Getting name from serializedproperty

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Hi all,

I have two arrays, one with a bunch of meshes in, and another with some textures. I have a script that cycles through both to create a 3D animation. However, even though all the assets are very nicely named, and are listed in the correct order under project view, as soon as I drag them into the inspector they become jumbled. As such I’m trying to create an editor script that will perform a bubble sort for a serializedproperty array. I made one that sorts through an array of ints already:

EditorGUILayout.PropertyField(testArray, new GUIContent("Test Array"), true);
    if(GUILayout.Button("Sort Array")) {
    	int lastVal, moveCount;
    	for(int i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
    		moveCount = 0;
    		lastVal = testArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(0).intValue;
    		for( int j = 1; j < testArray.arraySize; j++ ) {
    			if(testArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(j).intValue < lastVal) {
    				moveCount++;
    				testArray.MoveArrayElement(j, j - 1);
    			}
    			lastVal = testArray.GetArrayElementAtIndex(j).intValue;
    		}
    			if(moveCount == 0) { break; }
    		}
   }

The issue is that there’s no equivalent of ‘intValue’ for the other arrays. There is something called ‘name’, but it doesn’t return anything usable (if I try to output this to console, it just says ‘data’). Any ideas / suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Liam

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You can find the names of serialized Textures in an array as follows:
*mySerializedObject*.FindProperty("*TextureList*").GetArrayElementAtIndex(*i*).objectReferenceValue.ToString();

mySerializedObject is a SerializedObject made of the script that contains the List. E.g. mySerializedObject = new SerializedObject(GameObject.Find("GO").GetComponent("MyScript"));

TextureList is the name of the list inside the script

i is the index

I’m not sure how you have stored your meshes in an array, but I assume something similar will get their names.