgive me if this is trivial but I'm having trouble finding the answer to this problem online.

[hardy apex]

Does anyone know how I can prevent Unity from drawing the sub classes for a serialized class?
I want to draw the scriptable objects in the inspector, and stop there. It'd be great if I didn't need to write a whole property drawer just to not draw the serialized classes further in the chain

[gloomy chasm]

Unity doesn't do this. You have an asset/extension that is doing it (looks like maybe Odin?).

[hardy apex]

oops. Yes. I'll ask there, thanks

[whole steppe]

how to scroll to top of the current inspector? We have a MoveComponentToTop but would be better if the inspector follows trough when it does its job

[simple cove]

I don't like the idea of moving the viewrect of the inspector upwards. But you'd likely have to go to https://github.com/duanjiahao/UnityDecompiled to do that.

should be looking for something like a inspectorScrollViewRectPosition = Vector2.zero; -- but via reflection

inspector code is wrapped inside: inspectorScrollPosition = EditorGUILayout.BeginScroll(inspectorScrollPosition, options); of some sort

so finding that variable and changing its value via reflection should work. Mind the var name I used above is abstract/random

@whole steppe there: https://github.com/duanjiahao/UnityDecompiled/blob/master/UnityEditor/UnityEditor/InspectorWindow.cs#L397

[simple cove]

@whole steppe solved?

I was just closing open tabs and saw that m_ScrollPosition is public, so you can just do this: EditorWindow.GetWindow<InspectorWindow>().m_ScrollPosition = Vector2.zero;

oh no nvm the class itself is internal so you NEED reflection 😆 This will work though:

[simple cove]

var type = typeof(EditorGUILayout).Assembly.GetType("UnityEditor.InspectorWindow");
var field = type.GetMember("m_ScrollView", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance)[0] as FieldInfo;
(field.GetValue(EditorWindow.GetWindow(type)) as ScrollView).scrollOffset = Vector2.zero;

damn this was harder than expected due to outdated UnityDecompiled version -_-

[whole steppe]

all that pain just to scroll inspector

[simple cove]

no-one said game dev would be easy lol

[narrow lotus]

is there a way to have assets like these in a editor window?

[gloomy chasm]

What part do you want? Do you just want the thumbnail/preview image? Do you want to be able to drag them in to fields, etc.

[narrow lotus]

dragging them into fields and scenes is what im looking for

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, you would use DragAndDrop class, and when you start dragging (mouse down + move) you start a drag in teh DragAndDrop class and assign the object(s)

[narrow lotus]

alright and how would i go about rendering them?

[gloomy chasm]

You can get them from the static AssetPreview class

[narrow lotus]

sure, thanks for the help!

[ember gate]

Does Unity provide built-in assistance for property drawer scrollbar and value change with a mouse (as in the serialized float)?

Also a thing is that I would like to do it with generics

[narrow lotus]

small question, how would i set the current dragged object?

[gloomy chasm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/DragAndDrop-objectReferences.html

[narrow lotus]

ty

[vapid prism]

How do I get a float3 value from a SerializedProperty? I seem to be getting mismatched types when using vector3value

[gloomy chasm]

Gotta get each component, or you can use boxedValue but read the docs if you do since it is 'special'

[vapid prism]

ah yes boxedValue saves the day 😄 For some reason I kept thinking it was called managedReferenceValue and was confused why I couldnt use it

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah managedReferenceValue is just for fields serialized with [SerializeReference], though they do have a similar end result

[ember gate]

Having an Attribute, assigned to the Field of the non-derived class CloudLayer inside of the CloudManager : MonoBehaviour class, inside of the Attribute's PropertyDrawer, property.serializedObject.targetObject gets CloudManager instead of CloudLayer. Any way to get CloudLayer?

[gusty mortar]

Having an Attribute, assigned to the

[dusky pumice]

Hello there, it's more an editor related question as it related to project "health". We identified that some, if not a lot, of residual references of components are never removed from our gameobjects from the scenes .unity / prefabs files .
It's often not really an issue, although a dirty mechanism, but it sometimes end up in "Unknown script" at play time/in builds. However recently it even did something more vicious, some of those components were "reactivated" in the build creating unwanted regressions.

We could go one by one but I'm actually wondering if there wouldn't be a way to detect "lost" components and game objects in the scene files. I'm not really sure what causes this issue (btw hide flags are set to 0). Note that it is different from unknwown scripts as those components scripts are still in the project

[dusky pumice]

Scene YAML clean-up

[outer crystal]

Why are you still using Unitydecompiled, the entire c# source code has been public from UnityTechnologies for years since Unity 2017.1 https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference. If i recall correctly in the readme it tells you where to find the msvc solution file.

[thorny rock]

I'm writing a tool that helps me keep track of some level related things. Is there an easy way to highlight which level I am currently in (I keep all levels managed through this tool in an array)? I'd love for the array to display Level_02 i.e. in green when I am currently in level 2.

[arctic jolt]

is this for edit mode only? you could use EditorSceneManager.GetActiveScene, and compare it to all scenes in your list, and fancy-up the selected scene
I'd recommend keeping the selected scene outside of Level Data list (perhaps "current level data"?), but that's an aesthetic choice

[thorny rock]

Thanks, yes this is editor only. Our game is built in a way that allows me to automate the early steps in level creation.

You write "fancy-up the selected scene". How do you do this? This is exactly what I am asking. 😄 Right now I am drawing the property field of my struct via EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(propertyLevelData); but this renders the array as is, without options for highlighting a single element.

[gusty mortar]

Is propertyLevelData the whole array ?

[arctic jolt]

propertyLevelData is a List<LevelData>, right? You can create a custom inspector for LevelData perhaps, and do the changes there?

I admit I'm a bit rusty...

[thorny rock]

Yes

[arctic jolt]

look into this
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PropertyDrawer.html

[thorny rock]

This looks like exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

[arctic jolt]

had to remember what that thing was called XD

glad I could help!

[thorny rock]

Is there documentation where official Unity icons are so I can put a scene-icon next to my scene entry of the array? 😄 I want it to look pretty.

[gusty mortar]

https://github.com/jasursadikov/unity-editor-icons

[arctic jolt]

pretty sure the easiest way is to just add it to your project as your own asset, and draw that

[gusty mortar]

Not "official" but some devs generally maintain a repository with the built-in icons and how to access them

[arctic jolt]

might be possible to do it otherwise, but I wouldn't

[thorny rock]

Thanks to both of you. Sad that I can't use the built-in icons directly.

[gusty mortar]

Well, it's kinda directly as the repo gives you the name to use and the unity method to fetch the icon

[simple cove]

OH nice thank you!! that's awesome!

[thorny rock]

Another question came up that I struggle to solve. I want to pack a couple of 1k textures in a 4k atlas. I stumbled across the PackTextures() method which seemed to to exactly what I want so I wrote this:

void CreateAtlas(List<Texture2D> atlasTextures, int atlasIndex)
{
  Texture2D atlas = new Texture2D(4096, 4096);

  byte[] bytes = atlas.EncodeToPNG();
  System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(Application.dataPath + $"/LevelData/Atlas/Atlas_{atlasIndex / 16}.png", bytes);

  AssetDatabase.Refresh();
  atlas.PackTextures(atlasTextures.ToArray(), 0);
  AssetDatabase.Refresh();
  }

But it does not work and produces several monochrome light grey-textures (without a trace of the textures I want to pack). Any ideas why? :/

I guess the atlas does not have any reference to the asset in the project, that might be the problem?

[dusky pumice]

Odin inspector is pretty neat as well in term of leveraging work for custom editors

[bitter hill]

alright this is getting on my nerves. I have a custom editor window where I want to have two preview windows side by side. The problem is their size is square and proportional to the available width excluding the padding. I want to have something like this image, but I cant seem to get the container rect in any way shape or form to what I want, instead I either get 1 pixel height, entire window height, an error or nothing at all! id love for this pain to be over with

[snow pebble]

how do i bind a visual element to my custom struct in my monobehaviour so that if any of the struct's fields change i can use register value change callback ?

since its a struct i cannot use serialized object so i dunno how to do trigger change callbacks

ah i figured it out

[thorny rock]

Tried something similar first but this throws the error Unsupported texture format - Texture2D::EncodeTo functions do not support compressed texture formats. I have found nothing in the documentation how I can set my atlas Texture2D to be not compressed.

[outer crystal]

Going from memory, I think the idea is that you only packtextures that share the same compression settings, so for example all the textures need to be say DXT1 compressed. That should work. However if for some reason you really want to pack different com-pressed textures then you'll have to mess with the import settings for those textures. you could create an assetPostProcessor access the raw data of each texture and pack them yourself, then create a new asset based on them, but thats getting to be a lot of effort.

Alternatively I guess if the textures are set to readable ( which is not a great idea as if they are included in build they will increase ememory greatly as they have both compressed and non-compressed copies saved) you could extract the raw data, create a new in memory texture, compress them then pack them, then save the packed texture and destroy all the temp copies you made.

[thorny rock]

All my textures that are supposed to be packed share the same settings. The atlas is then created in my editor script. The problem is that when I pack my textures to my atlas it no longer can be encoded via EncodeToPNG() since this function requires my texture to be uncompressed.

I have not found another way to store a Texture2D in my project, or a function to "uncompress" my atlas.

[outer crystal]

ah. Ok well what is the purpose of making the atlas? If its just editor time and to avoid say opening an extenal paint program, then i'd be tempted to set the textures to uncompressed by hand - reimport - run your packing script, save to png, then restore the compression settings in the insepctor.

if you need to use this method lots of times, then you are looking to get into making assetPostProcess editor type scripts and likely deal with packing yourself.

[thorny rock]

The purpose is to speed up the time I need to set up levels and to reduce errors if textures on the atlas should change. The game world basically is a bunch of notes with a 1k texture each.

