↕️┃editor-extensions

[dusk dome]

oh right

do handles have equivalent API?

for stuff like drawing spheres and circles?

[minor knoll]

Yes, for those things it has almost the same things as the gizmos

but it misses some things that are not available so if you really need gizmos you can create a monobehaviour in the scene in OnEnable and in onDestroy of your window you can delete the object

[real spindle]

SphereHandleCap, CircleHandleCap, DrawWireDisc etc.

[dusk dome]

do they have capsules? or is that something I'm gonna have to make myself

[real spindle]

Use the docs/google mate

But no i havent seen a capsule function

Two spherehandlecaps + one cylinderhandlecap should do it though

Idk if you mean 3D or 2D capsule though

[dusk dome]

why does it look so different in the builder vs in the actual window?

[gloomy chasm]

In the bottom left "Library" panel, select the icons with the 3 vertical dots at the top right of the panel and select the "Editor Extension" menu item. Then go to the top right of the central viewport/canvas of the UIBuilder and select the theme dropdown and select "Active Editor Theme"

The reason it is different is the UIBuilder is using the runtime/in-game uss styling. Not the editor styling

[dusk dome]

ah perfect, thank you

this is done exactly what i needed

no more guessing lol

[gloomy chasm]

Hahaha

[dusk dome]

im getting started with it rn, its a lot at once but I think i'll pick it up pretty quickly

its mostly just object fields that i plan to mess with currently.

object fields and inspector elements

nothing too fancy

ah the object field didnt show up in the old mode, now im in editor mode this looks a lot easier

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah haha

Same with like PropertyField and some toolbars and stuff

[dusk dome]

i was gonna be really annoyed that I would have to manually insert property fields and stuff with code somehow inbetween the UXML stuff, but this avoids all that

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah that that is annoying to do. Though not too hard.

[dusk dome]

How can I make something happen when a value changes? You said it was an event or something right?

[gloomy chasm]

If you want to bind the value of the field to a vale on your data object (component, editor window, or scriptable object), you can set the binding path to be the SerializedProperty path.

If you just want to do something when the value changes, you just regiter a change event in C#

objField.RegisterValueChangeEvent(evt => {
 // Do something here. You can make it a method instead of a lambda if you want.
});

[dusk dome]

much appreciated. i assume objField is gotten from something similar like this?

[gloomy chasm]

Yuuup exactly like that

Was about to say haha. Basically that is just fancy way of looping through every element recursively to find one that is of type VisualElement and with .name set to "MainElement"

(I think it does caching and stuff so it is faster than doing a recursive loop yourself though. Could be wrong)

And that Q method is just a wrapper around a larger .Query() API that you can use if you need more specific/advanced searching. Like excluding (I think) and checking for specific decedents chains.

[dusk dome]

awesome stuff. looking forward to tinkering more with this later. probably a stretch, but is it possible to get a view of a prefab inside the editor window, and draw the handles and gizmos and stuff?

[gloomy chasm]

Of course! But... its a pain :/

You would want to use a class called a PreviewRenderUtility and call it's render methods inside of a IMGUIContainer `VisualElement.

[dusk dome]

I doubt it's worth it, then

it would make more sense to just use the prefab window

[gloomy chasm]

Probably, you can have custom edit contexts and also custom stages, so it is pretty flexible at least

[dusk dome]

there's a way to check if you're a prefab context I swear?

an API I forgot about

[gloomy chasm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.PrefabStageUtility.GetCurrentPrefabStage.html

[dusk dome]

appreciate you 😌

[dusk dome]

making some progress, but i feel like a long list like this could do with better formatting. Is there a way for me to achieve something like that?

[dusk dome]

 private void ActiveMoveValueChanged(ChangeEvent<string> evt)
    {
        if (moveDictionary.TryGetValue(evt.newValue, out Move move))
        {
            Debug.Log("Move changed to " + move.Name);
            activeMove = move;
            UpdateActiveMoveWindow();
            SerializedObject serializedObject = new SerializedObject(activeMove);
            MoveDataField.Bind(serializedObject);
            Debug.Log("Bound to " + serializedObject.targetObject.name);
            
        }
    }

I've bound to a serialised object, yet i dont see anything in the window. what am i doing wrong?

[gloomy chasm]

Did you the the binding path of the MoveDataField?

[dusk dome]

i havent touched the binding path 😅 where do i edit that?

and what do i change it to

[gloomy chasm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/UIE-Binding.html

You set the bindingPath on the element to be the path of the serialized field you want to bind to. So if your BrawlerMoveset class has a field like [SerializeField] private string _myName; you se the binding path to "_myName"

[dusk dome]

thanks! can i bind to multiple fields at once, or must that be done manually 😭

[gloomy chasm]

The fields searches 'up' to the first parent/ancestor that is bound. So you can .Bind(serialiedObject) on the root element and all descendants that have a bindingPath set will try to bind to the serialized object

[dusk dome]

I see.

public class Move : AssetObject
    {
// ONE FIELD FOR THIS STUFF
        [Header("Basic Information")]
        public string MoveName => "metarig_" + Name;
        public int stateID;
        public FP RecoveryFramesFP => (FP._1 / (FP)60) * RecoveryFrames;
        public FP LandingFramesFP => (FP._1 / (FP)60) * LandingFrames;

        public string Name;
        public QBoolean isAttack;
        public QBoolean moveIsGrab;
        public MoveDirection MoveDirection;
        public ButtonState moveButton;
        
        public int RecoveryFrames = 6;
        public int LandingFrames = 10;
        
        [Header("Misc. Information")]
        public QBoolean dontChargeUlt;
        public QBoolean followAttackerVelocity;
        public QBoolean dontHitStop;
        public QBoolean persistent;
        public int persistentTimerLength;
        public bool recoveryMove;
        public bool dontInterruptOnLand;
        public int invulnFrames;
        public int intangFrames;

        [Header("Sound Information")]
        public AudioClip[] moveHitClips;
        public AudioClip[] moveSwingClips;
// END FIELD

        [Header("Frame Data")]
        public List<FrameData> FrameData;
// ONE FIELD FOR A SINGULAR FRAME DATA INSTANCE WITH AN INDEX

        [Header("Misc Information")]
        public FP chargeCost;
    }

Essentially, What I wanna do here is make 2 fields, as the comments show

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean by a 'field'?

[dusk dome]

like 2 bits that display the information im talking about beneath these dropdowns

[gloomy chasm]

You just add a element for each serialized field and set the binding path. You can just add a PropertyField for each instead of having to use the specific type per field. Like a TextField for a string and a EnumDropdown for ButtonState, etc.

[dusk dome]

So I can't avoid having to do one for each field, I see 😭

[gloomy chasm]

Nope, unless you want to group them all inside of a class instead.

It isn't too bad, just takes like 2 minutes

[dusk dome]

hm, I could do that but that would mean refactoring a shit ton of other code, so no thanks

what about for the list of FrameDatas? can I display a singular FrameData object without much problem using data bindings and an index?

[gloomy chasm]

Yup, just data bind a ListView and it will use the property drawer for the FrameData and automatically populate it.

[dusk dome]

awesome 😄 to confirm, this is for a single FrameData? I don't want all of them. I want to use the slider in the above image to choose which one

[gloomy chasm]

Ah then you will have to do that manually, but it isn't too bad.

Just whenever the slider value changes, you do

var newIndex = evt.newValue;
frameDataPropertyField.bindingPath = $"FrameData.Array.data[{newIndex}]";

That should rebinding it. And just have frameDataPropertyField be a PropertyField

If you don't like using strings like that you can also doframeDataPropertyField.BindProperty(serializedObject.FindProperty("FrameData").GetArrayElementAt(newIndex));

[dusk dome]

awesome man, thanks so much for your time ☺️ made big strides today and I should be done by tommorow.

another thing, I have a big drop-down which kinda sucks, so I was thinking of making a bunch of buttons manually via code which does something I have planned. can you store data in buttons? like a string or something

or I guess when I create the buttons I can just assign the callbacks in the for each loop

[gloomy chasm]

You're quite welcome! 😄
Is it just to select a value?

[dusk dome]

how can I just flush out all the buttons in a visual element? I've been using them as divs of sorts, if that's a good idea or not

[dusk dome]

yeah essentially

[gloomy chasm]

You probably want to use a Radio button then

[dusk dome]

instead of a long single file line

I see

[gloomy chasm]

Flush out the buttons?

[dusk dome]

like delete all the buttons in a visual element

[gloomy chasm]

element.Clear()

[dusk dome]

and that clears any children of the element?

[gloomy chasm]

Radio button stuff. Also, cool info about making editors https://www.foundations.unity.com/components/radio-button

[gloomy chasm]

Yup, just liek element.Add(e) will add an element. It is just like a list in that regard

[dusk dome]

sick, really appreciate your help 😁

should be done by tomorrow with this

[gloomy chasm]

Nice!

[ruby kite]

are there any extensions to allow you to run a serverbuild in the inspector? so i can see the loaded objects etc

[crisp portal]

Hey, is there any way to change the external script editor via code? I'm using cursor but want to debug in rider, so I created a button in the editor to open rider for debugging, but it doesn't attach the unity project because it's not set as external editor in the preferences...

[dusk dome]

Hey, just wanted to ask btw, in regards to these things, will that work for a list object?

cus I see you're using Array in that binding path

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean?

[dusk dome]

for the bindings, you wrote FrameData.Array, but it is a List<FrameData> object. will they work the same?

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh, serialized arrays have an additional structure. Which if memory serves is basically:

"FraneData"
 - "arraySize"
 - "Array"
    - "data"
        - [0]: FrameData
        - [1]: FrameData

The GetArrayElementAtIndex method along with the arraySize property abstracts this away. But when accessing an item via string path, you have to include this internal structure in the path

Also, lists and arrays are both just serialized as arrays, since there is no difference in their data (a list is just a fancy wrapper around an array after all)

[dusk dome]

I see. thank you for this clarification! didn't really help myself by naming the field and the datatype the same 😅

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean? Ahh you mean it is confusing?

[dusk dome]

yeah, I was considering naming the lost FrameDatas but that felt wrong lol

or maybe making the datatype FrameDatum

but that doesn't really work either

I'll just stick with this

[gloomy chasm]

I think it is fine in this case, it is pretty common to have the type and property name the same

[topaz bobcat]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to create a custom inspector for a script using UI Toolkit and I have a foldout that displays some extra information to users. The problem I'm having is that I want this foldout to keep its state (either open or closed) when clicking other objects or entering playmode, but no matter what I do, it keeps resetting state. I've tried using a static variable and it works fine when clicking on other objects, but as soon as I enter playmode, because there's a domain reload, the variable resets state again.
Is there a way to save the state when entering playmode? I thought about using PlayerPrefs but sounds like overkill for something so small...

Like, Unity keeps the state of a list foldout between Edit mode and Play mode, but how do they do it?

[gloomy chasm]

You want SessionState

Similar API to EditorPrefs or PlayerPrefs but only keeps the data while the editor is open.

[topaz bobcat]

Ooh, never heard of that before! I'll look into it, thanks!

[twin dawn]

Presumably nodeMap.gizmoColor; is beige. Have you debugged it? Like logged the color?

[robust ridge]

It's not beige. gizmoColor is very explicitly green, i don't know what makes it change sometimes into a transparentish beige

[twin dawn]

Have you debug.logged it in this function?

[idle violet]

Hey

[idle violet]

Do u know why my android build support is taking years when it says “validating”

[twin dawn]

Why are you directly pinging me and posting in a completely off topic channel

[idle violet]

Bc there’s nobody else I could find in the server

[robust ridge]

Should I debug.log the Handles.color or gizmoColor?

[twin dawn]

Read the rules #📖┃code-of-conduct

[twin dawn]

both

[robust ridge]

Theoretically they should both be the same but I don't know

[twin dawn]

why hestitate to just log both

get as much info as possible

[idle violet]

Then where do I go?

[surreal girder]

#📱┃mobile and write new message with question

[robust ridge]

Turns out whenever the sphere is clicked, it immediately becomes gizmoColor, but sometimes, when hovering the mouse near it, it just becomes that weird beige color. I just want it to always be gizmoColor, so I got no idea what's going on

[gloomy chasm]

The beige color I assume is the default hover/highlight color. Like if you hover over a transform gizmo you see it light up. It only happens 'sometimes' because it has to wait for a repaint event iirc (or maybe layout event?).

You can look at the source code for more insight on how it is implement, it is relatively straight forward.

[hardy raptor]

I wanted to add a scroll view to my editor window, but only vertically. But no matter what I try Unity keeps adding a horizontal one too even if there is more than enough horizontal space it still adds one for a few px of scrolling. (if the window is a bit smaller it cuts off half even though it fits fine in the window without a scroll view)
I only want it to scroll vertically and horizontal should behave like without a scroll view. Is that possible?

I also tried

GUILayout.BeginVertical(GUILayout.Width(width));

but if it just gets ignored unless I make it bigger than Unity already made the contnet

[dusk dome]

I have these buttons with flex grow 1. How can I make it so there are max 5 Buttons before an overflow?

i dont seem to see a grid option

[surreal girder]

scroll view will be the size of whatever it contains so you have to control the width of the stuff within yourself to not be larger than the viewport.
Sometimes this involves changing width to 0 and using flexable width only.

[gloomy chasm]

I would set the width to be 20% and then set the layout direction to wrap. (I don't remember the actual name of the property atm sorry)

I think that would do it at least

But yeah, a grid isn't exactly supported. There is a multi column tree view, which is basically a table. With rows and columns but I think that is overkill for what you need.

[dusk dome]

This is eventually what I came up with. thanks previous css knowledge 😅 i didnt realise that uss was literally just css

its annoying for buttons with longer names

maybe i'll make it 3 per instead

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah uss is just amore limited subset of css! 😄

[dusk dome]

okay, i've got a good start here, but with these serialised objects, it doesnt appear to draw the custom property drawers. How can I do that?

this is what theyre meant to look like

interestingly enough, the drawer appears to be rendering with the Charge Cost, but not for the Self Launch Angle, both of which use the same type

every time the domain reloads different things get serialised 😭

okay now they're all here??? wtf

and now theyre all gone again

im so damn confused

it appears to be very temperamental. How can I sort this out?

[past crane]

That is indeed weird. Maybe the height for the drawer is incorrect?

[dusk dome]

Would that make it fallback like that?

I'll check, but I haven't hard coded any heights

as you can see, in the start, it renders properly. when I go to a new one which hasnt been rendered yet, it appears to not render properly.

[past crane]

Oh, I didn't know this was with UI Toolkit. With the old GUI editor, you usually have to calculate the height . . .

[dusk dome]

left it for tonight but there must be a way to like, force it to render the IMGUI container?

[potent marlin]

Hey everyone, after 3 days of fighting with this and ChatGPT I need help. I have a custom editor that I have watered down to next to nothing and Unity keeps clipping content that is in a negative position. I have seen many other editors that have pan and zoom functionality render stuff outside of the default viewport but I cannot get this to work for the life of me. Any guidance please? NOTE The editor script is too long for discord so I attached it as a .cs file

[gloomy chasm]

What does it look like and what do you expect it to look like?

