4.1 is here!

That's right 4.1 is live now with improvements to the memory profiler, Mecanim updates, Airplay support, shader improvements and more.

Get it here
http://unity3d.com/unity/download/

Find out more here
http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/

And gander at the release notes here
http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-4.1

Oh and there is a blog post too.
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/03/14/introducing-the-new-memory-profiler/

 

Yay!

 

any special !?new gui added?

 

thanks unity for 4.1 release

 

Sorry to break your hearts but no GUI yet.

 

ya i sawn .but ok !.we wait.always we love unity

 

and no profiler for free and android ...

Unity is dead, long live Unity

 

Oh yay, more features I don't care about

Except maybe air play, were is the documentation kept for it? And can we tell if it is on a TV or phone... how does this work, oh and is it for Unity IOS basic?

Common, Unity 4.2 damn well better have a new GUI system. I have a question though, when the new GUI comes out will OnGUI be updated to use it? Like performance etc.?

 

You know you're a programmer when this feature excites you most.

 

will this Optimize the engine

 

Not a single Flash improvement...

 

Memory profiler looks extremely useful.

 

Lots of nice little things in there but i really hoped for 64 bits, still no ETA on that one?
2 Little things would make me happier than most other things you can do
1) 64 bit support
2) Lift the 65K poly limit per single mesh

Edit: also very happy about the overall many substance fixes enhancements (makes getting the 999$ substance package when it's cheap even more worth it, watch for it!)

 

And no Nested Prefabs
I guess Unity 4.2 will have Nested Prefabs!

 

May i ask what the mentioned shader updates are? Is that the three small changings that are mentioned in the Improvements section?

 

^This is going to increase the performance of my game SO much! Thank you!

 

Thanks

Well, small in terms of useage at my end. Making those changings was surely a bit bigger in effort

 

Yay, improved profiling and wow seems faster, powers up benchmark project...

OMG: GPU profiling is not supported by the graphics card driver!

AMD Catalyst 13.2 Beta is not playing with the Unity 4.1 Profiler!

Anyone else getting this?

 

Sending a string from a DLL back to Unity crashes the engine. This bug exists since Unity 4.0.
But in Unity 3.x everything worked well.

Bug Report already sent months ago.

 

Well upgraded to 4.1 and fired up my game project. Wanted to test the game on my iPad and selected iOS and clicked build and run and then a request came up with files already existing, clicked replace and BOOOOOM crashed whole unity. Tried several times and it's the same. So much for less bugs....


EDIT: I can not do anything to make an iOS version/build. I have deleted the old xcode project folder. If I click on iOS and then switch platform it also crashes unity. Switch all player settings back to "default" for the iOS player but still the same. Only crashing!!

Back to v4.01 for me.

 

GPU profiler doesn't work anymore. Tells me it's not supported on my graphic drivers. I have AMD 13.1. There is no newer stable drivers release. I guess GPU debugging won't work for me until 13.2 stable releases? I don't install beta drivers.

 

Sorry. I dont have the number anymore.

 

Same here but with 13.1 drivers (latest non beta drivers).

 

Odd restarted Unity 4.1 with new project and the GPU profiler started working?

And it's faster 17k Cube Marks with new version - Cubemark

 

Same as precedent versions:

(Case 532454) Unity Editor crash upon editor close

1) What happened

Unity Editor crash upon editor close.

I hit the "exit X" of the editor window, the project/.unity file got marked dirty (I didn't change anything), Unity stops responding and the editor window remains on the screen.

Last lines in editor.log:

Refresh, detecting if any assets need to be imported or removed ... 0.034073 seconds (Nothing changed)
Cleanup mono

 

Hy there,
is there a new demo project in Unity 4.1? Or is it the AngryBots?
I can't find it anywhere..

 

Can someone may confirm this bug ? Is the DLL contains native code ?

 

Yes, the DLL contains native code.

 

custom editor means SSE?

 

Compared with?

 

Can we please get an update about the new GUI system, I sent you a pm some time back but never got a response. I was one of the early adopters of Unity 4.0 Pro and there hasn't been any information regarding the new system... Is it coming soon (within next 3 months) or towards the end of the year? It will really help me and my team out to decide if we should continue improving our own gui solutions.

-Dane

 

Does anybody know how to use the new (and exciting !) AirPlay multiple screen feature for iOS ? my iPad 2 still keeps the Display.displays.Length value (found in the docs under new "Display" entry") at 1, even after establishing an AirPlay connection with an Apple TV2.

Concerning iOS builds : no problem here so far, but only tested on two upgraded projects.

 

@UT.
Can you explain this :

 

Try this old CubeMark:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19148487/CubeMark/WebPlayer/CubeMark.html

VS the new version made with Unity 4.1:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19148487/CubeMark/Unity4.1/web.html

You should see a marked performance difference.

For me the old one slows down quickly then creeps up to about 15k and the new one zooms up to about 14k then makes it to 17k over time.

 

Regarding something from release notes :
Substance: XML presets can now be read from / applied to substances in the runtime API

Any documentation on that ? I can't find it.

 

Glad to see Unity advancing forward. The 2 month iterations will mean less features per iteration, so I guess this is what we're seeing.

Gigi

 

Just tested this. The old one I get 26200 before it settles around 30 fps. The new one is just over 22000 before it is around 30 fps. Mac (hackintosh...) GT 640 2GB

 

The new shader features are going to make my life a LOT easier.

 

If you suspect you have a bug, bug report it.

If something you bugged in a previous version isn't fixed in this version, bug report again in the latest version.

GUI doesn't have a release date, we are still working on getting it awesome.

Angry Bots is still the default project.

 

What are these new shader features?

 

22000-26000?!!
What CPU do you have?

 

Resend the bug with a funky apocalyptic self-explained name and it will get noticed right away! ^^

 

I know this bug. Have a look here.

 

Hi could you put your CubeMark results on this thread (below), just so we don't clutter up the 4.1 thread cheers.

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/151813-Unity-Benchmark-v0-1/

 

Finished would be enough

 

Odd, Avast complains about "$_OUTDIR\Data\MonoBleedingEdge\lib\mono\4.0\certmgr.exe" when opening the installer, it says: "Win32:Evo-gen [Susp]" and deletes the installer regardless of what option I select (in the Avast popup)
It doesn't do this on older versions, and if I extract the exe manually and check the contents it doesn't complain either...
Temp disabling file system check lets it install properly.

edit: when trying to run the certmgr.exe after installation Avast deletes it automatically also then..

 

3.4 GHz i7, 32 GB 1600MHz DDR3, gigabyte MB