[outer crystal]

I'm sure I remember reading a blog somewhere about doing this to combine multiple textures into different channels to save texture space - it had an example, but I can't rmemebr where that article was.

[outer crystal]

Why do you need export to PNG? Why can't you use Unity's native atlas packing systemn?

[thorny rock]

The atlas is for sprites only right? I use my atlas later for rendering 3d objects (but with reduced draw calls as I can now use 16 notes per material).

[outer crystal]

Yes, but you can still access the packed texture of the atals, and used to be able to access the info ( uv mapping ) so you could probably use it for other purposes.

[thorny rock]

But can I plug it in shader graph? 😄

[outer crystal]

Let me ask this, iamgine you could pack and exportToPng, how would you be mapping to meshes?

[thorny rock]

The notes are 3d, but with planar uv mapping before deformation. Imagine your standard post-it note

[outer crystal]

The atlas texture? Sure don't see why not. but haven't used Shader graph much

[outer crystal]

Right but now you have 4 notes per texture, so how to deal with uv mapping? I guess a simple texture transform?

In which case in theory it should all still work.

My suggestion at this point - go make a test atlas - in the project browser it used to be the resultant sprite could be expanded and you'd see the underlying texture, thats the asset you'd drag into shadergraph reference.

Sorry to be a bit vague, but I've been stuck on older versions of Unity for client work, so I don't know if Unity have changed things to be 'helpful' and ended up removing accessibility.

[thorny rock]

Thanks. I am considering to do the packing myself now as the packing process is really easy. It would have been nice to use an existing function but I feel like this is a dead end of some sort.

This is btw the goal. To take those textures, pack them, and create a level with prefabs/materials in it.

(Here the textures are flat but they will be applied to 3D note meshes)

[outer crystal]

ooh, very nice sketches - yeah this should be perfect for texture Atlasing

Alternatively you could pack them into a texture2DArray - though I don't recall off hand if any major platforms are excluded.

[thorny rock]

That sounds like a good idea, never heard of this data type. I hope the documentation is sufficient. Actually this would be perfect if I can make an array for each level. I'll look into it, thanks!

[outer crystal]

Same restriction applies all textures must share same format/compression - but you'd have no need to exportToPng

[queen wharf]

Anyone available to give me some quick Drawer IMGUI OnGUI help?

i have ValueSetting<T> class which contains a T _value, I wanted to just use a drawer to remove Unity displaying it as like a dropdown for the ValueSetting class so it just shows _value directly

I just wanna kinda skip to that property but still let Unity handle all of the drawing of it

Like this (but in IMGUI, using UI Toolkit for that)

[ember gate]

When having serialized in the inspector List of class Foo, which contains

public string bar = "default value";

adding an item Foo via inspector, is there any easy way to have bar set as "default value", instead of (string)default?

[waxen sandal]

Nope

[elder wasp]

How can I change the icon of a ScriptableObject through code?

I thought this would work

    public override Texture2D RenderStaticPreview(string assetPath, Object[] subAssets, int width, int height)
    {
        Debug.Log(assetPath);
        TextureAsset example = (TextureAsset)target;

        if (example == null || example.Albedo == null)
            return null;

        // example.PreviewIcon must be a supported format: ARGB32, RGBA32, RGB24,
        // Alpha8 or one of float formats
        Texture2D previewTexture = null;
        while (previewTexture == null)
        {
            previewTexture = AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview(example.Albedo);
        }
        Texture2D tex = new Texture2D (width, height);
        EditorUtility.CopySerialized(previewTexture, tex);

        return tex;
    }

But only some seem to change for no aparent reason

They both have an Albedo texture of the exact same dimensions and parameters

For example, reimporting the asset fixes it until I restart

[ember gate]

In the PropertyDrawer's OnGUI method, drawing a property this way causes Lists to collapse

EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, property, label, true);

Any way to fix it?

[thorny rock]

I think I solved the problem with creating the texture2Darrays. If anybody is interested, this is how I did it:

void CreateTexture2DArray(Texture2D[] arrayTextures, string name)
{
  Texture2DArray texture2DArray = new Texture2DArray(
  1024, 1024, 
  arrayTextures.Length,
  TextureFormat.DXT1,
  true, 
  false);

  texture2DArray.filterMode = FilterMode.Bilinear;
  texture2DArray.wrapMode = TextureWrapMode.Repeat;

  for (int i = 0; i < arrayTextures.Length; i++)
  {
    for(int j = 0; j < arrayTextures[i].mipmapCount; j++)
    {
      Graphics.CopyTexture(arrayTextures[i], 0, j, texture2DArray, i, j);
    }
  }

  AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(texture2DArray, $"Assets/LevelData/TextureArrays/TextureArray_{name}.asset");
}

Now I only need to worry about how those arrays behave on different platforms, as not all platforms support DTX1 iirc. 😵‍💫

[thorny rock]

Still a beginner at editor tool programming but is there a reason you use EditorGUI instead of EditGUILayout? I think the latter automatically reserves the space required.

[ember gate]

Haven't tried with EditorGUILayout. The items are separated from their box, and when scrolling, the inspector gets collapsed

EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(property);

Don't mention the enum with Left, since it has the same Attribute as the List on it

[thorny rock]

Is there a way to call a function in a custom editor from another class? I made a tool that reorders the game world and I want it to refresh other components afterwards so they register the changes too.

Right now each class (that should be informed) has a custom inspector that allows me to click a button to do the refreshing manually but ofc I'd prefer to trigger it automatically. 🙂

[ember gate]

Do you want to access a method on all the objects, which have a specific Editor?

[thorny rock]

I want my editor window to call a function in another custom editor after I clicked a button in my editor window.

[real spindle]

PropertyDrawers dont support Layout, gotta do the spacing manually

[real spindle]

Maybe you can make the editor store itself in a static variable that you can access from the other class

[ember gate]

I suppose, you'll have to use reflection

[visual stag]

You have to override GetPropertyHeight for IMGUI property drawers.
It's a major benefit of using UITookit, layout will just work and there's no faffing with manually allocating height

[ember gate]

Yeah, I have figured it out. Thank you. It's quite disappointing that the solution was so easy though

[outer crystal]

I guess I'm the last to find out, but just discovered Unity Foundation 'Official guidance for Unity Editor' containing all the guidelines and specs for the editor and building your own.
https://www.foundations.unity.com/

[waxen sandal]

Oh yeah I forgot about that, should use it more

[gloomy chasm]

It is so great! And actually gets update still too 😄

[split reef]

ShaderVariantCollections! Is there anyway to iterate over the shaderVariants? I even tried finding the hidden property via Reflection, but am having no luck. (The use case is that I want to build tooling to help partially automate updating variant collections, and while I can add, remove, and check if it contains a variant, I cannot actually get a list of the variants and iterate over it from my testing)

[short tiger]

Yes, it's possible. Look into how the variant collection editor draws them.
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/Inspector/ShaderVariantCollectionInspector.cs

[split reef]

Thanks!

[simple cove]

first, second variants are part of the actual code? 😮 is there a place I can read more about this?

I mean I can see it in the reference but curious how these work etc

thanks for the deets! So you found out about this by checking the serialized shader variant?

cool 👍

[ember gate]

Is it possible to fully remove the serialization functionality of the List, and implement my own?

Since empty OnGUI enables adding empty items, regardless of their types

[simple cove]

you can serialize and deserialize properties however you want, but you might break the inspector parts. What are you after exactly?

[ember gate]

I want to override List's serialization to add items with the 0-argument constructor (new())

Since it adds all default values, and I cannot define my own

This is the List with nothing written in OnGUI, in the PropertyDrawer of the custom Attribute

OnGUI is not even called for the List with no items

[simple cove]

it's likely the ObjectEditor.OnInspectorGUI that draws it

[simple cove]

so you want to override the drawing -- not the serialization itself

[ember gate]

Yes, probably

First of all, I want to fully remove TestList from the Inspector

[simple cove]

I tried to find the source from here real quick: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/tree/master/Editor/Mono/Inspector/Core
but I couldn't find the specific editor that does that.. Maybe GenericInspector?

I know how to do it with a CustomEditor(typeof(myType)) (where potentially myType is UnityEngine.Object), but it's not standalone

[ember gate]

Yes, CustomEditor can do it, but I will have to create it for every class

[simple cove]

Some pseudocode of what I'm talking about:

[CustomEditor(typeof(UnityEngine.Object))]
public class CustomBaseEditor : Editor {
    OnGUI(...) {
        foreach (var prop in serializedProps) {
            if (prop.IsList()) { MaybeDrawList(prop); }
            else { prop.Draw(); }
        }
    }
}

[ember gate]

Yeah, that's what I just thought

Since it seems the only solution here

[simple cove]

Not the only solution. You could potentially just inject an attribute that skips drawing the field: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24413055/9433659

if there's a built-in one that Unity reads before drawing a field it's great -- I'm not aware of any, though.

[ember gate]

Oh, reflection, perfect

[simple cove]

it's only once per OnEditorLoaded (or OnInspectorPreviewChanged if you wanna do it quickly)

(everything mentioned is pseudocode btw)

[ember gate]

The thing is that this can add the Attribute to the List, but it won't override how the List is drawn at runtime, since it also doesn't, when manually adding it

[simple cove]

you'd add the attribute to the property/field

wait what? It doesn't when you manually add it?

Share your code/attempt plz

[ember gate]

Wait, what do you mean?

[simple cove]

[DoNotDraw] public List<int> test;

[ember gate]

When having a List with the attribute, I cannot override how this List is drawn, as I've shown here

This is

[Test]
public List<string> testList;

[simple cove]

yeah share attribute code please

I didn't know you were fine with adding an attribute on each list's instance since you mentioned PropertyDrawer

[ember gate]

It's only an empty PropertyDrawer of the Attribute

Let me recover it quickly

https://gdl.space/asicadatuc.cs

This gives the following result on

[Test] public List<string> testList;

[simple cove]

even if you set GetPropertyHeight to 0?

