Accessing Unity's saved palettes

Hi All,

Hey I just noticed that if you save a palette in unity it gets stored in what looks like a scriptable object -



Just wondering, is there a way to access the colours stored within it?
Could be really handy!

Thanks!
Pete

 

You can set up a thing to figure out the type of whatever you've clicked:

Code (csharp):

1. public static class EditorCommands {
2.  
3.     [MenuItem("Commands/Get Type Of Selected")]
4.     public static void GetTypeOfSelected() {
5.         Debug.Log(Selection.activeObject?.GetType().Name);
6.     }
7. }

Using that, you'll find that the type of a palette is a ColorPresetLibrary. Now, is that a type we can work with? There's several ways you can do it, but if you have a code editor that's competent, you can just search for the name and find a decompiled version of the type:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. namespace UnityEditor
3. {
4.   internal class ColorPresetLibrary : PresetLibrary
5.    ...
6. }

Well, it's internal, so we don't have access to it from scripts. Time to just open the asset in a text editor and check what it looks like:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. %YAML 1.1
3. %TAG !u! tag:unity3d.com,2011:
4. --- !u!114 &1
5. MonoBehaviour:
6.   m_ObjectHideFlags: 52
7.   m_PrefabParentObject: {fileID: 0}
8.   m_PrefabInternal: {fileID: 0}
9.   m_GameObject: {fileID: 0}
10.   m_Enabled: 1
11.   m_EditorHideFlags: 1
12.   m_Script: {fileID: 12323, guid: 0000000000000000e000000000000000, type: 0}
13.   m_Name:
14.   m_EditorClassIdentifier:
15.   m_Presets:
16.   - m_Name:
17.     m_Color: {r: 1, g: 1, b: 1, a: 1}
18.   - m_Name:
19.     m_Color: {r: 0.9705882, g: 0.007136685, b: 0.007136685, a: 1}
20.   - m_Name:
21.     m_Color: {r: 0.13559689, g: 0.4712593, b: 0.5588235, a: 1}
22.  

Well, that's easy to work with! I'd suggest just grabbing that text file, look for all lines starting with "m_Color", and parse them into colors. It should be pretty straight-forward to create that as a helper-method. Give a call if you need more input.

 

Awesome thanks @Baste!