How to change your project name in Unity Hub

Setting in Unity

Here’s a little idea if you’ve ever been bothered by the inability to change your project name in Unity Hub. Let’s say your project uses a directory structure that looks like the following:

├── Awesome\ Game
│   ├── 3D\ Assets
│   ├── Budgets
│   ├── Concept\ Art
│   ├── Design
│   ├── Resources
│   └── Unity

Now if you’ve got 10 games using a similar structure, then you’ll likely see 10 projects with the name “Unity” in Unity Hub. That’s a bummer to pick through.

CREATE A “UNITY PROJECTS” DIRECTORY

Well, we can solve this with a simple symlink. The first thing you’ll want to do is change where you’re saving all your Unity projects. You’re now going to store them all together. Find a place on your machine and get to this point:

└── Unity\ Projects
    ├── Space\ Invaders
    ├── The\ Black\ Cauldron
    ├── The\ Last\ of\ Us
    └── Tron

They’re all going to live together in one spot, which is actually somewhat convenient if you’re just looking for a particular game directory.

These projects can be added to the Unity Hub now and they will correctly display their descriptive names. Cool! We’re done with the first step.

CREATE A SYMLINK

Now we turn our focus to our all-encompassing project folder. You know, the one that has all the stuff in it and not just the Unity project. I’m on a Mac so this next step may differ for you, but the principal should be the same.

USING THE FINDER

You can create a symlink or “Alias” by right-clicking on your project in the Unity Projects directory and choosing Make Alias.

Making an alias

You can then name that alias anything you like. I chose to call it “Unity”. Move that symlinked directory back to your all-encompassing project folder. Voilà! You’ve got the correct name in Unity Hub and a custom name in the directory on your computer.

Unity Directory

USING TERMINAL

If you prefer using the Terminal to create symlinks the syntax is:

ln -s /path/to/file /path/to/symlink

I’m assuming you can figure it out from there if you’re a regular Terminal user.

THANKS

Thanks to @JesterBrazen for the suggestion on this one. It gets the job done!

Written by Matt Haliski

The First of His Name, Consumer of Tacos, Operator of Computers, Mower of Grass, Father of the Unsleeper, King of Bad Function Names, Feeder of AI Overlords.

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