Whats Unity roadmap look like?

Hi Everyone,
So I was curious, now that unity 5 is out what are the next big Unity features everyone is excited about? Long term or short term? Speculation is fine too (well to me that is), remember this is just a for fun thread.

 

What I'm excited about is the idea of a dynamic lighting system that can light a fully procedurally created world that was briefly mentioned in a FAQ as an R&D project.

 

Particles and Animation.
Particles, after playing with popcornFX, I would love to see a few more advanced options and flexibility added to the native particle system. Nothing over the top, but a few more features like better mesh control, or generation (ribbons), deeper hooks, stuff like that.
Animation, the stuff that has already been mentioned that is the works (retargeting, stability, deeper control of the API), just in general putting some love in to it. I like mechanim a lot, but the editor interface still feels a bit unfinished.

 

Here's the official 5.x roadmap. You have my permission to spread it across the entire internet, and inform everyone:

 

Haha hippocoder, actually that image tells me where ever its going, its going somewhere interesting!

 

So North Carolina?

Finally got something relevant out of a google image search

 

So, not much straight between 5.1 and 5.2, but a steep learning curve from 5.4 to 5.5

 

I believe an official roadmap is on the roadmap.

 

Meh, it's pretty common for Unity releases to get up to f5 or f6, and even f7 in one case (that was Unity 4.0 though).

--Eric

 

Well, at least with the 3.x releases:



--Eric

 

Who gives a f.

 

Unite 2017 will be in North Carolina (when Unity will be 5.6.x)

 

Why are tickets to Tokyo Unite 2017 four times as expensive as in previous years. In Tokyo general tickets for the previous 4 Unites were 5000 yen if you bought early and 10,000 yen at the door. This year they are 19,000 if you buy early and 30,000 yen at the door. Ridiculous!

(note: Student tickets are 5000 yen if you buy early. I wish there were similar cheap tickets for retirees, which I am, and can not afford to pay 19,000 yen to attend).

 

Not much moves on the roadmap until the very last minute. ´ Terrain ´ has been just listed as ´Terrain´ for a year now without even a description. Particles and 2D are the hot items at the moment.

 

This thread is from 2015, which coincidentally is the last time the OP actually even visited the forums

 

I was the victim of a Necro......

 

I guess what I posted still makes it relevant though.

Looks like Whatever is coming whenever.

 

Could you update it with 5.5 and beyond since we moved down the road a bit

 

I'm no longer working on predictions, I believe @Arowx has taken over all and any duties in this respect.

 

Think of the question you need, keep it in your mind then shake my Psychic ball for the answer you seek -> https://arowx.itch.io/ask-the-psychic-ball

See even I can delegate!

 

Is that how you come up with thread topics?

 

For that I use tarot cards or the ouji board!

 

Thanks.

 

Joking aside the beta section and blog have some golden nuggets of information of what great improvements are coming to Unity.

• Multi-threaded transforms that can boost performance and when combined with the new PhysX upgrade can allow origin shifting for massive worlds.
• C# 6(+?) Mono improvements moving up to Mono 4.6 and SGen garbage collection (hopefully no more GC spikes to drop your games FPS) and fingers crossed improved performance.
• Cool 2D Features like Tilemapping and many more that will make 2D games easier to make out of the Box.
• Cinematic tools like Timeline.
• New Improved Input System.
• ... And lots more check out the betas/experimental section -> https://forum.unity3d.com/categories/betas-experimental-features.86/

 

It's rather funny how accurate this roadmap is considering 5.6 is now the end of the line for 5.* and next up is .. well 'whatever' 2017 yolo

What else do you know Hippo

 

Well whatever is shrouded in nice fog so I'd expect some nice post FX fog at some point...

 

well I guess decent fog and volumes(clouds?) would be good.. so long as it isn't like this...


lol ty @ferlodeveloper https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/u...ation-tool-beta-3.430959/page-16#post-2945087

roadmap not showing much on a better terrain/shader system (with actual ffking built in way to put holes through it), improved sky time of day system etc etc..shader node editor..maybe unity like actually just hire some of these third party developers to push some more of the built in tools forward a bit faster.

 

They are hiring some of these third party developers, and have hired asset store 3rd party developers. Terrain is on the roadmap.