Demo Movie

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In case people haven’t seen it there is a new demo movie on this page:

I have to say, I think that Unity is freaking amazing. Kudos to the UT team for their work. :wink:

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Wow!!

Unity Rocks!

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I’m rather impressed with the footage of Unity Remote in action. It’s pretty amazing to see a game running on the iPhone/iPod Touch while it still allows the user to alter the game parameters from within Unity itself and have it immediately take effect on the iPhone/iPod Touch hardware.

I also can’t help but think how cool it would be to have this type of instant interactivity within our games themselves. (For example, a first person shooter running on a desktop machine using both the iPhone/iPod Touch accelerometer and touch screen as the primary controller and game interface.)

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You’re able to do that now with the iPhone if you’re good at network programming. Check out this app in the app store: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=289616509&mt=8

It would be kool to create a full Unity game for desktop… and a side game for the iPhone which is an extension to the desktop version. Also like the PSP and PS3.

So yeah, it is do-able.

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Indeed, Unity is really impressive. I’ve been following the company for years, met them at WWDC a while back (pre-iPhone apps) and now that I’ve been playing with it and now the iPhone edition… I’m stunned.

I look forward to learning from everyone here, so far I’m having too much fun! :smile:

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So, ho do you rotate the view around the selected object like he does the ship in this video? That has been driving me crazy. Is there some orbit key or something?

Thanks

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@Shanesta: first you select the object in the scene or the heirarchy then in the Scene view hit the F key to frame in on it. Then in the Scene view option key + left-mouse drag to orbit. middle-mouse pans, right-mouse zooms. Very useful especially since some 3D modeling apps use the same technique. :smile: