2D Arrays, Where Fore Art Thou?

Why doesn't Unity natively support, 2DArrays in the inspector?
Seriously?

 

Good question.

There is a workaround though; you could make an array of a class that holds multiple data types:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class SomeClass : MonoBehavior {
2.    public FakeMDArray[] fakeMdArray;
3. }
4.  
5. [System.Serializable]
6. public class FakeMDArray {
7.    public int value1;
8.    public int value2;
9.  
10.    //etc...
11. }

 

Further, after getting it working, (via creatig my own editor scripts, property class etc), if I add in two 2D Arrays, my inspector looks like this.

Really Unity??

 

Also this.....
Very handy.

 

I'm pretty sure you're discovering why 2D arrays don't have inspector support. Once they go past a certain (very small) set of dimensions, they become totally unmanageable.

 

I could have a single array of 100000000000000. Thats kinda unmanageable....

I suppose you have a point, but still.

 

Yeah, 100,000,000,000,000 long.

Not wide.

Long.

 

It would seem to me you simply haven't got the code set up right. Its possible to draw the inspector to whatever height you desire.

I tend to edit my 2D arrays in 3rd party software. Excel does well for numerical or text data. Its easy to save/load a csv. Paint or Photoshop does well for things like map data. An image is essentially a 2D array, and Unity is pretty good at reading data out of an image file.