com.pixelwizards.utilities

Some useful Utility tools for Unity.

Note: this repo uses Git LFS

Project Tracker

https://github.com/orgs/PixelWizards/projects/1/views/1

Usage

Install via OpenUPM

The package is available on the openupm registry. It's recommended to install it via openupm-cli.

openupm add com.pixelwizards.utilities

Install via git url

Add this to your project manifest.json

"com.pixelwizards.utilities": "https://github.com/PixelWizards/com.pixelwizards.utilities.git",

OpenUPM Support

This package is also available via the OpenUPM scoped registry: https://openupm.com/packages/com.pixelwizards.utilities/

Prerequistes

• This has been tested for >= 2018.3

Content

Tools

• Timeline/Multi-Scene Swap track - added a new Timeline track to drive multi-scene config loading. Also see Multi-Scene Swap Helper
• Assets/Create/Scene Management/Multi-Scene Loader - multi scene loading system (see Samples for Runtime API usage as well!)
• Assets/Texture Combiner - lets you pack texture channels (combine multiple maps for HDRP textures etc)
• Assets/Find all References - find all references of a given object
• Assets/Batch Import - batch import a bunch of .unitypackages (including optional subfolders)
• Edit/Distribute/Along X / Y / Z - distributes selected game objects in the scene
• Edit/Settle Physics - allows you to activate physics in edit mode to 'drop' / settle objects dynamically
• various other tools - 'Create GameObject at Root' etc
• Edit/Find in Project
• Edit/Group - create groups from gameobjects (ctrl-shift-g)
• Edit/Reset Parent Transform - if you have groups you want to reset the parent transform position
• Edit/Global Defines wizard - manage your .rsp files
• Edit/Enable / Disable Gizmos
• Edit/Replace Materials in object
• Edit/Replace Selection - bulk replace objects in a scene
• Tools/Text to TextMeshPro - converts legacy Text UGUI elements to a TextMeshPro UGUI text field
• Window/Analysis/ResourceChecker - shows resources loaded in a scene, very useful for optimizing builds
• Window/Analysis/Console Call Stack Helper - reformats an entry in the console to display the call stack properly
• Window/Sequencing/Duplicate with Bindings - attempts to clone a timeline keeping it's bindings (experimental)
• Window/Toggle Locks -

Components

• EditorNote - add notes to objects in the editor (ignored in play mode) - useful to add visual tips in scene view
• FreeCam - adds a free fly cam similar to the scene view (useful for debugging etc)
• SelectionBase - adds the [SelectionBase] attribute to a game object, ensuring that the top level object in a complex prefab is selected properly in scene view
• SetTargetFramerate - calls Application.targetFramerate to specify the desired framerate for the game

Keyboard Shortcuts

• CTRL+SHIFT+G - Create New Group (empty gameobject) from selected objects
• CTRL+W - Toggle the lock icon on the active editor window
• CTRL+E - Toggle the current window mouse over
• CTRL+SHIFT+W - Toggle Lock all Editor Windows
• Numpad 7 - Scene view Top
• Numpad 5 - Switch between ISO / Perspective View Scene View
• Numpad 1 - Scene view Left
• Numpad 3 - Scene view back

Samples

• None currently

Required dependencies

• None