{"id":3653,"date":"2016-09-11T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T22:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=3653"},"modified":"2016-09-11T23:20:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T22:20:35","slug":"unity-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/unity-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Unity: Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have decided to begin evaluating the Unity game engine, after spending some time with Unreal a few months ago. I found Unreal to be quite difficult to use, and the Blueprint scripting system wasn’t to my liking.<\/p>\n

Unity, by contrast, seems to be much more user friendly, and I seem to be able to accomplish much more with it in less time, than with any other engine that I have used.<\/p>\n

In just two days, I was able to install and set up Unity, and play around with it enough to get a relatively good idea of how everything fits together. I haven’t done much coding yet, but I have created an run C# files, as well as set up Visual Studio Tools for Unity, and the Visual Studio Debugger. This rapid progress is very encouraging.<\/p>\n

So far, in addition to the ease of use, I am particularly impressed with the grass effects. I can completely cover a terrain with dense grass and not suffer and performance problems whatsoever. The same thing is true with the trees, but the grass optimisation and rendering is something I have not seen before.<\/p>\n

I am also very impressed with the particle effect system. I have not created many particles of my own yet, but the default particles are very detailed and look great.<\/p>\n

The next goal is to start writing some code in Unity. I am not expecting the C++ to C# transition to be particularly difficult, but there could be issues with transitioning from one engine to another. This remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

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