FREE: Editor enhancements - Extensions in project window! Components in heirarchy!

HELLO!

Over the past couple of days I worked on some editor enhancements to the Project and Heirarchy windows.



Project Window
* Shows file extensions (can be set to only show them when duplicate filenames are present)
* Has a pop-up quick preview if you hold the mouse over an item
* 'Useful' tooltips are also shown per item

Heirarchy Window
* Shows icons for each component on the gameobject, which can be disabled/enabled by clicking
* Has a pop-up quick preview if you hold the mouse over a gameobject or one of it's components
* 'Useful' tooltips are also shown per item and per component

Settings
There are some settings in Edit / Preferences / Project Window Heirarchy Window - however they're kinda broken at the moment. For example, you can set the Project Window not to show all the extensions, in which case it will only show them if there are two or more files with the same name

Installation
You can grab a ZIP of the code here: EditorEnhancements.zip - just copy the EditorEnhancements folder into your Assets folder. The bitbucket repository for the code is here.

I have tested on Unity 3.5.5, and Unity 4b7.

Please tell me how you get on with it, and if you want anything else added



Versions
1st Sep - Supports missing scripts better, no longer truncates icons, and toggling components via their icons is now undo-able.
1st Sep B - Quick asset preview if you hover the mouse in the project window. Also strikeout hierarchy items if they're not visible in the scene view due to layer settings.
5th Sep - Now has a quick preview window if you hover over gameobjects or their components in the hierarchy window.

 

Works great, I love the Hierarchy one and being able to quickly shut off a part of an item for testing purposes.

 

Thanks for trying it out - I added Undo support for the toggling in the latest version.

 

hey this works great! This should be native in unity!
thanks!

 

You're welcome!

 

Tenebrous, you are the men!!! This is a great extension!
Thanks a lot!

 

Thanks a lot man! Very useful... very!

EDIT:... but: when i click on your icons in the Heirarchy Window, they DO work, but Unity jumps from the scene view to game view.

 

Well spotted! I'll try and address this soon

 

Seems like in HierarchyWindow.cs the function

Code (csharp):

1. private static EditorWindow HeirarchyWindow

doesn't really find the hierarchy window. In my case it was returning the Inspector window, so on toggle the focus jumps on the inspector. However, there's no need to change the focus on toggle, so you can remove that part from code or just comment it out like this:

Code (csharp):

1. if( GUI.Button( iconRect, new GUIContent( "", tooltip ), EditorStyles.label ) )
2. {
3.     c.SetEnabled( !c.GetEnabled() );
4.     //heirarchyWindow.Focus();
5.     //EditorApplication.RepaintHierarchyWindow();
6.     return;
7. }
8.  

But then the Inspector window doesn't update check boxes on collapsed components! Which is weird... There's an easy fix for that too. Near the end in function SetEnabled make sure you also call SetDirty like this:

Code (csharp):

1.         public static void SetEnabled( this Component pComponent, bool bNewValue )
2.         {
3.             if( pComponent == null )
4.                 return;
5.  
6.             Undo.RegisterUndo( pComponent, bNewValue ? "Enable Component" : "Disable Component" );
7.  
8.             PropertyInfo p = pComponent.GetType().GetProperty( "enabled", typeof( bool ) );
9.  
10.             if (p != null)
11.             {
12.                 p.SetValue(pComponent, bNewValue, null);
13.                 EditorUtility.SetDirty(pComponent.gameObject); // <- ADD THIS LINE
14.             }
15.         }
16.  

 

Thanks for this I've already fixed the code to get hierachy window not actually getting the right window, and the same applied to the project window too. I've also gotten it to refresh properly on Unity4. Once I've added the SetDirty as well I'll commit the code to bitbucket

Thanks

 

Wow....fantastic extension! Thanks!.

 

Just updated with: Quick asset preview if you hover the mouse in the project window. Also strikeout hierarchy items if they're not visible in the scene view due to layer settings.

 

Thanks Tenebrous. This looks great.

 

If you plan to keep thinking and releasing awesome editor extensions, you should atleast put up a Donate button

 

OK! Here it is ->

 

Great stuff!
Never actually knew that I have those methods for the hierarchy and project panels

 

Nor did I, 'til AngryAnt mentioned them

 

I've had a bit of a clash with the inspector, but after couple hours of reflection in vain I didn't find a decent way to customize things around there without rewriting most of the thing.
Anyway I'll check AngryAnts talk and do some digging about what can be achieved and if all goes well I'll share any useful stuff ^^.

 

Oh this wasn't from his Unite stuff, it came up during a conversation in the IRC channel.

 

I stumbled on a talk in tokyo for extending the editor maybe he mentioned something interesting there too.

 

Cool! It works nicely with my Favorites Tab



There's one minor problem actually: quick preview takes the focus from Favorites view and sets it on Project view. That was probably done to make the focus stay on Project view, and you assumed Project view will be the only view displaying assets in a list. Now I'm not sure how hard would be to fix that, but I'll try something and I'll let you know.

 

Yeah absolutely, it was a bit of a hack. I can probably check to see which window the mouse is actually over though, and reset focus back to that one.

