Linear space lighting is a term that game developers are becoming ever more used to hearing as games reach for the next level of realism with physically based rendering models (PBR). Though linear space and its counterpart, gamma space, are fairly simple and important concepts to understand, many developers don't learn what these terms really mean. This document will define gamma and linear space, how they differ, and how it applies to the Unity engine.

Having a programmatic way of integrating testing tools with Unity can benefit teams greatly by offloading repetitive tasks like build releases or running unit tests on an automated system. Luckily Unity has an often overlooked feature: its command line toolset. This is available on all supported Unity editor platforms, including the Unity Linux beta. By using the command line toolset, teams can automate events like builds and unit testing.

In an industry flooded with competition on every level from indie to AAA, creating better games and doing so quickly has become extremely important. Not only do developers need to concern themselves with the quality of their game, but in many cases company longevity can be based upon how quickly they can bring great games to market.

There are some amazing tools for Unity that can give studios the speed and efficiency boost they need to reduce development time

KinematicSoup has been named a Top 25 Up and Coming company in the annual Branham300 listing of tech companies in Canada. Founded in 2013, the company has since been at the forefront of tools development for game developers worldwide.

Interview

26 April, 2016

Alex Thiessen from KinematicSoup Technologies talked about Scene Fusion – a new collaboration tool for Unity 5 developers. It’s a new instrument, that allows game developers to build big complex worlds together in one environment. Great stuff for large-scale game production.

Here is another introductory video to our multi-user Unity scene collaboration tool, Scene Fusion. Developers shouldn't have to change their current workflow while using the Scene Fusion system as it is a non-intrusive, organic extension of Unity. 

This video will give you a brief overview of what a typical workflow would look like with Scene Fusion.

Scene Fusion is a tool that we developed to help teams build worlds faster and more collaboratively. The system allows multiple users to edit a Unity scene simultaneously and see their edits in real-time.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

Hi, I’m Bob from KinematicSoup and this is Scene Fusion - the tool that allows teams to collaboratively edit scenes in real-time. With Scene Fusion, developers can work together on the same Unity scene regardless of location.

Scene Fusion is a tool that allows teams to collaboratively edit Unity scenes in real-time. Scene Fusion is built to work with your existing source control solutions. In this video we show the typical workflow for using Perforce with Scene Fusion:

We often start down a path which we think leads to one place and end up somewhere else. It's something that permeates every aspect of life, both personally and professionally. We have not been immune to this at KinematicSoup. We started working on multiplayer systems and ended up creating a production tool.

Our focus is to create tools that enable teams to be more productive. Scene Fusion is our first tool, enabling real-time, multi-user world building in Unity. We created it because we realized that building games involves very different disciplines working together. Coders want to have as little change as possible while they are working, whereas artists and world builders are much faster if they can work together in real-time.