Presets Feature

Very Cool This Is a Great Feature, Thanks.

 

Please make presets available from the runtime.
It could be very useful.
It will allow us to save different conditions of gameobject (transform component i e) and switch depending on a situation.

Thank you

 

so we have no set preset in runtime ?

 

That's right. Currently it is an editor-only feature.

 

Is there a way to exclude some fields from presets? For example i want to use the same mesh render settings for many objects but i want the materials to stay the same. Can i tell the materials not to change on application, or better yet, not save info like the material to the preset?

 

Couldn't you manually edit the preset file? As in you could open the .presets file in a text editor, find the material entry, and delete it.

It did a quick experiment, and it seems like that works as expected, so it might be an OK stopgap.

The editor will be a lot harder to solve, so good luck with that.

 

The temporary work around sounds like it will help a lot, thanks!

 

I'm using 2018.2.0f2 should this work with UI elements? I've set a default Image preset (turns it red & unticks raycast target) but it isn't be applied to any of the images I create via the context menu. I can apply it manually.

 

Making this work for UI context menu would be awesome, do you think this will be in by 2018.4?

 

Hello people,

1. How to access to change presets by script ?.
2. Is it also allowed to do it with InputManager?
Thanks

 

They're great and work well for a lot of things but why aren't ParticleSystems renderer components supported? It is pretty annoying since there are actually a lot of important stuff in there for almost any particle and you have to redo it everytime..
It is even more annoying because presets could be very useful for particlesystems, but that limitation is ughh I'd rather stick to template prefabs particlesystems because of it.
Im guessing under the hood the particlesystem renderer component is *actually* a different hidden component so preset don't work or whatever but I dunno maybe a way to include it in the preset then since every particlesystem has one anyways?

 

@bastien_humeau, could you consider adding a temporary copy-paste feature for this? Essentially similar to "copy component/paste component values" that's available from the cog on MonoBehaviours.

The use case is this: I have an imported texture, and I want a different texture to have the same import settings. I don't want to create a permanent preset, I just want to copy the settings this one time. Right now I either have to create a preset, apply it, and then delete it again, or just copy over the settings manually.

I'm not quite sure how this would look in the UI, but the functionality would come in very handy pretty often when working with assets.

 

Hi @bastien_humeau

Being able to save my Inspector settings with preset select has saved my life countless times. So thank you for it.

But is there a way to make the Preset Select more responsive?

I have to click on it 5-10 times before it opens up.. But then Unity remembers all the clicks and it goes crazy opening\closing the Presets window.

Thanks!

 

I'm having a issue. Even if i manually try to override the project settings via the .preset asset i get a unity Crash.

Here is how you can reproduce the error.

Open one project -> Go to ProjectSettings Window -> Save any setting as .preset
Open new project -> Drag and drop the .preset do the Asset folder -> Go to ProjectSettings Window -> Click the slider icon -> Select the .preset -> Bam Unity Crash

Any input on this?

EDIT
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It only happens for the PlayerSettings.preset
The Quality / Tag settings.preset works fine.

 

I did already open the bug. The preset fails to apply when we have a icon on the default icon property. If i remove any image reference on the player settings, it works.

 

I have a bug where any time I set a preset on a transition it effectively deletes that transition. It shows as being there until either you click onto another transition or close and re-open the animator. Tried different animations, transitions and presets. Very annoying. Unity 2018.2.19f, Pro Skin

 

Okay I've managed to figure out the cause of the issue. The presets only work for transitions with the same destination as the original. So if I make a transition from Anim1 to Exit, I can then create a preset based on that and use it for for Anim2 to Exit. But if I try and use that preset from Anim3 to Anim4 Unity moves the transition to go towards Exit as was saved in the preset. If I create a preset that targets a node other than Exit and then try and use it in another animator the transition is deleted but remains in the list as a bad references.

This effectively makes animation transition presets useless when it could otherwise be kind of useful.
At the very least you should be able to group edit transitions so I can set timings and conditions for a bunch of animations at the same time

 

Hi there,
Is there any way to use presets to change child gameobject's attributes with only single parent preset?
For example, in my case; I have a human model with rig and I want to change his fingers' positions and orientations. One by one I changed all of the fingers' transforms and save the presets of all of the fingers to use them on another model's hand. If the preset allows a parent preset with the selected attributes of the children included, say "transform", and save it as a whole preset, say "left_hand.preset" it would be very helpful. It is very time consuming thing to control if any of the finger rig's positions and rotations are correct or not for both of the hands.
If there is not a feature like this, I think that could be cool to add this in future versions like "nested presets" or such.
thanks for the presets feature by the way, it is very helpful even as it is.

 

Hey Bastien, is there any update on this? Just checked this in 2019.1.0b7 and it's still not in there.

Fixing this would actually make that "default" setting usable for UI, because right now you're better off not using it for sake of consistency.

 

Good to know it's fixed in the future at least, thanks

 

Hey, presets have been a godsend since I updated to 18.3. One thing though, it'd be nice to be able to exclude some attributes. I'm using it to set up a heap of animation @Fbx files and it kinda messes up animation names and Start/End ranges. At the moment I just fix those up and it's still wayyyyy better than having to set every other aspect.
Thank you!

