План развития Unity

When you chose to release to Google Play store with Android App Bundle AAB (more info https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/10/03/support-for-android-app-bundle-aab-in-unity-2018-3-beta/), we check the size of AAB at the end of the build process. If it’s greater than 500Mb we display a warning, and give you the option to compute the sizes of the individual APKs.

Add support for Assembly Definition Reference (.asmref) files. These allow for adding additional source code directories to an existing Assembly Definition (.asmdef) file.

Methods for obtaining polygonal geometry from the NavMesh, compatible with the C# job system.

Added support for the cross-platform Intel lightmap denoiser. Intel Open Image Denoise can produce smooth noise free lightmaps with few samples.

• Reduce memory footprint on GPU when baking lightmaps by compressing normal vectors and albedo.
• Submesh support.
• Multiple importance sampling support.
• Performance Improvements.

Frame pacing delivers consistency of frame rate by enabling frames to be distributed with less variance between them, creating smoother gameplay.

• Add ability to hide/show Packages in the Project Browser and Object Picker, depending on the package type set in its manifest.
• Add button in Project Browser and Object Picker to toggle package visibility (include/exclude hidden packages).
• Add package `type` property and `hideInEditor` advanced property in the Package manifest Inspector.

Upgrade cloth lib from deprecated PxCloth to NvCloth.

• 2D Animation package out of Preview
• Support for 2D Lights, specifically lights that affect normal maps.

• 2D Pixel Perfect package out of Preview
• Adds Cinemachine support

2D PSD Importer package out of Preview.

• 2D Sprite Shape package out of Preview
• Support for 2D Lights, specifically lights that affect normal maps.

• Support for 2D Lights, specifically lights that affect normal maps.

Now when you additively load scenes, new light probes will merge with your existing light probes.

Introducing the new and improved asset import pipeline V2 as the default choice for new projects.

• Introduces dependency tracking, faster hashing, fast platform switching and a number of new options to greatly improve working with large projects over its V1 predecessor.
• Complemented by a new V2 Cache Server, greatly improving import times for V2-enabled projects when working with multiple team members.
• Asset pipeline V1 projects have the option to upgrade to use V2.

Lets users enter Playmode without reloading assemblies, reducing iteration time. This feature can be enabled from within Project Settings.

Brings HDR support on UWP and Windows standalone into feature parity with the support already in place for consoles, using graphics APIs DX11 and DX12.

DirectX supports two combinations of swap chain pixel formats and colorspaces for HDR content:

• Option 1: FP16 + DXGI_COLOR_SPACE_RGB_FULL_G10_NONE_P709
• Option 2: R10G10B10A2 + DXGI_COLOR_SPACE_RGB_FULL_G2084_NONE_P2020

You will be able to select the colorspace by simply changing the display bit depth to either 10bits or 16bits (10Bits is RGB B.709 and 16 bits is RGB B.2020).

• HDRP package (which includes HDRP post-processing) out of preview
• LookDev feature added giving you better previews in editor
• Experimental feature: Physically-Based Sky

The Incremental Garbage Collector is able to split its work into multiple slices. Instead of having a single long interruption of your program’s execution to allow the GC to do its work, you can have multiple, much shorter interruptions. While this will not make the GC faster overall, it can significantly reduce the problem of GC spikes breaking the smoothness of animations in your project by distributing the workload over multiple frames.

Enable previewing of effector keyframing in Timeline “Animation” track. You can now manipulate your animation rig from the Animation Window and Timeline.

Unity Blog (provides context but does not specifically explain this improvement): https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/09/05/advanced-animation-rigging-character-and-props-interaction/

The Mobile Notifications package helps you implement retention mechanics and timer-based gameplay by adding support for scheduling local repeatable or one-time notifications on iOS (from iOS 10) and Android (4.1 and above).

The graphics jobs feature is out of experimental status for the standalone player on desktops and console platforms, bringing performance improvements on projects that enable it.

• Graphics jobs are now enabled by default for all new 3D projects on desktops or console platforms.
• This feature is still experimental for the Metal graphics API and Vulkan on Android platforms.
• This feature is only supported for the standalone player, and not supported in the Unity editor.

