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[latent meadow]

IDK if i have not had enough tea, but that makes 0 sense.

it even appears off-topic.

[gusty fox]

How to use aerial light

[viral hill]

"blackthornprod" is a yt channel that makes unity focused videos. apparently they are selling a course for 1k

you can learn unity with or without a course, there are tons of great tutorials everywhere

!learn

[vagrant root]

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[viral hill]

it has to be baked

[tawny hearth]

https://bootcamp.blackthornprod.school/ this is the website

[viral hill]

why would i need that

[latent meadow]

so you know, aerial is not the same as Area light, which is what is on your screen. using the learning site linked above, search for Lighting, or use the link below. there is also a dedicated #1390346776804069396 room for After you learn the basics.

https://learn.unity.com/search?k=["q%3Alighting"%2C"t%3Aall"]

[regal wren]

theres realtime area lights in hdrp if you care

[gusty fox]

I want to make for mobile hdrp is for PC

[glossy thunder]

Would these assets work in unity as well? I heard sometimes these bundles are great for unity and saw this.

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/ultra-unreal-asset-megapack?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_twos_tile_index_2_c_titancollectionunrealengineasset_softwarebundle

[latent meadow]

unless they say for Unity, you will run into issues. not that you cannot get the models to work, but of course, scripts will not.
Most packages you see there are available for Unity too, and often come up on HB. if those models are Nanite, you are in for even more trouble.
let's put is this way, a guy sells an Unreal to Unity converter on the unity asset store, for like $50 last time i looked. even then, it is involved.
unless you know what you are doing, i would avoid trying to use UE assets.

@glossy thunder

[glossy thunder]

Ty

[exotic relic]

I’m guessing you are looking for asset catalogues or some cheap things to help get you started. Check the unity asset store around Black Friday, and every couple days because they offer a lot of deals

They commonly do 20-50% off, but I’ve seen it as low as 98% off

[latent meadow]

Also, the Unity Asset Store already has over 10,000 free assets

[hushed topaz]

Guys what would be the best way to make grass

[sly lake]

https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/gpu-instanced-grass-breakdown/

[hushed topaz]

I thinking somthing less like cartoony

Its for a horror game

[sly lake]

Use a less cartoony texture then

The method still works

[hushed topaz]

Alr thanks

[rigid galleon]

Hey, my asset got rejected months ago for "missing a license", even tho I included it in the file.
But anyways, since then, I've been trying to update it with the NOTICES file thing so that it can actually be published, but when I go to the publisher portal and left click my asset, I just get a 404 page.
I also tried uploading a duplicate because I couldn't edit the original, and who woulda thought, it got rejected as a duplicate.
So what exactly am I supposed to do?

I asked like a week after it got rejected too here, and I was just told to wait.
Well I did.
For months.
So what now?

[latent meadow]

So you know, all though this is an official Unity discord, it is a Community one. 'Unity Support' is not active here to answer questions. I'd suggest the usual feedback routes

[rigid galleon]

Would you mind pointing me to the right support forum or something?
I would usually use unity discussions but idk if that's the right place.

[latent meadow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/530/Documentation/Manual/AssetStoreFAQ.html

there is the email near the bottom.

here is a discussion thread. both of these things are old, but hopefully still valid
https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-i-contact-unity-asset-store-team-as-a-publisher/643758/3

[rigid galleon]

Thanks!

[unreal shore]

Do you guys have a good tutorial to understand pathfinding (2D top down so grid I guess)? I mean there are plenty of them out there but I'm struggling to find one that explains everything :)

[bitter sparrow]

Hi, is there anyone here who has ever been involved in hiring Unity developers? I'm looking for some feedback on my CV

[charred fog]

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html a lot of other related resources there as well.

[charred fog]

Create a thread in #1157336089242112090

[bitter sparrow]

thank you

[atomic badge]

Hello I want to do a 2D game on Unity but I don’t know which version too use

[latent meadow]

unless you have a reason not to, use the latest LTS/ i would say 6000.0.60.f1 at this time.

[unreal shore]

Thanks!

[unreal shore]

If you are new as I am, to learn while following some tutorials for example, a version a bit older may be better as it will be closer to the version used in most of the tutorials out there. I mean there aren't a lot of tutorials in 6000.0 and some things changed with it if I remember well.

But my point of view is the one of a beginner as I said :)

[latent meadow]

and those generally minor changes cause you to look around to find the thing, instead of blindly following steps, which usually is not as effective.
But of course, anyone, at any time, can choose to use the version that matches the tutorial they are taking. that however was not what they asked, specifically.
For a more detailed answer, i am waiting for them to respond, so i can mention things like 'what are you building for." "What are you building on?" maybe they have a potato that would do better with older versions.
You are not at all wrong. don't let me leave you with that impression

[unreal shore]

I mean there is a way to use tutorials and if you don't respect it of course it won't be effective :) But I totally see your point.

For example if you start just a bit to get lost, don't think "I'll catch on soon", try to understand immediately and stop where you are. Of course, watching/ reading the tutorial once to understand what is happening before doing it is great too. And when you are "copying", don't do it instantly, read/ watch the tutorial until the end of the step and then apply the step. This can prevent you from being lost.

PS : I have no idea why I'm writing this as you absolutely don't need it 😂😂

[unreal shore]

I'm not writing down everything btw xD

[atomic badge]

Thank you guys

[latent meadow]

Valid advice. if you hang out here long enough, you will see people come through with issues on How to learn. that would be good info to relay to them

[sterile lava]

in inspector I remember we could give random values or position objects with spaces by writing some formulas to transform component, anyone remember what those were called?

[storm patio]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/InspectorNumericFields.html

[hexed path]

good morning y'all. I'm trying to drag myself back to 3d work after being very out of it for a while and focusing on a side hustle.

[latent meadow]

Note this is not a social server, nor is there off-topic here.

[hexed path]

I guess that little "house" icon means you are a mod? You should fill out your profile so people know how much you speak for the group. All I said was good morning.

[latent meadow]

If you hover over the icon, you can see what it says. also, you can read the #📖┃code-of-conduct
and to return in kind, all I said was this is not a social server, which it is not. Also, there is no off-topic here, which there is not.

[hexed path]

The icon just says "Resident", I don't know what that means.

[azure grove]

it means nothing

just a role some regulars have

[latent meadow]

Sorry, my point was, it does not say Mod. here is a link to a post by a moderator, so you can see the icon. that one does say moderators if you hover on it
#💻┃unity-talk message

[storm patio]

also, why would a moderator fill out their discord profile purely for saying they're a mod in a specific server? profile descriptions are global unless you have nitro lmao

[azure grove]

there is no point to continue here the horse is dead, would have furthered the objective of keeping things clean if nothing was mentioned. Like was just saying hi not starting a big off topic thing like this current discussion

[latent meadow]

Since we are here.. This is my normal copy/paste @ Sam. I didn't have it up, so i manually typed and it did not come out quite the same.
"Howdy. Not a 'Social Chatroom', so, "hi" and "bye" generally go unanswered.
If you have a Unity question, feel free to ask"

[hexed path]

OK cool, that's a lot softer and more open.

feel free to DM me if you want to continue the conversation. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on what I would uncharitably call "back seat moderating"

[latent meadow]

one of the reasons i linked the #📖┃code-of-conduct

this is simply the status quo for this server. a more social server would be something like Game Dev Network's discord

[hexed path]

Feel free to DM me if you want to continue the convo and try to find some common ground.

[latent meadow]

No, thanks.

[azure grove]

@latent meadow not everything requires a response, sometimes its furthers the actual objectives to just say nothing and let it naturually handle its self and only say something if it becomes a problem. this was 100% one of those cases

[latent meadow]

Well, as with all of us, you are entitled to your opinion. I stand by what i have said, and the reasons behind it. Also, my opinion on this is, you could have said that in the Residents space. Odd to me, you decided to post it here. feel free to continue there if you need.

[woeful spear]

I want to snap this cube's base to the surface below it (which is also a cube object). I hold V to move it but it doesn't seem to snap to surface.

[latent meadow]

you do not have snapping turned on, according to the gizmo. also, have you tried pressing End? that has worked for me in the past

[sly lake]

This also breaks completely when there's a terrain in the scene :/

[azure grove]

holding V will only snap to a vert

[latent meadow]

Ouch. I did not know that, thanks ^^

[azure grove]

and you first need to decide what vert on the source object to use

so does a bad job at snapping to planes that are not very dense with verts

[woeful spear]

I'm not sure what End key does here. See it doesn't snap to the cube at bottom. Same for Snapping on or off.

It seems to snap to another object.

[balmy kettle]

how to surface snap: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/PositioningGameObjects.html#SrfSnapping

[woeful spear]

I tried to do it, but it doesn't seem to snap to desired object.

[balmy kettle]

do both objects have colliders

[gentle brook]

hii

[woeful spear]

Yeah, this Box Collider if you mean.

[latent meadow]

Howdy. Not a 'Social Chatroom', so, "hi" and "bye" generally go unanswered.
If you have a Unity question, feel free to ask

[gentle brook]

breh

[woeful spear]

It worked, I had to select a square shape (that appears when you press ctrl shift) instead of those arrows of move tool.

[gentle brook]

my question is how to add post proccesing in a certain moment

c# btw

[latent meadow]

There is an Essentials Pathway and a Creative Core Pathway on the Learning site that should cover it

!learn

[vagrant root]

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[latent meadow]

Oh.. you added to your question. Nevermind. (same information in general, but those courses will not show you exactly how with c#, iirc)

[gentle brook]

brehh

[woeful spear]

Is there any way to slow down speed of "Right Click Hold + W/A/S/D" panning?

