Why isn't my public short showing in the inspector?

As I come from a c++ background, I might make some stupid mistakes. Anyway, I have a script that simply has:

public short direction = 1;

I added the script as a component, but the direction doesn't show in the inspector, why?

 

post the rest of the code.

 

I'm not fully sure, but I think Unity doesn't serialize properly short and double. (Someone can surely correct me, but those two types are not displayed by the Inspector, and usually that means a lack of serialization)

You should try;

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. public int direction = 1;
3.  

instead.

 

Yeah! C++! Whoo!

Ok, back to the question.

The inspector cannot show you all datatypes. There are some restrictions.
He can show you intengers but no shorts.

If you want to use shorts in the inspector you must use a trick. You can create a custom inspector (look in the documentation or google after it). In this Inspektor you use an integer. Everytime you want to give your script this integer to its short member you just convert it.

But it is easier if you simply use an integer at all.

Edit: @bigmisterb LightStriker just a little bit faster than me

 

Sure... But I'm wondering if Unity is able to serialize those. If not, even displaying won't help much.

 

Well, I know the issue now.

 

I've run into this issue with the long and double types, so I'm assuming short is the same. Unity won't serialize them. Even with a custom inspector using int to show/edit the values, they don't get saved; they all just get reset to 0s. In your case it's not a big problem, as an int will serialize just fine and can store any value a short could store. If you need something bigger than what an int could store you could probably convert it to an array of bytes (which do serialize) and store it that way, saving and restoring as needed to show it nicely in the inspector.