Unity 2.0 has been released!

David-Helgason · October 10, 2007, 9:56pm

Dear lovely wonderful people.

The Unity Technologies team is extremely proud to announce the release of Unity 2.0, the largest and most exciting update to Unity and the Unity Web Player that has ever been released. This major update includes more than 50 new features and a variety of other product updates. Everything about Unity 2.0 is designed to make your games look better on more platforms, run faster, and easier to make.

With Unity 2.0 you can take advantage of great new features like the Terrain Rendering Engine, DirectX 9 Renderer for Windows, Built-in Networked Multiplayer Support, Web Player Streaming and Improved Web Player Compression. Developers can also start using a new companion product, the Unity Asset Server, which allows teams of developers to easily stay in synch and provide project source control capabilities. Of course all of that is just the tip of the iceberg, there is much more to be found in Unity 2.0.

Crazy stuff

Unity 2.0 is an incredible release, give it a look and discover just how incredible!

More info: Real-time tools for 3D, AR, and VR development | Products
All the details: http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-2.0
Download: http://unity3d.com/unity/download

Oh, and check out the new website layout too!

Love from Unite 2007, where we’re presenting and meeting a wonderful cross-section of you people.

d.

Morgan · October 10, 2007, 10:00pm

Can’t wait to start playing!

Er… working!

anon_21818209 · October 10, 2007, 10:02pm

YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

anon_87667939 · October 10, 2007, 10:14pm

Woot!

I love the terrain engine and UnityGUI

polytropoi · October 10, 2007, 10:14pm

me weeps w/ joi

anon_78480614 · October 10, 2007, 10:31pm

Wooooooooot!!!

upgrade purchased! Downloading now — along with everybody else, judging by connection speed!!!

Hooray for OTEE!

jeremyace · October 10, 2007, 10:36pm

Congrats on the release guys!

I love the new site too btw.

-Jeremy

anon_46524850 · October 10, 2007, 10:46pm

Love the new site, can’t wait to give Unity 2.0 a whirl … I’m soooo stoked for OTEE and me!

Wooooo Hooooo

JW

Marble · October 10, 2007, 10:46pm

Great news. Looking forward to playing with this—less so to figuring out how to retool my existing v.1 project.

bigkahuna · October 10, 2007, 10:50pm

Congrats on 2.0 and Happy Birthday David!

anon_72146163 · October 10, 2007, 10:53pm

Congratulations to OTEE for this huge milestone, I still can’t believe how ridiculously powerful this tool has become while still remaining user friendly and agile. It’s truly inspiring.

christchild · October 10, 2007, 11:04pm

New site looks great. downloading 2.0 now! its Xmas!!!
C.

anon_23762394 · October 10, 2007, 11:09pm

Congratulations! Looks great, both Unity and the new web design.

Cheers

anon_57322307 · October 10, 2007, 11:59pm

We downloaded the new trial, but the new terrain features do not show up in the viewports…anyone know if there is anything I can do?

I get a bunch of these errors in the console window:

Unable to find Hidden/TerrainEngine/BillboardTree shader
UnityEngine.Debug:LogError(Object)
UnityEngineInternal.TreeRenderer:.ctor(TreeDatabase)
UnityEngine.Terrain:OnRenderObject(Int32)

any help would be great.

Thanks.

EDIT Apparently it’s a video card issue? I can’t see normal maps either even with per pixel lighting on. I’m running an older G4 with a geforce 2 mx card with 32 mb of VR.

anon_68432821 · October 11, 2007, 1:07am

Looks fantastic!!! I can not wait to see what everyone comes up with.

anon_85819370 · October 11, 2007, 1:34am

David, et al,

Congrats on the release!

Link from email to download Unity2.0 not working
http://unity3d.com/download.html

I was able to download it by downloading the demo, That’s the same right? Just put my license and I’m good to go.

Some links like the tuts etc not working.

Love new web site, very simple

Again congrats on the release and thank you!.

Ray

anon_4153014 · October 11, 2007, 1:38am

Wasn’t there a drop in price? Like, I bought Unity 1.62 only because the 2.0 update was free, and now 2.0 is $50 less? Wouldn’t it have been better to have waited?

anon_14155934 · October 11, 2007, 1:48am

Yeah I did that too lol Only got around to installing Unity last night. I wonder how the upgrade to Pro works as we purchased 1.x? Would we still get it $50 cheaper when we upgrade later down the line?

anon_95653684 · October 11, 2007, 3:47am

mmm looks tasty!! licks lips cant wait to try out the web player stuff, ive been having nightmares with papervision

Experience with new plugin installation so far:

went to Discover the latest Unity demos and projects | Unity
clicked install, downloaded dmg, installed packged, upgrade
now the page loading bar flicks on and off, with contacting unity3d.com

had to close the page and repoen it (not restarting browser) and works fine

Edit: watching the tropical example load in = very cool!

anon_92341125 · October 11, 2007, 4:24am

I just bought the upgrade and took the nature walk, and I have to say that it plunged me straight into a state of bliss. I’m not used to bliss. I’m a little uncomfortable with it and don’t know how to handle it. Sigh. Now I have to face a long night of joyful tinkering with this wonderful product…