EnterPlayMode stuck on Hold on for 3+ Hrs, nervous to close Unity

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Hi all,

I have my game stuck on Hold on loading bar after I clicked on the play button. It has now been over 3 hours. I am no expert, but I assume this is because the scene loading script I tried implementing has an issue.

I’m mainly here to ask if anyone knows a way to exit from the Unity loading bar. I want to close it, but I don’t have the option to. I was thinking of using task manager to force quit Unity, but I’m afraid my game file will get corrupted. Do I have any options here?

Edit: I think I’m stuck in a loop where two scenes are loading each other

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You can pretty safely kill the Unity process in Task Manager.

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Oh my goodness, it is 2022, nobody has to live like this!!!

Please consider using proper industrial-grade enterprise-qualified source control in order to guard and protect your hard-earned work.

Personally I use git (completely outside of Unity) because it is free and there are tons of tutorials out there to help you set it up as well as free places to host your repo (BitBucket, Github, Gitlab, etc.).

You can also push git repositories to other drives: thumb drives, USB drives, network drives, etc., effectively putting a complete copy of the repository there.

As far as configuring Unity to play nice with git, keep this in mind:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/736093/3

Here’s how I use git in one of my games, Jetpack Kurt:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/807568/3

Using fine-grained source control as you work to refine your engineering:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/826718/2

Share/Sharing source code between projects:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/719810/2

Setting up an appropriate .gitignore file for Unity3D:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/834885/5

Generally setting Unity up (includes above .gitignore concepts):

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/how-to-git-with-unity

It is only simple economics that you must expend as much effort into backing it up as you feel the work is worth in the first place. Digital storage is so unbelievably cheap today that you can buy gigabytes of flash drive storage for about the price of a cup of coffee. It’s simply ridiculous not to back up.

“Use source control or you will be really sad sooner or later.” - StarManta on the Unity3D forum boards

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Thank you so much for the resources, sir! I am new to GitHub LFS (just 2 weeks) and still didn’t know about most of this (I am a noob pls excuse me!)

Also, unfortunately, my terrain did get corrupted when reloading the game file, however, I have a hard backup from last week I can use :). It could have been worse!!! Let this be a lesson to anyone else viewing this thread to protect your work with proper tech in place!

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