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What does "preview package" really mean?

Discussion in 'Graphics Experimental Previews' started by ElnuDev, Aug 11, 2018.

  1. ElnuDev

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    I have seen the tag "preview" on both the Pixel-Perfect and SVG Importer packages. What does this mean?
     
  2. eizenhorn

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    It’s mean this packages in preview - one of development stage (like beta, alpha, stable etc.)
     
  3. ElnuDev

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    Does that mean that it cannot be put into a build? Pixel Perfect was not working when I built it into a standalone build. :oops:
     
  4. eizenhorn

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    It’s mean than package in preview version and all decisions for using it in productions is on your own risk, because it can have bugs and problems, or also you doing something wrong :)
     
  5. elbows

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  6. Carpe-Denius

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    Are there any special cases for version numbers?
    I am using the prefab build and the package manager tells me that hdrp has an update (currently installed is 3.1.0-preview and I can see 3.3.0-preview on the server), but the highest Version to choose from is 3.1.0-preview, the installed version.
     
  7. elbows

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    I think there was an accident with earlier 3.x.x versions of render pipelines, they are supposed to be for unity 2018.3 but the Unity version number wasnt changed so people ended up being able to install them on Unity 2018.2. That might not be the exact story, but it is something like that.

    Even if I am not quite right about that, you can always look on github at the package.json file to see what version of Unity it is for. For example the following is a link to that file in the master branch of HDRP, and the Unity version is in that file as 2018.3:

    https://github.com/Unity-Technologi...render-pipelines.high-definition/package.json
     
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  8. Carpe-Denius

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    Ah well, thank you. I've searched for unity version numbers on the server instead of using the package.json files.
     
  9. hippocoder

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    I believe it refers to https://semver.org/
     
  10. Carpe-Denius

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    I meant "version 3.3 is hardcoded not available for unity 2018.2", which was cleared up by elbows.
     
  11. yuanxing_cai

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    It should work in a standalone build. Can you elaborate on what's not working?
     
  12. ElnuDev

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    I have rotating coins that don't 'pixelate' when they rotate.