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[vague pebble]

i give up

[tender plover]

every party needs a pooper that's why we invited you

party pooper

party pooper

[storm patio]

im so confused

[tender plover]

read the fucking manual you blockhead

[latent meadow]

make sure to read and understand the #📖┃code-of-conduct . there are limits.

[vague pebble]

is it so hard to understand what i ask?

[storm patio]

oh it's trolling, i didn't backread far enough, jesus christ

[tender cedar]

k thanks

[iron topaz]

Hi guys

[stuck flower]

They're making a joke that someone just needs to "Install the RTFM module". Similar to how people here make jokes like "Just hit the 'Make MMO button' in the toolbar"

[latent meadow]

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

[iron topaz]

so have you got a project rn?

[storm patio]

yeah it just didn't read right with it being the typical RTFM so i thought it was something else

[stuck flower]

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand more about it but in the process the frog dies

[iron topaz]

could you tell me about your project ?

[tender plover]

well, we lost one frog, BUT surely with this frog's death we gained an understanding

[storm patio]

i thought they were the one asking. i did not backread far enough, that's all. yall don't need to explain

[storm patio]

hi, this isn't really a social space, and pinging random people to ask specific questions is generally frowned upon

[iron topaz]

@storm patio @tender plover

[storm patio]

yeah no stop with the random pings please

[latent meadow]

Read the #📖┃code-of-conduct . do not ping people you are not directly in an active conversation with.

[tender plover]

then the frog's death is meaningless 😔

[stuck flower]

Do not ping people you are not already in a conversation with

[iron topaz]

nah thats not random ping this is multi-chat

[latent meadow]

you have been informed of how things work.

[storm patio]

those were random pings.

[shadow heron]

One problem after another lmao, Strange day today.

[slow mauve]

can someone help me for once. omg 😭

when i export my armature from blender, the X axis doesnt rotate forward backward, it rotates from side to side. instead, the Y axis rotates forward and backwards, instead of rotating orbitally from left to right. can someone help me fix this? ive been trying for like 3 days now.

i know that this is fixable, in fact i fixed it before, but i have 0 idea how.

[deft rock]

Probably exporting from Blender incorrectly. I use this guide https://medium.com/@cluster_official/recommended-settings-for-exporting-models-from-blender-into-unity-77e3e1fb3c8d

[worldly cave]

Does anyone have any resources on implementing source engine esque 3d skyboxes im unity

[acoustic veldt]

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[worldly cave]

I hope that command was not directed to me

Because it has no basis in what im actually asking

[acoustic veldt]

maybe?

(jk)

[worldly cave]

Anyways

My current idea is this

1 create miniature geometry build distant scenery at 1 16th scale and place it offset from the level like 150 units below

2 set up skybox camera add a camera with same fov as player camera put skybox geometry on a dedicated layer and make this camera only render that layer

3 configure camera stack in urp make the main camera the base with post processing enabled then add both skybox and viewmodel cameras as overlay cameras to the stack

4 bake lighting before baking temporarily scale up and position the skybox geometry around the real level bake lightmaps and probes then scale it back down to 1 16th

5 add sync script attach a script to the skybox camera that copies the player cameras rotation and divides its position by 16 adding the offset

[plain dagger]

You can have a camera that renders first that is inside the 3d skybox area.
If you have a max play area and know the size of the 3d skybox you can scale down the movement

[worldly cave]

Yes but this ignores a crucial problem

The sun!

I dont think the 3d skybox will be able to actually hide the sun

[plain dagger]

You can maybe use light layers to have one for main stuff and 3d sky stuff?

or to have them ignore that light

[worldly cave]

Well i am using mixed lighting but what i need to do is ensure that if a part of the 3d skybox geometry is covering up the sun from the players perspective, the sun gets "blocked" i can sort of do this with my baked lighting approach i mentioned earlier but it will only create shadows in those areas i have no clue what kind of actual interaction it might have with the sun light

[plain dagger]

well thats just not going to fly because they dont exist in the same space

anyway its 2025 you dont really need to re create this system

[worldly cave]

Im a bit of an* optimization nerd

Like yeah ill live without having to do it

But if i can its gonna let me do really cool shit with 0 perfromance cost

Unless theres some obvious alternative im missing

[plain dagger]

Have a think, how will this provide a performance boost?

using 2 cameras means you will draw the whole "3d sky" and then probably draw over a lot of it meaning wasted effort.
when done all together with a depth prepass you can save effort

[worldly cave]

Yeah but the 3d skybox will have simpler geometry

Shorter draw distances as well

Actually i have an idea that might work, i can place an empty in the miniature skybox in the same relative position as the sun from the origin point, and shoot a ray out from the mini camera to see if the empty sun in the miniature is blocked by geometry

[wild condor]

hello does someone know hoe to turn off those squares from the move tool in blender?

[storm patio]

perhaps ask in the blender server

!blender

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[storm patio]

or yknow

google it

[wild condor]

i did already lol

and i found nothing

yknow?

[mild radish]

ya i dont believe u can modify it..
blender's main workflow uses mostly hotkeys..
the gizmo's are mainly just a visual aid

maybe have a look in this menu

[wild condor]

that way u turn off the gizmo

i tried

[sweet charm]

They don't seem much of a bother

[mild radish]

g/r/s for the win

[wild condor]

only r and s for me, cant work with g on 3d

[storm patio]

you can constrain axes with x/y/z

[worldly cave]

Yeah shift and then the axis

Honestly apart from the rotate the other gizmos are useless

Just use g r s

[fair urchin]

heyy

wsg

[balmy kettle]

https://nohello.net/

[fair urchin]

so i am new to Unity and i am trying to make a 2d platformer but i do not know how to code movement and ive tryed to add movement for 3 day's now so if anyone could help me pls dm me

[storm patio]

we don't do DM support here

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[balmy kettle]

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[fair urchin]

where then?

[storm patio]

what boxfriend said above ^ i was too slow

[stuck flower]

You ask questions here and people answer them

[fair urchin]

oki dokey

how do i add 2D player movement to my game

[storm patio]

did you read boxfriend's message

[worldly jetty]

!collab

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[storm patio]

there are several tutorials online and on unity learn, try googling around or use the link boxfriend gave (via the bot)

[mild radish]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGDeafTx5ug&list=PLBIb_auVtBwBotxgdQXn2smO0Fvqqea4- heres a decent series (very basics)

but also learn w/ the unity sources as you go

[stuck flower]

Usually by writing scripts that do whatever specific thing you want to do and adding them to objects. Without knowing what you want to do, this is the most detailed answer that can be provided.

[fair urchin]

ive tryed that for 3 day's (no progress)

[fair urchin]

thx ima try that

[mild radish]

if you get stuck on a part come bck with ur code as examples.. and ask why ur stuck.. or why something isn't working..

don't just throw it all out if it doesnt work

[fair urchin]

oki dokey

[bronze crescent]

Quick question! Will this run on a 32bit system? Just curious

I know some games do so not sure how unity handles this

[mild radish]

64bit executable cannot call a 32bit dll and viceversa

[plain dagger]

haha no, its a 64 bit build

[storm patio]

a 32bit executable can be run on a 64bit processor if the processor/OS support it (famously, macOS catalina stopped supporting it) as backwards compatibility, but not the other way around.
if you want it to be definitely be runnable on different archs, make separate builds for each target arch

[plain dagger]

it is weird that they call it intel 64 but it was amd who initially made the 64 bit extension for x86 🤔

[storm patio]

well it is still x86

[plain dagger]

which is why many places call it x86-64 or amd64

[storm patio]

huh, never heard amd64

[frosty pilot]

x64 is an extension of x86

[storm patio]

it's x86-64

[frosty pilot]

x64 can run x86, x86 cant run x64

[storm patio]

is it really called x64? that seems ambiguous as hell

wikipedia does list it but ive never heard anyone call it that

[mystic abyss]

Hey, I'm wondering if theres any documentation for anything in UnityEditorInternal?
I've found that it has a ReorderableList which is useful as I want something to let me click and drag the order of my Layers.

