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prisma olive Dec 23, 2021, 7:07 PM

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thanks so much

patent pebble Dec 23, 2021, 7:08 PM

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but as I said it would probably be easier if you do it with ScriptableObjects instead

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they work the same way with the type filtering

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but I can share the Example code anyways if you want to learn

prisma olive Dec 23, 2021, 7:08 PM

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i'm not really sure what you mean by doing it with scriptableobjects

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would i need to select the json object and assign it in the scriptableobject too ?

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which would mean i'd still have to select the json file amonst all the text assets

patent pebble Dec 23, 2021, 7:10 PM

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@prisma olive yeah you would do a scriptable object with a TextAsset reference inside

prisma olive Dec 23, 2021, 7:10 PM

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exactly...then i would need to create an SO for each Json asset and assign it manually

patent pebble Dec 23, 2021, 7:10 PM

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yeah that's true, it's more cumbersome

prisma olive Dec 23, 2021, 7:11 PM

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i still would have the same problem that it shows all text based assets when selecting

patent pebble Dec 23, 2021, 7:11 PM

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with a custom asset type you can have them be still .json files but in the eyes of Unity they won't be a TextAsset, so you need to figure out a way to feed that data into Ink

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and I assume the files that Ink outputs would be automatically picked up as your custom asset type, but I have no idea to be honest

prisma olive Dec 23, 2021, 7:12 PM

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maybe it will allow casting

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only one way to find out haha

patent pebble Dec 23, 2021, 7:12 PM

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haha yeah, gimme a sec I'll share all the scripts

prisma olive Dec 23, 2021, 7:12 PM

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thanks mate appreciate it 😄

prisma olive Dec 23, 2021, 7:31 PM

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hehhh even a scripted importer is not gonna work

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The scripted importer 'InkJsonFile' attempted to register file type '.json', which is handled by a native Unity importer. Registration rejected.

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screw it... i'll just name all the files with Ink_whatever and then in the search i'll drill down with that... this is too much hassle for such little payoff hehe

patent pebble Dec 23, 2021, 7:33 PM

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📎 ScriptedImporterExample.unitypackage

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In case you still want to learn about scripted importer

patent pebble Dec 23, 2021, 7:34 PM

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prisma olive screw it... i'll just name all the files with Ink_whatever and then in the searc...

yeah unless it's a very high priority thing, having name prefixes is usually a good solution

prisma olive Dec 23, 2021, 7:35 PM

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thanks so much for the package though, I'm still gonna study it and learn from it for future

patent pebble Dec 23, 2021, 7:35 PM

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and even before attempting to force a custom asset type as a fix. I'd rather implement a custom Object Picker with a custom SearchField that handles extension filtering

prisma olive Dec 23, 2021, 7:36 PM

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patent pebble yeah unless it's a very high priority thing, having name prefixes is usually a g...

yeah it's not... it's just for convenience and ease of use more than a necessity

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I will take a look at that one tbh coz it might be something helpful especially with the search field

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thank you very much

patent pebble Dec 23, 2021, 7:37 PM

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no problem. I wish Unity wasn't so... "Unity" about some of these seemingly super basic things

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but I guess we are all insane for wanting to search assets by extension instead of by type 🙃

prisma olive Dec 23, 2021, 7:38 PM

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HAHAH right???

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😄

tough cairn Dec 24, 2021, 4:26 AM

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Trying out the graphView , im creating nodes items and each one has an Image element , but for some reason when changing the texture on one node will also change the image on all the other once.

In GraphView

public void NewNode( ... data ) 
{
  var node = Activator.CreateInstance( Type.GetType( data.type ) ) as BaseNode;
  ...
  AddElement( node );
}

In BaseNode

class BaseNode : Node {
  ...
  public Image preview;
  public Texture2D previewImg;
  ...
  void Init()
  {
    ... 
    preview = new Image();
    extensionContainer.Add( preview );
    previewImg = Texture2D.grayTexture;    
    preview.image = previewImg;
    preview.AddToClassList("nodeImage");
  }
  void Redraw()
  {
    if ( previewImg.width != 256 ) previewImg.Reinitialize(256, 256);
    for( var x = 0; x < 256; x ++ ) 
      for( var y = 0; y < 256; y ++ )
        previewImg.SetPixel( x, y,  ... );
    previewImg.Apply();
  }
}

The image & texture should be unique per class or is there something im missing when doing UI Elements ?

gloomy chasm Dec 24, 2021, 4:31 AM

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tough cairn Trying out the graphView , im creating nodes items and each one has an Image ele...

It is because you are setting it to grayTexture and then editing that instance.

tough cairn Dec 24, 2021, 4:31 AM

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ah... figured it generates a new one each time

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thanks

gloomy chasm Dec 24, 2021, 4:33 AM

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tough cairn ah... figured it generates a new one each time

Ah, no it is a single instance. This would be the expected behavior of a C# property. If it generated a new one each time then it should be a method. (Simply talking about code architecture)

tough cairn Dec 24, 2021, 4:33 AM

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right .. im too used to editing structs from getters

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sometimes i just do something like this ( even with classes )

public static ItemA value => new ItemA( . . . ) ;

barren moat Dec 24, 2021, 6:20 AM

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Does anyone know how to register an undo for AssetDatabase.Rename? It seems that Unity will undo these if done manually, but Undo.RecordObject does not work.

Someone else hitting this issue here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/8tmxnu/undo_for_assetdatabaserename_doesnt_work/

unreal phoenix Dec 24, 2021, 7:18 AM

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barren moat Does anyone know how to register an undo for `AssetDatabase.Rename`? It seems th...

I think I ended up using AssetData.MoveAsset instead, but I don't 100% remember if that registers an undo

barren moat Dec 24, 2021, 7:33 AM

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unreal phoenix I think I ended up using AssetData.MoveAsset instead, but I don't 100% remember ...

Ahh, nice. I'll give it a shot.

unreal phoenix Dec 24, 2021, 7:45 AM

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also check with AssetDatabase.ValidateMoveAsset to make sure it's not overwriting something

heady jungle Dec 24, 2021, 10:28 AM

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Oops! Sorry I missed the reply when I woke up,

Anyways, probably not the most efficient solution but I came up with a couple of small methods which basically split the [,] into 4 regular arrays. These stay on the Entity so they serialize, and "convert" when being displayed in the EditorWindow

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(Not actually tested it yet for the serializing part, but it should work)

EDIT: Works pretty much perfectly! Just need to make sure that my EditorWindow doesn't stay open while hitting play and I can call this complete 🙂

tough cairn Dec 24, 2021, 11:25 PM

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how to handle asset double click event ? trying to open custom window when clicking a scriptable object

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i think i found it [OnOpenAsset]

dreamy viper Dec 25, 2021, 9:23 AM

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Hi,
I put a Textarea in the CustomEditor.
How can I change its font ? Thanks.

serene apex Dec 25, 2021, 9:37 AM

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help

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NavMeshComponents

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I really need help

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cuz i can't continue my project

dreamy viper Dec 25, 2021, 9:53 AM

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serene apex

I already had this problem. I have no idea what is the cause but here is what I did :
Change the Api Compatibility to .NET Standard 2.0, then change back to .NET 4.0x.
I hope it will work...

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(Project Settings, Player)

serene apex Dec 25, 2021, 11:09 AM

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for some reason it was set to 2.0 for me

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ok thanks it worked

patent pebble Dec 25, 2021, 12:30 PM

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dreamy viper Hi, I put a Textarea in the CustomEditor. How can I change its font ? Thanks.

I think you can change the font using a GUIStyle

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most, if not all, of the IMGUI control methods have overloads that take in a GUIStyle parameter

dreamy viper Dec 25, 2021, 6:29 PM

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patent pebble I think you can change the font using a GUIStyle

It works, thanks.

hushed dome Dec 26, 2021, 11:56 AM

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is there a way to edit a list of enums through inspector?

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I believe it has been asked for +inf times already

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but anyway

waxen sandal Dec 26, 2021, 12:56 PM

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You want to add extra entries to an enum

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Or you want a list of enum values?

barren moat Dec 26, 2021, 3:01 PM

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hushed dome is there a way to edit a list of enums through inspector?

Yeah, you can do it with System.FlagsAttribute

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No special handling required I'm pretty sure

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Just do:

[Flags]
enum MyEnum {
  Boo,
  Bar
}

public MyEnum myEnum;

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That will modify the enum mask.

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If you want a literal list then you can do that too in the normal way you'd expect: public List<MyEnum> myEnums

atomic pelican Dec 26, 2021, 3:12 PM

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so i'm using invector third person movement to make my game and i don't want the character to rotate when the player is walking back can someone help?

patent pebble Dec 26, 2021, 4:52 PM

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barren moat Yeah, you can do it with `System.FlagsAttribute`

Remember that this attribute works with binary numbers, so you have to actually define the value of each member in powers of 2

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by default they just get assigned 0,1,2,3,4...

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you need them to be 1,2,4,8,16...

round tangle Dec 26, 2021, 7:54 PM

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can i ask a thing about buttons here?

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is more in the config menù of the button

glass basin Dec 26, 2021, 10:14 PM

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hey guys, anyone here got good experience designing tools to make code flows be more effective?

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In my case I got procedurally generated UI buttons and I'd like to make a good system to design these visually rather than having to code the positions and testing them out with multiple iterations

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these buttons are more advanced than regular UI buttons and are supposed to be animated (position, rotation) as well

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they're also supposed to always animate a bit differently each time (rotation) since they're supposed to be cards

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I was thinking of using gizmos in some way to do this

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but at the same time I think it'd make sense to have a more visual way to design and prototype them

whole steppe Dec 26, 2021, 11:07 PM

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i tried installing my first extension. universal rp. is this normal?

barren moat Dec 26, 2021, 11:23 PM

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patent pebble Remember that this attribute works with binary numbers, so you have to actually ...

Yeah good catch

median karma Dec 27, 2021, 12:28 AM

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Regarding serialized Vectors, is there a way to make them editable like Transforms in the sceneview? I have some positions I want to be easily editable just by dragging like with a transform component

patent pebble Dec 27, 2021, 1:16 AM

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@median karma look into handles, they do exactly what you want

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https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/GizmosAndHandles.html

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in your case the Handles.PositionHandle method

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https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Handles.PositionHandle.html

median karma Dec 27, 2021, 1:18 AM

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thank you

patent pebble Dec 27, 2021, 1:19 AM

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@median karma the example shows how to use them with a custom Editor, but they can also be used from EditorWindows

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you'd need to subscribe a method to the SceneView.duringSceneGui event

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public class HandlesWithEditorWindow : EditorWindow
{
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        SceneView.duringSceneGui += OnMySceneGUI;
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        SceneView.duringSceneGui -= OnMySceneGUI;
    }

    private void OnMySceneGUI(SceneView view)
    {
        //Code to draw your handles
    }
}

karmic ginkgo Dec 27, 2021, 12:04 PM

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            var assetsFolder = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath("Assets", typeof(UnityEngine.Object));
            UnityEditorInternal.InternalEditorUtility.expandedProjectWindowItems = new int[1] { assetsFolder.GetInstanceID() };
            expandedIdsField.SetValue(treestate, new List<int>() { assetsFolder.GetInstanceID() }, null);

just unity things

tough cairn Dec 27, 2021, 2:57 PM

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this pops up when i add the second line below in a class that extends GraphView.Node :

extensionContainer.Add(preview); ///< Works as expected > 
extensionContainer.AddToClassList("nodeExtensionContainer"); ///< ERROR >

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seemed to work so far when i was using other elements , but adding a class to a container seems to break everything , any one know alternative ways adding classes to elements ?

tough cairn Dec 27, 2021, 4:03 PM

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unity v 2021.2 btw

patent pebble Dec 27, 2021, 5:50 PM

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What's a good way of getting the icon from a script?

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and is there any callback or any way of getting notified when it changes?

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right now I'm reading the GUID from the meta file using magic strings, but it seems like not a great solution

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public static string GetIconGUID(string metaFilePath)
{
    string allText = File.ReadAllText(metaFilePath);
    if (allText.Contains(", guid: "))
    {
        return allText.SubStringBetween(", guid: ", ", type");
    }

    return string.Empty;
}

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and I currently have no way of getting notified when it changes. So I'm just checking it on domain reload, which seems inefficient 😕

waxen sandal Dec 27, 2021, 6:34 PM

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Asset import callback probably

patent pebble Dec 27, 2021, 6:51 PM

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waxen sandal Asset import callback probably

hmm, yeah using AssetPostprocessor.OnPostprocessAllAssets()

waxen sandal Dec 27, 2021, 6:52 PM

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That's the one

patent pebble Dec 27, 2021, 6:52 PM

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but I wonder if there's anything internally that Unity uses to check when a script icon is changed

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because changing it via the inspector it triggers a reimport on that asset

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I'm trying to find it in the source code but haven't found anything so far 😓

waxen sandal Dec 27, 2021, 6:53 PM

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That's probably just a saveassets call

patent pebble Dec 27, 2021, 6:58 PM

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ah someone pointed me to this
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/Inspector/MonoScriptInspector.cs

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i think it has what I need to listen for changes on the icon

whole steppe Dec 27, 2021, 9:13 PM

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can someone help me to write a custom editor for recttransform which displays world position of selected object?

i wrote this but doesn't work

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;
using System.Reflection;
using System;

[CustomEditor(typeof(RectTransform), true)]
public class RectTransformEditor : Editor
{
    private Editor _editorInstance;
 
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        Assembly ass = Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(UnityEditor.Editor));
        Type rtEditor = ass.GetType("UnityEditor.RectTransformEditor");
        _editorInstance = CreateEditor(target, rtEditor);
    }
 
    public override void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
        GUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
        target.transform.position = EditorGUILayout.Vector3Field("World position", target.transform.position);
        GUILayout.EndHorizontal();
        _editorInstance.OnInspectorGUI();
    }
}

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 1:37 AM

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Does anyone know how to access this setting through code?

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 1:45 AM

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I'm not sure how, but I think you would need to get the ScriptableObject for UnityEditor.AudioManager and alter the m_DisableAudio SerializedProperty.

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 1:48 AM

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visual stag I'm not sure *how*, but I think you would need to get the ScriptableObject for `...

Ah yes. Reflection of course.

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Cheers vertx

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 1:49 AM

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[SettingsProvider]
static SettingsProvider CreateProjectSettingsProvider()
{
    var provider = AssetSettingsProvider.CreateProviderFromAssetPath(
        "Project/Audio", "ProjectSettings/AudioManager.asset",
        SettingsProvider.GetSearchKeywordsFromGUIContentProperties<Styles>());
    return provider;
}``` is in `AudioManagerInspector` and I think you would need to go through it to create the SO

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I'm sure there's a neater way, but that's where I'd start looking

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either that or you actually alter the asset's text and get Unity to reload it, but I find that iffy

patent pebble Dec 28, 2021, 1:51 AM

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iirc you can access the Project Settings via loading the .asset with the AssetDatabase, by loading with the path

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the paths for those settings are "ProjectSettings/xxx.asset"

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I might be misremembering, but I think it's possible

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 1:51 AM

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I've never done that before, but if it works that sounds great

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does seem like how it works

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just had to look one deeper 😄

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so no reflection needed 🎉

patent pebble Dec 28, 2021, 1:52 AM

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it's been years, but I think you just edit the properties with SerializedProperty

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 1:52 AM

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Yup

patent pebble Dec 28, 2021, 1:52 AM

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you need to make a new SerializedObject from the asset and all done

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 1:53 AM

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Btw @barren moat I just did:

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and then

patent pebble Dec 28, 2021, 1:54 AM

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neat 😊

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 1:56 AM

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It's nice when the names are not completely generated from code so they're easy to find

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 1:57 AM

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visual stag Btw <@!105859971064852480> I just did:

Oh that's great. Searching through decompiled source?

