Question how to get rid of overlay?

They bring nothing since all is a shortcut and they eat up space on my screen, how do I get back to normal?

 

Right-click and select Hide

 

cool

 

You can also press space to get the main overlay menu to show and hide all of them.

 

that's actually cool and reminiscent of maya although it would work better as a modifier: hold space = show overlay

I'm sure overlay will eventually be good
for example the 2 vertical lines used for dragging eat up space, get in the way and are easy to pull by mistake - this problem has been solved over a decade agoo (g14 keyboard) with right click > lock

 

That's great! Much more useful than the previous fullscreen toggle. I'm hoping this menu is easy to customize!

 

By that, do you mean these drag handles?



If so, I feel like a simple lock/unlock toggle in the Overlays menu could suffice. I think there should be a more obvious way to get to this menu too, like by right clicking the top Scene window toolbar, or even from the Scene tab context menu.

 

Maybe pressing the space bar (or other shortcut) could enter an "edit toolbars" mode where you can't interact with the scene or toolbars themselves but instead move them, dock them, show/hide elements, etc.

 

The only issue I have with this currently is that I have tools using spacebar, in particular one that I hold the spacebar down for a feature of, and now that popup menu flickers back and forth between visible->invisible really fast while I'm holding it ..I'll just change to using another key, but if someone at Unity happens to be working in a code block where input for opening this popup by spacebar is handled, maybe a conditional for "don't repeatedly flicker the menu while holding space" would be a welcome addition.

Also, it seems like the spacebar key in a custom editor doesn't always get an "up" phase now. I would guess it's because of that menu opening at the same time, but it could just be something with my own code / I can't confirm that right now.

 

yeah and spacing should be controllable, currently docking sticks to the previous edge.
why spacing? to get Unreal type floaty buttons so we can see through as currently the floaters are more like an opaque palette that should really be side docked and designed to reduce horizontal size.

 

Solved!

 

sorry man I know sometimes my descriptions are too condensed.
here is unreal, see the spaceing between the items? it allows to see through the scene

in other word: if overlay is over the scene and it's one large block then the effect is the same as having no overlay and instead docable so tunable spacing allows to leave enough space to see the scene through.

 

That looks really nice!

 

BTW, do you think a thin vertical layout would work if the dropdown button was replaced with a long-press?

 

like that but with controllable transparency

 

sorry for dirtying this forum but I have a question, how can I add my own buttons to an existing group, similar to how the collision editor does it when selecting an object

In the first image you can see the common buttons, in the second image we can see that when selecting an object with collision, a button has been added that corresponds to the same one that appears inside the component.

 

That's a custom EditorTool. It shows up when you select Colliders because it's EditorToolAttribute specifies

typeof(Collider)

as it's TargetType