Inspections and quick-fixes for Unity code

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Unity support in Rider ships with several inspections designed to help you find issues with your code before you run it.

A couple of examples:

  • Colors defined via UnityEngine.Color, UnityEngine.Color32, and Color.HSVToRGB are highlighted in the editor. You can also press Alt+Enter on a color usage and choose Pick color from palette to open the color editor and modify the color visually.
  • Rider shows warnings for unknown scenes, tags, and layers.
  • Empty event functions are shown as dead code, with a quick-fix to remove them.
  • A quick-fix is suggested to create a serialized field from a usage of an unresolved symbol.
  • Rider ensures that all of your event functions have correct signatures: it highlights incorrect signatures and offers a quick-fix to correct them.
  • There are warnings when using an inefficient string literal comparison with the tag property, and a quick-fix to rewrite this as a call to CompareTag.
  • Rider warns you if you try to use the new keyword to create a new instance of a class deriving from MonoBehaviour or ScriptableObject. A quick-fix is suggested to use gameObject.AddComponent<T>() or ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<T>() instead.

A full list f inspections and corresponding quick-fixes is available on our GitHub page.

See Also

Navigating around a Unity project
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