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Or is that actually distributed with the engine?

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 1:58 AM

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Yes, the source (pinned to the channel)

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They added the up to date versions not long ago so it's back to being accurate 🙂

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 1:59 AM

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awesome

patent pebble Dec 28, 2021, 2:02 AM

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@visual stag what's TrTextContent used for? I've never seen it before

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what's the difference between that and a regular GUIContent constructor?

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aaaah it's for Editor localization, i see i see

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 2:16 AM

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Should I include meta files in my package's Samples~ folder?

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(in this case it's just a scene, so I don't need them for it to work)

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nvm, the answer is yes

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 2:55 AM

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I'm having trouble getting Unity to download my package with a specific revision:

An error occurred while resolving packages:
  Project has invalid dependencies:
    com.effortstar.effort-star-logo: Version 'git@github.com:EffortStar/effort-star-logo-unity.git#v1.0.0' is invalid. Expected one of: a 'SemVer' compatible value; a value starting with 'file:'; a Git URL starting with 'git:' or 'git+', or ending with '.git'.

A re-import of the project may be required to fix the issue or a manual modification of C:/Users/rhysv/Projects/bridge-knight/Packages/manifest.json file.

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Is it possible to provide a revision while using the git@foo.git protocol?

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If I do simply:

    "com.effortstar.effort-star-logo": "git@github.com:EffortStar/effort-star-logo-unity.git",

It works.

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 2:57 AM

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I've not seen the git@ syntax

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"https://github.com/EffortStar/effort-star-logo-unity.git#v1.0.0" should work

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 2:58 AM

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https fails

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 2:58 AM

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well, if it existed

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 2:58 AM

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git@ is SSH

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It does exist

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For whatever reason I can't use https validation on this project... Maybe I need to look in to how to authorize it via git-scm.

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tbh I'm a little confused about keys etc. in windows

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 2:58 AM

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I've not seen private git repos in UPM, is that a thing now?

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 2:59 AM

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It's not to do with UPM, UPM just pulls from git

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UPM is blind to authentication, it will just tell you if git complains

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The problem is that I don't know how to specify a revision while using SSH, and https doesn't work. I don't really know how to configure https.

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 3:00 AM

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should be the same by the looks of it

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 3:00 AM

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Evidently not

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 3:01 AM

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visual stag should be the same by the looks of it

oh, sorry what do you mean?

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 3:02 AM

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Perhaps try ssh://git@... ?

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it could be UPM's parsing isn't very thorough 🤷

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 3:03 AM

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You're right!

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    "com.effortstar.effort-star-logo": "ssh://git@github.com/EffortStar/effort-star-logo-unity.git#v1.0.0",

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🎉

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 3:04 AM

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🎉

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 3:04 AM

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you beautiful man

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thank you

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Now I can synchronise my cool new company logo between all of my projects

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 4:57 AM

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Hmph, this is my first time working with a package that contains non-code assets. Could anyone advise a workflow for modifying assets? I have added it as a local dependency but I can't seem to push changes to the prefab from the scene.

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 4:58 AM

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You will not be able to modify the package assets

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 4:58 AM

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Ah, wait. I can.

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I was mistaken.

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Seems you can just modify them.

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 4:58 AM

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Well, maybe you can, but it'll reset

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 4:58 AM

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I don't think so? I can see changes in git.

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 4:58 AM

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If you're just talking about authoring them, that will work fine

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I was thinking you meant once you intended to use it in a project 😄

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 4:59 AM

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Yeah, well a bit of both.

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My intention is to sync changes between two projects.

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So... copy scene from Samples~, then if I need to add stuff I can use the local clone of the repo as a file system dependency and modify it that way.

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I thought it wasn't working but apparently I was confused.

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so all good!

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 5:00 AM

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Should work fine, as long as you're just working with local packages it sounds appropriate 👍

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 5:01 AM

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The confusing part is that Samples~ is invisible so I need to rename it

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But then also make sure anything that was copied out has refreshed GUIDs to avoid collisions

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I probably should just not include the .meta file from the scene in this case I think.

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Force unity to renew it on import.

visual stag Dec 28, 2021, 5:02 AM

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Yeah I think I had to do that at some point... but I can't remember what I was authoring so I'm just uselessly saying this lol

barren moat Dec 28, 2021, 5:03 AM

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all g

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I'm mostly just vocalising my minor frustrations

gloomy chasm Dec 28, 2021, 4:47 PM

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Given a path or guid, is there a way to check if an asset exists for one of them?

patent pebble Dec 28, 2021, 4:52 PM

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gloomy chasm Given a path or guid, is there a way to check if an asset exists for one of them...

AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath / AssetDatabase.GUIDFromAssetPath

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you'll get an empty string from the first one

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and an all 0 GUID from the second one

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ah there's also this one AssetDatabase.AssetPathToGUID

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that last one has a gotcha tho If the asset does not exist AssetPathToGUID will return nothing. However, recently deleted assets return a GUID until the Unity Editor is restarted.

gloomy chasm Dec 28, 2021, 4:55 PM

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patent pebble that last one has a gotcha tho ```If the asset does not exist AssetPathToGUID wi...

Yeah

patent pebble Dec 28, 2021, 4:56 PM

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i wonder if the other two have the same problem

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not sure

gloomy chasm Dec 28, 2021, 4:56 PM

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They do

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They all do the same thing basically

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Right now I am using File.Exists. However that will break if an asset is deleted, and then one with the same name is create before the check happens.

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I could get the meta file and read the GUID from that. But the code is in a semi hot path

patent pebble Dec 28, 2021, 4:58 PM

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hmmmm, that doesn't sound fun 😕

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@gloomy chasm can you maybe use the FileSystemWatcher class? iirc it gives you notifications when stuff happens

gloomy chasm Dec 28, 2021, 5:00 PM

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In 2021 AssetpathToGUID has another param for whether to return deleted asset guids

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I could store the guid/path of every deleted ScriptableObject (that is the only type I care about)

whole steppe Dec 28, 2021, 11:39 PM

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hi, im having technical difficulties upgrading my project to URP

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i created URP asset, assigned it a 2d rendered. i then used that in project settings, upgraded all materials. but they were not upgraded? gave the camera the render as well

gloomy chasm Dec 28, 2021, 11:53 PM

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whole steppe hi, im having technical difficulties upgrading my project to URP

#archived-urp would be the right channel to ask in. Will also get more help there I suspect.

whole steppe Dec 28, 2021, 11:56 PM

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gloomy chasm <#900380950083534888> would be the right channel to ask in. Will also get more h...

thank you but i now know the solution ... upgrading project to URP didnt work, but same steps to upgrade to scene worked

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also. i deleted the default renderer

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tho I do not believe that had anything to do with the problem. Only upgrading materials in scene worked. not in project. makes sence

patent pebble Dec 29, 2021, 3:00 AM

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How can I force the ProjectBrowser window to repaint?

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I tried with the internal ResetViews() and with a plain EditorWindow.Repaint()

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https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/ProjectBrowser.cs#L425

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I'm trying to prevent this

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the Project window doesn't repaint until I hover the mouse over it 😓

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ah nevermind, fixed it with EditorApplication.delayCall

steady pilot Dec 29, 2021, 9:10 AM

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timeline editor question: is there a way to custom the context menu when right clicking the empty space on timeline window? Tried TimelineAction & MenuEntry, but they only affect right click menu on Tracks/Clips/Markers

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visual stag Dec 29, 2021, 9:32 AM

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steady pilot timeline editor question: is there a way to custom the context menu when right c...

Looking at the source for the package, it's SequencerContextMenu.ShowNewTracksContextMenu that is that menu, there is no hooks to append anything to it that isn't just another track

steady pilot Dec 29, 2021, 9:35 AM

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visual stag Looking at the source for the package, it's `SequencerContextMenu.ShowNewTracksC...

ok thank you

brisk turtle Dec 29, 2021, 12:16 PM

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Not sure this is the right channel, but what do I need to do to properly repaint the scene view? I'm making a custom renderer component and I have to play and stop the project to get it to update properly, even with [ExecuteAlways].

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i tried this

view.Repaint();```

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but it made it impossible to switch from the scene view when tabs were stacked

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hmm maybe if i only call it once

gloomy chasm Dec 29, 2021, 12:48 PM

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brisk turtle i tried this ```EditorWindow view = EditorWindow.GetWindow<SceneView>(); view.Re...

var sceneViews = Resources.FindAllObjectsOfType<SceneView>();
foreach (var sceneView in sceneViews)
{
  sceneView.Repaint();
}

Something like that

brisk turtle Dec 29, 2021, 12:53 PM

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hmm this might work, might be wrong somewhere else. thank you.

gloomy chasm Dec 29, 2021, 12:55 PM

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brisk turtle hmm this might work, might be wrong somewhere else. thank you.

Depending on what version you are on, there is SceneView.sceneViews.
(I don't remember the exact property name, I think it is in 2021.1+)

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Also, this sort of thing is how Unity does stuff internally too (using Resources.FindAllObjectsOfType to get windows).

brisk turtle Dec 29, 2021, 12:56 PM

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👍 ill keep it in mind

patent pebble Dec 29, 2021, 2:12 PM

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iirc SceneView has a RepaintAll() public static method too

teal estuary Dec 29, 2021, 3:46 PM

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i'm trying to create a GUILayout element for every item in my items list in my custom editor window, it doesn't seem to work :/

gloomy chasm Dec 29, 2021, 4:24 PM

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teal estuary i'm trying to create a GUILayout element for every item in my items list in my c...

Why do you have a begin/end area?

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Also, the if (spawnAmount < itemList.Count) is redundant as spawnAmount will always be less then itemCount unless you are setting it somewhere else, in which case you are going to get some odd behavior I suspect.

teal estuary Dec 29, 2021, 4:25 PM

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i ended up resolving this, and basically my entire method was flawed 😄

gloomy chasm Dec 29, 2021, 4:26 PM

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Ah, well glad you got it working 🙂

teal estuary Dec 29, 2021, 4:26 PM

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this is my code now

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new problem :/

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managing to get the item buttons, but how do i make them all appear on screen in a grid pattern?

gloomy chasm Dec 29, 2021, 4:31 PM

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You will need to use Rects to do that, can't use GUILayout

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At least not nicely

teal estuary Dec 29, 2021, 4:32 PM

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ah

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can you link documentation on it?

gloomy chasm Dec 29, 2021, 4:32 PM

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There isn't any

teal estuary Dec 29, 2021, 4:33 PM

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-oh

gloomy chasm Dec 29, 2021, 4:38 PM

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teal estuary -oh

Here is the basic idea taken from some of my code

// In some method
_columnCount = Mathf.Max(1, Mathf.FloorToInt(viewportRect.width / ItemSize.x));

// else where
private Rect GetItemRect(int itemIndex)
{
  float row = Mathf.Floor(itemIndex / _columnCount);
  float column = itemIndex - (row * _columnCount);

  return new Rect()
  {
    x = ItemSize.x * column,
    y = ItemSize.y * row,
    width = ItemSize.x,
    height = ItemSize.y
   };
}

teal estuary Dec 29, 2021, 4:39 PM

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thank you! i'll try it out

do you mind if i dm you about this further if i have questions?

gloomy chasm Dec 29, 2021, 4:39 PM

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teal estuary thank you! i'll try it out do you mind if i dm you about this further if i have...

If it isn't too much sure.

teal estuary Dec 29, 2021, 4:40 PM

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alrighty :)

wooden ocean Dec 29, 2021, 6:29 PM

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Not sure if we have any C# wizards in here, but struggling with dynamic dispatch on my baby editor extension. Wrote up the brief here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70523456/how-do-i-replace-a-switch-statement-over-an-enum-with-runtime-dynamic-type-based

Stack Overflow

How do I replace a switch statement over an enum with runtime-dynam...

Background:
I am building a editor extension for Unity (although this question is not strictly unity related). The user can select a binary operation from a dropdown and the operation is performed...

subtle axle Dec 29, 2021, 11:02 PM

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Anybody ever have this problem with Odin Inspector?

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https://gyazo.com/f2237d2968a7e72be3ef1e574675bca1?token=b15cba8d81bd8c9028074e10534f672e

Gyazo

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Also, how can i change the background of a box in odin?

subtle axle Dec 29, 2021, 11:42 PM

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found [GuiColor] which seems to just add a colored box on top of the GUI instead of actually changing the color...

gloomy chasm Dec 30, 2021, 12:40 AM

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subtle axle Also, how can i change the background of a box in odin?

I would join their discord, you would most likely get much better help there.

quartz nebula Dec 30, 2021, 6:02 AM

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wooden ocean Not sure if we have any C# wizards in here, but struggling with dynamic dispatch...

At first glance, reflection might be what you're after. I'm not too knowledgeable about reflection, but you'll want to scan all loaded assemblies in the current appdomain, find the Type objects for types that implement/extend your interface (or even a custom attribute) and then invoke the method there. The latter is easy, something like GetType().GetMethod(nameof(IInterface.DoTheThing)).Invoke(null, myArgs)

quartz nebula Dec 30, 2021, 6:04 AM

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quartz nebula At first glance, reflection might be what you're after. I'm not too knowledgeabl...

Then write an interface/abstract class and extend that for your different operations.

tawdry kraken Dec 30, 2021, 6:51 AM

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Hello. Is there an extension for tracking the time spent working on a project?
Or if not, any idea which handles could be useful to create such a feature?
Oh wow, I found one: https://wakatime.com/unity-time-tracking

kind linden Dec 30, 2021, 9:39 AM

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rmb export is broken, I want to export prefabs with what they use only. Not include everything that the prefab uses. Thus I have to write my own export....
Does someone has a good tutorial on how to create custom packages like that via c#?

brisk turtle Dec 30, 2021, 3:15 PM

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Can anybody tell me how to apply an EditorGUILayout.Popup to the actual serializedProperty ??

https://pastebin.com/u8HtqLh2

Pastebin

using System.Collections;using System.Collections.Generic;using Uni...

