💻┃unity-talk

[storm patio]

CameraPosition is probably what they want

@random rock ^
and then use PositionUnits to interpret the value correctly

[ivory moat]

I saw that about 3 milliseconds after I send the message 😭

[unreal jewel]

all i'm asking is is what message does it get to until when you press jump until it stops

[tawdry tulip]

line 29 jump function got called ig?

till line 45

grounded check result

[storm patio]

this should probably be threaded...

[unreal jewel]

so the grounded check fails?

[ivory moat]

this is why we need code blocks on one of the links, there's no way for us to see lines and I'm not counting 45 lines

[tawdry tulip]

yes

[icy citrus]

this might sound contradicting, but it may be very beneficial that you go take a break and take a walk outside for about 10 to 20 min without any use of a phone or other distrations. usually when you are stuck for that long on one thing you overthink it so hard that you wont get it back cuz nothing makes sense anymore... this might already clarify it for you, and if not, its still a very healthy thing to do, even if you struggle with a deadline.

[unreal jewel]

then that's where the issue is, try increasing the cast distance

[storm patio]

oh yeah, definitely that too. 0.5f units just reaches the bottom of the box collider. you'd have to intersect the ground for it to detect the ground

[tawdry tulip]

there I placed it from .5 to 1.0

[ivory moat]

Test it again

[storm patio]

that may be excessive. you probably want something around 0.6f

or 0.6f * collider.size.y

[tawdry tulip]

YESSSS AHAHAHHAHA

IT WORKSSS

YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAAYAYAY

YIPIEEEEE

thx @unreal jewel 🙏

[ivory moat]

Depending on how much lenience you want to give to jumping you can fiddle with this value, since hopefully you know what it does now

But apart from that congratulations

[tawdry tulip]

thx 😊

[unreal jewel]

(yea, probably don't wanna be able to jump half a unit off the ground)

[icy citrus]

still though i do want to stress a bit more that taking a break when nothing makes sense anymore should be considered sooner rather then later, even now that it works again, i bet ur still pretty tense after that round of debugging.

[ivory moat]

Yeah I agree, the point at which you've just solved something that was challenging you is the best place to pause for a minute and just revel in the success lol

It's a good mental boost as well as a refresher

[icy citrus]

exactly

[tender thicket]

half the reason why i love this some much

[icy citrus]

i had too many of these moments where i just went on and bumped right in another impossible non fixable problem that drove me nuts that was just s simple, "oh the local rotation is not 0..."

[tender thicket]

solving a bug is such a rush

[tender thicket]

once i deleted the event system from my hierarchy and forgot about it....

[icy citrus]

oh yeah i did exactly that too once

the errors were so confusing though

[tender thicket]

yea could not figure out why the hell nothing was working

[echo rune]

Hi all. I promise i'm not complaining but gee unity's plastic/organization related website stuff is soooo convoluted

It seems there's an official way to share ur unity assets with ur team member. But i can only find hints of it but unable to actually figure it out
At somepoint somewhere, i'm supposed to add my team member to do that. But i dont know how
And this is somewhat different than adding team member in the repository/organization level?

[icy citrus]

why not use github? i tried the unity way too and got pretty dissapointed pretty soon after and gone to github anyway...

[tender thicket]

Github is just way better

[echo rune]

Plastic scm works fine for me. The standalone one (yes it still involve some unity website stuff for some things)

But no i'm not talking about a version control solution

I'm talking specfiically about how to share unity assets with ur team members

[plain dagger]

Depends what the asset is. If its textures/models then send them the files somehow.
If you want to include unity specific assets you want to export things as a unitypackage file and share that

If you want to share some assets over many projects then a UPM package would be best (via git/openupm or self host)

[inland fox]

How do you feel about using prefab variants?
I feel like if I did use them, I could face some weird issues later on that I can't catch easily.
For example, I'd do player and AI, and then again for the network enabled ones.

[storm patio]

it's basically inheritance for prefabs

it's just a general tool

you could have weird issues that stem from using them in a weird specific way, but they aren't like, a separate library with many potential issues

[icy citrus]

i use them all the time, they are really nice if you create a base prefab that then can assistn with editing al its children for one minor adjustment

[icy citrus]

i side with this, its also good to just think ahead of why you would need to make a varient beforehand and think about how you will use it in the future at all.

[inland fox]

thanks! I think I'll use them but later on in the project not now.
when I have a clear idea on the variety I require.

[echo rune]

No i'm talking about the official unity way to share assets

[inland fox]

because one thing even tho the AI and the player share lots of components. I don't wanna have a prefab variant yet.

[echo rune]

But anyways we figured it out

[plain dagger]

Oh like asset store things? I think you can via an organisation share assets to others

you need to be clearer

[arctic portal]

how do i avoid texture stretching in terrains? i tried using the triplanar shaders but they dont work

[tall hearth]

Gotta make proper uvs

[arctic portal]

how? i painted the texture using a procedural painter.

[tall hearth]

How is the terrain made?

UVs arent made from the texture they are from the mesh

[arctic portal]

i made them using a noise brush in the raise mode

[tall hearth]

I think you miss understood what i meant but i assume you mean you are using unity terrain system

If so i'd ask in #⛰️┃terrain-3d

[plain dagger]

Probably very low mesh density there causing it to stretch

[arctic portal]

oh yeah i used the terrain system

[arctic portal]

true but i dont want to increase the resolution and decrease performance furthur so i was wondering if there was any other way

[tall hearth]

Eh maybe but ive had similar problems with my own marching cube terrain and near vertical faces (where the density didnt change much)

[radiant crag]

Unity or Unreal question

[plain dagger]

For a tall cliff like that often the solution is to utilize models as well as terrain. Terrain holes make that a lot easier than in the past.

[inland fox]

or maybe a simple shader to fix it

[frosty meteor]

Is there a C# course made for specifically VR games?

[idle saddle]

basic C# skills should be transferable whether its 2D, 3D, or VR. i'd say better to get some foundational knowledge and than do tutorials on a specific VR implementation. possibly OpenXR

[cursive oyster]

Im trying to build a new extraction looter shooter game but im very new to Unity and im looking for a group that can help me get better but can also help me with this game.

But I also wanna make it so that people on low end pcs xan also play this game

[balmy kettle]

!collab 👇

[vagrant root]

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[cursive oyster]

Thx for help

[cursive oyster]

Im so confused on how to make a post

[undone quarry]

I KNOW THE TOPIC OF THE JAM, IT WILL BE CALLED "unity"

[tall hearth]

Near the top (at least on mobile) theres a new topic button click it

[cursive oyster]

Ok

[tropic drum]

topic?

[mild radish]

-# topic

[tall hearth]

Gotta love how it was my first ever time clicking on the like (heck any unity discussion board link) and i still found it in half a second -_-

[shadow heron]

Is it possible to make a soft body with configurable joints?

[gray dirge]

Triplanar shader would probably be quite fine solution. It "not working" is not a great argument

[mild radish]

sounds possible

[solar drum]

I just had a question. Im making an RPG game that has an overworld and a battle scene. The enemies trigger the battle scene with the moving player object when they collide in the overworld. How would I go about keeping the enemy that the player collided with destroyed when the player kills it in the battle scene and loads back into the overworld? Cause right now, when you kill the enemy and load back into the overworld, it just respawns it back in the same spot. Would I use like playerPrefs and stuff. Im also relatively new to unity with only programming experience. Thanks!

[pale coyote]

How to fix
the name 'x' does not exist in the current context

[solar drum]

you have a variable called 'x' that is not created

instantiated

[balmy kettle]

use a variable that does exist or make the variable you are attempting to use actually exist

[stuck flower]

either use a thing that exists, or make that thing exist

[potent moss]

does unity cloud do project backups?

or is that not what it's for

[balmy kettle]

you can use unity version control for that

just connecting your project to cloud services doesn't back it up, you need to actually push your files to version control

[potent moss]

well can you access the version control from the unity cloud atleast?

