5.2 released today

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We've just released Unity 5.2 with the new Services Window for easy in-editor access to Unity Ads, Unity Analytics, Unity Cloud Build and Unity Multiplayer!

New deployment options include Windows 10 and Universal Windows Platform, there is a tighter Visual Studios integration and updates from the Services teams, all of which you can read about on the blog post.

Remember to back up your projects before downloading the latest version of Unity and check out the release notes.

Thanks again to all the Pro users who helped with testing and giving us feedback on 5.2 while it was in beta!

 

Interesting that Visual Studio Community 2015 is included in the Windows installer.

Good work!

 

And speedtrees are broken in OSX.

Note: Actually, you just need to select every tree you use, and regenerate the materials.

You know what would be nice? If when you introduce changes like this, you create an upgrade guide, so we don't have to hunt around to try to find out why things don't work.

It could say things like:

1. We got rid of Color.TryParseHexString, and moved it to a new class. Use ColorUtility.TryParseHTMLString instead. And we're sorry for introducing a breaking change in a point release for something this minor, but think of it as a good refresher on using #ifdef.

2. Find all your Speed Tree prefabs, select them, and see the warning in the inspector that they need to be regenerated. Press the generate materials button.

 

Procedural material instances seem to RebuildTextures to the same location? That brakes our stuff. Each instance should rebuild to its own unique location, like in previous builds.

Now when you update 1 entity, then every single instance gets updated as well. That cannot be intended behavior.

 

There is one listed at the top of the release notes. http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UpgradeGuide52.html
However, it did miss the SpeedTree issue. Will poke the dev to add so it gets updated.

Something we missed for the script updater. It's fixed in p1 I think so it'll be auto-updated

Noted, and will see it gets added.

 

I stand corrected. However, it did miss both the issues I pointed above.

 

5.2 editor is freezes .. in 5.1.3 was fine

 

There's a major issue in Unity 5.2 since the beta that makes it unusable for any Unity UI using DX9 game that allows you to change the game resolution during runtime, either by pressing alt-enter or via scripting. The UI disappears completely. I submitted a bug report during U5.2F2, but I don't know if anyone's taken a look at it -- seems like a pretty big issue to overlook. The case number is #722618.

 

Can you check if its similar to:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/un...s-when-leaving-play-mode.350673/#post-2285552

If the same, bug found and fixed for patch 1.

 

Thank you for the bug report! Sadly, it seems to have been overlooked, but thanks for reporting it to get it addressed quicker in our patch process.

From the history, it was only found ~2 weeks ago, and made it to developers to investigate ~1 week ago. Still under investigation, but even if it was fixed immediately it would have missed the cutoff window for final and have been heading for p1.

 

Having a UI issue since upgrading to 5.2
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/upgrading-to-unity-5-2-ui-problem-with-raycast-target.353586/

 

freezing after every code compiling(VS2013+VC) or simple press CTR+S on scene.. but working an upper menu

 

I get these errors now even in a new project (with panel & button) each time it opens...

edit: found a report
http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/screen-position-out-of-view-frustum-errors
edit: seems to only happen for 2d projects

 

Supplied bug report regarding error with substances. Case number 725995.

 

Looks like bold and italic font variants are no longer being detected for dynamic fonts and rich text It's causing our whole UI to look awful since it just stretches the regular font for bolded text now, unless the text component is set to just use the bold (or italic) variant completely. Worked fine in 5.1. Issue affects both .otf and .ttf fonts.

http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/bold-font-ttf-file-is-not-detected-properly-for-certain-fonts

 

the text control can't change color!

 

Cool! This scripting addition made me happy:

• Physics: Added parameter QueryTriggerInteraction to all physics queries (raycast, spherecast, overlap) to allow any query to override whether or not the query should hit Triggers

 

I downloaded and installed with everything checked in the 5.2.0f3 installer however my editor is still MonoDevelop (built-in) and there's no option for Visual Studio 2015. I located the Visual Studio 2015 Path manually C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" and it seems to load scripts into VS now, but in the About of Unity I don't see that Visual Studio Tools for Unity are installed as indicated on this page:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudi...-2-and-visual-studio-tools-for-unity-2-1.aspx

What's going on? Is my install messed up?

 

"Memory saving for meshes with < 300 vertices if dynamic batching is off"

This is in GRAPHICS, LIGHTMAPPING AND SHADER IMPROVEMENTS 5.2 changelog

Can you please expand what this means?

 

Anyone having problems with Input.inputString in Unity Editor ?
It returns empty string whatever keys I press on keyboard.

 

Unity 5.2: Profiling Empty Scene - Very high Graphics.PresetAndSync

After updating to the latest Unity version 5.2, just checked the profiler readings for an empty scene, on Android. The profiler is running on an Android Device, Model: Moto G2. The results are attached below.

Quality Settings are set on fastest. V-Sync is set to Don't Sync.

