Hi
so i dont have the menu option to make sprites in my project after updating to 2020.3 LTS.
i was on 2020.1. (same with 2021.1)
but i see it when i make a 2d project.
is there something i need to do to be able to make sprites in a 3d project?
thank you.
ahhh i found the problem.
3d projects do not include the 2D packages anymore. just needed to add the 7 packages form the unity registry.
Technically there’s no different between a “2D Project” and “3D Project” just like there’s no “Unity 2D” or “Unity 3D”. It’s quite simply the initial set-up like settings and what packages are in by default.
And also (last I checked) the default way a new texture is imported:
3D mode imports it as “default”
2D mode imports it as sprite
And also: you can flip between those two modes trivially in the ProjectSettings → Editor window. That’s what Melv means by “no different…” You might actually do this regularly if you had a 3D project and wanted to hoover in a bunch of sprites and didn’t want go have to twoddle with each one.
Yes and to hopefully clarify a little, I simply mean that there’s Unity and a project. Unity 2D, Unity 3D, 2D Project and 3D Project are conceptual, only made real by a specific configuration of settings and packages. They don’t form anything specific, just a set-up that’s (in theory) useful for a particular task.
Off Topic: @Kurt-Dekker , 18697 posts. And I thought I spent a long time on the forums. 