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

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It seems a lot of these declarations that take a serializedObject are obsolete. So how are you supposed to do it then?

patent pebble Dec 30, 2021, 3:35 PM

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@brisk turtle there's EditorGUI.BeginProperty/EndProperty or EditorGUI.PropertyScope for controls that don't take in SerializedProperty parameters

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or you can just assign the value manually

brisk turtle Dec 30, 2021, 3:59 PM

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@patent pebble ah yeah i see now the .intValue I can assign on the serializedProperty. thanks.

gloomy chasm Dec 31, 2021, 1:14 PM

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<@&502884371011731486> ^

onyx harness Dec 31, 2021, 2:05 PM

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gloomy chasm <@&502884371011731486> ^

Lol, how come I got pinged for that X)

gloomy chasm Dec 31, 2021, 2:05 PM

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LOL

young robin Dec 31, 2021, 4:18 PM

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I’m having trouble downloading the multiplayer tools. I followed the tutorial on there web site and I see the package in the packages folder but when I go to add the network components to a object I can t find them. Pls help. Never mind I downloaded multiplayer tools instead of netcode lol.

tough cairn Dec 31, 2021, 6:49 PM

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how to change current tool space ( Local / Global ) ?

patent pebble Dec 31, 2021, 8:34 PM

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tough cairn how to change current tool space ( Local / Global ) ?

those settings are part of the Tools API
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tools.html

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pivotMode and pivotRotation

tough cairn Dec 31, 2021, 8:35 PM

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patent pebble ``pivotMode`` and ``pivotRotation``

thanks

patent pebble Dec 31, 2021, 8:37 PM

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@tough cairn and in case you want to change the button to the right, the one that controls snapping

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https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorSnapSettings-gridSnapEnabled.html

tough cairn Dec 31, 2021, 9:31 PM

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where does the package manager download the files to ?

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From my assets when i press download before import

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nvm found it C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Roaming\Unity\

tough cairn Jan 1, 2022, 12:16 AM

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.

i asked this before but never got an answer , any ideas how to force unity editor to avoid using the integrated GPU ( intel ) and use the Nvidia one only ?

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i got this one setup

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but it still seems to be using the first one

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in the Nvidia control panel it points me to the windows "graphics settings"

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would rly like to avoid disabling the intel graphics inside the device manager since i won't be able to use a second monitor

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hmmm so i tried -gpu 1 but that didn't work

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but when i add vulkan ... it seems to be ok 🤔

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finally the editor no longer lags ...

cunning acorn Jan 1, 2022, 2:40 AM

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idk if its here to ask this type of question but how can i make the animation curve like that ?

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nvm i found it just need to put the tangents to constant

zinc vessel Jan 1, 2022, 9:31 AM

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When using the graph view API, how do I add an objectfield to a node?

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Nevermind, I was using the GUILayout object field when I should have been using the UnityEditor.UIElements object field

smoky jasper Jan 1, 2022, 10:51 AM

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I'm working on a 2D game using a Grid cell. There are specific data to set for some cells. Currently I have to manually set in the inspector these specific data and the associated cell coordinates (X & Y). It's not very user friendly to set the X and Y values. Is there a kind of "cell picker" to select the cell using a mouse click in the grid ?

tough cairn Jan 1, 2022, 5:02 PM

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smoky jasper I'm working on a 2D game using a Grid cell. There are specific data to set for s...

which grid ? in the scene view ?

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u could do something like this :

    void OnSceneGUI()
    {
        for( var x = -3; x < 4; ++x )
        {
            for( var z = -3; z < 4; ++z )
            {
                var p = new Vector3( x, 0, z );
                if( Handles.Button( p, Quaternion.identity , 0.15f , 0.15f , Handles.SphereHandleCap ) )
                {
                    Debug.Log($"Selected {x},{z}");
                }
            }
        }
    }

which would look something like this

unkempt coyote Jan 1, 2022, 5:28 PM

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hi

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Someone can show me some websites on you can edit your character in unity.Exist some websites like this?

slim zinc Jan 1, 2022, 5:33 PM

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unkempt coyote Someone can show me some websites on you can edit your character in unity.Exist ...

what?

wanton heath Jan 1, 2022, 9:10 PM

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Why is my ui broken?

zinc vessel Jan 2, 2022, 1:12 AM

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How do I set a graphview as a valid target for a drag and drop using the DragPerformEvent callback?

tired basalt Jan 2, 2022, 1:21 AM

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Anyone know how can I reset fbx import setting via script?

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I want to remove the extracted material in the setting

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I want to click this via code

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basiclly

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 1:48 AM

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tired basalt Anyone know how can I reset fbx import setting via script?

it can be done with reflection

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there's an internal method called ResetValues on the ModelImporterEditor class

tired basalt Jan 2, 2022, 2:09 AM

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patent pebble it can be done with reflection

Thx. I will look into it

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So if I just want to reset setting for a specific fbx, how can I use that class to do it?

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 2:22 AM

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you'd probably need to use reflection to get the ModelImporterEditor that's being shown and then call that method

tired basalt Jan 2, 2022, 2:24 AM

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I have no idea about reflection but I will look into it

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thx

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 2:33 AM

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tired basalt I have no idea about reflection but I will look into it

if you know nothing about reflection this particular thing might be a little bit out of your depth

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it took me a while to get used to doing reflection stuff

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maybe look for an alternative approach to resetting your importer values

tired basalt Jan 2, 2022, 2:37 AM

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Basically my issue is that I want to re extract material after it was extracted already

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Not sure if there is any other way to do this

tired basalt Jan 2, 2022, 3:03 AM

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Also resetting them via UI also is very slow for some reasons

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takes half minute for one

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 3:50 AM

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is [SerializeRefecence] completely broken with multi-object editing? (Unity 2020.3)

I'm making Editor UI to display polymorphic fields

for (int i = 0; i < _selectedProperties.Length; i++)
{
    ChangeReferenceType(_selectedProperties[i]);
}

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private void ChangeReferenceType(SerializedProperty property)
{
    property.serializedObject.Update();
    {
        Type referencedType = DropdownUtility.GetTypesForDropdown(_fieldType)[_typeIndex];
        property.SetManagedReference(referencedType);
    }
    property.serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties());
}

public static object SetManagedReference(this SerializedProperty property, Type type)
{
    object obj = (type != null) ? Activator.CreateInstance(type) : null;
    property.managedReferenceValue = obj;
    return obj;
}

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I've seen the extension that @visual stag made, but it didn't support lists or multi-object editing, so I started adapting my own version of it
I've gotten everything working except multi-object editing

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my editor just explodes when doing the code above and crashes

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sometimes it doesn't crash, but the SerializedProperties get all screwed and they don't behave correctly (reverting values, displaying mixed values even tho the value in all target objects is the same, etc)

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 3:58 AM

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patent pebble I've seen the extension that <@!332468003151282176> made, but it didn't support...

By it doesn't support lists, do you mean you can't put a list into one serialized reference property?

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 3:59 AM

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visual stag By it doesn't support lists, do you mean you can't put a list into one serialize...

your Github says this It's important to note that Decorators still do not draw on collection elements.

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yeah putting the attribute on a collection

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List<ISomeInterface> _someInterfaceList;

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:01 AM

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TypeProvider supports collections

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The DecoratorDrawerWithProperty won't. TypeProvider is not a decorator. The readme could be clearer on that fact

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It's saying in the next sentence "If you have another use case similar to TypeProvider that requires collection elements, please let me know." that TypeProvider is an exception to that rule

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:03 AM

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ah crap, my bad then 😅

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:03 AM

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It not working with multi-object editing though... that might be complicated 😓

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:05 AM

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visual stag It not working with multi-object editing though... that might be complicated 😓

I've spent the past 2 days trying multiple implementations to try to make multi-object editing work
I've tried everything I can think of and I don't think there's a solution, or at least not an easy one

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there's a bunch of bugs I've seen people reporting

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and it's very inconsistent, seems to be random sometimes

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I guess for now I'll just display a "mixed value" content and skip drawing the property entirely if there's multiple objects selected

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because the changes doesn't even affect the target objects based on selection order

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:07 AM

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I should probably be doing the same

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:09 AM

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visual stag I should probably be doing the same

I just did a quick test with yours, Unity crashed (2020.3)

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:09 AM

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2022.1.0a13 prints this

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I don't know how else I would do it. Multi-property editing is still just done through one scriptable object and its properties is it not?

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:11 AM

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I've gotten similar errors in my implementation when doing multi-object edits
specifically in this particular case:

Target1 has a value of A
Target2 has a value of B
Target3 has a value of A

when the value of Target2 is changed from B to A while all 3 are selected, I get the "offset stack trace" error

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:15 AM

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visual stag I don't know how else I would do it. Multi-property editing is still just done t...

yeah I've tried by using the property.serialize.targetObjects like so:

private void ChangeSelectedType(SerializedProperty property, Type newType)
{
    Object[] targets = property.serializedObject.targetObjects;
    for (int i = 0; i < targets.Length; i++)
    {
        SerializedObject serObj = new SerializedObject(targets[i]);

        serObj.Update();
        {
            SerializedProperty prop = serObj.FindProperty(property.name);
            prop.SetManagedReference(newType);
        }
        serObj.ApplyModifiedProperties();
    }
}

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:15 AM

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Yeah, that might work. Seems a bit bizarre it's required though

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:16 AM

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1 sec, I'll share gif of what happens

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@visual stag it almost feels like Unity is losing track of the SerializedProperties internally, or recreating them every time the managed reference value is changed or something

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I don't have enough knowledge of the inner workings of Unity's serialization to really guess what's happening

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when I re-select all the multiple gameobjects it does show correctly that the values are the same

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so I guess when the editor does OnEnable it's syncing up again all the properties from the attribute drawer or something

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:23 AM

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Yeah... it does the same thing here

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at least that trick makes the multi-object editing for assigning the property work

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:23 AM

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"work"

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when the editor doesn't explode

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and sometimes it reverts the other selected objects to the previous value

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and only retains in the currently inspected object

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:24 AM

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I don't have any replication to make it explode here

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:24 AM

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visual stag I don't have any replication to make it explode here

2021?

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I've read they fixed a bunch of bugs from 2020 to 2021

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:25 AM

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2022, I will check the others soon

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:25 AM

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I'm currently only testing on 2020.3 because I only want to make tools for LTS versions

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i guess SerializeReference is more stable on 2021 and 2022

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:26 AM

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I do stuff on later versions because I'm selfish and don't care to support older versions until someone complains

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I should hack to support old, not amend to support current 😄

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:26 AM

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visual stag I do stuff on later versions because I'm selfish and don't care to support older...

yah fair enough hehe 😅
for now I only make tools for my own projects and games
so I stick to LTS

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well... I guess SerializeReference is still "in the oven"

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hopefully they figure this one out soon and make it better

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polymorphism has such potential for Unity

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it'd be a shame if they left it half baked

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:28 AM

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They've been pretty aggressive in fixing it, it's just that there seems to be a lot of bugs

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 4:28 AM

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yeah, I guess their serialization system wasn't robust enough to support all the new stuff they want to make

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i haven't been keeping track of the roadmaps and the version notes

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so I don't really know how it's going

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I've been digging through this discord channel and a lot of you guys usually recommend only using SerializeReference for simple things for now

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just to be safe

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 4:36 AM

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yeah, even if the reliability has gone up in recent versions, I've not yet tested it enough to know you wouldn't hit an unsolvable wall

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 5:06 AM

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it's a pity that hasMultipleDifferentValues is always true

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even if the types are the same

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so the only way to find out whether I should show a mixed field would be to make all the serialized properties and check their types

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which is not reasonable on allocations

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:25 AM

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visual stag it's a pity that `hasMultipleDifferentValues` is always true

what do you mean?

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it's not for me

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 5:26 AM

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It is for me, if I have two that share the same type then it's true

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:26 AM

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it's always false for me

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😓

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 5:26 AM

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Might be a version difference

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:26 AM

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probably

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:30 AM

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visual stag so the only way to find out whether I should show a mixed field would be to make...

yeah I was doing this on my tests

public static bool HasMultipleManagedReferenceTypes(this SerializedProperty property)
{
    if (property.serializedObject.isEditingMultipleObjects == false)
    {
        return false;
    }

    Type inspectedType = GetManagedReferenceType(property);

    for (int i = 0; i < property.serializedObject.targetObjects.Length; i++)
    {
        SerializedObject serObj = new SerializedObject(property.serializedObject.targetObjects[i]);
        SerializedProperty prop = serObj.FindProperty(property.name);
        Type otherType = GetManagedReferenceType(prop);

        if (inspectedType != otherType)
        {
            return true;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

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felt super hacky doing that, but I just wanted to see if multi-editing was even possible

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 5:31 AM

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I might do some fancy caching with something similar

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:31 AM

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yah, seems fairly doable to cache things on user interaction, on selection change, etc

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 5:32 AM

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Hey, random thing that I assume the answer is no to. But is there a way to apply a shader to what is drawn in OnGUI?

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:33 AM

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gloomy chasm Hey, random thing that I assume the answer is no to. But is there a way to apply...

to a texture control? or to what?

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 5:33 AM

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patent pebble to a texture control? or to what?

No, I mean to literally what is drawn, buttons, labels, fields etc.

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:33 AM

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ah

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I've always wondered that

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 5:34 AM

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What I am trying to do is to isolate and only render certain controls.

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:34 AM

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I've wanted to do fancy animations and stuff with IMGUI controls if it's possible

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:35 AM

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gloomy chasm What I am trying to do is to isolate and only render certain controls.

so far the only way I've hacked together to do that, is just drawing rects with the same color as the background on top of stuff

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very bad solution lol 😅

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 5:36 AM

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That is what I have done as well. I was thinking I could use a shader to 'collapse' the UI in the parts I don't care about, but that isn't possible it seems. My other idea was to see if I could get it to render to a scene and capture it with a camera

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:37 AM

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gloomy chasm That is what I have done as well. I was thinking I could use a shader to 'collap...

yeah it's a tricky thing for sure. I haven't researched it because I figured the use cases wouldn't be many for my projects

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i've just accepted the reality that I have to play by Unity's rules most of the time

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 5:39 AM

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patent pebble i've just accepted the reality that I have to play by Unity's rules most of the ...

lol, that's no fun

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:39 AM

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gloomy chasm lol, that's no fun

sometimes the main quest is more important than the secondary ones 🙃

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but yeah doing weird shit with the Editor is fun tho

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 5:41 AM

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patent pebble but yeah doing weird shit with the Editor is fun tho

I have done all sorts of hacky things. Sidebars in the editor, searching the inspector by the text that is rendered(not serialized property name), scriptableobject variants, reorderable "create/" menus, the list goes on haha

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:42 AM

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Mikilo has done a bunch of cool stuff too

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i haven't gone so deep into making extensions and stuff

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I'm mostly still learning

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 5:42 AM

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Yeah, he has

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 5:44 AM

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patent pebble sometimes the main quest is more important than the secondary ones 🙃

Sometimes it is part of the main quest 😛

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 5:45 AM

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this whole editor stuff feels like there's infinite topics to learn

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I started like 1 year ago and my objective was to learn everything I could related to making tools and editor extensions

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"it won't take me more than a couple months, surely" 🤡

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I'm almost "done" learning to an acceptable level of competency that enables me to make mostly any tool I need for my game projects

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most of the stuff I have yet to get into is related to Assets, Packages, Prefabs, Previews and similar things

tired basalt Jan 2, 2022, 11:54 AM

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For some reason my script is really slow

karmic ginkgo Jan 2, 2022, 11:55 AM

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@gloomy chasm

scriptableobject variants
where

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repo

tired basalt Jan 2, 2022, 11:55 AM

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This is taking for ever

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It seems like hot reload is the issue

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Anyone know what hotreload is and how can I fix it?

warm pendant Jan 2, 2022, 12:50 PM

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Moin, Im working on a project for which Im writing an editor extension that allows me to adjust some sound settings individually per sound. Does anybody know where I could find some resources on how to implement the Unity functionality for the rollof settings into my own objects? Ideally I just need to mimic the editor 3d sound settings and pass that data into the player when the sound is called. If that does not work do you know any resources where I could look at how they made the rollof curves etc internally? Would really appreciate some ideas where to start with this.

smoky jasper Jan 2, 2022, 1:01 PM

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Hello. I have a 2D sprite "Arrow". Depending on an inspector parameter (an enum [up, down, left, right]), the animation used to render the Arrow sprite in PLAY mode will be different (Up anim, Down anim, Left anim, Right anim). I would like to display the first frame of the anim in EDIT mode. Is it possible ?