I guess you want it to draw (in a custom way), but go ahead and try anyway

[ember gate]

It only affects the items

[waxen sandal]

PropertyDrawers always apply to the list item and never to the list itself

[simple cove]

CustomPropertyDrawer(.., useForChildren: false);?

[waxen sandal]

Known "issue"

The only way you can change the way the list is drawn is creating an editor/drawer for the parent

[simple cove]

@ember gate does this make the property drawer not do anything?

[ember gate]

It's the same. It seems that useForChildren's default value is false

[simple cove]

awww 😦 then sorry. I'm sure I've resolved this somehow in the past, but can't really remember how. Maybe it was just with Odin.

[ember gate]

Is it possible to create an Attribute with the Editor, since it doesn't seem to work and I don't want to define a custom Editor for every class

[dusk portal]

as a workaround, you could maybe create a struct as a wrapper that has the list as its only member, then you can have a custom property drawer for the wrapper

[ember gate]

Either this, or deriving my own type from List and creating a custom drawer for it, assuming the Unity's one is not applied to the derived classes. Anyway, this sounds troublesome, so I'm out

Thank you all for your help

[outer crystal]

Doing some mesh based stuff and wanted to draw face normals in scene view - really surprised by how inefficient Unity handle class is, seems like every handle.draw command causes a Material.SetPassFast call which kills performance, not to mention the actual draws themselves are inefficient too. Getting better performance using drawlines(segments[]) but still surprised. I wonder if its still immediate mode based?

Clearly the expectation was that you wouldn't have a huge number of handle calls per frame, but I guess that means i'll have to roll my own.
Anyone else encountered this?
Any good existing libraries to deal with it?

[gloomy chasm]

You can just use the Graphics and GL classes directly. Just more work 🙂

You can use Graphics.DrawInstantProcedural if you really need a lot. And there is the paid Aline asset which I have heard good things about too.

[outer crystal]

Aline looks good. Thx

[wild edge]

is this for editor-use only? If so, there is https://github.com/vertxxyz/Vertx.Debugging, which is similar to Aline and has a "draw mesh normals" function.

[outer crystal]

thx that looks interesting - I'll dig into it tomorrow

[thorny rock]

I'm trying to refresh my data when a scene switches, but this line does not work. Why? I get Compiler Error CS0123 but changing UpdateLevelDatas parameter to (Scene scene, LoadSceneMode mode) does not get rid of that error.

void OnEnable(){
EditorSceneManager.sceneOpened += UpdateLevelData;
}

void UpdateLevelData(){
...
}

Here (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.EditorSceneManager-sceneOpened.html) are not parameters given that I need to add to my method. 😦

[gloomy chasm]

void UpdateLevelData(SceneManagement.Scene scene, SceneManagement.OpenSceneMode mode)
From https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.EditorSceneManager.SceneOpenedCallback.html

[thorny rock]

Oh wow thanks. I had the reference of the regular SceneManagement open that has slightly different parameters >.>

[queen wharf]

Trying to draw a table in a editorwindow w/ IMGUI. Could someone point me in the right direction here? I have each of these rows handled by a beginhorizontal but im trying to figure out how to "sync" the individual field widths so their not mis-aligned like this

(vs. what i want)

Was previously doing this via grouping them into columns via beginverticals but i need horizontals to sync the height of stuff like lists and taller fields

I think my main confusion is I don't understand how to get the width of a displayed field

[gloomy chasm]

You set the width instead of letting them figure it out.
Alternatively, you can use the built-in (but more complex) MultiColumnHeader and TreeView to do it https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/IMGUI.Controls.MultiColumnHeader.html

And if you decide to use UIToolkit (I very much recommend it over IMGUI), then there is the MultiColumnListView control (pretty easy to use)
https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/UIElements.MultiColumnListView.html

[queen wharf]

Thank you a lot for this response

Def. wanna checkout UI Toolkit at some point

[queen wharf]

I've been trying to set the width but I don't know how to get the width of something im rendering (aside from the previous or current rect which includes unused space?)

Like im not sure how i can programmically grab this rect

[gloomy chasm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GUILayoutUtility.GetLastRect.html 😄

[queen wharf]

I've been trying to google with that, is that only for usage of Begin/End functions or per EditorGUILayout.Field etc calls?

[gloomy chasm]

Nope, as the example in the docs shows it works with buttons and anything else that uses the layout system.

Basically just call it after you draw the header for each of your columns and cache the value for each column.

[queen wharf]

heard chef ty chef

[muted wraith]

Hello i've been really struggling to find a fix for this, basically in vs code the intellisense completely stopped working and it said it was from dotnet and that it wasn't installed even though I had it installed I went on the terminal to check it's path and tried fixing it in vs code but still no intellisense at all can anyone help me please?

[blissful sky]

I don't really know where to put this question, but is there a way to create .mesh files via script? I am trying to make a Skinned Mesh -> Mesh baker using SkinnedMeshRenderer.BakeMesh(Mesh mesh), but it just make mesh with no name somewhere in RAM or my pc storage, I am still not sure where and what it is, but I want it to bake into separate .mesh file (or at least edit existing .mesh file that I choose) somewhere within assets folder, and it would be great if it had a name 😅

[visual stag]

Sure. Just set .name and if you want to create an asset use AssetDatabase.CreateAsset

[blissful sky]

Thank you! ❤️

[unreal light]

i'm learning the editor coroutine package by using it in an "EditorWizard" system i'm creating for an editor extension. the wizard window only has to implement the visual element UI and an IEnumerator whcih is the coroutine itself.

Here's a trimmed version of the system: https://hastebin.com/share/muresajewa.csharp

i'm having an issue where the TestWizard is basically completely ignoring the EditorWaitForSeconds call, i'm unsure why. but here's the output in the console that imo shows what i'm talking about

am i yielding the wait instruction incorrectly?

[unreal light]

ok it was because on the internal coroutine i was yield return null instead of yield return current

[glad cliff]

I dont remember time when I did not have any problems with ListView, and thus im here with it again.
Im using Unity 2022.3.10f1 and reorderable ListView in my PropertyDrawer couses editor to crash every time I try to move items in it. Is this some common issue and workaround is known as well? Or maybe someone has idea of what I may be doing wrong that breaks everything? CrashLog seems like something in SerializedProperty.MoveArrayElementInternal couses crach.
https://pastebin.com/hLzgwdcm

yeah actually its not list view, any attempt on calling MoveArrayElement couses crash

[glad cliff]

I guess there is nothing more I can do than try updating to newer version, although this maneuver will propably cost me 51 years (insert meme here)

[iron pasture]

Unity sometimes resets inspector variables when I start play mode and then exit play mode if the variable was not set in prefab. 2022.3.34f1

[minor cloud]

All changes made during the playmode to objects in the scene are discarded.

[iron pasture]

That's not what I mean, man. I'm talking about the variables I set in edit mode.

[minor cloud]

During reloads, Unity may discard all changes that haven't been serialized. If your code is modifying variables and they get lost later, then there is a chance you haven't marked those variables dirty and Unity didn't know it has to serialize (save) them.

[iron pasture]

I guess I can't be clear enough. I assign values ​​to variables marked public or SerializeField in the code by dragging them with the mouse before starting the game. And sometimes when I turn play mode on and off, these variables are reset. The code does not change the value of these variables.

[minor cloud]

Do you know if the assets that contain those fields have a custom inspector, editor or property drawer? Sometimes they're designed to not save changes automatically. Sometimes they don't save changes because of mistakes in their code.

[timid coyote]

should i unregister from visualelement.RegisterValueChangeCallback(action); ? if yes how, because the deconstructor doesnt work. the only solution is to make a function or implement IDisposable

[glad cliff]

I have never done so and did not encounter any issues. However if you really need to, you can use RegisterCallback<ValueChangeEvent<ValueTypeOfThatField>> and use Unregister counterpart for it. I may messed up the names but something along this lines

[timid coyote]

i havent gotten any isues at all too but i thought is a good practice to do it too for toolkit

[glad cliff]

On newer version works like a charm. Apparently got unlucky that version I was working on had such a critical bug :/

[carmine walrus]

Anyone else having the problem that when you (I have Unity and visual Studios 2022) create a new script in a project, Visual Studios drops all the connections to unity, and it makes the using UnityEngine; for example, greyed out. So i have to restart Visual Studios for it to work again.

[clear kite]

I have been working on a little EditorWindow extension that opens all the scenes one by one and traverses the scenes for a problems in one of my scripts. After all scenes are done, I open the original scene again. Now I'm wondering whether there is any easy way to keep the selection I had in the original scene unchanged after loading all the scenes. Just keeping the Selection.objects array will result in all the selected objects in the scene turning Null in the array. Same way if I keep array of the .GetInstanceIDs and try to turn them into Objects when the original scene is loaded again using EditorUtility.InstanceIDToObject, all the objects in the scene will return Null. Are there any relatively easy workarounds to this that I have missed?

[flint garnet]

its either problem with visual studio, or you computer can't handle it, usually if that happens, just need wait couple second or minute, or you can tried open other class, and back to the current class that still grey out, for me its work...so don't need to restart the vs studio

[gloomy chasm]

GlobalObjectId would do probably. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GlobalObjectId.html

[clear kite]

Managed to miss that completely, thanks a ton. Will try that

[gloomy chasm]

Easy to miss, it is a newer feature and not widely used or know about really. Hope it helps 🙂

[clear kite]

not very promising that each static method is suffixed with Slow but in this case it will be more than enough if it just works. Loading all the scenes and then traversing them takes quite some time already so this surely can't be slower than that

[gloomy chasm]

yeah for the small number of objects that will be selected, I am sure it won't be much of an issue.

For the scenes, most scenes are in plain YAML text, so you could probably read the text from the file directly to do your checks instead of loading them. But I guess it depends on what the checks are.

[ember gate]

In a PropertyDrawer, any way to get the specific modified field, when applying an Attribute to the Type, which has fields inside of it?

