Using Unity to “Explore”

In order to fulfil the idea or concept by visual perception and the mental processing derived by exploring, the right tool has to be introduced. The Unity meets these requirements.

Unity – a cross-platform game engine for creating 2D and 3D computer games or other interactive materials, such as visualizations or animations. This engine is written in C, C ++ (Runtime) and C # (Unity API). Visualizations created on the Unity engine support many hardware platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android. Among them there are also seventh and eighth generation consoles. Virtual reality helmets such as the Oculus Rift and Gear VR are also compatible with Unity.

UNITY Advantages:

Unity is the best app for Game development. It is very effective while rendering 2D and 3D scenes. In this era of visual treats, Unity can very well be used for rendering 3D images also. The quality offered is also relatively good compared to other apps.
Unity is excellent for cross-platform development and multiplatform games. Cross development platforms are trending much these days. It is really time-consuming and demands lots of efforts for developing native apps. Platforms like Unity have made the process quite simple and easy to use when compared to previous times. Using cross-development platforms, a single script can be compiled and used for many platforms.
The assets store is also reportedly great when compared to other platforms. Basically, the tech support for Unity is efficient. The tech support members are also highly skilled and they can be relied upon in case of any technical issues.
In case of the visual platform, Unity is excellent. But we cannot appeal the same in case of the non-visual platform. It might vary in terms of the app’s application and usage.
The Unity game engine is also easier to use compared to many other technologies. There are so many other complicated technologies which become tougher while we use. Unity is an exception here.
Despite not being open source, the cost is very less when compared to all its other competitors. Cost efficiency is one of the main advantages of using Unity.

UNITY Disadvantages:

Graphics – not to say, but the engine lags behind from a graphical point of view. It does not offer an array of tools to create stupendous graphics as opposed to other game development engines.
Physics – in Unity 5 engine, the built-in support for the PhysX physics engine has some performance issues and lacks some important functionalities which need to be added to craft the excellent game app.
License cost – the developers need to have licenses for the best graphics, deployment and performance improvements. These licenses are expensive to purchase. Moreover, the use of rendering, buffer support, stencil support and pretty more features scale up the development costs due to expensive licenses.
Source code – the code is stable in Unity as opposed to other engines and packed with a great architecture that improves the game app performance. But, unavailability of the source code makes finding, addressing and fixing the performance issues difficult.
Memory hogging – the game developed leveraging Unity engine consumes more memory, which in turn creates OOM errors and debugging issues in the apps.

Here are some examples how UNITY can be used for exploration:

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Using Unity to “Explore”

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