{"id":4403,"date":"2016-11-03T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T06:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:27:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T03:27:44","slug":"lots-of-exciting-new-unity-stuff-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitycoder.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/lots-of-exciting-new-unity-stuff-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of Exciting New Unity Stuff Coming Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lots of good stuff announced by Unity this week, here’s compilation of them:<\/p>\n

Demo Assets<\/strong>
\n– Adam Demo assets released [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n

New Preview Builds<\/strong>
\n– Navigation Preview Build (Finally Runtime navmap baking!!!!!!!!!!!!111) [link<\/a>]
\n– Nvidia Build : VR SLI, Multi-res Shading, Lens Matched Shading, and Single Pass Stereo [link<\/a>]
\n– VFX Toolbox Image Sequencer Preview Build (looks like sprite sheet editor with lots of advanced features?) [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n

New Features
\n<\/strong>– New Video Player (Plays 360′ videos too!) [link<\/a>]
\n– Timeline tool (probably what was called Director earlier? Super cool sequencer, procedural camera system and more) [link<\/a>]
\n– Vuforia AR will be built-in to Unity (For now available as package) [link<\/a>]
\n– OTOY Rendering engine will be added to Unity [link<\/a>]
\n– EditorVR (use Unity editor inside VR, coming in Dec 2016) [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n

New Build Platform<\/strong>
\n– Facebook GameRoom publishing (new target platform) [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n

New Services<\/strong>
\n– Unity Connect is now in open beta (place to look for jobs, build your portfolio) [link<\/a>]
\n– Unity Collaborate is now in open beta (basically built-in version control and sync for teams?) [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Free For Education<\/strong>
\n– Education license is now free! [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n


\nOptimizations:<\/strong>
\n– Asset importing will get multi-threaded (and runs in background while you can start working already)
\n– In 5.6 moving transforms will be much faster! *see main image for stats
\n– New c# job system will help you to easily make (safe) multi-threaded code!
\n– More rendering will move into other threads (so work main-thread is lighter)
\n– 2D Physics SIMD optimized [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n

*Maybe missed few things..feel free to add in comments<\/em><\/p>\n

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Others<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Xiaomi partnership (easier to publish games to China) [link<\/a>]
\n– Mobile version of Mario will be made with unity (personally not expecting it to be great if its free to play IAP spam and waiting..) [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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View the keynote yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n