[MyAttribute] // see which field was modified: field1 or field2
public MyClass myClass;

[Serializable]
public class MyClass
{
    public string field1;
    public string field2;
}

[clear kite]

I thought of that but it is a type of check that I only need to do once when the game is finished to make sure I haven't forgot to set the things properly in some of the scenes so it doesn't matter if it takes second or minute to do (from what I have seen so far, it seems like it will only take couple seconds)

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean ?

when applying an Attribute to the Type

[ember gate]

In the shown code example, the Attribute MyAttribute is applied to the Type MyClass

Also, it was a typo, since the Attribute should've been named MyAttribute, not MyType

[gloomy chasm]

Okay, and what are you wanting to do?

[ember gate]

I'm willing to see which field was modified inside of the object

Since PropertyDrawer.fieldInfo only returns MyClass

[gloomy chasm]

Modified when? You mean just any time a field changes?

[ember gate]

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention it. By "modified" I mean modified in the inspector, which is tracked with EditorGUI.EndChangeCheck

[gloomy chasm]

Just put a change check around each field

[ember gate]

How would I extract each field?

[gloomy chasm]

Where?

[clear kite]

Worked perfectly, thank you so much

[ember gate]

You've mentioned checking each field separately. I'm asking you how would I get an enumeable of fields

[gloomy chasm]

You can iterate over the serialized properties.

[ember gate]

Using SerializedProperty.Next?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, or you can just foreach the GetEnumerator

[muted cave]

Trying to make a custom editor for a generic class. How would I fix this error?

[knotty oracle]

You can't do that with generic class like that really
Probably you should have abstract base Display class (as in, Display<T> : Display) and move common functionalities there
And editor [CustomEditor(typeof(Display), true)] would then apply to all Display<T> classes

[soft hill]

Hi,
Anyone using Steamworks facepunch wrapper here?
I'm trying to fetch steam inventory item TAGS, but I cant seem to get the .getProperty or .properties to work. Anyone did this before?

I'm getting desperate xD

[north sphinx]

I made a custom editor static method that is used from item menu and I want to make it cancellable because it's super long
How can I make "cancel" button here?

        [MenuItem("Assets/Find Dependent Assets")]
        private static void FindSelectedAssetDependencies()

[timid coyote]

cant u make it async and make ur own ui for showing the cancel button/

[north sphinx]

it's using AssetDatabase, so no

[timid coyote]

oh

[soft hill]

Omg i solved it -.-' I'm just dumb

[north sphinx]

hmm, how can I make a menu item that works on game objects in hierarchy?

I want this, but this button does not appear when I right click root of hierarchy

        [MenuItem("Unhide selected object recursively", false, 30)]
        private static void UnhideSelectedObjectRecursive()
        {
            var activeObj = Selection.activeObject;
            if (!activeObj)
            {
                return;
            }

            if (activeObj is not GameObject go)
            {
                return;
            }

            var tf = go.transform;
            Recursive(tf, transform =>
            {
                var localGo = transform.gameObject;
                localGo.hideFlags &= ~(HideFlags.HideInHierarchy | HideFlags.HideInInspector);
            });
        }

[gloomy chasm]

"GameObject/"Unhide Selected Object Recursively"

[north sphinx]

a typo with "?

[gloomy chasm]

You use GameObject/ to add menu items to the GameObhect (hierarchy) menu

Like you use Assets/ to add menu items to the project window menu

[north sphinx]

oh, I see

[ashen wyvern]

Sometimes Unity doesn't write/flushes prefabs and scriptables to disk until I close the editor, making a mess with source control
Can I force it somehow?
AssetDatabase.Save();? AssetDatabase.Refresh(ImportAssetOptions.ForceUpdate);? AssetDatabase.ForceReserializeAssets()?
Any insights?

[plush terrace]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.DisplayCancelableProgressBar.html

[uncut jasper]

I don't think Unity has this built-in, so I'm wondering if it's possible to implement as an editor script:
Lets say I have an Old Text game object that's been referenced in many different scripts (serialized field).

Is it possible to transfer that game object's reference ID to a different new text game object, so that anywhere Old Text was referenced now points to New Text object instead? Or, find everywhere that Game Object/Game Object's component is in a serialized field. and set it to the new one.

[vapid prism]

Yes, if you serialize an object you can then iterate over every single serialized property and check if its type is SerializedPropertyType.ObjectReference, then check if it references your old object and swap out the reference with your new object.

You would have to do this to every single prefab and every single object in every scene you have though, so it will be extremely expensive and slow depending on the size of your game

[visual stag]

The above question was cross posted and has been answered again #💻┃unity-talk message

[flat surge]

How do I quickly preview PNG files in my projects? My image previews are so tiny and I'd like to be able to quickly scroll through large images.

Oh, I see: There's this zoom function at the bottom right of the two column layout for the Project Window

[muted kernel]

Not sure if this is the right channel for this, but i'm trying to use the profiler (Standalone process) to profile my project and i'm getting this warning that keeps stopping the profiler.

Please use Profiler.maxUsedMemory API or -profiler-maxusedmemory command line parameter to increase maximum allowed memory usage.
Using 536887296 bytes while Profiler.maxUsedMemory is 536870912 bytes.

I tried googling it and honestly have found zero examples of how to do this.

not even sure how to launch the standalone profiler from command line to even add the parameter

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/Manual/ProfilerWindow.html is not helpful

[ember gate]

Hello, is there any way to make an Attribute with a PropertyDrawer not interfere with the field's PropertyDrawer?

[graceful river]

I've been working on this little editor tool that automatically manages any files that your drop in your assets root directory into sub folders and puts files in folders depending on the file type, I will be extending this functionality to work with any folder instead of just the root directory, so that when you reach a time in development where you just want to get back to work after importing a couple of files quickly , you don't have sit there and put everything where it belongs, this extension will handle just that, source code available on GitHub soon...

[outer kraken]

Pretty interesting, but couldn't that end up being problematic, occasionally?
Like, importing a Third Party Asset Pack, and suddenly all it's Contents are scattered across your own Folders?

[unreal light]

i'm stuck with some old ass situation where i'm forced to use AssetbundleBrowser

i've noticed that the entirety of AssetBundleBrowser is basically protected up to it's nuts, basically there's no way to interact with that API specifically

is there... a way i can run code before and after assetbundles are built? like, right before theyre built and right after?

[gloomy chasm]

No idea about your question unfortunately, but you can always use reflection to interact with the internal API if you need.

[unreal light]

and i thought addressables was bad enough

[real glacier]

I'm stuck with the following situation:
I have an abstract serialized class NPCSettings. I want to write a custom Property Drawer for it that would render it's fields in a different style if it matches with a value from a template NPCSettings object, which I set up in a static public variable NPCSettings.Template.
All this is to differentiate changed values from unchanged ones (with the possible option of adding a button to revert changes later).
I'm kinda stuck with how to get the variables from the template object without explicitly referencing them. It has over 40 variables, I kinda don't want to sit and manually writing drawer properties for each one, and then keeping revisit the drawer if I'll add or remove some.

My code so far:

    [CustomPropertyDrawer(typeof(NPCSettings))]
    public class NPCSettingsDrawer : PropertyDrawer
    {
        public override void OnGUI(Rect position, SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label)
        {
            EditorGUI.BeginProperty(position, label, property);
            int propertySize = property.CountInProperty();
            //Convert template object to SerializedProperty... doesn't let me.
            SerializedProperty templateProp = new SerializedObject(NPCSettings.Template);

            for (int i = 0; i < propertySize; i++)
            {
                bool valueDifferent = false;
                SerializedProperty curProp = property.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i);
                SerializedProperty templateProperty = templateProp.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i);
                switch (curProp.propertyType)
                {
                  //... I compare variables here, like 
                  //valueDifferent = curProp.intValue != templateProperty.intValue;
                }
                // draw property

            }
            EditorGUI.EndProperty();
        }
    }

[graceful river]

Nah, it doesn't mess with anything that is already in a folder

There is some other problems though, like when adding a new script to object directly from inspector, you create name for script and hit add, it instantly moves it to right folder, so it doesn't allow inspector to add the script , so basically hit add component again and search for the script you just created and add it

[gloomy chasm]

What I would do is create a ScriptableObject that holds the template. Then create a SerializedObject of that ScriptableObject.

You can then iterate over all child SerializedProperties and use and then get them in the template using the name compare the template with the current instance using SerializedProperty.DataEquals()

[glad cliff]

There are a fiew tools Ive seen that try to extend functionality of UnityEvent by adding more supported value types, more method arguments etc, but it is almost guaranteed that there is still something that cant be done with a serializable event, so for last couple of months I have been working on my solution that lets us call or assign pretty much anything through a serializable event. It is still far from finished, but im at a stage where I can start thinking about some "fancy" features if anyone would like to see some in a final product 😄 (and yeah, I want to show off a bit XD)

propably I would like to add some custom extension to VisualStudio to see in IDE if member is referenced in some event, however that is something ive never done before so dont know how big of a task it is yet

[gloomy chasm]

Oh very cool! Sort of ends up looking more like some primitive/limited scripting.
You able to share how you are handling some of the serialization aspects of it?

The UX and UI design is clever, but also I think ends up feeling like a lot of stuff on screen to parse. Some icons could really help as a start. You can just use the built-in ones directly, as Unity has a lot. I use this Utility to see them all in editor.

Also, while I as a programmer like the look of being able to see what it is calling. I think it ends up being harder to read and parse, especially for designers/non-programmers. That is where I think Unity's more limited UnityEvent does well, it is pretty easy for anyone to understand and use.

Anyway, just my two cents, but regardless, very cool!

[glad cliff]

Oh UI and UX is a thing of nightmare with this project, there is simply so much that needs to be explicitly showed to the user in one way or another that it just becomes messy, but I guess its either easy to use and limited, or can do almost everything but its complex in usage. One design choice I made to ease the eye a bit is this display change on hover and focus, so you can see this complex view only when you are editing given expression and see only simple, readable text when you are not, but I will probably add color-coding to this string to make it even easier to read, like in IDE, green for class, blue for variable etc.

