Unity Summer of Code

@Matthew Miner

I've sent you a PM about sharing some code with you. We have had a cutscene editor in the works for a couple of weeks. If you want to have a look at it let me know. It has a timeline and event triggering setup, camera motion control, and a few other things, so could be a good starting point. Seems silly to leave one of our devs working on it when there will be one available shortly.

 

I sent a message to your email. I'd love to see what you've come up with so far. Anything time saved over the next six weeks is more time for polishing/tweaking/implementing additional features. I really appreciate the code offer.

 

@Matthew

Emails have been sent back and forth, you should find a UnityPackage in your email with our system so far. Theres documentation in there as well.

Hope you find it useful.

 

Just had a look at the list of projects : fantastic. Cheers to you, Unity.

 

Good Luck, Guys

Terrific initiatives, each could really bring a bounty of creative and production power to Unity...

Sidenote: Very nicely done proposal, Matt. Wish my thesis students were as neat, organized and clear about what they intend to accomplish. Often by end of senior year, the whole thing is distilled down to a desperate lunge for the finish... Ahh the joys of production. Good luck!

B.

 

nice, realy nice and meaningful projects. Good luck guys and have fan!

 

Yes, definitely - congrats to all involved!

-Will

 

So on the application it said we had to be willing to post regularly to a blog if accepted. I have only found one of the 4 projects blogs(cutscene editor); does anyone know where the other blogs are?

 

The blog for the terrain erosion project can be found here: http://sixtimesnothing.wordpress.com/

I'm not sure about the others.

 

Mine progress with Lightmapping tool can be found on: http://masteranza.wordpress.com
The progress in Detonator by Ben Throop, are placed also on his blog:
http://variancetheory.com/category/blog/

 

That's all of them . I am just very surprised that Unity doesn't give you more publicity, like instead of announcing Unity Summer of Code on their front page, they could link to the actual progress being made.

Unity is awesome, and you are all making it better!

 

Hi

Its very nice and great work - but why pick (3dsmax and VRay) the most expensive 3d package.

Why not modo?

It would be GREAT to have something like
http://www.illuminatelabs.com/products/turtle

for modo and Unity

 

Is there a progress?

 

One has been released:

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2009/09/17/summer-of-code-detonator-framework-released/

 

And the others are on the way! Stay tuned.

 

That single project was well worth the summer of code contest, holy crap awesome.

 

ok guys, now it's autumn, any progress?

 

Lightmapping tool is ready for quite a while now, however we're still waiting for Unity site update.
I'm not sure if I should give it here, however you can contact me to get the link to the Lightmapping Tool

 

check the pm please

 

any word on when the cutscene editor will be released? and will it work with unity iphone?

 

Definitely not, at least not for now.
The screenshow shows heavy usage of Unity 2.5+ editor capabilities, that are not present on Unity 2.1 (and thus Unity iPhone)

 

Yeah, I would like to hear more about the cutscene editor. Really looking forward to it

e1

 

What about the remaining (unpublished) tools of USC?

Any news? Any roadmap?

 

I know that some were still in need of cleaning up but I don't have anything concrete beyond that. I've put an item on my to-do list to follow-up on them, hopefully I'll get down to that item sooner as opposed to later!

 

The Terrain Toolkit should be out very soon. Aras has said it's ready for release and all that's left for me to do is a tiny bit of clean up work, updating the docs to reflect some new functionality and creating a tutorial video to support the release.

So not long now!

 

Can't wait for the terrain toolkit - it'll help tremendously for something I'm working on now!

Need a beta tester?

 

@Sandor - Of all the SOC projects, yours is the one I've been looking forward to the most. Looks great!!

 

Terrain Toolkit is published on the www.unity3d.com
But the link is broken
http://unity3d.com/support/resources/unity-extensions/terrain-toolkit

 

Yup, I caught wind of that and we'll be repairing it ASAP, sorry about that!

 

The new Terrain Toolset is amazing!

 

It does look good - the video is great

Can't wait to play with it now




*edit - Tony is wondering if the CutScene editor is on the horizon?

 

It's much too efficient, the file itself has been eroded !

 

Lol.

Yeah, the link is still down, but hopefully it will be fixed today.

And thanks for the positive feedback - even before the release!

 

As a band-aid you can download the Terrain Toolkit using this link:

Terrain Toolkit

We're working on a proper fix but again the above can be used for now.

 

Thank you, HiggyB !

 

The link has been fixed now.

 

It seems the cutscene editor is ready:

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/business/features/spotlightSoc4/

Why it wasn´t released yet?

 

Are there any plans for another Unity Summer of Code this year? I've got some plans to submit.

 

If we have any then we'll do it around Summer, until then enjoy Spring.

(sorry to those of you in the southern hemisphere, we're very northern-focused with respect to our seasons )

 

Fair enough.

*Sips whiskey in evening sun*

 

Any chance we can get an official statement on the state of the cutscene editor?

 

Chance? Yes. From me now? No. I'm just not sure of what's up there so I'll fire off an internal email and ask, stay tuned!

 

Hey that's all we can ask - thanks!

 

And I'm back with an update...

Unfortunately the Cutscene Editor is officially "on ice" and isn't slated for full completion as part of last year's USoC program. It just wasn't up to par when the completion date passed (nor after in a padding period) and it's just not on the radar to get tidied up. Unfortunately not all USoC projects were finished as planned despite mighty efforts by all involved!

 

I understand - but still have to throw a boooo your way anyway. =)

So it will be in 3.0 then eh?

 

Well, you are "KrankyBoy" so we'll let that slide.

What is 3.0? Never heard of it...



<ducks><runs away>



And no, not in 3.0 either... (queue up another round of boooos from Sir Kranky )

 

"And no, not in 3.0 either... (queue up another round of boooos from Sir Kranky Razz )"


With all this negative feedback maybe HB will put it on the list for 3.1.


Any plans to make some sort of editable color scheme in the Inspector for quicker finding of various levels of drop down arrow sections (or any level for that matter)?
Not necessarily exactly as in the attached jpg,
more embedded in the panel background would be better not over text but under.
For us more graphically oriented people.

 

What is "all this negative feedback" you're mentioning? Someone asked about the status of one project that was just not up to par so it's not released, that's just information sharing so you lost me there.

I don't really want this thread to turn into a "are you gonna do <insert something here>?" discussion, things like that can/should be handled elsewhere like Wish List. So let's keep all posts focused on the Unity Summer of Code program, and generally about last year's effort in specific (if we do this again we'll most definitely start a new thread).

So I don't ignore your question: I don't know of plans around that in specific but we're clearly keen on constant editor improvements so if it's not there already go log that as a request on our Feedback site, thanks!


Last note: to be clear, the Unity Summer of Code program has nothing to do with our product release cycles (3.0 or otherwise). I was asked about the Cutscene Editor being in 3.0 and answered back that it won't be in 3.0, but I (and others) want it to be clear that USoC content is entirely separate from product release efforts. Sorry if I induced any confusion!

 

"all this negative feedback" was tongue in cheek,
sorry I didn't add an emoticon.



Also, sorry I got off topic, didn't think about the forum I was in, just deflecting off the 3.0 statement.
Will go to the Wish List section, thanks.

 

Actually, that was the best bit for me. When it's the middle of winter I don't feel so bad about spending all my free time at home writing code.

Not that winter in Sydney is really 'winter' anyway... 8)