Modding Help

[wraith sigil]

Running into any issues? Not sure how to do something? ask away.

[brisk prairie]

me and my friend are trying to mod on his pc but everytime we try to export its says export failed? we have done everything antgrass said in the video

and yes he has the patreon

[remote burrow]

For me reinstalling the unity editor worked, I probably forgot to install the windows build support. Can you maybe share the error message?

[lyric stag]

Yeah, likely what @remote burrow said. You need Windows IL2CPP module installed.

Can you post the error message?

If you don't have it installed here's how to add it. Ignore the Windows Dedicated Server I checked, just wanted to show the install button https://gyazo.com/f1953067aa671a553e9a4494d5328cb8

[brisk prairie]

lol we forgot that. works now thanks

[open plinth]

never blame my tutorial i will send my goons out your way

[lyric stag]

https://tenor.com/view/timbersshivered-yikers-gif-23072365

[brisk prairie]

it was really good dont worry

better than kamikazzes unity tutorial for descenders lol

[wraith sigil]

Is there a way to disable the fog?

thought it would be a volume thing but its not

[lyric stag]

Window>Rendering>Lighting>Environment and fog settings are at the bottom

[wraith sigil]

nvm i got it

can do it here

[lyric stag]

That is just a scene view toggle for editing. When you export (and when i fix it) the fog will still be there

[wraith sigil]

yeah just wanted it for editing

was annoying me in scene view

[wraith sigil]

@feral patrol feel like you mentioned this before but were you able to fix the shiny ground texture ?

[feral patrol]

no, not yet, I fixed and added all textures to ground material and no luck, still shiny, flat and only albedo/bc is showing

[south vale]

there is a smoothness setting on the layer options

[wraith sigil]

That's not done anything for me

[wraith sigil]

am i blind @open plinth where's the button to see terrain topology?

nvm figured it out had to bring the overlay menu up and enable it

[wraith sigil]

Some reason my smooth tools stopped working

[wraith sigil]

man wtf is going on now...

[south vale]

base map distance in the terrain settings is 0 perhaps?

[south vale]

my terrain tools are also acting weird. For some reason the screen only updates once I stop sculpting, which makes it almost impossible to make anything

Will probably use an older unity for making the terrain, since I like the old tools more anyways

[wraith sigil]

nah its at 1000

this black shit was on export in game

Honestly i need to just stop playing around with random settings

[lyric stag]

Are you using a custom terrain shader? I’ll be back on modding stuff this week so I’ll start playing around with some stuff

[wraith sigil]

i'm using the terrainlit one

havent changed that since it stopped working

or is the shader somewhere else?

[lyric stag]

No that’s the stock one, should work… weird

Are all of your files in your mods reference folder, if not, the builder might not be including those files

[wraith sigil]

yeah they are

its weird cause everything was working fine till some time today

genuinely dunno what i changed. Haven't been using version control correctly either

thought it just auto pushed when you saved the scene

[remote burrow]

Tried exporting a mod and watching a discord video at once and now my pc is stuck in a boot cycle 💀 😭 edit: it works now thankfully

[remote burrow]

I have the same settings (except the preserve tree prototype setting) and it works for me, didn't you change anything except the terrain settings?

also this is how I have the rest of the settings

[wraith sigil]

I honestly cant say what i changed before it ended up doing this

I was doing a bunch of different things between the builds

one worked one didnt

[nova trellis]

Did you manage to fix it?

[wraith sigil]

nah

[wraith sigil]

have basically just had to export it and bring it into a whole new project but almost back

gonna have to re do a bunch

i must have changed something on a project level thats fucked it all

cause even a new scene within the old project was also fucked

[opaque sand]

hey guys, i cannot change URP, how i do this?

nvm i found it

[opaque sand]

is this right?

40 mins to extract the map

[lyric stag]

yeah its compiling shader variants. sometimes i have to wait 7/8 hours in the main game build 🙂

[wraith sigil]

@open smelt Video of smooth tool

#1503326861722390660 message This was the other day too where straight up doing nothing

[open smelt]

Try lowering the blur radius to 1 or 2

[wraith sigil]

Blur radius lower doesn't make any difference

[open smelt]

That’s some weird shit you got going on. Have you tried different brushes?

[wraith sigil]

yeah tried different brushes too. I think it just doesnt like when the brush is this small?

nah nvm doesnt even really work larger brush size either. Only way it does anything is me increasing the blur radius to 10 but then thats destroying everything

[open smelt]

I usually have my brush pretty small. I've never seen that. Must be a Unity bug or something.

