What is coming with unity 6?

[lusty dome]

I was wondering what was coming with unity 6, (in begginer terms please) as I didn't understand a lot of what they showed off. Thanks :D

[blazing ledge]

https://unity.com/blog/engine-platform/unity-6-preview-release

[drowsy ridge]

in reality, almost nothing. render graph and drawer fail in many cases, vfx/shader graph improvements are minor UX, the rest is experimental or too buggy
APV works in some cases but as usual Bakery is better

[round kayak]

does bakery bake faster?

[drowsy ridge]

much faster
especially because u6 removed real time update, making it defacto useless as a baker

[round kayak]

I thought u6, has GPU Lightmapper right? (they removed experimental)

[drowsy ridge]

it's slow af, and they removed progressive, which gave you realtime lighting update.

[timid cedar]

I heard this is temporary and will be fixed by the time stable Unity 6 comes out.

[drowsy ridge]

i made 2 statements, which one will be fixed

[timid cedar]

realtime lighting update

#archived-urp message

I am thinking realtime light update is this

[rain girder]

#📢┃announcements message

[sand pewter]

https://unity.com/es/blog/unite-2024-keynote-wrap-up

[drowsy ridge]

different

[weak pollen]

if bakery is so good, why doesn't unity buy it?

[sand pewter]

Good question, how come Unity hasn't brought it yet?

[drowsy ridge]

because they are super political and had a guy monopolize baking

[weak pollen]

do the baking results look better too or is it just faster?

[drowsy ridge]

they're far less noisy. light interaction is very natural.

[drowsy ridge]

more importantly: vram usage is far lower and you can use the RT preview which is a path tracer

[blazing ledge]

This isn't a thread to discuss lighting asset alternatives. You can move the conversation to #archived-lighting if you wish.

[timid cedar]

If I recall correctly they never talked about probuilder in their roadmap? have they?

Also i really like the Unity Next gen part

Finally terrain system got updated

[weak pollen]

speaking of which, in unity 6 all they did for probuilder was make a change that nobody asked for and everyone wants reverted? instead of fixing all the bugs to make it actually usable for making games? bugs that have existed in probuilder for like 5+ years at this point. and its all stuff that takes a couple days to fix...
if these things were fixed, probuilder would be so good

[drowsy ridge]

not really true: you can't talk about unity stock engine without mentioning the assets that fix its shortcomings

[blazing ledge]

This thread isn't about discussing the stock engine, it's about what's coming with Unity 6. Which, at this point isn't really a necessary conversation given that the keynote and roadmap is out.

[timid cedar]

Lets just hope things get better with Unity Next Gen.

[short knot]

i dont want it reverted

honestly i like the contextual menus a lot more

its way cleaner

and it saves space not needing any extra docked windows

[weak pollen]

i havent tried it yet but i read about everyone wanting it reverted. but did they add any new features or is that all? for example, ability to click on nearby faces and make uvs line up, is that essential feature still missing?

[short knot]

no new features, just UX change, is still the good ol buggy probuilder

[slim timber]

I am very excited about the Unified Renderer. Finally. But I’m somewhat distrustful lol

[silent terrace]

Hi. Got question. I'm still learning unity on Unity Learn with Pathways and Unity 6 is about to launch soon, should I still learning it or wait for the update on Unity 6 documentation/tutorial on the pathway? Any suggestion?

[short knot]

Keep learning, there should be no major differences between 2022 LTS and unity 6 that will affect your learning

[silent terrace]

Sure. Thanks for the suggestion ✅

[slim timber]

Unity 6 brings stuff that is very oriented towards performance and streamlining production, for beginners it really doesn’t change anything, or just very marginally