Hi,
I am collaborating and am wondering if there is a way to send whole projects to other guys. Is there any way I can do this in Unity Free without the “Team Licence”
Thanks In Advance;)
Just zip your project folder and send that. Done.
Best way is to keep Unity closed during compressing, otherwise you’ll include some temporary data (like a lock file).
Anything more “compressed” than a .zip?
Well .rar with high compression rate results in smaller archives than usual .zip. I believe .7z is even more compressed. No idea.
Thing is you can send your project folder to anyone, the format doesn’t matter as long as the files get unpacked as Unity would need them (meaning: like you packed them).
That’s a hard question to answer.
Since .zip (like .rar) already does it’s best at “lossless compression”, you could further decrease the filesize of the zip by having your project’s basefiles compressed, too.
problem is simply that you can only get so-far with lossless compression, after that you can only add JPEG-compression to your images and soforth.
you can, however, split a .rar or .zip in multiple parts if they’re too big to send at once.
I recommend enabling meta files and only transferring the Assets and ProjectSettings folders. It takes a bit longer to load up because it makes stuff get re-imported. But the snapshots becomes much smaller than if you just zip the entire thing.