How to add a Menu Item to the Unity right click menu | Unity Tips

Published: 10 March 2025
on channel: Christina Creates Games

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This tutorial explains how to create a menu item (or multiple!) for the right click menu in Unity, with and without conditionals - and hotkeys. This is incredibly useful to speed up your game development time.

This tutorial is all about creating a menu item in the right click menu. It covers:
Setting up UI prefabs
Creating an Editor script
Configuring the menu item with a name, icon, and hotkey
Instantiating a prefab with proper parenting
Validating the selection to show the menu only under certain conditions

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📖 Chapters
00:00 What a new menu item on right click will look like
00:45 Location of assets
01:21 The Editor script for the right click menu item entry
01:55 The attribute MenuItem explained
03:16 The body of the right click menu item script
04:55 Duplicating the script for more entries
05:10 Hiding the menu item under certain conditions
06:47 What else?

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