[gentle brook]

skullsob

[woeful spear]

https://learn.unity.com/pathway/creative-core/unit/post-processing?version=6.0

This tutorial is for post processing.

[gentle brook]

thx

[violet thunder]

Hold right mouse button and then use scroll wheel to adjust the scene camera speed

[woeful spear]

Thanks

[violet thunder]

The limit can be changed from the scene camera settings too

[woeful spear]

These? I can't find the relevant option.

[woeful spear]

Thanks

Currently I'm learning only shaders and materials. Can I disable all light probes or they are needed for some shader/materials? They seem distracting.

[mild radish]

those just gizmo's they shouldnt affect anything besides your own vizualization of where they are

[red moat]

Hello everyone

[latent meadow]

Howdy. Not a 'Social Chatroom', so, "hi" and "bye" generally go unanswered.
If you have a Unity question, feel free to ask

[red moat]

I do have a Unity question actually, let me ahow you

[mild radish]

lead w/ it 🙂

[red moat]

This is a discord bot I'm making, the assets are from free unity assets.

Since they're free, I can use then like this, right?

[balmy kettle]

not really a unity question. check the license for the assets in question

[sly lake]

Assets in the asset store have different licenses, but typically usage like this would be permitted.

So, check to be sure, but probably yes.

[red moat]

Ok thanks

[mild radish]

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

Unity Asset Store assets are not restricted to Unity projects. You can use them with other engines provided you follow the EULA guidelines.

[latent meadow]

That was amazingly clear. I have been trying to find it said clearly like that directly from Unity for some time. thanks

[mild radish]

🫡 got u bud

basically as long as your not using the assets to distribute/recreate/"kitbash" and rerelease or generate any content thats given away its fine

"look dont touch"

[latent meadow]

this annoys me though..
"If your project allows users to create their own content (e.g., a sandbox game or level editor), you cannot monetize the asset without explicit permission from the asset's creator."
I mean, i purchased 'whatever' for use in my game, but if i happen to let someone else move things around too much (level design within my framework), it could be in violation? strange to me

[mild radish]

ya im not sure about that statement too much

i feel ike if its contained the in the game it wouldnt matter..

[latent meadow]

same

[mild radish]

that seems like something that would apply to a level-generator for a third-party game or something.. (build the level in unity.. then export it out)

^ now that would set off alarm bells ^

[latent meadow]

Yeah, that makes sense.

[mild radish]

"look dont touch" will be the statement i run with from now on

seems like a good blanket statement lol

[tall hearth]

What if an asset was intended as a base to be used for adding to?

[latent meadow]

you might have to be a bit clearer on where you are going with this

[mild radish]

as long as the asset remains in your game/software/w/e and the end-user doesn't have explicit access to re-use it

i think thats the main thing ^

"You bought it, no one else did"... don't share

[latent meadow]

also some pretty particular rules about using it for 'tangibles' like logos in RL, .. t-shirts, etc

[mild radish]

it'd be like me giving a copy of an asset to a friend.. if they didn't purchase it
i couldn't legally do that w/o purchasing an extra seat for them

[copper gust]

Probably also relates to legality on the user using the level design tool owning their work

[mild radish]

yes this is it in a nutshell.. was waiting for the right terminology

NOT TANGIBLES!

[storm patio]

intangibles?

[latent meadow]

Oranges instead!

oh.. nm

[mild radish]

sounds like a new Dreamworks production

[red moat]

Well I'm definitely not doing any of that, just previewing the assets and using the url called for the preview to send to bot to load the image.

[mild radish]

to be 💯 sure you can also email the publisher/support

they'll tell you specifically

[latent meadow]

in the end, only a lawyer could really say for sure, but as the 'artist formerly known as SpawnCampGames' said, it seems fine

[mild radish]

-# not legal advice **

[balmy kettle]

if you're pulling the images directly from the asset store site, that almost certainly falls under a different license than the actual license for the asset itself

[mild radish]

oh yea ^ if thats teh case thats pretty sketch lol

[latent meadow]

oh.. i misunderstood.. yeah, that would not be cool

[red moat]

It's all free assets only, though. I don't have my pc, so I can't actually truly render assets

[mild radish]

its still a gray area i'd check into

[latent meadow]

you are 1. using assets you did not agree to the license of, and 2. using Unity servers bandwidth against expected terms.
you'd need to 'buy' the assets for free (agree to the license) then host them at your own expense.
I initially thought you meant a discord URL where they were hosted, after you 'bought' them

[balmy kettle]

that doesn't matter. you aren't actually using the assets themselves, you are pulling advertising material from the asset store directly

[red moat]

Which would, in turn, help to advertise said assets, eith a credit oage at the end to whom each asset belongs to. But I understand, I'll abandon project

[balmy kettle]

https://unity.com/legal/as-terms

You agree not to access (or attempt to access) the Unity Asset Store by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Unity, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Unity. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) the Unity Asset Store through any automated means (including use of scripts, crawlers or similar technologies from time to time).

[mild radish]

ya, by driving a ferrari around town i'd be advertising for ferrari.. but its doubtful they'd be okay if I just walked in teh showroom and drove off with one

aww lol.. mb

[latent meadow]

That does it! Back to work, you!

[charred fog]

@mild radish Enough with off-topic spam

[copper gust]

Also this is just advice

Break the law if you want were not cops

[sly lake]

Not legal advice: I doubt they give a fuck

[mild radish]

^ check the law first.. you've already gotten some good places to start

i'd def follow up with the asset creator if u plan on using their asset..
(i'd reconsider scraping the unity asset store webpage tho)

[pearl oyster]

It's confusingly worded but it means that if you have a level editor or whatever where the player can buy more stuff using microtransactions, you're not allowed to sell just the Unity asset as is. For example if someone sells a sofa model in the asset store, you can't buy the asset and then resell the sofa as a microtransaction for the players to decorate their virtual house. It's basically just a special case of the no-resell rule

[sly lake]

Meh, if you want to be good just load them up in Unity and take a screenshot yourself.

[latent meadow]

Ah! that makes more sense.. Thanks 🙂

[copper gust]

Checking the law means being aware of the crimes you are committing which makes it harder to plead ignorance later 😇

[mild radish]

i agree with this sentiment.. thats why u purchase assets.. to implement them into ur own workflow.

i imagine u could code up something to generate you what u need pretty quick and repeatable

[mild radish]

never even thought of breaking up assets as microtransations

thats dirty

[tall hearth]

Im sure some of those crappy mobile ads do

[sly lake]

It's more about making a Roblox-like

The default license doesn't cover those

[latent meadow]

also, #1180170818983051344

[copper gust]

Devlogs would be shit for that question

[latent meadow]

true, unless you have a following. it Used to be the only option though.

[copper gust]

no

[mild radish]

i looked it up to see what license would cover that..
im seeing explicit redistrubution rights which,

The default Unity Asset Store EULA forbids this.

[copper gust]

Game design used to be allowed in this equivalent channel pre revamp

[mild radish]

seems you'd need CC0 or completely custom assets

[sly lake]

Yeah, you'd have to contact them for a custom license.

Because at that point you're essentially redistributing the assets to other game developers

[mild radish]

yup, makes sense now

the whole roblox analogy lifted some fog

[charred fog]

Game design had a separate channel, which was very rarely used, appropriately. You can add "Looking for feedback" to the topic thread in #1180170818983051344 to add visibility as well.

[copper gust]

I know KenneyNL’s license is so permissive that it allows that

[sly lake]

Yes.

[mild radish]

completely CC0 iirc (we need more Kenny's 😅 )

[copper gust]

Near impossible in this economy

[sly lake]

There's Polyhaven

Quite a number of top-tier materials and skyboxes under CC0.

[woeful spear]

Does Unity support Normal DX or GL texture?

Normal map

[azure grove]

GL

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/StandardShaderMaterialParameterNormalMap.html

Unity uses Y+ normal maps, sometimes known as OpenGL format.

[latent meadow]

Unity uses an OpenGL-style (Y+) convention for normal maps

Oh, i missed it. it is listed at the top of the linked page

[charred fog]

@mild radish Since you have your DMs diabled. You've received your final warning for spamming off-topic images.

[mild radish]

yessir. thanks for the notif.

[gusty abyss]

Yo guys I just downgraded from 6.2 to 6000.0.60f1 and I'm getting this warning

What should I do

[plain dagger]

downgrading isnt supported so you may have to remake your pipeline settings assets

[mild radish]

check out these in ur settings ^

[gusty abyss]

They are there, do I like modify them or something?

[mild radish]

may need to create new ones like rob mentioned

and assign them (edit: im just guessing b/c i havent seen that specific error before.. but thats the only two locations where i know a RenderPipeline asset is assigned)

[woeful spear]

Is there any option to use Roughness map texture in URP? I can't find in Inspector.

[gusty abyss]

How would I do that? Can I just delete the existing one and somehow auto do it

[mild radish]

smoothness is the antonym of roughness

[woeful spear]

Yeah but there isn't some image picker there like other options.

[deft rock]

they will still be there, but you need to click on them to ping the file and then select the file to see if they display properly/ show any warnings/ errors

[gusty abyss]

alr

[storm patio]

this is a unity server

[plain dagger]

it reads from the alpha of the metallic map or albedo alpha. You can pick which one it is. This is done to reduce the amount of textures used.
If you really want to work around this you can use shader graph.

