Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Note
The property drawers can only use the default layouts in the
EditorGUI
class. For per-
formance reasons, they cannot use the automatic controller found in the
Editor-
GUILayout
class, which is used in
EditorWindows
.
For more information on property drawers, see the Unity reference guide at
ht-
Tip
If you want to see some more creative uses of the property drawers, check out the simple
little GitHub repository at
https://github.com/tenpn/ChestOfPropertyDrawers
.
Property drawers examples
Using the
Entity
script in
Assets\Scripts\Classes
, let's see the effect of
adding some simple property drawers to our NPCs in the
Inspector
pane (because the
NPC
class is derived from the
Entity
class).
Built-in property drawers
Starting simply, we can decorate some of the properties of the
Entity
class in our game
with the
Range
attribute by adding the following code to the
Entity
class:
public string Name;
[Range(10, 100)]
public int Age;
public string Faction;
public string Occupation;
[Range(1, 10)]
public int Level;
The preceding code has the following effect on the editor inspector:
