If you like 3DGS, DON'T download Unity. You will never come back to it.

Yeah, i think so !

I use it and some points that you will find big :
- Cross Platform
- Browser support for 3D games with big power : island demo
- Simple physics and properties on a object by clicks on a
panel properties in the world editor : big workflow !
- shaders : No coding , No shaders search etc ...some
clicks apply to the mesh , textures assign graphically and
it's running
- Ambient occlusion as a built-in feature
- All complete terrain tools included in world editor really
rocks !
- Iphone version rocks a lot : lot of selled titles !
- 360 coming !
-choosen by Funcom for their next mmo !

It's like having very advanced versions GED, MED, WED and lot more in a one world editor : all very polished and user friendly.

And Free :
I think also 3DGS can't compete with it's commercial version !
Why paying when you have lot more advanced , lot more professionnal for free ?

Wow! great news! GS would have hard time competing on it...

I've been learning 3DGS for a months now, and some areas in the engine are so blurry... even debugging the code is a pain.. what the...

anyway, still have to finish my current project in 3DGS.. and i'm looking forward to lerarn this Unity engine

Hope 3DGS would also update their development tool SED.. it's really a crappy software...:(

Thanks for the info..

Here's a useful link: License comparison. Custom shaders can be written, and from the documentation it looks decent (not fantastic, but decent).

A feature I really like is to emulate the capabilities of older hardware.

I'll probably download Unity to experiment with later when work is thin, but quite frankly the free version's lack of Render to Texture and full-screen post-processing holds it back a lot.

"Yeah, but Unity's FREE!"
My response: "Yeah, but I already have A7 Com, and thus can use/write virtually any shader conceivable."

The tools look great, and that'll be the reason I'll download it later on.

As stated by some others, it's more for artists than coders.

Jibb

I think It can be for coders too as it supports c#, javascript and boo. This is something I really like about it. Sure for you who already have 3dgs commercial or professional version it makes no sense to break with it during your current projects. I felt to give a look into it and I like what I've seen so far and it's really a nice workflow. design -> create-> code (or not ) and play it live...but it's surely not the engine that will kill every other engine in the indie world, competitor should see it as an motivation to improove more.
fact is this can be super duper good for us users, because this is a competition like in every scene too. fast food, sport every scene has is big and little names...I'm sure acknex will not go under, I'm really curious about the updates that will follow during the development time of this game project of conitec. I think conitec will give good responses

It's a big strategy and good from Unity !

Yeah the engine will not make AAA characters,levels , effects for you indeed !

But tools are essential to make a game !
You need a terrain in your level , just use the tools under world editor : why coding it again and again ?

Maybe Unity could be used as a level editor for Gamestudio? I am not sure though if the free edition allows to write exporters.


http://unity3d.com/company/news/sequoia-capital-press.html

you beat me to it, the writing is on the wall, i too am gonna check this out, heard their multiplayer coding can be simple well, simpler than GS

atari?

didn't atari invest in gamestudio which resulted in the free atari lite-c?

...and now there is a free unity... hm...

Maybe they (Atari) are dropping Lite-C and not funding it anymore.

I don't think it is about dropping. I guess that the funding was only a single payment, because when I asked JCL about updates of Lite-C, he said that it will be updated once in a while, probably within a time frame of a year or so.