What I really want is the component drawers.
#↕️┃editor-extensions
gloomy chasm
OH F me!
Your 100% right and I am just stupid. I had it in my head that CanEditMultipleObjects was for components (I was thinking of CanHaveMultiple). I am real sorry, and thank you.
trim tendon
I'm modifying Texture2Ds data via an AssetPostprocessor. These Texture2Ds are all stored within a SpriteAtlas. How can I ensure the SpriteAtlas is updated and repacked after I modify the data?
onyx harness
You use your eyes
trim tendon
@onyx harness No, seriously. I want this to be automatic.
onyx harness
I would say look for the code executed when you press the update button
sinful pulsar
hello. ive been having some trouble with visual studio code, the intellisense doesnt show up. i have the c# extension in VSC, and VSC is set as my external script editor. any idea what i can do?
also, im not sure if this is the right place to ask, so i apologise if ive made a mistake
waxen sandal
Did you follow the guide pinned in #💻┃code-beginner ?
sinful pulsar
yes
waxen sandal
No clue then
chilly stone
Hey, is there a way to add a button to all inspector windows? For example, right next to "Add Component" button?
short tiger
@chilly stone I would say the first step is finding where Unity is drawing that Add Component button
Looks like it's being drawn with UI Elements in the latest Unity versions
chilly stone
Hmm is it? In 2020.1.4f1 it's inside IMGUI container
It's really hard to find any info on such narrow topic. I guess I'll look into source code of some packages that modify an inspector...
waxen sandal
You just get the root element
Then find hte IMGUI container it's drawing in
And add an element next to it
chilly stone
@waxen sandal how would I get that root element, from what kind of script?
waxen sandal
Find the editor window with Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll
chilly stone
Oh it works that way
So do I just do that in a class that doesn't extend anything similar to EditorWindow?
waxen sandal
Depends
You might have to do it in some event since it might recreate that button every time your selection changes
chilly stone
Yeah that's what I'm trying to fugure out
onyx harness
Override Editor for GameObject, draw a button at the top of the Inspector
chilly stone
@onyx harness yeah that works too, but can I modify or remove certain elements in inspector?
onyx harness
Define elements
chilly stone
Buttons, checkboxes, text fields
onyx harness
If elements are drawn using IMGUI, you are doomed
If it is using UI Toolkit, then you can manually scan and remove them.
This path is much more likely to raise issues
chilly stone
I mean, Unity doesn't use UI Elements for default inspectors yet, so no
Inspector stuff is inside IMGUI containers. Let's say, I want to modify how inspector header looks, how do I access it?
chilly stone
Oh so I cant actually remove it from hierarchy and have to draw over it?
Interesting
chilly stone
Oh neat stuff
chilly stone
A little intimidating compared to simple inspectors I'm making :)
Are you using purely IMGUI?
onyx harness
A mix
chilly stone
Oh, I would also like to ask is it sane to make property drawers using UI Elements?
onyx harness
I never used them this way, but it is the future of it
chilly stone
Yeah, I hate to extend UnityEditor.Editor for each inspector that has UIE drawers in order for them to be visible...
When will they make inspecotrs to use UIE by default...
It's always on their roadmap but never gets finished
leaden lodge
hey all I'm using UI Elements and trying to get a value from a Toggle. I've noticed there's no "onChange" event so what's the proper way to do this?
split bridge
most of the UI Toolkit elements have RegisterValueChangedCallback e.g. Foldout does - I assume Toggle has one too @leaden lodge
gloomy chasm
@chilly stone Oh I was just messing with the inspector stuff most of this weekend. If you got any questions you can feel free to @ me. Opening the UIElements Debugger for the inspector will show you what you have to work with. It is actually quite a bit.
chilly stone
Sure, for now I have no questions :)
whole steppe
How do I set up C++ in Microsoft Visual studio
civic river
Not the right channel but @whole steppe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ntGDm6hOs&list=PLEMXAbCVnmY6RverunClc_DMLNDd3ASRp&index=2&t=0s
chilly stone
@gloomy chasm hey, so how can I get a whole hierarchy of inspector window?
This is how I'm getting an actual window:
var inspector = Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll<EditorWindow>().FirstOrDefault(w => w.GetType().Name == "InspectorWindow");
But inspector.rootVisualElement doesn't conatin any children or parents. Can I somehow load them in or am I doing it wrong?
gloomy chasm
@chilly stone When are you getting the inspector window? It may not be loaded yet. I had to put the call inside of a method called from EditorApplication.delayCall
split bridge
Also if you're trying to find UI Toolkit elements in Unity editor windows, a lot of them don't have any as they're still mostly imgui
gloomy chasm
That is true for most, but the Inspector actually ahs quite a few. Each component header, body, and footer is it's own element.
icy falcon
Anyone know of extensions that allow me to change my formatting?
I want this
Function() {
if () {
}
}
Instead of this
Function()
{
if ()
{
}
}
glacial onyx
Hiho! I made a simple Editor Script that resets object position, but now I want to add an Undo step to it.
I've tried this:
go.transform.position = Vector3.zero;```
but it doesnt seem to work. What am I doing wrong?I think you need to use Undo.RegisterCompleObjectUndo instead.
I have never actually used RecordObject my self or seen it used while looking the Unity's source on Github.
Idk what it does tbh 😛
uneven arrow
Have you tried Undo.RecordObject(go.transform, ... instead?
glacial onyx
going to try both right now 😮
well, @uneven arrow said what i already have, and @gloomy chasm doesn't seem to work either.
There are some steps we are probably missing
uneven arrow
Idk why, but I have this working w/o problems. It's in Editor script though, executed from OnInspectorGUI — in case it's any relevant
gloomy chasm
Yeah, @glacial onyx where is his being run from?
glacial onyx
It runs while using the unity editor. No playmode or anything
sec, ill share the code
its just a command, doesn't say anything about OnInspectorGUI
file is in Editor folder
gloomy chasm
Have you tried recording the transform instead of the whole GameObject?
Also, unrelated to your problem, but I would recommend using undo groups
uneven arrow
Just tested a MenuItem command — doesn't work either.
So I'm guessing it only works within one of the Editor callbacks
glacial onyx
@gloomy chasm that worked! Crazy simple solution >.< gosh, i'm so dumb.
It works now, thank you! 🙏
go.transform.localPosition = Vector3.zero;```Have you tried
Undo.RecordObject(go.transform, ...instead?
@uneven arrow Lol
Now I have to figure why my stuff doesn't work 😬
glacial onyx
ah, i didn't read it through, im sorry @uneven arrow >.<
i read it, but i didnt SEE it, you know
onyx harness
Be careful please when people send help, sometime we crush our brain to understand while we obviously already gave the solution.
It's a non-sense
glacial onyx
Indeed. Imma read and compare more thoroughly
uneven arrow
I've been struggling with this too. The way I understood it was: RecordObject only understands direct modifications of object's properties, not its subtree. Also, the object has to be serializable (and probably a subclass of Component too)
onyx harness
It's because Object are treated differently.
As reference, not plain object
This subtlety makes the whole thing
uneven arrow
Still depends on how they actually implemented the RecordObject, but yeah 👍
onyx harness
Not even.
It is how the whole serializer works.
Otherwise, if you record a GameObject, that obviously has a Transform, which also links to its GameObject.
Infinite loop.
gloomy chasm
@glacial onyx btw, here is a short thread about groups that even show exactly how to use them https://forum.unity.com/threads/undo-create-group.309218/
glacial onyx
So best way is to record a GameObjects properties, whatever they may be, yes?
@gloomy chasm pretty interesting. Imma be sure to use much more of these for sure. This is incredibly useful
onyx harness
if you record the GameObject, it is because you plan on modifiying one of its direct properties.
