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gloomy chasm
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That makes it a pain to work with then in the inspector then.

onyx harness
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Well, I have no idea what he is willing to do with it :D

waxen sandal
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Is the issue that if you change it during playmode it persists?

onyx harness
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He just wanna lose data on playmode

civic river
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Non serialized fields are still saved, on enable is not called @onyx harness

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it's because the new playmode options don't reload the domain

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none of the 5 callbacks listen on the scriptable object page get called when playmode starts or end

onyx harness
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Oh, with domain reload disabled

civic river
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yeah, I'm not sure how you're supposed to support this option -,-"

onyx harness
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Domain reload disabled implies that you have to do all the reset stuff yourself

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I read that in the early documentation of this feature, which makes sense

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This kind of codeflow design puts a high pressure on dev, it forces them to code correctly 🙂

civic river
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I have one list to clear, but I can't find anything that gets called at the right time

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unity seems to have put the onus on the dev to clean things up but gave no tools to do so 🤔

onyx harness
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The example is quite explicit

civic river
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I guess the documentation is just incorrect

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it says the callbacks get called like normal

waxen sandal
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Afaik they should

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It doens't really make sense for them to not call them

onyx harness
civic river
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yeah I've read all this before, the documentation seems to imply the callbacks should still trigger, unless they meant only MonoBehaviours

onyx harness
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There is not a single callback being called when entering playmode? 😳

civic river
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not for any scriptable objects reliably

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OnEnable gets called after recompiling

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that's about it

waxen sandal
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So what Unity did is select a big block of code and wrapped it in an if and called it a feature

onyx harness
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And no attribute works? Unfortunately I never worked with disable DR, only read about it

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But I doubt none work, even for non-MB

civic river
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The static callbacks still get called, but I only want to reset a non-serialized value on an instance of a SO

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it seems like a really unnecesarily complicated way to reset an object

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I would have to register a static callback and collect up the game objects using find or something

onyx harness
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and this one?

civic river
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Those look promising, I wasn't aware you could use them on non-static calls

onyx harness
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They are simple events

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Nothing more, nothing less

civic river
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👍 yeah that works

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cheers

onyx harness
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Which one works?

civic river
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both

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looks like

onyx harness
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Would have expected the first to fail

civic river
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        private void OnEnable()
        {
            EditorApplication.playModeStateChanged += ResetSO;
        }

        private void OnDisable()
        {
            EditorApplication.playModeStateChanged -= ResetSO;
        }

        private void ResetSO(PlayModeStateChange pmsc)
        {
            if (pmsc != PlayModeStateChange.EnteredPlayMode)
                return;
            currentVirtualGraphIndex = int.MinValue;
            Debug.Log("Reset.");
        }

bit of a hack but what can you do

onyx harness
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Looks fine to me

gloomy chasm
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Hey, so I am trying to save changes to a SO made in the editor and support Undo/Redo. Right now I make a change then set the SO dirty. Seems to work fine, but when I tried to add undo support, it breaks.
I do Undo.RegisterCompleteObjectUndo(...) before my change, but if I do a second register undo on the object, the first change is removed. I assume this is because it is not properly saving the first change. Do I have to do AssetDatabase.SaveAssets() every time I make a change?

warm panther
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guys how come my Hierarchy does not update instantly when I do PrefabUtility.InstantiatePrefab. It does not show this new prefab

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it needs like 1 more action in the inspector or in the Hierarchy to show the new instantiated game object (like when I click on other objects)

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I even call this EditorApplication.RepaintHierarchyWindow() but it does not work

civic river
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@gloomy chasm I had better success using Undo.RecordObject for registering single changes, you can also use Undo.IncrementCurrentGroup(); which should seperate the undos as they seem to be grouped by name, so if you add 3 undo's in a row named "myChange" they all get undone at once if you don't increment the group

gloomy chasm
real ivy
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Hi all. I cant seem to use Gizmos.DrawCube and DrawLine to draw it on top of any mesh renderer
Is this possible?

gloomy chasm
real ivy
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Yeah

gloomy chasm
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@real ivy I think it should by default....

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Unless you mean in front of all meshes

patent pebble
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How can I "update" a GUI field which value was changed from code while the user still has keyboard focus on it?

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I think I've come across this before, but I forgot how I dealt with it... 😓

patent pebble
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private void OnGUI()
{
    if (Event.current.type == EventType.Repaint)
    {
        if (_needControlRefresh && _guiLoopsWaited >= 1)
        {
            HandleKBControlRefresh();
        }
        else
        {
            _guiLoopsWaited++;
        }
    }

    if (GUILayout.Button("Change value"))
    {
        _someFieldValue = 0;
        TriggerControlRefresh();
    }
}

private void TriggerControlRefresh()
{
    _previousKeyboardControl = GUIUtility.keyboardControl;
    GUIUtility.keyboardControl = 0;

    _needControlRefresh = true;
}

private void HandleControlRefresh()
{
    GUIUtility.keyboardControl = _previousKeyboardControl;

    _guiLoopsWaited = 0;
    _needControlRefresh = false;
}

So far this seems to be working... but feels really dirty and unreliable

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Is there a better way of "refreshing" fields?

onyx harness
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Looks beautiful

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🙂

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Yes, but it's not pretty

patent pebble
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it feels weird to use, sometimes the refresh happens instantly, other times it has some delay

onyx harness
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call Repaint()

patent pebble
onyx harness
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You can try TextEditor editor = (TextEditor)GUIUtility.GetStateObject(typeof(TextEditor), GUIUtility.keyboardControl);

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Or try RecycledTextEditor like such:

using System;
using System.Reflection;

namespace NGToolsEditor.NGGameConsole
{
    public class RecycledTextEditorProxy
    {
        public object    instance;
        private static Type    type = Type.GetType("UnityEditor.EditorGUI+RecycledTextEditor, UnityEditor, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null");

        private static PropertyInfo    textProperty = RecycledTextEditorProxy.type.GetProperty("text", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
        public String    text
        {
            get { return (String)textProperty.GetValue(this.instance, null); }
            set { textProperty.SetValue(this.instance, value, null); }
        }

        private static MethodInfo    MoveTextEndMethod = RecycledTextEditorProxy.type.GetMethod("MoveTextEnd", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
        public void    MoveTextEnd()
        {
            RecycledTextEditorProxy.MoveTextEndMethod.Invoke(this.instance, new object[] { });
        }
    }
}
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To use with:

namespace NGToolsEditor.NGGameConsole
{
    public class EditorGUIProxy
    {
        public object    instance;
        private static Type    type = Type.GetType("UnityEditor.EditorGUI, UnityEditor, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null");

        private static FieldInfo    s_RecycledEditorField = EditorGUIProxy.type.GetField("s_RecycledEditor", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
        public static object    s_RecycledEditor
        {
            get { return (object)s_RecycledEditorField.GetValue(null); }
            set { s_RecycledEditorField.SetValue(null, value); }
        }
    }
}
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Looks like that:

[NonSerialized]
private RecycledTextEditorProxy    textEditor = new RecycledTextEditorProxy();

...

this.textEditor.instance = EditorGUIProxy.s_RecycledEditor;
this.textEditor.text = "bla bla bla";
this.textEditor.MoveTextEnd();
patent pebble
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@onyx harness oooh that's very neat. Thanks for sharing! 😊

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oh also, doing cyclic repaint on this seems to "fix" it

    if (Event.current.type == EventType.Repaint)
    {
        if (_needControlRefresh && _guiLoopsWaited >= 1)
        {
            HandleControlRefresh();
        }
        else
        {
            _guiLoopsWaited++;
            Repaint();
        }
    }
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but it still feels kinda dirty. I'm gonna have a go with what you shared, seems more reliable

onyx harness
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TextEditor is pretty unknown to the community, but it is supposed to handle text input manipulation

patent pebble
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and iirc i used TextEditor stuff

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but I didn't finish it, left it kinda hanging

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maybe it's finally time to come back to that 👀

pale cliff
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ive got 2 classes, Stat, and RandomStat which inherits Stat, and i wanna use a different drawer for each but this doesnt seem to work

unknown.png
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im thinking its to do with the fact that the RandomStat is referred as a Stat in the code but is there any way around this?

gloomy chasm
pale cliff
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well there are Stat and RandomStat classes stored in an array of type Stat**

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and i want it to show the correct drawer for each but im assuming this cannot be done

gloomy chasm
pale cliff
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ah that seems to of worked

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thanks did not know that was a thing

gloomy chasm
pale cliff
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it does seem a bit of an out there solution but definetly works in this case
has managed to break some other bits but im sure ill get them sorted

waxen sandal
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SerializeReference should allow for circular references right?

gloomy chasm
waxen sandal
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Cool, can you explain the memory leak I get when I do that?

gloomy chasm
waxen sandal
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Glad to know it should work at least, thanks

patent pebble
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is
AssetDatabase.ForceReserializeAssets()
the same as doing
EditorUtility.SerDirty() + AssetDatabase.SaveAssets()
? 🤔

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I found this on the forums, but it dates back to 2017, so I don't know if it's still accurate
The new ForceReserializeAssets API makes Unity load and re-save the assets you request, so that any changes in data format or upgraders etc can be flushed to disk for you to commit to VCS immediately.

onyx harness
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maybe better, use it

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or check if it is more recent, if it is, use it

patent pebble
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Well I ran the method to see how it behaved and it basically changed every meta file in my project...

