Make Plastic as easy as Collaborate again ?

For half a year with Collaborate i never had serious problems - i could commit in seconds and go back to any changeset with zero problems. I'm struggling with Plastic for like 3 weeks now... and every single day i wish to come back to collaborate. But maybe i need some education ?
I even lost all my old changesets after migrating and i got no help from support with that
1. What are those Checkout button for ? I need to checkout for every edit i make and looks like they are ignored in changesets after that ?

this option doesn't help

2. How to update Project Settings ? in collaborate it was a bit buggy (i had to resave a scene to commit changes to project settings). With Plastic it works randomly ?
3. There's no option to got back to changeset ? how is that ?

4. for another projetct i can't get to changeset while i have pending changes (errors etc). But what if i want to revert faulty project back to changeset no matter what ? i need to undo changes and only then go to changeset ?

I wonder if there's any chance to get back to collaborate again ? I would like to pay for it like i was paying last 6 month, but it was working solution
If not what can i replace Plastic with with simple GUI and Cloud build support ?

 

IMO don’t use the plugin and just use the normal plastic client. The Unity plug-in just makes things worse IMO.

 

stand alone program is not good either...

select setting pressed chech in - programm closes. same story if i want to go to a changeset
It all seems very buggy it's a pity we are forced to use that
Too early - it's like some alpha version. I'm loosing tons of time struggling with it

 

You can go back to changesets, right click a change set from the changesets tab and click change workspace to this changeset (or something along those lines).

You must not have pending chagnes to do that though so either commit or undo them before going to another changeset.

 

it's only working in application not in Unity plugin ?
Why can't i update settings file ? it's checkout out - if i press check in Plastic SCM just closes

 

I don’t have much experience with the plug-in, I used it about a year ago and it was full of problems.

I am able to work with just the client just fine though.

 

There doesn't seem to be much communication from Unity regarding plans for the Unity plugin.

 

ok. But how can i update Plastic SCM ? looks like there's newer version - but i don't ses update option...
And i really struggle with updating ProjectSettings - no matter what i do this files is not included into change set...

 

Thank you.
Version Control Version 1.13.5
Plastic 10.0.16.6505
Unity 2021.1.28f

this option is not here. but it's strange that i'm almost sure i saw it before...

Will this option work the same as got back to ?

there're like 3 different versions... cloud, team, enterprise... it's confusing. what should i choose ?

 

thanks. i've updated version control and that helped
But i still have problems with Project Settings
Open Project Settings - set budle version to 34, re-save a scene, Project Settings appears into changeset, check in - start cloud build via unity dashboard...
"The bundle version, 30, must be a higher than the previously uploaded version. Duplicate bundle version. (-19210)"
This is driving me mad



Why bundle version is not updating ?

 

thank you so much! looks like i was stupid enough to build another repo. I got two almost identical repo after update.One with old collaborate changes and another one with new changesets... Can't combine them together though gonna post new support ticket later.

 

another project... i messed up some materials and would like to get some files from last changeset
there's no go back button and no way to update version control ?

opened plastic and tried to switch workspace to old changeset - no luck

but there're no pending changes...

What am i doing wrong this time ?

 

it's 2021.1.28f1

and problem is still there... no go back option
even in application this option is not seen - no go back only diff

 

it's close, but in fact that's another option

 

Broke a project recently (imported some plugin that agreed to upgrade 'burst' ? Plastic is not even available in project menu now.
I opened workspace though Plastic stand alone program - tired to switch back to changeset - no luck. Ther're pending changes but how i dismiss them ? opening 'pending changes' window just closes the app

How can i force plastic to get back to changeset ?

 

i can't even open this windows. it closes everytime i try to use it
But look like problem in library folder this time... i believe this folder is not controlled by default ?

 

After some trial and error, chat with support etc i came to conclusion that my old Windows7 is just not supported. GUI crushes all the time. Is it true ? Is there anyone who uses Plastic with Win7 with no problems ?

