HOTools - a Utility Panel for Unity

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Hello,

HOTools is a single Editor Panel for Unity, which contains a growing collection of useful tools and utilities.

Features
Collections > Colors
Create and store as many colors as you want, with options to copy-paste them quickly into your code or from a Hex value.
Collections > Favorites
Store your favorite assets, and access them from this nifty collection.
Break Prefabs
A command which completely disconnects a prefab from its source.
Set/Reset Objects Icons
Subpanel that allows to quicly set icons for Scripts/Prefabs/GameObjects, to be shown in the Inspector and in the Scene view.
Create Quad
Subpanel for the creation of a quad.
Customized Shortcut
You can easily set a shortcut to open HOTools (or no shortcut at all) via the Settings Tab.
Undo
HOTools fully implements Unity’s undo system, so everything you do can be undone.
Free/Pro Skin
Fully compatible with both free and pro skin.

Asset Store page

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New HOTools update: v1.0.101:

New Features

  • The “Create Components Icons” panel is now the new “Set/Reset Objects Icons” panel, which allows to set icons also for GameObjects and Prefabs, and without using the Gizmos folder
    Bugfixes
  • Fixed log error when dragging a favorite right after selecting it

Submitted to the Asset Store, should be online in a couple days.

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I really liked this editor. It comes with source?

If you put it in the Asset Madness for 10usd it’s an insta-buy!

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Hi Paulo,

HOTools comes without source, since I greatly prefer to work with assemblies (both because they’re more manageable, and because package updates are way easier - I do that with HOTween too, which is free and open-source on Google Code). Anyway, I collected all the re-usable code I created and are adding it to a growing open-source library on Google Code: HOUnityLibs. And if you find any bug I’ll quickly squash them (a thing I assume I proved with my HOTween support ;)).

About the Asset Madness, I have no idea about how to participate in it, since it’s rather obscure, but I’d want to. That said, since you mentioned it, I just lowered the price to 10$. Just have to wait one or two days for the Unity team to accept the change :slight_smile:

EDIT: for anyone who bought HOTools at 15$, I will offer “compensation” :slight_smile: More on the post I’ll write when Unity will accept the new price.

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Thats why I want your package so much! HoUnityLibs lacks documentation but I can feel it’s power! I really want to use it in my editor scripts! Thats why I want the source of HoTools, to see how you used HoUnityLibs.

Anyway, just bought for 15 bucks :slight_smile:

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Thanks a lot Paulo! :slight_smile: I PMed you about HOUnityLibs etc.

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@Izitmee

I have just installed HOTools and when I try to drag anything to favourites Unity crashes and I have to force quit!

Any idea what’s wrong?

Unity 3.5.7 (also 4.0.1) free

iMac OSX 10.7.5

Thanks

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Hi gruddlebug!

And ouch! PMed you with some test packages to help me find the issue.