Unity 6 ain't no BETA! (Beta to Preview Rundown)

Unity 6 is out of beta and now in preview, which is available for you to download today. Unity 6 Preview (formerly known as 2023.3 Tech Stream) is the last release of our development cycle for Unity 6, which is launching late this year. I'll take you through everything in the new blog post and you can see what you think!
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[@SpeedTutor]

Do let me know if you'd like to see me go through the new Unity features inside the editor and we can look at whether they're actually worth while? Comment down below! 🎁Unity Spring Sale: bit.ly/UnitySalesHub 🎁SpeedTutor Unity Store: bit.ly/STUnityStorePuzzlePacks 🎁 Get OVER 225+ scripts & projects on my: bit.ly/SpeedTutorPatreon

[@SketchedbySte]

Nice little breakdown, thank you. Saves me reading the blog

[@SpeedTutor]

I appreciate it! :)

[@UTTheLaw]

Well, now,, you've got some tutorials to make!! 😉 Very much looking forward to a deeper dive into these features! Great run down! Thanks! 👌

[@SpeedTutor]

Haha, you're very welcome. You better start helping then!

[@iamgruff]

Fantastic summarised overview of the new features - Great work as ever ST :)

[@SpeedTutor]

Thanks very much and you're very welcome! Anything you think would help you out? :o

[@iamgruff]

@@SpeedTutor haha... Actually, Yh... I spent the best part of the last year [on and off] creating a runtime procedural occlusion culling system that's fit for purpose in proc gen, its not Production Ready yet, but it would be cool to see an in depth on the new OC in U6. Be nice to see if they came up with a fluid interface for more designer types versus dev types using the engine for sure. Its pretty niche, but the concept sits inside of proc gen at runtime and then dynamic OC taking over once mesh generation is complete. There are a number of solutions out there of course but I have some special sauces in play for both CPU and mobile GPU based OC, but be nice to see a round up of whats coming in U6 for it out of the box instead of my more bespoke solution. Then I can dump it off and teach designers how to use that instead of my current 'a bit too complex for less programmery types' setup process. Maybe not worth the journey your end, as mentioned its somewhat pretty niche and might not attract the masses Anyway, Hope you are well and in the best of health ST - Carry on delivering them bangers!!

[@SpeedTutor]

Why have you been developing it, out of curiosity? Is it something you thought was missing from Unity and what does it help you achieve over the current offers? I'm always happy to learn but it sounds awesome! You're very welcome and thanks for coming along to comment, I appreciate it :) Best of luck with that project and any others you do too! :)

[@iamgruff]

​@@SpeedTutor Before the advent of the upcoming U6 RC, procedural dynamic culling has been somewhat limited and the current project I'm working with relies heavily on procedural content generation [in particular in a VR space, with its limited processing power from the off] at runtime, which makes it pretty difficult to optimise OC [especially through Unity's internal tools alone, which relies on static meshes prior to runtime being in place and the consequent time it can take to bake the culling], let alone for designer types to implement it easily / in a user friendly way. The project itself looks to overcome this using a component that can be added to anything with mesh renderer components per object and then gets bundled into a graph which can be called and set after runtime has started and generation is invoked... actually it's super niche rn, but aiming to be scalable for large world higher fidelity games in VR with limited standalone systems such as Quest 2 and 3 platforms. I could go on forever about this, so I will stop waffling ha, but if U6 brings optimised dynamic culling that can be as efficient as static OC, then I might be able to leave it on the shelf and stop reinventing the wheel/ creating some interesting headaches ha. Always love your work bro, thanks for the deeper question

[@random_precision_software]

I hope you're going to do a video on using all these magic rendering features !😊

[@SpeedTutor]

Haha, you read my mind. That's exactly what I'm thinking about doing! :) Anything that you'd like to see?

[@haochen4826]

@@SpeedTutor APV!!!!

[@EpicGamer63637]

Will they ever add somekind of volumetric lighting/fog solution for URP 😔

[@SpeedTutor]

That's a very good question, aftermarket assets do offer that but it always seems to be missing. Doesn't it?

