Collection of essential scripts and tools suitable for any type of Unity Project.
- In-editor texture creation - Create blank textures, gradients and checkerboard textures directly in the editor
- Mesh builder - Generate meshes via script
- Extended transform inspector - Show additional information about transform objects
- New menu items - Toggle asset refresh, apply transforms to children, run builds, and more
- Script templates - New script templates with automatic namespace generation
- (Optional) Reorganized asset menu - Gone are the days of having a cluttered create asset menu
- New scene view tools
- Prefab placement tool
- Distance measurement tool
- Randmize transform tool
- Convex mesh builder
- Reflection probe bounds tool
- Extension methods - Extensions for easier editor GUI creation
- (Optional) Disabled Playmode shortcuts - Disable common edit commands during playmode
- Property drawer utility - Helper class for working with SerializedProperties
- Property Attributes - A plethora of new attributes for fields in the inspector, including, but not limited to:
- Show if / Enabled if (conditionally show / enable fields)
- Read only
- Progress bar
- Buttons to call a specific method
- Popups for Layers, Tags or even integers
- Collections - Includes lists that support polymorphism and serializable dictionaries
- New Data Types - Various new data types that are commonly used:
- Float range (min / max values)
- Material property name
- Nullables for many common value types
- Mesh Generators - Scripts to simplify procedural mesh generation
- Convex mesh generator (using MIConvexHull)
- Mesh builder (for triangle, line and voxel meshes)
- Topology converter (convert triangle meshes into lines and/or points)
- Extension Methods - Tons of new extension methods, available for:
- Basic math
- Vector swizzling
- Vector math
- Matrix4x4
- Transforms
- Textures
- Terrain
- Exceptions (add a custom message to an already thrown exception)
- Repeating Timer - A simple object useful for timing events at a specific interval or frame rate
- Update Loop - New event injection points on top of unity's own update loop
- PreUpdate
- PreLateUpdate
- PostLateUpdate
- PostFixedUpdate
- Coroutine Tools - Helper class for managing coroutines & delayed invocation of functions
- Extra Gizmos - Various new gizmo shapes (circles, cylinders and more)
- Pooling System - Reuse the same game objects instead of spawning and destroying them
- Random Utilities - Miscellaneous new random functions
- Debug Utilities - Helper functions to aid in debugging, including temporary gizmos
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Open the Package Manager window, click on "Add Package from Git URL ...", then enter the following:
https://github.com/d3tonat0r/unitypackage-essentials.git#0.9.7-unity-namespace
Add the following line to your project's Packages/manifest.json:
"com.example.package": "https://github.com/d3tonat0r/unitypackage-essentials.git#0.9.7-unity-namespace"You can also download this repository and extract the ZIP file anywhere inside your project's Assets folder.