Best Ways to organize variables?

Scripting C# & .NET
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Hi all,

I like to make my scripts organized and easy to read, but I’ve got too many variables lying around and the inspector has become clustered and disorganized; so I’m trying to find a way to tidy up my variables but no on line documentation has been able to help me.

I’m looking for a way to categorize my variables and put them under a collapsible menu. So I created different classes for different types of variables, like this:

[System.Serializable]
    public class ShootVariables : System.Object {
        //My variables go here
    }
    public ShootVariables shootVariables = new ShootVariables();

But every time I need to reference to variables inside that class, I have to first make reference to that class, which is not very efficient:

shootVariables.damage = 5f;
recoilVariables.kickAmount = .5f

Is there a way to just use the variables without referencing the class?
I feel like I might be doing something wrong; Or could there be a different ways to create the collapsible menu? Or just a different way to organize your variables?

Thanks

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Your scripts shouldn’t have that many variables. If you’re getting large amounts of them, then you might be having a single script do way too much.

If you’re talking about game settings, in that case I usually implement them in a ScriptableObject, and make that object a Singleton that loads the ScriptableObject and serves out the values in a global manner.

3

Hi There

No one seems to be able to answer your question. No one can know your intent specifically. The scope of the question should be reduced.

Cheers!

4

This question is years old, but I too ended up here before I found the actual answer which I’ve linked below in hopes it can help someone else. The header attribute will make your inspector a lot tidier long before you reach “split into smaller scripts” levels of variables. cheers!