Name, flag, static, layout, etc.
uneven arrow
Otherwise, if you record a GameObject, that obviously has a Transform, which also links to its GameObject.
Infinite loop.
@onyx harness Don't want to make an offtopic out of it, but it's definitely possible to finitely traverse the graphs with loops simply by remembering which nodes you've already traversed 😉
onyx harness
I know I know it's possible, but it doesn't work like that in Unity
They recently implemented new attributes like [SerializeReference] to implement this behaviour.
But this is very recent.
gloomy chasm
(And it is amazing)
onyx harness
And we've been fighting hard to have it.
Not me directly, but I had a discussion with Superpig on Slack (The main dev of the Unity serializer)
He said "performance reason"
Look at it now, they implemented it
glacial onyx
Well, just ran into an issue with this. How about resetting an Active Element. I deactivate it, but cant undo to reactivate ^^'
onyx harness
Strange, should work.
glacial onyx
Sec, Imma think a bit more about this
Well, ignore what I said, it works. I was making unnecessary comparisons
normal leaf
tough cairn
trying to use GUILayout in PropertyDrawer but it gives me group id 1 error
onyx harness
First rule of PD, don't use GUILayout
tough cairn
is the 2nd rule have something to do about the 1st rule ?
swapped to using rect's but not all the elements are appearing behind the normal UI lol
Rect buttonRect = new Rect(
position.x,
position.y + ((1 + buttonHeight) * (( i + 1 ) - 1)),
position.width,
buttonHeight - 1 );
oh nvm had a wrong return value in GetPropertyHeight
quaint zephyr
Custom Inspector. I typically used EditorGUILayout no issues. But in this particular situation, I have a Horizontal Group where I used EditorGUILayout.ObjectField, but I want to follow up with a couple GUI.Buttons. The buttons were a sinch to make because of EditorGUILayout.GetControlRect().
However, the problem now is how do I get EditorGUILayout's control rect "back on track" now that GUI class drew over it? Is there a way to "set" the ControlRect in the EditorGUILayout?
whole steppe
Has anyone worked with EditorUtility.DispalyProgressBar and EditorApplication.update before?
I'm currently having an issue where I've subscribed to the EditorApplication.update event, and I'm calling EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar inside the function, but it's not displaying
onyx harness
@quaint zephyr GUILayout.Space
sage sedge
Hello. How can i cast this so it works? thank you i have never had experience with custom editors before.
sage sedge
How do i solve
ive tried numerious combinations, but obviously i dont understand what im doing
sage sedge
Anyone?
visual stag
if you want to display an array you should probably use PropertyField (SerializedObject, SerializedProperty, etc)
tough cairn
have anyone seen this before ?
void OnSceneGUI()
{
using( new GUILayout.VerticalScope( GUI.skin.window ) )
{
using( new GUILayout.HorizontalScope() )
{
GUILayout.Label("Hi");
}
}
}
i want to create something like this , i know its possible i have done it in the past
ok found it
it needs to be wrapped in Handles GUI
Handles.BeginGUI(); :: Handles.EndGUI();
tough cairn
:3
tulip plank
Is there a way to add custom menu items to the existing Animator context menu(s)?
wispy delta
@tulip plank [MenuItem ("CONTEXT/Animator/Your function")]
example of adding a function to the Transform context menu to randomly rotate it
[MenuItem ("CONTEXT/Transform/Randomize Yaw")]
private static void RandomYaw (MenuCommand command)
{
if (command.context is Transform transform)
{
Vector3 v = transform.localEulerAngles;
v.y = (v.y + Random.value * 360f) % 360f;
Undo.RecordObject(transform, "Randomize Yaw");
transform.localEulerAngles = v;
}
}
Innnteresting, I will check this out, thank you very much!
wispy delta
this is super nitpicky but...
I'm working on a foldout scope so i can define a scope and any gui within it will only be drawn if the foldout is expanded
usage looks like this
using (var foldout = new FoldoutHeaderScope(resolutionPerMeter, "Texture Settings"))
{
if (foldout.expanded)
{
// Draw properties here
EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(resolutionPerMeter);
EditorGUILayout.IntPopup(maxResolution, MaxSizeContents, MaxSizeValues);
EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(compress);
EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(storeExtraInfo);
EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(padding);
}
}
checking if (foldout.expanded) is a lil redundant since it's implied that the gui within the scope shouldn't draw if the foldout isn't expanded. not really a big deal, but is it possible to disable gui drawing until the scope is disposed automatically if the foldout isn't expanded? would be cool to just plop gui code within the scope and not have it draw/not drawn automagically based on the state of the foldout
fuck wrong gif
there we go
onyx harness
I would say yes, I think it is doable, but the trick is tricky
@wispy delta use clip
wispy delta
goootcha. i haven't used clipping before so correct me if i'm wrong, but would the idea be to BeginClip with a rect flush to the bottom of the foldout header with a height of 0 if the foldout is not expanded?
wispy delta
making a clip scope correctly hides the gui, but the layout is still affected @onyx harness
do you know if there's a way to avoid that? also if you think this is a dumb thing to do lemme know haha, it's not a big deal if i have to do a single bool check lol
onyx harness
Maybe use Area
@wispy delta
Or the other trick would be to use GUILayout.Space with a negative value, to negate the height used by your drawings
wispy delta
oh damn that's genius haha
looks like Area works tho! thanks 💙
quaint zephyr
@onyx harness Thanks
So I have done quite some coding on editor extensions, particularly, when editor loads it downloads data I have online for debugging feedback files that are submitted by users from their apps. It's all working fine. But now the issue is when it came time to build, I am getting a bunch of errors because quite a few of my scripts are UnityEditor based and use attributes and EditorApplication events and such like.
Some of these scripts I don't even need in production, but I do use in development
How can I EXCLUDE these scripts from build?
I know how to exclude parts of scripts using #if UNITY_EDITOR directives.
But would I just slap #if UNITY_EDITOR around the entire class? Or is there a more simpler/cleaner/conventional approach to this?
onyx harness
@onyx harness Thanks
@quaint zephyr Huh? What have I done?
Editor scripts are not embedded in the build.
Even better, anything inside folders Editor are not embedded
quaint zephyr
@onyx harness it was for my last question yesterday.
Yeah that's what I thought too, but turns out I had asmdef for that group of scripts and in there it had iOS ticked instead of just Editor by itself. 🙂
whole steppe
Does anyone know how to create one of the new "Busy" progress bars in 2020.1? I need to run a blocking operation on my scene to process a bunch of data but at the moment all I can manage to do is a background task
visual stag
I know the old way of doing it is just https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar.html
and then in the try's finally do a https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.ClearProgressBar.html
There's also a cancellable version. You just call the Display repeatedly with a new progress value.
blissful burrow
hms, is there a way to detect when a prefab has been edited, from the perspective of the instances?
I currently have an issue where I want all my instances to update cached non-serialized stuff when you edit their corresponding prefab
there is a callback in prefab stage when you leave edit mode there, so I could scan the scene for instances of the edited prefab and update them, but, this feels like it might be really costly and wasteful, and it also doesn't cover the case where you edit the prefabs through the inspector
wicked elm
Hello anyone here can help me ?
i got following problem:
This Github Script is an Editor Extension:
https://gist.github.com/NeatWolf/a59e6ef40ee613755457925c465b24b4#file-replacematerials-cs
but does not work.
Error i get:
FormatException: Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list.
