Extending components and setting defaults

Hello,

we are finding we would like to set material/textures/etc on UI components when first added. We thought the best way to do this would be to
1. extend the unity UI component
2. on initial adding of component set some defaults for our artist.

so for example we want a particular material to be the default material until an artist changes it.

is there a way to set these items to defaults only when the component is first added?

so for example
class MyImage: Image {
OnAddComponent() {
material = Resouces.Load("GameDefaulyMaterial");

 

Is there no way to do this or is it so simple that no one is replying?

 

You can add a custom addcomponent entry that will change the values to your specification after creating it.
Here is a example form the Unity UI extensions project

Code (CSharp):

1.     [MenuItem("GameObject/UI/Extensions/UI Flippable", false, 2003)]
2.         static public void AddUIFlippableImage(MenuCommand menuCommand)
3.         {
4.             GameObject go = CreateUIElementRoot("UI Flippable", menuCommand, s_ImageGUIElementSize);
5.             go.AddComponent<Image>();
6.             go.AddComponent<UIFlippable>();
7.             Selection.activeGameObject = go;
8.         }

https://bitbucket.org/ddreaper/unit...ns.cs?at=develop&fileviewer=file-view-default
You can change it to do whatever you like as a preset.
Your artist then uses the menu item defined by the MenuItem attribute to create a component with your preset.

 

fffMalzbier,
Thanks for the info. i'll definately do that. i was hoping there was a way to hook into the normal addcomponent method though, as while we can tell people to use the menu item there are other ways of adding components.