Extend Console

Hi,

Is it possible to extend the Console?
I wish to categorize my logs in order to filter them.

Thx!

 

Not really. The Console UI is pretty much closed in this regard. You can simply add tags to your log strings like so:
"[Network] [Audio] My log message"
And then use the filter function to search for "[Network]" etc.

Other than that, there are multiple 3rd party products which implement custom UIs with more advanced category/tag filters. Some of them also use a separate logging system like NLog or implement their own system that work alongside Unity's logger.

 

You can replace the logger by using reflection and setting a new value for

UnityEngine.Debug.s_logger

Then you can perhaps check the incoming messages or the stack trace or whatever in order to do some logging. You can also format the text before you send them on to the built-in one.

 

For now I have written a file Debug.cs and mirrored every UnityEngine.Debug functions. Doing so, every call to the class Debug is redirected to my file instead of the one from Unity. And I wrote overloads with a category parameter added automatically to the start of message. Finally I have an data with categories to filter and used by my own Debug class to stop or not the logging.

My plan now is to write my own Console too so instead of stopping logs, the console will use that same data to display or not the logs so they are not completely lost.