Making Your Own Unity Tools - Introduction to Custom Editor Windows - Unity Tutorial

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0:00 - Introduction
2:00 - Project overview and tool demonstration
6:42 - Important note about the 'Editor' folder
7:40 - Overview of the C# script
8:38 - Opening the custom editor window
9:25 - Adding the editor window to the menu bar in Unity
10:13 - GUI Layout Label
10:40 - Editor GUI Layout Text Field
11:12 - Editor GUI Layout Int Field
11:28 - Editor GUI Layout Slider
12:01 - Editor GUI Layout Float Field
12:12 - Editor GUI Layout Object Field
13:04 - GUI Layout Button
13:27 - Spawning the Object
13:44 - Wrap up and final demonstration

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[masripaul]

This is one of the best tutorials I've seen on anything Unity, let alone something as daunting as custom editors. Great delivery style and really well put together example. Thank you!

[timithius]

Absolutely fantastic tutorial, simple, focused and incredibly useful! Thanks!

(4 years ago, where was I? Not where I should have been!)

[JPlokford]

So much clearer than the official unity tutorial.

[StarGazerTom]

This is a great example for creating editor tools, many thanks! Just what I needed!

[josepaulofernandes]

this video is a great service for the community

[floriankomposch]

Your solution works better and with less bugs than, PolyBrush or terrain(paint details), thx for the introduction to unity editors

[Caden_Burleson]

Thank you! Perfect tutorial and example for a intro on editor scripting. Loved the object spawner example because it's a good start for what I'm trying to do already. :D

[arcader]

Thanks for the tutorial, I'm gonna make a tool for everything.

[intimidate]

Great Tutorial. I took it one step further and added "Terrain.activeTerrain.SampleHeight", so the objects are at the correct terrain height.

[neverstepd]

Thank you! I tried myself and I made an automatic hierarchy organizer this is useful

[LyonLoi]

Very clear and useful tutorial. Thanks for the good work!

[chrisxxx]

i would love a complete tutorial series about custom tool creation for a bunch of different situations!

[raymondlin]

Awesome Tutorial! First time doing editor scripting and it was easy to follow. One note though, isn't this the older IMGUI system? It would be great if you could make a tutorial on the UI Toolkit which is new and much easier to use. Thanks!

[haachamachama]

Is there a way to make it spawn with a ray cast? For example, you can turn spawning on or off with a bool, and wherever you click, it casts a ray and spawns the object there?

[phyzxengrmoore]

I have an object generator script that I have to play to produce GOs. I made it this to test it out. Now that it works I need to convert it to the editor window because I want the GOs and not in play.
The methods that I have I want to keep as a playable script and use in and editor extension. This looks like a special kind of maintenance to configure. I have Update() and Start() utilized. The classname : Editor and classname : Monobehaviour will cause a differentiation build. I believe I need a script reference in the Editor class to access the MonoBehaviour methods. Not sure how to write the reference line.
I hope I am clear here. Thanks for this video!

[XPaveway]

hey I am working on something similiar to this is there any way to select a specific position in the scene before spawning stuff?

[subhroneelbhattacharya]

Is it possible to include the editor window in the build ? LIke what if I want to handle the spawning in the runtime using the editor window ?

[andy__]

Man, i open a new scene and i dont have setting to create game, plz help me

[IdontWatchIsee]

Hi guys, i am interested in finding projects to work on, games, little games, for collaboration with other people that want to create games, on the side from work. Does anyone have any idea where to find something like that?

[MrEggplantation]

Hey this is great! I'm really struggling with the advanced features of Editor Windows, would love some help, or a tutorial that goes a bit beyond this. Specifically I want to change characteristics of a GUILayout element after I create it. How can I update the colour of a label or button after I have clicked something in my editor window?