Finally, #Unity 6 is officially released — new features are promising, let's hope for the best! 🙂

https://unity.com/blog/unity-6-features-announcement #Unity3D #GameEngines

If you ever thought that #Unity gave up on shady practices, it was probably a fancy cover up PR.

Garry (yep, the one with the mod and also the Rust game) complained that unnamed engine company asked them for $500K/year in services if they want to keep using it. Since it's definitely not Valve and Garry's mod, he's talking about Unity.

#GameEngines #Business #WTF

It's highly likely, that they are using TressFX by AMD, upgraded (still under Open Source) by Unity China under HairFX brand. And yes, you can add this to your games!

Crazy enough, there's Chinese Unity that is a separate entity and makes even more nice stuff than the main one. This plugin, for example, works well with Unreal and seems like it was also integrated into Frostbite engine (DICE/EA).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Fu_acqEQ8 #Unity@GameDev #AMD@GameDev

It's #Free and official book from #Unity to learn URP (Universal Render Pipeline), which is usually utilized for games, aiming for wide hardware support, VR, and mobile devices.

Introduction to the new Render Graph in Unity 6:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8PygjYAF7A

#Tutorials@GameDEV
#Unity@GameDEV

Glass shader for Unity with chromatic dispersion, fresnel, and more:

https://x.com/TheMirzaBeig/status/1871141924163260615

#Unity@GameDEV
#Shaders@GameDEV

One fella has 1080 Ti and Indiana Jones isn't supported on cards without Raytracing. So he made his own version in Unity!

#Unity@GameDEV
#RayTracing@GameDEV

Unity swapped Apply and Revert buttons in their UI between 2022 and Unity 6 for no reason. The change makes users accidentally reverse changes.

#Unity@GameDEV
#UIUX@GameDEV

Unity fired an undisclosed number of workers last morning by sending out a 5 AM email. The biggest loss is among Helsinki office. And this is the sixths significant layoffs wave in Unity in the last couple of years.

It's interesting that this time they attacked a cash cow: Unity ADs was heavily affected.

#Unity@GameDEV
#LayOffs@GameDEV