Unity Environments#

Environments are logical partitions for Unity Game Services that contain data associated with your project. Examples can include game code using Cloud Code, or game configurations using Remote Config.

• Environments are isolated. This means that if you change data in one environment, data in other environments is not affected.
• You apply Environments at the project level.
• You can think of Environments as namespaces or labels for your data.
• Creating an environment doesn't provision resources; it enables you to tie data to a specific workspace.

Supported Services#

The following services currently support Environments:

• Analytics
• Cloud Code
• Cloud Content Delivery
• Cloud Save
• Economy
• Lobby
• Relay
• Remote Config

Unity Gaming Services will continue to release Environments support for additional services.

Managing environments#

To access a project’s Environments from the Unity Cloud Dashboard:

1. Select Projects from the primary navigation menu.
2. Select the project to which you want to apply Environments.
3. Select the Environments tab.

All projects start with a production environment. You can create up to 25 environments. To create a new environment, click Add Environment, give the new environment a name, and select Add.

Switching environments for a service#

To switch the environment for a service in the Unity Cloud Dashboard:

1. Select Projects from the primary navigation menu.
2. Select the project for which you want to change the environment.
3. Select the Environments tab.
4. Select the environment to use.

Accessing environments within Unity projects#

Use the Services Core initialization options to initialize your Unity Gaming Services in the development environment you want the player to experience. If unspecified, Unity Gaming Services will initialize in the default “production” environment.

To do this, include the Unity.Services.Core and Unity.Services.Core.Environments namespaces, then invoke the UnityServices.InitializeAsync() method with an options parameter configured to pass in the environment name. For example:

Initializing Unity Gaming Services with the "dev" environment.

using Unity.Services.Authentication;
using Unity.Services.Core;
using Unity.Services.Core.Environments;
using UnityEngine;

class InitWithEnvironment : MonoBehaviour {
   async void Awake()
   {
       var options = new InitializationOptions();

       options.SetEnvironmentName("dev");
       await UnityServices.InitializeAsync(options);
       await AuthenticationService.Instance.SignInAnonymouslyAsync();
   }
}

If no option is specified, the Environment Selector value is used. If no Environment Selector option is present, 'production' is used as the default.

For more information, refer to Environment Selector.