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Why this college is teaching real-time 3D to the next generation of automotive designers
The College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit, Michigan has been at the forefront of innovation for over 110 years. We’ve partnered with this leading art and design college to create a series of hands-on courses to better equip post-secondary students with real-time skills for the automotive industry.
Subscription! Why?
Over the last days I’ve been reading all comments about the new products and prices, and first of all, do know that we are very carefully listening to everything, discussing a lot especially what we can do to make the subscription pricing appealing especially to Indie devs who have been using Unity Pro for the longest […]
With Momotaro Dentetsu World, Konami brings a beloved 36-year-old franchise to Unity
Momotaro Dentetsu is an iconic Japanese franchise featuring boardgame-style play where players travel to acquire properties and build wealth. The first game in this beloved series was released in 1988, and more than 20 titles have been added since. Momotaro Dentetsu World, the latest iteration in the franchise, was released a little over a year ago. It was the first Momotaro Dentetsu console game made with Unity, so we sat down with Noriaki Okamura, the senior producer of the franchise for Konami Digital Entertainment. In this Q&A, he explains why they brought their game to Unity to, as he puts it, “pass this franchise on to the creators of the future.”
Making of The Heretic: The VFX-driven character Morgan
Creating a character with the help of Visual Effects Graph was an interesting challenge for the Unity Demo team. As someone who spent a lot of time in his career waiting for renders to finish, Demo team’s Technical Artist Adrian Lazar has appreciation for the creative options made possible by real-time authoring. Read the post below for his detailed breakdown of the process behind the character Morgan, as well as useful tips for anyone doing VFX in Unity. My name is Adrian Lazar and I’ve been working in the computer-generated graphics industry for the last 18 years or so, starting with post-production in advertising and transitioning to real-time graphics with game development in 2009. I have a generalist background and in the last few years I’ve been taking more technical art tasks - this helped me ship my own indie title together with a small, but talented team. When I joined Unity’s Demo Team in early 2019 as a technical artist, we were getting ready to release the first part of The Heretic so I helped with some finishing effects. Soon after that we started talking about Morgan, the god-like, VFX-driven character introduced in the short film 2nd part. On the storytelling side, Vess (Veselin Efremov, writer, director and creative director of The Heretic) had some clear requirements: Morgan needed to morph between multiple states, calm and angry, female and male or a combination of these, grow in height multiple times over, crumble, catch fire, and more. Regarding the appearance, on the other hand, Vess intentionally left it quite open for exploration and experimentation. We had some early concepts created by our former colleague Georgi Simeonov, but those didn’t get into the vfx and shape-shifting aspect of the character, both fundamental to the final look - this meant that I had a pretty blank slate to start which was challenging but fun!
Implementing ads without cannibalizing subscription conversions: A brief guide by ad format | Unity
With the savvy implementation of an ad-based tier, subscription cannibalization can be avoided. What you need to know about implementing ads without cannibalizing subscription conversions, broken down by ad format.
Enhancing mobile performance with the Burst compiler
As part of a recent session at Unite Now, we discussed how technology in the Burst compiler enables developers who are building projects with Unity to take advantage of the Arm Neon instruction set. You can use the Burst compiler when targeting Android devices to improve the performance of Unity projects supported by Arm architecture. Unity and Arm have formed a partnership to enhance the mobile game development experience for the billion-plus Arm-powered mobile devices in the Android ecosystem. For game developers, performance is paramount. Year after year, Arm invests in improving its CPU and GPU technologies to provide the advances in performance and efficiency needed to build richer experiences. Recently, Arm announced two new products, Cortex-A78, which provides greatly improved power efficiency, and the even more impressive Cortex-X1. These hardware developments are complemented by advances in compiler technology for the Arm architecture. Compilers ensure that when you develop high-performance games, they are translated and optimized into efficient binaries that make the best use of the Arm architecture’s features.
Enhanced Aliasing with Burst
The Unity Burst Compiler transforms your C# code into highly optimized machine code. Since the first stable release of Burst Compiler a year ago, we have been working to improve the quality, experience, and robustness of the compiler. As we’ve released a major new version, Burst 1.3, we would like to take this opportunity to give you more insights about why we are excited about a key performance focused feature - our new enhanced aliasing support. The new compiler intrinsics Unity.Burst.CompilerServices.Aliasing.ExpectAliased and Unity.Burst.CompilerServices.Aliasing.ExpectNotAliased allow users to gain deep insight into how the compiler understands the code they write. These new intrinsics are combined with extended support for the [Unity.Burst.NoAlias] attribute, we've given our users a new superpower in the quest for performance.
In parameters in Burst
The Unity Burst Compiler transforms your C# code into highly optimized machine code. One question that we get often from our amazing forum users like @dreamingimlatios surrounds in parameters to functions within Burst code. Should developers use them and where? We’ve put together this post to try and explain them a bit more in detail.
Bursting into 2021 with Burst 1.5
Our High Performance C# (HPC#) compiler technology, Burst, has gone from strength to strength. In the latest version Burst 1.5, we’ve made some major improvements. In this post we’ll take you through the headline features, and show you how to make the most of Burst in your projects.