[RELEASED] SceneNav - Smooth & Fast Scene Navigation

SceneNav got released to the Asset Store and has a -50% release discount!

SceneNav - Smooth & Fast Scene Navigation​

Description

SceneNav provides a means to zoom out, point at a desired destination by providing a preview of that destination and to zoom back in to that desired target. As such it's supposed to enhance your workflow by allowing quick navigation across your scene.

SceneNav is based on actual use cases. Projects which require a fast workflow for scene creation. With emphasis on focusing on the project without being slowed down by Unity's lack of proper tools for navigation around the scene. Especially scenes with large terrains.

As such I tried to keep the accessibility convenient for you while having the functionality help you speed up your workflow.

SceneNav comes with preconfigured presets. Depending on your own workflow and scene size you can adapt those presets to your personal needs. As such I tried to keep SceneNav very flexible.

Showcase Videos

The videos are examples of what you can do with SceneNav in combination with other assets and projects. In case you are interested the descriptions of the videos contain information about which assets were used.

Presets

Currently there are 3 presets and key bindings available which you can use. The default key bindings are Shift+1, Shift+2 and Shift+3. You can adapt those in the Shortcuts manager of Unity to meet your own personal requirements.

Depending on feedback I can extend the amount of presets. 3 just seemed to be the sweet spot for general use cases.

Requirements

SceneNav uses a raycast in order to pick a destination. With that in mind the target destination needs to have a collider.

 

How would this work if my giant world is multiple scenes loaded at runtime?

 

It's an editor tool, not a runtime tool.

 

Here's what's coming in the next weeks: SceneMarks.

ie History & Favorites in SceneView

I created a prototype over the weekend and it shaped up nicely. Have to test it more and maybe implement other things while toying around before I release it. It'll be a free update to SceneNav.

 

QuickNav and SceneNav (including SceneMark) are now available as a bundle for those interested:

NavTools Bundle​

 

Got a few vouchers for SceneNav to spare:

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Enjoy

 

Thanks

 

My NavTools Bundle is in Unity's Fresh Assets Sale available at -50%

NavTools Bundle - Quick & Smooth Navigation for Unity​

 

I have installed SceneNav version 2.0.2 from the asset store into Unity 2021.3.20f1 (running on Linux with Vulkan backend), in a HDRP scene. And I just can't get it to work.

There's nothing in the console, there's no conflict with the shortcut keys, just nothing seems to happen. Is there a way to debug the plugin? I added a simple `Debug.Log` in `SceneNav.SceneZoomShortcutPreset1` and it doesn't even print when I press `Shift+1`.

 

I just installed 2021.3.21f1 (Windows) and created a HDRP scene, installed SceneNav and all works fine out of the box. Can you try this one:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEditor.ShortcutManagement;
2. using UnityEngine;
3.  
4. public class Example : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     [ClutchShortcutAttribute("MyContext/MyFunction", null, KeyCode.Y, ShortcutModifiers.Shift)]
7.     public static void ShortcutTest(ShortcutArguments args)
8.     {
9.         if (args.stage == ShortcutStage.Begin)
10.         {
11.             Debug.Log("Key Down");
12.         }
13.         else if (args.stage == ShortcutStage.End)
14.         {
15.             Debug.Log("Key Up");
16.         }
17.     }
18.  
19. }

Pressing shift+y should show the key press / key release in the console.

I don't have a linux system, so can't test on linux. It was tested on Win/Mac. If you want feel free to contact me on discord Rowlan#9633 to get this checked faster.

 

First sorry for the late reply, have been a busy week.

I made some progress... I removed and reimported the package, and get three of these errors:

Code (csharp):

1. InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
2. Rowlan.SceneNav.SceneNavDataEditor.OnEnable () (at Assets/Rowlan/Tools/SceneNav/Editor/SceneNav/SceneNavDataEditor.cs:24)

 

Is that the first error? Because there's nothing special to it. Did you by any chance change the code? Looks like the scriptableobject of yours doesn't macth the editor target.

In case you only removed SceneNav and not the SceneNav Data try this:

* delete Assets/Rowlan/Tools/SceneNav, ie the root of it
* install SceneNav

That error doesn't make any sense otherwise because it's all the same SceneNavData class and should be cast-able.

If that doesn't work, then file a Unity bug report, then it's a Unity Linux thing. It works perfectly fine on Win and Mac.

 

Hi!, i´m a very newbie in Unity and your tools are a good helpers in my hard road to develop, so thankyou in advance!
i´m tryin to make works scene nav, but i receive an error message in console when trying to install and I don´t know how to solve it.
Can you help me please?

 

That's odd. Can you try clicking on the Rowlan folder, open contect menu (right mouse button) and click Reimport?
Alternatively open the settings menu: Tools > Rowlan > SceneNav > Settings

 

it works!
thank you very much Rowlan!

 

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There's currently a Humble Bundle which includes the NavTools Bundle

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I did a little advertising for using SceneNav and Pure Nature 2: Meadows using MicroVerse: