Unity 2018:Collaboration, graphics rendering, next-gen runtime, and more artist features
Unity 2018 enhances Unity’s entire platform, and gives creators the power to express their talents and collaborate more efficiently.
Rich & Extensible editor
An all-in-one Editor that extends to match your production workflow
The Unity Editor features multiple tools that enable rapid editing and iteration in your development cycles, including Play mode for quick previews of your work in real-time.
All-in-one editor: Available on Windows and Mac, it includes a range of artist-friendly tools for designing immersive experiences and game worlds, as well as a strong suite of developer tools for implementing game logic and high-performance gameplay.
2D & 3D: Unity supports both 2D and 3D development with features and functionality for your specific needs across genres.
AI pathfinding tools: Unity includes a navigation system that allows you to create NPCs that can intelligently move around the game world. The system uses navigation meshes that are created automatically from your Scene geometry, or even dynamic obstacles, to alter the navigation of the characters at runtime.
Efficient workflows: Unity Prefabs, which are preconfigured Game Objects, provide you with efficient and flexible workflows that enable you to work confidently, without the worry of making time-consuming errors.
User interfaces: Our built-in UI system allows you to create user interfaces fast and intuitively.
Physics engines: Take advantage of Box2D and NVIDIA PhysX support for highly realistic and high-performance gameplay.
Custom tools: You can extend the Editor with whatever tools you need to match your team’s workflow. Create and add customized extensions or find what you need on our Asset Store, which features thousands of resources, tools and extensions to speed up your projects.
Better Collaboration: See what others are working on, right in the Unity editor where you spend most of your time.
Industry-leading multiplatform
Build once, deploy anywhere to reach the largest possible audience
25+ platforms across mobile, desktop, console, TV, VR, AR and the Web.
More platform support than any other creation engine: With Unity, you can reach the widest audience and feel confident that your IP is future-proof, no matter how the industry evolves or where your imagination takes you.
Engine Performance
Top performance
Optimize your interactive creations with a top performing engine that keeps on improving.
Advanced profiling tools: Continuously optimize your content throughout development with Unity’s profiling features. Check to see if your content is CPU or GPU-bound, for example, and pinpoint those areas that require improvement, so you can provide your audience with a smooth-running experience.
Native C++ performance: Benefit from our cross-platform native C++ performance with the Unity-developed backend IL2CPP (Intermediate Language To C++) scripting.
Scripting runtime Mono /.NET 4.6 / C# 7.3
High-performance multithreaded system: Fully utilize the multicore processors available today (and tomorrow), without heavy programming. Our new foundation for enabling high-performance is made up of three sub-systems: the C# Job System, which gives you a safe and easy sandbox for writing parallel code; the Entity Component System (ECS), a model for writing high-performance code by default, and the Burst Compiler, which produces highly-optimized native code.
Instant Games
Unity’s new, highly-modular runtime lets you build instant games that are small, light and fast.
Complete control over your file size
Work with the Editor you know and love
Unparalleled performance and scalability
XR
Powering over two-thirds of VR and AR experiences
Unity is the preferred development tool for the majority of XR creators. Used by everyone from AAA game studios like Ubisoft, top creative agencies like Weiden+Kennedy, space pioneers at NASA, top Hollywood directors