[potent marlin]

These are the 2 nodes, both are partially drawn due to being out of the initial windows size:

The one on the right is just barely clipping whereas the one on the is almost fully clipped. When you pan with the middle mouse button, they also don't appear

I'm missing something small, I know it. I just cannot figure it out

[gloomy chasm]

Hmm, what if you just remove the panning code?

This line GUI.matrix = Matrix4x4.TRS(panOffset, Quaternion.identity, Vector3.one) * GUI.matrix;

Here is the source code of a IMGUI based node graph editor, you can look to see how it handles the zooming and panning by poking around a bit https://github.com/Siccity/xNode/blob/master/Scripts/Editor/NodeEditorGUI.cs#L47

[potent marlin]

Thanks I'll give it a go, the panning and zooming seem to work as expected. That line is definitely the source of the problem I just don't know how to fix it. I'll take a look through your reference, thank you

[visual stag]

There's almost no reason to be doing this with IMGUI

UIToolkit makes this simple, and there are even open source graph frameworks to build on

[tough cairn]

for me personally i can see how much faster IMGUI is compared to UIToolkit , especially when im running on battery mode , a simple task like resizing the editor window in 2018 and unity-6 can be been comapred to playing a game at 60 fps vs 15 fps

[visual stag]

Performance in dynamic situations isn't generally where a stateful solution like UITK shines. Compare the idle performance and you'll probably see the opposite.

But note that it's mostly irrelevant when talking about developing a graph solution (i.e. what's being commented on), where UITK has tools to modify transforms without remeshing, and it's as simple as adding one line of code to get pretty robust pan and zoom behaviour.

[dusk dome]

hey guys, doesn't anyone understand why rendering custom property drawers is so temperamental here?

[dusk dome]

this could possibly be a step

[waxen sandal]

Should probably provide some code

[dusk dome]

I'm using quantum, which is all compiled in a DLL. maybe i'll ask them too

[waxen sandal]

No idea what a quantum is

[daring shard]

I would like to make a custom editor similar to the ShaderGraph's: designers can create and and connect blocks which are read as data by a separate program. Does anyone know of a tutorial that tackles this, or even what it's called in Unity jargon? I've tried looking it up myself, but haven't had any success as of yet

[gloomy chasm]

It is a Node Graph. Unity has one called GraphView.

[dusk dome]

Is there a way to name these better? essentially what I want to do is force open the fold out via code. Is this possible?

[dusk dome]

Appear to have fixed this. The way I fixed it was just by clearing and creating a new property field each time

[dusk dome]

FrameDataElement.Clear();
        var frameProp = currentSerialisedMove.FindProperty("FrameData").GetArrayElementAtIndex(CurrentFrame);
        PropertyField propertyField = new PropertyField();
        propertyField.BindProperty(frameProp);
        FrameDataElement.Add(propertyField);
        Foldout frameDataFoldout = propertyField.Q<Foldout>();
        frameDataFoldout.value = true;
        

confused as to why this Foldout grab isnt working.

there is a foldout there, being the "Element 0" thing.

maybe the foldout isnt there at the time of adding?

[gloomy chasm]

The actual binding only happens every 100ms, so it doesn't exist yet

[dusk dome]

yeah i thought it was something like that. shame

[gloomy chasm]

Easiest way is do use the schedualer, something like propertyField.schedule.Execute(() => ... ).AfterDelay(100);

(I don't remember the method name, could be StartAfter, StartDelay, After,Delay or something like that)

[dusk dome]

I'll try that. Thanks! I'm just glad i got the main bit fixed with the FrameData stuff lmao

[gloomy chasm]

There is also a SerializedPropertyBind event, but I don't remember if that is public in Unity 6 or not. I remember making a wrapper for it via reflection a while back

[dusk dome]

This seems to work

btw, with scrollTo, it scrolls the bottom of the page to the element right?

[gloomy chasm]

Actually... if that foldout is automatically created by the PropertyField, you can just do frameProp.isExpanded = true

Followed by applying the modified properties

[gloomy chasm]

I'm not sure the exact scroll behavior. I think it just scrolls so that the element is fully in the viewport.

[dusk dome]

this is much much better! it avoids that weird little bit where the the prop is not expanded. Someone mentioned in the unity discussions board expanding the prop by default but didnt say how they did it...

scroll behaviour appears to be a bit broken in some bits though. could that be to do with the order of actions?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah probably because when you tell it to scroll, the property hasn't been populated yet. You can also just et the numeric scroll value I think.

But what you can do is something like use the scheduler and run it every frame until the children change or soemthing like that

[dusk dome]

Where can I have a look at this scheduler API?

[gloomy chasm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/UIElements.IVisualElementScheduler.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/UIElements.IVisualElementScheduledItem.html

[dusk dome]

Awesome, thank you 😄 almost done with this, and the next step is to draw some handles. Which event function should I use to deal with handles?

[gloomy chasm]

Like scene view handles?

[dusk dome]

yah

i wanna draw some circles and squares and stuff

[gloomy chasm]

If it is an Editor and you only want them visible when object is selected, you can use the OnSceneGUI method in Editor. If you want them visible even when not selected, you would use the SceneView.duringSceneGUI event and subscribe to it.

If you want to manipulate the handles, you probably want to look in to Tools and EditorToolContext

[dusk dome]

if you're talking about the class, it is an editorwindow. I tried OnSceneGUI, but nothing shows up

[dusk dome]

im not gonna bother with that, its just gonna draw data from the moveset editor

[gloomy chasm]

For Editor window you use the SceneView event

Just subscribe in OnEnable and unsub in OnDisable

[dusk dome]

okay cool, i've got that now 😄

[dusk dome]

btw, in regards to this scheduler thing, does that run synchronously? so if i have a schedule Until() condition, the rest of the code wont work until thats finished?

like this, and then after that, scroll to?

[gloomy chasm]

it is async

[dusk dome]

ah damn

[dusk dome]

is there a way to change the color of a sliderl ike this?

i cant seem to find any se3ttings in the UI builder

[past crane]

the bar (tracker) or the circle (dragger)? You need to query and find the visual element within the slider. By default, the name of the bar is "unity-tracker" and the name of the circle is "unity-dragger" . . .

[willow jackal]

In UIToolkit, is there anyway to have the same label width as a PropertyField would give.

Nvm, found it. Really unintuitive. (BaseField<float>.alignedFieldUssClassName)

[half current]

Any of you folks using localization in your projects? If so, which did you go with? It seems like the big two are i2 and unity

[steady copper]

I used i2 at first then unity's til now.

[half current]

Do you have any opinions on i2 now that you've left it behind?

[steady copper]

It was really a long time ago so I'm a bit foggy about it. It served my needs at the time. But I don't remember it had anything remotely close to smart strings of Unity's Loc. Truthfully at that time I didn't know I need something like smart strings, so this doesn't count I guess?

However the reason I left it behind was less about its functionality and more about the legality of project sharing.

I have to strip down most of proprietary assets, tools and libraries for this purpose.

So the less of proprietary 3rd party assets, the less of my worriness.

[half current]

Cheers mate, makes sense. Thanks!

[dusk dome]

is there a way to force someone into a layout when you open your special editor window?

[patent river]

can odin inspector support 2d arrays of int, gameobject, etc?

[dusk dome]

is there a way to create a class for this to copy and paste in code?

like how you can create buttons

and stuff

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah-ish, you can save as a new uxml file. And either load and instantiate it in the code, or create a new VisualElemetn.... that loads and instantiates it in code, but as a wrapper.

Or just manually create the hierarchy in code

[dusk dome]

I followed a tutorial, and i made a backing code

[dusk dome]

seems to work!

[dusk dome]

How can you make a button selected?

like change the color to make it look "active"

[gloomy chasm]

You can just use uss, along with adding to the class list like: element.AddToClassList("my-button--selected);

[dusk dome]

cus I think the active color is like blue or something

[gloomy chasm]

And in uss you do

.my-button--selected {
   background-color: red`
}

[dusk dome]

ah right

easy enough, thanks 😅

is there a unity preset colour for like button selected?

[gloomy chasm]

You can use the 'active' color by doing

background-color: var(--unity-colors-button-background-pressed);
border-color: var(--unity-colors-button-border-pressed);

[dusk dome]

I know it's like a darkish blue

oh right perfect

[gloomy chasm]

https://www.foundations.unity.com/components/button#Color

[dusk dome]

much appreciated 😊

[gloomy chasm]

You're welcome 😄

[dusk dome]

you've helped me out through a lot of my UI builder journey lmao, I really do appreciate your assistance 😀

[dusk dome]

how can I access unity icons?

like play and pause and such

[surreal girder]

https://github.com/halak/unity-editor-icon
And
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/EditorGUIUtility.FindTexture.html

There are many lists of all the icon names

[dusk dome]

the github 404s

but I'll have a look thank you

[dusk dome]

how can I make it so these items dont shrink?

oaky, it seems chaning this fixes it? strange

[gloomy chasm]

flex-shrink: 0

[dusk dome]

yeah, i turned that on but it didnt work by itself. I had to do the align self thing too

[gloomy chasm]

Huh odd, sometimes on somer versions it does do a thing where it sort of adds a default style but doesn't show it. Still odd that the fixed it though.

[dusk dome]

yeah frankly i dont wanna mess with it any further LOL

lest it go back to squished

[gloomy chasm]

haha

[past crane]

If you had to do align-self, then possibly they overlapped each other . . .

[ruby kite]

are there any extensions to allow for visual folders in hierarchy
Instead of using empty gameobject as a parent are there extensions that allow me to sort stuff into visual folders for organization

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah a bunch. You can just google something like Unity hierarchy github and see a lot on github for free. Or type hierarchy in to the search of the Unity asset store and find a bunch of free and paid ones as well.

[ruby kite]

❤️

[dusk dome]

@gloomy chasm excuse the ping, just wanted to show you what I was able to cook up with some of your help 😄

very pleased with this, should speed up the workflow immensely

[gloomy chasm]

Nice! Congratulations!
Btw you can add context menu items like this if you want to move those copy-paste buttons

element.AddManipulator(new ContextualMenuManipulator((evt) =>
{
    evt.menu.AppendAction("Log Something", action => Debug.Log("Something"));
}));

[dusk dome]

I was kinda sick of those haha 😅 I was looking for something like this but couldnt find it anywhere. Would I append this to a button or what?

where does the manipulator happen

also another question, is there a way to make it so if i drag my mouse along these buttons, they do their click event?

in that gif im holding the mouse button down btw

[gloomy chasm]

You can't with buttons because it 'eats' the event. However, all a button is is this:

element.RegisterCallback<PointerDownEvent>(evt => { Do think here });
element.AddToClassList(Button.ussClassName);` // Just adds button styling to the element.

So if on your parent, you register events to down and up pointer events, you can get the index or whatever of the down and then of the up and select all between them. And/or use the enter/leave events and check if the pointer is pressed and if so add to the selection.

There however, is no good way to show mixed fields. Like wen you select multiple GameObjects and editing the position in one changes all of them.

[dusk dome]

oh no I only want it to show the latest one that I'm dragging over

I don't want to show all of them

also in regards to the manipulator thing, how can I make that show up? it says add manipulator, but I'm not sure how it would show up

[gloomy chasm]

Oh, then you can just register Down, Move, and Up events to the parent, of those buttons, and when the mouse moves while the pointer is pressed change the selection to the one under the mouse.

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean 'show up'?

[steady copper]

intellisense, auto suggestion box in the IDE I guess

he couldn't find this method element.AddManipulator

[dusk dome]

i suppose im confused to how a contextual menu manipulator works. Is it like this when you click something? (chrome example)

[dusk dome]

do i have to do some positional math to figure out which one is under the mouse or is that sorted for me?

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah it opens a menu at the mouse's position when you right-click

[gloomy chasm]

I think there is a method on Element for getting the element at a position. If not, you have to loop through the child elements and use a method to check if they contain a point

[dusk dome]

wdym by point here?

also, can I open a contextual menu with a left click? similar to a dropdown?

[gloomy chasm]

if (element.ContainsPoint(mousePosition))

[dusk dome]

oh right

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, you just have to do it yourself. There is GenericMenu and DropDownMenu (or something like that). Which both contain a menu.Show type of method

[dusk dome]

Okay I'll try these out. Thank you!

[topaz bobcat]

Hi everyone, I wanna see if you guys can help me. I'm creating a custom tool and I want to create a txt inside the Resources folder when the user presses a button and automatically load this file as a TextAsset after creation.
I'm using File.WriteAllText() to create the text file and then I call AssetDatabase.Refresh() to import the text as a TextAsset, and then I have a script that inherits from AssetPostprocessor in order to detect if the file was imported. The problem I'm facing is that if I try to call Resources.Load() inside the AssetPostprocessor, it returns an empty array. But if I call it manually after like, a second, it correctly loads the file.
My question is: is there a way to know when a file was fully imported by Unity? Since apparently I can't use AssetPostprocessor for that...

[surreal girder]

If this is editor code then why bother using Resources?

[topaz bobcat]

Because later on, the same file will be loaded in-game through Resources

[surreal girder]

Right, but editor code can differ.
I dont know how to know when importing is done but you can check https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/EditorApplication-isUpdating.html

Can also use https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/EditorApplication-delayCall.html or an editor coroutine or async to wait a bit for it to be ready

[topaz bobcat]

Yeah, I just tried waiting a single frame using an async method and apparently it works. Thanks

[gloomy chasm]

That is because you are not meant to call Resources inside of it. You should be using AssetDatabase methods. That 1 frame delay and using the Resources API like that can cause issues in the future.

[topaz bobcat]

Hum... Ok. I was trying to use the same logic for both editor code and gameplay code instead of duplicating it, that's why I was using Resources

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, a lot of time you can't/shouldn't unfortunately.

[topaz bobcat]

Ok, I have another question: with UI Toolkit, I'm creating a small popup with a TextField inside by calling PopupWindow.Show(), but for some reason my TextField doesn't gain focus until I either click on it or press Tab. I've tried calling myTextField.Focus() inside the OnOpen method of the Popup, but nothing happens. I've also tried changing the TextField TabIndex value to something bigger than zero but again, nothing changed. Do anyone know how to automatically give focus to a field inside a PopupWindowContent?

Ah, well, again, seems like the solution was to wait a single frame

Waiting a frame for stuff always felt kinda hacky

[gloomy chasm]

That is because Unity doesn't add the elements fully when first opened. At least not in the place that OnOpen is called. I think you can listen to the AttachToPanel event and focus in there.

[topaz bobcat]

Ah, I see, registering to the AttchToPanelEventworks as well, and it looks a lot nicer than waiting a frame. Thanks!

[thorny rock]

Is there a convenient way of resizing AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview()? I need to check a couple of textures, which I do with this method, but the textures are too big for my taste:

void DrawTextureArea(string label, ref Vector2 scrollPosition, Texture2D[] textures)
{
    GUILayout.Label(label);
    scrollPosition = EditorGUILayout.BeginScrollView(scrollPosition, GUILayout.Height(128));
    using (new GUILayout.HorizontalScope())
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < textures.Length; i++)
        {
            Texture2D texture = AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview(textures[i]);
            GUILayout.Label(texture);
        }
    }
    EditorGUILayout.EndScrollView();
}

[surreal girder]

you can provide a width and height when drawing the label

[open rivet]

why is my gameobject not appearing in the play scene?