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it removed the "timeCreated" line in most of them
it also changed some values on a couple of scenes like this one:

  m_IndirectSpecularColor: {r: 0, g: 0, b: 0, a: 1}

to this

 m_IndirectSpecularColor: {r: 0.37311953, g: 0.38074014, b: 0.3587274, a: 1}
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now I have to go over hundreds of changes to see what it did to my assets 😅 fun stuff

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it also screwed some rotation stuff on a couple of prefabs I guess it's messing with Euler and Quaternions because some rotations have switched values like: X to W, Y to X, Z to Y and W to Z

plucky nymph
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hey all 🙂 Does anyone know the editor style for the play/pause/frame buttons up top? Adding to that bar and the default is a lighter grey than expected

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(worth mentioning that editorstyle.toolbarbutton is destroying my button sizing, but im figuring that out now :P)

gloomy chasm
plucky nymph
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Thanks for that!

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Much appreciated 🙂

tough cairn
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anyone knows how to download packages into the assets folder ?

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Trying to edit some scripts but its seems to be locked

  Packages/com.unity.physics/Unity.Physics/ECS/Base/Systems/StepPhysicsWorld.cs
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and

Asset Packages/com.unity.physics/Unity.Physics/PhysicsSettings.cs has no meta file, but it's in an immutable folder. The asset will be ignored.
plucky nymph
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yeh packages are locked. I've moved a package into assets before (i copied them out, uninstalled the package, then into Assets), but that was a git repo. Not sure if it would work with the official unity modules

waxen sandal
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Just move them to your packages dir

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No need to move them to assets

west drum
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Doubt: If I have a List<Node> in my ScriptableObject, is there a way to set a constructor, to execute everytime I press "+" in the inspector?

unknown.png
onyx harness
west drum
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In the ScriptableObject?

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Or the list?

onyx harness
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Anything

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This callback is invoked upon des/serialization

west drum
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Ok, let me see the docs...

onyx harness
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This callback is called on any object

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Since you want to "construct", this is the best way

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As constructor you can't use it

west drum
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But when the callback is invoked... how do I know what the new object is?

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I just assume is the last one?

onyx harness
west drum
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But then, how do I know what object I have to pre-populate?

onyx harness
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Let's talk with precision, because I feel we are getting a bit offplan

west drum
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ok

onyx harness
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You want to construct the Node whenever you add one

west drum
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I have a list of "nodes". I want that when I press "+", the field "ID" of the node gets populated with a random unique ID

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If I have this...

onyx harness
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Try putting ISerializeCallback on Node and use the Deserialization() one

west drum
onyx harness
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Not sure it will work

west drum
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And then press +

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I get another item... but with the same ID

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Which, of course, it is not optimal

onyx harness
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Because Unity clones the last one

west drum
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Yeah, that is what I want to avoid

west drum
onyx harness
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It sounds like you want more control, and the control comes from the parent

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which is your SO

west drum
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ISerializeCallback? Or ISerializeCallbackReceiver?

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You probably mean ISerializationCallbackReceiver

onyx harness
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yes

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Just way too long to type every single time

west drum
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Ok, yes, I have added the interface to the node

onyx harness
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Put a Debug.Log in there

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and see how it behaves

west drum
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Done

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When I have a list of 1, and I add another one, it runs twice

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One for each element

onyx harness
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In both Serialize & Deserialize

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And I guess you dont want that

west drum
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"OnBeforeSerialize" ran about 1 million times. I had to remove the "Debug.Log"

onyx harness
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Put the interface on your SO

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The issue here is we dont have a lot of control on how Editor is gonna execute

west drum
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Yeah, exactly

onyx harness
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We can only "seek"

west drum
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So, everytime that "AfterDeserialize" runs, I have to go through the list, and "seek" those entries that duplicate an ID?

onyx harness
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The last one yeah

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But it better to check the whole list

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Because you can dupplicate any entry on an array in Inspector

west drum
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"AfterDeserialize" also run, for instance, when reordering the list

onyx harness
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Because you need to understand how Unity manages its business

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Whenever you do any operation, the serializer will copy, or add, or remove

west drum
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It does not seem a very convenient method... Isn't there a way to just disable the "+" button?

onyx harness
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Have no idea, never worked with the "recent" versions

west drum
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If not, I guess I might as well just hide the List on the inspector

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Oh, well. Then I guess I will have to just hide it

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Thanks anyway

abstract linden
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anyone knows how to add a custom prefab here?

Screenshot_566.png
onyx harness
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MenuItem("Assets/????")

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Or "GameObject/????"

pale cliff
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if you have a property with getters / setters, how do you access the value in a CustomDrawer with something like FindPropertyRelative?

unknown.png
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this does not seem to work

unknown.png
onyx harness
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You can't

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Unity only serializes fields

pale cliff
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would it work if i use findPropertyRelative("_isRandom")?

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but just wouldnt have the functionality of the getters / setters

onyx harness
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Yes, if the field is serialized

pale cliff
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ok sure thanks

finite hearth
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does anyone know how to get IntelliSense working for the C# extension on vscode?

west drum
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Is it me, or does EditorUtility.SetDirty doesnt work properly with ScriptableObject that contain lists?

twin dawn
patent pebble
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what do you mean by "doesnt work properly"? Is it not serializing the list? is not serializing the scriptable object?

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what types are in the list?

west drum
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@patent pebble I solved it, by adding AssetDatabase.SaveAssets(); after SetDirty

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Thanks!

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Dumb error

patent pebble
west drum
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I dont know why, I was sure in my head that setting as dirty would automatically save them

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duh...

patent pebble
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SetDirty just "marks" the object as having "dirty" data, which means it has changes that need to be saved to disk

west drum
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Yeah, makes sense

patent pebble
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either from the main menu in Unity or in code with SaveAssets()

west drum
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Not sure why one uses "EditorUtility" and the other "AssetsDatabase", though

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Seems rather unintuitive

patent pebble
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i may be mistaken, but I think you can for example set scene objects and prefab instances as dirty

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(which in turn sets the Scene itself as dirty too)

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take that with a grain of salt, i'm not 100% on that

west drum
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well, in any case, it works now 🙂

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Thanks anyway! 🙂

patent pebble
west drum
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Ill take a look for sure! Thanks!

severe python
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Can you setup default editors for custom assets...

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er

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Can I make Unity open a markdown file with Visual studio instead of notepad for example

onyx harness
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Isn't that the purpose of Editor?

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Oh editor

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As default application

severe python
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yeah, sorry that was confusing to write

onyx harness
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Not sure if Unity handles that, give a look to your OS

severe python
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I know unity has some control, but thats a good point I should check my assoc

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I'm glad I know how this shit works... I dont know of a simple way to check associations

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well, changes the os association does make that work, but it doesn't use the existing vs instance unfortunately :/

waxen sandal
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You can

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There's an override for it somewhere

severe python
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Ah I could do that, but it isn't really what I wanted. It looks like the specific solution I'm looking for is adding the md extension to Project Settings / C# Project Generation / Additional Extensions to Include

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once I do that it works as expected and overrides the windows file association to use the specified external editor

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Thanks yall

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On a completely unrelated note, is there any interest in a Markdown element for UIToolkit?

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I made one based off of Markdig, its not a great implementation since its a direct rendering into objects, and Unity doesn't have any kind of Rich text element so to accomplish the results every word is a label

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Which works surprisingly well, obviously not perfectly well, and it doesn't scale for large documents

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though I'm considering trying to seriously tackle the problem and make a markdown element that can actually be consistently performant

sage oyster
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when using AssetDatabase.CreateAsset to create a scriptable object, it's fine, but I get this error in Console which doesn't look so nice:

MonoScriptImporterInspector.OnEnable must call base.OnEnable to avoid unexpected behaviour.
UnityEditor.AssetImporters.AssetImporterEditor:OnDisable ()

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i mean everything works fine, but i dont know what this error is

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does it mean i have to have a custom inspector for it, and use OnEnable?

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hmm there is no base.OnEnable in the custom inspector

twin dawn
sage oyster
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Nope but i fixed it (somehow)

fresh turret
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Does anyone know how to fix the enumfields? There are so weird can't seem to get them to a normal size

unknown.png
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Using UI builder package

severe python
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I can't aya specifically but I would use the ui debugger to see what's happening

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Ive encountered similar problems you need to apply the uss to the right elements

fresh turret
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I see ok ok, its difficult to work with this system so much weird things happening haha.
Got another question, now that I'm using a enumfield it takes a enum as argument.

I receive a string[], im used to doing it likes this
index = EditorGUILayout.Popup(index, Localization.knownLanguages);

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is there a alternative ?


        if (Localization.knownLanguages != null)
        {

        }
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I tried to create a enum dynamically but that seems a bit overkill

wintry badger
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Does anyone know a way to work with Texture2D data via SerializedObject/SerializedProperty. Specifically, I am creating a Texture2D pragmatically and then would like to save it to a field on a ScriptableObject. I tried setting SerializedProperty.objectReferenceValue but that does not seem to work, my textures appear white.

gloomy chasm
wintry badger
gloomy chasm
wintry badger
patent pebble
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isn't that design a little bit confusing? why would you want to have an assignable field on a ScriptableObject to hold invisible assets?

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I would at least make the field non-editable if you only assign that texture field through code

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I'm not a big fan of "hidden" assets in my project, unless they are temporary and don't need to persist sessions

wintry badger
# patent pebble isn't that design a little bit confusing? why would you want to have an assignab...