[wraith sigil]

Yeah it's honestly making berms really hard to make ngl

can find tons of people complaining about the same on unity forums but no answers

ok so uninstalling terrain tools package has fixed it

but then i obv lose all the benfits of that

[open smelt]

Did you try reinstalling them and see if they get fixed?

[wraith sigil]

yeah just went straight back to being fucked

[open smelt]

fucking Unity

[remote burrow]

In the video you have brush scatter at 1, which to me seem could be causing the issue?

[wraith sigil]

yeah i've just booted pc again

it fucking was the issue

i reset that panel to default so many times

[remote burrow]

So it works now? Yeah unity is really confusing sometimes, I also had an issue with this at first lol.

[wraith sigil]

yeah

seems to be fine

why 0-1 makes such a broken difference who knows

why would you ever use anything on that slider

[open smelt]

I use values from 1-5 typically. I raise it if I need it to be more aggressive with smoothing. If a lower number isn't leveling something how I want it, then you have to raise that value.

[solar light]

Hello all,

I'm doing the mod setup, and my game keeps getting stuck on the loading screen for the local mod I just built. Any ideas? (0n Mac)

[wraith sigil]

That's the blur radius that does that not scattering (which was the issue)

[open smelt]

Oh my bad. Yeah I never touch that setting ha

[wraith sigil]

Have you installed the il2cpp module ?

[solar light]

I believe so, although it said "Mac Build Support il2cpp" not windows.

[wraith sigil]

Yeah that's right, unsure what else the issue might be then. Someone else had this issue on Mac in VC and I can't remember what sorted it

[remote burrow]

I had the same issue, what caused it was that I chose the wrong folder for the mod asset directory, so maybe check that? Also check if you have your scene, terrain, and assets in the correct folder.

[solar light]

It looks like I had the directory for the assets wrong as well. Once I updated that, I was able to get past the loading screen, but the terrain is not visible lol.

[wraith sigil]

@royal chasm has the solution for that

[royal chasm]

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[solar light]

Thanks! I made that change, but the terrain is still not showing.

Not sure if this is a normal message or not, but I am getting this console message during the build.

[royal chasm]

did the terrain from the sample scene from the tutorial show up when you loaded it in the game?

[solar light]

nah, that's what I am trying to load in actually. I made some mods to it with the sculpt tools.

I wanted to make sure that would work before moving to a new terrain

[wraith sigil]

Is InTerra a custom plugin?

[royal chasm]

well in that case ii would suggest to start from absolute scratch once agaiin annd really follow the the guide step by step, then load into the scene and check if anything shows up at all. then you can be sure you diid everythng riight . save it and go from there

https://discord.com/channels/1386501834931437720/1502749586379243622

easiier to follow n wriittenn form

[solar light]

Yea I'll give that a go.

[royal chasm]

for safe measure iinclude my suggested fiix after you setup everything. nothing to be done wronng there

eliminates one possible issue from the very begiinning

[wraith sigil]

If you are trying to use this currently a lot of marketplace plugins arn't working so best to uninstall it from the project https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/interra-shaders-for-terrain-its-objects-196455

[solar light]

Just an update - I tried to follow the tutorial a few more times and still no luck. The terrain exists in the loaded map, but the textures aren’t loading in.

Not sure what to do at this point lol.

[wraith sigil]

will probably need to see the project

you might be geting the issue i had where all textures were black?

i had to make a new project from scratch cause i couldnt find the solution

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this?

[solar light]

OK you are not going to believe this
I deleted all the mod maps that were not working from my mod folder (none of them worked last night),
So I just did a rebuild of the latest one that didn't work so I could show the lack of textures...
And it worked.

[solar light]

OK so next issue - I imported Terrain Tools but I'm not seeing any changes in my inspector. I tried deleting/reimporting but that didn't change anything

Any steps I am missing?

Or just fried

[royal chasm]

i have created my terrain with terrain tools and for me iit looks like thiis

[solar light]

Toms tools shown in asset folder, but the inspector does not have the stroke options, etc

[lyric stag]

install it from the package manager

[wraith sigil]

Yeah not sure what your installing but you do it from asset manager then click the unity registry on the left bar

[lyric stag]

https://gyazo.com/6ece857302d6bb14e461765d34a57375

[solar light]

OK Thanks that worked. I was installing this:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/terrain/terrain-tools-64852
which was linked in the comments of antgrass's second youtube tutorial.

Thanks to all that have helped. I will reward yall with dope trails (hopefully)

[lyric stag]

@open plinth is stuck in 2017 for sure

[open plinth]

Mac miller died

[wraith sigil]

ffs not this shit again

thought i'd fixed it

[royal chasm]

what was your supposed fix for that the first tme?

