The LTS stream offers a stable version of Unity for those who want to lock in their productions on a specific version of Unity for maximum stability.

1. Unity 2018 Vs 2019
2. Unity 2018
3. Unity 2018.3
4. Unity 2018 Ai
5. Unity 2018420f1

The latest long-term support release of Unity

Pixyz 2018.3 opened up new opportunities for interactive optimization of models within Unity, saving even more time for Unity customers. Read blog post Pixyz 2018.2 – Automation and algorithms for automotive success. The 2018 Unity Cabernet Sauvignon is made with 66% Napa County fruit and 34% Sonoma County fruit. Medium to deep ruby-purple, it opens with notes of graphite and dust over a core of cassis with notes of boysenberry, cedar and vanilla. Medium to full-bodied, it has a core of sweet spice-laced fruits, a firm, grainy frame and just enough. Consider using Unity 2018.4 LTS. The Long-Term Support (LTS) version of Unity is for projects about to ship. If you wish to lock in your production on a specific version of Unity for maximum stability, we recommend you use Unity 2018.4 LTS. The LTS release doesn’t.

With the LTS and the TECH stream releases to choose from, you can pick the release that best fits your needs, depending on where you are in your development cycle. For creators who are about to embark on projects that are past the prototyping phase, Unity 2019.4 LTS provides stable, high-quality features that are supported for two years. You can confidently create your projects with that version during development and release.

Unity 2019 LTS stream has the same feature set as the 2019.3 TECH stream release.

Explore Unity 2019 features

Since the release of 2018 LTS, we’ve added hundreds of improvements and new features. Unity 2019 LTS makes artists and designers more productive with better tools and a new Editor UI. Our Scriptable Render Pipeline (SRP) technology, now out of Preview, helps you achieve best-in-class graphics on all platforms. We’ve also optimized Unity under the hood to facilitate more immersive experiences at runtime and to accelerate your project iterations.

Graphics

If you need scalability for all supported platforms, high performance, and best-in-class visual quality, the Universal Render Pipeline is our recommended production-ready solution. To help you achieve stunning high-fidelity graphics on high-end hardware (PC, consoles, and future hardware), the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) is now out of Preview, which means those of you already working with it will have a consistent upgrade path.

Scripting

Our default code editor is now Visual Studio 2019, and IDE support has moved to packages. This LTS release also brings huge improvements to profiling, such as Player Deep Profiling and Call Stacks support. In Unity 2019 LTS, the Burst Compiler optimizes your output for the platform you’re compiling for, which can lead to huge performance improvements. Burst Compiler 1.3 offers native debugging and improved scalability and usability. .NET 4.x is now the default scripting runtime. Incremental Garbage Collection minimizes garbage collection spikes. Also, several quality-of-life improvements to scripting workflows reduce iteration times and make you more productive.

Artist and designer tools

Shader Graph is now our production-ready solution for building shaders visually. Visual Effect Graph empowers you to create beautiful VFX in real-time, without coding, and is now compatible with Shader Graph. Unity 2019 also helps artists achieve more, directly within the Unity Editor, with new and improved terrain tools, as well as ProBuilder, our unique hybrid of 3D modeling and level design tools.

Editor updates

We’ve given the Editor UI a new look and feel by updating icons, fonts, and user feedback systems. Unity 2019 LTS increases clarity in the Editor, so creators can focus more on their content. Since Unity 2018 LTS, we’ve also added loads of workflow improvements to make you more productive in the Editor, such as Prefab Asset Editing in Inspector, Quick Search, Presets and Shortcut Manager. Unity 2019 LTS uses Asset Import Pipeline V2 to provide you with asset-dependency tracking and many other improvements, laying the foundation of a more reliable, performant and scalable pipeline and speeding up your import times significantly.

Platforms

For mobile developers who aim to push mobile graphics and performance, Unity 2019 LTS brings improvements such as on-demand rendering, Adaptive Performance and improved OpenGL support.

Throughout 2019, we’ve also added and polished lots of tools for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) developers. AR Foundation, our framework for multiplatform AR development, gives you the power to build your app once and deploy across ARKit, ARCore, Magic Leap and HoloLens platforms. With the High Definition Render Pipeline for VR, you can push your VR experiences to the next level of fidelity without sacrificing performance.

We now also offer support for approved developers to create and ship their games on Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform.

2D Tools

Unity now has the 2D feature sets and workflows you need for bone-based 2D animation, tile-based and organic world-building, and 2D physics, for projects of any scale on any platform.