Btw its already a 3rd iteration of that tool, first one was just a proof of concept for a compiled events, second one is even currently in use where I work, but is terrible to work with, and this one finally addresses all issues whole team had with 2nd iteration, mainly:
-it had tree-like structure so for something like "Class.field = 5" you had to build tree first by clicking Binary Assign Op -> (left side) Static Member -> (right side) Constant Value and then fill out each with what you want, now you just click in the same order as you would write it in code and dont care about expression type, but it took me 2 weeks to came up with algorithm that compiles it from 2D array with linear complexity (no recursive calls, no array slicing etc.)
-it did not communicate compiling errors at all, so either you knew what you are doing or it wouldnt work when running the game
-had limited supported value types, but now it supports pretty much every non-generic serializable class (and when using generic there is an option to call a constructor instead)
-generic methods worked only if there was some type constraint on a parameter and worked only with methods that have 1 generic parameter, now its unconstrained
-it was type sensitive, but now there is built in type promotion
-there was no conditional calls, now there is IF and ELSE

Serialization is just a bunch of SerializeReferences with managed type being an interface, but I can share some specific details if you want

[thorny rock]

I have an editor window-class that is getting quite big. I already refactored some functinality in other classes. Is there a way to call OnGui() on those classes?

Ideally I'd want my editor window-class to be a wrapper for several other classes that all handle what propeties are displayed etc. Is that possible?

[waxen sandal]

Property drawers?

Just plain old classes sharing a common interface?

[thorny rock]

So you'd write one class "LevelSectionHandler" and a separate property drawer for that? Because in this example LevelSecionHandler is already purely a class for editor purposes and I feel like making a second class to draw it feels a bit whacky. But if there is no other way then I guess I will do that.

I was hoping for a simple way to just implement functions like OnGui() that I can call from my wrapper class to extend the editor.

[waxen sandal]

I mean you can just do that?

I don't understand where the issue is

[vapid prism]

How can I add something to the context menu of a MonoBehaviour/ScriptableObject that isn't MenuItem?
My class is defined in an assembly that's not an editor assembly and needs a reference to some API that's declared in an Editor only assembly.

Actually I can solve this using a custom editor for that particular class.

[gloomy chasm]

You can use the ContextMenu attribute,

[vapid prism]

Doesn't work since I can't have an asmref to my other assembly which is an editor only assembly. Since I can't have a reference I can't use the editor APIs of that assembly in my non-editor assembly

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh sorry I misread, my bad. Yeah a custom editor is the way then.

[sinful spoke]

is there a way to see if a excel file in your project has changed?

[gloomy chasm]

You mean to get a event when it changes, or to check if it has changed since some point in time? If it is the former, you can use AssetPostprocess OnPostprocessAllAssets https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetPostprocessor.OnPostprocessAllAssets.html

[elder wasp]

Any help on this?

[robust bloom]

Hi all. I'm having some issues with an Editor script. I have followed a tutorial for a Field of View cone and it was working fine a few days ago but now it appears to have broken all on its own.
I have tried using breakpoints to help bug fix but it says "this breakpoint will not currently be hit. Unable to find a corresponding location"

[patent totem]

Hi! So im trying to create a custom inspector in unity, so that when I tick a bool as true it shows an array. However, it keep giving me errors and I dont know why. I have asked AI with no avail, so I've come here. Here is the code, TY in advance https://gdl.space/olojorixor.cs

[waxen sandal]

Well ObjectField is for UnityEditor.Objects, idk what your type is

[mystic wigeon]

which errors do you get?

[patent totem]

Nvm I fixedi it

[mystic wigeon]

alr

[burnt dove]

¿How can I by code check if "Strip Logging Callstack" from the Console menu is enabled?

[graceful river]

Got my little asset manager tool a new UI to put similar file types in dedicated folders automatically and shi

[sinful spoke]

yeah i tried this and its working when your not override your curent file and thats just the feature i want haha

so if i save over my current excel sheet with a new excel sheet i want to trigger a event

[waxen sandal]

afaik it should trigger if the file changed?

[sinful spoke]

aa well that solves my problem i was saving the whole time the same time

thx i was like why doesnt this work like this

[robust bloom]

Hey all. Still having an issue with my editor script. I followed a tutorial on youtube for it and it was working perfectly fine. Then a few days go by and I reopen the project and it appears to not be working.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;
using static UnityEngine.GraphicsBuffer;

[CustomEditor(typeof(FieldOfView))]
public class Editor_FieldOfView : Editor
{
    private void OnSceneGUI()
    {
        FieldOfView FOV = (FieldOfView)target;
        Handles.color = Color.white;
        Handles.DrawWireArc(FOV.transform.position, Vector3.up, Vector3.forward, 360, FOV.viewRadius);

        Vector3 viewAngleA = FOV.DirFromAngle(-FOV.viewAngle / 2, false);
        Vector3 viewAngleB = FOV.DirFromAngle(FOV.viewAngle / 2, false);
    Handles.DrawLine(FOV.transform.position, FOV.transform.position + viewAngleA * FOV.viewRadius);
        Handles.DrawLine(FOV.transform.position, FOV.transform.position + viewAngleB * FOV.viewRadius);

        Handles.color = Color.red;

        foreach (Transform visibleTarget in FOV.visibleTargets)
        {
            //visibleTarget.GetComponent<Material>().SetColor("_seen", Color.red);
      visibleTarget.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().enabled = true;
            Handles.DrawLine(FOV.transform.position, visibleTarget.position);
        }
    }
}```

I have tried reimporting the file and tried deleting and recreating it but it won't do what I want

[timid coyote]

The buttons dont align with the rest of the fields and i dont understand why
style container:

 private void Initialize()
        {
            this.AddFieldClass();

            _label = new Label("Style")
                .AddLabelClass()
                .SetTooltip("The styles to apply to the text");

            _multipleButtonsRoot = InitializeMultipleButtonsRoot();
            _singleButtonsRoot = InitializeSingleButtonsRoot();
        }

private VisualElement InitializeMultipleButtonsRoot()
        {
            var root = new VisualElement()
                .AddStyleSheet("ButtonsRoot");
            
            var boltButton = new StyleButton("B", 
                FontStyles.Bold, _mediator);
            
            var italicButton = new StyleButton("I", 
                FontStyles.Italic, _mediator);
            
            var underlineButton = new StyleButton("U", 
                FontStyles.Underline, _mediator);
            
            var strikethroughButton = new StyleButton("S", 
                FontStyles.Strikethrough, _mediator);

            return root
                .AddChild(boltButton)
                .AddChild(italicButton)
                .AddChild(underlineButton)
                .AddChild(strikethroughButton);
        }```

style button:
```cs
private void Initialize(string displayText, Mediator<RichWord> mediator)
        {
            this
                .AddClass("button")
                .SetText(displayText)
                .SetTooltip(_style.ToString())
                .SetAndRegisterMediator(mediator);
        }```
ButtonsRoot.uss:
```cs
:root
{
    flex-grow: 1;
    flex-direction: row;
    
    overflow: hidden;
    border-radius: 7px;
}

.button
{
    flex-grow: 1;