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 1:16 PM

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karmic ginkgo <@!131292153300123648> > scriptableobject variants where

I'm working on it as an asset for the store, should be done 'soon'. If you want to try it out you can (you can DM me)

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 1:18 PM

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tired basalt This is taking for ever

What is taking forever specifically. Also hot reloading isn't a thing really in Unity atm

karmic ginkgo Jan 2, 2022, 1:18 PM

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i do indeed, want to make sure its odin compatible as well

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 1:19 PM

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karmic ginkgo i do indeed, want to make sure its odin compatible as well

Should be, at least mostly

smoky jasper Jan 2, 2022, 1:51 PM

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In an editor script i'm trying to load a sprite by its name using AssetDatabase.FindAssets("LevelSpriteSheet_3"). The problem is that "LevelSpriteSheet" is a texture containing multiple sprites and AssetDatabase.FindAssets("LevelSpriteSheet_3") returns the first sprite instead of the third...

reef canopy Jan 2, 2022, 5:19 PM

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can i ask something?
when i try to enter in playmode my unity freeze
and my unity Memory start rising to 2gb on task manager
when my physical memory goes 99% my unit star to freeze
you cant do anything except shut it down
any body here can help me to fix this problem?

tired basalt Jan 2, 2022, 5:33 PM

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gloomy chasm What is taking forever specifically. Also hot reloading isn't a thing really in ...

I can only refer it from the log. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/533353544846147585/927168233340010526/unknown.png

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This is the unity editor.log

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And hot reload is in there

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 5:36 PM

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tired basalt And hot reload is in there

Oh, I see what you mean. Have you used the profiler?

tired basalt Jan 2, 2022, 5:39 PM

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This is an editor script so idk if that works

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 5:47 PM

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tired basalt This is an editor script so idk if that works

It does there is an option to set it to "Editor" or "Playmode"

tired basalt Jan 2, 2022, 6:32 PM

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OK Thx I will give it a try

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 8:28 PM

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tired basalt For some reason my script is really slow

If you're doing repeated operations on the asset database you should do it in a block using this method and its pair https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.StartAssetEditing.html if you aren't already. It'll group the operations

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 8:57 PM

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visual stag If you're doing repeated operations on the asset database you should do it in a ...

This is only for helping with creating/copying/move/renaming/importing assets correct?

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 8:58 PM

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Anything that involves asset importing

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I should probably have looked up what extract asset was before recommending it lol

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 8:59 PM

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visual stag Anything that involves asset importing

Okay that is what I thought.

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 8:59 PM

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Ah it's what I thought it was, yes this is important

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 9:00 PM

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Hey, do you happen to know a way to save a single asset by chance?

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 9:00 PM

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"save"?

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 9:00 PM

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Write to disk

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 9:00 PM

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I don't know what you mean. CreateAsset is not it?

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 9:01 PM

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AssetDatabase.SaveAssets() but a single asset instead of all dirty assets

visual stag Jan 2, 2022, 9:02 PM

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I think ImportAsset might be that?

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Honestly it's been a while

patent pebble Jan 2, 2022, 9:12 PM

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@visual stag it seems like i was able to make multi-object editing work with SerializeReference by "rebuilding" the inspector after I change multi-selected property values

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https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Editor/Mono/Inspector/InspectorWindow.cs#L449 using this method

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i've been testing a little bit on fresh projects and it seems like they don't explode

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I still don't fully trust it, but it's a step forward

gloomy chasm Jan 2, 2022, 9:31 PM

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visual stag I think ImportAsset might be that?

ImportAssets seems to update the Unityengine.Object from the asset file.

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 12:52 AM

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im having trouble saving changes to a list , what im doing is :

public override void OnInspectorGUI() 
{
  var script = (XRArmature) target ;
...

  if( GUILayout.Button("Add") )
  {
        script.armatures.Add( ... );
        serializedObject.Update();
        Undo.RecordObject( script , "add" );
  }

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so im guessing setting script.armatures[ i ] = value ( where armatures is List<T>

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is not enough too call serializedObject.Update(); ?

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the problem is that i try edit the component data inside a prefab scene view , it works ok while in that view but when i exit and enter the prefab again the changes are lost

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ok i think i got it :

int index = script.armatures.Count;
serializedObject.FindProperty("armatures").InsertArrayElementAtIndex(index);
serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();
script.armatures[index] = script.NewArmature( newPoseName );
serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();
Undo.RecordObject( script , "new armature" );

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reference : https://answers.unity.com/questions/334774/adding-to-array-from-editor.html

Adding To Array From Editor - Unity Answers

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gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:12 AM

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tough cairn ok i think i got it : ```cs int index = script.armatures.Count; serializedObject...

What are you trying to do?

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:12 AM

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List.Add

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in Editor : OnInspectorGUI

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:13 AM

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serializedObject.FindProperty("armatures").arraySize++

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:13 AM

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then can i call list.Add ?

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or script.armatures[index] = ...

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:14 AM

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No, that is list.add

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var elementProperty = serializedObject.FindProperty("armatures").GetArrayElementAtIndex(index);
// Set values on elementProperty here...

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:16 AM

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im getting out of range error when i use arraySize ++ ( in that last line where i set [ index ] = ... )

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int index = script.armatures.Count;
serializedObject.FindProperty("armatures").arraySize ++ ;
script.armatures[index] = script.NewArmature( newPoseName );

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:16 AM

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tough cairn ok i think i got it : ```cs int index = script.armatures.Count; serializedObject...

^ this one works tho

patent pebble Jan 3, 2022, 1:20 AM

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tough cairn im getting out of range error when i use arraySize ++ ( in that last line wher...

do the arraySize++ then apply the changes with ApplyModifiedProperties, then you can access the new index

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:21 AM

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so basically its the same as InsertArrayElementAtIndex( lenght - 1 )

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in any case this is a bit odd

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how do i modify existing array element then ?

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GetArrayElementAtIndex needs UnityEngine.Object but my type isn't

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i just been doing this script.armatures[index] = value

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which kinda works ...

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:26 AM

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tough cairn i just been doing this ` script.armatures[index] = value `

What is script?

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:27 AM

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target

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var script = ( MyMonoType ) target ;

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is there a way to save prefab ? my script will modify linked transforms positions from that editor component

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while inside the prefab scene view

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:30 AM

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tough cairn target

That is a Unityengine.Object. It is the same object that serializedObject is of

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:30 AM

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target.list<DataType> where DataType is not Unity.Object

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:33 AM

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tough cairn `target.list<DataType> where DataType is not Unity.Object`

Okay, let me explain. Everything in Unity is serialized to a UnityEngine.Object. A Vector3?, well that is in ScriptableObject or MonoBehaviour, so that is serialized in a Object. A float in your custom class? Well a field of that class is also on a ScriptableObject or MonoBehaviour.

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:34 AM

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[System.Serializable] public struct Armature ... not an Unity.Object *

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:34 AM

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So to access those serialized fields you use SerializedObject which is the UnityEngine.Object that the field is on.

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And you use SerializedProperty to access every field and subfield of that UnityEngine.Object

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:36 AM

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i see

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:36 AM

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var vector3Property = serializedObject.FindProperty("myVector3Field");
// We now edit the value of the vector3
vector3Property.vector3Value = Vector3.zero`

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:36 AM

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yep i been using it like this

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vector3Value has get and set

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it has good support for a range of types

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but not custom types

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im not using EditorGUILayout.PropertyField as i don't want to draw it like the way it does

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:38 AM

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var customProeprty = serializedObject.FindProperty("myCustomClassField");
// This is a custom class, what do we do, there is no .value for this!?
// We get the field that Unity knows how to serialize! :D
var customFloat = customProperty.FindReletiveProperty("myFloatInMyClass");
customFloat.floatValue = 42;

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:38 AM

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that's sort of what i have so far

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:39 AM

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gloomy chasm ```cs var customProeprty = serializedObject.FindProperty("myCustomClassField"); ...

yes i see that

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but it gets a bit ugly when working with lists

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:39 AM

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tough cairn but it gets a bit ugly when working with lists

It can get a bit more annoying yes.

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However there is a benefit! It actually supports prefab overrides.

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:40 AM

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T_T

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i need that

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but its already too far to change

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:40 AM

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tough cairn but its already too far to change

No it's not! 😄

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:40 AM

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guess ill just apply prefab changes ...

rustic warren Jan 3, 2022, 1:40 AM

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I'm trying to make a custom editor for Unity
I want to be able to create drawings with 3 colors within the editor
Any suggestions into what I should look into? Unity has so many different custom libraries for editor GUIs.

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:41 AM

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gloomy chasm No it's not! 😄

i mean already put too much time into this :>

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drawings with 3 colors ?

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:41 AM

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tough cairn i mean already put too much time into this :>

You are in a world of pain if you go this rout. The code will be far more error prone and harder to maintain.

rustic warren Jan 3, 2022, 1:41 AM

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Yeah I'm trying to make like a heatmap within the editor

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:41 AM

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gizmos ?

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:41 AM

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gloomy chasm You are in a world of pain if you go this rout. The code will be far more error ...

hmmmmm ....

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fair point

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:42 AM

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rustic warren I'm trying to make a custom editor for Unity I want to be able to create drawing...

EditorGUI.DrawRect(...) iirc

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:42 AM

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or just EditorGUI.DrawPreviewTexture ?

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:43 AM

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tough cairn or just `EditorGUI.DrawPreviewTexture` ?

That is just more steps to the same thing 😛

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:43 AM

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huh

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oh right he wanted a heat map

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@gloomy chasm u gonna hate this

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that's the only place i use serializedObject " properly "

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:45 AM

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tough cairn

Most EditorGUILayout controls take a serializedProperty as a parameter instead of the value type

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Also, your code would look a lot cleaner if you just reused the properties instead of getting them twice (and have better performance) 😛

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:46 AM

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yes but this whole mess makes this pretty GUI

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:47 AM

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gloomy chasm Also, your code would look a lot cleaner if you just reused the properties inste...

yea im not too worried about this :/

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:47 AM

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tough cairn yea im not too worried about this :/

You will in 6 months when you come back to tweak this a tiny bit 😛

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:47 AM

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actually i have a diff kind of problem

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when the code base is not self contained i have troouble reading it

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when its clean its harder for me to read it

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im a bit dyslexic

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🙃

rustic warren Jan 3, 2022, 1:48 AM

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Thanks for the info

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I'm trying to make a super complicated hardware related SDK

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:49 AM

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rustic warren I'm trying to make a super complicated hardware related SDK

Oooh, good luck!

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 1:49 AM

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tough cairn when its clean its harder for me to read it

Uhh... sure... you do you I guess, please just don't show me your code again 😛 (jk, jk)

tough cairn Jan 3, 2022, 1:50 AM

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ahaha i know u love it

smoky plover Jan 3, 2022, 9:17 AM

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How to verticalize my split view?

smoky jasper Jan 3, 2022, 1:27 PM

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Is there a way to display the 2D grid cell mouse position in a window or a footer of the unity interface ?

pallid flax Jan 3, 2022, 1:28 PM

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What plugins are good for beginners

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 2:09 PM

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smoky plover How to verticalize my split view?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.UIElements.TwoPaneSplitView.html

smoky plover Jan 3, 2022, 2:10 PM

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I don't see any orientation

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 2:10 PM

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smoky plover I don't see any orientation

third parameter

fickle quarry Jan 3, 2022, 2:11 PM

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Cant seem to get prebuild scene editing to work.
Using 2020.3LTS and the error is in the screenshot below. Building for Android
Here is my code:

using UnityEditor;
using UnityEditor.Build;
using UnityEditor.Build.Reporting;

public class SceneStuff : IProcessSceneWithReport
{
    public int callbackOrder { get { return 0; } }

    public void OnProcessScene(UnityEngine.SceneManagement.Scene scene, BuildReport report)
    {
        foreach (var obj in scene.GetRootGameObjects())
        {
            var mr = obj.GetComponent<UnityEngine.MeshRenderer>();
            if (mr)
            {
                mr.shadowCastingMode = UnityEngine.Rendering.ShadowCastingMode.Off;
                mr.receiveGI = UnityEngine.ReceiveGI.LightProbes;
                mr.reflectionProbeUsage = UnityEngine.Rendering.ReflectionProbeUsage.Off;
            }
        }
    }
}

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 2:11 PM

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smoky plover I don't see any orientation

smoky plover Jan 3, 2022, 2:12 PM

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how to use?

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 2:14 PM

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smoky plover how to use?

Reading the documentation helps.

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https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UIElementsExamples/tree/2019.1.1f1/Assets/Examples/Editor/TwoPaneSplitView

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There is also that

smoky plover Jan 3, 2022, 2:15 PM

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this is the class definition

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 2:15 PM

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smoky plover this is the class definition

Yes it used to be an example, and then it was moved in to the engine. There is still a UXML, USS and window class that show how to use it though

fickle quarry Jan 3, 2022, 2:24 PM

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fickle quarry Cant seem to get prebuild scene editing to work. Using 2020.3LTS and the error ...

If someone knows let me know

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 2:27 PM

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fickle quarry Cant seem to get prebuild scene editing to work. Using 2020.3LTS and the error ...

Is it in an Editor folder?

fickle quarry Jan 3, 2022, 2:28 PM

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Ah, nope, will do that right away

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 2:32 PM

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fickle quarry Ah, nope, will do that right away

Basically anything that uses the UnityEditor namespace needs to be in a folder called Editor (it can be in a folder of that folder, as long as the Editor folder is in the path at some point).

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That code will not be included in builds

fickle quarry Jan 3, 2022, 2:32 PM

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Yep got it, forgot to do so in frustration with other issues haha

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Building now, thanks!

smoky jasper Jan 3, 2022, 2:52 PM

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In game, to retrieve the cell under the mouse pointer, I do:
Vector3 mouseWorldPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePosition);
mouseWorldPosition.z = 0;
cellPosition = grid.WorldToCell(mouseWorldPosition);
In editor, from an EditorWindow, to retrieve the cell under the mouse pointer, I do:
Vector3 mouseWorldPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Event.current.mousePosition);
mouseWorldPosition.z = 0;
cellPosition = grid.WorldToCell(mouseWorldPosition);
The result is ok in game but not in editor. Could you please tell me what is wrong ?

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 2:56 PM

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smoky jasper In game, to retrieve the cell under the mouse pointer, I do: Vector3 mouseWorld...

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GUIUtility.GUIToScreenPoint.html

smoky jasper Jan 3, 2022, 3:01 PM

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Thanks a lot @gloomy chasm 🙂

patent pebble Jan 3, 2022, 10:54 PM

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welp, SerializedProperty.isArray is giving me some weird results

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public static List<SerializedProperty> GetAllArrayProperties(this SerializedObject serObj)
{
    SerializedProperty iterator = serObj.GetIterator();
    List<SerializedProperty> arrayProps = new List<SerializedProperty>();

    while (iterator.NextVisible(true))
    {
        if (iterator.isArray)
        {
            arrayProps.Add(iterator.Copy());
            Debug.Log($"Array property found: {arrayProps.ElementAt(arrayProps.Count -1).propertyPath}");
        }
    }

    return arrayProps;
}

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I'm getting the arrays and also the elements of the arrays

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is there a way to get only the properties that are arrays?

