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Technical Tools Series
Unity 6 Editor Tools Essentials - Vol. 1
Everything you need to master the Unity Editor Tools API from the ground up.
5.0 out of 5 stars from 7 ratings
Harrison Ferrone
First Edition 2025
234 pages
Who is this for?
Unity developers who want to streamline their workflows by building custom tools.
Technical artists and programmers looking to master the Unity Editor API.
Tool developers aiming to create professional-grade editor extensions with UI Toolkit.
Every Unity project eventually outgrows the default Editor. Inspectors fill up with unorganized fields, designers struggle to find the values they need, and the same manual setup gets repeated across every scene. Small inefficiencies like these add up to hours lost every week. Unity 6 Editor Tools Essentials shows you how to fix them by building your own tools. Written by Harrison Ferrone, author of the bestselling Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity series, this book guides you step by step through the Editor Tools API, so you can shape the Editor around the way your team actually works.
You will learn how to use attributes, property drawers, and decorator drawers to organize your inspectors, then build custom inspectors and editor windows that integrate naturally with the Editor's menus. You will then dive deep into UI Toolkit, combining UXML, USS, and C# to create modern, professional interfaces, and use Scriptable Objects to manage your project's data efficiently.
You will learn how to use attributes, property drawers, and decorator drawers to organize your inspectors, then build custom inspectors and editor windows that integrate naturally with the Editor's menus. You will then dive deep into UI Toolkit, combining UXML, USS, and C# to create modern, professional interfaces, and use Scriptable Objects to manage your project's data efficiently.
Content Included.
Table of Contents.
1. The Wide World of Editor Scripting.
- Basic Prerequisites.
- Why Build Custom Tools.
- UI Toolkit and IMGUI.
2. Adding Property Drawers and Decorators.
- Introducing Attributes and Drawers.
- Customizing the Level Generator.
- Using Decorator Drawers.
3. Creating Attributes and Drawers from Scratch.
- Writing Custom Decorators.
- Adding a Decorator Drawer.
- Elements and Styles.
4. Class GUIs and Custom Inspectors.
- Customizing Serialisable Classes.
- Building Custom Inspectors.
- Managing Unity Placement.
5. Crafting Editor Windows
- Building an EditorWindow.
- Adding and validating menu items.
- Using the AssetPreview class.
6. Integrating UXML, USS, and C#
- UI Toolkit development strategies.
- Creating and cloning UXML documents.
- Reusing styles across multiple elements.
- Adding editor behaviors in C# scripts.
7. Managing Data with ScriptableObject assets.
- Creating ScriptableObject data classes.
- Structuring EditorWindow UXML.
- Creating assets with the AssetDatabase class.
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About the author.
Latest customer reviews.
7 ratings
5.0 out of 5 stars from 7 ratings
5.0
Robert L.
I was able to use this book to make my team's lives easier and make tools for us that we have been using daily, great to learn the basics and expand on them for more complex ideas.
5.0
Marc R.
Great book for learning the basics of editor tooling
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This course includes:
- Skill level:
Intermediate
- Language: English
- Software: Unity 6000.0.45f1
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