There are two new versions of the Unity game engine available right now, the more exciting but dangerous Unity 2021.1 Tech Stream release, and the more stable LTS or, Long Term Support version of Unity 2020. We look at what's new in both.
After setting the internet on fire with the exceptionally bad Unity Runtime Fee, Unity have been pretty much radio silent while thousands of Unity developers protested in a variety of ways. Today, they have finally announced the new Unity pricing structure and the runtime fee is almost completely gone, replaced by a royalty, while the Unity Personal tier actually got a lot better. In fact they finally removed the hated Unity Logo requirement!
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-announce-massive-pricing-changes/
The Story Till Now:
https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-announce-new-pricing-and-plan-changes/
https://gamefromscratch.com/developers-react-to-unity-pricing-change/
https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-price-change-fallout-keeps-getting-worse/
https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-developers-fight-back/
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Today we are going hands-on with the new added nascent VR support that was added in Blender 2.83, we will see how to enable the plugin and how scene inspection works in VR.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/06/10/Blender-283-VR-Support-In-Action.aspx
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In this part of our ongoing BabylonJS tutorial series we look at creating cameras. We specifically look at Free, Arc Rotate and Follow cameras with a quick discussion of other camera options available in the game engine.
The source is available here:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/11/29/BabylonJS-Tutorial-Series-Cameras.aspx
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If you struggle to make good looking particle systems in Unity, this asset pack might be the perfect thing for you. It's a load of prefabbed particles systems in the newest version of Unity, complete from from Unity themselves. Vapour trails, fires, explosions, weapon effects and tons more are included in the pack.
Links:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/tutorial-projects/unity-particle-pack-127325
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Today we are checking out the Panda2 game engine, an HTML5 game engine built on a MIT open source engine, with a commercial editor built on top of it, that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Links:
https://github.com/ekelokorpi/panda-engine
https://www.panda2.io/
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You know the monthly Unreal Engine asset giveaways we report on here every month? Well have you ever wanted to pick those assets yourself? That's exactly what is happening now, the GameFromScratch community get's to decide the assets for an upcoming UE Asset monthly giveaway! Post your choices in the comments below and on the GFS Discord server in the Unreal Asset channel.
In other Unreal Engine news, they are running the Better Light than Never UE5 Lumen challenge, with a chance to win cash and other prizes. And on the topic of the Unreal Engine marketplace... there is a massive sale of 10,000+ assets up to 70% off.
Links:
https://gamefromscratch.com/unreal-engine-asset-giveaway-we-decide-the-assets/
Vote on the GFS Discord: https://discord.com/invite/R7tUVbD
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Unity have just released verison 2019.2 of the popular game engine. This release contains several incremental improvements, including several new packages. Some of the best new features are on the 2D front with the release of a new Lightweight 2D render pipeline, 2D lights, 2D shader graph nodes and much more. Also Polybrush and ProBuilder plugins have come of age.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/07/31/Unity-20192-Released.aspx
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Looking for a highy modular game engine, that's both easy to extend, but offers a visual programing language for designers? Looking for a game engine like the now defunct Stingray engine? The Machinery may be perfect for you... once it comes out of beta that is.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/04/23/The-Machinery-Game-Engine.aspx
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The game engine, BGE, built into Blender was basically just killed off today. In this developer commit to the upcoming 2.8 source code ( https://developer.blender.org/rB159806140fd33e6ddab951c0f6f180cfbf927d38 ), you can see that MASSIVE code changes were made, that basically purged Blender Game Engine from Blender 2.8.
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