💻┃unity-talk

[wet bronze]

you will need to model in blender and inport them in unity

[clear trail]

Hmm, I see

[random barn]

You need Meta Link

[wet bronze]

ow so i need a gpu

i just ordered one

[near wigeon]

No

[wet bronze]

wait

andddd

i bought one

online rbn

rn

[shadow heron]

@wet bronze this isnt a social space..

[clear trail]

We pay for the program.

Just kidding

[wet bronze]

lol

[clear trail]

He's taking a long time to respond, I think he'll ban me

[copper gust]

why are you being weird

[charred fog]

Stop spamming the channel. There's no off-topic here.

[clear trail]

I'm Latino

OK boss, good bye

[potent moss]

is there any reason to get any of the paid price plans unity has? or like why is it there

cuz everything seems to be available for free without paying anything anyway

[noble flax]

alright so i have a VERY important question rn

basically

[pearl oyster]

Paid plans of what? The editor? When the yearly revenue reaches the limits there's no choice, you have to buy the licenses

[noble flax]

recently I got a mail about signing up for unity's marketing communcation, which I didn't do

[vivid cedar]

You are required to get them when you make a certain amount of revenue.

Check the pricing page on their website for details

[noble flax]

my last account got hacked and I don't know how, and I just remade mine and i got this mail once again even though i haven't been on my account since i made it and it came on 34 minutes ago

is it something you usually get as of recently in your account or do you have to do it manually?

I'm trying to figure out if I have to switch mails and if I should do an actual deep scan again on my pc

[vivid cedar]

Sorry what si the concern you're having? That you received an email? Just unsubscribe from them and move on. Check the email address and if it's not an actual unity email mark it as spam

[clear trail]

All that for unity?

[noble flax]

It is an actual unity mail

but I had the same thing happen yesterday and then I got spammed with 9 pages of projects on devops which almost used up all of my devops storage

I changed the password on my mail and did a full scan on my C drive and haven't logged into my unity account on pc yet

[clear trail]

All that for unity?

[noble flax]

one of the problems is that I also do not know what you get the sign up for unity marketing communications mail from which is also a part of my concern since i do not know what is happening from me receiving that

yeah

my unity account got hacked yesterday and I'm not sure how at all

I deleted it (since i was in a rush), made a new one and then also made a new password on my mail

[clear trail]

Maybe it was me.

[charred fog]

!mute 852854946944385054 3d Spam, trolling. Next time will result in a ban.

[vagrant root]

@mountblack97 muted

Reason: Spam, trolling. Next time will result in a ban.
Duration: 3 days

[charred fog]

!support - You probably want to contact official support about this. This is a community server.

[vagrant root]

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[wispy sedge]

Hi! I’m working on a letter tracing game for kids in Unity.
I’m trying to make the dot follow the letter path when dragging.
Can someone share example code or guide me?

[near wigeon]

There's a lot to be unpacked here.. what have you tried ?

[craggy pollen]

the dot follow the letter path is really vaguely explained

[torpid totem]

guys, I reused some assets I made for a chess game I made on windows to put them on unity, and after putting some stuff together, the sprites aren`t rendering properly
how can I fix this

[wispy sedge]

Hi!
I’m creating a tracing letters app in Unity (2D).
I already added all the points on the letter (about 64) and wrote a script to make a light dot follow them when the user touches.
But I get an error:
IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
I think it’s about the path points, but I’m not sure how to fix it.
Any idea how to make the tracing work properly?

[craggy pollen]

pink is a sign of wrong shaders in general

[near wigeon]

Share the code in code channel

[torpid totem]

what

can you be clearer please

[tall hearth]

you're using the wrong material for your rendering pipeline & or a broken one

[wispy sedge]

Oh, sorry for the confusion!
What I mean is: I have a letter (like “Α”) made of several points (about 64).
I want a glowing dot (or pen) to move along these points when the user touches and drags — basically tracing the letter path step by step.
If the user moves outside the path, the tracing should stop.

[torpid totem]

well what I do is I have a prefab with a sprite renderer with no sprite, then in the scripts I instantiate this prefab and assign it a sprite and it should work normally right?

I might as well not have even asked y'all are not helping

[wispy sedge]

Got it, I’ll post the code in the code channe. Thanks

[torpid totem]

I'm gonna figure it out myself

[craggy pollen]

no reason to be rude, people are trying their best to help. and don´t forget we are not being paid

[torpid totem]

yeah you're right sorry

I shouldn't talk to people like this

[plain dagger]

I don't think anyone told you, legally after you/the company earns over a certain amount then you must start using another license.
Those bring extra benefits anyway such as premium tech support and extended support for older versions.

[rancid whale]

Import / shader issue... are you in URP, or Universal 2D, etc?

[molten gust]

would i need to use unity for the unity game jam? (my friend is asking and doesn’t believe that u need to)

[gaunt python]

But weird thing is that most of the most popular vr games seem to use photon too, even though they all are free and work even in regions where you can't even donate
It's really odd
I know you probably think they're not popular but gorilla tag alone has 15-20k ccu

[torpid totem]

I just fixed it, I downloaded a package or two and made an URP asset and assigned it in graphics settings

[gaunt python]

Yeah, basically that tariff plan makes maintaining a game unprofitable, it's better to make another game and abandon it

[finite fox]

CommandInvokationFailure: Gradle build failed. C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\6000.0.58f1\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer\OpenJDK\bin\java.exe -classpath "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\gradle-8.11.1-all\gradle-8.11.1\lib\gradle-launcher-8.11.1.jar" org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain "-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4096m" "bundleRelease" whatch fixed

can anyone please tell me how to fixed that ?

[molten gust]

thanks ill screen shot rq

[mild radish]

https://cdn.bfldr.com/S5BC9Y64/at/mxppvnts9ns3xbbrq5hwkqr/CONTEST_OFFICIAL_RULES_Unity_20th_Anniversary_Games_Jam_2025_FINAL_V2.pdf

heres the full page ^

[molten gust]

Thanks man appreciate it

[heady gorge]

is it better to have items be searched by tag or is it better to just select them in the inspector

[sweet charm]

Does it mean the lastest LTS version?

[mild radish]

i would assume so.. with the qualifier updated there

[wraith pasture]

most updated would be the alphas i guess

kekw

[sweet charm]

Damn, tobacco is prohibited

[wraith pasture]

luckily we're still allowed to breathe and think

[sand kraken]

Hi all, my Unity is crashing every 10 minutes or so. How can I find the cause of this?

[wraith pasture]

doesn't say you can't promote legal drugs like a certain green plant

[mild radish]

check the logs

!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

[sand kraken]

I've checked Editor.log, but I don't really know what I'm looking for

[mild radish]

it'd be some of the last logs it wrote

Error, Failed, Couldn't, etc

[sweet charm]

It depends on the country

[finite fox]

can anyone please tell me how to fixed that ?

[wraith pasture]

it's legal in California which is where unity's HQ is afaik

[sand kraken]

Found a spam of these near the crash notice, any idea what this is?

Assertion failed on expression: 'm_CmdState == kEmpty'
Assertion failed on expression: 'm_CmdState == kEmpty'
Assertion failed on expression: 'm_CmdState == kEmpty'
Assertion failed on expression: 'm_CmdState == kEmpty'
Crash!!!```

[mild radish]

Could you please try updating your Android SDK tools? Then try again after you make sure the SDK path in Unity is correct

[mild radish]

not a clue.. but i can google it

[finite fox]

all it`s new

[wraith pasture]

isn't there more text in the error?

[sand kraken]

That and this have been popping up

Internal: JobTempAlloc has allocations that are more than the maximum lifespan of 4 frames old - this is not allowed and likely a leak
To Debug, run app with -diag-job-temp-memory-leak-validation cmd line argument. This will output the callstacks of the leaked allocations.```

[mild radish]

m_CmdState == kEmpty: This particular assertion means that a command state variable (m_CmdState) was expected to be in an "empty" or default state (kEmpty) at a specific point in the code, but it was not. This implies that a command was either not properly cleared, or a new command was initiated before the previous one was fully processed or reset.

[finite fox]

no just that after building field

[wraith pasture]

there is only that one message in the console?

[mild radish]

no idea what this means either 😅

[finite fox]

yeb

[sand kraken]

Yeah that's the issue I've been running into when googling these haha

I can't really make heads or tails of the answers

[mild radish]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-do-you-get-rid-of-this-error-assertion-failed-on-expression-m-cmdstate-kactive/1666786 gotta go to the human-generated responses 😉

that one doesnt say much besides "Delete Library"

[sand kraken]

Yeah that didn't work for me either

[mild radish]

but thats the idea.. when searching for those errors like that

theres some similar bug reports on issuetracker.unity3d.com

[craggy pollen]

Hi!

[heady gorge]

is it better to have items be searched by tag or is it better to just select them in the inspector? as in is this inefficient?

ive been using it as my go to but does anyone know if there are any downsides to this?

[craggy pollen]

if you are able to do that via inspector, always use the inspector.

[heady gorge]

inspector it is

[wraith pasture]

if you do it only once it might not matter and only lag a little at start but if you call it often like in update then rather find some other solution

[mild radish]

if its runtime stuff thats only available after u start the game then you could use Find to cache it..
and then work with the cached version

[heady gorge]

not often i dont think, just at the beginning of each area

[wraith pasture]

yeah cache it

seems that's already what's being done then.
But you can do it in the editor and add just in case checks and find by tag again then if they're unassigned. or be lazy... and keep as is since you said it runs only once

[heady gorge]

redundancies are good
will save me sanity

[near wigeon]

inspector is always faster

dependency injection at compile time

wops discord just updated

[gritty path]

Hello. Im new to unity... Is it possible to set another image as alpha map (transparency) when creating a material? I have a colored one and alpha one, it seems like unity only accepts 1 albedo image and theres no more extra space for seperated alpha map...