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hmmm is it detecting the string properties as char[] ? 🤔

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 11:00 PM

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patent pebble hmmm is it detecting the string properties as ``char[]`` ? 🤔

Ah, yeah it does iirc

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Try with just like float arrays or something

patent pebble Jan 3, 2022, 11:02 PM

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gloomy chasm Try with just like float arrays or something

yeah it works fine with floats

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so how do I go about getting only actual array properties?

gloomy chasm Jan 3, 2022, 11:02 PM

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patent pebble so how do I go about getting only actual array properties?

Just gotta check the type

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iterator.isArray && iterator.propertyType != PropertyType.StringValue

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Or something like that

patent pebble Jan 3, 2022, 11:10 PM

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gloomy chasm `iterator.isArray && iterator.propertyType != PropertyType.StringValue`

aah I see, thx

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any other property type that becomes an array internally?

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maybe Vectors?

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maybe Rects too?

patent pebble Jan 3, 2022, 11:28 PM

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seems like doing this I can get arrays properly

if (iterator.propertyType == SerializedPropertyType.Generic && iterator.isArray)
{
}

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I don't know if this can have other side effects, if anybody knows what things I should look out for when doing this please do tell! 😊

tough cairn Jan 4, 2022, 2:23 AM

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Getting an asset import warning , nothing seems broken but that's bugs me a lil bit , any tips how to get rid of it ?

Importer(NativeFormatImporter) generated inconsistent result for asset(guid:bc0d75b32f0525842a5d32ee1281a78f) "Assets/XR/Settings/OpenXR Package Settings.asset"
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallGlobalEventHandler ()

patent pebble Jan 4, 2022, 2:49 AM

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Is there anything like OnDisable but for a PropertyDrawer?

gloomy chasm Jan 4, 2022, 2:54 AM

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patent pebble Is there anything like OnDisable but for a PropertyDrawer?

nope

gloomy chasm Jan 4, 2022, 2:54 AM

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tough cairn Getting an asset import warning , nothing seems broken but that's bugs me a lil ...

nope

patent pebble Jan 4, 2022, 2:54 AM

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gloomy chasm nope

ah shit... 😓

gloomy chasm Jan 4, 2022, 2:54 AM

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patent pebble ah shit... 😓

What do you need to do?

tough cairn Jan 4, 2022, 2:55 AM

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gloomy chasm nope

sad flute noises

patent pebble Jan 4, 2022, 2:58 AM

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gloomy chasm What do you need to do?

I'm making a PropertyDrawer for fields that have [SerializeReference]
To support multiselection and all that stuff with lists i subscribe to the OnSelect and OnReorder events of all the ReorderableLists that are currently in the inspector when the PropertyDrawer gets constructed
What I need is a way to safely unsubscribe from those events as the inspector switches the inspected target to a different one

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Because right now the event subscriptions keep polluting the code and I get many calls to the events

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So i get a bunch of errors due to SerializedProperties and SerializedObjects being disposed and null

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and that's... not fun 😓

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i thought of using the Selection.selectionChanged event, but it won't work because it breaks when there's multiple inspectors

gloomy chasm Jan 4, 2022, 3:08 AM

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patent pebble I'm making a PropertyDrawer for fields that have [SerializeReference] To support...

Does it through any errors or anything?

patent pebble Jan 4, 2022, 3:10 AM

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gloomy chasm Does it through any errors or anything?

yes I get errors due to this:

Events get called once, I do what I need to do (reorder properties, etc)
-Then I "rebuild" the inspector window, which disposes of all the SerializedProperties
-Then the event gets called again and starts throwing errors because the references to the previous SerializedProperties are disposed

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it doesn't break tho

gloomy chasm Jan 4, 2022, 3:11 AM

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patent pebble yes I get errors due to this: - Events get called once, I do what I need to do (...

Maybe could use a try catch to remove it?

patent pebble Jan 4, 2022, 3:12 AM

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gloomy chasm Maybe could use a try catch to remove it?

maybe

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is there any way to force the Editor to do garbage collection?

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i think that could maybe work too

gloomy chasm Jan 4, 2022, 3:12 AM

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patent pebble is there any way to force the Editor to do garbage collection?

GC

patent pebble Jan 4, 2022, 3:19 AM

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gloomy chasm `GC`

ah that works! thanks

smoky plover Jan 4, 2022, 11:00 AM

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the code inside the Editor folder is ignored when building or I have to add the preprocessors if UNITYEDITOR?

icy merlin Jan 4, 2022, 11:01 AM

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If you're not using AssemblyDefinitionFiles, code in editor folders will automatically be put in a different editor-only assembly so you don't need UNITYEDITOR guards.

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If you are using AssemblyDefinitionFiles, you'll either need to set up different assemblies for your editor-only code or guard it with #ifs.

smoky plover Jan 4, 2022, 11:03 AM

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with AssemblyDefinitionFiles you mean dll?

icy merlin Jan 4, 2022, 11:04 AM

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No, I mean .asmdef files. If you don't have any of those in the folders above your script file, you're not using them.

smoky plover Jan 4, 2022, 11:04 AM

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ok, thx. I never used it.

icy merlin Jan 4, 2022, 11:06 AM

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They're worth looking at if you ever start to feel like script compilation is taking an annoying amount of time, though they do need some additional planning and organisation to use.

smoky plover Jan 4, 2022, 11:07 AM

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and they have nothing to do with namespace right?

icy merlin Jan 4, 2022, 11:07 AM

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That's right, they're unrelated.

smoky plover Jan 4, 2022, 11:08 AM

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I'm reading the unity doc, they needs to group scripts and so when you change one script the recompile process takes only the groups with atleast one modified script

icy merlin Jan 4, 2022, 11:09 AM

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Yep, that's pretty much it. So for larger projects where recompiling every script would take ages they can be a significant time saving.

short prawn Jan 4, 2022, 6:18 PM

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Anyone know how I can select a folder in the project window, currently using this which does not work, but it seems to work fine for an individual file:

UnityEngine.Object obj = AssetDatabase.LoadMainAssetAtPath(EditorStaticStuff.BuildToolsSettingsLocation);

                Selection.activeObject = obj;

icy merlin Jan 4, 2022, 6:29 PM

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Google suggests that LoadAssetAtPath should work? Folders are weird, it's possible that they don't have a "main" asset.

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(Folders should be of type UnityEditor.DefaultAsset for the purposes of that method.)

short prawn Jan 4, 2022, 6:52 PM

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icy merlin Google suggests that `LoadAssetAtPath` should work? Folders are weird, it's poss...

LoadAssetAtPath also doesn't work, tried that first and forgot to change it back

short prawn Jan 4, 2022, 6:52 PM

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icy merlin (Folders should be of type `UnityEditor.DefaultAsset` for the purposes of that m...

this might though, ill get back

short prawn Jan 4, 2022, 6:54 PM

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icy merlin (Folders should be of type `UnityEditor.DefaultAsset` for the purposes of that m...

doesn't work, ill leave it for now, thanks for your help

icy merlin Jan 4, 2022, 6:57 PM

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Weird; you could try with UnityEngine.Object instead, I guess? https://forum.unity.com/threads/selecting-a-folder-in-the-project-via-button-in-editor-window.355357/ claims to have got it working like that.

Unity Forum

Selecting a folder in the project via button in editor window

Hi guys I'm looking for something like "Selection.activeObject = object;" but to select a folder not an object

Thanks
Mike

short prawn Jan 4, 2022, 6:57 PM

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That's what I started with

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That exact thread is already open lol

icy merlin Jan 4, 2022, 6:57 PM

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(But folders are definitely DefaultAssets, so that should work too.)

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Weird; maybe it changed, maybe it never actually worked for them either.

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Or maybe it's something really weird like "Unity only creates DefaultAssets for folders when they're selected".

short prawn Jan 4, 2022, 6:59 PM

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uugh ffs, now it's working copying that exact snippet.

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When it didn't before, so I might mark this as "i dont know why but it does now so stop touching it"

patent pebble Jan 4, 2022, 7:01 PM

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@short prawn the code snippet you posted above works for me

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it selects folders just fine

short prawn Jan 4, 2022, 7:02 PM

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w h a t

patent pebble Jan 4, 2022, 7:02 PM

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@short prawn are you sure your path is correct?
debug it and paste it here

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maybe you're using the wrong formatting or something

short prawn Jan 4, 2022, 7:02 PM

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Yep, 100% sure the path is correct. Like I say it's working now so I'm going to leave it and move on, spent too long on this stupid tiny thing that only helps me not dive like 7 folders deep

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Thanks @patent pebble though, appreciate it

patent pebble Jan 4, 2022, 7:06 PM

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Maybe a bug, or maybe you had something else changing selections, or maybe your code wasn't recompiled

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I've had a couple of times where my code doesn't get recompiled correctly even if looks like Unity did recompile it

sharp breach Jan 4, 2022, 7:08 PM

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Hey hi! I dont know where to post this but seems editor related.
Any recommendations on how can i get some kind of flag/sticky note over an object with a string?
Its mainly to see on the scene the name of an object

patent pebble Jan 4, 2022, 7:14 PM

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@sharp breach this channel is for making editor extensions. For basic Editor functionality there's #💻┃unity-talk

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but here you go https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.3/Documentation/Manual/AssigningIcons.html

smoky plover Jan 5, 2022, 12:42 PM

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How to change the color of a VisualElement?
I use style.backgroundColor but it adds the color, I want to replace it.
I'm trying with MarkDirtyRepaint(); but doesn't seems to work

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ok, solved

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i was using MarkDirtyRepaint(); in the wrong way

light hearth Jan 5, 2022, 3:57 PM

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I'm trying to make some simple logic where different variables show up in the inspector depending on the value of an enum.

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[CustomEditor(typeof(PassiveEffectDataContainer)), CanEditMultipleObjects]
public class PassiveEffectEditor : Editor
{
    public SerializedProperty
        PassiveEffectType,
        StatModifiers,
        StatModifierThresholdMin,
        StatModifierThresholdMax,
        TakeDamageOnAttackValue;
    void OnEnable() {
        PassiveEffectType = serializedObject.FindProperty("PassiveEffectType");
        StatModifiers = serializedObject.FindProperty("StatModifiers");
        StatModifierThresholdMin = serializedObject.FindProperty("StatModifierThresholdMin");
        StatModifierThresholdMax = serializedObject.FindProperty("StatModifierThresholdMax");
        TakeDamageOnAttackValue = serializedObject.FindProperty("TakeDamageOnAttackValue");
    }
    public override void OnInspectorGUI() {
        serializedObject.Update();
        EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(PassiveEffectType);
        PassiveEffectDataContainer.EffectType type = (PassiveEffectDataContainer.EffectType)PassiveEffectType.enumValueIndex;
        switch (type) {
            case PassiveEffectDataContainer.EffectType.StatModifiersAtHealthThreshold:
                EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(StatModifiers, new GUIContent("StatModifiers"));
                EditorGUILayout.Slider(StatModifierThresholdMin, 0f, 1f, new GUIContent("HealthThresholdMin"));
                EditorGUILayout.Slider(StatModifierThresholdMax, 0f, 1f, new GUIContent("HealthThresholdMax"));
                break;
            case PassiveEffectDataContainer.EffectType.StatModifiers:
                EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(StatModifiers, new GUIContent("StatModifiers"));
                break;
            case PassiveEffectDataContainer.EffectType.TakeDamageOnAttack:
                EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(TakeDamageOnAttackValue, new GUIContent("SelfInflictedDamage"));
                break;

        }
        serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();
    }
}

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However, all variables show up no matter what the "PassiveEffectType" enum is set to.

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Is anyone able to see where the error might be?

mellow oar Jan 5, 2022, 4:03 PM

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light hearth ```cs [CustomEditor(typeof(PassiveEffectDataContainer)), CanEditMultipleObjects]...

When I want to hide a set of properties, I surround them with a if statement, so the Editor only draws if said properties when it sees the proper bool

In your case, you might want to leverage a Switch statement that only draws these things when it sees that Enum

light hearth Jan 5, 2022, 4:04 PM

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mellow oar When I want to hide a set of properties, I surround them with a `if` statement, ...

I mean yeah, there is a switch statement in the OnInspectorGUI but it doesnt seem to actually do anything

icy merlin Jan 5, 2022, 4:05 PM

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light hearth Is anyone able to see where the error might be?

I guess the first question is, are you certain it is actually using this editor rather than the default?

mellow oar Jan 5, 2022, 4:05 PM

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light hearth I mean yeah, there is a switch statement in the OnInspectorGUI but it doesnt see...

yeah I was going to say - time to hit it with breakpoints to make sure it's receiving data

light hearth Jan 5, 2022, 4:06 PM

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I'll try that thanks

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No it seems to be using the default editor.

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Since breakpoints arent being triggered

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Here's the class who's inspector I want to change

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
[System.Serializable]
public class PassiveEffectDataContainer
{
    public enum EffectType
    {
        StatModifiersAtHealthThreshold,
        StatModifiers,
        TakeDamageOnAttack
    }
    public EffectType PassiveEffectType;

    // Statmodifier
    public StatModifierContainer[] StatModifiers;
    [Range(0, 1)] public float thresholdMin;
    [Range(0, 1)] public float thresholdMax;

    // Take Damage on attack
    public int DamageTaken;
}

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(Or rather, a scriptable object referencing this class).

icy merlin Jan 5, 2022, 4:13 PM

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light hearth (Or rather, a scriptable object referencing this class).

You can only write custom editors for complete unity objects (so ScriptableObjects or Components); for individual members you need to use property drawers.

light hearth Jan 5, 2022, 4:17 PM

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icy merlin You can only write custom editors for complete unity objects (so ScriptableObjec...

Oh - I was afraid that was the case. I'm trying to have the same class "PassiveEffectDataContainer" along my scriptable object type "Ability" and "PassiveItem" but I assume this just isn't possible then, unless I rewrite the code for both the "Ability" and "PassiveItem" class :/

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Unless I use property drawers then.

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I'll look into it, thanks

icy merlin Jan 5, 2022, 4:20 PM

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If you're only using it in specific classes, you could write editors for those classes and share a method to draw the common part. But yes, property drawers are the only way to have it "just work" in any class that includes the type.

west drum Jan 5, 2022, 6:18 PM

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Does anyone know a good tutorial to create custom UIElement controls? I would like to make my own UXML control.

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(not using the builder)

median geode Jan 5, 2022, 9:43 PM

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Hiya, this is probably a dumb question (dumb for doing it, not dumb thing to ask haha) but does anybody know where the actual file that using UnityEngine.Tilemaps; file is located on a normal install? I'm trying to make a 'Sprinkle Fill' tool for the tile palette. I've been looking for like an hour now and good 'ol google hasn't been able to help much, Thanks!!!

lilac pendant Jan 5, 2022, 10:06 PM

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why are you looking for that?

gloomy chasm Jan 5, 2022, 10:25 PM

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median geode Hiya, this is probably a dumb question (dumb for doing it, not dumb thing to ask...

Isn't that a package?

