Unity getting 2D support!

Merrik

Unity Game Engine To Get Official 2D Game Support And A Built-In Ad Solution

Could this be the promised land?

creative630

:O Dear science... this changes everything!

Fengol

I remember when Brett Seyler (then VP at Unity3D) was out here, must be 3 years ago, saying they were looking at adding 2D support; I really hope it happens.

Tuism

2D in Unity and... 3D in GameMaker :) hehe

Pomb

It uses mechanim animation blend trees!!! OMW I'm super excited about it! Somehow I don't think the paid 2d solutions on the asset store are as happy as I am.

Elyaradine

(via @Gibbo)

and http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/199109/Unity_introduces_new_2D_tools.php
(via @damouse)

Stray_Train

Some developers are answering questions on the forums. The sorting layers are awesome :') no, fuck YOU zTest

ChristopherM

This is brilliant! Lack of genuine 2D physics, rendering and editor integration is what has put me off using Unity. And with PS Vita and PS Mobile support due by the end of the year, it looks like I'm quickly running out of excuses to roll my own tech.

Does the ETA for Unity 4.3 get any more specific than "fall"? How does one get access to the beta?

EvanGreenwood

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG ! Box 2D physics native in Unity! Sorting layers with locking! Built in sprite sheets that run off the animator! Squeeee!

tbulford

This is damn awesome. On the other hand seams the workshop at AMAZE on building a 2D engine from scratch in Unity might be redundant :O

Fengol

Out of curiosity which library are you showing at AMAZE?

tbulford

None the workshop is about building from scratch. So it will be all about the fundamentals.

EvanGreenwood

Nice short nostalgia piece on Unity: http://aras-p.info/blog/2013/08/30/on-having-an-ambitious-vision/

Karuji

If @BlackShipsFilltheSky is excited about the 2D Unity stuff then so am I :D (Will actually get me to use unity again)

Denzil

This is so awesome! Can't wait :D

hermantulleken

I'm also excited, but also a bit reserved. I was a bit hurt when the new GUI did not came out as promised ;_; But if it happens... oi how happy I would be!

Stray_Train

For future reference

tbulford

We are requesting early access to the kit. I hope I might get a chance to see it before AMAZE at least to keep the workshop relevant moving forward.

hermantulleken

@tbulford If you do get early access, are you under NDA? (Would love to hear some actual info).

tbulford

We might be under NDA but that wont mean we cant make sure we align the workshop with it. We were in the alpha and beta runs for Unity windows 8. Although we have few of the issues most did as we have almost always stuck to Unity libs and don't use any dll's.

hermantulleken

@tbulford cool. (I understood that you could align your talk regardless of NDA; I was hoping you could tell us more directly what's up :) )

EvanGreenwood

It'd be pretty sweet to hear some first impressions at the workshop (if that is possible).

I don't think this has been posted here... but there's some really sweet 2D toolsets that I imagine are going to be even better (and less clumsy) after Unity has better native 2D tools:



We're going to try get early access to Unity 4's 2D features as well. Looking forward to experimenting with it!

tbulford

Well, if we have any by then I will give as much as I can. Still waiting for feedback about the closed beta. Seams they really keeping it closed this time.