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Extending Unity with Editor Scripting

You're reading from   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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Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785281853
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Editor Scripting 2. Using Gizmos in the Scene View FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Custom Inspectors 4. Creating Editor Windows 5. Customizing the Scene View 6. Changing the Look and Feel of the Editor with GUI Styles and GUI Skins 7. Saving Data in a Persistent Way with Scriptable Objects 8. Controlling the Import Pipeline Using AssetPostprocessor Scripts 9. Improving the Build Pipeline 10. Distributing Your Tools Index

Adding a structure to our levels

Open the Run & Jump project and look for the folder Scripts/Level. Inside this folder, you will find all the related to the video game. The Level class is responsible for making our levels work.

As you may have noticed, in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Editor Scripting, all the level piece prefabs are added to the scene and used by the level without a problem, but we don't have control over the size of the level or any way to guarantee that the level piece prefabs are going to be in the right position. Most important, the Level class is not aware about the level piece prefabs present on the level.

We are going to fix this situation making changes to the Level class, adding an array to save references to the level piece prefabs and define it size based in the total columns and rows supported by that array.

Visually, you are going to see the size of the level with the help of a grid made with gizmos.

As this chapter requires changes on the Level class...

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