I am very new to unity and still learning much of the interface. I was working on a project, saving frequently. I was noodling through the menus and picked “new scene” from the file menu. this wiped out the scene I was working on… I never hit save, after that, undo didn’t restore it, so I loaded up the project from “Open Project” and it was still blank. I can’t find anywhere to load the scene I was working on. I closed the program and re-opened it, but still an empty scene. I see all the assets in various forms down in the Project tab, but I’m not sure how to get the scene I was working on back. Any tips for a bone-head?
I haven’t tested it, but I’d be a little surprised if selecting ‘new scene’ didn’t ask you if you wanted to save your existing scene (assuming it wasn’t already up to date). Maybe it does though (although that would be a little odd).
Did you ever save the original scene at all? If so, it should exist somewhere, unless you deliberately deleted it. Are you sure your scene isn’t in the Project view somewhere?
Selecting New Scene will definitely prompt you to save the current scene first, unless it is already saved and up-to-date. If the original scene was saved, it will exist as a .unity file somewhere on disk – typically somewhere in your Assets/ folder, although you are free to save it anywhere.