Here's what's new in Unity 2021.2

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0:00 Intro
0:12 Create UI for games and applications
0:28 Streamlined Terrain workflows
0:48 Improved SpeedTree 8
1:06 Decals improved and now available
1:40 Lighting
2:15 Progressive GPU Lightmapper tilling
2:23 Light speed light placement
2:38 Light Layers for URP
2:49 Improved lighting in HDRP
3:20 New Lens Flares system
4:00 Perform live camera and face animation
4:15 Unity Face Capture
4:33 Unity Virtual Camera
4:50 Visual Effects Graph
5:19 New Shader Graph Integration in VFX Graph
5:41 Bake Signed Distance Fields directly from Unity Editor or at runtime
6:07 Graphics buffer for large data and advanced simulations
6:27 Shader Graph
6:55 Custom interpolators
7:31 Universal render pipeline
7:51 HDRP New Clouds and volumetrics
8:43 Time to grow hair and fur
9:09 HDRP performance boost

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Unity Face Capture

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[ewwitsantonio]

Nice video, thank you for creating this! It's nice to see these new features.

Just a small piece of feedback, could you please consider lowering the music volume while you speak? The loud sections of the music are a bit distracting - for me at least. One suggesting is to keep music about 10db below voice db. Anyway sorry for the nitpick, great content in the video!!

[BravosChannel]

These features may make this one of the best updates regarding graphics. URP and HDRP is starting to feel fully realized, and shader graph for standard render pipeline will allow for more flexibility. The lens flare & decal support in URP makes this feel like a unity of render pipelines and I'm loving it!

[connygu]

Amazing!!! I just begin to learn unity with online youtube tutorial... I have no idea, how many years I need to reach an average indie developer level, but I think, even unity as a hobby, it still can bring a lot of fun in life! Love unity and all the great engineers behind the fabulous software!

[ewwitsantonio]

That LEGO game is one of the most beautiful looking games I've played. Absolutely gorgeous. When I inspected my PC install of the game files I was SO delighted to see it was built with Unity. Looks like the customization they had access to is being brought to the public release of Unity? The nvidia DLSS stuff at least? If i'm understanding correctly

[ShatabdaRoy]

I feel blessed for not quiting on unity

[spacewargamer]

You really worked hard in this video, thanks

[tunaroll]

Thank you so much for the updates and sharing them with us! Next time could you pls lower the background music? Also it’d be great to have official unity-created hdrp pipeline and material tutorials!

[christopherfarrell-artist]

All of this is great, but, they broke something in 2021.2 where materials show up as grey boxes, making the workflow much slower if you have a lot of materials. Stick to LTS if you want stability folks!!

[stefanogrillo]

Speaking for myself, with a bunch of ideas in mind to put at work, i'd need a lot more samples out of the box and with full compatibility with the various versions.

[UserName-eboy]

It's a tragedy that most people think of Unity3D as a crappy engine to make asset flips in

[Jomoko]

screenspace and raytraced shows don't appear on terrains.
raytraced reflections do not reflect terrains. screen space does work however.

[arunachalpradesh]

does face capture also work with android? . most of the good face capture software only support i phone due to its depth sensor cameras and arkt

[konzeptzwei]

is there a list that compares the shader graph capabilities between URP and HDRP?

[UltramarineAfterglow]

So unity is now three different engines?

[XRelabs]

thank you very much, informatinal, and you have a good presentation skill, please make more videos

[melomaniakjm]

Shame that the audio isn't mixed properly. You speak so softly and the music is too high. Please fix for the next video!

[prettyshortshorts]

What is Unity's answer to unreal nanite?

[mosthed]

This is all great stuff, but.. lets be real here, after seeing what Lumen can do, any of these lighting upgrades/updates feel "last gen" at best. Plus, it's taken how long to get them working? I still can't even GPU bake on linux without it crashing on an RTX2070. The rest is good stuff, though.

[berkcan]

when will unity release UE5 equivalent I am bored of this YYYY.Q (2021.2) nonsense

[ss]

Why the music, it makes the video very annoying to watch...