💻┃unity-talk

[mild radish]

but dont code around pre-mature optimizations

[native mirage]

My contractor wants me to make some miracles

[mild radish]

whether its paid or not.. its best to get it working then make it better and then make it pretty

just got to account for that ahead of time

[slow dirge]

Texture resolution doesn't really have that much of an effect on performance. Unless you're hitting a memory bottleneck.

You should profile and analyze different metrics. If want to go in depth on GPU performance, use a native profiling tool provided by the device producer.

[native mirage]

Alright

[mild radish]

lmao 😂 welcome to contract work

i feel for ya tho.. just stay in scope while staying under hours 😈

i usually will update my clients the first couple of days just so they can get a feel for the amount of time its going to take

[forest otter]

Do you guys think messing around with the microgame lessons can teach you stuff? Like the FPS microgame, if I were to make more levels, alter/edit scripts depending on level scale, etc

[mild radish]

you can slightly adjust this as you need to make the work match the deadline

[mild radish]

oh 💯

i'd also supplement it w/ lessons and your own research as you do..

[forest otter]

But the question is would it teach you ENOUGH

[copper gust]

nothing will teach you "enough"

[near wigeon]

depends. with low experience no.
there is A LOT of abstractions

[mild radish]

you'll find new things.. but you'll not find the whole context for those things..

it wont help at all unless you go out and research things as you go

but it does help show u how things are typically built

altho i've seen some questionable code in some of those microgames 😅

but who of us havn't made questionable code

[forest otter]

So even if I spend time in the microgame and making new scripts/altering old ones, I won't suddenly be able to make my own microgame

[mild radish]

you can use it as a base..

thats totally differnt

i'd still learn the basics in a blank project tho

less distractions

[mild radish]

even after playing around in it for a while you probably still couldn't make the exact same game the exact same way..

the structure and stuff in some of those are stuff you learn from experience..

[fair cove]

Building your own game will require understanding how things are put together (which the micro projects can help with) and understanding how to organize code in a way to create specific and predictable outcomes, and it helps if that code can also be maintainable to adapt to inevitable changes, the micro projects sadly wont teach you that part, but practicing code patterns might

[mild radish]

and even if you did make the same game.. (you totally could recreate it)
its doubtful that the code that You write would be layed out the same

4 years deep and I still have trouble sometimes figuring out some of the things in those.. like why they did it a certain way.. and how all that connects together

but once you understand the basics you can kinda claw your way through it 🙂

[forest otter]

I mean I KNOW the basics of Unity, inspector, hierarchy, etc, I just have no idea how to structure code. Like for ADS I literally do

if (PlayerInput.Instance.ADS()
{
    m_HandContainer.LocalPosition = Vector3.Lerp(m_HandContainer.localPosition, m_ADSPosition, m_TransitionRate);
}
``` then when I do else I just reverse that

I imagine a perfect system would be more complex

[mild radish]

thats calling a public method from a Singleton.. a static Unity class/script

eww.. the way they do m_var 🤢

btw you can click and highlight those class/methods in the script and press F12 and it'll jump straight to the function/class you have selected

can really help navigating around fully structured code

it helps too to take notes.. and make a little flow-chart of how the code talks to each other

you'll want to find the roots and branches of the systems

[fair cove]

"perfect" doesnt exist, but "good enough for your specific use case" does exist - sure there are better ways of doing what you want, but it sometimes comes down to if theres a need to change what you have if it works and is not causing significant performance issues, readability issues or maintainability issues - often if your doing something tedious or in a complex way and you ask yourself "theres gotta be a better way of doing this..." or "is there a way I can just have all this happen with less steps?" there usually is - for your specific code snippet, that actually looks like a fine solution to me, without any other context

Though if you want to learn about other maybe "better" ways to write code, id strongly suggest looking into something called "code patterns", a channel called "Infallible Code" imo, teaches a lot of it very well with practical Unity examples, but remember theres many ways to approach the same problem so there is no one "correct" way of doing most things in code, but there might be arguably "common conventions", things like "S.O.L.I.D" is good to learn about (which Infallible also covers), but in Unity you might not use all of that in the traditional way

[mild radish]

the code I wrote:

    void Update()
    {
        if (PlayerInput.Instance.ADS())
        {
            hand.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(hand.localPosition, adsPos, Time.deltaTime * speed);
        }
        else
        {
            hand.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(hand.localPosition, hipPos, Time.deltaTime * speed);
        }
    }```
the refactored version I showed my boss: 😄
```cs
    void Update()
    {
        targetPos = PlayerInput.Instance.ADS() ? adsPos : hipPos;
        hand.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(hand.localPosition, targetPos, Time.deltaTime * speed);
    }```

[fair cove]

Also, imo the best way to learn is through multiple projects, so for example, if you learn about the "singleton pattern" or you decide to use Scriptable Objects, make a project that only uses singletons or one that only uses ScriptableObjects, so you get to really understand how they work and their limitations, then you can try to apply them in a practical way to a really small project, one you could consider as a "micro game" if you want - thats just my personal advice, many ways to learn I personally find that a effective way to learn from my own experience

[forest otter]

I don't know why but I feel like the microgame could've just, instead of having managers there own script, be integrated and abstracted into the player script as extensions

[mild radish]

its also built to be simple enough for dev's of all spectrums to mess around with

so there probably are big chunks of it that could be rebuilt as more production ready code..

[dusky forum]

Feels like you're mainly concerned about

time
Yes, tutorials are mainly to educate and won't necessarily help you finish your own game.
If you're wanting to wing-it (shoe-horn etc) the tutorial won't be able to help you.
It's more for learning and experiencing the process from A to Z.

[mild radish]

but that would make it less approachable

[forest otter]

So in other words just spend time on unity learn?

[tranquil hamlet]

hey guys does anyone know how to generate a method for steam networking i taught quick fix was supposed to do it for me but its refusing to

[mild radish]

TLDR: Microgames give practice in observing and modifying systems, but mastery comes from building your own small projects and experimenting with patterns in isolation.

[dusky forum]

You can skip parts you're already familiar with.

[mild radish]

yes, and this ^ ..
if u wanna brute-force it google/stackoverflow/and unity discussions got you covered

the more time u spend on the basics tho the more solid of a foundation you have to really get going with

[fair cove]

There are reasons why you might not want everything in one script, and sometimes having logic separated into managers or using something like "states" can be helpful but maybe not in all cases - for example, I would probably have a "InputManager" instead of have input in my player motor script, my reason is because if I spawn multiple players, or want to reuse the logic of my player for AI, all of a sudden my input now controls every "player" instead of just my player, this is the same reason I choose not to have input inside my "weapon" or "item" scripts, multiple items, multiple weapons now means multiple inputs - but if I know I will only every have 1 non-changable character, then a whole input manager might not make sense

[mild radish]

my method was to use Unity playlists (liek someone going from install to -> simple game) this one is great https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw
and then i just over to specific unity tutorials doing what i wanted to do..
i learned and adapted them to what i wanted.. and when i got stuck i'd do my own googling/searching
(the docs help tremendously and most come with example code that does the basics for you)
then at the very end i went back to learn and checked out the pathways or certain tutorials covering gaps in my education

that process is still going ^ lol

[forest otter]

You know, I came across a video years ago, from this guy who made Bendy and the ink machine. He was homeless for a while I think. He's been in IT, but he didn't like it, had to move back in with his mom, and his mom eventually talked him into making games. NOW he and another dude are working on the finale to my favorite trilogy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhZqWvGLI8

[mild radish]

yessir.. imo its also great b/c when i do my menu systems or anything of that sort
i can simply call methods from the InputManager to change states or temporarily block out player inputs or w/e

and yea, Monolithic scripts were a dirty secret of mine.. (my first player class was pushing 2000 lines)

finally refactored it about 8 times and its now less than 500 💪

[dusky forum]

28:37 - actually hired a 3d artist
Looks like they're getting serious.