[wraith sigil]

uninstalled the extra asset stuff id added to the file

now trying the export setting to go for file size rather than build time

did cut it by 400mb

[royal chasm]

how much longer did it buiild compared to the previous settiing?

[wraith sigil]

not really that much longer tbh

although now the map takes longer to load in game for some reason

[royal chasm]

well my download succeeded

[wraith sigil]

just re uploaded the bigger file and it worked this time...

[sterile moat]

how do i make the rocks have collisions?

[wraith sigil]

How are you placing them into scene? If you're doing it through the detail or trees tab then they won't.

If placing normally do you have mesh colliders enabled in the inspector

[sterile moat]

now i do ill test it

im placing through the trees tab, how should i do it?

[wraith sigil]

By instead dragging and dropping the prefab into the scene from the assets folder

[sterile moat]

the one in the mod folder?

[wraith sigil]

Well from wherever they are located. Just drag from the bottom panel and drop into the scene view

[sterile moat]

the scene view?

what is that

[wraith sigil]

Your viewport where you see the map

[sterile moat]

thanks

[sterile moat]

I accidentally hit build and then I canceled because I didn't want it and now everything is gone, is there a way to revert it?

Or like get the mod from my mod io and change it to Unity

So I can work on it

[wraith sigil]

I had this too and couldn't find a way back think it only happens when you havent saved the file before hitting build, as i've been able to cancel builds fine since.

[sterile moat]

But I did though

I think

[wraith sigil]

not really sure it's the only thing i could think of being the difference back when it happened to me

I started using the Unity version control to have back ups after it

You can possibly check the temp back up folder see if theres anything in there

Find the Temp folder: Open your project's root folder and navigate to Temp (\rightarrow ) __BackupScenes (or __EditModeScene).
Copy the file: Copy the file inside (usually named 0.backup or similar).
Rename the file: Rename the extension from .backup to .unity

[sterile moat]

It also didn't show if I want to save so I had saved, maybe i just need to make it unhidden

[sterile moat]

any help on this?

[sterile moat]

fixed it

now icant build it now, i hit build and it says URP_ LowRenderer is missing renderer features

[wraith sigil]

did you do

Step 5: Configure the Render Pipeline
Go to Edit > Project Settings > Graphics.
In the URP folder (included in the mod tools package), select any render feature assets that show a warning arrow and click Attempt Fix. This removes missing render features that modders don't have access to (such as water rendering).
Restart Unity after running Attempt Fix — this is required before you can assign the render pipeline asset.
Once Unity has restarted, go back to Edit > Project Settings > Graphics and set the Default Render Pipeline to URP_Default_Renderer.asset.

[sterile moat]

its importing asset back to the scene, its getting weirder

[wraith sigil]

Not sure what else to tell you other than it may be best for you to start with a brand new project and do the steps through again

this project you have right now is got something funky you've missed or done in the wrong order

[sterile moat]

thanks for evrything.

[sterile moat]

I figured it out if it happens to anyone. just go to "Your Project">Assets>FastMesh>Scripts then delete the SceneViewText.cs it worked for me.

[wraith sigil]

ok so is this fast mesh a unity plugin you downloaded? Cause yeah this will be the reason its broken. A lot of unity scripts/plugins don't play ball with the mod kit

[sterile moat]

i dont remember ever downloading it

but it worked so im fine

[stoic finch]

Just started setting up unity to make maps, and everything has worked so far except for playing the map

Whenever i try load it just gets stuck on loading screen

tried restarting and waiting over 10 mins to see if its just slow, please help!

[royal chasm]

for real though, i would say start a new project, follow https://discord.com/channels/1386501834931437720/1502749586379243622 step by step, and when you loaded in the sample map. build this one and test if that worsk to make sure you didnt fuck anythiing up in the setup proces

[remote burrow]

This also happened to me, check if you have the correct folder set for mod asset directory, and if you have all your assets there (like the terrain, scene file, textures...).

[stoic finch]

Yeah I'm just starting from scratch now as I couldnt fix it, annoying as I already started making the map

alg tho just a couple hours setback annoyingly

[royal chasm]

Did you already delete your old project or can you still open t?

Because if you can stiill open iit, and your new project works, you can basiically export your old scene folder as an asset and reimport it into your new scene

[stoic finch]

Already deleted it but its fine

also wondering on how to do something tho as im new to unity

Mackays sent a good asset "StampIT!" which has this menu, ive installed it into my project but I have no idea how to actually add this?