This feature lets you control the rendering loop independently from the rest of our subsystems. This means you have more control to lower power consumption and prevent thermal CPU throttling.

• Adjustable Light Probe quality for baking: We’ve added the ability to adjust the sampling count (aka quality) for Light Probes separately from lightmaps. This will be especially noticeable in scenes with tucked away emissives and other difficult lighting scenarios. The sample count is now adjustable in the lighting panel – no longer a fixed number.
• AMD Radeon ProRender AI Denoiser: we've added support for this AI-based denoiser. This means that with fewer samples you can get the same great results and faster speeds!
• Support for box and pyramid spot light shapes for HDRP.

Refresh of the existing UI theme to improve clarity and provide a content-first experience for users by eliminating clutter, unnecessary elements such as gradients and drop shadows.

• Features new icons with uniform style to convey concepts more clearly, with full High DPI support.
• Comes with a new UI font, Inter, which is more legible and scales well across many different types of UI and display types.
• Adds hover state to controls, which brings the UI alive and makes it feel more responsive.

There are several cases where Unity objects fail to serialize and deserialize correctly. The problem takes many forms, from failed polymorphism, to errant object or null references, to inability to store trees and graphs. New fixes in the YAML file structure address these problems.

Now in Unity terrain you can create holes, letting you better create and blend custom meshes into the environment.

This feature provides you with a way to manipulate the UNET network payload in order to add encryption and extra layers of security as required by your projects.

• Allows you to secure all UNET communication between your clients and servers, which is a requirement on some Console platforms when using cloud-based dedicated servers.
• Can also be of use on online games for security purposes.

You can now insert features powered by Unity directly into your native mobile applications. These features include, but aren’t limited to, 3D or 2D real-time rendering functions such as augmented reality, 2D mini-games or 3D models.

You can integrate the Unity runtime components and your content in a native platform project. The Unity Runtime Library exposes controls to manage when and how to load/activate/unload within the native application.

Production-ready support for Google’s new Stadia platform, inclusive of the latest and upcoming Unity features like DOTS and HDRP, plus exciting features unique to Stadia like Stream Connect, State Share & more.

Resources available to select developers approved for Stadia development by Google. Please visit Google's Stadia developer website (http://stadia.dev) for more details on how to apply for access.

• Package renamed to com.unity.render-pipelines.universal (from com.unity.render-pipelines.lightweight)
• 2D Renderer now fully included and supported
• Increased light limits in the Forward Renderer
• Support for configuring inner angle for spot lights.
• New post-processing layer built into the package optimized for mobile.

VFX Graph package out of preview.

Video decoding – e.g., H.264, H.265, as found in MP4 files – for Windows/UWP means enabling DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration) with Microsoft’s Media Foundation. For Windows 8 and above, we’ve reworked Unity’s usage of this API to decode video into textures rather than into memory on systems where hardware acceleration is available.

The pre-existing approach always uses software decoding to memory, which provides wide compatibility, but this does not utilize available video decoding hardware resources. The new approach enables GPU-assisted video decoding directly into textures, thus saving CPU, memory usage, and bandwidth.

Author VR in VR:

• Lay out your scenes in VR
• Adjust component properties while in VR
• Profile your performance as you edit
• Create custom tools and workspaces

Forum: https://forum.unity3d.com/forums/editorvr.126/
GitHub: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/EditorVR/

Editor: Linux Support
Unity Feedback Link - Linux Support for Editor

Create a better, more adaptable input system for Unity.

• Event-based, framerate-independent input delivery
• Custom device creation
• More consistency between platforms and input devices
• Better integration of variety of input types
• Better support for multiple control schemes
• Better separation between input and game logic
• Deeper API access
• More customizability

The icons are getting a stylistic update, while being designed for greater consistency.

• Expose low-level collider primitives of circle, edge, polygon & capsule and ability to retrieve from existing Collider 2D components.
• New 2D collider with ability to be composed of low-level collider primitives.
• Super fast, primitive intersection tests with batching support not requiring 2D collider components.
• Gizmo support for primitive collider shapes of circle, edge, polygon & capsule. Useful in visualising/debugging intersection tests.

