Spline Editor

Table of Contents

• To Do
• Introduction
• Requirements
• Features
  • Spline Controller
    • Config Page
    • Draw Page
    • Debug Page
    • Remove Page
  • Spline Positioner
  • Spline Follower
  • Spline Event

To Do

• Mesh generation using Spline

Introduction

There are a lot of spline editor examples for Unity editor. Because it is a very good practice to learn about computer graphics topic of spline. I used Hermite Curve calculation for this spline editor. In this project, unlike the others, I tried to write as cleanly as possible and added different features.

Requirements

Unity Editor Version (It may not work in lower versions.)

2021.2.14f1

Odin Inspector (You should add your Odin Inspector to project because of licence issues)

Features

In general, my spline editor has a necessary spline feautures. It has spline controller, clickable points (also spline points and event points exist in hierarchy), spline follower, spline positioner and spline event.

Spline Controller

Spline controller is a controller of the spline. It comes with Catmull Rom component. You can add points, add events, configure spline and remove it using this component.

Config Page

• Update Method: Update spline points on update or with a method to call when you want to update spline.
• Resolution: Smoothness configuration of spline. When it is high, there are more points than lower version between two main spline points.
• Closed Loop: Connect last spline point to first spline point.
• Point Direction: Add point direction helper. (When XZ is selected, new point will be spawn to added Z axis point.)

Draw Page

• Draw Checkboxes: Activate or deactivate drawing.
• Spline Sphere: Spline points.
• Tangent: Direction of spline.
• Normal: Local X axis of spline.
• Extrusion: Frequency of drawing.
• Thickness: Thickness of drawing.

Debug Page

• Event Points: List of event points on spline.
• Spline Points: List of spline points.

Remove Page

• Remove Spline: Remove function to remove all spline points.
• Remove Events: Remove event points on spline.

Spline Positioner

• Positioner Mode: It has two option to calculate points on spline.

  • Normalized: Calculates position from 0 to 1.
  • Distance: Calculates position in meters.

• IsMover: If you want to affect different gameobject, remove checkbox and add your transform of gameobject.

• XPosition: Change local x position on spline.

Spline Follower

It inherited from Spline Positioner, same configurations exist with it. Extras:

• Is Enabled: Activate or deactivate movement.
• Speed: Speed of the movement. Be careful with the positioner mode, speed works according to what did you choose.
• Movement Mode: These are movement modes.
  • Default: It goes beginning to end and stops.
  • Forward Loop: It goes beginning to end and again same loop. It works well with closed loop spline.
  • Ping Pong: It goes beginning to end and reverse the movement.
• Calculate Estimated Finish Time: Calculate estimated finish time using current speed of follower. It can make level designers happy :D

Spline Event

It inherited from SplinePositioner, same configurations exist with it. Extras:

• Active Followers: Shows active follower according to current event trigger mode.
• Event Trigger Mode: It is a rule to when event should be raised while the spline follower passing on it.
  • Only Forward: Events can be raised when the follower direction is start to end.
  • Only Backward: Events can be raised when the follower direction is end to start.
  • Two Sided: Events can be raised every time when the follower passed on it.
• Raise: You can raise event without waiting follower.
• Unity Event: It is a unity event with SplineFollower parameter. If you want to check who is raised event, you should use dynamic parameter functions.