External tips

The following tips and tricks relate to topics outside the Unity Editor itself that can help Unity development workflow enormously.

Googling Unity-related problems or concerns can go a lot faster if we start the search with "site:unity3d.com".

If the Unity Editor crashes, for whatever reason, then we can potentially restore our Scene by renaming the following file to include the .unity extension (for Scene files), and copying it into our Assets folder:

\<project folder>\Temp\_EditModeScene

If we're developing on Windows, then there's very little reason not to use Visual Studio at this point. MonoDevelop has been dragged along kicking and screaming for many years, and many developers have been switching over to the more feature-rich Visual ...

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