Update: Unity updated the blog post to say it won't, sadly it was poor wording on their part.
The Linux editor of Unity has been in beta for quite a while, over a year in fact, so it's really pleasing to see it getting bumped up to an official status.
Writing in this blog post on the official Unity site, the developers explained that they are dropping 32bit Windows support. This will free up time for the Linux editor, which they call an " exciting new offering". I do love that wording:
I hope this will help more developers do more on Linux directly. Being able to fix bugs in a Linux build of a game, directly on Linux, now that's going to be useful I hope.
Who knows, maybe it's what a few developers have been waiting for to switch over to Linux. I can dream right?
I'm not surprised they are dropping 32bit support anyway, even on Linux 32bit use is very low. With our last survey we counted 2/1174 people using 32bit.
Great stuff, Unity team! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The Linux editor of Unity has been in beta for quite a while, over a year in fact, so it's really pleasing to see it getting bumped up to an official status.
Writing in this blog post on the official Unity site, the developers explained that they are dropping 32bit Windows support. This will free up time for the Linux editor, which they call an " exciting new offering". I do love that wording:
QuoteAnd with the Linux Editor now in experimental build and also slated to launch in 5.6, dropping the 32-bit editor frees up time and resources that will help us to make this exciting new offering a success.
I hope this will help more developers do more on Linux directly. Being able to fix bugs in a Linux build of a game, directly on Linux, now that's going to be useful I hope.
Who knows, maybe it's what a few developers have been waiting for to switch over to Linux. I can dream right?
I'm not surprised they are dropping 32bit support anyway, even on Linux 32bit use is very low. With our last survey we counted 2/1174 people using 32bit.
Great stuff, Unity team! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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That's REALLY great to hear as I am using Unity in school of course on Linux :)
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Death to 32-bit! This goes for everything - Godot, Unreal, Unigine, whatever - 32-bit support needs to end.
Last edited by Sslaxx on 15 November 2016 at 3:15 pm UTC
Last edited by Sslaxx on 15 November 2016 at 3:15 pm UTC
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QuoteBeing able to fix bugs in a Linux build of a game, directly on Linux, now that's going to be useful I hope.Thing is ... in our experience bugs on Linux were almost never code related (besides the nasty locale-usage on e.g. float-parsing that only happens on Linux players) but mostly graphics/shader stuff. So unless we get better debug tools for shaders I don't see much of an improvement here besides being able to build a player directly on the platform. But having another PC on the same network is almost the same speed anyway.
This is just about it improving debugging on Linux, of course having an officially supported editor on Linux in general is really nice :)
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Quoting: AllocQuoteBeing able to fix bugs in a Linux build of a game, directly on Linux, now that's going to be useful I hope.Thing is ... in our experience bugs on Linux were almost never code related (besides the nasty locale-usage on e.g. float-parsing that only happens on Linux players) but mostly graphics/shader stuff. So unless we get better debug tools for shaders I don't see much of an improvement here besides being able to build a player directly on the platform. But having another PC on the same network is almost the same speed anyway.
This is just about it improving debugging on Linux, of course having an officially supported editor on Linux in general is really nice :)
Well, in my experience the editor on a test platform helps a lot. For example for Albion Online we had a hard time to figure out a visual bug with the achievement board which turned out to be an NVIDIA driver issue but making a temporary workaround without would have been almost impossible. Without the experimental Linux editor we wouldn't have even bothered much to look into the issue really.
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While this is indeed pretty cool for Game Developers using Linux (and Linux gaming in general), my heart goes to FLOSS softwares. The best alternative I could find is Godot Engine, which is currently evolving at a VERY fast pace.
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that's great, also i want to mention, unreal engine just released version 4.14 today, and now should support packaging from linux to android (until now the only target platform from the linux editor was linux), i've not tested it, but it's great too.
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That's an interesting move. I hope it won't hinder testing on 32bits operating system, although those need to die off too.
I still have a 32bits-only laptop (mini notebook from ~2008 I think) around, and I regularly use it to play *small* games and not too demanding ones as a general rule. I might get around buying a chromebook (maybe for a better screen/performance - hopefully enough to stream a game - in LAN parties when I can't really move my desktop around), but in my (personal) opinion, laptops need to be portable, and have a good battery life. For other uses, I have my desktop. But I digress.
Small feature request, Liam: Would it be possible to indicate the developer position on hovering the badge (for example: "Unity dev", or "XYZ lead dev/PR head/whatever"? Could be of some use, sometimes :)
I still have a 32bits-only laptop (mini notebook from ~2008 I think) around, and I regularly use it to play *small* games and not too demanding ones as a general rule. I might get around buying a chromebook (maybe for a better screen/performance - hopefully enough to stream a game - in LAN parties when I can't really move my desktop around), but in my (personal) opinion, laptops need to be portable, and have a good battery life. For other uses, I have my desktop. But I digress.
Small feature request, Liam: Would it be possible to indicate the developer position on hovering the badge (for example: "Unity dev", or "XYZ lead dev/PR head/whatever"? Could be of some use, sometimes :)
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ElectricPrism Nov 15, 2016
my brother & friend both use unity exclusively on linux.
im also thinking of taking it up if i can get a idea of what project i want to create as im exclusively on linux myself.
im also thinking of taking it up if i can get a idea of what project i want to create as im exclusively on linux myself.
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Check it again.
"Edit: A previous version of this post mistakenly suggested the Linux Editor would be in the official 5.6 release."
"Edit: A previous version of this post mistakenly suggested the Linux Editor would be in the official 5.6 release."
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