Creating a package under Assets/ folder.

Is creating a package under assets folder possible? The concept of creating a package that holds small mechanics that maintained for being bug-free and fast and reusing these mechanics are attractive idea. But these mechanics are not suitable for package/ folder, can be changed etc.
Using regular.unitypackages are hard to maintain, and hard to share.

 

BUMP there are assetstore packages work like this, maybe it can be added for custom packages too.

 

Yes, it's totally possible!
Just create a folder named as you want the package to be named, add a package manifest to it and structure it as you need. Then, reference it using the "?path=/Assets/Packagesubfolder" string attribute.

More info:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/upm-git.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/upm-manifestPrj.html

 

As far as i understand, this apporach allows CREATING source packages into assets folder. It is very usable btw, thanks for the heads up.

But what I want is IMPLEMENTING packages into assets folder. Lets say you have a texture in your package. I want to put texture into Assets/Textures folder at importing, is this possible? No matter what I do, packages always goes to Packages/ folder when I use package manager and import my custom package.

I am asking this because there are so many asset store packages goes to Assets/ folder when I import to any of my project. Somehow this should be possible.

 

I just come accross this problem. I want to create an Asset that is not on the asset store, but distribute like a package? I have 3 projects that im building that share the same code, it would be cool to use the package manager for that.

 

I have the same issue. I've create a Unity project with the sources scripts for my package, all under the Packages directory (following the documentation https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CustomPackages.html#EmbedMe)
then i create a tarball that i use in different projects.

 

Hi @hbguler, have you found a solution to your problem? I'm facing the same issue and can't figure out how to move some Prefabs from a package folder to Assets (automatically).

 

@hbguler

to specify my problem — I get my packages from my git repos. There is a way to import some data from a package to the Assets folder manually as samples, but I would like to have it by default because I want to put prefabs there.

 

Hey, this post was a while ago but you can use the AssetPostProcessor to move the scripts into the Assets folder! What's nice is it automatically runs after all the assets are imported, so you can just tell it to move the stuff you need!

Unity Documentation:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetPostprocessor.html

 

I still check the answers so thank you for your reply!

Nowadays simply using a codebase project partially solves my problem but I'll try and see if post processor approach works.

 

anyone know how to make dependency assets where it come from Unity Asset Store?
It would be great saving git bandwidth.