Advanced Member Marc Wakefield Posted October 29, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted October 29, 2009 Hi everyone, Just thought I would give you a heads up on a fantastic new development in the world of 3D Game Creation. Unity 3D, a really great, easy to use Game Engine for PC, Mac, Web, Wii and iphone games is now free: http://unity3d.com/ You can import obj files created in 3d coat into your games. The indie license can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes. Check it out! It almost rocks as much as 3d coat! Marc Wakefield http://www.mrmdesign.com http://www.marcwakefield.co.uk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Ghostdog Posted October 29, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted October 29, 2009 Nice one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Wow, I had no idea Unity supported LightWave files, including bones and animation. That makes things a LOT easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Wow, I had no idea Unity supported LightWave files, including bones and animation. That makes things a LOT easier. Yeah it really does! Looks like I'll be digging into the engine sooner rather then later thanks to them doing this. Very cool of them to release it as such, well, save for the people that recently purchased it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Ghostdog Posted October 29, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted October 29, 2009 Maybe we can use this tool to create Phil's earlier idea with the virtual-gallery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Very cool of them to release it as such, well, save for the people that recently purchased it. From CGDigg: "Everyone who bought Unity Indie in the last sixty days are alternately being offered full refunds if they don’t wish to upgrade to the Pro version." http://www.cgdigg.com/story.php?title=unity-indie-is-now-free I just installed it and it seems to load fine at least. I went to the video tutorials on the website and they don't play for me, well I get audio, but the video is solid white. As for the virtual gallery this is very cool for that since it has a web player, meaning no downloads aside from the 3MB browser plugin. It might be tough to do for a site like this though since there would have to be rules I think, like anything submitted to the gallery would have to have this polycount and textures no bigger than this, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Digital777 Posted October 30, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted October 30, 2009 This is great although it sounds like it has some watermark or something but i haven't tested just yet. I looked at the forum yesterday and there seems to be a load of upset people because to the people that purchased before a certain date they don't get a refund, glad i didn't buy this at first then because i considered it. In anycase this seems like it will be great for free! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 So I installed it and ran it with the demo level that comes with it. It's not exactly the Cry Engine, but I've seen worse. It looks like Battlefield 1942 quality. I also notice that it has output options for Wii, but not PS2 or 360. not that I'd be needing that , but it tells you something about what it's capable of. But still... it's free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Ghostdog Posted October 31, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted October 31, 2009 The import wizard information online stated it could read Carrara mesh, bones and animation via .FBX export from Carrara but this didn't turn out to be true. Pity really as had uses for it if it could read Carrara's export as I currently don't have any other software capable of exporting animated Mesh to Unity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 From CGDigg: "Everyone who bought Unity Indie in the last sixty days are alternately being offered full refunds if they dont wish to upgrade to the Pro version." http://www.cgdigg.co...die-is-now-free Thanks, good to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member cuffins Posted October 31, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted October 31, 2009 But the free version didn't have all of the features like real time shadows etc.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 I'm going to be interviewed about my experience with Unity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Ghostdog Posted November 4, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted November 4, 2009 Sounds interesting Phil, is it just from a "new user" type of perspective? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Not sure how secretive they want to be since I haven't even gotten the questions yet, but it's not from Unity Technologies, someone else. Oooh, mysterious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Ghostdog Posted November 4, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted November 4, 2009 *smirk* Today I've tried to drum-up support from other Carrara users to convince Daz to fix the incomplete/broken .fbx exporter, so that the relationship I hope to have with Unity will blossom Daz have stated a renewed interest in the Game Dev market so I actually have every hope that within a short-time I'll add Unity to my 3DC/Carrara->game workflow Just hobbyist at this stage, not that there is anything wrong with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Aw someone stole my art museum idea and did it a lot better than I would have. Problem being that it takes a long time to download. http://www.livio3d.com/pages/VirtualMuseum.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member geo_n Posted November 5, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted November 5, 2009 Aw someone stole my art museum idea and did it a lot better than I would have. Problem being that it takes a long time to download. http://www.livio3d.com/pages/VirtualMuseum.html nice link. how did you find it? is it in unity3d forum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Yeah I was searching for something else and came across it by accident. Right now I'm watching a really in-depth free tutorial here: http://www.learnmesilly.com/ (click Unity on the left side) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 Keep an eye out for the November LightWave newsletter next week. That's all I'm saying. http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/newsletter.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Jake_H Posted November 20, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted November 20, 2009 Thanks for the unity tutorial posts Phil I am looking for a simple unity template for a virtual gallery for some of my sculpts - any suggestions? Cheers Jake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Sorry, no ideas for any templates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Jake_H Posted November 20, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted November 20, 2009 Yeah - I am just being a lazy git- Cheers Jake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member geo_n Posted November 20, 2009 Advanced Member Share Posted November 20, 2009 Keep an eye out for the November LightWave newsletter next week. That's all I'm saying. http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/newsletter.php Tell more. :P Is there a workflow for getting lw assets to unity in that newletter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Newsletter is out, along with my tutorial on moving models and environments into Unity from LightWave and setting them up with FPS controls. http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/newsletter.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Targos Posted January 29, 2010 Member Share Posted January 29, 2010 Newsletter is out, along with my tutorial on moving models and environments into Unity from LightWave and setting them up with FPS controls. http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/newsletter.php Hi Phil what month was that Unity / LW tutorial you mentioned? I cant find it at that link..Cheers AaronC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 It's the November newsletter. Sorry the URL changes every month. I asked if there was a permanent link and Ben Vost, who was my editor said no and that he had complained about it too. Anyway here's the current link. Scroll down a bit: http://www.newtek.com/lightwave/newsletter.php?pageNum_monthlynews=2&totalRows_monthlynews=15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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