cant get answers from unity

[mrbdrm]

Hi
i tryed to contact the team more than 2 times but no one answer GDC is over right ?
if they dont answer i will ask the users of the pro version , is the shadows in unity have bugs ? im afraid because i read more than one topic saying its not working right , even in these topics unity dosnt answer them too .
so any pro user tell me does it worth 1500$ ?

excuse my poor english

[Dreamora]

I think it is easily worth the $1500

[mrbdrm]

ok
what about the shadow problem how long was it there ?

[fallingbrickwork]

A colleague send me a quick application demoing some pro features (including shadows) and i must admit they were all stripy and full of artifacts. I’m not sure though if it was do to his lights setups. I too am interested to hear from other Unity 2.5 users (Windows Version) with regards to shadows.

BTW… i’m currently trialing the demo version and emailed sales@ about 5 days ago to get a pro trial and haven’t heard anything. My Indie trial is up soon.

Cheers,
Matt.

[twitchfactor]

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I think it is easily worth the $1500

Just out of curiosity, what makes it “worth it”?

I’m going to get all “pro”, because I want smaller file sizes for downloads (especially iPhone) and shadows on PC/Mac (not sure about practicality of shadows on iPhone).

I’m curious to hear other’s reasons.

[Dreamora]

The iphone part is not of importance as Unity iPhone is an addon license. Its not included.

Pro is worth it to me due to the presence of render textures especially, which are a requirement for various shaders.

Also, Pro offers Plugins and naturally the splashscreen free crossplatform deployment.

In addition there are the streamed webplayer movie texture support, which are usefull additions actually

[Eric5h5]

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Just out of curiosity, what makes it “worth it”?

Because it has a bajillion features (more than any one person could reasonably use) and is very good.

(not sure about practicality of shadows on iPhone).

Zero possibility; the hardware can’t do it. You can of course come up with different ways to do shadows on your own, like this.

–Eric

[mrbdrm]

i just get the code to test the pro thx tom
Q : is it possible that point spot light cast soft shadows ?
because i tryed but only the sun light can cast it

[Eric5h5]

Spot light: soft shadows yes, point light: only hard shadows. (Point lights are very hard on the shadow system since they have to be rendered with a cube map; i.e., 6 times.)

–Eric

[mrbdrm]

its a sham , but nevertheless im buying it
thank you Eric

[fallingbrickwork]

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A colleague send me a quick application demoing some pro features (including shadows) and i must admit they were all stripy and full of artifacts. I’m not sure though if it was do to his lights setups. I too am interested to hear from other Unity 2.5 users (Windows Version) with regards to shadows.

BTW… i’m currently trialing the demo version and emailed sales@ about 5 days ago to get a pro trial and haven’t heard anything. My Indie trial is up soon.

Cheers,
Matt.

What about the shadow artifacts, has anyone else had these with Unity 2.5 / Windows?

Cheers

[Thomas-Pasieka]

Artifacts show usually because of the user doing something not right. The scale of your objects/scene has a lot to do with that for instance. Then you also have “Bias” features which need tweaking.

[anon_85768832]

@mrbdrm: GDC is over and we’re hard at work getting through all the emails and phone calls. How did you contact us (sales@? trial@?) and what email address did you use (feel free to PM that if you’d like)? I’ll see about finding your inquiry to make sure it’s moved along and if not, get a reply out to you ASAP myself if necessary. Thanks!

[anon_34426455]

@ F Brickwork

About the artifacts (if you’re talking about my one), then… yeah, it was my fault. I didn’t really have a clue when it comes to this. I just do the logic

They didn’t happen in my online demoey thing.

[anon_21826277]

@Thomas Pasieka

Artifacts show usually because of the user doing something not right. The scale of your objects/scene has a lot to do with that for instance. Then you also have “Bias” features which need tweaking.

This. ^^^

When I first upgraded to Pro earlier this evening, I turned on shadows in my project’s lights, and the results were all messed up, with nasty moire patterns in various objects.

But tweaking the bias settings in the lights made the problems go away, and now everything looks nice and pretty.

[anon_27183217]

@Thomas Pasieka

Artifacts show usually because of the user doing something not right. The scale of your objects/scene has a lot to do with that for instance. Then you also have “Bias” features which need tweaking.

Sorry to butt in, but please if I am just doing something wrong, show me what it is:

http://forum.unity3d.com//viewtopic.php?t=20137

[fallingbrickwork]

I know some people have said that it is due to lights etc not being setup properly… but…

I opened the ShadowExample app from the Unity website into my Pro Trial and these artifacts are in this too. *Look at the walls next to the small table lamp in the lounge, you’ll see black rings on the wall!

I am/was considering buying the pro version, but to be honest, i won’t until i can get a verifiable response that realtime shadows are correctable within Windows Unity 2.5.

Cheers

[NicholasFrancis]

Have you tried playing with the bias settings for the lights?

[fallingbrickwork]

I did change the bias to various different values, but to be honest, this was just random playing as i’m not sure how the bias affects things.

That said, I couldn’t find a setting to remove the artifacts.

Matt.