In this post we will learn how to create our custom editor windows in Unity. console, project view and asset store are samples of editor windows.

This article is part of a series in which I explain all the techniques for extending the Unity Editor. See the overview post here.

Prerequisite: You need to know C# programming and be familiar with Unity Editor to benefit most from this post. You also need to know either IMGUI or UIElements for creating GUIs in Editor. In this post I will use IMGUI.

There is an accompanying Unity project. I highly recommend downloading it and trying the topics as you read them here. Seeing the examples in action makes them stick to your brain. …

In this post we will learn how to create menu items in Unity Editor to perform different tasks. You can add menu items to the main menu, or the context menus in the Inspector window.

This article is part of a series in which I explain all the techniques for extending the Unity Editor. See the overview post here.

Prerequisite: You need to know C# programming and be familiar with Unity Editor to benefit most from this post.

There is an accompanying Unity project. I highly recommend downloading it and trying the topics as you read them here. …

In this post we will learn how to create custom inspector editors for different components (our MonoBehaviour and ScriptableObject). You can tell Unity Editor how exactly you want the Inspector UI for your components to look like.

This article is part of a series in which I explain all the techniques for extending the Unity Editor. See the overview post here.

Prerequisite: You need to know C# programming and be familiar with Unity Editor to benefit most from this post. You also need to be familiar with Unity’s IMGUI. I’ll make a tutorial on IMGUI soon. …

As I created a new repository on github and wanted to pull the remote branch to get the default files (LICENSE and README) to push after, I got the error that the remote branch doesn’t exist.

How could this be? I’ve been using git for 20 years!

I was annoyed to realize github had changed the default branch name from ‘master’ to ‘main’. The reason? Because ‘master’ references slavery!

What an atrocity! WTF is this PC culture? In the many years that I have been using git with github, not even once did I think about human slaves and masters.

As I got calm and went about my day and thought about it, I realized what an idiot I had been. Yes it is slightly inconvenient to accept this change. I’m going to rename ‘master’ to ‘main’ a few times before I get fully used to it. But that’s about it. …

In this post we will learn how to create custom property drawers for different types. You can tell Unity Editor how exactly you want the Inspector UI for certain fields look like!

This article is part of a series in which I explain all the techniques for extending the Unity Editor. See the overview post here.

Prerequisite: You need to know C# programming and be familiar with Unity Editor to benefit most from this post. You also need to be familiar with Unity’s IMGUI. I’ll make a tutorial on IMGUI soon. Until then, you can refer to Unity documentation.

There is an accompanying Unity project. I highly recommend downloading it and trying the topics as you read them here. Seeing the examples in action makes them stick to your brain. …

In this post I’ll show you how to use the attributes defined in Unity assemblies to change how Unity Editor interacts with your components. Attributes are versatile and easy to use. You don’t need to write any editor-specific code. You just need to annotate your C# fields and classes with attributes.

This article is part of a series in which I explain all the techniques for extending the Unity Editor. See the overview post here.

Prerequisite: You need to know C# programming and be familiar with Unity Editor to benefit most from this post.

There is an accompanying Unity project. I highly recommend downloading it and trying the topics as you read them here. Seeing the examples in action makes them stick to your brain. …

Unity has become one of the leading Game Engines in the world. It helps developers create cross platform games very easily. One of the reasons Unity is such a great development environment for games is how flexible and powerful its Editor is.

Unity Editor comes with a lot of built in features. However the Editor programming API and developer features which let 3rd party developers (like you and me) extend it are the key to its success. Many developers have created additional assets and packages to add new features to Unity Editor. These meta features can be used by writing code for the Editor. …

In tutorial levels for mobile games, often we want to make an element pop out. This will ensure the player learns about that element. Sometimes we even want to force the player to interact with that element. Highlight UI asset for Unity takes care of that!

I made the usage very simple for beginners. But I also allowed the more advanced Unity developers to be able to extend its functionality. In this article I’ll show you an overview of how the asset works. Need to highlight elements in your game? Read on!

Usage

The base API to show and dismiss the highlight UI are static methods on the ```HighlightUI``` class. …