I'm not sure how to make it show the Layers directly in the list itself, not sitting underneath. But I havent been able to find any documentation for it, its only code ive found on github thats helped me figure out how to implement what I do have

[frosty pilot]

I call

[storm patio]

probably not any dedicated public docs - that's kinda the opposite of internal

[mystic abyss]

unfortunately almost every result when searching for ReorderableList just has people asking how to do a custom implementation, its strange not many actually make use of that list

[storm patio]

just googling the namespace gives this forum as the first result
https://discussions.unity.com/t/looking-for-documentation-unityeditorinternal/651610

[mystic abyss]

ah, that didnt show up on duckduckgo

[storm patio]

you probably shouldn't use it - as an internal api, it makes no stability guarantees

[mystic abyss]

gotcha

[fair urchin]

hey so i made the code to move left and right but my player does not move (2D)

[storm patio]

that's a scene file, that doesn't really contain any useful debugging info for us

use a code channel, and share code

!code

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[storm patio]

also, do you have any errors or warnings?

[fair urchin]

oki dokey

[shadow heron]

I have this small issue I am stuck on. So I made it so the button ignores the ground layer so that the button can be pushed down but the issue is that since it ignores the ground layer it will also ignore the objects that have the ground layer as well. I need the objects to be on the ground layer so the player can stand on them. any ideas on how I should go about doing this?

[storm patio]

if an object can move, is it really part of the ground

you should probably have that as a separate layer

[shadow heron]

what? the objects that can be grabbed on a separate layer?

[storm patio]

yeah

[surreal lichen]

I’m having trouble disabling Auto Graphics API in Unity.

I cannot see the check button. Is there another way to disable it?

[shadow heron]

how would I make the separate layer grounded as well? Cause in my ground check its only the normal groundLayer.

[storm patio]

add it to groundLayer.

however you're assigning it (hopefully via the inspector), you add the other layer

[radiant crag]

Hi, I just wanted to know if it's normal to get 400+ frames in Unity and still have issues and stuttering while moving in development mode?

[sly lake]

In the editor?

[radiant crag]

Yes

[sly lake]

Yeah, editor stutters. Always does.

Though you might have timing issues. Make a build to be sure.

[radiant crag]

Well, is there a solution for it because it bothers me?

[frosty pilot]

If there are doubts about optimization, the first step is always to open a profiler.

[sly lake]

Nope.

Maybe you're having an actual timing issue though. Profiling a build would rule out performance issues.

[storm patio]

also, there are actual sources of stuttering, like misconfigured pixelperfect cameras or moving rigidbodies/charactercontrollers improperly
would need more info/context to know.

[sly lake]

Timing issue being animations running at the wrong rate, camera moving at physics step rate, stuff like that.

[radiant crag]

Why the Unity engine developers haven’t fixed this issue is ridiculous

[stuck flower]

Where do you assign a value to groundLayer

[radiant crag]

The project is completely empty and I did not even use hdrp. I used the regular version.

[storm patio]

how are you moving if it's completely empty...?

[radiant crag]

I mean in scene view mode

[storm patio]

moving around in the scene view stutters?

then yeah that's just editor things

[radiant crag]

Is this normal? I don't know.

Funny I don't encounter this in Unreal which is much bigger and more consuming.

[green hare]

whats the point of animation networks if it all can be done in blend trees?

[azure grove]

well not all of it can be done with blend trees

blend trees just handle a few cases very well

like the character controller i have at work is a few hundred states 3 of them being blend trees

[green hare]

Oh hello passerby good to see ya

I remember the animator network you sent me. it has SSM's and transitions between them. Where do you use blend trees if I may ask?

[azure grove]

a few states like locomotion and a bunch of the jumps etc are blend trees

that way it can transition into a animation that is blended based on the characters velocity

[green hare]

Ah that's reasonable
I got confused since there's a buncha people that rely on blend trees only and try avoid using anything else

[azure grove]

will handle walk vs run and if its a forward backstep or one or 2 side steps based on the velocity

but then when like sitting or interacting with a door or a object or jumping, skidding to a stop etc all are other states

some things like jump is also a other blend tree as well

when people are objecting to not using blend trees i have to assume its for cases where its bad to use indivuidal states

like if you needed to play 1 of 8 animations based on what directio the player is going in doing that with just states would be transition hell

but very easy with a blend tree

[ripe brook]

Hi, my unity hub starts creating projects , the project shows in the project list, but the editor does not open and the project is not present at the expected path (or any path). When I click the project entry to open it, the Hub says that the "Project is already open"

[shadow heron]

Oh shit. I completely forgot that you can select multiple layers lol. thanks!

[storm patio]

that's the point of a layermask

[shadow heron]

lol yeah I forgot you select multiple of them

[forest otter]

Got a question guys. Working on a ball roller prototype. Should I add to it beyond the whole gameplay loop of rolling around and picking up coins? Y'know, try to turn it into an actual game?

[storm patio]

that's completely up to you

we are not in your head

[stuck flower]

do you want to

[stable sky]

why aren't my objects being placed? It looks like everything is selected correctly, but nothing is being drawn

[forest otter]

I know I just didn't know if it would really help me in the long run or not

that's mostly why I ask anything, to see if it will help me

[storm patio]

any experience helps you

[prisma needle]

would yall recommend making every model, every animation, every UI and all that solo. Or find others assets?

[gusty abyss]

does ngo support self hosting?

like can you host on your pc and let people from anywhere join as long as they have the code or whatever

[gusty abyss]

for speed and if you aren't planning on taking the project that far, assets. but if you want to make it your own original work that you want to keep expanding upon then make each model, animation and so on yourself

[pearl oyster]

If you have the skills and the time to do all that, then sure. Other than that it's pretty much an unanswerable question

[prisma needle]

ALR

[mild radish]

as an investment yes..
as a deadline no..

[near wigeon]

yes

I run a few NGO servers from a VPS

you just have to make sure the appropriate ports are open

[gusty abyss]

What abt allowing the players to host my game?

simillar to minecraft where you can create a server then people join with ips

[near wigeon]

the concept is exactly the same.

They have to open their ports, maybe use things like himachi...otherwise need to look into NAT Punchthrough or you have to add Relay if you don't want them having to open ports

[gusty abyss]

right

if i use relay tho will i get charged for using bandwidth or?

since i'd ideally like for it to be cost free

[near wigeon]

unity offers it and there is a free tier which is pretty generous

I think steam also offers it included in your 100$ publishing fee

[gusty abyss]

how much do you have for the free tier?

[near wigeon]

CCU (Concurrent users)

First 50 Average monthly CCU (approximately 2,160,000 connectivity minutes)

$0.16 per additional average CCU (approximately 43200 connectivity minutes)
Bandwidth (Relay)

3 GiB per CCU for free up to a max of 150 GiB / month (combined US/EU/Asia Australia)

$0.09 per GiB US + EU, $0.16 per GiB Asia + Australia

https://unity.com/products/gaming-services/pricing

[shadow heron]

How can I fix this issue where the player struggles to push objects? like even a small object with a small mass I can't seem to push it. It just rolls over or slowly gets pushed.

[plain dagger]

probably more force. you can give your player more mass too

[near wigeon]

also increasing the angular damping on the box can help it not roll over so easily

[storm patio]

also reducing friction on the floor

[gentle vine]

Is there any difference in calling "using System.Collections;" in a script vs calling it on the function? "private System.Collections.IEnumerator DestroyAfter(float t)"

or any reason to do one rather than the other (especially if it's the only use of it in the script)?

[near wigeon]

no difference at all

[balmy kettle]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/using-directive

[near wigeon]

if you only need it once fully qualified is fine

[stuck flower]

The using statement is just there so your code is cleaner and easier to read. There's no material difference in using it or not

[gentle vine]

thanks all

[sly lake]

There’s a neat tool called Sharplab you can use for figuring out such things

[snow orchid]

Is the Unity Assistant not working for anyone rn

[near wigeon]

hopefully it imploded

[snow orchid]

It's just really helpful for me as a beginner

[balmy kettle]

that is actually when it is the least helpful, because instead of learning the skills yourself you just learn to rely on the spam generator instead

[snow orchid]

How should I go about learning non-ai way?

[balmy kettle]

!learn

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[near wigeon]

build your skills up ^
"subscription expired now I can't progress forward.." oof

[snow orchid]

i see, thank you

[gentle vine]

I'm getting issues with unity things in this, do I need to toggle a setting somewhere?

