Candela SSRR or Unity 5?

I was considering purchasing Candela SSRR, but now that Unity 5 is about to launch it might not be necessary.
Anyone know how these two compare?

 

If by "about to launch" you mean "probably more than four months away" then yes, it's about to launch. If you need SSRR now, buy Candela. Otherwise, don't worry about it.

 

Does Unity 5 come with SSRR? I don't remember seeing that anywhere, but I'd love to be shown otherwise...

The only reflection related improvement I've seen for Unity 5 is the new probes system.

 

edit:: rechecked performance and it was more stable than I thought.

 

With Candela on sale, I'm thinking about picking it up. However, does it offer more than what Unity 5 has? Thanks!

 

I haven't used Candela, but Unity 5 does not have ScreenSpaceReflections. So if you do need SSR in your project you would still need a solution even if you upgraded to Unity 5... either this Candela asset, write your own, or wait for unity to include their own somewhere in the 5.x cycle (maybe).

 

Not yet. So, to OP has an Cabdela SSRR owner my advice : wait for the Unity one.

 

I have it too and I suggest checking the official Candela SSRR thread before buying. The author/team are not the best PR people and sometimes the asset has seemed to be dead or updates been like duke nukem forever...

 

Thank you all for the replies. They helped a lot!

 

Internal SSRR is in the works.

[LINK]

 

Image and link are unfortunately broken. Please fix?

 

It's also mentioned in the Unity 5 overview, though no word of when it will be coming to Unity 5...
http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/unity-5/unity5-lighting-overview

 

What do you mean internal? How did you get those scenes file?

 

He means Unity devs are already working on it among other image effects. There were post about it in beta section few times (latest was already linked earlier)

 

Ah you mean Closed Beta Section?

 

No I was referring to the posts in U5beta forums like:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/ssrr-request-from-community.297961/#post-1962835

 

Ah i see, yeah i've read that thread already. I'm mostly curious about the image he posted. Is it from unity devs or there's an access to those scenes..

 

The image is from Unity's graphics plumber @Aras , it's in his GDC talk.

 

Link to the PDF:
http://aras-p.info/texts/files/201503-GDC_Unity5_Graphics_notes.pdf

 

ah...interesting....thanks for the link

 

Hi Everyone,

Candela SSRR will have full support for Unity 5 very soon (Current version already works to a degree but not as it will and should ) and we are also about to release our new ' Unreal Reflection ' product and it's going to rock on Unity 5 (all current Candela SSRR license holders will receive a great discount to purchase Unreal reflections when available, more on this very soon..)

We had to wait until Unity 5 has been officially released ( we were pleasantly surprised and delighted with the imminent announcement! ) and available to everyone, not just Beta/RC version of Unity where core components change. So stay tuned for some great updates and new products! We have been working very hard and diligently on our new product lineup and cannot wait to share it with the Unity community.

Cheers,
Livenda
www.livenda.com

 

Yep, yeah, uuuuhhu, "about to". And that screen space GI as well?

 

if you want temporal solution this might be enough? http://www.kode80.com/blog/2015/03/11/screen-space-reflections-in-unity-5/index.html

 

that's more than enough i think....Thanks for the info

 

check this out
free open source SSR with Unity5 by "kode80"

https://github.com/kode80/kode80SSR
http://www.kode80.com/blog/2015/03/11/screen-space-reflections-in-unity-5/
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/reflections-ssr.307670/

 

kode80's SSR is very promising. The sample scenes work well on my main graphics card, and on my old integrated intel even though it's slow as expected it still does work.

 

@MS80 thanks for sharing

@LIVENDA any news about Unreal Reflection?