2021.1 alpha

Hey!
Usually by this time the next's year alpha is out for public testing. I was wondering if there's an estimate as to when the next alpha might land?

 

Unless something has changed, they are even one month late...

 

A lot of issue tracker issues have had 2021.1.0a1 marked on them for a while now so it definitely exists internally. We tend to get public alphas nowadays around alpha 3~4 which would probably mean anything from a week to one month from now before that happens.

 

http://beta.unity3d.com/download/5181ec54d595/download.html

 

What's on the roadmap for 2021, anything big?

 

Sweet now if only I could find release notes on it.

 

hopefully not

 

That version is not officially released (at least yet) so there's no notes for that. There are chances that Unity will never publish that version even.

 

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2020/08/13/the-road-to-2021/
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2020/10/07/the-road-to-2021-team-quality-of-life/

Do note however that first alphas usually only contain like some structural changes and only few if any new features. You shouldn't expect much difference from early alphas to previous version - other than more instability.

 

What's that?

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What are the changes and features in SRP 11?

 

Where did you find this link? Was it posted by a Unity team member somewhere on the forums or is there a location where these unofficial beta links are aggregated?

 

I've read that URP point light shadows will be in this.. does 2021.1.0a2 have them yet? *drool*

 

unity news telegram channel

 

Point Light shadows really rely more of this PR getting merged: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Graphics/pull/1616 It's not in yet so there's no telling if it'll make it to URP 10 (2020.2+) or if it'll only get included in URP 11 (2021.1).

 

"Overall, the cost of adding Universal RP Point Light Shadows to the scene, is less than the cost of adding Built-In RP Point Light Shadows to the same scene." (..gets tattoo across his back URP FOREVER with shadows of a point light extending outward beneath it)

 

Thumbs up for the clarification

With being extra cautious in mind (and just for clarity sake), I assume neither @laurentlavigne nor we other users get in trouble for testing this version?

Because my understanding of this is: It circulated on Telegram for whatever reason, so it's considered a undesired leak.


Transparency edit by me: Replaced the word "punished" with "in trouble" and removed the full quote.

 

Cool, thanks Leo.

 

So, when will we see 2021 alpha happening?

 

Understood - thanks LeonhardP

 

The punishment is included by using an untested version anyway

 

The reward will be that you get @Peter77's RTX if you ever log a bug that he hasn't.

 

I think @Peter77 just stopped purring

 

Here's official release with release notes: https://unity3d.com/unity/alpha/2021.1.0a2

 

New subforum open now: https://forum.unity.com/forums/2021-1-alpha.567/

I'd also want to note that this is apparently different from the earlier leaked version, at least it has different hash on the link.

Anyway, let the bug hunt begin


(Unity UI is notoriously bad when you have 125% scaling on the monitor but this is new)

 

So, the damn 10 fps limitation bug is also in the new alpha... What am I supposed to think?

 

Do note that even if Unity has internally fixed something for some future version, it does take some time for it to propagate to all development branches. Looking at the alpha 2, it seems there are many things that even exist on current 2020.2 betas that haven't yet gotten ported to this release and this is pretty common, especially for the first releases.

 

you're supposed to think it's an alpha? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Yeah, sure.

 

@APSchmidt If you want to work with a version that's not working on Linux right now, maybe you could run the Windows version in a virtual machine? I don't know the complexity or performance etc.. just a thought.