[balmy kettle]

!vc 👇 read the instructions on how to use it to find out

[vagrant root]

Using version control in Unity

Unity Version Control

• Getting started

Git

Get the latest .gitignore file from here. It should be placed at the root of your Unity project directory.

[potent moss]

[tender thicket]

github is just better for this tho

[pale coyote]

I added a small line: public GameObject x;

[solar drum]

yeah

[glass kraken]

hi, how can I make sure my canvas fit with the player's pc screen size?I've made my canvas Screen Space -Overlay, scale with screensize and reference resolution to 1920x1080

[lapis gate]

game window has aspect ratios which you can modify to get an idea how it will look like with different ratios

you can also resize the window and the UI elements will show you how they resize with the anchors

[mild radish]

scale w/ screensize being enabled should do it..

then you can adjust it to either use Height, or use Width..

theres a subtle difference on the way it scales.. and the margins it'll leave

you can also resize the window and the UI elements will show you how they resize with the anchors
☝️ but yea just mess around w/ the game window and adjust/assign the anchors how they should be for a dynamic resizing.. (corner objects anchored to the corners, center objects anchord to the center.. (then your whole stretch presets for things like a HUD bezel so it'll stretch across the bottom etc)

[glass kraken]

ty I'll look into that(I didn't get it)

[glass kraken]

I've match width or height set and that doesn't scale it perfectly, I can show you if you want,

[glass kraken]

yeaa it might be that, to be honest I don't really understand what you guys are saying by that, do you mean the rect transform?

[dense reef]

You need to know tricks how to make UI behaves as you need

[glass kraken]

yea, do u have a good tutorial on this?

[dense reef]

There is a lot of UI tutorial just watch few of them and you will start understanding how to set up UI elements

[tall hearth]

You gotta set each ui element induvidually, on the rect transform theres a cube with another cube in it (top left of the rect transform component) you click it and set that ui elements anchor for scaling

[glass kraken]

I've just tried to do it, but I probably did it wrong, clicked with alt+ shift on top left of the rect transform component and then changed the anchor x and ys

[tall hearth]

Normal left click should work fine

[mild radish]

Jus Anchor ⚓ stuff

i normally do Shift + Alt at first (that sets the pivot and the position)
and then I adjust the RectTransform as an offset that i need..

(for top left corner i'll do +30 for the X 👉 and then something like - 30 for the Y 👇

[tall hearth]

:o a video ty (wrote how to do it while playing some vr so i couldn't get one)

[mild radish]

if i anchored to the bottom right corner i'd do -30 for the X 👈 and positive 30 for the Y ☝️

[mild radish]

i got u bud... my vid rec software is always ready to roll 😈

[glass kraken]

this like just changes the original point? and is it always 0,0 center and -30 for half of a whole axe?

[mild radish]

and for things like those NavBars, or Footer/Header (Letterbox) stuff that gets stretched you use the stretchy anchor

for simplicity i never change my pivots and stuff (i should even get rid of the 1.5 scaling on this (its the Tent Icon in the first video)

the only things i change around are the width/height and the Position X, Y, Z <-- these are the values that position it relative to the anchor

[tall hearth]

No this would depend on your anchor if the anchor is the center then yes 0, 0, 0 is the center if its the top left the 0, 0, 0 is the top left

[mild radish]

it kinda get sorted out by the anchor

see.. my bottom right anchor automatically set my pivot to the bottom right of the sprite..

that way when i change the XYZ / its relative to that corner.. (makes sense)

[glass kraken]

ohh aight I understand ty so much, so I should basically put my anchor for the origin point, and then change the width/height for it to fit the screen and also its position if I want?

[mild radish]

if i anchor it to the top left my pivot becomes 0, 1 instead

so (top left) of the image

[glass kraken]

yeeee

[tall hearth]

Set the anchor on how you want it to scale for example if you have ui buttons on the left side dont leave it in the center

[glass kraken]

so its like 2x2?

[mild radish]

but i could easily set my pivot to 0, 0 and just add half the image width and height to my XYZ position

to get the same anchor/positioning

[glass kraken]

k, but that won't help me with my problem, will it? if I scale it on my computer will it change/scale itself dynamically based on the player's computer screensize?

[mild radish]

1 x 1

• 0, 1 -> bottom right
• 0, 0 -> bottom left
• 1, 1 -> top right
• 1, 0 -> top left

[glass kraken]

here your anchor is bottom center?

[mild radish]

this is bottom center

.5 x 0

[glass kraken]

k so top right wouldn't be 2,1?

[mild radish]

1,1

its a normalized value...

x 0 -> 1
y 0 -> 1

it starts in the bottom left... 0,0

if u go .5 on the X (the first number)
its HALF of the image size to the left

.5 x .5 would be center of the image

[glass kraken]

wow okay ty so much

[glass kraken]

and is that right?

I've a panel that should fit my whole player's screen, his anchor is set to stretch stretch for now, should I use center center instead?

[mild radish]

test it and see..

i honestly don't know the system like the back of my hand by no means

i have to test and fiddle with it myself

[cosmic walrus]

unity ui is like a full career path in itself LOL like 90% of my day job is working with the unity ui/canvas

what are you trying to accomplish? what type of canvas are you using - the stuff on your canvas will always be relative to those scalar values on the canvas

[mild radish]

its actually my main day-job.. UIUX..
i get by just by being a professional graphics designer...

as for the UI/Canvas system.. im constantly stumbling my way to the finish line 😅

[cosmic walrus]

YEA i feel this

pro tip - just use canvas groups for everything lol and cross fade them to and from the next panel

[glass kraken]

I'm trying to accomplish an inventory UI,I already have slots image and a panel,I'd like the panel to fit my entire screen(the player's too),so I could like add a background in the panel, instead of making it transparent and only set active the slots

[mild radish]

your anchors are going to work regardless.
in this example i have Constant Pixel Size as the setting on my canvas..
I can still resize and scale my canvas (and my logo still stays in the bottom right [because of anchors]
but its size stays static 64x64)..

theres also components u can use specifically for panels and such as ur talkin about

[cosmic walrus]

it's doing that because you have it set to constant pixel size

[cosmic walrus]

but you need it to scale with the screen

[mild radish]

I'm aware, i was specifically showing that

[mild radish]

anyway @glass kraken may want to look into the Content Size Fitter.. and all those kind of components for a Panel setup

like if u want ur panel to stay fitted to the left side of the screen.. and you need it to scale.. but want to keep the UI elements inside of it to stay fitted properly

[cosmic walrus]

oh sorry i didnt see the messages and just the video and thought Quit posted that

[mild radish]

its a whole big spill..

[low hill]

unity what is this house called?

[mild radish]

and honestly i haven't become familiar enough with the content size fitter to know how it all works 😄

stumbling continues

[mild radish]

oh ur good 👍

[cosmic walrus]

content size fitter is a great little component but can be super finnicky

[mild radish]

^ its epic when used properly

i've used it for a scrolling Toast Notification system once..

once i got it working i felt immortal 💪

[glass kraken]

ty so much, now I understand like how to make small Uis, but I don't know what anchor I should use for an UI that has to cover the full screen to be honest,I've always made them stretch and stretch

[mild radish]

just takes a little at a time 👍

never try to learn an entire system in one sitting..

you'll forget half the important stuff lol

[mild radish]

i typically use Stretch as well..

