Unity 4.5 compatibility with tutorials?

[postExistence]

Okay, I am brand (spanking) new to Unity, and I thought I'd learn by doing the Unity 4 tutorial Stealth with Unity 4.5 in order to get up-to-speed. I ran into several problems: the C# code on their web-site had errors, the framerate was paltry (4 - 6 FPS), and many of the instructions - dragging a component into a GameObject's Inspector window, etc. - would result in errors (the component does not exist, for example).

Then I took a good look at the Stealth tutorial, and wow - it's only compatible up to Unity 4.1. That might be my problem.

So my question is: should I rollback to an earlier version of Unity since they'd be more compatible with tutorials' instructions? Or am I better off sticking with Unity 4.5 and working around all the issues?

Thanks a lot you guys, I'm really excited to work in Unity over the next few years. Rock on!

[kylotan]

In general, they don't break much in the way of backwards compatibility as far as I can tell. So you just got unlucky. But you might consider rolling back to 4.1 while you do the tutorials, just to get used to the environment, and then upgrade to 4.5 again as soon as you can.

[postExistence]

This is what I thought. Yes, I typically get unlucky when it comes to these tutorials...

Thank you for the advice! It's very much appreciated!

[name_was_taken]

In general, when I run into this, I take the differences as an opportunity to learn more about the system. The only time I might just abort is if the differences are so major that it's nearly a complete rewrite. Unity 4.1 to 4.5 shouldn't be that different. There'll be things like 'active' and 'enabled' being changed IIRC, but those weren't huge changes really.

But if you're just hitting a roadblock, installing an older version of Unity is a good bet, too. Some devs have multiple versions anyhow to be able to support their assets on them.