[plain dagger]

this website doesnt know about the unity api...

and if you thought it did... dont even bother using it 😆

[near wigeon]

UnityEngine assembly isn't on their servers

[gentle vine]

bit harsh

[plain dagger]

well you probably dont need to see the generated IL for some unity code

it wont match anyway because unity uses mono

I dont mean to offend but checking generated IL is only useful for some specific debugging/optimisation tasks

[sly lake]

You don’t really upload your code there, for the most part. Just test things in isolation

[gentle vine]

just trying to learn 👍

[sly lake]

So can be useful for questions like your “is using the same as writing it out”, you can see if the compiler output matches

[gentle vine]

yeap, that makes sense

[plain dagger]

I think that did more harm than good

[sly lake]

I guess 😅

[balmy kettle]

tbf you can see more than just the IL there, you can see the decompiled c#, which in this case would show that the fully qualified name vs the using directive ends up being the same thing

[plain dagger]

thats fair but probably easier to just explain the outcome
im more of a godbolt guy myself

[shadow heron]

wdym more force? this is what I've got ↓

[plain dagger]

big heavy ball with big roll force push tiny light cube

[runic parrot]

anyone else always getting the assets recovery thing? bc I've been getting it a lot recently but i am 90% sure i saved it this time

[mystic abyss]

!ide

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[runic parrot]

i think you didnt download vs for unity

[near wigeon]

that isnt VS

[balmy kettle]

it's not even a proper code editor, that was them attempting to paste their code into sharplab

[glass kraken]

Isn’t that more costly regarding performances if u have to call it multiple times?

[balmy kettle]

call what multiple times?

[glass kraken]

Like making multiple Enumerators with System.Collections in this example

[balmy kettle]

no, it's just how the type gets resolved at compile time. there is literally 0 difference between using the fully qualified name for a type compared to a using directive when it comes to performance

[glass kraken]

Ty

[runic parrot]

when i try to edit hinge joint 2d angular limits if i click it deselects

so I'm not sure how to change its positioning

[runic parrot]

is that a web editor

[balmy kettle]

it's a website to view what the compiler is doing with your code. it is not a code editor

[late rover]

why does this week's free asset REQUIRE a purchase of a separate, non-free asset to work? Shouldn't that be against the rules kinda?

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/game-toolkits/quests-2-game-creator-2-232532

It requires game creator 2, which is a 60$ asset, in order to do absolutely anything at all

they're just using unity's free asset week as a way to drive sales to their other thing. Not a "hey we have other good stuff check it out" but as a "you must buy it before you even get to try the free thing out"

like, should we bring staff's attention to this? I wish I could check the rules but I can't find where they are

or is it fine and I'm overreacting

[wraith pasture]

probably never gonna use it even if both were free

[lapis gate]

pretty sure you can manage those systems in less than an hour or two

and you get the benefit of not having to read other people's code

[late rover]

I fully agree, but it's kinda a principle thing

Like I don't think they should get to do that

they're right now being heavily promoted by unity, and usually the cost of that is that they have to give out a free asset

and they... don't, not really

because a purchase IS necessary

[tropic drum]

Hello

[balmy kettle]

https://nohello.net/

this isn't a social space, so don't expect responses to pointless greetings

[tropic drum]

If you say so boss

[split thorn]

can anyone help me get rid of my errors in unity?

[near wigeon]

[split thorn]

wdym

[near wigeon]

try actually posting the errors and you can see if someone is able to help..

don't ask to ask

[stuck flower]

So I have an issue with transparent materials and ordering. The first image shows the door correctly in front of the cage, this is in the editor. The second image shows a build, where the door is just... very wrong. It's behind the terrain but in front of the wall but also behind the grate and also in front of it elsewhere? What is wrong with it? It seems like it's just not using the depth texture at all. This is an ordinary URP Lit Shader set to "Transparent" and "Alpha Cutout" with a texture applied, no other changes.

[split thorn]

lokit my errors

*look at

[warm coral]

are you using photon?

[near wigeon]

You seem to have duplicate of a script somewhere aside from the other ones

[plain dagger]

wasn't this something that went wrong a while ago?
first step id take is frame debugger! (pray it happens in a dev build)

[stuck flower]

Yeah, and I thought I solved it but it's back. Frame debugger shows it's just never writing to the depth texture

[plain dagger]

is that opaque alpha cutout?

[stuck flower]

Transparent, actually. I didn't actually think I could use alpha cutout on opaque, but it looks like I can. Going to try that now

That should hopefully fix it

[plain dagger]

yea that is what you want, opaque mode with alpha clipping

[warm coral]

the ones that say pun and disconnect i recognize, its photon im pretty sure, so just reimport photon, and for the other errors delete the duplicate scripts

not sure thats what it is tho

oh

yep

its photon

ok, the save color one delete, it duplicated and theres 2 in ur project, and i would recommend reimporting photon FIRST so it doesnt mess up

[stuck flower]

It's in front at least

but the clipping did not work

[near wigeon]

can you not shitpost ? ty

[stuck flower]

It's loaded from an asset bundle, so it's losing some data in the process of saving it to a bundle and loading it, it seems

[plain dagger]

Thats.. odd
normally we use alpha clip so we can still draw in the opaque queue and write depth for the fragments we want to draw.
was the clip threshold incorrectly set? was alpha removed from the texture?

[warm coral]

what bro😭

[balmy kettle]

read the message

[stuck flower]

Alpha clip is set to 50%, it looks fine when I drag it in during edit mode, but when I export the bundle and load it at runtime this is what it ends up as

[warm coral]

i did i read it after i sent it lol

[stuck flower]

Next time read before you send it

[warm coral]

my bad

[plain dagger]

i doubt unity would alter the texture, unless you do something special when the bundle is made?

[warm coral]

can someone rq gimme some tips for my environment in my horror game

[stuck flower]

No, I'm using the built-in BuildAssetBundles function. Although I'm going to try something, the textures are "auto included" as dependencies, I'm going to manually include them, maybe it's not getting some of the import options this way?

[plain dagger]

from my experience with addressables it shouldnt matter but I guess its worth a shot.
is the texture pow2? i presume alpha is transparency is ticked too.

[stuck flower]

It's not a power of 2, is that likely to be a problem?

[plain dagger]

all i could think of was some platform bullshit with the texture format it picked
pow2 usually provides the best formats (like ETC or DXT)

[twin wigeon]

Hi I was trying to animate something and I have a problem. So I am animating falling animation and my end frame is copy paste of my start frame but hwne animation finishes and loops again it feels like it pauses for like a second. Did anyone have that problem

[near wigeon]

#🏃┃animation

[stuck flower]

Okay, looking at some forum posts, it seems like it might be a "Shader variant" thing? Like the opaque/alpha shader variant of URP/Lit isn't going into the build since nothing in my built project actually uses it? I'll add them to the "Always Included Shaders" list, it takes hella long to build when I change those so chances are this'll wait till monday.

[plain dagger]

is there not a material with this pre configured in the bundle? if no that explains it well
You would want to use a shader variant collection or some pre configured materials to ensure the variants are included

Unity strips variants not used so you dont wait 5 hours for a shader to compile like 5 billion variants

[stuck flower]

There's a material in the bundle, but the actual built project doesn't have anything in it by default, it's all runtime-loaded

[plain dagger]

yea it would have to be a material with the correct settings

[stuck flower]

Is there a difference when using variant collections versus just putting the shader in "Always Include"?

[plain dagger]

always include i think will presume you need all variants but that doesnt do anything to asset bundles

remember asset bundles cant reference anything thats not in that bundle or another bundle

so solution is shader variant collection set up to cover all use cases you can imagine or some pre configured materials with the correct settings

[stuck flower]

The bundle just has the materials and their textures. Is there something I need to do to ensure that the bundle has all shader variants?

[plain dagger]

I know that addressables makes a shader bundle to handle it but i think if you include a shader variant collection asset in that bundle with the correct variants configured it would be happy
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/shader-variant-collections.html

The addressable docs does claim that always include does work but i often experienced the opposite:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.addressables@2.7/manual/BuildingShaders.html
addressables uses asset bundles hence it being relevent here

[mortal star]

hi guys..
trying to create a simple game (first one) but struggling with something
can some tell whats the issue?
thanx..

[sweet tartan]

You need to explain more. Your ball circle collider radius is too large so there's a gap (beyond the 0.01 default skin offset) and you made the entire backboard a collider so the ball will not enter there. The physics is behaving the way you set it up. Why does the backboard have a collider? That's probably the first problem

[mortal star]

@sweet tartan My understating is that the board should have a collider so the ball will hit it if needs to and not go pass it
Am o wrong?

