Can't save scenes into packages, can't load scenes from packages

1. The Unity editor does not allow me to save a scene outside of the Assets directory, so creating and working on packages with scenes included is difficult. It's possible to manually move it (and the meta file) to a package but then...
   
2. ...if I have a scene in a package visible in the Project view and double-click it, nothing happens and it does not load. (It is, however, possible to drag the scene into the current scene to load it additively, and then remove the other scenes that were loaded. This might be a feasible workaround for getting the scene into the build or working on it, but it's very inconvenient.)

Are these known issues, and are there plans to fix?
(Forgot to mention, this was tested on 2018.2.17f1)

 

Sample use cases:

1. to distribute a demo scene with my code package to demonstrate how it works
2. to sell an asset package that contains a full environment that you can open up and play
   
3. to use the package system to share a scene across different programs (e.g. a separate client and server app that reference the same zones, each zone stored as a scene)

You can hack around some of this with prefabs, but it's nowhere near as convenient - you get a superfluous object you don't want, you can't load them asynchronously, you need to create another scene to inject them into, etc.

 

My issue isn't really with the Package Manager UI, just about the package system in general, so I'm not really sure how to interpret the comment above in the context of my needs.

 

I'd like to mention that I was surprised big time when read here that scenes are not supported. I have script assets in the store that include scenes for tutorials, demos, or examples. Scenes are widely used on the asset store packages.

@okcompute_unity would you elaborate on what "samples" are, and how they relate to the need of including scenes on the packages? I still dont understand how it all relates to the PM UI.

Thanks

 

What about packages located elsewhere on your disk, but not in the package cache? As I wrote earlier in the thread, these usages weren't supported by the editor either.

 

Pascal, thank you very much for the extended explanation. Indeed, those looks like some great solutions to the scenario.

Both, samples and embedded packages, look like things that will solve the use cases I was worried about. Im looking forward to get access to it, and its docs.

Thanks again!

@Kylotan the UPM UI already lets you load any package from disk (at least on 2018.3), if that is what you're asking. So you can manually add the package to the manager and from that point on, the solutions described by @okcompute_unity above would handle the rest.

 

You say it will work but as I noted in my first post, several aspects of that do not work, at least with 2018.2. However I have not tried with 2018.3 yet. Are the 2 problems in my first post fixed?

 

Thanks Pascal, looking forward to seeing it in a future release, even if I might not be able to use it on this project.

 

What about packages hosted in git repository? I'd like to modify scene and then push to git as package.

 

I am definitively interested! (Also, please clarify the Unity version in which that is available )

 

Thanks a ton Pascal.