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One of Unity's most powerful features is the extensible editor it has. With editor scripting, it is possible to extend or create functionalities to make video game development easier. For a Unity developer, this is an important topic to know and understand because adapting Unity editor scripting to video games saves a great deal of time and resources. This book is designed to cover all the basic concepts of Unity editor scripting using a functional platformer video game that requires workflow improvement. You will commence with the basics of editor scripting, exploring its implementation with the help of an example project, a level editor, before moving on to the usage of visual cues for debugging with Gizmos in the scene view. Next, you will learn how to create custom inspectors and editor windows and implement custom GUI. Furthermore, you will discover how to change the look and feel of the editor using editor GUIStyles and editor GUISkins. You will then explore the usage of editor scripting in order to improve the development pipeline of a video game in Unity by designing ad hoc editor tools, customizing the way the editor imports assets, and getting control over the build creation process. Step by step, you will use and learn all the key concepts while creating and developing a pipeline for a simple platform video game. As a bonus, the final chapter will help you to understand how to share content in the Asset Store that shows the creation of custom tools as a possible new business. By the end of the book, you will easily be able to extend all the concepts to other projects.

What you will learn

Use Gizmos to create visual aids for debugging

Extend the editor capabilities using custom inspectors, property and decorator drawers, editor windows, and handles

Save your video game data in a persistent way using scriptable objects

Improve the look and feel of your custom tools using GUIStyles and GUISkins

Configure and control the asset import pipeline

Improve the build creation pipeline

Distribute the custom tools in your team or publish them in the Asset Store

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Matthew Magginnis Dec 07, 2015

This is a great book to dive into the unity editor with. I've personally been working with Unity for over 5 years and have done a lot of editor coding myself and this book teaches you some very valuable ways to create editor tools for any project. The code is pretty clean, but not documented much if at all in some parts. This isn't a huge issue as the the author explains the code in the text to give you an understanding on what it's doing.If you are a beginner with editor scripts & C#, this might be a bit challenging for you as this book quickly gets into some of the more intermediate level scripting techniques that may be difficult to understand. For those that have some experience in both, this will be a pleasure to learn from as it covers some pretty moderate problems when creating tools for the unity editor.Overall this is a great book to learn from as well as use for reference to build editor tools in Unity. The example project that the author has you create through the book is a great way to see how creating editor tools can increase the workflow and development time for all your projects.

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joekelly Dec 06, 2015

One of the best Unity books I've purchased. I buy a lot of Packt books, and this one is full of great tips and tricks. If you have been using Unity for a while, and are looking to improve your editor scripting, you definitely can't go wrong here. Well laid out, great information and examples.

GameDev Nov 21, 2016

Amazing book.

sean321 Nov 11, 2018

I used this to learn how to build a custom level editor for a 2d tile-based game that I'm working on. The information pertaining to custom gizmos and editor windows is invaluable. Great source. Highly recommended.

Guilherme Nov 27, 2015

I would say It's “the cookbook of customization”. I read many books about Unity to improve my skills but I finally found an interesting book that I can learn different things as how to customize my own tools at the inspector and my scene view, exploring the gizmos to improve my organization, how to set up Git and other cool tricks. The examples are easy to understand and they are done with Unity 5.x with C# with code commented by the author.

Extending Unity with Editor Scripting: Put Unity to use for your video games by creating your own custom tools with editor scripting

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