Smart Sprite?

What happened to the smart sprite? was really looking forward to that.

 

Ah ok, good to know

 

yet as it's a very cool feature is it possible to know when ?

 

For a feedback build 3 / 4 months
and for a final integration in unity ? another 3 months?

So I guess I come back in 6 / 7 months to see if its ready use it in a production game.

I really hope this is a underpromise overdeliver estimate, because the waiting for this feature is taking so long already.

It would be nice if unity was more modular, so each feature could be rolled out as a module, (plugin) independend of how other parts of unity progress.

 

@superpig @Johaness_Reuben

hey , ) So still no Smart Sprite, in unity 5.4
is it possible to have it in the next 2D Alpha Release 5 ?

because it's the best we got so far for 2D terrain

 

The alpha releases have been discontinued.
But as stated before the plan is to include it in the next Experimental preview (2D Experimental Preview Release 2)

 

so one month to go ?

 

hey, @Johaness_Reuben

we recently realse "redstory" and we are currently working on some major change, so we are very interested in this
let us know if we can help, and when it ready

cheers

 

THX !!

@Johaness_Reuben yep, we used ferr2D but we probably gonna change for a 3D terrain, we are in a need of tools smartsprite

 

@Johaness_Reuben I wonder. In relation to Smart Sprite, and Tile Map too, how can we (the community) really help push the development of this so we can see it a lot sooner? There has to be something we can do collectively to make this easier and smoother on your end.

 

What about a thorough video review with table of contents labeled at the start indicating the timestamp for each particular subject? I would definitely take the time to put together a video where I tested multiple features, review them, give feedback, and upload it to Youtube.

 

Was there a delay? If so, it's all good. I've been on vacation. I get back tomorrow and I'll be free to do those tutorials whenever!

 

Just a simple question. Where can I get Preview 2?

 

Hi,

are there any news regarding smart sprites yet?
Or something when we can expect to see it in a build again? Soon / will still take some time / (probably) not this year / ... ?

 

:C

 

Aww, well. Okay, good to know.
Thanks @Johaness_Reuben .

 

Next year, wow :O

 

slower than I would like, but yea, keep up the good work

 

Excited to check out smart sprites. When is this expected to land in a build?

 

Any updates regarding Smart Sprite?

 

Will the Smart Sprite ever be released or not? This is a really nice feature to have.

 

probably next year

 

@Johaness_Reuben Any update regarding this feature? When can we expect to get access to it?

 

any news on smart sprite? Can't u just hire the ferr2D guy to make this or buy ferr2D just like you guys did for textmeshpro

 

I would love an update on it as well. Since Ferr2D is super buggy unfortunately.

 

Almost a year and no updates on this? @Johaness_Reuben

 

I just saw this today in the Unity Roadmap RSS feed:

Obviously this isn't offical confirmation of the SmartSprite ship date and there is always a chance that fast progress is made on it and it makes it into 2017.2 but I wouldn't be holding out for it.

 

@Johaness_Reuben please can we have an update, or alternatively can you comment on the suggestions by other members to acquire ferr2d.

Every single user of unity currently has to buy ferr2d to implement this, which is unacceptable considering the author of ferr2d @koujaku barely maintains his asset, almost never answers problems, and the asset is very buggy.

We really need this feature, otherwise modern rayman legacy style 2D graphics is just not achievable without massive overheads in terms of time cost.

 

@Johaness_Reuben thanks for the update. I really hope you guys don't abandon this implementation. Things like this are already in smaller engines.

 

@Johaness_Reuben hey ! Just to know if you have any news of Smart Sprite? I'm working on a 2D platform project and i'm really excited about it: know there are other solutions like Ferr2D ( very nice) but if Smart Sprite is about to come...
Thank you !

 

No news is good news right?

 

i hope so

 

Do you mean weeks? as in more than 4, so maybe months?

 

Thank you Johannes for your pic and news

 

Honestly @Johaness_Reuben involving users in the build early will get you better feedback and ensure that by the time this is released it is not entirely redundant. Every day we wait is another day another asset is likely to come out with a better implentation.

We have been waiting more than a year. I remember when 4.3 introduced 2D features, its now 2017.1 and we still have NO viable way to do modern spline based 2D terrain without shelling out for a broken and buggy asset such as ferr2d.

Please open this up soon so we can make sure your on the right track, it is after all us that will be using the tech!

We really appreciate the work your all doing, but this really has gone on for far too long for such a pivotal feature!

 

Great news and look forward to it. We have parked development on a large project due to poor support for these kind of features and very eager to see some progress!

 

So... did this feature make into 2017.2? If not, do you have any idea when it will be released? Is it possible that it will be released before 2017.3?