Unity 4

Frankie

Has anyone updated to unity4? Is it good? Does it break anything?

I'm a bit worried because one of the old updates changed the way it loaded all my models depending if they had multiple objects in and was quite a bit of work fixing them all up again.

Farfarer

Been using the beta since it was released - not upgraded to the full 4.0 yet.

It will break some scripts and animations are handled differently now (some 3.5 settings are depreciated) but generally the process is pretty painless.

Frankie

Thanks Farfarer nice to hear that

monster

Yeah, I've been using it for a while. The legacy animation is still there for now. Many of my script errors from upgrading were very easy to pin down because unity would say "That command has been deprecated. Use this command instead."

Richard Kain

I hadn't committed to any "major" projects, and one of my largest Unity projects was in the midst of a redesign anyway. So this transition hasn't really affected me too badly.

The new animation system looks pretty robust. It will be a while before I will have need of it, but for more experienced Unity users it will probably be a big help.

Started learning Unity's GUI system today, and I'm actually having a pretty easy time with it. Very excited about getting deeper into Unity development.

Farfarer

Oh, you'll learn to hate the GUI in time :P Bit faster than it was but... ergh.

Can't wait for the new one to be released...

tristamus

Unity is turning out to be an incredible game engine. I've got Unity 4 Pro, it's fantastic. The rapid prototyping aspect is especially amazing.

Lamont

I am glad I chose Unity over Shiva that is for sure, the support and community is awesome.

Richard Kain

Farfarer wrote: »

Oh, you'll learn to hate the GUI in time :P Bit faster than it was but... ergh.

I was a little confused at first. But once I made it through all of the basic tutorials things had started to make sense, and I was altering and customizing the way I wanted to. It's a bit of a strange approach, I'll admit, but not as bad as I had feared. I'm confident I've got a hold of it now.

I had heard that they were going to revamp the GUI in a later version. What are the big improvements coming up?

Farfarer

Mostly that it's not cripplingly slow and awkward to use. That's been improved in 4.0 but it still racks up awful GC spikes.

The new GUI is a huge overhaul, highlights are here;
http://video.unity3d.com/video/6943180/unite-2012-using-the-new-gui