 

hey man, just wanted to say that this is just AWESOME work!. really really nice

One thing that happens to me is that when I'm in another window and I move the mouse for some reason the Unity3D editor window pops up in front.

anyways, awesome job!

 

Well, that's annoying! I'll try to fix that soon

 

If you wanna use this utility and the UnityLock one (witch is what im doing for a while now) just edit the script HierarchyWindows.cs in the line 142.
Replace the 16 value with a 32:

iconRect.x = pDrawingRect.x + pDrawingRect.width - /*16*/ 32; // Change the position of the icon to the left so I can draw the icon of UnityLock in the right side.

UnityLock link:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/156016-Lock-your-game-objects-with-UnityLock-2-on-the-Asset-Store/page2?p=1320457#post1320457

Cheers.


EDIT : Here you have the utility working in Unity 4.2 with the changes already made:

View attachment $Free Editor Enhacements for Unity 4.2.unitypackage

 

Thanks for that! And actually, in the latest version of my Editor Enhancements, it has a lock system built in! I added that on the 8th of June out of interest

 

Didn't know that. I did it because i wanted to use some kind of lock feature as an adittion to your amazing utility and I actually use it a lot in my projects.

Thanks for doing a such amazing work, it's one of those utilities that i always include in all my projects. It's really usefull.

EDIT : I just test the last version and works great. Maybe a future improvement could be to do a recursive lock/unlock (of an object and all its childrens) using the right mouse button. That's what i did with UnityLock and it's super handy.

 

I've created an recursive lock (using the right mouse button) in your last version of your Editor Enhacements.

Changed the HierarchyWindow.cs in Draw function, line 241 (when starts the lock functionality):

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.                         if( doLockIcon )
3.                         {
4.                             Rect r = pDrawingRect;
5.                             r.x = r.x + r.width - 14;
6.                             r.width = 12;
7.  
8.                             GUI.color = currentLock ? new Color(1,1,1,1) : new Color(1,1,1,0.4f);
9.  
10.                             bool newLock = GUI.Toggle( r, currentLock, "", (GUIStyle) "IN LockButton" );
11.                             if( newLock != currentLock )
12.                             {
13.                                     // Changed to allow recursive lock/unlock.
14.                                     // Warning: Doesn't detect a disabled child gameobject.
15.                                     if (Event.current.button == 0)
16.                                     {
17.                                          if( newLock )
18.                                             gameObject.hideFlags |= HideFlags.NotEditable;
19.                                          else
20.                                             gameObject.hideFlags -= HideFlags.NotEditable;
21.                                     }          
22.                                     else if (Event.current.button == 1)
23.                                     {
24.                                          Transform[] child = gameObject.GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>();
25.                                          foreach (Transform childTransform in child){
26.                                             if( newLock )
27.                                                 childTransform.gameObject.hideFlags |= HideFlags.NotEditable;
28.                                             else
29.                                                 childTransform.gameObject.hideFlags -= HideFlags.NotEditable;
30.                                          }
31.                                     }
32.                                    
33.                             }
34.                 // Added to reflect the change of gameobject's state (to disable/enable) in Inspector window.
35.                             EditorUtility.SetDirty(gameObject);
36.                
37.                             pDrawingRect.width -= 14;
38.                         }
39.  

Or here you have the modified version of that script:
View attachment $HierarchyWindow.cs

 

This stuff is awesome! Thank you!

 

I got an error in the Project window, when its in some folder there are some files without any extesion.

I solve it changing the Project Window.cs, line 257:

Added the --> if( extension != "" ) to ensure that the extension exits.

 

I've changed like 4 lines of code in the Common class to be able to use it in unity 5.2

Here:

Code (CSharp):

1.         public static Texture GetMiniThumbnail( UnityEngine.Object obj )
2.         {
3.             return ( AssetPreview.GetMiniThumbnail( obj ) );
4.         }
5.  
6.         public static Texture2D GetAssetPreview( UnityEngine.Object obj )
7.         {
8.             return ( AssetPreview.GetAssetPreview( obj ) );
9.         }

And here:

Code (CSharp):

1.         private static EditorWindow _projectWindow = null;
2.         public static EditorWindow ProjectWindow
3.         {
4.             get
5.             {
6.                 _projectWindow = _projectWindow ?? GetWindowByName("UnityEditor.ProjectBrowser");
7.                 return ( _projectWindow );
8.             }
9.         }
10.  
11.  
12.         private static EditorWindow _hierarchyWindow = null;
13.         public static EditorWindow HierarchyWindow
14.         {
15.             get
16.             {
17.                 _hierarchyWindow = _hierarchyWindow ?? GetWindowByName( "UnityEditor.SceneHierarchyWindow" );
18.                 return ( _hierarchyWindow );
19.             }
20.         }

 

I downloaded your unity package, @Crazydadz
Once I fixed it up to have no errors, I get more errors, and unity isn't functional... Seems interesting though.

 

Guys - Tenebrous actually has the repository up on bitbucket to this day. He sporadically updates it to account for Unity updates, too.

 

Thanks for the link, Jedy. Checking it out now.