20170603-unity3d-use-monodevelop-script-editor-and-debug

How to Unity3D – Use MonoDevelop Script Editor and Debug Project

In this tutorial, you’ll see a project configured with MonoDevelop. And how to run and debug it.

Steps

• Open the ‘Example’ project
• Choose a Script Editor
• Add breakpoint in source code
• Attach Script Editor to Unity3D
• Debug

1. Open the ‘Example’ project

In Unity3D:

• Projects > Open > ‘Example’ > (wait) > Open Scene > ‘Sample Scenes Scenes/car.unity’
• Edit > Play > (test it) > Play (or click Play button, or press Ctrl+P)

2. Choose a Script Editor

In Unity3d:

• Edit > Preferences > External Tools > ExternalScriptEditor: ‘MonoDevelop’
• Assets > Open C# Project

3. Add Breakpoint in source code

In MonoDevelop:

• Open ‘SampleScenes/Menu/Scripts/MenuSceneLoader.cs’
• Add a breakpoint to line 14

4. Attach Script Editor to Unity3D

In MonoDevelop:

• Run > Attach to process > Unity3d > Attach

5. Debug

In Unity3d:

• Edit > Play
• (it’s in pause now, stopped at the breakpoint line)

In MonoDevelop:

• Run > Continue Debugging (or click Continue button or press F5)

In Unity3d:

• (play with it)

Conclusion

Pros: MonoDevelop is more productive than editing script in simple text editor or in Unity3d (compilation, warnings, autocomplete, etc). It’s light on CPU/RAM consumption.

Cons: Need to switch between Editor and Unity to run each debug. It’s also a little unstable (copy/paste from webbrowser sometime copy empty chars, compilation shutdown, etc).

Here is the same project opened on VisualStudio, MonoDevelop and a text Editor.

Source

https://github.com/DamienFremont/blog/tree/master/20170603-unity3d-use-monodevelop-script-editor-and-debug/ https://github.com/DamienFremont/blog/tree/master/20170603-unity3d-use-monodevelop-script-editor-and-debug/

References

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1240640/how-do-i-change-the-default-script-editor.html http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1240640/how-do-i-change-the-default-script-editor.html

Origin

https://damienfremont.com/2017/06/03/how-to-unity3d-use-monodevelop-script-editor-and-debug-project/