Official Unity 6 Preview is now available

It was said Unity 6 Preview will be released in "May".

Today is May 1st.

That's a new record in timeliness.

 

Can we remove splash screen in this version?

 

is Optional Splash Screen Available now?

 

License: Added the option on Unity Personal to disable or customize the Made with Unity splash screen.

Literally you can read it in the notes:
https://unity.com/releases/editor/whats-new/6000.0.0#release-notes

 

And proof its working may those who need it, rejoice

 

Hey look at this bad boy runtime fee estimator they served up as well, here to simplify everyone's lives.

I'm pretty stoked to take a whirl at the new graphics features, maybe in a couple of weeks. GPU Resident Drawer + GPU Occlusion Culling + STP looks really powerful.

The Multiplayer TLC stuff looks exciting as well, although I doubt I'd use it.

Overall pretty exciting stuff!

 

Wow, now they get brownie-points to completely screw everyone and then making a visualizer for it... neat sycophancy.

 

Faster URP sounds nice

 

When you used the tool, what did it say you should expect your company to owe, based on your revenue and engagements?

 

If I understand it right, as it stands right now you will never pay more than 2.5% of monthly revenue.

"If your game crosses both thresholds, you will be charged whichever amount is lower:
- 2.5% of your game’s monthly gross revenue, OR
- The Runtime Fee based on monthly initial engagements."

The only worrying thing on the Runtime fee (for me) is
A: The means of what (invasive) tracking may Unity bundle into the engine to enforce this (and the detection of pirated copies etc), unless this all is self-reported.
B: Unity having the ability to alter the license anytime in the next major version.

 

Well, if that's all you're worrying about it should be easy to soothe:

A) They don't, because it's self-reported, ref. https://unity.com/pricing-updates
B) So does every company anywhere.

 

With B its about the track report. I think it was late Riccitiello years that they tried to make the license affect already released versions and silently changed the license on github so that it reads that too without telling anyone.
As for A, there have been worries when the whole Runtime Fee started and Unity claimed they will "keep track" of users themselves with tracking. The ironsource merger def. didnt help public image haha

 

Looks great!

Will the foveated rendering API be available to use on mobile devices without a VR headset? IE just a regular mobile game where I want to boost rendering performance at the cost of blurry screen edges?

 

They never ever mentioned tracking. That was the headless hens panicking who made that up.
Unity only made the mistake of not explaining how they'd do it.

 

The thing is rolling that back is probably why 2022 doesn't have the option to remove the logo.

At the end of the day the whole RTF thing exists as a solution to punish people who don't play by the rules they've always had and avoided getting pro when they were supposed to with no real consequences.

But real talk you shouldn't trust companies anyway.

 

Glad le splash screen made with Unity is removed

 

genuinely impressive release. job well done to everyone who worked hard on this.

 

thanks a lot been waiting for this forever

 

thank god

 

I don't see 2023.2.* in Unity Hub since 6 was released. Was 2023.2.20f the last release that's going to happen there?

 

Id expect so, as its not LTS

 

Soooo.... still we can't use several SRP in a single project without having to duplicate everything for each RP?

 

Oh, and no Block Shaders either

 

First time on Unity in a while, decided to finally learn DOTS + Unity 6. So far so good, although dual Authoring/Runtime inspectors doesnt seem to work. Otherwise, everything seems to be smooth and snappy.

 

Is there a use case for this other than UAS Publishing for multiple RPs?

 

Building the same game for different platforms!

PC/Consoles with HDRP, mobile/web/Switch with URP, if you need a more precise example.

The new Build Profiles feature in U6 would have fit really really nice with multiple SRP coexistence

 

Ooo I never thought of that, pretty interesting idea.

 

Looks promising, for people complaining about runtime fees, it seems the fee will never exceed 2.5% of the monthly revenue of a company and if you dont want to deal with runtime fees, a flat 2.5% royalty is also possible (unreal takes 5%). I think so far its not too bad, if you re ever that lucky having to pay royalties to unity, 2.5% is not much especially since it comes with a threshold. I just hope unity will focus on the engine now and also work on more resources like from start to finish tutorials instead of everything pre done and they just show the systems off. I have had problems with getting similar APV results so I want to see if 6 fixes it now

I do believe unity should reduce the pro pricing per seat considerably now since they are charging more, albeit more passively.