[dense reef]

@gritty path Yes you can create custom shader

or chose existing one that fit your requirements

[gritty path]

Do I create custom shader by typing long codes or is it not that complicated.. Like clicking some buttons? And do you know any built in unity shaders that has seperated alpha channel? Thanks for replying.

[dense reef]

What exactly effect do you want to achieve?

[near wigeon]

shadergraph will let you create shader without code, mostly

[gritty path]

I want to use different image then albedo one to alpha map. Use another image as an alpha source

[gritty path]

Thanks!! Ill check. Have a nice day.

[dense reef]

Sounds like you need custom shader you can use AI to generate a shader for you by your request then just create shader past code to shader and in material select you shader name and set the textures

[plain dagger]

very unhelpful to say "gen x with ai"

ai tools can assist but you ideally need base knowledge to correct its mistakes

[plain dagger]

As said, with shader graph this is easy. You can have two texture inputs. read RGB from one and A from the other.

[dense reef]

if you have no idea how shaders works my method is much easier

[copper gust]

or google the shader you want and find the source code directly rather then having ai steal it 😄

[near wigeon]

what an idiotic take tbh

[storm patio]

spending 2 minutes generating and then 2 hours debugging, for every shader?

instead of taking like, 20 minutes to learn it once and then 20 for each shader afterwards?

yeah i think i'll take the learning path

[dense reef]

20 minutes to learn shaders lol I spend 2 months to learn shaders to be able to write a shader I want

[gritty path]

Ok Thanks for replying yall... Im happy to know that basic unity shader doesnt accept seperated image as alpha map... And Ill learn more about shader

[near wigeon]

skill issue

[storm patio]

damn, i was holding myself back from saying it

[dense reef]

but now I can create any shader I need for UI for Sprite or for spine or for mesh, or for anything else I can modify any exisiting Unity Build in shader for my needs. Can you do such things with you shader graph?

[copper gust]

but your not creating it

and the ai isn't either

you can do that by googling

[near wigeon]

Can you do such things with you shader graph?

yes and and it took less than 2 months to do so. Shader graph is way faster to learning

[dense reef]

No by creating

[storm patio]

who's doing the creating

[dense reef]

I don't need shader graph to create the shader I can do it in Cg.

[plain dagger]

Im 50% sure ai wont even be able to produce a valid lit shader thats compatible with URP/HDRP 🤔

[copper gust]

sure it will

theres plenty of repos to copy paste from

[near wigeon]

that isn't the point at al.. Suggesting to just "ask ai to do it for you" is a bad take and certainly not in line with the community sentiment / rules here

[dense reef]

is there community sentiment rule that do not allow sugest AI help ?

[near wigeon]

correct

[dense reef]

Okay mb than

[near wigeon]

#📖┃code-of-conduct

people come to a community server to get community help and so other can vet the answers too, "just go to AI" spambot defeats the purpose

[dense reef]

do you mean this one " Posting unverified AI-generated responses or failing to mark AI-generated content as such." how did I brake this rule?

[near wigeon]

telling someone to just go "generate it", sure thats even worse than an "Ai-Generated" response so its all encompassing

[dense reef]

omg

[fallow plover]

I created a folder named unity to put my unity projects inside, and for some reason now all of my folders and files on the desktop are called unity

how do I fix this?

[near wigeon]

well what does the desktop have to do with your Unity folder

[fallow plover]

I dunno I literally just created a new folder and this happened

[near wigeon]

you had all those selected while renaming a folder or something ?

that seems most likely

[fallow plover]

no I didn't

plus there are files still with an unchanged name

[viral hill]

ctrl z

[near wigeon]

right click the desktop and do Undo

[fallow plover]

doesn't work

[near wigeon]

still, those could've been partially all selcted while renaming folder

[fallow plover]

how?

[storm patio]

there are repeats there too, weird

[dense reef]

@near wigeon okay next time I will advice new developer who don't know what shader is to go to to learn Direct X or OpenGl then Write HLSL and then convert it to Cg

[copper gust]

no wonder why you took so long to not learn

[near wigeon]

uhm not necessarily... You can literally ease them into it like I did by suggesting shader graph ?

[storm patio]

that's bad faith and you know it. just don't post if you don't have anything to actually discuss

[fallow plover]

is there any way to fix this?

[near wigeon]

yes this is a strawman argument

[fallow plover]

it also changed some images too

like this is one of my steam games

[dense reef]

I hate shader graph I will never ever sugest to use shadergparph to any one I opened shader code generated by shader graph once and I understand I will never use Shadergraph to create a shader

[near wigeon]

so you had a personal problem with it doesn't mean its not a viable solution for someone to learn or get a quick shader done with minimal/any learning of code

[charred fog]

That's your personal preference. There's no point continuing this, just note to not recommend using "AI" for newbies here.

[dense reef]

for me shader graph equal to Visual Scripting

even worse because Visual Scripting probably generate valid code when shader graph generate uneditable shader code

[near wigeon]

we cannot possible know what you did from this end so..if nothing broke, best to just move on lol whats done is done

[mild radish]

shadergraph is a visual node based work-flow

you can pair it w/ scripting

[copper gust]

its giving

[mild radish]

thats viable for runtime / dynamic shaders

[dense reef]

Do you know how many lines in shader code generated by empty shader graph shader

[fallow plover]

dude that's like my whole pc

[near wigeon]

some people just need a working result and dont give a shit about code they will never see

[mild radish]

1k - 3k lines of HLSL

[near wigeon]

anyway as mod suggested, time to move on. This argument is moot

[storm patio]

yknow that visual scripting does the same thing, right

[copper gust]

what does your ai shader code look like?

[mild radish]

is it possible to remove these Create templates?
I can manually remove the files which makes em inaccessible..
but they remain in the menu grey'd out

[storm patio]

i don't think they use it, they were just recommending it

[mild radish]

probably not possible.. just curious

[storm patio]

if i had to guess, #↕️┃editor-extensions might know?

[mild radish]

thanks ill try over there

[dense reef]

@copper gust Like simple Cg shader less than 100 lines but actually you only need to modify max 20 lines of shader code to make shader works

[copper gust]

what about all the other lines 🤔

[dense reef]

the other lines is shader template

for example if you wanna modify default shader you grab default shader code and modify the fragment part to achive complex effect you will need less than 10 lines of code inside the fragment shader function

[storm patio]

we do not need to prolong this

[dense reef]

ok I stop answering

[polar basalt]

hey guys, lets say i accidentally made all of my canvases based on this weird ratio

instead of 1920x1080 all 52 canvases are 1980x1080

do you have any idea on how i could change it to 1920x1080 without messing everything up?

i can make editor extensions if needed, i just have no idea how i would go on to make them

like the basic calculations

[hushed hamlet]

There are a few ways... none fun. Usually you can set your scene view to what you used to create things, add a screen space scaler at 50/50, then change the resolution. It should keep everything fairly close.

That said, you may not need to change it to 1920. If you used horizontal / vertical layout groups etc - it should rescale your UI anyway

[dense reef]

You can test how it looks on 1920x1080 if it looks okay you can consider should check every screen and fix after change reference resolution or are you fine with current result

[polar basalt]

no it expands the ui

[inland nest]

hi all! im here to make my first game

[polar basalt]

im kind of confused

so il i just work with the same UI scale ig?

[hushed hamlet]

You got this. Remember there are tons of tutorials, free learning resources, and thst you can make anything you set your mind to.

[hushed hamlet]

Well - it depends (a lot) on how you built your panels

[polar basalt]

everything is fine, its just that i know the resolution is wrong 😭

[dense reef]

If it happens in my project I would change canvas scaler resolution and reworked every screen

[sweet charm]

And here I am trying to land a job in the market

[polar basalt]

bro i have to remake like 56 scenes

[inland nest]

thank you! i have no prior coding experience so, lets see how far i can get with my concept i have haha

[dense reef]

You create 56 screens with wrong resolution and didn't test it once on real device...:(

[hushed hamlet]

And then this
#💻┃unity-talk message

Is pretty much how it decides to change the UI depending on the user's resolution. So if they are on standard, ultrawide etc - thats the rules it applies

So if you use 1980,1080 and I use say ultrawide monitors at 2560x1080, yours is set to expand the UI. You can test this in editor by changing the screen resolution in game mode.

[polar basalt]

i recognised the issue when i was like 10 scenes in, but i just kept that resolution because of laziness..

[hushed hamlet]

What you can do is change your display mode to what you originally used (so eveything is cool) then correct just the scalers. Then the resolution changes shouldn't be a problem

[polar basalt]

yeah cause even if i put this

it looks absolutely okay

[hushed hamlet]

Fwiw, I spend a ridiculous amount of time cleaning up my teams UI panels. Its an ugly system 😄

They used to have awesome UI tutorials in the 4.6 era pre unity learn. But now its just kind of hard to explain snd the defaults are bad

Imho

[polar basalt]

[hushed hamlet]

Its not you, they built it in such a way you do have to edit (at a minimum) every canvas prefab/panel to correct resolution stuff if its scaler is off.

