Day Two
A bit of a shorter day, today, in which I spent an hour trying to get a custom editor displaying, only to find out that… The editor was targeting something from Unity’s Visual Scripting, rather than my own class 🫠
I’m extending Unity’s Button class, which has a bunch of useful custom editor code that controls how the navigation system chooses which item to select next, plus some transitions which I usually ignore and implement myself. However, because those buttons already have a custom editor, it doesn’t show any new properties I add! Which means I have to go in and add them myself, like so:
[CustomEditor(typeof(UI.TabButton))] public class TabButtonEditor : ButtonEditor { private SerializedProperty _text; private SerializedProperty _display; private SerializedProperty _selectedFontSize; private SerializedProperty _selectedCharacterSpacing; private SerializedProperty _duration; private SerializedProperty _ease; private SerializedProperty _onSelected; private SerializedProperty _onGroupChange; protected override void OnEnable() { base.OnEnable(); _text = serializedObject.FindProperty("text"); _display = serializedObject.FindProperty("display"); _selectedFontSize = serializedObject.FindProperty("selectedFontSize"); _selectedCharacterSpacing = serializedObject.FindProperty("selectedCharacterSpacing"); _duration = serializedObject.FindProperty("duration"); _ease = serializedObject.FindProperty("ease"); _onSelected = serializedObject.FindProperty("onSelected"); _onGroupChange = serializedObject.FindProperty("onGroupChange"); } public override void OnInspectorGUI() { base.OnInspectorGUI(); serializedObject.Update(); EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(_text); EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(_display); EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(_selectedFontSize); EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(_selectedCharacterSpacing); EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(_duration); EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(_ease); EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(_onSelected); EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(_onGroupChange); serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties(); } }
Now that’s working, the new tabbed navigation for the options menu is completely up and running, and… My 1 year old son gave me the gift of an awful cold - so I’m going to go have a nap!
What’s next?
Sleep for the next three days? I wish… Next I’ll be sorting more accessibility options - namely fixing the game speed slider, adding sliders for changing the intensity of individual game elements, adding remappable controls, and adding a way to change the background colour. That won’t all happen tomorrow, but it’s my aim to have it sorted by the weekend!
I hope you enjoyed reading about my Polyfury progress. If you have any questions or thoughts, please feel free to leave a comment below. Thanks for reading, and maybe check out the demo:
