Ok I posted this in the 3.5 update thread but it basically got swamped by all the other posts.
I can’t be the only person wondering how the new GUI system is going to differ from the existing one and we know that a large amount of work has gone into it already so someone must know by now. Ok it’s going to miss the 3.5 release but in order to plan future development it would be good to get some idea of the new framework. If we continue to work with the existing GUI are we basically then going to have to bin all that code to use the new one? That’s a big chunk of dev money for us to just waste. Will existing code still run and make use of drawcall and other optimisations? Can the devs give us any clue about how different it’s all going to be. This is a major headache for our planning in 2012. It would also be good to know if there is any plan to release it as 3.5.1 as a quick update or are we now basically looking at waiting til 4.0.
Ok I know a lot of you will just say don’t wait use a third party solution, but I’ve not found any that meet our (non game) needs. UnityGUI is workable for us on non-mobile platforms but it’s preventing us from moving to mobile which we would really like to start on in 2012.