The Next Game Changer! Unity Pro
4, The next generation of the Unity development platform, includes
all-new character animation technology, more publishing options, shadows
for mobile games, DirectX 11 support and many more key updates. Make,
ship and sell your professional games with Unity Pro 4. Discover a new
level of rendering power; new tools to fine tune your animations; new
graphics, special effects and performance optimizations—all unleashed
with a smooth and flexible workflow for total creative control and joy.
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Mecanim - Simple and powerful animation technology
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Mecanim animation
Mecanim, Unity’s uniquely powerful and flexible animation system, brings
your human and non-human characters to life with incredibly fluid and
natural motion
Once you set up your rigged models in Unity, advanced retargeting makes
it possible to use and re-use animations across a wide variety of
physiques. Bring animation and motion capture data from your favorite
tool or from the Asset Store, and your characters will move fluidly
while using few CPU cycles.
Define and refine your animations using Unity’s visual tools. Easily
construct and edit complex state machines and blend trees for complete
control of how your characters move. Need to animate vast armies? Not
only is character setup precise and efficient, but Mecanim’s stability
and power, combined with new optimizations, such as skinned mesh
instancing, ensure smooth runtime performance.
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Unity Add-on for Adobe Flash Player - A major global platform for your game
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Publish to Adobe Flash Player, publish to the world
With over a billion PCs running Adobe Flash Player, you can unleash your
Unity 3D content onto a true global platform. Create a game, or take
your existing Unity 3D content—for iOS, Android, desktop or the Web —and
seamlessly publish to Adobe Flash Player with Unity’s hallmark speed
and ease of use.
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Publish to Linux - And a market ripe for awesome Unity games
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Unity 4 Linux standalone desktop preview
The most requested feature from our community has arrived! Port your
standalone desktop indie game to Linux with Unity 4. Linux games are
thriving even though the platform is comparatively underserved. The
success of distribution initiatives, such as the Humble Indie Bundle and
the Ubuntu Software Center, prove that Linux users are happy to pay for
games. Linux standalone publishing will be available for all Unity
Desktop users at no additional cost. Take your game to Linux, and an
audience eager for high-quality entertainment.
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Visual Fidelity and AAA Rendering - Achieve the artistic style of your desires
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Thrill your players
Create dazzling graphics with flourishes of polish, nuance, and
realistic detail. Deliver a beautiful game that performs smooth and
clean across multiple platforms.
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Shadows for mobile
Add realism to your iOS and Android games with self-shadowing realtime shadows.
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Refined profiling for mobile
Unity 4’s Profiler now reports on GPU usage for games running on Android
devices with Tegra chipsets, so you can zero in on and adjust
performance bottlenecks for gameplay on the move. The Unity Profiler
reports how much time is spent in the various areas of your game. Play
your game in the Editor with Profiling on, and capture performance data
for CPU and GPU usage, rendering, physics, audio and memory.
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DirectX 11 rendering
Higher visual fidelity and faster rendering times for your professional
PC games: Unity 4 now supports the Windows DirectX 11 graphics API.
Improve performance with compute shaders, which give the ability to use
GPU as a parallel CPU. Utilize more complex shaders with shader model
5.0, and add richer details to your game worlds’ models and environments
with tessellation.
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More detail and control with your lightmapped scenes
Unity 4's iterative lightmap baking gives you complete control of your
lightmapping workflow. With the option to "bake selected", you spend
time baking only the parts of the scene you are actively working on.
Coupled with new updates, such as the use of normalmaps when
lightmapping, and lower memory requirements for the bake process, it has
never been faster or easier to add detail and nuance to your
lightmapped scenes. Scenes with both normalmaps and dual lightmapping
appear more polished, smoothing the visual transition between objects at
far and near distances.
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Skinned mesh instancing
Efficiently create your own crowd rendering system. Unity 4 gives you
script access to the output from a skinned mesh renderer, so you can
precompute animated poses, or cheaply render multiple instances of a
mesh in the same pose.
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New Text Rendering Backend
Unity 4 now features dynamic fonts for mobile games. Render asian
characters at any resolution, and use HTML-like markup to control font
sizes, weights and typeface selection.
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Workflow Updates for efficient creation of your game world
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More speed and fluidity to create beautiful games
You’ll be astonished at how fast you can create a high-quality game with
Unity 4. Import your art and assets with the most comprehensive and
efficient asset pipeline on the market. Assemble your scenes with easy
building blocks and powerful tools set up in an intuitive workspace.
Simultaneously play test and edit your game. Keep your momentum up and
your focus on the finished game.
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Fluid and refined component-based workflows
Take a shortcut and add components to objects with a handy new drop-down
button. New copy/paste functionality makes it a breeze to move
components between game objects, or retrieve your tweaks and edits back
from Play mode. Rearrange your image effects by simply moving components
up or down the stack to quickly achieve the effect you want.
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Fast asset search and management
Easily search for and preview assets in large, complex projects with the new project window.
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Search, locate...
Rapidly find the assets you care about in big projects with Unity 4.
Work faster than ever before by saving favorite asset searches,
bookmarking all the important folders and pre-defining categories of
assets.
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...and see your assets
Quickly pinpoint any asset you want with the project window’s icon view.
You can also preview both free and paid content from the Asset Store
directly from the project window.
