Official Public Roadmap and Feature Requests

Thanks for the good communication!

In regards to roadmap suggestions, are there ways to hear feedback back? I've used the roadmap a few times and the fact that it's only a 1-way communication doesn't feel great. Should we create roadmap tickets as well as forum posts to open up discussions?

 

my raw editor workflow annoyances/wishlist
https://gist.github.com/unitycoder/c29f79c1cc8e2232be9d6bfebf884561

*its few years old, more recent ones are at the bottom (i know some things are already fixed or changed)

how things like QOL comments should be reported? as roadmap wish or bug or forum post?

for example,
"QOL allow drag and drop file from Explorer, on top of existing file" (now you cannot replace existing file with same name..)

 

Just one request, I'd really like to never see this one again:


Especially when just alt-tabbing back into my project that was perfectly fine a minute ago.

 

If reproducible make a bug report

 

Sure, but in my ~12 years with Unity, I have learned that random hard crashes rarely get addressed from user bug submissions, and I do not have time to cut down my project to a submittable size every time this happens.

Also, it usually requires a somewhat real world project to trigger (maybe Unity could run their own internal team that uses their own tools to make a realistically scoped game ... idk, a giga game, ya? That would catch so many crashes...)

 

alt-tab crash is very random for me too,
i feel like it used to happen more in 5.x or those times, when screen saver/monitor sleep had kicked in or something similar.. now probably see it only few times a year.

i've also stopped sending random crash reports, since the support always insists more info (even if i write into message that this is just a random crash, i don't have more info, sending the crash debug logs in case they are useful..)

since it was mentioned earlier, that those dumps can be useful,
https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-bug-report-requirements.747440/#post-5209448

 

Two things which immediately came to mind regarding editor-feature-requests which are also asked all over the forums since years without any satisfying community-made solution or any unity-response:

Regarding SerializedObject / SerializedProperty
1. Finally in Unity 2022.2+ we can access property values as boxed System.Object which is great. But please also allow easy bubbling up the parents (serializedObject.parent) of the property/object, without having to fiddle around with Reflection (traversal by path:string) and hacky string-manipulations (for nested objects inside array's/lists).
Important for two reasons, marking serializable native classes/structs as modified / dirty is not reliable and changes get lost often, probably the owning UnityEngine.Object is not marked dirty correctly -- when calling the apply modification function and/or SetDirty via utility -- Or not at all and the situations where changes are serialized happen due to being marked dirty by something else. Reason two it helps tremendously when implementing custom attributes for custom-types and drawers for that.

2. Possibility to intercept / modify / react to general shortcut/modifications like Copy/Paste & Duplicate. Via:
- ObjectChangedEventStream
- AssetModificationProcessor
- Maybe some UnityEditor-Utility callbacks Before/After (preferable before: Func<Object, bool> which allows aborting copy when true is returned (this would also allow implementing a custom-copy/duplicate, then abort, for specific Objects) as well as Action<Object, Object> as copied A to B / Duplicated A to B)

Not being able to override/block copy/duplicate causes a lot of headache in big projects with custom tools and ScriptableObjects that may break during default unity shallow serialized-copy. Or with Components which need some field-value to be unique etc.

 

Can we have Shader Graph API for editor scriptings?
Editing Shader Graphs manully is really painful right now. Like I want to add HLSL function to a custom node in a sub graph, I'll have to maually add the properties, input, output one by one. If the function has 10 paramters it would be very annoying. If I have to do it 10 times, it would be insane.

 

@EricDziurzynski
Any update on text length in the project for Unity 6? There is enough space, all it needs is a line break. The layout dosnt even need to change, I checked in photoshop.

I bet there are hundreds of thousands of hours of people accumulated which had to slide their viewing mode to list view to read names of their content. This sounds like a 1 hour fix.

Its been like 10 years. Any game using even a little bit of a naming convention has this issue.







I cannot stress enough how important it is to either read the name or be able to view the icon.

If use list view, I can read but cannot see the icons.

You cannot give us toe choose to either see or read, this is crazy.


Also can we please have at least some basic icons in the Hierarchy window.



This is not only extremely unreadable (despite being extremely cleanly ordered in this case) but its also very bland, making work in the hierarchy just drab . They dont have to be in play mode but this is just disorienting and sad. But the worst of all is that people know that nobody cared for a decade, that is what really hurts. The same thing is true for project window. At least let us assign a color to a folder, just something very basic but anything. Remember there are level designers which work in this list for hours and hours on end.

These are the things where people say "Unity dosnt use their own engine"

Project and hierarchy are completely fundamental core elements of the entire engine, these should be the most polished out of all, however these were virtually untouched for a decade. AI tools are great and all but essentials are essential.

Im sorry for this tone but its been such a long time.

 

Hello @EricDziurzynski,

could we have a "marker", which shows, that for a prefab some overrides have not been applied? I had already cases where I have made some changes, then forgot to apply, and then the next changes were not applied on all object out of prefabs. It would be nice, if there could be an indicator, which shows: Hey wait, you have unapplied overrides. Cause at the moment the button looks the same if there are any pending overrides or not.



Thank you
Huxi