[mild radish]

ya, having individual inputs in every class thats affected by input would be a nightmare 😅
i much rather just have them pull the info from a Manager script that i can micromanage however i want during the dev process

im still guilty of using the old input system and adding input everywhere as i build.. 🫠 .. just havent been comfortable enough with the new input system to make a solid class i can use as a cookie cutter drop in script

i really should do that.. 👋 Future me: Make an InputManager package!!!
-# todo spawcampgames

[fair cove]

It took me SO long (only until recently) to finally figure out how I can actually manage a lot of code that communicates or depends on eachother, and split those monolithic scripts up, now it feels like a strange go-to solution ("when all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail") but well... It works for the kind of projects I make now lol

[mild radish]

i try.. im still not comfortable enough in my work-flow to break up everything that actually should be

im getting there tho

Event based classes are slowly getting implemented

currently working on a new bootstrapper system..
i thought my last one was baller... until i looked at it recently and quitely questioned wtf i was thinking..

its better than the 1 yr Unity me...
but by todays standards its nasty.. and i can do alot better 😄 lol

my new one

havent connected anything just yet.. but this is mainly all i want continuing forward

[fair cove]

Event based classes are so helpful - someone introduced me to a "broadcaster" pattern (publisher-subscriber) where the thing your subscribing to doesnt have to know about the object that has the event, so it makes it easier for things to plug in and out of "global managers" and for other things to respond to the changes of global managers, when I figured out how to use that, it made some thing that were previously difficult suddenly a lot easier to manage (but it does use singletons and thats easy to get carried away with)

[fair cove]

I always say its a sign of improvement as a programmer when you can look at your old code and go "wtf was this!?" you learned more than you knew back then 😉

[mild radish]

hahah.. i hella improve then..

every day i stink-eye my old self..

but the good/bad news is.. i've almost refactored most of my old garbage stuff
and secondly the rest of my crap code was on a 17tb HD with 4 years of prototypes that got knocked off the table and won't boot anymore... (sooo.. that lessened the work-load alot 😭 lmao

cool thing is i've already recreated most of it..
it takes about 1/10th of the time it originally took to write most of it

shoulda pushed alot of it..

live and learn tho

[fair cove]

Its a rough feeling, but sometimes you need that "hard reset" to clear some technical debt, like you said you were able to rebuild what you had in less time and probably more structured than you would have trying to refactor existing code into a new framework, so thats good - though if you still have that drive, I think there are external "docking stations" that might be able to recover some files if any of the disks still at least spin but just might not be "reading" correctly

[mild radish]

rofl.. you can see when the drive died

[mild radish]

after an emotional day or two.. i used it exactly like this..
(welp, most of that was crap anyway).. now i can go forward without any technical debt.. and hopefully i wont stick bad workflows and stuff back in there...

*i was more upset about 4 years worth of art assets (textures, 3d models, branding and logos and whatnot)

the Unity part tho was a blessing in disguise i guess.

theres only a few systems that I had really taken my time on.. and for those I plan on recreating them probably 200% better 💪

still in the scratch-paper outlining phase for alot of em

[fair cove]

After some of the frameworks ive been building (still working on some), ive learned that its easy to over-engineer, which can add technical debt if you ask questions like "what if I or someone on my team wants to use it in this alternative way?", and that can be hard to see while your still in the planning phase even sometimes in the development phase cause things change from your original plan the closer to "done" it gets

[latent meadow]

That's why i've been planning for years! gotta get it right before i really make a mess 😂 😐 🙁 🙃

[haughty lion]

For a 2D game, when trying to use the transparency sort axis, I see a warning up top that says pipeline specific settings might not be used - does this mean my transparency sort axis wont work correctly until I switch my render pipeline?

[slow dirge]

You're modifying the setting for BIRP(built-in rp), yet seem to be using URP.

So of course these settings would not be active.

[haughty lion]

Ah of course, I found the setting inside the Render2D URP asset. Ty. These just looked a little 'separate' from the rest of the settings so I figured maybe they still worked. Appreciate you pointing that out.

[sage basin]

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[vagrant root]

@sims4player_53642 banned

Reason: bot spam
Duration: Permanent

[woeful stump]

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAdjMV20eBalgmXY3drgEnPtqtMl10h4Lq48WbnrAI2SwBwQ/viewform?usp=dialog

[woeful stump]

Hey! 👋
I’m doing a short survey about gaming habits and preferences for a small research project.
It only takes 2–3 minutes, and your answers would really help me out!

Thanks a lot if you can fill it out

[tacit coral]

which channel for multiplayer doubts

[near wigeon]

#1390346492019212368

[tacit coral]

thanks ❤️

[latent meadow]

This is not a 'social' server., nor is it a place for random people to do 'market research'. perhaps try Game Dev Network discord

[fallen barn]

Hello, I'm experiencing this weird issue where values in the inspector reset when i add a new element into the list or close the list from my inspector. I couldn't find any clear explanation online that causes this issue nor can i find solutions to stop this from happening and I'm hoping if anyone could help me figure out the issue?

[latent meadow]

i am going to guess you are using 6.2.x?

[fallen barn]

I'm using 6.0

[latent meadow]

ok, that is odd then. perhaps delete the Library and let it rebuild

also, 6.0.what?

[fallen barn]

my editor version is 6000.0.58f2

[latent meadow]

the f2 series does seem to be having problems. it might be that. if possible, maybe you can use the 6000.0.60f1. it does not have the security warning, and casual reports seem to indicate it is having less issues.

[fallen barn]

Alright ill give that a try thanks 👍

Would you recommend installing the latest 6.2 version and migrate the projects there instead?

[latent meadow]

no. 6.2 is having major issues.

[fallen barn]

got it ty

[high axle]

Hello gusy i want promote my asset which topic i can ?

[latent meadow]

is it in the asset store?
is it free or are you selling it?

[high axle]

both sell and i have free asset

[latent meadow]

a free asset can be posted in #1179447338188673034 an asset in the asset store can be posted in #1080140002849214464 aside from that, there is no self promotion allowed in any rooms.

[high axle]

thank U

[latent meadow]

thanks for asking before just posting 🙂

[high axle]

Can I get your opinion on the assets I uploaded to Unity Asset Store? Are they good and is the pricing reasonable?

[latent meadow]

that is not something i do. if some day i happen to use it, i would review it.
This also falls under 'self promotion' so be careful

[high axle]

ok

[gusty abyss]

Hi guys I want to buy myself a new laptop for development what would you guys recommend?

[latent meadow]

this is out of scope mostly. here is a link.
https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1249155543264657408

[cloud creek]

someone just friended me here, he has 0 msg on this server

what to do?

[latent meadow]

read #📖┃code-of-conduct and decide if it is worth reporting. reporting instructions are there (reporting it is not a bad thing to do, since it allows the Moderators to keep track of things, and nip them in the bud early)

[latent meadow]

also, someone cannot just friend you, AFAIK.. maybe you hit accept? other than that, it is just an annoying request

[cloud creek]

i mean they sent req

meh im just gonna cancel req

[sour salmon]

So I can’t install unity on windows 7 because hub decides not to work

But installing only the editor results in the license thing

[latent meadow]

windows 7 is not supported. not sure why you expected your results would differ

[sour salmon]

Windows 10 and 11 is a piece of shit and slows down my laptop so I won’t upgrade back

[latent meadow]

that does not change the fact it is not supported, so, there isn't really anything to be accomplished

[sour salmon]

I don’t actually care windows 7 isn’t supported but rather getting unity to work

[deft rock]

If you want to use Unity on a Win7 machine, you'll need to use an older version that didn't require the hub and supported Win7

[sour salmon]

I will try 2020.3.49f1

[deft rock]

that requires the hub

[woeful spear]

Is there any shortcut for maximize/minimize these scene/game/graph windows?

[deft rock]

double click the window tab, or click in the window so it has focus and ... shift+space ?

[woeful spear]

Works

Also, what's that yellow warning in console?

[latent meadow]

which just made me realize there is a severe issue in 6.60f1. might be due to my game on another screen. i will test more later (about the shift-space)

[woeful spear]

I don't know C# yet so I don't know how to fix it.

[deft rock]

dunno - if you really want to know more, copy the warning and google it. Otherwise, just press clear and move on

[woeful spear]

Okay I'll ignore for now.

It's part of tutorial, there doesn't seem anything broken yet.

[sour salmon]

As long as there are no compiler errors

[analog crane]

It's crazy how Unity is actually about as old as me

Wonder what the first public version looked like

[sly lake]

Try Linux.

Like, it's a hassle, but so is running an increasingly unsupported version of Windows. At least it'll allow you to run modern software.

[latent meadow]

Thankfully it was other things causing the issues. a combination of a game on one screen and a fullscreen show on another.
shift-space seems to be working under normal circumstances

[mortal star]

hey guys, need some help here..
trying to create a track segment, everything works nice and the script makes it all happen but one thing i cannot overcome, i have Loops in my track 90° cant understand why the loop ends up like the photo

[nocturne remnant]

Hey,
I have a player and Enemy, both parent have rigidbody2d with Boxcollider2d. Player on player layer and enemy on enemy layer. In collision Matrix, i have unchecked player-enemy box but they both can still push each other.

any idea why?

[storm patio]

make sure you've set it in the physics2d menu and not the physics menu

[nocturne remnant]

oh

lmao

[storm patio]

was that it

[nocturne remnant]

thanks Chris

[storm patio]

insane guess

[deft rock]

you haven't stated what's wrong with the loop

[nocturne remnant]

sometimes ChatGPT doesn't mention the obvious stuff

[storm patio]

maybe don't use genai

[nocturne remnant]

I stopped using it after i realized that I couldnt make any game without using AI

[mortal star]

@deft rock my bad thought that its obvious, full loop with X : Y no Z the car cannot enter the loop its colliding with track Straight

[analog crane]

Is there a way to locate a mesh you're drawing via Graphics.DrawMeshNow?

