Intro to Tool Dev in Unity - An Improvised Live Course [part 1/4]
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this was originally streamed as a course for students at futuregames.se/, who were super kind to let me both stream this live as well as upload it here! so massive thanks to the people at FutureGames!!
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0:00:00 - Thor
0:00:18 - What is a Tool Developer?
0:04:05 - Field Attributes
0:09:02 - Gizmos
0:11:44 - Managers & ExecuteAlways
0:21:26 - Handles & Editor Preprocessors
0:27:36 - Drawing Bezier Curves
0:32:37 - Material & Mesh Modification Pitfalls
0:44:41 - MaterialPropertyBlocks
1:08:41 - Coloring Gizmos & Handles
1:10:42 - ScriptableObjects
1:21:46 - ScriptableObjects vs Prefabs
1:24:36 - Making a Custom Inspector
1:31:59 - Serialization of Fields & Types
1:43:56 - Editor GUI, Layout & Styling
2:07:15 - Shader Forge
2:06:06 - Recorder Tool
2:26:56 - Inspector Fields (manual version)
2:37:57 - Inspector Fields (SerializedProperty version)
2:47:19 - Change Detection & Updating Objects
2:51:34 - MenuItem Object Snapping Script
3:09:16 - EditorWindow Snapping Tool
3:24:07 - Assignment! Advanced Snapping Tool
@acegikmo 4 роки тому
Timestamps for all you mobile users out there 💖 0:00:00 - Thor 0:00:18 - What is a Tool Developer? 0:04:05 - Field Attributes 0:09:02 - Gizmos 0:11:44 - Managers & ExecuteAlways 0:21:26 - Handles & Editor Preprocessors 0:27:36 - Drawing Bezier Curves 0:32:37 - Material & Mesh Modification Pitfalls 0:44:41 - MaterialPropertyBlocks 1:08:41 - Coloring Gizmos & Handles 1:10:42 - ScriptableObjects 1:21:46 - ScriptableObjects vs Prefabs 1:24:36 - Making a Custom Inspector 1:31:59 - Serialization of Fields & Types 1:43:56 - Editor GUI, Layout & Styling 2:07:15 - Shader Forge 2:06:06 - Recorder Tool 2:26:56 - Inspector Fields (manual version) 2:37:57 - Inspector Fields (SerializedProperty version) 2:47:19 - Change Detection & Updating Objects 2:51:34 - MenuItem Object Snapping Script 3:09:16 - EditorWindow Snapping Tool 3:24:07 - Assignment! Advanced Snapping Tool
@tahiriqbal8543 3 роки тому
uhhh thank you so much
@peyton-a-lee 3 роки тому
Just found this series and your channel, and it's incredible so far! Definitely recommending this to my friends who use Unity.
@asrielmandrak7220 4 роки тому
Oh man. You don't know for how long i was searching for this video. I finally solved literally ALL of my doubts in just one video. Thank you, really. (Btw: your editors are gorgeous. I would like to see a detailed course on editor designs like yours)
@benjoe1993 4 роки тому
THIS IS WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS! This is what I need :D
@JarlThorson 4 роки тому
I would love a post mortem on Shader Forge!
@cetiah 4 роки тому
This is awesome. I've been so interested in learning about tools development lately (and shaders!) but wasn't sure how to get started. Thank you so much!
@jjkanes 2 роки тому
Bloody love this series! So good to to find little quality of life editor tool stuff I never knew existed ahhh
@VTBikupan 4 роки тому
Great vid! Haven't worked with tool dev stuff in a few years now and this was a stellar refresher~ Learned a fair bit of new tips as well
@mahmudmizanfahim4270 2 роки тому
Love your lengthy explanations because often time I can find extra knowledge from them. Best teacher ever!!!
@evanlane1690 3 роки тому
Holy SHIT this is amazing. I had work to do today Freya! Now I'm four hours behind, and it was absolutely worth it. :D
@bluntfist 2 роки тому
If you're trying to follow along using URP or HDRP and can't get the colors to work, try changing "_Color" to "_BaseColor". Btw this tutorial rules.
