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Unity gives you an option to store serializable data container classes into custom asset files. But you have to always write extra code for any of your classes that inherit ScriptableObject to generate custom asset of that class.

Custom Asset Generator detects automatically the classes and generate menu item paths under “Assets/Create/Custom Assets/”.


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Custom Asset Generator finds all custom asset types in the project and stores custom asset generators of them in CustomAssets.dll assembly. Thus, you can generate custom assets through menu items under “Assets/Create/Custom Assets/” without coding.


You could customize custom asset menus by assemblies or types reorderable lists. The former shows assemblies containing custom assets, the latter shows custom asset types.


On every generation of CustomAssets.dll assembly, Custom Asset Generator checks whether current selected tab is Assemblies or Types, and then generates menu items by using the lists in that tab.


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Custom editors and property drawers used by Custom Asset Generator are stored in dynamically generated CustomAssetGenerator.CustomEditor.dll assembly.

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This property is required to draw ScriptableObject property drawer properly. Its availability depends on ScriptableObject property drawer.

If you have any custom editor for MonoBehaviour type, you need to disable this property to make sure that Unity is using your custom editor for MonoBehaviour type.

You can ping all custom editors, whose type is MonoBehaviour, in the project.

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Property drawer for ScriptableObject.

If you have any property drawer for ScriptableObject type, you need to disable this property to make sure that Unity is using your custom property drawer for ScriptableObject type.

You can ping all property drawers, whose type is ScriptableObject, in the project.

You can edit custom assets in place, when you enable ScriptableObject property drawer.



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  • Export a unity package from the demo project including CustomAssetGenerator.dll.



  • Import the package to the project that you work on. You can replace the assemblies with different editor locations such as “Assets/Editor/”. On the other hand, using “Assets/CustomAssetGenerator/Editor/” path is a good convention to distinguish it from other packages.



  • Go to “Assets/Create/Custom Assets/Generate Config Asset” main menu path to generate configuration asset.



  • Then, change values in configuration asset. After that, to generate/update CustomAssets assembly, use the main menu path of “Assets/Create/Custom Assets/Generate Assembly” or use (re)generate button in configuration asset.


That’ s it. Now, you can generate custom assets of any of your classes that inherit ScriptableObject without coding.


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  • Right click to the configuration asset preview icon and select “Export to update” menu to generate “CustomAssetGenerator.update.xml” file.

  • Delete Custom Asset Generator files except “CustomAssetGenerator.update.xml”.

  • Import new Custom Asset Generator version.

  • Generate configuration asset by “Assets/Create/Custom Assets/Generate Config Asset” menu item path.

  • Drag “CustomAssetGenerator.update.xml” to the configuration asset and drop the version update area.



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