I'm seeing 2 extra tris when i have my thing working but i can't see anything

[deft rock]

Nothing in your original message talks about collision!

I'm not sure the best way to do this sort of thing, but I would start with using a spline and no collision on the line

[mystic abyss]

Another problem for your own sake, is when you learn to do things via GPT, studies are now showing that the development of the brain starts to prioritize GPT to be the way to solve something.
Learning to program takes time, and without GPT any neurons that you develop as you get better at programming, will make you better at programming. You actually gain knowledge.
With GPT, youre only ever going to think that youre learning, its tricked your brain

[waxen tree]

Could somebody teach me how to download Unity?

[sudden linden]

im gonna make a few assumptions based off what I can see here, lemme know if any of it is wrong
So im assuming you are making a procedurally generated track with different segments and odds for those segments to generate yes?
So if all the loop segments are the same, could you just alter the loops to have the left section only have collision after the car has gone through, and the right section of it to turn off collision after the car has gone past? I am not sure exactly how you have coded your things tho so I dont know how possible that is with what you have created

[mystic abyss]

Its quite easy to do it, but I will ask, what steps have you already taken to try and download unity

https://unity.com/ or https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=unity download really should have been either first step

[waxen tree]

Nothing yet since I don't want to mess up my Laptop

[mystic abyss]

ah, well just go on the unity website, click the download button. It'll guide you through the steps more when its downloaded and installed

Youll need to make a Unity account also

[waxen tree]

Doing it rn

@mystic abyss do I press this?

[sudden linden]

yea, chat gpt and other LLMs are a useful tool after you have gotten experience, and even then, it tends to have a lot of mistakes unless you ask it for something that's already been done before. The only thing I've found that's actually useful for it is providing better examples for specific obscure syntax and what not after you have been unable to find anything helpful by searching for things normally. You need the knowledge to use it otherwise you are not going to know when its spitting out a bunch of garbage, or how to fix that garbage

(this is of course, without going into the countless other ethical and moral concerns around using current LLMs)
I think it is pretty good at Regex stuff actually, tho it's been like, 3 years since I played around with it a bunch, and I still would never trust it to generate regex for something important (like what caused that huge cloudstrike issue a while ago)

[shadow heron]

No don't press the button where it says download for windows 🤦

[red notch]

Direct3D: detected that vsync is broken (it does not limit frame rate properly). Delta time will now be calculated using cpu-side time stampling until the game window is moved.
Does anyone understand what could be the cause of this issue? It's only with unity games. Thought it'd be best to ask for help here, thanks

[vivid cedar]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/direct3d-detected-that-using-refresh-rate-causes-time-drift/866737/4

Do you have vsync force disabled in nvidia settings or something

[sly lake]

I had this same issue. Do you have a third monitor or VR headset connected?

[red notch]

I tried all types of vsync. Disabled, on, fast, and think there were 2 more

I'm on a laptop

[vivid cedar]

what kind of gpu

[red notch]

4070 laptop

Made sure that both intel and nvidia are up to date, more than once

[sly lake]

It's a driver issue anyway. Unity has no control over this.

[vivid cedar]

to be clear the error message is indeed coming from Unity but it's because Unity detected that vsync isn't working in your driver

[sly lake]

Might be able to get something from DirectX itself though:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5604/~/how-to-capture-d3d-debug-layer-logs-to-detect-application-or-runtime-bugs

[red notch]

I'll look into it, thank you

[boreal wolf]

hi there

[sour salmon]

I installed 7 with bootcamp

And I don’t have a cd for linux

[deft rock]

You would download a Linux distro, put it on a USB and install it from that

But it sounds like you've got a mac.. just use MacOS?

[sly lake]

If the Mac is old enough not to run Windows 10 it's probably a very old MacOS

[azure grove]

what age are we talking about

like modern macs bootcamp is gone and dead now

[sly lake]

Well, Windows 10 is supposedly slow so I imagine this predates 2010.

Hard drive era

[azure grove]

also 7

like next to nothing will support 7

if you need a OS for low specs better off with a linux distro since atleast its maintained and has security updates

running 7 and exposed to the internet is just asking for issues

[sly lake]

Yeah, if you can run something mainstream like Mint or Ubuntu still you can probably still run the latest software. But if the computer is too old for those you're relegated to obscure stuff even on Linux.

[latent meadow]

!collab

[vagrant root]

:loudspeaker: Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on Discord.
Please, use Discussions to promote yourself as job-seeking, advertise commercial job offers, or look for non-commercial projects to participate in:
• ** Collaboration & Jobs**

[heavy cipher]

Anyone had any success with joining collabs? I'm coming in as a mid-level 3D Artist and so far gone through 3 gigs that look to go nowhere, or the bar raised unrealistically high.

[worldly cave]

collabs often fall apart because of unclear leadship, poor communication and mismatched expectations

theres also a noticable lack of accountability as well as huge amount of people who simply dont know how to work with others but will always grab at the idea to do so

those kinds of people tend to push their own ideas, resist feedback, and create conflicts that stall or derail any progress

[stuck flower]

And that "collaboration" often means "I want to make a game without putting in any effort"

[worldly cave]

"of course i am going to be the idea guy for this project"

you guys do everything else

[mild radish]

"i dont know what im doing so i'll hire people that do"
"then i'll pretend i know what im doing in order to lead" 🫠

[worldly cave]

"wdym nobody wants to make my dream game for me 😔 "

[heavy cipher]

So, luck of the draw then. I've spent time on Unity Collab and r/INAT but nothing positive.

[worldly cave]

i saw forget about collabs and join actual teams

easier said than done but

[mild radish]

gotta vet ur employer's 😄

do ur own little interview to make sure its worth the commitment

[worldly cave]

also never join too early

[mild radish]

"can you legally drive a car" would be the first question i ask 😄

[worldly cave]

lmao

[stuck flower]

Yeah, you really need to read the classifieds and get a feel for the kind of person who makes it. Look for people who are organized, who have game design documents and are willing to give milestones and deliverables. For an artist, having a fully playable gray boxed prototype is also a good indicator that they're actually serious about finishing the project once the art is finished.

[heavy cipher]

Funny that because I had two and it was full of kids.

[worldly cave]

a good sign is someone willing to actually pay you to work for them*

not full time

but if someone offers you a flat rate or something for a certain amount of work then you already have some guarantee that the project isnt complete amateur hour

[mild radish]

ya sadly its a legitmate question i would ask

[worldly cave]

even if it falls apart you get paid

[mild radish]

too many time i see people that wanna make gorilla tag games?
get sent over to collab.. and probably triyng to hire ppl with their parents credit cards

[worldly cave]

well to be fair

if an "ideas guy"™ has the money

i say let him

[mild radish]

oh yea 💯

[tall hearth]

Can you legally buy alcohol*

[mild radish]

if im getting paid good i dont care if their project flops 😄

[worldly cave]

exactly lol

when they offer rev splits or no money at all

thats where the issue starts

[mild radish]

oh thats a red flag

a big one...

anytime u hear "i cant pay you now.. but i'll split the revenue with you"

run

[worldly cave]

rev splits are fine but not in lieu of actual payment

[heavy cipher]

I should've came here first 😅

[worldly cave]

if they can pay you something now but then additional a rev split thats fine

i joined a project a few months back not in unity and i cant talk about it because its technically modding BUT the guys drafted up a very serious legitimate contract

[mild radish]

if they can't pay something up front they're not serious enough to procure work in the first place

[proud mason]

hey everybody anyone know to fix this? i missclicked somthing... im new

[worldly cave]

i didnt follow through

[mild radish]

Shift + Space

[proud mason]

thanks

[deft rock]

you've just maximised the console window.
Either double click the window tab, or give that window the focus and do shift+space

[mild radish]

full-screen'd ur console

[worldly cave]

you said you were a 3d artist?

[heavy cipher]

Yes.

[worldly cave]

chin up youll have plenty of opprotunities

[proud mason]

thanks tho i didnt know that im new

[worldly cave]

artists are a dime a dozen especially ones willing to work collaboratively

[deft rock]

yes, that is why I informed you of those things

[worldly cave]

you just have to find the right ones

[proud mason]

im really very thanks

[heavy cipher]

I consider myself more hobbyist, thus me saying mid-level. I have plenty of time and was looking to do something productive but for another.

[worldly cave]

do you have a portfolio or something

[proud mason]

im glad tho

[mild radish]

consider selling licensed artwork (like on the store, sketchfab, etc)

if ur a 3d artist theres always gaps in the marketplace

[worldly cave]

im still waiting for some talented animator to realize theres a terrifingly huge lack of quality fps animations

[heavy cipher]

Yeah, I posted here in AnniversaryJam.

