Questions tagged [editors]
Editors are pieces of software designed to help create and modify game content. This may include in-house developer tools, or level editors and other tools released to the player community. Use this tag for help creating your own editing tools, or customizing editing workflows in existing engines (such as custom inspectors in Unity)
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How to load a whole folder of assets without using a Resources folder?
I have a folder full of images that I want to keep ready in a script. The Unity way to do this is to have a MonoBehaviour with, for example, a ...
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ObservableCollection not showing up in editor
I'm trying to use an ObservableCollection in a ScriptableObject, but it doesn't generate any serialized field in the asset editor.
Here is my code:
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Is it possible to change the default color of Godot's NavigationMesh3D in the editor?
I'm working on a game that uses a lot of high-intensity and pastel color language, and unfortunately, the navigation mesh is doing the same thing! There's a good bit of eye strain there. If I could ...
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Does anyone know any 'no-interface' game engines? [closed]
What I'm looking for:
I've been searching for a while now for any no-interface game engines (What I mean by that Is something like the Source Engine where other than than the level editor It's nothing ...
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Does MonoBehaviour have a method that is called in editor when the object is created?
I'm coming from Unreal, and in Unreal you can use the constructor to make logic that is called in editor (as well as when beginning play).
This is useful for some things, but Unity documentation says ...
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Unity Editor Hiccups
I've just started getting Editor hiccups during Play mode (new project) & unable to find out whats causing it.
Is there a way to find out what calls the editor's making to try & debug this?
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Why does the render not fill the screen outside of Play Mode?
I'm using Unity's Input System Package for the local Split-Screen feature for my game. When I play the game, the system works perfectly & divides the screen according to the player count (in this ...
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Start debug window on other monitor than the Godot editor
When starting my game for debugging, I'd like to have the game pop up at my second monitor (still in "Windowed" mode), instead of on top of the Godot editor window itself. I've tried several ...
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Procedurally Generating Shader Code
I'm trying to make an in browser 2d game development environment using javascript and WebGL. I'm extremely new to computer graphics and game development in general. When it comes to shader code, I ...
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How to inspect/modify the runtime state of a node in the Godot editor?
I'm thinking of something similar to Unity, where GameObjects have their boot state and their runtime state, where you can change the runtime state in the editor during game play.
Godot is a ...
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How to implement "Auto Generate Animation" and "Visualize" buttons in custom Button inspector?
I extended the Button class with my own variables. I also had to create an Editor script since Unity manually draws the Button's fields into the Inspector. I just need to know what the functions that ...
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Unity - Models suddenly stuck in poses In-Editor and 3D Animations messed up across project
Please Note: I'm having trouble placing pictures here, but I have a thread on the Unity Forums of this issue with images and additional video. Please refer: https://forum.unity.com/threads/models-...
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How to Force Refresh Texture2D/Sprite when Programmically Modified using Editor Script?
Here is some code called using a custom button in the component inspector:
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Unity gameObject character stuck in T pose for scene but animations work fine when playing game
I want to put a sword in his hand but it is difficult in that T pose.
I have a nice idle animation from Mixamo (model also from Mixamo) that transitions to walk which is working fine.
My other model, ...
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I made a quest in Creation Kit. Testing it, Quest Log and Quest Marker do not appear. Why is that, and how do I fix this?
I made a quest in Creation Kit. Testing it, Quest Log and Quest Marker do not appear. Why is that, and how do I fix this?
I have made a quest object in Creation Kit, including stages, quest log ("...
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How can I make the sound files work again when using the Creation Kit for Special Edition?
When using the CreationKit 64bit for Skyrim Special Edition, the scenes and dialogues break and don't show up properly in game.
What happens and how do I fix it?
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Why do I get a "Validation Failed" error, and how do I fix it?
I'm trying to re-compile a mod to which I have made edits, but when I do so, I get this error
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What causes the error "Code not loaded" when editing a quest?
In my quest object (the yellow container for the quest logic), when I open it, on the right side, I see in my fragment window:
"Code not loaded"
What ...
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How can I snap a mesh to the grid, on dragging it into the scene, in Unity?
I've got a game that involves voxel-like game object management. Each voxel object snaps to the integer coordinates in Unity's scene, at play time—easy enough to do in the ...
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How would one make a custom inspector for built-in assets?
I'm trying to see how I could either modify, append or completely override what the inspector shows for a selected built-in asset.
Specifically, I want to override what the inspector shows when you ...
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An issue that could be either serialization, or Unity's SceneManager
At this point, I don't have any idea of what could the issue be. So, I was trying to make a project wide loading screen. Through an editor window, I assigned the loading scene, which was picked up via ...
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How can I get my custom Unity editor menu items to work if they're in a package?
I'm trying to get new items to appear in Unity's Assets→Create menu.
I'm defining these inside another project which is referenced as a package. The general goal here is to share my editor scripts a ...
