This release is mainly about compatibility with old graphics cards and bugfixes. On windows there are tons of people who have outdated graphics card drivers, some of them full of bugs. Most game engines, put their heads in the sand and say upgrade your drivers. Problem is that a lot of people don’t even know who made that graphics card and where to get those drivers.
So instead we spent 3 months working around driver bugs, testing on old and broken hardware. Making sure your games run just fine on what is otherwise a minefield of driver bugs.
Of course there are some other more flashy things like the grass rendering, updated third person platformer scripts and full unicode support. Go check it out.
Amazing. This update fills a lot of little holes through which things were leaking, and the features, no matter how humble you make them seem, are blessings to us all. I’m sure you’ll be seeing a fearsome array of swaying grass in the near future.
note: the release notes link from the newsflash page still links to 1.5.
So do the performance improvements for object-heavy scenes have to do with mesh combination? I was interested in the hints there would be developments in that area.
Nope, they just put some GoFaster™ code in there. The mesh combining is a separate thing (and was possible before anyway if you wrote the script yourself); it’s not going to work in all situations.
Yee hee, I thought this might be happening so I went to the "Try " page about five hour ago and begun downloading another “trial”…and it was called unity1.5.1…
whatdayaknow…I guess that makes me the first dialup downloader…And a bit cunning too :twisted:
wohahahahaha…
AC
hmmmm its almost here…
Justread the whats new-great work guys! My geforce 4 mx440 sends its love…And Ive got a Radeon9200SE 128mb coming for my Pc too…
Rock on!
I notice the view popup changes to “Free” when you adjust it, instead of staying at “Top” or whatever. A nice little change That used to bug me a little but I never stopped to think about it long enough to complain.
I cant wait to inspect that car wizard and that new terrain stuff examples. I am downloading now and I just received a package with a book about character rigging for games some minutes ago. An extended four day weekend is coming up here for me (YEAH!) and i see myself spending it in front of books and my comp. This is going to be great!
I just read that 9.0 and 9.1 Versions of Cinema are now native with Unity. Does that mean, that the 1.5.0 fbx bug with C4D R9.1 is fixed? That would be really great!
Most devs just work on bug fixes in their own software with .1 upgrades, you guys raise the bar and give us all this goodness in a .1 upgrade!!! What… trying to make your customers happy or sommin? Sheesh!
BTW is there a web player for the platform game? PCs here at the office
Hey that grass is wicked. I guess these things are straightforward to use, but a brief tut, or even VIDEO-you guys do great videos-
Would be…Oh forget it-go have a holiday, you deserve it!
\AC
Edit: oh Sh*t theres a grass how to…Duh
No more 3am sessions, boy
I actually downloaded the Race Demo last night after 1.5.1 but I still did not see the car wizard. I did see the ragdoll wizard though. Can someone help me feel less foolish by pointing out where I need to look?
Downloading. This should be cool. And more/better support for older graphics cards may be a saving grace for me an’ my 5 y/o computer (though I am getting a new MacBook for Christmas)
