Beginning Unity Editor Scripting: Create and Publish Your Game Tools

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B. KokBeginning Unity Editor Scriptinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7167-4_2

2. Customizing the Editor with Attributes and Callbacks

Benny Kok¹  

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Hong Kong, China

 

In this chapter, I will talk about the simplest way to customize your inspector experience in Unity. Starting from a simple C# PlayerBehaviour script as an example, I will walk you through the customization process by using the built-in C# PropertyAttribute in Unity. Next, I will talk about other useful attributes and some editor messages for MonoBehaviour that are useful for editor scripting.

Using the Property Attribute

In Unity, when you have a public or serializable field in your C# script ...