[open rivet]

also i have another issue when i create a new project and runs it it gives me compiler errors despite having no scripts and only gets fixed when i restart the editor

[olive sluice]

hello everyone my player is stucking on the platform like this anyone have any idea how to solve it?

[crisp temple]

Hi everyone, I keep getting this error. I think its tied to the [RequireComponent] attribute which i have on some of my components. But no idea what is actually causing it.

Anyone have an idea what this error means?

[past crane]

Try #💻┃unity-talk . This channel is for discussing the creation of editor tools, like editor windows, property drawers, and attributes . . .

[woven imp]

Is there a way to determine when a checkbox in the inspector is checked?
Like I have a MonoBehavior component and in it I have:

public bool MyBool;

When it is clicked in the inspector, I'd like to execute code while in the editor. Specifically, I'd like to hide the game object it is clicked on.
The thing is that this bool also controls if I want to have this object active when the game starts.

[fiery canopy]

So I was wondering is it possible to make a grid view for an custom editor window like how it is done for the Tile Palette Editor Window? If anyone has any suggestions that would be appreciated.

[surreal girder]

OnValidate() will be called for monobehaviours in editor when they have serialized stuff changed. If you want to update other things in the scene make sure to set them as dirty with EditorUtility

[woven imp]

Thanks. How to set the eye in the editor? The one that hides the object.

So when the checkbox is pressed, I'd like to change the visibility in the editor.

[surreal girder]

tbh I have no idea if that is controllable from c#

[woven imp]

Basically, I have this:

    void Awake() {
        if(Application.isEditor)
            gameObject.SetActive(ShouldBeVisibleInEditor);
        else
            gameObject.SetActive(Application.isMobilePlatform);
    }

And so far I made it to be active in the editor in the game mode only when the checkbox is clicked.
But when I disable this checkbox, it's still visible in the Editor mode. To hide it in the editor mode I still need to click the eye icon.

[gloomy chasm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/SceneVisibilityManager.html

Disabling the gameObject should make it not show in the editor anymore, no?

[gloomy chasm]

Depends, you using UITK or IMGUI?

[fiery canopy]

UITK is what I normally use.

[woven imp]

The problem with that is that it won't be active any more: when I deploy and it runs on a mobile phone it won't get enabled when the game starts.

Unchecking this Should Be Visible In Editor checkbox should make it not show in the editor anymore. But then when I deploy and it runs on a phone, the user should still see it no matter what.

[gloomy chasm]

Depends on how big the grid is, could just do a bunch of elements with border styling. Or could use the vector painting API to draw the lines and then use maths to figure out what cell the pointer is in when it clicks.

[gloomy chasm]

So just manually click the eye icon? It seems like all you are doing is making a wrapper around clicking the eye icon.

[fiery canopy]

Isn't there away to display a grid like how Unity does it with the Tile Palette though? I mean I could just use a bunch of Visual Elements and that would work. But I thought there would be another way. 🤔

[gloomy chasm]

All that is is using Gl.DrawLine(..) 9most likely) to draw a bunch of lines in a grid. No built-in thing as far as I know.
Could check the source code to be sure.

[woven imp]

Yes. I just don't want to click more than I have to. The thing is that if there are many things like that, then I have to do a lot of additional work.

[woven imp]

How to get an instance of it? Hide requires an instance.

Oh I guess SceneVisibilityManager.instance.Hide(gameObject, true);

[fiery canopy]

Ah ok yeah I think I will just create a grid class using UITK since I would need that for some other editor tooling I'm working on anyway.

I was just hoping someone knew of another simpler way to do it 😅

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh, sadly not. Though it really isn't too bad to make a simple one.

[woven imp]

    void OnValidate() {
        if(!ShouldBeVisibleInEditor)
            SceneVisibilityManager.instance.Hide(gameObject, true);
        else
            SceneVisibilityManager.instance.Show(gameObject, true);
    }

Yay

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/581560497342513162.png?size=48

It also works in the deployment?

[surreal girder]

no, its in the editor namespace

it will not exist in builds and will cause a compile error

[woven imp]

Oh, so I have to add the preprocessor directive. Good to know.

Wait, how do I then hide and show the objects in deployment without deactivating them? No generic way?

[surreal girder]

nope, you will have to enable/disable renderers and other things

[topaz bobcat]

Hi everyone, I've got another question: I have a button that, on click, shows a list of options using GenericDropdownMenu. Then, when I click one of the options of the GenericDropdownMenu, I'm showing a popup using PopupWindow.Show(). The problem I'm having is that when the Popup opens, the GenericDropdownMenu is still active and I can still interact with it. The weird thing is that this only seems to happen when I call PopupWindow.Show(). If I do anything else, like logging some text, the GenericDropdownMenu disappears as expected.

If I click "Option 1", the popup appears but the GenericDropdownMenu is still there. If I click "Option 2", I'm logging a text to the console and the GenericDropdownMenu disappears as expected

[topaz bobcat]

Not the solution I wanted, but using UnityEditor.GenericMenu instead of UnityEngine.UIElements.GenericDropdownMenu seems to work as expected.

[past crane]

Did you try closing the dropdown menu when an option is selected?

[topaz bobcat]

How? The GenericDropdownMenu class doesn't have a "Close" method or similar.

[past crane]

What is your callback logic for when the button is clicked? Does anything stop or consume the event?

[topaz bobcat]

Not really? Here's a slightly modified version:

var optionsButton = parent.Q<Button>("options-button");

var menu = new GenericDropdownMenu();
menu.AddItem("Option 1", false, () => PopupWindow.Show(optionsButton.worldBound, new MyCustomPopup()));
menu.AddItem("Option 2", false, () => Debug.Log("Test"));
            
optionsButton.clicked += () =>
{
    menu.DropDown(optionsButton.worldBound, optionsButton);
};

[fiery canopy]

So I just remembered Unity has an experimental GraphView class that you can use to create exactly what I wanted 😅

It just took me a while to figure out how to set it up since there is not much documentation on it.

[ruby kite]

is UniTask the best coroutine alternative or should i use something else

[fiery canopy]

Unity has an Editor Coroutines package you can use. I know nothing about UniTask so I can't really say if I recommend it or not.

[ruby kite]

ty

[topaz bobcat]

I like Unitask. It's a bit more complicated to use than simple coroutines, but you also have more control on how your async Methods are terminated

[fiery canopy]

After being forced to write a coroutine solution for MonoGame when I was messing around with that a few months ago I just added a event system to tell when a coroutine ended. You could probably do the same with Unity.

[gloomy chasm]

You can also use C#'s Task system and async/await.

[surreal girder]

But replaced with Awaitable or UniTask

[gloomy chasm]

What do you mean?

[surreal girder]

instead of using System.Task we should use Awaitable or UniTask as the task type

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh, generally yeah, but it's not too big of a deal for use in the editor.

[surreal girder]

UniTask offers support for a "frame yield" even in editor so its a good replacement for coroutines

[gloomy chasm]

Not saying UniTask ain't handy. Just that for doing async programming in the editor it isn't needed. As it can be a rather 'large' dependency for otherwise small tasks.

At least from my understanding of things. I admittedly don't do a lot of async work in the editor.

[surreal girder]

I dont really either but I use UniTask and async code everywhere in runtime code so its nice to have it usable in editor too if required (e.g. load lots of data for some editor window but not freeze the main thread)

[topaz bobcat]

I'm seeing here that SearchWindow and ISearchWindowProvider are still experimental in Unity 6. Do anyone know if there's a non-experimental alternative to a searchable popup list?

[pure sinew]

Hello, how do you all handle mono behaviours used for authoring? I've been using #if UNITY_EDITOR, however this results in my build logs being spammed of missing mono scripts or serialization layout being changed. Is it possible to somehow remove such scripts from Game Objects during build?

An example of such script:

#if UNITY_EDITOR == false

...usings

internal sealed class AssetRoot : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void Awake()
    {
        Destroy(this);
    }
}


#else

...usings

[SelectionBase]
internal sealed class AssetRoot : MonoBehaviour
{
    private readonly HashSet<string> invalidTransformCache = new();

    [FoldoutGroup("Filtering")]
    [Required]
    [SerializeField]
    private List<Transform> ignorePositions = new();

    [FoldoutGroup("Filtering")]
    [Required]
    [SerializeField]
    private List<Transform> ignoreRotations = new();
    
    ...a bunch of Editor specific stuff
}

#endif

Logs:

04-23 12:02:39.418 23410 23520 E Unity   : A scripted object (probably AssetRoot?) has a different serialization layout when loading. (Read 32 bytes but expected 40 bytes)
04-23 12:02:39.418 23410 23520 E Unity   : Did you #if UNITY_EDITOR a section of your serialized properties in any of your scripts?

[queen wharf]

editor monobehaviours shouldn't really exist

[pure sinew]

What would be the alternative? I use some plugins which do this and also need to serialize some fields for Editor tooling to store data during authoring

[queen wharf]

you'd probably have to store that information yourself

[pure sinew]

Could you elaborate on this 🤔

[smoky radish]

Hey all,
How can I toggle OnSceneGUI visibility ?

[pure sinew]

If you have control over the implementation, you can do this:

var sceneView = UnityEditor.SceneView.lastActiveSceneView;
if (sceneView && sceneView.drawGizmos)
{
}

[gloomy chasm]

You use #if UNITY_EDITOR around the content of the MonoBehavior, not the whole class.

[pure sinew]

Same warnings happen - serialization layout issues

[gloomy chasm]

Ahh yeah you gotta exclude the serialized fields as well. But actually I just remembered you can use hide flags instead

I think if you add the DontSaveInBuild flag it should be all good and you can enclose the whole thing in a #if UNITY_EDITOR https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/HideFlags.DontSaveInBuild.html

[pure sinew]

I had thought about this, however the issue I'm experiencing is on components which are added on objects that should be included in build. Hide flags affect the whole game object :/

[gloomy chasm]

As far as I know, the DontIncludeInBuild HideFlags are per-component

I could be misremembering though of course.

[pure sinew]

Hmm, I'll do some testing to double check, currently stuck on some other issues... Last time I've used it I think it affected the whole game object, thanks for the tip!

[cyan monolith]

Anyone know why unity cloud projects aren’t showing up in the hub? Or at least the one I’m looking for, it shows up on my windows computers but not on Mac. Some show up but not the one I’m looking for.

[pure sinew]

Had some time to test this out, it seems that it yeets the GameObject, dropped these two components on a GameObject and the ExtraScript doesn't log anything in build:

public class AuthoringScript : MonoBehaviour
{
#if UNITY_EDITOR
    [SerializeField]
    private HideFlags flags = HideFlags.DontSaveInBuild;

    private void OnValidate()
    {
        gameObject.hideFlags = flags;
    }
#endif

    private void Awake()
    {
        Debug.Log("I shouldn't be here");
    }
}

public class ExtraScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void Awake()
    {
        Debug.Log("I should still print stuff");
    }
}

[surreal girder]

these dont even work properly in prefabs so they really half assed them

i swear even in addressable scenes they dont work

[olive hollow]

Is there any way to set a particular scene as the default in the editor when a project is first opened?
I am submitting a Unity project as a take home task and whenever I download my project repo on a separate machine and open the project from Unity hub, it seems to open a default untitled scene instead of my scene
My scene still exists, but the user has to manually navigate to the scene's location and open it.
I have ensured that my scene is the only one in the project and is the first and only scene in the Build data scene list

I am using the standard unity .gitignore template so im not sure if it might have something to do with that

[gloomy chasm]

The opened scene is stored in preferences. Don't remember if it is is local to the project or globabl to the computer.

You can write a script using [InitializeOnLoad] to load the scene on first load if the current scene is not persistent/an asset

[olive hollow]

ah i see

[past crane]

Sorry, I left and wasn't able to get back to you on this. I'm glad you found a result. For me, using an EditorWindow instead of a PopupWindow fixed it . . .

[topaz bobcat]

No prob. I've created a forum post about this and they've request me to create a Bug report. Apparently this is indeed a bug. I'm using the GenericMenu class instead of the GenericDropdownMenu for now.

[past crane]

Oh, nice. That's pretty sweet . . .

[dusk dome]

how can I prevent a foldout closing when I press the left key?

[muted cave]

Is there a way to check if a folder in the projects window is empty and/or expanded/collapsed?

[glad pivot]

so i have an attribute public string title {get; private set;}, where PropertyFields dont work well with attributes defined like this so i have to do it manually. so i have this to get the FieldInfo:

private string _getBackingFieldName(string propertyName)
{
    return string.Format("<{0}>k__BackingField", propertyName);
}

private FieldInfo _getBackingField(object obj, string propertyName)
{
    return obj.GetType().GetField(_getBackingFieldName(propertyName), BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
}

I can edit it and all just fine. but its not being correctly saved. when i simply do:

string previousTitle = TitleField.GetValue(script) as string;
string newTitle = EditorGUILayout.TextField("Title", previousTitle);
if (previousTitle != newTitle)
{
    TitleField.SetValue(script, newTitle);
    EditorUtility.SetDirty(script);
}

whenever i close and open the project, the edits are gone.
how do i fix this so that the edit is actually written correctly to the asset? (this is a scriptable object)

[glad pivot]

~~wait, i could maybe work around this by using internal instead of private and do script.title = newTitle right? or does using the namespace then give access to it as well?~~~nvm, the editor has an editor assembly so that dont work

[gloomy chasm]

I asssume by 'attribute' you mean a memeber of a object and not a [Attribute]. If so, you need to add the [field: SerializeField] attribute to the auto property.

[glad pivot]

yes i do

[gloomy chasm]

After you add the attribute you can access it via SerializedProperty like normal

[glad pivot]

ah really its that small thing again it was just missing field:

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah, it is because unity only serializes fields, not properties. field: tells the attribute to apply to the backing field and not the property.

[glad pivot]

so thats how that works

well now its working 👍 thanky

[glad pivot]

how do i use PackageInfo.FindForAssetPath() ??? i have tried all i can think of that should work for getting my package info both when its imported and in my dev environment. all just returning null.
ive tried
Packages/com.name.package with and without a /, and with /package.json.
same with Assets/packageLocation

i thought maybe it only finds installed packages but i cant even get it to work when it is
i cant even check what it does cuz its an external call so the c# reference is no help here

idk if this is how you should do it. i guess i could load the .json itself but it seems like this should be the intended way to do it

[surreal girder]

Shouldn't you be using https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/PackageManager.PackageInfo.FindForPackageName.html and what is your "dev environment"?

[glad pivot]

This is unity 6000 though, this package supports older versions

And that the development environment is just the unity project im using to make the package. Im saying that because there will be a difference in file location. Where im developing it, the package won't be installed as a package as its already in the project

[surreal girder]

You can edit a package when it's inside Packages/ so you don't have to make things work differently while editing it

And that function has existed for a bit

You can also just search all entries for a match and get it this way

[glad pivot]

I feel like thats a little overkill when i know where the package is going to be at all times tho

[glad pivot]

Thought i couldn't manually make folders in there? Though i guess i never tried

Ok holdon let me double check. Im pretty sure find by for name was not available in this version

[surreal girder]

You can put the whole package in that folder: e.g. Packages/mycoolpackage

And it will work and be editable in editor

[glad pivot]

Ah, well now i just feel dumb. But thats good to know

[surreal girder]

You may be right actually, I just did Find() on all of em to find mine

[queen wharf]

(can check with the little dropdown)

[glad pivot]

Yeah im on 21

[tidal goblet]

i cant find a proper channel for the editor itself so i think this is close enough,why is the camera clipping so early? it wasnt like this before,i could zoom all the way into the monitor of that pc but now the camera clips everything and its getting hard to work with

[glad pivot]

Through asset database or?

