World’s most popular game engine, Unity has got a new stable version recently. The Unity team has released Unity 2017.1, which is now available for download.
“This release marks the debut of the new Unity 2017 cycle, evolving the world’s most popular game engine into an ever-expanding creation engine for gaming and real-time entertainment, with a strong focus on helping teams work better and enabling success.
We want to equip artists, designers, and developers with powerful new visual tools that let the whole team contribute more and collaborate efficiently. We also want to help you to produce amazing AAA experiences by improving graphics quality and runtime performance.”
Source: blogs.unity3d.com
Whether you are a Personal, Plus, or Pro subscriber, you can experience Unity 2017.1 as long as you have an active subscription. However, the Unity 5.x cycle subscribers need to have to subscribe a new plan so as to leverage the benefits of Unity 2017.1.
The Unity team has announced that they are working on providing the best performance on any of the emerging platforms, and in this row, they are building multiplatform foundation based on the concept of “build once, deploy anywhere”.
Along with this announcement, they have also shared the roadmap of Unity and have described all the new features that this latest version contains.
- Brand new tools for storytelling and in-game sequences specially designed for artists and designers.
- Collaboration, live-ops analytics tools for better efficiency
- Unity Collaborate is out of beta
- Various 2D improvements
- The Playables API is now generally available in Unity 2017
- Support for ambisonic audios
- Improved support for Visual Studio, including Mac OS
- Asset Bundle Browser is out of beta
This is just the tail of the elephant; there is a long list of features and improvements that can be found on the
official blog or in the
release notes. Apart from this, the team has invited the interested game developers to their
beta program and to work on Unity 2017.2 in advance. Also, they have announced that they are offering rewards to those developers who report bugs if their reported bug qualifies.
“If you have submitted a bug that qualifies, then you will receive an email informing you that you can be part of the sweepstakes. We are giving away up to 1000 t-shirts and one Nintendo Switch. In order to enter the sweepstakes, you must fill out a form in the email providing us the t-shirt size your prefer and the address you would like it to be shipped to.”
Unity has been changing the game development domain since its inception. With these latest improvements and features, we are sure, Unity 2017.1 will win the hearts of Game Developers community. You can
download Unity 2017.1 from here.