Inspector Nested Scriptable Objects

[Sangemdoko]

Hi,

Since we are going to use a lot of scriptable objects (events, state machine, etc…) I was thinking we should probably add a custom inspector / property drawer to view & edit scriptable objects within an inspector they are referenced in. Something like this:

I was writing my own implementation but then thought people must have implemented that before.

So here are some solutions I found:

[Editor Tool] Better ScriptableObject Inspector-Editing

Hi, guys, so, I think a lot of you have been using ScriptableObjects with Unity. I myself have been using them not only for things like items or other types of asset databases, but also for ways to store gameplay relevant stats that can easily be edited by designers and makes rapid iteration even easier. One thing that crops up a lot in our production are scriptables with a few parameters that define members like “playerHealth”, “playerDamage” or things like that. Jumping from the player inspec…

https://gist.github.com/tomkail/ba4136e6aa990f4dc94e0d39ec6a058c

What do you think should we use one of those solutions, make our own, or do something else completely different?

EDIT: One of the main hurdle is overflow exceptions when there is a loop of objects referencing each other. We could fix that by limiting the number of nested inspectors to 1, 2 or 3 (I doubt more would be useful)

[Neonage]

Peek solved this problem very elegantly with this little popup:

We can make similar thing to be by default and also have [Inline] attribute for some special cases