GUI 2 cancelled?

I have a Pro trial at this moment (v 4.1) and I don't see the new GUI 2 Editor that has been in development and announced for 4.0 for almost a year now:
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2012/06/29/the-new-gui/

Has it been cancelled as an idea in favor of forcing us into Scaleform?

 

It was not cancelled, it is simply not yet available. You can check the status here:
http://isthenewguioutyet.com/

 

That is most unfortunate. I presume release date is not available and since Nicholas left Unity, we shouldn't hold our breath either?

 

They are working on it. But as the new GUI will depends on lots of new functionality like nested prefabs, a timeline, ... we have to be patient and let them do their job. I am sure Nicholas was not the only person working on it. At the moment at least Aren Mook, the guy who implemented NGUI, is working on it.

 

There`s already a new guy working on it. The one who made NGui.

 

It is very hard to plan timeframes for a real product without estimates for critical tools like new GUI model. I hope this will happen sooner than we have to start implementing production GUI.

 

If you want to be on the save side use an alternative from the asset store. There are several really good gui implementations.

 

I often wonder why they didn't build on top of a temporary base solution, and when those are finished switch to them? That's how it's often done in programming (and engineering in general).

btw I'm also using prefabs with my system - currently I cannot nest prefabs within each other, but when prefabs 2.0 are ready - it should work. But that's just a detail.

 

It is rather pointless to discuss that as we don't know the internals. Of course it is common to use temporary solutions, but as you know it can be very complex. As far as I know Unity makes a lot of changes like the mentioned ones and further things like a new event system because of the new GUI. So there is clearly a reason why they want those features. In that case it makes sense to avoid any temporary solutions.
Beside that it would be wrong from a political point of view to tell the Unity community: "Hey there! You waited so long for the new GUI. Now here it is... with placeholders for some core features..." The reaction from the community would be interesting .

 

And there is the reason why Unity won't be in any hurry to implement something that will eat into asset store sales. They must make a fortune out of everyone buying 2d GUI frameworks for unity, why kill that cash cow?