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by Rohansi 166 days ago
> with a 1999 style property window on the side like Visual Studio was ever cool.

I don't think this is fair. I'd say Unity's inspector window is one of the good parts of Unity because it not just a property window. It's an immediate mode UI that things can hook into to do a lot more than just property editing.
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reactordev 166 days ago
Yes, the last 8 years has seen that little side drawer used for every. single. unity. feature.
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lossyalgo 166 days ago
Thankfully there are tons of assets you can buy or download from github that will extend the functionality of the inspector windows, which IMO need a LOT of love. The last update I saw was where you can do math inside e.g. transform properties e.g. scale is 1, you can type in 1+2 and it will show in game/scene views immediately your changes, and if you press ENTER it will commit those changes. It's not really well-known (I discovered it by accident reading some changelogs at some point a couple years ago).
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reactordev 166 days ago
Not thankfully. The whole point of this thread is that Unity is barebones without community support. What you’re describing is that community support. Glad you like it. I find these kind of lack of attention to your product a huge turn off. Unity Community is naive in the fact that they allow this company to walk all over them because they lack the willpower to steamroll them. There are plenty of Unity community members that are capable of making a better Unity. Unity itself relies on their community otherwise who would pay for an engine? So by saying “just use this plugin” is basically just reinforcing my perspective.
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lossyalgo 166 days ago
I agree, hence "need a lot of love".

On the other hand, the lack of "love" from Unity's side (at least regarding Inspector) allows a thriving ecosystem for devs to build their own version of what an ideal Inspector drawer should look like, as well as potentially make a living from it. And to boot, who is to say what the ideal Inspector should look like? Do you trust Unity to make an Inspector that fits everyone's wants/needs? I definitely don't - so I'm glad they have a "bare-bones" version that allows us to customize it to our heart's content. Do you want them to be like Apple and "steamroll" everyone and make bad decisions for arbitrary reasons? I definitely don't and I personally HATE a ton of Apple's constant changes and lack of ability to change simple things, such as the inability to disable a lot of animations, which murders my VNC sessions, but I digress.

Regarding non-Inspector things: you already replied to my other rant about unfinished features, so yeah, also in agreement.

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