Global Enum for Tags and Layers

Hello,

I'm beginning to use Tags and Layers on my GameObjects and i have to use them by scripting.
I found this following commands to use them and it works :

GameObject.FindWithTag("tagName")

LayerMask.NameToLayer("layername")

But i don't like to use raw texte in my code. So I made a global namespace were I created Enum and static class to have a list of my tags and Layers.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. namespace GeneraleNS {
3.    
4.     public static class Tags {
5.         public const string InGame_EffectAreas    = "InGame_EffectAreas";
6.         public const string InGame_Projectil    = "InGame_Projectil";
7.     }
8.  
9.     public enum Layers {
10.         Default = 0,
11.         TransparentFX = 1,
12.         IgnoreRaycast = 2,
13.         Water = 4,
14.         UI = 5,
15.         PlayerCharacter = 10,
16.         NonPlayerCharacter  = 11,
17.         SpellProjectil = 20
18.     }  
19. }

Than I can call them like this :

GameObject.FindWithTag(Tags.InGame_EffectAreas)

(int)Layers.SpellProjectil

In my opinion it's much easier to maintain and to use. But i'm surprised that it doesn't exists natively in Unity.
So my question is : am I missing something or is it a "real" good idea to do something like this namespace ?

Thanks

 

Your setup is fine and fairly common. There's no real way for Unity to expose those kinds of structures because extending them would be impossible.

 

Hi,

So i'm not missing something ... it's a good news

Thanks for your answer.