Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Hello!  I’m Na’Tosha and I’m the Build and Infrastructure Developer here at Unity Technologies.  While speaking with users at the awesome Unite 2011, I had several people ask me to write a blog post about how Unity Technologies manages to develop, build, and test Unity. We do this with a combination of: Continuous Integration Automated…

Our friends at Mixamo have been working on new solutions for game developers.  You can already use their animation tools inside the Unity Asset Store, but their latest and greatest innovation is the Mixamo auto-rigger, which totally is the bees knees for artists delivering assets to Unity!  This cutting-edge  solution will change the way you…

Yes! I did a talk at SIGGRAPH! Ahem. So yeah, a bunch of us were at SIGGRAPH 2011 in lovely Vancouver, doing talks, meeting people and going to super interesting sessions. Me & ReJ did a long technical session about optimizing graphics for mobile platforms. GPU architectures, shader optimization details, case studies from actual Unity…

While we have been developing Unity 3.4, we have ported the Unity runtime to the x86_64 architecture on Windows. You may have noticed that the Unity 3.4 editor allows “Windows 64-bit” as a new build option in the Standalone build. We have also ported the Unity Web Player to Windows 64-bit. This allows you to…

Many of you have reported troubles submitting your applications built with iOS SDK 4.3 to the iOS AppStore. At the time, the problem looked very complex and because all the troubles were happening after application gets post-processed for AppStore on Apple’s side, there were only a few ineffective ways to trace it down. We mailed…

  Hello everyone. You have probably already heard about Shadowgun, the new mobile game developed by MADFINGER Games. You might also have seen Shadowgun being demoed at WWDC on stage during the Graphics State of the Union talk. Needless to say, we’re very proud of the next great creation made in Unity, and we love…

Google’s Native Client (NaCl) is a brilliant idea. TL;DR: it allows native code to be run securely in the browser. Here’s a collection of developer-centric notes about it (it’s not very Unity specific). But is it secure? “Bububut, waitaminnit! Native code is not secure by definition” you say. Turns out, that isn’t necessarily true. With…

Over the NinjaCamp III week I (it’s-a me, Aras!) worked on implementing a Direct3D 11 renderer in Unity. At the beginning of the week I had a standalone player that creates a window, clears it to the correct camera background color and could draw a cube in magenta color. All in full glory of Direct3D…

So we still have more to show and we are collecting together more videos and cool demos of some of the projects that were worked on during the NinjaCamp week. This time, we have a screen shot of the in-editor “Welcome Screen” or “Info Hub” that was cooked up during the week. The idea behind…

Yet another video showing a cool project that was worked on during last week’s Ninja Camp, Spline based mesh extrusion!  

Despite NinjaCamp concluding last friday (25/03/11) We still have plenty of projects that were worked on during the week that we’d like to share with you. Starting with a new component: LOD Group  

Lucas has added a really nice, simple improvement, check out the video to see how it works:  

The Ninjas have assembled and we’ve all been hard at work this week.  We’re surprisingly tired at this point, but all sorts of cool things are popping up around the office. For our NinjaCamp project, Levi, Vytautas, and I (Na’Tosha) decided to pursue our passion for GNU/Linux — we thought we would invest our time…

For NinjaCamp, Chris and Rob decided to see if two guys could make an adventure game for under $1000 using only Asset Store assets. According to them, the number of art packages available on the Asset Store made level design fun, fast and easy. With no programming experience, they spent the last few days getting…

Joe Robins spent a few minutes checking out the coolness Shawn and Jens have been busy with over the last few days. Vertex Color Painting!  

NinjaCamp ninjas are busy working on small, large and almost impossible projects. This one is tiny in comparison, but should be pretty useful. We’re adding a context menu item in the asset window to “Filter References in Scene”. Selecting it will apply a filter to your hierarchy window to find all GameObjects or their children…

Update: The Create Script Dialog is now on the Asset Store As our NinjaCamp project Bas and I decided on a cause a bit humbler than many of the other projects going on here: We just want to improve the workflow of creating a new script in Unity. The current way to make a new…

The Copenhagen office is packed with developers who have gathered for NinjaCamp III. As the name implies, we have done two of these experimental weeks before. Each camp has focused on different aspects of development life at Unity. This time NinjaCamp is an opportunity for developers to work on projects that we would normally either…

Hello everyone. I wanted to show you something I’ve been working on last couple of FAFFs. The purpose of this post is to interest some of the technical types among you. If you don’t care about a technical discussion about an unfinished feature, you can just read about the basics or jump right to the…

Hi Everyone, We are very happy to announce that Unity Android and Unity Android Pro are now available! Head here to download a trial and read on for extra info on what is included. Naturally, Android fits straight into the editor like all the other platforms, so its incredibly simple to take your existing games…

These are exciting times. Today, at the Flash Gaming Summit in San Francisco (of which we’re proud Gold Sponsors), Adobe has announced the public availability of a beta version of the Flash Player, codenamed Molehill, that has a very interesting new feature: hardware accelerated 3D support. Molehill exposes a very low-level shader-based interface to the…

We are so happy to announce that Unity 3.2 is now live and available to download! Here is a rundown of the major new features and improvements: Image Effects: New Depth of Field with fantastic bokeh, improved bloom and several other image effect tweaks and fixes. New Water: All new Water prefab in standard assets…