[potent geyser]

We don't need this unnecessary clickbait drama here. If you're interested in that, do it on your own time and leave this server for development questions/help. Thanks.

And no, before you say "but Unity related", the point still stands.

[mild radish]

oh yea i didn't notice theres not a Roughness map..

You can pack smoothness into the alpha channel of the metallic map.
There is no dedicated “roughness map” slot.

[mild radish]

yea this ^ pretty much... (reminds me.. i need to practice texture packing)

[plain dagger]

I dont know if there is something to do this easily in unity but otherwise something like substance painter would do this for you

[mild radish]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.lightweight@5.3/manual/lit-shader.html

[mild radish]

ya, thats what the search results im reading are saying..

Watch out, Unity uses SMOOTHNESS and NOT roughness. When using roughness map you have different alternatives:

• Create a custom shader graph, use a “One minus” node on the roughness texture to use it properly to transform it in a smoothness input for the shader
• Using Quixel mixer/ substance painter/other convert the whole model textures to proper formats for URP/LWRP/HDRP default shaders (eg: substance painter has output (URP/HDRP) presets to do this
• Do channel packing on base map or metallic to add the converted texture (the roughness → smoothness) and use URP/LWRP/HDRP default shaders
  Use 2 or 3 steps with a shader graph.

[plain dagger]

yea most of this is known now and times when i have needed to work around the channel packing i use shader graph

though ideally we do what unity want to reduce texture use and samples

[azure grove]

pretty easy to just recombine things as needed in photoshop or what ever and flip the roughness into a smoothness

or automate that on the shell with imagemagick

[plain dagger]

well when using alpha you have to make sure it doesnt pre multiply otherwise it will fuck RGB

[azure grove]

that also png in a lot of editors messes things up, prolly shows my age but i tend to use targa for channel packed stuff

[plain dagger]

reminds me of source, that liked tga

[tawny hearth]

I know

[azure grove]

my first engines were idtech 2 and gold src

[plain dagger]

source still has lots of gold src things in it so makes sense 😆

[deft rock]

and the first source engine was the quake 1 engine, heavily modified

[plain dagger]

yep, quake -> gold src -> source -> source 2

lots still survives

[tawny hearth]

Okay 🆗

[woeful spear]

OK. So if I choose this alpha approach, what would I need to proceed. Do I need to create a custom texture? I don't think I can do it as I downloaded these textures, they are not mine. I can't find any tutorials.

I found this in documentation:

Smoother surfaces are more reflective and have smaller, more tightly-focused specular highlights. Less smooth surfaces do not reflect as much, so specular highlights are less noticable and spread wider across the surface. By matching the specular and smoothness maps to the content in your albedo map, you can begin to create very realistic-looking textures.

[plain dagger]

Yea you would edit the alpha channel of your albedo or metallic to add the smoothness data

[mild radish]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal%4014.0/manual/shaders-in-universalrp-channel-packed-texture.html

[plain dagger]

but like i said, you can just use shader graph to make something to use seperate textures instead but that is less efficient

[mild radish]

i dont really know offhand as why i said i need to practice myself.. best i can do is search with you

Shader Graph: For advanced control, you can use Shader Graph to manually handle roughness and smoothness inputs.

[woeful spear]

In the Lit and Complex Lit shaders in the Universal Render Pipeline (URP), you can use a single RGBA texture for the metallic, smoothness, and occlusion properties. This technique is called channel packing or texture packing.

This is interesting

[mild radish]

^ probably a combination of setting up the materials and textures the correct way..
and then manipulating them correctly w/the help of shadergraph

[floral ember]

Heyo - which C# wrapper do you folks use for Steam? Is Facepunch.Steamworks still the way to go or is there a cooler kid in town?

[plain dagger]

This is because you only need 1 channel for this data so packing it all into as few textures as possible reduces the amount texture samples done (because this does have a cost)

[mild radish]

What Is Channel Packing? | Channel Packing Series
Channel Packing In Gimp | Channel Packing Series
couple of links i think may be useful.. (one kinda goes over the process/reasoning) and the other is (gimp specific) b/c its free software but can be applied to other software (similarities)

[woeful spear]

The tutorials seem to suggest I don't actually need to create fresh textures. I can just use the ones I downloaded to pack in one texture using different channels.

Sounds easy.

[plain dagger]

yea, was that not clear before?

[woeful spear]

I thought I need to create all textures on my own instead of downloading them. E.g., I'm using a brick texture. So I'd need to create a fresh brick diffuse/albedo texture and then other maps like normal, height, occlusion, smoothness etc.

[potent geyser]

If you intend to keep with the off topic questions/discussion prompts, you'll be removed from this server. You've been officially warned once before, your next will be a ban without notice.

[plain dagger]

ah no no you just need to copy and move things around. But it requires some effort and knowledge of potential issues when doing this manually.
e.g. alpha premultiplication must not be applied when saving images with data in alpha

[woeful spear]

What do people usually do in this scenario?

Do they use packing or shader graph?

I'd try shader approach but you said it may not be efficient

[plain dagger]

Usually the artist would make them correctly to start with or their program has the ability to pack for them so they don't have to think about it

Using shader graph to use the textures as is works fine but it probably depends how important efficiency is for this project

[azure grove]

at work we automated it all, artists commit work, then a script runs on it that packs it correctly for game but moves it from the art repo to the game repo

[plain dagger]

I know that substance painter has presets for texture packing settings but yea it can be automated too

[woeful spear]

I just noticed something. This seems like a packed texture. But it isn't packed in Diffuse map.

[gusty abyss]

Guys any way to make raycast ignore a specific gameobject instead of layer?

[woeful spear]

Wait I think I can use it in Metallic map.

I'd try

[balmy kettle]

not really, you'd want to use a layer mask for that

[plain dagger]

There is no set way to do this and theses assets are made for 3d software like blender or maya

[woeful spear]

That is also true I think

[plain dagger]

Roughness is just the opposite of smoothness so inverting it will convert that

[woeful spear]

Yeah I realized I can't use roughness as it is. I'd need to invert it.

[gusty abyss]

damn, I like want to ignore my player but not other players basically if that's possible in any way

[plain dagger]

Can also be done in shader with "one minus" if using graph

You have options!

[woeful spear]

I mean in packing approach. For that I'd need to do it in photo editing apps.

[fair cove]

I used FacePunch with my Steam game less than a year ago, not sure if there are newer wrappers, but id say it still gets the job done in a "simple" way imo

[floral ember]

Yeah, I worked with facepunch befire and was just curious if there is something else since then, didnt had any issues whatsoever, just wondering 🙂

[fair cove]

You can use Physics.IgnoreCollision, though I guess thats not "ignoring the object" just a specific collider on the object

[plain dagger]

Yea. GIMP and krita are great free options

[mild radish]

Ray ray = new Ray(transform.position, transform.forward);
RaycastHit[] hits = Physics.RaycastAll(ray, 100f);

foreach (var hit in hits)
{
    if (hit.collider.gameObject == objectToIgnore)
        continue; // skip this one

    // This is a valid hit
    Debug.Log("Hit: " + hit.collider.name);
    break;
}``` maybe something like this that will skip its own collider?

[fair cove]

Though I think in your specific case, it sounds like you have a multiplayer game, maybe it makes sense to have a "LocalPlayer" and "OtherPlayer" layer and as boxfriend suggested, use layermasks with those 2 layers instead?

[mild radish]

ya, if its a multiplayer game you'll usually have a property you can check against..
isMine or something

[gusty abyss]

I'm using a single raycast atm but I can give it a try

[balmy kettle]

Physics.IgnoreCollision wouldn't ignore a raycast though, would it? that's just to prevent colliders from actually colliding

[gusty abyss]

Could work i guess

[mild radish]

well, theres many ways to do it..
for that example i called ALL hits b/c if u hit urself.. u wouldnt want the ray to end there..
you want to continue out and get the next hit.. so the one u ignore.. leads to the 2nd one to become the first..

[balmy kettle]

what is the actual use case here

[gusty abyss]

building system

[balmy kettle]

that's not really specific enough

[gusty abyss]

what more do you want me to say

there's a ray, detects a hit and checks if it can place then allows you to place with right click

[balmy kettle]

how about literally any actual concrete info about what you are actually attempting to do and why you need to ignore this specific object without using a layermask

[gusty abyss]

oh shit i just had a good idea

[storm patio]

https://xyproblem.info

[tawny hearth]

The other day I found out blackthronprods are in this discord server

[potent geyser]

I'm sure lots of people who use Unity are in this server.

[tawny hearth]

@snow idol hi, how are you doing

[storm patio]

please do not ping random people you aren't having a convo with

[potent geyser]

They're banned now.

[snow idol]

Someone called? Good day to you, haha.

[soft idol]

есть русские?

[near wigeon]

english only server

[naive dock]

anyone ever had a problem where mouse input doesnt work in "Focused" mode??

[viral hill]

have you actually done any debugging

[naive dock]

tried everything i know..

