What is the best way to create custom inspectors?

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1

Hi everyone!
I am messing around with the custom inspectors, but I noticed a vast lexicon around the topic, and now I don’t know the best way to create one with advanced controls with serialized properties. For instance: When should I use property drawers, or just a custom inspector that extends Editor? Or, why certain controls are so hard to implement, like the min max slider with a serialized float variable? Anyway, its all too confusing for me now…

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Here’s a MinMaxSlider implementation I did some time ago.

https://gist.github.com/frarees/9791517

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To create a custom slider in a custom editor inspector is very easy.

Assuming you have already saved ‘target’ to a variable called ‘source’ in OnEnable()…

    const string tooltip = "This is a slider";
    const string sliderLabel = "POWER";
    float minValue = 1.0f;
    float maxValue = 3.7f;

    void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
    	source.myVariable = EditorGUILayout.Slider(new GUIContent(sliderLabel, tooltip), source.myVariable, minValue, maxValue);
    }