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If it is you can just access it in the Project Browser

glass hatch Jan 6, 2022, 11:22 AM

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hi all, i am using a scriptableobject framework. however, when i launch the game in runtime mode, there is a "type mismatch". on the top right corner. may i know what could be causing this?

waxen sandal Jan 6, 2022, 12:09 PM

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Sounds like a broken editor class

glass hatch Jan 6, 2022, 12:26 PM

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anything i can do to fix it?

tepid light Jan 6, 2022, 1:37 PM

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Hi guys, sorry if this isn't the place for this, but not sure who else to ask!
A super simple 2D scene is giving me a framerate of ~25 fps.
BUT if I close the scene window, it shoots up to ~120 fps.
And if I maximise on play i'm getting 250 fps+ !

Anybody else had this issue? I can't dev if I have to fullscreen every time or close the scene window! This unity version is a real mess on mac 😢
I'm on mac, 2020.3.25f1 LTS (but issue exists on all 2020.3 LTS)

jaunty nova Jan 6, 2022, 2:25 PM

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@west fog owo who's this

jaunty nova Jan 6, 2022, 3:17 PM

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Hey,

cobalt oxide Jan 6, 2022, 3:18 PM

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Hello! Does anybody knows how to fix A* NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object error?

jaunty nova Jan 6, 2022, 3:18 PM

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Hey,

//in SceneView duringGui
 if (currentEvent.type == EventType.MouseDown && currentEvent.button == 0)
{
    currentEvent.Use();
}

It seems a left click into the scene view, even used using Event.Use() in a Scene GUI callback will register and select an item.

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The straightforward way is to just use the right click instead, but since that interferes with rotation, I have to ask if there's a way to prevent this behavior.

waxen sandal Jan 6, 2022, 3:38 PM

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No

gloomy chasm Jan 6, 2022, 4:02 PM

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Yes, but it isn't fun/nice

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You can register a event callback on the SceneView UIToolkit Visual Element that uses the mouse input before it gets to the scene view if memory serves

jaunty nova Jan 6, 2022, 6:43 PM

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Oh, that is a very interesting method

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And seems to be straightforward too, in fact, if a little violating of POLA

tardy pecan Jan 6, 2022, 7:13 PM

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yo! I'm trying to set the position/size of a button in UIElements for an editor extension, but when I change it in the style it doesn't update, anyone knows why?

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{
    private Button _button;
    
    public override void SetPosition(float x, float y)
    {
        _button.style.position = Position.Absolute;
        _button.style.left = X;
        _button.style.top = Y;
    }

    public override void SetSize(float width, float height)
    {
        _button.style.width = Width;
        _button.style.height = Height;
    }

    public EditorGridButton()
    {
        _button = new Button();
        Add(_button);
    }
}```

tardy pecan Jan 6, 2022, 7:34 PM

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Ok nvm, now only the height is not working for some reason (width is working)

gloomy chasm Jan 6, 2022, 8:12 PM

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Are file ids unique?

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Particularly for subassets. I believe the answer is yes, but would be nice if someone who is more familiar with them could confirm it for me.

surreal agate Jan 6, 2022, 8:23 PM

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How do i make visual studio not show me exceptions thrown during a try?

smoky jasper Jan 6, 2022, 9:29 PM

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Hello. I have a problem with my custom editor window. Sometime it is recreated while it is currently displayed. It's like the EditorWindow.GetWindow function doesn't see that my window already exists. Here is the source code: https://pastebin.com/LXeu9uQf

Pastebin

using UnityEditor;using UnityEngine;class MouseCellPositionWindow :...

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

gloomy chasm Jan 6, 2022, 9:30 PM

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smoky jasper Hello. I have a problem with my custom editor window. Sometime it is recreated w...

Why are you using GetWindow on enable?

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You are getting a references to itself

smoky jasper Jan 6, 2022, 9:31 PM

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Because I need to set the win variable to a static variable

gloomy chasm Jan 6, 2022, 9:31 PM

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smoky jasper Because I need to set the win variable to a static variable

win = this;

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It is most likely creating a new window because it has not been registered fully sometimes in the C++ end and so GetWindow can't find it so creates a new one

smoky jasper Jan 6, 2022, 9:32 PM

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If i don't "update" the win value in the onenable it is lost when I switch from visual studio to unity

gloomy chasm Jan 6, 2022, 9:32 PM

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That is my guess at least

gloomy chasm Jan 6, 2022, 9:33 PM

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smoky jasper If i don't "update" the win value in the onenable it is lost when I switch from ...

Yes I get that, but it is the same as doing win = this; but a lot more accurate and cheaper

smoky jasper Jan 6, 2022, 9:34 PM

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ok I try this

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It seems to work and indeed I should not have this problem without a call to GetWindow.

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Thanks 🙂

fleet token Jan 6, 2022, 10:19 PM

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So, I'm trying to make a PropertyDrawer for a class (class A<>). Thing is, this class is generic, so it can't be serialized. So I make a second class that extends from A, but specifies the type (class B : A<bool>). However, it seems like I cannot FindPropertyRelative for fields that are originally on A? Is that correct? Any way to get around that?

gloomy chasm Jan 6, 2022, 10:28 PM

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fleet token So, I'm trying to make a PropertyDrawer for a class (class A<>). Thing is, this ...

If you are using 2020.3+ Unity can serialize generics

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Also, you should be able find the properties of the base class just fine

fleet token Jan 6, 2022, 10:31 PM

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Well, It looks like I'm using 2021.1

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So maybe my error is in another place?

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And yeah, it looks like I was reading an old version of the documentation

eternal sapphire Jan 6, 2022, 11:23 PM

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is there a way to disable / hide the grid in the animation preview window?

gloomy chasm Jan 6, 2022, 11:48 PM

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eternal sapphire is there a way to disable / hide the grid in the animation preview window?

No

patent pebble Jan 7, 2022, 11:53 AM

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I'm curious, what issues do they have?

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I haven't extensively tested their implementations, but I'm making my own just for learning purposes

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@stiff vine what version of Unity are you using? Keep in mind the [SerializeReference] attribute is still sort of unstable and still has a bunch of bugs

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I feel like the issues you described may be more related to Unity's implementation of the SerializeReference stuff and how it integrates with the serialization system
because the drawers from vertx's and mackysoft's are fairly simple and are mostly just UI

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i'm not an expert on the topic, so take it with a grain of salt

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have you read the docs on this?
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializeReference.html

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it has certain limitations "by design"

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i've seen a lot of people who frequent this channel advice against using SerializeReference in production pipelines unless it's for something very simple

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for now I just use it for experimentation and learning projects

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what are your needs exactly? just polymorphism?

visual stag Jan 7, 2022, 12:10 PM

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Can you tell me what version you're using and some example code? Because I've never seen this before and it doesn't really make sense afaik I'm not even drawing the properties, just appending a hacked property decorator

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I do need to update the thing to be a bit more robust, but for basic usage it should just work

patent pebble Jan 7, 2022, 12:12 PM

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the only "battle-tested" solution I've heard people talk about is Odin, I've heard their serialization stuff is pretty good
haven't used it myself, so do some research before committing to it
I don't know if their stuff is modular or not, which may be a pain if you're forced to change your entire workflow just to get polymorphic serialization/UI

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list<genericClass>
maybe that's related to this?

Field value cannot be a specific specialization of a generic type(inflated type).

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just throwing stuff out there, might not be

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well, what you're drawing is also the result of the serialization/deserialization process

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so you have to make sure you're using it appropriately to make sure the serialization system handles the data correctly

visual stag Jan 7, 2022, 12:21 PM

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So the header displays twice? Huh

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Only for list elements?

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It appears fine where I'm looking, but maybe I don't have the specific setup right to cause it

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So what's the issue that causes it?

patent pebble Jan 7, 2022, 12:28 PM

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ah, you're using NaughtyAttributes in your project?

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if I remember correctly that completely overrides the way the default inspector stuff is drawn

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as far as I can tell it mimics the default implementation

visual stag Jan 7, 2022, 12:28 PM

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Ah

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Yeah that'll do it 😛

patent pebble Jan 7, 2022, 12:29 PM

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I had Naughty Attributes fuck up with my own tools before, so whenever I need to make a tool or test something I usually go to a clean project

visual stag Jan 7, 2022, 12:36 PM

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I'll think about the problem some more, it may or may not have solution...

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I have absolutely no idea how subclassselector works or looks like

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None of my use cases have such open type restrictions that that would be relevant

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but I can think about adding it as an option

light hearth Jan 7, 2022, 1:32 PM

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I know that custom classes can't have a custom editor. But I have a scriptable object called AbilitySO that has a list of my custom class PassiveEffectDataContainer:

public enum PassiveEffectType
{
    StatModifiersAtHealthThreshold,
    StatModifiers,
    TakeDamageOnAttack
}
public class PassiveEffectDataContainer
{
    public PassiveEffectType EffectType;

    // Statmodifier
    public StatModifierContainer[] StatModifiers;
    [Range(0, 1)] public float thresholdMin;
    [Range(0, 1)] public float thresholdMax;

    // Take Damage on attack
    public int DamageTaken;
}

I want to show in the inspector different variables depending on the "EffectType" enum through my AbilitySO editor script. Anyone know how to do this?

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An example of how I "want" it to work (but it obviously doesnt):

[CustomEditor(typeof(AbilitySO))]
public class AbilitySOEditor : Editor
{
    public AbilitySO ability;
    void OnEnable() {
        ability = (AbilitySO)target;
    }
    public override void OnInspectorGUI() {
        serializedObject.Update();
        EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(EffectType);
        foreach (PassiveEffectDataContainer effect in ability.PassiveEffects) {
            switch (effect.EffectType) {
                case PassiveEffectType.StatModifiersAtHealthThreshold:
                    EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(effect.StatModifiers, new GUIContent("StatModifiers"));
                    EditorGUILayout.Slider(effect.StatModifierThresholdMin, 0f, 1f, new GUIContent("HealthThresholdMin"));
                    EditorGUILayout.Slider(effect.StatModifierThresholdMax, 0f, 1f, new GUIContent("HealthThresholdMax"));
                    break;

                case PassiveEffectType.StatModifiers:
                    EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(effect.StatModifiers, new GUIContent("StatModifiers"));
                    break;

                case PassiveEffectType.TakeDamageOnAttack:
                    EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(effect.TakeDamageOnAttackValue, new GUIContent("SelfInflictedDamage"));
                    break;
            }
        }
        serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();
    }
}

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I guess the question I'm asking how to find a property field within a list?

visual stag Jan 7, 2022, 1:45 PM

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working hard or hardly working

visual stag Jan 7, 2022, 2:02 PM

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I think that's a problem with Unity, I don't specify the height of the property, just of the header

gloomy chasm Jan 7, 2022, 2:26 PM

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light hearth I know that custom classes can't have a custom editor. But I have a scriptable o...

PassiveEffectDataContainer needs to have the [System.Serializable] attribute

light hearth Jan 7, 2022, 2:34 PM

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gloomy chasm `PassiveEffectDataContainer` needs to have the `[System.Serializable]` attribute

It has that, I forgot to include it in the code here on discord. Sorry! (doesnt solve the problem unfortunately)

gloomy chasm Jan 7, 2022, 2:37 PM

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light hearth It has that, I forgot to include it in the code here on discord. Sorry! (doesnt ...

I see. What part don't you know how to do?

light hearth Jan 7, 2022, 2:45 PM

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gloomy chasm I see. What part don't you know how to do?

I have a list of PassiveEffectDataContainer (custom class referenced by a scriptable object). Each PassiveEffectDataContainer has an enum. When the value of the enum changes, i want the fields within the respective PassiveEffectDataContainer to show/hide different variables.

gloomy chasm Jan 7, 2022, 2:45 PM

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light hearth I have a list of PassiveEffectDataContainer (custom class referenced by a script...

So it is self contained to the custom class? You could make a PropertyDrawer for it if you wanted.

light hearth Jan 7, 2022, 2:50 PM

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gloomy chasm So it is self contained to the custom class? You could make a PropertyDrawer for...

Yeah I was looking into that but I guess I'm just really confused by the syntax. Haven't worked with custom editors/PropertyDrawers before so it's a bit diffcut for me. Do I create the property drawer for my custom class then and not my Scriptable Object?

gloomy chasm Jan 7, 2022, 2:51 PM

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light hearth Yeah I was looking into that but I guess I'm just really confused by the syntax....

You can think of a PropertyDrawer as a custom editor for normal C# classes.

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Everything in Unity is serialized to a UnityEngine.Object (Components, GameObject, ScriptableObject, etc.). SerializedObject is basically a way to access the serialized data of a UnityEngine.Object.
SerializedProperty is the serialized equivalent of a field, or field of a field of that UnityEngine.Object.

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So in a PropertyDrawer, the SerializedProperty that it gives you is the field on a UnityEngine.Object that is the type you specified

patent pebble Jan 7, 2022, 2:58 PM

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@light hearth a good way of thinking about it is: custom Editors draw for the entire inspector and Property Drawers draw for a field

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so if you have a list like for example List<SomeCustomClass> and you make a Property Drawer for SomeCustoClass, every element of that list will use the property drawer to draw itself

light hearth Jan 7, 2022, 2:59 PM

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Thanks you people, those were some pretty great explanations 🙂

patent pebble Jan 7, 2022, 3:00 PM

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so like MechWarrior said, you can decide the logic of drawing however you want it to based on any of the contained SerializedProperties in your custom class

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you need to know their names to find them

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so you would do something like ``property.FindPropertyRelative("_myEnum");

visual stag Jan 7, 2022, 3:01 PM

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I've sorted a fix for this (I was trying make a fix for 2020+, but it appears like 2021+ is the best I can do). I'll likely make a release tomorrow if I can take a look at the namespace then too.
If you need the fix in the meantime you can try referencing the release branch from git https://github.com/vertxxyz/Vertx.Decorators/tree/release/v1.1.1

patent pebble Jan 7, 2022, 3:03 PM

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visual stag I've sorted a fix for this (I was trying make a fix for 2020+, but it appears li...

ayyyy that's looking nice
One thing I've noticed with your implementation, it didn't allow for the selection of the base class on a basic inheritance chain
or at least I think that was the case

visual stag Jan 7, 2022, 3:03 PM

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Actually, ~~I may have broke something in the release branch, so hold off on using it until I sort it tomorrow~~, it's late 😛

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Wait that's just weird delayed unity stuff... it's fine 😓 I'm gonna sleep

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SerializedReferences are a huge pain, that's all I can say

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I think I see how this can happen, and it's the same deal with the nested property drawers. Another thing I'll note down to look at tomorrow

light hearth Jan 7, 2022, 3:16 PM

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Thanks for the help earlier! I almost got it working. It's usable, but I'd prefer it if the PassiveEffect fields appread below its respective PassiveEffect in the list of "PassiveEffects" in the inspector, instead of below. Is there a way to solve this?:

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Here's the code: ```
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEditor;

[CustomPropertyDrawer(typeof(PassiveEffectDataContainer))]

public class PassiveEffectEditor : PropertyDrawer
{
public override void OnGUI(Rect position, SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label) {

    EditorGUI.BeginProperty(position, label, property);

    var indent = EditorGUI.indentLevel;
    EditorGUI.indentLevel = 0;

    var effectRect = new Rect(position.x, position.y, position.width, EditorGUIUtility.singleLineHeight);
    var secondRect = new Rect(position.x, position.y + 20f, position.width, EditorGUIUtility.singleLineHeight);

    var effectType = property.FindPropertyRelative("EffectType");
    var StatModifiers = property.FindPropertyRelative("StatModifiers");
    var StatModifierThresholdMin = property.FindPropertyRelative("thresholdMin");
    var StatModifierThresholdMax = property.FindPropertyRelative("thresholdMax");
    var TakeDamageOnAttackValue = property.FindPropertyRelative("SelfInflictedDamage");

#

        effectType.intValue = EditorGUI.Popup(effectRect, "EffectType", effectType.intValue, effectType.enumNames);
        switch ((PassiveEffectType)effectType.intValue) {
            case PassiveEffectType.StatModifiersAtHealthThreshold:
                EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(StatModifiers, new GUIContent("StatModifiers"));
                EditorGUILayout.Slider(StatModifierThresholdMin, 0f, 1f, new GUIContent("thresholdMin"));
                EditorGUILayout.Slider(StatModifierThresholdMax, 0f, 1f, new GUIContent("thresholdMax"));
                break;

            case PassiveEffectType.StatModifiers:
                EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(StatModifiers, new GUIContent("StatModifiers"));
                break;

            case PassiveEffectType.TakeDamageOnAttack:
                EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(TakeDamageOnAttackValue, new GUIContent("SelfInflictedDamage"));
                break;
        }
        EditorGUI.indentLevel = indent;

        EditorGUI.EndProperty();
    }

    //This will need to be adjusted based on what you are displaying
    public override float GetPropertyHeight(SerializedProperty property, GUIContent label) {
        return (20 - EditorGUIUtility.singleLineHeight) + (EditorGUIUtility.singleLineHeight * 2);
    }
}

fleet token Jan 7, 2022, 4:32 PM

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Any idea on why I could be getting this error on my propertydrawer? I believe I'm following pretty much exactly the documentation example

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As additional info, I have a public array as another property of the Grid class that I does get found by FindPropertyRelative no problem. And of course, property.hasChildren returns true as well.

