Get me back to "Collaborate" please

Hello,
Unity has forced my project to use Plastic SCM. I was very pleasure with "Collaborate" and i want it back. Now, i cannot publish my game because of useless (for me) Plastic SCM, and i also lost lot's of time with this.
Thanks

 

I don't know how it might be possible to revert back to Collaborate, but I'd like to offer some assistance with PlasticSCM instead. What are you having trouble with?

The way Plastic works is so similar to any other version control, it shouldn't be very disruptive to change mid-project. From my personal experience, Plastic just does most things better internally than Git or Collaborate (like merging, tracking of directories, renames etc).

The Plastic editor plugin should be relatively close to how the Collaborate interface worked, but personally I haven't used it much and so would still recommend Gluon as the GUI interface to work with Plastic. It should just work out of the box. But let me know about specific issues, maybe I can help.

 

Thanks for your reply. Collaborate was easy much for me. I could easily understand what happens. Just with one click I could upload files to opposite or download from opposite. Now, I dont understand what happens. What is uploading? What is downloading? For example, now, I m clicking the "Checkin Button" on Pending Changes the tab goes to Incoming Changes. It forced me to click update work(something i dont remember)... And, It downloaded old files from opposite. Fortunately, i got my backup. I m afraid losing my datas accidentally.
Anyway, There is no return to "Collaborate". As an indie developer, In addition to experience of coding, drawing, debugging and etc. i have to get experience with this, too.

 

@brkbkc Its awkward they kill collab for that SCM bs , we switched to Git , SVN might be an option too.
Collab had its little problems, but that SCM is the horror...

 

I agree with the OP, collaborate was easy, just a button click and you backup your project, now with Plastic SCM it's not just checkin, we have many confusing things like directory conflicts, merge, source, destination, locks, the Unity client is somewhat instable, I've experienced errors and sometimes the editor just hangs.
I understand more experienced devs should benefit the advanced features but I really miss the simplicity of Collaborate.

 

I used to think collab was bad with it's comparatively minor issues. But now I also feel the same.

Cloud build started failing yesterday because apparently you need to re-login to platic bi-monthly for cloud build. Random builds startup on cloud build because "Detected Changes" when nobody pushed any changes. The Unity webhook stopped pushing changelogs to our build channel. Multi-line changelogs also get squished into a single line changelog.

Auto detect project version in cloud build is also broken with plastic, builds just fail (really??). If you go to change a build configuration in cloud build with Plastic, it takes a whole 30 SECONDS to load your repos and branches, and if you don't wait this full 30 seconds and try and save the build config, it soft locks forever and you lose all your changes.

The other day we also had an Android build for over an hour because the build agent failed to create a plastic workspace, and it just hung there without reporting an error. Apparently Unity themselves can't even tame plastic.

I seem to have to manually add every new file to source control as well with plastic as well.

Also had to install a gigabyte of software (of which, the installer CRASHED) just to diff files.

(The night I posted this plastic went down for hours too :/)

 

i keep having problems with this S***ty Plastic SCM. Thanks Unity!

 

I don't feel a lot of trust in Plastic with Unity running it, and I sense that appears to be the case of many other developers, however for pretty much any developer that used Collab and then successfully migrated into Plastic SCM, from an individual standpoint and from a team standpoint, Plastic is so, so much better.

Collab was extremely simple but pretty unstable and missing insanely important features.

For Plastic, I think it's a bit more complicated for artists to understand the workspace/branches sometimes if they don't have experience with any previous version controls outside collab, but even if mistakes are made, at least with Plastic you aren't running into corrupt projects, and can modify each commit with ease, and see detailed changes on individual files that is not exactly present (nor branches) with collab.

We invested months of development of tools into collab (writing notes into the change details would generate several different types of patch notes for multiple platforms, and also tied into scripts that would generate LIVE or TEST builds on specific platforms using specific tags, etc). That was a lot of time and money not well spent, thanks to Unity's incompetence.

I truly share the sentiment about Unity as a company, but Plastic can be so much better if you give it a solid chance.