[sweet tartan]

you seem to be thinking in 3 dimensions but using 2D physics. You have defined the backboard rectangle as an area the ball cannot ever enter

[near wigeon]

in 2d physics the rigidbody cannot / will not move in Z space at all

so its not going "forward"

[mortal star]

As reading “you thinking in 3 dimensions”I realized the issue

The ring it self should have a collider?

[near wigeon]

yea if you want it to bounce on the ring

but you still somehow need to "open it"

[mortal star]

I guess only colliders I need are the ones the sides in the hoop

[stuck flower]

Do you know if there's a way I can check which variant of a shader a specific object is using? So I can get the object looking how I want and then just add that variant to a collection?

[plain dagger]

its been a while since i touched them and good lord its shit
i think you just have to figure it out yourself 😠

I presume you need _ALPHATEST_ON

i configured the material then used debug inspector mode to check the keyword list 😆

oh i also had to use debug inspector mode to even add urp lit to the variant collection

👏 well done unity

[stuck flower]

All right, added that to a variant and kicked off a build. I'll have to see how it fared on monday

[pure igloo]

i am not using triggers. I am using OnCollisionEnter2D to check for collisions. I have set the asteroids with tag named "Asteroids", but i have no clue as to why it sometimes bouncess off of these asteroids, whereas other times, it gets hit and destroyed.`

this weird behaviour is nuts

dont rly know what the problem is...so i have also posted it on #💻┃code-beginner

[fallow rock]

is there a way to move a camera component within a mesh

[near wigeon]

what do you mean with a mesh?

as long its on a transform

[fallow rock]

I don't see any way to move up the camera @near wigeon

[near wigeon]

you move the transform

[viral hill]

What does this even mean

[fallow rock]

yeah but where is it am i blind

[fallow rock]

camera component?

[near wigeon]

its on the gameobject

[viral hill]

Don't just say random things if you don't know what you're talking about. No one can help you that way

[fallow rock]

rude but okay

[near wigeon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/class-Transform.html

[wind cedar]

if anyone has experience in creating backend servers for unity games i need some advice, please dm me thank you

[balmy kettle]

<@&502884371011731486>

[balmy kettle]

!ask 👇

[near wigeon]

not likely someone is gonna DM especially without knowing the context. Just ask

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.

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[viral hill]

this is like the 3rd time ive seen this bot here <@&502884371011731486>

[potent geyser]

!ban 1423980430130155550 bot

[vagrant root]

@captivating_dolphin_36810 banned

Reason: bot
Duration: Permanent

[wind cedar]

go find a bit of cheese or something i'm too busy developing my server

[frank sable]

guys, apart from https://learn.unity.com/ to start, any other good page too look after? my goal is to make a top down game so far

kinda new to gamedev but not to coding, I already know a few lenguage

[exotic relic]

YouTube. Research. Experience.
The fact of it being top down does not make too much of a difference here since it’s only the angle of the camera. Learn different pieces of creating a game and as you earn more puzzle pieces you’ll figure out a way to put together what you need. There are several approaches to things, so break down how something might work and learn piece by piece.

It’s up to you to problem solve and figure out how it might fit together

[frank sable]

that was inspiring

ty spark

[exotic relic]

Are you a hands on learner?

I don’t know how far along you are with this but for example something as simple as going watch different YouTube videos of how to create a pause menu in Unity could teach some things. Learn two different methods.

[frank sable]

I literally started today lmao

10 years as a data scientist and MLE

trying game dev just as a way to create some ideas I always have

and I prefer reading documentation over following tutorials

[latent meadow]

Unity is one of the best to do that in, as an individual. as with anything, it will take a minute to learn the basics and the quirks though

[frank sable]

but this learning is just a middle ground I am happy with

[azure grove]

that background should give a bit of a head start since you will know how to program a bit

but there is a lot to learn that is just for games, Unity does have fairly good docs for its core features though

[latent meadow]

https://unity.com/resources?filters=e-book these are free e-books by Unity and/or their partners

[azure grove]

but yeah games have a pile of quriks to work with compared to other software domains

[frank sable]

amazing

I am also here to learn how to do reinforcement learning

that another goal

is like the only type of IA that I have never touch

[golden rune]

is there a good way to sandbox a given unity game for playing existing mods?

i wonder if this is of any use: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/application-security/application-isolation/windows-sandbox/windows-sandbox-install

or even something like this: https://douglasdwyer.github.io/CasCore/

[latent meadow]

this is a Unity dev server, not a gaming or mod server. discussing modding is against the #📖┃code-of-conduct . you' need to find a different server

[golden rune]

hmm. well, sandboxing is technically its own thing, even if it's expressly for mods

though with recent unity security issues, that could also apply

not every unity game has updated for that issue i think

In fact, if someone can confirm whether something like Windows Sandbox could make unpatched Unity games safe to play, I'd go as far as to recommend making an announcement about how to apply it.

it would be sorta irresponsible not to

[vivid cedar]

Unity released a binary patcher for built executables, so such a thing is unnecessary

[golden rune]

thats good to know

im sure other circumstances exist for applying a sandbox condom for unity games

[frosty aspen]

i need help when i start my game in unity it just pauses the game when i start it and it wont let me unpauses it

[latent meadow]

what does the Console say?

[frosty aspen]

ops i had the Error pause on my bad lol

[primal moss]

I swear multiplayer play mode eats up disk space like no other. Anyone having storage problems when using MPPM? Using 6000.0.57f1

its eating .1 GB of my disk every 5 seconds while running an instance

[latent meadow]

maybe talk to/search #1390346492019212368

[golden rune]

https://superuser.com/questions/1927212/is-there-a-proper-or-recommended-way-to-sandbox-unity-games edit: fixed url

[fair urchin]

helloooooooooooooooooooooo

wsg

[latent meadow]

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

[fair urchin]

im looking for people to make a game with

[fair urchin]

got it

[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**

[fair urchin]

oooooooooooo thx

no

there is only like very professional games there that offer money but i want to have it like a fun friends learning experience

[latent meadow]

read the bot message again.
Perhaps try the Game Dev Network discord.

[fair urchin]

oki dokey

[latent meadow]

Welcome to the $25 sale! 😐

oh, i see. it is typical Unity Asset Store, SNAFU

This will not take you to the Actual $25 sale (even though by every consideration, it its supposed to.)

this thing will though

of course, it is really just doing this

sorry for the flood. i have no patience left with the store to be more discreet (it's advertising anyways! 😁 )

[latent meadow]

I am not close to the testing point, and if it does not, i will have to adjust my plans.
Does the Multi-Display testing in Unity still require a build, or is the Editor capable of showing the multiple windows yet?

my research says it is still build only, but some of my sources are kind of out of date, so fingers crossed someone has real world experience with it

[celest oar]

The latest version of Unity Hub won't let me install the Android Build Package. I get an error. I'm reinstalling Hub from the version shown on the page.

[latent meadow]

there is a #📱┃mobile room which would have experience with that

[cyan geode]

hello

i understand that this might be dumb

[unkempt night]

Mmm I have a question. I am learning game dev especially unity from YouTube tutorials and online resources like Udemy, unity learn... I keep forgetting the codes, how they do something or sometimes not really understand what they are trying to do.

Is it normal for a beginner like me or am I lacking something??

[cyan geode]

but how can i actually build and add textures in unity

[latent meadow]

follow the Essentials Pathway on the learning site, then the Creative Core Pathway @cyan geode

!learn

[vagrant root]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[cyan geode]

which one should i even choose

everyone just starts without this

i dont understand

[high night]

What's everyones preferred methods of saving game data?

[latent meadow]

as i said, start with the Essentials Pathway.

[high night]

Honestly, it's whatever you'll stick with. As long as you keep moving you won't fail.

[cyan geode]

ohhh

alright thank u

[cyan geode]

I want to model and build

[high night]

You want to do 3d modelling?

[cyan geode]

Yes

[high night]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoXOplUvAw&t=3s

Go install blender and go wild.

[cyan geode]

whats the difference between universal 3d and high definition 3rd

[high night]

You'll have a hard time running out of free education.

[cyan geode]

wait so i cant build in unity?

but build in blender and import

[high night]

You're not going to be modelling complex stuff in unity, no.

At least you shouldn't.

There are better options.

[cyan geode]

fair enough

[high night]

Go install blender and learn to do some modelling.

Then, bring your cool new models into unity and learn how to make them do cool little things.

And grow from it.

[cyan geode]

i was a dev in roblox studio for 4 yrs and made some pretty good stuff but its time to upgrade

so i have some background since its quite similar

[latent meadow]

for basic prototyping, and some utility things, Unity does have Probuilder built in, bu Unity os Not a modeling DCC

[latent meadow]

this is not a showcase room.