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Ah, it seems the problem was the {get: set:}

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weird

gloomy chasm Jan 7, 2022, 4:39 PM

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fleet token weird

Properties are not serializable by Unity

fleet token Jan 7, 2022, 4:41 PM

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learning moment i guess. wasn't even aware there was a difference between fields and properties and was using the terms interchangably

slim zinc Jan 7, 2022, 4:47 PM

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fleet token learning moment i guess. wasn't even aware there was a difference between fields...

you can use [field: SerializeField] instead of [SerializeField] to get true best practice behaviour

gloomy chasm Jan 7, 2022, 5:32 PM

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slim zinc you can use [field: SerializeField] instead of [SerializeField] to get true be...

Yes, but getting the field from that using a SerializedProperty is not so fun iirc.

visual stag Jan 8, 2022, 5:07 AM

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@stiff vine I pushed an update to the package which is on OpenUPM, it should also add namespaces to the dropdown when relevant. Let me know if there's issues.

smoky jasper Jan 8, 2022, 11:51 AM

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Hello, very often I get the following error in the editor: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
UnityEditor.Graphs.Edge.WakeUp I have to restart unity to make it disapears for a while but it always come back. My unity version is 2020.3.23f1.

west drum Jan 8, 2022, 2:02 PM

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Hi fellas. I need some guidance, even if it is for a link to a tutorial. I want to create a settings window for a plugin of mine. I guess the most optimal place to have my settings would be in Project Settings as a separate entry, but I am even ok if it is a whole separate window.

I have no idea what to Google, to find help on this topic. Any hint or direction anyone can give me?

gloomy chasm Jan 8, 2022, 2:40 PM

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west drum Hi fellas. I need some guidance, even if it is for a link to a tutorial. I want ...

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

west drum Jan 8, 2022, 4:07 PM

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@gloomy chasm Thanks!

deep mulch Jan 8, 2022, 7:49 PM

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I've been trying to add some packages to my project, yet no matter what project I select, I get this error while importing. It's been getting really annoying, and none of the answers I've seen online have been fully answered (it seems). I've tried a few different solutions that I was able to find, but nothing has worked so far. Has anyone else had this error?

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Hmmm, seems like closing my VSCode seemed to help, I hope this doesn't cause some errors later on.

molten sierra Jan 8, 2022, 10:21 PM

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Hi, is there an event in editor similar to OnValidate, but only fired when user finishes editing a field instead of firing whenever an input is received? (when they press Enter or unfocus the field)

tardy pecan Jan 8, 2022, 10:39 PM

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hi! if you're using UIElements, there is a method called RegisterCallbackOnValueChanged (name might be wrong but it's very similar)

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so you can do
yourElement.RegisterCallbackOnValueChanged(x=>Debug.Log(x.newValue))

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this will show the field value in the console

molten sierra Jan 8, 2022, 10:55 PM

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Thank you!!

tardy pecan Jan 8, 2022, 11:11 PM

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nw!

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hey! Does anyone knows why all my custom property drawer would stop working? They're in an Editor folder and worked in other projects but for some reason they're not being detected or something

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I believe all editor scripts stopped working actually

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Except editor windows

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 3:52 PM

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Is there any event or anything that gets called BEFORE the AssetModificationProcessor.OnWillMoveAsset()?

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I need to set Unity's selection just before that so it can handle the assets I need

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 3:59 PM

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patent pebble Is there any event or anything that gets called BEFORE the ``AssetModificationPr...

Before, before an asset is moved.... no I don't think so. Maybe there is another/better way? What are you trying to do that requires you to get a callback before that?

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:02 PM

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@gloomy chasm i'm working on an asset processor that needs to keep track of the assets the user INTERACTS with in the project browser, because Unity's handling of selection is... weird
Sometimes the project browser doesn't follow the principle of "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" so it looks like selection is changing while it's actually no

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example:

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during that whole thing, the Selection did not change a single time

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but because asset processors seem to rely on the ACTUAL selection I need to change it before it happens

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:03 PM

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patent pebble

That is because it selects on mouse up

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:04 PM

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patent pebble <@!131292153300123648> i'm working on an asset processor that needs to keep trac...

So you want to keep track of every interaction the user has with a project browser...?

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:05 PM

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gloomy chasm So you want to keep track of every interaction the user has with a project brows...

that part I got covered... I just need to make the AssetModificationProcessor pick up the assets correctly

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i'm not sure if it relies on the selection or not... now that I think about it

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:05 PM

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patent pebble i'm not sure if it relies on the selection or not... now that I think about it

No, not at all. 0%

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It literally is just called when an asset is moved, this includes if you move the assets in the System file browser

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:06 PM

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hmmmm

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I'm having trouble with moving assets when the drag starts on one of the subassets

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1 sec, I'll post gif

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this

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i don't know how to tell Unity "hey, I need you to move both main assets"

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so I guess I need a way to actually trick Unity into thinking I started the drag action from the main asset instead of the sub-asset

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:08 PM

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patent pebble so I guess I need a way to actually trick Unity into thinking I started the drag...

Why are you trying to change the default behaviour of the Project Browser like that?

primal ore Jan 9, 2022, 4:09 PM

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patent pebble I'm having trouble with moving assets when the drag starts on one of the subasse...

I find it easiest to move files in the Windows explorer instead of using Unity
So just right click the file and "open in Explorer" or what's it's called.
Then select the files, hit ctrl + X and then CTRL + V in the correct folder.

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:09 PM

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gloomy chasm Why are you trying to change the default behaviour of the Project Browser like t...

because the default behaviour is... wrong and weird

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I can live with it, I'm just wondering if it's possible to change it

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:10 PM

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primal ore I find it easiest to move files in the Windows explorer instead of using Unity S...

I don't like doing that

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Unity really does not like when assets get fiddled with outside of the editor

primal ore Jan 9, 2022, 4:10 PM

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Also you're selecting the orc07 and the Tree1 , so you're not selecting the same kind of files.

The tree1 you're selecting is the sub child of Tree1
Look closer at the gif you created.

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:10 PM

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yes, i know

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:11 PM

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patent pebble because the default behaviour is... wrong and weird

Suit yourself. You would have to do a check what is being dragged, and compare against the selection I think. This assumes that it is simply not adding the subasset to the draganddrop

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If it is adding it to the dragAndDrop idk what to tell you. I guess you could try registering events with UITK, and cache when the mouse is up(I don't think the Drag events would fire, but you could try those too, and if files were moved, and compare that with the secltion?

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:13 PM

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hmmm

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seems like this is gonna be tricky

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maybe I can access the drag and drop paths internally before they get used, and modify them

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

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similar to this

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:15 PM

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patent pebble maybe I can access the drag and drop paths internally before they get used, and ...

That depends on if the subasset is added or not.

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:16 PM

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i think they do

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yeah the .paths and .objectReferences seem to have that data

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:19 PM

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You can't just change what is being dragged though, you have to do it on drop because someone could be dragging the assets elsewhere

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:22 PM

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gloomy chasm You can't just change what is being dragged though, you have to do it on drop be...

i'll keep that in mind

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gonna try that approach, if it doesn't work I'll just accept my fate and surrender to Unity's way

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i usually don't like modifying default editor behaviours... but the Project Browser and AssetDatabase stuff... it has so many weird little things that are just plain wrong

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:26 PM

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patent pebble i usually don't like modifying default editor behaviours... but the Project Brow...

I disagree, but that's fine haha

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:27 PM

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gloomy chasm I disagree, but that's fine haha

I've encountered so many design decisions with Selection and related stuff...

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when you instinctively expect a logical behaviour

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and it goes in the completely opposite way... because Unity i guess

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:27 PM

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Can you give an example? I personally have found it perfectly fine.

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:29 PM

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well that example with how dragging from subassets behaves inconsistently depending if you are dragging a single asset or dragging multiple assets

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there's also some issues with dragging stuff in inspector lists

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not related to the Project Browser but I suspect it has something to do with how they handle TreeView stuff internally

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@gloomy chasm like...

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what the hell is this monstrosity 😓

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things randomly expand and collapse when doing reordering

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:32 PM

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patent pebble what the hell is this monstrosity 😓

That is a ReorderableList thing. And they expand and collapse because I believe the expand state is stored per index

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:33 PM

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gloomy chasm That is a `ReorderableList` thing. And they expand and collapse because I believ...

probably

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I mean most of the bad stuff I've encountered is not a deal-breaker

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but it's small things like that that make the user experience less enjoyable

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I can't put my finger on them and list them all, but I've definitely found a bunch of them I don't like

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another example, you can't drag assets into a folder if said folder already contains an asset with the same name

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no UI to resolve conflicts, no notification letting you know what's happening, you just can't do the drag

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once you get used to all these Unity quirks they're not a big deal, but still a lil annoying

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 4:38 PM

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Fair enough

patent pebble Jan 9, 2022, 4:39 PM

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ah! another one popped into mind, the INCONSISTENCY of undo/redo in the Project Window

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you dragged an asset and a folder? can undo
you dragged an asset and a folder, but your action caused the folder/asset to get unparented? TOUGH LUCK, no undo for you 😠

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I'm too nitpicky for my own good, that's why I often try to "fix" Unity's quirks when I do some simple tool for some mundane task

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i guess I just need to accept my fate and start jumping through the hoops instead of walking around them 😢

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 7:21 PM

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I'm getting into writing EditorWindow writing and want to edit prefabs from code.

            for (int i = 0; i < rooms.Count; i++)
            {
                //The code I want to do "right" eg use SerializedObjects/Properties
                rooms[i].doors = rooms[i].GetComponentsInChildren<Transition>();

                //Attempts to do that failed
                SerializedObject so_room = new UnityEditor.SerializedObject(rooms[i]);
                SerializedProperty sp_doors = so_room.FindProperty("doors");

                // this didn't work, SP can't Get Components
                sp_doors = so_room.GetComponentsInChildren<Transition>();

                //this didn't work, can't convert from transition[] to serialized property
                sp_doors = rooms[i].GetComponentsInChildren<Transition>();
            }```
How do I convert the first line to do the same thing but with SerializedProperty/SerialziedObjects?

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 7:34 PM

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idle tree I'm getting into writing EditorWindow writing and want to edit prefabs from code...

You get the SerializedProperty of rooms and use .arraySize and .GetArrayElementAtIndex(i) to get the roos[i] element. Then you get the doors serializedProperty from that element and iterate over it, adding one for each component in the GetComponents

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Looks like you are close

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 7:42 PM

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gloomy chasm You get the SerializedProperty of `rooms` and use `.arraySize` and `.GetArrayEle...

Hmm I am having dificulty parsing which thing goes where from your description

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 7:44 PM

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idle tree Hmm I am having dificulty parsing which thing goes where from your description

Combine the two. You iterate over the transitions, and increase the DoorsArray by one for each, then get the newly added element and use .objectReferenceValue = transitions[i]

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 7:47 PM

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gloomy chasm Combine the two. You iterate over the transitions, and increase the DoorsArray b...

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This is tricky very unlike anything I am familiar with when it comes to getting and setting to variables in classes

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 7:48 PM

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idle tree

thing.objectReferenceValue = roomsDoors[i];

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 7:48 PM

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I see now why people have told me to just setDirty and directly edit the variables instead of doing it "right"

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 7:49 PM

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idle tree I see now why people have told me to just setDirty and directly edit the variabl...

Please don't listen to them, do it right. It is better for everyone for so many reasons.

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You almost have it. Using SerializedObjects and SerializedProperties can be a bit extra confusing when working with UnityEngine.Object fields.

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 7:50 PM

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                SerializedObject so_thisRoom = new UnityEditor.SerializedObject(rooms[i]);
                SerializedProperty sp_doorsArray = so_thisRoom.FindProperty("doors");

                Transition[] roomsDoors = rooms[i].GetComponentsInChildren<Transition>();
                for (int i2 = 0; i2 < roomsDoors.Length; i2++)
                {
                    sp_doorsArray.arraySize += 1;
                    var thing = sp_doorsArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i2);
                    SerializedObject so_thing = new UnityEditor.SerializedObject(roomsDoors[i2]);
                    thing.objectReferenceValue = roomsDoors[i];
                }```
No errors, able to compile, test running this script now

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 7:52 PM

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There is no need to create a SerializedObject for the door.

for(..)
{
  sp_doorsArray.arraySize++;
  var thing = sp_doorsArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i2);
  thing.objectReferenceValue = roomsDoors[i];
}

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 7:52 PM

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Hmm, nothing happens, no changes to the prefab in project

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 7:52 PM

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Make sure to do mySerializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();

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Otherwise the changes will not be applied

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 7:53 PM

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gloomy chasm There is no need to create a SerializedObject for the door. ```cs for(..) { sp...

Ill update to that 👍 I am still learning where/when things need to be serializedProperties and serializedObjects so that helps

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            for (int i = 0; i < rooms.Count; i++)
            {
                SerializedObject so_thisRoom = new UnityEditor.SerializedObject(rooms[i]);
                SerializedProperty sp_doorsArray = so_thisRoom.FindProperty("doors");

                Transition[] roomsDoors = rooms[i].GetComponentsInChildren<Transition>();
                for (int i2 = 0; i2 < roomsDoors.Length; i2++)
                {
                    sp_doorsArray.arraySize++;
                    var thing = sp_doorsArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i2);
                    thing.objectReferenceValue = roomsDoors[i];
                }
                so_thisRoom.ApplyModifiedProperties();

Getting very close now, this compiles and runs, the changes are made to the prefab, and Undo entries are made as well.