[glass kraken]

lol

[mild radish]

just b/c its quick and easy

[low hill]

@mild radishhi

[mild radish]

but check out that content size fitter one day @glass kraken

[glass kraken]

ty man,I'll look into that as I don't want to waste your time

[tall hearth]

since we are on the topic of ui i've a question about how one would handle, overlapping with absurd aspect ratios (though i doubt there's anyone out there with a montior like this)

[glass kraken]

so what do you think is the issue?

[mild radish]

lol, ur fine.. i'm in my procrastination / daily warm-up..
i spend about 2 hours getting ready for work.. (laying out to-do lists, getting together reference information)
hyping myself up with coffee and music

[mild radish]

i'd personally make the top two buttons/bar stay as it is..
and half the lower half / left portion scale to fit

[tall hearth]

oddly enough i normally hate music up until i start programming then i need it to focus

[tall hearth]

so i section the different ui elements into parent objects that scale vertically? (leaving the top to not)

[mild radish]

1 hour or so of hype / motivational work out music
and then i swap over to blue noise / concentration music for the work-day
and then at teh end of the day more hype / party music 😄

[mild radish]

i'd try something like that if it were me..

thats the simplest solution i see

u wouldn't even need to touch the bottom row of buttons.

[tall hearth]

alrighty i'll try it

[mild radish]

just scale the 3 buttons on the left..

[cosmic walrus]

@glass kraken what i would personally do.. switch your SpawnHud canvas ui scale mode to Scale With Screen Size. then in the reference resolution make it something like 1920x1080 - now the children of this canvas you can anchor to whatever and they will respect 16:9 aspect ratios. anything you place in this canvas will respect that scaling

[mild radish]

see what im sayin?

[tall hearth]

yeah yeah

[mild radish]

im less than sure about the setup for that tho 😅

good luck 🍀 rofl

[tall hearth]

is there specfic components i should use (never used any of the layout components)

[cosmic walrus]

what is the use case for testing that screen size? like is this for a car rear view mirror lol

typically i avoid free aspect and lock in to w.e the base designs are set to

or unless you are doing mobile stuff lol

since those aspect ratios are getting insane lol

[tall hearth]

hate trying to get something to work for mobile (spent like 2 months and gave up) it looks way bigger on the pc than on my phone so i could never get it right. heck even on pc they still feel a bit large

[glass kraken]

yeaa, that's what I have right now, scale with screen size, 1920x1080, match width or height, and then the panel but it doesn't scale properly

I've just tried to make it bottom left anchor and it doesn't even cover the bottom left's part, there's like a hole

[tall hearth]

fair point which is why i did mention they were absurd, here's what it normally is though

[glass kraken]

the panel

[cosmic walrus]

so there is a component called the uhm... aspect ratio fitter

[mild radish]

i dont see how it'd be possible to even get the aspect ratio u demonstrated earlier

[cosmic walrus]

that lets u envelope the parent or uhm fit in parent

you would want to basically break the screen out into panels like safe areas then have those on the parents that way the childen respect those bounds

[tall hearth]

playing in windowed mode :?

[cosmic walrus]

if u REALLY wanted to support that lol

[mild radish]

what is the use case for testing that screen size? like is this for a car rear view mirror lol
lmao i was thinkin the same thing

[cosmic walrus]

but u will quickly see.. they will just shrink to not overlap

[mild radish]

yea but 1920 x 150?

[cosmic walrus]

which will become your new problem lmao

[glass kraken]

lol

[mild radish]

ill tell u like i told @glass kraken .... you should get familiar with them,

they are pretty dang awesome

-# Basic UI Layout Components

Horizontal Layout Group
Vertical Layout Group
Grid Layout Group
Content Size Fitter
Layout Element
Aspect Ratio Fitter
Canvas Scaler
Rect Mask 2D
Scroll Rect

but to be fair.. looking over alot of AAA games here lately.. they seem to be pretty lazy with their UI layouts..
much less dynamic than I would imagine they should be with the amounts of work and money that go into those games..

i understand that the UI doesn't need to be overly complex.. but still

[potent moss]

is there some way to restore deleted projects? or are they just gone forever?

[mild radish]

w/ the way WebDev is now-a-days and how dynamic everything is.. i figured they'd join the club

[mild radish]

if you haven't opened anything else.. and it was the last project you had open i think you can salvage it from the Temp folders..

but other than that.. (and if its not cached).. nope.. its gone forever...
-# #github

[tall hearth]

if it's been less than 30 days (and you haven't overwritten the data) im sure it can also be found in the trash can (assuming windows)

[mild radish]

oh ya, you can use software to recover deleted things from your OS

but only if they haven't been overwritten at that sector or w/e

[potent moss]

wdym

[mild radish]

i mean theres special software to recover deleted files from ur Operating System..

the FEDs use it all the time

[potent moss]

well like what software?

[mild radish]

idk.. most of its paid software

[tall hearth]

when you delete something it isnt just turned into all 0s, it just flags that sector of data to be turned into something else

[mild radish]

ive never used it

[tepid oyster]

Hey everyone, how's it going this Friday?

Are your games ready for the 20th anniversary game jam?

hahaha

[cosmic walrus]

deleted stuff is never actually deleted. even after you empty your recycling bin. what you are actually doing is telling your operating system.. 'hey i have space on my disk you may write over again' so that is how it becomes possible to reconstruct deleted things, however once that space is flagged to your OS that it can be used again (written over) like once you delete/empty recycling bin.. it's days are numbered. anytihng you do on ur pc like file -> new w.e can overwrite that data and then u wont be able to reconstrcut it as easily

[mild radish]

to go along with this ☝️
you basically don't actually delete stuff.. it just allows it to be overwritten by some other data at a later date..

as long as its not overwritten it can be recovered.. (no matter when)

[cosmic walrus]

jinx u owe me a coke

[potent moss]

^^^?

[mild radish]

ill drink a beer with you

[tall hearth]

[mild radish]

it..

[low hill]

can I ask you a question? @mild radish

[mild radish]

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+data+recovery+software

[mild radish]

sure.. im active and chatting..

[tall hearth]

this is like the third (second*) time in the last 30 minutes i've seen you ping him just ask

[mild radish]

😊 lol

[low hill]

what is this house called?

[mild radish]

that is typically just called a "FarmHouse"

Rural /Colonial style

[full minnow]

hi guys im pretty new to unity does anybody know why on fbx files it the textures wont go onto the materials and extract textures is greyed.. can anybody help me ? ;c

[mild radish]

with a wrap around porch

Wooden, 2 Story Colonial-style American Farmhouse, with wrap around porch

[low hill]

where can I download

[tall hearth]

fbx files dont keep textures you'd need to import them separately (same with if you use blender and make a material unity cant use them)

[mild radish]

not a clue lol

[full minnow]

Ow oki thank you :(

[viral hill]

they are read only

you have to make copies

[mild radish]

https://free3d.com/premium-3d-models/farmhouse

you'll just have to hunt... (im sure theres a free variant out there somewhere on one of those modelling store websites)

[tall hearth]

oh yeah this, misread what they asked :/ (i think?)

[full minnow]

and then ill apply them to every material one by one?

[low hill]

there isn't

[viral hill]

apply them to each mesh renderer slot, yeah

[full minnow]

oki

[tall hearth]

then model one or pay for it

[low hill]

sorry i,am poor😭

[tall hearth]

so model one it'd only take time

[mild radish]

in ur FBX you typically just seperate parts.. or give them seperate materials.. if you will..
that doesn't mean anything texture wise.. but it will once you start adding materials to it in Unity..
you'd want to have a seperate material for each specific piece of the model..
for example for a rifle you'd want (1) material for the metal and (1) material for the wood furniture..
in Unity you'd just create 2 materials and add your textures to them.. and then you can drag and drop or assign the material to the piece..