[cyan geode]

thank youu

[cyan geode]

im showing what i made

to make that in unity

or smth similar

but in a more realistic version

[latent meadow]

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[copper gust]

dude chill the fuck out

its a non programming topic

its not interupting stuff

[high night]

Search "Beginner to unity3d" or "beginner to blender3d" in your favorite search engine and begin, then don't stop.

[high night]

he's fine dude.

He's just excited, relax.

[latent meadow]

you are now blocked again. you will not be unblocked this time

[copper gust]

i dont care

[unkempt night]

Yes. In unity, you can just use 3d models.

[copper gust]

you can build in unity, its just its tools are really shit

[cyan geode]

thank you so much i was missing this actually😭

was searching on youtube and all of them is like

do this

then bam

10000 gbs map

[high night]

Go, begin, work, don't stop, and don't ask because there's too much free stuff out there.

😄

Good luck

[cyan geode]

understood thank you

[cyan geode]

thank youu

[unkempt night]

Exactly. .too much free stuff and confusing....

[high night]

Learning to parse out what you don't need is just part of the process though.

It's better than back when I started and there was no educational material.

I'd rather be overwhelmed than underserved.

[unkempt night]

It's really great to have resources. But sometimes it's really confusing. I lost track. Especially the coding part

[high night]

We've all been there.

Have to push through.

You can do it. 💪

My advice on coding, is to find the smallest possible thing you can try to do, and play with it.

Don't shoot for big gains all at once.

If your limit is outputting log messages and using if statements. Try putting them in a loop and making a game from it.

That will teach you more than shooting for the moon ever could.

I should probably start building educational content.

keep thinking about doing it.

[unkempt night]

Recently I was trying to follow one tutorial and complete that. But sometimes i really don't understand what they are trying to do...

And then i thought, am i lacking something?? And is this process right!??

[high night]

You're not lacking anything. But, you will have to do 10 google searches aimed at whatever the things are which are confusing you.

Just don't stop.

Persistence wins the day.

Victory to those who don't stop bashing their head against the wall.

[unkempt night]

That means I am not wasting my time...

Thank you @high night . I am really relieved now..

[high night]

Just push forward. The only thing that can stop you is you, if you know what I mean.

[cyan geode]

wtf i understood so much

learnt how to put gravity

and interact with it

WW

[high night]

Okay

[stone sandal]

Anyone else ever had a problem with the log in on unity-player?
Cant log in, because unity tells me that i dont have an account created and when i try to create one unity tells me that i already have one. That holds me back from authenticate with unity and developing my game.

[wraith pasture]

Are you using a VPN?

[stone sandal]

Nope

[wraith pasture]

I had to use VPN sometimes

😄

[stone sandal]

Even when i try it on my phone

[rose vault]

for some reason no matter what i do i cant get unity on my linux laptop

[pale dove]

Does anyone know how i can convert .Anim to .bvh, i already tried linking the .anim to a unity model and exporting to fbx but that dosent transfer animations into blender
i genuinely cant find a feasible way to go from .anim to .bvh

[terse laurel]

how to make my character stop spinning whenever it collides in 2D top down

[charred fog]

Freeze rotation in Rigidbody2d constraints

[terse laurel]

ok thank you

[copper gust]

not in this server probably not

[pale dove]

ive asked in blenders server, and a universal server and they both linked me here 🤷‍♂️

dont know where to go anymore

[pure igloo]

am i cooked

[sweet tartan]

no, Library can be completely rebuilt safely

[pure igloo]

But when I try to do it, this error pops up

[sweet tartan]

restart your computer, delete Library, and re-open the project

[pure igloo]

I delet the library completely?

aight...

atleast it's gonna be in the recycle bin

Oh wait it's worse than that

My hard drive ain't showing up

[ripe brook]

I need some help with unity editor / hub.
I am unable to create any projects with hub, Hub loads for a while after I create project, adds the entry to project list, but project isn't created on the path, there's nothing there, plus when I try to open the project, Hub doesn't say the project doesn't exist, it says the project is already open, but I can't see a unity process anywhere on my system.

[tame lotus]

hi everyone

[steady topaz]

Hiiii

Installing 6.2 rn

any tutos yall recommend ?

[sly lake]

I'd probably recommend going back and installing 6.0 instead. Fewer issues.

As for tutorials

!learn

[vagrant root]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[pure igloo]

https://learn.unity.com/course/create-with-code/unit/getting-started/tutorial/welcome-and-install-the-software?version=6.0

i started 4 days ago, and people recommended this to me

[sly lake]

transform.forward?

[pure igloo]

https://learn.unity.com/course/2d-beginner-game-sprite-flight?version=6.0 i used this one though

[stable sky]

Hey everyone,
I'm running into a weird crash issue in Unity.
Whenever I add a Capsule Collider to a tree prefab and then paint that tree onto a Terrain with Enable Tree Colliders turned on, Unity instantly crashes when I hit Play.
Things I’ve tried:
Removed LOD Group (only one LOD left).
Only using a simple Capsule Collider no Rigidbody, no Mesh Collider.
Re-added the updated prefab to Terrain via “Edit Trees”.
But the crash still happens every time.
Does anyone know why this happens or how to properly add colliders to trees painted on Terrain without Unity crashing?

[sly lake]

!logs

[vagrant root]

📝 Logs

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

[sly lake]

Might want to look at the crash logs for more info

[stable sky]

In which of the files will it be written?

[tame lotus]

need help in private pelase

[stable sky]

the crash happens even when I just add a Capsule Collider to a tree prefab, even when I don't set it to Terrain

[craggy pollen]

ask here

[sly lake]

Editor.log, at the end.

Or Editor-prev.log if you already started a new instance of the editor that hasn't crashed

[stable sky]

And what is there to see?

[sly lake]

Can you paste the whole log somewhere like Hastebin?

[stable sky]

https://hastebin.com/share/eyuwaripuc.makefile

[plain dagger]

Well the crash stack indicates it's related to the terrain collider

[tame lotus]

can you help me with my Unity project? I need to have a start screen with a Play button that, when I click Play, switches directly to my first-person camera

[sly lake]

Several findings:

• This is an engine bug (engine should not crash)
• It's related to the tree collider
• The tree Tree_4_Flat must use the Nature/Soft Occlusion shader means you're trying to use the legacy tree renderer with HDRP. Maybe try setting them up in the correct way., by adding an LODGroup component.

[unreal jewel]

well then do that

[sly lake]

Another (unrelated thing):
Direct3D 12 [level 12.1]

Shouldn't this be 12.2?

[tame lotus]

i don't know how to do it

[stable sky]

Well, I'm already using LOD on the tree.

[unreal jewel]

what part are you struggling with? making a button? making it switch scenes? what have you tried?

[sly lake]

But there's no collider there

[tame lotus]

make the canva with the button and link it to my camera

[stable sky]

I removed that tree, and here's the collider and the LOD, but it's still crashing.

[unreal jewel]

well what have you tried doing?

[sly lake]

The tree system only supports capsule colliders on the root.

It still shouldn't crash though

[stable sky]

Maybe it's because of these trees that I have on Terrain right now. I haven't added anything for them, neither LOD nor Collider. They're just there.

[tame lotus]

Only a Canva but it’s doesn’t work

[stable sky]

Although I removed them and added a LOD tree

[unreal jewel]

why doesn't it work? just "doesn't work" isn't specific enough

[sly lake]

Please remove the box collider and add a capsule collider to the root (same object as the LOD group)

[unreal jewel]

that shows nothing about the actual setup or what you tried to do and why it didn't work

also please don't record your monitor with a phone

[stable sky]

Okay, I added it, I'll check it out now.

[sly lake]

Might want to make it only cover the trunk, but yeah 😉

[tame lotus]

I didn’t know how to add my element

[unreal jewel]

you right click, and create it

google is free yk

[stable sky]

Crash anyway

[pale coyote]

Can anyone explain what is LOD?

[gusty abyss]

level of detail, how detailed a mesh is dependant on distance

[frosty pilot]

Level of ditails

[pale coyote]

Oh

[unreal jewel]

lod stands for levels of detail, it's basically replacing your meshes with smaller meshes with less polygons when they're far enough away

it's an optimization thing

[pale coyote]

Nice

No wonder why my game was lagging so much

My PC is potato

[sly lake]

Here's how one sets up a tree. If it still crashes - chalk it up to Unity 6.2 being broken.

