Unity Editor Utilities

Introduction

Here's an asset package of useful utilities to simplify Unity scene editing. I use them every day in my game development and hope they'll be useful to other developers. Feel free to use & modify them. If you do so, please let me know, especially if you find any bugs or improvements.

The latest version has been tested with Unity 2017.3.1

Usage

Use the [GOE] menu options, or the assigned shortcuts, to activate each utility command. Some actions require a gameobject to be selected beforehand.

Overview of menu options

Note: It's recommended to get familiar with the shortcuts, because they'll save heaps of time whilst editing scenes.

• Prefabs
  • Create: Create new prefabs from selected gameobjects. Opens a dialog to select output folder location. (Works with multiple objects)
  • Apply: Applies changes to selected gameobjects. (Works with multiple objects)
  • Apply-Activate: Same as previous, but activates each gameobject before applying
  • Apply-Activate-ResetTransform: Same as previous, but also resets transform before applying
• Export
  • Meshes as .asset: Creates an .asset file from any procedurally generated mesh.
• Create
  • New GameObject: Creates a new gameobject in scene. If multiple objects are selected, the new object will average the position of the selected objects.
  • New Child: Creates a new child of the current object.
  • New Sibling: Creates a new sibling to the current object.
  • New Parent: Groups the selected objects and creates a parent object
  • New Parent (copy orientation): Same as previous, but copies the orientation of the selected object
• Select
  • Parent: Replaces current selection with the parent of the active gameobject
  • Sibling
    • Next: Selects the next sibling in the grouped hierarchy
    • Previous: Selects the previous sibling in the grouped hierarchy
  • Children: Replaces current selection with all children of the active gameobjects
  • Add Children: Add all children of the active gameobjects to the current selection
• Visibility
  • Enable All: Activate all selected gameobjects
  • Disable All: Deactivate all selected gameobjects
  • Toggle Enable: Toggles the activate state of all selected gameobjects
  • Solo Enable: Activate the selected gameobject and disables all it's siblings
  • Solo Enable All: Same as above, but recurses up the hierarchy solo enabling all the parent branches
• Align
  • Pos to Selected: Align the position of selected gameobjects to the active
  • Rot to Selected: Align the rotation of selected gameobjects to the active
  • Pivot on Selected: Align the camera view to the pivot point of the selected gameobject
  • Place on Ground: Place the selected gameobject on the ground
• Origin
  • Reset to Min XYZ: Reset the origin of the selected gameobjects to the min XYZ of the bounding boxes of all combined children
  • Reset to Min Y: Reset the origin of the selected gameobjects to the min Y of the bounding boxes of all combined children
  • Reset to Center: Reset the origin of the selected gameobjects to the center of the bounding boxes of all combined children
  • Reset to Parent: Reset the origin of the selected gameobjects to the parent location
• Utility
  • Show Bounds: Displays a window with the bounding dimensions of the selected gameobject, including all it's children.
  • Show Local Position: Displays a window with the local position of the selected gameobject
  • Show Local Rotation: Displays a window with the local rotation of the selected gameobject
  • Show Local Scale: Displays a window with the local scale of the selected gameobject
  • Notes: The Vector3 can be copied from the popup windows
• Attach
  • To Parent: Move the selected gameobjects up one level in their hierarchy
  • To Active: Attach the selected gameobjects to the active object
• Propagate
  • Static to Children: Propagates the static attribute of the selected gameobjects to their children
  • Layer to Children: Propagates the layer of the selected gameobjects to their children
• Ordering
  • Reorder selection: Adds numerical prefixes to the selected objects to create a ordinal ordering
• Find
  • Missing Scripts: Searches the selected gameobjects for any missing scripts
  • Missing Scripts Recursive: Same as above, also searching through the children of the selected