In spite of Unity annoucing it will no longer improve its Flash Deploy module, incoming RageSpline 1.6 will support it. Not an easy feat, yet we hope it will serve well some of you who opted for or are restrained by contract to publish to the platform. Follows the changelog:

RageSpline 1.6

• Farseer Physics can now be disabled. Simply select main camera’s RageCamera component and disable the “Farseer Enabled” toggle. While disabled, the Farseer folder is moved to the project’s (Assets folder) parent.
• Added full Flash Deploy compatibility. Please notice that Farseer is not compatible with Flash deploy, make sure to disable it from your project before switching to Flash deploy mode.
• Fixed point snapping feature
• Fixed null reference when no Main Camera was defined in the scene
• Added “Styling Options” section and the “Copy From” functionality. Simply add a RageSpline to the “From” field and click “Copy” to copy all styling and texture placement parameters at once. Hint: Try using it with a reference “stencil” textured shape
• Fixed null reference issue with one-point splines.
• Added “Pin UVs” parameter, enables you to pin the current UVs then freely distort some applied texture. Currently accessible only through Debug mode.

If you’ve ever wanted to add illumination and shadow casting effects to your RageSplines, check out RageShadow from Fluffy Underware. We haven’t given it a whirl yet but it’s looking really cool:

http://www.fluffyunderware.com/pages/unity-plugins/rageshadow.php

The new RageSpline 1.5.5 was just sent to the Asset Store. RageSuite users already have access to it in our private FTP. Among many improvements and fixes, this release should finally resolve the Asset Store issue with Unity 3.5. Thanks to Caitlyn and the rest of her team for the help. Changelog:

• Fixed issue with Farseer Unity folders not properly importing from Asset Store and causing errors with Unity 3.5.x
• Added “Local AntiAlias” toggle, Antialias width is now set in world coordinates by default. Enable “Local AntiAlias” to replicate the original behavior where the real antialiasing width (when refreshing the mesh) depends on the game object scale.
• To properly approximate the original curvature, smart Add/Remove Points now automatically turn the adjacent points into corner-type (same as setting them with the “N” shortcut)
• Fixed problem with children box collider settings getting lost after playing the scene
• Added ‘Physics Set Trigger’ toggle to the physics options, forces enabling ‘is Trigger’ on all generated box colliders automatically
• Optimize now properly preserves the control points, making its result consistent with custom dynamic curve generation routines
• Multiple selected points are now shown in orange, last selected point still yellow
• Added Textured Alpha Transparent shader
• Show spline gizmos, show other gizmos and show wireframe are now global (scene-wide) settings
• New “visible” property now enables/disables the RageSpline-attached MeshRenderer
• Fixed issue with no-fill, open RageSplines setting the density to zero
• Fixed issue with editor refresh of prefab-linked RageSplines
• Fixed outline and antialiasing z-offset affecting non-3D RageSplines

If you still haven’t updated to Unity 4, we’ve sent a RageSpline 1.5 updated version with the compatibility fix for Unity 3.5 to the Unity Asset Store. Unfortunately some bug occurred in their system: it’s showing the version number (1.5.3.3) as updated but in fact it is still the 1.5.3.1 package. As the situation got unresolved after two weeks, we’ve created a small patch that fixes the problem. Simply unpack it in your project folder right after importing RageSpline from the Asset Store (and getting the bug). Copy over / copy and replace all files and re-start Unity. Some assets will be re-imported and the project will be updated and ready to use. Link

RageSpline 1.5 beta e-mails have just been sent! If you think you should be in it and have some relevant project that you want to test its compatibility with, we want you: please send an e-mail to contact [at] freakow.com with your project link or screenshot.