Compare Unity and C4 engine : UNITY part of the test. Using the editor, and check rendering speed.

This is the UNITY test. I've used all the shaders, transparency, glow, flares etc... Unity provide by default. The spaceship translated perfectly in FBX from 3DSMAX. I get +300 FPS... Check http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6HmDWgieI for the C4 test/review

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Science & Technology

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• Unity
• 3d
• engine
• compare
• C4
• speed
• test
• review

[nikkoid]

Unity got a huge edge since the Indie version became FREE. The competitors cannot follow unless they change their business model...

They x3 their customer base in one month! Lot of people are using Unity (including Electronic Arts just to name one) and of course you can see it in the forums. Ask a question and you get answers in the minute...

[Slegarthoth]

The only problem with UNITY is you have to pay $1500 for dynamic shadows and source. :(

[nikkoid]

It is true, it si very expensive. And you do not get the source, ever.

[mew339]

Unity is so expensive.I don't think you can even sell the games you make on indie version.

[nikkoid]

Yes you can sell them... you will just have a nasty Unity screen at loading and some things like full screen shaders and water are not as good as in the pro version. Unity is growing with a very solid community of real pro who can answer any question in the forum which is what I like the most.

[mew339]

In that case,forget C4,i'm getting Unity.Anyone can buy it,right?

[nikkoid]

You can use the 30 days demo, everything works. Spend some time with the editor. It is very powerful and you can do amazing thing just with drag and drop like Photoshop or 3dsmax. This is not for everyone, some people will better like the C4 pure C++ approach. Then you can decide which one is best. I own both, and I like Unity better but some people are fan of C4, it is a really powerful engine for doing 1st person shooters for example...but the Unity's editor is better.

[eslajm]

This isn't even close to a fair comparison. The C4 version is doing a lot more work because things like stencil shadows and motion blur are turned on. These kinds of effects are not turned on in the Unity version, so of course it runs faster, but you're not getting the same thing at all.

[Argoon1981]

Are you using realtime lights and shadows on this unity scene? I don't see any on the small peaces of the ship. If not them i see why the C4 one would run so low with a highpoly object like that, it is casting shadows for all that geometry and if is running at 10 fps them is a very fast engine. The unity scene does look much better.

[WMVideos20]

nice graphic.. how you do it ??

[papersplease]

People in these comments are ridiculous. Here is a clue, if you can't find out how much a game engine license costs via their website, you can't afford it. Which is why you must apply for an "evaluation version" where they decide if your game is worth it. Source, Unreal, id engines = around $300,000 to license. They also take a small cut of every sale you make. Unity = $1,500 and you keep all of your profits (minus what the app store distributors take). Too expensive? Perhaps for kids.

[Z10R]

most impressive ship model.

[bluecafe69]

@nikkoid My problem with Unity is that you have to code in either Java or C#, when I've been learning C++.

[FierceMods]

It doesnt run at 400 fps. Unit y tries to compensate for the lag in the editor. Run the FPS script thats what it really si

[FierceMods]

@nikkoid Its not expensive. Unity could easily sell it for MUCH more

[rocknroll980]

@Slegarthoth Well, thats what torrents are for :)  (I'm not much of a torrentor, but seriously? Im not paying 1,500 dollars!!!!)

[tompdt]

try animating 200+ characters in view with unity and try again with c4, the latter will win by far..

[raulzilla]

@nikkoid actually it isn't expensive for a wysiwyg pro engine.