Unity AI

Unity AI is a comprehensive suite of AI tools and services integrated into the Unity game engine, allowing game developers to create more intelligent, immersive, and engaging gaming experiences. It provides a range of AI capabilities, including navigation, decision-making, learning, and adaptation, enabling developers to incorporate AI-powered behaviors and interactions into their games.

• Navigation and pathfinding: Unity AI provides advanced navigation and pathfinding capabilities, allowing developers to create realistic and believable movement patterns for AI-controlled characters. This includes the ability to navigate complex environments, avoid obstacles, and react to changing conditions.

• Decision-making and behavior trees: Unity AI offers behavior trees, a visual scripting tool for creating complex decision-making logic for AI characters. This enables developers to define conditional actions, interactions, and responses based on various factors, such as the character's perception of the environment or player actions.

• Learning and adaptation: Unity AI incorporates machine learning techniques, allowing AI characters to learn from experience and adapt their behavior over time. This can lead to more natural and engaging interactions as AI characters learn to recognize patterns, anticipate player behavior, and adjust their strategies accordingly.

• Character and crowd simulation: Unity AI provides tools for simulating large groups of characters, enabling developers to create realistic crowds, swarms, and populations within their games. This can enhance the visual and immersive quality of games, especially in open-world environments or scenarios with a large number of NPCs.

• AI for gameplay and game mechanics: Unity AI can be integrated into various aspects of game design, including gameplay mechanics, puzzles, and enemy encounters. This allows developers to create dynamic and adaptive gameplay experiences that challenge players and respond to their actions.

  Enhanced game intelligence and realism: Unity AI enables developers to create more intelligent and realistic AI characters, leading to more engaging and immersive gaming experiences.

• Improved game mechanics and gameplay: Unity AI can enhance game mechanics and gameplay by introducing AI-driven challenges, adaptive difficulty levels, and dynamic interactions.

• Simplified AI development and integration: Unity AI's integration into the Unity game engine simplifies AI development and integration, allowing developers to focus on the creative aspects of their games.

• Access to advanced AI techniques: Unity AI provides access to advanced AI techniques, such as machine learning and behavior trees, without requiring extensive AI expertise.

• Future-proofing and AI-driven innovation: Unity AI positions developers at the forefront of AI-driven innovation in the gaming industry, enabling them to explore new possibilities for intelligent and immersive gaming experiences.

Unity AI is included in Unity's Personal and Professional plans, which are available for free or at a subscription fee. For large-scale projects or enterprise-level needs, Unity offers custom pricing and support options. The plans are:

Student and hobbyist plans

• Unity Personal: Free trial to create 2D and 3D multiplatform interactive experiences. Unity Student: Free trial to learn the tools and workflows professionals use on the job. Offering the latest version of the core Unity Platform, free assets to accelerate projects, resources to get started and learn Unity.

• Unity Learn: Free plan to access expert-led live sessions and on-demand training, learning content library, over 750 hours of on-demand and live learning resources.

Professional Plans

• Unity Pro: Pricing starts at $185 per month to unlock your team's potential with professional tools.

• Unity Enterprise: Custom pricing offers everything in Unity Pro, plus technical support, build Server license capacity, dedicated Unity Advisor, three-year LTS support, source code read-only, on-demand training.

• Unity Industry: Pricing starts at $450 per month to build, deploy, and scale custom real-time 3D experiences on any platform, for any industry. Including everything in Unity Enterprise, plus Pixyz plugin, industry success, rapid-response technical support, on-demand training (300+ hours), product activation engagement (1 month), customer onboarding engagement (3 months).