[worldly cave]

got a link?

[mild radish]

procedural animation "took err jobz!"

[worldly cave]

i mean

i do do that

but i still need actual like reload animations

everything else can be handled procedurally

#🏆┃daily-win message

[mild radish]

ya thats basically all u need in a fps..

reload anims..

everything else can be done w/ tweens

[heavy cipher]

I started off with creating 3D vTuber models at low prices just to get in. That worked for a while then I gave it up. I also do some animations in Cascadeur.

[mild radish]

in combo with the animation rigging package 🤌

[heavy cipher]

Now, I just model for personal enjoyment.

[worldly cave]

check out my vid in #🏆┃daily-win

its procedural + baked

[mild radish]

characters / humanoid rigs are where the moneys at

that and bigprop packs

[worldly cave]

yeah

"hero props"

[mild radish]

exactly

[worldly cave]

they are also expensive holy shit

[mild radish]

exactly 😉

[worldly cave]

i paid close to 80 bucks for just a sculpt for an enemy character that i still have to retopo + texture on my own

😔

[forest otter]

Hey I'm sorry for wondering, but someone told me not to use AI to do my job for me, and even though I don't meant to do that, I just use it when I'm stuck on a piece of code, do you think if I DON'T do that and even if it takes HOURS or DAYS to figure it out, I'll eventually get it?

[worldly cave]

i told you not to use ai i think

and my philosophy is

youl learn more taking longer to figure it out on your own

rather than taking a shortcut with ai, while you might still learn its really not the same

[heavy cipher]

I tried Fiverr, and ad posting on Discord. It's just filled with compeititon. I'm going to work on myself and carry on as is and grow my portfolio.

At the moment I have one sponsor, and aiming to get a second. That's my drive at the moment. Collab idea was lil' side.

[stuck flower]

"idea guys" with money actually have a name - "Executive Producers"

[worldly cave]

can you link me your portfolio please :)

[stuck flower]

Learning how to learn is an important skill. Best to practice it when the problems are easy so you know what to do when they get hard.

[heavy cipher]

Sorry, here: https://ko-fi.com/lunafah

[worldly cave]

have you ever done hardsurface stuff?

[mild radish]

who hasnt? thats what u start out doing 😛

[remote quartz]

I only use AI to handle some boring things, like writing the same codes...

[heavy cipher]

In the past, and whether customer order has something of such.

[worldly cave]

yeah but i mean more like using boxcutter and stuff like that

[worldly cave]

how are you with speed modeling?

[mild radish]

you have a much better chance of it "clicking" working on it yourself than you would relying too heavily on ai..

the time it would take is relative ofc.. and can't say for sure when that moment will come

[heavy cipher]

Never tried.

[waxen tree]

Hi

how do I install Unity?

[mild radish]

!install

[vagrant root]

When Unity fails to install checklist

• Make sure you have enough space including on C: drive.
• Check that it's not being blocked by antivirus/security programs.
• Look through the logs for a real reason why the setup fails they are pinned [here](#💻┃unity-talk message).

If you still have issues, perform a clean install in another location:

• Install the Hub and Unity in a non-system drive or a clean new folder in the root of C: drive.
• Failing that use the recovery Refresh option or reinstall OS entirely then repeat the previous step.

[mild radish]

via the Unity Hub

[worldly cave]

well listen ill add you as a friend rn, somewhere down the line probably really soon im gonna need a modeler for my project, so if you will be interested ill shoot you a dm when the time comes :)

and you will get paid lol

[mild radish]

can you drive a car and purchase alcohol? 🤪

[worldly cave]

bought my first car right post covid 😉

[mild radish]

hell ya this guy may be legit ^

[waxen tree]

I mean, I just got a new laptop today and I have never installed Unity before and I need some help with it

[heavy cipher]

Oh! I was not expecting that. I don't like to disappoint so if you have something of a test I'll happily give it a go.

[mild radish]

https://docs.unity3d.com/hub/manual/InstallHub.html

just follow the instructions pretty simple.. come back if u get stuck

[worldly cave]

ill let you know when the time comes :)

the project is still in its infancy

like i said before, dont join anything too early lol

[waxen tree]

but what happens if I do something wrong and then it messes up my laptop?

[mild radish]

it wont.. if u mess up anything along the way you just go into Add/Remove programs and uninstall w/e you did (the hub/ the editor/ both) and try again

Unity doesn't do anything crazy to ur computer.. its just like installing Discord or something.. just a program after-all

[waxen tree]

should I just use a youtube tutorial?

[mild radish]

you can if u like.. (that unity page covers the steps tho)

[waxen tree]

alright, thank you!

[stuck flower]

What sort of "messing up your laptop" are you expecting to occur

[mild radish]

for realz ^

[forest otter]

But it WILL come if you keep at it

[mild radish]

💯

i had most of my eureka moments a little after a year of learning

using AI exclusively tho.. might push that back indefinitely

[azure grove]

people figured stuff out just fine when all they had was books and the docs that shipped with things

[mild radish]

💪 the good ole days

books? "ya, it's like the internet but made out of trees"
"hmm, weird"

[forest otter]

Would it help massively if you keep commenting? Trying to work WITH the logic of the comments?

[azure grove]

there are some uses for AI, but getting stuck and having to experiement and reason through things is how learning works

you will not improve if you try and short circuit that

[forest otter]

So I shouldn't feel the need to go to AI when anything stops working

[mild radish]

when i started i commented everything..
when i would make a script it started as a skeleton of comments..
like what my intentions were.. and how i thought it would be layed out..
then as you fill in those functions it starts making more sense and u can remove them as you go and rewrite them for ur new script setup

[mild radish]

won't really learn anything if you have AI troubleshoot everything for you.

you get into a copy-paste feedback loop

[wind perch]

quick question... how can I reset the camera in Unity while working on the scene?
I'm not talking about the "ingame" camera, I'm talking about the camera that overviews all the Unity stuff, including "ingame camera".
I ran into issues importing a prefab 3d model with it's own animations and camera stuff.

So I started playing around and did something and can't undo it...

help plz

plox

[mild radish]

select a gameobject hover the scene-window and press F

[worldly cave]

you can press f to focus on an object

[mild radish]

it'll re-focus and fix ur scene cam

[forest otter]

Okay let me ask you something Rental. I have a learning disability, so I can't really convey my words well, speaking or on paper. So how do I know how to comment well?

[wind perch]

yeah, it worked

thanks

[azure grove]

90% of the work is literally breaking big problme down into many simple problems i have been programming for like 20 years and i still write lots of notes and break things down that way first

[mild radish]

comments are for You after all.. (atleast while learning)
think of them as notes to yourself..

write them any way you want... as long as it helps future you.. make sense of things

[forest otter]

Okay so they don't really have to be PERFECTLY logical

as long as YOU can tell what the code does

[mild radish]

no... in fact as you go you should use less and less comments..

eventually you should write code that reads as it does..

so using good names for variables and methods can make that happen

and you wont need comments at all (unless theres something specific you need to note)

[forest otter]

Yeah, I should be shying away from AI, even in personal use, because even ChatGPT said comments should be 100% logical and grammical

[azure grove]

purpose of comments while learning and while working in production with a team differ too

[forest otter]

yeah, im solo

[mild radish]

if ur solo make ur comments however u want..

[azure grove]

like i will often have a bunch of TODO and FIXME comments for myself while making a feature, but will remove them all as those parts get completed and before merge. Generally the only that that i keep are explaining why i did certain things if its not obvious

[worldly cave]

i have a bad habit of never removing my debug lines

i still have some completely useless debugs in there

i could go through all my scripts and get rid of them but you never know when something can fuck up and you might need them again

[azure grove]

i remove them pretty quick or just not make them in the first place and use breakpoints

generally keep ones that are general flow or give useful information for any situation

like if a bug is hit where my game is stuck loading but no explicit error was thrown its useful to see which major systems have already spun up etc

[mild radish]

thats excessive tho ^ ol

[azure grove]

even if you do not want to pause on a breakpoint, they are still useful for temp logs, since most debuggers let you log on breakpoint hit

[mild radish]

i always forget to remove them 😅

[mild radish]

simple enough at the end of ur project to do a mass find/replace

hey, i wonder if u could just wrap all ur debugs in #if UnityEditor

and just have them culled from the build?

[azure grove]

you can turn off logging in builds

[mild radish]

omg? really

[azure grove]

but the better approach which sadly unity does not do out of box is having multiple log levels

verbose, debug, info, warning, error etc

[mild radish]

what do you mean by log levels?

