[RELEASED] ChronoHelper will help control Time.timeScale in the Editor

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Let me introduce a little tool for Unity Editor which will help control Time.timeScale during development and testing. It becomes very handy when it’s required to examine a suspicious moment of gameplay in slow-motion or conversely when it’s preferable to skip uninteresting part in fast-forward.

I tried to make an interface simple and intuitive. But here is a short description

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I developed it yet in 2016, but only today it reached Asset Store. So check it out and get in touch!

• Asset Store: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/chronohelper-116665
• Github: https://github.com/dotsquid/ChronoHelper
• Webpage: http://dotsquid.com/works/chrono-helper/

 

ChronoHelper was developed to help in debugging and testing of Summer Catchers game.

Specifically I use it for:

• Fast-forwarding to skip some gameplay or cut-scene part. Since the game is procedurally generated it's quite a frequently used feature.
• Slowing down to inspect some aspect in details. It could be animations, physics joints, physics collisions / triggers, particle systems etc.
• Testing of subsystems which must work independently of Time.timeScale. E.g. main or in-game menus.
• Side feature which is not intentional and was discovered later: pausing / unpausing in SceneView does not automatically switches to GameView as it happens with usual Unity's 'Pause' button.

 

I updated ChronoHelper by adding some new features:

• the number of shortcut buttons is now arbitrary; the button with the largest value defines the range of the slider;
• there is a striped background with a 'warning' function which is activated when Time.timeScale is changed by script or some other way beside the ChronoHelper itself;
• some other settings to adjust the look and feel of ChronoHelper.

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Documetation: https://github.com/dotsquid/ChronoHelper/raw/master/Documentation~/ChronoHelper-Manual.pdf
Github: https://github.com/dotsquid/ChronoHelper
Webpage: http://dotsquid.com/works/chrono-helper/