• Multi-instance 2D physics worlds.
• Ability to assign simulation group(s) to Rigidbody2D and simulate specific group(s) and/or calculate contacts for those group(s) only.
• Expose contact processing allowing users to defer contact solving, enable/disable contacts etc.

Addressable Assets handle the code complexity of creating, managing, and loading content by removing the steepest part of the learning curve and automating tedious tasks. Addressable Assets decouple the project code and content layout to eliminate the need for tracking assets and refactoring code. By starting with Addressable Assets, your game development can scale without increasing complexity. The game creator no longer needs to think about shipping details while making their game.

User definable IK chains

Add the ability to record Main and Mixer outputs to file

• Integrate V-HACD
• A single mesh can be automatically decomposed into a set of convex MeshColliders
• Helps with collision detection performance and accuracy
• Enables sophisticated meshes on dynamic bodies and triggers

The basic player localization feature is a set of features to add localization support in games made with Unity.

Deeper, more prominent reporting of information about the player build process and outputs.

Polish the Hackweek X project on distributing lighting builds (precompute/baking) across machines on a LAN. The aim is to make a system that will automatically discover available machines and use them for time consuming lighting builds. No setup should be required. Video .

Extend Game View resolutions by also emulating a given DPI.
Particularly useful for getting accurate representations of UI layouts on target devices.

Allows creating texture and rendertexture with all the formats supported by modern GPUs

Gives the users ability to easily view all the draw calls for the IMGUI, with the option to open the source file in the right location, view all the data used to render the item.

Localization of the Editor UI. (No runtime or building localized assets)

Standard shader needs optimizations for low-end mobile/PC platforms. Some of these need to be GPU specific (for very popular GPU families)

• Optimizations for Apple/PowerVR GPUs
• Approximate/simplify for low-end GPUs like Mali-400
• Automatic switching between "do math in shader" vs "texture lookup table" depending on GPU
• Procedural Skybox shader optimizations

Low-overhead C# Samplers. Ability to collect high-level performance data in non-development players.

Make it possible to selectively persist changes made during Play Mode so they are not lost.

Adds support for rendering textures directly to an HMD compositor, bypassing the application rendering.

• New Animatable 2D Collider that tracks SpriteRender mesh.
• Explicit Kinematic Rigidbody2D Hierarchy control.

• EdgeCollider2D 'adjacent edge' support allowing chaining of EdgeCollider2D together with virtual edges.
• EdgeCollider2D to EdgeCollider2D collision support

• New asset-based effector behaviour system allowing blending of multiple behaviours.
• SurfaceEffector2D "speed-up only" support disabling slowing down if surface speed is too high.

• LiquidFun Integration

• HingeJoint2D motor "free spin" support
• Joint2D anchor local scaling support

• Full integrated shared physics materials

• Asynchronous CompositeCollider2D outline and triangulation.
• Asynchronous PolygonCollider2D triangulation.
• Multithreaded simulation.

• Transform write-back to planes other than XY using swizzle option i.e. write back to XZ, YZ etc.
• Customised collision modes allowing alternatives to layer-based detection.
• Distance based wake-sleep for Rigidbody2D.
• Ability to retrieve all Rigidbody2D, Collider2D & Joint2D.
• Wake/Sleep Callbacks.

Allows Android target to export Visual Studio project, you can the both build apk files and debug Android application from within Visual Studio.

In Visual Studio 2015, Microsoft added support for Android. It has capabilities of both building Android applications (with gradle) and debugging Android applications (with gdb wrapper).

Read more here - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/06/12/build-your-android-applications-in-visual-studio-using-gradle/

Support more than one version of a project, for selective development

• Streamlined and unified structure for the increasing number of windows, tools, and visualisations in the editor.

Physical units, CCT, IES, ...

Give Asset Store authors the ability change their APIs with less friction and retain compatibility

• Allows you to visually compare differences in your Unity project for prefabs and scenes.

Initial prototype of Visual Scripting, for internal demonstration and feedback gathering purposes.