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Stage3D doesn't work on Linux either. Or at least, not with hardware acceleration, which makes it about as useful as... I'll get back to you.

Anyway, my game seems to get stuck at the menu screen, pressing "play" does absolutely nothing. Well, we've got NaCl anyway, infinitely better than Flash.

 

Particle thing in Unity Webplayer works fine for me on Chrome.

 

Wow, that's some pretty hefty release notes!

Looks amazing, thanks a lot for all your hard work guys!

Downloading now...

 

So, with the new text based scene files, what is the recommended way to use GIT for source control. Currently I use the following metafile technique. (http://www.chrisdanielson.com/2011/06/04/unity3d-projects-version-control-git/)

Is this still the preferred GIT setup?

I have the Pro version.

 

Mansquee!

 

Its also free license, and I believe supports every feature Webplayer has.

But the runtime player for NaCL is massive (100Mb). For a simple cube demo, users shouldn't have to wait everytime to download this. Does Chrome installs the runtime player once, or does it download every time per domain name?

 

You need to change stuff a bit. in the library folder the only thing you need to check out is the versioned folder.
that and the whole assets folder.

but that holds for the case where you use text based files and non text based files as the library folder itself changed

 

Wow, what an update! Thanks Unity!
Just messing around with Shuriken and all the curve based settings itself is amazing!
Mesh particles are also awesome. Those will be a great addition to our project

Ok, back to reading the updated documentation!

 

So... Where are my light probes?!?
Area lights?? Is it that, can someone tell?

 

Creating your own audio is awesome. Well done, you Magnificent Bastards, well done. This is going to be fun.

 

Text based scenes pro only? Sadface.

 

--Eric

 

Thanks, I saw that, but I dont know what the anchor is
I just drag a light source to that field and thats all? Cant be so simple like that.

 

is flash export going to work on linux?

 

the exported flash player works whereever Flashs Stage 3D player exist, so theoretically it works on linux

 

another thread for this

 

Hi,

Someone know where we can find documentation about social api (game center) ??

Thx!!!

 

Thank you stramit! Now I gonna have some fun.
Oh my god, this is soooo cool, I see the probs now

 

Who's this disturbing individual?

 

I think you may be wrong on that count. Adobe stopped developing the in browser Stage3d... but AFAIK to focus on apps, rather than on the browser plugin. I understand that Stage3D is indeed coming to mobile and it was actually showcased by Lee Brimelow a couple of weeks ago at FITC:

http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/stage3d_for_ipad_and_iphone/

Alejandro.

 

@woodn - that's our favorite PS3 porting midget, Mircea

 

@aNTeNNa trEE I wonder if she had something to do with this 404!

 

Already the fact that it says iOS means its not Stage 3D in mobile flash player but Stage 3D in the standalone compilation path as iOS targeting is standalone compilation only and if you do that you for the hell of it would not use flash (you lose performance, features and many other things and gain exactly nothing). Anyone using unity to target that kind of failed on step 0 of his research for technology.

That targeting only makes sense for people working with AS3 and Stage 3D natively and alike not a engine that 'beside the real targets' targets Stage 3D too

 

Backed up my project and updated. Works great. Had a few minor issues with some prefabs (I went a little crazy with nesting), but otherwise - awesome. Had an iOS version running on device in no time.

Now on to testing out some of the new goodness. Thanks Unity.

 

Ah I forgot... I could activate a 30 days trial, thank you Unity! Time to play around with Pathfinding.

 

Any webpage or something where all the 3.5 features are listed/documented/explained? Apologies if this has been already asked.

 

Well, Flash export isn't really going anywhere fast I guess. Look at this:
http://wolfos.org/resources/flash/FlashExport.html

It doesn't lag, and everything is present, but some objects are barely visible because their lightmaps didn't export or something, and everything is suddenly all low-res. And that's a Unity demo!

The bloody spacebar doesn't even work!

 

Also, how much of Mirror's Edge did the designer of that demo play?

 

Lagged for me.. heck, the screen keeps turning white almost every few seconds.. (I'm on Ubuntu 11.10)

 

Flash version(18MB): http://bit.ly/uUZKZZ
Unity version(15MB): http://bit.ly/uirjOB
NaCl version(15MB): http://bit.ly/rRrk04

The NaCl version also doesn't seem to work, anyone know why?

@ShadoX: The Linux version of Flash player doesn't support hardware acceleration. You won't get any playable framerates out of that.

 

It seems to me missing the unity_nacl_files folder. That is the runtime and you need to upload that as well.

 

I'm getting a message in Chrome - "Native client plug-in not allowed." Is this a browser issue or a server issue? I've uploaded the entire web build folder along with the nacl_files folder.

 

Try typing chrome://flags in the address bar and enable Native Client.