Or programmatically fix it

[dense reef]

@polar basalt there is option to create editor script that will automatically change UI scales positions when you change reference resolution but It can create more problems if scipt will not be good enough

[deft brook]

Hi, is this the right channel for beginner project questions? ^^

[near wigeon]

every channel has a specific purpose, read the descriptions

[hushed hamlet]

If unsure, id ask (your question) or at least on the specific topic. If there's a better channel, youll get redirected. Just do your best

[inland river]

Generic questions that don’t have a dedicated channel, yes

[polar basalt]

yeah thats what im scared of

because just moving stuff is easy but calculating where UI should be when there are anchors and they are child of and so on wouldnt work that easy

[dense reef]

first of all Use repository if you don't and then experiment

[deft brook]

First time attempting to use unity, I struggle to choose between starting 3D or 2D project. I plan on making ~spaceInvaders game, vertical so its suited for both PC and Mobile. I cant locate DefaultOrientation setting, heard Portrait will do enough for me.

[near wigeon]

sure use 2D if you are making 2D

[dense reef]

or 2.5 D if you can make nice looking 3d art

[near wigeon]

not much changes anyway, just the renderer with a few settings..
Unity is 3D engine no matter what

[deft brook]

Is it okay to make 3D project and keep it 2D for now, and later on once I learn basics turn it into 2.5D? That would be perfect

[lapis gate]

could probably do UI too

[dense reef]

yes it is okay you can always change the project settings

[worthy lagoon]

Hi

[near wigeon]

https://nohello.net

[lapis gate]

Well, not too sure about some 2D tools going into 3D if you want to change the camera perspective but other than that sure

one large different is mostly shadering and 2D uses sprite layering which is not used in 3D because we sort by depth (or pivot for some cases) and not absolute ordering

I mean technically you can y-sort in 2D too which is pivot sorting

[dense reef]

@deft brook if you wanna pixel perfect art use 2d if pixel perfect is not necessary use 3d so you will not need future transition form 2d to 3d

[deft brook]

I want camera to be static and just "look" on the menu or the gameplay plain. (like space invaders lol). For now I made 3D project, set game display from free aspect ratio to 1080x1920. Is that enough? Or there is another setting to make my screen vertical.

[wraith pasture]

Looks like you marked all them and did a rename. Also why would you keep your folders/projects on the desktop 😭

[dense reef]

yes thats enough you can just pur sprites front of your camera on certain distance use the Orthographic camera

[lapis gate]

if you want to stick to 2D but use 3D rendering there's some techniques of rasterizing 3D models to sprites

but similarly you can use 3D coords and stick to that orthographic top-down camera

[stable sky]

Question, How can I make the effect of drops on the screen when a character gets out of the water?

[near wigeon]

visual effects graph or particle system component

[stable sky]

and where can I get droplet particles?

or how to make them yourself

[near wigeon]

you can do both

depends how good you want it to look

particle system you can use any sprite, if you find droplets im sure you can

[wraith pasture]

UI canvas and play back some transparent gif of water droplets running down

[potent moss]

hey so like how do I reference the UI without using [SerializeField]'s? bcs like it worked fine when I was just working on my projects singleplayer functionality but now when I'm moving to multiplayer and need my player body to be a prefab I kinda just can't use it anymore (?)

not rly sure what I'm supposed to do

[dense reef]

you can use public

[potent moss]

do I just make the entire UI a prefab too or something?

[dense reef]

yes you can also use prefabs but to assingn prefab to monobehaviour you need to use [SerializeField] or public field

And you usually Instantiate prefabs on server and server will instantiate prefabs on clients

[charred fog]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[wraith pasture]

One does simply go into multiplayer from singleplayer code

[potent moss]

what am I supposed to be looking at here?

[near wigeon]

You would need to inject those references when the player prefab spawns / gets spawned

[stable perch]

Is there some kind of editor extension that makes public variables not visible in editor by default

I don’t wanna put hidden inspector thing every time I make a public variable

[near wigeon]

there is attribute [HideInInspector]

[copper gust]

make it a auto property 😛

[stable perch]

How do I do that, project settings?

[potent moss]

I'm just spawning in player prefabs with a default network manager and netcode though and I'm not rly sure how to edit those

[copper gust]

no

[charred fog]

What exactly is unclear, did you open the link?

[copper gust]

eg.

public String MyThing { get; set; }

[near wigeon]

yes I'm aware, which is why i said you outta pass it down from the networkmanager when spawning it

OR a UI manager, make it a singleton then find it from the player that owns the prefab

override OnNetworkSpawn() {
if(isOwner)
someItem = Uimanager.Instance.Item
etc

[near wigeon]

why are the public anyway?

[stable perch]

So I can access them in other classes

[near wigeon]

if you want access from other scripts make it a private set, public get property

public fields are usually not what you want, its bad form

[stable perch]

Tru

[stable perch]

Even if I wanted to get and set them from other classes?

Like isn’t it functionally the same

[copper gust]

in some versions of ngo this doesnt work btw cuz i think IsOwner isn't set by the time onnetworkspawn runs (its very dumb)

[near wigeon]

if you need to set it from other classes a method / properyt is preferred so you can maybe invoke an event or alert that something was changed

its hard to know a change was done when you directly assign a public field from outside

[stable perch]

Tru

[near wigeon]

it usually does when its spawned from the NetworkManager

at least in the PlayerPrefab context of it

[copper gust]

It should

[near wigeon]

since ownership is assigned to the player who spawned in

the only times I had issues with IsOwner not assigned to your own client is usually when you access anything already in the scene

since the server owns those

In terms of UI inside the scene already the Player can easily retrieve it as a spawned prefab, never had issues with that way

You could also do it from the networkmanager if need be

[copper gust]

I’m not saying it’s not assigned period, I’m referring to an order of execution issue. I googled it to double check and there’s a fair few forum posts mentioning it in a few contexts

Some of the bools aren’t updated in time for onnetworkspawn

[near wigeon]

are you talking about maybe the Start() vs OnNetworkSpawn when object is already part of the scene vs spawned in ?

since those orders differ

[copper gust]

Nope

[near wigeon]

not sure then lol I just know I never had issues having player spawned as prefab for netmanager to always spawns as owner of its own playerprefab

[copper gust]

seems like it was updated and fixed at a certain point

[near wigeon]

ya could be isolated , not sure. I haven't used NGO too long. Maybe last year?

worse case scenario you can do the same check without ownership and just see if you're the connecte client and needs scene references

if(NetworkManager.IsConnectedClient){
//Assign UI to me

[glass kraken]

hi what is a binder name?

[young scarab]

Is there scope in game development?

I am switching from 3D Animator to 3D unity game developer

[potent moss]

oh so can I just literally replace all my [SerializeField]'s with instances of singletons?

or like how does this work?

[near wigeon]

well you cannot link anything in SerializeField to scene components from a prefab so if the player is a prefab spawned in you have to pass those on spawn or access them using an Singleton

why does the Player even have UI Sliders in its code anyway? .. If you have a UIManager use that, any value that needs changing you can subscribe the UIManager in the scene to the specific client it belongs to and its events like OnDamage etc this way its a one-way reference.. Player shouldn't care about UI for the most part

[spring drift]

Anyone know like the slightest thing about modeling that can help me out I’m not asking to get models made just need a little help

[plain dagger]

wrong place to ask. try the blender server

!blender

[vagrant root]

A supportive community for Blender artists of all levels. Share your work, ask for help, and learn from others! https://discord.com/invite/blender

[spring drift]

Your a g thank you

[potent moss]

oh well how do I do that? like how do I know what client the UI manager is supposed to be handling?

[near wigeon]

I mentioned a few methods already.
Ideally only the client you're connected with locally

//inside a network behaviour

if(NetworkManager.IsConnectedClient){
//I am the connected client ```

[plain dagger]

what is this "slider" doing anyway?

If its something like a settings option then some "UI manager" should not have a reference directly

that would imply its monolithic and badly designed

[potent moss]

oh it's just grabbing the player values like health, mana etc and plugging it into the UI bars

[near wigeon]

they put UIManager on Player which is pretty bad

there should only be 1 UIManager (already in the scene)

not 1 each time a player is spawned..

[plain dagger]

Player -> UI manager -> player ui

[near wigeon]

basically what I do is UIManager only cares about the player it needs to track, so on spawn it subscribes to all the events it cares about
eg
PlayerHealth.OnValueChanged += HandleHealthBars

etc.

[potent moss]

the other file is just mainly for closing/opening parts of the ui and enabling/disabling scripts based on what buttons the player presses in the UI
you can find the file here if you care enough --> https://blazebin.io/boyvqlsdwqfg/0

[near wigeon]

there is absolutely no reason why a UI Manager should be a on a player prefab, especially because UIManagers usually involve interacting with Scene Components

everytime a Player client spawns, they are spawning with their own UIManager script, so you have the same script more than once and the others aren't doing anything either

Instead you just need 1 UIManager already in the scene, then a player spawns, if its the one you're connected from, ie Your own Screen.. then you connected this player to the UIManager in the scene

could also do it this way. my Inventory script

    public void OnEnable()
    {
        netManager.OnClientConnectedCallback += ClientConnected;
    }
    private void ClientConnected(ulong id)
    {
        if (id == netManager.LocalClientId)
        {
            playerInventory = netManager.ConnectedClients[id].PlayerObject.GetComponent<PlayerInventory>();
            playerInventory.Inventory.OnListChanged += InventoryListChanged;
        }
    }```

picking up keys they show up in the UI

[potent moss]

do you have your UI manager disabled by default or smth btw? or like why do you have a OnEnable() function?