[stable sky]

I created a new Terrain and put trees there, but for some reason the trees don't have collisions

[sly lake]

Does the terrain have a terraincollider component?

[stable sky]

What a nonsense, I gave Capsule Collision to the tree itself and not to the LOD and the collision appeared and I didn't crash, but then why does it crash on another Terrain?

[grand bison]

where do i ask for: how to make trees move like its windy

[pale coyote]

Here ig

[grand bison]

well how do i make trees move like its windy

[pale coyote]

Idk man even I'm new

[grand bison]

[lapis gate]

ya usually do that with some vertex shader. The terrain tool does provide that utility if you do embed them as terrain trees

[grand bison]

shaders my nightmare

guess we aint adding tree wind to the game

[lapis gate]

Really easy shader tbh. You just bend the most top verts in a direction

obviously more stuff you can do with it, but just offseting by like a few units does wonders

[pure igloo]

i got a problem. I want to make a highscore label which correctly logs the highscore everytime the player dies. thing is, it does not work because it ends up starting from 0 all over again when i press restart. should i make the highscore a global variable outside of the public class player? will that work? or is it that everything in unity requires to be made inside the derived class

[stable sky]

Why doesn't a collision occur for some trees?

[steady topaz]

UnityEngine.Internal.InputUnsafeUtility.GetAxisRaw (System.String axisName) (at <02b9a70f67044b6995b4fe23e9152440>:0)
UnityEngine.Input.GetAxisRaw (System.String axisName) (at /home/bokken/build/output/unity/unity/Modules/InputLegacy/Input.bindings.cs:377)
PlayerTracker.LateUpdate () (at Assets/Scripts/PlayerTracker.cs:25)

public class PlayerMovement3D : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 20;
    private Vector3 motion;
    private Rigidbody rb;

    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();    
    }

    void Update()
    {
        motion = new Vector3(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
rb.velocity = motion * speed;
    }
}```

[pure igloo]

highscore doesn't get saved...

[storm patio]

!input 👇

[vagrant root]

How to Set Input

To set Active Input Handling, go to:
Project Settings > Player > Active Input Handling

• Input Manager (Old): Use the original Input settings.
• Input System Package (New): Uses the new input system package.
• Both: Use both systems.

[grand bison]

did u make sure all tree prefabs have colliders?

[stable sky]

Yes, that's it

[grand bison]

cant give false information

so idk really

see ur tree spawning code if u have one

or if u are moving your player using rigid body, set the collision detection to continous dynamic

and try

[stable sky]

I've created 70 trees, and the last 5 trees don't have any collisions

only 65 trees were affected by the collision, but for some reason it didn't affect the others

[grand bison]

do they sometimes have collision or never have collision when u run into them

[stable sky]

the last 10 trees? the last 10 don't have any collisions at all

so I need to make a script so that the collision only happens when I'm standing next to a tree, and if I move away, it disappears. So there's no limit of 65 trees?

[grand bison]

what

no

dont make a script that makes collision disappear when u are not close to a tree

if u have one delete it

whats the point of doing that

[stable sky]

I made a script and it worked, so why delete it?

[grand bison]

if u want to keep it

then re read the code

cuz it doesnt work as intended

@pure igloo ?

[pure igloo]

what

[grand bison]

you deleted some msgs

[pure igloo]

yes i did

[grand bison]

couldnt have time to read em

what were they about?

[pure igloo]

i basically kinda told you that he prolly meant that trees would not render if the player was away from the trees, and that you might have misunderstood it.

[stable sky]

The script dynamically creates capsule colliders only around trees that are close to the player (within a set radius).
When the player moves away, those colliders are removed.
This is meant to bypass Unity’s 65-tree collider limit on terrains and keep performance stable.

[pure igloo]

I didn't wanna add confusion, so i deleted it

[grand bison]

@stable sky there's no point in keeping that script really, if it makes the collider disappear and not the tree itself then its pointless

[pure igloo]

does anyone know how can i implement this?

[stable sky]

It’s not for optimization — it’s to bypass the Unity Terrain collider limit.
Unity only creates around 65 tree colliders at once, so this script manually adds colliders near the player to make all trees have physics when needed.

[pure igloo]

i have tried to look at tutorials, but i ain't getting anything from it

[grand bison]

unity has a limit for terrain colliders???????

[grand bison]

make the highscore only be at 0 if there was no saved highscore before it idk

[pure igloo]

i did, still doesn't work..

[stable sky]

Yeah, I tested it myself — I placed 75 trees manually on the terrain,
and the last 10 had no colliders at all.
Only about 65 trees had working physics, no matter what I did.
That’s why I made the script to generate colliders dynamically near the player —
to bypass that hard Unity Terrain collider limit.

[grand bison]

You’ve enabled “Enable Tree Colliders” in the Terrain’s tree settings, right?

[stable sky]

yes

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but for some reason I have a limit of 65 trees

After that, the trees don't collide.

[grand bison]

so i did a quick research

there's no hard limit for colliders

[stable sky]

Then why do I have a restriction?

[grand bison]

i dont know

recheck the terrain settings

and if u did place the trees manually

try placing them again

[stable sky]

I started drawing 1 tree at a time using Paint Trees and checking to see if it had a collision. Once I reached the 66th tree, the collision disappeared.

[grand bison]

maybe the prefab of the tree has a collider, but some trees dont (inside the scene)

@stable sky select all the trees and see ur override optionv

[stable sky]

I don't have that here.

[grand bison]

is the tree from a prefab

or did u just copy paste the same tree without making it into a prefab

[stable sky]

Well, here's the prefab of the tree

[grand bison]

are the trees in your scene the same as the prefab???

like did they come from the prefab

[stable sky]

Well, I have the same prefab selected

[grand bison]

[woeful spear]

After 2 days of hit and trials and watching lot of tutorials, I finally managed to texture pack in Alpha channel for smoothness. It works as expected. I exaggerated the dark and white pixels so I can easily notice it's working. I used TGA image format for this. I wasn't able to to with PNG.

[plain dagger]

very nice! png should work the same but it was probably alpha premultiplication that was wrecking the RGB channels
learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XobSAXZaKJ8

(explains it quite well and captain d is goated)

[woeful spear]

PNG too worked! Tested just now. But there are a lot of mixed opinions of people. Some people say it depends on which application you use to make it. I used GIMP and it worked.\

[plain dagger]

yea it depends on the program if it will pre multiply alpha or even give you the option to disable it
krita has a strange way you can export without doing that... its a mess everywhere

[woeful spear]

In GIMP, I had to turn on "preserve RGB color information wherever transparent pixels" while export. This made PNG work.

Otherwise, it just paints RGB channels with black.

[wraith pasture]

for a sec i thought u posted technology connection video... the man looks similiar 😄

[potent moss]

hey how would you go about getting a vector3 direction from the direction the camera of a player is facing in? I'm trying to implement a dash for my game but whatever I'm doing here --> https://blazebin.io/dlgxfcfkukvh/0 doesn't rly seem to be working

[plain dagger]

Yea... because of pre multiplied alpha. WATCH THE VIDEO

[inland river]

fwiw, PNG doesn't actually have a real alpha channel, if you want nice alpha, use a differentt format

[woeful spear]

I watched a tutorial about it and it seemed complex. GIMP has more tutorials and is more discussed about this topic.

[plain dagger]

no not a tutorial

something that explains what pre multiplied alpha means and what that does to an image

This is why i tried to warn you about this last time but guess that was wasted effort

[woeful spear]

Yeah that is why I also tested TGA and it's working. I'm getting metallic, smoothness exactly where I want on my texture. But I want someone to cross check that TGA image to see if that's how it's supposed to pack.

[woeful spear]

I came across this term but it's beyond my understanding.

This premultiply thing

[plain dagger]

watch fun captain d video that explains it well #💻┃unity-talk message

😠

[wraith pasture]

youre never applying the dash vector to anything?

[plain dagger]

pre multiplied alpha is when the alpha channel data is already multiplied against the colour channels (RGB) before export. That means that the alpha channel data modified and made the colours darker (or even black if alpha is 0).
thats why its called "pre multiplied" because it was done at export time

just watch the fuckin video

[potent moss]

I'm just plugging it in here rb.linearVelocity = rotatedDirection + Dash.dashVector; in my main movement script
it doesn't actually do anything related to the dash except fetching and applying the dash speed to the rb but here it is if it matters at all --> https://blazebin.io/hqynteraaphw/0

[woeful spear]

If I turn smoothness slider to 0, I still see a somewhat shiny/white spot for pure metallic area. It's completely white in the texture (Red channel). So I guess metallic is also working fine.