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Editor-only MonoBehaviour (not GameObject)
I'm well aware of the EditorOnly tag on game objects. However, my question is slightly different:
I have a large number of game objects in my scene that only mark a ...
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Getting info about the script a [PropertyAttribute] is attached to in Unity
Is there a way to access info about the script that a PropertyAttribute is part of in Unity?
In my case: getting the memberInfos of the script:
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What Unity editor settings maximize the editor performance?
I am teaching a Unity game development course through Zoom, and apparently the load of both Zoom and Unity is straining my 3 years old laptop. I would like to change some settings in the Unity editor ...
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How can two people simultaneously edit one game project?
I've been looking for a workflow that allows two game developers to simultaneously work in real-time on the same project, much like Roblox Studio.
I tried using Unity, but out of the box its ...
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Accessing list of all sprites in textmeshpro
I am trying to make a tool for selecting icons from textmesh pro in the inspector using a custom property drawer, to select the desired sprite directly instead of having to remember the name.
While ...
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In the Unity editor, is there a setting to show every gizmo on a GameObject and its children when selecting that GameObject or one of its children?
I have a parent GameObject on which several colliders have been placed. I want to maneuver several children of this GameObject around these colliders, but I can't see the colliders if I don't have the ...
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Generating code on file changes in Unity Editor
I'm trying to generate code on changes using file watchers:
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How to create a directory template in Unity?
How to create a directory from a template with multiple files in it which are also created from templates?
Right now, I am particularly interested in creating an Assembly directory which uses a user-...
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Where is the right place to store Unity Custom Editor Window meta data?
I'm writing a node editor for unity, an Animator window clone if you will. I'm wondering where to store metadata like how the nodes are placed in the editor or what the last selected node was. I can ...
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After setting a field using the editor API, the field gets cleared on Play in Unity. How to fix it?
After setting a field using the editor API, the field gets cleared on Play in Unity. How to fix it?
I have a menu item. That menu item sets a field on one of my game objects in scene. After the field ...
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How could I put a prefab into a field of a game object using editor API in Unity?
How could I put a prefab into a field of a game object using editor API in Unity?
I have a game object. It has a GameObject field. I can drag and drop a prefab from ...
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UnityEditor related classes can not be referenced. Why?
I have two classes. Both of them are placed in the editor/interface_field folder.
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Is there a way to run a tool script without attaching it to a node in the scene tree?
What I want to do is run a tool script on the editor.
The usual way would be to attach it to a scene tree node, but then I'd have to guard it with ifs all over to ...
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Scene Tab doesn't show anything beside canvas while Game Tab shows everything
i've been building my script normally, but suddently after the last build, i don't see any GameObject Rendered in Scene Tab beside a canvas i have in another scene. I can see everything rendered in my ...
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GUI.BeginScrollView not working
I made a GUI Tool for Unity
I tryed to add ScrollView like this before the for loop that creates GameObject buttons :
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How can I modify the GUI of a default Unity window?
How can I modify the GUI of a default Unity window?
E.g. I am trying to modify the Animation window. Here is what I am trying to do for the beginning:
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What is the difference between the two circles in the rotation tool in Unity?
What is the difference between the two circles in the rotation tool in Unity?
In 2D rotation tool there are two circles which allow to rotate an object. And I can not conceive a difference between ...
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Unity Editor extension to group scripts attached to an object
Let us suppose we have a game object which has hundreds of scripts attached. Now out of those hundreds we can pick out groups responsible for a specific functionality. E.g. there are 15 scripts ...
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How to organize GameObjects into logical groups in a Unity Scene?
Obviously there are a Scene hierarchy, but the problem is that the scene hierarchy was not meant for organizing GameObjects because parent GameObjects affect the transformation of their children.
For ...
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Border around game preview window
I'm trying to put my game view and scene view next to each other, but the game window seems to have a border around the actual game view that I can't remove:
In the screenshot above, the game view ...
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How can I make responsive computer and touch click and drag?
This code works but it has a little delay on computer controls and higher delay on mobile touch screen controls, so its not responsive as I want it to be.
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How to avoid destroying information when scaling
I'm in the progress of making a simple 3D editor, just for developing skills on 3d graphics.
After implementing some basic tools, I realize that scaling isn't working as I expected.
For example, when ...
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How can I add word wrap to EditorGUILayout.TextArea?
How can I add word wrap to the editor textarea? I'm trying to mimic the [TextArea] attribute (word wrap, automatically increase height when needed)
For some reason GUILayout.TextArea() works fine, but ...
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Selecting components (only in editor) created in construction script
Question is about Unreal Engine 4
Is it possible to catch click (or other mouse) event on dynamically added component in editor?
For example:
I create 5 instances of StaticMeshComponent on ...
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New Input System Differs Between Editor and Runtime?
I'm sure the problem is me.
Here is a simple look script (from a tutorial, actually).
I'm getting inconsistent results between editor and runtime. I'm guessing its a framerate thing.
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