@ddouston Рік тому
20m in, you've expanded my Unity knowledge in some ways as well as confirmed my understanding of the Editor in others. Bravo! Great course!
@somekindofdevil 3 роки тому
These videos are priceless. Thanks for making them.
@fernandacoelho7035 2 роки тому
I haven't properly started yet, but I just want to thank you so much for this. I'm trying to improve my tech art skillset and this is such an incredible resource, and I know from experience that making tutorials is a lot of work; and you went the extra EXTRA mile of making them longer and timestamped, this is amazing
@acegikmo 2 роки тому
hope you'll find it useful!
@RustyMahkra 2 роки тому
Just i love you! You explain very easily. The tips really come in handy I'll see all your videos like this ♥
@fulongfromthegrave 3 роки тому
SO good, and so useful! thanks Freya!
@lee1davis1 Рік тому
Thank you Freya for sharing your knowledge and skills!
@rayanmazouz9542 2 роки тому
Thanks ! Great detailed video, I've never done an editor tool before, so I'll watch all the 4 videos twice, and I should know the basics
@seanmoakes 2 роки тому
You have a great way of breaking all this stuff down. Thank you so much!
@jiteshmule9227 4 роки тому
finally video is available Thank you Freya. :)
@clownhunter Рік тому
1:40:54 Just a heads up to anyone watching this video now, Unity added the [SerializeReference] attribute in 2019.3 that can handle serializing list of base classes, polymorphic classes, interfaces, etc so this is no longer an issue.
@riddheshzaveri8103 3 роки тому
I am sure you will receive so many blessings for what you are doing for game dev community. The knowledge you share is worth million dollars. I will try my best to teach the same to others also for free, just like you.
@iridelombardi 4 роки тому
Just a heads up, if you are using URP, you should set the color property _BaseColor, not _Color
@kanerih 2 роки тому
Thank you so much.
@westingtyler2 4 роки тому
these are great vids. the world needs lots of these.
@carlboisvert8517 3 роки тому
Damn, I'm 14 minutes in and this is already super usefull! Subscribing for sure! Really great work!
@hakanviajando Рік тому
This was an amazing session, thank you very much.
@Caparrini81 3 роки тому
Awesome content! What a great work!
@bakkarxp 4 роки тому
Great work Freya.👍
@rosyfu5845 2 роки тому
Thank you sooo much for this! It's AmaZinG!
@T_S_O_D 2 місяці тому
This is exactly what I needed
@vufer3d 3 роки тому
You are awesome.I am grateful for this briliant lesson.
@andrewhan4016 2 роки тому
Thanks so much for making these videos!
@draconinteractive 3 роки тому
That pattern at the beginning for multi-object management, I hadnt seen anyone else use that! One thing I do, if I'm not using a manager for the object collection, you can create the list in the script itself. So in ExplosiveBarrel, you can just have public static List all = new List(); Then, to get the collection, scripts can just do ExplosiveBarrel.all[x] Both have adv/disadv, just an addition :)
@GameDevNerd 2 роки тому
public static List AllBarrels { get; set; } I use that pattern a lot inside the Component script when I have something I will need other GameObjects to be able to search through or manage. I add each one to that list either in OnEnable, Start or Awake and remove them in OnDisable or OnDestroy depending on what sort of tracking system I want for them.
@Nastomeya 2 роки тому
Just want to say you will never stop learning Unity from Freya.
@josh_swanson 3 роки тому
Thank you for these!
@Trombonaut Рік тому
Had no idea about all the action behind the renderer/filter color/mesh properties. Thanks for that
@benjaminlehmann День тому
Thanks for this, Freya; a really useful set of insights and learning :D
@pabloalves Рік тому
This is the best source of tool dev online i guess, thanks a lot. Awesome course
@Forummaker 3 роки тому
This was super-useful, THANK YOU.