FBX just says: hey, this is the pieces and the materials they use.. (so just placeholder materials)
in Unity you assign the materials you've created or downloaded or w/e and it applies it to the pieces

[low hill]

there isn't a free one

[blazing depot]

Hello

[low hill]

@tall hearth

[blazing depot]

Hey ru italian

[tall hearth]

idk i'm not the one looking for it

[mild radish]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/urban/ountry-house-125731 this is the only free one i've found so far

[full minnow]

i dont understand im sorry 🥹

[mild radish]

well i'll make it more simple..
FBX wont have ur textures automatically assigned..
you import the Model into Unity.. and then you create Materials to assign to those Meshs

[low hill]

need game horror

[potent moss]

I can't find any non-paid ones

[mild radish]

ya, unfortunately its a rare occasion to find a "free" asset that fits exactly what you need

you'll need to learn to adapt..

or learn to model yourself

[tall hearth]

you on windows?

[potent moss]

yeah

[blazing depot]

Hey are you italian?

[glass kraken]

I've just checked all them(haven't watched tutorials or these things more in depth) and they seem to have nothing that could help me with the scaling

[mild radish]

off the top of my head Recuvera

Recovera? somethign like that

[full minnow]

tough

[tall hearth]

have you checked your Recycle Bin for it?

[mild radish]

oh but they doo.. "Fitter" being the keyword on them

Fitter is the definition of scaling to fit

[potent moss]

yes I wouldn't be here if it was there

[tall hearth]

well then not sure what to say your in the wrong place now as this isnt a unity problem but instead a file recovery and quite frankly i doubt anyone here has a proper answer for other than give up and learn to use some form of git version control in the future

[mild radish]

literally free ones ^

[glass kraken]

the content size fitter just has 2 options, horizontal fit and vertical fit,once I change one of them, the panel gets super small that I can't even see it, and the aspect radio fitter seems to have a lot of things but it doesn't change anything in my case

[mild radish]

well.. theres caveats to the way these things work..

just slapping it on there has a < 20% chance of working the exact way u want..

[tall hearth]

i've used Stellar in the past and it output it as a virtual hard disk (basically a partition that can be mounted and unmounted) which then wiped its data soon after

[mild radish]

it'd be a Parent > Child setup..

[glass kraken]

ye, I'll have to watch tutorials

[mild radish]

• Canvas
  • Parent w/ content fitter or something
    • Child Element
    • Child Element
    • Child Element

[glass kraken]

ohh so I should add it on the canvas ? or like a parent of the panel but child of the canvas?

[glass kraken]

KKK

I'll try it now tyyy

[mild radish]

im not exactly sure about the setup.. watch a few tutorials..

or see if unity learn has somethign about them..

[glass kraken]

thanks,I'll do that

[mild radish]

lmao.. thats dirty

[cobalt reef]

yo im looking for somone to make a game whit me for now i wanan just to make a map but the idea is cool its a vr game (like gorilla tag) so if u wnat dm me

[mild radish]

yea.. i dont vouch for any of them... especially if they're free.. they're gonna be pretty trash

[modest meteor]

!collab

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[glass kraken]

oh well lol @mild radish just changed a field and it covered my whole screen

ty so much man

[mild radish]

lol.. all i did was mention a component Unity has..

[tawdry nebula]

say i accidentally deleted the default unity layout how would i get it back

[glass kraken]

fit in parent < aspect ratio to 1

[mild radish]

thank yourself.. you did the work 💪

[glass kraken]

fr

[potent moss]

if you mean recuva then none of these seem to show folders?

[mild radish]

C:\Users\YOU\AppData\Roaming\Unity\Editor-5.x\Preferences\Layouts\ // global versions in ur APPDATA folder

K:\Programs\UnityInstalls\6000.0.60f1\Editor\Data\Resources\Layouts // local versions in ur UnityInstall's location

[potent moss]

or like how am I supposed to search for it

[mild radish]

there should be global copies of it in ur AppData Roaming folder...

and each version of Unity has their own Local copies of it

[gusty abyss]

Guys any way to fix this easily?

I'm using an orthographic camera for my game and this things happens where part of the mesh is missing when it's too close to camera

[blazing depot]

dunno about cameras

Sorry

[tall hearth]

hey spawn since you've been so helpful wanna answer a question of mine, is there any easy way of speeding up unity cloud calls. I'm using the leaderboard service and cloud save and there is this noticeable delay between when a ui opens and the await call gets a returned value

[mild radish]

Merry Christmas 🧡

[gusty abyss]

you know you can just not reply too

[blazing depot]

Just forget it

[tawdry nebula]

thanks 😄

[mild radish]

may want to rename it something besides Default.. in case its not the exact same layout

[blazing depot]

!cs

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[mild radish]

Default1 or something like that.. its from my 6000.0.60f1 version

[mild radish]

i don't use UnityCloud sorry bout that

[tawdry nebula]

also is there a way to prevent the folders like drop downs from opening in the hierarchy i want to stop my tiles one from expanding

[mild radish]

you can Alt + Click the scene to Collapse and Expand all the objects.. if that helps

[tall hearth]

hiting reset all layouts also restores the default ones

[mild radish]

even if they delete the og Default.wlt

its probably pulling the one from AppData Roaming

[tall hearth]

maybe not if they deleted it from the files of the editor (or where ever it is)

but deleting it there and hiting restore works

[tawdry nebula]

do you guys have a 2d light tutorial perchance all the youtube ones are really old

[glass kraken]

will this be a multipllayer game or solo?

[mild radish]

Alt + Clicking

i use it quite a bit to collapse and expand big swaths of gameobjects

[tall hearth]

well the game is already made and published as a solo game with the only public thing being the leaderboard so solo

it was my first ever game, that i'm just refactoring 90% of

[mild radish]

niiiiice!!

refactoring is always soo rewarding

[tall hearth]

not while doing it though 😅

this has been a pain in my butt, but hey now i've almost made it easy to add full new weapons

[mild radish]

ohh it can be..
refactor a big nasty else-if chain into a pretty Switch statement

instant dopamine hit 🤪

[gusty abyss]

anyone know?

[tall hearth]

yeah i get that one had a ~1000 line chain of if statements, shortened it down to a 100 line switch statement and like 40 functions

[mild radish]

same with Automation 🤖 ☝️
i spent about 20 seconds dragging and dropping InputActionReferences into my InputManager...
and then I stopped.. and was like.. "wait a minute"

soo i spent about 15 minutes writing a script to do it for me...
could I have put all the actions in the script faster than 15 minutes?

sure...

[inland river]

you can adjust the near-clip plane on the camera, otherwise, no

[mild radish]

but now i can add em instantly ... anytime i want 💪 lol

[tall hearth]

exactly

[gusty abyss]

will negative near break the camera?

[mild radish]

just gotta make up for that 15 minute gap 😄

[inland river]

negative near plane makes no sense

[mild radish]

if i do it 15 times or so.. i think it'll make up for it

[tall hearth]

changed what was making a weapon taking about the whole day down to 5 clicks and just changing some values after

[mild radish]

heck ya

[gusty abyss]

zero doesnt fix it tho

[tall hearth]

lets just ignore that it's still half broken :/

[gusty abyss]

This is like at 0

[inland river]

as i said, then you are in the "otherwise" situation

[gusty abyss]

alr

[inland river]

since you use an ortho camera, you can simply move the camera further back, that would be equivalent to negative near-clip

[gusty abyss]

no joke just did that and it worked lmao

thanks so much

[tawdry nebula]

how can i add a sprite light to a moving animation

2d

[quasi cradle]

hey

[tawdry nebula]

hello

[quasi cradle]

hru

[tawdry nebula]

good wbu

[quasi cradle]

good thanks

[blazing depot]

Hello everyone, im having an issue with my first person camera and the body mesh i added (so i can see the arms and chest in first person) but when i press Play, i see the body in third person in front of the camera and i have NO clue why, if someone could help me in private that would be really appreciated

[mild radish]

check the code that controls the camera..
if its not being animated then its the code thats changing its position

and/or check if you dont have (2) cameras in ur scene..