The idea was to hold small 16 x 16 textures for use in editor windows, to avoid having to recreate them endlessly. These textures are generated from solid user adjustable colors, so having fixed assets doesn't work. The user would not be able to assign assets to these fields, they would purely be generated by my editor code behind the scenes. It's not that big of a deal, I am instead just going to generate the textures on the fly when the editor windows are created. The idea of saving the textures to the ScriptableObject asset was a whim.

onyx harness
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Keep them as base64 texture in code

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And do as you did, create them on the fly on creation

snow bone
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is there an event when something an editorWindow changes, such as when I drop a gameObject into an objectField?

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I want to call an update fn when the user drops a gameobject into an objectField, but can't find anything on the docs and have tried a bunch of events

waxen sandal
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Is this your own window?

snow bone
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yes

waxen sandal
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ChangeCheck

snow bone
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that works for built in controls, i have my own control, how would i manually set this event, any ideas?

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nvm, found it, GUI.changed = true; this seems to work for me

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@waxen sandal Thank you.

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any ideas how to stop this please?

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Nvm, i fixed it

waxen sandal
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Return obj instead of default on line 18?

snow bone
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yeah, that's what I did, thanks.

tough cairn
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@onyx harness hey , do you know how to make custom preview nodes in shader graph - i want to have logarithmic view / change the draw range and the color space ?

onyx harness
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Unfortunately I do not, I never touch Shader Graph, I made my own XD

tough cairn
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that's a bold statment lol

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do you mean you created an asset or something or just a personal tool ?

onyx harness
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Wasn't sure it would handle >10k nodes

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personal tool

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But it is very far from complete, and kinda abandonned

tough cairn
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i wouldn't dare doing something like this on my own

onyx harness
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it is just showing rectangle & stuff cleverly

tough cairn
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i mean , there is an ever growing needs to support render pipelines and different versioning of hlsl code

gloomy chasm
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How do I change a property in a PropertyDrawer from a GenerMenu context menu without applying changes to the serialized object?

onyx harness
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lol

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Sounds like a paradox

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PropertyDrawer is working from a SerO

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if you apply from it, it will reapply on the SO

gloomy chasm
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Hu? It works fine technically to do that. But obviously it isn't good to do so.
My guess is that when the ShowAsContext is called and the time an item is selected, the SerializedProperty changes in some way so the one passed to the menu is some how different than the one currently being used to draw.
I'm not sure how to get around that though.

onyx harness
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Just use a copy

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don't rely on the SO but on the Object

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and create your own SO

gloomy chasm
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That would mean that I would need to manually go and find the SerializedProperty though... unless I am misunderstanding.

onyx harness
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Exactly

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Which is not an issue here

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FindRelativeProperty(property.propertyPath)

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It is that simple

gloomy chasm
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How the heck did I never realize that it takes a path not just a field name... The parameter is literally called "propertyPath"... -_-

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But thanks, that worked. Do you normally just make your own SerializedObjects?

onyx harness
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Do not think SerializedObject as Unity's own internal tool

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It can be useful & powerful into your hands

gloomy chasm
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Oh for sure! And I have before. Just not done it with a PropertyDrawer before. Do you store them in a dictionary by propertyPath, or do you do something else?

onyx harness
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I often use them ephemerally

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I almost never store them

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Except when doing Editor stuff

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Oh you were talking about SerializedProperty & proeprtyPath

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Yeah use a dictionary if you want

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It's all up to you

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As long as the path is not dynamic (array & nested stuff), it should be fine

gloomy chasm
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Yeah, not sure if there is a better way to handle it. Disable caching the property drawer maybe?

onyx harness
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if it works, it works

gloomy chasm
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I decided to end up just using EditorGUI.Popup instead. Made things a bit simpler (honestly don't know why I didn't think of it sooner). Thanks for the help.

onyx harness
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Hahaha as long as it works 🙂

hallow ermine
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Is there another way to change the editor cursor than: EditorGUIUtility.AddCursorRect ?
It seems I can only change between the ones already in the enum MouseCursor? I'm just trying to change to the colorpick cursor.

whole steppe
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How do I enable auto complete?
I know I need to install unity tools in the VSC tools section, but I can't find the tools section

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all the online tutorials say that the tools section should be on top.

gloomy chasm
hallow ermine
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I would, but I'm not at that level. The code I see make no sense to me and I don't know how to trace it down. End up here and I'm totally lost:

 public Color color
    {
      get
      {
        Color ret;
        this.get_color_Injected(out ret);
        return ret;
      }
      set => this.set_color_Injected(ref value);
    }```
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in the spriterenderer

pastel osprey
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Does anyone know of a way to override the way the editor calculates "Center" for a gameobject?
In this case I have a spline. None of the points are objects, its all just pure code (tm). When pivot mode is set to center I want the transform gizmos to be at the averaged center of the points and ideally I dont want to override all the transform gizmo code...

waxen sandal
pastel osprey
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Read only 😦

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(I wish the API docs would actually tell you this)

waxen sandal
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Then I don't know, check the source for that property and see what it's doing?

pastel osprey
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Always a good idea. Looks like I can use reflection to leverage LockHandlePosition. Thanks 🙂

twin dawn
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So really... You should be setting the Transform position I'd say

keen pumice
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Is there anyway to get an EditorWindow to render to a renderTexture or something similar, rather than to a Rect on the screen?
Details/goal: I’m hoping to make a script where I can copy the graphical contents of a ShaderGraph window- to an appropriately sized texture- and save it. Similar to a screen shot, but the final image would potentially be larger than the screen resolution. [Determining the “appropriate size” will be my next step- though I’m not even sure if it will be possible; might require user input for that part.]
I want this script because, as it stands now, trying to show a shadergraph in discord is a pain, and for large ones - usually leads to blurry/unreadable results- or multiple screen-shots.

onyx harness
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This is interesting, but I do not have the answer.

keen pumice
keen pumice
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^ that guy has a member, that is a VisualElement derived class GraphEditorView : VisualElement, to do the drawing... but I'm not sure this actually helps at all. 😦

visual stag
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InternalEditorUtility.ReadScreenPixel

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or UnityEditor.ScreenShots

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are both relevant APIs

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(both internal)

onyx harness
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but I really doubt it would screenshot culled areas

visual stag
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Actually, InternalEditorUtility is not

onyx harness
visual stag
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it won't

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but you can move the view

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and combine the content

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especially seeing as ReadScreenPixel returns a color array, it'd be p easy to combine

onyx harness
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ReadScreenPixels implies to handle the position and size, which is not a big issue, but it is something to do

keen pumice
#

this is great stuff guys! ya lost me with the "hide-it/take a screenshot" part... how would I screenshot a hidden area?

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oh with this? "ReadScreenPixels implies to handle the position and size"

onyx harness
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UnityEditor.ScreenShots contains many stuff to handily take screenshots

visual stag
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I'd make this myself if Kink isn't typing "we're adding this feature to shadergraph tomorrow"

onyx harness
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Who Kink is?

visual stag
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never mind 😛

onyx harness
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@keen pumice Without those tricks, I don't you think you can do it.
I've never seen IMGUI writing to any buffer, at least not in C#, because it has to do it at some point of course

keen pumice
visual stag
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No, it may be 2020 only though - it's internal.

onyx harness
onyx harness
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When I think about it, I'm not sure you can screenshot something off screen

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Well, you can still do like vertx said and do it over your main screen

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It is very easy to test, just move a window half off screen, take the screenshot using the API

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@keen pumice On the right, you have (C# Reflection Generator)

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Which is a little helper to access internal stuff using Reflection

keen pumice
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oh! move it around in the script.. and tiles the multiple images..I get it now.. great idea!

visual stag
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seeing as Rider knows the API exists and you cannot reach it

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it'd be great if I could just alt-enter and generate the access

onyx harness
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That would be handy

visual stag
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I made a "nice to have" request years ago 😛

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I looked into making it but was scared off by their API

keen pumice
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where do we see the source for those internal guys-- so we know what functions we can call via reflection?

visual stag
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pinned to this channel

onyx harness
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Example of Reflection snippet I provide @keen pumice

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The API is internal, you need Reflection for any method

severe python
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Man Mikilo, I love your style, I can tell your really passionate about your projects

onyx harness
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You mean the color?

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Oh

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Hahaha I was going "well dont be too harsh on me, I'm colorblind" XD

severe python
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.> that explains certain things

onyx harness
keen pumice
visual stag
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it's the method name

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which is in the source

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which is pinned to this channel

onyx harness
keen pumice
onyx harness
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Or check that

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severe python
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Since I've moved from working on my package as a folder in my Assets folder to having it in its own folder that I use "Install from disk" in the package manager to import into the project, I'm stuck with either not getting full syntax recognition or in my VS Solution I get no folders in any of the projects
like this...

