Overview

This extension provides a Unity development environment for VS Code.

All features can be enabled or disabled in the settings.

Features

• Unity code snippets (C#)
• Scene / Prefab usage references
  Shows where a script is used inside Scene or Prefab assets.
• Unity event bindings indicator
  Displays CodeLens above UnityEvent fields.
• Unity message indicator
  Adds CodeLens above Unity lifecycle methods (e.g., Start, Update).
• Unity message hover descriptions
  Shows documentation/explanation of Unity lifecycle methods when hovering.
• Coroutine toggle (void ↔ IEnumerator)
  Quickly change method return type between void and IEnumerator.
• .meta file sync
  Detects creation/deletion of assets and keeps .meta files in sync.
• Unity documentation search
  Search Unity API docs directly (shortcut: Shift+1).
  → Works with selection or the word under the cursor.
• Theme
  Includes Unity SW Pack Dark theme.

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Prerequisites

1. Install the VS Code C# Extension.
2. Install the .NET SDK, which includes the Runtime and the dotnet command.
   • Windows only: Logout or restart Windows to allow changes to %PATH% to take effect.
   • macOS only: To avoid seeing "Some projects have trouble loading. Please review the output for more details", install the latest stable Mono release.

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Features in Action

• Unity code snippets

  

• Scene and Prefab references

  

• Unity event bindings

  

• Unity message indicator

  

• Unity message hover descriptions

  

• Coroutine toggle (void ↔ IEnumerator)

  

• .meta file sync