 

Yesterday we lost a full day of dev as we had to manually merge 2 project files because plastic got a conflict on a file and when trying resolve the conflict an error was thrown that the file is in use by the Unity editor. So how can you close the editor but still work with plastic to resolve the conflict. Also find that saving a project and opening on another machine most times not all settings are pulled through. I am not sure if this has something to do with some of our team working on Windows and the others on MacOS, but Plastic has never seemed to work for us and introduced loss of time in dev. We had minor issues with colab but it worked for us.

 

Still from time to time, especially when adding a new member to your source control, I have to edit the ignore.conf for specific configurations, however it does sound like your situation there is related to that and what files should/shouldn't be included.

Also, I have NO idea if this actually affects people, but I noticed this was not by default set to 100%, which seems terrible and likely to cause numerous problems:

 

I logged in two days ago... I have to login to plastic every TWO DAYS now???
Then the icing on the cake is Unity disabled auto cloud builds because obviously it's our fault.

This isn't funny anymore. This has to be some kind of sick early april fools joke by Unity and the plastic team.

 

i really bored with slowdown of Unity editor because of Plastic SCM. Almost every day i have to go Plastic's web page and adding my ip to white list. If i dont do this i cannot get rid of this slowdown problem.

 

Went back to GitHub after using plastic for a year and a half. It just slows the editor down too much to be productive. Also, try using it and then going somewhere you don’t have internet for a week - the editor goes haywire.

To clarify, it was much better than collaborate with its days long “checking for changes” dialog.

 

I m so so angry with Unity. You made a big mistake with this plastic S***. It can be time to go on with another Game Engine for me! Sorry but F***ing Plastic SCM.

 

I don't like Plastic SCM , I prefer collaborate , now that I can't use either one I may not need the extra Gb of space I'm paying for in unity.

 

can someone pease explain whatis state of affairs rught now? i am new to unity and i saw vidoes for colaborate which is very nice - but i cant use them
[Collab] DepricationMiddleware::ServiceReadOnlyError: Collab service is deprecated, only read operations are allowed.

so i downladoed plastic but it seems awful and cnofusing and not sure where to head next...

 

HI

thx for the fast reply - i opend new project and i sent it to other frend mail - this friend registerd to unity and plastic (but didnt put his credit card number like i did for pricing in plastic).

he can access plastic on his unity side but i dont understand why he cant see the project. some of the toturials doesnt help becuase they are not updated for 2022

anyway we have very small project of two people

i would realy like to have some information to send him to succed(maybe a check list of all missing details)

thank you very much

 

I have gotten Plastic / I was invited into a project on Unity but cannot seem to open it. What should I do next? I am enclosing a screenshot

 

You have an Untitled scene open, you'll want to open the correct scene. Often developers will put them into the /Assets/Scene folder

 

Will this fix all the issue for Linux? No point try to list them it’s a S***show. And no I can use the standalone it does work.

no it doesn’t work, updated tried to push a couple of files and it’s uploading 919 mb I assume the full project.

 

Issue just now with update to latest version control.
Go to check in a minor change it says 900+mb of changes, I presume all of project. Upload the changes and it crashes unity at the end with a huge message about changing folders. Didn't record the error as it was huge.

Just tired again and I getting issues with .meta files. Such as "
Error while saving Prefab: 'Assets/External_Assets/_Common Scene Objects.prefab'. You are trying to save a Prefab with a missing script. This is not allowed.
Please change the script or remove it from the GameObject 'Main Camera'.

What's even more worrying is when I'm pushing it's reporting objects deleted under pending
eg
deleted item status data
asset star + meta removed 6mins ago DATE...


Why is a push showing deleting and why is it under pending?

 

