I’ve been working with getting paper 2.5D working. This is what I’m working with:
(skip to 3 minutes 30 seconds if you watch)
The thing is, when I build it or just hit play in the editor, it runs the script. I want two scripts that run separately.
So after looking on google.com the first thing I was trying was to use [ExecuteInEditMode]. With a script attached to the object this will run when play is hit also… So I tried #if (UNITY_EDITOR). That didn’t work. I tried if (Editor.Application.isPlaying) { } to isolate the code, that didn’t work.
Then I tried making an editor script with [ExecuteInEditMode] and trying public override OnInspectorGUI() to try to get some kind of Debug.Log(“Hello world”); script going. That didn’t work.
I tried in the editor script this as well:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEditor;
[ExecuteInEditMode]
public class CustomInspector : EditorWindow {
void Update() {
Debug.Log ("Hello there");
}
}
That’s not doing anything. I don’t care if it updates inconsistently, because it’s the editor after all. It was working when the script was attached to the object, but I don’t want it to run at runtime and I don’t know how to make it so it doesn’t.
Eric5h5’s solution should work but has the potential to create excessive calls if you’re doing this a lot. Better to use platform dependent conditionals to compile out the code entirely.
public class YourMonoBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
{
// you can compile out entire functions::
#if UNITY_EDITOR
public void Start() { Debug.Log("This is called."); }
#endif
// or specific parts:
public void Update()
{
Debug.Log("Called in the editor and runtime.");
#if UNITY_EDITOR
Debug.Log("Only called in the editor.");
#endif
}
}
Okay, so Eric5h5’s solution worked. I don’t know why but the #if UNITY_EDITOR #endif way of doing it doesn’t work for me, it will still play when played.
It would run in play mode because it’s still in the editor; it’s not really possible to have a #define for “is editor but not playing”. (Unless you wanted your code to compile every time you hit play.) But you could combine #if UNITY_EDITOR with Application.isPlaying.
