Unity needs a first-class Spline tool. Enough is enough!

Here's a link to the new package https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.splines@1.0/manual/index.html

 

That is great. Is there any example to move a player along the spline ?

 

Pretty bare bones to say the least, seen youtuber provide source code for more features than that package... Compared to what unreal is doing with splines it's insane how minimal everything is so we have to do it or use other people's code instead of making our actual games.

 

Welcome to the age of MVP. In a couple of years, it'll be solid (hopefully).

 

Kind of late, but for future reads. There are a good number of samples included. These include things generating a tube along the spline and moving an object along a spline.

 

For a spline API it is quite feature rich, much more so than any free package I have seen. It also has support for using it with Jobs if that is what you need. Keep in mind, it is mainly an API, a common library/package for people to use to build their games and tools on top of!

It doesn't have things for pipe generation or procedural placement or things of that nature. And frankly I agree with that choice, it keeps it from becoming bloated as those should really be their own packages rather than lumped in with the core splines package.

But to say it is an MVP or bare bones is simply not true. It's API and scene tooling is quite robust! It just isn't a level design tool!

 

Fair point regarding proc gen, but it could split into more packages to avoid bloat.

As for the tooling, I find it okay for in editor but not run time stuff.

 

Short off-topic if anyone wants some kind of in editor spline tool this may help based on Unity's official tutorial. Focus on the folder spline tool. https://github.com/kris007iron/EditorScripting

 

You could mention MicroVerse as being one of the big assets that use the new Splines in the Blog

 

Why Unreal Engine has its all just for free, fast and flexible?
Why we should buy ton of assets to just fix unity?
Why we should wait while editor spend tons of times to just process logic of those assets thats fix unity?!

 

Why should unity do everything like unreal? Look at how shader graph turned out.

 

Are you really asking that question ?

An engine that only does everything in half measures means we have to do it, or eat into our budgets and depend on assets with no guarantee of continued support. When we are suppose to be focussing on making games.

Ridiculous question.

 

Exactly. Absolutely agree.
When I started my current project two month before I searched for decals and I found unity URP decals which they just added in 2021. They just reinvented decals that was cutted out after unity 5! To my wonder it has only very-basic functionality, without layer system and without angle render fade(the last one already exist but just does not working), not mention that we need mesh-specific render to render specific decal only on specific meshes and assign in in runtime, to not render blood decal on everything that intersects with it! Half baked and half working. AGAIN!
They placed fix for decals in unity 2022 beta, Carl.