[deft rock]

which tells us nothing you've done

[naive dock]

I have opened brand new project. with one gameobject + 1 script :

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class MinimalInputTest : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Update()

    {
        if (Mouse.current == null) return;
        Vector2 delta = Mouse.current.delta.ReadValue();
        if (delta.sqrMagnitude > 0.1f)
        {
            Debug.Log("Mouse Delta: " + delta);
        }
    }
}```

nothing is being logged unless im on maxmized mode

[near wigeon]

did you actually click into the window?

have you tried another version of unity

[naive dock]

tried clicking. havent tried diff version, im using 6000.2.9f1 atm

[near wigeon]

try 6.0

[naive dock]

yea i feel like that one should be mroe stable, i will install and update if it worked

[amber walrus]

Hey does anyone know where I can post for feedback?

[potent geyser]

Create a #1180170818983051344

[amber walrus]

Thanks

[potent moss]

why does unity consider this a type mismatch?

is this --> [SerializeField] AutoProjectileSpawner AutoProjectileSpawner; somehow wrong or like what's going on

[azure grove]

prefabs can not reference scene assets

[wraith pasture]

iirc u already posted this or similiar and were told u can't assign scene assets to the prefab

[azure grove]

only other assets

[potent moss]

oh right sorry

I forgot mb

[azure grove]

think about how prefabs could exist in any scene

not just this one, so it makes no sense to reference from a scene

[shrewd geyser]

Unity 6.0x broke hotkeys again!?!!!??!

I mean W for move E to rotate and so on aren't working anymore... again.

version 6000.0.60f1

any advice? O.o

plis? 🙇‍♀️

[viral hill]

have you tried restarting

[shrewd geyser]

yes, but works a little and stops pretty quickly

[surreal lichen]

Has anyone had an issue where Unity 6 menu and cursor is completely pitch black?

[deft rock]

which version specificly

[surreal lichen]

Unity 2022.3.62f2 and Unity 6000.0.60f1 had this issue.

[shrewd geyser]

This version is a bijoux 😂

[surreal lichen]

What do you mean by that?

[shrewd geyser]

it's sarcastic, and bijoux is a kind of jewellery.

[surreal lichen]

I didn’t know that.

[deft rock]

Make sure g/card drivers are up to date?

[surreal lichen]

I updated my Graphics Card Drivers.

[shrewd geyser]

It's a figure of speech in Italian 😅
It's an Italian expression...

[deft rock]

Heard it in the UK too

[shrewd geyser]

Ahhh about hotkeys, Layout Reset will fix it!
@surreal lichen you should try too... maybe it will fix your issue.

[naive dock]

For future reference. Enabling the mouse device from the Input Debugger window is required and fix the problem.
It is probablly because the "Device Simulator Touchscreen" is also listed for some reason and I can't get rid of it.

[queen minnow]

does anyone use the ProBuilder tools?
I just want to ask how to make the stairs bottom side covered instead of being just plain invisible

[pure igloo]

would you guys recommend that i use intellisense?

[near wigeon]

strange.. it worked out the box for me in Unity 6.0

[latent meadow]

there is a dedicated #🛠️┃probuilder room you can ask in

[near wigeon]

uh yeah

[storm patio]

why wouldn't it be?

[pure igloo]

thiing is, if it gives a suggestion which i don't wanna use, pressing space does not get rid of that suggestion

[storm patio]

are you thinking of intellicode?

you can press esc to dismiss the suggestion box

[pure igloo]

the thing that auto types coe

[naive dock]

i assume you dont have the "Device Simulator Touchscreen" listed first?

[queen minnow]

ooo thanks, didnt know that existed here

[near wigeon]

yeah probably this ^

[storm patio]

the gray italics?

[pure igloo]

isn't there a better way then?

[near wigeon]

just disable it

[storm patio]

that's intellicode, AI code. you generally shouldn't be using that

[latent meadow]

ctrl alt space turns it off, iirc, but that is per session. a full disable is better if you are not going to use it, as nav said

[pure igloo]

oh

intellicode and intellisense are diff?

[near wigeon]

yes

[pure igloo]

and i wanna turn off intellicode ya?

[storm patio]

intellisense is just the suggestions box and hover tooltips and syntax highlighting and static analysis - lsp stuff
intellicode is AI codegen being shoved down our throats under a (probably deliberately) confusing name

[near wigeon]

this is intellisense.. You want this

intellicode is just text prediction based on context

[pure igloo]

oh aight

[near wigeon]

not as bad as generative AI code but still annoying

[storm patio]

i mean. it is genai

[pure igloo]

i unchecked everything in intellicode

[storm patio]

this is basically what an LLM is, no? lmao

[pure igloo]

how can i bind the esc key feature to my space key?

[near wigeon]

I dunno I never thought of it as generative ai cause its not an online feature, its like saying Autocorrect / textmessages suggestions is AI

[storm patio]

suggestions can have AI

[pure igloo]

so that it does not auto complete a suggestion when i press space

[storm patio]

oh, that? that's definitely AI - just not genAI

[storm patio]

(i was saying esc dismisses intellisense, btw. not sure it dismisses intellicode)

[near wigeon]

just disable it if you dont want ti

[pure igloo]

or do all of you press esc everytime intellisense gives a suggestion you don't need?

[pure igloo]

i do want it, it's helpful

[near wigeon]

its probably in the settings somewhere then

[storm patio]

yes, but i have intellicode disabled fully. which one are you actually talking about

[pure igloo]

intellisense

[near wigeon]

you can disable whatever key is bound to inserting it

[storm patio]

intellisense does not put its suggestions into your code

you don't have to select anything, once you complete a token it'll go away anyways

[pure igloo]

it does not, but when i press space, it inputs the sugegsting

[storm patio]

ah, you can change the "commit" key, iirc?

i changed this so long ago, i only barely remember this

[near wigeon]

oh I thought it was Tab by default ?

weird

[pure igloo]

tab it is no?

[near wigeon]

I think by default no ? you said spacebar tho

[storm patio]

this, for vscode, for example

[pure igloo]

both do the same thing

[storm patio]

there's also other stuff

[surreal lichen]

How do I do layout reset?

[near wigeon]

oh okay.. maybe
"how to disable intellisense auto insert [insert your editor here] "

[pure igloo]

i did

[storm patio]

intellisense is more than just suggestions - have you tried searching for "suggestion" in your ide's settings?

[pure igloo]

Ctrl+Alt+Space did it for me

[viral hill]

Via the layout button in the top right of the editor

[pure igloo]

space doesn't auto complete anymore

thx for the help guys

[ember vessel]

google is apparently killing the ability to sideload apps for "security" (aka spyware)
how will you test your own games on mobile if you cant use your own apks?

[surreal lichen]

Ok thanks

[balmy kettle]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1410055858548641802

[surreal lichen]

I tried resetting the layout and it’s still black. Do I need to update my drivers and install a driver?

[winter hemlock]

i need help to set up vr in unity because the controllers arent working, what channel can i use to get help?

[viral hill]

#🥽┃virtual-reality

[ember vessel]

so i guess we're fucked then

[balmy kettle]

discussion of the topic goes in that thread. if you want to ask questions about the implications of that news then do so in that thread.

[stuck flower]

Here's three other times you've asked this question and gotten the answer:
#💻┃unity-talk message
#💻┃code-beginner message
#💻┃code-beginner message

[plain dagger]

They clarified the situation (sideloading isnt going away) https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html

[forest otter]

Can someone help me? Trying to make a ball roller and I have a rigidbody on my sphere, yet whenever I try to rotate my cube using input, the ball gets stuck in the cube

Maybe transform.Rotate is not best?

[storm patio]

you shouldn't be modifying transform if you have a rigidbody

the rigidbody expects to control the transform, you will be fighting it

[forest otter]

Oh so instead control the ball?

[storm patio]

use rigidbody's rotation methods - angularVelocity, AddTorque, MoveRotation, etc

[forest otter]

Okay I see. Thanks

and that will control the rotation of the box?

[plain dagger]

Using those functions you are adding angular velocity/force so physics will rotate it for you

[storm patio]

wait, you're moving the.. platform?

it's quite far from a cube lmao

but yeah physics stuff should be moved via physics

[forest otter]

But if I don't use gravity on the rigidbody, will the rigidbody still rotate?

[storm patio]

those are wholly separate things

[plain dagger]

yes. angular drag will be what "slows it down"

but without gravity i suspect it will act funny

[forest otter]

okay, thank you. I guess I know nothing about game dev haha. I want to jump to making full games

[plain dagger]

well you can easily try out stuff and see what happens! just try to manipulate rigidbodys properly

[weak talon]

hello there, when i get my new mac that is an m chip ill probably reinstall unity and learn

[potent moss]

#💻┃unity-talk message

🥱

[storm patio]

maybe you should take notes on common issues then

would waste a lot less of your time

[stuck flower]

Sorry, took me a bit to look things up. You should consider doing that some time, too.

[remote vector]

why unity hub recommends me old 2022 version which has security issues whnere there is already newer verison out?

[balmy kettle]

that version is the patched newer version

[remote vector]

which one?

[balmy kettle]

the 2022 one you were just complaining about

[remote vector]

2022.3.62 is old the newst from download archive is 68

[balmy kettle]

.62f2 is a patched version. .68 is enterprise only

[remote vector]

that makes no sense 62 is no lts

[balmy kettle]

it's not LTS because it's no longer in support except for enterprise and industry licenses. the .62f2 patch is for anyone who doesn't have those licenses but wants to use 2022 with the vulnerability patched

[remote vector]

hmm so when i downlaod 68 i cant start it?

[stable sky]

Why is it that when I enter the door trigger, a micro lag occurs, but then everything is fine?

[balmy kettle]

even if lets you open it, you cannot legally publish a release using that version without purchasing an enterprise or industry license

[remote vector]

kk

thx

[potent geyser]

How do you know it's lag? The second time you open the door, it looks fine.