[lyric stag]

What you have open now only works with MicroVerse (don't recommend getting if you're just starting out). Youll want to use the raw stamps on the terrain

[wraith sigil]

Yeah as hodge said you want to use the stamps in the terrain tools menu rather than this microverse one.

So it works like this instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfjjMAr3kOA

you just click the add new brush button and select the stamp from the pack

or actually they may just automatically populate in the brushes panel

[remote burrow]

Damn that sucks, sorry I couldn't help sooner but I had to study for a test yesterday, so I didn't have the time.

[stoic finch]

I had the idea of importing a heightmap to make mt everest now

Think ive got it nearly working

[sterile moat]

does anybody know how to add a skybox if possible? or i need like a 3d model

[wraith sigil]

#1503328009711521812 message Have a look at these.

Skyboxes are currently broken tho and wont transfer into the game as of yet. Hodge is fixing for next build

[sterile moat]

ohh good to know

thanks

[stoic finch]

Having a bit of a weird issue now, my map loads and the ground is solid, but i cant see it...

Everything is there its just invisible

@wraith sigil ❤️

[wraith sigil]

@royal chasm this is the thing you had to set right?

[royal chasm]

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[royal chasm]

yes iit is

[stoic finch]

Anyone got a good grass texture?

the only one i have looks like absolute ass

oh as in the bush not ground btw

[wraith sigil]

The ones in the urp demo scene are good

it's what i'm using for grass

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[stoic finch]

ty ty

[stoic finch]

wondering if anyone else has come across something similar or knows how do fix:

Everytime i "build" my map, the size goes up significantly, even if i removed objects or added very little

its at 1.2gb now, even tho I have barely any more assets than before, where it was only 600mb

[royal chasm]

thats partiallöy caused by the mesh subdivision you did earlier

the higher the res, the more data

[stoic finch]

Ohhh wait nvm i think i figured it out

the heightmap only actually becomes higher quality after you edit something nearby it, so it was a large area with very little triangles before but was divided into the high quality

[royal chasm]

@lyric stag @open plinth you guys probably know the answer to this.... is there a way to exclude the backdrop-scenery .obj with a sattelite image slapped on top from the render distance limits? it is pretty low poly and should not really impact performance even if it is rendered in full...

[remote burrow]

That looks like camera clipping, you should be able to change the clipping planes far and near values of the camera in the inspector window. Although it's also possible that you can't change that with a mod, in which case the developers would have to change it. Here is the unity documentation link: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Camera.html

[royal chasm]

yeah ii triied all these commonly suggested things, like clipping planes, urp render distances, etc. but there appears to be a runtime thing going which hardcaps that to 1000

[stoic finch]

@royal chasm how did you enable the hitboxes for the fence pack btw?

i forgot how you did it and im having the same issue

[wraith sigil]

most likely need to add either a box collider or a mesh collider to the prefab

in the inspector there should be a add component button where you can add this

[stoic finch]

ty i got it

[royal chasm]

Ah perfect

[open smelt]

@lyric stag can mods only be 2gb?

@stoic finch is getting an error when he tries and build a mod bigger than 2 gb

[lyric stag]

Yeah compress your textures/any other asset you’re using. This is an asset bundle limitation

[royal chasm]

oh no. well this will suck pretty soon 🥲

[stoic finch]

How exactly can I compress them?

asking for a friend

[stoic finch]

also is there anyway to get this increased? as literally every map is gonna be blocked by this

[lyric stag]

This is an asset bundle limitation
No

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.4/Documentation/Manual/ReducingFilesize.html

Biggest thing tis to optimize whats in your mod folder.

[royal chasm]

down from almost 1.8gb, not too bad id say.

now that i read a bit into it, i think even big maps can comfortably be decorated with stuff, even in this 2gb limit. so im a biit less worried now

[stoic finch]

Ive got mine down to 1.5gb as it turns out I had alot of 8k and 4k textures, still gonna have to compress even more eventually tho as I add more decor

[lyric stag]

i believe in you guys. All the pretty bmx streets maps are under 2gb

[wraith sigil]

Dam how we gonna fit all our malware bit coin miners now

[stoic finch]

😔

[royal chasm]

1138mb so far

[stoic finch]

after importing the new mod tools the export menu is no longer there?

no idea if i just need to enable it or smth but i cant figure it out

[royal chasm]

its broken atm. hodge has to fix t

[lyric stag]

On a date rn, will try to get an updated package tomorrow

[stoic finch]

hodge be getting that huzz