I have been working on a DOTS-first project for a couple of months (more on that later), and found myself wanting templates to help with creating the same types of files repeatedly. I created some local templates, and then a few months later Rider announced their new Unity tooling, so I decided to email the team that works on "Visual Studio Tools for Unity" however they didn't have any current plans for updates so I decided to package up what I've done any maybe replicate some of the functionality that Rider has.
I have release the project as open source, which can be found on github: https://github.com/redwyre/UnityTemplates Also, the template can be found here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redwyre.UnityTemplates or by searching redwyre.UnityTemplates in the extension manager.
To access the templates, add a new file to your project, and look under the Unity subfolder on the left
The currently available template are:
General:
- MonoBehaviour
- ScriptableObject
DOTS/ECS:
- Aspect
- Authoring Component
- IBufferElementData
- ICleanupComponentData
- IComponentData (unmanaged and managed)
- IEnableableComponent
- ISharedComponentData
- ISystem
- SystemBase
I did have a template that created a component+system+authoring however I'm not sure it's really that useful so I've left it out for now.
I have started looking at how to create code refactorings but it is incredibly complex so I might leave that for now, or until I can find some good tutorials on writing them.