 

Hi Bastien, I cannot share actually a script because there is none. I have a 3d human model and I am changing his fingers' positions to set them like holding the VR controllers. And then, I am doing the same thing for a female model. I have no modeling experience so I need to do it in Unity. Surely I can use a code, but I do not have much time to think on it because of my constraints and I thought if presets can work nested, it can be a good thing to use. I only copy the values to another model but the project can mandate me to change the models; then I need to do everything all over again.

So for your answer's last part, I guess that can be used. I make a prefab out of the hands, and paste it into the other model's hands. But the model is by on its own also a prefab, so I need to change model's prefab also. Maybe I will need to use the original model afterhand, so maybe I need to do another prefab for the model out of the original prefab. Did I understand you correctly for the last part, right?

 

What is the best workflow to use Preset for automating the asset import process?

I created some presets for textures and models, but couldn't find a way to utilize it with a custom script.
I'm trying to automate the import process using AssetPostprocessor, and switch import settings using presets per asset(something like if the assetpath contains 'transparent', 'alpha', 'overlay' or something, use a preset for transparent texture).

I saw the "Asset Auditing" manual from Unity Documentation, but the example shows 'hard-coded' settings. This method doesn't look flexible.
With this BEAUTIFUL Preset system, asset importing automation could be a lot flexible.
Can anyone give some advice or direction to do it?

 

Ah, I almost forgot. I created a preset from a TextureImporter and noticed that the 'Alpha Is Transparency' option stays unmodifiable even if the 'Alpha Source' is set to 'Input Texture Alpha' or 'From Gray Scale'. Happens on Unity2019.1.0f1. Is this an intended behaviour?

 

I've already created a report on this.
Case ID : 1147407

And I appreciate for your kind reply. I'll try the Scriptable Object method for now!

 

Is there a way to get preset target type as an System.Type object? Currently there is only Preset.GetTargetFullTypeName which returns type name as a string (it would be really great to have Preset.GetTargetType which returns System.Type).

I tried to use approach described here http://answers.unity.com/answers/239152/view.html and it worked until I added assembly definition file to the project and Assembly.Load started to fail load types from my own namespace.

 

Hello @bastien_humeau,

Thank you very much for the explanation and prompt answer! Interesting, those internal types would have UnityEngine.Object type, but what would Preset.GetTargetFullTypeName return for them?

I've submitted the project, case number is 1187183. I'm pretty sure something is broken on my side as the link I posted feels to be hacky way to get the type. I have a feeling that adding assembly definition to folder where code calling Type.GetType resides is the problem as probably Assembly.Load would look only into files present in that folder exactly due to assembly definition file added. I also looked into TypeCache but seems it's not suitable to solve the problem.

 

Many thanks for taking a look at the project! Really appreciate that.

You are right, comparing preset target full type names should be fine. I changed the code this way and seems fine. Unfortunatelly I cannot recall why initially I decided to use System.Type instead of full type name for that purpose.

 

@bastien_humeau about still not having partial presets, why can't the Preset UI not just work similar to either Prefab UI (which allows marking / unmarking of specific properties) or Animation UI (which does the same, allowing specific properties to be keyed/unkeyed)?

I'd like to just rightclick on a property when the preset is selected, click on "exclude" and be done ...

Currently, presets for a lot of things are not usable - e.g. UI Text, as the text field is always changed whenever a preset is applied. Only workaround is to wrap everything in Prefabs and apply the presets to prefab parents.

 

@f1ac
Some code for doing something like this for in Unity 2019.3:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using UnityEditor;
3. using UnityEditor.Presets;
4.  
5. public class ApplyProjectPresets : EditorWindow
6. {
7.     public Preset playerSettingsPreset;
8.  
9.     [MenuItem("Presets/Presets Window")]
10.     public static void ShowWindow()
11.     {
12.         GetWindow(typeof(ApplyProjectPresets));
13.     }
14.  
15.     public void OnGUI()
16.     {
17.         GUILayout.Label("Player Settings", EditorStyles.boldLabel);
18.  
19.         EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
20.         playerSettingsPreset = EditorGUILayout.ObjectField(playerSettingsPreset as Preset, typeof(Preset), false) as Preset;
21.         EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();
22.  
23.  
24.         if (GUILayout.Button("Apply Player Settings Preset"))
25.         {
26.             Selection.activeObject = Unsupported.GetSerializedAssetInterfaceSingleton("PlayerSettings");
27.             playerSettingsPreset.ApplyTo(Selection.activeObject);
28.         }
29.     }
30. }

 

There are bugs on Preset from 2018 and still not addressed
When we can see it fixed?
https://forum.unity.com/threads/tex...working-for-platform-specific-options.742040/

 

How do you use the filter? Do you have any examples? Can you filter by folder?

 

Thanks for the quick reply. Maybe the folder selection could be added to the Preset Manager directly?

 

I'm very much looking forward to this, because the very first use case that got me all excited about presets was swapping my various Button components from Color Fade to Sprite Swap (along with all the various button states), but applying my custom Button preset blew away the event handling setups I had carefully wired up as well as the target graphic references. Same will happen with any number of other components that essentially present sets of "should be shared consistently" vs "should only be per instance" inspector fields, but all-or-nothing presets don't respect this dichotomy.