Unity Engine

We want to inform our community that Unity’s support for Facebook Instant Games is being deprecated. This includes the Facebook Instant Games build profile, as well as the Facebook Instant Games SDK for Unity package. T…

Changes to Assetdatabase APIs We’re making changes to improve the reliability and determinism of Unity’s asset import system. Starting with Unity 6000.3.0b2, you’ll see warning messages when certain AssetDatabase APIs ar…

Hello! We have seen how Play-to-Device, a Unity feature we launched alongside support for visionOS, has helped developers quickly iterate on and preview their content in Apple’s visionOS simulator or on Apple Vision Pro…

Happy fall folks! We’ve just released a major Editor Foundations Design System update that includes guidance on: OS Native Dialogs - added Editor dialog functionality and updated message levels (updated link) Icon Libr…

Following our deprecation of MARS in Unity 6.1, we’re writing to let you know that Unity MARS and the Unity AR Companion app will no longer be supported for production starting from Unity 6.3. For more information on you…

We’re excited to announce that Behavior 1.0.13 is now available! This release focuses on improving stability and addressing critical serialization issues, with significant enhancements to how the package handles missing…

Hello Unity community, We are excited to announce the first experimental release of the Jobs Profiler package, a new tool designed to give developers deeper insights into Unity’s Job System performance and behavior. Wh…

Hi everyone, We are planning to make a change to the Asset Database in Unity 6.4 around inter-asset dependencies. This is a bit nuanced to discuss, so rather than just dropping it into the 6.4 Breaking Changes thread,…

Hi everyone, We’re excited to kick off the public Alpha for Unity 6.4 and start sharing weekly[1] builds with you for early testing! While early alpha releases may not include many differences compared to 6.3, new featu…

:tada: Netcode for GameObjects v2.6.0 is now available with the following updates: Added NetworkSceneManager as an internal wrapper for the SceneManager.Scene.handle and swapped all places that use an int to represent …

Hi everyone, Great news! The Unity Hub team is thrilled to roll out the latest beta release 3.15.0, bringing you highly-requested features like project display names and improved project searching. If you’re on the beta…

Unity’s strength is our community - millions of developers building on a shared foundation. As the community has grown, so has the need to ensure that our ecosystem remains safe, reliable, and secure. There shouldn’t be…

Hey, The Input Team would like to announce that Input System 1.15.0 has been released. The version will be available through the package manager in the upcoming versions of 2022.3, 6.0, 6.2 and 6.3 Editors. Alternativ…

Howdy everyone, I wanted to give you a quick update on some new functionality we’ve recently added to the Package Manager, and some new stuff that’s coming up. You’ll notice in the Unity 6.3 beta that we’ve added funct…

The latest release of Unity’s official support for visionOS is now available for all Unity Pro, Enterprise and Industry subscribers on Unity 6 via our 2.4 packages. Highlights for Release 2.4.3 This release includes sup…

Hello again! It’s Matt from the XR team at Unity, here to share another round of updates. Unity 6.2 Here’s a look at the latest XR development features in this release, which shipped last month: Android XR support is …

The Shader Graph and World Building teams are excited to announce that beginning in Unity 6.3, it’s now possible to create terrain shaders using Shader Graph! By creating terrain shaders in Shader Graph, artists and d…

Hi everyone, As we did with Unity 6.3, this thread is where we’ll share some early information about breaking changes we plan to make in Unity 6.4. While our goal is for every release in the 6.x series to be a complete…

2D bone-based animation is used for a significant portion of the 2D animation in mobile games. In Unity 6.3 we have made multiple improvements to the performance of 2D Animation. Improvements We refactored the 2D …

Optimizing and managing Sprite Atlases is vital for large projects, especially on resource-limited mobile platforms, to ensure smooth game performance. In Unity 6.3 we’ve introduced the Sprite Atlas Analyzer tool. Th…

Game developers want to incorporate 3D elements in their 2D games. We want to make sure you can do this using standard 2D tools and workflows. As of Unity 6.3, the 2D Renderer supports rendering Mesh Renderer and Ski…

What is it? Low-level 2D Physics based upon the latest Box2D v3 is now available in Unity 6.3 beta A new API that empowers developers with direct access to a powerful new physics system, providing the ability to…

Summary Unity 6.3 introduces native support for importing and rendering SVG files within UI Toolkit, streamlining workflows for building resolution-independent and easily scalable UI assets. With this release, UI element…

Dear Unity Developers, We are excited to announce that the new experimental Netcode Profiler Modules in Netcode for Entities (com.unity.netcode@1.8.0) are now available! Please note that these new modules require Unity …

Hi everyone, We’re excited to announce the beta release of Unity 6.3, which will be the next LTS when it enters GA (general availability). Your feedback is valuable and will help us get Unity 6.3 production-ready. …

The Shader Graph team is excited to announce the new Custom Lighting Sample set - available in Unity 6.3. This set of samples shows how you can use Shader Graph to customize the lighting model in your proje…

ML-Agents 4.0.0 is here! This release brings support for the powerful Inference Engine and sets the stage for the future of ML-Agents in Unity. Developer documentation has now moved to the Unity Package documentation, yo…

Hi everyone, I’m Martin Dejean, Senior Software Engineer with the audio team here at Unity. We’d like to give you all a rundown on what we’ve been working on since the release of Audio Random Container and also share …

Hi everyone, We’re excited to announce that Unity 6000.3.0a5 brings native screen reader support to Windows and macOS. This extends the platform coverage of Unity’s screen reader support APIs beyond Android and iOS (int…

Hey everyone, The UI team has exciting news for UI Toolkit users! We’ve made significant progress on two highly anticipated features: Custom Shaders via Shader Graph and Post-Processing Filters via USS. These are now av…