 

That's largely due to the HDR tonemapping and Linear Space lighting. That demo is marked as "Pro Features" and is meant to show off certain new features in 3.5 such as Linear Space lighting, HDR, Light Probes, LODs, OC, etc... it wasn't meant to showcase Flash deployment and we should've made that clear. Although in the FAQ we do say that image effects are not fully supported in Flash atm.

I actually haven't played it that much ;-) - but it was the obvious inspiration for the demo as it easily checked a lot of feature boxes that we wanted to show off cleanly and quickly.

PS - If you want to check out Flash deployment out of the box with a Unity demo do it with AngryBots as we did purposely update that demo to run in Flash.

 

I completely agree. There is no sense in trying to use Stage3D on Mobile if you can go directly using iOS Pro. Just wanted to give my 5ct on Adobe desisting on Mobile

PD. The dev preview rocks! can't wait to see www and Asset bundles into Flash Export. Really exciting times!!!

 

Photon cloud / RPC and terrain is not compatible with flash export?

Code (csharp):

1. The type or namespace name `RPC' could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?

 

C'mon, are you kidding me? I was expecting NavMesh to be Pro and Occlusion Culling to (since it was before too), Even the Text Based Scenes and prefabs was quite to be expected to be Pro but LOD?

That's really something basic that should be available in the free version.

P.S. Wasn't it said in the other thread, that there is going to be a feature which jumped from Pro to Free? Looking at the Free/Basic list I fail to see anything that wasn't there before in Pro. Mind to clarify?

 

@Tseng I'm also wondering about the Pro feature in Free. I wonder what it is.

 

Click on the link in the first post, then click on FAQ.

--Eric

 

I'm gonna take a guess....but the pro feature in free is the reverb zones, right?

 

So we've got HDR support, how do we use it? Is it a post processing effect?

 

It's shuriken that is in Unity free too.

 

It's true that Stage 3D doesn't support hardware acceleration on Linux. However, whether that results in an unplayable game depends greatly on the game.

For example, all of the demos in the Unity Flash Showtime thread (at time of post) run perfectly well on my completely unexceptional Ubuntu workstation. Angry Bots drops a few frames, but is still completely playable. It's definitely conceivable that other things won't be, but many things work surprisingly well, and things need to be tried on a case-by-case basis before ruling them out.

That said, Native Client is certainly the best road to providing Linux users with the best possible experience.

 

You just need meshes with different polycount for it and assign them in the LOD Groups and tell it when to switch. It's not too hard to reduce the poly count in tools like blender, so your argument is none. Also Indie doesn't mean you make everything yourself, 3-10 people can still be indie, depending on the size of the project etc. Indie actually means, not funded by some huge publisher, you do basically everything out of your own pockets. Being Independent.

It's pretty important, especially for mobile devices. And currently Pro licenses for Android are just to expensive, because you need the Pro + Android Pro, even though Android Pro doesn't offer anything new over Unity Pro, just enables it for the other platform.

But if you work on a game with no funding, then having to play 3000$+ per seat is pretty much for ANY indie developer, because you can't purchase Android Pro separately you always have to purchase Unity Pro, even though you may never use it! So if you have 4 devs, that's 3500$-5000$ per seat if you develop for mobile (Android Pro + Asset Server/Android Pro + iOS Pro + Asset Server), which is 10.500$-20.000$, just for Unity.

Cause working with more than 2 people absolutely requires the Asset Server/Team License. Well, actually with the new changes it can work with VCS too, but on bit larger projects you still lack the Cache Server. If the licenses could at least be purchased separately it would be at least a step forward for indies. They you'd only need (Android Basic or Pro + Team License) * seats, which reduce the costs per seat to 1500$-2000$ (or 400$-900$ for Basic), which is somewhat acceptable for indie devs.

I must say, much changed in the past 12-14 months since Unity3D got a free version. Back then Unity3D looked pretty viable for indie developers, but currently it's more of getting in the background as other major engine developers offer completely free SDKs (+royalties or purchase of commercial license when your game is done and ready for release) and Smartphone Ports.

For our next project, we'd for sure need Android Pro at some point, if it's just for the static batching and asset bundles feature, but the current license model is just... not a valid option. It's already pretty much almost impossible to work with 2 others without a source control, the current system just to broken. In order for the others to make changes to some prefabs, I first have to add them, zip the whole stuff and send them, so they can do the change.
If they add the prefab themselves and only send the *.prefab files, it just won't work because their scenes/project assigned a different GUID code to the prefab. While its quite possible (but annoying) to do this with very small projects (under 300 MB project file > ~100 MB packed), it's impossible with anything bigger than that.

 

I also wonder about that Pro Feature that made it into Indie, now.... Is it really the reverb zones?

 

Shuriken particle system was dropped to unity free, if I recall right.

 

Unity Free already has/had particle effects, Shuriken is just the improvement/replacement of the existing ones.