 

2023 LTS became Unity 6 which became... a tech preview and not anything at all like an LTS release? Do I have this right?

 

No. 2023.4 was to be the LTS branch and is equivalent to Unity 6. We haven’t seen releases equivalent to 2023.4 yet, we’ve been getting 2023.3. 2023.3 is a tech stream release and is equivalent to Unity 6 preview. 2023.4/Unity 6 is yet to come.
https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/2023-3-coming-april-2024-with-updates
https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-6-new-naming-convention.1558592/

 

Is there any chance to get an editor option to disable that "asset store" button if we want to? personally i find it very distracting, we already got an shorcut to asset store via Window > Asset Store. No need to re-implement the same funcionality on another button.

 

also, pretty huge improvement in getting into and out of the play mode without recompile. it would have taken me 1-2 minutes just to play and stop the game in the editor before.

 

But not all of them have shamelessly demonstrated their eagerness to do it.

 

Some companies have support for continuing to use the previous license agreement in their licenses as long as you don't need to download the newer software. Epic does this with Unreal Engine. You can't access certain services or download new copies but you can keep using the existing copy you have without accepting the new license.

 

any help here

 

Oh, that's very confusing, but thanks for making sense out of it for me.

 

If its any consolation ive been poking my sore point and trying to urp my game again since 6 came out, and im randomly getting errors such as

Code (CSharp):

1. Error building Player: Shader error in 'ProBuilder6/Standard Vertex Color': 'PBRDeferredFragment': cannot convert from 'struct v2f_surf' to 'struct SurfaceDescription' at /Users/Liz/Documents/Unity/DungeonDisasters/Library/PackageCache/com.unity.shadergraph/Editor/Generation/Targets/BuiltIn/Editor/ShaderGraph/Includes/PBRDeferredPass.hlsl(145) (on webgpu)
2.  

or webgl, or, sometimes it will be my own really simple shader.. it seems to be happening to shaders upgraded from built in to urp, trying to make a small test case because my will to fight the bug system is sub zero

 

What is newer than Unity 6 Preview or Unity 6 Beta (v16)?

 

preview

 

It seems this bug has returned with Unity 6, my URP Lens Flare has incorrect position/is cut around screen corners with non 1.0 Render Scaling:
https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/urp-lens-flare-do-not-account-for-render-scale-setting

 

That's completely false. Self report wasn't an option in the initial announcement. And even now if you don't self report, per terms of service they will use all other data available and make up a number estimate for you and charge based on that no matter if it's correct or not.

They could've also instantly say there will be no tracking and shut down the discourse, but they didn't even after multiple clarifications of the "plan" and only introduced more confusion. Let's not rewrite history. If the plan was to do self report from the very beginning, they would have said so. It's not hard to communicate that.

 

I don't understand the new version number. I don't get why it is a "6". You changed to the standard system of mayor, minor and hotfixes, in the version number, being the first number the mayor, and instead of the "year", the real version of the product. But 6?
In the old version system with the first number was tracked one of the most important things I use: the version of the gradle. It is the main headache when you compile for Android and I need to know in a very simple way with version of Gradle I am using. It is impossible the new version to be Unity 6. Google update gradle a lot. And the same happens with the other external tools. How will I easily know with version of external tools are you using, now? "Unity 6.0 will use gradle 8 and Unity 6.23 gradle 9"????

 

The version is actually 6000.0.0f1 so semantic versioning still works as expected.

 

Because we already had a Unity 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

We've always had that. Both for the original releases (eg 5.6.7) and the yearly releases (eg 2023.1.20).

 

Any news about the new C# runtime switch, I thought it would happen with Unity 6 but I didn't read anything about it in the blog post?

 

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-future-net-development-status.1092205/page-51#post-9764259

 

Actually that was a core feature of Unity in the pre-SRP era ("Author once, build many").