Apparently this is some beginner's question (and that I am) but it's driving me crazy and I couldn't find any mention:
I Occasionally forget to exit Play mode and go on building my UI making objects and changes, only to realize that I'm still in Play Mode and as soon as I unpress the play button, these will be purged! I suppose the Unity Editor has its reasons for allowing editing of Scripts/Scenes while in Play Mode (would be happy to hear some examples-maybe testing scenes?) but my main question here is:
Is there some way for me to prevent this behavior? Or at least some trick that you use to prevent me from making changes while in play mode? (Other than becoming paranoid about it and checking constantly...)
Thank you
PS. sigh time to head back to Unity and rebuild that UI that I lost...
Other Unity coders have had this problem before me and they came up with a neat solution.
Setting the UI to a different colour while in playmode "Playmode tint".
You can read the details here (originally posted 2009 but I have checked it still works in latest Unity 5.3):
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/9159/best-strategies-for-not-accidently-editing-whilst.html
There is no settings to prevent changing things during play mode but there are ways to reduce the chances of losing changes during play mode.
1.Edit->Preferences... -> Colors. Now, on the right change Playmode Tint to red. That will remind you you are making changes in play mode.
2.Click on the gear icon of each component you change during play then click Copy Component. When are done with playmode, select the component you want to keep its changes. Click the gear icon again and this time, Click Paste Component Values.
3.Write an Editor Plugin that will do that for you. This is hard but possible.
Use event to find out when entering playmode. Store all GameObject public important variables such as transform/rigidbody properties in a list.
Wait for the stop event to fire then ask your self which GameObjects to overwrite settings to. Then overwrite the properties of the selected GameObjects That's it.
Usefull APIs for this:
EditorApplication.isPlaying
EditorApplication.isPaused
EditorApplication.isPlayingOrWillChangePlaymode
EditorApplication.playmodeStateChanged += callBackFunc;
EditorApplication.HierarchyWindowItemCallback
EditorApplication.ProjectWindowItemCallback
Note: According to Unity roadmap, a feature that enables you to save playtime changes is in construction and will be released soon but the above seems to be the only way at this time.
You can select objects you want to keep while in play mode, copy them with Ctrl + C, and then just paste them back in with Ctrl + V after returning to edit mode. Then you can eithr delete the originals from the scene or copy values from individual components like #Programmer suggested.
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But my scenes don’t go in order and I’ve tried disabling some scenes and it skips scene 1 and 3 but when I disable some of the other scene like 4,5,6 it still skips 1 and plays 2,3 and like it skips scenes and I don’t know what to do and I couldn’t find anything on YouTube I might of disabled something in setting but I don’t know since I’ve only been at it nearly a month
SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1)
and
SceneManager.LoadSceene(1)
The order of BuitIndex is defined in build Window.
To get that one go to File->Build Settings menu or press Ctrl+Shift+B In the window that pops-up, you can see all scenes that you have added to build. If you don't see your current scene, there is a button on the lower left that says Add Open Scenes. And in here, you can click-&-drag the scenes in list, to change their build index.
Hope this helps
I'm working on a system that automatically generate and release scriptable object that represent uniqueness for gameobject with a given component attach.
The generation process seems to be working really fine, but I'm facing problem when I want to release the scriptable object.
The given script is tagged "ExecuteInEditMode" and is implementating OnDestroy method to advertise a manager that his scriptable object should be deleted.
The problem is that OnDestroy is called in 4 situation from what i can tell :
Click on play
Switching scene
Manual removal (the only one I want to work with)
On editor shutdown
I've been able to avoid the 2 first on with this :
if (Application.isPlaying == false && Math.Abs(Time.timeSinceLevelLoad) > 0.00001f)
But I don't find any good solution for "On editor shutdown" I've seen that EditorApplication.quitting can be use for that case, but documentation warn that this event is not called when unity crash or is forced to quit, and I don't want to lose all my scriptable object if the editor crash.
I'm looking for a robust solution to avoid this problem if someone can help me please.
Thanks, have a nice day
Just handle the application quitting event.
this event is not called when unity crash or is forced to quit, and I don't want to lose all my scriptable object if the editor crash.
When unity crashes, so will your program, so it won't work any ways. Just make sure that under normal operating procedure (so a normal shutdown) you save your modifications.
In Unity3D if you edit your scene and you don't save, if the editor crashes you lose all your changes. The same will happen for what you're building here. In order to mitigate this risk (since prevention is reasonably difficult if not impossible) you can opt to save every minute, always save each change to a temporary location, or save for example every play.
For example i added a script to my project that autosaves the scene(s) whenever i press play, so when editing the scene i press play now and then to test, and it all gets autosaved.
I created a Third Person project in Unreal engine. Everything was working fine for a while. Meaning, I was able to control the player when I previewed the game (play). Due to something I probably did, at one point I could no longer control the player in the preview mode. Instead, it seems that I am controlling the default player -- sort of a camera that hangs up in the sky. I checked all the settings Including the "Default Pawn Class" in the project settings, as well as in the world settings.