Addressables

Efficiently manage complex live content. The new Addressable Asset System gives you an easy way to load assets by “address,” while also handling asset management overhead by simplifying content pack creation and deployment.

Visual Effect Graph with Shader Graph integration

Visual Effect Graph now lets you use Shader Graph to create high-fidelity visual effects, so you can visually author your own pixel and fragment shaders and use them in VFX Graph to create custom looks.

Timeline Signals

Unity 2018 Vs 2019

Timeline Signals offers an easy way for Timeline to interact with objects in a scene. Timeline Signals lets relevant systems know that it’s time to react to a specific event, for example, when a cutscene created with Timeline ends and you want to load a new scene and enable a physics system.

UI Toolkit

UI Toolkit(formerly UIElements), a retained-mode API, helps you create Editor tools. You build your UI hierarchy of objects while the system renders it optimally, for better overall performance. By decoupling hierarchy and styling from functionality, UI authoring is more approachable for both programmers and artists with UI Builder.

Unity as a Library

Unity as a Library lets you insert features powered by Unity directly into your native mobile applications, including 3D or 2D real-time rendering functions, such as augmented reality, 2D mini-games or 3D models, and more.

AR Foundation

AR Foundation combines the full power of the Unity platform with essential core features from ARKit, ARCore, Magic Leap, and HoloLens for rich immersive AR applications that you can build once and deploy across platforms.

Incremental Garbage Collector

With incremental garbage collection, rather than processing garbage collection all at once, we split the operation over a number of frames. This helps reduce occasional spikes in CPU usage due to garbage collection.

We prepared a series of upgrade guides to help you go from Unity 2017 LTS or Unity 2018 LTS to Unity 2019 LTS. For complex productions with a high number of dependencies, find out how our Success Plans can ensure the upgrade process goes smoothly.

What to expect from Unity LTS

Making the current LTS stream the most stable version of Unity is our top priority. Biweekly updates are intended to address crashes, regressions, issues that affect the wider community or console SDK/XDKs, and any major issues that would prevent a large number of developers from shipping their projects.

Unity release plans

We’re committed to supporting 2019.4 LTS releases with biweekly fixes until mid-2021, and then monthly updates until mid-2022.

Unity 2018.4 is now the legacy LTS and will be updated once every month until it reaches the end of its support cycle in spring 2021.

Archive

Looking for a specific Unity LTS release? We’ve organized all LTS releases in one simple archive page. Or subscribe to our RSS feed and get access to the latest LTS as soon as it’s released.

The last TECH stream release of the year becomes a Long-Term Support (LTS) release and receives continued support for another two years in the form of biweekly updates with bug fixes. In terms of versioning, we increment the final TECH stream release of the year by one and add “LTS” (for example, TECH stream release 2018.3 became 2018.4 LTS).

The LTS releases do not include any new features or breaking API changes compared to the TECH stream releases that they are based on. Their updates address crashes, regressions, issues that affect the wider community or console SDK/XDKs, and any major issues that would prevent a large number of developers from shipping their games or apps.

The LTS stream is for developers who want to develop and ship their projects on the most-stable version and remain on this version for an extended period.

TECH stream releases are for developers who want to access the latest features and capabilities. The 2019 TECH stream had three releases (2019.1, 2019.2, and 2019.3). We add updates and bug fixes to the current TECH stream release on a weekly basis until the next TECH release is officially launched; then the cycle begins again.

Unity 2019.4, which we also refer to as Unity 2019 LTS, doesn’t have any new features, compared to Unity 2019.3. Updates to Unity 2019.4 include only fixes for crashes, regressions, issues that affect the wider community or console SDK/XDKs, and any major issues that would prevent a large number of developers from shipping their games or apps.

If you are in production or close to release, we recommend the latest LTS release. If you want to use the latest Unity features in your project or are just getting started with production, the TECH stream is recommended.

The 2019.4 LTS releases will receive biweekly fixes until mid-2021, and then monthly updates until mid-2022.

Yes. Generally, our process is to fix bugs in the next release of Unity, and then backport the fixes to current TECH streams and LTS branches. The exact mechanics for doing that depend on the nature of the bug, the dependencies it may have to other components, and other factors. We have a team fully engaged to backport fixes to Unity 2019 LTS.