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is that normal?

visual stag
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No idea, Rider is superior

severe python
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Rider costs money and Jetbrains burned me last time I paid them money :/

onyx harness
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Perhaps checks the .csproj if things are correctly recognized

severe python
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I suppose I could just modify them a whole bunch, I tried regenerating them

visual stag
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this is what you get in Rider

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severe python
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thats what I used to get, well not the asset/packages seperateor

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this is how the unity project explorer looks

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Assets is totally fine though, its just the packages

severe python
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using symbolic links to make them embedded packages in the Packages folder seems to work just fine, I'll just use that as a work around

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though unity doesn't seem to trust me: "Packages/com.passivepicasso.thunderkit is a symbolic link. Using symlinks in Unity projects may cause your project to become corrupted if you create multiple references to the same asset, use recursive symlinks or use symlinks to share assets between projects used with different versions of Unity. Make sure you know what you are doing."

onyx harness
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But do you know?

waxen sandal
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I don't and I still do it

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Never had issues but I mostly us symlinks for code

onyx harness
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I had one pretty big issue back in 2017 using symlinks.
Was running parallel projects linked to one shared folder, and every single time I focused the other Unity, it would trigger a code change. Very annoying.

waxen sandal
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Ah yeah I wouldn't use it for a longer term solution

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Mostly use it to test packages and stuff, temporary things

tardy moss
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I'm trying to create a custom editor for the following Data class:

public class Data : ScriptableObject
{
  public List<BaseNode> _nodes;
}

[Serializable]
public class BaseNode { }

[Serializable]
public class SubNodeA : BaseNode 
{
  public int _someNumber; 
}

[Serializable]
public class SubNodeB : BaseNode
{
  public string _someText;
}
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i want to show all nodes that are in the _nodes list with their specific default inspector

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so one item in the list could be a SubNodeA and will serialize the int field and another item in the list could be SubNodeB and will serialize the string field

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also i want this to work with subclasses i might add in the future, without rewriting the editor code every time

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any ideas how to do this?

waxen sandal
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SerializeReference

tardy moss
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SerializeReference doesn't really give me this result

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actually it doesn't change anything at all

waxen sandal
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What did you change

tardy moss
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nevermind, if i actually add subclass objects to the _nodes, then it works

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now i only need a dropdown where u can select any subclass of BaseNode and a button that will add a new instance of that sublass to the _nodes list

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trying to do this via reflection but i don't know how i can add a node object to my _nodes list from the editor

# 
var node = (BaseNode) Activator.CreateInstance(selectedNodeType);
                
_nodes.InsertArrayElementAtIndex(_nodes.arraySize);
//_nodes.SetArrayElementAtIndex ??
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_nodes is the Data._nodes as a SerializedProperty

waxen sandal
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There's a get element at indenx or somthing

tardy moss
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yea but how can i assign a custom class value then?

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i managed to do this now via this

Data _data;
void OnEnable()
{
  _data = target as Data;
}

...
  var node = (BaseNode) Activator.CreateInstance(selectedNodeType);
  _data._nodes.Add(node);
waxen sandal
tardy moss
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I actually tried setting that, but that gave me an error in the console

gloomy chasm
tardy moss
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it just told me that i was trying to set the managedreferencevalue to something

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but doesn't matter, as i said i found some other way to do it

gloomy chasm
#

Alright, glad to hear it. Just so you know, at least in 2019.4, SerializeReference with types referencing the same type (like a node, with a list of child nodes) doesn't play well with prefab variants.

spark wave
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I have a gameobject that references a scriptable object. I then use a static [MenuItem()] command that calls AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(), which updates the .asset file. When I press play, the gameobject reference becomes None. Is this a bug, or is there a way to inform the inspector that the asset has been updated? I have a minimal working example if someone can use it.

I have tried using EditorUtility.SetDirty(foo); to no avail.

rare surge
#

Can someone explain this?

private float MyCustomDrawerInstance(float value, GUIContent label)
{
    return EditorGUILayout.Slider(label, value, this.From, this.To);
}

This is an example from odin's doc. How can Odin use EditorGUILayout in PropertyDrawer? Can you define the position before EditorGUILayout get called?

patent pebble
#

I'm having some trouble overriding AssetImporter.SupportsRemappedAssetType(Type type), sometimes the passed value in the parameter is null (with types that derive from ScriptableObject mainly, but some others too)

Why are all of the entries of my Type[] array correctly populated but some of them are null when I pass them as a parameter to SupportsRemappedAssetType() ?

Here's the code https://pastebin.com/wM2vSWqu

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all I want to do is get a list of all the types that derive from UnityEngine.Object and then pass them into the SupportsRemappedAssetType method, but seems my lack of programming expertise is showing here 😅

onyx harness
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what happens if you put a log after the if?

patent pebble
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the type is still there

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it's only null in the AssetImporter.SupportsRemappedAssetType(Type type)

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is there something I'm missing about the Type class?

onyx harness
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dont think so

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You sure the importer is yours?

patent pebble
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yeah

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I made it for this example, to test how all this stuff behaves

onyx harness
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show me some logs

patent pebble
onyx harness
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yep

patent pebble
#

ok gimme a sec, because it's 200mb, gonna trim it to only keep the stuff related to this issue

onyx harness
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Did you try to debug with VS?

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breakpoint might solve it quicker

patent pebble
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it didn't let me add a regular breakpoint, tried with a Function breakpoint and it says "always break"

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I still don't understand what's happening. How can a Type be fine at one point and then be null when passed as a parameter for a method

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It's probably something super basic, but I'm at a loss here

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between lines 549 and 617 you can see the logs for the StateMachineBehaviour issue in the logs I just shared

onyx harness
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But I also had the feeling you didnt tell me everything

patent pebble
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I don't know if there's anything else I can share

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i think I shared all the relevant code

onyx harness
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Show me all the code please

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Because it looks like there is a call in between

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I guess I know why

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AssetImporter.SupportsRemappedAssetType is not virtual

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It makes you think it is,but it is not

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So I guess you just need to take that into account

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"new" is the key

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patent pebble
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wait, where's that?

onyx harness
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from ScriptedImporter

patent pebble
# 
namespace UnityEditor.AssetImporters
{
    [ExtensionOfNativeClass]
    [MovedFrom("UnityEditor.Experimental.AssetImporters")]
    [Preserve]
    [UsedByNativeCode]
    public abstract class ScriptedImporter : AssetImporter
    {
        protected ScriptedImporter();
        public abstract void OnImportAsset(AssetImportContext ctx);
        public virtual bool SupportsRemappedAssetType(Type type);
    }
}
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here's what I see when I go to the definition

onyx harness
patent pebble
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do you want also the Example, ExampleEditor and ExampleImporterEditor classes?

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oh k

onyx harness
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You just need to take that into your code

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that you are not calling it, someone else does

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Therefore you have to deal with the null

onyx harness
patent pebble
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or any topics I should read on?

onyx harness
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about what exactly?

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If null you return false XD

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Because it might mean Unity is doing handling it behind

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Or whatever you are doing

patent pebble
#

hmm... but that's what I don't understand. If I pass a Type of ScriptableObject, why do I get it as null in the SupportsRemappedAssetType() method?

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that makes it impossible for me to use that type

onyx harness
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or if you wanna go super ugly you use a static set by yourself just before

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Unfortunately, the code is C++ side

patent pebble
#

I mean all I can guess is that it has to do with type instantiation and I somehow need to do extra handling to fix this

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all I wanted was to see every type of supported asset for remapping in a particular importer... one would think Unity would provide that by default 🙃

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Unity being Unity i guess...

onyx harness
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XD

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Yeah it is part of the job

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Crying a little 😄

patent pebble
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i'll do a request for this. But it can be years (if ever) before it gets implemented

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😅

onyx harness
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You can, but I wouldn't count on it

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If you feel it is a bug

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report it

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it is a good habit

patent pebble
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I'm not sure it's a bug, but it's definitely weird unexpected behavior. I'll report it anyways

strange hedge
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is there a built in gui editor thing for a key: value display?

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like a text input but the value is just a display

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so a label + value? I just can't find it

onyx harness
#

Label?

strange hedge
#

Wait is there a plain text editor thing that's not Label?

patent pebble
#

@strange hedge what do you mean by "input" and "just a display"?

onyx harness
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If you want an input but without edit permission

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Jsut disabled the GUI

strange hedge
#

I was thinking just something like:
label: value for how it's displayed

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I wanted to make the label bold or something maybe

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then the value notbold, guess a textinput that's disabled is the best way?

twin dawn
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Why not just two Text components...

patent pebble
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there was a method to prepend labels to other fields so when you click in the label the field gets selected

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i forgot the name of it tho 😅

twin dawn
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oh we're talking about editor my bad

patent pebble
#

@strange hedge but what do you want exactly? you can also make an horizontal group with 2 labels and style them both to whatever you want

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if you don't need to have any manual input

twin dawn
strange hedge
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Yea just whatever is easiest xD

strange hedge
#

Labelfield looks perfect!

patent pebble
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make a horizontal group with two labels like this EditorGUILayout.LabelField(string label, GUIStyle style)

strange hedge
#

Thanks @twin dawn

patent pebble
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optionally, if you just want to style the second label you can also do this
LabelField(GUIContent label, GUIContent label2, GUIStyle style);

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the style will get applied to the second label only

strange hedge
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oh weird

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what if I want to style the first one? XD

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im almost there, anyone know a way around this little bugger error?

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though they do make nice dividers tbh~ lol

patent pebble
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code?