Or you mean going through all the package folders to check for yours?

[glad pivot]

thats a setting on your camera called clipping planes

[tidal goblet]

nvm i fixed it,turns out i can just press f on an object and it focuses there and the clipping fixes itself

[surreal girder]

This gets them all so you can just search for yours via name.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/PackageManager.PackageInfo.GetAllRegisteredPackages.html

[glad pivot]

welp, i suppose i will have to filter thought unnecessary data unless i make a json solution myself in that case

[glad pivot]

you sure? unity doesnt allow me to create folders in the Packages folder. or do you mean to make a folder called Packages within Assets?

[queen wharf]

unity isn't the police

[surreal girder]

Project root/Packages
Where the manifest.json lives.
This works as I use it for a package myself

[queen wharf]

make it in file explorer

[surreal girder]

Yep do it outside of unity

[glad pivot]

ah ok

oh yeah you right

that would make things easier

[glad pivot]

ohno, its super inconvenient to make it from the package folder. every time i export it as a unity package i gotta move the entire thing, unless i only use github

[surreal girder]

I clone my package repo in there and commit it as is

I don't have it inside a unity project in the repo

[glad pivot]

what i mean is when you export a unity package it only allows you to select files thats within the scope of Assets/. Even the asset store validator does that. only time its not inconvenient is if i dont export unity packages, and host it on github as is

[surreal girder]

No this is all for a package via the package manager

.unitypackage files you can do whatever cus they are not special

[glad pivot]

then how would you export while it is in the package folder? both exporting a unity package and uploading directly to the asset store requires the files to be in the asset folder

[surreal girder]

I didnt realise this was for the asset store. you will have to do it the shit old way then 🤷‍♂️
a package is not the same as a "unity package of files"

i have no idea if the asset store supports upm packages yet

[glad pivot]

it is only code and assembly files with the required demo, but it should function the same as any other package installed through git

[astral hemlock]

I created a window with a MultiColumnLisView. How do I save the column widths when they are changed? Currently whenever the window is rebuilt, the column widths are reset (which are tiny).

[visual stag]

Serialize an array to the window, it's a scriptable object

[main vessel]

I want to make something like this but for a scriptable object inspector does anyone know how and preferably a dropdown add button for an array style

it has to be nested in other stuff like this for now i was using dictionaries

each effect has there own properties that can be edited

[visual stag]

That's an AdvancedDropdown
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/IMGUI.Controls.AdvancedDropdown.html

and you can customize the add button for a list via ListView.onAdd in UITK

there's no easy way to modify it without manually drawing the list sadly

[main vessel]

oh kk

thanks

[main vessel]

could you provide an example im kinda confused still

and im also too broke for odin inspector

[visual stag]

Sadly no, it's very complicated. Maybe there's some packages out there that do it

[main vessel]

kk

[astral hemlock]

When do I serialize that array? I'm not seeing an onColumnWidthChanged event.

[visual stag]

OnDisable

[main vessel]

this unity package i got for serialized dictionarys does this can i have help making a custom serialized dict instead?
https://streamable.com/31yjre

nvm

[main vessel]

i managed to do it without custom inspector somehow

[full cedar]

Hey, I am trying to make a new shortcut that would create a script, I just can't figure out how to tie it to a specific context :/
I want this to only be registered in the Project view, not Scene view etc.
Here's the code I have so far:

public class EditorShortcuts : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Shortcut("NewNnScript", KeyCode.S, ShortcutModifiers.Control | ShortcutModifiers.Alt)]
    private static void NewScript() =>
        ProjectWindowUtil.CreateScriptAssetFromTemplateFile("Assets/NnUtils/Scripts/Editor/NnScriptTemplate.txt", "NnScript.cs");
}

Please @ me and thanks in advance!

[waxen sandal]

Guessing you want this? https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/ShortcutManagement.ShortcutManager.RegisterContext.html

The sample there seems to match what you want, except you need to change the focusedWindow

[full cedar]

Ah, so you would have to make a custom context implementation, I see.
How come unity doesn't have these for built in windows, such as Scene, Project etc.?

[waxen sandal]

No idea, maybe they do, I just learned about this API 😛

[full cedar]

ye :/

Thanks either way, this solution is better than no solution at all ig

[pure sinew]

Is it possible to check if game is about to quit when inside the Editor? I'm doing some logic inside OnDestroy to cleanup and need to exclude some paths during editor game shutdown

I've tried hooking into UnityEditor.EditorApplication.playModeStateChanged, but it doesn't seem to fire before OnDestroy 🤔

[waxen sandal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/EditorApplication-quitting.html set some global value in this

[pure sinew]

Will check this out tomorrow, thanks!

[pure sinew]

Mhm, this does not fit my use case - this checks if the Editor is quitting, not if the game inside the editor is quitting

[waxen sandal]

Ah I misread

[pure sinew]

UnityEditor.EditorApplication.isPlayingOrWillChangePlaymode seems to work

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/EditorApplication-isPlayingOrWillChangePlaymode.html

[gloomy chasm]

There is also this which unifies a number of events https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/EditorApplication-playModeStateChanged.html

[waxen sandal]

See this @gloomy chasm

[gloomy chasm]

Oh, should of read the convo more, my bad!

[twin prism]

I Wrote the drawers script but still doesn't work and I'm not sure how to use it, anyone knows why please ?
https://paste.mod.gg/rqzqrqzkrnye/0
https://paste.mod.gg/rqzqrqzkrnye/1
https://paste.mod.gg/rqzqrqzkrnye/2

[waxen sandal]

time = new List<string>?

[twin prism]

yeah tried with strings to fill it with those 24 hours but didn't work 😬

[waxen sandal]

The only thing that can be null on line 20 is that collection

So if it's not that, then your linenumbers are probably wrong and anyone through chat will just be guessing

[twin prism]

wait nevermind, the error isn't that anymore

it's a drawer error

[muted cave]

that error usually means you are trying to attach a non-MonoBehaviour to a gameObject, usually when you change a script from MonoBehaviour to something else while it is still attached somewhere.'

And you shouldn't need both Visual Element and onGUI. At the very least I would combine them into one class or it might cause some problems.

[surreal girder]

2022 and later can show either one so yea you dont have to make a version for both gui systems

[twin prism]

is there a fast way to see if it's attached to an gameObject and what gameObject ?

[twin prism]

to be honest I have no clue what I'm doing 🥲

[muted cave]

maybe they show up as a warning

[muted cave]

maybe search for it in the hierarchy (and projects) folder "SO_DailyTasks"

[muted cave]

the warning in the middle might be on to something

you either have two script named SO_DailyTasks or one and it is not derived from ScriptableObject

[twin prism]

Yes this one

[muted cave]

uff.
Usually you have a script named:
MyClass
and the drawer script (which has to be inside a folder named "Editor") is called:
MyClassDrawer

You are kinda mixing both into a single script, that doesn't work

There are a couple tutorials on drawers and editors, or you could look up how Unity handles it, here is the script for a VerticalLayoutGroup (this is an editor though and not a drawer)
https://paste.mod.gg/obnisnqfjgwe/0

[twin prism]

I followed the tutorial on the official Unity API and they showed multiple script 😬

[twin prism]

like do I really need to use drawers for what I want (aka a simple 24 hours timer drop down list) that's a TimeSpan ?

[surreal girder]

perhaps a property attribute on say a long so you can select a time span but serialize it in MS
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PropertyAttribute.html

Or a drawer for your own class

[muted cave]

Unity can't show TimeSpan in the inspector, that might be one of the reasons why your script doesn't work. You could just use something like

[Range(0, 24)][SerializeField] float startTime;
[Range(0, 24)][SerializeField] float endTime;

private void OnValidate()
{
    if (endTime < startTime)
    { endTime = startTime; }
}```

or at the very least you have to display the start and endTime as float and then convert it to TimeSpan once the game starts

[surreal girder]

you can store the time as milliseconds or seconds or even minutes as int or long but dont use float

can be whatever tbh but your problem is the drawer gui i guess

[twin prism]

I need to have those displayed in the inspector in this format 06:00

same on the UI in game

and also it will be used inside SO because each prison will have different timings for the tasks

[twin prism]

someone sugested drawers but I forgot to solve which problem x)

[surreal girder]

Custom drawer is to show the GUI controls you want. It will let you display a list of times but you can save the time as some number so its serializable.
So you will draw a popup: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/EditorGUILayout.Popup.html or similar

[twin prism]

Should I start from scratch and could you help me do it step by step please ? 🙂

[surreal girder]

ill give a general overview of how it would work:

• const for time interval such as 1h
• make list of strings for options that start at interval and go up x amount (01:00, 02:00 ect)
• look at variable to figure out what string should be "selected" rn (e.g. 5 meaning 5 hours so string at index 4)
• convert new selected option index to new selected time e.g. 6
• write to int or long

the serialized var could be int hours; for example

the whole idea is taking some variable and mapping to and from your custom gui options

[twin prism]

But here the time span is saved as TimeSpan type

[surreal girder]

but that isnt serializable by unity so it can be stored as a number

[twin prism]

I don't understand how to do that 🤔

[surreal girder]

then i cant help you 😆

a time span object represents some amount of time, NUMBERS CAN TOO

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.timespan.fromhours?view=net-9.0

[twin prism]

I did this first is it good or I'm already in the wrong ?

[surreal girder]

im not going to check things like a teacher

[twin prism]

then I'm doomed 😦

[vapid prism]

I have an object with 2 fields. I have subscribed to RegisterValueChangeCallback on my first field, when I edit it I also edit the other value through SerializedProperty and finally ApplyModifiedProperties. Both are currently drawn using UITK PropertyField. For some reason the other field doesn't seem to update though, do I need to force UITK to redraw it somehow? This is in a PropertyDrawe

If I close and open the window the value is was clearly properly serialized correctly

I've worked around it by manually unbinding and then rebinding the property. Feels a bit hack-ish so if someone has a better idea that would be great

[gloomy chasm]

No idea really without seeing the code.

[muted cave]

anybody know why I can't change anything in the first list and I can't expand/collapse the items in the second list. It's an editor window

    public class SettingsWindow : EditorWindow
    {
        [MenuItem("Tools/AdvancedScriptTemplates/Settings")]
        public static void ShowWindow()
        {
            GetWindow(typeof(SettingsWindow));
        }
        private void OnGUI()
        {
            UnityEditor.Editor m_MyScriptableObjectEditor = UnityEditor.Editor.CreateEditor(TemplateSettings.instance);
            m_MyScriptableObjectEditor.OnInspectorGUI();
        }
        private void OnDestroy()
        {
            TemplateSettings.instance.Save();
        }
    }

[waxen sandal]

Probably because the editor is recreated every frame

[muted cave]

ah ok that fixed it

[outer ember]

has anyone run into the issue when unity remote 5 wont show the Mobile keyboard with textmeshpro input field

[glad pivot]

im using FieldInfo a couple of places in my editors, but for some reason one of them are resetting back to the previous value after ive changed the field value when i call serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();, why does that happen? instead should i only call this once im changing serialized properties and not when im changing fields as those are not serialized properties?

hmm, when i dont call it, something breaks so im not too sure

[real spindle]

I'd need to see your code to make sense of this

How are you using FieldInfo? What exactly is "resetting"?

[glad pivot]

holdon if im gonna show code i gotta get a new things

but essentially, im doing a few things to figure out which index i want from a list, then im storing that index. the index is being set through FieldInfo as its public get; private set; but the list of items are not using FIeldInfo, those are using serialized properties. its the list that is being changed which should then set the index for the FieldInfo

so because im using both, i have to call ´serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();´ to allow the list elements to update properly, but then the FieldInfo is reverted back to what it was before the serialized properties where changed

This is part of the code i have in OnInspectorGUI

if(_Scenes.serializedObject.hasModifiedProperties)
{
    Undo.RegisterCompleteObjectUndo(target, "MultiSeneTools: Scene Collection Active Scene Index = " + ActiveIndexField.GetValue(script));
    updateActiveSceneIndex();
}
serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();

The ActiveIndexField correctly set during updateActiveASceneIndex() to what it should, but once again as it reaches the apply method, its back to what it was before the method ran

if you want to see the entire logic for that i can post that as well

[real spindle]

Not an expert when it comes to this but try calling SetDirty and/or serializedObject.Update before applying

[glad pivot]

but im calling ActiveIndexField.SetValue(script, index); where im setting the new value

[glad pivot]

ill try that first then

ok im getting somehwere so i might be able to figure someting out

thanky

nice, fixed it! added an serializedObject.Update() after changing the fieldinfo, then im applying the modified properties after ive changed them, instead of doing both after both

[gloomy chasm]

The reason is because ApplyModifiedProperties() changes all the properties in the target object to match the serialized. So it will overwrite any changes made to the target object. While Update() changes all of the properties in the serialized object to match the target.

You can think of ApplyModifiedProperties() as sending the data from the serialized to the target object.
And Update() as sending the data from the target to the serialized.

[glad pivot]

ok so this is the last bug i cant figure out. ive been trying for several hours trying several things and googling, which i found that this might be a unity bug so idk. but ill ask anyway.

I have a strange issue with opening editor windows automatically with the ´[InitializeOnLoadMethod]´ attribute, where it shouldnt open multiple windows but somehow it opens some kind of invisible windows that are bugged, but show up on the taskbar.

this is simplified for the example but i have this code:

[InitializeOnLoadMethod]
static void Startup()
{
    CheckUpdates(); // checks if an update has been detected, if it has opens the setup window
}

where CheckUpdates() is calling SetupWizard.MenuEntryCall(); where its needed.
ive tried storing the wizard instance in my config scriptable object and not opening one when the config has an open wizard, so that so when the project reloads the instance isnt lost, but this had no effect as far as i can tell. and its still opening blank windows

MenuEntryCall isnt doing anything other than just opening the window with setting some default values for where its on the screen

[gloomy chasm]

This is the important part of the code 😛

But a work around is probably to just do the check in EditorApplication.delayCall += () => CheckUpdates();

[glad pivot]

this is all

[MenuItem("Tools/Multi Scene Tools Lite/Setup", false, 1)]
public static void MenuEntryCall() 
{
    MultiSceneToolsSetup_Wizard _Wizard = (MultiSceneToolsSetup_Wizard)GetWindow(typeof(MultiSceneToolsSetup_Wizard));
    Wizard.titleContent = new GUIContent("Multi Scene Tools Setup", "Creates or updates the config");
    _Wizard.position = new Rect(Screen.currentResolution.width/3, Screen.currentResolution.height/4, _Wizard.position.width, _Wizard.position.height);
    _Wizard.minSize = new Vector2(684, 520);
    _Wizard.Show();
}

[gloomy chasm]

Is GetWindow the EditorWindow.GetWindow method?

