Cross Project Tools

Intro

There are many ways to share code and assets in between projects. Here I will share a few tricks I use.

Junction links

System Junction links are ways to make a folder point to another folder path in your system.

You can set it up easily in the command line using this command:

mklink /J "C:\My\New\Path\Shared" "C:\My\Original\Path\Shared"

I use this to quickly set reference to my Shared folder with utility scripts when starting a project.

Caution

Making changes to those utility script will change it for all projects that depend on it! Don’t break other projects by mistake when refactoring.

If your project becomes bigger and requires more fine tuning write custom utility functions for that project outside of the shared folder, or even copy paste the folder and remove the shared dependency when it no longer make sense to maintain.

Unity Packages

You can create packages using the package exporter and then share the package somewhere.

I recommend writing an exporter script that keeps your package export versioned so you know what version you have in each project.

You can even host the package on something like UPM to share it with others