Unity 2.5 Coming Soon! (the official announcement)

Next week some time. We'll be in touch with those who wrote over the weekend or early next week.

Nope, you won't find that in 2.5. Keep in mind that the vast majority of new features in 2.5 are focused on the editor so don't expect much on the run-time front for now.

 

Ok , thanks on your clarification!!

 

Awesome, thanks! I think I replied within a few hours of newsletter being sent out

I can't wait! (too bad it won't be before this weekend)

 

Good question :!:

 

i have one more question.
Will 2.5 have a new price? (i'm not talking about the upgrade, but for buying a new license).

Thanks a lot.

 

FYI, Tom's maintaining an FAQ on page 1. Cool stuff.

 

Oh man, I saw the front page and now my eyes are all misty and teary eyed....
I'm so happy.....
Thank you Tom and Unity

 

thanks. I've just noticed that the faq has been updated hehe.

 

Hi there,

I have not tried Unity yet but I have been visiting this forum for a while. I am just waiting Windows version to know if I can use it to develop my Platformer project with it.

Something very funny and shows you are doing well your job is , in each of my favorite forums there is a topic about Unity:

3DGS: http://www.coniserver.net/ubb7/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=245877#Post245877

Shiva: http://developer.stonetrip.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=2&func=view&id=7232&catid=32

Quest3D: http://forum.quest3d.com/index.php?topic=63975.0

DXStudio: http://dxstudio.com/forumtopic.aspx?topicid=cb90c0db-e3ea-4aa8-9c4b-8ea345b15c26

Good luck with Windows version

Learner

 

How does one get in on the beta?
I signed up for the Unity updates...Do i need to buy 2.1? I'll do that right now if that gets me in on the 2.5beta.

Thanks for the info!
B

 

Owning 2.1 doesn't get you in on the beta. I think there are only two ways to get it right now: participate in the Global Game Jam or have a strong, existing personal and professional relationship with UT.

 

@Learner. Thanks for the links. Interesting reading - I now see why Tom and co are so... what's the word... happy

 

Will U3d support making any 3D model into Terrain and paint trees on them ? not just on Terrain surface?

 

I'm way looking forward to this release!

Hope this wasn't covered elsewhere already, but what version of Mono will Unity 2.5 use?

 

Lets hope 2.2, would love to use the SIMD stuff and would love to see Unity use it for its vector/matrix ops (unless Unity already uses MMX / SSE)

 

2.6 pretty please!? ;-)

The version of Mono that Unity currently uses has a few not-so-nice limitations, like generics being not as performant as they are in Mono now, performance counters being completely broken (yes, I *would* use them - the code is even already implemented, only it doesn't work with Unity-Mono ;-) ).

Oh, and I just read:

(Release Notes)

Sorry for being off-topic ... I'm really looking forward to Unity 2.5 ... but ... you know ... maybe updating Mono for Unity 2.6 is much easier now than it was last time (hope never dies ;-) )

 

Actually, I was thinking of Unity iPhone for the AoT stuff. If there now is full AoT compilation available in Mono, my hope would be that this gets us a bit closer to ".NET 2.0" on the iPhone.

I just didn't mention that to avoid people getting confused and thinking that Unity 2.5 is also an iPhone update (it is not, there's no Unity iPhone update announced ATM ;-) ). That is, of course, "long-term-thinking" ;-)

But I just found another thing which may be relevant (is it correct that Unity still uses Mono 1.2.5? OMG!!!):

... maybe all those bugs being fixed will make porting Mono 2.2 to be used with Unity much much less painful and time-consuming? I guess once Mono 2.2 has proven to be somewhat stable that would really be a worthwhile project ;-)

 

the problem there is not AoT but that .NET 2.0 with AoT would be seriously large spacewise, which will not work anymore. (the current corelib is already 8.xMB)
.NET 2.0 would only be an option with stripping and I don't think that the feature gap between Basic Advanced is intend to ever include basic scripting capabilities, as it would put Unity iPhone in a very problematic light (it tells the interested developer that they want to force you to buy the Advanced and that Basics only a "getting in touch" license) and help the rest of the non-licensees to decide towards Shiva and iTorque, where there is no such drastic feature gap in the scripting language itself between the indie and commercial licenses. This is something that the devs surely don't want to happen and I as Unity iPhone dev would naturally prefer to have more devs on the iPhone here as well

 

I've replied to this in:

Is .NET 2.0 support coming soon?
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=119657

... sorry for drifting off-topic ;-)

 

As has been stated, Global Game Jam participation is the only open avenue right now. Going beyond that, if you want to be involved in the future then it's good to become an active user and part of the community and go from there.

Will we ever? We might, I dunno. Will we in Unity 2.5? No.

Seriously. Mono is not being updated in 2.5, so let that end all Mono related chatter here so we can all stay on topic, m'kay?

