Unity Engine 4 Techdemo - Butterfly Effect

[jfx]

No this does not mean KSP will one day look 300% more awesome with an overnight patch. The stuff you see in the techdemo only outlines some of the new possibilities which come in v4 of unity3d.

- character animation system

- dx11 support

- linux support

- improved workflow for devs

http://youtu.be/hucBB7mlv0Y

Here's the keynote showing off more neat stuff.

Also

- Unitys CEO obviously fancies the costumes designed for Deus Ex:Human Revolution or something.

- Peter Molyneux sucks at PowerPoint.

http://youtu.be/24AY4fJ66xA

Edited August 24, 2012 by jfx

[Neomatt]

No this does not mean KSP will one day look 300% more awesome with an overnight patch

Just replying on that: it may not be an overnight patch.

Granted, the gain is so big it would be hard not to switch to Unity4, but maybe the code cannot be ported as a simple recompilation.

Anyway, when it's out, I'm sure HarvesteR will try to port KSP on it.

[kodemunkey]

Must have been a monday.

[bsalis]

Looks like PhysX still using 32 bit numbers. Was obvious The Kraken had a hold on that bus.

[samstarman5]

If this video was made in-house, then it definitely boosts my respect for the people at Unity. True the animation could use some tweaks but that is outside the point of the demonstration. One of the best shorts I have seen in a long time.

It should be noted KSP has already been upgraded at least once to a new version of Unity during development(refer to 0.13.1 patch notes). I wouldn't be surprised that they could step it up to this new one. One can hope that the memory leak has finally been addressed.

Edited August 24, 2012 by samstarman5

[Fendleton]

Nice to see Linux support on unity........finally I might not have to reboot to play Unity games (dual boot is awesome, but I just like Linux more than Win7).

[samstarman5]

I'm sure it brings comfort to the doomsayers of Win8. But I have a feeling most of that is overblown conspiracy. I fully expect Win8 to be another Edsel like 95 and Vista, but it's not going to be anti-gaming or such. But that is another matter, entirely.

[jfx]

With the way Microsoft tries to push their appstore (and thus their 30% cut for everything that is sold through it) I'd not be so sure about that.

Big publishers have already anounced that they intend to go 100% "Free 2 Play" - one reason for this is this derpish MS agenda. With Indys, smaller devs (Planetary Anhilation) and Valve going linux the need for windows is by no means as strong as it was 5 years ago. Microsoft should not overestimate the reluctance of customers to switch to another system. Unlike them olden days, most of us now already have experience with other OSs (OSX, Android, iOS). Games are often the single one reason to stick with win.

Whatever ... I did not catch anything about multicore support in there

It is briefly mentioned in the teaser for 3.5 but nothing else.

[flaillomanz]

I couldn't stop laughing after the skateboard.

[theflyingfish]

The best part is the running gag with the newspapers. When he was carrying the fishbowl, and took that newspaper to the face, I couldn't help laughing. KSP should have an Easter egg where on April 1st your IVA windows get covered by newspapers. Chaos ensues.

Also, what hardware store only sells bright red propane tanks? The guy had hundreds of them in there.