If anything, it looked like you were popping to another position through collisions or something.

[devout ruin]

where do I ask for help?

[balmy kettle]

#🔎┃find-a-channel

[viral hill]

!ask

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.

-# For more posting guidelines, go to #🌱┃start-here

[stable sky]

I enter the trigger and there's a micro-lag, but when I enter it a second time, everything is fine

[potent geyser]

Again, how do you know it's lag?

[remote vector]

check the profiler

[stable sky]

What could it be

This is what it looks like if I walk slowly

[near wigeon]

are you sure its not just a collider or some shit

[stable sky]

The FPS shows that it drops to 170

[near wigeon]

if you think its lag then you outta use the Profiler and see what the lag spike points to

[potent geyser]

What's actually happening when you enter the trigger?

[devout ruin]

chat chat chat

how do I change the frame rate of my animations n stuff

[near wigeon]

animation window set it to Frames, adjust as needed

[devout ruin]

now I need to extend it to make it longer

how do i do that

[stable sky]

When I enter the trigger, it just shows a text on the screen, and I can press E to open the door. That’s basically it.

[devout ruin]

how do I make my animations longer (phrased it better)

when I changed it to 24 fps it became 24 frames long instead of 60

[potent geyser]

Basically? Or all? You'll have to profile it to actually see, but what does the code look like for it?

[stuck flower]

Seems fine. Use the profiler to see what's taking up the time

[stable sky]

I'm just getting started with Unity, and I don't understand a lot yet.

[potent geyser]

There's nothing in this that looks like an issue.

[stable sky]

I just made a full body fps controller and after that this micro lag appeared, before that if I just entered the character there was no lag

I don't understand anything here

[near wigeon]

search . profiler. and how to use it

[silk acorn]

since it only happens on the first trigger its probably resource loading related

[near wigeon]

thats why there are resources from how to read it

[inland vortex]

not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'm trying to mod the original main theme for pvz into pvz replanted. i found a music assets bundle file and although i can open it with assetripper and found the song i want to replace, idk how to edit it and replace the song. asset bundle extractor is unable to open the file.

[glacial lake]

i'm not able to build my project & am getting the error - Cannot build while assets are importing or scripts are compiling but there are no assets importing, nor scripts compiling.

i've tried restarting Unity, restarting my PC, deleted temp files from the project, reimported all assets, nothing works. does anyone have any idea on how to solve?

[silk acorn]

the animation that plays when Open is set to true might be causing the spike when it loads

is it big?

[near wigeon]

without concrete numbers (profiler) its all guess work

[stuck flower]

Run the profiler, start the game, walk into the door, and then look at the big vertical spike and see what's the biggest part of that

[silk acorn]

i also wonder if textmeshpro might just have an issue with rendering cyrillic

[near wigeon]

for all you know it could be his own computer + editor stuttering putting the text on screen

[devout ruin]

how do I make my animations longer, i changed the fps to 24 and my animation is stuck at being 24 frames long, I need it to be 64 (haha minecraft) frames long

[sly lake]

Should work just fine

[near wigeon]

#🏃┃animation

[devout ruin]

dayum no ones talked in there since 5 am 💀 i aint never gettin help

[silk acorn]

i can tell you werent around in the days of forums

[stable sky]

like this spike is the trigger input

[near wigeon]

be patient, they answer. If you dont post it how can you tell..

[devout ruin]

ive never been patient ngl, thats mostly my problem

[near wigeon]

so then you select it and check the spike

[near wigeon]

well patience is gold in development so make due

[near wigeon]

outta switch it to Hierarchy mode

[stuck flower]

So click on the area the spike is, and it'll show you what was happening that frame. Look at what's taking up the highest percent of that time

[stable sky]

How did I figure it out from Canvas?

[stuck flower]

If you click on one of those blocks it should show you what the breakdown is. See what's taking up most of the time in the player loop at the top

[stable sky]

I turned off the message that appears now, and the micro lag is gone

thank you very much

[versed tulip]

Where can I open the probuilder window? The button is gone (I am now using unity 6000.1.9f1)

[near wigeon]

You don't, you use context menus now

[devout ruin]

I friggin hate working on stuff sometimes

its fun until you get a headache 🫠😭🙏

[faint rivet]

i have a question why do most Tutorials just not work on unity like any older ones like 1 year just dont work

im like complelty new so mb if i sound stupid

[near wigeon]

what do you mean "dont work"

in what sense

[faint rivet]

I write code and its wrong

[near wigeon]

nothing changed aside from a few layouts and few components renaming functions/props

[faint rivet]

someon ones fixed my issues by telling me i had to like change a setting which changes which code unity takes in edit and prefrences

but i switched computers

and i cant find it:(

[near wigeon]

show the code and what error is giving

[viral hill]

what asset do you use to get those colors in the hierarchy?

[azure grove]

they were likly talking about the Script Execution Order, in Project Settings. But show the error since there is almost always a better way to fix things then editing that

[muted heath]

yo everyone, i'm having some issue when trying to debug, whenever i try to Attach to Unity it says "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:56300"
any idea how to solve this? my editor already has debugging enabled btw

[shadow heron]

Its this keeps things nice and clean ↓

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/colourful-hierarchy-category-gameobject-205934

[versed tulip]

How do I select edges in unity 6 probuilder?

[shadow heron]

go into edit mode

[near wigeon]

you have to select a probuilder mesh first

[faint rivet]

i might just be stupid and public just doesnt work in unity

[stuck flower]

https://screenshot.help/

[near wigeon]

nonsense

show the actual code (not a screenshot)

[azure grove]

show the code

100% chance you got a syntax error

[near wigeon]

public inside a method for sure

[near wigeon]

🥹

[azure grove]

lol

[faint rivet]

huh

[azure grove]

yeah your need to actaully define a class

you just have lose functions in a file

[near wigeon]

wow thats a new one

also

[balmy kettle]

also unconfigured IDE

[near wigeon]

!ide

[vagrant root]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[balmy kettle]

and of course the mistake of only looking at the last error in the console and not starting with the first (there's at least 7 others)

[faint rivet]

yeah i thought i knew what you mean but no im sorry

[azure grove]

well you need to go back to the fundamentals

[near wigeon]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/csharp-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners

[azure grove]

but every line execept for the using statements at the top needs to be inside a
public class Free_cam : MonoBehaviour { } block

[faint rivet]

No i know what a class is and all i can typ java

[near wigeon]

then why did you structure your code like that?

[faint rivet]

because its isnt my code

[azure grove]

java has the same rules

[faint rivet]

its a tutorial

[balmy kettle]

you copied the tutorial incorrectly

[near wigeon]

guaranteed the tutorial didnt write it like that

[stuck flower]

Show the tutorial

[faint rivet]

https://youtu.be/rxa4N4z65pg?si=KLaZV8DQwIxPTiik

[near wigeon]

get that counter out

[balmy kettle]

46 seconds in

[stuck flower]

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 198
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2025-10-23

[near wigeon]

no intellisense on the tutorial too at least 👍

so that matches

[azure grove]

lol even for the tutorial the editor is not setup right

but also the part we commented about with the class missing, its in the tutorial

[faint rivet]

well mb for being a dumbass

have great days or nights

[near wigeon]

make sure you configure your ide

[azure grove]

Everyone had to learn at some point, people are tearing it apart since they mention issues then you saying well its not my code

But yeah i would first get your IDE setup fully it will help you greatly and show you issues as they happen

then look at the C# fundamentals, then some basic unity learning content

sorting it all out in that order will put you on a much better footing to learning it all

[muted heath]

and i now i got this when i tried to Attach to Unity

[sudden raven]

Hey, I'm not sure which channel to use for this, but I want to ask about a school project which involves an interview? What channel would be good for that

[stuck flower]

Is it Unity related

[sudden raven]

It's about game development, it can be within unity

[stuck flower]

So it doesn't really sound like a Unity question

[fair holly]

Why did Unity (at least in Unity 6.2 i think) make AdditionalLight info not accessible when using Forward+ rendering? If they are doing the calculations fully GPU Side, why not put in a StructeredBuffer to access it in shaders?

[potent moss]

is there some easy way of displaying fps in-game after a project is built like in the editor in the gizmos menu?

[viral hill]

you can make your own fps counter and display it using tmpro, hard coded gui, etc.

it is fairly easy to make

[wraith pasture]

didnt urp have that debug menu

[plain dagger]

oh yea it does have a rendering debug menu. I only know its trigger for touch

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@15.0/manual/features/rendering-debugger.html#display-stats

[wraith pasture]

yea only know it by accidentally opening it

[potent moss]

oh but this is only for development builds no?

[plain dagger]

yes

[plain dagger]

otherwise you can do your own by using deltatime to calculate the current framerate
1f/delta

[surreal lichen]

I tried updating my drivers and tried resetting the layout but the menu and cursor are still black.

[dusty quartz]

Hey all, how would you go about storing game information such as current round, team scores, etc etc? I was going to go with a singleton but might want to use Update, but a MonoBehaviour game object might also not be the way
Any grand ideas? :)

[inland river]

Are you asking how to get at the data or how to store it? The ‚grand idea‘ you ultimately aim for is injecting the information/provider into the objects that need it, avoiding the singleton abuse.

[woeful spear]

I tried this GIMP tutorial and it gave me headache. I couldn't pack it. Maybe it was hard because UI doesn't match with latest GIMP. Also, it doesn't teach how to pack in Alpha channel. I never imagined such a simple thing would be so complicated.

