Hello Stacy,
So glad to hear that the feedback goes to the team. Those early engagement moments are so critical and I want Lightship and other AR dev environments to flourish and become useful in the hands of those that will craft our future, cuz it’s coming and AR feels like it will be an important cornerstone.
I did just ignore the recommendation to not perform step 9.
I have a bit more input for that same basics tutorial.
The script to be copied has some typed objects that are not fully qualified causing me to get 3 fatal build errors preventing forward progress. This is with the current Unity build 2021.3.12f1 personal.
Luckily someone asked about this in the forum so I got the solution Error CS104 question.
The fix is to insert the following lines at line 11 of the tutorial SceneManager script
using Vector3 = UnityEngine.Vector3;
using Quaternion = UnityEngine.Quaternion;`
Again please read these as a common desire to make this easy for everybody including me. Along this intro tutorial I hit some undocumented roadblocks that didn’t happen on the tutorial (like the iOS dev environment is not installed, installing was easy but getting it to show up as installed required closing and opening the project, not obvious, adding the script to the scene manager is quick and confusing in the video and in the steps). I know this may sound like I want hand holding and while it helps to see all the steps for me. I am again motivated by thinking of what others might run into. I write software for a living or I did. Dang that’s the 1st time I have written out that I am retired. But I feel pretty technical and I want this to be simple and inviting to all skill levels because this marriage of Unity and Lightship seems so ready for every level of user.
If you are interested I made my own version of the Basic Steps tutorial with some steps spelled out a bit more and in checklist style. I built this for a couple reasons, one is I kept thinking I screwed something up so I deleted and recreated the project a few times(checklist helps), and the second more important reason is I had talked up Lightship to some friends, 2 of the which hit the roadblocks and stopped.