Unity Blog

Earlier this week Google announced important changes to the Google Play requirements: target API level 26 (Android 8.0 Oreo) or higher will be required for new submissions starting August 2018, and all submissions starting November 2018. 64-bit support becomes mandatory for submissions in August 2019. In this blog post we would like to help you […]

2017.3 completes the 2017 cycle introducing several new features and improvements across the board for both artists and developers. We’re excited to share all the great new and improved features available today with Unity 2017.3. Before drilling down into the details, though, we wanted to look back at Unity 2017. (If you can’t wait, just […]

This year you could get assets from demos like the real-time rendered Adam films and the TANKS multiplayer tutorial, as well as training and content from Swords & Shovels. We’ve introduced new Unity tools and support plugins like the Unity ARKit and the FBX exporter. And we’ve and seen thousands of great new packages from […]

This year has been a great year for us in Online Evangelism and next year is shaping up to be even better (and busier!). Coming into the end of the year I thought it might be a good time to take a look back and pick out some of my favorite content which I created […]

This blog post describes the basics of Crunch compression and explains in details how the original Crunch algorithm was modified in order to be able to compress ETC1 and ETC2 textures. Introduction to Crunch: Compressing DXT textures. Crunch is an open source texture compression library © Richard Geldreich, Jr. and Binomial LLC, available on GitHub. […]

OTOY’s cinematic render engine for the Unity editor has arrived! OctaneRender® is the first and fastest path-traced, GPU-accelerated render engine. In Unity, OctaneRender is available for free, or at $20 or $60 for packages that unlock more GPUs and OctaneRender plugins for leading 3D authoring tools. Cinematic rendering in Timeline and Play mode OctaneRender arms Unity […]

Advertisers, at their core, are storytellers. And VR is the most powerful storytelling medium ever created. Users can be transported into an entire world imagined by the brand and, based on their actions, the story changes and evolves, creating an even deeper connection. If only we already lived in a world where everyone owned a […]

A fun game experience is something that players want to show off, record, and share. With VR, seeing what the player sees on a single, rectangular screen doesn’t always convey the entire feeling. This means that spectators can often find the default ‘seeing through a player’s POV’ experience underwhelming. What I wanted to do was […]

My name is Alessia Nigretti and I am a Technical Evangelist for Unity. My job is to introduce Unity’s new features to developers. My fellow evangelist Ciro Continisio and I developed the first demo game that uses the new Unity Machine Learning Agents system and showed it at DevGamm Minsk 2017. This post is based […]

Last week, we announced the Neon Challenge, a real-time environment art challenge inspired by Veselin Efremov’s project, Neon. A project that was created in a weekend using the power of Timeline, Cinemachine, Post-Processing and the Unity Asset Store. Take the challenge for a chance to win $20,000 USD. The Unity community is full of brilliant […]

The Machine Learning team at Unity is happy to announce the release of a new version of Unity Machine Learning Agents – v0.2 Beta! With this release, we are improving the toolkit on all fronts: 1- adding new features to both the Unity SDK and Python API; 2- new example environments to build on top […]

Are you curious about how Oats Studios created such high-fidelity sets, characters and costumes in real time for ADAM: The Mirror and ADAM: Episode 3? Read our in-depth, behind-the-scenes blog posts on lighting, Alembic support, clothing simulation, Timeline, shaders, real-time rendering and more. My name is Jean-Philippe Leroux, and I am a senior technical artist […]

Are you curious about how Oats Studios created such high-fidelity sets, characters and costumes in real time for ADAM: The Mirror and ADAM: Episode 3? Read our in-depth, behind-the-scenes blog posts on lighting, Alembic support, clothing simulation, Timeline, shaders, real-time rendering and more. I’m SerEn (Sean) Low, an Art Tools Engineer specialized in Tools and […]

Are you curious about how Oats Studios created such high-fidelity sets, characters and costumes in real time for ADAM: The Mirror and ADAM: Episode 3? Read our in-depth, behind-the-scenes blog posts on lighting, Alembic support, clothing simulation, shaders, real-time rendering and more. From primitive to high-tech costumes If you’ve seen ADAM: The Mirror and ADAM: Episode […]

Are you curious about how Oats Studios created such high-fidelity sets, characters and costumes in real time for ADAM: The Mirror and ADAM: Episode 3? Read our in-depth, behind-the-scenes blog posts on lighting, Alembic support, clothing simulation, shaders, real-time rendering and more. I’m SerEn (Sean) Low, an Art Tools Engineer specialized in Tools and Pipeline on […]

With the release of the iPhone X, Apple popularized the use of “Animojis” for sending animated messages and everyone was showing off their newfound karaoke animation skills. Less known was the fact that Apple had released a face tracking API for the iPhone X which allows you to create your own animated emojis. Unity already […]

With $20,000 USD on the line, what futuristic real-time environment scene will you create using the power of Unity and the Asset Store? Empowering the community of talented creators to realize their creative visions has always been a core part of our mission at Unity. At Unite Austin we unveiled Neon, a real-time environment scene […]

With our launch of Poly for Unity EditorXR and Google’s new Poly Toolkit for Unity, you can now import Poly models directly into your VR project. Get ready to explore thousands of 3D assets on Google’s Poly that will spark your imagination and help you build great experiences. Note that Poly for Unity EditorXR (developed […]

As the end of the year and the holidays are approaching, we thought it would be fun to share with you some of the exciting Made With Unity content from 2017. Take a peek and see what some of the staff here at Unity have been enjoying this year. Cuphead “Being an old fart of an […]

Or, what am I supposed to do with Animation Playables? Ever since they were introduced as experimental in 5.2, Playables have been mysterious beasts. Many of our users have been curious, and have asked us, “What am I supposed to do with those?” We answered, “Anything!” but we didn’t have any concrete examples to start […]