I dont use it, yet, but i can ask my college teacher/college peeps any questions and i can relay the answer to ya XD

what is that ''Unity''?

Its an engine to make MMORPG 3-d game.

Its an engine to make MMORPG 3-d game.

Unity is a game engine and IDE for making just about any kind of game.

wow, as a soon to be programmer, that's a shame i didn't know of it xo3

depends on what you plan to specialize in :3 i aim to be a programmer as well but i wont go the game way thus i only barely know of unity existance etc. just remember not to try to be universal but to soecialize in your field of work :3

well, i try to be informed about all the programming related stuff
computers/devices/net is such a huge part of our lives now, everything that is related to programming is worth to know about at least a little xo3

Part of the main problem is that the field of programming is just too wide to know of or about everything these days; the best thing is to strive to keep touch with fair breadth of topics inside of your particular area of interest.

yes indeed. There are many branches of programming that are so far apart, except for the basics, these folks have little in common.

Database programming
Mainframe programming
website development
PC programming
Game programming
embedded programming
Avionics

You all talking about the graphics APIs and how to change antialiasing without stopping the engine leave me puzzled and confused. Meanwhile, my talking about interrupts and flags in a strictly deterministic environment would puzzle most programmers on the planet.

And then you get oddballs like me who have to straddle everything from gate-level design in embedded systems and RTOS needs all the way up through high-level OpenGL GUI framework design, which ultimately has to work with EVERYTHING down through the aforementioned level. But that's my primary interest/obsession/career/lifestyle for the past two decades, so it suits me well. Never a dull moment and always more to sharpen the experience with! :D

Breadth of knowledge certain does serve one well when it comes to anything but the most mundane of programming; this is especially true when you inevitably hit the "glass ceiling" of any particular area you are working in, and suddenly find yourself needing to roll up your sleeves and get under the hood waaay more than you expected to in order to accomplish your goal. But that's where half the fun lies.

"Jack of all trades, master of none, certainly better than a master of one."

I partly agree with that! I'm pretty new in terms of IT since i still go to school for it making the information technology assistant here in Germany kinda a pre-thing for an apprenticeship you could say and its actually shit cause i learn a new language every fucking year never scratching more than the basics and not really able to keep doing the other stuff as i have to concentrate on the current schedule meh. But i really think that as an IT person nowadays you should find a focus point. Its true that its totally fatal to concentrate on one special thing as when its taken out of service your grounded but you should have a general specialization so you know the basics of all levels but should focus yourself on maybe the GUI-level as example. This makes it easier to re-specialize when you are needed to do so. While you also have that one thing that you are really good at, that tells your employer " Yes thats why s/he's here"

Generally i try to say at a definitely to late point of the day "Master one field, cover the basics of the rest" or something like that. I mean if you go too general in all things, i think at some point you will hit a wall where you have to get deeper into it just to grasp the whole thing.

This husky should sleep sorry for the wall of text >_<

I've been programming embedded systems for over 25 years now. As part of what I do, I read a LOT. I subscribe to a newsletter called "The Code Project" which has lots and lots of articles about lots of languages, systems, development systems and development methodologies. It never ever EVER ceases to amaze me how broad the field is, and how much broader it gets ever single day. Read now, find out as much as you can, then pick the one that fascinates you the most, and start to drill down into it. You can go as deep as you want and seemingly never hit bottom.

Same here. D:

Unity is also the new UI for Ubuntu Linux. I'm not a gamer, so didn't know of any other Unitys (Unities?).

I was wonder if they have demo version of engine? To test it. I have an idea to go to game design as sysadmin or engineer, but had no opportunity to test this engine yet. Used M.U.G.E.N. before and Perfect World engine - forget the name of it.

You do know unity is free, right?

Actually i saw this engine at they site - owner of it asked some money to download it.

Not sure when you looked last, but the license is free for non-pros.

Well, may be it was some project of nonfree engine based on Unity 3d. I don't remember now. It was several years ago.

Unity, as in the Ubuntu interface? -w-

Unity 3D, as in the game engine.

I think its multiplatform engine.

didnt know you were into game making =)

i got feeling its related to something adult as well

I`ve played a bit with unity a bit, but not much. Since I know that it is going to support the "molehill API" I want to make more with it.

