Mastering Unity Scripting

Variable visibility

One excellent feature of Unity specifically is that it exposes (shows) public class variables inside the Object Inspector in the Unity Editor, allowing you to edit and preview variables, even at runtime. This is especially convenient for debugging. However, by default, the Object Inspector doesn't expose private variables. They are typically hidden from the inspector. This isn't always a good thing because there are many cases where you'll want to debug or, at least, monitor private variables from the inspector without having to change their scope to public. There are two main ways to overcome this problem easily.

The first solution would be useful if you want to view all public and private variables in a class. You can toggle ...