unity-launcher

A Tool to make it easy to open different Unity projects with the corresponding Unity version.

Screenshot

Install

• Download the most recent version from: https://github.com/hagish/unity-launcher/raw/master/release/unity-launcher.exe
• Place this config file on your Desktop: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagish/unity-launcher/master/release/unity-launcher.txt
• Open the config and adjust the Unity paths and add folders where the launcher searches for projects
• Drag it into your taskbar or whereever

Usage

• Start it to show a menu window near your mouse cursor with a list of your Unity versions and projects
  • Clicking on a button will open the corresponding Unity version
  • or project using the fitting Unity version
• ESC closes the popup window

Command line arguments

• If you don't want to use the unity-launcher.txt config on your desktop you can the absolute path to another file as the first argument.
  • e.g. unity-launcher.exe c:\projects\my-unity-launcher.cfg

Config

• The config file consists of 2 parts splitted by ---
• Empty lines and lines starting with # gets ignored
• First part (Unity versions) above the ---
  • Alternating lines between Version string and path to Unity.exe
  • The versions get matched by prefix
    • only use the version numbers or a prefix of them no unity 5.5 or similar
    • 5.5 matches 5.5.1p4, 5.5.0l1
    • 5.5.1 matches 5.5.1p4 but not 5.5.0l1
• Second part (Project root folders) below the ---
  • Absolute paths where the tools should start searching for your Unity projects

5.5
C:\Program Files\Unity-5.5\Editor\Unity.exe

5.6
C:\Program Files\Unity-5.6\Editor\Unity.exe

2017.1
D:\Unity-2017.1\Editor\Unity.exe

2017.2
D:\Unity-2017.2\Editor\Unity.exe

---

C:\Users\hagis\projects1
D:\projects2

Disclaimer

• The code is ugly and will not win an engineering award :). I merely wrote a little tool to get the job done.
• If you have many many projects and deep subfolder structures in the second part of the config the tool can get slow. At the moment there is no caching or whatsoever.