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Using a custom inspector allows you to change the way a script is drawn in the Inspector. Sometimes you want to add extra information in the inspector for your script that isn't possible to do with a custom property drawer. Below is a simple example of a custom object that with using a custom inspe...

Sometimes you have custom objects that contain data but do not derive from MonoBehaviour. Adding these objects as a field in a class that is MonoBehaviour will have no visual effect unless you write your own custom property drawer for the object's type. Below is a simple example of a custom object,...

Menu items are a great way of adding custom actions to the editor. You can add menu items to the menu bar, have them as context-clicks on specific components, or even as context-clicks on fields in your scripts. Below is an example of how you can apply menu items. public class MenuItemsExample :...

Gizmos are used for drawing shapes in the scene view. You can use these shapes to draw extra information about your GameObjects, for instance the frustum they have or the detection range. Below are two examples on how to do this Example One This example uses the OnDrawGizmos and OnDrawGizmosSel...

Why an Editor Window? As you may have seen, you can do a lot of things in a custom inspector (if you don't know what a custom inspector is, check the example here : http://www.riptutorial.com/unity3d/topic/2506/extending-the-editor. But at one point you may want to implement a configuration panel, ...