 

I even tried to use it on another machine with windows 11. It's still bad... Or just bad unity integration ?
1. I choosed cloud project - downloaded and opened it. I hoped it will be the latest changeset ? but no, it's unknown(?) version. I have to open Plastic (Unity UI is not working) Undo and then switch to the changeset.
2. I really don't like constant errors trying to switch back to some older changeset. If there're pending changes - you have to undo them. But I want to go back no matter what without extra actions. Why it's not possible ?
3. Is there some old stable Plastic version that i can use with Win7 ?

 

thank you that's very helpfull tip!

i'm using it all the time. New GUI crashes instantly. Old GUI crashes only with in Branches/Pending changes

In fact i though that Plastic is some 'advanced' version of Collaborate... with good Unity integration.... But in fact it's just 3rd party software with lots of problems. And it's not adopted for using with unity.
1. For example if you add a new project to Plastic - it does not even control Asset folder by default. Lots of files are checked private. It's a good way to loose part of the project... terrible
2. I have a feeling that Collaborate picked for control and uploaded only files that are used in the project. This way it was not uploading gygabytes of texture packs while only 1% was used. But maybe i'm mistaken ?

I really with to have Collaborate back. I'm ready to pay for it
Maybe you can recommend other options to try ? git ? gitlab ? with what GUI ?

 

it's not really working as expected

 

Windows 7. Yep, it's old but it worked OK with collaborate. I can't upgrade now

 

I got zip file with a project (demo from publisher). I opened it up with unity, add id, added plastic. And be default asset folder was private. I had to add it manually

 

If i want to go to some old changeset and discard all the changes - what should i do ?
usually i got lots of errors and merging questions - it's confusing. Source is 'server' destination - my local machine ?
What is correct option ? I tried both -nothing is working.

All i want is to go to to the changeset. no questions, no merging - just stable, reliable going back and forth.
Is it possible with Plastic ?

 

Again thanks to plastic i ruined my project. I was upgrading some asset SDK. I checked the folder with asset it was controlled. I imported new version of the asset - it worked bad. I tried to roll back to old changeset - lot's of errors
I tried to investigate and lots of files on subfolders are marked as private.
I don't know if those files are new or old... but it ruined my project. I'm just not confident everytime i rely on plastic. Is there anyway to force it to control whole asset forder by default ?

 

I won't add much to the conversation, appart from the fact, that yes, Plastic SCM fells complicated and unreliable (probably unless you invest a fair amount of time to understand how it works).

That's a big difference with simply pressing a button to upload, as it used to be.

 

Spend like a day searching for iOS bug today. In the end i realized that in plastic workspace my script was called zoomCamera.cs instaed of ZoomCamera.cs! No errors, no warnings... stupid system...
Is there any way to control Asset folder properly ? without sudden private files, wrong names etc ?

 

I don't know how and why- but i had wierd problem - script was working on adroid (local build) but not in iOS. I tried a lot - that i installed SRDebug tool to find out script is missing. than i checked Plastic - script was controlled as zoomCamera.cs instead of ZoomCamera.cs
And this is not the only case... from time to time after importing some new assets i find out private files in Asset folder.
How can i force plastic to control whole folder with no exceptions ?

 

this is the case. On disk file was correct. ZoomCamera from capital letter, But in Plastic workspace it was zoomCamera. Cloud Build was using files from Plastic - and i was getting confusing errors

But that's very confusing and produces lots of errors. Asset folder is critical for any project and need to be controlled all the time, with all the files.
Do you propose to go through all the sub-folders after every sdk import to make sure plastic didn't set some files to private ?
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for me it's clear that sometimes it doesn't. and i'm losing tons of time and money due to it i will not try to recreate it - but here's some king of 'proof'. I had to rename file completely to avoid errors.

this is wierd way of working with Unity.
Can you just make an option to make Asset folder controlled at all times no matter what ?

 

you don't get my point. of course i need to check in. But why some files inside of sub-folders of controlled folders are set to private even after check in ?