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error is telling you that you're nesting Foldouts

strange hedge
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yea I know xD

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but that's what I want

patent pebble
strange hedge
onyx harness
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dont forget labelWidth

strange hedge
onyx harness
#

The width of the prefix label

strange hedge
#

Oh lol, i think i'm good there, just need to figure out how to nest foldable areas~

patent pebble
#

I mean the editor is telling you that you can't

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I've never done it, but you can probably do foldout-like behaviour manually with EditorGUILayout.Foldout or something

strange hedge
#

yea the EditorGUILayout.Foldout example makes like no sense to me though, I don't get how the vector field is inside of the foldout

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looking for better examples~

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oh wait i get it, it just uses if showposition XD

patent pebble
#

Foldout just returns a bool state

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if it's true, show your stuff, it it's false, don't show anything

#

i also like to use this for nested stuff like that

# 
using (new EditorGUI.IndentLevelScope())
{
    //Stuff
}```
strange hedge
#

yea, i'll try that.. though also @onyx harness how do you use that width variable? I was trying this:

                  GUIStyle style = new GUIStyle(EditorStyles.boldLabel) {
                    fixedWidth = 500
                  };```
patent pebble
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there's a bunch of utility stuff for GUI

onyx harness
strange hedge
#

I sadly have been looking at that page for a while but don't understand how to use it

patent pebble
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most GUILayout controls also accept an array of GUILayoutOption parameters to define widths, heights, expansion settings, etc

strange hedge
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I don't get how the two relate, it's been a huge issue for me trying to build GUI x3

patent pebble
strange hedge
#

How do i get a EditorGUIUtility.labelWidth value into GUILayoutOption?

patent pebble
#

they are two different things

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see the different method overloads for GUILayout controls

strange hedge
#

do you mean GUILayoutControls?

#

Im just legit at square zero here, I don't know if you're using names of things or unity terms sorry

#

GUILayout doesn't seem to have any construction docs I can find.

patent pebble
# 
// This label has a default width
EditorGUILayout.LabelField("Some label");

// This label has a width of 100
EditorGUIUtility.labelWidth = 100;
EditorGUILayout.LabelField("Some label");
EditorGUIUtility.labelWidth = 0; // Setting it to zero resets to the default value

// This label has a default width
EditorGUILayout.LabelField("Some label");

// This label has a width of 200
EditorGUILayout.LabelField("Some label", GUILayout.Width(200));
strange hedge
#

Oh! Cool yea thanks, I've legit never seen it explained and I've been looking for months!

patent pebble
#

the docs for GUILayoutOption have this at the end
See Also: GUILayout.Width, GUILayout.Height, GUILayout.MinWidth, GUILayout.MaxWidth, GUILayout.MinHeight ....

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those links have code examples

strange hedge
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How do I find GUILayoutOption though? XD

patent pebble
#

i pasted the link above in one of my messages

strange hedge
#

Well yea, exactly and thank you :3

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I'm just explaining why the docs didn't lead me there in my personal time looking, as you seem to be saying the examples should've

patent pebble
#

yeah the docs are kinda buried, they have good info but you have to dig for it

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I'll share some links that helped me learn about IMGUI stuff

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here ya go 🙃 read all that and you're good to go (for the most part)

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all of this is on the Creating user interfaces (UI) of the Unity manual

onyx harness
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lol bunny83

patent pebble
#

that article helped me a lot

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even tho it has some inaccurate info

onyx harness
#

Not exactly, but we helped a lot in Unity Ask, he might be still active

patent pebble
strange hedge
#

Nice 😄 Thanks so much i'll take a look!

patent pebble
#

@strange hedge editor extensions stuff takes a while to sink in. Don't worry if some of the stuff doesn't make sense instantly

#

if I told you how long it took me to "completely" understand how all the GUI flow, events and all that worked... 🙃

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and don't even start me on SerializedObjects and SerializedProperties 😅 that was like trying to understand ancient Greek or something hahah

#

you just have to google a lot of examples, blogs, etc

#

stuff like this is not easy to grasp just with the Unity documentation
(specially if you don't come from a programming background)

#

I remember having a hard time when I didn't know anything about this topic, and it took me a while to stumble upon those resources

sleek berry
#

Is there an easy way to make a MonoBehaviour method as "I want a button for this in the inspector" ?

#

I've been messing around with creating something of a PropertyDrawer for a Delegate type to try and do this, but sadly Unity is not liking it

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It would save a lot of time over making a custom inspector for every monobehaviour that I want to have some test buttons on

onyx harness
#

@sleek berry

sleek berry
#

This worked perfectly, thanks!

real ivy
#

Is there a way to display a sprite field in inspector, bigger? In inspector?
Without custom editor? Maybe theres a attribute for this like TextField TextArea for string?

onyx harness
#

Nothing that I know of that can modify how a field is rendered

whole steppe
#

Ate there good resources for learning the UI elements?

#

I'm struggling to make anything beyond the basics

patent pebble
#

as far as I know they officially renamed UIElements to UI Toolkit

west drum
#

Does anyone experience, in an EditorWindow", that position.size.heightis actually more than shown?

#

The mouse position is taken with "Event.current.mousePosition", btw

#

Ok, nevermind... apparently the problem was I was capturing the mouse position in a bad place. Apparently I have to do it in the root

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😓

ivory fulcrum
#

Is UI Toolkit used to create custom inspectors?

#

or should I be looking in a different direction? I wrote a cool custom inspector and I want to share it but I used Odin Inspector for it and that doesn't work for distributing it. So I'm trying to rewrite the gui using unity's built in features so I can distribute it.

gloomy chasm
ivory fulcrum
#

Well, if it's easier to do UI Toolkit to do what I want to do, then I'd like to use that.

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I'm not married to making it "like" Odin

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I just want to replicate the interface more or less.

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It's a table with two text fields stacked and a button

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and then text fields and buttons

gloomy chasm
ivory fulcrum
#

Fairly easy in Odin, but I'm trying to do it now without odin.

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I guess it would be 4 columns since it's labels, fields, button, delete.

stark pelican
#

I have a problem that i can not use 2d Axis Composite. I am using the new input system in 2D game. Earlier I could add 2D Axis Composits and now i can not. Did someone had a problem similar to mine?

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urban galleon
#

Hi, I am trying to implement a custom control csharp static void TogglePrivate( String title, ref bool value, bool disclosureStyle = false, bool forceHorizontal = true, float width = 0, params GUILayoutOption[] options ) { options.AddItem(width == 0 ? AutoWidth() : UI.Width(width)); if (!disclosureStyle) { if (GL.Button("" + (value ? onMark : offMark) + " " + title, options)) { value = !value; } } else { if (forceHorizontal) { UI.BeginHorizontal(UI.AutoWidth()); } UI.Label(title, width == 0 ? AutoWidth() : Width(width)); GL.Space(10); if (GL.Button(value ? disclosureArrowOn : disclosureArrowOff, AutoWidth())) { value = !value; } if (forceHorizontal) { UI.EndHorizontal(); } } }
and right now it looks fine with autosizing

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but when I specify width I get this

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Is there an easy way for me to measure the sizes of the Label and Button I am using?

#

I guess as a stopgap if I can just make the title label right align that would help

#

Related to that I would like to get rid of this force horizontal stuff and make nested horizontal layout work

gloomy chasm
keen pumice
urban galleon
# gloomy chasm Not really sure what we are supposed to be seeing tbh. What is wrong with it? Al...

UI is my own class, GL is a Using GL = GUILayout. The thing I am trying to do is make the disclosure mark ▲ be next to the text "18 Spells". I am now looking into building a custom control for this ala http://leahayes.co.uk/2015/08/25/custom-editor-controls-in-unity-part-2.html

Lea Hayes
Custom editor controls in Unity - Part 2: Buttons

I think that a great place to start with custom control development is to re-create the GUI.Button and GUILayout.Button controls since these are straightforward to create and helps to establish some of the fundamentals of custom control development. Our custom button implementation will be used in the exact same way as the regular button controls:

urban galleon
#

I made progress using the approach of building a custom control. Now the only question is how do I tell the layout system how much space I need?

#

my draw code is doing this csharp case EventType.Repaint: Rect labelRect = rect; labelRect.size = style.CalcSize(label); var arrowStyle = GUI.skin.button; style.Draw(labelRect, label, controlID); var arrow = value ? OnContent : OffContent; Rect arrowRect = labelRect; arrowRect.x = labelRect.xMax + 10; arrowRect.size = arrowStyle.CalcSize(arrow); GUI.skin.button.Draw(arrowRect, arrow, controlID); break;
but now the arrow is drawing over adjacent stuff

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#

on things like UIkit for iOS you have layout methods to override to say I need this much size. The custom control is that 3 classes with a triangle button that follows

#

can I just set the rect I got from GUILayoutUtility.GetRect()?

bold latch
#

hi there. I have a question. I wrapped up my prototype and trying to create a series of toolchains out of it
however, my question is this
should I put ALL of the scripts I've created thus far
in the editor folder
or as long as I have the original scripts inside my asset folder
it'll be fine?

shadow pawn
#

Someone knows how to show in a custom inspector an input for a Sprite (or any other type that aren't text/int/float/ecc... and boolean?

waxen sandal
#

Ask your actual question, what are you trying to achieve, what have you tried

shadow pawn
#

I've this class that extends the Editor class to make a custom inspector for my scriptable object. I want to add a field where the user can drag and drop a Sprite without using the base.onInspectorGUI().

waxen sandal
#

ObjectField?

#

PropertyField?

shadow pawn
#

thanks

shadow pawn
#

Ok, i've tried to use this pattern even for an enum but i got an error trying to convert systemlanguage to unityengine.object. Code: settings.supportedLanguages[i] = EditorGUILayout.ObjectField(settings.supportedLanguages[i], typeof(SystemLanguage));

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and yep i've try an explicit casting but it dosen't worked

waxen sandal
#

What's SystemLanguage

shadow pawn
#

it's an enum used by Unity for the user's language

waxen sandal
#

Then use EnumField?

edgy marlin
#

main c# topics for unity

#

???

onyx harness
#

Of course

west drum
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I have been breaking my head the whole, trying to friggin nag arithmetics about "zooming and panning"

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This is f**king hell

gloomy chasm
west drum
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Is that for editor building?