[worldly cave]

is that vscode or vs?

i love the way the colors look

almost like theres some chromatic abberation

[mild radish]

i use vscode b/c i work with embedded microprocessors and i can flip around in the same IDE

[worldly cave]

is that a custom theme or an extension?

[mild radish]

its a theme i got from Nav in here.. hold on ill show u the extension

[worldly cave]

please do it looks great

[mild radish]

https://vscodethemes.com/e/BeardedBear.beardedtheme/bearded-themanopia-experimental

there ya go Kuzmo 👍 enjoy

i have to swap my theme atleast once every year or so..

[tough lotus]

How do I fix Normal from Height being pixelated

[worldly cave]

beautiful thanks

[tough lotus]

I saw people having this issue with no solved posts

[mild radish]

not a problem.. funny you mentioned chromatic abberation.. second person thats said something about it.. (i dont see it) lol

[worldly cave]

i wouldnt say its actually chromatic aberration but if you stare at it

it looks off

in a good way

[mild radish]

oh wait.. you've said it before too

[worldly cave]

perchance

[mild radish]

lol

ayyyeee 👍

[worldly cave]

the colors are definetely offset in some capacity on your screenshots

idk what could be causing that lol

but it looks cool

[mild radish]

me neither.. but i like chromatic abberation 😄

[azure grove]

do you not see it on your own screen

[tough lotus]

by the way I am making a project based off of early versions of Universe Sandbox (Alpha 12 to be exact), and it's in the same project folder as these tests if you're wondering

[azure grove]

looks like it could be its aliasing the font

[balmy kettle]

looks like it's ClearType
https://stackoverflow.com/a/59315193

[mild radish]

nope.. its only screenshots

[azure grove]

its something you get used to, like i find windows font rendering looks terrible after getting used to macs for a decade

[mild radish]

lol.. 💯 but as long as i can read it without squinting im good 👍

[eager sphinx]

HELLO Unitians

Pls I wanna ask

When creating games for WebGL... What's the best render pipeline to go with? URP or built-in?

[tough lotus]

Hello there, is there an alternative to the Normal from Height node?

scam

[azure grove]

both work just fine

but webgl is a limited platform not all features will work on either

like webgl does not support deferred rendering or some newer features like APV

[light sedge]

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@exuberant_fox_68265 banned

Reason: crypto scam
Duration: Permanent

[tough lotus]

yay

[light sedge]

thanks!

[mild radish]

maybe its this? or yea Cleartype..not sure.. (im blind so my font sizes are pretty big..) doesn't bother me enough to look farther into it 😄

[worldly cave]

bruh you can see it in this screenshot too lol

[mild radish]

🪄 🤷‍♂️

[sudden zephyr]

how it's look like

[eager sphinx]

So which means?? Is it ok to go with URP or built-in?

[azure grove]

both are fine i would lean towards URP

its what i am using in production at work right now for webgl

[eager sphinx]

Oh nice

I guess I'll stick with it then...thanks

[plain dagger]

Id never recommend built in anymore

[sly lake]

It’s deprecated and will just give you hassle when it’s inevitably removed one of these days.

[stuck flower]

I don't think it's actually depracated yet, but it's depracated in all but name

[sly lake]

Deprecated as in, they actively recommend against using it for new projects and are no longer adding new functionality.

So yes, deprecated by definition. Even if they don’t give it that label.

[undone monolith]

guys what does this error mean?

[small ginkgo]

unity turned white idk how to fix it

[potent geyser]

You're probably searching something in your hierarchy.

[stuck flower]

Your static class NewMonoBehaviourScript cannot derive from MonoBehaviour. Static classes must derive from object.

[potent geyser]

Btw, if the bot deletes your message and tells you why, don't circumvent it, thanks.

[undone monolith]

what does this mean? 😅

[stuck flower]

Static classes can't be monobehaviour

[undone monolith]

oh

[sly lake]

The first part makes sense but MonoBehaviour should still derive from object

[stuck flower]

I am pretty sure that the error means that it must derive directly from object, rather than deriving from a derivation of object

[sly lake]

Oh. I see.

Static classes can’t inherit from anything.

[stuck flower]

Yeah but since that's technically impossible, the error message says it needs to just be an object

[rustic relic]

Hello there I need help installing unity well the editor it keeps giving me an error saying "download failed eperm operation not permitted"

[near wigeon]

eperm operation sounds like you have permissions issues

[rustic relic]

I ran through admin and still nothing

[potent moss]

kinda weird question but what happens if a single client on a multiplayer server catches an error? does everyone on the server crash or just the single client?

or like what happens?

[near wigeon]

that doesn't necessarily mean that would be a fix

[near wigeon]

why would it effect anyone else ? unless it was the host of the session

they are not directly connected to each other, server-client topology the clients don't know anything about each other, they all communicate through the host/server

[potent moss]

[rustic relic]

so how do I fix it or allow it to download its self?

[near wigeon]

try these

👇

[vagrant root]

When Unity fails to install checklist

• Make sure you have enough space including on C: drive.
• Check that it's not being blocked by antivirus/security programs.
• Look through the logs for a real reason why the setup fails they are pinned [here](#💻┃unity-talk message).

If you still have issues, perform a clean install in another location:

• Install the Hub and Unity in a non-system drive or a clean new folder in the root of C: drive.
• Failing that use the recovery Refresh option or reinstall OS entirely then repeat the previous step.

[dark trail]

hey guys.. where can i post my itch io link? or can i post it. ?

[vivid cedar]

#1180170818983051344

[unreal shore]

Can someone check #1390346827005431951 quickly I have a problem and I think the solution is probably very simple :)

[lunar drift]

Me

[stuck flower]

Why reply to an off topic post from five months ago

what are you hoping to gain from that

[lunar drift]

Don't ping mods for no reason

[stuck flower]

Mods can see deleted posts, you know

[lunar drift]

You cant

[stuck flower]

Go ahead and test them if you want then

[lunar drift]

It wasn't even anything offensive or something

[charred fog]

!warn 1387389000074924065 This is your last warning before ban. Don't spam or troll on the server.

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@aleksus112_15811 warned

Reason: This is your last warning before ban. Don't spam or troll on the server.
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[rough surge]

can people take assets from the Unity asset store to a different engine like godot?

[near wigeon]

Dont ask legl advice on discord

but you should read the EULA

[charred fog]

It is easily searchable as well https://support.unity.com/hc/en-us/articles/34387186019988-Can-I-use-assets-from-the-Asset-Store-with-other-engines

[pulsar egret]

Hi guys

[near wigeon]

why did you post screenshot of the asset store page?

[near wigeon]

https://nohello.net

[formal inlet]

just like that ^^

[patent coral]

Probably nothing, but out of nowhere Unity started throwing these codes after every script save. Runs fine so likely not major, but does anyone know what exactly they are? TY

[near wigeon]

you tried restarting editor ?

which version of unity are you on

[patent coral]

newest: 6000.2.7f2

[patent coral]

yep, that resets it. This just Unity's way of saying "break time"? XD

[near wigeon]

could be anything related to the layout / gui

if it keeps coming back i'd investigate it further, otherwise its usually a window or something editor somewhere took wrong turn lol

[mild radish]

sometimes resetting the layout will work too for a while

different levels of restart lol (layout->editor->hub->pc)

6000.2 seems to me from what i've seen personally to be the buggiest of the lts's but can't say that with confidence

[pulsar egret]

Ok

Strange rules

[stuck flower]

This isn't a social server, if you have a question, ask it

[pulsar egret]

Ok

[deft rock]

6.2 isn't LTS

[pulsar egret]

I hope I won't forget this rule because I used to say it

[pure igloo]

i set my background as Polygon Collider 2d, but when i run it, the main object still falls through the border

[deft rock]

Surely they just need box collider 2d on them?

make sure all have the same Z pos (presumably 0)

[pure igloo]

i am following a guide and it says to add it

[deft rock]

ok, do as the guide says

[pure igloo]

ya, all are at 0

even the obstacle

[balmy kettle]

what kind of collider does the obstacle have

[near wigeon]

2D physics ignore the z

[pure igloo]

Polygon Collider 2D

[balmy kettle]

do any of the colliders in question have the Trigger box checked?

[pure igloo]

yes

all of them

[near wigeon]

[pure igloo]

oh

[balmy kettle]

there's the issue. trigger colliders are not solid colliders, they are just trigger volumes

[pure igloo]

ehm, it's still not happening

i will upload the settings for my backgrounds and obstacle here then

[balmy kettle]

where is the obstacle's collider

[stable perch]

The collider is disabled

[pure igloo]

O_O

[stable perch]

Make sure you check the checkmark next to where it says polygon collider 2d

[pure igloo]

but he said to not check it?

