First Unity3D usergroup meeting report
Last Thursday evening the first Dutch Unity3D usegroupmeeting took place and as far as I know it, it was the first Unity3D usergoup meeting ever worldwide. We received 20 signups and about 15 people showed up. This was a small group of very enthousiastic people. Some of them where new to Unity and others where very experienced.
We started off with Lucas Meijer, his session was planned to go about realtime 3D basics. However he had a small surprise in mind for us coming directly from the Unity3D headquarters in Copenhagen: Sneak peaks of Unity3D 2.5! Including showing us the Windows version! The guys at Unity3D have done an even more awesome job with this upcoming version. I personally can't wait till it's out!
Next on stage was Stijn Raaijmakers and myself, presenting about our work to get RTMP support in Unity3D. This was quite a technical sessions, but I've heard some possitive feedback about this afterwards. People seem to be really interested in the combination of Unity3D and RTMP/Red5. The session ended with a multiplayer "Tropical Island" (the default Unity3D project once you install it), in combination with a top view map build in flash, to see the location of each user on the island.
After the break Vincent Verweij started with his session about Unity3D iPhone. It was very interesting to see some Unity3D work on the iPhone and hear about Vincent's expierence with development. And beside that his experience with Apple in general.
Bas Smit did the last talk of the evening about building custom shaders for Unity3D 2.5 using ShaderLab. He did a good job explaining why you somethimes want to do this and how you can achieve it.
We planned that each presentation should fit in 30 minutes, but we found out this was way to short (Note to self: next time, shedule each presentation for an hour). So we where done with the presentations around 11PM and it was time to talk with each other in person. I heard nothing but possitve reactions about this meeting, so it's not the question if there will be a next meeting, it's the question when it will take place...
Read more to see some pictures made during the evening, to get an impression about what was going on.
Misschien een goed idee om net als bij Unite de presentaties op video op te nemen en de slides beschikbaar te stellen.
Hoop dat er snel een 2e meeting komt… ik zal er dan iig bij zijn!
Er is gefilmt gedurende de eerste meeting! Om diverse redenen zullen we alleen nog even moeten wachten tot dit gepliceerd zal worden. Het plan is om ook bij de tweede meeting de camera’s weer op te stellen:-) In ieder geval bedankt voor de goede tip!
I am soooo Jealous! I would’ve loved to attend this meeting.
Next time you are organizing such a meeting, please invite me as well or let me know where to signup. Looks promising and exciting to meet other people who share the same passion.