[blazing depot]

yeah checked that already :/ thanks tho

[tawdry nebula]

anyone know why this might be happening

im talking about the light applying wierd on the sprite

[potent moss]

@mild radish ?

[mild radish]

the sprite needs normal maps to tell the light how to bounce

[tawdry nebula]

material?

[mild radish]

i don't know how to use it..
I said up above I've never used any of those softwares.. i just know they exist.. and was just helping you out a bit by finding them..

i can't help any further than that sorry 🍀

[mild radish]

a normal map is part of a material yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InNZsUWNb8k

[tawdry nebula]

isnt that for 3d

okay

[mild radish]

i dont know anything about 2D... i just know that the lighting system requires Normal maps for accurate lighting

same applies to 3D yes... and is the only reason i know about them.. (unity made their own 2D lighting system).. i havent used it yet

[tawdry nebula]

from what i can tell theres something there thats stopping the light

[mild radish]

ohh yea, that could be an issue

[tawdry nebula]

found it

if i turn on is trigger the collider wont collide yes?

[prisma jackal]

it switches from a collider, to a trigger. it will no longer call OnCollision and instead call OnTrigger. And will also no longer collide

[polar basalt]

is it normal that Android SDK never instals on windows 10? i tried it on 2 different computers, and if i select android module, the SDK will never download and fail.

Is there any documentation on how to instal everything that i need manually?

[silent mica]

If the project was on an SSD, I don't think recovery is going to work. If it's on a HDD, you should avoid any activity on the drive as it can damage the data.

[strange moon]

Whats your experience with using a ssd from server and compile code using your pc

[plain dagger]

going to depend on the setup of the server and the connection speed

[strange moon]

100 mbit/s connection speed

[deft rock]

Win 10 is dead, no longer supported, even by MS. I wouldn't have thought that would make a difference for installing Android stuff for Unity, but perhaps it does and you'll need to use an old version of Unity/ Android SDK that was still working on Win10

[sly lake]

Win 10 has extended support until October 2026

[polar basalt]

my windows 10 is not out of support

i have extended support

[sly lake]

Doubt it’s relevant anyway

[polar basalt]

also, it didnt work back then in 2024 and 2023 either

on my older laptop

[polar basalt]

i know, just letting them know its not only now that it fails installing, and even now - windows 10 that i have is still in support

[tawdry nebula]

anyone know particles

[gusty abyss]

can someone tell me if im making a 2d game what software do i use for animation

[tawdry nebula]

unity has animation tools

[gusty abyss]

no i want a software where i can draw 2d and animate and import it into unity

[stuck flower]

Paint

[gusty abyss]

kk

[tardy maple]

Hey @hexed path ! I'd love to know how your test-writing efforts went for you! I'm 'drinking from the firehose' myself on that point, and am having several issues. In my case, I can't even run the tests unless I switched from HDRP to URP(there was some TextMeshPro error about a pipeline so I just randomly tried changing to URP and it worked) but I can only see/run unity tests that are from external class libraries of mine. I can't get Unity to tolerate a [UnitySetUp] or [UnityTest] attribute if the exact same test file, is in the Editor as opposed to a dll i'm referencing 🙁 Additionally, when I try to build unity while referencing an external dll that contains a unity-visible test, I get an error that the UnityEngine.TestRunner.dll assembly can't be resolved! 😵‍💫 🤢

Not exactly sure what the dealio is.

ANYone who could shed any light here, input is welcome!

[viral hill]

Pierre Simon Laplace does

[plain dagger]

Are you making use of asm defs?

asm defs cannot reference anything in Assembly-Csharp (the auto made asm) so you would need to use asm defs for all code you want to also use in a test only asm

[potent moss]

are buttons/UI items performance heavy at all? or can they be safely spammed within reason?

[stuck flower]

Try it, and if you experience performance issues, profile it

[polar basalt]

i mean if you render a image with a big texture a lot of times that will impact perfomance i think, went from 144 fps to 90 fps just for 15000 images + 15000 tmp_text and 15000 buttons

[fast glade]

Monogame is better

[covert basin]

Is there a channel for SpatialUnity creator toolkit?

[tawny quail]

Also depends on how often the canvas is updated, how split apart it is in different canvases and how often those are updated, if the ui is set up in a way to batch chunks of it, if parts are animated (constant canvas redraws), if parts are moving (redraws), etc etc. So yeah just try it and see.

[polar basalt]

yeah there is a lot of variables that may influence performance

[lapis gate]

but really the performance is negligible, but you should be splitting your UI into different canvas anyway for sorting reasons

[plain dagger]

It helps a little but yea its a small perf benefit

[lapis gate]

The only way I can see it being a problem is if you do have a lot of moving UI assets with a single canvas. But really most moving elements should be their own canvas anyway

[hexed path]

I got unit tests reliably working. The key was wrangling assemblies and asmdefs. I made a couple of youtube videos about it if you are interested.

anyway link in bio

[viscid storm]

I’m making a game, and I got a 3D model off Sketchfab. I made the animation, but there’s no avatar, so I can’t do an “OnTriggerWalk.”

how do i fix this

[near wigeon]

what is OnTriggerWalk?

[viscid storm]

im making it so w will play a walk ani

[near wigeon]

ok and whats the problem

[viscid storm]

what

im using this script

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayAnimOnKey : MonoBehaviour
{
public AnimationClip walkAnimation;
private Animation anim;

void Start()
{
    // Get the existing Animation component
    anim = GetComponent<Animation>();

    // Safety check: make sure one exists
    if (anim == null)
    {
        Debug.LogError("No Animation component found on this GameObject!");
        return;
    }

    if (walkAnimation != null && !anim.GetClip("Walk"))
    {
        anim.AddClip(walkAnimation, "Walk");
    }
}

void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
    {
        if (!anim.isPlaying)
            anim.Play("Walk");
    }
    else
    {
        anim.Stop();
    }
}

}

[stuck flower]

!code

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Use links to services like:
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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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[viscid storm]

Oh

sorry

[wispy current]

Heyyy what's up I'm new to unity, thought I'd join to see what's up

Any tips? Ideas? Suggestions?

[near wigeon]

!learn

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:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[wispy current]

Thank you

Does unity plan to better the pricing?

[near wigeon]

whats better than free

[wispy current]

I mean like

Idk how to word it

Let me think

[near wigeon]

don't think too hard

it might hurt

[wispy current]

I use unity free, imo, if I want to sell a game, I think the pricing isn't the best

Not bad

But not so good

[balmy kettle]

by the time you reach the threshold that you need a pro subscription you will have made enough to purchase it. until then you don't need to pay anything

[wispy current]

I guess that's true

Mb for being kinda confusing

The whole idea of it was just stressful at first ig

[near wigeon]

not many people even reach the threshold to be a problem

[wispy current]

True

[balmy kettle]

this is not related to unity or even game dev in any way. if you have a dispute with the promised rewards from a patreon, then contact patreon support. this is not the place for that.

this is not the place for that. there is no off topic allowed
#📖┃code-of-conduct

[sleek forum]

oh ok

i had this issue with my unity

where i couldnt open ui when i clicked on something

i coudlnt figure it out so i just downloaded the next project part and skipped 6 videos in the tutorial

was this a good idea?

are tutorials that important?

[balmy kettle]

learning the basics and understanding what you are doing is important

[sleek forum]

is saving time important?

