carreraSilvio / BrightEditor

Wrapper for UnityEditor calls

Bright Editing

A collection of wrappers for the Editor, EditorWindow and PropertyDrawer classes.

Features

• Draw bold label easily calling DrawBoldLabel.
• Draw a button by calling DrawButton.
• Control indent level using IncreaseIndentLevel, DecreaseIndentLevel and ResetIndentLevel.
• Want to draw the script field like unity does? Call the DrawScriptField method.
• Draw properties as readly by calling StartGreyedOutArea before and then calling EndGreyedOutArea.
• No more getting lost between GUI, GUILayout, EditorGUI and EditorGUILayout searching for the method you need.

Prerequisites

Unity 2018.3 and up

Install

Unity 2019.3

1. Open the package manager and point to the repo URL

Before Unity 2019.3

Option A

1. Open the manifest
2. Add the repo URL either via https or ssh

Option B

1. Clone or download the project zip
2. Open your project assets folder
3. Copy the repo there

Usage

Extending

1. Create your custom editor class
2. Extend from BrightEditor instead of UnityEditor.Editor
3. Check the API and use the available methods for easier custom inspector class writing

Notes:

• Similar approach when making custom EditorWindow, use BrightEditorWindow.
• Similar approach when making custom PropertyDrawer, use BrightPropertyDrawer.
• If you don't want to extend those for some reason, use BrightEditorUtility.