Unite

[Forbin]

Is anybody going to Unite next week in Seattle?

 

I'll be in town from the 19th - 21st.

[BigJKO]

I wish! Can't wait to see what features the free version of Unity 5 will have. Last time they added real-time shadows.

[BigJKO]

Here's the keynote stream for tomorrow! 

[Forbin]

Predictions:

- 4.6 (new GUI) is either going to be released at the keynote or definitively given a ship date in the very near future

- open source of the engine similar to unreal (my friend believes this, but I don't think they'll do it)

- they spend the entire keynote showing off physically based shading and webgl and don't announce anything new

[Lu]

Predictions:

- One huge popped collar

 

I do really hope they respond to the things Epic has been doing with UE4.

[Forbin]

OMG I forgot about the collar. And I'll see it in person today.

[BigJKO]

So.. what did they announce? Do I have to go through the entire keynote to know this?

[Forbin]

4.6 is open beta, and should be fully released soon.

UI code will be open sourced, but not the entire engine.

Lots of focus on supplementary services like Ads and analytics, but honestly one looks great and it's in open beta "cloud builds". Basically Continous Integration remote building. And it looks solid, open beta right now.

5.0 just hit closed beta

They're trying to be more open with their road map, and they showed off a matinee / kismet looking sysytem off. There is no promise of she or if we'll ever get it. But it's not looking terrible.

[Forbin]

Also the collar was popped.

They gave us Android TV devkits. It's kinda cool, but the controller it comes with feels awful.