[near wigeon]

why is the colldier disabled

[stable perch]

If you don’t check it then the collider won’t do anything cause it’s disabled

[balmy kettle]

i did not say to untick that box. i said the Trigger box that is a property on the component

[near wigeon]

isTrigger

[pure igloo]

i thought when you said oof you meant me to uncheck all of em

still falling through

checked all of them

[balmy kettle]

nobody even said "off" anywhere, i said trigger colliders are not solid colliders. you confirmed they were triggers, but apparently you didn't even look at the actual component, you just saw a check box and made an assumption

[pure igloo]

not off oof

i thougth i made a mistake or smth

nvm

i checked em all out

it still ain't doing anything

[stable perch]

Ok don’t check every single box different check boxes do different things

[balmy kettle]

do you remember how i asked you what kind of collider the obstacle had and you said a polygon collider? your obstacle does not have a collider

[pure igloo]

i meant i checked the polygon collider 2d

[stable perch]

That too

[balmy kettle]

and if you think it does, then show it

[pure igloo]

just tell me what i need to do to get this working. i am not here to fight or rant, i want this to work. if i said smth which did not make sense, i am sry. i am new to this.

[balmy kettle]

i have already told you what the issue is, you should consider reading the information presented to you

[stable perch]

Give your obstacle object a collider

[pure igloo]

so i add it as a component?

[stable perch]

Yup

[stable perch]

Chill 😭

[pure igloo]

thx, it worked

[stable perch]

🎉

[pure igloo]

i added box collider at first, and it worked fine but then i deleted that component and added polygon collider and this weird thing happened

the obstacle is kinda....dunno.....drunk?

[stable perch]

Do you have the polygon collider in the shape you want it to be in

[near wigeon]

use the gizmos

[forest otter]

Why does my text blend in with the black image? My image is far back

[near wigeon]

if this is UI Z position wont matter for draw order, its based on hierarchy order

Bottom Items in hierarchy Draw last so are always ontop

think of it like a stack of papers , the last item you placed on the pile will always be ontop of the others

[pure igloo]

holy hell, just making a couple of these objects have gravity and bounciness and collision utilises 50% of my CPU

thank god it's not in 3d

[glacial flax]

idk why but this just appeared and it's doing nothing idk what to do

[gentle brook]

yay

[glacial flax]

it's been 48 minutes

[near wigeon]

so end task

[pure igloo]

is this common?

[reef dome]

2gb for unity? yeah

on bigger projects i reach 6gb easily

[pure igloo]

oh no

[near wigeon]

yeah 2gb is pretty tame

also doesnt mean all of it is used, usually it reserves a bit more than whats being used

if you look at something like the memory profiler you can see the differences

like so

[gusty abyss]

Does unity 6.2 just crash all the time for anyone?

[reef dome]

nope

[wraith pasture]

Time to switch to Godot

or idk try an older version of unity maybe

[finite igloo]

Just restart unity and try again

[glacial flax]

that's what I did but I had to do everything again lol

I didn't do much so no problem

[glacial flax]

I think I recognise this profile I don't remember where is it from lol

not the cat

[finite igloo]

F²games + GSC

I was gorebox in-game mod

[glacial flax]

oh yeah

i remember now

[nocturne yacht]

yo chat weird question but did anybody here ever play a game called Hylics?

[finite igloo]

Nope

[foggy gate]

why is my pumpkin so strange on the left side it should actually look like it does on the right side, can anyone help me

[near wigeon]

turn compression to None

[gentle brook]

breh commpression to none

look

like on the right side

at the bottom

[foggy gate]

like this

[gentle brook]

this

[hushed topaz]

lemmin

[foggy gate]

oh thanks

[hushed topaz]

peak

[gentle brook]

sry for modding baldi

[foggy gate]

thanks it looks normal now

[hushed topaz]

Why are you sorry

[gentle brook]

bc idk

[hushed topaz]

Lol

[gentle brook]

bc i love baldii

[hushed topaz]

I cant even make tha

That

Lol

I got unity today 😭

[gentle brook]

use porky powers decomp

and c#

have a link

[hushed topaz]

Ye i know c# code because it's very similar to java

[near wigeon]

No modding talk allowed here

[gentle brook]

brehh

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=0180c4040253224e801961d12a0b0aa7ab618452e082e484be6f9ca67291d6c0JmltdHM9MTc2MTA5MTIwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=3a4ab8be-6e58-6f6c-29d9-ad4f6f4a6e37&psq=porky+powers+decompile&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9nYW1lYmFuYW5hLmNvbS90b29scy8xOTczOQ

[hushed topaz]

Where in the rules is that

[near wigeon]

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[gentle brook]

baldi is open source brehh

[hushed topaz]

You do know literally no one reads that right

[gentle brook]

im not decompiling

[near wigeon]

regardless, its the rules

[stuck flower]

Too bad, you agreed to follow them

[hushed topaz]

Where

[near wigeon]

when you joined..

[gentle brook]

breh bbieal classic is open source mystman dosent care

[stuck flower]

When you joined

[hushed topaz]

Alr anchovies you wanna go dms

Anchoviee

[gentle brook]

yep

[gusty abyss]

guys sometimes my editor crashes, in random play tests. I have no idea why, is it something with 6.2?

currently on 6000.2.9f1

[gusty abyss]

like not all the time, just sometimes

in 5 cases maybe 1 time

[near wigeon]

what does this have to do with Unity

[nocturne yacht]

nothin i guess

[gentle brook]

idk it showed for me that theres an security issue maybe thats bc why

[gusty abyss]

im way past the security issue engines

[gentle brook]

idk look

its not the ver but

its new

[wraith pasture]

i'd suggest sticking with LTS

[gusty abyss]

Alr but how do I downgrade safely?

[wraith pasture]

your project? you just open it in that version and hope it works and if not fix everything manually... and keep a backup just in case obviously

otherwise check if there is bug reports

[gusty abyss]

its a github repo so i will be fine

but they didnt add anything significant and i dont recall using newer features so i should be fine

[plain dagger]

yea you can just discard the changes if it goes badly

[wraith pasture]

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com

[gusty abyss]

wasnt URP changed or something tho?

[near wigeon]

no

[gusty abyss]

ok good

[wraith pasture]

tbh idk all i know its probably about ai or something

🙂

[near wigeon]

mostly its AI crap in 6.2 yes

[gusty abyss]

i had like 1 crash on unity 6

[gentle brook]

i did same

[gusty abyss]

on 6.2 ive had so many

tho i only worked on this project which is why i think it might be my code

[near wigeon]

still using 6.0.33f without issues 🙃

[viral hill]

yeah 6.2 is just really buggy in general

[near wigeon]

rule of thumb of , if it aint broke.....

[gusty abyss]

i noticed

[wraith pasture]

i downloaded the latest when i got my machine so it was like 6.0.5xf but then the "huge" security flaw came out and i updated to .59f

[gusty abyss]

lots of those errors when rendering lists or whatever

the ui for it

[near wigeon]

ehh I still use it with the "security flaw" and just patch the binary when I need to

[steady pulsar]

Got a question about rendering with camera, i got an object that should always render in front of every other object, and i heard about a technique with 2 cameras => 1 that is only rendering that one object and the other one rendering everything else. But it doesn't work for me somehow, and the videos i find are outdated because none of the needed settings are there

[near wigeon]

not gonna upgrade all my projects for newer versions just to bust something

[wraith pasture]

sure why not. but i was just starting the project after i setup my machine and took a break for a while

[near wigeon]

the best method IMO is using Renderer feature

[viral hill]

this is called camera stacking. it still works, so you are doing something wrong

[gusty abyss]

is camera stacking efficient? I'm using it for like an inventory display

like hotbar thing

[steady pulsar]

so im making 2 cameras with tag maincamera, 1 has render type base and the other as overlay and then i just use my culling mask correctly but thats it

and it doesnt work

[near wigeon]

having two cameras render the world is never efficient

[steady pulsar]

ohh and the camera for that one object is the child

[viral hill]

the first sentence of this is already wrong

only 1 cam should ever have the maincam tag

[near wigeon]

with renderer feature you can easily do this by changing the Z pass

[viral hill]

yeah it's not very expensive

[viral hill]

have you added the overlay cam as part of the stack of the main cam?

[steady pulsar]

Oh god, this is the step i missed lol, they didnt explain this on the tutorial, thanks 💙

[pure igloo]

just asking, is godot easier or smth on the resources side of things?

[near wigeon]

No clue. I don't use godot

[pastel onyx]

I'm in mood to do something crazy

Give me a stupid idea

3D

[near wigeon]

this isn't the place for that

[pure igloo]

try to render a solar system

[slender gull]

Peace be upon you, who is the founder?

[pastel onyx]

Something unhinged that it's almost controversial

[pure igloo]

and see your pc explode

i wanna know what happens

[pastel onyx]

I'm lookiygor a unhinged game idea

[worldly cave]

barely

[pure igloo]

try to render a solar system

[pastel onyx]

Already did that

[slender gull]

Is Turkish spoken here?