[balmy kettle]

i'm not even going to dignify that question with a response. if you need help with something then provide details about what you are struggling with

!ask

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:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
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[sleek forum]

when did u started learning how to develop a video game

did u ever feel like u started too late

[near wigeon]

its never too late

[sleek forum]

when did u start

[near wigeon]

2019

[sleek forum]

no i mean what age

[near wigeon]

like 30s and im juggling two jobs 🙃
but this is kinda offtopic anyway

[sleek forum]

interesting

wait

let me get this clear

in this server

u can only talk about game dev

and coding and issues

nothing else?

[balmy kettle]

this is not a social space. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[sleek forum]

oh wait forgot about #📖┃code-of-conduct

[sleek forum]

what do u talk about in this channel then

[sleek forum]

guys how do u get to a point where you can write a c# script from scratch

like make a full running game

[balmy kettle]

you learn the basics. there are beginner c# courses pinned in #💻┃code-beginner

[rotund anchor]

I want to collaborate on a Unity project with my partner. Is there any way to make this happen and how?

[balmy kettle]

!vc 👇

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Get the latest .gitignore file from here. It should be placed at the root of your Unity project directory.

[sleek forum]

is it good enough to just understand what a code says

or is it better if u can write one without referencing to anything

[balmy kettle]

you need to actually understand what you are doing when you are writing code

[near wigeon]

you build up knowledge like everything else in life

[sleek forum]

oh

i can read what codes mean and stuff but i cant write one out of nothing

[near wigeon]

the internet has c# topics / courses all over the place

[rotund anchor]

Thank you

[sleek forum]

well most of them cost money and i dont really like it

plus im one of those people who inputs a 1+1 and outputs a 1 not a 2

[unreal jewel]

there are a lot of free ones

[near wigeon]

you're looking in the wrong places

[balmy kettle]

like the ones previously mentioned

[sleek forum]

what are some

[near wigeon]

if you gotta pay money you're getting ripped off and should learn to use the internet better

[tardy maple]

Hey thank you so much for replying! I actually figured it out in the end >< I just needed to tick the 'Editor' box in Include Platforms 😅 since I unchecked 'Any Platform'. So now I can see my missing tests. Haha ugh, that took me fully a day.

[sleek forum]

oh

[near wigeon]

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

[sleek forum]

i paid for a 20$ course

[sleek forum]

oh

does that cover all the basics?

[unreal jewel]

what else would "c# fundamentals for absolute beginners" cover

[sleek forum]

enums

interfaces

[tardy maple]

Hey thank you for the info! I have a slightly weird dll referencing situation, one day i'll diagram it out and share it haha but in the end i got things working 👍

[sleek forum]

inheritance

encapsulation

polymorphorism

[unreal jewel]

those are the basics

[near wigeon]

thats what the documentation is for

[sleek forum]

for?

for (int i = 0; i > {array or list}.Length; i++)

oh

[sleek forum]

does it cover advanced topics

[sleek forum]

are they in there?

[unreal jewel]

idk i havn't looked at the course, but you don't have to learn everything from one place

[sleek forum]

good point

can i get an advanced one?

[near wigeon]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/object-oriented/polymorphism

bro really , do some reasearch, we aint your babysitters

research is part of being a good dev

[sleek forum]

ill take advantage while i can

why

[near wigeon]

peoples patience is nothing to take advantage of

[sleek forum]

but when u can cant you not?

off topic.

[near wigeon]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[sleek forum]

wait

is sending images like that off topic?

[near wigeon]

<@&502884371011731486>

[sleek forum]

oh ok

i deleted it.

i didnt know it was off topic

i thought images like thumbs up was fine

[near wigeon]

ok well you're coming off as a troll at this point

how difficult is it to take 5 mins to do some basic research instead of flooding this channel

[sleek forum]

i dont know

i always tend to find doing the opposite things soothes better

how do i make myself not do the opposite thing?

[potent geyser]

Stop spamming, thanks.

[sleek forum]

oh ok

im just going to read the code of conducts again cuz i dont know why but im getting so restricted so bye

do ai generated code need to be cited

[balmy kettle]

what does #📖┃code-of-conduct say on the matter

[sleek forum]

Posting unverified AI-generated responses or failing to mark AI-generated content as such.

let me think real quick.

ok so i think it means, ai generated code needs to be marked or cited in some way to confirm, am i right?

[unreal jewel]

people probably wouldn't wanna help with ai code

[sleek forum]

why would people not want to help with ai code

[balmy kettle]

can confirm. i do not help with AI generated code.

[unreal jewel]

because it's usually awful, and you didn't put any effort into it and likely don't understand it

[sleek forum]

oh, does that term apply the same for you ai generated your code and you edited and enhanced the code but something isn't working so you ask for help

[unreal jewel]

depends on the person helping i guess

[sleek forum]

do you help?

[unreal jewel]

depends on if the person i'm trying to help actually understands what the code is doing

way too many people blindly copying code from llms without understanding it

[sleek forum]

can i ask what does llms stand for?

[unreal jewel]

large language model, think chatgpt

it's just the more technically correct term for them

[sleek forum]

oh

i did notice recently that when i took programming class i noticed a lot of my classmates were just going on chatgpt and copy and pasting code, i defintely should not do that, it is not helping me learn, same with unity

[unreal jewel]

yeah, obviously blindly copy and pasting code isn't gonna teach you much

[sleek forum]

oh, thats very obvious and true

[unreal jewel]

yet too many people either don't understand or don't care

[sleek forum]

is that the reason why 99% of game developers end up failing?

[unreal jewel]

part of it

[sleek forum]

well maybe its just because some people dont realize how hard and the sheer amount of work you need to do to develop a video game

maybe its a better idea to work with people on video games

because i feel like just doing it solo might be too overwhelming and the worst part is, takes away most of your life just to see a low chance of success

where do i go to find a team?

[balmy kettle]

!collab

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[jade orbit]

Hey guys how are the jams going

I havent had any time today but my idea is simple enough

[balmy kettle]

#archived-jam-chat-20yrs2025

[misty bear]

is there something like GPU instancing but for 2D sprite in unity?

[stark jasper]

tilemap api

[misty bear]

thx

[hexed path]

It's been super-useful for studying Unity.

[unreal jewel]

except when it gives you outdated or just straight up wrong info

[balmy kettle]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1352599815770341479

<@&502884371011731486>

[potent geyser]

?ban 1436338884446392331 bot

[novel scarab]

gran0501 was banned.

[hexed path]

moving to the right channel. sorry about that.

[misty bear]

where can i learn to make something like this on unity? lets say i have multiple data set, that is changing on real time. i want to make it like that.

so far i have found how to make lines. but i don't know how to make area under that lines

tips to make a cheaper/ more performance line for that is also welcome

[viral hill]

store each type of data in an array where each element is chronologically ordered based on ascending value, then fill in the space between each with the color of the line above.

[misty bear]

but how to fill them? with what?

[viral hill]

depends on how you're rendering the lines in the first place

[potent geyser]

You could make a custom mesh, the vertices would be the data points along the top, and then the data points from the previous set along the bottom.

[ivory moat]

You might want to consider using mesh objects, which can make a lot of geometric shapes including 2d ones: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Mesh.html or https://docs.unity3d.com/560/Documentation/Manual/class-Mesh.html

[misty bear]

thx everyone

[misty bear]

tbh i haven't decide yet... probably line renderer?

but for now i will just try mesh

[copper gust]

mesh making is a lot less scary than it sounds btw

for something this simple especially

[ivory moat]

Seconded, I made a mesh object for a flashlight that just raycasts until it hits a point then sets vertices to those points etc, no prior knowledge of meshes but was able to make it work fairly quickly

[viral hill]

eh i would probably just use UI and make use of ordering layers so that you dont need perfect shapes

[ivory moat]

@misty bear you might want to look at this page https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/mesh-index-data.html and related mesh docs, this one gives good visuals on how the triangles array converts to actual shapes

[potent geyser]

How would you do this in UI with a fill? You'd have to make a custom shape somehow?

