Unity Technologies Blog

The recently released Unity Developer Preview is jam-packed with new features. Among the most exciting of these features are previews of two new export options for publishing to the web: Google Native Client and Flash. In addition to leveraging users’ already-installed software to get them into your games even faster, these platforms will allow Unity…

When creating compelling video game levels, the idiom ‘God is in the Details’ couldn’t be more true. Detail in your world design is a sign of artistry and aptitude that motivates players to invest interest (and money!) in your game. Often we find that the lush and detailed worlds themselves are as much the star…

Our good friends at Massive Black, who include some of the most accomplished and talented artists in the industry, have invited Unity to participate in their annual workshop! Unity artist reps Joe Robins and Roald Hoyer-Hansen will be on hand to dispense knowledge to help attending artists get the most out of the Unity tools…

The London Unity Usergroup had its fifth and sixth events within the last 6 weeks (due to the former being delayed after the london riots), and I was there as always to capture the talks and show you what goes on at the meetups. At MeetUp 5, Russ Morris and his colleague George showed off…

This post will show you how to create water with a custom mesh, adjust the settings and gain some artist insight into making water look nice. To keep up to date with the latest tech this post will primarily concentrate on new Pro water stuff, but later on there are some general tips which should…

Unite has just flown by in a complete blur, as it always does. The Unity staff are heading their different ways, all across the world to get back to making more awesome tech. For me personally its been an amazing ride to see the evolution of the conference and the level that we have reached…

So day two of Unite 11 has come to a close. At the time of writing I’ve just got home from the Unite Party, it was really cool and I had a great time talking to a few of the many, many attendees. At the party I met people who were working on projects for…

Many people were asking for slides from yesterdays “SHADOWGUN: rendering techniques and optimization challenges” talk, so here it is: SHADOWGUN at Unite’11 slides. And sorry for poor projector image.

So the first day of Unite 2011 is coming to an end. It really has been a record breaking start to proceedings with 1,200 registered attendees with 41 sessions and 70 speakers. Certainly a long way from the first ever Unite which had only 70 attendees and again almost doubling in size compared to last…

This post is a guide to importing a skinned mesh with a looping animation and then animating it’s position in Unity. At the end of the guide you should been able to import a skinned mesh, parent it to a position node, animate positions & rotations along waypoints and then edit the animations, duplicate and…

Ole and I promised to share the slides from our talk at the SIGGRAPH 2011 Studio. The presentation covers various graphics techniques that use depth, normals and color buffers. The methods range from improving standard techniques to creating entirely new ones, like approximate volumetric effects or advanced image post-processing. The buffers used are in many cases…

Unity supports textured 3D models from a variety of programs or sources. This short guide has been put together by games artists with developers at Unity, to help you create assets that work better and more efficiently in your Unity project. This will be incorporated into the documentation in due course Scale & Units Set…

Over the last few months here at Unity, we have been hard at work on, amongst many other cool things, the ability to publish from Unity to the Flash Player. This means that next to the already existing build targets of a Unity project, one will be able to target Flash with Stage3D, announced for Flash…

At the latest London Unity User Group, the evening kicked off with a beginner talk by Jasper Stocker, and was followed by ‘Open Mic’ talks by myself – demoing a quick Space Shooter demo I made in Unity – and LUUG regular Quickfingers, showing off a game he made for recent Ludum Dare 48 game…

Hi people. After the roadmap blog post about where we’re taking the core Unity tools, we thought it was time to give you guys a heads-up about what the future holds for the asset store. Like the other road map, this one talks about where we’d like to go – with a focus on editor…

This page gives an overview of the default Unity Hotkeys

  London Southbank University, 23rd June 2011 – Unity users, newcomers and developers gather at the third London Unity User Group (LUUG) to see presentations from developer Mike Renwick on his experience with recently launched Augmented Reality solution String (poweredbystring.com) and Jon from agency Preloaded on their experience of developing Boccia, a recent project for…