[glad pivot]

yep

[gloomy chasm]

That calls Show already

[glad pivot]

isee, i originally didnt have that there but i added it as i was hoping the hidden windows would then be forced to show themsevles but ofc it didnt do anything

[glad pivot]

-# im currently testing this to see if its still happening btw

[gloomy chasm]

You can do this:

var wizard = Resources.FindObjectsOfType<MultiSceneToolsSetup_Wizard >().FirstOrDefault();
if (wizard == null)
    wizard = CreateInstance<MultiSceneToolsSetup_Wizard >();

// Set properties on 'wizard'...
wizard.Show();

Looking at what I did in the past, I did do the delay call to open it. Also when testing I would reset the layout of Unity so those bugged windows are closed.

[glad pivot]

ah, i didnt even think of trying to open a different layout, ive been reopening the project each time

[glad pivot]

ok nice, this seems to have done the trick. thanky!

[glad pivot]

gonna have a look at this as well just to make sure nothign bad is happening

[gloomy chasm]

Yeah I have had to do it a lot when I add a custom popup window because when you open a window with ShowPopup, there is no way to close to besides that or find all of them with Resources.FindObjectsOfType haha

[fiery canopy]

OK I'm at a loss

I created a Custom GridBrush and a GridBrushEditor. Almost everything works except the fact that in the Tile Palette window the grid brush will draw itself when you click on a random position in the Tile Palette Window. Is that by design or am I missing something.

I thought the override for drawing in the inspector would fix that but it doesn't help at all.

[zealous cradle]

anyone know why the animation rigging package gizmos won't get disabled when i toggle the gizmo's visibility ?

[burnt dove]

How can I get the GUID of an Scene?

[real spindle]

Did you try AssetDatabase.AssetPathToGUID?

[burnt dove]

Oh, I didn't. I'll try that, thanks

[untold nymph]

they are a component, not really the same

you gotta disable the bone renderer

[zealous cradle]

I wasnt talking about the bone renderer

Iwas talking about the constraint targets

[untold nymph]

ahh mb, i dont know much about disabling those gizmos

[alpine bolt]

Where can I find this "right-click" option in source code?

[gloomy chasm]

Do you mean "Copy Property Path" or do you mean the menu that opens up?

This is the menu that gets opened https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EditorApplication-contextualPropertyMenu.html

[alpine bolt]

Thx! That was it (Copy & Paste are custom)

[shadow minnow]

I'm using a material property block to assign properties to the shader being used for this tilemap. When the object is dirty, and the scene gets saved, these properties are reset. Is there a method or event or something i can hook onto to reapply my material property block when the object gets saved?

currently i refresh the material property block on Awake(), OnValidate(), and OnBecameVisible(), but none of those occur when the object is saved.

[queen echo]

Are you not able to use EditorGUILayout.Foldout inside OnInspectorGUI? the internet is fraught with people saying it doesnt work in various scenarios, but there is never really any answer.

I am storing the state of the foldout in the MB it acts as the inspector for to mitigate any problem of the state being broken during drawing, but it just never seems to register a click on the label, even with the toggle on label set to true, i.e:

myExternalVisibleState = EditorGUILayout.Foldout(myExternalVisibleState, ShowImplementations, "The label to be shown", true);

(Oh I am also using Unity 2022.3, I was using 2021 but thought maybe it was something that regressed between versions so bumped up one to check if that fixed it, it didnt 😦 )

[waxen sandal]

Editorguilayout doesn't work in property drawers

SerializedProperties have an isExpanded field which you can use for your foldout

[queen echo]

Can you point me to an example?

[queen echo]

I have tried searching for what you mean, cant find anything, also I use EditorGuiLayout stuff quite a bit in the inspector and the rest of it seems fine, the confusing thing is there are lots of posts of people saying it should work in the inspectors fine as its just another editor thing

[queen wharf]

they don't work in drawers

[queen echo]

Is there any alternative that does the same thing? I cant really use an attribute as I am having to loop over properties within objects and spit them out into their own bits of the UI

[queen echo]

its fine, it does work, but for some reason it wasnt treating the data as a reference so was constantly just overwritting the value, wrapped it in a class to ensure it is correctly using the reference and works as intended now

[waxen sandal]

Can you provuide more code?

[queen echo]

Sure

oh sorry its not letting me share, let me chop it up a bit

[CustomEditor(typeof(ObservableGroupViewer))]
public class ObservableGroupViewerInspector : global::UnityEditor.Editor
{
    public class VisibilityState
    {
        public bool ShowGroup { get; set; }
    }
    public Dictionary<LookupGroup, VisibilityState> VisibleStates = new();
    
    public override void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
        var observableGroupViewer = (ObservableGroupViewer)target;
        if(observableGroupViewer == null) {  return; }
        var observableGroupManager = observableGroupViewer.ObservableGroupManager;
        
        EditorGUIHelper.WithLabel("Active Groups");
        foreach (var observableGroup in observableGroupManager.ObservableGroups.OrderByDescending(x => x.Count))
        {
            if (!VisibleStates.ContainsKey(observableGroup.Group))
            { VisibleStates.Add(observableGroup.Group, new VisibilityState()); }
            var visibleState = VisibleStates[observableGroup.Group];
                        
            EditorGUI.indentLevel++;
            visibleState.ShowGroup = EditorGUILayout.Foldout(visibleState.ShowGroup, label, true);
            EditorGUI.indentLevel--;
            
            if (!visibleState.ShowGroup) { return; }                
            GroupUIAspect.DrawGroupUI(componentTypeLookup, observableGroup.Group);
        }
    }
}

Thats a slightly chopped up and bolted together version, but that works, it doesnt retain through reselection but thats what I wanted, if I wanted it to persist I could just move the data tracking the visible states into the MonoBehavior its sourcing data from.

[waxen sandal]

Right

GUILayout does work in Editor derived classes but not in PropertyDrawers

Generally, it's recommended to use SerializedObject/Property to access fields though, there's more info #↕️┃editor-extensions message

[hollow valve]

Does anyone know of a good free dungeon generation tool I can use in my Lethal Company inspired game? I found these demos which look like exactly what I want. 2d demo, 3d demo 2. These are demos from an existing Godot plugin.

[willow jackal]

You probably want to learn how to make one instead. Each games usually have their own set of rules

[queen wharf]

Lethal Company uses the paid asset DunGen, for reference

[runic maple]

Uh oh

[fiery canopy]

Looks like your ListView is not populating the data correctly 🤔

Have you set the ItemSource to the correct object?

[runic maple]

Yeah im pretty sure but I've scrapped the editor for my project for now in favor of json (at least for now).

[severe lance]

Are there any edge cases for script extending from Editor such that OnEnable() isn't called? Furthermore, what's the best way to clean up materials and other unity objects when the editor object is deselected? How much can I rely on OnDisable() being called, or should I consider alternatives?

[waxen sandal]

Should be reliable afaik

[still nexus]

Is it possible to bind using UI Builder before unity 6?

[gloomy chasm]

Editor SerializedProeprty binding yes, but not the runtime binding.

[still nexus]

thanks! I'll probably try updating to unity 6 and if I have too many issues I'll use the serializedproperties.

[gloomy chasm]

If you are doing stuff with data in the editor, you should always be using SerializedProperties, otherwise things won't get saved properly or support undo/redo or prefab overrides

[still nexus]

Oh so the runtime binding is only for non-inspector UI? Gotcha

[brittle urchin]

Hi! I am making some scriptable object assets with a custom editor. Now and then when updating the assets via user interaction i get this error. Do you know a way of finding where this error occurs?

[gentle narwhal]

Anyone have any good extensions for cinema creation?

[gloomy chasm]

Cinemachine...?

And Timeline?

[gentle narwhal]

ok

i gess

[viscid sapphire]

any extensions to help me bulk sort a messy project cause like got 2 separate projects that need to be organized and merged into one and both exceed 17GB

[odd badger]

In the CreatePropertyGUI() of the PropertyDrawer class, is there any way to get the label text passed by the second argument of the PropertyField constructor? Or do I have no other way than to use OnGUI()?

[waxen sandal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/ObjectNames.html

Probably this https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/ObjectNames.NicifyVariableName.html specifically but there's a bunch of goodies there

IIRC properties also have a displayName

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/SerializedProperty-displayName.html

[odd badger]

Thank you for replying:)
In my project, the PropertyDrawer of the parent element passes a runtime-generated name to the child element through the second argument of the PropertyField constructor.
In the CreatePropertyGUI(), property.displayName only gives the display style name string of the original variable name. Instead, I want to get the passed name.

[vapid prism]

You're probably looking for PropertyDrawer.preferredLabel

[odd badger]

Oh! It worked!
Thank you so much:)

[muted cave]

public StatsData virusData = default;
public List<StatsData> enemyStats = default;
``` This is in a custom EditorWindow. 
The first line is assignable in the Inspector, the second line isn't. StatsData is a ScriptableObject.
What is the reason for that and is there a workaround other than creating a new SO that has a List<StatsData>?

[glad cliff]

How do I align my elements in inspector within a custom PropertyDrawer? As im digging in it seems like only visual elements deriving from BaseField<T> can inherit this functionality of auto-alignment with other fields in inspector, but is there any other way to get it to work?

public override VisualElement CreatePropertyGUI(SerializedProperty property)
{
    VisualElement root = new VisualElement() { tooltip = property.tooltip, style = { flexDirection = FlexDirection.Row } };
    Label fieldLabel = new Label(property.displayName);
    fieldLabel.AddToClassList(PropertyField.labelUssClassName);
    VisualElement inputField = new VisualElement() { style = { flexDirection = FlexDirection.Row } };
    inputField.AddToClassList(PropertyField.inputUssClassName);

    root.Add(fieldLabel);
    root.Add(inputField);

    Rebuild(inputField, property);
    root.TrackPropertyValue(property, prop => Rebuild(inputField, prop));

    return root;
}

This is a simple case, label and some visual element to serve as an input

[hollow valve]

May I ask how you know this? Has the dev released a statement saying this?

Either way I'm swaying towards buying DenGen anyway.

[gusty oracle]

Can someone spot my error or misunderstanding? Both fields are assigned in Inspector and this code works if the editor is playing, but not when stopped

using UnityEditor;
using UnityEditor.SceneManagement;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class EditorHelper : MonoBehaviour
{
    private static SceneHelper sceneHelper;
    
    [MenuItem("Scenes/Open Menu Scene", false, 0)]
    private static void OpenMenuScene()
    {
        FindSceneHelper();

        if (EditorApplication.isPlaying)
        {
            SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneHelper.mainMenuScene.Name);
        }
        else
        {
            EditorSceneManager.OpenScene(sceneHelper.mainMenuScene.Name);
        }
    }

    [MenuItem("Scenes/Open Gameplay Scene", false, 1)]
    private static void OpenGameplayScene()
    {
        FindSceneHelper();
        
        if (EditorApplication.isPlaying)
        {
            SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneHelper.mainGameplayScene.Name);
        }
        else
        {
            EditorSceneManager.OpenScene(sceneHelper.mainGameplayScene.Name);
        }
    }

    private static void FindSceneHelper()
    {
        if (sceneHelper != null)
            return;
        
        Debug.Log($"Finding Helpers...");
        SceneHelper[] sceneHelpers = FindObjectsOfType(typeof(SceneHelper)) as SceneHelper[];

        if (sceneHelpers is { Length: > 0 })
        {
            sceneHelper = sceneHelpers[0];
            Debug.Log($"Found {sceneHelpers[0].gameObject.name} {sceneHelper == null}");

            if (sceneHelper)
            {
                Debug.Log($"{sceneHelper.mainMenuScene.Name}, {sceneHelper.mainGameplayScene.Name}");
            }
            
            if (sceneHelpers is { Length: > 1 })
            {
                Debug.LogError("There is more than one SceneHelper object in the scene!");
            }
        }
    }
}

Ignore this, solved my issue

[queen wharf]

I’ve talked to the dev and have done a lot of modding stuff

[real ivy]

Hi. I'm making a custom importer AssetPostprocessor. Specifically OnPostprocessGameObjectWithUserProperties and OnPostprocessModel
So these processes all models. Fbx, and .blend
Is there a way to mark certain assets to use this custom importer or not?

Do i perhaps, like, gotta name the asset with a "_Level" suffix, then the custom importer i just check for this suffix to run it? I imagine this is simple and would work, but is there a more correct way to mark it?

[lavish canopy]

Heey, I'm working on making some editors utilizing PreviewRenderUtility along Handles drawing & interactivity, and the general execution flow goes like:

• PRU.BeginPreview
• PRU.EndAndDrawPreview
• Handles.SetCamera(PRU.Camera)
• Draw Handles
  Im experiencing some weird issues with how the handles are drawn, and it seems to only happen in docked mode for the preview window. Handles shift around based on camera positioning, and the rect its drawn in appears shifted down from the actual preview rect. However, these issues are fully resolved in floating window mode, the handles there work perfectly as expected. Does anyone have any experience with drawing handles in preview windows and know how to get around this? Moving handle drawing between begin/end preview doesnt help, tried making sure the FOV is constant, setting the camera pixel rect to the preview rect, etc...

Some forum posts i looked at but none of them seemed to resolve anything for me. Click interaction works perfectly fine btw.
https://discussions.unity.com/t/previewrenderutility-and-handles/783621
https://discussions.unity.com/t/writing-an-editor-window-that-mimics-the-scene-view/728634/35

[karmic basin]

Not sure if this the right place to ask, but how do I move these things? I draw them with EditorGUILayout. The problem is that toggle checkmark is drawing over the label, so I want to add some offset between. I tried margin/padding in the GUIStyle, but it didn't work

[surreal girder]

draw your own prefix label and toggle to make the label wider

[karmic basin]

how do I do that

[surreal girder]

EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
EditorGUILayout.PrefixLabel("FooBar", GUILayout.Width(50f));
EditorGUILayout.Toggle(false);
EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();

something like this (written from memory so may have mistakes)
The idea is to give the label a fixed width that better suits what you desire.

[karmic basin]

I'll try it

[surreal girder]

gui layout options are used to specify these settings: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GUILayoutOption.html

[karmic basin]

yeah I know what it is

[karmic basin]

nothing changed

EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
EditorGUILayout.PrefixLabel("Always Draw Prefab Name", new GUIStyle()
{
    fixedWidth = 200
});
_alwaysDrawPrefabName = EditorGUILayout.Toggle("", _alwaysDrawPrefabName);
EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();

[surreal girder]

do what i did and you ommit the arg for a label when you dont need it... like in my example 😐

basically all of those control gui layout functions have an overload without a label arg

[karmic basin]

PrefixLabel asks for GUIStyle, not GUILayoutOption

[surreal girder]

perhaps Label is better suited here than PrefixLabel

[karmic basin]

now it looks good, thank you🙏

[zealous hill]

It seems that EditorGUI.FloatField doesn't allow you to drag to edit floats.

I tried using EditorGUILayout.FloatField which does allow dragable edit, but it broke the rest of my property drawer.

Is there a way to add that functionality to regular EditorGUI.FloatField?

[muted cave]

I'm using

Undo.RecordObjects(scriptObjects.ToArray(), "Namespace Fix");
```The problem is this doesn't show up in the undo history. 
I use FileReadAllText() and File.WriteAllText() to make changes to the scripts. 
I assume the editor doesn't detect the changes and I have to tell it manually that they have changed but I don't know how.