I tried Affinity Photo, but that is at least 3 times more complicated

[dusty quartz]

Store - as in whats the best solution here
I'm not used to the game object hierarchy of Unity, and normally I would store it in some more foundational class
Although I suppose using MonoBehaviour is really the same thing! Maybe that is the way to go after all

[inland river]

Indeed, no reason to make up problems where there are none.

[dusty quartz]

Words to live by!!!

[azure grove]

any way you want, i tend to have a MB that is a holder for a bunch of regular C# classes for various systems

and it can tick updates in them if they want it

[dusty quartz]

Ohh that's smart

[inland river]

Mind you that gameobjects with MonoBehaviour components are quite a powerful foundation on which you can build a very productive gamedev workflow that you would have to abandon when working entirely without them. Often you use MonoBehaviour as access/views for background systems/data

[azure grove]

really one of the most annoying parts of unity is init order and passing depednencies. SInce you do not have that central entry point to gather and pass depednencies down in

[inland river]

You can arguably work around that issue entirely.

[azure grove]

i find i tend to end up with some sort of state machine that kinda handles overall game state stuff. I used to do that mostly with regular classes but now i do it mostly with components since it makes easier data input to it all

[dusty quartz]

Yeah I suppose fundamentally, the game objects are a list of objects initialized and ticked from a higher application object

[plain dagger]

i make do just fine by doing manual initialisation for basically everything

[inland river]

Nobody forces us to use the standard engine callbacks as individual entrypoints

[plain dagger]

load a level scene? find the manager, init it and let it do the rest

[dusty quartz]

Initially it just seems bloated to use game objects that also have a transform and whatnot

[inland river]

Irrelevant in the projects normally made in Unity

Think of the transform as a ‚folder‘

[plain dagger]

dw about it, in source engine you need an entity to network things. all engines have these quirks

[dusty quartz]

Very true!

[inland river]

Unity’s model is so simple and adaptable, much more so than other engines, that it’s well worth the cost in most cases.

[dusty quartz]

I got into game development over a decade ago and have since focused on general software development and am only now coming back to my roots, so many things to figure out haha

[azure grove]

yeah structure is a good bit different then making a traditional application

i would embrace components as much as possible though and actually use them for composition not treating each GO as just 1 type

[inland river]

It’s actually not different, most regular apps are just built on way simpler assumptions.

you’d reinvent a data oriented framework for any halfway sophisticated application

[dusty quartz]

Now that we're in the conversation, how would you describe the parent/child relationship of game objects? They don't inherently refer to one another, so is it mostly just the transform that is important in this case?

e.g. what you said before regarding seeing it as a "folder"

[inland river]

Transforms have parent/child pointers

[azure grove]

Just transform but it is easy to grab refs from your parents etc

[dusty quartz]

Right okay yeah

[azure grove]

But also if it's just systems stuff not visuals I will sometimes just have a ton of components on 1 go

[inland river]

It’s a compositional part-whole hierarchy, if you want the technical term

[dusty quartz]

Ouch, my kryptonite

the technical terms

[inland river]

It means each element can take any position in the tree, and everything is composed from the same base type while being able to navigate the hierarchy/composition

[dusty quartz]

Okay thank you haha

I was already googling it

[inland river]

It’s very different from, say, unreal

[dusty quartz]

Never tried Unreal, how is that?

[azure grove]

Unreal is way more rigid about things

And will fight you if your idea does not match

[dusty quartz]

Oh ugh !!!

[inland river]

Different, aims at a different project types and works like a content creation tool more than like a framework

[dusty quartz]

Ahh okay

So more so like creating a project within Unreal, rather than creating a project using Unity

sort of?

[inland river]

Yes

unity requires you to build most things from scratch

It asks more of you in terms of code/architecture skill, but can take you anywhere, limited only by your ability

Unreal tries to give you tools to reach beyond your ability

[forest otter]

Got a question. When you guys make prototypes, say, a roll a ball tutorial, do you guys mess around with modular systems? For example, instead of say making the coin position lerp to the player's position when close enough, maybe you use interfaces, managers, etc. Subscribe to events when coins are picked up, etc

[pure igloo]

is this how it's supposed to work?

why does it move on a diagonal when i change the x coordinate

[balmy kettle]

you're not changing a coordinate. that is the reference resolution, as in the resolution that the UI is designed for. so the UI is scaling based on the screen match mode you've got selected

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/UIE-Runtime-Panel-Settings.html

[pure igloo]

ya...that i did get

[balmy kettle]

then what about it are you not understanding

because that's like the whole thing that you are demonstrating in your video

[pure igloo]

what does y do

[balmy kettle]

they are both part of the reference resolution. neither of them are positions

[pure igloo]

also, in the tutorial, when they tinker with the x scale, it does not move diagonally like mine does, instead, it just ends upgrowing bigger and smaller while remaining in the same position

[plain dagger]

your layout is wrong then

[pure igloo]

any ideas as to what could fix it?

[plain dagger]

its going to depend on how you put the text there in uitk
in ugui its usually invalid anchor configuration

[pure igloo]

should i give a ss of the things i modified on the UI code in the inspector?

[stuck flower]

Probably because their UI element is anchored to all sides of the screen, while yours has a fixed size and is anchored to one corner

¯_(ツ)_/¯

It won't hurt

I don't even know if this video covers UI Toolkit

[pure igloo]

it's outdated

[stuck flower]

You gotta stop deleting messages after people have already started replying to them

[pure igloo]

just a habit i have...i would rather do it than not. if that upsets you i am sorry...

[plain dagger]

You can try changing the text align settings or change the flex direction of the parent element

[stuck flower]

It's like pulling the chair out from behind someone as they're about to sit down because you noticed the chair doesn't look nice

[plain dagger]

then id be like "why are you sitting on nothing?"

[pure igloo]

i would still do it cus having no takes is better than having stupid ones

[pure igloo]

you find something wrong in here?

[plain dagger]

the parent element should already have flex so the child would have been auto positioned for you

then you just have to change the text alignment settings

you really thought this was gonna work? its sticking outside the area 😐

[pure igloo]

i mean, it worked at that time, didn't know that it would end up making this problem

[plain dagger]

maybe you should read this instead: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/UIB-getting-started.html

learn how element layout works properly ⬆️

[opaque knot]

hey can anyone help with this multiplayer sync issue i have i tried everything to fix it but nothing worked (

[slow dirge]

#1390346492019212368

[opaque knot]

Thanks

[foggy gate]

Can anyone recommend a current Unity Top Down video?

[plain dagger]

!learn

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[plain dagger]

no

[shadow heron]

Put camera above player pointed down

[viral hill]

<@&502884371011731486> bot scam

[sage basin]

?ban 1418576274602987541 bot spam

[novel scarab]

lera62622g was banned.

[proper pivot]

hi

Hey, I’m into game development as a hobby, and I’d like to make a classic point-and-click game in my free time. Do you think that’s doable?

I know a bit of C and Python.

[viral hill]

yeah

[proper pivot]

Any tips on where to start?

[viral hill]

!learn

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[inland vortex]

does anyone know how to swap audio files in an asset bundle file? for a mod

[viral hill]

modding discussion isnt allowed here

[inland vortex]

oh okay, unfortunate

my apologies

[slow dirge]

!collab

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[warm coral]

mb

[bronze crescent]

Just to confirm there is no way to turn off the unity splash screen without being a pro member right? I see the option in player settings but doesn't seem to make a difference, I don't mind it really, But just wondering if i'm doing it wrong, Or if it is infact a pro only feature. Thanks!

[viral hill]

You can do it for free with a personal license in unity6

[bronze crescent]

Interesting

I have unity 6.1 and when I untick splash it still shows in the build

Ah whoops wrong build setting

[bronze crescent]

Is there no downside to disabling it that I should be aware of?

[viral hill]

Why would there be

[still stone]

You don't get the awesome splash screen

[sudden zephyr]

TELL me one thing if we done with our project and than click on build and run than why we need mobile usb type item to buid android games

[latent meadow]

talk to #📱┃mobile

[vivid cedar]

You don't

[stuck flower]

"mobile USB type item"?

[slow dirge]

Sounds like a rare item that would drop from your boss.

[sage basin]

?ban 1430815727945912371 bot spam

[novel scarab]

hugoedrick6385 was banned.

[copper gust]

<@&502884371011731486>

[sage basin]

?ban 382208301397442571 slurs in chat and in profile

[novel scarab]

okbro.nnl was banned.

[proper spruce]

Is there a way to create a package for all the assets and scripts used within a particular set of scenes? I've run into a editor crashing issue when I updated unity due to the security issue and don't want to have to zip up a 4gb folder lol

[latent meadow]

Probably not, and almost surely not, if you cannot get into the project. (i mean, no easy ways i can think of)
Note, you do not need to include the Library in the zip/transfer. and on that note, have you tried deleting the Library and letting it rebuild?

also, Source Control is a must for anything beyond playing with tutorials

[proper spruce]

I just copied my project and deleted library along with the .git folder, so it's not specifically a crash on load up, but when I use the ingame ui I've built to create a photon fusion room/start a multiplayer room, that specifically crashes the editor, I made sure that it was specifically due to that, tested on the unity version prior (the one that has a security flaw) and it seems to work fine. So I assume some sort of bug was introduced with the patch, I guess just if it helps I was using 6000.0.26f1 updated to 6000.0.60f1 and made sure photon fusion SDK 1 was the latest version but that didn't make much of a difference

[latent meadow]

and you could not find specifics information in the logs?