Unity is 2021.3.1f1
version control is 1.17.1
I don't know if I can do a full upload as I'm working under NDA for others. I might accidentally give details away. Also most of the logs go back months. However when I try to check in all the +meta files that it keeps saying are pending changes. This is the time stamp for the upload I just tried to do in logs/unityplastic.debug.log.txt from the time stamp I tried to push. If you need more I can mod files and upload if you tell me what you need.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/game/Graphics/Prefabs/Symbols/Phoenix.prefab
3. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/game/Texture/JWAward.png
4. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/gameGraphics/Texture/move1.png
5. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/Achivements/Material/xxx.mat
6. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/game/Graphics/Texture/InforScreens/infoscreen1.png
7. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/game/Graphics/Texture/Sevens
8. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/game/Scripts/SceneControls/SubSceneManager_styleTemplate.cs
9. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/game/Scripts/GameData/GameControlData.cs
10. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/MenuSelection/TopScreenDecal/Material/Dropmeta.mat
11. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/MenuSelection/Cabinet/Textures/metal/Metal012_2K_Normal.jpg
12. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/game/Scripts/Custom_States/award/bonus/f13.png
13. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/game/Math/description.xml
14. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,331 USER1 DEBUG PlasticAssetsProcessor - AddToSourceControl: Assets/Resources/game/Graphics/Prefabs/Triple.prefab
15. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,341 USER1 DEBUG WorkspacePathMatcher - Checking IsConfigWorkspace - wkPath: '/home/USER1/Dropbox/Unity3d/Projects/mobile-Achivements-2022' globalConfigWkBasePath: '/home/USER1/.plastic4/globalconfig'
16. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,341 USER1 DEBUG GlobalConfig - Getting the repository spec for workspacepath '/home/USER1/Dropbox/Unity3d/Projects/mobile-Achivements-2022'
17. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,342 USER1 DEBUG GlobalConfig - Getting the server config for repository spec 'My project@####@cloud', folder 'workspacetree', config file 'ignore.conf'
18. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,348 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:     788|sendt:   0|recb:    3676|rect: 461|prt:     761|sert: 644|dest:   1|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|GetRepositoryInfoByName
19. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,348 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:     788|sendt:   0|recb:    3676|rect: 465|prt:     761|sert: 644|dest:   0|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|GetRepositoryInfoByName
20. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,350 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     768|GetRepositoryInfoByName       |project2022@cloud
21. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,350 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     768|GetRepositoryInfoByName       |project2022@cloud
22. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,382 USER1 DEBUG GetCloudOrganization - Resolving cloud organization for rep 'My project@project2022@cloud'
23. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,382 USER1 DEBUG GetCloudOrganization - Found organization 'project2022'
24. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,384 USER1 DEBUG LocalizationTranslator - Unable to find localization file: '/home/USER1/Dropbox/Unity3d/Projects/mobile-Achivements-2022/Library/PackageCache/com.unity.collab-proxy@1.17.1/Lib/Editor/PlasticSCM/localization/clientcommon..txt'
25. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,457 USER1 DEBUG ConnectionCreator - Create connection to project2022@cloud took 112 ms
26. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,467 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:      45|sendt:   0|recb:     133|rect: 114|prt:     115|sert:   0|dest:   0|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|GetBranchInfoByName
27. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,467 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     116|GetBranchInfoByName           |project2022@cloud
28. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,468 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:      52|sendt:   0|recb:     145|rect: 113|prt:     116|sert:   0|dest:   2|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|ExecuteSimpleQuery
29. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,468 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     116|ExecuteSimpleQuery            |project2022@cloud
30. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,578 USER1 DEBUG Channel - Valid certificate validation info:
31.   Sender: useast4-00-cloud.plasticscm.com
32.   Certificate:
33.     SHA1: 975362A4299C0D40618986C42BE054BC81A27441
34.     MD5: D45A5E5F933D88BD9525FE02C8A46E69
35.     Subject: CN=*.plasticscm.com
36.     Issuer: CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US
37.     Expiration: 26/09/2022 17:25:15
38.     Version: 3
39.   Chain:
40.     Policy:
41.       Revocation mode: Online
42.       Revocation flags: ExcludeRoot
43.       Verification flags: NoFlag
44.       Verification time: 07/07/2022 12:38:53
45.   SslPolicyErrors: None
46.  
47. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,581 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:      47|sendt:   0|recb:     143|rect: 113|prt:     112|sert:   0|dest:   0|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|GetChangesetInfoByNumber
48. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,582 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     116|GetChangesetInfoByNumber      |project2022@cloud
49. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,582 USER1 DEBUG OverlappedCalculator - HasOverlappedItems:: Loaded (working) changeset is 17
50. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,582 USER1 DEBUG OverlappedCalculator - HasOverlappedItems:: Branch head changeset is 17
51. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,651 USER1 DEBUG PendingChangesView - Load pending changes view preferences
52. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,652 USER1 DEBUG PendingChangesView - WorkspaceStatusOptions: [CalculateLocalMoves | FindChanged | FindCheckouts | FindLocallyDeleted | FindPrivates]
53. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,653 USER1 DEBUG WorkspacePathMatcher - Checking IsConfigWorkspace - wkPath: '/home/USER1/Dropbox/Unity3d/Projects/mobile-Achivements-2022' globalConfigWkBasePath: '/home/USER1/.plastic4/globalconfig'
54. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,653 USER1 DEBUG GlobalConfig - Getting the repository spec for workspacepath '/home/USER1/Dropbox/Unity3d/Projects/mobile-Achivements-2022'
55. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,653 USER1 DEBUG GlobalConfig - Getting the server config for repository spec 'My project@project2022@cloud', folder 'workspacetree', config file 'cloaked.conf'
56. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,763 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:      45|sendt:   0|recb:     133|rect: 113|prt:     113|sert:   0|dest:   0|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|GetBranchInfoByName
57. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,763 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     116|GetBranchInfoByName           |project2022@cloud
58. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,768 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:      45|sendt:   0|recb:     133|rect: 117|prt:     117|sert:   0|dest:   0|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|GetBranchInfoByName
59. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,768 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     116|GetBranchInfoByName           |project2022@cloud
60. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,784 USER1 DEBUG ConnectionCreator - Create connection to project2022@cloud took 128 ms
61. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,791 USER1 DEBUG ConnectionCreator - Create connection to project2022@cloud took 136 ms
62. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,807 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - CmCallContext sent to server on connection creation
63. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,901 USER1 DEBUG Channel - Valid certificate validation info:
64.   Sender: useast4-00-cloud.plasticscm.com
65.   Certificate:
66.     SHA1: 975362A4299C0D40618986C42BE054BC81A27441
67.     MD5: D45A5E5F933D88BD9525FE02C8A46E69
68.     Subject: CN=*.plasticscm.com
69.     Issuer: CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US
70.     Expiration: 26/09/2022 17:25:15
71.     Version: 3
72.   Chain:
73.     Policy:
74.       Revocation mode: Online
75.       Revocation flags: ExcludeRoot
76.       Verification flags: NoFlag
77.       Verification time: 07/07/2022 12:38:53
78.   SslPolicyErrors: None
79.  
80. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,910 USER1 DEBUG Channel - Valid certificate validation info:
81.   Sender: useast4-00-cloud.plasticscm.com
82.   Certificate:
83.     SHA1: 975362A4299C0D40618986C42BE054BC81A27441
84.     MD5: D45A5E5F933D88BD9525FE02C8A46E69
85.     Subject: CN=*.plasticscm.com
86.     Issuer: CN=Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, OU=http://certs.godaddy.com/repository/, O="GoDaddy.com, Inc.", L=Scottsdale, S=Arizona, C=US
87.     Expiration: 26/09/2022 17:25:15
88.     Version: 3
89.   Chain:
90.     Policy:
91.       Revocation mode: Online
92.       Revocation flags: ExcludeRoot
93.       Verification flags: NoFlag
94.       Verification time: 07/07/2022 12:38:53
95.   SslPolicyErrors: None
96.  
97. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,923 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:     799|sendt:   0|recb:    3612|rect: 458|prt:     579|sert: 464|dest:   0|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|CheckRepositoryExists
98. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,923 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     580|CheckRepositoryExists         |project2022@cloud
99. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,924 USER1 DEBUG WorkspacePathMatcher - Checking IsConfigWorkspace - wkPath: '/home/USER1/Dropbox/Unity3d/Projects/mobile-Achivements-2022' globalConfigWkBasePath: '/home/USER1/.plastic4/globalconfig'
100. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,925 USER1 DEBUG GlobalConfig - Getting the repository spec for workspacepath '/home/USER1/Dropbox/Unity3d/Projects/mobile-Achivements-2022'
101. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,925 USER1 DEBUG GlobalConfig - Getting the server config for repository spec 'My project@project2022@cloud', folder 'workspacetree', config file 'hidden_changes.conf'
102. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,926 USER1 DEBUG WorkspacePathMatcher - Checking IsConfigWorkspace - wkPath: '/home/USER1/Dropbox/Unity3d/Projects/mobile-Achivements-2022' globalConfigWkBasePath: '/home/USER1/.plastic4/globalconfig'
103. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,926 USER1 DEBUG GlobalConfig - Getting the repository spec for workspacepath '/home/USER1/Dropbox/Unity3d/Projects/mobile-Achivements-2022'
104. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,926 USER1 DEBUG GlobalConfig - Getting the server config for repository spec 'My project@project2022@cloud', folder 'workspacetree', config file 'ignore.conf'
105. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,928 USER1 DEBUG GlobalConfig - Getting the repository spec for workspacepath '/home/USER1/Dropbox/Unity3d/Projects/mobile-Achivements-2022'
106. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,928 USER1 DEBUG GlobalConfig - Getting the server config for repository spec 'My project@project2022@cloud', folder 'workspacetree', config file 'filetypes.conf'
107. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,934 USER1 DEBUG WorkspaceStatus: DiskChangesSearcher - GetFsNodeFromPath: 4
108. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,935 USER1 DEBUG WorkspaceStatus: DiskChangesSearcher - GetWorkspaceTreeNode: 0
109. 2022-07-07 12:38:53,935 USER1 DEBUG WorkspaceStatus: DiskChangesSearcher - GetTreeChangedNode: 0
110. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,130 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - CmCallContext sent to server on connection creation
111. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,144 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - CmCallContext sent to server on connection creation
112. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,247 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:     791|sendt:   0|recb:    3714|rect: 458|prt:     591|sert: 474|dest:   0|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|GetBranchInfoByName
113. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,247 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     592|GetBranchInfoByName           |project2022@cloud
114. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,261 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:     791|sendt:   0|recb:    3714|rect: 464|prt:     603|sert: 487|dest:   0|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|GetBranchInfoByName
115. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,261 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     604|GetBranchInfoByName           |project2022@cloud
116. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,376 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:      47|sendt:   0|recb:     143|rect: 114|prt:     114|sert:   0|dest:   0|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|GetChangesetInfoByNumber
117. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,376 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     116|GetChangesetInfoByNumber      |project2022@cloud
118. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,376 USER1 DEBUG OverlappedCalculator - HasOverlappedItems:: Loaded (working) changeset is 17
119. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,376 USER1 DEBUG OverlappedCalculator - HasOverlappedItems:: Branch head changeset is 17
120. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,386 USER1 DEBUG ChannelCall - protocol:plasticproto sec:ssl  sentb:      88|sendt:   0|recb:      35|rect: 115|prt:     116|sert:   0|dest:   0|zip:   0| project2022@cloud|ExecuteSimpleQuery
121. 2022-07-07 12:38:54,386 USER1 DEBUG PlasticPipe - prt:     116|ExecuteSimpleQuery            |project2022@cloud
122.  
123.  

