PostProcessBuild Script, file path of script?

Unity Engine
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Hi all,

I am currently working on a plugin for Unity. The plugin is for iOS and and is essentially a library to eventually embed in the built product. The library contains a .storyboard file. It seems unity doesn’t copy .storyboard files into the Xcode project together with the other library files (currently .h and .mm). So I figured I need to copy into the final Xcode project through PostProcessBuild script.

However I cannot seem to find a good way to get a relative file path to my post process build script or similar. The script is located in an Editor folder and on the same level I have the iOS folder, where the .storyboard file is located with the rest of the plugin files. I was hoping I could do something like “…/iOS/MyStoryboard.storyboard”, but I can’t seem to find a way.

My current solution is using Application.dataPath, which gets me to the root of the Assets folder, but I feel this is still fragile, as I may not know exactly where a developer would place my plugin.

I am an iOS developer and completely new to Unity, maybe it’s the wrong approach?

Any ideas?

Thanks you in advance.

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If you distribute your plugin by the Package Manager, it should always be in a reliable spot relative to the project root.

But if you prefer, I think you could use a reference to the storyboard item to query the Unity AssetDatabase as to where it actually is filesystem-wise, perhaps something like:

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath.html

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Hi Kurt,

Thanks you for your reply. Will definitely try that out. Seems like exactly the thing I am looking for. Your comment on the package manager is also valid I will look into this as well. The plugin will be distributed as part of a larger package delivering plugin for both iOS and Android as well as C# wrappers. But I guess, still, the path would be stable.

Thanks for your input,
Mikkel