Unity doesn't work on a pi4

[petercwallis]

The Unity forums says it is rubbish. These are some of the polite versions of this:

https://www.instructables.com/Raspberry-Pi-Running-Unity/

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1862219/can-unity-engine-be-run-on-the-raspberry-pi-4.html

This does not belong on the `kids and teens' bit of raspberrypilearning until there is an apt-get install version of unityhub and editor. I have a very disappointed 11 year old who now thinks computers are not for her because she couldn't do it.

[tracygardner]

Thanks for getting in touch. The Raspberry Pi Foundation creates projects for a variety of platforms. The Unity projects require a computer that can run Unity.

You can find projects for the Raspberry Pi computer here: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects?hardware%5B%5D=raspberry-pi

We know this can be a cause of confusion and are looking at ways to make this clearer to users. I hope your 11 year old finds some projects that she will enjoy.

[petercwallis]

Thanks Tracy, She explicitly wants to do unity stuff (her big brother is) and I suppose we need to find a bigger computer to run it on. In fact I suspect the Raspberry Pi would be fine, but the Foundation has received funding to not make it work on a pi? I do love a good conspiracy theory in the morning and if the Raspberry Pi Foundation is "creat[ing] projects for a variety of platforms" I guess the pressure is on.

Thanks for getting back and I at least feel much better now.

On Tue, 13 Sept 2022 at 09:23, Dr Tracy Gardner @.***> wrote:

Thanks for getting in touch. The Raspberry Pi Foundation creates projects for a variety of platforms. The Unity projects require a computer that can run Unity.

You can find projects for the Raspberry Pi computer here: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects?hardware%5B%5D=raspberry-pi

We know this can be a cause of confusion and are looking at ways to make this clearer to users. I hope your 11 year old finds some projects that she will enjoy.

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[tracygardner]

Porting the Unity editor to Raspberry Pi/ARM would be quite a different piece of work and was not in scope.

FYI The path does show you how to deploy WebGL versions of the projects which do run in a web browser on a Raspberry Pi 4 .

I'll definitely pass your feedback on.

[petercwallis]

I guess I was surprised that the piece is there when Unity had not been ported to Pi/ARM by either the unity people (there are lots of pis out there) or the raspberry pi foundation with it's mission to educate kids to be the next generation of "microsurfs" to support the British economy. I am sure there is a government grant in there somewhere... do it in South Yorkshire and it would be "levelling up," and there is definitely a few million in it for the foundation.

The WebGL versions will certainly be slow on the pi which is not exactly the fastest way to run a browser. As I said, I suspect the pi is plenty fast enough but..

This https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/raspberry-pi-os-adds-easier-networking-open-source-camera-tools/is a very low key piece in Ars Technica on the pi upgrade. The interesting thing is perhaps the comments where there are people (not pi fans - why are they reading it? Trolls for American tech industry perhaps?) listing alternatives to pis. I guess I need to look at that list..

You're doing a great job btw p

On Wed, 14 Sept 2022 at 09:09, Dr Tracy Gardner @.***> wrote:

Porting the Unity editor to Raspberry Pi/ARM would be quite a different piece of work and was not in scope.

FYI The path does show you how to deploy WebGL versions of the projects which do run in a web browser on a Raspberry Pi 4 .

I'll definitely pass your feedback on.

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