[near wigeon]

No need. OnEnable runs because after scene manager initializes the scene, they are Enabled

[copper gust]

Most tutorials and early examples use a ton of awake and start (which do have purpose) but ideally a lot of stuff you may do in those functions is better suited to OnEnable as it's kinda the equivilent to "clocking into work", with the idea that disabling the object and triggering OnDisable would be "clocking out of work" and more or less reversing what OnEnable does

[near wigeon]

especially for events i always use
OnEnable -> Sub
OnDisable -> UnSub

[plain dagger]

Or Awake and OnDestroy

[near wigeon]

or in NGO
OnNetworkSpawn
OnNetworkDespawn

[plain dagger]

Or ???
Profit

[copper gust]

just finished my dumb java swing assignment, i should probably finally learn ui toolkit

[near wigeon]

UITK so good for custom editor

[copper gust]

ive suffered too much doing editor stuff with unity gui

[near wigeon]

yeah layouting in the editor GUI class is painful

[copper gust]

anything with dynamic sizing i swear to god

[near wigeon]

UITK nice uses for flexbox and shit, so good

also you have a live debugger

[copper gust]

trueee

[alpine hearth]

Hi, is there a way to unprefab a prefab? I'm trying to take a ui from a project I made and put it into a new one. and I am struggling to use the prefab menus

[copper gust]

drag into scene
right click
unpack completely
drag into assets

or unpack not completely if thats what you need

[alpine hearth]

thank you just what I needed

[potent moss]

how are you accessing the players inventory here btw?

cuz I just see this big fatass line --> playerInventory = netManager.ConnectedClients[id].PlayerObject.GetComponent<PlayerInventory>(); but don't rly know how it works

[plain dagger]

Bleh that's not great

But what's confusing about it? It's finding a specific players game object to then get a component

[near wigeon]

its very simple, just does GetComponent on the connected player.

only if the connected player is your own client / screen

[near wigeon]

why not? works good.
I just use it for this, other things I do DI

[plain dagger]

Id personally design a player UI to not go via such means

[copper gust]

Network Manager -> List Of All Connected Clients -> Client With The Id Your Looking For -> That Client's Spawned "Player" Object -> The PlayerInventory Component On The "Player" Object

[potent moss]

[potent moss]

oh oki

[plain dagger]

It should be initialised with a component ref directly so your UI doesn't depend on this other stuff

[potent moss]

I assume you can just grab NetManager with a serialized field right?

or like am I stupid

[copper gust]

NetworkManager is a singleton and can be accessed anywhere via it's static reference NetworkManager.Singleton iirc

[near wigeon]

whats an exmaple of this ?not sure I understand

[near wigeon]

Yeah true,I just thought Singleton is assigned when server was started but this is also fine

[copper gust]

that would be dumb so it might be true

but i dont think so

[near wigeon]

both are in the scene so I said why not
made this for a Jam so I kinda just needed something that worked and it worked fine for me

[plain dagger]

If you have some class for your player inventory UI, it should only depend on PlayerInventory and should get initialized by something else.

[near wigeon]

it does the first part, not sure I get the second part by Initialized by something else

each player has their own PlayerInventory component on them because they have a NetworkList

[copper gust]

Is it the question on if some kinda InventoryManager should own the work vs. the Player owning it?

[plain dagger]

if its already as you say then cool im just trying to infer from a small code snippet 🤔

Im just against big singletons doing way too much

[near wigeon]

true its hard to tell from that snippet alone

this UI has no singleton, hence why it only subscribes to inventory for displaying it, it doesnt do anything else

[copper gust]

i start to overthink which thing should be responsible for what then start second guessing if meshes should really be allowed to own their own shadows

[near wigeon]

not the prettiest but onUpdated

private void InventoryListChanged(NetworkListEvent<InventoryItemData> changeEvent)
    {
        Debug.Log($"{name} - Inventory changed localCount {playerInventory.LocalItems.Count} net {playerInventory.Inventory.Count}");
        for (int i = 0; i < inventoryItemsParent.childCount; i++)
        {
            Destroy(inventoryItemsParent.GetChild(i).gameObject);
        }
        for (int i = 0; i < playerInventory.LocalItems.Count; i++)
        {
            var inventoryitem = playerInventory.LocalItems[i];

            var itemUi = Instantiate(itemUiPrefab, inventoryItemsParent);

            Sprite spriteBasedOnName = SpriteBasedOnName(inventoryitem.ItemName.ToString());

            itemUi.Setup(inventoryitem);
        }
    }```

[copper gust]

does that just do a complete wipe every time

[plain dagger]

ah yes the old destroy and remake it all technique

im sure you know its time to refactor this 😆

🔨 refresh and re use

[near wigeon]

yeah its kinda ugly but I needed it quickly for jam so i might at some point

just wanted to make sure 100% whats displaying was truly in the inventory

[near wigeon]

have yall ever dealt with re-arrainging Transforms in a Group Stack UI . .its painful 😭

recreating it with proper order each time made this done in 5 mins

[plain dagger]

if each "element" is the same then there should be no need to "re order" them

you just refresh em all with the new data

[near wigeon]

true yeah, its one of those Ima do it better next time for sure

[teal merlin]

I'm interested in moving from Windows to Linux for unity dev. Anyone here familiar with Unity dev on Linux? I'm trying to get set up with Unity 2022.3/VSCode/.NET 9, and I'm curious how feasible it is to use the flatpak install (I immediately start bumping into issues with Unity telling me to install -org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.dotnet).

[near wigeon]

yeah dont use flatpak

at all

[teal merlin]

(on Fedora Workstation)

[near wigeon]

sandboxing issues always caused by flatpak IME

[plain dagger]

yea if its missing a dep then you are fucked

makes me hate them too. #🐧┃linux for specific help

[potent moss]

so correct me if I'm wrong but I just do scriptIwantToGrabThingsFrom = NetworkManager.Singleton.ConnectedClients[id].PlayerObject.GetComponent<scriptIwantToGrab>; every time a new player connects to the session ya?

basically in place of [SerializeField] script script

[near wigeon]

its one way to do it, but you only want to be doing it to the client that its relative to / concerns to
(hence why my example, it was locked behind the id )

You can directly inject it as well..

honestly there are more than a couple of ways to do this, more important is to understand why it needs to be done, how the server-client relationship works and how clients relation to each other (which is none except for what the server communicates)

[stark goblet]

Do you guys ever pay for 3d assets for your game, im just wondering?

also does this question go here?

[fair cove]

Really depends on the project imo - if theres a very specific theme and design to the game, then probably hiring an artist to make custom art or learning the art skills yourself fits better with the project - if your prorotyping or in a game jam or making a project that doesnt have a specific design requirement then using art assets can help a lot, but the biggest problem I see with art assets (paid or free) is that they can make your game look "samey", and might not fit your theme - for example ive seen a lot of low poly games use Synty assets, nothing wrong with that but it does make me think "oh! I seen that style somewhere before"

[stark goblet]

Thank you for the info, im bad at art right now and the unity asset store looks tempting.

[fair cove]

Np and everyones opinion is going to be different on that, though I think its good to start with no art, prototype your game, then replace your placeholder art with art that you think fits, that could be a paid/free asset pack (thats what the asset store is there for), especially if its a learning project - but its also very easy to over-spend and buy stuff you think you might need for some project eventually or would be really cool and you end up spending $100 on assets you probably wont actually use - thats why I suggest starting with no art first until you know for certain exactly what you want, as you code your game your design and features might change, and that could also change the art/animations and even sounds you might need

[stark goblet]

My biggest concern is what if my game will be seen as a asset flip or slop? also how are you able to type so fast?

[fair cove]

Lol ive been typing since I was 6 so I guess I have a lot of experience typing fast - and asset flips are usually games that look like there is next to zero effort put into them, if your game has depth and content, I wouldnt say its an asset flip - learning about game design (such as from GMTK, but theres many other YouTubers too) and art styles, like working with Post Processing and lighting could be helpful in making simple assets look good

[stark goblet]

Thanks for answering all my silly questions and concerns.

[fair cove]

Np, and like I said, everyone has a different opinion on this stuff, so its possible someone else might add more to the convo later

[gusty abyss]

only asset i use is some outline

the rest i make myself but you can do whatever you like

[heady gorge]

strange question
if i have a list of scriptable objects, and i have a variable for a sprite

could i hypothetically go though all items in a list that is using that sprite, and just sort of track them?

[gusty abyss]

anyone know if theres a way to stop the point light of clipping through walls and ceiling?

[plain dagger]

shadows!

you can also reduce the range to something more sensible

[gusty abyss]

i know i can use spot light, but for what i want, point lights are so much better

[plain dagger]

you can make a spot light have a very large angle which is often better suited for a ceiling light

[gusty abyss]

i made an object that covers the entire first floor ceiling, but its still clipping

[gusty abyss]

well i could, but shadows don't seem right when i try it

[velvet stump]

Hey all, looking at re lighting my passion for game development which I studied for 3 years.

Looking for some advice, previously used windows for development and now have a M1 MacBook too.

Obviously been off the scene for more than 4 years so wondering if anyone has suggestions on if it’s more optimised on windows/mac etc

[plain dagger]

Shadows are the solution without baking light. You need to have shadows enabled on the light, shadow casting enabled on your mesh renderers (on by default) and have shadows enabled in your render settings if using URP (on by default)

Without shadows anything in range gets affected by a light

[gusty abyss]

like i wanted to get this same result with spot light

[gusty abyss]

actually all of this is setup aaaa and still dont seem right

[heady gorge]

am i making sense at all?

does it check for a name? does it check for the actual file? i dont know how i'd do that...

[gusty abyss]

its like this

[gusty abyss]

the one i did for light blocking with shadows, but still doesnt work

[plain dagger]

what does "track them" even mean but well if the data is there you can do whatever

[plain dagger]

The ceiling needs to cast shadows but a point light is still not desirable here because it wants to try to affect everything above this room.

