Soap - ScriptableObject Architecture Pattern

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Tired of spaghetti code? 🍝

Soap offers no-code solutions to common spaghetti code issues by letting you:

• Share variables across scenes and components
• Send and receive events in a simple but powerful manner
• Automatically bind UI and components to data
• Save key variables in one-click

Makes game dev easier and enjoyable 🎲

Soap makes decoupling your code easy and seamless, enabling you to create complex systems like abilities, power ups, inventory and other gameplay features in a elegant, modular and reusable manner. Soap is still quite new, but has already been used in games like Big Boy Boxing, Anx Defense, Corrupted: Dawn of Havoc, Gym Class VR, multiple hit mobile games (10M+ downloads) and more.

Soap also comes with various quality of life features and efficient custom inspectors to improve your game dev experience.

Core Features 🚀

• Scriptable Variables (+ one-click persistent save in builds)
• Scriptable Lists & Dictionaries
• Scriptable Events + Events Listeners
• Scriptable Enums
• Scriptable SubAssets
• Scriptable Saves
• Runtime Variables
• Runtime Injectors
• Variable References
• Binding Components
• Reference tracking (for scene and assets references)
• Soap Wizard (Manage everything in one place)
• Soap Type Creator (Extend to your game easily)
• Tags (to classify your Soap assets)

Better, Faster, Stronger 💪🏼

• Most performant ScriptableObject Architecture on the Asset Store.
• Reduce wait time to enter play mode by 90%, by enabling the editor play mode option (compatible with Soap).
• Tested on the latest LTS Unity versions starting from 2019.4 on all platforms.
• Built and refined over 4+ years of shipping games, focusing on UX and practical features 

Integrations ✨

• Odin
• Fast script Reload / Hot Reload
• Playmaker
• Game Creator 2

Community 🗣

Do you have issues, found a bug, or have suggestions for improvement?

Soap has an active Discord community, so don't hesitate. A lot of recent features were suggested by users :).

Documentation 📃

We have a growing collection of Youtube Tutorials and resources to facilitate SOAP learning curve. We even have a custom AI Bot trained on SOAP documentation!

Useful Links:

• Youtube Tutorials
• SOAP User Guide
• Discord
• ChatGPT Bot
• The talk that started it all

Release Notes

## [3.5.1] - 2025-03-11
- Added a SelectParent method for SubAssets
- Added keeping the Namespace in the SoapTypeCreator persistent
- Added compatibly with nullable types Scriptable Variables
- SubAssets backing fields names are now properly displayed
- Fixed templates scripts now using Rider format
- Fixed allowing to inherit from ScriptableCollection
- Fixed Odin [HideLabel] bug with SubAssets icon
- Fixed ScriptableCollection resetting when "None" reset mode was selected

## [3.5.0] - 2025-02-09

- Added Scriptable Dictionary type

- Added Scriptable Dictionary Creator Window

- Added new Example Scene for Scriptable Dictionaries

- Added Set Icon menu item to assign icons to existing Soap CS files

- Added auto-assignment of icons when creating new Soap types with the Soap Asset Creator

- Added Soap Asset Creator

- Added Soap Asset Creator menu item at the top of the menu items list

- Added optional Prefixes in Soap Settings

- Added new category in Soap Wizard (Collections) that groups lists and dictionaries

- Changed ScriptableBase now automatically inherits from SerializedScriptableObject if Odin is present

- Fixed changing reset mode for collections when not reloading domain

- Fixed EditorPrefs used for all projects (now per project)

- Fixed ScriptableList now properly allows duplicates

## [3.4.1] - 2025-01-17

- Added safety assigning for tags if not found in settings.

- Fixed MinReference property returning wrong value for Int and Float Variables

## [3.4.0] - 2025-01-12

- Added [AutoTag] attribute for auto tagging SOAP SO on creation

- Added a way to add new tag from the tag dropdown

- Added support to set the tag of multiple SOAP SO at once

- Added Bindings icons

- Changed Min and MaxReference in Int and Float variables to a public property (Get/Set)

- Fixed Delay in EventListeners not initializing with local value

- Fixed error when drawing a list of ScriptableVariables

- Fixed [ShowIf] attribute not working with custom inspectors

- Fixed ScriptableBaseDrawer not compatible with [ReadOnly] attribute

- Added Runtime Injectors and [RuntimeInjectable] attribute

## [3.3.1] - 2024-11-11

- Added override Get Value in Float and Int Variable

- Added [HelpUrl] attribute to classes

- Fixed infinite loop caused by circular references in FindReferences

- Fixed direct text assignment in BindTextMeshPro to use SetText()

- Fixed enum not usable without needing [Serializable] attribute

## [3.3.0] - 2024-10-11

- Added Support for Game Creator 2

- Added Variable Reference usage for min and max Value of Int and Float Variables

- Added option to use MaxValue from Int and Float Variables in Bindings

- Added option to enable raising Scriptable Events from the inspector

- Added shortcuts support to Soap Wizard

- Added Soap Settings in Preferences Window

- Added FloatReference for Delay field in EventListeners

- Fixed References with Playmaker Actions

- Fixed OnValueChanged Object display with Playmaker Actions

- Fixed Runtime value being shown in the inspector

- Fixed Bindings not always refreshing value when modified from Inspector