ReplaceMaterials.ReplaceSelected (UnityEngine.Material material, UnityEngine.Material replaceMaterial, System.Boolean recursive) (at Assets/Editor/ReplaceMaterials.cs:54)
ReplaceMaterials.OnGUI () (at Assets/Editor/ReplaceMaterials.cs:23)
Any ideas ? Please if anyone understand this - it s a big help, i have 0 Plan here.
onyx harness
You have null mesh renderers
wicked elm
so Script need to have a Mesh Renderer ?
onyx harness
Oh sorry, your exception is not even NullException
The stack trace does not even follow the script lines
wicked elm
i am Sorry, but: i happy if you can help. Because: i do nothing understand from this script.
== 0.
if (brainhavefailed== True)
{
thePersonAsksistostupidforthis = true;
}
onyx harness
You can give it a try to NG Asset Finder Free on the Asset Store
wicked elm
so i never write Editorscripts or somethign big.
i do not understand the codeLines he use.
but a Script like this, will be a so much big help in my project ...
NG Asset Finder ?
wicked elm
oh boy :(
Thank you for the Asset, but this makes a Script of ~ 100 Lines
to a Handbook of 49 pagves, eaven to understand what this assetfinder do.
not so really useful, because: Nobody knows if he find anything at the end
hm, no i am sorry, will not help, because: does work with gameobjects if i umderstand right ?
onyx harness
You did not read well then
wicked elm
yeah, i understand what it does, but not how it can help me.
if i have a Reference in Scene hmmm. Moment, Did it work with materials to or only gameobjects ?
onyx harness
It works with any Object against any Object
wicked elm
no i am sorry, this is not useful.
1 GameObject have 4 - 6 Materials
1 prefab, having 700 GameObjects using this 6 Materials.
so i need to replace the Materials, not the Gameobjects.
( i hope you understand what my problem is )
onyx harness
And it looks through the Project, or the entire scene
wicked elm
yeah i see 🙂 it s not that bad, but not useful in my situation
onyx harness
wicked elm
but, hm, maybe ... one moment
onyx harness
This picture alone does what you said
But you preferred to read fast and skip 90% of the information
wicked elm
one moment.
yes, because you have a Documentation, for all aassets, i just look for the "Finder"
wicked elm
yeah, give me a second, i want to try something.
onyx harness
If you feel it is too big, I can't do much for you unfortunately
onyx harness
It worked for you?
wicked elm
worked a little other than expetet, but it works this way 🙂
onyx harness
This tool allows you to replace or find any Object. You provide one, I do the search.
wicked elm
the First ( i have not done until this moment ) is to replace all Materials i have . because my Blender model have different names here or there
But this i need to do 1st Time > after this it should work in minutes not in horus i need today
onyx harness
Replacement is pretty quick
onyx harness
You see, no stress here, stay relax and calmly read the advices/tips you are given in this channel, we are here to help
wicked elm
hm not that bad idea: i think i put this in my favorites, not this month ( out of money for this month ) but ... 😄
can be a nice idea
onyx harness
Try NG Tools Free
It gives you a taste of the power under
And there is several free tools in there
wicked elm
i got Assetfinder this time, i do have a look in the other next time 🙂
i see, you have a lot online there
oh , moment i write you private
onyx harness
Just to cover all the tools, taken one by one, it is not that big
leaden lodge
weird question, is it possible to change the setting for which input system the current project is using from script? I'd like to make the current project use the new Unity input system in an editor script
severe python
Is there a way to make custom project templates for the Unity Hub?
leaden lodge
before I continue down this rabbit hole of reflecting into internal functions is there some official Unity-supported way of changing the new input system settings in editor script?
I found two settings inside of ProjectSettings called enableNativePlatformBackendsForNewInputSystem and disableOldInputManagerSupport and I am currently looking at reflecting into internal functions to change them
this is strictly an editor script so it's not happening at runtime
waxen sandal
Tbh, I'd just look at the settings window
leaden lodge
oh I am looking at the source for the window
it's changing a serialized field which uh
doesn't exist
leaden lodge
this.m_EnableInputSystem = this.FindPropertyAssert("enableNativePlatformBackendsForNewInputSystem");
waxen sandal
Fonts have a bunch of those things as well
leaden lodge
yeah that's what I suspect too
and that's the current route I'm going down, just trying to access their internal functions to modify this
I just didn't want to continue down this path if there was some easier way to do it
waxen sandal
I don't remember the exact way to get the ProjectSettings SerializedObject
But once you get that it should be easy
@onyx harness probably remembers
leaden lodge
typeof(PlayerSettings).GetField("_serializedObject", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.NonPublic);?
seems to work
oh hm it's null when I try to get a value
ok I found the GetSerializedObject method and it grabbed something let's see how it goes
wispy delta
Is there a way to know if an Editor is expanded? I'm embedding some component editors within another component's editor instead of having them drawn in the inspector and need to create foldouts. SerializedProperty.isExpanded is handy for storing (and remembering) if a property is expanded or not, but I can't find an equivalent for an Editor
strong phoenix
hi want to ask
how to get sprite can search through editor?
want to create something similar like this
but in UnityEditor + has a preview of the image
onyx harness
@onyx harness probably remembers
@waxen sandal you just need to load the settings directly from ProjectSettings/ with AssetDatabase
Is there a way to know if an Editor is expanded? I'm embedding some component editors within another component's editor instead of having them drawn in the inspector and need to create foldouts. SerializedProperty.isExpanded is handy for storing (and remembering) if a property is expanded or not, but I can't find an equivalent for an Editor
@wispy delta it exists, but it's quite stuck into Inspector code
wispy delta
I figured. I was spelunking around the decompiled editor code but couldn't find it anywhere!
onyx harness
but in UnityEditor + has a preview of the image
@strong phoenix your gif is already in Unity Editor and it shows a thumbnail of every sprites. I don't get it
I figured. I was spelunking around the decompiled editor code but couldn't find it anywhere!
@wispy delta I'm not home, can't look, but I'll give a glance tomorrow
wispy delta
Would be so rad if unity let you store your own custom serialized data on a serialized object for stuff like this
so.AddProperty("expanded", false)
Would be so helpful
strong phoenix
@strong phoenix your gif is already in Unity Editor and it shows a thumbnail of every sprites. I don't get it
@onyx harness oh sorry, iin EditorWindow
not in inspector
and i want have a preview image of it, how do i do that(?)
if i can say, want hav sumthin like this in my EditorWindow
onyx harness
Would be so rad if unity let you store your own custom serialized data on a serialized object for stuff like this
so.AddProperty("expanded", false)
Would be so helpful
@wispy delta well it already exists, just need to find it
wispy delta
Oh neat! Good to know
onyx harness
if i can say, want hav sumthin like this in my EditorWindow
@strong phoenix your Object field? Set a big height. I don't remember the minimum.
But the preview automatically shows up if the height is enough.
Perhaps 140F.
Or more like 100 maybe
Just give it a try
chilly stone
So I'm trying to make a scene profile editor. Basically, it's an editor for scriptable object that contains a list of scenes which you can load for quick testing. I implemented a reorderable list using UI Elements. Each element in a list has PropertyField that holds an individual SceneReference, which is drawn by IMGUI drawer. It looks like this:
And it works 100%, scenes get added and removed, but I get those errors every time I remove an entry from a list (by pressing minus button)
I tried changing serialization, drawer, but I have no idea what could cause these errors.