@TheRabidCabbage 3 роки тому
I'm enjoying the hidden minigame of trying to work out all the hotkeys you're using. Keys I learned so far: Ctrl+D = Dupe line Ctrl+Shift+L = Delete Line (I changed it to Ctrl+Shift+D as like the opposite of Dupe Line) Alt+Shift+Double-click = Select Multiple Words Ctrl+Shift+U = Toggle Case (Not an ideal combo, but I doubt I will use it much) Alt+Shift+. = Add Next Occurrence to Selection (This needs to be more accessible) I realised I was shifting lines & statements up & down a lot, so I promoted them to Shift+Wheel and Ctrl+Shift+Wheel. Hope that isn't going to be a problem later.
@melomaniakjm 3 місяці тому
Awesome video! Thanks a million for this wealth of knowledge!
@revilorere 2 роки тому
This is such a great video!
@vkan 3 роки тому
I really enjoyed this!
@benjoe1993 4 роки тому
Will tomorrow's course be uploaded as well? Because I love this!
@acegikmo 4 роки тому
yep! it's recorded and all, will be editing and uploading it tomorrow :)
@nthnnnnnnnnn 2 роки тому
00:41:59 I might be wrong but afaik creating new material doesn't create a new "Asset". It creates a material in memory which would be destroyed on "Domain Reload" (recompile). Also I don't think (again I might be wrong) that you can save a material in a SceneAsset. Which is different from the type Scene. Scene is just a runtime struct that holds loaded SceneAsset information.
@hellzbellz1234 2 роки тому
For anyone in the future that's looking to learn to code and stumbles upon this video, or is actually into this video topic, pick a project/dev app that uses your coding language of choice, and go to the feature request area and pick a project. Popular projects are maybe better also a discord for that project might also be helpful
@gabrielmartins7642 2 роки тому
i am just someone who really want to make a game, and this series is actually helping me to organize myself and all
@gabrielmartins7642 2 роки тому
i keep coming back to check what i have forgotten
@Kenbomp 2 роки тому
Very practical and learn about the system . Nice layouts. For windows
@Axelazo 2 роки тому
Can't believe all this content is free!
@TheRabidCabbage 3 роки тому
When you Undo the UpdateAllBarrelColors() action, although the colour field in BarrelTypeEditor and Gizmo wires revert to the original colour, the actual barrel material doesn't revert until you trigger a OnValidate() or something. I found a solution by using a Undo.undoRedoPerformed Callback to re-trigger the UpdateAllBarrelColors() after an Undo. Is there a better way?
@snakeplisken4278 3 роки тому
I would love to know how to make rain and snow effects in Unity, but so that it does not fall through the roofs of buildings the player can enter. Thanks. Not sure if shader graphs or particle effects will work?
@GG1440 4 роки тому
Thank you for sharing this, it's very helpful
@acegikmo 4 роки тому
I 3D printed and painted my own! I'd love to sell them somehow, but, no idea where / how I'd be able to set that up~
@alexsteed3091 2 роки тому
@@acegikmo , Patreon, but you must be prepared for all the gizmo fiddling that will come of it.
@TheBelgarion01 4 роки тому
God bless this course
@IndieFist 4 роки тому
2:09:55 how much cost have this shader in mobile? you made it easy!
@fardinhaque70 4 роки тому
Should run pretty flawlessly in any mobile device.
@yugoanzai8197 3 роки тому
Amazing course! Thanks. Knows mch more than a lot of youtubers selling poor unity courses out there.
@yugoanzai8197 3 роки тому
Also has a really cute cat! Haha
@ThatGamePerson 3 роки тому
Lol I was looking for this in your patreon, happily surprised they weren't deleted, just not where I thought.
@DeathbyLibra Рік тому
Hey Freya! Awesome vid! I adore your brain! Lol (is that weird?) anyway, is there somewhere I can go to see when you will be hosting these live streams in the future or just ask you a couple questions in general? I’m a 3D artist and just finished a technical artist internship while working on a shipped title… I am apprehensive about moving forward in my career path atm and would love to pick your brain a tiny bit. Do you have a patreon? :)
@acegikmo Рік тому
I do have a patreon yeah! www.patreon.com/acegikmo As for my streams, I'm currently trying to recover from burnout, so unfortunately I'm not very actively streaming as of the past few months. But whenever I stream, I usually do it on twitch, at twitch.tv/acegikmo
@MorionTutoriales 4 роки тому
tk very much for your videos, all these are excelents.. Greetings from Colombia
@k4chanzs427 3 роки тому
(Material property blocks) Can we use this to SkinnedMeshRenderer.
