6 weeks of Unity 6 Office Hours

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To celebrate the release of Unity 6 and help you on your upgrade journey, we are starting a series of Office Hours (formerly known as Dev Blitz Days), starting from the 23rd of October.

Office Hours are community events where certain developer teams take time away from their busy schedules to engage directly with the community. During Office Hours, the specific dev team will spend the majority of their time on Unity Discussions and Discord, discussing their areas of expertise with our users and answering any questions they have.

For this series of Office Hours, we have picked teams that correspond with the key themes of Unity 6. See the full schedule below:

Topics Date & Time Link
Graphics - Concluded 2024-10-23T13:00:00Z→2024-10-23T18:00:00Z Graphics Office Hours
Multiplayer - Concluded 2024-10-30T14:00:00Z→2024-10-30T19:00:00Z Multiplayer Office Hours
Platforms - Concluded 2024-11-06T14:00:00Z→2024-11-06T19:00:00Z Platforms Office Hours
Sentis - Concluded 2024-11-13T14:00:00Z→2024-11-13T19:00:00Z Sentis Office Hours
Profiling & UI - Concluded 2024-11-20T14:00:00Z→2024-11-20T19:00:00Z UI and Profiling Office Hours
Probuilder & Cinemachine 2024-11-27T14:00:00Z→2024-11-27T19:00:00Z Probuilder and Cinemachine Office Hours

What questions will be answered?

  • We will be answering questions on the topic of the particular Office Hours event.
  • Questions don’t have to be limited to Unity 6 or be technical. You could ask about future plans, why something was made a certain way, etc.
  • We won’t be able to answer questions like, “Can you help me debug these 1,000,000 lines of code?” Well, we can, but the answer will likely be, “No”

Some basic rules:

  • On both Unity Discussions and on Discord, you will be able to start posting topics one day in advance of each Office Hours event. This way, everyone gets a chance to ask their questions.
  • Remember to comply with the community rules .
  • One question/subject per topic. Please don’t bundle unrelated questions together.
  • Keep topics related to the theme of the event.
  • The team will prioritize topics created during the event timeframe. If there’s time left, Experts might be able to look at older topics.
  • Experts will answer questions during the event hours.
  • The Multiplayer Office Hours will be the only event held on Multiplayer Discord.

How to create a topic for the Office Hours?

The teams will engage with topics that are posted during the event time frame and include at least one tag related to the theme of the event as well as the Office-Hours tag.

We will create dedicated Product Area filters on the front page and topic composers for each Office-Hours event to make browsing and creating topics as easy as possible.

Just select the Office Hours composer once it becomes available and create your topic.

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Note that there are a limited number of experts on hand. We will answer as many questions as possible, but may not be able to get to them all. Duplicate questions may be closed by moderators/staff.

We’re looking forward to chatting with you!

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I get all the the categories but Profiling & UI. Is it profiling UI specifically, or Profiling and UI as separate topics? And what UI - editor, runtime? IMGUI, UGUI or UITK? Or all of it?

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I think ‘Dev Blitz Days’ is a much better name. Office Hours could be literally anything and can’t be googled.

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Hi,

Separate topics

All of it

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Last time only 12 or so of the many many questions were answered (and seemed to be cherry picked). I’m not sure what value this is actually providing to be honest.

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Will the channels be available early?

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For anyone wanting to post questions using this dumb discussions website, the ‘dedicated Product Area filters on the front page’ can be found by going to the ‘Discussion Home’ , clicking the ‘Try the Product Areas’ dropdown button, scrolling all the way to the end and selecting the ‘Graphics Office Hours’ option.

Why this option is not at the start of the dropdown list, or at least adjacent to the actual ‘Graphics’ product area option I have no idea.

Slightly simpler if you just want to post a question, you’ll find the ‘Graphics Office Hours’ topic at the end of the ‘New Topic’ dropdown button list.

Unsurprisingly there are no questions as of yet, I’d wager as few people will find it.

I’m unsure what the difference is between looking at this product area vs ‘graphics’ & ‘office Hours’ tags, other than when I tried searching for those tags, I was getting threads started years ago, though confusingly with posts made within the last day pushing them to the top of page.

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It looks like they just JUST put it on the front page.

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ha, yes you’re right.

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We exposed the front page filter for the event at the same time we started accepting submissions.

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edit: nevermid. it says TODAY on front page

we really need a strike-trough text feature

i don’t get it. when do i post the question? tomorrow? or now?

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Post now they will get answered during the time frame

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done! thank you

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The Multiplayer Office Hours are now open for submissions:
https://discussions.unity.com/lists/multiplayer-office-hours

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The Platforms Office Hours are now ready for submissions:
https://discussions.unity.com/lists/platforms-office-hours

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It seems that the Sentis Office Hours topic/tag is still not available? Or is there another way to ask an office hours question in discussions?

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Hi there, it’s available now!

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Hello, thank you!

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Got the following message:

Multiple errors occurred: 1) You cannot apply the tag “Office-Hours”. 2) There was an error tagging the topic.

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Can you try it now?