Editing scene templates

To edit a sceneA Scene contains the environments and menus of your game. Think of each unique Scene file as a unique level. In each Scene, you place your environments, obstacles, and decorations, essentially designing and building your game in pieces. More info
See in Glossary template, select it in the Project windowA window that shows the contents of your Assets folder (Project tab) More info
See in Glossary, then open it in an Inspector window.

The scene template Inspector

The scene template InspectorA Unity window that displays information about the currently selected GameObject, asset or project settings, allowing you to inspect and edit the values. More info
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1. Details: Specifies which scene the template uses, and contains the template description that appears in the New Scene dialog.
2. Thumbnail: Provides options for creating a preview image for the template.
3. Scene Template Pipeline: Specifies an optional custom script to run when Unity creates a new scene from the template.
4. Dependencies: Lists the template scene’s dependencies, and specifies whether Unity clones them when it creates a new scene from the template.

Details

Use the Details section to specify which scene to use for a template, and control how the template appears in the New Scene dialog.

Thumbnail

The Thumbnail section contains options for creating a preview image for the template. The preview image appears in the New Scene dialog.

Scene Template Pipeline

Use these properties to add a Scene Template Pipeline script to this template.

A Scene Template Pipeline script lets you execute custom code when you create a new scene from the template. See Customizing new scene creation.

Dependencies

This section lists all of the template scene’s Dependencies. You can specify whether or not to Clone each dependency when you create a new scene from the template.

To search for a dependency by name, enter text in the search bar.

To sort the Dependencies list:

• Click the Dependencies heading to sort by the name of the dependency in alphabetical order.
• Click the Type heading to sort by the dependency Type.
• Click the Clone heading to sort by dependencies that are cloned and not cloned.

For each dependency in the list, toggle the Clone option on to clone the dependency, or off to reference the dependency. When you clone a dependency, you create a copy. When you reference a dependency, all changes made to the original will affect the dependency.

When you create a new scene from the template, Unity checks whether the template scene has cloneable dependencies. If it does, Unity creates a folder with the same name as the new scene, and puts any cloned dependencies in that folder.

For more information about cloned and referenced dependencies, see Templates and scene dependencies.

To specify which types of asset Unity clones by default, edit the scene template Project settings.