By way of this reddit posting, some interesting news about Unity 4 was posted and then removed.
So what can we expect in Unity 4, according to this article?
- DirectX 11 support
- Improved Flash exporting
- External forces, bent normals and automatic culling of particles
- dynamic obstacles and avoidance navigation
- optimized UnityGUI performance and memory usage
- dynamic fonts across all platform using HTMLesque markup
- remoute Unity web player debugging
- new project window workflow
- iterative lightmap backing
- refined component based workflows
- extensible inspectors for custom classes
- improved cube map importing
- geometry data improvements for huge memory and performance savings
- non triangle meshes, render points and lines.
- search, live preview and asset store directly from project window
And perhaps most interesting of all, a preview of deploying to Linux.
They also promise a faster turn around development cycle on version 4 than they had on version 3.
Personally I am kind of underwhelmed. With Flash/Nacl support, is Linux support really a big deal? Otherwise its nowhere near as big of a release as the prior 3.x releases. The DirectX 11 support should help PC versions of Unity games get closer to CryEngine and UDK in graphical fidelity.
I do wonder if they will offer upgrade pricing for the version they gave away earlier this year?
What do you think, if this is real are you excited by the new features?
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