| Unity game engine updated for Leopard
Unity Technologies has announced the release of Unity 3D 2.0.1, an updated version of their 3D game design engine for Mac OS X. The free update for registered 2.0 users is ready for download. The software runs on Mac OS X but enables developers to deploy across multiple platforms, including Mac OS X, Windows and the Web. It incorporates an integrated editor, asset importing, shadow and light support, optimized graphics for both OpenGL and DirectX, terrain modeling, shaders, scripting support, networking, physics, audio and video support and asset management. New to the 2.0.1 release is support for Mac OS X v10.5 “Leopard," along with some necessary documentation updates that “enhance the documentation for both pre-existing and new features introduced with the initial Unity 2.0 release," according to the developers.
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The effects of United Way Capital Area's decision to change its funding formulas are still being measured, but it is clear that local donors are going to be asked to dig deeper to help. Whatever the merits of the United Way's decision to fund agencies aimed at preventing social dependency, the change doesn't erase the needs of people who are hungry today and don't have a place to sleep tonight. For years, the population of Austin and the surrounding area was largely middle class, the kind of people who didn't have much money to spare for charities. Now, however, the population boom brought on by the growth of technology companies and spin-off businesses hass changed that. There is wealth, and its signs have appeared on the hilltops all around the area, which are showplaces for big, expensive homes.
'U2 3D' almost puts you on stage with band
A) A concert film featuring one of the world's premier rock bands in top form, shot using cutting-edge technology that gives the audience a better-than-front-row seat. What's not to love?
U2 3D, opening this afternoon at the Maryland Science Center's IMAX theater, uses updated 3-D technology to give the viewer not only unrestricted access to the band in concert, but also access unavailable to anything without wings. It's not enough that you get to have Bono practically reach out and clutch your hand during "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" and practically sit on The Edge's shoulder as he clangs out the power chords that propel "Sunday, Bloody Sunday." You also get to watch from above as drummer Larry Mullen pounds out the beat to "Pride (In the Name of Love)," or hover just above the crowd as the four band members spread out onto separate ministages, surrounding the crowd and creating the intimacy their powerfully soulful music demands.
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