Nifty Script for referencing scenes at run time.

Don't mind me, I just felt an urge to post about this. Scene loading is notoriously annoying. Why is there no way to reference scenes like a normal unity object. Well today I had enough, I typed up this nifty piece of code. It was so simple. I can't believe I went this long without writing something like this. All those annoying times when I had to go back and fix a typo in a SceneManager.Load().
The code snippet allows for scenes to be referenced in the editor. No more hard typing scene names. Sorry for all the annoying preprocessor directives.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. #if UNITY_EDITOR
3. using UnityEditor;
4. #endif
5. [System.Serializable]
6. public struct SceneReference
7. #if UNITY_EDITOR
8.     : ISerializationCallbackReceiver
9. #endif
10. {
11. #if UNITY_EDITOR
12.     public SceneAsset sceneAsset;
13. #endif
14.  
15.     public string SceneName { get
16.         {
17. #if UNITY_EDITOR
18.             if (sceneAsset == null) { return ""; }
19.             return sceneAsset.name;
20. #else
21.             return sceneName;
22. #endif
23.         }
24.     }
25.  
26.     [HideInInspector] [SerializeField]
27.     private string sceneName;
28.  
29. #if UNITY_EDITOR
30.     public void OnBeforeSerialize()
31.     {
32.         if (sceneAsset == null) { sceneName = ""; }
33.         else { sceneName = sceneAsset.name; }
34.     }
35.  
36.     public void OnAfterDeserialize()
37.     {
38.     }
39. #endif
40. }
41.  

 

Sorry. I'm just now beginning the battle with scenes. How would/could/should this be used?

 

Add the script above to your project, then add a SceneReference field to any of your other scripts.

Code (CSharp):

1. Using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
2. public class MySceneLoadingScript : MonoBehaviour{
3.  
4. public SceneReference scene;
5.  
6. Public void Start(){
7. SceneManager.LoadScene(scene.SceneName);
8. }
9.  
10. }

 

It will take me a few days to get this working, and a few more to understand what it's doing, and what I can do with it. I have not yet done anything with scenes. And suck at coding.

 

AND>....

THANK YOU!!!!

If you ever need anything designed, sound or visuals, lemme know. I owe!

 

Thanks for this! I just ran into this problem and was googling around for an easy solution. This works like a charm!

Cheers!