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Unity’s latest tech demo is a pretty sci-fantasy short filmOooh!
Oooh!
The folks behind Unity are showing their game engine off at its very fanciest in a new short film, created using the newest version. The Heretic, as it’s named, is the short adventure of a man and his technocrow going off to face a god. Some near-future urban fantasy vibes right here. Very fancy indeed. Come watch!
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I particularly like how the birdstrands have a stop-motion look to them. Jan Švankmajer would be proud of that creature.
“The Heretic was created on stock Unity 2019.3 and pushed Unity’s graphics features to the limit,” Unitysay, “including every possible aspect of the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) with the integrated Post-Processing stack, and the Visual Effect Graph.”
Mm, yes, you’ve really got to clear your pipeline. All sorts of post-processed stacks can get stuck in there if you’re not careful. If you’re not charting the u-bend on the Visual Effect Graph, you’ve no one but yourself to blame when pixels flood all over your feet.
Unity debuted the first four minutes of The Heretic at the Game Developers Conferencein March 2019then showed more in September. The full release of The Heretic comes to celebrate today’sthe launch of Unity 2019.3.
Unity advise devs not to use 2019.3 if they’re properly making or supporting a game, mind, only if they want to ride the bleeding edge right now. Otherwise you should instead wait for 2019.4, which will be a more stable and enduring “long-term support” release. Devs who want to see more editor windows might enjoy this video showing off 2019.3 features:
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Disclosure: I have pals who work at Unity on not-this things.