You can try baked light instead

[gusty abyss]

isn't it casting shadows?

[plain dagger]

🤷‍♂️ dunno its hard to tell from a few random screenshots

[gusty abyss]

by the configuration at the sidebar i mean

thats the one object i did just to block the light

[heady gorge]

so this is an inventory system, and how its updating the images to the slots, is that its taking the image from the scriptable object's data

i was wondering, say i wanted to delete a lot, if i could have it check through every slot for (ex) scriptableobject.itemIcon, and if it matches, then it returns that slot

the slot is in a list

might be better if i try to write it out

[plain dagger]

you shouldnt use scriptable objects for something that gets modified at runtime

to store static data, yes

Are you using scriptable objects to define item data?

[heady gorge]

just to hold data, ye

they're not really doing anything except holding the name, description, icon, etc.

[plain dagger]

yea thats a good use. though why do you need to compare item images? do your items not have unique ids?

[plain dagger]

Did you add an object specifically to cast shadows. were these settings changed them on parts of this house?

[heady gorge]

im trying to be able to delete specific items from the inventory
i can do that for the list, no problem

but for the actual display, im not sure how to tell the slot to basically delete itself

[copper gust]

when you empty a container do you tip it out or throw the whole thing away

[heady gorge]

well i want the inventory to expand and shrink based on how many items are in the list

[plain dagger]

im confused then what this has to do with your item configuration

ideally your player ui can refresh itself where it would add/hide elements to have the correct amount and then refresh them

[heady gorge]

i need a moment i will return i think im being more confusing than i should be

[plain dagger]

sure. if you are doing something jank like comparing sprites then you need a re design

you should be able to identify an "item" using a specific id

[wheat mountain]

I tried to create a fresh Universal 3D project with Unity 6000.2.9f1 and it seems to crash at this point. What do?

[stark goblet]

It it worth upgrading unity versions, ive only messed around with older versions but im unsure now that i have a better pc?

[celest oar]

Could you help vote to prioritize compatibility with new video codecs?
https://unity.com/roadmap/1305-extensible-codec-framework

[viral hill]

do not use 6.2, it is a buggy mess

[wheat mountain]

It's the same story with 6000.0.60f1

[viral hill]

im not sure if the logs have been created at this point, but it's worth to check them if they have

!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

[wheat mountain]

It just straight up won't let me make new projects in any version of Unity 6

[viral hill]

i suspect this is a windows defender issue, but it could be a few different things

[wheat mountain]

Ok. How do I solve it?

[viral hill]

check the logs to find out what it is

[wheat mountain]

Ok. How exactly do I do that?

[viral hill]

via the bot message above

[wheat mountain]

That doesn't tell me how to use those

[viral hill]

it tells you where to find them

to use them, read them

[wheat mountain]

No it doesn't

I've been putting up with this for 3 days now and I'm frustrated enough as it is

[stuck flower]

That is literally what it does though

[dense reef]

@wheat mountain what OS you use Windows Mac or Linux?

[viral hill]

yeah those are just random symbols and letters in the bot message

[wheat mountain]

Then by all means tell me what I'm supposed to do to use these to find the error log

[wheat mountain]

They may as well be to me

[wheat mountain]

Windows

[stuck flower]

You go to those paths. That's where the logs are

[viral hill]

then say that you dont know instead of saying that it's not enough info

[wheat mountain]

I don't know how to get to those paths

That's what I keep saying

[stuck flower]

It tells you where they are on each platform

[dense reef]

So go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log and to %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs and read the last or first lines

[wheat mountain]

And I don't know how to get to that

[stuck flower]

You should probably know how to use a computer before trying to make a video game

[wheat mountain]

Well I'm very sorry for not knowing the ins and outs of Windows because this generally doesn't happen

[viral hill]

look up how to use the win run tool

[stuck flower]

It's opening a folder

[viral hill]

this is very easily googleable

[sage basin]

Just paste it into the file explorer path

[stuck flower]

It literally happens constantly

[wheat mountain]

But it sure doesn't tell me where to find this folder

[stuck flower]

Yes, it does

It gives you the path

That's literally how you find folders

[sage basin]

It's a path, it's the same as putting a url into a browser

Just paste it into the path in Explorer

[dense reef]

MyPC->C->Users->YourWindowsUserName->AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs

[wheat mountain]

There. Was this so hard?

[viral hill]

you've already been told 3 other methods

[stuck flower]

"Come to this house here's the address"
"Okay but you didn't tell me where the house is"
"But I gave you the address"
"Okay but how do I know where this address is"

[sage basin]

Yes, because that's the stupidest way to go about it

[stuck flower]

Literally just paste the path

That's all

[viral hill]

@wheat mountain also, this wont work if appdata is hidden, and i definitely assume that it is given your lack of tech literacy

[wheat mountain]

This is what I found there

[stuck flower]

There you go, you found the logs

[viral hill]

these are hub logs

not project logs

[sage basin]

You're having trouble with the editor not the hub so these are the wrong logs anyway

[wheat mountain]

Then we're back to square one

[dense reef]

go to C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Unity\Editor

[viral hill]

yamato fans are never beating the allegations

you;ve already been told where to go and what to do 5 different times

[wheat mountain]

Ok. What do I open it with? Because when I tried just pasting it in the bar before it told me it couldn't open it

Just Notepad?

[dense reef]

just paste to path this %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\

[wheat mountain]

Oh. Wait. It doesn't matter. It won't even give me an option of programs to open it with

[slow dirge]

Any text editor

[wheat mountain]

Wait. Nevermind. I figured it out

[mild radish]

nice.

[dense reef]

right click->Open->select notepad

[wheat mountain]

It opened, but it's way too long to post here, so what do you want me to do with it?

[mild radish]

we dont need to see the entire log anyway

[sage basin]

Scroll to the bottom and look for anything relevant to why it might be broken

[mild radish]

your hunting for clues to troubleshoot ur issue.. (likely some of the last logs it created)

[wheat mountain]

Why would I understand any of this?

[mild radish]

when you find something that stands out to you.. you can use it to post here to ask.. or google it

[wheat mountain]

I have no idea what's actually relevant or not even if I start from the bottom up

[mild radish]

we dont understand most of em either.. we use that to go and search for solutions

it'd say stuff like Failed, Cancelled, Error, Couldn't etc

look for clues 🔍 🕵️

[wheat mountain]

 * C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/Unity/Editor/Crashes
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
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Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
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Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
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Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
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Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
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Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh
Called unresolved function _o__callnewh

Does this tell you anything?

[dense reef]

so you see C:/Users/Admin/AppData/Local/Temp/Unity/Editor/Crashes go to this file and check what inside

[mild radish]

lol.. following the breadcrumbs

[slow dirge]

Looks like a stack overflow

Looking at earlier logs would be helpful too

[sage basin]

It's worrying there's no Google results for that

Which would perhaps speak to some specific corruption of the install unique to you

[wheat mountain]

This directory doesn't even exist

[wheat mountain]

How much earlier? I don't know what of this is relevant or not

[dense reef]

maybe you restarted PC and temp data were deleted

[wheat mountain]

I did not restart my PC since I tried to make this new project

[slow dirge]

Until you see normal logs, unrelated to the crash. Anything below that is relevant.

And maybe a bit above too

[mild radish]

like the lines directly or shortly above...
what was the engine doing just before it went haywire..
note that we're not Cypher from the matrix or anything. we can't read the logs like they're plain english..

we troubleshoot by just doing what ur doing..
hey this is what errored.. what was it doing just before.. ohh i dont understand that google to clarify..
"ohh thats what that means" uses new information to search more specifically rinse and repeate

but the more information u can get the better chance of finding solutions 🍀

[wheat mountain]

Either I don't know where to stop or there's too much information to put in chat

[slow dirge]

We actually can read logs. They are in plain English. You might not understand everything, but you can at least understand words like setup, initialization, project, and such.

[slow dirge]

Read them. They're in English. Look for words that you do know.

[wheat mountain]

This is what was directly above what I previously posted

0x00007FF8756473B5 (Unity) MonoPostprocessAllAssets
0x00007FF875FDADD1 (Unity) CallPostProcessAllAssetsCallbacks
0x00007FF875FF5CC7 (Unity) ProcessPostProcessAllAssetNotificationsAndHotReload
0x00007FF876002A74 (Unity) StopAssetImportingV2Internal
0x00007FF875FF040D (Unity) InitialRefreshV2
0x00007FF875FB2C2F (Unity) AssetDatabase::InitialRefresh
0x00007FF875823110 (Unity) Application::InitializeProject
0x00007FF875E0F1D5 (Unity) UnityMain
0x00007FF6DAF22FBA (Unity) __scrt_common_main_seh
0x00007FF93062244D (KERNEL32) BaseThreadInitThunk
0x00007FF931A6DF88 (ntdll) RtlUserThreadStart

[slow dirge]

And directly above it?

[mild radish]

those type of logs is more of what i was talkin bout ^

[wheat mountain]

0x00007FF871408764 (mono-2.0-bdwgc) [C:\build\output\Unity-Technologies\mono\mono\metadata\object.c:3068] do_runtime_invoke 
0x00007FF871408850 (mono-2.0-bdwgc) [C:\build\output\Unity-Technologies\mono\mono\metadata\object.c:3115] mono_runtime_invoke 
0x00007FF874ACAB64 (Unity) scripting_method_invoke
0x00007FF874AA2943 (Unity) ScriptingInvocation::Invoke
0x00007FF874A9E025 (Unity) ScriptingInvocation::Invoke<void>
0x00007FF874C18533 (Unity) ```

[mild radish]

but yea Keywords that stand out to u would be what ur hunting for

[wheat mountain]

It was trying to create a new project so they go up quite a ways

[slow dirge]

This is all one callstack. One message. Look for it's start.

