Welcome to Developer Preview

Im getting a 404 error when I click the link?

 

Getting a 404 on the link

 

Not released 'til 8AM PST (no idea when that is compared to anyone's time zone).

 

Hi all, apologies, we're just setting up the link, have removed from main post, it'll be back shortly once we know its live.

 

Awesome

 

Excited about the beta! Going to see how the performance upgrade reflects on mobile platforms.

 

I will be having a play with this once i can download it

 

Ok, I'm getting excited now.

 

waitting

 

F5 crew checking in.

 

It's 2am and this Aussie wants his link.

 

DOWNLOADING!

http://unity3d.com/unity/preview/download

[I AM FRIST]

 

YAY

 

9mins...800kb/sec..

 

EVERYONE BACK OFF! give me some bandwidth to download this puppy!

 

Noob questions: what will happen in terms of license to people that already have a 3.4.x PRO version installed when the Beta will expire?

 

Just got it installed and now I'm gonna fire it up! Today will be a good day.

Thanks Unity developers!

 

•GUI class now has a DrawTextureWithTexCoords function for specifying texture coordinates.

Well played unity, well played.

 

What does that help with?

 

I think you will be able to have atlas for GUI textures

 

Zooming but thats the only thing cause Graphics.DrawMesh does not batch anyway so even if you run it all from 1 texture it will not reduce the drawcalls.


A word of warning: Backup your projects before converting to the 3.5 preview or don't blame others later on for your failure cause the projects won't move back to 3.5 after conversion

 

You mean back to 3.4? Why shouldnt a project opend with this beta be hindered to open with a final 3.5+?

 

It's a limited beta.

 

Back to 3.4 yes.

And nobody said it won't open with future versions but you might want to go back to 3.4 as its only a preview and preview != stable != needfully usable for production != needfully bugfree

I mentioned that only cause in the past different users trashed their projects in open betas / new versions and regreted that they forgot to backup before upgrading

 

Dreamora means if something doesn't work the way you want it too in 3.5 beta you can't go back to 3.4 cause you didn't backup a 3.4 project. So backup your 3.4 project before you convert it to 3.5 cause there is no going back ..

 

Wait, something that rather immediately worries me from the Preview FAQ : http://unity3d.com/unity/preview/faq

I figured the new VC API would require a separate license, but without the .meta files, doesn't this pretty much kill all VC for even Pro users who've used it before? That sounds like a MASSIVE step backwards.

 

Does a Pro license cross version numbers, of do 3.4 Pro users have to pay for a 3.5 Pro license? 4.0 Pro?

 

Whose going to write the first walkthrough of how to set up the new navmesh stuff?

 

3.0 - 3.x = no pay for upgrade, 3.0 - 4.0 pay you must.

 

Anyone else got problems with the Mac OS-X download? 2 corrupt disk images and I'm now downloading a third.

EDIT: yep, third is corrupt too. It's a problem on your side.

 

The new VCS features were confirmed to require the Asset Server license / Team License, which is a Unity Pro addon

 

hmmm it downloads to the point "A few seconds remaining - 500 of 501 MB (9.9 MB/sec) then it just stays there and doesn't do anything, when you get to that stage, if on firefox press pause, then resume and it completes

 

"Pro/Advanced Licenses:
- Text based scene and prefab formats make it possible to merge scene files.
- .meta file support"

I made the same mistake on skim reading it the first time. Looks like the version-control API and the Cache Server are the big-ticket Team License features, but Pro/Advanced still has the ability to manually commit and sync changes in your version-control system of choice.

 

Do they seriously ask full price for an update?

 

No, they don't.

--Eric

 

Oh my god its fantastic. I'm shouting like a bieber fan

 

In the past it was ~50% of fullprice for each license / license addon (so $750 for pro 2 to pro 3, $750 for iOS advanced 1.x to iOS pro 3 and in case of asset server clients it was $150 for the upgrade of unity 2 of unity 3, where its $500 full)

 

Hah, okay, yeah I should have read that a bit more thoroughly. Thanks for clearing that up. Giant sigh of relief.


Wolfos, Pro users usually get a discount on an upgrade.

 

Seems reasonable.

 

That's because unity have clearly been bombed by lots of users. I'm in UK and I got it. You'll need to just try again/be patient.

 

Also worth to note,
"Once you have opened your project in 3.5 Developer Preview it will no longer open in previous versions of Unity."

Quite annoying that cannot compile if there is any error in any script (even if its not used on the published project..)

 

501? Inst the package 925mb?!

 

Thats osx, where the thing always was totally oversized. Thats a matter of apples use of ZIP in DMG vs Microsoft using a reasonable compression for binary data in their CAB / MSI

 

Chrome users: try downloading with WGet or a similar download manager like Grep.

 

Figured it was because on Mac OS-X, it contains 3 binaries. PowerPC, 32 bit X86 and X86_64.

 

Will anyone here build anything for that Flash contest?
Sounds cool and all, but 14 days (-hollydays with family) is a too short deadline for anything "good", unless people submit stuff they have done already and just convert it to flash.

 

which contest?