[@LotmineRu]

nope

[@thethil1013]

Hey! If you remember when I asked you if you can make a tutorial on how to make such a water split screen, I meant exactly something like there on 5:17 :D

[@SpeedTutor]

I know EXACTLY what you mean, I think the Crest water system does offer that. You can get it free if you're using Built in :o

[@trueh]

Can Unity URP render proper shadows now? I mean, last time that I tried it real-time shadows were terrible and I had to go back to BIRP to be able to use NGSS.

[@SpeedTutor]

I think it mostly has parity with the Built-in but I'm not wholly sure on your question, when did you last try it?

[@trueh]

@@SpeedTutor Like a year ago. I think it was one of the first releases of 2023.1.

[@LuRybz]

APV seems a really really interesting.

[@SpeedTutor]

Something you think you'd use?

[@Hisa810]

Guys just a question, i just started using unity if i make a game on the current version will i be able to open it using unity 6 if ever it came out? or i would need to remake my game?

[@SpeedTutor]

I'd always recommend creating your game on the newest and latest LTS release, as it will be the most stable with the most bug fixes. You would be able to upgrade your existing project (Even if made in a previous version) to Unity 6 but I wouldn't recommend that because it can introduce it's own problems :) Doesn't mean you can't but just be aware of that. I hope that helps.

[@Hisa810]

@@SpeedTutor Thank you very much.

[@bluzenkk]

the unity 6 beta was giving me a hard time. It will crash and freeze my computer whenever i try to build the project, event if its a brand new project with nothing in it. Hope this is fixed in the preview. I have a relatively new and beefy computer. I think they are not tune to the newest cpu...and cause the shader to crash..

[@SpeedTutor]

That's interesting, I hope they've ironed out a few things for this preview but it will take the full release later this year to get some stronger support in it :)

[@lemapp]

I'm curious if the character in the video's thumbnail is an actual product or is it just an AI's imagination of a possible character? I've not seen him before. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

[@SpeedTutor]

It was just part of the play on words from the title, in regards to alpha and beta. So the character is just a generation to represent it. If that makes sense :)

[@colinandy1663]

Enabling render graph for URP just causes errors for me... stuff does not even render. Had to enable render graph in deubg settings in the global settings under graphics because global settings wouldnt even show up normally in the graphics tab. Broken.

[@colinandy1663]

Edit: Only works on DX12 not DX11... weird.

[@SpeedTutor]

Did they have any particular documentation on it?

[@random_precision_software]

Yes, the GPU resident gpu occ culling , spacial temp post processing and the lighting improvements. Not much then lol

[@SpeedTutor]

Haha, you're a greedy man!

[@atakanosgames]

Is that like Nanite Technology in Unreal Engine?

[@SpeedTutor]

I'm not sure about the technology behind it but it could have some similarities in it :)

[@atakanosgames]

@@SpeedTutor Danke Schön

[@SpeedTutor]

You're most welcome :)

[@dabmaster6874]

This is a long list of stuff being added. Do you think it'll be enough to repair the damage done or at least some of it?

[@SpeedTutor]

They've just taken on a new CEO with a long track record in the games industry from fairly big companies and they did the restructure of the entire company to focus on the core of the engine again. I hope they'll stick to that plan and continue to do so. As we always say, only time will tell but things have been slowly heading in the right direction. I hope it isn't one step forward and two steps back :)

[@dabmaster6874]

@@SpeedTutor Let's hope so xD

[@coachmcguirk8277]

@dabmaster6874 Has anything actually changed for 99% of Unity users? My experience is literally the same as it was before and after the "damage", and I imagine that's the case for almost everyone else. Reminds me of when people were saying that they were going to move to canada when trump got elected, but nobody did, and nothing changed. Same old sh*t.

[@SpeedTutor]

In terms of the features that are offered or the ethos of the company?