[wheat mountain]

Either I have no way to know where its start is or its start is so far up that it's not going to fit into chat

[slow dirge]

It should probably have a timestamp at the start.

[slow dirge]

You don't need to paste everything here. Ideally, you need to read and research it yourself.

[viral hill]

press ctrl + f and search for keywords, or use a pastebin and link it here

!code

[vagrant root]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 Inline Code

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

[slow dirge]

But we can help you understand if you post specific messages.

[plucky oriole]

hello, it's been a while since i use unity and it shows this alert icon when i open it recently. all my other friends doesnt have this. what should i do?

[slow dirge]

Update to a version that doesn't have them. If you want.

[mild radish]

https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01 its related to this

[plucky oriole]

oh so i need to use the latest version?

[mild radish]

theres a list of versions at the bottom if u wanna stick to 2022

[wheat mountain]

https://paste.mod.gg/soegpdtwosee/0

[wheat mountain]

Pretty sure it means it was last saved with a version of Unity the Hub is not currently primed to use or something. At least that's how it looked to me

[plucky oriole]

okay, thankyou!

[viral hill]

why did you do that just to paste like 20 lines

where even is this from?

[mild radish]

lol yea i was expecting to see a 6000 long block of logs lol

[viral hill]

is this the bottom?

[wheat mountain]

No, this is starting from the word "crashed" that I found and going up to what I thought might be the cutoff for what is relevant

[viral hill]

and where is that

[slow dirge]

This doesn't look like the editor log.

[wheat mountain]

It won't let me post the entire thing since it apparently exceeds the pastebin

[viral hill]

that has nothing to do with what i asked

[wheat mountain]

You told me to post stuff from the editor log. That's what I'm doing

[viral hill]

and i asked a question afterwards #💻┃unity-talk message

[wheat mountain]

And I don't know what that's supposed to mean. What page you mean? It won't tell me

[viral hill]

just estimate what percentage of the page it's at. doesnt have to be crazy specific

[mild radish]

if the crash is towards the bottom of the log.. u can probably get away with just pasting the bottom 1/5th of the log

we're just lookin for context (what the editor was doing before the crash)

[viral hill]

what is the name of this file

[slow dirge]

If that's true, then the cause is ruining out of memory during shader compilation

How much RAM do you have?

[mild radish]

boy wouldn't that be something else 😅

[viral hill]

but why would it continue on trying to compile other shaders before actually crashing?

i suspect this is towards the top but they are refusing to answer me

[slow dirge]

Could be multitgreading

[viral hill]

multithreading?

[slow dirge]

But yeah, seeing more of the log would be helpful

[slow dirge]

Yeah, running several compilation processes

[viral hill]

i was confused because you spelled it wrong

[wheat mountain]

Editor.log

Or at least part of it

[dense reef]

@wheat mountain You can try to create another project template and then set up it as 3d

[wheat mountain]

I have no idea

[dense reef]

Your project crush only when you create one 3d template?

[slow dirge]

How are you gonna do gamedev?

[viral hill]

what is this even supposed to mean

[slow dirge]

This is like basic computer knowledge

[dense reef]

He said his unity crush when he try to create new 3d project.

[viral hill]

they dont even know how to find filepaths by manually reading or pasting a path...

[dense reef]

So try to create 2d project and then convert it to 3d

[viral hill]

that's not how this works

why are you just making stuff up

templates exist for a reason

[mild radish]

if the computer knowledge is lacking
i personally would suggest re-installing and hoping its just a corrupted install

[viral hill]

i doubt it. they said they have the same problem with 6.0 and 6.2

[dense reef]

I had similar problem when I got crush in older Unity3d when try to create specific template

[mild radish]

all the log reading and stuff could come afterwards if the issue still persistd

[wheat mountain]

This is my second time reinstalling it. It's just the same problems over and over again. At least now it's not yelling at me for trying to run the project as admin when it's not flagged to do so

[mild radish]

oh, didn't see that

[mild radish]

ohh! ur the admin problem guy 👋

i guess that is a plus lol

[slow dirge]

OK, start from understanding your PC spec and checking if it meets unity sys requirements

[mild radish]

heres teh quick way

[wheat mountain]

I know it does. I've been running it just fine on the PC until recently. I had someone reinstall Windows because of a different problem related to GPU and now, while trying to reinstall Unity, these problems started cropping up

[slow dirge]

Well, then you should be able to tell how much memory you have.

Maybe they swapped out parts of your PC for cheaper ones in the store😅

[dense reef]

This his first message: "BlackKnightJack — 0:50
I tried to create a fresh Universal 3D project with Unity 6000.2.9f1 and it seems to crash at this point. What do?"

[wheat mountain]

Ok. How?

[dense reef]

Try to create Universal 2D project

[mild radish]

☝️ i posted about 3 messages up how u can quickly check

[slow dirge]

You need to start googling this kind of things if you want to be a developer

[mild radish]

also yes ^ super solid habit to get into the habit of now

[slow dirge]

Beside what spawn recommended, you can see quickly in the task manager

[dense reef]

@wheat mountain Try to create another templates you can convert it into Universal3d later

[red moat]

You should definitely always know your specs. I haven't touched my PC in weeks and I know I have an Intel core i7 (7th gen), 256GB SSD on Windows 10

[wheat mountain]

You were just told that's not something that can be done

And it's definitely not something I was told was possible before either

[slow dirge]

No, you can definitely do it(or rather try in your case)

But I don't think that would help

[mild radish]

ya its possible but if its crashing it'll probably crash with any template tbh

[wheat mountain]

Ok. How? I have the task manager open

[viral hill]

this is definitely impossible for someone who doesnt have the smallest bit of tech literacy

[dense reef]

Just use create project and select 2d build in render pipeline

[mild radish]

try clicking and looking around for things before giving up and asking

[dense reef]

Or 3d buildin render pipeline

[wheat mountain]

I already did that and that sure doesn't look like system specs to me

[mild radish]

Memory aka RAM.. xx / TotalRam

[wheat mountain]

@slow dirge @mild radish Well then does THIS tell you anything?

[near wigeon]

no offtopic here

[dense reef]

@wheat mountain Just selete one of these two project template I'm 100% sure it will fix your problem

[near wigeon]

because there are none. This is Unity Editor questions and topic

[viral hill]

the name of your cpu is in the top right

[wheat mountain]

You said you wanted memory

[viral hill]

so go to the memory tab...

[slow dirge]

13 GB should be enough IMHO.

[wheat mountain]

Ok. NOW does it tell you anything useful?

[viral hill]

13/16 gbs usable?

should the margin of error not be 0.1?

[slow dirge]

Though perhaps it's not enough. I'd try configuring page file to provide more temp memory.

[viral hill]

IIRC 8gb is enough

[red moat]

That and clear your cache. 4GB of stored cache is crazy

[wheat mountain]

Well, it at least completed a build

You were right it seems

[viral hill]

i have 16gb cached 😅

[mild radish]

Built-in pipeline is ur limit i guess

[dense reef]

@wheat mountain now you can find the video on Youtub how to convert from Build in Pipeline to URP pipeline if you need URP and it will works

[red moat]

I have a lot too, but i also have more than 4x the amount of 16GB

[mild radish]

i thought 8 was enough for unity.. lol
probably not very fast but possible lol

[viral hill]

yeah and this is a good thing, clearing it isnt helpful

[mild radish]

wozers! thats a lot of cache mate

[wheat mountain]

I have a pre-existing project that is above that, but I tried making a new one from scratch because it wouldn't provide autocomplete functions or error underlining for scripts in that project and I wanted to see if making a new project would. It certainly doesn't identify the script as a miscellaneous script, but now Visual Studio keeps crashing whenever I try to open this script

[slow dirge]

Could be that built-in has a different shader compiling config. It might still crash when trying to compile the urp shaders.

[wheat mountain]

Well, it crashes whenever I seem to type anything

[dense reef]

can I post youtub video?

[mild radish]

links to them sure..

[slow dirge]

You can share a link, yes. If it's related.