    border-radius: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

.button-on
{
    background-color: var(--pressed-button-color);
}```

```cs
public static T AddFieldClass<T>(this T target) where T : VisualElement
        {
            string fieldClass = BaseField<bool>.ussClassName;
            return target.AddClass(fieldClass);
        }```

[gloomy chasm]

I assume you mean you want the buttons to line up on the right of the label with the other fields. If so, you need to add the BaseField<>.alignedUssClassName class to the StyleContainer

[gloomy chasm]

What does 'not working' mean? What is it doing, and what do you want it to be doing?

[timid coyote]

i tried, only with aligned, with aligned and field and it just wont align

[gloomy chasm]

Might need to add input to the input container element.

[timid coyote]

input class?

if yes is it inside aligned?

[gloomy chasm]

A field has 3 elements, and should have these classes

Base : unity-base-field, unity-base-field__aligned
 - Label : unity-base-field__label
 - Input : unity-base-field__input

[robust bloom]

I followed a tutorial that would display a field of view cone. In that tutorial it had the editor file that would be in charge of changing all the enemy attributes (change colour when in line of sight, not render when not in line of sight) etc

[timid coyote]

ok will try to add it, thanks :DD

[robust bloom]

This was recorded when it was working as intended (enemies hide when not in fov)

[gloomy chasm]

I see, and what is it doing now?

[robust bloom]

Ive moved the code out of the editor so its working now but it seemed like it wasnt acknowledging the editor script. I was getting "this breakpoint will not currently be hit" when having a breakpoint in the editor script

[gloomy chasm]

I notice in your OnSceneGUI method you are enabling the renders of the targets. You shouldn't be doing this in the editor script probably since editor scripts will not be included when you build the project. And you can't build if any runtime scripts (anything not inside of a Editor folder) reference UnityEditor.

[robust bloom]

I've never used editor scripts before now so didn't fully understand what I was doing. I have moved things out of the editor script now.

thanks for the help though

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh sure no problem 🙂

[timid coyote]

it still didnt work

[timid coyote]

why my textelement wont change its font? ( its text is "<font=Louis George Cafe>ana</font> are mere")
I also tried "<font=\"Louis George Cafe\">ana</font> are mere" but its the same

[real spindle]

How are you drawing it? IMGUI or UITK?

[timid coyote]

Uitoolkit

[real spindle]

With imgui you have to use a guistyle with "richText" enabled, not sure about uitk. But maybe something similiar

[real spindle]

Check this doc, maybe the bottom part about enabling richtext helps: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UIE-rich-text-tags.html

[timid coyote]

Rich is enabled by default

And this is what they say

[real spindle]

Did you try with the quotes but without escaping?

[timid coyote]

U cant

[gloomy chasm]

I don't think the UIToolkit supports it. But if it does, make sure that richText is enabled on the Label element. Otherwise, you need to use styles, and multiple Labels, one for each font.

[white jay]

Was told to ask this here

does anyone know if its possible with custom editor stuff to get this graphic from the rule tile

I am trying to make an editor tool to make patterns for a grid

[dusk dome]

I'm trying to make an editor window where I can edit a list of vector2s in parallel with an animation for a frame data thing I'm working on. any idea how I should get started, or if this exists already? the idea would be that there is a drop-down with all the animation states, and you can scrub through the frames of the animation and edit a value of the list on that frame index.

[timid coyote]

But the screenshot i posted above clearly shows that font tag is supported by uitoolkit and on the textelement rich is enabled by default

[inner notch]

I moved my unity projects folder and lost all scripts somehow 8months later I’ve fixed it but reimporting some stuff stuff but all the scripts fields are empty and I forgot where what goes

Can some big brain person please help me bcs it’ll take ages to figure out how it all worked

[golden grove]

Hey all, just wondering if anyone knows of a UIElements functionality to draw the default inspector to root? Currently I have a script that finds a specific property however I am looking to still draw all the default data that would be drawn if not being overridden by the custom inspector, I am using "PropertyDrawer" and "CreatePropertyGUI" if anyone has any insight that would be greatly appreciated!

[timid coyote]

private const string SCRIPT_FIELD = "m_Script";

private VisualElement InitializeDefaultInspector()
        {
            var root = new VisualElement();

            var property = serializedObject.GetIterator();
            if (!property.NextVisible(true)) 
                return root;
            
            do
            {
                if (property.propertyPath.Equals(SCRIPT_FIELD)) 
                    continue;

                var propertyField = new PropertyField(property);
                root.AddChild(propertyField);
            } 
            while (property.NextVisible(false));
            
            return root;
        }```

[golden grove]

Appreciate it thanks! I'll try it when I get back.

[timid coyote]

ur welcome :DD

[dusk dome]

https://gdl.space/weyaradowo.cs

why arent the position handles being updated?

https://i.imgur.com/AzI8878.gif

[real spindle]

Is FPBounds2 a struct?

If yes, you are editing a copy of it. So you need to assign it back in the end of EndChangeCheck: ```cs
t.hurtBox = hurtBox;

[dusk dome]

thank you! just packed up my PC to move, but will check this out when I can. will the positions change while I drag, or only when I let go?

[real spindle]

Drag should work

[unreal light]

I'm being forced to create a custom property drawer to display a long value as a mask, currently doing it with a popup, how can i make it so the toggles for each possible flag of the mask (pic 1) looks like the ones from this type of toggle? (pic 2)

[timid coyote]

If its off, invisible true, else i think u can change the box into the check then inviz off ( this all with uitoolkit )

[unreal light]

Forgot to mention I'm using imgui, oops

[dusk dome]

https://gdl.space/burozuzima.cs
Just added the line you told me, and now when i drag this happens 😅
https://i.imgur.com/CJcaSFT.gif
any idea why?

[real spindle]

Dunno, probably related to all those conversions

[dusk dome]

maybe its the divisions?

for the extents

fixed it

is there a way to change these position handles so they aren't like that?

like collder editors

they just have small squares

[visual stag]

Use Handles.Slider or Handles.Slider2D and pass whatever cap function you like

[golden grove]

Hey! Sorry I'm only getting to this now, I do see the idea behind what you are going for but there's a couple problems I'm facing, I understand the approach of looping through all "properties" in the SerializedProperty, but I am unable to find reference to: ```cs
var property = serializedObject.GetIterator();

as-well as:
```cs
root.AddChild

as it appears "serializedObject" and "root" doesn't seem to have an "AddChild" function. Any ideas on what may be going wrong or perhaps a script reference I could be missing?

[golden grove]

I have tried to pass the "CreatePropertyGUI"s "SerialiedProperty" reference as a ".serializedObject" and tried adding the function you created with that reference to root, but unfortunately that added an infinite loop of the base class holding it inside the PropertyDrawer haha. Sorry I am quite unfamilliar with custom inspectors and especially "UIElements" as a whole.

[timid coyote]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializedObject.GetIterator.html
as for addchild:

/// <summary>
        /// Add the <paramref name="child"/> to the <paramref name="target"/>.
        /// </summary>
        public static T AddChild<T>(this T target, VisualElement child) where T : VisualElement
        {
            target.Add(child);
            return target;
        }

[golden grove]

Is there possibly an easier built-in function for adding default variables in a class, I really am not able to follow very well unfortunately. 😭
I thought I had seen somewhere a "DrawDefaultInspector()" of some kind, I'm unsure if it's a "UIElements" function but I feel as though it may be much more convenient, I'm creating this custom inspector for a parent class and searching for the property list which only some child classes have and drawing a custom functionality to a button which is required for the custom list, Is there potentially a way to not replace the entire inspector and just target a specific variable if it's found?

[timid coyote]

DrawDefaultInspector is on the gui part

but at the moment for uitoolkit, there is not

[golden grove]

        SerializedProperty effectComponentsArray = property.FindPropertyRelative("contactEffects");
        if (effectComponentsArray != null)
        {
            var effectComponentsArrayField = new PropertyField(effectComponentsArray);

            var addContactEffectButton = new Button();
            addContactEffectButton.text = "<b><size=115%>(+) Attack Effect</size></b>";

            addContactEffectButton.clickable = new Clickable(() =>
            {
                Debug.Log("button clicks");
                GenericMenu menu = new GenericMenu();

                // Declare New Effect Components Below !

                KnockbackEffect newKnockbackEffect = new KnockbackEffect();

                // Insert New Declared Effect Components Below !

                menu.AddItem(new GUIContent("Knockback Effect"), true, () => OnEffectComponentSelected(newKnockbackEffect));

                menu.ShowAsContext();
            });

            void OnEffectComponentSelected(ContactEffectComponent component)
            {
                var effectScriptableObject = Activator.CreateInstance(component.GetType());
                effectComponentsArray.InsertArrayElementAtIndex(effectComponentsArray.arraySize);
                effectComponentsArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(effectComponentsArray.arraySize - 1).managedReferenceValue = effectScriptableObject;
                //attackComponentsArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(attackComponentsArray.arraySize - 1).l
                effectComponentsArray.serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();
            }
            effectComponentsArrayField.label = "<b><size=115%>Attack Effects</size></b>";

            root.Add(effectComponentsArrayField);
            root.Add(addContactEffectButton);

        }
        return root;

Currently this is my pretty basic property which I have created as a "CreatePropertyGUI" in my "[CustomPropertyDrawer(typeof(AttackComponent))]"

[golden grove]

Ah, I see. Is there possibly a way of merging the two gui systems somehow?

Because it really is just one particular property or variable I need to add a button for.

[timid coyote]

dont think its the best solution

[golden grove]

Hmm, I see. Because honestly I have very very little understanding of where this connects to the previous code, just simply because I am unfamilliar with how UIToolkit is even structured entirely haha.

[timid coyote]

but why u dont just create an attribute, assign it to the list and then with a property drawer, draw the list and then the button

didnt read ur last question

this is the answer 🙂

just like u have [serilializeField] u can have custom attributes

[golden grove]

I am pretty sure I was unaware of this, but I also am unaware of how that all works in general

[golden grove]

this was initially what I was trying to do but my attempts of figuring that out were futile so I just decided to draw and look for the property as it was the easiest solution I could find resources on.

[timid coyote]

ik this kinda hard at first, but after a while u will get it

[golden grove]

Haha, yeah that's the hope. I am just really worried about overcomplicating code that has a hidden simple answer, you'd think they'd have a function to just draw default variables.

[timid coyote]

so u have CustomEditor to edit a whole script, and property drawer for fields

[golden grove]

Right yes

I vaguely understand the difference between a CustomEditor and the UIToolkits stuff, which generally is a lot more understandable I've found, besides drawing these dang default variables haha.

[timid coyote]

uitoolkit is just an api, a bounch of scripts, that helps u to draw the inspector

[golden grove]

Is the ```cs
public override VisualElement CreatePropertyGUI(SerializedProperty property)

[timid coyote]

there is also the an ancient "version" called imgui

the property its just the field

u have .stringValue, .intValue

etc

[golden grove]

I remember when I had first tried to start in unity I had used imgui which I believe was a package haha. I really hadn't known anything at that point and gave up really fast.

[golden grove]

can I send the context I'd love to be able to know what the "property" actually represents under this context I feel like that'd help me gauge this better.

[timid coyote]

its just like u did here SerializedProperty effectComponentsArray = property.FindPropertyRelative("contactEffects");

[golden grove]

in this:

[CustomPropertyDrawer(typeof(AttackComponent))]
public class AttackComponentsEditor : PropertyDrawer
{
    public override VisualElement CreatePropertyGUI(SerializedProperty property)

[golden grove]

Right yes, it's a visualelement but it references "property" what is possible to retrieve from this reference?

[timid coyote]

u need to create a new class that inherits from Attribute

and instead of AttackComponent u have the attribute

[golden grove]

oh dear

[timid coyote]

the property isnt a visual element

visual elements are what u draw on the inspector, like the int field, string field

[golden grove]

Yes, but what is it?

[timid coyote]

property just points to ur list

[golden grove]

ahh, I see.

[timid coyote]

because u have to add ur attribute to the list like this [Custom] private List<int> list;

u create a class CustomAttribute : Attribute

so the property just points to whatever u assigned ur attrribute to

[golden grove]

so what would I be creating an attribute of ?

Like what would be defined in the attribute, the "AttackComponent"?

[timid coyote]

i dont understand what are u going for

[golden grove]

me either at this point

[timid coyote]

:))))

want to vc to explain a little better?

[golden grove]

I am editing what my arrow is pointing to, shouldn't I get access to everything within' it?