[@dabmaster6874]

@@SpeedTutor Sorry for the late reply, I've lately used Unity Version that was literally broken when it comes to materials, sound, editor, building/exporting, URP, and performance. Everyone on the team I work for faced those same troubles. I'm really hoping that Unity 6 will change the engine into something good in general and not bloated/filled with bugs. Also, some more free built-in tools of high quality can bring many of the people who left. But for now, many people including myself are drifting away from the engine if it keeps stagnating and making bad decisions.

[@KronosTL]

Does the rule for paying per instalation still apply?

[@SpeedTutor]

No it doesn't, you can check out my full video here which explains it all: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGO6pKpua811h8U

[@KronosTL]

So the developers doesnt have to pay flat fee per install anymore? Sweet.

[@SpeedTutor]

Exactly! :) It only comes into play but at a cap of 2.5% after you make $1,000,000 in the last 12 months :)

[@cybermad64]

Wow unreal is still at 5.4 and Unity is already at 6! We can clearly see they are more advanced, I mean, at least 10% more advanced if we look at those numbers!

[@SpeedTutor]

Numbers never lie, do they? Haha.

[@ShinichiKudoQatnip]

Just a friendly feedback, perhaps you can try with some bass reduction for us to hear you better. Please do consider, would love to have it 😇😇

[@SpeedTutor]

I'll definitely do that, it could be because of my newer microphone! Sorry about that.

[@ShinichiKudoQatnip]

@@SpeedTutor No no you don't have say sorry it was just something I felt would make your vids better 👌👌

[@SpeedTutor]

I appreciate your thoughts, thanks very much my friend! :)

[@ShinichiKudoQatnip]

@@SpeedTutor 🤗🤗

[@Sebastian-bu7oj]

I’m curious about the thumbnail for this video. I would like to know where the character art is from. Like the way he looks

[@SpeedTutor]

I occasionally use midjourney if I want to represent something in the thumbnail towards my theme, and I just go with a style of "Fortnite". I hope that helps :)

[@Sebastian-bu7oj]

@@SpeedTutor interesting. I imagined it was from a game or something. But thanks for letting me know

[@SpeedTutor]

You're very welcome! :)

[@raistael]

2023.3 would have been an LTS release, not a tech stream. Tech stream is technically what the .1 releases were.

[@SpeedTutor]

They said in their forum post that they wanted to do an additional tech stream for 2023.3 which is renamed as this preview build. They said it caused confusion otherwise :)

[@raistael]

@@SpeedTutor Sure, yeah.. just seemed odd to me that suddenly we were referring to the .3 builds as tech stream when they've been LTS for a while now. I guess we'll neve get a 2023 LTS as it is in the new world, which is sort of silly in my opinion, but it's not my circus.

[@SpeedTutor]

I think you're correct there, 2023 in this case is gone. Unity 6 is what it is. The Circus never ended, haha.

[@therealpeter2267]

I've personally found the preview to have more bugs than the beta, so weird naming but okay

[@SpeedTutor]

What bugs have you found?

[@therealpeter2267]

@@SpeedTutor Input system failing to register events to c# / monobehaviour functions, random warnings and errors, shader graph preview dropdown not working, the editor straight up crashing in my voxel terrain project which relies on the job system and burst compiler

[@wexoriann]

Unity was my favorite over Unreal even , tehy are not trustworthy sadly after tricks they did .

[@SpeedTutor]

I can understand that you'd be dubious and ultimately it's your decision on what works for you :) They did change on the fee front and have set out to be more engine focused. So hopefully that does come true :)

[@hldfgjsjbd]

So you decided to hang on the hate train and disregard all the good things that came out from this fuckup. Good for you 😉

[@maximilianmander2471]

What is new with Unity 6? Do they want one of your children or one of your kidneys now, when you have more than 100.000 downloads now?

[@SpeedTutor]

They did change their standing on it all. I've got a full video on the new fees. You have to learn over $1,000,000 before paying a limited fee.

[@LotmineRu]

Unreal engine: look what they need to mimic a fraction of my power

[@play-good]

Unreal Engine 4 -> Unreal Engine 5 😮 Unity 5 -> Unity 6 😐

[@SpeedTutor]

Haha, Unity 5 was a looooong time ago now!