[woeful spear]

Got it

[pearl oyster]

The DecayDash method makes no sense at all. You seem to assume that x, y and z of the dash direction are always positive

[plain dagger]

Understand why we do not want this to be done for these packed textures now?

[wraith pasture]

probably should post in #1390346827005431951 or #💻┃code-beginner since it will go under in this channel

[woeful spear]

I guess I get it. When I exported PNG with GIMP, it didn't actually premultiply alpha adn that's why it's working as expected? I actually cross checked each channel and there's no unwanted dark pixels because of 0 values in alpha channel.

Final image indeed have transparency, but individual textures are intact in each channel.

If I use Affinity Photo, it messed up R G B with pure black.

[plain dagger]

Like i said, its not actually consistent between programs and only some offer it as a checkbox option when exporting.
But its good you found that gimp does as you need so just use that.

captain d explains how its not even consistent in video editing software either

[woeful spear]

I won't think much about it for now. I'd continue as long as it works.

[potent moss]

oki

[pearl oyster]

Keep it in #💻┃code-beginner don't bounce between channels

[royal wing]

if you're basing it off of the direction of the camera, you can just do "Vector3 dashDir = camera.transform.forward"

[potent moss]

isn't that what I'm doing rn?

[royal wing]

oh right mb, how are you planning on moving the object? or are you currently just trying to get a vector 3 for it?

[junior jacinth]

hey just started unity and i feel like a dummy , i have a problem with my game

could anyone give a hand??

[royal wing]

go ahead

[junior jacinth]

im making a flappy bird like game for practice and ive made the script and all works fine , but theres something weird happening

everywhere the score is set to 0 , but when i boot up the game it automatically adds 1 , and the first pipe doesnt give any points , it only starts adding points from the second one

[royal wing]

You'll have to send the code for that, and I think in #💻┃code-beginner

[stable sky]

How can I make the tree level with this thing?

[royal wing]

where did you export the tree from? it's possible your tree wasnt aligned properly there. just center it then re export

[royal wing]

yo this accounts for your vectors being negative
if (Mathf.Abs(dashVector.x) > dashDecay) { dashVector.x -= dashDecay * Mathf.Sign(dashVector.x); }
else {dashVector.x = 0}

it checks if your dash vector x wont decay past 0, then subtracts the dashDecay with the correct sign (+ or -). else, it sets it to 0

[steady topaz]

I'll try

[steady topaz]

Worked, thanks !

[tiny anchor]

hiii when id esign shape in blender some shape like 90degree rotate when i import to unity and try to apply box colider to that anguler plance its not applying corretly its like square shape

[royal wing]

can you send a pic

[sweet charm]

Because box collider is always a box

U can try mesh collider

[tiny anchor]

but its just rotate

[royal wing]

Ye just try using a mesh collider

[sweet charm]

U mean u want the collider to rotate along with the object

[tiny anchor]

its mobile game i heard mesh colider put much load compare to box colider

[tiny anchor]

yes

so it can fit

but if i try to to rotate the object is rotating too

[sweet charm]

That's odd. The box should adjust itself with the plane regardless of its transform

[royal wing]

just make a child for the collider

his model is angled thats why

[sweet charm]

Did u rotate the plane inside Blender or in Unity?

[tiny anchor]

Blender

Then I expert in unity

[sweet charm]

I guess that explains it

Yeah, if u insist to use box collider, use the regular plane (not rotated) model then rotate in Unity. Or make a child collider like the comment above

[tiny anchor]

How to make child colider I mean i know how to set some object to child but for colider how to do it

But if people create some building structure in blender supposed stairs and all and when they important than in unity how they apply box colider on it

[royal wing]

if you ask me just lay the model flat in blender

its much better

[unreal jewel]

they probably just use a mesh collider

if you don't have that many it's not a big deal even on mobile

[hasty flame]

is it possible to program unity games with python?

and not c# (i dont like it :( )

[storm patio]

i mean.. if you really get into it, probably with a lot of layers in between? but realistically, the bulk will be in c#.

[hasty flame]

ah

[craggy pollen]

what is it you dont like about c#, it is on of the best langauges you can use

and really beginner friendly

[hasty flame]

its pretty strict in a lot of cases

i have been spoiled by python

[deft rock]

create an empty game object as a child of the stairs mesh, add a box collider, then rotate and align

[storm patio]

trust me, it helps in the long run with complex projects

[hasty flame]

I have programmed with C++ back in older days

[unreal jewel]

tbh that's why I prefer it to python

[copper gust]

In time you will realise the strictness is the greener grass.

[unreal jewel]

-# also it's really not all that strict

[copper gust]

python oozes “damn bitch you live like this” energy

[storm patio]

it definitely is compared to python

[sweet charm]

Then u know how powerful it can be

[storm patio]

js though...

[unreal jewel]

I assume you're talking about statically vs dynamically typed variables

[hasty flame]

true

[unreal jewel]

I guess fair yeah

[storm patio]

python has stuff like type coersion in its built-in operators

[hasty flame]

Im not even sure if I should code in python or c++ in the national examination next year

[sweet charm]

Both have their uses. I say do what u prefer. It also depends on the project

[dusky forum]

Should probably steer clear of c++ if it's an examination/competition.

[storm patio]

lmao what?

c++ is fine for those

just use whichever you're more comfortable with

or if it's per-question, use whichever one seems easier for the given question

[willow goblet]

Hi, im new to unity, and coding (i never coded anything past basic python code) what tutorials should i watch?

[storm patio]

!learn

[vagrant root]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[storm patio]

start there ^ or search for tutorials online

[willow goblet]

Ty

[sweet charm]

Ppl really just go from server to server without checking their profiles lol

[royal wing]

wdym

oh nvm

i see it now

[violet mountain]

i am shoked

[royal wing]

dont be shoked

[wraith pasture]

Prompt dev

[sweet charm]

If I were to fix someone else's production code, the paycheck should at least be senior level

[violet mountain]

i mean i will train ai models as a game developer ??

i didnt get the logic

[deft rock]

training your replacement

[storm patio]

is this a unity job post or something? i don't see how that fits here

[violet mountain]

yeah

[violet mountain]

i was in ai development and its ...over hyped

LLMs are just LLms tehy arent human brain

[wraith pasture]

Retiring from your job before ever getting that job

[violet mountain]

they are fast but not good as a brainer

[storm patio]

yeah that isn't really news

i wish this was common knowledge. it should be common knowledge

[sweet charm]

It's like asking for grandma to know how a printer works

[violet mountain]

learning C# is better than barking with chatgpt

[sweet charm]

It's not common

[unreal jewel]

yeah but this tech is so overhyped with a bunch of misinformation that I can't blame non-technical folks for not understanding it

[deft rock]

being misnamed has done the damage

[violet mountain]

well ai models (transformers has some locality like human brain ) some parts process language some part work for logic etc but still its not complete as a brain of a human but they are good assistant until they arent

[storm patio]

AI is such a broad term that encompasses so many useful things.
ML in general is such a boon to science and data analysis.
genAI has its uses in medicine and research.

LLMs and media generation... 😬

just taints the whole field

[copper gust]

There’s some niche uses in tech too

[violet mountain]

there gonna be another dot com bubble

but its for ai now

[unreal jewel]

for sure

[deft rock]

and like the internet, ai will still be aronud after

[copper gust]

Been thinking about playing with some tool that tries to create synced lyric data from a song that has unsynced lyrics which cool be neat for some ai thing to help with if there’s some ethical training sets available

Something that’s pretty hard to do without ai or manual labour

[violet mountain]

dont get scared calculators never replaced math profs

anybody know about meshy ai ?? which makes 3d models?

honestly these generated models are so bad that i cant animate in blender

[copper gust]

I mean AI is replacing jobs right now, it just shouldn’t

It is concerning

[storm patio]

removes costs and quality! middle management can't get enough of it

[deft rock]

that isn't even remotely comparedable 😂

[violet mountain]

will unity ban me if i switch to godot ?

