So I was just looking at Cartoon FX, a nifty particle fx collection, but now…it’s 4.0 only.
Since I have little interest in 4.0 (primarily into 2d-2.5 d games), there’s little of interest in 4.0. But now, I couldn’t purchase and use it if I wanted. I also have purchased quite a few expensive plugins that I’d like to continue using with 3.56.
Of course plugin devs will update their wares to 4.0, but please leave a note if you are going to kill compatibility with 3.56, so we can prepare by scooping up the last version before we’re cut off.
It’s a good point. I didn’t really think about the upgrade issues for folks but I can see how if you are dedicated to 3.0 or 3.5 or even back to 2.6 and assets can’t even be purchased unless you have a recent-enough Unity version, that can be a problem. That’s why I’m now keeping a copy of 3.5 around and considering making sure a) everything works on it and b) assets get submitted from that version instead of 4.0 … but there comes a time, you know, when you have to upgrade stuff.
Just a reminder to people to upload assets using the oldest version of Unity that you support. If you upload using Unity 4.0, that makes 4.0 the minimum that users can download with, even if you think you’re supporting older versions.
At the moment, I’m still supporting Unity 3.4.2 with ScoreFlash (so it works in 3.4.2, 3.5.6 and 4.0) - but eventually, I’ll drop 3.4.2 and a little later 3.5 support. But I’ll certainly post about it in its forum thread to make sure no one is surprised in a bad way
