Unity Method Helper is a powerful Visual Studio Code extension for Unity 6 C# developers.
It provides smart auto-completion, hover documentation, snippet insertion, command palette tools, a categorized tree view, and export-to-file functionality — all tailored for Unity's MonoBehaviour lifecycle and physics methods.
🧰 Features
🧠 Auto-completion for Unity methods like Start(), Update(), OnCollisionEnter(), etc.
🔎 Hover tooltips with method description, examples, and official docs
🎛️ Command Palette tools for:
Inserting Unity methods by category
Generating custom method snippets
Validating method database
Exporting selected methods into .cs files
📂 Sidebar View for exploring Unity methods by category
🎨 Category icons for MonoBehaviour 🔄, Physics ⚙️, UI 🖥️, Audio 🔊, AI 🧠
⚙️ Requirements
Visual Studio Code version ^1.100.0
Unity project using C#
No additional dependencies
🚀 Getting Started
Install the extension from the VS Code Marketplace.
Open a Unity .cs script.
Use:
Autocomplete suggestions
Ctrl+Alt+U to open the snippet menu
Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) to run Unity-specific tools
Sidebar panel to browse and insert methods
🎛️ Commands
You can run these via Command Palette or keybindings:
Command
Description
Unity: Insert Snippet by Category
Choose a method category and insert a predefined method
Unity: Show All Methods
View and open official documentation for all supported methods
Unity: Validate Method Data
Run checks on your methods.json file
Unity: Create Custom Method Snippet
Insert your own method name + body into the current file
Unity: Export Selected Methods to .cs
Export multiple Unity methods to a UnityBoilerplate.cs class file
🧩 Sidebar View
Click the Unity icon in the activity bar to:
Browse categorized Unity methods
Click any method to instantly insert its code snippet
🧪 Extension Settings
This extension does not expose user-facing settings yet.
🐞 Known Issues
The extension depends on a valid methods.json file located at the project root.
Hover and autocomplete are limited to C# files (.cs) only.
📝 Release Notes
v0.0.1
Initial release
Auto-completion, hover provider, command palette tools, and sidebar view
