Difference between revisions of "Script Toolbox"

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The Script Toolbox is a set of scripts and utilities released on the Unity Asset Store. There are two main parts: the Base package (free) and the Premium package.

Base

The Base package will work on its own but only contains a limited number of scripts, and is covered by a different license than the Premium package.

It provides the following features:

• Enhanced Sidescroller Character Controller
• Simple Radar display
• Event posting system
• Finite State Machine
• Singleton (global object)

Premium

The Premium package contains most of the rest of the toolbox scripts.

It provides the following features:

• Camera script for 2d games
• Cutscene Framework - Easily create scripted encounters!
• Editor extension to save unique materials for many textures at a time
• GUI scripting - manipulate objects easily, in a familiar way
• GUI integration with State Machines
• Mobile scripts to ease development on multiple platforms
• Many simple utility scripts, from Animations to Transforms, level loading to spawning prefabs, even XML file reading and writing

Integration

This is a small set of scripts that depends upon both the Base and Premium packages. It may be downloaded from here: Integration Scripts.

It contains two scripts that serve the following purpose:

• Integrate the Cutscene Framework with the Messenger system
• Integrate the Display State framework with the Finite State Machine

Documentation

Javascript Integration

The toolbox is written in C#, but it can be used with Javascript if desired. Simply move the scripts into a folder called Plugins. This will tell Unity to compile them first, after which they will be available to be used in the Javascript in your project.