Unity Dev Weekly

News A fairly quiet week for Unity this week. No doubt we’ll see some exciting stuff coming in this month’s upcoming VR themed events. A brief schedule: 4th October: Google Daydream development announcement. 5th-7th October: Oculus Connect conference. 12th – 13th October: Steam Dev Days Some or all of these events will have some Unity Read More…

News Unity 5.4.1 released The first bugfix release of Unity 5.4 is out with a swathe of fixes and some minor improvements around GPU instancing and VR support. https://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-5.4.1 Unity 5.4.1p1 patch release Hot on the heels of 5.4.1, the latest patch release provides a load of other fixes and minor improvements. Most notably updating Read More…

News New splash screen coming to next Unity 5.5 beta From a tweet by Unity dev @KarlJamesJones #unity3d We did it! New splash screen has landed. Find it in the next Unity 5.5 beta. https://twitter.com/KarlJamesJones/status/773580897421582336 UnityList.com gets a major update The open source Unity search engine received a big update this week, with an updated Read More…

News Unity 5.5 Beta Released Hot on the heels of 5.4, Unity has releases 5.5 beta for download. Open to anyone that wants to beta test, it’s a good idea to install the beta alongside the regular version of Unity and keep an eye on if things in your project are broken, or will need Read More…

News Fairly quiet on official news this week. Everyone is clearly busy playing No Man’s Sky rather than doing actual work. Unity Tips Attaching your project to a bug report – Unity Blog When faced with a bug, a report to Unity that contains a reproducible test case in an example scene helps the team Read More…

News Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity The big news this week is that Facebook and Unity are working together to build a desktop gaming platform, apparently to rival Steam. Personally I think this will target towards the ‘casual’ end of the market, with hardcore gamers remaining with Steam. Say Read More…

News MadeWithUnity Submissions Now Open for Unite ’16 LA If you’ve got a recently finished project that you want to show off then it might be worth submitting. Unite 16 in Los Angeles is this year’s most important gathering of artists, developers, publishers, training providers and enthusiasts interested in Unity. The Made with Unity Showcase Read More…

Unity Dev Weekly Issue 5 August 5th 2016 After upgrading a fairly large project to Unity 5.4 this week, I can say it has been the smoothest version transition in recent memory. Hats off to the Unity team for improving both the quality and stability of this release compared to past releases. The extended beta Read More…

Unity Dev Weekly Issue 4 July 29th 2016​ News Unity 5.4 Has Shipped After an extended beta period, the latest version of Unity has finally shipped. Hopefully the beta process will mean a more solid release than previous versions, with fewer bugs and regressions. Here’s hoping. Key features: * Improved multithreaded rendering. * Motion vector Read More…

News Unity Releases Experimental Compiler Upgrade It’s happening… The upgraded Mono C# compiler (corresponding to Mono 4.4) will be used to compile all your C# scripts In the words of joncham on the forum: ‘This is the first step towards the mythical Mono/.NET Upgrade.’ Very exciting stuff, but why use the upgraded compiler if it Read More…