🥴

[storm patio]

no, why would it

we don't care

[potent moss]

how do you reduce the value of a vector3 without changing it's direction? bcs like I'm trying to add a dash function to my game that slowly decays over time when used but nothing I do rly seems to work

[storm patio]

Scale it by a value less than 1?

wait no, just multiply it by a float less than 1

Scale would be for Vector3 x Vector3, mb

[dusky forum]

Probably multiply it by some value less than one

[wraith pasture]

divide gang

[storm patio]

also an option, true

[violet mountain]

anybody use unity in linux???

[storm patio]

plenty

do you have an actual question

[steady topaz]

im stuck

I just followed the tutorial...

[dusky forum]

Capital U for Update, regardless of what the issue is.

[steady topaz]

alr

[violet mountain]

are you building a Third person controller?

[steady topaz]

first

[violet mountain]

oh its easy i made one

[steady topaz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f473C43s8nE

I wanted this one

[balmy kettle]

!IDE 👇 you need to get vs code configured

[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)
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• :question: Other/None

[steady topaz]

It still doesnt help me solve the issue :/

[balmy kettle]

you haven't even bothered describing what the issue is. but having a configured IDE is a requirement to get code help here

[steady topaz]

Soo uh It doesnt work at all

[balmy kettle]

is your IDE configured yet?

[steady topaz]

No ?

[balmy kettle]

so you remember how i literally just said that having it configured is a requirement to get help here?

go get it configured then ask for help

[steady topaz]

The thign is i dont use vscode as main

I use nvim

it was just for screenshot

[balmy kettle]

considering you can't even do proper capitalization on your own, consider using an actual IDE

[steady topaz]

Ah very beginners welcoming community I see...

[royal wing]

sorry about that but it is a lot easier with autocomplete

[potent moss]

does anyone know why the Y axis on my vector3 here is so broken? everything else seems to work fine but for some reason dashing upwards launches you into the sky

code for context--> https://blazebin.io/yfghrmghzwvg/0

[balmy kettle]

this community is beginner friendly, the thing is though, is that even beginners have to put in effort, which you seem to be refusing to do

[steady topaz]

No, not using IDE from personnal choices is not lack of effort

[storm patio]

isn't nvim configurable for unity

[steady topaz]

I use lazy vim so not really, I'm switching nvim configs soon anyway

[balmy kettle]

using a configured IDE is a requirement to get help here. it would have also prevented your issue which has already been pointed out as a capitalization issue

[steady topaz]

Which doesnt matter with my problem at all ! Also show me rule about that IDE here

[dusky forum]

Tbf it's technically required by the server #🌱┃start-here message

[storm patio]

if you're unable to figure out those issues yourself (which is completely understandable for a beginner), using proper tools to help would.. help a lot
refusing to use tools that enable you to work properly is just.. yikes

[steady topaz]

it says about unconfigured IDE. not lack of such

[storm patio]

having a configured ide to help solves so many issues

[storm patio]

you don't have a configured IDE. same thing applies

[balmy kettle]

Which doesnt matter with my problem at all !
your problem was literally caused by not having autocomplete to prevent your capitalization mistake. we're not here to be your personal spell check, that's what a configured IDE is for

[steady topaz]

Capitalization doesnt matter btw !

[storm patio]

it does.

[balmy kettle]

yes it fucking does

[dusky forum]

Folks shouldn't have to be fixing minor syntax errors for you though.. it's what the configured ide is for.

[storm patio]

every major programming language, capitalization matters.

[deft rock]

Especially for Unity magic methods

[storm patio]

imma be blunt here. if you think this, you absolutely do not have anywhere near enough experience to not be using an IDE and still code effectively

[steady topaz]

Whatever, back to using godot I guess

[copper gust]

The general reasoning for that is there’s pretty much no one not using an ide by choice

[balmy kettle]

you still have to use correct capitalization in godot

[potent moss]

^?

[storm patio]

configure your ide

!ide

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

Select one:

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

[storm patio]

and share code properly

!code

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Posting code

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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.

[lost spire]

!code

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Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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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.

[storm patio]

ah whoops, missed it

[potent moss]

[storm patio]

sorry on that last point - get your ide configured though.

[lost spire]

[storm patio]

it's very clearly not

btw, you probably shouldn't have the dash != null check. sure, it'll save you from an error, but if that action goes missing it'll just fail silently

[lost spire]

[storm patio]

@lost spire please stop spamming.

[lost spire]

Spam?

You speak alone, i only decore The chat... IS sad

[storm patio]

yeah stop spamming

[balmy kettle]

this isn't a social hangout space. if you have nothing meaningful to contribute to the conversation then it would be appreciated if you just didn't contribute at all

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[royal wing]

bear might get banned rest in peace bear

[storm patio]

how are you applying the dash?

also how are you moving the player? if you're using a rigidbody you could just use an impulse force and let linear drag slow you down

[potent moss]

here in my main movement code --> https://blazebin.io/zkvizqfzoaik/0

it doesn't actually do anything related to the dash except apply the force from it to the rigidbody

rb.linearVelocity = rotatedDirection + Dash.dashVector;

(rotatedDirection here just being the basic movement with the WASD keys)

[storm patio]

ah, you're setting the velocity to move. that kinda throws a wrench in the works for using an impulse force

[dusky forum]

You're overriding the initial velocity, which may be a factor (unless intended)

[storm patio]

one thing you could consider would be having the dash be basically an uninterruptable action that prevents normal movement for a while and uses an impulse force, but that would involve quite a bit of refactoring

if (transform.position.y < -74 || transform.position.y > 74)
those magic numbers are kinda yikes, fwiw

[potent moss]

oh that's just to stop people falling off the test map

[storm patio]

i can tell

that doesn't change my statement

[balmy kettle]

dashVector *= dashDecay; this is also going to make the dash decay very quick at higher framerates and slower at lower ones

[royal wing]

Just multiply the dash decay by time.deltatime

[storm patio]

pretty sure that doesn't work

[balmy kettle]

well no, not quite. they'd want to have the dashDecay be the amount of time it should take to decay, then multiply the original dash value by that and deltaTime and subtract that value from the current dash

[storm patio]

wouldn't that be linear

[balmy kettle]

are they not trying to achieve a linear decay?

[storm patio]

i thought they were going for an exponential decay, hence the multiplication

[royal wing]

they werw actually going for a linear one earlier

they changed the code tho

[potent moss]

maybe but idk how that'd fix the player being launched into the sky when dashing upwards

[storm patio]

#💻┃unity-talk message this was the original request. it doesn't mention linear nor exponential, lol

[balmy kettle]

either way, if it were exponential then they'd just swap in current dash for initial dash in my suggestion

[royal wing]

no there was one earlier

this is a repeat

i just meant the way they did it earlier was linear

it does depend on what they want ig

[storm patio]

true, @potent moss do you want linear or exponential decay

[balmy kettle]

alternatively they could lerp or smoothdamp the dash towards 0 or really any easing function

[storm patio]

is it being caused by a jump? just to rule that out

also, configure your IDE.

[pine walrus]

Can someone help me with unity? My graphics are broken when I create games for android

[storm patio]

what is dashspeed set to?

[balmy kettle]

!ask 👇 (pay particular attention to the last few points)

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[potent moss]

50f

[storm patio]

oh it's private, i assumed it was serialized, aight

[potent moss]

I'm pretty sure I did that? I don't rly know what a configured IDE looks like as opposed to an unconfigured one

[storm patio]

this is definitely not configured

if it were configured, types and namespaces would be in green, and methods would be in yellow

[potent moss]

!ide

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💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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• :question: Other/None

[storm patio]

do you have the extensions installed?

have you installed .net via the .net install tool?

[royal wing]

maybe try logging the camera transform forward itself

[storm patio]

that's a normalized direction

[viral hill]

Can it still show references and the 3 underline dots if it isn't configured?

[potent moss]

no, how do I do that?

[viral hill]

I think their coloring is just weird

[storm patio]

with some syntax analysis, yeah

[dusky forum]

Make sure the dot net sdk is installed

[storm patio]

definitely not, Dash and Start are still in their proper colors as analyzed via syntax

[royal wing]

i dunno man your unity is haunted

[storm patio]

open the command palette (ctrl+shift+p) and search for "install .net"

let it install, once it's done, restart vscode

@potent moss could you add some text to the Debug.Log(dashVector); on line 73, to distinguish it from the logs from line 61? and then show the initial dash velocities from the case where you dash up vs when you dash on the ground or whatever

though as i type this out it feels more likely that the issue might come more from inconsistent fps, like boxfriend said - perhaps fix that first