Unity Tips & Tricks

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Regex test page: https://t.co/JXmT7ShNIF | c# regex examples https://t.co/mCmcyCWEvc

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A tutorial how to use particles to visualize graphs like sine waves | https://t.co/JdjOOe7kTM

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Disable "Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Auto Refresh" to disable recompiling/reloading on change, "Asset -> Refresh" to manually trigger.

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Pressing Ctrl while moving an object snaps the position to full world units.

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|>| Frame Skip Button (next to || Pause) can be used to proceed 1 frame at a time | https://t.co/vRHdKBPoRV

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Start a Coroutine within another Coroutine: "IEnumerator MyCo() { yield return StartCoroutine(OtherCo()); }"

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Run a Coroutine blocking: "IEnumerator it = MyCoroutine(); while (it.MoveNext());"

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[MenuItem ("CONTEXT/Rigidbody/Lala")] adds a menu item called "Lala" to a Rigidbody's context menu | https://t.co/9xRbhkMjyw

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[MenuItem ("Window/Something %g")] with shortcut g (ctrl-g on Windows, cmd-g on OS X) | other modifiers: # shift, & alt , _ no mod

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[MenuItem("Assets/My")] static void My() {} creates an My entry in the Asset context menu | thx to salomon | https://t.co/9xRbhkMjyw

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foreach (Transform child in transform) iterates over all direct childs | https://t.co/ggTgQbPWY1

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Check Editor.log "Used Assets, sorted by uncompressed size:" to check why the build is too big | https://t.co/QynjhLW5Um

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"EditorApplication.OpenScene("Assets/Scenes/my.unity");" opens a scene (check SaveCurrentSceneIfUserWantsTo) | https://t.co/l0WI9u5wRK

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Notification in editor window | ShowNotification(new GUIContent(EditorGUILayout.TextField("Hello"))); | https://t.co/3MINiEGm1E

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"Object.Destroy(Object obj, float t = 0.0F);" has a timeout to delay destruction by t seconds

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"yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);" will never stop if "Time.timeScale = 0f;"

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[SelectionBase] attribute to mark its GameObject as a selection base object for Scene View picking | https://t.co/W8yxw3YsCa

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Nice 4.5 details: SelectionBase, DecoratorDrawers, UNITY_PRO_LICENSE define, ability to serialize structs | https://t.co/piw3qpbRd0

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In project search "t:scene" shows only scenes, "t:texture" only textures. You can use "t:NAME_A_TYPE_HERE".

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Custom component icons | Click a script in the inspector and change the icon similar to this https://t.co/FHJzsasiSZ