!logs

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Documentation

Editor logs

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log
MacOS: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Editor.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log

Unity Hub

Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[proper spruce]

yeah I use git and not exactly an issue with that or anything I just wanted to get the minimum amount of assets that are required to hopefully get help from the unity devs, but it's going to be a bit of a major pain, my project is quite big has a lot of assets and such

the issue something related to "Could not allocate memory: System out of memory!" but just to note, without anything taking up a lot of memory running in the background I have about 16gb left (I have 32gb but I guess windows loves to assign half for whatever reason) so it is beyond me why it thinks I have no memory

so I've thought of the general things that would cause issues but I can't think of anything that is happening on my end, also as a note, I took a bit of a break from programming so I haven't touched this project in the last 3 months, and the only real change that has happened was needing to update unity for the security patch

[latent meadow]

this is just a WAG, but did you at some point entirely disable your Swap file and not re-enable it?

[slow dirge]

Must be a memory leak

[latent meadow]

to clarify, when you look at Task Manger, it says 16GB free?

[proper spruce]

I'll be honest I have no idea how to do this, so no clue

yeah pretty much

am I allowed to post screenshots in chat?

[latent meadow]

ok, no worries. that was just a long shot anyways

yes, but at this point, you may want to start a thread

[proper spruce]

well it was just gonna show the task manager, I honestly don't know why it shows I'm using so much memory when I have barely anything running but that's I guess besides the point

[latent meadow]

go for it

[coral viper]

I just updated hub to the newest version and I can't open any of my projects. lol.

it says I don't have a license, but when i try to create a new one, nothing happens?

[slow dirge]

You need to look at it during the time of the crash.

[proper spruce]

yeah I did take a look at it, and there wasn't any sort of spike

[latent meadow]

Create a new one? you mean refresh, or are you trying to really create a new one?
Are you on Linux, windows or macinlinux?

[slow dirge]

Then it could be a faulty allocation trying to allocate a huge amount of memory.

Need to read the logs around the error.

[proper spruce]

I'm not really trying to do anything special in this situation though but I'll be honest the only change is that I updated unity for the security patch, there wasn't any other code changes for a last 3 months

[coral viper]

Windows 11. My PC just crashed for the 3rd time in an hour. Lol. Maybe the issue is hardware related.

I'm about ready to get rid of AMD....

[proper spruce]

just checked task manager now and memory went up by 200 when it crashes, I guess there might be some sort of leak but it wasn't happening in the version of unity I was using prior to the patch :/

Memory leak issue with Unity 6000.0.60f1

[coral viper]

unfortunately the license error is still there.

[latent meadow]

.. you have not even said what you tried, if anything, so that is not unexpected.
are you using the same email/account or do you have multiple?
my crystal ball is blurry. screenshots help

[coral viper]

I only have one account. and it was working an hour ago

[latent meadow]

https://status.unity.com/ does not show any issues, but it is sometimes behind

[coral viper]

I got a notification that the hub was updated. after my PC crashed. so I thought hey. I'll update. and after the update it crashed again (because Radeon sucks) And then. I couldn't access my licenses anymore. so I signed out and signed back in. restarted an extra time.

[latent meadow]

do you have a firewall that might be blocking things?

[coral viper]

Ill check. I updated to Win 11 about 2 weeks ago.

[latent meadow]

this here throws me.. if you are logged in with the same email account, this particular message should not be seen, iirc. but i may be confusing the issue. yeah, firewall is a good first check, and overaggressive antivirus too

[coral viper]

maybe something got changed.

[latent meadow]

another thing you can do is fully uninstall the Hub and reinstall it, after the previous checks, if they all clear

[coral viper]

good idea. maybe the install got corrupted when my GPU decided to crash my system for the 7800th time lol.

[untold sphinx]

Anyone have an idea of what might cause this?

it's been plaguing me for a while now, but not sure where to dig for troubleshooting

[coral viper]

whats the context?

[untold sphinx]

weirdly enough, I'll just have a project up and this happens at random, even without any interaction, and hangs up Unity for up to a minute

[coral viper]

I think reinstalling hub fixed it! @latent meadow

hell yeah. lol.

[coral viper]

Do you have a lot of files, or big files?

Is it only unity that hangs?

[untold sphinx]

nothing different than before this started happening, though I did think to disable asset auto-refresh to see if that was it, sadly with no change

and ye only unity

[valid gale]

Possible to do hotkeys in unity the same as in blender?

[coral viper]

My PC just crashed again. Lmao. AMD my dude. Were gonna have to have a chat...

[latent meadow]

i assume you are referring to #🏃┃animation

[untold sphinx]

AM4/AM5 both have issues with memory stability, might help to mess with that a lil

[valid gale]

oh, i meant hotkeys

[coral viper]

Nah it's the RX5500 XT 8GB. Sometimes the buggy Radeon software forgets to turn on the fans and it hits 80C at idle for some reason and then it crashes my system. Wonderful design. Truly wonderful.

[untold sphinx]

[latent meadow]

yes, you can change Unity hotkeys.
I am not aware of a built in profile to match Blender, but you can manually do it, and save it.
also, you should do the Essentials Pathway on the learning site

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[latent meadow]

try MSI Afterburner to control fans in a different way, but this is off-topic, so you'd have to try another server for additional information

[untold sphinx]

tried to deep profile but the main thread hangs when this happens

[slow dirge]

Try using the debugger instead. "Attach to process" or "attach to unity", then break all and check the call stack. Especially on the main thread.

[molten gust]

hey im kinda stuck on what to learn next i wanna learn 2d and pixel but i also wanna learn 3d like all types (stylized, realistic, lowpoly… etc) but idk what to learn the only thing i know is putting sounds in and making movements and a camera system only in 3d

[latent meadow]

!learn

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[molten gust]

Ok Thanks man

[latent meadow]

Oops, Hub bug, same day patch.. maybe this was part of the issue, @coral viper

[untold sphinx]

how do I get call stack info from unity again?
using VS19 and it's showing "all threads were executing external code"

[slow dirge]

You can attach to process to see the native callstack or attach to unity(the green play button) to attach to the managed side. The first one would not show much info. There might be names in the callstack. The managed debugger on the other hand should break in C# code, so it should shoe more info.

[valid gale]

!learn

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[slow dirge]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/attach-to-running-processes-with-the-visual-studio-debugger?view=vs-2022&pivots=programming-language-dotnet
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/managed-code-debugging.html

[slow dirge]

If you want to share some info from the debugger, take a screenshot. It would be easier to understand the context.

[untold sphinx]

didn't have the option to attach to unity, reinstalling real quick to see if I get managed debugging back

[slow dirge]

You'd need to make sure it's configured correctly too:

!ide

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Select one:

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• :question: Other/None

[coral viper]

Well thanks for helping with the hub

[untold sphinx]

took longer than I'm willing to admit to realize it was still accessible from the Debug dropdown menu (no clue why it isn't showing in the attach menu)

just waiting for the issue to occur again now

[loud sedge]

how to fix this jittering that happens when pixel sprites rotate on z axis?

[frosty pilot]

Maybe you're rotating them in a fixed update

Or use interpolation on rigidbody

[wise crescent]

guys how to you use unity calibrate system

so i can make game with my friends

[loud sedge]

no need to add the pixel perfect component thing?

[wise crescent]

how do i play / make games in unity

[latent meadow]

!learn

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[frosty pilot]

A sprite is a texture on a mesh and the mesh is responsible for the rotations.

[latent meadow]

there is no Unity Calibrate system that i am aware of.
you can use Source Control to work with friends.
Playing games is not covered by this server.
see the Pathways on the linked learning site for the best start
@wise crescent

[wise crescent]

ok thanks

[latent meadow]

oh.. you mean collaborate. yeah, use source control to collaborate

[wise crescent]

how

[frosty pilot]

ChatGPT

[latent meadow]

start with learning how to do the basics in the engine first. then google for tutorials on Github/source control

[wise crescent]

I tried like 5 YT tuts

ok

i will try

[loud sedge]

does that mean no

[latent meadow]

is it shimmering or jumpying™?

you used the word jittering, so if used accurately, No, pixel perfect would not help with that particular aspect

[iron topaz]

hi

[latent meadow]

Howdy. Not a 'Social Chatroom', so, "hi" and "bye" generally go unanswered.
If you have a Unity question, feel free to ask

[forest otter]

Hi

[frosty pilot]

A version control system is needed not only for collaboration, but also for creating backups that will help you not lose progress in case of unforeseen situations.

[charred fog]

You should illustrate the question like that with a video. Usually if you are going out of pixel constraints, like rotating or smooth movement you don't want pixel perfect components and going the other way, with higher resolution pixel art so you can use smoothing technics on it.

[untold sphinx]

at this point I'm a little lost

definitely paused it during the issue, stuck on Application.Message again, but can't see main thread and the call stacks I can see don't give any obvious indicators

[slow dirge]

Is that attach to process or unity?

At the vs toolbar on top, there should be a drop down showing threads. Is there no main thread there?

[untold sphinx]

I was using the attach unity debugger option, as it seems to be the only unity specific option I'm getting, but I feel like that might be the wrong thing

[proud burrow]

hi, how do i turn this off 🥲

[slow dirge]

This will attach the managed debugger. It should be fine. I'd look through the list of threads and what they're doing.

