Creating Custom Gizmos for Development - 2019.2

Tutorial

Intermediate

30 Mins

Overview

Tutorial Materials

Details

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Why Use Gizmos?

Best Practices

Drawing Icons

Using GizmoTypes with Editor Scripts

Augmenting Default Gizmos

Gizmo Recipes

Area of Effect Radius Display

Enemy/Boss Health Display

Enemy Behavior State Indicator

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Moving Platform Path Display

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Conclusion

Summary

In this tutorial, we’ll explore the many wonders of custom Gizmos. Most often experienced in the form of the scale, rotate, and translate tools in the Unity Editor, Gizmos are capable of much more, and are among the easiest, most versatile ways to customize the Unity Editor for your project. They can be used to augment existing capabilities — such as displaying the bounds of a Box Collider, even when its GameObject isn’t selected — or to create a wide variety of functionality.

Recommended Unity versions

2019.2

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