Unity 5 is finally here!!!

As a poor hobbyist, I about died when I saw the free version.

Thank you UT!!!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Anyway, that's what has me jazzed. You all?

 

As I saw, that now all features are included in free, I feel a little bit bad for the guys who pre ordered because of Unity 5. I wanted to go pro with Unity 5 cause of the missing features within Unity 4. I am super happy I did not. Because all I need is now in Unity 5 free.

If I did send 1500€ on pro now, I would be some kind of upset. But since I didn't I say: Thank you Unity! I am so excited to try and have fun with Unity 5 now!

edit: Just read about the possible refund for effected people!

 

1. Full Features in Personal Version!
2. ROYALTY FREE!
3. Built in Oculus Support coming...amazing

 

Anyone who pre-ordered Unity 5 and no longer wants the pro version can get a refund.

 

I am so hyped right now!

 

This is really great news for us plebs!

 

The whole website is very slow right now! Can't activate license

Not even Manual License working

 

I leased the Pro version. It was on 4.5 or 6 when my lease started 3 or four months back. Can I get out of that monthly lease? Thanks!

 

Yerp, check our FAQ's (http://unity3d.com/unity/faq)

 

It's kind of genius how they handled the free/pro split.
You can create anything you could in Pro now in Free, but there's still tons of value in getting Pro (also, no more separate Pro's under 100k if I'm understanding correctly? That makes it even more awesome).

 

As a freelance contractor I am extremely pleased. However I haven't been able to download the installer for 40 minutes now. The server may be getting hammered but I get sent to register when i have been registered for years..but only one out of four tries..I imagine it will settle down.. I just hope I can

 

Hmm, ironic that the form that you can fill in to receive a refund is not found on the server...

 

Is the profiler included in the free version now?

 

Awesome!

 

Hopefully this will put an end to all of the posts whining about graphics quality I've seen in the 14 months I have been around here. That's a great thing! Plus maybe if people don't need to spend so much time making these great looking graphics they will start spending more time on the game itself! Should be an interesting year!

 

no doubt, the people crying for pro to be free have had their wish pretty much granted...

.. and after some thought, I guess I'm not as disappointed with the pro sub/perpetual offering.

the team capability will be really helpful, and I'm very curious about this "Asset Store level 11" biz...

 

and finally Unity is Free, i am crying

 

How do we change where GI Cache is stored? We're not in the world of the C drive anymore...

 

The fact that their servers are being CRUSHED right now is encouraging... Lots of excited people wanting to dig into PBS and GI, I'm sure.

The fact that I can't reach the licensing server is keeping me honest at work and focused on what I SHOULD be doing instead.

 

Ya I feel your pain. I installed Unity 5 then selected Personal edition and hit Activate and still waiting for it to register. Oh well, shouldn't be a surprise as I'm sure there server is just swamped with downloads and/or activations.,

 

Web installers:

http://netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/5b98b70ebeb9/UnityDownloadAssistant.exe
http://netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/5b98b70ebeb9/UnityDownloadAssistant.dmg

Torrent:

http://netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/5b98b70ebeb9/unity-5.0.0f4.torrent

 

Download link has been up since at least 10AM EST or so this morning, so I am glad I beat the rush. Haven't run it yet, but won't be able to touch it until next week due to other things going on.

 

in next year GDC Unity 6 opensource.

 

Truly amazing.

Can't write more. Back to Unity 5.

 

Your one day unreal adventure is over.

 

I heard, that te Free-Version of Unity 5 hasn´t the Black UI like in the Pro. Is that right?

 

I kind of feel torn and bad. Great presentation by Unity and now I am probably going to reward them by cancelling my subscription.

 

True story. Yesterday downloaded UE4. Played around until Unity 5 came out!

 

So where is this refund page?

 

When the site gets back to normal traffic, here (http://unity3d.com/unity/faq)

 

anyone else having problems with unity license servers? had been using unity4.6 for some time with no problem.. now downloaded unity5.0 and it's complaining about license (license servers down as well as page for manual license submission)

 

I'm still going to stick to 4.6 for the current tool I'm working on. But that's just to insure backwards-compatibility. I'll be downloading Unity 5, and beginning the porting process as well. Very excited to have a lot of the Pro-only features available in the free version. Render-to-texture and a few of the more esoteric network features will be very useful for some of the projects that I'm planning on making.

A big thank-you to the whole Unity team! You're helping to enable all of us small-time developers and hobbyists, as well as the more graphically-focused larger teams!

 

Got some heat at work because of that announcement... my day job is unrelated to game development and a hearty "F*** YEAH!" grabbed unwanted attention and questions about what I was watching.

 

200 MB to go.

 

Man, Unity Personal feels like such a steal. Such an amazing product. I'd happily pay for it. I donate 5€ to blender foundation every month, I could easily pay at least that for Unity Personal. If there was some service in between Pro and personal, that would be great.

Didn't even bother. I've tried UE4 before and it is not for me, simply put.

 

It's awesome for someone like me. Hobbyist been working on a project for 18 months, unlikely to ever reach pro levels of income.

I was hyped just for PBS + IBL + GI. That alone will make a huge difference. But image effects, shadows etc on top of that is amazing.

Currently backing up my project, then I'll see what breaks moving to 5.0. It's a no brainer to update even if I have to make lots of fixes.

Thanks Unity team!

 

Not sure if this option was available for earlier releases, but I'm certainly happy about it Contributed 2.5 times back as well.

 

The extra graphics parts aren't things I really need for my current projects, but the 64-bit editor and the extra optimising tools are going to be very useful. Thanks, Unity!

I'm going to stick to 4.6 in the meantime, at least until traffic is back to normal

 

I hear that promise since unity 4.4

 

Since i'm about to end my daily internet traffic and i can't sleep, i'd like to know if Unity-5.0.0f4 (torrent) is different from Unity-5.0.0f3 (RC3) ?

 

So is the C#/Mono version updated so we can enjoy new language features?

 

License servers seem to be back up now.

 

Please tell me do I need to keep paying for iOS Pro and Android Pro licenses ? what is the benefit now with unity5

 

Anyone been able to convert a 4.6.X project into Unity 5? Unity 5 doesn't seen any project files in my current projects to convert.

 

holy S*** profiler in personal edition..thank you so much Unity!
I celebrate this with fireworks prefabs from standard assets

 

@Rene Damm
I am totally fine to pay 75 for pro version... but those iOS and android PRO license now looks overpriced, 75 + 75 just for splash screens... wow expensive.... but i need that feature for client projects

 

The new splashscreen is amazing tho.

 

There's never been any such promise, especially since Unity 4.4 didn't exist (except for console developers).

Anyway, it's a trivial thing but I'm glad we have "proper" names now; you can say Pro and Personal, whereas before we had Pro and just Unity, which was awkward, so we had to say "Unity Free" even though it wasn't actually called that.

--Eric

 

Anyone have any indepth tutorials for Unity 5? The videos on Unity's Youtube channel are a bit brief and there's not many