[dense reef]

@wheat mountain check how to convert to URP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpTK-OraZ-g it is few minutes video

[mild radish]

ya, i guess time will tell. if they go to convert the project to URP and then crashes again

[dense reef]

It will not crush

[mild radish]

we'll have to see if ur soft-locked to BiRP

lol

[dense reef]

the problem in template I remembered I did same thing year ago

[mild radish]

well, i hope ur right. they should probably grab a ticket and do a bug-report if its the template thats actually broken

they can always upgrade to URP and then back-up that project to use as their own template

if it upgrades without issue

[dense reef]

I don't remember if I droped a ticket probably I reported but it wasn't reproducible

[mild radish]

oof

[wheat mountain]

I really doubt I'll need that since all I want to use this project for is terrain generation and platforming mechanics. And when I say "terrain generation" I don't even mean the kind where textures and materials need to be all that fancy. Just a shaded purple material is all I need for what I am attempting to do

[mild radish]

URP used to be the only way u could use Shadergraph

[dense reef]

@wheat mountain there is process to convert all materials to URP it is in video

[mild radish]

but if i recall lately last i checked or heard you can now use shadergraph with BiRP as well

[wheat mountain]

And I really shouldn't need that

By the time I might actually need it everyone will have forgotten all about this

[dense reef]

You can use Build in pipeline it works fine too

[mild radish]

welp, guess that means ur problem is solved.. case closed 🍀 😅

which template was it that caused all this?

i want to remmeber for later

[wheat mountain]

Built in 3d I think

Had to download it

[mild radish]

all my templates seem to work but im just curious in case i run into anyone with similar issues

[wheat mountain]

Even ended up using Unity 6.2 by mistake and everything works fine

[viral hill]

URP

[mild radish]

uyea i was botu to say

im glad my URP doesn't do all that noise 😅

[viral hill]

universal = the U in URP

[wheat mountain]

I think the only time I ever needed URP for prototyping was when I wanted to do something with turn based strategy to display movement ranges since I needed a decal shader AND shader graph

In the end the problem I ended up running into is that I realized turn-based strategy games use a grid system not because it's a relic from the NES days, but because it actually makes coordinating units way easier

[viral hill]

why would you specifically need urp for this

[wheat mountain]

Decal shader and shader graph

[mild radish]

shadergraph once was URP only

[wheat mountain]

Or at least the decal shader

[viral hill]

HDRP has both of those

[mild radish]

not sure about decals.. not sure if they work in both now or not

[viral hill]

yeah they do

[wheat mountain]

It was more because of the decal shader. I just said shader graph because you said this and I did need shader graph

[dense reef]

@wheat mountain you can always convert to any pipeline you need and it will work

[wheat mountain]

I think you were able to get Shader Graph off the package manager, though, if you were using Built-In before

At least I think that's how I did it when I first realized I needed to use Shader Graph for something unrelated to the TBS

[mild radish]

thats how u upgrade to URP as well if ur curious in the future...
install the package and then create and add the asset / settings to the pipeline settings

[languid cedar]

Anyone know of a shader for unity that has scrolling noise for a mesh but allows the use of the noise in a stencil as a cutout?

Like this ^

[maiden oriole]

Anyone know good asset animations to buy or get for free for hand poses to e.g. hold a vertical foregrip etc??

[slow dirge]

Why would you need stencil for any of this? It just looks like the noise is sampled in world space.

[languid cedar]

I need it so I can achieve the effect in that video

That is how it is working

I'm not allowed to use that shader for my project since it's custom made

So I'm looking for an alternative

[gray frigate]

by "stencil", are you just talking about cutting out part of the shader?

or are you actually referring to the stencil buffer here?

"stencil" has a specific technical meaning in shader-land

[languid cedar]

This shader is applying the stencil buffer to render the space behind the mesh to the actual noise

[gray frigate]

I don't understand. All I see is a shader that's using noise to discard some of its pixels

[languid cedar]

But it is rendering the particles through it using the stencil buffer

[gray frigate]

Ah, I see

You have a particle system that's drawing invisible particles that write to a stencil bit

is that right?

no, that's not it; there's only one particle spawned in that example

[languid cedar]

That is actually one particle, just with noise applied to the edges to give it that broken look. But the stencil bufffer is working through the noise

[gray frigate]

I just don't understand what you mean by "through the noise" here

[languid cedar]

Hmm....like the blue space is coming through the noise. Any other shader I have the noise is applied but the stencil just stays in the shape of the particle. Does that make sense?

The noise is using the stencil buffer

I need that but have no idea how to find it and writting shader code is not something I have dived into yet

[languid cedar]

Like how you can see the blue space through the little pieces applied by the noise

By other shaders can't do that

[gray frigate]

Ah, the idea is that the blue fog looks like it's very far away from the camera

It's a parallax effect

There are a few ways you could do that.

One would be to do it in "screen space". That'd be like taping a picture of the texture to your screen

Another would be to sample it more like a skybox, where you project it onto a sphere

What happens when you rotate the camera? If the texture doesn't appear to move, then it's screen-space

If you can see different parts of the texture as you rotate the camera around (like you're inside a sphere), it's closer to a skybox

[languid cedar]

I'll look into that a bit more, thanks

[gray frigate]

In the shader graph, the screen-space approach is pretty easy: instead of sampling the texture with a UV coordinate (which would come from the mesh), you'd just use the screen position

maybe after multiplying it by (width / height) so that it isn't stretched on wide screens

[cedar elbow]

How do i fix my builds disappearing when i get close
Btw im new to unity

[viral hill]

get close to what

[cedar elbow]

They just disappear

[slow dirge]

Buildings you mean. "builds" is extremely confusing as we'd think you're talking about a build of your game.

[cedar elbow]

Oh

[near wigeon]

select it and press F

[cedar elbow]

Ok, thank you

[tribal flume]

The white and blue shapes are Sprite Shape Renderers. The black lines are line renderers, and their paths should match. This only happens when the shape is very small. How can I fix this? please help =[

[gray frigate]

to explain what happened here: every camera has a "near clip" and "far clip" distance. Objects that are too close or too far will not render at all

When you hit F to focus on an object in the Scene view, the near and far clip distances are automatically set based on the size of the object

[polar basalt]

hey guys, is something like

DirectoryInfo.CreationTime trustable?

or should i cache in the date/time at which an level was created?

[slow dirge]

Trustable in what sense? What's the purpose of knowing it?

[polar basalt]

in the sense of "oh yeah you made this 1 year ago, ok now its 1 day ago because of some random OS bug or smth i dont really know

just asking

the purpose is to know when the folder was created? what else lol

[slow dirge]

Well you can see the notes in the docs:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.filesysteminfo.creationtime?view=net-8.0

It should probably be good enough for most use cases, but it is always safer to save that value explicitly.

So the real question is, how important is it for this value to be accurate in 100% cases.

[polar basalt]

actually it is important, and im pretty sure when extracted or zipped creation date does get changed

so yeah, thank you

going to cache it in a json or smth

[slow dirge]

Yep. That definitely can, because it creates a new folder.

[polar basalt]

i forgot that i extract/zip stuff up before i asked the question lol

i just got reminded mb

[gaunt pendant]

hello, im new to unity and im looking to make avis for vrchat. I was able to install everything with ease, but once I wanted to open my project it popped up with this message. If anyone could help me it would be greatly appreciated.

[slow dirge]

Did you try checking if the file specified in the error actually exists?

But overall vrchat related questions are off topic on this server.

!vrchat

[vagrant root]

Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[gray frigate]

This is just the editor bricking, though

I would just reinstall Unity here

[slow dirge]

I heard that there are vrchat dev hub and other similar programs that install the editor themselves, bypassing unity hub. If that's how they installed it, the error makes total sense and would probably require some vrchat specific steps(like installing the hub, idk).

I guess there's a chance that they did install it via the hub and it was just incomplete.

[gray frigate]

It just asks the Hub to install Unity

[slow dirge]

OK then. I guess they will come back if they didn't manage to solve the issue.

[proven saffron]

Anyone have any idea how to fix the Unity Hub failing to install the android SDK/OpenJDK modules and the documentation? No matter what I do, it all fails every time. Really need to get them installed so i can push a new build to google play before they nuke it due to the Unity security breach thing :/.

I disabled anti-virus, i gave max permissions to the folder structure, ran unity hub as admin etc. No luck

[slow dirge]

Looking at the hub logs might help figuring out the cause.

[proven saffron]

also if this isn't the right chat for this, i'll plop it in the right one 🙂

[proven saffron]

i didn't even know this was a thing

[slow dirge]

!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

[proven saffron]

ty lemme check

[tall hearth]

I am curious about this the game world and avi making scenes in unity are still made in the f1 versions that had the recently detected security issue, would this mean the whole game still does and anyone playing is still at risk or no?

[proven saffron]

interesting. I don't have a Editor folder just Editor-5x and there's no Editor.log in there

[slow dirge]

You're probably looking at the wrong path. Just copy the path links from the bot message into your address bar in explorer and it should open the right folder.

Also, you need to look at the hub logs. Not the editor logs.

[slow dirge]

The security issue was not in one specific version it was in all the editor versions up to the versions where they introduced a fix.
And yes, all the games built in the past are susceptible to that vulnerability.

[proven saffron]

that just has a bunch of .jason files

[slow dirge]

Yes, json files are meant to be human readable. They are just text files.

[proven saffron]

in case im in the wrong place again lol

oh ok

yeah this is still gibberish to me but it does say Error Command Faild Error while deploying zip error

\\\jdk11.0.14.1-1_85218201fea144521d643808d167605d6d46cd4fe44ee4001991a3a4b76fdd64.zip -C C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Unity\\\\Hub\\\\Editor\\\\2022.3.62f2/Editor/Data/PlaybackEngines/AndroidPlayer/OpenJDK',\n stdout: '',\n stderr: 'tar.exe: Option -a is not permitted in mode -x\\r\\n'\n}"}

[slow dirge]

Is there more info before that message?

[sterile quarry]

Hi does anyone has an idea to how i can write in a book like this in unity? im thinking of using a decal projector into a 3d model of the book, but im still trying to see if theres a better way

[viral hill]

overlay a texture with the info that you want or just use worldspace UI

[sterile quarry]

i see, maybe texture will work best , cause im trying to get that bend vfx of a book

[proven saffron]

actually here, I deleted the log file and tried to install one of the modules so that's the only info in the log.

[slow dirge]

It's hard to read on mobile, but I don't see any errors in this file.

[proven saffron]

Right? It just says failed n wtv. I don’t get it at all

[slow dirge]

I don't see where it says that.

Anyways, the original failure said that tar.exe was invoked incorrectly. This could be because you have a different version of it installed on your system. Maybe search for tar.exe and check their paths to see where they are config from. The one in the system folder of windows should work correctly but you likely have more installed beside it.

[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

[left aurora]

Thanks!