The Graphics.PresetAndSync takes up a whopping 13.5ms in an empty scene, empty project, which seems very scary for a mid-end Android Device.

Is this usual behaviour or is it something that I can be doing wrong?

 

My games worked fine with Unity 5.1, and now with Unity5.2 my games crash immediatly on WindowsPhone and Android.
Return to 5.1 for me.

Edit : The games works in debug only with Unity5.2, very strange.

 

I'm constantly getting this exception when alt-tabbing from Visual Studio 2013 to the Unity Editor (v5.2) and it doesn't let me compile or press Play:

The only way to get rid of the error is to close Unity and reopen the project again. Sometimes, I would need to close and reopen Unity multiple times before it goes away.

Any way how to resolve this?

 

Good news, finally the bug with UI in Screen Space looks solved in 5.2

 

I am also having issues with the Input.inputString, it returns always an empty string, this happened when I updated the Unity to 5.2.0f3.

Anyone know how to fix it? or any workaround for make it work? And just in case we know the use of Input.Key(""), but we don't want to use it

 

Some bugs (like this 696600) that were fixed in 5.1 are back in 5.2 . We had to install the 5.1 again.

 

Just seen this today on a 3d project during a lightmapping build.. (which failed, again.....)

 

Oh, Is there no way to fix this then? I am very curious because it goes as high as 45ms while testing the game that I am working on...

 

Moving around in Unity Scene View with Right-Click Down and Using the WASD keys is very jagged and laggy. Ran perfectly smooth in 5.1.3 no matter how much I had in the scene view. Now nothing in the scene view and it's still jagged.

 

So I updated to 5.2 and all the data from the gameobjets on my scene was deleted. After more than an hour setting everything up, I saved the project and opened it in a different computer with 5.2 also...and surprise, everything was gone again.
Please help with this bug.

 

Yeah I got that too. Thank God for backups. After importing the project a second time, everything worked fine. Except substances not being possible to instantiate, so we went back to 5.1.3.

 

there's a new UI bug when scaling a parent child rect the child which is set to stretch in x and y does some weird snapping as soon as it is smaller as its size. Worked fine before with Unity 5.1
See this gif:

The white square is a child of a rect panel.

 

Updated from 5.0.2f1 and now I can't select objects in the scene view anymore (except when using drag select).

Edit: I see there was already a topic on this. Though, now I have another issue in that deparented objects no longer appear in the hierarchy.

 

I understand. But as far as I know, the CPU would be waiting for a long time if there are a large number of draw calls to be finished. But that is not the issue here.



Here you can see Graphics.PresetAndSync going upto 42ms:



Even the memory consumption seems to be pretty low.



But the problem is, the framerate drops due to the Graphics.PresetAndSync and I am still unable to figure out why.

The reason why I posted it here was, it was fine before I updated to Unity 5.2. The maximum time taken for Graphic.PresetAndSync would go upto 15ms.

 

I had a similar issue. I upgraded unity but there was no Visual studio option available.

I ended up completely uninstalling Unity and then reinstalling from scratch and that fixed it for me.

 

The Unity Manual for mobile optimization says that GPU is used for drawcalls and not CPU. You might want to correct that then.


Also, I tried using the Adreno Profiler to profile the GPU, but it didn't work. Is there any other way to profile it, or figure out the problem?

 

Just figured out. Yes it was a GPU thing. All the materials I was using for the particle effects had their shaders set as the normal shaders, instead of their respective mobile optimized ones. I can't believe after all my efforts to fix it, this was the silly thing that I didn't try before. The issue has been solved.

Thanks a lot for your support!

 

I miss the Target Eye setting on the Camera ?

 

My mecanim's window becomes empty losing all states when using an override controller...

 

Changing the resolution in 5.2 seems to break if changing to a non-native resolution. Happens in DX9/11 fullscreen and exclusive windows. Either by using Screen.SetResolution() or through the launcher.

 

In OSX, when I select "Open C# Project", it opens Xamarin Studio, Monodevelop, and a Finder window of my project. That's like 200% more stuff than I need it to open.

 

Input Field - Image Script component blocks cursor (actually inactivated by default image script). If you:
1) deactivate input field image script cursor appears.
2) replace input field image script with the UI image component - works fine.
BUT
3) add another default input field object to the screen and example 2 above cursor disappears?

 

I understand that the attached issue is fixed in 5.2.1, do you have a timeline for that patch release please? The errors are not only happening in the Editor, it is also happening on the actual mobile devices as can be seen in this report from our analytics backend.

 

Same problem. On both Player and Editor.

 

Sounds like they should have delayed this build from going public by a week or so, so that it included patch1 stuff.. It was advised in the beta forums that its not ready yet. unity team say patch 1 brings 140 fixes plus?? So guys think we wait till nxt week...

 

Too much bug in 5.2!