Virtual Scenes - create, manage, multiple areas + cameras in one Unity Scene file

Virtual Scenes - include multiple mini-scenes into a single Scene, with a custom GUI to visualise and manage them.

[Pending review, this will appear on Asset Store (here)]

Typical use-cases:

* Make Unity's new "Giant, IN YOUR FACE!" annoying GUI-editor get out of the way
* Indoors and outdoors areas in one Unity Scene
* Put your RenderTexture cameras out of the way, but easily find and edit them
* Manage large scenes with many cameras: define each camera-location as a different Virtual Scene, and easily jump between them, move things from area to area, etc

I created this because I was doing a lot of work with the new GUI, and I needed to embed multiple RenderTexture / virtual cameras (e.g. one showing units walking around, another one showing a world map, another one showing top-down view of player's city).

It's a mess, in Unity. In a normal game-engine, I'd have made each camera a "Scene" (this is standard, but impossible with Unity - you can only use one scene at once). Solution: virtual scenes, emulated within a single Unity scene.

Features working at the moment:

1. Each Virtual Scene has its own name (can rename whatever you like)
2. Fully integrated with Unity Editor – selecting a VirtualScene in Hierarchy selects it in the Scenes Inspector, and vice-versa
3. You can right-click any GameObject / selected GameObjects and “move them to a Virtual Scene”
4. When moving-to-scene, if things have a parent, they got to the same localPosition in the Virtual Scene; this makes it very easy to organize things in different Virtual Scenes and move them to/from your main Scene
5. A SceneManager lets you easily find, view, and jump the Editor “Scene View” to each one
6. It also manages and (re-)positions them when needed (if you decide to delete some, add some, change how far “far away” is because you made your main Terrain bigger, etc)
7. They optionally have a “Scene Camera” (which is a local version of MainCamera); when you jump to a scene, it takes you to “looking hrough the Scene Camera” since that’s normally what the sub-scene is being used for
8. Setup is all automatic: if you open the Virtual Scene Manager, it automatically configures itself and adds a Virtual Scenes system to the current Scene — (this was hard to make work: I found some new bugs in Unity’s EditorWindow implementation. Sigh)
9. Everything is serialized correctly within the Unity Scene, using Unity Serialization

 

hello! dute! recently I have the similar problem for to achieve a game with 2 interactive viewpoint so I have no idea how to implement it ,so I google but found nothing valuable ,but maybe only your trying todo it,s what I needed so about 1 year passed ,have you finished it even the init version for public or in assets tore?
best regards!

 

Unity refused to let me put it on the Asset Store. I believe because they were writing their own (inferior) system of multiple scenes, and they didn't want the competition .

Sorry!

 

then can you share the plugin with us? or paid at other web sites?

 

Unity's pushed several releases since I updated the code, so it may not be compatible with current versions. I'll need at least a few hours to check it's all working and clean, and won't break your project!

I'm working flat-out on two other projects right now, not sure when I'll get time to do this, but I'll post here with an update when I can.

 

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