Best tool for a team of 4 to work on the same project

So I'm so lost in that part of creating a game.

Our team used to do everything simple, like 1 programmer doing the works, the artist sending medias to the programmer, ect...

But Now we are working on a bigger project, we are 3 programmers and 1 artist. But I have no idea how to all work on the unity project.

My Artist now need access to the project for lighting and shading so we are 4 that can modify it at the same time.

How do you manage this? We did set up a sourcetree with bitbucket.

I understand how to handle script, but how do you handle game object and the project itself? If my artist did modification in the project setting, and I did some too like in the inputs, how do you merge it?

Thank you guys!

 

You might want to look at the Collaborate Beta, and see if that fills your needs:
https://unity3d.com/services/collaborate

There's also this topic from the Unity3D subreddit, that goes into version control:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/557bhh/version_control_is_important_and_wed_like_your/

 

Also Herman Tulleken's 50 Tips and Best Practices for Unity, 2016 Edition, especially his recommendations on prefabs. If everything is a prefab, you avoid a lot of scene merge issues since a lot of changes can involve prefabs instead of scene GameObjects themselves.

 

@Jacob_unit

I was interrested in Collaborate, but I fear to be stuck without solution if there is a bug or if the bega ends and we don't have the money to buy the service.

I will read the link you provided, thank you!

@TonyLi

Thank you ! Will read that tonight, looks interresting!

 

If you set your serialisation to text, then merging of scenes and prefabs isn't that big of a deal. You can get by with regular version control.

Some general tips

• Control who is working on a scene, where possible only have one person working on a scene at a time.
• Prefab everything so it can be worked on without touching the scene.
• Import every new asset into Unity before committing to version control.