Unity and macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)

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Partition your harddrive I suppose, I also beta test for apple, and I find APFS is still very flacky, specialy with some older macs and the bootrom, also another idea, create a disk image and format it HFS+ (Not tested it yet)

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Update, that works just create a disk image file and put the project on there and mount itā€¦ That way you have one file per project

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Along with APFS, are you also going to start supporting case-sensitive file systems?

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Ha! I reported that as a bug in 1.5 in 2006, Case #5473. At the time it wasnā€™t supported because of PACE licensing, not sure if they still use that. Maybe youā€™re careful with what apps you use, but many arenā€™t built with case sensitivity in mind.

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I canā€™t get it to build for macOS nor AppleTV; itā€™s getting stuck at UnityShaderCompiler going 100% CPU. Any ideas ?
Iā€™ve tried both HFS+/APFS partitions using 5.6.1f1 and VR-p1

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Visual Studio for Mac works as well

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I installed VisualStudio because MonoDevelop doesnā€™t work. But AutoCompletion does not workā€¦ (I tried typing ā€œInput.ā€ but there were no proposalsā€¦

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I have been using visual studio code on mac and there are some plugins for it that support unity autocompletion. Itā€™s great. I would highly recommend it. Iā€™ve attached a screenshot of the plugins iā€™ve installed.

Edit: Link to VS Code

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Is that the same as Visual Studio for mac? The naming is very confusing.

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Itā€™s different, i recommend checking it out though. You can set it as your editor in unity preferences. If you have questions feel free to ask or message me directly

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waitā€¦so you donā€™t have to use xcode on osx, you can now use visual studio or vs code to compile?

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To write C# code you can use visual studio code. You still need to export and use Xcode to build to device

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awe, sad facesā€¦

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@Mantas-Puida - with High Sierra at GM I thought Iā€™d check in on this, which (if any) builds of Unity are ok on 10.13? I noticed in the 2017.1.p1 notes it mentions an unrelated bug fix for 10.13:

ā€œ(948069, 926730) - OSX: Fixed Metal VSync on OSX 10.13 to follow Quality Settings.ā€

Can I assume that upgrading to 10.13 is now safe?

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Iā€™m waiting for the final release (on 25th) before switching.

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+1 for wondering if High Sierra is safe to upgrade next week as well as APFS.

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Using Unity on High Sierra since the beginning, seems stable recently, most problems are more macOS fault I think. MonoDevelop now works again. Not using APFS though. I would wait for official release of both Unity 2017.2 and macOS.

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Upgraded to the GM on a test machine - 2017.1p5 and 2017.1.1p2 are working fine (with APFS Encrypted). YMMV.

Fingers crossed my eGPU enclosure will be delivered soon! :slight_smile:

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Iā€™m working with High Sierra GM and in old versions doesnā€™t work, at least in the one we are working on 5.3.7p3 (on 20/04/2017)

Do you know a way to make old versions work without downgrade to Sierra?

Thank you

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