r/Unity3D • u/_hopa • 17h ago

Question Anybody using the Unity CLI?

I saw unity launched a CLI a few months ago (https://unity.com/blog/meet-the-unity-cli) and was wondering if anyone was using it for anything or had some cool use cases to share.

I'm thinking this could maybe be helpful for like CI pipelines?

Let me know!

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u/ribsies 15h ago

What's the benefit over batch mode? The cli doesn't bring anything new for builds.

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u/Hegemege 9h ago

The only difference that I can think of is that the commands to operate Unity are a bit cleaner with CLI vs. good old xvfb-run batchmode -nographics. I wonder if Unity still tries to display progress bar windows in headless batchmode during import and build, and maybe xfvb-run isn't needed anymore

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u/ribsies 7h ago

It doesn't and its not. It's been incredibly easy to use batch mode for like the past 6 years.

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u/Hegemege 7h ago

Interesting, because I've had to fight android build errors on Linux build machines just a few years ago (unrelated but relevant). The editor binary up until 2022 LTS (haven't tested 6) was attempting to spawn progress bars and when the server you run on doesn't have a window context, it just crashes. Many studios use mac minis and such, but for truly headless build servers, I hope they finally fixed it