Unity Engine
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Hey I recently came across this and from what I can see its really good. I was just wondering if anyone here has experience with it and wether they would recommend it?
http://unity3d.com/unity/
http://unity3d.com/unity/
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Rube already said the biggest downfall of it... you can only develop on a Mac but can publish to Mac/PC/web.
A great place for checking out various engines and first hand reviews is at:
http://www.devmaster.net/engines/
Unity is on the right side for top commercial engines so see what some devs say about it there.
unity is indeed well done, similar featureset as luxinia, cept they have more graphical editors, whilst lux is more light weight and script oriented. From looking at some of their demos however, while they all look nice on screenshots and the website does a great job on presenting a lot of features, in detail imo certain stuff (especially the lighting demo with shadows) lacked quite a bit. Then again those are real hard topics which mostly are only found being really well done in top engines.
Unity is developped on PC actually mostly (read blog of a coder there), I think it is a strategic decision they only offer it on Mac. Less competition, they build up a good reputation there, and then once they have enough users and robustness into all their stuff, they will enter the much harder PC market. Thats my interpretation / prediction.
there is one thing I think many "engine seekers" end very often artists are fooled by, and that is nice images. As you know the art is independent from the engine. Yet engines with lots of nice art, will attract more people, eventhough other stuff might lack, and same goes for good engines with lack of good art.
I would always look for samples and tutorials first, and really "redo them" to see if stuff really is as promised.
I get the idea you guys are saying though.
good artists and programmers = good games not just good engines
Seems really strange to me that its still mac only, they are already on version 2.0 , I would expect them to want to take over the online indie market the way they are showing all these features.
Mac users is their market and they're doing really well there. They've expanded like hell the past few years.
I had a small seminar with these guys a couple of years ago and since that the engine has just gotten better and better.
This small design firm use their engine for most of their projects. Try and check out some of their demos:
http://shiftcontrol.dk/project/25
Only thing is, C4 currently lacks a good terrain solution, but the next few updates for C4 (which you get free updates with the license), includes a majorly upgraded terrain system.
The engine also runs on both windows and mac, and allows development on either.
http://www.terathon.com/c4engine/features.php
Jarrod1937 I dont know what the C4 engine is like but that interface on the features page doesnt give me confidence. It could be just as good as unity for all i know but Im going to stick with what I think is best.