See Enumerated Indices of Array in Unity Inspector

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

In short, I have arrays that are referenced by index from an enumeration. In the inspector window of Unity, however, it simply shows "Element 0, Element 1, etc". I want the list to show the index values of my enumeration. Unless a new feature was added to Unity, I suppose this requires a special editor script, but it seems like game code can't even interface with editor code. So how do I go about this? Thanks in advance!

So if I have this:

public enum ObjectList
{
    Car,
    Sword,
    Friends,
    Depression,
    NumObjects
}

[Somehow declare to use my ObjectList Enum]
public bool [] hasItem = new bool[(int)ObjectList.NumObjects];

Ideally, the inspector would now show:

Has Item
    Size        4
    Car         []
    Sword       []
    Friends     []
    Depression  []

Instead of:

Has Item
    Size        4
    Element 0   []
    Element 1   []
    Element 2   []
    Element 3   []

Edit: Additional Example as Int Array (not just bool)

Num Item
    Size        4
    Car         0
    Sword       10
    Friends     0
    Depression  50