[viral hill]

creating sprites is fairly trivial

[potent geyser]

At runtime?

[viral hill]

yes. store your data in a 2d matrix and use that to create a sprite

[ivory moat]

and create a new sprite every update potentially as the data changes?

isn't mesh just easier in that context

[viral hill]

yeah potentially. i assumed that this wouldnt be necessary though. i cant think of a use case where data would need to update that fast or a long time

even then, i dont think this is a horribly expensive method as long as you properly clean up the created trash

[ivory moat]

a game where there's a live updating statistics billboard, including say time spent at a certain location which would update every frame while the condition holds

[copper gust]

if performance becomes a problem you'd probably move to a shader

[ivory moat]

mesh would be easier to work with and easier to not have to deal with clean up

[viral hill]

would meshes really be much better in this case?

[viral hill]

how

the cleanup itself is the easiest part imo

[ivory moat]

if it's a mesh with like only a few vertices as shown here then all you have to do is move around the vertices

no clean up at all

[viral hill]

ok, and im saying trash cleanup isnt much of a problem at all

[misty bear]

yeah... i think I will just go with mesh for now... shader seems overkill, but i will see it first how is the performance

[ivory moat]

yeah but it's more work than none
Either solution would work but for an (assumedly) beginner it would be easiest not to have to worry about cleaning up
In creating a sprite you have to create a sprite every frame, then delete it every frame (theoretically)
And in a mesh you just have to update the data
it also can theoretically be extended to more later-down-the-line options (like making it slightly 3d etc)

[viral hill]

In creating a sprite you have to create a sprite every frame, then delete it every frame (theoretically)

no, you can just create your initial sprites and then update the way it looks by manipulating the Texture2D pixel values. all in all, in order to visually update the way it looks, all that's required is a single instantiation for each data type at the start, then a single for loop for each data type that you want to graph.

or you can go with the much easier (imo) option which is instantiating and deleting them every frame while also knowing how to properly pool and buffer them (i think buffer is the right term? i havent done this stuff in a while)

[next nimbus]

how long does the Unity "Quick Start Bundle" usually stay in the store before refreshing? Since i feel like its been a while

[ivory moat]

You definitely can, but is there any benefit to doing that versus the mesh? Since I feel like mesh is easier to work with and has more potential

[viral hill]

working with meshes means that you must take into account a 3rd dimension of thickness. even though this is probably an unchanging value, it still provides unnecessary complexity when actually creating/manipulating mesh coords (it would be more complex for me, at least).

how would you go about storing and reading the data then use that to modify the meshes? i was thinking of a multidimensional matrix approach as I stated earlier when talking about creating sprites. working with more data is inherently more complex, even if it's just a single unchanging value in each array.

[ivory moat]

Meshes are stored as 3 arrays, vertices, UVs, and triangle indices. Assuming the number of data points on the mesh stays the same (which it would when using a sprite as well), then all you have to do is initialize the mesh once, creating 3 arrays with:
-placeholder vertice values
-correct uv vectors
-triangle indices
Then create a mesh with those arrays (this can all be done in Start).
Then, you shouldn't have to worry about triangle indices, and usually not UV vectors either. That's 2 arrays you can completely ignore.
So all you have to work with is a single array that stores the coordinates in space of all the vertices.

To update vertices, it's a loop across all vertices, but with only 1 line per position that updates the vertex value to the new value, then outside the loop literally 2 lines:
mesh.vertices = vertexPositions;
mesh.RecalculateNormals()

There's actually no need to worry at all about thickness, all you work with are coordinates. If you only use coordinates along a 2d plane anyway, the mesh will be on a 2d plane. If you move one vertex in the array out of the plane, it doesn't cause any issue since the 2d plane you had been working with was already 3d the whole time.

Actually, talking about this "thickness" dimension, a sprite is already rendered on a mesh. So it's easy to see that isn't an issue.

Overally you can still work with either, but I think a mesh is simply easier to create and easier to manipulate.

[viral hill]

sprites can be rendered using the sprite renderer or a UI image component, which auto generate quads and use them to render the sprite. so the work is already done for you here.

i see what you mean though. it's not as bad as i originally thought when you lay it out like that. i admit i conflated the issue a bit.

[misty bear]

I'm starting new project now, should i do it in ECS DOTS or just do it in normal way?

tbh i don't really understand what ECS DOTS thingy yet

[copper gust]

if you dont know what it is then you wont need to use it

[misty bear]

ok then thx

[tawdry nebula]

how can i add text to this inside unity

[storm patio]

you can use text components from TMP

there's 2, one for UI (canvas) and one for worldspace

[ivory moat]

If you want to use your own font there's instructions here https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/create-meshes-text-strings.html

[tawdry nebula]

could you please elaborate

[tawdry nebula]

thanks , i already have custom fonts appreciate the help tho

[storm patio]

try looking up tmp (textmesh pro) tutorials, you'll have to import tmp essentials and then you can use the components
if you're on earlier versions you may have to install a package

[tawdry nebula]

thanks

my camera isnt showing the game for some reason

in game menu

it was fine yesterday

its showing the default blue background

ui shows up okay game isnt

[visual peak]

I don't exactly know what channel to post this in, and im quite new to unity.

Could someone help me with getting a mesh from this txt file?
I got this obj data from a unity game using Runtime Unity Editor mod/plugin

[copper gust]

no helping with mods here, sorry

[visual peak]

oof

[visual peak]

Do you know of any servers that could?

[copper gust]

no, sorry

usually its game specific

[visual peak]

When you say game specific what do you mean?

[copper gust]

usually there are communities for a given game, not unity modding in general

[visual peak]

I have one more question

[visual peak]

Have you ever seen these strings of numbers to get a Mesh

[copper gust]

nope

[inland fox]

a mesh has index and vertex buffers binary data or something that can be compiled to that.
this is just metadata

[visual peak]

Alright thanks for the info

[sly lake]

The reason we can’t help with modding here is - this isn’t a Unity format. I don’t even recognize the syntax. So it’s specific to the game.

[copper gust]

one of the reasons anyway

[visual peak]

It probably wouldn't help but the game is CarX Drift Racing Online

[plucky aspen]

hi. in the 6000.0.49f1 version of unity, where are these?

oh nvm im an idiot

found it :(

[whole valley]

Hello guys

I have a small question, if you all don't mind

I am trying to make a script that instantiates an object, and then adds its mesh into 1 big one

[inland river]

#1390346878394040320

[whole valley]

Alright, sorry about that

[inland river]

all good

[carmine cave]

Hello Guys

I have a small question

This is in game mode and my player camera is a default camera so how do i fix these lines at the edges

without reducing performance and like make it look good?

[craggy pollen]

this looks really edgy, is this the camera view or or scene view

[carmine cave]

its the game view like what u call that the one after pressing the game tab?

[craggy pollen]

yeah i was asking because i thought you accidentally changed the scale at top

[carmine cave]

no the scale isnt changed

and the screenshot was taken on play mode

heres my camera settings

[scarlet sluice]

are you talking about the jagged edges?

[carmine cave]

Yea like how do i fix them

[scarlet sluice]

Experiment with anti-aliasing on the camera

[carmine cave]

oh so i want performance a bit over graphics so like which would be the best anti aliasing?

[craggy pollen]

and maybe add some pp, just a small amount of blur, but the pp in general will have an impact, you have a few settings

[carmine cave]

oh and what about anti aliasing?

