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Extending the Unity Editor with Custom Tools Crash Course

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  • May 02, 2025
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Extending the Unity Editor with Custom Tools – Crash Course, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 4.35, with 14 lectures, based on 11 reviews, and has 112 subscribers.

You will learn about How to create your first Editor Extension Use MenuItems Customize Folder Icons Access & Manipulate any File or Folder by Code This course is ideal for individuals who are Developers willing to improve their understanding of Unity or Developers willing to create their own Unity Tools / Packages or Curious people who want to know how I made Mineral It is particularly useful for Developers willing to improve their understanding of Unity or Developers willing to create their own Unity Tools / Packages or Curious people who want to know how I made Mineral.

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Summary

Title: Extending the Unity Editor with Custom Tools – Crash Course

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 4.35

Number of Lectures: 14

Number of Published Lectures: 14

Number of Curriculum Items: 14

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 14

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

  • How to create your first Editor Extension
  • Use MenuItems
  • Customize Folder Icons
  • Access & Manipulate any File or Folder by Code
  • Who Should Attend

  • Developers willing to improve their understanding of Unity
  • Developers willing to create their own Unity Tools / Packages
  • Curious people who want to know how I made Mineral
  • Target Audiences

  • Developers willing to improve their understanding of Unity
  • Developers willing to create their own Unity Tools / Packages
  • Curious people who want to know how I made Mineral
  • This might be the most practical course on making a Unity Editor Extension you’ve seen.

    Yeah this is also kinda niche right ?

    But ! I’m glad this is something newto you cause this might totally change how you work.

    In this course, I’m going to show you how I created Mineral, a Unity Extension that allow you to customize your folders.

    After finishing this course, you will be able to colorize your folders, and also replace their icons.

    That’s not it, the method I’ll show you will unlock a whole world of possibilities as you will learn how to deal with:

  • MenuItems

  • Validation Methods

  • Using Editor methods to Edit the GUI (Graphical User Interface)

  • Using GUIDs (Global Unique Identifiers)

  • Using the AssetDatabase class

  • Accessing & Editing the Editor Preferences

  • Saving Data using JSON

  • And more…

  • Unity does come with a plethora of functions that allow you to extend the editor.

    You will learn techniques that will drastically improve your workflow & help you create your own Unity Tools.

    The only limit will be your imagination.

    Do you feel that is something that will help you be a better dev

    Something that can help you save time?

    If that’s the case, Jump aboard, and Let’s Begin!

    Course Curriculum

    Chapter 1: The Game Plan

    Lecture 1: The Game Plan

    Chapter 2: Menu Items

    Lecture 1: The First Menu Item

    Lecture 2: Adding more Menu Items

    Lecture 3: We only want Folders

    Chapter 3: The Project Window

    Lecture 1: Red Rectangles everywhere

    Lecture 2: How to know which column we are in ?

    Lecture 3: The Folder Rect

    Lecture 4: First Colored Folder

    Lecture 5: Saving the Folder State

    Lecture 6: Resetting the Folder Texture

    Lecture 7: Picking a Custom Folder Texture

    Chapter 4: Data

    Lecture 1: Creating a Custom Data File using JSON

    Lecture 2: Saving our Custom Data

    Chapter 5: Bonus Section

    Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture

    Instructors

  • Extending the Unity Editor with Custom Tools Crash Course  No.2
    Tabsil Makes Games
    Unity Mobile Game Developer
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