Unity Game Engine Plans For Rendering & Performance Improvements In 2018

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Unity Game Engine Plans For Rendering & Performance Improvements In 2018

Unity Tech made public at the Game Developers Conference their game engine plans for the year...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Unity-2018-Roadmap

[kpedersen]

What is the point? Unity developers are rarely technical enough to even go outside the default shaders. It is extremely unlikely the will be able to utilize a more flexible rendering pipeline.
Any developer who is capable and technical enough will simply not be using Unity.

[AdamOne]

I think this is unqualified hype. Linux users need to understand how they can get better gaming experience, not rely on some superficial "support" from businesses.

[kaprikawn]

Improved performance...on C#

There's the problem right there

[Creak]

What is the point? Unity developers are rarely technical enough to even go outside the default shaders. It is extremely unlikely the will be able to utilize a more flexible rendering pipeline.
Any developer who is capable and technical enough will simply not be using Unity.

That's plain wrong. While some Unity users don't know what is a shader, a lot of studios are waiting for the more advanced features like the Scriptable Rendering Pipeline (SRP) and the Shader Graph.

Also I think it's wrong to think that if you want to make a good game, you need to write your own engine. I don't think you really realize what that means. It means you'll have to develop a 3D engine, an animation engine, a sound engine, a physics engine and, on top of all of that, actually make your game!

[Creak]

Improved performance...on C#

There's the problem right there

With their new compiler (Burst), Unity is actually using C# just for the language. It is then transpiled to IL, where Burst enters in action and optimize the shit out of it, and it's then transpiled into C++ using IL2CPP.

So, yes, you can write optimized C# code in Unity.

[ari_linux]

With their new compiler (Burst), Unity is actually using C# just for the language. It is then transpiled to IL, where Burst enters in action and optimize the shit out of it, and it's then transpiled into C++ using IL2CPP.

So, yes, you can write optimized C# code in Unity.

I think he means the problem is for Linux ecosystem specifically.

[Creak]

I think he means the problem is for Linux ecosystem specifically.

I don't understand.. C# works well on Linux as well.