UNITY_SERVER UI vs code !parities

Unity Engine
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There’s a huge disparity between UI builds and programmatic builds when it comes to a headless, dedicated server (UNITY_SERVER).

In UI, it’s Dedicated Server:
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In code, it’s Windows, Mac, Linux, +adding a headless prop.
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This makes things quite difficult to work with. If I’m working on a dedicated server and have a tool to build in a special way, I’ll build my dedicated server and it’ll switch to “Windows, Mac, Linux” when it’s done. This not only consumes time and resources to switch, but then I have to switch back which takes more time/resources.

To top that, there’s confusion. When collaborating, everyone is going crazy wondering why their Unity keeps turning off dedicated server platform target.

This is just bad design – it looks like an unfinished design rushed out to please shareholders without any QA. Any chance we can get this normalized in v2022?

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Unity has always required full reimports between target switches. There even used to be assets like Fast Platform Switcher.

Since HDD space is so cheap I usually just check the repository out twice, in my case once for Android, once for iOS… saves a ton of time reimporting all. You just need to remember to pull both repositories!