@anonymoussloth6687 3 роки тому
At 3:00:18 you said that "we are making changes but not making changes to the serialized data". But isn't the position of a gameobject serialized? Why doesn't the editor automatically mark the change as dirty?
@oloy7038 2 роки тому
Does anyone know whats the settings of her visual studio? im new and its beautiful template or what ever you call it. thanks^^
@haikunHuanghk Рік тому
Good video, still learning today!!!!!
@ale-hl8pg Рік тому
Do you actually recommend using MaterialPropertyBlocks to color objects in the editor (as the example with the explosive barrels) or simply during runtime (for example, an enemy flashing) ? With the explosive barrel example, if you have different types such as a toxic barrel which would be green, would you create new materials for it (in editor mode, when you're creating the toxic barrel itself) or change it by using a script to apply the MaterialPropertyBlock with a given color? One pet peeve I've had was that creating a lot of materials was annoying when you're working on something like different variations of enemies, using mpb's seems like it'd make it slightly less annoying since you don't create a lot of new materials, just color them, but I'm wondering if there's some downfall to that besides what you've noted that, each time you set a new mpb it'll override all the properties of the previous one?
@acegikmo Рік тому
either is fine, just depends on how much you want to be persistent vs transient exceptions, and how it deals with batching. it also depends on render pipelines
@RegenerationOfficial 2 роки тому
I don't understand this "instance" and sharing data fully. I want to have my items/blocks/scripts communicate efficiently, how do I do that?
@Metroid1193 4 роки тому
You are amazing!
@rootgingerbread1034 4 роки тому
Thank's On this video ❤🌹
@georgerobson8329 2 роки тому
2:41:19 Blew my mind. Is that rider/jetbrains specific?
@jasonskillman6274 2 роки тому
Blew my mind too! Do you know what the shortcut was?
@danielgruginski5496 3 роки тому
So... the 1/4 means there is more 3 videos on tool development or 3 more videos on an improvised live course? I absolutely loved this video, but I thought it was a bit short (really, considering all the content). Still, it was the most in-depth video I ever saw and it will help me get things done on my own going forward. Thank you for this content!
@acegikmo 3 роки тому
part 2: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/pJmeroyIfYt-wps.html part 3: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/qZZ4rq2wlq2Ezas.html part 4: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/bpiIqI6rjKdo0IE.html
@danielgruginski5496 3 роки тому
@@acegikmo Oh, thank you Thank you!! I have no idea why those videos weren't showing up for me on the suggestions, now I got 7 more hours of really advanced stuff. Really appreciate your work!
@fluiglp5615 Рік тому
i tried to create a Custom Editor for adding buttons into the Animator Menu, and for adding labels on the Animator States, maybe someone here has a clue how thats made :0 I work in unity 2019 currently for some reasons if thats important
@TheRabidCabbage 3 роки тому
1:26:28 What feature were you saying is only in Unity 2020? Your voice breaks up at the exact moment you mention it. All I got was "Chat says there is scriptable objects on ??????" Sounds like "OnValidate". but that doesn't make much sense. :D
@Oompafan907 13 днів тому
No because I was about to fall asleep and then this video started playing in the way. I jumped up so fast it generally scared me
@hobogamedev6846 2 роки тому
Flawless.
@AnkitRathore-ru5kh 2 роки тому
How to Create Preview Window for Particle System??
@riu7688 7 днів тому
Gerne noch mehr Folgen von dem Game, Hades wäre auch cool aufm Main Channel die Story is so cool!