 

Really this is not good...

As for the standalone I can't use it, it isn't supported in Mint 20. It's only supported on an old build of Ubuntu. There's a work around, but it doesn't work on Mint. So we're left without a service that we pay to use.

 

Hello
It seems I have a much larger issue. As I said I was invited to join a project. Initially the developer had sent me the file by mail and I downloaded Unity and was in the process of learning locally on my PC to make tiles and suclike. Then the developer said we should work woth Plastic SCM and thats when I downloaded that and though I could see his files in my Plkastic window, there was nothing happening ibn the game itself and though I had created a workspace there was no new information coming in.
Thinking perhaps that the Editor was not updated enough, I went ahead and got the 2022 beta editor.I took all the old repositories off my computer.
Now everything really has gone sideways, I cant get any acess to this project on my end, but there is some connection because on his end there are conflicts being caused.
These are photos from the developer's end: ( The 3 photos on the white background)
The next 2 are what I see from my end (dark blue background)

I rewally want to do this project. If I need to scrub everything off my machine and redownload everything or whatever- I can start from scratch- its just that at the moment it seems everything has pretty much gone sideways and I do not know where to even start setting things straight so I can actually work on the project.
By the way- the only thing I did with the files that I saw in the Plastic window was to check them in.
Thanks a million in advance for any advice

 

This is what I am supposed to be seeing