They seem to disappear when I don't use IMGUI drawer for each element. Maybe ListView doesn't like that I use drawers inside it... idk
https://github.com/Krendeled/Untitled-Ball-Game/blob/master/Assets/_Project/Scripts/SceneManagement/SceneReference.cs
https://github.com/Krendeled/Untitled-Ball-Game/blob/master/Assets/_Project/Scripts/Editor/Drawers/IMGUI/SceneReferenceDrawer.cs
https://github.com/Krendeled/Untitled-Ball-Game/blob/master/Assets/_Project/Scripts/SceneManagement/SceneProfile.cs
https://github.com/Krendeled/Untitled-Ball-Game/blob/master/Assets/_Project/Scripts/Editor/Editors/SceneProfileEditor.cs
Here are relevant files if anyone is willing to look into this
tough cairn
what's the name of the node graph api ?
sleek robin
Hey,So for some reason when I was invited to a team,I can't see it in unity hub,and I can see another team. I tried logging in again,but I still can't see it
I am not sure where to put this
chilly stone
Yeah, #↕️┃editor-extensions is definitely 100% the right place to ask, good job 👏 👏
tough cairn
anyone knows how to get access to the lock function in code ?
i need to make a shortcut for this sucker
onyx harness
@tough cairn UnityEditor.InspectorWindow.isLocked
tough cairn
im guessing its for the current focus one ?
onyx harness
Yes
tough cairn
ty ty
onyx harness
This is not static
tough cairn
yea im looking at it rn
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/61f92bd79ae862c4465d35270f9d1d57befd1761/Editor/Mono/Inspector/InspectorWindow.cs#L29
onyx harness
Just use m_AllInspectors and the job is done
onyx harness
Basically the same
tough cairn
true true
onyx harness
Or you can directly use ActiveEditorTracker.sharedTracker.isLocked
This one is for the current one
tough cairn
isn't not internal ?
onyx harness
This one is public
onyx harness
Inspector uses this one.
onyx harness
Lock is specifically Inspector
tough cairn
the hamburger menu is urs ?
tough cairn
neat
onyx harness
ShowButton works like OnGUI with a Rect
tough cairn
for any Window class ?
onyx harness
Any, just respect the definition
Like Update, OnGUI, Awake, etc.
ShowButton works the same
tough cairn
i see
handy
🤔 i need a cheat sheet of those lil things no one actually speaks about
onyx harness
I will do one "soon"
onyx harness
I will do much more
What you see, is Unity Editor in HTML 🙂
I am willing to make an interactive tutorial on a website
tough cairn
i do enjoy using immediate mode UI - its relatively clean and quick for simple tasks
onyx harness
Where you just need to hover an area to receive an explanation
onyx harness
There is a shitton of hidden spot/gem, editor people don't even imagine
vapid scarab
how would i display a field like this in a custom EditorWindow?
tough cairn
@onyx harness i made one -> https://github.com/nukadelic/UnityEditorIcons
its a single file xD
onyx harness
Looks nice
i have many scripts already to display icons
but can you export them to a file?
tough cairn
i think i had something like that added there
onyx harness
how would i display a field like this in a custom EditorWindow?
@vapid scarab I guess it is an ObjectField?
onyx harness
Because Unity textures are read-only
vapid scarab
hmm, maybe my usage was wrong, i tried that, didnt display. ill try again
tough cairn
the scans don't include all the icons
i found a list of extra icons that are missing and added them manually
somebody decompiled the dll and posted a list on unityList.com*
ah ok :: Resources.FindObjectsOfTypeAll<Texture2D>()
tough cairn
@onyx harness any way to draw on top of the inspector ?
onyx harness
tough cairn
yea lol - that's too OP
onyx harness
Thanks
lone turtle
So.. i recently downloaded the headless builder, its editor extensions were part of the editor.. Then some else crashed Unity and its mention isn't there anymore
can't figure out how to gets its menu back..
i try to reimport the packae and it won't let me select the areas where the scripts, fonts, and so on are
deleted it completely and re-added it... it must of made changes that weren't saved before my unity editor crashed
shrewd remnant
i am calling GUILayout.Window in top of every element still its showing under them how can i fix it
onyx harness
What is GUILayout.Window?
waxen sandal
It's order dependant
If you want to draw it on top it need to be the last one you draw iirc
tough cairn
how to stretch graph view to parent size ?
tough cairn
is there a way to create UIElements without xml and uss ?
ah nvm i see there is a IMGUISupport
glacial onyx
Hiho!
How do I detect if mouse is inside the game window tab in an editor script?
gloomy chasm
EditorWindow.mouseOverWindow https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorWindow-mouseOverWindow.html
That should do @glacial onyx
glacial onyx
@gloomy chasm imma check it out, thank you again! 🙏
@gloomy chasm doesn't exactly tells me if im in game window, but i manage to get its reference with 'getInstanceID()' which is pretty nice. Thank you!
gloomy chasm
@glacial onyx Haha, well I mean I think they only way to get more direct was if there was something called like IsMouseInGameWindow but that would be honestly pretty useless most of the time. You can do a check if the window is the game window and you will have what you are looking for 🙂
whole steppe
Hello friends,
is it possible to change the font size in the tabs ?
i mean the tab title "Main" "Interactable" etc.
whole steppe
let me see.
tough cairn
how to flex items on the vertical axis ?
my toolbar is appearing under the body element
am i doing something wrong ?
tough cairn
ok nvm i figured it out -> removed Body.StretchToParentSize();
civic river
Hello peoples, I'm wondering if this is a bug or I'm not understand something about UI elements. I have two elements that both have a links field.
[SerializeField]
public List<NodeLink> links = new List<NodeLink>();
The UI elements debugger clearly shows them as different elements, but when I expand or contract the list for one element in does so for ALL elements with the links field.
waxen sandal
Sounds like a binding problem
tough cairn
can something like this be done : cs var vsa = new VisualTreeAsset { text = "<UXML ... " };
chilly stone
@tough cairn why are you looking for ways to couple everything together? That defeats the purpose
UI Elements was designed in a way to separate concerns and make your tool development easier. Don't make it hard for yourself, it takes couple of hours to learn uxml and uss syntax 
Don't like it? Use IMGUI
chilly stone
We're kinda forced to use IMGUI for property drawers currently
tough cairn
i think immediate mode is superior, change my mind
chilly stone
Editors can be fully implemented with UI Elements, you can check out Unity examples https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UIElementsExamples
tough cairn
( not IMGUI vs UIElements )
chilly stone
What makes immediate mode superior to UIE?
tough cairn
immediate mode as in a design paradigm , i come from sass less html angular vue ect ... learning imgui just makes so much sense
speed
chilly stone
UIE is event-driven, IMGUI is update-driven, but one makes more sense and afaik is performant (UIE)
tough cairn
what u see is what u get
sure , we are talking about specific api's , im talking about a design paradigm , imgui could be optimized but unlikely will , i understand that
chilly stone
If you're used to IMGUI and don't want to learn new paradigm (although I wouldn't call using events and queries a paradigm) - completely understandable, by all means use it, untill it's deprecated.
tough cairn
ehmmm
read above
immediate mode as in a design paradigm , i come from sass less html angular vue ect ... learning imgui just makes so much sense
chilly stone
So? What's forcing you to switch to UIE then?
tough cairn
playing around with graphView
chilly stone
Ah that
tough cairn
nothing is forcing me 🙂
chilly stone
I'm just saying, if you're switching to a new stuff, do it the way it's designed. It's the same as trying to go agains a component system in unity (not talking about ECS)
tough cairn
i didn't go too deep into UIE but i already see some pitfalls were imgui would suit me better
in terms of convenience and speed
chilly stone
You mean speed of development?
tough cairn
ye
do u always load stuff in UIE in absolute paths ?
like AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<VisualTreeAsset>("Assets/U...
chilly stone
I used to do this, recently I solved it by making DefaultEditor class: https://github.com/Krendeled/Untitled-Ball-Game/blob/master/Assets/_Project/Scripts/Editor/Editors/DefaultEditor.cs
As I always call my uxml and uss by the name of editor class, it works
chilly stone
You're welcome :p
tough cairn
👍
onyx harness
Did you ping me?