[untold sphinx]

I got surprisingly little out of it
only seeing worker threads from the looks of it

[undone monolith]

guys what is the reason for Unity to have multiple versions?

[plain dagger]

its always being updated with bug fixes and new features like most software

[undone monolith]

no i meant like in official releases, they have multiple editors to install

then there's also the pre-releases

it's sometimes very confusing and i have no idea which editors i should be using

[plain dagger]

unity 6.0 is LTS (long term support) meaning its more reliable and stable
unity 6.2 is a later version with newer features but not as stable

LTS is best but you can use 6.2 if there is a new feature that you require

unity answer questions like this here: https://unity.com/releases/unity-6/support#releases-faq

[slow dirge]

Try attaching to process then.

[slow dirge]

Though I think some of the workers might be relevant. The main thread is probably just waiting on a worker anyway. Should look through any thta actively execute code in a loop.

[cyan lion]

What even is that?

[deft rock]

Looks like it's something to do with Unity's visual scripting

and can't be turned off?
https://discussions.unity.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-can-the-background-worker-get-an-option-to-be-turned-off/929499/13

[proud burrow]

Idk, everytime i move a cube it pops up and stops the unity

[deft rock]

I googled 'unity ludiq' ... it auto suggested 'unity ludiq background worker' and the first result was relevant to your situation..

[proud burrow]

oh, how do i turn it off

[deft rock]

perhaps either read the link I already posted, or do the google search yourself ? 😄

[proud burrow]

oh sorry, i didnt see thanks

oh, i got it

[acoustic terrace]

Is there any way to use C++ in Unity through Plug Ins?

[latent meadow]

you can use a Huge plugin called UE

[acoustic terrace]

All around C++, not just for Perforamnce Critical

[acoustic terrace]

Accept I don't have another mandatory Plug In called "Having Good PC"

[latent meadow]

Touche

[deft rock]

you can create C++ plugins and use C# to access them

[acoustic terrace]

As in?

[sly lake]

Not reasonably, nor is there any good reason to.

Also for performance critical stuff you're better off using Burst these days

[acoustic terrace]

Burst?

Vas is Das?

[sly lake]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.burst@1.2/manual/index.html

[acoustic terrace]

No I mean like how do I use C++

[sly lake]

By compiling native plugins I guess.

But this is not a reasonable way to use Unity. It'd be horrendous for iteration times.

[latent meadow]

i think you are trying to solve an imaginary issue. @ deltabullet

[vague pebble]

i have

a PROBLEM

i don't have any idea what to make with unity in an assignment

[sly lake]

Okay. Any more details so we can maybe help?

[fleet slate]

Hi

[latent meadow]

Howdy. Not a 'Social Chatroom', so, "hi" and "bye" generally go unanswered.
If you have a Unity question, feel free to ask

[fleet slate]

@latent meadow sorry for sending you a friend request, my discord was bug when im was trying to send messages in the chat

[latent meadow]

ok. no worries. thanks for explaining

[fleet slate]

Yo hunan, did you made a Game before?

[latent meadow]

As mentioned, this is not a social chatroom. If you need help with a specific Unity Issue, you can

!ask

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:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.

-# For more posting guidelines, go to #🌱┃start-here

[fleet slate]

Oh there is no Channel for social chatroom?

[latent meadow]

No. see #📖┃code-of-conduct

[fleet slate]

Im not gonna read all, but thank you for explaining

[latent meadow]

you should. also, no need to ping me.

[fleet slate]

Okay

[vague pebble]

give a min

Animation
Scene transition animation
Graphic Effects
Particle effect
Trail effect
Shader effect
Sound Management
Background music
Menu System
Saving System
Mobile Build

this is what must be in the assignment

and idk what to make

i can't even choose if i want 2d or 3d

[frank sable]

sup guys, new game dev here, wonder if anyone know what are good guide to learn the basic of unity

there is a tons of guide but idk where to start

I already know how to code, but no idea how to code for game dev

[latent meadow]

Essentials Pathway on the learning site is the best start

!learn

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[frank sable]

I am mostly a machine learning engineer guy, so a lot of cloud and python

amazing

[high axle]

Hello i have some qeustion about Asset store i upload pack for asset store near a month still no verfiey must report or wait ?

[wanton shuttle]

Hello, where can I ask about Unity's spline package?

[latent meadow]

probably here

[wanton shuttle]

I was wondering if its possible to avoid these cracks between rails, using Unity's spline instantiate. If I make the rails more frequent, it wont be smooth.
Any way to make procedural rails?

[potent geyser]

You can do whatever you want. However the fastest thing would be to find an asset that does this.

SplineMesher on the store comes to mind.

[wanton shuttle]

alright thanks

[vague pebble]

@latent meadowu said you help :<

@sly lakei mean you help

[atomic lantern]

hi, i'd like to implement pvp multiplayer support in my 2d game that i'm making in unity 6. Game is turn-based, so no fast networking is a requirement. I need common stuff like matchmaking, lobby and simple chat. Goal is to avoid as much as boilerplate/reinventing the wheel as possible. What solutions would recommend me?

[latent meadow]

Unity has Netcode built in. you can use Unity Gaming Services( #1390346533127458889 )for the lobby, etc. there is a #1390346492019212368 room/board too

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[atomic lantern]

thanks for a message. What about photon engine? In your opinion, is it an overkill?

[latent meadow]

you'd have to ask the linked networking room. or maybe ask yourself Why you are considering that.

[atomic lantern]

thanks for your input!

[glass moth]

Hii!! Okay so I have an idea of a mechanic I would like to implement in a game I am working on where the camera is isometric and the player can see the environment all around them BUT they can only see some obstacles in a certain area around the player. Sort of like in project zomboid. I thought of using two cameras rendering different objects but I don't know how to make it without the perspective being weird any ideas?

[woeful spear]

Does anyone know how to do channel packing in GIMP? I saw many tutorials and I can't seem to replicate what they are doing. I can't paste a greyscale image into a particular channel. Also, I'm totally clueless how to paste a greyscale texture into Alpha channel (which is needed for smoothness texture map).

[latent meadow]

You'd need to continue watching tutorials, or find a Gimp server. although side-related to the final product you want to output in Unity, this is not a Unity question. You could make a Thread and ask in it, but pretty sure the Moderators would say something if this continued in the main room, outside of a thread

[woeful spear]

GIMP server is not quite active. I'm also trying on Reddit.

[vague pebble]

should i ask the question again?

[potent geyser]

Nobody is going to tell you what you should make for your assignment. You just spat out some list of generic things to include (which mostly all games include). Just pick a game idea you're confident in making and make it, it will cover those things by default.

The fact you've been sitting here for almost 3 hours hoping someone will direct you to an idea is wild.

[tender plover]

does anyone have any videos or articles discussing how to go about coding a card game stack processor?

[vague pebble]

all i wanted is "2d" or "3d"

[stuck flower]

Which do you want

[tender plover]

Specifically, do they cover the stack in mtg like how people do by reading the card's keywords and executing them in order? Or do they have the card data stored in a file somewhere and then execute it that way based on the card played?

[vague pebble]

how would i know

i love both

[stuck flower]

How would we know what you want

[vague pebble]

by end of december

which should i make then

is it possible to make 3d game

[potent geyser]

What a ridiculous question. Pick the one that appeals to you the most.

[stuck flower]

If every card has a way to know what it's supposed to do, you can easily replicate the Stack from MTG using... A Stack. The term in magic is literally named after a data structure. Just make a Stack of the cards and execute them in order

[vague pebble]

also i am patient as hell when i want an answer duh

[potent geyser]

If you're going to keep this up, make a thread then, thanks.

[shadow heron]

Holy shit just pick one lmao. Its going to be your game that YOU will be making pick whatever appeals to you.

[tender plover]

I actually figured it out by reading this ty

[shadow heron]

your seriously asking if its possible to make a 3D game...

[potent geyser]

No, they're baiting you which you're taking.

Obviously they're not genuinely asking if it's possible. If you engage, it continues.

[stuck flower]

"I didn't do my homework in time because a random discord didn't tell my what I like more until December"

[wraith mesa]

hi

[shadow heron]

https://nohello.net/en

[tender plover]

No it's actually impossible to make a 3d game in the unity engine. I know there's a 3d option but that's been broken since patch 1.0.17 and when you try to run the 3d engine with installing RTFM modset it bricks your computer

I watched my professor boot up unity and it wrecked his PC(he never used unity only valve source 1 and vulkan)

[stuck flower]

And 2D broke a few versions later so now Unity is just used for writing accounting software

[tender plover]

and even with the RTFM modset it's very GPU intensive, I'd suggest trying source 1 or godot tbh

[full flint]

I use it as a screensaver

Tragic times

[tender plover]

fr

[vague pebble]

making a good game in a few months

i don't know if its possible

[tender plover]

it's not

[vague pebble]

like come on

[tender plover]

using unity

like that's for sure

have you used RTFM mods before?

[tender cedar]

ey guys i need advice if i wanna make a map more of lowpoly style should i use the terrain tool or do custom somhow cubes stuff

[tender plover]

use math lmao

[vague pebble]

but i hate unity 👉 👈

[storm patio]

uhhhh "read the fucking manual" mods? what is RTFM supposed to mean here lol

[storm patio]

ok then use a different engine

[stuck flower]

Terrain tool. You can reduce the resolution so it's visibly lower poly

[stuck flower]

They're making a joke

[vague pebble]

bro can't understand me omfg