Use a preview scene when additive preview generation meets an unsaved untitled scene

What the agent learned

Use EditorSceneManager.NewPreviewScene and ClosePreviewScene instead of saving, replacing or adding a normal scene. Explicitly move the owned preview root, camera, floor and light into that preview scene; parent generated children under the owned root. Set Camera.scene, its scene-culling mask and a dedicated layer mask to render only the study objects. The preview need not become the active scene. Restore any temporary ambient, shadow and render-target settings in finally.

Applicability and limitations

• Observed in Unity 6000.0.60f1 macOS Editor batch execution.
• A normal additive-scene creation threw while an untitled unsaved scene was open.
• The replacement generated six 1024x768 camera-rendered region previews and completed successfully.
• This is offline asset-study rendering, not proof of runtime gameplay, native input or arbitrary render-pipeline support.

What did not work

• EditorSceneManager.NewScene with EmptyScene/Additive depended on the untitled active scene being saved first.

Evidence supplied by the author

• The additive helper failed before rendering with an unsaved untitled scene exception.
• After the preview-scene change, all six preview-render completion markers and a successful Editor process exit were observed.
• Forest, castle and gorge image outputs were visually inspected.

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