How Do I use unity without being online?
I like to shut everything down when I’m working, take the firewall off, the internet cable out, everything, but unity won’t start up unless I have a connection. Is this by design or something wrong on my end?
ok interesting,
Hub shows me signed out (so cannot open any projects)…
But Unity editor does open projects just fine (if you open them directly with commandline or using 3rd party unity launchers).
Seems to be bugged, so better report as bug.
Start it, sign in, then go offline. From what I recall you can work offline for up to 72 hours.
wasn’t offline supposed to be max 30 days?
does that also mean that you cannot shutdown computer during this time, since hub wont start in offline(?)
Seems pretty short-sighted to remove all access to documentation and examples, unless you’re in the 1980s and have a lawyer’s bookcase with a row of IBM three-ring binders containing every single API and toggle switch available.
Don’t quote me on this but this is what it used to be, and the 72 hours is what will be (Unity 6) or already is.
I was going to say the same but … if you only do content production it might be effective. But as a programmer of course I constantly look things up on the Interwebz.
seems like you can use unity editor, but just not through hub… (which doesn’t make any sense for regular users…)
so the workaround is to launch your project manually,
-projectPath
This.
Do this every day so that you don’t get signed out.
I’m a recluse, old school.
Besides, I can access the net when I need it, like everyone else, so saying it’s short sighted is pretty stupid. When I’m busy is not when I need to be online and I don’t want to be forced to be because unity locks you into it. From the comments, it appears it’s not a fault on my side but something unity are actually doing by design
Yes, but only for Unity Personal. Other licensing tiers aren’t supposed to be affected by this but it’s also part of the incoming changes so if I had to guess it’s simply not implemented yet.
https://support.unity.com/hc/en-us/articles/23956583533844-Named-User-licensing-NUL-FAQ
As long as you have a valid token the hub will consider you logged in. So you can shutdown your computer and open hub without a network connection as long as you didn’t sign out.
ok nice! it does work 3.8.x (previously tested in 3.6.1 and it showed me signed out, if no internet connection).
That sounds about right… I think sticking users at the sign in screen launched in 3.6. I’m curious mgear how does your launcher handle auth/hub/editor ? Is there a command line argument that passes an auth token to the editor ?
Not yet, but if i have time to look into that, will definitely add something like that, or otherwise need to make actual login system… (i did look into Hub ICP system, can send messages there etc. but probably not worth going that way for getting auth/license.)
So now it is just a launcher (using editor commandline -projectpath and if hub is not signed in, editor wont be either)
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More info on this here, for those curious: https://support.unity.com/hc/en-us/articles/23956583533844-Named-User-licensing-NUL-FAQ
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