This is a Unity Package Template made according to Unity's layout convention. It works as a dotnet template.
Install the template from NuGet or from a cloned repository.
Install the template from NuGet.
$ dotnet new --install SeawispHunter.Unity3D.Package.Template
Install the template from git repo.
$ git clone https://github.com/shanecelis/unity-package-template
$ dotnet new --install unity-package-template
Create a directory. Choose the name carefully; its name is your package's name.
$ mkdir MyPackage
$ cd MyPackage
$ dotnet new unitypackage --company "My Company"
This creates the following files (meta files excluded for clarity):
MyPackage
├── CHANGELOG.md
├── Documentation~
│ └── MyPackage.md
├── Editor
│ ├── EditorExample.cs
│ └── MyCompany.MyPackage.Editor.asmdef
├── LICENSE.md
├── README.md
├── Runtime
│ ├── MyCompany.MyPackage.asmdef
│ └── RuntimeExample.cs
├── Samples~
│ ├── Sample 1
│ │ └── Sample1.cs
│ └── Sample 2
│ └── pic.png
├── Tests
│ ├── Editor
│ │ ├── EditorExampleTest.cs
│ │ └── MyCompany.MyPackage.Editor.Tests.asmdef
│ └── Runtime
│ ├── MyCompany.MyPackage.Tests.asmdef
│ └── RuntimeExampleTest.cs
└── package.json
The generated package name is "com.mycompany.mypackage" but edit that to your liking. Many values are only located within the package.json file, like the package description. It's expected that you will edit it after generation.
$ $EDITOR package.json
See Unity's documentation for ways that you can share your package or the template's README.
New GUIDs are generated on each invocation so there will be no meta file conflicts with separate packages. However, if you're adding a new file to this template, remember to add its GUID to the .template.config/template.json file. If you're adding a lot of files, use the .template.config/collect-guids bash script to help.
The Samples~ directory can be difficult to work when developing your package since Unity will not import it because it has the tilde suffix. One tip for Unix users is to make a symbolic link when you're developing your samples like this:
$ ln -s Samples\~ Samples
You may want to add Samples and Samples.meta to your .gitignore file.
Thank you to Adam Graham of Zigurous for creating unity-package-template, of which this is a fork.