I just downloaded Unity, so im probobly not the best for technical problem solving, but if you ask I can help out as much as I can!

I'd like to get more into Unity but I can't figure out how to get the animations from my models that were ported over from Blender to work.

Why yes! I know a fur who uses it regularly. I can direct you to him, or he to you immediately.

Note me!

I know a few people who use it. Looks interesting !

Been thinking about taking a class on it just to dick around with it.

I was learning use it before my computer died on me

The Unity forums themselves have tons of people, I highly suggest looking there. Almost every question I had was answered there before I even asked. I'd offer, but I never got far because programming is such a huge chore for me.

I saw your post on Twitter and, until I started reading the comments here, I thought you were working on that train-wreck of a UI that Ubuntu has been force-feeding it's users...

Unfortunately with the dawn of UE3 running on Flash, Unity may have a difficult time sticking around in the future, as it simply can't compete with such a powerful engine.

That depends on your budget, and if your tech department hates Mark Rein.

No less. I've messed with it a little bit (as a part of my aspiration to have such a thing be my job), and so far it's interesting to use, though I do sort of wish I could use the RenderToTexture features in the Pro edition. Guess that's out.

Well, Unity Tech are currently working on a Build target to flash, so both engines will run in the flash environment, which means people who like the Unity workflow will be able to target that market at least.

I (along with the help of my friends) made a racing game in Unity, which I called, Granny Grand Prix.
It was somewhat enjoyable to make. I like it because it's compatible with 3ds Max and that's unfortunately the only bloody modelling program I know how to use (curves are evil...)

So what kind of stuff have you made in Unity? Or is that 'classified'?

I know that a guy named "Texel" just made a Unity game using Egophiliac's art here: http://twentypercentcooler.net/lunaspiders (warning, ponies). I don't have his contact information or anything but Ego could probably hook you up: http://egophiliac.deviantart.com/

Awesome!

I haven't used it much for my own projects, but I'm actually teaching it in a class. What scale of a project are you working on?
Unity is soooo much more forgiving of an environment than something like UT.

NO but, I would LOVE to try it out

I've been working off and on with some unity projects for the past couple months, nothing to show really, just been familiarising myself with the engine and making lots of little test projects to see what I can do with it. I'm currently gutting the ORK plugin to twist it to my own needs and pull out some of the useful event stuff and data structures without having to muck around with the editor. Planning to start work on an actual game this month though as my "project for november" since I always fail at Nanowrimo and I'd rather have a game done than a novel. :p

Echoing above statements, there do seem to be a lot of already answered questions I've had if I go browsing through the forums, but unsure how great it is for getting unanswered questions answered.

So yeah, I'd be happy if you wanted to bounce ideas or questions anyway. If I don't know the answer, it's at least fun trying to figure it out, right?

I'd be curious about your workflow and tool pipeline. Are you using C# or UnityScript? Blender or one of the $$ apps?

Mostly UnityScript in pragma strict, which is about the same as C#. Have a few things written in C# that I also use.

I have just finished an Interactive Media Course at university, and part of that was dealing with Unity... If you need any help or ideas, give me a shout... For a free engine, it is pretty powerful. Made my own game with it. Being free... if there is anyone who is any good with C++, objective C or Javascript, it is quite good.

im actually using right now, im learning how to use it for my degree

Working with it for a few smaller scale projects right now, and also do a little bit of teaching using the engine.
I've been pretty impressed with it, it's great for the simpler indie/mobile/web markets especially.

hhehehe its instaled on my pc, but i haven't use it yet., I must finish learning flash first and i'll switch to unity :P

The unity forums can help but I find it's hit or miss. Its been a lot of front loaded work for me. It can be pretty bleak. I'm at the poitn where i think a few good reference books can solve some problems (much like it did for flash)

I used it a few times, and my studios team will be using it when we start developing my video game project in 3D (http://iraph-studios.com/aa/). Good little program.

I've used it on Kongregate because a few of the game require the Unity 3D program. I can't tell you how they did it. Kong has several games on their website that use it.

I know a friend who is working on a project using the Unity engine for a Facebook game. Maybe you can drop him a private message and talk about it. His name is  alexvixgeck

Unity owns I've been making a 4-player joust clone in it

Sorry, I tried using Unity and it crashed my computer, though hopefully I'll get some extra money from Christmas and my birthday to buy a new one after all these years.

