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🧵 Unity to acquire Weta Digital for $1.63 billion to boost their metaverse initiative
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 02:57:51 UTC No. 861216
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygA
https://blog.unity.com/news/welcome
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:01:07 UTC No. 861217
Unrealbros...
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:24:26 UTC No. 861218
>>861216
So in a few years everything will be created in engine.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:29:55 UTC No. 861219
>>861218
yeah, in unity. So glad I picked the right side.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:31:39 UTC No. 861220
>>861216
Innovation no longer exists today, we are in a state of perpetual decay where the only new things happening in the industry are boomers cashing out their billion dollar companies to globo homo while the updates we get to software are in the licensing department as the world moves towards a pay to rent model.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 04:06:48 UTC No. 861224
>>861217
>>861219
Unity will treat it the same way they did with ECS. This is just to impress their stockholders
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 04:32:35 UTC No. 861227
>>861224
>Unity is currently in the process of memory holing all their ECS content
Shit sucks 99% of it barely works anymore, I can't believe I had faith in them, never fucking again.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 04:46:16 UTC No. 861228
>>861224
>>861227
wait what? can i get a QRD? i thought ecs was their next thing and everything was moving in that direction...(but last time i used unity was a couple years ago)
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 05:38:46 UTC No. 861230
WetaM was neat because it was tools for something people already use that weta already made, weta don't use unity they used unreal last time they showed off their real time stuff so what exactly is the goal here.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 07:09:13 UTC No. 861234
>>861230
It's not like it's impossible to integrate weta real time tech into Unity, it afaik runs on C++ under the hood anyway, tech that Unity needs so it won't fall too far behind UE5 sims and vfx. Too bad Unity is a clusterfuck of features and tools, half broken, half baked at times.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 07:44:07 UTC No. 861236
How long until all of Weta's tools end up in a weird deprecated but without any planned replacement limbo?
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 10:31:30 UTC No. 861250
>>861228
They're doing a big refactor of the engine and as a result ECS doesn't work in the latest releases
I get the feeling that if they didn't have 5 different versions of the engine to maintain they'd be in a much better place now.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:42:46 UTC No. 861273
>Weta Digital’s pipeline represents the most complete toolchain for 3D creation, simulation, and rendering ever created.
There's going to be a very high demand for pipeline TD's because of this acquisition. This is great for me.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:38:05 UTC No. 861287
>>861216
>metaverse
This was embarassing enough when secondlife tried it.
Just like vr, normies will dip their toes into it, find it incomprehensible, and vanish.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:32:48 UTC No. 861324
I don't even know what weta is but I know it's going to die.
Is it some sort of in engine modelling and sculpting software.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:51:01 UTC No. 861328
>>861324
>I don't even know what weta is but I know it's going to die.
weta digital did all the effects for still the #1 highest grossing movie of all time, cris
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:53:01 UTC No. 861329
>>861328
If they're so secure why don't they go open source, huh?
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:54:48 UTC No. 861330
>>861329
what
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:11:54 UTC No. 861332
>>861330
Godot can match this through the power of contribution.
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Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:54:09 UTC No. 861339
>>861324
Weta is Peter Jackson's VFX house. They did the VFX for a bunch of big films including LOTR and Avatar.
https://www.wetafx.co.nz/films/film
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:18:24 UTC No. 861374
>>861216
I'd sell my own mother for that kind of money, but yeah...that's the end of Weta because all this nonsense is doomed to fail.
Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:14:46 UTC No. 861409
>>861216
I was wondering what Unity would do in response to Epic working closely with ILM for their productions.
This is very promising
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:44:09 UTC No. 861420
the fuck is this shit...
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:56:24 UTC No. 861421
>>861420
The steal of the century for Peter Jackson