Asset Server and NGUI

[schellenberghq]

My team is running into a few issues when using the Unity Asset Server and NGUI. It seems like when one member commits updates to an Atlas and the other member downloads that update, the links between the Atlas and references are broken. So the member then has to drop the atlas prefabs back onto the reference atlas, as well as use the text file to parse the atlas sprites. So not only that, but it seems that some widgets positions will mess up and be moved to incorrect positions upon downloading the updates. Again, there are just a few things that really mess up the scene when downloading it as an update from the Asset Server.

Any thoughts as to why this is happening, and if there is anything my team can do to either fix or work around the issue.

Thanks,

-Jacob

[ArenMook]

Asset Server is terribly broken, and has been for years. I, and many other Unity employees have been advising people to NOT buy the Team license at this time. You can turn on meta files and store everything in a Git or SVN repository easily, without the need for the buggy Asset Server.

Bottom line is -- don't use it. Turn it off. With 4.2 there is now Perforce support, which is a far superior solution -- so if you have that, use it. Anything except the Asset Server.

[MKingery]

i understand that the asset server is buggy, but our team of 15 use it hundreds of times a day with no problems.

i feel pretty cheated that the solution to using ngui is to move to a different platform - this should be in the first sentence of the package description to be honest.

[ArenMook]

Asset Server's issues were there long before NGUI. If you haven't run into them before, you're a lucky, lucky team. You will. In a previous company I've worked at it took all of 15 minutes to start running into major issues with the Asset Server. If you insist on using it, I really can't help -- your issue is with the buggy piece of software and has nothing to do with NGUI.

As I said, use anything except the Asset Server, and you won't run into any issues -- and not just with NGUI.

[Malzbier]

You could use Mercurial + the Cache server , works fine without any problems.
I had trouble with the asset server myself , so switched to Mercurial.