Minor bug is that right now for example, the expected output of Doors is Door 1, 2, and 3 in array slots 1, 2, and 3, but what I actually get is Door 3 is copied into array slots 1, 2, and 3, and as I undo them, I see that it copied door 1 into all 3 slots, then 2 into all 3 slots, then 3 into all 3 slots.

I think its happening because of the two nested for loops maybe I mixed up an [i] and [i2]

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thing.objectReferenceValue = roomsDoors[i]; yup this one needed to be i2, now it behaves as expected 👍

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:10 PM

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gloomy chasm Make sure to do `mySerializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();`

I have a bug I am not sure how to solve.
Right now every time I check the rooms, it expands the list, duplicating everything.
I tired to write a Contains method to make sure it makes no duplicates, but failed to do so.
I realized I can just wipe out the list entirely and build a new one every time instead of duplicate checking, but I can't figure out how to "erase" the list

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:10 PM

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idle tree I have a bug I am not sure how to solve. Right now every time I check the rooms...

Set the array size to 0

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:10 PM

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gloomy chasm Set the array size to 0

Ahh I tried setting it to null 👍 will try that

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:11 PM

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gloomy chasm Set the array size to 0

                SerializedProperty sp_doorsArray = so_thisRoom.FindProperty("doors");
                sp_doorsArray = 0;```
I cannot set a serialized property to 0, and I cant set the original to 0 either because I can't make changes in code like that 🤔

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:12 PM

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idle tree ``` SerializedObject so_thisRoom = new UnityEditor.SerializedObject(rooms[i]); ...

You are setting a reference to a serialized property to null/0. Even in normal C# stuff that wouldn't work 😉
You want to set the sp_doorsArray.arraySize = 0;

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:12 PM

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Oh, setting its.arraySize to 0 instead of the thing itself?

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:13 PM

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gloomy chasm You are setting a reference to a serialized property to null/0. Even in normal C...

That makes sense, I realized my mistake at the same time 👍 I have to stop thinking about the variables as variables and picture them more like classes with variables of their own

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:14 PM

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idle tree That makes sense, I realized my mistake at the same time 👍 I have to stop think...

If you are familiar with reflection, then just think of them like FieldInfos

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(If that doesn't make more sense/help then don't worry about it)

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:14 PM

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gloomy chasm If you are familiar with reflection, then just think of them like FieldInfos

I am not 😢 All I know of Reflection is that Reflection is something to do with editing and saving code or maybe creating classes at runtime?

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:15 PM

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idle tree I am not 😢 All I know of Reflection is that Reflection is something to do with ...

Yeah, don't worry about it then. No sense getting more confused about something like that if it doesn't already make things clearer

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:33 PM

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gloomy chasm Yeah, don't worry about it then. No sense getting more confused about something ...

    public static void PopulateArrayWithChildren<T>(GameObject parent, T[] array) where T : UnityEngine.Component
    {
        SerializedObject so_parent = new UnityEditor.SerializedObject(parent);
        SerializedProperty sp_childArray = so_parent.FindProperty(array); // requires a String

        sp_childArray.arraySize = 0;

        T[] validChildren = parent.GetComponentsInChildren<T>();
        for (int i = 0; i < validChildren.Length; i++)
        {
            sp_childArray.arraySize++;
            SerializedProperty thisChild = sp_childArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(i);
            thisChild.objectReferenceValue = validChildren[i];
        }
        so_parent.ApplyModifiedProperties();
    }

I am refactoring my method out into a generic static method, but I hit a snag - FindProperty require a string and in a generic, the type and name would not necessarily be known.
I could add a string as part of the method argument, but is there a way to get its name from "T[] array" without doing that?

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:35 PM

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idle tree ```csharp public static void PopulateArrayWithChildren<T>(GameObject parent,...

Why are you passing it an array? It should be the string name of the array.

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:35 PM

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gloomy chasm Why are you passing it an array? It should be the string name of the array.

Oh, because if I pass it a string, then T is never used and how will I tell it what T to look for?

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:36 PM

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idle tree Oh, because if I pass it a string, then T is never used and how will I tell it w...

You pass it the generic type...

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:36 PM

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T is not Time in this circumstance

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gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:36 PM

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idle tree T is not Time in this circumstance

Typo

silent raptor Jan 9, 2022, 8:36 PM

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Hey, in the Button inspector there is a On Click() feature where you select a GameObject and it updates it's content with variables within the object. I'd want similar access to select any of my objects/classes and get variables values from the selection. How would one accomplish this? Not sure if the channel is correct, sorry if not.

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:37 PM

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idle tree Oh, because if I pass it a string, then T is never used and how will I tell it w...

PopuplateArrayWithChildrent<Transition>(obj, "arrayFieldName");

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:37 PM

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silent raptor Hey, in the Button inspector there is a On Click() feature where you select a Ga...

You would use reflection

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:38 PM

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gloomy chasm `PopuplateArrayWithChildrent<Transition>(obj, "arrayFieldName");`

Ahh I didn't know you could do that 👍 The only other time I have used T, the T portion came from a method argument
Pool.ExpandPool(this.transform, poolChildInstances, projectPoolChildReference) in relation to that above snippet I posted

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:38 PM

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idle tree Ahh I didn't know you could do that 👍 The only other time I have used T, the T ...

Haha, you are actively using it when you use GetComponent<TYPE>(); 😉

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:42 PM

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gloomy chasm Haha, you are actively using it when you use `GetComponent<TYPE>();` 😉

The class I put the static method in needed to be an "internal" class instead of a "public static" class 🤔 Otherwise I wasn't able to reference it. I've never seen internal before, will this affect me in ways I won't expect down the road?


internal class PrefabEditing
{
    public static void PopulateArrayWithChildren<T>
}```

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:43 PM

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idle tree The class I put the static method in needed to be an "internal" class instead of...

Won't be able to reference what?

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:43 PM

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gloomy chasm Won't be able to reference what?

Ill show you the error one second

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:43 PM

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gloomy chasm Won't be able to reference what?

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"Does not exist in current context"

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VS code's Alt+Enter sollution was to change it from public static to internal

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gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:44 PM

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idle tree VS code's Alt+Enter sollution was to change it from public static to internal

Did that work...? It shouldn't unless you are referencing other internal classes publicly

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:45 PM

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gloomy chasm Did that work...? It shouldn't unless you are referencing other internal classes...

It did work, or at least it stopped redlining it as wrong

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I dont know why it doesnt exist in the current context

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is it maybe because I'm missing a using Something.Something?

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gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:48 PM

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idle tree

Well in the first image it is because you are trying to call it when it is not in a method or Property

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You can't run code just in the body of a class

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:49 PM

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gloomy chasm Well in the first image it is because you are trying to call it when it is not i...

okay I just moved it there for that screenshot

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:49 PM

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gloomy chasm Well in the first image it is because you are trying to call it when it is not i...

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here is the massive actual position of it

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I was trying to avoid posting the entire thing but that didnt help obviously

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:50 PM

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idle tree okay I just moved it there for that screenshot

Look in #854851968446365696 it has links to code sharing sites. Post the code for both the window and the class in one of those to share it that way

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:51 PM

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gloomy chasm Look in <#854851968446365696> it has links to code sharing sites. Post the code ...

http://pastie.org/p/12vi0mR6DFxF7PyYpxPGOK

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:52 PM

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idle tree http://pastie.org/p/12vi0mR6DFxF7PyYpxPGOK

Looks like it should work I think

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:53 PM

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gloomy chasm Looks like it should work I think

like as written? Because it doesnt

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its giving me the error that PrefabEditing doesnt exist in the current context, and I have no idea why

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 8:54 PM

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Sorry, idk

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 8:54 PM

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me either /shrug

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Ill google around I guess

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 9:01 PM

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gloomy chasm Sorry, idk

I found the answer, it sounds dumb to me, but it was able to see it after I moved it to the same folder as the script I was trying to access it from. I don't know why project path matters but

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 9:02 PM

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idle tree I found the answer, it sounds dumb to me, but it was able to see it after I move...

Ah, all editor scripts need to be in a Editor folder

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Those scripts are compiled in to a different assembly

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 9:03 PM

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gloomy chasm Ah, all editor scripts need to be in a `Editor` folder

Ahh I see, internal unity type stuff I was not aware of 👍

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oh actually in that case I moved the wrong one

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PrefabEditing WAS in editor, its this EditorWindow that ISNT in Editor

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 9:06 PM

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gloomy chasm Ah, all editor scripts need to be in a `Editor` folder

Hmm it stopped working. Null object reference.

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tough cairn Jan 9, 2022, 9:07 PM

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how to hide the localization thing ? ( that button below gizmos )

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 9:07 PM

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I guess it couldnt find string array, but I passed in the correct name

slim zinc Jan 9, 2022, 9:08 PM

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tough cairn how to hide the localization thing ? ( that button below gizmos )

you could override it with an empty visualeement yourself

tough cairn Jan 9, 2022, 9:08 PM

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is there an option in the editor ?

slim zinc Jan 9, 2022, 9:09 PM

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tough cairn is there an option in the editor ?

i don't think so. but why'd you want to hide it anyway?

tough cairn Jan 9, 2022, 9:09 PM

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i got GUI debugging button there

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 9:09 PM

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looks like there is a button in the top left under it

tough cairn Jan 9, 2022, 9:09 PM

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^

slim zinc Jan 9, 2022, 9:09 PM

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tough cairn i got GUI debugging button there

move that button?

tough cairn Jan 9, 2022, 9:09 PM

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actually have 4 buttons on each corner

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yea lol i could but i was wondering if its possible to hide that tho*

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 9:10 PM

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tough cairn how to hide the localization thing ? ( that button below gizmos )

Check the preferences

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😉

tough cairn Jan 9, 2022, 9:10 PM

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👀

slim zinc Jan 9, 2022, 9:11 PM

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if you only need it few times, you can also use the visual element debuger to pick it and change it's appearance. move, hide, etc.... but it'll reset each time play mode is entered

slim zinc Jan 9, 2022, 9:11 PM

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gloomy chasm Check the preferences

oh nice. yes

tough cairn Jan 9, 2022, 9:11 PM

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ok never seen this one before , thanks @gloomy chasm

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ooooo nice , now all of my buttons are working ! ( one of the btns stopped randomly working when that localization overlay appeared * and it wasn't the one under it )

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 9:12 PM

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@gloomy chasm
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669975874455732224/929844608580583455/unknown.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/669975874455732224/929844732992032798/unknown.png
I am passing in the variable name but now I am getting a null error and I wasn't before. It is the correct name

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the null error occurs when sp_childArray.arraySize = 0; so maybe its not being initialized? But I don't know how to initialize an array.

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Hm wait shit, I think its because I'm passing in a game object for the parent

gloomy chasm Jan 9, 2022, 9:14 PM

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^

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 9:16 PM

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gloomy chasm ^

All is now well 👍 Thanks a bunch couldn't have done it without you

lean barn Jan 9, 2022, 9:18 PM

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Not sure if this is the right channel to post this problem in because I'm new here, but when I try to use visual studio 2019 in unity, I don't get intellisense activated and the files are marked as miscellaneous. I've been surfing youtube and google and they all talk about enabling unity in the installation workload, or checking its connection in external tools, or browsing the files for visual studio, but I cant seem to get anything to work. However, I'm still able to change the C# scripts I want to edit with double clicking in unity and changing it luckily, I just simply want to have intellisense activated.

slim zinc Jan 9, 2022, 9:30 PM

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lean barn Not sure if this is the right channel to post this problem in because I'm new he...

1 - do you have the c# development packages installed
2 - do you have the unity development package for VS installed

lean barn Jan 9, 2022, 9:31 PM

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where do i get those

pure glade Jan 9, 2022, 10:17 PM

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in the visual studio installer

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i'm having the same issue, and i think i have all of them installed :I

lean barn Jan 9, 2022, 10:19 PM

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i have unity development pakcage installed, but theres no c# development package

pure glade Jan 9, 2022, 10:19 PM

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pure glade Jan 9, 2022, 10:19 PM

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lean barn i have unity development pakcage installed, but theres no c# development package

it should be inclued with the unity one

lean barn Jan 9, 2022, 10:21 PM

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why do you get more installation details than me >:(

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damn ive been having this issue sense 11:45 and now its 5:25

pure glade Jan 9, 2022, 10:25 PM

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ignore the c++ stuff on my screen, it has nothing to do with unity

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but yeah, i have same dev package as u and same problem

lean barn Jan 9, 2022, 10:27 PM

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but da buttons 😳

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pushy pushy

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 10:29 PM

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https://youtu.be/c_3DXBrH-Is
I tried following this tutorial but I am completely stuck. The entire tutorial hinges on his data being a List<SomeClass> called "gameData"

        currentProperty = serialziedObject.FindProperty("gameData"); // this step I need to do my own properties instead of his properties?        
        DrawProperties(currentProperty, true);```
My data is not a list of classes that contain variables.
My data is a single scriptable object that contains variables.
I am not experienced enough to "just change his code to work for your use case" or whatever, can someone help me to fix this?

lean barn Jan 9, 2022, 10:31 PM

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3 peeps with 2 problems, we must wait for 1 savior

lean barn Jan 9, 2022, 10:31 PM

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lean barn Not sure if this is the right channel to post this problem in because I'm new he...

ill just do a reply here so any people who wanna help dont have to scroll up like 1 screen

idle tree Jan 9, 2022, 10:36 PM

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idle tree https://youtu.be/c_3DXBrH-Is I tried following this tutorial but I am completely...

http://pastie.org/p/5QfgX9MURmYrWLBlXG6aaC
relevant 3 scripts to my problem from the tutorial

pure glade Jan 9, 2022, 10:36 PM

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lean barn ill just do a reply here so any people who wanna help dont have to scroll up lik...

https://forum.unity.com/threads/intellisense-not-working-with-visual-studio-fix.836599/
this fixed my issue

Unity Forum

Intellisense Not Working with Visual Studio (Fix)

Likely, if you have appeared here to this page you are having the problem I had for the past hour or so. Intellisense is not working in Visual Studio....

lean barn Jan 9, 2022, 10:38 PM

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ayo theres a forum? dang ill check it out

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I found the issue, i had to check every single box in the generate section. i only had the top 2 selected. i wish all those youtube tutorials would say something about that

lean barn Jan 9, 2022, 10:42 PM

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pure glade https://forum.unity.com/threads/intellisense-not-working-with-visual-studio-fix....

thanks dude, life saver 👍

pure glade Jan 9, 2022, 10:42 PM

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dw, i was just trying to save my own

idle tree Jan 10, 2022, 12:16 AM

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How do I run DrawProperties on window.serializedObject?

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the method that sets it is static, and whatever "thing" is being set there, I can't access it

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I also cant in the same method store that object because its static

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it has to be static

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I need some way to carry over a reference between those two methods to the thing

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hm wait maybe im dumb and this is easier than I thought

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nope its not easier than I thought

idle tree Jan 10, 2022, 12:21 AM

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idle tree http://pastie.org/p/5QfgX9MURmYrWLBlXG6aaC relevant 3 scripts to my problem from...

this whole thing might be an X/Y problem, im still trying to solve this and getting nowhere