The online asset store no longer shows me which assets I own have been updated.
The in-app asset store no longer works.
The Package Manager has no way to filter by packages needing to be updated.
The “sorting” appears to be mostly random as far as I can tell.
I’m looking at a package that the store has listed at v1.36 (released a couple of days ago) and the Package Manager is listing it at 1.31 and refusing to let me update.
What the heck is going on? Is this not a pretty major issue?
Did some test on 2020.1.0a18,
Here my results:
For 1) this is a regression bug, it works well on 2019.3.0f4, I will fill a bug
For 2) not sure what is ‘in-app asset store’, can you explain more? Are referring to the Asset Store Window?
For 3) I don’t think it’s a bug, “My Assets” on the web doesn’t have this feature as well. But it’s in fact an interesting feature. I will pass the info to the team.
For 4) Sorting them work on my side, which specific sorting are you referring to?
For 5) this is due to regression bug, will be fixed soon I hope.
Ouch. Way to go Unity quality control! That’s a fair few regression bugs. :-/
cool. Cheers
yes - meant the now killed-off embedded version of the store
it’s a regression bug because the online version did have this feature until recently
tried sorting by “date updated” and got quite random results. Not sure what date is being used but it’s definitely not the date the assets received an update by its developers not us it the date I last clicked on “update” for a particular asset.
cheers
@manu73 Thanks for your response and for letting me know a fix is on the way! Can you provide me with issue # when you get the chance, so that I can track the progress and harass you guys again in a few months?
I made a mistake in my report, for 1) I was referring to regression bug in Package Manager “My Assets”, (which is fact is your point 5) )
I think the “Recently Updated” sorting in the online “My Assets” should do the trick but effectively, I don’t understand the returned results… it doesn’t seem to be properly ordered. I will check with A$ team.
@manu73 That is the sort order and actually refers to assets having been recently updated in the store. I own over 1000 assets. So if I set that dropdown to ‘recently updated’ it shows me all of the Synty assets towards the top, for example. These assets haven’t actually been updated in a year but the developer changed a line in the description to let users know they have a new pack out. I have zero need to update those items.
However… there used to be a checkbox under ‘Status’ to the right of that which would show me which of my downloaded assets require updating. That is now gone. It disappeared a few weeks ago.
Worse still, there is still currently no way for me to easily find out which assets in a project require updating. It’s 2020 and Unity still doesn’t seem to think this is an important feature. Quite embarrassing. It’s actually a bit of a show-stopper for a lot of users and it baffles me that this isn’t the #1 priority for UT.
By the way, when you guys did your UAT on the Package Manager, did you set yourselves up with an average internet connection and then place yourselves in the shoes of a user who has over 1000 assets (ie the kind of user who should be super valued)? And did you then try cycling through that list of 1000+ assets, slowly downloading the list 100 items at a time? Did the user testers find that experience acceptable?
So if I understand you clearly, what you want is to see “imported” asset store assets in your project and easily see if there’s an available update for it.
I will pass the info to the team to check if it’s feasible to display in “in Project” tab, “imported” A$ assets.
Great. Thanks. But so funny/sad that you guys haven’t considered this as an essential feature. My guess is that no one at UT bothered to test the valued-customer-who-owns-over-1000-assets scenario.
I also would like to be able to easily see a list of all my assets without it taking me 10 minutes, if you can pass that on. Especially considering the list is reset (and goes back to being a list of 19 items!) if i enter anything in the search box (which by the way should ideally not start searching until after I’ve typed in at least 3 characters). The Package Manager should ideally also give me the option of restricting my searches to Package titles because right now the search results are very very random.
Unless you’re planning on doubling the number of Unity packages available, the “In Project” option is only of minimal use (it saves me 1.5 seconds of scrolling a reasonably small list). And as I’ll go check the “All” option regardless - because there’s no other way of knowing if that Unity package I’ve been waiting for is finally out of preview - the 1.5 seconds are quickly eaten up by the few seconds taken to reload the list as I switch from one option to the other. So really this option as it is wastes my time at best.
However… If “In Project” actually showed all packages in my project, regardless of whether they are Unity packages or Asset store packages, that would actually save me (and other users!) time… with the added bonus of actually delivering on what its label promises (bonus UX points!).
But before you do any of that I would appreciate it if you made it so that “My Assets” in Package Manager in 2020.1.0a24 actually worked. ie. if it showed the correct release dates, version numbers, and even - let’s be daring - the correct versions.
Here’s a scenario:
I use asset store asset X which briefly broke after changes to shadows were done in URP 7.1.8 without any developer being alerted to the impending breaking change.
The developer sent me a fix. It worked.
Then the developer sends the fix to Unity. Eventually UT puts the new asset up on the online store. I can see it there. The version number is above the latest one I had before things broke.
So I open the Unity editor, order My assets by latest updates and see X at the top of my list. Below it, I see an assets which were updated yesterday - so I know it’s the latest version of X I’m being shown, even if the version number listed is still the older one, right?
I take the risk and click on import. Surely it has to be the latest version.
Whoops. Unity has just overwritten the version that was actually working (thanks to the developer’s fix) with the previously broken (thanks to UT) version.
That scenario occurred a few minutes ago. And it is just one more sign that you guys don’t test the Package Manager at all. You rely on users like me to take the time to take screenshots, report bugs, etc. That’s fine when the bugs are unforeseen. But in this case they’re only unforeseen in that you guys clearly don’t bother looking for them at all.
I’ve now fixed the above problem by opening up a blank project in 2019.3, updating the packages there and then going back to 2020 to import them. Only took me 30-45 minutes.
While I’m at it, I’d like a filter to only see URP compatible packages if I’m in a URP project. That filter should be enabled by default. Do you ask asset developers to confirm what version their package works with? I hope you do. That would be valuable information to communicate to users if you want to save them additional headaches on top of the ones you’re already causing.
I’ve noticed that asset store updates do in fact show up in 2020.1.0a25. It just takes about 10 minutes for this to happen. And then again some still show the incorrect version but maybe I need to wait 10 more minutes for those. How impatient am I?! Or… One more sign that no one is testing the valued-user-who-has-loads-of-asset-store-purchases scenario.
EDIT: spoke too soon. A few minutes after clicking on “update” for these assets, they are now showing the old version numbers again. Afraid to click on import now.
I have tried 5 times to update Azure Sky from 4.0.2 to 6.0.2. It downloads the package and then reverts immediately not allowing me to import the 6.0.2 version. Get it together guys. The fellow explaining the problem reported this in March. Do you folks spend too much time on the slide and in the cafeteria or do you actually work and test this stuff. The amount of trouble this application has put me through in the last several days has taken a good 40 hour work week. If I didn’t own a few hundreds assets and have 10 years in the engine I would be over downloading Unreal right now. FFS!!! I am angry. Stop hiring enterprise coders and get some real game engine engineers working for you.
@ippdev I’ve actually reported this much much earlier than March. Maybe a year ago. I’ve reported it a number of times since. Wasted another 10 minutes today. So don’t hold your breath. Tips regarding downloading the latest version of what you’re after…
Find Azure Sky on your computers’ Asset-Store folder and delete it. Then relaunch your editor and go back to the PM.
As for waiting ages for updates to show, what sometimes seems to correctly trigger the correct version is if you switch the PM to the “In Project” tab and then back to “My Assets” though this might have to be done in combination with a long wait. Hitting refresh (accessible via clicking on the refresh icon two times because the dividing line between it and the dropdown arrow is just for show) doesn’t appear to be of any help here.
Out of curiosity, is your Asset-Store folder symlinked as per Unity’s official 2013 recommendation for people who would like the choice not to have it clog up their limited laptop HD space?
