Move Project to M2 Mac, how?

[Unifikation]

project works fine on Intel Mac.

How to compress it and send it across to an M2 Mac along with all of its Packages, such that it doesn’t need the internet, AND doesn’t just crash on the M2?

Have managed to do this with some projects, but not others. Don’t know why. All same version: 2019.LTS

[Kurt-Dekker]

PROPERLY CONFIGURING AND USING ENTERPRISE SOURCE CONTROL

I’m sorry you’ve had this issue. 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:

Prefab links keep getting dumped on Git pull

There really isn’t any fix because git works perfectly with Unity when configured properly. Best practices involve saving your work and closing Unity before using git. But if you understand how Unity does and does not flush changes to disk (or at least ALWAYS do a save-project), you can get away with leaving Unity open. The only thing linking EVERYTHING together in Unity is the GUID assigned to a script or asset. Name is irrelevant. Only the GUID connects it. This GUID is in the meta file. I…

I usually make a separate repository for each game, but I have some repositories with a bunch of smaller test games.

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

2 steps backwards

Yeah, what Praetor said is it… Debug.Log is your friend, and also since this is animation related, you can open up the Animator window when you expect the animations to go, and actually visually see where the state machine is, see which state it thinks it is in. You can combine this with Debug.Log() output at the locations where you set the animations to be what you think they should be, and that should lead you to some intel. I highly recommend setting up git source control. It really plays ni…

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

When to make a separate object or class/script? Help me think like a programmer! (Example in text.)

This is a reasonable initial approach. The problem is you have listed the parts, but you haven’t really listed how they interact, and even if you did, it’s still sorta up to you how to organize it. Only YOU will know how to organize it, and the only way you can tell is to do the work. I recommend this: first, develop ALWAYS with source control (such as git), and every time you get even the slightest thing working, commit those changes with good commit messages. Then move to the next thing, c…

Share/Sharing source code between projects:

Your techniques to share code between projects?

I have found that bundling your own code into DLLs only serves to slow down your workflow. I base this on several years of experience dealing with other teams well-intentioned packaging mishaps. With games, it is almost always useful to reach into library code, make a temporary tweak to isolate a problem, and then revert it. With DLLs this is impossible, making workflow harder and more brittle. I prefer to share source code at the C# level. That way I can reach into libraries trivially and inje…

Setting up an appropriate .gitignore file for Unity3D:

Removing IL2CPP_cache from Project

Not sure what you are “auto generating” with… I usually start from one of my other projects, or a gitignore example online, and reason about all the parts inside it, and start from there. Like any other configuration change, after you make it, pay attention for a while to make sure it is what you want. You can always clone the repo somewhere else to verify that the correct files are being tracked. Doing so to a brand-new computer is the acid test to make sure you can still build the project. …

Generally the ONLY folders you should ever source control are:

Assets/
ProjectSettings/
Packages/

NEVER source control Library/ or Temp/ or Logs/
NEVER source control anything from Visual Studio (.vs, .csproj, none of that noise)

Setting git up with Unity (includes above .gitignore concepts):

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.

If you plan on joining the software industry, you will be required and expected to know how to use source control.

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

[Unifikation]

I do not want to use git. With all due respect, I want to zip it up, and stick it on my other computers.

[Unifikation]

I feel this is a bit of an odd rant, given that I can do my own source control with zipped versions, and have been doing so for a very long time, and have no intention or desire to play well with others in software development.

If I did, I might force them to use zip files, too. Git is an abomination, as far as I’m concerned, when we can have local version control with something like Rider, Git is a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel and unbelievably contrived and is to interface experience as programmer art is to art.

[Ryiah]

@Unifikation

All same version: 2019.LTS

You need a newer release of Unity. Unity 2021.2 is the minimum release for the editor on Apple Silicon.

[halley]

A project should be entirely self-contained in its folder. However, they may depend on different packages that are installed or not-installed in a given version and setup of Unity Hub or Unity app. Are you using any packages that you sourced from other links or locations?

[Unifikation]

@halley1

A project should be entirely self-contained in its folder. However, they may depend on different packages that are installed or not-installed in a given version and setup of Unity Hub or Unity app. Are you using any packages that you sourced from other links or locations?

No, I have a bare minimum of packages, with a lightly modified version of Cinemachine and a more modded version of TMP.

All of which have moved across successfully in 3 other projects, which have launched in 2019.LTS on the M2, such that I can then play them, experience them working correctly, and then go about the process of updating them to 2022.2.13.

However two projects aren’t working once copied across. Despite having all the same packages (a tiny few).

[Unifikation]

@Ryiah

You need a newer release of Unity. Unity 2021.2 is the minimum release for the editor on Apple Silicon.

As a starting point in confirming the transition to a new machine, I use the exact same version it was built in.

And this works, very well, 3 out of 5 times.

So well, in the 3 cases, that it’s tempting to stick with 2019 within Rosetta, as it’s incredibly fast. But… the future awaits, so I get them working in 2022.2.13

Those that work in 2019.LTS on the M2 almost perfectly upgrade to 2022.2.13 on the M2.

those that don’t are a complete riddle of messes, despite being flawless on the intel Mac.