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Question by danmlima · Nov 11, 2013 at 04:18 PM · post-process-effectimage-effects

How can I test image effects on Unity free?

I know image effects aren't supposed to work on Unity Pro because it doesn't support rendering to textures, but I also know there's a way you can get a picture or a screenshot of a game and apply an image effect to it just to see how it would look (not on real time).

How can I do that?

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No. I know for sure there's a way you can just run it on a static image even with Unity free because I worked at a company where they did that so they could develop all the effects on machines that didn't have Unity Pro. A programmer could develop the effect and see it running on a static image on Unity free, then once the effect was finalized it would go to a build machine with Unity Pro and added to the game itself.

avatar image TimBorquez · Nov 12, 2013 at 03:22 PM 1
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if all else fails theres a 30 day unity pro trial i suppose...

avatar image zombience · Nov 12, 2013 at 03:29 PM 1
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@danmlima that's the sort of thing that Unity is trying to avoid. Otherwise you enter a scenario where a company of 30 developers are all working in UnityFree, and there's one computer that has a UnityPro license that they push their projects to for build.

That hurts Unity, so what your company was doing was a work-around hack, and it seems unlikely that people here are going to help you do that.

avatar image robhuhn · Nov 12, 2013 at 04:33 PM 1
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Yes, developing on Unity Free and building on Unity Pro is not allowed anymore: Unity Software License Agreement 4.x (Section 2a)

avatar image thendricks · Dec 02, 2013 at 06:38 PM 0
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when i tried unity 4.3 free version it had image effects in it. I just added it to the camera and it worked.

avatar image zombience thendricks · Dec 02, 2013 at 06:41 PM 1
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you may have used the UnityPro trial.

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Answer by clunk47 · Dec 03, 2013 at 02:35 AM

You cannot use any Pro features in Unity Indie (Free) version. There is a 30 day free Pro trial. You can usually test the trial a bit longer if you contact Unity and let them know you simply want to learn all the Pro features well before you make a purchase decision. If you do find a way to do this, it's likely a crack, patch, hack or some other illegal workaround, and you shouldn't be asking that type of question here.

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