Unity3D

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/is-there-a-way-to-import-a-package-to-a-specific-folder.173393/

Question :

I just organized my assets folder. But every time I import something, Unity just dumps everything into the root directory. How can I specify or choose the save folder when I am importing a new asset?

Best Answer:

Edit: Since it was difficult to find an answer to this, and nobody has a good answer, I did a bunch of studying and I will answer this myself in case someone else needs this information.

This is a problem that affects every Unity developer. Here is my suggested solution (based on an idea from another veteran Unity developer). Create this Assets folder structure:

TOP (ROOT) LEVEL:

Gizmos
Main
Sandbox
Scenes
Standard Assets
StreamingAssets

SECOND LEVEL, IN “Main” FOLDER:

Animations
Audio
GUI
Materials
Models
Plugins
Prefabs
Resources
Scripts
Shaders
Terrain
Textures
Utilities

Whenever you import a new asset, it will just dump the files into the assets folder without any consideration to sanity. Using the above folder approach it is easier to find the folders it creates. For example, I installed “NoesisGUI” a few days ago and it created four folders and put files all over. This would make it difficult to uninstall, and I don’t think these developers think much about the management of their asset in a folder with many other assets.

Using the above folder structure, you can stay organized and keep your root Assets folder extremely clean, so that it is easy to see what an asset has dumped on you.

Certain folders must stay in the Assets root directory. “Gizmos” is one of those, which is used by Unity. Also, “StreamedAssets” and “Standard Assets” should stay in the root folder.

Most asset packages can be drug into a subfolder and into their own subfolder. But some asset packages use an absolute path and the creators did not consider that they might be moved. In this case, sometimes the C# script can be edited to the new path if the scripts are available. Most good assets will work fine even if moved to a subfolder, because they use relative paths internally.

Then once you have it like you want, you can export a packageof the assets to use in all other projects.

Unity does not put empty folders in an assets package. I created the template of what I want for all future projects, which includes exactly the editor tools I need and folder structure I want. I created the Assets package and it did not include the empty folders, so I manually copied the empty folders into a backup place with the assets package. Now I install this whenever I start a new package. Thus, every new project has exactly the folder structure and editor tools already installed the way I want/need them.