click here for a Gist you can fork, comment on,<\/a> etc<\/span><\/p>\n[csharp]
\nusing UnityEngine;
\nusing System.Collections;
\nusing UnityEngine.UI;
\nusing System.Reflection;<\/p>\n
\/**
\nLicense: do whatever you want.
\nAuthor: @t_machine_org
\n*\/
\npublic class DisplayVariable : MonoBehaviour
\n{
\n\/** 1\/2: Drag\/drop a gameobject that has a var you want to display… *\/
\n\t\tpublic GameObject target;
\n\/** 2\/2: Type the name of the variable that you want to display… *\/
\n\t\tpublic string variableName;<\/p>\n
\/** Don’t refresh at 60FPS; wasteful! *\/
\n\t\tprivate float updateNSeconds = 0.25f;
\n\t\tprivate float lastUpdateTime = 0f;<\/p>\n
\t\t\/\/ Update is called once per frame
\n\t\tvoid Update ()
\n\t\t{
\n\t\t\t\tlastUpdateTime += Time.deltaTime;<\/p>\n
\t\t\/** Don’t refresh at 60FPS; wasteful! *\/
\n\t\t\t\tif (lastUpdateTime > updateNSeconds) {
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tlastUpdateTime = 0;<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tText myText = GetComponent<Text> ();
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tif (myText == null) {
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDebug.LogError ("Missing Text object, please disable this DisplayVariable component");
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t} else if (variableName == null || target == null) {
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmyText.text = "[Unattached]";
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t} else {<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbool foundIt = false;
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstring valueAsString = "";<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tforeach (Component subComponent in target.GetComponents ( typeof(Component))) {
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFieldInfo[] fields = subComponent.GetType ().GetFields ();
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tforeach (FieldInfo fieldInfo in fields) {
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/Debug.Log("Obj: " + subComponent.name + ", Field: " + fieldInfo.Name);
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (fieldInfo.Name.Equals (variableName)) {
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvalueAsString = fieldInfo.GetValue (subComponent).ToString ();
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfoundIt = true;
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (foundIt)
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (! foundIt) {
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPropertyInfo[] properties = subComponent.GetType ().GetProperties ();
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tforeach (PropertyInfo propertyInfo in properties) {
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/Debug.Log ("Obj: " + subComponent.name + ", Property: " + propertyInfo.Name);
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (propertyInfo.Name.Equals (variableName)) {
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvalueAsString = propertyInfo .GetValue (subComponent, null).ToString ();
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfoundIt = true;
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (foundIt)
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbreak;
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/** set the text *\/
\n\t\t\t\tmyText.text = variableName+" = "+valueAsString;
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}
\n\t\t\t\t}
\n\t\t}
\n}<\/p>\n
[\/csharp]<\/p>\n
Usage<\/h3>\n\n- Add this script to any GameObject that has a Text component (e.g. create from menu “UI – Text”)\n
- Drag\/drop the object you want to debug onto the “Target” field\n
- Type the C# source-code name of the variable\/field you want to debug into “Variable Name” field\n<\/ol>\n
…and it will update (by default: 4FPS. Tweak as needed)<\/p>\n
Improvements<\/h3>\n\n- It would be much much cooler to have a drop-down menu for the variable name.\n
- It would be neater to save the FieldInfo stuff at Editor time \/ startup, and stop using Reflection multiple times per frame.\n
- But this is a debug tool, so frankly: neither of those are essential.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You need this ALL THE TIME when developing, and Unity lacks it as a core feature: Create a Text label on your GUI Drag\/drop a variable onto the label, and it will automatically display the value Completely impossible, due to short-sighted design decisions in the Unity Editor from 10 years ago that never got changed. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}