[surreal girder]

as long as you record objects before making changes it should work

[hot quarry]

when i add a custom attribute to my script (if that script happens to be open) the formatting/styling is whacked
but if i add a script w/ the custom attribute already in there and compiled i guess.. it works fine..
it isn't until i cycle back to have it selected does it look correct..

i can share more or the scripts if need be.. but i think theres just something im missing (or forgetting to do)
how can i go about having it style/ or redraw or w/e it needs to do when adding to a component already in the inspector

[gloomy chasm]

Can you show the code that handles drawing the button? Too many things it could be to realy make a guess without it.

[hot quarry]

nvm, i figured it out.. I was initializing the styles in the wrong spot

while i was writing it logically i thought (we'll if theres no buttons, then theres no header either.. so theres really nothing to style.. so makes sense to have my InitializeStyle() method at the top of the DrawSeperated() method..

[real ivy]

Hi guys. I'm usingii OnPostprocessGameObjectWithUserProperties, and added component SpriteRenderer, and do Resources.Load SpriteAtlas and use GetSprite
Deblog says it can find the sprite no problem (the sprite name has a (Clone) suffix), but when i see in inspector, no sprite assigned. What's going on?

[tawdry onyx]

Hey guys, I'm trying to make an editor button that when I click calls an event

[glacial sail]

How do you guys go about auto saving ScriptableSingleton in a non sucky way?
Currently without needing to save, I can just do:

private void Toggle(ref bool value, string title)
{
    value = GUILayout.Toggle(value, title);
}

Toggle(ref SomeScriptableSingleton.instance.SomeBoolField, "...");

But if I want toggling the field to cause the singleton to save, I don't see a clean way of doing it without a bunch of boilerplate code.

[gloomy chasm]

Unity doesn't support accessing methods or events via serialized property (since they are not serialized). If it is a UnityEvent you can get the value and then on that value you can invoke it.

[gloomy chasm]

I just save it in the setter of the property 🤷‍♂️

Can't do the ref setting like that any more. But really, it is best not to use public fields anyway.

[glacial sail]

I think saving on OnDisable is also a decent enough compromise.

But I'm running into an entirely different problem, that the saved data just doesn't seem to load at all. Not even the example code copied straight from https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/ScriptableSingleton_1.html. I can see that the save is created, but on next editor session it just doesn't seem to load from the save.

[gloomy chasm]

Can you find the actual file and see it has the saved data?

[glacial sail]

Yep, the file does get created and the data seems fine.

[gloomy chasm]

That should be okay I think? It is serializing the object using the normal Unity serializer so it should be okay. But I'm not sure if it might set some other data before the call that might mess it up.

[gloomy chasm]

Did you copy the code literally 1 - 1 including the Menu items for savin and loading?

[glacial sail]

Yep, exactly one to one.

[gloomy chasm]

Did you try it as a new file?

[glacial sail]

I didn't, but I guess might as well.

Oh, does the file name have to match the class name or something?

[gloomy chasm]

No it shouldn't any more. But Unity might have that file in a weird state for some reason

Might just to make sure, have the file name be the same

[glacial sail]

After a bit of trial and error, the issue seems to be that it doesn't work if the scriptable singleton class is nested inside another class.

When nested, the serialized m_Script is empty while m_EditorClassIdentifier is non empty, so it seems to me that there is specific code meant to handle this case but it doesn't actually work?

[visual stag]

You still need one Object per class, and I'd expect nesting to break it

MonoScript relies on tying the script to its file, and that's what m_Script is

[valid seal]

(Apologies if assetdatabase problems don't go here)

Right now im working on an sdk for my game and im trying to make a pallet system,
When i create a pallet in prefab mode on the object using the button i made, it creates it but it does not drop the object in the scriptable object...
But when i use the prefab in the project window it seems to drop it there?

my script

i maybe doing something wrong with getassetpath or loadassetpath but im not so clear on it

[frigid iron]

Does anyone know where GLTFast is now in the package manager? (in 6000.1.5f1), i can't seem to find it....

[surreal girder]

you can add it by name yourself

com.unity.cloud.gltfast

[floral nest]

Heya! how do i keep state in an EditorWindow beyond a code reload? Its making development extremely annoying to have to refill all information into a window

my current setup consists of having a handler object that the window communicates with

basically a front/backend infrastructure where the EditorWindow is responsible for displaying things and the handler is responsible for doing the heavy lifting

however the handler object becomes null after every code reload

easiest way to replicate my setup

[Serializable]
public class Handler : UnityEngine.Object {
  int data;
}
public class Window : EditorWindow {
  [SerializeReference] Handler h;
  void OnEnable() {
    if(!h) {
      h = new();
      Debug.Log("this should only run once");
    }
  }
}

"this should only run once" is printed every time the code reloads

if i simply do

public class Window : EditorWindow {
  int data;
  void OnEnable() {
    if(data == 0) {
      data = 5;
      Debug.Log("this should only run once");
    }
  }
}
``` it works

[muted cave]

you could store the data in a ScriptableObject or ScriptableSingleton

[floral nest]

Thank you!!!!

that works

i thought UnityEngine.Object was enough

[gloomy chasm]

It should be throwing an exception because you are inherit from UnityEngine.Object That isn't allowed...

[floral nest]

well it wasnt ^^`

[gloomy chasm]

Also the field is never serialized since it isn't public or has [SerializeField].

As long as the window is open it will serialize all serializable fields. Meaning they will persist between domain reloads.

So no need for the Handler at all.

Also, [SerializeReference] does nothing on fields of a type that inherit from UnityEngine.Object. They are made for POCOs

Same with [Serializable]

[floral nest]

got it

[lapis summit]

Unity doesnt recognize .Ink when building the projects

But my dialogue works

Idk if this is the right place to ask about ink but how would i fix that?

Assembly reference crap just floods my whole project with errors

[analog field]

Hello!
I have these Sprite Renderers (in a 3D game) that the default preview is always rotated to the other way
Is there a way to default the rotation on the PREVIEW to face a certain angle? (I tried having the prefab be rotated but it doesn't do anything)
(the hierarchy of the prefab is literally that single SR, and I think that if I add a parent it should be solved but it would just add unnecessary GOs to the hierarchy)

[unborn warren]

I'm making a list of items which can be dragged from the inspector into the scene. i want these items to be in capsule shaped boxes, so i modified the GUI.skin.label style and set the background to a generated capsule texture, however this texture doesn't look how its supposed to in the inspector. you can compare the capsule shaped one (which is just the texture put on a material and rendered on a quad) and the misshapen one which is rendered in the inspector through this script:
https://pastebin.com/qaAQZaEC

[tough cairn]

any one knows what is TextureID in Profiler ?

i tried logging all textures ID's in the project , but none of them seem to match

var id = (int) tex.GetNativeTexturePtr();
var instance_id = tex.GetInstanceID();

[unborn warren]

Finally figured it out, turns out changing the border of the style messed things up

[pure siren]

Is there a way to check if there is at least one dirty asset in the AssetDatabase?

[tough cairn]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/feature-show-dirty-state-of-assets-in-project-browser/795620

bump that thread , maybe the devs will add it

so i decided to scan the entire DB ... but still no luck , here is the code i used :

    public void ScanAllTextures()
    {
        var EVERYTHING = AssetDatabase.GetAllAssetPaths();

        foreach( var x in EVERYTHING )
        {
            var GUID = AssetDatabase.GUIDFromAssetPath(x);
            var TYPE = AssetDatabase.GetMainAssetTypeFromGUID(GUID);

            if( TYPE == typeof(Texture2D) )
            {
                var tex = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<Texture2D>(x);
                var id = tex.GetNativeTexturePtr();

                Debug.Log( $"GUID:{GUID} TexID:{id} PATH:{x}");

                tex = null;

                EditorUtility.UnloadUnusedAssetsImmediate();
            }
        }
    }

[grizzled tide]

how would I spawn a new gameobject not as a clone, but as an actual prefab? Correctly linked and all that?

when I Instantiate() they are grey and not counted as prefab instances like if I dragged one into the scene

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/PrefabUtility.InstantiatePrefab.html

I think this might be it?

[queen wharf]

Is there a recomended way to draw a solid tri in scene? I know you can draw meshes but between handles and gizmos i cant find anything that does it on a tri by tri basis

ive seen some suggestions of using the GL commands directly but i've had trouble getting those working nicely

(i'd use a mesh but im doing some dynamic adjustments to the info in a way where ideally i wouldn't wanna constantly build a new mesh)

[gloomy chasm]

GL is the way I would do it https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/GL.Vertex.html

[real spindle]

What issues do you have with GL?

[queen wharf]

Just like, wasn't working aha. Didn't dive too deep into it though, figured i'd ask here incase there was something simpler i missed

I assume it's related to using it in a 3d context as the example code linked by mechwarrior is seemingly partial and my interpreted guess at how to use the matrix referenced in that page was wrong

I couldn't find a fully fledged example online

[gloomy chasm]

GL is inherently 3D. And just for reference, all examples you will find on the Unity Docs are complete samples that can be copy-pasted in to a project and work.
Also, here is another example with different matrix usage.https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/GL.html

Feel free to share some code if you are still having issues!

[pure siren]

Is there a way to display an indeterminate progress bar that blocks the editor from being interacted with?

[real spindle]

OnPostRender does not work if you use URP or HDRP, need to use one of the events in RenderPipelineManager instead

@queen wharf

[queen wharf]

If the server let me i’d be posting that reaction gif from The Wire rn, thank you

[gloomy chasm]

You mean this? https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar.html

[pure siren]

It doesnt block input, I can still click around the editor when it is up

[gloomy chasm]

... you shouldn't be able to... it is what is used when scripts reload, assets import, etc.

Can you share your the usage of it?

[pure siren]

Yeah give me a bit

[gloomy chasm]

Also worth noting that you can set the progress to -1 for an unlimited/infinite bar

[pure siren]

private static void ShowIndeterminateProgress(string title)
{
    EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar(
                title,
                "Please wait...",
                -1
            );
}

private static void StopIndeterminateProgress()
{
    EditorUtility.ClearProgressBar();
}

private static async Task BuildTask(Builder builder, BuildOptions buildOptions, string outputLocation)
{
    ShowIndeterminateProgress("Running Pre Build");
    try
    {
        await builder.PreBuildAsync();
    }
    finally
    {
        StopIndeterminateProgress();
    }
}

[pure siren]

Didn't know about the -1, thanks for that!

I can definitely click on things while mine is up.

[gloomy chasm]

This looks just like how I use it. This is bugging me, I know I ran in to the exact same issue before but I can't for the life of me remember what I did to fix it...

I looked at my usage and it is the same. Weird...

[pure siren]

Yeah definitely is weird. It is running in an EditorApplication.delayCall callback so maybe that has something to do with it

https://discussions.unity.com/t/feature-request-2020-1-add-the-ability-to-perform-a-blocking-operation-in-editor/817614

Seems it used to block, but now it doesn't

[queen wharf]

Does something like this look right? Or do i need to actually use the cameras or something.

Ideally i want to draw triangles in the scene, during play mode

public class GLTest : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Draws a triangle that covers the middle of the screen
    public Material mat;

    private void Awake()
    {
        RenderPipelineManager.endFrameRendering += PostRender;
    }

    void PostRender(ScriptableRenderContext con, Camera[] _)
    {
        if (!mat)
        {
            Debug.LogError("Please Assign a material on the inspector");
            return;
        }
        GL.PushMatrix();
        mat.SetPass(0);
        GL.LoadOrtho();
        GL.Begin(GL.TRIANGLES);
        GL.Vertex3(0, 0, 0);
        GL.Vertex3(1, 1, 0);
        GL.Vertex3(0, 1, 0);
        GL.End();
        GL.PopMatrix();
    }
}

So far this isn't drawing a tri at 0,0,0 but not sure if i need to use any of the like setmatrix functions or color functions etc.

[humble kernel]

is there anything here that would cause my pc memory to explode and crash my game?

[queen wharf]

there's an attribute somewhere that tells unity what name to use when serializing something in a list if it cant find a name-esque string inside it, anyone recall what that is?

eg. so i can give these an explicit name

[glad flare]

is it perhaps https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/InspectorNameAttribute.html

oh wait i misread one of the inherited props as being its own prop...

[queen wharf]

its too early in the morning i was about to post a cute cat gif in response before realising what discord im in.

will have to see if it actually does what i want but that is what i was recalling i think ty

[glad flare]

i'll just test it for you brb

it was in fact not that

[queen wharf]

i think thats what i was thinking of so it might just not exist lol

[glad flare]

i thought it was that because of the applyToCollection prop but i didn't see it was inherited lol

found these 2 forums
https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-to-change-the-name-of-list-elements-in-the-inspector/650614
https://discussions.unity.com/t/i-cannot-rename-list-element-names-in-the-inspector/830675
so yeah seems like you'd just have to do a custom property drawer

or i suppose use SerializedDictionary<string, T> lol

[queen wharf]

refreshing myself abit on propertydrawers,

i'm drawing two serializedproperties here via PropertyField with a different rect each (rn one is just 20 y more than the first). visually looks how i want but the mouseover controls seem to overlap/be shared between both bools here. Just curious what aspect of a custom propertydrawer actually decides the control space of a field since it seems to be seperate from the visual rect?

I can post code if needed but I know i'm doing a couple things wrong rn, just curious whats in charge of that

[queen wharf]

Resolved I am dumb dumb and used a silly rect value for the height

[willow jackal]

As far as I know, it uses the first serialized string of the given serialized object.

[burnt dove]

Given an ScriptableObject how can I get the path where it's stored? AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath doesn't work when the object is "inlined" into an scene or prefab

[surreal girder]

If its an asset reference it should work 🤔

[gloomy chasm]

If it is 'inlined' then it is not an asset. And it is generally a bad idea to try to 'inline' objects in a scene from experience. Unity doesn't like saving them.

[crisp rapids]

I have a set of scripts (extensions, attributes, editor windows) that I use all the time now, and I use some of them for a framework/plugin that I’m preparing to sell on the asset store. Ideally I’d like to also offer the whole set as a separate asset but also include just the ones in use in the first framework as a part of that first package. Is there any friction then if someone purchases both? I will test by making the two separate packages and see what happens when I import them together, but was curious if anyone had experience with this. Like I imagine if you have a free vs premium version of a code asset you’d have come across this before.

I’m guessing if you just target the same directories and use the same name for the asmdef then the user can just add and replace smoothly but would like to hear from experience

[burnt dove]

Oh

[gloomy chasm]

The asset store has ways of doing upgraded version of assets and stuff. But yeah, if the paths are the same and the meta files are the same. Then it will see them as files that already exist and skip adding them. Another option is packaging them as packages (like Package Manager package) and then they will just be dependencies and it should work fine.

[crisp rapids]

Alright cool. Thanks for the insight

[queen wharf]

When I use Handles.Label how can i know when it's been hovered over? googling online mentions controlids a couple times but i dont understand it

[north sphinx]

it all happens right away as you call it

it's immediate mode gui

[queen wharf]

fair, how can i know if it's been hovered over 😛

[north sphinx]

Could you define hovered?

[queen wharf]

eg. whatever makes it start using the hovered part of the guistyle

(my mouse is over that)

[north sphinx]

Hm, I'm not sure you can extract information as such

[queen wharf]

🥺

brutal

i can't find a way to calculate the used rect of it in the context of the 3d space either so i can do comparable rect checking afaik

[north sphinx]

maybe you can do with just separate button?

[queen wharf]

wym?

[north sphinx]

draw label + button below

so your onHover will be whenever button is clicked

[queen wharf]

would need to be on button hover not click but maybe

worried if theres overhead on that at scale tho

[north sphinx]

You are already in a territory where it's not supposed to scale tbf

[queen wharf]

might be hitting 100-10,000 range practical min max with these

probably more on upper

just annoying that clearly the info is somewhere cuz it changes style usage

[north sphinx]

since it's IMGUI I have a feeling all it does is this somewhere in call chain:
Color drawColor = isHovered : style.onHover : style.normal;

and whether it's hovered or not is resolved right away here

[queen wharf]

:/

[bright phoenix]

you mean HandleUtility.WorldPointToSizedRect?

[queen wharf]

I did see that but I don't know how I could determine the rect

[bright phoenix]

what do you mean? it determines the rect

[queen wharf]

From the description it seems like that's for 2d labels at a 3d point, where as my label is a 3d label at a 3d point, no?

[bright phoenix]

there are not 3d labels 🤔

this is kinda what Label deos: cs public static void Label (Vector3 position, GUIContent content, GUIStyle style) { Vector3 val = HandleUtility.WorldToGUIPointWithDepth (position); if (!(val.z < 0f)) { BeginGUI (); GUI.Label (HandleUtility.WorldPointToSizedRect (position, content, style), content, style); EndGUI (); } }

[queen wharf]

3d might not be the best wording, i mean that the label is manipulated by the handle matrices' rotation and position from the camera and stuff

i see

[queen wharf]

This ended up working, many thanks

[queen wharf]

I assume this takes the camera rotation aspect into consideration right? My points are static so was curious if i could cache the results

Feel like i cant

[surreal girder]

world to screen transformation is dependent on the current camera transform so no

[glad cliff]

Hey guys!
For the past fiew months I've been working on some ScriptableObject oriented reactive framework with full tooling and stuff (if you are familiar with it, its basically like "Scriptable Objects Architecture Pattern (SOAP)" package, but imo way more advanced and flexible). Im slowly coming to release-ready state and before I publish it on Asset Store I would like to let some people mess with it a bit for the purpose of beta-tests. To be clear a fully commercial game is being developed on the first draft of this tool, so it is not a complete shot in a dark, but version I want to publish has been rewritten from scratch, so it would be nice to test it separately.
Ofc it will be a paid asset so im more than happy to share a license after publishing to anyone that wants to contribute, so if you are intrested feel free to DM me.

Some technical info to be aware of:
version: Unity 6
scripting backend: works on both, yet it is to be tested to what extend IL2CPP handles it due to some reflection based solutions and runtime code emiting
documentation: package includes a sample project (1 for now) and built in manual, but full documentation with API and stuff is WIP
support: I would not recommend making a game with beta version I would provide, as there will most likely be breaking updates by the time of release

[bright phoenix]

I'm not the biggest fan of SOAP (sorry 😅), though I've never used it for more than 2 days... doesn't it have an issue that suddenly you have over 9000 SOs that you need to PERFECTLY configure in order for things to work well, and if you don't - it may take you days to understand why? (That's a genuine question, it's how it always felt to me.)
With that said though, I'm always curious to see different approaches to things, so I'm curious what makes your framework more advanced and how it works in general. Do you have some basic summary and/or examples?

[glad cliff]

I mean, yeah, if you think about it that way you remove code dependency by treating data and events as assets, effectively transforming the code referencing spaghetti problem into asset management hell XD Whatever floats your boat in that case I guess, personally I prefer latter one.
In terms of features of my framework, overall its more composition oriented then SOAP thanks to utilisation of recently added support for generic [SerializeReference] (little thinks like instead of ScriptableVariables having an option of being clamped or something, you can define as many as you wish your own validators/modifiers), less manual work with defining concrete types for generic ScriptableObject types thanks to static analysis and editor-side code-gen pass, and many more, but the core and a single feature that gave birth to an idea of making this framework in a first place is polymorphism.
To understand the issue: we had values as SO's with typical event "onValueChanged", but it was pain in the *** to keep signature of every handler fitting the event it was observing, even tho in most cases argument wasnt even used, so I made a system in which every reactive piece of data derived from type representing a parametrless event and then rest is a history...
We ended up with a system that allowed us to observe every value in multiple different ways letting us choose if we want to handle it with no param, with new value, or new and old value. If some system expects a reference to a parametrless event we can pass a value to it as it will be treated as one that triggers whenever value changes. Seems silly but it really allows for very flexible approach to designing in-game systems.

[glad cliff]

Also if you dont like the idea of storing values and events as assets, I exposed full API to create your own types that benefit from this polimorphic observer approach and dont necessarily derive from ScriptableObject. Everything lives in interfaces and static extensions layer.

[bright phoenix]

Thanks for the answer! Good job making it more flexible and convenient. Asset management hell is still not my thing but perhaps next game jam I do (if I remember and you're still looking for someone to play with it or it's released), I could give this approach another shot. 🙂
(And generic serialized reference is indeed awesome! 🤩)

[glad cliff]

Great! Feel free to DM me if you want to try it then, I have ready PATs to hand for downloading via UPM

[burnt dove]

Given the path to an scene (or the scene object, I don't care), how can I get a list of all inlined assets? i.e: for example if someone created an scriptable object but instead of storing it in a different file they stored it inside the scene itself. AssetDatabase.LoadAllAssetsAtPath doesn't work.
I could use Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll, but I don't know how can I filter the elements to I only have the ones of the specified scene.

[surreal girder]

Perhaps this? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.LoadAllAssetRepresentationsAtPath.html

[glad cliff]

If you use Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll and you filter out specific type that you desire maybe comparing path to your scene with AssetDatabase.GetAssetOrScenePath will help you filter the inlined assets in that specific scene.

[burnt dove]

That only return assets that you can see in the project view, but inlined assets in an scene aren't show in the project view

[surreal girder]

Then those aren't sub assets but are serialized in the scene itself

[burnt dove]

Oh, well, I still need to get them haha

[surreal girder]

I don't know how that works for scriptable objects but may not be doable easily

[burnt dove]

It doesn't work because their path is an empty string

[burnt dove]

oh

[glad cliff]

Well that may be overdoing it but I remember some utility class has option to find all dependencies for an object, so if any dependency within a scene that is of type ScriptableObject exists without a path it needs to be serialised in a scene, maybe that will do it

[surreal girder]

That may still only be for assets

It gets direct dependencies and can also get indirects:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.GetDependencies.html#:~:text=Note%3A GetDependencies() gets the,not Assets on your disk.

[glad cliff]

Possibly, it's just a blind guess from me

Ok so most likely solution is to still use Reaources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll and filter by type as well as by !EditorUtility.IsPersistant && !AssetDatabase.Contains, that will yield only assets serialised in scene, and after that I'm afraid the only solution to determine in which scene exactly it is serialised is to iterate through serialised objects of the scene to find any property referencing it, or read directly from a file to find in which scene file this instance id is present. It would be much simpler to just ensure only one scene is loaded though, then there is no problem with that

[surreal girder]

Sometimes this is the way to go. I wrote something to find what unity events referenced an object (e.g. called a function on this game object/component) and had to do Find and reflection to do it

Would be nice if we could examine a scene asset externally as im sure its done in native code

[gloomy chasm]

Or don't 'inline' assets in a scene in the first place 😉

[surreal girder]

Yea its not wise but may be a lib/package so they want to account for this

[nova swallow]

hi
I try to work with the GraphView and i have a problem.
I want to know when the user add a remove an edge between nodes.
It look like graphViewChanged must do that work, with the parameter GraphViewChange.edgesToCreate but this callback is not call when and edge is added or removed.
Is there an other way to have the information when an edge change ?

[glad cliff]

Innovative freshman: I wonder if I can somehow do XYZ
Senior dev: ...just don't
XD

[burnt dove]

Thanks

[atomic sable]

Hey guys for the tool I'm making I need to make assembly definitions, and it mostly works, but not entirely? The problem I'm facing is that there seems to be issues referencing these assembly definitions I've made with GUIDs. For example, Rider will say that it doesn't exist, and sometimes unity will pop up saying there's duplicate references.

This is what I'm putting into the file:

        private const string k_ASSEMBLY_EDITOR_ONLY = @"
        ""includePlatforms"": [
        ""Editor""
    ],";

        private string AssemblyContents =>
            $@"{{
    ""name"": ""{_assemblyName}"",
    ""rootNamespace"": ""{_rootNamespace}"",
    ""allowUnsafeCode"": false,
    ""overrideReferences"": false,
    ""autoReferenced"": {(_autoReferenced ? "true" : "false")},
    $EDITOR_ONLY_MARKER$
    ""noEngineReferences"": false
}}";
```(`$EDITOR_ONLY_MARKER$` gets replaced with `k_ASSEMBLY_EDITOR_ONLY` if it's editor only, or the entire line deleted if not.)

