Does Unity get update on latest Umbra 3.0 Occlusion Culling Technology?

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I am just curious, does Unity’s license agreement with Umbra technology allow them to get update on the latest Umbra 3.0 that they showcase at GDC 2011 ??

And what version of Umbra is Unity 3 currently using??

I ask this because I noticed on the Umbra website they said :
“A new version of the Umbra Occlusion Booster has been released. Below you can find the most important changes. The full release notes can be found from the Umbra Information Center.” - 11/2/10

and

“This release improves the performance of the latent occlusion query issue mode as well as fixes a number of small issues.” - 1/12/11

Improved performance!! Bug fix!!

So, is Unity getting those goodies and integrating them into next version of Unity? :smile:

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Maybe.

Unity don’t license “umbra” they use a specific version built exclusively for unity. This was made clear by unity staff in another thread. Having said that, they also said that they would be fixing a number of bugs in the next version (or rather, rebuilding how it works in unity).

As for commercially available versions of umbra, unity does not use those.