Alphas are the first public releases of a new TECH stream version of Unity. During the alpha phase, we’re progressively adding all the new features that are scheduled to be part of the final release. At the same time, the features get tested collectively for the first time. While a TECH stream version is in alpha, we release updates with new features on a weekly basis until we reach feature completeness. As such, alphas come with a higher stability risk than beta releases, which are feature-complete and receive only stabilizing updates. With both alphas and betas, you have an opportunity to influence our development process by using the new features and providing feedback via forums and bug reports.

Because there may be feature-stability issues with these early releases, we do not recommend them for projects in production; we highly recommend that you back up any project before you open it with an alpha or beta release.

Both our alpha and beta releases are open to everyone – no signup is required. Get started by downloading them from the Unity Hub.

With Pixyz’s software, you can quickly import, prep, and optimize your large CAD, mesh and point cloud models for real-time visualizations in Unity.

Unlock your 3D data for real-time development

A Unity partner, Pixyz provides solutions to easily import and optimize large 3D CAD, point cloud and mesh models for creating real-time experiences in Unity. Unity customers across a range of industries use Pixyz to prepare data from widely used design tools and file formats for real-time development.

These Pixyz products ensure your 3D data is optimized for Unity regardless of the source. Going from import to real-time publishing has never been so easy.

Easily import and prepare 3D data

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The Pixyz Plugin for Unity is the fastest and easiest way to bring your 3D data into Unity. It reads and converts almost any format, optimizes and puts it in Unity, and stages it to provide ready-to-use assets for real-time applications.

Turn 3D data into ready-to-use content

Pixyz Studio is an interactive data preparation and optimization application that helps you import and transform heavy and complex 3D CAD data into lightweight, optimized meshes within Unity. Simplify and optimize CAD data quickly and efficiently with more than 120 powerful algorithms, including tessellation, CAD topology correction, decimation, and UV generation.

Import

Import small to large assemblies of over 30 supported formats, including CAD, tessellated/mesh file formats, point clouds, and more. You can also live-link assets in Unity with the original source data so changes update automatically.

Optimize

Create LODs and UVs, merge and explode meshes, change pivots, and more to build ready-to-use assets within Unity. Optimize any data natively within the Unity Editor without re-importing, so you can focus on your ultimate goal – developing and sharing immersive, real-time 3D experiences.

Visualize

The faster you can get your 3D models into Unity, the sooner you can visualize and shape them into real-time 3D experiences for your target audience.

Publish

With your 3D models imported and optimized in Unity, you just have to build once to publish 3D CAD visualizations to various platforms for mobile, desktop, VR, AR, and more.

Pixyz 2020.2 – Advanced optimization for industry

Pixyz latest updates include new functionality that combines advanced game-inspired optimization with expanded and improved interoperability.

Behind the Unity-Pixyz partnership

Learn how Unity and Pixyz work together to make creating real-time interactive and virtual experiences based on 3D data faster and easier than ever before.

Pixyz’s 2020.1 update brings grit and gloss to data preparation

Unity 2018.3

For their latest release, our partners at Pixyz have focused on improvements ranging from core geometry capabilities and new import formats to visualization and user interface enhancements.

Get up to speed on Pixyz

Check out over a dozen beginner to intermediate tutorials on Pixyz Plugin and Pixyz Studio. Available to Unity Learn Premium subscribers only.

Get to the point: Pixyz 2019.2

Pixyz's latest improvements make it better suited for a wider range of use cases and provide support for workflows that start with point clouds and native mesh data.

Streamline your data workflows with Pixyz 2019.1

The 2019.1 releases of Pixyz Studio and Pixyz Plugin for Unity deliver some major advancements, including new and improved algorithms, a revamped UI, and tighter integration with Unity.

Pixyz 2018.3 – Delivering on the potential

Pixyz 2018.3 opened up new opportunities for interactive optimization of models within Unity, saving even more time for Unity customers.

Pixyz 2018.2 – Automation and algorithms for automotive success

Unity 2018 Ai

Check out the latest improvements and features for the best CAD import and data preparation software for real-time 3D.

Get in touch to learn how Unity and Pixyz are the ideal combination for optimizing your 3D data and workflow to achieve your real-time 3D visualization goals.

Pixyz Plugin 2019.2 is compatible with Unity 2018.3 and later.

Pixyz supports over 30 file formats (DWG, DFX, SLDASM, X_T, IGES, and more). See the full lists of supported files for Pixyz Plugin and Pixyz Studio.

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Pixyz licenses are provided as a separate entitlement from Unity licenses.

Prices start at $1,150/year. Try it out for free. Or check out full pricing in the Unity Store.