Developer Console

Developer Console for Unity with easy integration to existing projects.

WebGL demo

Use cases

• Development cheats
• Debug assistance
• In game cheat codes, change settings easily etc

Getting Started

1. Download and import DeveloperConsole package into your project
2. Drag & drop DeveloperConsole prefab into your scene
3. Add [ConsoleCommand()] attribute to your methods like below. See ConsoleExamples.cs for all examples.
4. Play your scene and press § to toggle Developer Console

using UnityEngine;

public class ExampleScript : MonoBehaviour {

    [ConsoleCommand("test")]
    private void Test() {
        Debug.Log("Called 'test' from Console!");
    }
    
    [ConsoleCommand("test_int")]
    private void TestInt(int i) {
       // single parameter allowed types: 
       // int, float, string, bool, double, char, string[], Vector2, Vector3, Vector4, Quaternion
       Debug.Log(string.Format("Called 'test_int' with value: {0} from Console!", i));
    }

    [ConsoleCommand("test_multi")]
    private void TestMulti(int i, float f) {
       // multi parameter allowed types:
       // int, float, string, bool, double, char
       Debug.Log(string.Format("Called 'test_multi' with value: {0} and {1} from Console!", i, f));
    }
}

Features

• Call static, non-static and Unity Coroutines methods (both public and private)
• No parameter and optional parameter(s) support
• Single parameter support with following types:
  • int, float, string, bool, double, char, string[], Vector2, Vector3, Vector4, Quaternion
• Multi parameter support with following types:
  • int, float, string, bool, double, char
• Easy drag & drop setup
• Mono and IL2CPP support
• Desktop and WebGL support
• Domain/Scene reload support (Enter Play Mode)
• Simple static runtime API
• 2 GUI styles: Large and Minimal
• Draggable & resizable window (Large GUI only)
• Log messages into Console Window (Console.Log, Debug.Log and Debug.LogError)
• Input predictions
• Settings to tweak
• GUI themes (Dark, Darker, Red or Custom)
• Documentation and example scenes

Default Commands

Developer Console comes with few commands by default.

• help - Print list of available commands
• quit - Quit the application
• close - Close Console
• clear - Clear all Console messages
• reset - Reset Console window to default size and position (Large GUI only)
• max_fps (int) - Set Application.TargetFrameRate
• console_style - Toggle GUI style between Large and Minimal

Editor and Development build only:

• scene_loadindex (int) - Load scene asynchronously by build index
• scene_addloadindex (int) - Load scene asynchronously additively by build index
• scene_loadname (string) - Load scene asynchronously by scene name
• scene_unloadindex (int) - Unload scene asynchronously by build index
• scene_unloadname (string) - Unload scene asynchronously by scene name
• scene_information - Print Scene count and names
• empty - Log empty line to console
• debug_renderinfo - Print rendering information: High and Avg FPS, highest draw call, batches, triangle and vertices count. This command is editor only.
• log_to_file - Log all current messages to .txt file. This command is Editor only.

Logging

Console.Log("hello") to output directly into Developer Console window.

Console.Log("hello", Color.red) with color.

Console.Log("<color=red>hello</color>") with Rich Text color.

By default Unity Debug.Log() or Debug.LogError() messages will also output to Developer Console.

Notes

• Requires Unity 2019 or later
• Uses old Unity input system
• Uses Gameobject based UI
• Uses TextMeshPro