onyx harness
What's going on?
tough cairn
👋 hi hi
was looking for this : UXML could be easily replaced with C#
( link above )
tough cairn
that's what i was thinking as well
onyx harness
In a plugin (as DLL) point of view, it makes sense
chilly stone
Do you imply that more files = bad?
onyx harness
Nope, just as a publisher
chilly stone
I can't see a point of being afraid to make 2 more files per editor, doesn't seem like an issue 🤷♂️
tough cairn
time
chilly stone
Compile-time?
onyx harness
I dont like to bloat the folders of my users.
tough cairn
human valuable seconds lol
chilly stone
There's an option to create them at the same time, if you're concerned about that. They even get filled in properly
onyx harness
Could you elaborate, what same time?
chilly stone
I mean when you want to create an editor, there's Create->UI Toolkit->Editor Window
It creates all 3 files filled in with basic code
That was response to Wad1m complaining about how long it takes to setup UIE editor :p
chilly stone
wdym?
tough cairn
oh its a template generator
that wasn't the point lol
miliko wanted to reduce the file count
hence the in line uxml & uss
onyx harness
Not giving access to direct source prevents the users from altering them easily.
tough cairn
also its better to avoid assets clutter - like when u have bunch of small textures for an editor - it will appear in ur project as well
onyx harness
But for my development, yes I would gladly use 3 files. And then convert them to C# at the very end.
chilly stone
I agree, but saying in general that when you have a lot of files - your code is imperformant or bad - is a stupid statement 🤷♂️
onyx harness
I never said that and never will
onyx harness
Compilation speaking, thousands of files do impact
Thx to AsmDef, the problem is reduced
chilly stone
You said "it's better"
tough cairn
quicker 🙂
tough cairn
yo check it out
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/632735345276092429/641388505246859295/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/632735345276092429/641385218024144899/unknown.png
pure IMGUI 😛
chilly stone
That's not surprising, of course you can do anything as complex in IMGUI
tough cairn
¯_(ツ)_/¯
onyx harness
IMGUI is cool for quick development
But for complex stuff, you need a good understanding of it to go deeper
tough cairn
yea the deeper u go the more hax there will be
onyx harness
Or you might lose on the performance side.
At the moment the user feels it, you lose
errant mirage
Is there a way to have custom themes on the editor?
errant mirage
Thanks :)
tough cairn
EditorStyles is build in
errant mirage
I'll check it out
onyx harness
But Unity Editor has few sets of styles that you can modify
errant mirage
Ah ok
onyx harness
To come back to IMGUI, the memory may also be a concern, it can generate a lot of garbage
But since we are on a standalone Windows or Mac, 99% of publishers or coders wont bother themself
onyx harness
I'll give it credits, speed dev, IMGUI is very good
chilly stone
@tough cairn if your point was what you showed is not possible in UIE - look into some of these examples https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UIElementsExamples/tree/master/Assets/Examples/Editor there's side by side comparison between IMGUI and UIE, and most of the stuff that's done in one, can be done in the other. But IMGUI is indeed quicker if you worked with it for a long time.
tough cairn
ye ik
onyx harness
But feature like Z-index or culling, this is shit
tough cairn
i just hide all and replace when needed
chilly stone
bye
@onyx harness you need to start a youtube channel if you don't have one 
There's not enough stuff on the net about editor tooling in-depth
onyx harness
I'm preparing an interactive tutorial about Unity Editor scripting 🙂
Looks like this for the moment
It's pure HTML
chilly stone
That's great, hit me up when it's available
onyx harness
and of course, still a prototype
short tiger
@onyx harness Are you recreating Unity's UI in HTML?
severe python
immediate mode is a bad paradigm, change my mind (don't bother)
onyx harness
@short tiger Yep
This is purely for visual, so I can integrate tutorials in any spot
short tiger
Wouldn't it be possible to draw tutorials on-top of Unity's actual UI?
Presumably, someone who is interested in learning about Unity editor scripting already has Unity
onyx harness
There are pros and cons to do tutorials on Unity or on a website
Unity:
- You need to install and run Unity.
- You need to install the tutorial (From asset store, or Package Manager, or git, whatever).
- Harder to maintain. (Unity releases a version every week...)
- Harder to write the integrated tutorial.
- Feeling is better, since you execute directly in Unity.
Website:
- No install at all.
- Might be difficult to maintain.
- Tutorial can be added very easily.
- Developing the whole Unity Editor in HTML can take quite some time. (But I already achieved the fundamental)
@short tiger
errant mirage
So this tutorial is aimed at absolute beginners?
onyx harness
You will need C#
errant mirage
Or would it be more open source so anyone can contribute to make tutorials.
onyx harness
But I will try to explain the very basics, and it will go deeper for those advanced
errant mirage
Ah I see.
onyx harness
The system I am writing not suppose to be open source.
Cause it takes time to make a system with people, users, rights, etc.
errant mirage
Ok
errant mirage
But wouldn't it make more sense to only have beginner tutorials on the website UI?
onyx harness
How would you define beginner level?
I am planning to make it visually understandable ! 😄
errant mirage
Hmmm. A simple platformer like the one in Brackeys How to make a Video Game in Unity Series.
onyx harness
You will see the Unity Editor, and I will spot Question Marks at some place, and by hovering these spots, I will display explanation of how to access this spot by code.
Then if you click on it, I will detail the integration
Oh sorry, it does not plan to teach gameplay
It's purely for Editor stuff
onyx harness
Yes.
Editor, PropertyDrawer, EditorWindow.
All the interesting API, hidden API.
Internal stuff.
Serialization.
Because too much people in here come and ask "hey how do you add a menu item here?", "How to do like the lock button in the Inspector?"
With my tutorial, I'll put them before your eyes
errant mirage
Haha idk what half of that stuff means but nice
onyx harness
You're a good target then 🙂
errant mirage
Hehe I'll definitely check it out once it's done
burnt dove
How can I execute a code after Unity extensions get initialized?
tough cairn
AfterSceneLoad After Scene is loaded.
BeforeSceneLoad Before Scene is loaded.
AfterAssembliesLoaded Callback when all assemblies are loaded and preloaded assets are initialized.
BeforeSplashScreen Immediately before the splash screen is shown.
SubsystemRegistration Callback used for registration of subsystems
not sure if that's what u mean by extension init
there is also [InitializeOnLoad]
burnt dove
I'm using DidReloadScripts to execute some stuff which uses reflection every time the user recompile or load its scripts. The problem is that when you launch Unity editor this method is called before unity extensions get initialized
And so I get Unity extensions are not yet initialized, so we cannot say if the 'C:/Program Files/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.2.17f1/Editor/Data/UnityExtensions/Unity/UnityVR/Editor/UnityEditor.VR.dll' is compatible with platform Win64
So, I would like to wait until Unity extensions are initialized before execute my code
tough cairn
maybe try AfterAssembliesLoaded
burnt dove
Ok
tough cairn
have u seen this one : https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-can-i-callback-after-the-scripts-compilation.819492/ ?
burnt dove
I'll check that, thanks
chilly stone
@onyx harness have you by any chance worked with SerializeReference attribute?
onyx harness
@chilly stone Not yet no, unfortunately
I only start using new features, when I drop the support of the last version of Unity not supporting it.
