Abilities Testing Overlay

Abilities Testing Overlay is a new tool introduced in the version 1.2.0. It allows to easily test abilities in the runtime.

Enabling Abilities Overlay

First of all, make sure that the overlay is enabled in appropriate scene (Game by default).

  1. In the scene view, press the ~ button. The Overlays menu should appear.

Alternatively, click the 3-dot menu of the scene view, and select the overlay menu from there In the Unity Editor 2021 and earlier Overlays menu activates on spacebar instead.

Overlays menu.
  1. Here, check if Abilities Overlay is enabled. If not, enable it.

  2. Now, the Abilities Overlay button should appear in the bottom-left corner of the scene view:

Abilities Overlay button.

Abilities Overlay Features

Let's take a look at the overlay:

Abilities Testing Overlay
  • The Pause/Resume Time button is used to pause the game while you select abilities to test.

  • On the left you can see a list of all registered abilities. You can sort them by All/Acquired/Not Acquired, or simply use the search bar to quickly find what you need.

  • On the right you will see a list of settings upon selecting an ability. There you can see if its active or not, ability level, and controls for enabling and changing the level.

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