50 Unity Tips #14: Custom C# Script Template

When one creates a new C# Script in Unity, they are presented with the following code automatically:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class #SCRIPTNAME# : MonoBehaviour {

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {

	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {

	}
}

Did you know that you can easily change this template? This is quite useful as

1. Start and Update methods, even when empty, are triggered once per frame for every game object. Often developers forget to remove unnecessary empty functions from their scripts - if it is never there in the first place, then that’s one less thing to remove!
2. Can easily add #regions, <summary>, custom code etc.

Simply go to /Applications/Unity/Unity.app/Contents/Resources/ScriptTemplates (or C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Data\Resources\ScriptTemplates on Windows) and edit 81-C# Script-NewBehaviourScript.cs.txt.

/*
 *  Written by James Leahy. (c) 2017 DeFunc Art.
 */
using UnityEngine;

/// <summary>The #SCRIPTNAME# class.</summary>
public class #SCRIPTNAME# : MonoBehaviour
{
}

Other templates like shaders can be edited too. For more information see here. It is worth remembering that this is a version-specific alteration that one needs to do repeat for each new version.

This post was generated from a GitHub repository.