using fbx im almost 100% that weighted bones work with a7 but that is a good point if unity does it on the gpu and a7 doesnt.

Everything here all boils down to this, use the engine that gets the job done, if you dont need decent shadows, use unity, make a drop shadow, or multiple ones (one per joint) or flatten a model. if you need decent shadows and you good at hlsl/working with script between the hlsl and the language your using, use a7, if you need to make a game with decent shadows and you have no hlsl/scripting expirience, go to school, or change your needs, or read tutorials for hours

MED supports displaying weighted models in all editions but the engine doesn´t. You will only get weighting in pro.

Or go with something like Unity pro if you have the money.

hmmm... that sucks, not something i was aware of. meh, i still like my a7 and word yet about the extendability of unity through plugins?

.net dlls can be used with indie but I think C++ plugins which extend the renderer can only be done with pro.

True
A7 Forever!

okay, this has become something of a "A7 fanboys against _maybe a bit more unbiased Developers_ - thread"...

just got unity iphone and built my first iphone games within 10 hours... using resources from another project I did with unity pro... this is just amazing: 10 hours for porting a game to a mobile platform.

Thanks for your very valuable informations. This is astonishing.

Well for the price , the indie version is really good, so i bought it.

What i like a lot :
-I can import easily Blender models (FBX export)
-When you select an object on the editor or hierarchy you have a small 3D preview window in the left panel
and you can see all attribuets : textures, material properties, shaders in the panel.
-You can make a terrain in some minutes (paint and sculpt)
-Free assets that you have access , are really pro quality
-Lot of things are visually displayed : sounds, collisions etc ...

Unity is incredibly good on the workflow point.


In A7 lot of tweaks , and things must be done by code.
Even having to use two tools (MED abd WEDp) is painfull : MED and WED
In Unity you have only one editor.
You can import some FBX models, assign textures , shaders by mouse directly in the main editor

I like my A7 also , and i hope a lot Conitec for A8 will follow same workflow and let down the old interface.

http://blogs.unity3d.com/2009/04/10/unity-roadmap/#more-411



Their team isn´t only bigger, it also contains some of the best people in the industry.

Ya, but do they have a jcl? One jcl is worth about "10 best people in the industry"