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Unreal Engine comes with full source updated live on GitHub, that is worth its weight in gold, sadly not even the Pro Unity subscription version comes with that option.
Nice response to Unreal Engine price change. Now the hard part is trying to pick which one to learn and use. Competition is a good thing.
When in doubt, UE4 is going to be open source and Unity is not. In my book until Unity opens up their code there is no competition for anything more than a hobbyist toy that needs to get at the engine guts without a new car or more to see it.
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/11/26/4-6-is-released-with-sou...
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies
https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/
Asset/Cache Server: http://unity3d.com/unity/collaboration/
Built-in Shaders: http://unity3d.com/download_unity/builtin_shaders.zip
I really love that these game engines are doing this. As a hobbyist game dev with a day job and a night-shift (tfwgf), one of the biggest hurtles that keep me building on html5 instead of on desktop was the demand that I had to pay $$ upfront before I have any idea if I can even finish what I'm building (much less how the market will receive it). I mean, I don't mind paying the engine company their demands if I can m…
As someone who played Sierra city builders almost exclusively when I was growing up, please do. Hasn't been a good game in that style in ages.
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Can you use Unity to make regular (non-game) apps like you would with Xamarin?
as I understand it the "game loop" that is inherit in the Unity engine makes any app made with it a battery hag. Unity does not have an event based system, so it uses a lot more cpu then regular apps.
You can do event based work with your own Messenger such as (http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=CSharpMessenger_Exte...) or the new ui system has an event system. You can also use C# delegates/events/callbacks as desired.
Their previous OnGUI based tick UI was meant for before mobile and caused many of these slower games. But there have been nice GUI systems like NGUI to help that. Their GameObject based SendMessage is too hefty and probably many new devs use that and have laggy games. Their core out of the box UI and messaging before Unity 5 was made for an era before mobile.
But if you know what you are doing it is C# underneath and you can always implement a messaging/event system, and many implemented their own UI or used popular assets like NGUI, EZGUI or DaikonForge (before they bailed when the new UI was released). The new UI is strongly influenced by NGUI as the original asset maker worked there on Unity UI, it took some different routes after he left but both are now very performance focused for mobile.
Garbage collection is one area where current mobile speeds are poor and hopefully IL2CPP can get to a place where it is optimized for that case. Now that Unity controls down to the metal it should be faster and better over time. They previously were locked to Mono 2.x performance on iOS though they still have to convert all their platforms other than iOS and WebGL.
I just bought Unity Pro with iOS and Android for personal use around a week ago :(
I really love that these game engines are doing this. As a hobbyist game dev with a day job and a night-shift (tfwgf), one of the biggest hurtles that keep me building on html5 instead of on desktop was the demand that I had to pay $$ upfront before I have any idea if I can even finish what I'm building (much less how the market will receive it). I mean, I don't mind paying the engine company their demands if I can m…
I tried Googling that and it lead me to some weird places, but still no answer!
I really love that these game engines are doing this. As a hobbyist game dev with a day job and a night-shift (tfwgf), one of the biggest hurtles that keep me building on html5 instead of on desktop was the demand that I had to pay $$ upfront before I have any idea if I can even finish what I'm building (much less how the market will receive it). I mean, I don't mind paying the engine company their demands if I can m…
Unity's been free for years, you've fallen for their advertising to upstage Unreal. "Finally offering a free version" Honestly, it's been free for ages. Not only that but Microsoft had XNA which was also a free game engine that they only discontinued last year so you're wrong thinking that html5 was the only option. I don't think you really researched the market much if you thought that. Plus if you are serious about…
I'm pretty sure Unity would be able to fix this if they had their compiler always handed rounding the same way.
Also: If you want to see a sane way to handle floating point, check out the Unum format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format))... higher precision than IEEE, doesn't have rounding errors, and uses fewer bits.
I really love that these game engines are doing this. As a hobbyist game dev with a day job and a night-shift (tfwgf), one of the biggest hurtles that keep me building on html5 instead of on desktop was the demand that I had to pay $$ upfront before I have any idea if I can even finish what I'm building (much less how the market will receive it). I mean, I don't mind paying the engine company their demands if I can m…
What does 'tfwgf' mean? I tried Googling that and it lead me to some weird places, but still no answer!
using my license to conjecture, I'd say that OP has a girlfriend and thus has a lot of expenses that a single man would not have
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Unity's been free for years, you've fallen for their advertising to upstage Unreal. "Finally offering a free version" Honestly, it's been free for ages. Not only that but Microsoft had XNA which was also a free game engine that they only discontinued last year so you're wrong thinking that html5 was the only option. I don't think you really researched the market much if you thought that. Plus if you are serious about…
What most people don't realize is that the IEEE Floating Point standard (754-2008) actually doesn't standardize when a float should be rounded. Since most CPUs/GPUs are able to do FMAs (Fused Multiply-add)'s that are rounded after the operation, you get a different result than if you were to do a multiplication operation, then round, then add, and then round again. I'm pretty sure Unity would be able to fix this if t…
My takeaway: It's hard enough that I'm probably never going to attempt to implement lockstep simulation, and if I was forced to I'd probably do everything in fixed point for my own sanity.