god I need to buy a mac!

I need to buy a Mac

This engine gets better all the time

Sounds great!

I don´t think it will be that long until they have a Windows port.
http://unity3d.com/company/people
Maybe their secret developer is working on it?
Look at the size of their team. The Gamestudio team seems to be shrinking instead of growing. Where is Doug?

But you also have to keep in mind that it costs twice as much as Gamestudio. I think the indie license is quite limited but I didn´t find the comparison anymore.

it's still much more expensive than ShiVa that has basicly the same feature set like running in the web browser etc, plus its native development platform is windows. wait for 1.6 which is to come soon, it will surely kick ass. players for linux and iphone are planned for this summer, too, and, if they manage to acqire licenses, any major gaming console will be supported.

Check out ShiVa/Ston3D - LUA doesn't bite

Hmmm - why should Unity be more expensive?

The Indie versions just as the Pro versions cost about the same although Unity's smaller package in fact lacks some features. On the other side for the full feature set you need to pay more with Shiva (Shiva Advanced + Ston3D Server)...

Then there also is the point of documentation and community and as rather new engine Shiva really is lacking at this point imo which is one of the reasons I decided not to use it...

Enjoy your meal
Toast

well, you don't really need shiva advanced - it only has some optimization features...

you are right about the docs. and they know about it. a new doc will be introduced together with the 1.6 release. i'm keeping my hopes up

The great thing about Unity (at least from my point of view) is, that all the scripts are compiled to machine code.
You can write relatively fast code with an easy to use and powerful scripting language.

I don't know how well the supported languages (JavaScript, C# and Boo) are implemented into the engine, though.

DX Studio for example has an excellent JavaScript implementation, where prototype based programming is fully supported.

In this regard ShiVa is still limited, as the scripting language is very high level.
As an example, it is not possible to define own objects (eg. data structures) in StoneScript.

comparing shiva with unity3d is impossible. it is like having an emtpy nut and a full frige

i hope they get a windows version out

you may be right about the secret developer... since the windows coder isnt on the jobs page anymore that'd be so cool!

proove it. beside the "mac coolness factor".

Screw that, I like working on the MAC. Spend the resources on the iPhone version of Unity, that's a sweet emerging market for indies...

We are looking at Unity for Wii deployment. The key for us is the Ageia Physic's is intergrated very well. Unity Wii does cost $xx,xxx so its not cheap. IMHO , I think it's much better than the Torque Wii that GG is selling.

I think Unity is a very solid product, $1500 for the pro version is bargin. Screw the windows version, I have been enjoying tooling around on my Mac, its a nice break from VISTA suckola...

Ken

I think Conitec should screw DirectX and support multi-platform/device.