NSelection

December 5, 2023 ยท View on GitHub

openupm

Simple selection for busy scenes in Unity.
Plus other simple additions towards editor usability.

Important

Unity 2019.4+

Usage:

Deep Scene view picking

Note


There is a built-in implementation as of 2023.3.0a16+.
v1.3.0 provides shortcut resolution to allow use of either.

CtrlRight-click to activate.
Hold Ctrl or Shift during selection to select or deselect multiple objects.
Press Escape or click outside the menu to end the current selection.

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Drag and drop between tabs

Note

This is now built-in as of Unity 2023.2+!

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Focus hierarchy to selection

AltShiftF sets the hierarchy's expanded state to only contain the current selection.
You can rebind this in the Shortcut Manager (Edit/Shortcuts/Window).
The supported windows are:

  • Hierarchy view
  • Project browser
  • Profiler window
  • Timeline window
  • Animation window
  • Audio Mixer
  • UI Builder
  • UIToolkit debugger
  • Frame debugger

Collapse Hierarchy

Assign the Collapse Hierarchy shortcuts in the Shortcut Manager (Edit/Shortcuts/Hierarchy View).

  • Collapse Hierarchy will collapse anything but expanded Scenes and the selection.
  • Collapse Hierarchy Completely will collapse everything.

Project Browser Create/Script

A shortcut for creating scripts in the project browser. Assign in (Edit/Shortcuts/Project Browser).

Scene View/Toggle Gizmos

A shortcut for to toggle gizmos in the scene view. G by default. Assign in (Edit/Shortcuts/Scene View).

Installation

openupm

Add the OpenUPM registry

  1. Open Edit/Project Settings/Package Manager
  2. Add a new Scoped Registry (or edit the existing OpenUPM entry): 
    Name: OpenUPM
URL:  https://package.openupm.com/
Scope(s): com.vertx
  3. Save

Add the package

  1. Open the Package Manager via Window/Package Manager.
  2. Select the + from the top left of the window.
  3. Select Add package by Name or Add package from Git URL.
  4. Enter com.vertx.nselection.
  5. Select Add.

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