Updating to Unity 2019.2 - Epic Fail - Dev Update 7/2/19

So after taking a little time off to work on other important matters (see future post!), I finally got back to working on the new game, only to see that a new version of Unity is out -- Cool!
But, long story short, when I tried updating the project, it broke many things that were important to my workflow. 
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Oh well. 

Luckily, after the unfortunate Oh Captain incident, I had version control setup via the Github Desktop app, and it has served me well in the past, so I wasn't too worried. 
BUT, for some reason it wouldn't let me revert to an earlier commit!  Granted, at this point I still wasn't fully aware of the way the Git system works.

(For those who don't know, Git is a command line system for accessing earlier versions of projects, to put it simply. Yes, it is also an 40s insult favored by Harry Potter.)

At this point, I was sure that this would be the second time I lost a project and was internally freaking out.  I then realized that you had to revert changes in backwards order, and you couldn't just restore from an earlier point.

(For all I know there is a chance you actually can, and I just had no idea...)

Now, everything is working fine except one thing:  Unity's tool for recording cutscenes and exporting them as MP4 files--Something I am using heavily in my quest to make the perfect teaser trailer.  It's throwing a bunch of errors, and only recording the first frame of the cutscene.  I updated it to the newest version and haven't tested it yet.  Hopefully it will work now.

On Friday I have another post about the really cool music in the game.  Stay tuned for that!

Thanks for reading!
​- Judah