[golden grove]

I don't have a mic at the moment as I'm away but I can listen

[timid coyote]

sure

[golden grove]

Debug.Log(property.CountInProperty());

        for (int i = 1; i < property.CountInProperty(); i++)
        {
            SerializedProperty childProperty = property.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i);
            Debug.Log("Adding Property:" + childProperty.name);
            root.Add(new PropertyField(childProperty));
        }
``` Hey all! I think I've got something at-least functional as far as drawing child classes elements individually, but I am currently trying to create a loop which will (ideally) loop through all properties of the current child class, which does accurately log the number of variables using the "CountInProperty" however, I cannot seem to get my "property.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i)" to return anything, I am also noticing the loop isn't even logging my "Adding Property: " log in the loop, any ideas why the loop wouldn't be firing even though the "CountInProperty()" is not 0 or null?

[gloomy chasm]

Well is property a SerializedProperty of an array?

[golden grove]

"property" in my case is for my class:

[System.Serializable]
public class AttackComponent
{
    public virtual void Invoke(Entity sender) { }
}

which is the parent class of in my current test:

[System.Serializable]
public class MovementData : AttackComponent
{
    [SerializeField]
    public float xVelocity = 0;
    [SerializeField]
    public float yVelocity = 0;
}

which property.CountInProperty() seems to accurately be returning the accessable variables in whatever child class I am referencing, but not firing the loop at all, which should be happening even if it can't access the properties due to "CountInProperty()" being a non null int?

[gloomy chasm]

myProperty.GetArrayElementAt(i) is like when you do myArray[i]. So if myProperty is not for an array, it isn't going to work.

For iterating on the children, you can just foreach the property 🙂

Not sure what CountInProperty is. Is it an extension method you wrote?

[golden grove]

Hmm, "CountInProperty()" is a function from the "SerializedProperty" class.

[gloomy chasm]

Ooh

[golden grove]

But shouldn't my for loop be firing if my "property.CountInProperty()" is accurately logging "8" for example eitherway?

I guess in "MovementData"s example it'd be logging 3, since it also logs the "AttackComponent" itself.

[gloomy chasm]

I totally forgot CountInProperty is a thing... I don't think in all my years of editor scripting I have ever used it haha, thats my bad

[golden grove]

Haha, yeah I just assumed it would be useful in a for loop to try to automate the manual process of adding default variables I need to access

[gloomy chasm]

foreach(SerializedProperty childProperty in property)
{
  root.Add(new PropertyField(childProperty));
}

Anyway, this will do the same as what you wanted the code you posted to do.

[golden grove]

Like for example I can do:

if (property.FindPropertyRelative("xVelocity") != null)
        {
            SerializedProperty variableElement = property.FindPropertyRelative("xVelocity");

            root.Add(new PropertyField(variableElement));
        }

which will display specifically my "xVelocity" element if it is found in the child class, but I am trying to avoid doing that for each.

[golden grove]

Let me try that!

[golden grove]

Hmm, yeah this just adds another instance of my "AttackComponent" not the child class unfortunately.

sorry it's a bit scuffed, but the red box represents the "AttackComponents" custom editor

[gloomy chasm]

Can you show the runtime classes and the editor classes? I'm having a hard time figuring out what exactly is where so it is a bit hard to say what might be going on

!code

[grave hinge]

Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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[golden grove]

where-as this, would draw as so:

[golden grove]

and yes

the "property.FindPropertyRelative("contactEffects")" segment is just searching for a particular element which needs a custom button and drawing the button, that isn't a part of the "MovementData" class but instead another child class that is longer.

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh was just aboout to ask about that

[golden grove]

Essentially my system splits animation into frames, which each can add a "Attack Component" which could play a sound, move the "caster", play a sound, or add a damage hitbox, and the "damage hitbox" has another list of modular effects which can for example: apply knockback, apply damage etc.

[gloomy chasm]

I don't see why this code wouldn't work https://paste.ofcode.org/hYXBUpBiHB8n2jNxv3kXxs

Here is the code for what it is doing if you are interested https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/SerializedProperty.bindings.cs#L259

[golden grove]

not really sure what kind of wizardry is going on in my project, but this worked?

It wasn't working a second ago haha. Not really sure what happened.

[gloomy chasm]

Maybe it got pasted in the wrong place or didn't recompile?

[golden grove]

Except it isn't drawing my custom button anymore, not sure why.

[golden grove]

probably, it was logging really weirdly in the inspector.

[gloomy chasm]

But actually looking at the code, I think it won't work exactly how you want because it will go in to nested classes as well.

[golden grove]

this is how it's currently working in the inspector, and it's drawing propertly for "MovementData" as-well.

It's just my "ContactEffects" isn't drawing as my custom list, but I assume I could just search for it in the childproperty loop and do it that way?

[gloomy chasm]

var end = property.GetEndProperty();
var iterator = property.Copy();
if (iterator.NextVisible(true))
{
 do {

    root.Add(new PropertyField(iterator));
  }while(iterator.NextVisible(false) && !SerializedProperty.EqualContents(iterator, end))
}

I think you want to do this instead of the foreach because the foreach will enter the child properties. So if you had another class/struct in your AttackComponent it would add a PropertyField for each of its properties as well.

[golden grove]

Like a parent to "AttackComponent" or child?

It's only drawing the specific child I am adding of "AttackComponent"

I have a custom button to add a specific child instance of "AttackComponent"

[gloomy chasm]

Like if you had

public class MovementData : AttackComponent
{
  public MyOtherDataClass myData;
}

It would add a PropertyField for myData but also a property field for each property inside of MyOtherDataClass

[golden grove]

Hmm, that may be fine as I don't intent on referencing a class but I guess I could use the other example just in-case.

Generally, all the references happen in the "Invoke" function which are passed a variable when "invoked"

[gloomy chasm]

Also, for the CustomPropertyDrawer attribute, you should add [CustomPropertyDrawer(typeof(AttackComponent), true)]

(Honestly, it shouldn't be working right now for your MovementData class)

[golden grove]

Yeah I really have no idea what's going on with my project atm lol.

My "MovementData" when being added is adding two "XVelocity"s

[gloomy chasm]

Have you tried restarting Unity just? haha

[gloomy chasm]

That is probably because below the foreach loop you are manually adding one 🙂

[golden grove]

Nevermind I forgot to save my changes in the inspector, it's just from my old "findproperty"

[golden grove]

Yeah, haha in my inspector I had commented it out and not saved.

[golden grove]

what does the "true" do?

nevermind there's a tooltip haha

[gloomy chasm]

It makes the property drawer be used for child classes

[golden grove]

So should I just add my

SerializedProperty effectComponentsArray = property.FindPropertyRelative("contactEffects");
        if (effectComponentsArray != null)
        {
``` to the loop through childproperties and just search for a childproperty with the name "contactEffects"

or how would I find the "contactEffects" property in that loop?

Because it doesn't seem to be using the other block where it searches for "contactEffects"

[gloomy chasm]

Can you showwhere contactEffectsis defined

I mean it should find it, I would debug.log it out

[golden grove]

I mean it is displaying "contactEffects" in your new loop, but that seems to be replacing the other "Find". Not sure why

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean?

[golden grove]

the whole bottom half of this where it looks for and replaces the "contactEffects"

I'm looking to maintain the (+) Attack Effect button, and custom list. I assume this would be done by finding the "childProperty" for "contactEffects" and drawing all the replacing stuff in it's place.

but I'm not sure how to check using an if statement if "childProperty == contactEffects" or something to that effect.

[gloomy chasm]

OOOH

[golden grove]

to be completely honest I have no idea why it's different at all with or without this loop, but.

[gloomy chasm]

Duh, do var copy = property.Copy(); before the foreach and use the copy instead of property in the foreach

[golden grove]

Perfect that worked!

Is it possible to still search and not draw the "contactEffects" twice though haha

[gloomy chasm]

In the for loop you can do if (child.name == "contactEffects") to find it

[golden grove]

I assume I'd still need to search for the "childProperty" that equals "contactEffects".

[golden grove]

oh perfect, thanks!

Horray! Everything works.

I really appreciate your help this has been concerningly difficult for me to figure out for some time now haha

it's beautiful

Also, on a side-note do you know of a way to easily remove the default list "+/-" under the "AttackEffects"?

just a visual thing and it doesn't really matter if it complicates things, but it would be nice to remove.

[gloomy chasm]

Just as an explanation for why it worked. SerializedProperties are basically in a hierarchy/tree. And whatever property you have is the 'selected' one. So property.NextVisible(false) moves itself to be the next one in the hierarchy. While property.NextVisible(true) will move itself in to its child property if it has one.

The foreach internally does a NextVisible(true), so it would move the property 'past' the contactEffects property. If that makes sense.

[golden grove]

Ahh, I see. Yeah no working this out with you has made how it works make a lot more sense. I really do appreciate it!

I was pretty much just throwing attempts at it and hoping something worked lol.

[gloomy chasm]

You would need to draw your own ListView instead of a PropertyField. Or you could add a uss file that has styles that hide those elements.

[gloomy chasm]

Been there haha

[golden grove]

I couldn't find ANY reference on how to accomplish this simply.

[golden grove]

Okay I'll probably just add styles as I'm natively a webdev haha.

so is it possible to create "css" type styles for specific elements or portions of the inspector?

Like can I assign a "css-class" to an element?

I think UIToolkit uses UXML, but I assume it's the same thing?

[gloomy chasm]

Literally it is just a subset of css 👍

[golden grove]

okay perfect, I'll do that then! Thanks so much you're a lifesaver!

[gloomy chasm]

You can right-click on the header of a window to open a context menu with a UIToolkit Debugger (or maybe UIElements Debugger depending on the version)

From that window you can see the full hierarchy of elements and find the +/- buttons and see what classes they have right now

[golden grove]

Yeah, I think I've seen that somewhere it seems exactly like Unity's DevTools replacer

where it highlights all the related info of a panel

[gloomy chasm]

Also most visual element types have static string properties for the uss class names, like FloatField.ussClassName is a property for "unity-float-field"

[golden grove]

Oh perfect, yeah I'm looking at that now.