Since I support 2018 LTS, it doesnt have it I think
tough cairn
quick question : anyone knows how to open file like form console ? ( hyperlink to VS )
onyx harness
Open file from console?
tough cairn
emm blue links
onyx harness
Unity Console?
tough cairn
i want to make links like that
onyx harness
Application.OpenURL ?
onyx harness
Oh, make URL clickable in text
tough cairn
make blue link that will open VS and jump to line
make URL clickable in text -- > any tips on that ?
onyx harness
You need to look into the code, I forgot the name of the API used
(To jump to line, use https://docs.unity3d.com/462/Documentation/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.OpenAsset.html)
tough cairn
ah
textWithHyperlinks.Append(lines[i].Substring(0, filePathIndex));
textWithHyperlinks.Append("<a href=\"" + filePath + "\"" + " line=\"" + lineString + "\">");
textWithHyperlinks.Append(filePath + ":" + lineString);
textWithHyperlinks.Append("</a>)\n");
that's how unity does it
i get it
" make URL clickable in text "
thanks
chilly stone
@onyx harness oh ok, I was gonna ask what issues I might encounter, it seems like a powerful thing
I'm currently trying to implement UI animation system, this attribute allowed me to serialize my IAnimation interface and I made a popup where you can choose from a list of animations + it draws default inspector for the one you choose
Have you worked on something similar, what can you suggest? How would you do it without SerializeReference?
onyx harness
@chilly stone Oh that's a big question.
It is definitely a big feature.
Not that easy to use, as I saw many people asking questions/complaining
about it.
But people who don't know how to use something easily complain...
Your system seems to work good already.
Without SerializeRef?
Keep a ref to the animation. (Like any normal Object field)
Apply an PropertyAttribute.
Draw the adequate PropertyDrawer of the animation.
It's like embedding an Object Editor. Actually what provides Odin.
chilly stone
@onyx harness great, thank you
The one big issue with SerializeReference is this: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/serializereference-serialized-reference-data-lost-when-the-class-name-is-refactored
I experienced it a few minutes ago lol
Doesn't look good right now, there are other limitations and bugs...
With each new problem I'm thinking to actually buy Odin, which will solve most of them
whole steppe
what is the best extension?
onyx harness
NG Tools obviously 😉
chilly stone
You're in the wrong chat
onyx harness
I have no idea
chilly stone
Mikilo was joking 
waxen sandal
That's not it
onyx harness
Mikilo was joking :LUL:
@chilly stone Not even !
waxen sandal
Just biased
onyx harness
Just biased
@waxen sandal Not even ! XD
whole steppe
Mik you said i have to change the tabcontrol to , no idea how to do that GUI.skin.button
chilly stone
@whole steppe when you draw tab buttons and want to change font size for example, you should apply a modified default style. Copy the default style like this: var style = new GUIStyle(GUI.skin.button);
Change a font size, and then pass it to the DrawButton constructor
whole steppe
Thanks i will try.
chilly stone
If you change GUI.skin.button directly it will apply that to every button in inspector, which you don't want I assume
whole steppe
i just want to change the Toolbar , yes
chilly stone
I never worked with toolbars sorry, Mikilo might give a better advice
onyx harness
@whole steppe what do you use to draw the tabs?
severe python
how do you do background tasks?
with like the background task progress bar
like the lightmapper does
onyx harness
visual stag
That's not a background progress bar is it?
chilly stone
Is it possible to draw a rect with rounded corners in IMGUI?
onyx harness
@severe python For Unity 2019 or lower, this is what I use: (won't compile, but you should be able to fix it yourself)
https://gist.github.com/Mikilo/0f0c0549b264e6a4f7b43a2fe853949a
For Unity 2020 or newer:
UnityEditor.Progress
rough raven
hi there, I have a script and I'm trying to do AssetDatabase.CreateFolder(..., ...), then later trying to verify if it exists with AssetDatabase.IsValidFolder(), but because Unity doesn't "see" the folder until my script finishes running, I always get false there
I've tried with Refresh and SaveAssets just after creating, but that changes nothing
what am I missing there?
rough raven
I don't want to carry the GUID all the way to the other part of the code, basically
I'd like to be able to confirm if it exists without it
can I force a sync refresh or similar to achieve that?
onyx harness
Can't tell, if Refresh or SaveAssets aren't enough, maybe delay the execution of the code of one frame might do it
whole steppe
Mik i am using this to draw the tabcontrol
currentTab = GUI.Toolbar(new Rect(rect.x, rect.y, rect.width, EditorGUIUtility.singleLineHeight), currentTab, new string[] { "Main", "Interactable", "Options", "Prop", "Audio" });
onyx harness
@whole steppe The styles used are "left", "mid", "right".
onyx harness
sorry, default are buttonleft buttonmid buttonright
You need to reduce those styles
whole steppe
i have no clue how.
onyx harness
Try GUI.skin.FindStyle("buttonmid") and such
severe python
@onyx harness thank you
your gist up there just cores itself out if you're in 2020.x yeah?
waxen sandal
What
onyx harness
your gist up there just cores itself out if you're in 2020.x yeah?
@severe python Yes. The new UnityEditor.Progress API is way too different from the old system. I didn't want to bother my self reimplement stuff
snow plank
@waxen sandal wym
onyx harness
More like, what do YOU mean
snow plank
@onyx harness arent the pictures clear
waxen sandal
No
waxen sandal
Click on the color and change the alpha in the color picker
Also that's a #💻┃unity-talk thing
snow plank
@waxen sandal i didnt know where I should ask
Click on the color and change the alpha in the color picker
@waxen sandal and where is that
waxen sandal
Where is what
snow plank
@waxen sandal The Alpha u said
chilly stone
@onyx harness I'm completely confused how drawers work.
I have a drawer with a simple popup. It seems like there's separate drawer instance created for each popup item. Here's how I checked this:
private bool _value = false;
public override void OnGUI(Rect position, SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label)
{
if (_value == false)
{
Debug.Log("value is false");
_value = true;
}
// popup code
}
I assumed this is gonna be called once, but I was wrong.
This is called when I:
- Open inspector with the drawer
- Choose first popup item
- Choose second popup item and so on for each item...
Why does the drawer recompiles so many times when it should do that once?
onyx harness
@chilly stone Who told you that PropertyDrawer is unique and reuse?
chilly stone
@onyx harness I know that it's not unique, but it should be created once for each visible property, and for me it's doing that multiple times
I should also note that this happens only for PropertyDrawers that apply to attributes
onyx harness
Hum... perhaps a change in a custom class serializes it and triggers a reset
chilly stone
@onyx harness no way around it? How can I carry previously picked popup index?
onyx harness
You would like to know the previously picked? Hum...
chilly stone
Yeah because otherwise I would have to do this every frame:
Which is not very efficient. I want to set objectReferenceValue only when it's different from the previous
waxen sandal
Ye
chilly stone
Never had to use it before
chilly stone
Yes, thanks, works like a charm
chilly stone
What's the difference visually except using and brackets?
I like to see indentations where they make sense
onyx harness
I'm not against indentation and brakets
chilly stone
For me Begins and Ends are ugly :p
onyx harness
but this compare to this:
BeginCheck()
GUI()
if (EndCheck())
DoSomething()
I find the latter much better
chilly stone
I don't see how it's better, in a big file you can't quickly find where the block is ending 🤷♂️
onyx harness
I never use Begin/End on big block, never
waxen sandal
I only do if I have to fix someone else their code
chilly stone
Still the main advantage of using scopes is that you can return; at any point without things breaking
waxen sandal
Your change check will
onyx harness
The weird feeling about the change check scope, is you have to execute the change within the scope
waxen sandal
^
onyx harness
It doesn't make much sense
chilly stone
It's always done at the end anyway 🤷♂️
onyx harness
Yes, I give you this point, return is automatically handled
The best would be to provide a callback directly to the scope
Easy to implement
chilly stone
Scope can't exist outside of using, as it's destroyed
onyx harness
Stays fine to read
Efficient, i would bet not that much, but it needs some bench to confirm
chilly stone
I don't think scopes or begin-ends would be your bottleneck :p
onyx harness
Scope will call the callback on leaving if a change is detected
I am more afraid of garbage in this case
but I'm not even sure why I am afraid
chilly stone
Dunno about garbage
onyx harness
A callback will just be a simple delegate
chilly stone
Is there a profiler for editor?
chilly stone
Oh I only used it for checking game performance
waxen sandal
Scope makes a new instance
chilly stone
Yeah and disposes it
waxen sandal
Callback might need to capture a closure and allocate a new class
chilly stone
So there should be garbage I suppose
waxen sandal
Not as efficient as the current implementation though 😛
chilly stone
onyx harness
The other problem is storing the delegate inside the scope.