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or just for ingame?

gloomy chasm
west drum
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Could you give me an URL?

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Im trying to build a workspace with pan and zoom, kinda like the Shader Graph has

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But it is driving me nuts

gloomy chasm
west drum
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Thats still in preview, no?

gloomy chasm
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Nope, not in preview anymore.

west drum
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Cool. But I know CSS well... I dont think it has anything for pannign and zooming, no?

gloomy chasm
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Correct, if you want to have panning and zooming you need to still do that your self. OR, you can use the GraphView API, which is what both ShaderGraph and VFX Graph use. However it is technically 'experimental' and undocumented. But I wouldn't let that scare you away, I have yet to run in to any braking changes and as I said, they are already using it quite a bit.

west drum
gloomy chasm
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Yep, that's the one. Cool, looks like they added some docs for it!

west drum
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even though this is not too encouraging

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😅

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But if this is what the shadergraph and the VFX graph is using... it might be a good idea to look into it.

gloomy chasm
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That is just their to cover themselves, as I said, Shadergraph and VFX graph both use it, so if they really did remove it or change it a lot, it would be a big pain for themselves too.

west drum
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I just cannot take it anymore. Of doing arithmatics for pannings and zoomings.. im going crazy in here

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"Panning when the mouse is in the top right corner... the pivot has to be the cursor, but the panning has to be relative to the grid..."

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Headshot

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So, yeah, I guess Ill take your advice, and look into it

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THanks

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Oh, wow. It even has a class "nodes"... It might actually be really helpful

gloomy chasm
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Yeah, it is really nice! And you can always look at the ShaderGraph source to see how it is used if you need to!

west drum
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Well, im not sure if im ready to understand the shadergraph source code 😄

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But I guess if I dig enough, I might find what I need

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This might actually be helpful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KHGH0fPL84

YouTube
Mert Kirimgeri
UNITY DIALOGUE GRAPH TUTORIAL - Setup

In this tutorial we are going to create a SUPER SIMPLE node based dialogue system with the ability to branch story lines. We gonna create the main setup and make our graph entirely functional in this episode.

In the next episode, we gonna add save&load system for nodes and game play implementation.
This tutorial will help you to build your bran...

▶ Play video
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I am already in love

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@gloomy chasm You have gotten all the karma you are gonna need this week

gloomy chasm
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Well glad I could help you! If you have any questions about it feel free to ask @west drum!

patent pebble
#

Is it possible to add sub-assets to any asset in my project?
I tried using this but it fails https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.AddObjectToAsset.html

Gives me an error telling me it failed to load the asset because it's either corrupted or it was serialized with a different version of Unity
(I believe this error is inaccurate)

The docs say this
Please note that you should only add sub assets to '.asset' assets, imported models or texture assets for example will lose their data.

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Any way to work around this?

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In my particular case I'd like to add a TextAsset (.txt file) as a sub-asset for another asset

gloomy chasm
# patent pebble Any way to work around this?

It means that you should only add sub assets to .asset, not that only .assets should be sub-assets.
What is the asset type that you are trying to set as the main asset? Also, you can create a new instance of that asset and try adding a sub-asset to it to see if the error is accurate or not.

patent pebble
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I've seen people saying the AddObjectToAsset method should only be used for prefabs as the main asset type

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but also seen other people using it for other main asset types

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but it's hard to find info online

gloomy chasm
gloomy chasm
patent pebble
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both the main asset and the asset to add as a sub-asset exist in the project prior to me trying to "combine them"

gloomy chasm
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And you have tried making sure they are both new?

patent pebble
gloomy chasm
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A work around would be to create a ScriptableObject as a 'wrapper asset' and make it be the main asset instead, and add both as sub-assets to it.

patent pebble
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hmmmm

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i just saw someone in the forums saying to create a new asset for the one that is to be added as a sub

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brb

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nah no luck either

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going with the ScriptableObject is not really a desirable option 😅

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It may be that this is just not supported by Unity? I mean that only the assets that can have subassets by default work for this like (animations, models, etc)

onyx harness
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How can one merge 2 existing assets into one?

gloomy chasm
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Yeah, I think it is the only one since TextAssets are imported as well, so I don't think it would save anyway.

patent pebble
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I'm just trying to make some existing assets as sub assets of others

onyx harness
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By existing I meant written to disk

patent pebble
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yeah both exist in disk and in my Unity project

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so for example, two text assets, or a text asset and a texture

onyx harness
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Hum... cant help never did that, I know you can toy with .asset easily

patent pebble
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gonna see in their code to see what they do

patent pebble
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right so I tried using the code from that repository, and everything has the same error

# 
UnityEditor.AssetDatabase:AddObjectToAsset (UnityEngine.Object,UnityEngine.Object)```
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But using a ScriptableObject as the main asset works

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so I guess when the docs say Please note that you should only add assets to '.asset' assets they truly mean it 😅

onyx harness
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Why were you thinking differently? O_o

patent pebble
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should

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that gave me some hope

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if it said you can only then I'd have given up way earlier

onyx harness
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What were you trying to achieve ?

patent pebble
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it's not for a particular thing, just for learning purposes
I was testing if some sort of a "dependency" between assets could be possible with sub-assets

onyx harness
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Why would it not be possible?

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Can you define dependency?

patent pebble
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but since sub-assets are not possible for other types that aren't .asset, not possible

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i thought it was only an experimental API

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the neat thing about the sub-assets would be to have a lot more tidier project hierarchy

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but I guess I can achieve this with asset dependencies and just hiding the assets and display them in a custom editor in a collection

onyx harness
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What my nesting experience tells me, "if it can be serialized into an asset, it can be nested"

patent pebble
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heh, well I guess I'll keep digging for the next couple days on this topic
I really want to learn how to customize my projects in the sense of simplifying what is shown in the project view

onyx harness
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Good good

patent pebble
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maybe creating some sort of "view modes" to hide unnecessary information/assets when only working in a certain way

onyx harness
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HideFlags

patent pebble
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because there's times when for example I'd like to just ignore every script and just deal with "content" assets like textures, materials, models, etc

patent pebble
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is that the only way to "hide" stuff?

onyx harness
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In Project or Hierarchy or Inspector? Yes

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Because it is handled natively

patent pebble
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ok

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well I could also implement a custom project view and selectively draw the items i want

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but that would probably rely on hideflags too

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otherwise it would be a pain to manage independently from hideflags

onyx harness
patent pebble
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or maybe not. I can't really tell, I'm too much of a noob on this topic

onyx harness
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In your custom code, you do whatever you want

patent pebble
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wouldn't it be a good idea to keep my custom code in accordance to hideflags? at least by default

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it'd be weird to see hidden assets in my custom project views and then not seeing them if I switch back to the built-in project view

onyx harness
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I would suggest you to stay away from HideFlags

patent pebble
onyx harness
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Leave the Project/Hierarchy to show what should be shown

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And in you EditorWindow or Editor, you display based on the selected custom view

onyx harness
patent pebble
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hmmm i see

onyx harness
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Hiding stuff is not a good habit

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Except if it is the purpose

patent pebble
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG

In computing, WYSIWYG ( WIZ-ee-wig), an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, is a system in which editing software allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

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i try to follow this principle as much as i can

onyx harness
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gut gut

strange hedge
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Anyone know why this doesn't work to underline? GUILayout.Label("<u>Enumerable Types</u>", new GUIStyle(EditorStyles.largeLabel) { richText = true });

gloomy chasm
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Only bold, italics, size, and color are supported.

patent pebble
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you can probably import an underlined version of the font you are using and add that to the GUIStyle when needed

waxen sandal
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@visual stag ^

barren moat
#

So I've got this custom layer property editor script (probably from unity forum):

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;

namespace Feed {
  [CustomPropertyDrawer(typeof(Layer))]
  class LayerDrawer : PropertyDrawer {
    public override void OnGUI(
      Rect position,
      SerializedProperty property,
      GUIContent label
    ) {
      property.Next(true);
      property.intValue = EditorGUI.LayerField(position, label, property.intValue);
    }
  }
}
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But when i multi-select it screws everything up.

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Like everything gets reassigned to the same value

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Could someone advise how to make this compatible with multi-select?

barren moat
outer kraken
#

hey, i was trying to create a new file in the ScriptTemplates directory from inside the Editor, but it says that access is denied, is there any workaround?

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the full directory where I'm trying to create the file is

C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\MY UNITY VERSION\Editor\Data\Resources\ScriptTemplates
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it's definitely not a problem with my code since I'm used to do IO operations in C# and never got any problems so far, also it works as intended if I choose another directory, it seems like UnityHub denies access to its directories while it's running, which is understandable, but maybe there is any workaround

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I also can't create a new file manually inside that folder while Hub is running, only when it's closed, but moving an already existing file inside there works

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Sadly, File.Move doesn't (tried to create the file at a temp path and then moving it to the desired path, same exception, access denied)

west drum
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Question about GraphView API. Do nodes have some sort of GUID or some means to identify them?

gloomy chasm
west drum
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so I will have to set up some sort of dictionary in the node, to give some sort of guids to the ports?

gloomy chasm
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It sounds like you may be mixing the data side and the view side of things. As far as the ports go, the index may be enough, or if they represent a field, then the fields name

west drum
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I am not mixing them. I have an "EdgeData" class, just to keep the data stored and serialized

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But once I want to load that data in the graph, I need a way to reference the Ports of the node, right?