Not sure what I did wrong or what settings do I need to change. I would love to get some help.
Thanks.
By mistake, I was running in the simulate mode. I change back to the "Selected Viewport" mode and everything is back to normal.
Apparently this is some beginner's question (and that I am) but it's driving me crazy and I couldn't find any mention:
I Occasionally forget to exit Play mode and go on building my UI making objects and changes, only to realize that I'm still in Play Mode and as soon as I unpress the play button, these will be purged! I suppose the Unity Editor has its reasons for allowing editing of Scripts/Scenes while in Play Mode (would be happy to hear some examples-maybe testing scenes?) but my main question here is:
Is there some way for me to prevent this behavior? Or at least some trick that you use to prevent me from making changes while in play mode? (Other than becoming paranoid about it and checking constantly...)
Thank you
PS. sigh time to head back to Unity and rebuild that UI that I lost...
Other Unity coders have had this problem before me and they came up with a neat solution.
Setting the UI to a different colour while in playmode "Playmode tint".
You can read the details here (originally posted 2009 but I have checked it still works in latest Unity 5.3):
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/9159/best-strategies-for-not-accidently-editing-whilst.html
There is no settings to prevent changing things during play mode but there are ways to reduce the chances of losing changes during play mode.
1.Edit->Preferences... -> Colors. Now, on the right change Playmode Tint to red. That will remind you you are making changes in play mode.
2.Click on the gear icon of each component you change during play then click Copy Component. When are done with playmode, select the component you want to keep its changes. Click the gear icon again and this time, Click Paste Component Values.
3.Write an Editor Plugin that will do that for you. This is hard but possible.
Use event to find out when entering playmode. Store all GameObject public important variables such as transform/rigidbody properties in a list.
Wait for the stop event to fire then ask your self which GameObjects to overwrite settings to. Then overwrite the properties of the selected GameObjects That's it.
Usefull APIs for this:
EditorApplication.isPlaying
EditorApplication.isPaused
EditorApplication.isPlayingOrWillChangePlaymode
EditorApplication.playmodeStateChanged += callBackFunc;
EditorApplication.HierarchyWindowItemCallback
EditorApplication.ProjectWindowItemCallback
Note: According to Unity roadmap, a feature that enables you to save playtime changes is in construction and will be released soon but the above seems to be the only way at this time.
You can select objects you want to keep while in play mode, copy them with Ctrl + C, and then just paste them back in with Ctrl + V after returning to edit mode. Then you can eithr delete the originals from the scene or copy values from individual components like #Programmer suggested.
How to do screen record in unity?
I want to record my screen(gameplay) during my running game.
That should be play/stop , replay , save that recording on locally from device, open/load from my device (which is already we recorded).
In my game one camera which can capture native camera, and one 3d model.
I wish to record that both and use my functionality whenever i want.
Thank you in advance.
This is hard to implement, but not impossible. Because every frame or interval you need to capture screen shot of your camera view and store it in the list. You need good, (Smaller interval but not much. Because when it becomes smaller, needs more memory) interval value. If your interval is big raplay can be seen laggy.
While you play game your ram becomes full and os will terminate the app. So you need to fully cover memory optimization. Another solution is assets in Unity Asset store.
EZ Replay Manager can be used. (Keep in mind: I haven't tried it yet.)
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Check out this open-source project: https://github.com/getsocial-im/getsocial-capture.
By default our project records Main Camera's rendered content. C# examples are in the repo.
You can record in 2 modes:
Continuous mode - capture last X frames.
Manual mode - capture frames on your own when needed. For example, record a timelapse of the level.
Once the recording is done, you can generate GIF, get raw bytes and do whatever you want. E.g. let your users share that GIF with friends.
Here's the recording of a game session from the test app. The recorded GIF shows up in the end:
Disclaimer: I worked at GetSocial at the time of writing.
well i know a guy who post a similar project on github. link :- https://github.com/thanh-nguyen-kim/Unity_Android_Screen_Recorder
but there is a limitation and that is this code is only works on android devices(android means only android not even on ios).
but this is very powerful recorder and it is capture whatever appear on screen(so basically it is a screen recorder made with unity) and also it will capture your microphone output.give it a try.
and if you find any other solution then please also tell me. because it will very helpful for me.because i want to record video with in-game audio and also save it into gallery
Unity now has a screen recording tool builtin. It's called Recorder and doesn't require any coding.
In Unity, go to the Window menu, then click on Package Manager
By default, Packages might be set to "In Project". Select "Unity
Registry" instead
Type "Recorder" in the search box
Select the Recorder and click Install in the lower right corner of the window
That's about all you need to get everything set up and hopefully the
options make sense. The main thing to be aware of that setting
"Recording Mode" to "Single" will take a single screenshot (with
F10)
NOTE: This is a copy of my answer from a Unity screenshots question