Are all instances of (in this example) "unity-list-view__footer" unique or would I need to create some sort of distinction and search for my class first

like is there a way to specify the "unity-list-view__footer" on specifically my "contactEffects" list?

[gloomy chasm]

No, not without either naming the element or adding a class to it

[golden grove]

Hmm, can I add a class to a list which will be inherited by all children of it? I'll send an example.

Could I somehow add a class to "Enemy Attacks" which will remove or hide all instances of "unity-list-view__footer".

[gloomy chasm]

Yes, but not specifically the Attact Effects list.

[golden grove]

Right, but all underneath the "Enemy Attacks" list?

not just specifically the AttackEffects one

unless I were to add a class to specifically the "AttackEffects" one?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah if you just add a class like my-class, And then had a uss selector like

my-class unity-list-view__footer {
  display: none;
}

[golden grove]

Perfect! And I can add that to specifically my "Enemy Attacks" and it should inherit?

Because I really don't need any of the default +/- on my custom inspector class

[gloomy chasm]

It doesn't inherit no. But you can use the 'space' selector in uss to say 'any child`

[golden grove]

Oh okay, thanks!

I'll try that I really appreciate all your help.

You really have saved me a lot of time here haha!

[gloomy chasm]

Haha, glad to help 😄

[young anchor]

is it possible to write a script that when activated (in editor mode), it goes through all audio sources in the scene and sets their output audio mixer group to some specific mixer?

[timid coyote]

yes

/// <summary>
        /// Save the current Scene.
        /// </summary>
        public static void SaveCurrentScene() => EditorSceneManager.SaveScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene());

        /// <summary>
        /// Loop thru all the MonoBehaviours in the scene and get each of them thru the <paramref name="onFound"/> Action.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="onFound">Type = MonoBehaviour type</param>
        public static void PassSceneMonoBehaviours(Action<Type, MonoBehaviour> onFound)
        {
            SaveCurrentScene();
            
            var monoBehaviours = FindObjectsOfType<MonoBehaviour>();
            foreach (var monoBehaviour in monoBehaviours)
            {
                var type = monoBehaviour.GetType();
                onFound?.Invoke(type, monoBehaviour);
                
                type = type.BaseType;
                while (type is not null)
                {
                    onFound?.Invoke(type, monoBehaviour);
                    type = type.BaseType;
                }
            }

            SaveCurrentScene();
        }``` u can use this

[gloomy chasm]

You can also just doObject.FindObjectsOfType<AudioSource>(), and then iterate on them and set the mixer

[young anchor]

thanks a lot

[dusk dome]

scriptableobjects that im editing via an editor script are not saving when i exit the project. why is this?

[gloomy chasm]

See the second pinned message in this channel

[dusk dome]

im not getting any errors here, but i cant see the Resize Box Colliders in the undo history

[gloomy chasm]

Did debug.log it to see if it is getting there?

[dusk dome]

when i move the handles it fires

[dusk dome]

just made a manual button that saves all assets

[sacred wave]

When scripting custom inspectors, how can I get default Unity colors and styles?

[gloomy chasm]

Well I've got a site for you https://www.foundations.unity.com/

[sacred wave]

oh my god, that's my dream

thank you so much, I can't believe I couldn't find that before

[gloomy chasm]

You're very welcome! No worries, it actually isn't very widely used or talked about so not surprising

[dusk portal]

i've got a ListView bound to a list property on a serialized object, is there a good way to apply different classes or styles to the elements depending on the items in the list? let's say i want to make some items red if they've got invalid values for example

the items aren't created immediately after updating the list, so i can't just loop over them

[gusty mortar]

You can change the bindItem method of your ListView and register to a callback to check the validity of your data on change event and update the style of the element accordingly (idk if that makes sense for you).

[dusk portal]

setting bindItem stops the default binding behaviour from running so the labels and stuff inside each element don't get bound (the docs warn about this), is there an equivalent method i can call if i want that to still happen?

[gusty mortar]

Well yeah it is meant as an override. You'd have to do the binding yourself. Maybe someone will know better, but I don't know of a method that specially control the styling of a ListView element without altering the binding method.

Doing the binding is not that hard. I suppose you have access to your array property in the first place to bind it to the list view. then you should be able to access it's element through their index.

[dusk portal]

dang OK 🤔 i was hoping there was an event or something that would get fired afterwards

it's not hard to bind the data manually in this case, just a shame it can't be set up with binding paths in the editor like the rest of the UI though 😔

thanks for the advice!

[mild sentinel]

Anyone know how to modify animation controllers in an editor script? I can get all the files ending with .controller in the project pretty easily, but I can't seem to find a way to actually modify them. I presume I can use AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath, but what would be the type? It would seem to be RuntimeAnimatorController, but that one has nothing to actually access the state machine.

[real spindle]

In the case of ScriptableObject, call both SetDirty and Undo.RecordObject, if you want to register the change and support undo.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.SetDirty.html

I think you need to do
-Undo.RecordObject
-Apply your changes
-SetDirty

[dusk dome]

I ended up just making it so I set the asset as dirty, because I'm working on modifying assets. works the same

[golden grove]

Hey all! I'm currently trying to set a "display: none" style on a specific type of element using uss (or any inline solutions with my propertydrawers), currently I have a uss file which I am trying to link to my root which is setup as so:
USS:

unity-list-view__footer 
{
    display: none;  #NOTE: have tried display: none; and display: None;
}

var root = new Foldout();
StyleSheet styleSheet = (StyleSheet)EditorGUIUtility.Load("Assets/New/Entity/New Enemy/RemovePlusMinus.uss");
root.styleSheets.Add(styleSheet);

However, the "unity-list-view__footer" is still visible in the inspector. Anyone have any good references or quick solutions on how to get the uss styles working, or what may be causing it to not work?

trying to remove these default +/- list/array buttons by setting the display to none.

[gloomy chasm]

Your uss is missing a . before the class name

Unless it is a copy-paste error

should be:

.unity-list-view__footer 
{
    display: none;
}

[golden grove]

Ah I see! The "example" I was referencing didn't have a dot in any of the examples so I had just assumed it was different in uss, appreciate it!

Yep, worked instantly. Probably should have tried that haha!

[gloomy chasm]

If there isn't a dot, then it refers to a C# class. Like

ListView {
  color: black;
}

Would make the text in the C# ListView element black.

[golden grove]

Ahh! That makes a whole lot of sense, yeah that would probably explain it.

[gloomy chasm]

And a # refers to the name of an element

[golden grove]

I believe the guide I was watching (which I skipped ahead in haha) was using something along the lines of "Test"

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh

[golden grove]

Appreciate that!

[gloomy chasm]

As far as I know, the only difference between css and uss, is that uss has fewer style options and types. And maybe doesn't support some of the more advanced/niche selectors

[golden grove]

Yeah, seems like it. The UIBuilder seems to lay out all the options pretty nicely even if I don't directly add them through it.

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, for sure

[golden grove]

I honestly much prefer to adjust everything using uss as it's really familliar to me.

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah for me it depends on what I'm doing. But I find the UIBuilder faster for prototyping and playing around normally. But if I know what I want (mostly) then just editing the uss directly is way faster

[golden grove]

Yeah, seems like it! Is connecting UXML the same as connecting a uss file?

StyleSheet styleSheet = (StyleSheet)EditorGUIUtility.Load("Assets/New/Entity/New Enemy/RemovePlusMinus.uss");

Something along these lines?

Well, actually I guess UXML directly adds elements doesn't it.

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah. You can actually make uxml load the uss.

[golden grove]

Oh, cool!

[gloomy chasm]

But I only recommend setting it up from the UIBuilder cause it uses the asset GUID

[golden grove]

Ah I see.

[gloomy chasm]

But yeah, you can load uxml like AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<VisualTreeAsset>(myPath).CloneTree(rootVisualElement);

[golden grove]

Okay, perfect!

Appreciate it!

Also, another question I had this time PropertyDrawer related, is there a way to get the current "property"s place in an array?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah... not a nice one. You have to parse the propertyPath of the property

I have a extension method for it, second

[golden grove]

Ah I see.

Currently all my attack "Frame" components are labelled "Frame" which makes it pretty difficult if there are like 30+ frames to count haha.

[gloomy chasm]

Well, I can't find it now. It would be something like

public static int GetArrayElementIndex(this SerializedProperty property)
{
  if (!property.propertyPath.EndsWith(']'))
    return -1;

   int fromIndex = property.propertyPath.LastIndexOf('[');


  string indexString = property.propertyPath.Substring(fromIndex);

  return Convert.ToInt32(indexString.Substring(1, indexString.Length - 2));
}

[golden grove]

Appreciate it! I'll try that.

[golden grove]

Actually worked instantly, really appreciate it!

[gloomy chasm]

Oh really? Sick! First try!

[golden grove]

Also, seems to update live on reorder.

[golden grove]

Haha, always feels good when it's the first try especially when it's someone else's first try 😎

only thing needing to be changed was the public modifier, which supposedly wasn't valid. But that could also be something I misunderstand haha!

[gloomy chasm]

Weird, that shouldn't be an issue at all. But as long as it is working haha

[golden grove]

Yeah, I'm really not sure haha. But it's looking a lot cleaner in the inspector now!

Also, do you know if there's a way to detect foldout state at all? I'd like to only display a particular "frame"s "(+) Attack Component" button when it's folded out, and ideally default everything to be closed.

[gloomy chasm]

I think it is a Foldout element or it might be a Toggle I don't remember. But you can query it in C# and register a ChangeEvent callback to know when it is changed.

I would open the UIToolkit debugger and have a look

[golden grove]

Perfect, thanks I'll try that!