I've dabbled in it, but I couldn't possibly help you with anything important. I mostly just built a ton of trees.

I've used Unity3D before. I still have the psychological trauma.

Surely you meant to type UDK. :T

I need an engine that's multiplatform (including Android and iOS), not necessarily an engine that renders veiny megasoldiers.

You forgot "with enormous shoulderpads and ugly blood particle effects". I kid, I kid.

Also, UDK works for iOS, and you didn't hear it from me, but UDK is going to be released for Android in the future.

I think the biggest two issues I have with udk is no Mac development, and the licensing model.

I'd love some experience in it. D: Good to hear you're working on it at your job-- sounds like if it all pans out, you guys'll have a job for a long time!

I feel your pain mr Zaush, Me and my friend just joined up with a devel. company and we are slowly working our way into figuring out what the fuck we are doing.

I don't have a whole lot of experience outside of 3DS Max, but I'll look into it.

As a person who uses Unity for their job, I suggest checking out 3dbuzz.com. There are a lot of learning videos on Unity that are free, they helped me out a lot when I first got started though the downside for you is they do all their scripting in C#. They have C# videos too though since I knew a bit of C# already I didn't check those videos so not sure how much of those are free. Other then that, Unity has been a lot of fun thus far working in and still learning new things about it even after nearly 8 months.

I don't have a problem with C#, just that the coroutines are more annoying. I'll take a look, thanks!

Also, do not underestimate the Unity Asset Store, lots of interesting and useful tools made already

Like Mega-fiers!

Yay! Fellow Unity Devs! Go buy or play free version of Cosmic Destroyer!!! On Android and coming to IOS soon.

Mega-fiers is really nice if you have mesh minipulation you want to do, so most definitely. One I plan on getting eventually is U-Script, should help out in the planning process.

I don't think I could ever use something like U-Script, I'm just more of a raw code kinda guy.

U-Script is great for planning out everything first if your up to design work. I've only recently in the past couple of months really learned the importance of planning before implementing. Raw coding is fun and a great way to play with new things, but in the end, if you plan on making a big system, coming up with a structure helps out tremendously.

That's best done with design documents, not scripting. If you use scripting you can fall into the same pitfalls of coding before designing. Make a class hierarchy with clear class definitions, make milestones, then start coding. If you want to test mechanics, use physical prototyping.

Lol, as a unity developer, you should know U-Script is not script, its a visual planning tool much like UML which aids you in your design. You should take a look at it in the Asset store, really neat stuff.

Oh so it's kind of like Kismet for UDK? I just assumed 'script' meant a scripting language. I think this came out in a release after we started developing anyway, (started with 2.4) so we didn't have access to it during the design phase.

Yessum, U-Script is actually a rather very recent release I believe. Should check out the asset store, lots of nice things there.

You already know that I am lol.

I've been a professional Unity developer for 2 years. PM me with specific questions if you need help. Also, use C#.

I had some experience with Unity, but not enough time or guidance to actually learn something. It was one of those "just do whatever you can" situations. We could barely export animations to it and make them work. I mostly worked with the terrain builder, some particle effects and general coding. Love how you can code things separately on Unity 3D. It's annoying having all that code split up at first, but with time you get used to it and it actually helps fix problems/alter particular aspects of it. Good luck ^^

Have you tried any game makers? I have seen some unity games on kongregate,..

Have you tried any game makers? I have seen some unity games on kongregate,..

Game makers! That's not what unity is?

I'm using Unity3d + Maya to do my senior project and a game design project- sloooowly learning it. If I find anything neat, I'll let ya know :]

I'm an Unity user aswell as manager of my own gaming company for furries. ^^

*Raises hand* I'm becoming pretty good at environments and handling models in Unity.

I'm working a -little- bit in unity, mostly blender though. I got a coder that uses Unity all the time for the games we're making.

In case you still need some help :3

I actually use Unity in my workplace a lot now, but I've taken a fresh interest in Unreal Engine 4. There's a wide divide between blueprint and C++ for learning curve, but the material system and level building tools are pretty unbeatable so far.