[viral hill]

bruh read the bot message

[proven saffron]

Weird that the second one didn’t say anything about it. I have no idea what that is but I’ll check when I wake up tmro 🙂 thankfully you

[inland hornet]

Hi there, when click the 'ok' button(which is supposed to play the rewarded Ad) this screen is coming instead of "everything seems to be working" text. can anybody help?

[pseudo flare]

Adverts as a reward..?

[sweet tartan]

it wouldn't make sense to tell you everything is working while in the editor since ad sdks aren't actually running there. Usually it's just stubbed out with minimal (if any) validation

you need to build to a device to test ads properly

[inland hornet]

How??

[sweet tartan]

how what? build your project for Android (I assume based on your sim settings), deploy it to an actual Android phone, and run it
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/android-BuildProcess.html

[inland hornet]

oh wait, i got it

[sterile moon]

is the enemy 2d gameobject not a component?

[dusky forum]

Component name not game object name

[sterile moon]

oh

[dusky forum]

Common component names would be: Transform, Renderer, Rigidbody etc
You'd use your specific scripts name

[storm patio]

!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

[sterile moon]

can someone check my thread ;-;

[inland hornet]

i did, i built for android(look at the top left), still this screen is showing.

[sweet tartan]

you need to run the build on a device. The simulator window is the editor with some useful settings to simulate running on a device (resolution, safe area, sprite of what the device screen looks like pasted on top)

[inland hornet]

ok, so youre telling me to run the game on my phone(Build and Run)?

[sweet tartan]

yes, you need an actual mobile device to run mobile sdks like ads

[inland hornet]

got it, lemme try

[inland hornet]

i did, i ran it on my phone but still the white blank screen is shownig with close button

[sweet tartan]

on your phone? that sounds unlikely

[inland hornet]

I connected my phone with USB and ran the game in Unity Remote 5

[sweet tartan]

that's still the editor

[celest oar]

Where do I see storage? This is nonsense, and they've already shut down my DevOps service due to usage outside the free tier, which they didn't notify me about.

[sweet tartan]

should be in your dashboard for relevant organization https://cloud.unity.com/

[copper gust]

Not trying to be an ass, genuine question but doesn't that screenshot showcase them notifying you?

[sterile moon]

hi can anyone help my thread ;-;

[celest oar]

I've been searching for almost a month to see what's filling up the storage, and I haven't even found the storage, or used any service for over a year.

[celest oar]

It only brings me "analytical" stuff but no link where it's "storage"

[sterile moon]

anyone... pls...

[sweet tartan]

on the left hand side there should be Products > DevOps where you can see more details

[celest oar]

Oh ok DevOps Sorry to bother you, this woke me up with an email or was it from AliExpress lol

Happy morning to all

[rustic plinth]

can someone help me out i want to learn unity as an rblx studio dev

dles someone know where i can start?

[woeful spear]

I've created transparency in this orange sphere using a 2D texture. It looks okay with Render Face = "Front". But I want those transparency to be visible on rear side also but when I turn on Render Face = "Both" it gives weird result (3rd image):

[astral ore]

57,262 Ray casting in realtime
A forloop runing 57.26 K Times per Sqr 10 x 57.26k
572620 Per Second
Calculation

But The Stress is like nothing Because of Multithred

[sweet charm]

[woeful spear]

This texture is stretched, maybe because I scaled the Primitive object cube. Can I maintain aspect ratio of texture? One way is adjust tiling X and Y but that's hit and trial.

[sage basin]

You can create a shader that uses triplanar UVs
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@17.4/manual/Triplanar-Node.html?q=triplanar

[woeful spear]

You mean custom shader in shader graph?

[sage basin]

Yes

[reef dome]

For flat surfaces cant you just simply do

xTiling = size.x * scale
yTiling = size.z * scale

size being the size of the plane

or is that already called triplanar UVs?

[woeful spear]

Okay. But I wont' have to deal with it if I create models and UVs and materials in Blender then use in Unity?

Or the materials must be made in Unity only?

[woeful spear]

Good idea for a quick fix

[sage basin]

If you have UVd something consistently then you don't need to UV based on world-space

which is what triplanar mapping is

[woeful spear]

Size of plane? I don't get it.

Nevermind it worked.

[finite oriole]

So my android app got flagged for not supporting 16kb pages. According to this unity post I have to target android 15+ https://discussions.unity.com/t/info-unity-engine-support-for-16-kb-memory-page-sizes-android-15/1589588

Does that mean minimum API level = 15+ or Target API level = 15+?

[sweet tartan]

target 35, set min to lowest that you can which won't cause any problems with any third party dependencies

if you have min set to API 33, something like 35-40%ish of current Android devices won't be able to install your app

[sly lake]

API 15 is 14 years old and corresponds to Android 4.

[strong fable]

is it possible to cache values in shader graph for reusing? I dont wanna drag endless connections from a texture sample to all the places its used.

[potent moss]

why don't the buttons in my scene recognize the functions in my UI manager?

am I being stupid or like what's going on?

[unreal jewel]

don't you need to make them public

[potent moss]

idk it didn't change anything for me?

[slow dirge]

Need to select the script instance in the scene, not assets.

[potent moss]

oh so I was being stupid

ty king

[pure igloo]

any ideas as to how i can save this layout for the future? it keeps reverting to the default layout

[unreal jewel]

in the top right there should be an option to save it

[plain dagger]

If you are using a plugin that has not yet been updated then that could be the cause

[pure igloo]

which one?

[unreal jewel]

the top right of the main editor window

[pure igloo]

so i saved it...and i can use that for later projects too?

[unreal jewel]

it should be in that menu yeah

across all projects

[pure igloo]

So...i know there is a particle system in unity and i know that you can also use the UI toolkit to make a particle system. how are they different?

and what are there use cases...as in why would you wanna use something over the other?

[plain dagger]

do you mean visual effect graph?

[hushed hamlet]

Close, I think you are thinking particle systems versus the newer VFX graph. Unreal is in a similar boat.

The OG system works on more things, its kind of like an old trusty car. Works on BiRP.

The new system is cool, handles a lot more particles and does a lot more things. Its graph based. Certain versions can be used with BiRP.

The VFX Graph is the one they hope you use, the old one is still there for compatibility. Sometimes its quicker to use one vs the other.

[pure igloo]

so...my initial question was that i wanted to make a background where there would be stars...which would move randomly and then once they hit the boudnary, they would be destroyed and spawn anew

and i looked at a few tutorials and got confused by it

some are using particle system, without going into the ui toolkit, while others use the ui toolkit

[hushed hamlet]

Well, UI toolkit is for making UIs

Not really for particles

[pure igloo]

what's this then

[hushed hamlet]

That says its making particles for UI

[pure igloo]

i don't understand anything

[plain dagger]

I only know of one package that makes particle systems work in UGUI
https://github.com/mob-sakai/ParticleEffectForUGUI

otherwise you just dont really do particles in UI

or are you just very confused about what you want

[hushed hamlet]

Particles are normally in 3D space. That's going through how you'd map it to a UI and not in 3D space in case you wanted say a funky background on a button.

So you'd either use a third party plugin (what i do) or you'd use a particle system & UI.

Essentially you normally learn particles first. Then UI. Then learn how to combine them

[plain dagger]

yea thats right. learn how to actually make particles and THEN if you need to add some to UI then you can do that next

You can also learn about visual effect graph for more advanced effects: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.visualeffectgraph@17.4/manual/index.html

[pure igloo]

i think i did make a particle system

i don't think i made one which interacts with buttons and stuff...only objects

[plain dagger]

yea because its not supported normally

[pure igloo]

and i have to learn how to make them work together yea?

[hushed hamlet]

If you want to do it that way, yes

Personally, I use this for UI particles. Because its reliable, simple and works

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/ui-particle-image-235001

But I like the free one posted above

You also could render a particle system somewhere to a camera, camera to a render texture and render texture to a background image. But thats a lot of work.

[pure igloo]

ya....that went over my head. no need to explain though.

[hushed hamlet]

No worries, its basically not a simple thing to do, so there are like 20 different ways to do it

[plain dagger]

particles in 3d/2d space 🙂
particles in UI 🙁

[woeful spear]

Unable to see preview in bottom right window.

Restarted and it works now. Sounds like a bug.

[glossy topaz]

after you have made your character with animation. and you want to add another one. how do u do this?

[unreal jewel]

another character or another animation?

[glossy topaz]

see another animation i make one in blender

[unreal jewel]

you add them all to an animator

[glossy topaz]

its not that one

its when i make another animation in blender. im scared to overwrite my character when i export. last time that happened he vanished from the game. when u make another animation in blender, how do u get it into unity safely

[unreal jewel]

well like normal i imagine? you just give it a different name i guess

[glossy topaz]

so i have to export a new character with all the new animation

[unreal jewel]

i mean wouldn't you have all the animations in one?

i haven't messed much with animation in blender but i doubt it would make sense to have different files

[glossy topaz]

there is no way to just export the animation from blender isolate?

[tall hearth]

You sure you didn't just mess up something in the process?

[glossy topaz]

i wouldnt know

i just want to know what you do when u want to add another animation to ur character

[tall hearth]

I dont work in 3d, but anytime i have messed with it just resaving the fbx file just updates all gameobjects with that data

[glossy topaz]

for me they vanished

[tall hearth]

So im not sure why yours deleted unless you deleted the file in unity first

And change the file name

[glossy topaz]

i will make this one animation and come back to you

[tall hearth]

If you are concerned about a huge data loss from this i'd recommend making it a github project first

[south burrow]

Fellas, I have a question

what does this do

There's an option to make a custom render texture