Collaborate Release Date?

Hi Guys,

I'm wanting some decent version control on my new project. I was thinking of getting SVN, Git, Redmine, or something, but I've been staring at Unity Collaborate for a while and am wondering if it's worth waiting until that's officially released.

Is there any new info from beta users about expected release date, cost, and things?

 

Aah perfect, hello!

So it's not being released in the direct foreseeable future, but sounds good so far! Do you think this could potentially be a new online place to store all our projects, or is it mainly for version control /collaboration?

 

1. Well I was thinking it had some form of version control. As collaborate implies collaborative work version control is a no brainer lol . So basically if two people made changes to a scene and the update was shown to each other, the two versions would merge together instead of override each other. Meaning merging scripts, prefabs, serialization, and meta files (e.g, so people on macs don't affects people on PC's).

2. It'd be good to flag to exclude/include portions of your project from each other (so one person may buy a specific Asset Store custom editor and not force every other user to also buy it or mistakenly pass it to them (going against the 1 Asset Store custom editor per seat rule).

Does that make sense?

 

Oh one last super cheeky thing.. Is there any chance I could get into this beta group?

 

So is Collaborate targetted towards a "version control" system, or a real-time collaborative tool? As being demonstrated in the video linked above, I saw that it allows changes to be synced to the remote copy, and it's all visible right inside of Unity (which means I don't have to close out Unity to get updates!) The only thing I am concerned about is that it's not as "real time" as other collaborative tools. Now, the first thing I can think of this being a problem is certainly bandwidth. If you have 4,000 people streaming content to developers at the same time, Unity's service is definately going to be slow. This sort of leads into my question of will the service ever support my own, dedicated server/repository? As far as I can see, the only difference between Collaborate and using git (and my favorite www.gitlab.com) is that Collaborate is (or will be) integrated natively into Unity, and that as a beta tester, I would get 15GB (where gitlab.com gives me 2GB). I don't really see the key difference, if the only real benefit I am getting is not having to pull and push from git before and after using the editor for small projects (where I most likely won't exceed 2GB).

I want to apologize, because this may seem kind of a disappointing message, but I am still very excited about Collaborate. It's integration is right inside of Unity, so it has the most attention to compatibility with projects (compared to other assets and plugins). My biggest fear of the service is that it doesn't seem to be as "real time" as I had hoped. I was sort of expecting this to be streamed content, and with the possibility of hosting the service on my own machine, it could possibly take the stress off of your guys' servers.

Thank you, and I can't wait to see where Collaborate will go! I've been waiting for this!

 

Thanks for the response! Yes I have looked into Scene Fusion, and now that I see it, the bandwidth required for so many users to host these kinds of projects in real-time would be disastrous for Unity. Can't wait to see more! It's wonderful to see all the cool technologies being developed and for viewing at unity3d.com/Roadmap. Thanks

 

Is Collaborate out of Beta? I did not sign up for the Beta, but I can use it in Unity. Is it released and stable?