[pastel onyx]

Looked ugly

[worldly cave]

can you guys not go off topic please

[near wigeon]

regardless it has nothing to do with Unity questions and topics

[pure igloo]

try to render a galaxy

[worldly cave]

pretty sure you can speak any language but if you want to get help 99% of the time youre going to need to ask in english

[near wigeon]

no . English only server

[slender gull]

I don't understand what you're saying, this is a Turkish clan Discord.

[worldly cave]

"Embrace the diversity of our community and refrain from alienating non-native English speakers." 🤔

[slender gull]

Minecraft

[worldly cave]

which is it

[muted heath]

hey all, have any of you ever implemented some sort of combo with different input sequences: like: 'attack' do attack1, after attack1, if you press 'attack' again you do attack2, but if you press forward+attack instead you do attack1a, or something like that

[slender gull]

Who is the founder @worldly cave

[near wigeon]

Im just telling you how its been for the past years I've been here

mods say it too

[worldly cave]

maybe the mods should update the code of conduct

[near wigeon]

its more about discriminating, but only english is spoken

[slender gull]

@worldly cave Do you know Turkish

[viral hill]

state machine

[slender gull]

I don't know English

[worldly cave]

i understood it as being about speaking the languages considering it says "speakers"

but its whatever

i dont really care that much lol english makes up 99.9% of this server anyways

[slender gull]

Write with translation

[near wigeon]

you store the combos inside a collection so you can iterate through to match

[slender gull]

Türkçe bilen varmı

[plain dagger]

english only

you are who needs to use a translation tool

[worldly cave]

i think he was implying that

i guess the translation tool did not translate it correctly lol

its missing a pronoun

[slender gull]

Okay, don't be mad, brother.

Anyway, see you later

[stuck flower]

The server is english-only due to moderation requirements. The moderators only speak english, so they ask that conversations here happen in english. As such, they expect people to be accomodating to people who might be using a translator or are speaking english as a second language, hence the rule.

[pure igloo]

you never know when someone will start using profanities in a language you don't know of...

[pure igloo]

can someone explain what GetComponent does? I am assuming GetComponent is an instance method of the class Rigidbody2D...but what does the method return?

tried using intellisense and i don't got a single clue as to what it means...

[mild radish]

for that particular GetComponent it returns a Rigidbody2D

[pure igloo]

so....it returns itself? wait what

[stuck flower]

It gets a component

[stuck flower]

No, it returns the Rigidbody2D on this object

[mild radish]

without a prefix its getting it on this object

if you did anotherTransform.GetComponent<> it'd get it from anotherTransform's object instead

[pure igloo]

ok so let me get this straight, when I make an instance of Rigidbody2d, and then I use GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>(), what does Rigidbody2D contain? is it a list?

or a class

which contains information about the rigidbody

[mild radish]

its getting the actual Rigidbody2D component in that case

it can be used for Scripts that are attached to gameobject's as components as well

GetComponent<MyScript>();

[pure igloo]

oh

aight, so it's a type i guess

[stuck flower]

GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>() gets the Rigidbody2D on the object

[pure igloo]

i mean, that is self explanatory, i was asking what did Rigidbody2D even contain. like what's the data present in it...

[stuck flower]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D.html

[pure igloo]

ahhh too bright

[mild radish]

all the variables you see in the inspector of a Rigidbody2D + a ton of other public methods and whatnot lol

[pure igloo]

holy shit

and they said to keep a class simple

bro it has like a 100 members or smth

[mild radish]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.html checkout the Camera's class

[pure igloo]

br

[mild radish]

bet that class is enormous lol

[pure igloo]

what the hell

[mild radish]

Magic classes..

[pure igloo]

how is what the hell okay and not

[stuck flower]

Well, yes. It's the physics engine

[mild radish]

they're engine classes.. they have to do alot to make a game-engine actually useful

[pure igloo]

ya....no shit

wait

i can say shit

O_o

[mild radish]

not if its the only word you use..

[unreal jewel]

you need to say more words than just bruh is the problem haha

[mild radish]

we try to use coherent sentences.

[pure igloo]

holy moly bruh

[worldly cave]

yeah you cant say "but" on its own

[pure igloo]

O_O

[stuck flower]

Or "?"

[worldly cave]

butt

you can say that

[pure igloo]

butt

[stuck flower]

that one gets me a lot

[worldly cave]

yeah "But" also gets me i use it to bridge 2 messages quite often

[pure igloo]

bro you can't say but but you can say butt

[worldly cave]

its a bad habit but its a habit none the less

[stuck flower]

The point is to prevent people from saying pointless weasel words that get out of elaborating on their problem or answering one

[pure igloo]

how does butt explain anything then

butt

stupid

[stuck flower]

Because that's not a common deflection people tend to use to avoid elaborating on their problems or answering one. So it's not in the filter.

[pure igloo]

nah, it just makes we wanna use butt in my sentence even more than but xD

[distant nimbus]

if I want to do something like the minecraft item system, where the input is a sprite, and the result is a flat board with thickness and the adjacent color on the side, how would I do that?

Ideally I'd like an in-unity solution, so I don't need to go into blender and apply a thickness modifier to every item when I want to add more

[mild radish]

for thickness on sprites and or shadows 1 trick i know of is using the same sprite behind the original w/ an offset and it tinted completely black or w/e color u want.. more useful with the og sprite is solid white.. im not too familiar with minecraft to know what y mean by board w/ adjacent color on side

[distant nimbus]

In code that tool is just a .png, the renderer is making it look like a 3d object and extending the border color to form the side of the object

[mild radish]

ohh

[distant nimbus]

My specific hope is to use it for something that will end up closer to the dropped items, but it's in essence the same thing

[mild radish]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1hmw0rz/did_someone_know_how_to_make_thick_sprites_on/

theres a couple suggestions in there ^

[distant nimbus]

I saw that post, the suggestions were essentially to use external tools

except one guy who said it's "pretty easy to generate a mesh from a sprite" without elaborating

I can do the external tools thing, and I will if I have too, I'm just hoping to find an in-engine solution to make adding new items less of a hassle

[mild radish]

so u want 3d objects as a result tho right?

[distant nimbus]

ideally yeah

Amazing if they can be physics objects, not a dealbreaker if they can't

[mild radish]

i know its probably possible in code but im not that savvy

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider2D.CreateMesh.html

you could use its Collider to create a mesh

then do some maths to make it thick

https://github.com/jantepya/Unity-Sprite-Voxelizer oh wait

found something useful i think ^

[distant nimbus]

Oooo, nice, that should be super helpful thank you! I hadn't seen that when I was searching before

[mild radish]

the idea is there tho

[distant nimbus]

if it generates too thick I could probably just apply a fractional scale to the x axis

[worldly cave]

does it have to be procedural though?

🤔

does minecraft really handle it completely procedurally or do they have a seperate "mesh"

[distant nimbus]

Minecraft does it procedurally, I don't understand the exact "how" but I do know there's a longstanding bug where the generated mesh has a tiny gap you can see the sky through on the edge with some items

it has to do with whether the item exceeds a specific length or something

[worldly cave]

well my personal idea was to have a script that basically iterates through each pixel and adds a voxel cube behind each one at the coresponding position

and only renders any faces that arent neighbouring other faces

but idk if that would be optimized

basically:

    if pixel is opaque:
        create cube at pixel position
        
        check all  neighbors (left, right...)
        
        for each neighbor:
            if neighbor is transparent:
                add that face to mesh
        
        color all faces with pixel's color

combine all faces into single mesh```

[distant nimbus]

that would be a LOT of voxels...

[worldly cave]

it would but you are only rendering the faces of the voxels that are visible and then combining them into 1 mesh in the end 🤷‍♂️

they wont be individual gameobjects

[plain dagger]

or just make an outline with uvs generated to use the same texture and then extrude

that would probably need something to perform triangulation though

[calm onyx]

how do i put a .blend file into unity

[stuck flower]

You should export it as an actual 3D interchange format instead, like FBX or GLTF

[calm onyx]

ok thx

can we vc so u can show me?

[stuck flower]

No

[calm onyx]

wild

do i just drag it into unity?

[plain dagger]

unity can read blend files but only if blender is installed

[calm onyx]

ah

ok

gotcha

[plain dagger]

if working with other people its unadvised

[calm onyx]

nah just me

[plain dagger]

if just you go nuts till it fucks you over later

[calm onyx]

wilkd

how do i add the gltf file into my map

[plain dagger]

install this package in your project https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cloud.gltfast@6.14/manual/installation.html

[calm onyx]

how

nvm

my lazy ass wasnt reafing

[fossil aurora]

hello all, can anyone here help me with a little shader lack-of-knowledge issue? I am applying a mask to a texture based on the distance of an object, sort of like a see-through, the problem is that it only works with a radius based on the center of the object, I am banging my head against the keyboard trying to figure out how apply a mask based on a volume intersection instead 🫠

[plain dagger]

never seen someone admit that before good on ya (not reading)

[plain dagger]

#1390346776804069396 is the place to ask. provide some screenshots and more info there too

[fossil aurora]

thanks!