@yummybunny7351 2 роки тому
How you immediately have some space in parametr brackets "( )" ? Like at 27:35 - you just type function name, and cursor already inside brackets (thats by Rider, i suppose) and inside brackets 2 space - how? And 41:15 same
@acegikmo 2 роки тому
it's my formatting settings in rider
@AlKaponeLegend 3 роки тому
I love the clicking sound
@trejkaz 2 роки тому
Avoiding the name `Manager` in class names is a design principle in itself because the word doesn't really have any meaning. A name like `ExplosiveBarrelStore` or `ExplosiveBarrelRegistry` would probably be better in this particular case.
@kvskchaitanya4733 3 роки тому
Is it efficient to use material property blocks on run time. Like selecting character color at runtime. And is it OK to apply material color to a ui image color like image. Color= material. Color
@acegikmo 3 роки тому
yes! although UI specifically doesn't let you access or set its property block afaik
@kvskchaitanya4733 3 роки тому
@@acegikmo thank you so much.
@JarppaGuru 2 роки тому
53:35 yeah its working but changing color on game too. do tool cretor want effect how game look xD. how apply color only for edit. we do editor tool lol.
@jeremyfisher4082 4 роки тому
A game development goddess that goes into the advanced area of Unity! Much love for your videos, Thank you for all you have done!
@jeremyfisher4082 4 роки тому
but seriously though you have really good stuff on this channel, I have some friends that are making a nordic mythology game, we met in game design at full sail. so when I saw your name I was like " game development goddess" sorry if it sounded any other way. I think your work on these videos complements my studies at Full sail University. The vids are very informational and I truly do appreciate it!
@anidiva79 Рік тому
Superb Learning...can u please share the editor and its extensions of unity
@martinrages 11 місяців тому
Love the cat's chair haha
@ivanoarrighetta Рік тому
I'd like to understand how 2D and 3D Vector Graphics works, especially for modeling and illustration (so stuff like extrusion, deformation, rigging, and pretty much everything you can do with Inkscape and Blender). Can you please recommend some book[s] about this? Thanks for any help
@ivanoarrighetta Рік тому
Anyone?
@vtoz1830 Рік тому
@@ivanoarrighetta Math for Programmers Paul Orland as an overview . Then u should lurk around dissertation and opensources sharers to be more specific
@ivanoarrighetta Рік тому
@@vtoz1830 Thanks so much =)
@cahydra 2 роки тому
material property blocks doesnt change the color of my objects :(
@guysome3263 Рік тому
Kitty was so vocal throughout, it wanted to co-lecture.
@Kenbomp 2 роки тому
Hide flags sign of bad design if used in actual game code. No wonder some devtools don't save changes. Onvalidate() when change inspector
@yuhangren9917 4 роки тому
gooooood
@bigmistqke 2 роки тому
This is is why I love the internet.
@JarppaGuru 2 роки тому
44:57 still waiting what is best for editor LOL. Use this it change color on editor. dont leave anything and game work normal
@user-ln7bv8eg1z Рік тому
네 맞습니다. Blunfist 의 댓글처럼 이 영상을 보고 따라하실 때 URP부턴 기본 Lit 셰이더의 컬러 프로퍼티 이름이 _BaseColor입니다. 도움이 되었으면 합니다. 치얼쓰
@devil2005iscool Рік тому
she is so so attttttraactttiveeee
@kerbrose 4 роки тому
Hello I'd like to know your opinion about Godot game engine.
@acegikmo 4 роки тому
never used it myself! I know some people who use it, seems neat I suppose? :)
@erenneager9986 10 днів тому
woke up to this
@n8dev 2 роки тому
how am I just finding this
@timstevens3361 2 роки тому
what beautiful headphones you have
@danamuise4117 Рік тому
This should be retitled to "Technical Artist Essentials"
@daomingliu7251 3 роки тому
great
@TearscapeSE Рік тому
I need a tool which translate my bad english in machine language so i can talk my game finish.
@JarppaGuru 2 роки тому
52:31 we are doing tool that only effect editor and not shaders all all those thing game programmer done lol like tool that game programmer doing lol
@kwcnasa 2 місяці тому
Resume @45:00
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