Hello, I have had Unity Free 3.5.2f2 and I love it, however, I read somewhere that Unity 4.2 Free had basic shadows, this caught my attention and I saw that Unity 4.3 was available for download, but before i download it, I have a few questions.
1)Does Unity Free 4.3 Support shadows?
2)If I just download it and install it, will it automatically replace my old 3.5 unity with the 4.3 version?
3)Will I lose my progress in my projects? I am currently working on a few projects and I was wondering if I could continue regular development on Unity 4.3 Free right where I left off.
Unity Free does support realtime shadows for one directional light in the scene. So yes.
Before you start to upgrade, make a backup of your project. Then install Unity 4.3 in another folder. Not into the folder where Unity 3.5x is installed. Then you can use the old 3.52 version besides. Which answers your second question.
Once you open Unity 4.3 you get asked if you want to upgrade the project. By doing so your project gets upgraded to Unity 4.3. It will not longer open in Unity 3.52 after that. Thats why you have made a backup. Testr if your project works in 4.3. If so you can continue where you have left the project. When not theres always the way back by the backup.
You will surely prompted by several yellow warnings that tells you about obsolete code. There are several changings between 3.5x and 4.3. They will most likely not harm your project. And usually you can ignore them. But they are disturbing. The helptext normally provides you with a solution in case you want to fix those warnings.
Is there a way to thumbs up or +1 or something? I’m not too familiar with unity forums.