Is there any good resources to learning tool dev?

Hey all, I've taken a big interest in wanting to learn how to make tools. Things like custom editors, inspectors and scene view. I've taken a look at documentation around custom editors but the examples aren't super helpful for what I'm hoping to do. Does anyone have any resources to share when it comes to learning tool dev? Thanks!

 

Hi,

Have you tried searching for "unity custom editor tutorial"?

Unity Learn for 2018.1, guess most of it applies for later versions.
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/editor-scripting

 

I use this a lot.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/UnityEditor.html

Not all of them have script examples so you have to piece it together sometimes.

For example, If you wanted to make a custom terrain painting tool then this would be useful.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TerrainTools.TerrainPaintTool_1.html

or maybe you want to add a custom scene template.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneTemplate.SceneTemplateAsset-addToDefaults.html

Also, classes are a good way to see what you can override/implement yourself. For example,

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Gizmos.html

I used that reference to make custom editor gizmos.

The Learn section has a few topics on editor tools.

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/editor-scripting#5c7f8528edbc2a002053b5f6
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/creating-basic-editor-tools

and this might be useful too.

https://www.raywenderlich.com/7751-unity-custom-inspectors-tutorial-getting-started#toc-anchor-001

 

Thanks for replying! I have seen this before but it didn't really help me learn if that makes sense? I'll give it another go.

 

Thanks for the reply. I find that the hardest part is the piecing together of information. I'll definitely be referencing these more thank you.