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I thought of using the index of the port, but that is too flaky

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What happens if tomorrow I decide to change the order of the ports?

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I need some sort of "id" for the ports, so that they can be unequivocally referenced, not matter the layout changes

gloomy chasm
#

@west drum Sorry it took me a minute, I had to go look to see what I did. Basically I have the data side mirror the view side. With, SlotData(port), EdgeData, NodeData, and GraphData class. I have the SlotData, and NodeData both have Unique Ids (I used System.GUID for them), and have the GraphData keep serializable dictionaries for the nodes and edges. Each node of course containing a list of all of it's slots.

west drum
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Can you show me attributes in SlotData?

gloomy chasm
west drum
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The SlotData class

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Could you share it with me?

gloomy chasm
# west drum Could you share it with me?

Oh, sure! Uh, there is a class that it inherits from and stuff, and hastebin for some reason is not wanting me to upload. Are you fine if I just DM you the file?

west drum
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hastebin has not been working for months

gloomy chasm
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Here is the slot: https://paste.mod.gg/asakuhivan.cs
There is some stuff about 'parent slot' and 'sub slot', but you can just ignore it. Kinda in the middle of reworking it so that it works like the VFX Graph so things like Vector3s can be expanded and be connected to directly.

west drum
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I see. I guess I will try indeed to manage myself the references to the ports.

gloomy chasm
west drum
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I see. I guess it indeed means that GraphView is a barebones framework to manage visuals and not much more

gloomy chasm
west drum
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Which is cool, but a lot of data management needs to be done, of course

gloomy chasm
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Yeah, I was telling you about the GraphFoundation package which I think is meant to help with the data side. The GraphView is only the View side of things, it handles it well, but would be nice if there was a data side as well.

west drum
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GraphFoundation? Is that a Unity thing? Or is it more general purpose?

gloomy chasm
west drum
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Oh cool!

gloomy chasm
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Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about it, or looked at it much. So I have no idea what it does really or what state it is in.

west drum
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I might take a look and play around with it. But for my needs, I will probably be more productive if I handle it myself

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after all, it is still in preview

gloomy chasm
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Yeah.

west drum
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I think just setting an "id" for each port should suffice for me

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One thing: About this "separation of data and view"

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I get the gist of it, having a "Runtime" and "Editor" workspace, and making Runtime independent from the Editor

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But

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You cannot really have 100% separation, no? After all, you have to save stuff like the position of the nodes inside the graph, no?

gloomy chasm
west drum
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Yeah, I guess I would use another class if it got big. But since it is just the position, I am not going so overkill

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But good, i wasnt sure if I was doing it wrong, or indeed it was the right thing to do, to save visual information

gloomy chasm
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Nodes have a little arrow in their header that let you hide all of the unconnected ports, so you would want to save the expanded state of that as well.

west drum
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Well, maybe if I get fancy with my interface

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But not a bad idea

gloomy chasm
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I mean, when you create a node from the Node class, that is just part of it 😛

west drum
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Yeah, I meant that I was not planning on used the expanded view

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like, at all

gloomy chasm
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Ah, got it.

patent pebble
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Is there a way to enter "renaming" mode for an asset through code?

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Like when you press F2 on a selected asset, or when you right click it and select the "Rename" menu item

gloomy chasm
# patent pebble Like when you press F2 on a selected asset, or when you right click it and selec...

Uh, would this do it for you? https://answers.unity.com/questions/644608/sending-a-rename-commandevent-to-the-hiearchy-almo.html

Sending a "Rename" CommandEvent to the Hiearchy window, almost ther...

Unity is the ultimate game development platform. Use Unity to build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, consoles or the Web, and connect with loyal and enthusiastic players and customers.

gloomy chasm
patent pebble
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yeah I found about ProjectWindowUtil.StartNameEditingIfProjectWindowExists but seems more hassle than just invoking a renaming event

gloomy chasm
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(I was looking for it but couldn't remember what namespace it was in and what the class was called exactly)

patent pebble
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gonna try the event approach and see how it works

sage oyster
#

quick question, is there a way to find and select a certain file so the inspector shows (a scriptable settings object)

onyx harness
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yes

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next question

patent pebble
sage oyster
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ah i see

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thought maybe something to do with selection

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would that be as an asset object, or file path?

onyx harness
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object

patent pebble
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a UnityEngine.Object iirc

onyx harness
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or instanceid

sage oyster
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ok well i have that already lets give it a raz

onyx harness
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filepath is only used when dealing with drag & drop

sage oyster
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by golly it works

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well that was easy

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onwards and upwards

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im making a graph json encoder/compressor so they can be shared as text

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down to about 4-9% smaller

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4-9% of json size i mean

onyx harness
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JSON is text already

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i dont get it

sage oyster
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yes indeed, but i want to make it small enough to paste easily

gloomy chasm
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So like, pretty = false 😛
(jk, jk)

sage oyster
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haha what does that actually do, format it, tabs/newlines?

gloomy chasm
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Yeah, it formats it, otherwise it is all on one line.

sage oyster
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im actually using it with UVS mainly, but I think it could be used for many things, since most of Unity is serialised

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not just sharing

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i can copy and paste from project to project

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thats where it started mainly, i cant stand files everywhere

onyx harness
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Use JsonUtility no?

sage oyster
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well my current version, has a dictionary of about 8000 to encode, then use lzma compression, then convert to base64

patent pebble
#

@gloomy chasm oh btw thanks for the link before. This seems to work perfectly

[MenuItem("Assets/Create/Example Files/Example", false, 83)]
public static void CreateExampleFile()
{
    string path = GetSelectedFolderPath() + @"\" + "New Example File.example";
    string uniquePath = AssetDatabase.GenerateUniqueAssetPath(path);

    using (FileStream fs = File.Create(uniquePath)) {}
    AssetDatabase.ImportAsset(uniquePath);
    Selection.activeObject = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath(uniquePath, typeof(Example));
    EditorApplication.update += TriggerRename;
}

private static void TriggerRename()
{
    if (_updateFrameElapsed)
    {
        Event e = new Event { keyCode = KeyCode.F2, type = EventType.KeyDown }; // or Event.KeyboardEvent("f2");
        EditorWindow.focusedWindow.SendEvent(e);
        EditorApplication.update -= TriggerRename;
        _updateFrameElapsed = false;
    }

    _updateFrameElapsed = true;
}
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less boiler-platy than the other approach

sage oyster
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what is a uniqueassetpath?

gloomy chasm
onyx harness
patent pebble
sage oyster
#

ah i see

patent pebble
#

well it doesn't actually do anything to the assets, just returns a string

gloomy chasm
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like Assets/MyAsset.asset, if you tried to create another one it would be changed to Assets/MyAsset1.asset so it would be unique.

sage oyster
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i made a tool similar so i could disable scripts

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means i dont have to delete them

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also backup, and save versions

patent pebble
sage oyster
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for me, sometimes i want to try a different version of code. rather than comment and comment etc. easier to make a new file while saving the old

onyx harness
sage oyster
#

for example. work in progress though. i want it to detect as a group so if i enable one it disables the other. rather than 2 enable/disable

patent pebble
onyx harness
patent pebble
#

ooooh

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i'm so stupid

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🙃

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and for some reason my brain had assumed that was only for Hierarchy objects, but it also affects the Project assets

onyx harness
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Funny thing, it is present in the settings, but it does not work 🙂

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(the space option does)

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It does work for the Hierarchy though

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not for Project

patent pebble
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it works for the project

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at least the space option

onyx harness
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2021.2, seems to bug me then

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space works

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for both

patent pebble
#

oh right, the top 2 options are just for Hierarchy, the space is just for assets

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seems to be working fine for me in 2020.2.4f1

onyx harness
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Unity does and explaning stuff...

sage oyster
# 
[MenuItem("Assets/Script -> Add Text Backup")]
static void ScriptBackup()
{
    Object selectedAsset = Selection.activeObject;
            
    if (selectedAsset is MonoScript)
    {
        string
            assetFilePath = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(Selection.activeObject),
            projectPath = Application.dataPath.Replace("Assets", ""),
            newAssetPath = assetFilePath.Replace(".cs", ".a0.txt"),
            charVersion = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",
            intVersion = "0123456789";
        (int a, int b)
            lastVersion,
            version = (0, 0);
                
        while (File.Exists(projectPath + newAssetPath) || File.Exists(projectPath + newAssetPath.Replace(".txt",".cs")))
        {
            lastVersion = version;
            version = (version.b == 9) ? (version.a + 1, 0) : (version.a, version.b + 1);
            newAssetPath = newAssetPath.Replace("." + charVersion[lastVersion.a] + intVersion[lastVersion.b] + ".txt", "." + charVersion[version.a] + intVersion[version.b] + ".txt");

            if (version == (25, 9)) break;
        }

        if (version != (25,9))
        {
            File.Copy(projectPath + assetFilePath, projectPath + newAssetPath);
            AssetDatabase.Refresh();
        }
    }
}
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im sure you could use that for renumbering in some way

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this is just for converting a script to a text backup with versions/branches

ivory fulcrum
#

Ok. I need some help with the new UIElements toolkit. I'm trying to create a new UXML element to show a table that connects to a list of objects, where you can prescribe a template for an individual object, and it will repeat for each object in the list as rows, and the template gives you the columns. But reading the documentation, I'm very confused where the VisualElement subclass you create actually does drawing. So I'm having a hard time figuring it out how it connects together. Are there any tutorials that someone can point me to that connects all this together?

gloomy chasm
# ivory fulcrum Ok. I need some help with the new UIElements toolkit. I'm trying to create a new...