I then import everything using:
```cs
UnityEditor.PackageManager.Client.Resolve();
AssetDatabase.ImportAsset($"Packages/{formattedName}", ImportAssetOptions.ImportRecursive);
AssetDatabase.Refresh();
```but I'm not sure if AssetDatabase methods works in the Packages folder. The GUI references problem can be fixed if I right-click on the assembly file and re-import it. How do I correctly import the assembly definition if it's in the packagees folder??

[elder wasp]

Hello, I've been using for a long time the Unity Graph View package, and there's one single thing that I can't figure out how to fix. Is there any way (with specific GraphView methods or general UI Elements configuration) to set the anchors of all visual Elements to be at the center? They all have their anchors at the top left corner, which brings issues when trying to ensure that everything follows the mouse

[stable nebula]

I'm trying to set a specific icon for every ScriptableObject instance of a certain type. I've made an Editor for that type and use EditorGUIUtility.SetIconForObject in OnEnable which seems to work as icon in the inspector and as preview in the Project window, but the Project window icon is the standard ScriptableObject icon unless I manually reimport that asset. Does anybody know how to fix this? Overriding RenderStaticPreview was unsuccessful 🙂
Image attached to show what I mean with preview vs. icon in the Project window. The icon is the ScriptableObject icon. And of course the preview goes away entirely if you use the slider in the Project window and then the custom icon is nowhere to be seen.

[glad cliff]

you have to set icon for script meta that defines this type

not for the object itself

cool icon btw 😄

[round basin]

So I've got a custom property drawer. This property drawer has extra functionality where a it needs to have ApplyModifiedProperties called or the inspector won't update. Normally its fine.

However, ApplyModifiedProperties does not trigger a repaint the very first time its called after a domain reload. I've tried MarkAsDirty and Update, neither help. Any help please?

[atomic sable]

per the documentation, GetType gets the exact runtime type of an object: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.object.gettype?view=net-9.0&redirectedfrom=MSDN#System_Object_GetType

Yet in my custom editor for MonoBehaviours, when I call GetType(), it returns MonoBehaviour.

what?

[visual stag]

Show some code

[elder wasp]

at least invite me to dinner first...

[visual stag]

Could do without the unnecessary ping and comment thanks

[safe sorrel]

I'm having issues with updating an existing Mesh asset. I have a script that creates a mesh based on terrain. It works fine if it's creating the asset for the first time, but if I change the number of vertices and then update the existing asset, it doesn't actually write out the new vertices.

This results in only part of the terrain being covered by the mesh.

 public static void UpdateOrCreateAsset<T>(T obj, string path) where T : UnityEngine.Object
    {
        var output = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<T>(path);
        
        if (output)
        {
            string oldName = output.name;
            EditorUtility.CopySerialized(obj, output);
            output.name = oldName;
            AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
        }
        else
        {
            AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(obj, path);
        }
    }

this is how I'm updating the existing mesh asset

The weird thing is that the triangles do update

The example above had its resolution reduced from 512x512 to 256x256. Since the vertices didn't update, only 1/4th of the terrain is covered by the triangles

The mesh creation isn't that exciting

        result.SetVertices(vertices);
        result.SetTriangles(triangles, 0);

that's how I actually set the vertices and triangles

https://paste.myst.rs/clamnqca

here's the mesh script

[safe sorrel]

I presume I'm doing something wrong here, or maybe forgetting to flush or save something on the mesh?

[safe sorrel]

I sculpted the terrain and ran the script, and the vertices didn't change at all

I tried using Mesh.vertices instead of Mesh.SetVertices and got the same result

[safe sorrel]

interestingly, if I ask for the max/min X and Z values of the vertices of output after copying the serialized data, they're consistent with the values from obj

...both before and after copying

This would make sense if the resulting mesh had too many vertices, and if I were only updating some of them

If I sculpt the terrain, the min/max Y values change correctly on output after copying

Uh oh

Restarting the editor fixes it

reimporting the asset doesn't do anything

so, in short: if I change the vertices of an existing mesh asset, Unity ignores these changes until I restart the editor

[bright phoenix]

I heard you need to CLear the old mesh before you CopySerialized

[safe sorrel]

bingo

that's annoying!

        if (output)
        {
            if (output is Mesh mesh)
                mesh.Clear();
            
            string oldName = output.name;
            EditorUtility.CopySerialized(obj, output);

            output.name = oldName;
            AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
        }
        else
        {
            AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(obj, path);
        }

[stable solar]

hello what are the dots icon called? the icon i have selected in the screenshot is called sv_label_0 but im not sure about the name for the dots

[plucky knot]

From some utils I use but these are all the values and their associated names

internal static class MonoScriptIconExtensions {
    public static void SetIcon(GameObject gObj, MonoScriptLabelIcon icon) {
        Texture2D iconAsTexture = EditorGUIUtility.IconContent($"sv_label_{(int)icon}").image as Texture2D;
        SetIcon(gObj, iconAsTexture);
    }

    public static void SetIcon(GameObject gObj, MonoScriptIcon icon) {
        Texture2D iconAsTexture = EditorGUIUtility.IconContent($"sv_icon_dot{(int)icon}_pix16_gizmo").image as Texture2D;
        SetIcon(gObj, iconAsTexture);
    }

    private static void SetIcon(GameObject gObj, Texture2D texture) {
        EditorGUIUtility.SetIconForObject(gObj, texture);
    }
}

internal enum MonoScriptLabelIcon {
    Gray = 0,
    Blue,
    Teal,
    Green,
    Yellow,
    Orange,
    Red,
    Magenta
}

internal enum MonoScriptIcon {
    CircleGray = 0,
    CircleBlue,
    CircleTeal,
    CircleGreen,
    CircleYellow,
    CircleOrange,
    CircleRed,
    CircleMagenta,
    DiamondGray,
    DiamondBlue,
    DiamondTeal,
    DiamondGreen,
    DiamondYellow,
    DiamondOrange,
    DiamondRed,
    DiamondMagenta
}

[stable solar]

($"sv_icon_dot{(int)icon}_pix16_gizmo") that is what i was looking for. thanks a lot ❤️

[tough cairn]

anyone knows how to quickly create a Settings popup on the target Object ? similar to how you can right click on a gameobject / component and a new floating window will appear. - something like EditorUtility.PopUpSettings( target_object )

[tough cairn]

nvm i figured it out :

static System.Reflection.MethodInfo mOpenPropertyEditor;
public static void OpenPropertyEditor( UnityEngine.Object obj ) {
    if( mOpenPropertyEditor != null ) {
        mOpenPropertyEditor.Invoke( null, new object[] { obj, true } ); 
        return;
    }
    mOpenPropertyEditor = typeof(EditorWindow).Assembly
        .GetType("UnityEditor.PropertyEditor")
        .GetMethod("OpenPropertyEditor", 
            System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic,
            null, new System.Type[] { typeof(UnityEngine.Object) , typeof(bool) }, null);
    if( mOpenPropertyEditor != null ) OpenPropertyEditor( obj );
}

[muted cave]

Is there a way to get the width of the red line?

