felipemcoliveira/scriptableobject-propertydrawer

An unity editor extension, which enhances the scriptable object property.

About

This package enhances the scriptable object property in the editor by adding two small buttons, one for creating scriptable object with a easy-to-use popup window which allows sub-asset creation and the second one for editing sub assets as unity doesn't provide a way to delete and to rename them.

Installing

To install this package, follow the instructions in Installing from a Git URL.

How to use

After the package has been added to you project, a button can be spotted beside any scriptable object property, by clicking it a popup windows is displayed then you can define the asset name, define where it should be saved, select the type for the new object from a list of valid types for this property and finally select how to create it, if you want to create it just as you defined (Create) or open a dialog so you can provide a path through a form as you normally do with files in your computer (Create As...) or create this file as sub-asset of the owning object (Create As SubAsset).

If you create a sub asset, now the creating button has a friend, the editing button, which is represented by a pencil ✏️, because that's the way people represent editing, I guess. The editing button as well as the creating button display a popup window, but a simple one where you can rename the asset and delete it.

Motivation

I really like to use strategy pattern but it's a little bit complicated to do it in unity if you encapsulate strategy within scriptable objects, because every class requires a menu item for create it and when you're setting multiples properties it's slow and boring to do it, so why not a custom editor tool for help us?

Not only did the creation process motivate me, but also the fact that Unity doesn't have any built-in features to allow us to create sub-assets increased my motivation to create this package.