EDIT – 7/3/2025 – Unity have responded to the backlash: https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-revert-awful-cloud-project-decision/
In the newest replace to the Unity Hub, when creating a brand new mission you’ll instantly discover a change:
The choice to make a non-Cloud mission has been eliminated! Each mission any longer will likely be created on the Unity cloud. As soon as created you do have the choice of disconnecting from the cloud:
This won’t nevertheless take away it from the Unity Cloud dashboard.
Mike Geig at Unity made the next assertion on the change:
So, our customers have instructed us many many occasions that they need tons of visibility into what information Unity can accumulate and the way we are able to use it. So we created the brand new information framework that launched within the newest beta. This framework provides you management and the settings for it are within the Dashboard (so you may management all of your mission information and repair information in a single place). This requires a Cloud ID to be related to the mission, which is why that is auto related. Nothing is being saved on-line or something. It’s merely there so you might have management over your tasks settings
Regarding the incapacity to delete tasks from the dashboard, they’re additionally conscious of this:
I agree in regards to the litter. Delete choice will likely be coming and we’ll be working to enhance these workflows over time
If you do not need this habits, you do have choices although, a a lot lighter weight alternative: Unity Hub Native. That is described as:
UnityHubNative is a light-weight C++ / wxWidgets various to the unnecessarily heavy official Unity Hub, constructed utilizing wxWidgets. Which means that, as an alternative of utilizing heavy internet parts just like the official Electron hub, it makes use of native GUI parts on all platforms.
It launches many occasions quicker, makes use of far much less reminiscence and CPU, and is a fraction of the entire dimension of the official Unity Hub.
Key Hyperlinks
Unity Hub Native GitHub Repository
You’ll be able to study extra in regards to the adjustments to the Unity Hub, the impression it has on Unity Cloud tasks and extra importantly how you can work round it utilizing Unity Hub Native within the video under.