 

Two things. First, I second this with the point that people may make terrains in something like Blender so that they can make caves, for example, but then need to paint trees on in Unity. So we would be able to have user created terrains and paint objects onto them.
Second, I wouldn't be calling Unity U3d because of this: http://www.ultimate3d.org/ as to avoid confusion(Obviously not on this forum). Just a point. May be a little off topic, sorry.

 

Btw, the name of the engine is Unity. Not Unity3D. Only the domain name is unity3d.com. Not that people end up thinking Unity 2.5 is the 2.5D version of Unity (trying to be on topic almost as hard as I can, but man, it's late over here ;-) ).

 

Hey look at this awesome forum which I just found! I believe it is very suitable for stuff which has been announced as not part of 2.5 :wink:

http://forum.unity3d.com/viewforum.php?f=7

 

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Now! :|

 

Hi all,

I think i read the entire thread but here goes a few questions from an Indy tinkerer...

1. Will Indy 2.5 have any other features from pro like real-time shadows, advanced water reflections etc? I would love to tinker with these features and i personally feel a unity branded splash screen across all my creations is enough of a limitation to separate the two.

2. Will there be any more free upgrades after 2.5 in the 2.x range or will you be looking to go straight to version 3, i see 2.5 as a major release and quite surprised it not ver 3.

3. Will Unity code completion or other features of modern programming editors be supported?

4. Please produce more tutorials, simple workshop examples are good too.

Thanks
Geoff

 

1. I'd say no, or else this would have been mentioned by now.
2. Good question.
3. You can already use whatever programming editor you like.

--Eric

 

No.

Yes, 2.5 is "meaty" but not enough for a 3.0 upgrade as its primary focus is the Windows editor and it wouldn't be fair to charge Mac users for that. It's still to be decided what comes next, another 2.x update or 3.0. With that in mind the chances are quite high that there will be at least one more 2.x update to close up any bugs and issues the pop up with the 2.5 release.

Not in this release AFAIK.

In parallel we're working on some Resource updates for the website so look for a refresh there, partially timed with the 2.5 launch as well as afterwards.

 

Hi there

I'm a forthcoming new license acquirer, just waiting for the 2.5 to let my mouse hit the Cash button.

But one question I can't answer myself yet :

Will Unity for iPhone 2.5, Windows version, still require a Mac to make our apps validated by Apple ?


You would be God among Gods for PC users if you kick the Mac mandatory nightmare away


EDIT : Oh damn, just looked at posts before .... Got my sad answer

 

Read through this thread and notably check out page 1, post 1 (mine) as it contains a FAQ.

I'll stop you right there for a moment.

We've announced that Unity 2.5 is coming, separately we have Unity iPhone at version 1.0.1 (it's a separate application that shares licensing with Unity). As per the FAQs I'm keeping (page 1, post 1) there are no Unity iPhone updates coming as part of this release, that will come separately some time after 2.5.

As has been covered in this thread already, Unity iPhone will remain a Mac-only application for the time being due in large part to the fact that Unity builds a XCode project and so you'll need XCode to "complete the job" (XCode is Mac-only). In the future that may change so folks on Windows can at least edit those projects, but for now that's not the case.

 

Just wondering what version of C# will Unity Support?

 

Ok, thank you for your quick answer, and sorry for my misunderstandings.

Well, as soon as I have the money to buy a Mac, I'll take a license

 

Any reason you guys are not using Mono 1.9.0 or 2.0.x releases?

 

Not sure if anybody mentioned/read it yet, but the makers
of shaderfx ( a node based shader editor for 3dsmax ) now that it will be available on windows soon,
had posted on cgtalk about implementing a direct unity3d export for the shaders created ( atm it can export to fxcomposer among others). That's good news : )
They got a free version of shaderfx up since a couple of days too( for individuals or companies smaller than 2).
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=721860
(scroll down, his name is kees)

 

Hi,
About Mono 2.0, I saw a presentation where Miguel de Icaza talked about an optimization option of compilation in Mono that optimizes a lot (2 or 4 *better the same C++ operations !) concerning quaternion and vector math stuff.

Did Unity team use it in the 2.5 version ?

 

Are there any functional differences due to the Windows environment that might affect current workflow?

 

Sorry to be blunt but that seems unrelated to Unity 2.5 so let's not include discussion on that here (let's stay on topic).

Aras _just_ discussed that like four posts before yours (we're using Mono 1.2.5 and aren't upgrading in this release).

No, the functionality and workflow will be the same on both Mac and Windows.

 

Hey Tom, regarding this comment, I've sent you a PM, but I don't know if you got it yet (it's still in my outbox).



iBrent

 

Received, I'll reply soon.

 

Tom, Isn't that pm off-topic?

Tabs look great in the new GUI - will be great when those make it in future to the iphone release.

 

Touché! Now let's stop this before I ban myself...

 

HiggyB:

Unity 2.5 announcement plus one word in french !
Too much... :wink:

 

By now everyone knows that 2.5 is not an upgrade for iPhone but ... dare I ask: What about Unity Wii? Will the Wii license come to Windows with 2.5, or "a bit later" or is the situation more like with the iPhone?