Unity 2018 Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

To create a Gizmo to show the selected object in the Scene panel, follow these steps:

1. Create a new 3D project.
2. For the Scene panel, turn off the Skybox view (or simply toggle off all the visual settings) so that you have a plain background for your grid work:

3. The display, and updating the child objects, will be performed by a script class called GridGizmo. Create a new C# script class called GridGizmo which contains the following:

    using System.Collections;     using System.Collections.Generic;     using UnityEngine;      public class GridGizmo : MonoBehaviour {         [SerializeField]         public int grid = 2;  public void SetGrid(int grid) { ...