Unlike with IMGUI, UIToolkit doesn't have a method that it draws from. Instead you add visual elements as children of other visual elements. For editor windows you add them to the rootVisualElement, and unity handles drawing that.
What they look like (Size, background color, border width roundness and color, etc) are decided by the style. You can set it with a StyleSheet (UXML) or 'hard code' it by setting them in the 'style' property like myElement.style.width = 5. Hope that clears some stuff up.

Here is the "Getting started" tutorial from unity https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/uielements-first-steps

Unity Learn
UIElements: First Steps - Unity Learn

UIElements is a retained-mode GUI system that opens the door to improved performance and new features such as stylesheets, dynamic/contextual event handling, accessibility and much more. Created by the UIElements team

ivory fulcrum
#

But I'm trying to create a custom control?

#

Like I can create an element but then how does that element tell UIToolkit how to draw it?

gloomy chasm
#

It is the exact same thing, you put all the logic and create all the sub-elements inside the constructor.

public class ButtonLabelElement: VisualElement
{
  public ButtonLabelElement()
  {
    AddChild(new Label());
    AddChild(new Button());
    style.flexDirection = FlexDirection.Row;
  }
}
gloomy chasm
ivory fulcrum
#

huh. so creating a table element is going to be messy....

gloomy chasm
civic river
#

Is anyone aware of the times editor windows are forced to reload their data? AssemblyReloadEvents.afterAssemblyReload covers one case but I'm not sure what the others are

gloomy chasm
ivory fulcrum
#

I'm trying to mostly recreate Odin's TableList. Not everything in it, but a lot of things.

gloomy chasm
ivory fulcrum
#

I created a custom editor as a facade for a class in a visual novel engine, but I did so with Odin, and I've discovered that I'm not the only one who would want something like what I created so I'm trying to remake it, or mostly remake it, without Odin, so that I can distribute it and maybe even have it merged into that engine.

civic river
#

Doesn't look like it, the tldr is I'm keeping a path to some asset file I'm editing, occasionally (like after compiling, entering playmode, seemingly at random?) the editor will unload the asset, so I'd like to reload the asset via it's path

#

I successfully got it working with the domain reload callback, but it's not covering all cases

gloomy chasm
civic river
#

because it's valid to be null

ivory fulcrum
#

it will ultimately end up looking something like this:

unknown.png
civic river
#

ah, I was actually able to solve this with a dumb hack;

                rootVisualElement.schedule.Execute(
                        () => serializedGraphSelector.SetValueWithoutNotify(gc)).StartingIn(100);

after the domain reload

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lol.

#

unity do be like that sometimes I guess 😿

severe python
#

Ive been mostly unsuccessful in using the features.
However making a table control shluld be fairly easy if you take control of populating and positioning the children

#

That said it looks to me like all you really need is the list control and to setup the make item call with a method that creates a visual element with 3 element children which each have a flex basis assigned where the two outer items are set to flex shrink and the middle item to flex grow

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And that will basically get you there other than wiring up the x button to delete elements

sudden pulsar
#

Is there a way to force a field to be revaluated? Rn, I have to change the field's name. But preferably, when it reloads the script it'd revaluate the field.

waxen sandal
#

Right click > reset?

shell beacon
#

Any ReorderableList experts?
I'm trying to color the background of the elements using this code:

        {
            Color c;
            if (isActive)
                c = EditorGUIUtility.isProSkin ? activeColorDark : activeColor;
            else if (isFocused)
                c = EditorGUIUtility.isProSkin ? focusColorDark : focusColor;
            else if (index % 2 != 0)
                c = EditorGUIUtility.isProSkin ? oddColorDark : oddColor;
            else
                c = EditorGUIUtility.isProSkin ? bgColorDark : bgColor;
            Texture2D t = new Texture2D(1, 1);
            t.wrapMode = TextureWrapMode.Repeat;
            t.SetPixel(0, 0, c);
            t.Apply();
            GUI.DrawTexture(rect, t as Texture, ScaleMode.StretchToFill);

            //EditorGUI.DrawRect(rect, c);
            Debug.Log("color is " + c);
        }```
But everything is white..
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My colors are static readonly private fields

shell beacon
#

but when passing a color on the fly like EditorGUI.DrawRect(rect, Color.red); it works. 😐

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Oh and the debug line prints the correct color even though i see different color...

gloomy chasm
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Try initializing c with something like Color.red to see if the problem is actually with the drawing or with your bgColor/focusColor/etc initialization (which I suspect is the case)

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Also, I don't know if this would help you. But if you set the alpha for your color's low, you can basically just tint the background and that way it will still play nice with the element style with selection/focus/lost focus stuff.

shell beacon
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I did try this.. Color.red or Color.cyan works but new Color(23,23,23) for instance, doesn't work..

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alpha do work tho

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and I tried EditorGUI.DrawRect and GUI.DrawTexture

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same results..

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there's a DrawTexture in EditorGUI let me try to use that..

gloomy chasm
shell beacon
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i know..

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EditorGUI.DrawTextureAlpha also doesn't work 😒 (alpha works fine)

onyx harness
shell beacon
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lol you willing to dive into 500 lines of code?

gloomy chasm
shell beacon
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oh all the components are 0-1 based? not byte based?

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well fml..

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let me try lol

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oh right because of HDR 🤦

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yea that's the issue thanks for the help!

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next time don't just copy colors

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🤣🤣

twin dawn
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and it implicitly converts to Color

olive harness
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Are there any good resources on how to properly use EditorGUI when creating property drawers?
An issue I constantly find myself running into is actually calculating the space needed by each step of the drawing process (For example, drawing an array). But the spacing just always seems...random?

gloomy chasm
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I have made a method that handles the rects for me. I also have one that is just the first line, so I can easily move to the next rect position.

Rect NextPropertyLineRect(Rect rect, SerializedProperty nextProperty)
{
  rect.y += rect.height + EditorGUIUtility.standardVerticalSpacing;
  rect.height = EditorGUI.GetPropertyHeight(nextProperty)
  return rect;
}
west drum
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Does anyone know how to use the GraphView.Pill class?

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I cant seem to find any good example

void shoal
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Hi , how to draw a custom class from onGUI inspector method

waxen sandal
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PropertyField?

void shoal
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can u show me an example ? i have a class that has a string name i want to make it visible from onInspectatorGUI

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also the class is not derevid for mono behaviour i am using [System.Serializable]

patent pebble
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can you be more specific? are you making a custom inspector or do you just want to publicly expose a field of your class's type?

void shoal
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Can u understand what i am trying to do?

patent pebble
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oh ok you are making a custom editor

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you need to pass a SerializedProperty as a parameter for the PropertyField

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can you show the code in your ShopItems class?

void shoal
patent pebble
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oof

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I think you have to go over the basics of Custom Editors

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and probably read the manuals or check tutorials for ScriptableObjects

void shoal
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ok

patent pebble
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just so you have an idea of what you're doing wrong. You are treating your ShopItems as a regular class and instantiating it with new ShopItems() in the custom editor for itself.
You are also trying to do a property field for a variable that doesn't exist in ShopItems

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your scriptable object needs to be an asset in your project

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and then you can implement the custom editor for it and find it's fields with the FindProperty() method

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also, it's a good practice to name your custom editors after their target types. In this case you have ShopItems, and you should call the custom editor ShopItemsEditor instead of ItemEditor

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i don't know what you want to achieve, but I get the feeling you are trying to do something you don't need to with this whole approach

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@void shoal what exactly are you trying to do?

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the more info you give us, the better advice we can share with you

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if all you want to do is use the ScriptableObject (ShopItems) to contain your different items (Character, Map, PowerUp, etc. Each in their own class) and have a list of them with their different data...
you may not need to implement a custom editor at all

void shoal
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@patent pebble i am just learning about building custom editors not for an actual project i am just trying to learn the possibilities thanks for all the docs you have provided me i was currently watching the junior programmer pathway on unitylearn and i have almost reached the end of the pathway can u guide me what should i learn next for mastering unity engine?

patent pebble
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oh I see i see

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@void shoal well look at it this way, custom editors are the cherry on top. You use them mostly to customize the appearance (but also to customize the behavior) of the inspectors for your classes

vast hill
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hey can you help me with some networking stuff?

patent pebble
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@void shoal in this case if you want to make a custom editor for a ScriptableObject, first get the structure of your classes and the scriptable object working like you normally would.
Then do something like the example in the Unity docs to create the Custom Editor for your ScriptableObject

void shoal
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@patent pebble ok thanks a lot for ur time.

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can u tell me about what should i learn after junior pathway?

patent pebble
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no idea what those tutorials are teaching you 🤷‍♂️

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kinda hard to answer

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it all depends on what you want/need/interests you

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I never learned any code for editor customization at all in my first 4 years of using Unity

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if you are still a beginner with Unity overall, there's probably more "important" things to learn. But learning the basics on extending the Unity editor is fine

waxen sandal