General Unity Utilities at your service - just some general level code to use as you wish!

itchyOwl · March 29, 2018, 9:15am

Hello!

I decided to share some of my general level Unity code on GitHub. Includes code for tweening, singletons, data managing, UI etc. Contains also lots of extension methods.

Use as you wish: for inspiration, copy paste, or just to make you feel better about your own code

Not all of the code is solid or elegant, but I think that at least parts of it can be helpful to someone. Many scripts I’ve been using in many projects, some not very much. Most of it is born with particular requirements in mind, but refactored as general purpose later on.

If you’d like to contribute, feel free to fork the repo or contact me directly.

You can find the code here: GitHub - itchyOwl/general-unity-utilities: A collection of general Unity code that I reuse from a project to another..

Happy coding!

TJHeuvel-net · March 29, 2018, 10:05am

github.com

itchyOwl/general-unity-utilities/blob/master/General/SerializableStructs.cs

using System;

namespace ItchyOwl.General
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Unity structs are not marked as serializable and cannot thus be serialized by .Net BinaryFormatter. 
    /// One solution around this, is to convert the Unity structs to custom structs before saving them in binary format. 
    /// Note that this is required only for binary.
    /// </summary>
    public class SerializableStructs
    {
        [Serializable]
        public struct Vector2
        {
            public readonly float x, y;

            public Vector2(float x, float y)
            {
                this.x = x;
                this.y = y;

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What do you mean by this, these types are serialized just fine?

itchyOwl · March 29, 2018, 11:26am

Unity can serialize them of course, but .Net BinaryFormatter cannot. Trying to serialize unity structs or classes will throw a serialization exception, because they are not marked Serializable. See for example this post . My comments are a bit unclear there, have to consider rewriting them.

Suddoha · March 29, 2018, 1:37pm

I would add implicit operators for the conversions (both directions), instead of ToUnityXYZ, but that’s just personal preference.

itchyOwl · March 30, 2018, 6:50am

Which operators would you use then?

methos5k · March 30, 2018, 7:31am

implicit, he said. User-defined explicit and implicit conversion operators - provide conversions to different types - C# reference | Microsoft Learn

It’s cool that you shared your work

itchyOwl · March 30, 2018, 8:35am

Oh, wasn’t aware of them. I’ll take a look, thanks!

itchyOwl · March 30, 2018, 9:11am

Using implicit operators makes it better. Unfortunately, when mapping with Linq Select you have to explicitly cast the types, but don’t see how that could be any other way. Thanks!