Unity 4 is out!

Dear Unity Developers,

Unity 4.0 is finally here. This is really our biggest release to date, and as with everything we try to do here at Unity, it marks our steadfast commitment to put in your hands the best tools, technology, toys, and services for your games development. Thank you for taking this journey with us and enjoy Unity 4!

Get more details in my blog post and on the Unity 4 landing page: Unity 4 landing page.

Much love and on behalf of the entire team,
David Helgason

 

Congratulations, you guys are doing amazing work!

 

Thanks Daniel... it's a lot of work too, but the most fun I've ever had in my life so it's okay

 

Congratulations , and thank you for this great product

 

Cheers, and thank you! Looking forward to all the new features.

 

Congratulations on one more big milestone successfully accomplished.

 

Congratulations! Looking forward to playing around with it!

 

Great!

I noticed that the license page shows native plugins are now supported in the free version. I hope that's not a mistake.

 

Congratulations, Downloaded and installed free version.

( updating a project takes ages but yea )

Working sweet!

 

Congrats David UT Crew - Unity3D has really put a lot of fun back into game development for me .

 

i notice that too is that a mistake ?

 

Congrats David and the rest of the Unity Team. You've come a long way! Impressive stuff. And to think that back in '06 we could've chosen Torque instead...

~A

 

Congrats David,

unity3d is really growing fast,
thanks for this and keep up the great work!!!!

 

Thank you guys for unity 3d ver 4.0.
In Unity 4 - Angry bots example ...Shader "AngryBots/PlanarRealtimeReflection" is not working same as in unity 3.5.6...its looking corrupted. It should show reflection of the player. but its showing some random flashy texture with no proper offsetting.

 

Congrats and as always thank you all for your hard work on Unity!

 

Thanks thanks thank!!
Your work is magnific!

 

Thank you all for your dedication and hard work.

 

This is truly amazing... and I am proud to display the Unity Logo in my game...

 

I have a question. I have a fairly powerful direct x 11 compatible machine. But when I activate Direct x 11, Unity crashes on average of about every 10 minutes of use.

Any solutions for this? Is anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks,

Rob,

Brilliant Game Studios.

 

It's a mistake. Just tested a native plugin here, and it says it's only supported by Pro.

 

Please submit a bug report (Help > Report a Bug) with a simple repro project and post the case number here.

Cheers!

 

This is amazing! Even during the previous versions I was thinking that Unity is the best engine, even without some new graphic technologies. But now, when Unity have it, it is absolutely best engine on planet! With a Dx11 my project looks overwhelming, and new editor improvements it is exactly what I was missing.
Thanks you for your great work! Keep it up!

 

Congratulations.

 

On the + side :

It loads faster, enters play mode a whole lot faster, has more toys

On the - side :

It still has some of the core problems that have not been fixed for years...
Like the mouse not staying in the window in fullscreen mode on multi-monitor systems
The asset store tab detaches from the tab area everytime you open it for the first time..
The asset store manager never rembers me

 

I don't see any mention anymore of nested prefabs in whats to come in the future?
I saw a video somewere where you could set what inspector variables would be exposed in a scene and was looking forward to it.

Also 2 gamestopper bugs are still open so they won't be fixed?
(Shuriken particle's not shutting down if the stop call comes while they are outside the view. And water reflection flickering when using water4 with an occlusion bake)

 

GZ all !

 

hej david,

congrats to an d thanks for the new unity release!
i have a question concerning the flash support. are there some news concerning the multiplayer/network export? i didn't find any information in the release notes.

best regards, martin

 

I am working with native plugins (as a DLL) also with Unity 3.x (the free version).

Be aware: It seems, that there is a bug in Unity 4. It worked fine with Unity 3.x and with Unity 4.0 Public Beta.

I already sent a Bug Report.

 

Congrats on another solid release, really looking forward to sitting down with it.

Cheers!

 

Great job again, guys!

And it's so f**ing great to see my initial investment into Unity back in 2007 STILL pays off!

 

Will you still get 3.5 pro if you purchase 4.0?

 

Is this the official word? Not that I don't trust you Cecilie.

 

It hasn't been possible to buy Unity 3 for some time; the only thing you've been able to buy is a Unity 4 license, which works with any previous version (it's always been the case that a Unity license will work with previous versions).

--Eric

 

Very nice! Played around with it today, And I have to say I LOVE IT! It opens very fast. And I love all of the built in prefabs. Keep up the good work, and congrats on this wonderful milestone!

 

congrats for the new release guys !

 

assuming Linux support is a disappointment, earned a pffffffffffffffffffffffff

 

Congrats for this release.

BTW unity4.0 free is not downlodable ?
Go to store (https://store.unity3d.com/)
Select free version and click download button
(page reload > http://unity3d.com/unity/download/)
Click Download Unity 4.0 button
(page reload > http://unity3d.com/unity/download/download-windows)
This page say "thank you", but nothing more happens

 

Awesome! Just returning from a long vacation and finding out Unity 4 is released makes me verrry happy

UT rocks! Unity FTW!!!

 

Excellent - just one question:

Is $750 a temporary or permanent upgrade price for Unity Pro 3.x users? I could buy it now but I want to wait. The thing is, I'm not sure how long I can wait if the price is going to change later.

 

We are presenting FREE LIVE ONLINE "What's new in Unity 4.0" sessions!

What's new in 4.0? This quick presentation will cover an overview of many of the new and important features in 4.0, the new version of Unity, including Mecanim, changes to the editor and updates to the API. This class will last about one hour.

Register here:
http://unity3d.com/company/support/online-training/

Read about our regular classes here:
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/116360-Free-Live-Online-Training-from-Unity-Technologies

 

Can someone point me to download locations for older versions of Unity than 4.x? We have a project well underway with 3.5.x and need the latest downloads for the 3.5.6 release that went out the door a while back. Updating the project to version 4 this late in the cycle is utterly terrifying ;P

 

http://download.unity3d.com/download_unity/UnitySetup_update-3.5.6.exe

 

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/8531/download-link-for-previous-versions-of-unity3d.html

 

i get stuck on the 'claim username' loop when i go to answers.

just keeps forwarding me to this:
http://udn.unity3d.com/claim/view?ref=answers

 

Send an e-mail to support@unity3d.com and we can sort your account out.

 

Congratulations to the new product!

It looks like it won't be possible to publish for Windows Phone even though in Amsterdam it sounded like this will be part of the Unity 4 release?

Ben

 

I am not happy with the new version as the setactive function does not work and creates a lot of problems with existing projects. Also activating/deactivating object with children in the inspector is an adventure especially for object with deep hierarchies. I totally disagree.
Also I tried to use 3.5.6 again but I have fatal error and cannot use it anymore.
I installed unity 4 in a completely different folder and in a different hard disk than 3.5.6, but ....

 

Try running the 3.5.6 version after rebooting the computer.
It worked for me on Windows 7.