[tepid lava]

/warn mtndew reason: hi

yo who just warned me

[stuck flower]

Please don't post just to see your name on screen, thanks

[tepid lava]

sorry I have dementia

[distant nimbus]

the cube is being lerped to the same point the smaller gizmo cube is being drawn at, the location variable is called holdPoint

Gravity has been disabled for the cube

//move object towards hold point, but only if the object is not already there
if (Vector3.Distance(heldObject.transform.position, holdPoint) > 0.01)
{
    heldObject.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(heldObject.transform.position, holdPoint, speed);
}```

any idea why A; the cube is stopped offcenter from the gizo marking the same point, and B; why the cube is jittering?

[celest oar]

I tried something similar, but the performance is terrible. Using FFMPEG with the VP9 codec, passing frames to a Texture2D takes more than 30% of my CPU. I'm looking for alternatives without resorting to Spritesheet.

[plain dagger]

how do you blit the data to the texture? what format is the texture?

[dense reef]

@distant nimbus You can use else {heldObject.transform.position=holdPoint} or multiply speed by Time.deltaTime

[near wigeon]

what is the value of speed?
als you should probably cache the start pos

[dense reef]

actually speed should have value from 0 to 1

[near wigeon]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

why not just use Movetowards/SmoothDamp anyway

[dense reef]

if your speed have constant value the object will stack at same point during gameplay

[calm onyx]

is there a way to import a project from a apk from unity?

[dense reef]

no

there is no way to import from apk to unity

[near wigeon]

we do not allow decompiling talk. also no.

[dense reef]

@calm onyx u can read about reverse engineering

[calm onyx]

welp im going to kill myself then

[dense reef]

why the hell do you need to convert apk into project?

[plain dagger]

how else will they steal something from a game?

[distant nimbus]

Speed is already multiplied by time.Deltatime before being added

[distant nimbus]

15 * time.Deltatime

[dense reef]

you must use value that will icreased from 0 to 1 during lifetime your speed is constant value

[near wigeon]

check this #💻┃unity-talk message

[dense reef]

something like t=0; if(t<1){ heldObject.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(heldObject.transform.position, holdPoint, Mathf.Clamp(0,1,t));t+=Time.deltaTime; }

[distant nimbus]

I see, thank you

[celest oar]

It's yuv420p ("-c:v libvpx-vp9" in ffmpeg), I use Stream from Procces to get the frame and then pass it pixel by pixel to a texture2d, which is very cpu intensive.

[plain dagger]

how do you call/invoke ffmpeg? If you profile it, how much of the time is decode and how much is the data copy?

Unity using c# means there are extra hoops we have to jump through to avoid managed land costs but I think it is possible to reduce

[polar basalt]

how do i get rid of tags from the project?

they keep on reapearing every random time

i deleted Teleporter1 like 3 days ago, and it just so reapeared today

same for Shield and Crate

like, i just deleted all 3, and somehow shield is still there when i restart editor

whatever i do, i cant delete the last tag

and the others will keep on apearing at some point

wait im silly

please ignore 😭

[gusty abyss]

any channels here for hiring

and shwocases

[near wigeon]

!collab 👇

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[near wigeon]

#1180170818983051344 | #🏆┃daily-win

not job related ^^

[haughty pendant]

someone can help me with this?

[plain dagger]

Try disabling AO, id also increase the max lightmap size to 2k atleast (wont solve the problem but you have too many small lightmap textures atm)
You want to check for 3d models with missing backfaces and enable "double sided global illumination" on their materials if its an option.
ask in #1391720450752516147 in future

[viral hill]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/lightmapping-troubleshooting-guide/895352/
chapter 14

[celest oar]

I think almost nothing, I run it as a process, so I send commands to ffmpeg, at the end I put a "-" (which is an output argument whether it is a . mp4 file) to create a Stream and that Stream I pass in a While to convert it into Byte [], at the end the array is copied into a Texture2D (SetPixel), in fact if I deactivate that part of my code, I barely have 10% or less consumption. It would be a GPU (Stream) --> CPU (Byte []) --> GPU (Texture2D)

I was able to add cache and reduce the RAM bloat that was consuming many GB, but I can't find a direct solution for the CPU consumption part.

[viral hill]

this has nothing to do with ao

[plain dagger]

yea but baked ao usually sucks ass

[plain dagger]

is this "streaming" via some port? if any code is avaliable to read im interested to read
I dont know enough about ffmpeg but are there better ways to get data without using it as a library?

[small ginkgo]

I keep getting this message even when I change the name it's on any script I create or add on to anything else

i am ab to quit

[balmy kettle]

https://unity.huh.how/script-loading-issues

[stable perch]

Make sure the name of the script file and name of the script class are the same

[small ginkgo]

i did

[stuck flower]

Make sure there are no compile errors and that the file name and class name match.

[small ginkgo]

i did too

i finna kms

[stuck flower]

Show your console

[small ginkgo]

i have to open it again hol up

[celest oar]

For now it is the only one that uses libvpx for vp9 (alpha) + multiplexer for audio and seek

Some people call it Piped, although I'm not very familiar with the term. Unfortunately, Process doesn't work in IL2CPP, so I'll have to change it later.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/process-streaming-0.9.3.0/docs/System-Process-Streaming.html

[small ginkgo]

well i guess i do now

should i hit clear

[stable perch]

No that doesn’t fix it

[stuck flower]

Oh hey look compile errors

[stable perch]

You gotta fix the errors

[stuck flower]

the thing that the popup said to look for

[haughty pendant]

thx

[polar basalt]

script is using Photon, but you dont have photon installed

[celest oar]

my code

[stable perch]

!code

[vagrant root]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[stable perch]

That’s a tad hard to read on mobile

[mystic kelp]

hey guys

[stable perch]

Sup

[gusty abyss]

i hate hand animations

[plain dagger]

Aha using pipes sounds much better but yes relying on an external process still sucks and is not going to work on many platforms.

Id say go use libavcodec but I know it has no documentation apart from a doxygen

[viral hill]

<@&502884371011731486>

[sage basin]

!warn 1282019323866775696 there is no off-topic on this server

[vagrant root]

@braydenisdead warned

Reason: there is no off-topic on this server
Duration: Permanent

[celest oar]

Oh, you mean using the libs? Umm, that puts me in C++ territory. I asked the AI ​​for some context and it told me about IUnityGraphicsD3D11.h that would directly copy the frames to the Unity renderer, but uuuuuh but it's already kind of difficult code.

[red moat]

Let's say I wanted to build a discord bot game that used free unity assets, are there any strict rules against this? I won't actually be using any models, just basically a screenshot or two of maybe some buildings and faces

[slow dirge]

Wow, it's actually a thing. Didn't know unity exposes something like that.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/low-level-native-plugin-rendering-extensions.html

[red moat]

Yeah 😂. I'm not pulling your leg

I was just curious as to restrictions. I made the bot, but don't want to publish it yet without knowing everything

I have an example picture of the bot, if that helps any

[gusty abyss]

hihi. im a university student studying games dev. I have never used a game engine before really. I know the basic layout and thats it. I have no clue about coding or making something in engine. I need to make a prototype in just 4 weeks for an assignment and i am stressing hard. any help would be appreciated. for context i need to make a first person shooter prototype of my own design

[red moat]

Unity offers a ton of tutorial projects to help fet you started. Create a new Project, select a tutorial template and it'll teach you

YouTube is also a good source

[near wigeon]

!collab

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[meager fractal]

!collab

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[potent geyser]

Maybe read the bot?

[meager fractal]

ok

[worldly jetty]

can someone send me in dms servers where i can hire people, looking to hire someone that is experienced with making VR unity games, someone who can read my current project, learn it and be able to add on to it

[stuck flower]

!collab

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[vivid cedar]

What an extraordinarily vague question

Too vague to answer

[stuck flower]

Usually by putting it in your project

[slow dirge]

Clone(or download) the repo.
Copy it's contents(or just the scripts) into your project.
Use the scripts. 🤷‍♂️

[stuck flower]

It's got zero documentation or even a readme saying what it is so I dunno what you're expecting to use it for

[slow dirge]

It's kinda like asking, how do I implement this table into my kitchen.

[cedar cedar]

what is this

[viral hill]

one bite at a time

[tawny hearth]

is 997 right for an game dev boot camp becuse i got an email from blacktornpords