I purchase unity 4 pro over a year ago. Still no gui(new). Mecanim is great. Unity are putting all your resources into Win 8(Vista II)?
Unity 4.0 wasn’t released until November 2012.
They have a lot of employees. Different employees work on different features.
–Eric
Yes they do. And it’s still worth asking … what is taking so long?
Gigi
I purchased the pre-released version on June 29th.
Start using mecanim and you will know that it’s too not ready.
From my understanding platform development and engine feature development are handled by completely separate developers within the Unity Team. The development of the GUI system is not at all impacted by adding support for Windows 8 or the PS Vita or Linux or PS4 or XboxOne or Blackberry 10 or WiiU or any of the other platforms which are being added to Unity. In fact I would guess Windows 8 support is taking very few resources right now compared to other more recently announced platforms as it’s nearly ready for release (Aras tweeted that 4.2 RC4 was being compiled two days ago). Claiming they’re putting all their resources into Windows 8 support and calling it “Vista 2” is just being petty and ungrateful.
Everyone wants the new GUI but lots of people also want new platforms like the Windows 8 Store too as they want their games on as many platforms as possible. Are you suggesting they should stop all the other areas of development until the few developers working on the GUI get that done? That would be over 100 people, at the least, just sat around twiddling their thumbs as they have nothing to do with GUI development. Putting all those developers onto GUI development wouldn’t help it come any faster and would be more likely to cause problems as too many cooks spoil the broth. There’s nothing wrong with inquiring about the status of a feature that’s being developed but just complaining “It’s been this long and that feature still isn’t released!” is not productive.
Why all the fuss about the GUI ? you got pretty alternative in the store use them until it’s ready.
I really hope the new GUI will finally come on August 28…
Since the 4.0 rewrite, the Unity GUI system is not that bad; I think the ‘OMG bring new GUI…nao!!!’ hype is a little over-the-top. You can always choose to fork over for NGUI, but I figure why bother then there’s a perfectly good alternative that comes with Unity?
Now, that said, if Unity were to improve the GUI system/swap it out, I would have no objections. But, the anti-hype is a bit silly.
2D Toolkit has a nice little ui in it as well.
I think the biggest thing a lot of folks might be looking forward to in the new GUI is the fact that it can use a fully 3D* coordinate system…for those extra fancy HUDs and what-have-you.
*pretty certain I remember reading that.
The problem with the GUI is the fact that designers simply cant use it so you are stuck with programmers doing it. We are all waiting for the unity gui because its just around the corner, just like iran has been “1 year from the bomb” for the last 20 years.
There is a big Unite event coming up, they like to show off new features, hopefully they will give us a hint of what could be in 4.3.
Although I do think that getting the guy who makes money from NGUI on the asset store to make you a new GUI might produce a conflict of interests, as he could have just ported the core of NGUI to C++ and gone TADA! ;0)
As you can tell I am not a big Win 8. Thus I am “petty and ungratefull and not productive”. I did give $1250 to Unity. It gives me some rights.
Hate Win8 as much as you want, that’s not why you’re coming across as petty, ungrateful and unproductive here. Hating what the hardworking staff at UT are doing just because of your opinion of one of the many platforms they’re adding support for, on the other hand, clearly is.
You paid $1250 for the product you got, Unity 4.0, not for features which may or may not be added at some point in the future. You should be grateful if the new GUI gets added in a free update, not complaining that they haven’t released it yet when they have only said “it’s coming” without any indication of when or in what version.
The guy behind the new gui system is the same guy of the ngui?
I hope Unity is not paying him too much.
Why’s that? I’m sure he’s working hard on the GUI. Would you want it now, unfinished and likely not up to its fullest potential, or later when it actually is properly implemented and is as good as everybody hoped? Personally, even though I’d like to see it come out soon, I don’t mind waiting if that means a fuller, better feature.
So wait, you hope that someone isn’t making money at a new job? That’s pretty low. I’m pretty certain that (if it was the guy/gal behind NGUI) Unity hired him/her on as a developer and not just a freelancer.
For that matter, the new GUI will not be NGUI. It won’t run the same way, it won’t be the same code. It may use similar concepts and things that the person learned making NGUI, but it is a different beast.
Also consider that you don’t have to use Unity in the first place. You could go out and roll your own, Ogre is a free rendering engine you could start with. But, you chose Unity. Because it simplifies the game development process so incredibly much. So you might want to try chewing on what all Unity gave you for your $1250 a bit first.
As far as all that goes, I wholeheartedly agree with rab236. If Unity rolled out the GUI today, bugs and all, I bet you’d be complaining even more than you are now.
^^ This.
Gigi