Delegate assignation generates garbage
And since IMGUI can have a lot of calls, this trick loses its beauty
chilly stone
You need to do some benchmarks :p
rare surge
Guys do you know how to make collapse (not foldout) the unity event field? I saw an image somewhere but cannot find it anymore. If you see my image the red line was the button to collapse. I don't want to use foldout if it is not possible with it.
rare surge
No but I just remembered Event Trigger has same button there. I just need to make same way and code myself the show / hide behaviour. But it looks like a label with a button?
split bridge
@rare surge I did something like this with Odin but can’t remember details - this was the overload I used though: https://twitter.com/timboc_/status/984542933348179968?s=21
Unsure if there’s an easier way to do it these days
violet agate
Does anyone know how to make it so a window immediately sets one the fields drawn within as the GUI focus?
Nevermind, done.
rare surge
Damn it was complicated. I found out They just draw the "-" icon over the unityevent field.
frank cloud
anyone know if Unity has a built in function to highlight a game object in the scene view? Use case is to hover over a game object and make sure the user knows which one will be picked
visual stag
You could figure out how the selection highlight is called, though I don't know if it's at all accessible
of you could just use my selection plugin 😄 https://github.com/vertxxyz/NSelection
frank cloud
yea, I figured I could do it by hand by just iterating through all renderers/drawing an outline object...was hoping Unity had something 😦
cool plugin tho @visual stag 👍
viral dune
Hi, can anybody explain how to draw animationcurve field with no stretching on both of its axis ?
for example, this and
this
looks very similar, but the Y axis is so far apart
how can i turn of the auto stretching of the axis ?
waxen sandal
Anyone has an idea on how to copy files with their internal references copied as well?
Or am I just stuck having to go through everything using SerializedProperties?
onyx harness
@waxen sandal when you copy an asset, it comes with its references already, so I don't get your question
waxen sandal
I mean if you copy multiple assets that have references between those assets, currently they point to the source asset rather than the copied asset
grand crest
Nvm message disappeared
viral dune
how do i make EditorGUILayout.CurveField non editable ?
onyx harness
GUI.enabled
viral dune
umm, i still don;t get it
onyx harness
Replace GUI() with your curve field
viral dune
oh, okay, let me try realquick
EditorGUILayout.CurveField(thisClass.expCurve,Color.green, new Rect(0,0, 100, 8000000) , GUILayout.Height(385));
there's no .Enabled
onyx harness
enable?
viral dune
ah
onyx harness
There is really no trap
viral dune
got it, let me try again
onyx harness
You just copy and paste and replace GUI() with your code
viral dune
GUI.enabled = false;
EditorGUILayout.CurveField(thisClass.expCurve,Color.green, new Rect(0,0, 100, 8000000) , GUILayout.Height(385));
GUI.enabled = true;
so like this right ?
awesome, it worked, thanks for your help
onyx harness
@viral dune The best practice here is using a scope:
using (new EditorGUI.DisabledScope(true))
viral dune
how do i use that ?
onyx harness
using (new EditorGUI.DisabledScope(true))
{
GUI();
}
My pleasure
rare surge
Why this propertydrawer
public override void OnGUI(Rect position, SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label)
{
EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, property, label);
}
Is not working for UnityEvents? Is there other tricks to make it?
onyx harness
Can you show me the top of your file containing the PropertyDrawer?
rare surge
This is the full code
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;
namespace Maz.Unity.EventFramework
{
[CustomPropertyDrawer(typeof(CollapseAttribute))]
public class UnityEventCollapseProperty : PropertyDrawer
{
GUIContent m_IconToolbarMinus = new GUIContent(EditorGUIUtility.IconContent("Toolbar Minus"));
GUIContent m_IconToolbarPlus = new GUIContent(EditorGUIUtility.IconContent("Toolbar Plus"));
public override float GetPropertyHeight(SerializedProperty property,
GUIContent label)
{
return EditorGUI.GetPropertyHeight(property, label, true);
}
public override void OnGUI(Rect position, SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label)
{
EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, property, label);
}
}
}
Don't you need to put it inside EditorGUI.PropertyScope?
rare surge
Where I need to put that? I made other property drawer as well but the propertyfield was enough
chilly stone
public override void OnGUI(Rect position, SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label)
{
using (new EditorGUI.PropertyScope(position, label, property))
{
EditorGUI.PropertyField(position, property, label);
}
}
I guess Collapse is applied your field "GameEvent"
rare surge
Thanks, didn't work :D
If I am using Editor script with custom inspector there it works just with EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(property); But I thought better to use propertydrawer since I use in different scripts.
@onyx harness yes
onyx harness
And you are right. Dump Editor and use PropertyDrawer instead.
PropertyField has a mecanism to prevent redrawing itself.
Let me explain
rare surge
This is the editor version.
onyx harness
Is this from Odin?
rare surge
No
Made by myself but with looking into the Even Trigger script. They just put a button over the unity event. I just reworked it little bit.
onyx harness
Well, UnityEvent has a built-in PropertyDrawer (PD) which draws GUI like in the gif above.
If you mark a field of type UnityEvent, you bypass the PD and use your custom implementation.
Inside your PD, when you use PropertyField, it will lookup for the proper PD.
But since the PD will be itself, it will infinite cycle.
The fallback is to draw "natively".
rare surge
Better to visualize with that. This was made with editor script but yea propertydrawer would be better to be more flexible ^^
ohh ok
onyx harness
In my entire career of tools maker, I almost never used Editor
Neither PropertyScope.
I guess it has a purpose, but I've never had an issue without
chilly stone
Oh, interesting
rare surge
So if I understand correclty so I actually would need to recreate unityevents pd?
onyx harness
Kinda yes
rare surge
damn 😄
chilly stone
@rare surge a little off topic, what are you using to record those gifs?
onyx harness
ScreenToGif or such I guess
rare surge
ShareX @chilly stone
chilly stone
Oh cool, I should get one :p
rare surge
my biggest lifesaver tool
Has everything what I need. Many apis included like imgur to upload after the capture
chilly stone
Can it record in mp4?
rare surge
Yes
chilly stone
Great
rare surge
But for tutorials or similar things I wouldn't use it. Better to use obs there. I use it just to make quick recordings and upload to show quickly something.
Or generate yourself the built-in PD for UnityEvent
@onyx harness What exactly do you mean with generating? It sounds like extracting the code or generating the code.
chilly stone
I don't think you should neccesserily regenerate default PD, since you defined a PD for attribute, not for every unity event, right?
I was able to achieve similar by finding actual SerializedProperty for UnityEvent field and simply drawing a field: EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(property);
chilly stone
It doesn't matter - there is recursion happening, so you will have to find the SerializeProperty on a current drawer that is untouched yet, and draw it.
I did this in my SerializeReference drawer and it works fine
onyx harness
If you want a tip to start looking, the majority of the PropertyDrawer world is in ScriptAttributeUtility
No recursion will happen if you get the built-in PropertyDrawer
SerializedProperty and PropertyDrawer are 2 different worlds
Related at some point, but 2 different worlds
And by talking about SerializeReference, you were drawing it using its SerializeProperty (SP) and it draws the correct GUI, right?
chilly stone
@onyx harness yep, this is a drawer on an interface
So I draw background, label, etc, and then the property field itself
onyx harness
This is what I thought, and now can confirm, SerializeReference is not related to his problem
chilly stone
Hmm, I can try to make the same for a regular field 🤷♂️
onyx harness
Regular field or not
Using a custom PD is not related to the serialization
And you are working on a top object (your interface), not the direct UnityEvent
chilly stone
I'll try this for UnityEvent and get back to you 😉
onyx harness
You are getting confused with the word "serialize" 🙂
chilly stone
@onyx harness yeah you're right, I can't get it to draw default inspector for UnityEvent
But I found some useful resources: https://gist.github.com/AngryAnt/b5995c9b2cf2a0979758ad17f6a59ef0
severe python
can you make Gizmos' occluded ?
for example, I want this white overlay to be hidden by the tree standins
restive ember
Hi i have problem
Debug.Log(object.activeSelf);
object.gameObject.SetActive(true);
Debug.Log(object.acitveSelf);```
Return me
False
False
```cs
Debug.Log(object.activeInHierarchy);
object.gameObject.SetActive(true);
Debug.Log(object.activeInHierarchy);```
Return me
False
True
But in both case object is still inactive in Hierarchy in editor, and in Game
Even i tried
```cs
Debug.Log(object.activeInHierarchy);
object.gameObject.SetActive(true);
Debug.Break();
Debug.Log(object.activeInHierarchy);```
And this was still inactivetheres full code https://hastebin.com/giyuhuquvo.cs
and reminder is selected in hierarchy
wispy delta
I'm manually drawing an ObjectField and calling Undo.RecordObject so I can use a property, but the change isn't serializing. The field changes in the inspector (in normal and debug mode) and undoing/redoing works, but the change is lost whenever the assembly reloads. Any idea why?
The property:
[SerializeField]
private PortalConfiguration configuration;
public PortalConfiguration Configuration
{
get => configuration;
set
{
configuration = value;
}
}
The GUI:
Portal portal = target as Portal;
...
// Draw Configuration
using (var check = new EditorGUI.ChangeCheckScope())
{
PortalConfiguration newConfig = (PortalConfiguration)EditorGUILayout.ObjectField
(
"Configuration",
portal.Configuration,
typeof(PortalConfiguration),
true
);
if (check.changed)
{
Undo.RecordObject(portal, "Changed configuration");
portal.Configuration = newConfig;
}
}
From what I understand, you can tell the change isn't serializing correctly because if you change the object reference with my custom gui and then switch the inspector to debug mode the field isn't bold and doesn't have the blue override indicator after changing.
But if you switch to debug mode before changing the object reference, the gui gets boldened and has the blue override indicator and the change persists entering/exiting playmode
tldr: using EditorGUILayout.ObjectField in conjunction with a c# property and Undo.RecordObject does not properly serialize the change
onyx harness
for example, I want this white overlay to be hidden by the tree standins
@severe python isn't gizmos drawn after?
wispy delta
Damn looks like I needed to also call PrefabUtility.RecordPrefabInstancePropertyModifications after making the change 😒
i guess that's what i get for making a deal with the devil and not using serialized properties
onyx harness
@restive ember it can be many reasons, not the right reminder, maybe another script
And your 2 examples make perfect sense, we just lack of information about them
@wispy delta Good job finding it
barren moat
Has anyone here had issues with the editor not compiling code after file changes? I know it's not quite the right topic, but I suspect it could be the result of an editor extension.
restive ember
@onyx harness theres no another object or script like this, also its work good at second and any next call function
Theres something strang for me
waxen sandal
Does that work for gizmos?
steady crest
god damnit, I think I got stuff confused
well, he could use handles instead of gizmos 🙃
waxen sandal
Yes
It might work for gizmos, wouldn't surprise me if gizmos used handles internally
vernal belfry
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but do you people use any good Logging asset ? something thast makes easier the task to debug errors on remote devices. Im using my own system but Im afraid we will need something better
vernal belfry
well, when the game is running on other devices, somethinng that can store logs, and in case of need be able to check them somehow
right now im using Unity reports
so when i detect an error i send myself the last 500 unity built-in logs
but i was wondering if there was a more elaborated asset
and I have doubts like, for this ones to work currently im using debug.log, but i dont know if i should do that on release
i should simply store the lines of log somewhere i guess and not use the console
but then, should i also keep them on a file?
onyx harness
Oh for production
vernal belfry
and be able to get them in case of a crash?
yes
for production
we are close to release
and i would like to have as much control as i can
onyx harness
you can store them in PlayerPrefs
onyx harness
It's a simple way to store data
Logs among others
Usually people use it to store game data
vernal belfry
yeah i know, i was thinking to keep a text file updated but playerprefs might be faster
onyx harness
But at the end of the day, it can be anything
vernal belfry
yeah im using it for settinngs
onyx harness
Maybe dont store 1GB of logs in there
vernal belfry
hehe no
also i could make sort of flag i can activate remotely to get that playerPrefs log list
thats what i was wondering if possible
imagine a device in ..... mexico... crashes
and you dont know why
no exceptions
no errors
how do you get the log info
onyx harness
Either you send to your servers massively
Or you might need a system to handpick a device
vernal belfry
maybe i could prompt the user to push some button and send logs
but what if the problem doesnt allow him to start the game 😅 shit
onyx harness
There might be services out there providing this kind of thing
split bridge
Anyone know of a faster way to check a prefab for the presence of components other than PrefabUtility.LoadPrefabContents(); PrefabUtility.UnloadPrefabContents(); (takes ~0.5s for a prefab with a single object) - wondering if it's faster to parse the asset as text
onyx harness
AssetDatabase.LoadAsset works?
split bridge
huh, it does? Hadn't thought to try that thanks.. will give it a go.
about 1000x faster 😅 - thanks! pays to ask
onyx harness
Be careful there is no caveat
LoadPrefabContents must have a purpose, i don't know what
split bridge
I think it loads the prefab in editor - scene isolation and all that gubbins - totally unneeded in my case
rare surge
@onyx harness yeah you're right, I can't get it to draw default inspector for UnityEvent
But I found some useful resources: https://gist.github.com/AngryAnt/b5995c9b2cf2a0979758ad17f6a59ef0
@chilly stone @onyx harness thanks The link was really good help. If I use thisUnityEventCollapseProperty : UnityEventDrawerso thebase.OnGUI(position, property, label);will show the default unity event drawer. Since my collapse function just draws a + or - over the field its done. No more code needed. The only last fix I need to do is I used GUILayout before with BeginHorizontal() in the Editor script. It is moved to bottom. Like in the gif base.OnGUI(position, property, label);
if (show)
{
base.OnGUI(position, property, label);
}
else
{
GUILayout.BeginHorizontal(style);
GUILayout.Label(ReflectionHelper.GenerateGenericTypesAsString(property), GUILayout.ExpandWidth(true));
GUILayout.EndHorizontal();
}
Oh the gif is bugged. It shows very dark field at the top. But its only in the gif lol. Compressing failed 😄
rare surge
There is more code but its other things like checks if it is generic type or not or creating style
xD
rare surge
But it works. I just forgot to add public override float GetPropertyHeight(SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label)
I do this with it:
public override float GetPropertyHeight(SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label)
{
if(show)
{
return EditorGUI.GetPropertyHeight(property, label, true) + 20f;
} else {
return 0f;
}
}
Finally goal reached.