I bought iPhone basic 1.7 two month ago during “special offer period”.
so I thought I can upgrade 1.7 to iOS after Unity3.0 released, but I couldn’t find iOS download section or upgrade menu on 1.7
Can I upgrade 1.7 to iOS or should I just use 1.7 with Unity 3.0? Help me~~~
Hi,
most probably you already have Unity 3.0 license with iPhone add-on license. Unity 3.0 is single product for all the platforms, so you don’t need any separate download. Just download Mac version of Unity 3.0, activate it with your license key, open your project (it is highly recommended to backup it before migrating from 1.7 to 3.0) and switch active platform to iOS by clicking File->Build Settings…->Switch Platform.
i have a question… with 3.0 it offers the ability to develop once and then publish to android… iphone ect… What average percentage of coding changes are necessary to get things to at lease compile without errors and have basic functionality across platform
Depends on the platform and feature you use.
if it is iphone targeted then there are only restricted amounts of changes required (primarily related to the hardware buttons and alike)
if it was desktop and you try to go to mobile its normally quite a bit more as the restrictions of AoT vs JIT, cut things from mono etc will hit you much more.
also keep in mind that the ability to publish to other platforms requires addon license for every platform (ok for iOS and android, all other addon platforms that are coming or around like Wii etc require you to have a dev license for the platform maker anyway to even license unity)