[visual stag]

Is there a reason why?

[muted cave]

nvm I figured something out

[night swallow]

EditorGUIUtility.labelWidth

[visual stag]

Not even sure if they're using IMGUI

[muted cave]

I was just trying to make a custom drawer, but my Label wasn't the same length as the default Labels. I was using a "normal" Label instead of EditorGUI.PrefixLabel() and now it fits nicely

[atomic sable]

ah sorry figured it out. Im not sure why, but it had something to do with the type being in a different editor-only assembly. It started working when I moved the files to be in the proper assemblies.

[wet solstice]

Do you guys think that you should use the VR package for unity(openXR) or just create your own scripts for tracking/inputs? Navigating and reading the openXR package contents is confusing as hell

[gloomy chasm]

#🥽┃virtual-reality or #🤯┃augmented-reality would be the correct channel. This one is for discussion around creating custom editor windows and inspectors and such.

[wet solstice]

thanks

[dire ruin]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I've had such a hard time finding a visual list of built in icons to make my editor windows. While I finally did find a library on github, is there any documented reasons as to why unity doesn't have a library already? And don't get me started on their doc website. The majority doesn't have an image of what the icon, window, etc.

Also yes. I'm a terribly new newb

[gloomy chasm]

I tend to use this package to see all the built-in icons.
https://github.com/ErnSur/unity-editor-icons

Why doesn't have this built-in? Because it isn't a supported workflow. It isn't not supported, it just isn't actively intended either.

This site can help with general editor tools development and styling
https://www.foundations.unity.com/

[dire ruin]

Dude, this is so helpful! Thank you! For the links and info!

[gloomy chasm]

#📱┃mobile is probably what you want. This channel is for discussion around creating custom editor windows, inspectors, and that sort of thing. You can look at the description of a channel if you are not sure what it is about! 🙂

[gloomy chasm]

You're very welcome! 😄

[muted cave]

Anybody know why my Vector2 is wrapping over two lines when I show it in my custom property drawer like so:

EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, property);

Image 1 is what it looks like when it has enough space, Image 2 is what happens when the horizontal space gets too small. This doesn't happen without my CustomDrawer.

[willow jackal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorGUIUtility-wideMode.html

[sand eagle]

thks

[muted cave]

that's helpful, but I'm not sure how to use that that to fix my problem. Is there a way to "check" how much height a propertyField will need? Right now GetPropertyHeight() always returns 18. I guess I could check if my property is Vector3, Vector2, etc. and if it's not wide mode I increase it to 36.

or is it possible to retrieve the custom drawer and then read the PropertyHeight from there?

[red kiln]

I want to run a script on project load and then never have it active again, but I am not sure if an attribute or something as I tried InitializeOnLoad but happens every time script updated

[bright phoenix]

You can maybe use EditorPrefs and set a bool or something there to mark it as executed (and check that bool each time before you execute stuff)

Oh... or create a file marker... I don't remember if there's anything like EditorPrefs that's per project 🤔 (Of course you can always create a file with whatever data)

[gloomy chasm]

You create a ScriptableSingleton that is saved to disk, and just set a bool in it once it runs.

[gloomy chasm]

You wouldn't want to use EditorPrefs in this case since those are 'global' to the users computer, not per-project.

[bright phoenix]

yeah, that's why I wrote he other line, I guess I should've explained more 😄 👍

[red kiln]

ok, odd there is not an event for like when a project has loaded. I really just want to trigger the C# project to open at start but if it repeats it takes focus off Unity!!

[waxen sandal]

Is it just once for that editor session or you only want it to run once ever?

[gloomy chasm]

No there is not a specific event, but it should not be an issue

[InitializeOnLoad]
class MyStartupEvent
{
    static MyStartupEvent()
    {
        // If it has already run, in this project, we stop and don't do anything.
        if (MySingleton.Instance.HasRun)
            return;

        // Register that the startup event has now run one time.
        MySingleton.Instance.HasRun = true;

        // Your code here...
    }
}

You can look at the docs for how to do the ScriptableSingleton, they have a great example

[waxen sandal]

Or if it's just for this instance/session of the editor, use SessionState

[red kiln]

but if a scriptable singleton is it not left in that state for next time you open the project?

[gloomy chasm]

It is if it is saved to disk. The docs have a good example of this as well 🙂

[red kiln]

yeah SessionState does seem a way to keep it in 1 class...

[gloomy chasm]

SessionState is reset when Unity closes, meaning it dos not keep its state between sessions

[red kiln]

yep i wanted that - now it loads C# project once on each Unity open

[atomic sable]

How do I make my property drawer for my attribute work when in a nested field like how the range attribute does? OnGUI is not even called when it's a nested field.

[waxen sandal]

Wdym

[atomic sable]

this method does not run:

public override void OnGUI(Rect position, SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label)
        {
            if (attribute is ShowIfAttribute showIfAttribute && showIfAttribute.EvaluateCondition(property))
            {
                EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, property, label, property.isExpanded);
            }
        }

Under this condition:

[Serializable]
public class Foo
{
// attribute applied to this field does not have OnGUI called for its property drawer
  public int a;
}

public class Bar : MonoBehaviour
{
  public Foo test;
}

[waxen sandal]

I don't see your attribute there at all?

[atomic sable]

I didn't think that my example with my comment that I wrote inside of discord would need to show the attribute being applied

imagine it is there

[waxen sandal]

What about the rest of your property drawer?

[trail quartz]

Hi, i want to ask whether anyone know how to hide the size element (number on the right) on the element that unity draws by default when putting a list in PropertyField(), currently using IMGUI to make my first editor extension and id like to somehow disable that part of the editor

[gloomy chasm]

You can't with IMGUI when using a ProeprtyField. If you really wanted to, you could draw a rect over it that is the same color of the background. And Use() any pointer events. But you could still tab to it. Doesn't really seem like it is worth the effort to me

You could also use a ReorderableList instead of PropertyField, but you would have to setup a good chunk of the logic yourself

[trail quartz]

I see, thanks for the help, i think i will look back on this issue later and finish making it work for now while ignoring the array size.

[atomic sable]

my property drawer is only OnGUI and GetHeight. GetHeight is called. Not OnGUI.

[glad cliff]

How can I include offline documentation in .html format in my package so UPM can register it?
Manual states that you can either include documentationURL in package.json to point to a webside or put offline documentation with this folder structure:

  └── Documentation~
       └── <package-name>.md

but documentationUrl doesnt seem to work with path to .html file relative to a package (at least as far as I tested) and including it in Documentation~ folder also doesnt work as it is not a markdown.
I have my full documentation configured to be generated in html format and I want to ship it with the package, but UPM seems a bit stubborn about it.

[knotty oracle]

Maybe ShowIfAttribute is not derived from PropertyAttribute? IIRC there is a special attribute type you have to derive from if you want to use custom property drawers for attributes

I assume you expanded foo in foldout, child properties code is not run if foldout is not expanded.

[atomic sable]

Yea its expanded and ShotIfAttribute does extend ProperyAttribute and the height method is properly called just not the OnGUI method

[knotty oracle]

That's interesting, it should definitely work by default.
Maybe there is some custom editor code somewhere that hooked over drawing Foo, and is doing some simulation of default Unity editor behavior? You can check the stack trace of who is calling into GetPropertyHeight

[sage epoch]

I'm trying to create a prefab variant from a blend file in editor code. It works, but it puts an instance into the current scene. I tried creating a preview scene and passing that to InstantiatePrefab but it still adds it to the current scene.

[waxen sandal]

Can you share some code?

[sage epoch]

Typical. I edit the code to get a sample ready, and suddenly it works

[waxen sandal]

You're welcome? 😛

[harsh bough]

Yo, anyone who uses VS Code with Git. Can ya'll tell me why I'm getting this error? For some reason, when I try to commit, it's taking all of my computer's files even though. I'm using a specific folder for my app

[surreal girder]

You probably need a .gitignore: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore

[harsh bough]

Yup, figured out the issue. Thanks

[gloomy chasm]

Anyone know how the heck to add settings to the build profile section?

[waxen sandal]

Are they not just scriptable objects?

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Build.Profile.BuildProfile.html Looks like it

[waxen siren]

can unitask work on update/fixedupdate/lateupdate ?

i know it can work on void start

[bright phoenix]

You don't mean in Edit mode, right? 😅 If so, then yes, it has a... something... it's in the docs though 😅

await UniTask.Yield(PlayerLoopTiming.FixedUpdate)

[surreal girder]

yea all of the delay functions they provide can change the timing mode.
Outside of play mode it will use EditorApplication update

[white lynx]

Anyone here with knowledge about Handles, EditorWindow and color?

am having a problem with drawing, in the code I use the same Color for the DrawAAConvexPolygon() and DrawSolidArc(), yet they differ in color.

    Handles.color = new Color(color.r, color.g, color.b, color.a * color.a); // even without the a times a it bugs
    Handles.DrawSolidArc(pointA, Vector3.forward, startDir, 180, radius);
    Handles.DrawSolidArc(pointB, Vector3.forward, -startDir, 180, radius);

    Handles.color = new Color(color.r, color.g, color.b, color.a);
    Handles.DrawAAConvexPolygon(
            new Vector3(pointA.x, pointA.y, 0) + startDir * radius,
            new Vector3(pointA.x, pointA.y, 0) + startDirR * radius,
            new Vector3(pointB.x, pointB.y, 0) + startDirR * radius,
            new Vector3(pointB.x, pointB.y, 0) + startDir * radius
    );

[twin dawn]

Well for one you're giving different alphas

[white lynx]

yeah, but even when i use the normal, it also has differant colors

[twin dawn]

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at in the screenshot

[white lynx]

sorry, the cap at the end should be supposed to be the same color as the rest of the body

should a pill shape same color and outline that has its alpha set to 1

this is whitout the different alphas,

[obsidian pine]

you want something like this?

[white lynx]

Oh nice thank you, have already fixed the problem. How did you do it?

[obsidian pine]

for this i just made a visual element with border radii

and drew an outline around it

[obsidian pine]

you kinda inspired me. i gotta make a thing for this contract soon so i think i'm gonna make an editor tool for it as a personal package as a bonus

inspector radar charts for configuration

[gloomy chasm]

They are but they are sealed.

[obsidian pine]

i did the thing guys. took me all day but aint she purdy

has configurable named attributes, independent min/max range values, and you can edit the underlying data with the graph itself

https://youtu.be/JNpiBcX4FH0

[fickle copper]

Greetings!

I am trying to create a quick inline-editor for scriptable objects using ui-toolkit and i have encountered a scenario where this inline-editor would recursively draw itself to oblivion, causing the engine to stall.

Is there any good way to make it not redraw itself should it encounter a self-reference?

[white lynx]

Maybe a hashset could work here

[fickle copper]

I have tried something similar, but the issue is:
Due to the nature of ui toolkit having to create things once, whenever the user assigns a scriptable object that self references itself, it would somehow need to check and update the hashset and conversly create an object field, not a property field.

The InspectElement component doesnt have this check and i am not sure how to create a custom one that updates itself during the runtime

[glad cliff]

Im developing a custom package and there is one thing I cant seem to grasp...

• If package wants to load some assets that come with it, it can use a virtual path "Packages/<package-name>/path"
• In order for this to work package needs to be registered by UPM and cant be inside Assets folder
• As I develop the package I need to have access to this functionality, so I store it somewhere else on disk and import it with UPM
• But now I cant upload it to a pending page on asset store nor I can export it to a .unitypackage, as its not in Assets folder.
  I feel like there is some crucial step in this process that im missing....
  My package uses virtual paths to access relative assets so I cant develop it directly in Assets folder, but it needs to be in Assets folder for it to be exported/uploaded.
  How do other developers handle this process?

[gloomy chasm]

In order for this to work package needs to be registered by UPM and cant be inside Assets folder
You can just put the package in the packages folder in your project. It is called a local package 🙂

The package manager will automatically notice it

[glad cliff]

Yeah I bet there is number of options where I can put it, the point is that it cant be in Assets, yet it needs to be in Assets :/

unless you mean putting it in Assets/Packages?

[gloomy chasm]

The newest version of the asset publisher tool supports packages.

[gloomy chasm]

Nope I mean you literally put it in Packages as if it were Assets. So your package path would be something like YourProject/Packages/com.your.package

[glad cliff]

oh rly? Thats an info giving some hope!

although it should be communicated more clearly then, because for me it states that is must be in Assets foldet and my package is in MyPtoject/LocalPackages/com.me.package with a relative path given in manifest.json for UPM

[gloomy chasm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/upm-embed.html

To embed a new package, create your new package content inside a folder under the Packages folder. For more information, follow the instructions for creating your own custom package.

[glad cliff]

There it is! I knew there is a simple widely known step that I missed somehow! XD Now I know, thanks a lot!

[gloomy chasm]

You're welcome haha. Once you move it there, you can just use the Asset Store Publisher Tools to upload it as a package, so when it is installed it will be as a embed package.

[glad cliff]

I scanned through this part of docs briefly, I guess I ignored that part as my package does not have dependencies so it must not be info for me XD

[gloomy chasm]

Haha

[glad cliff]

it send me through a deep rabbit hole of understanding the difference between .unitypackage and an actual "Package" (which apparently is not the same) and finding some concept of "Hybrid Pacakge" or something... story concludes that Asset Store Uploader hides this functionality as experimental feature you need to activate with a define symbol ehhhh

[gloomy chasm]

a .unitypackage is just a .zip file basically that Unity has built in support for extracting and putting the assets in the project.
A UPM Package is structure for handling collections of assets and scripts that can have versions and dependencies.
A 'hybrid package' is just a UPM Package that has been put in a .unitypackage so when the .unitypackage is added to the project, the UPM Package is embeded inside of the Packages folder instead of being added to the Assets folder

[rough crater]

How can I open a specific folder in the project window? All I found was theres the ping object method which can highlight an object, but I want it to enter the specific folder

[gloomy chasm]

Only way is via reflection iirc

[glad cliff]

yeap, for some odd reason project window is internal :/

[surreal girder]

The new search window would have been great if we could have it show certain assets but that isnt possible either :/

The best alternative is to "select" the assets and then the project window should show em