[scarlet sluice]

Not sure about the most performant, I would guess FXAA

[carmine cave]

ok, Thanks a lot :)

[scarlet sluice]

Is anyone else having a lot of crashes on 6.2?

[carmine cave]

YEp

me

[carmine cave]

FR! there are many crashes as long as i have been using it

[scarlet sluice]

Yeah it's a bit annoying. Hope the next patch addresses them

[carmine cave]

yeah

Sorry for disturbing again,

Whats with this camera clipping

it just doent fix

[scarlet sluice]

If it's in the scene view just press F once

[carmine cave]

no no its the game view

[scarlet sluice]

Could be you're behind objects that only have a front side. Could be the clipping threshold on your camera

[carmine cave]

yea i am behind the wall thats true but it happens for evry thing.

[scarlet sluice]

Try a near clipping plane of 0.01 or something

[carmine cave]

ok lemme try

Thanks a lot! I never knew this even existed

[scarlet sluice]

All good, you can lower the far clipping too if you want more performance on mobile or something

[proper lion]

how to lower the terrain to make rivers and lakes

[craggy pollen]

there is a brush /raise and lower terrain
#⛰️┃terrain-3d

[uncut ridge]

yea u can set depth too

[tender thicket]

i just had 2 scripts with the same thing in it ;-;

[uncut ridge]

its new? every time i open unity editor with new project its error with jetbrain package i bored

what the hell

[storm patio]

yeah, there's a new version of the package and the old one got deprecated i think? but the features haven't been updated for the new version

[uncut ridge]

yea its deprecated you also get this?

[storm patio]

i haven't created a new project in ages

[cobalt reef]

yo im looking for somone to make a game whit me for now i wanan just to make a map but the idea is cool its a vr game (like gorilla tag) so if u wnat dm me

[storm patio]

!collab

[vagrant root]

:loudspeaker: Collaborating and Job Posting

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

[cobalt reef]

Thanks

[hidden wagon]

Hi

[cobalt reef]

hi

[storm patio]

hi, this is not a social space
https://nohello.net

[hidden wagon]

Hi

[storm patio]

please don't spam

[cobalt reef]

this will be fun to wach

[hidden wagon]

When was I spamming

[storm patio]

#💻┃unity-talk message, see https://nohello.net

[hidden wagon]

I said hi TWO TIMES

[storm patio]

yeah, this isn't a social space. imagine if everyone said that as they opened the server

[cobalt reef]

we just wanna talk

[storm patio]

this isn't a social space, there isn't an off-topic channel here

[hidden wagon]

ITS CALLED UNITY TALK FOR A GODANM REASON

[storm patio]

it's for talking about unity, not for idle chit-chat

[cobalt reef]

hahahahahahha

[cobalt reef]

maybe we wannet to talk about aa game dont just asumy cuz of one mesage

[hidden wagon]

No I'ma chat with people bc idgaf if they care or not

[storm patio]

then talk about that, no need to open with greetings for 5 minutes

[storm patio]

it's literally against the rules lmao

[latent hornet]

lmao

[hidden wagon]

I literally said it two times within 5 seconds

Are u dumb

[copper gust]

not very nice

[vivid imp]

I'll be there 😁

[cobalt reef]

we just said hi

[storm patio]

..yeah, that would constitute as spam

[cobalt reef]

why are u causing a scene cuz of hi

[hidden wagon]

UR SPEC

[storm patio]

and ive linked you a site that explains why that's not very good practice for technical support communities

this isn't a social space.

[cobalt reef]

BRO IT AINT THAT DEEP

[storm patio]

yeah, it really isn't. don't spam "Hi", that's all

[hidden wagon]

Ur sped I said it two times and u think it's spam stfu no one cares rn ur actually sped so stfu pls ur fucking annoying

[cobalt reef]

WE SAID IT ONCE

[copper gust]

this also isn't very nice

[cobalt reef]

hahahahahahaha

[storm patio]

it.. quite literally is spam, it is unnecessary content that doesn't convey any information

[hidden wagon]

Idc

[storm patio]

and it's discouraged here

[cobalt reef]

huh

[tender thicket]

just ping a mod at this point

[hidden wagon]

STFU MR EINSTIEN IDGAF

[copper gust]

<@&502884371011731486>

[cobalt reef]

we just said hi

and she caused a scene

[hidden wagon]

Ike

Ikr

[storm patio]

i linked a website explaining why "hi" is discouraged here lmao

[tender thicket]

chris politely asked you not to say hi because it's breaking the rules?

[hidden wagon]

WE SAID IT TWICE BRO YALL ARE BIG ASS BABYIES

[storm patio]

and you couldve just like, not continued?

[charred fog]

!warn 1389416409381081118 Don't spam the channel. Read #📖┃code-of-conduct

[vagrant root]

@nexus12349876 warned

Reason: Don't spam the channel. Read #📖┃code-of-conduct
Duration: Permanent

[hidden wagon]

Fuck you

[charred fog]

!ban 1389416409381081118 Spam.

[cobalt reef]

XDDDDDD

[vagrant root]

@nexus12349876 banned

Reason: Spam.
Duration: Permanent

[storm patio]

you aren't helping

[cobalt reef]

bro im just laughing

[charred fog]

@cobalt reef There's no off-topic here. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[cobalt reef]

but i just said hi

[sage basin]

If he didn't get banned he was gonna get another warning for ableism

Just move on

[charred fog]

Yep, I just woke up to this haven't seen the rest of it.

[storm patio]

one person said hi, another person said hi, i said it's not a social space, the first person said hi again, and it escalated really quickly from there
starts here #💻┃unity-talk message

[arctic portal]

do you have a reliable tutorial i can use? i tried a shader from github it just didnt work. the output was just white

[charred fog]

@cobalt reef Stop spamming collab promotion. You were directed to the correct place yesterday already. And do read #📖┃code-of-conduct . If you don't have Unity related questions don't spam channels with off-topic.

[cobalt reef]

bro wtf is this server😭

[storm patio]

a unity server.

not a collab-seeking, not an offtopic, not a social server

[cobalt reef]

im gonna get banned for breathing😭

[storm patio]

you would get banned for doing things that aren't appropriate here, as laid out in #📖┃code-of-conduct

[uncut ridge]

İts True

[cobalt reef]

offtopic is saying hi thats crazzy

[craggy pollen]

although i agree on what you said, this server wants it like that Miku

[gray dirge]

At least on unity 6.3, you can use shader graph to create terrain shaders. Their sample shaders include a triplanar shader too https://discussions.unity.com/t/terrain-shaders-in-shader-graph-new-in-unity-6-3/1683627. The problem with traditional shader code is that it often only works on specific render pipeline. Don't know if that's what happened for you. People on #1390346776804069396 can probably help with that. If you are on 6.3, I would highly recommend going for the shader graph versions

[arctic portal]

i am on 6.0... i'll still try out the graph and see how it goes, thanks a lot!!

[quick axle]

does anyone know why the game view lags when its not in fullscreen mode?

[gray dirge]

Don't know which kind of lag you mean but it could be for example the need to render both scene and game view at the same time

[quick axle]

is there any way to disable the scene from rendering while viewing the game window

[gray dirge]

Probably not. What you mean by lag? Is the game visibly stuttering or is it just the fps getting lower (and by how much)?

[quick axle]

i get 250fps when i play on with "Play Maximized" and 100 fps when i play normally

also sometimes the normal method works too

[gray dirge]

That's quite the difference. You could try the profiler to see if you can find anything of interest from there. There are things that can make the scene view heavy to render (such as gizmos which is quite heavy especially if there are ton of gizmos objects) but it could be something else too. You could also try to only close the scene view to verify if that is the main problem. Could also be some other heavy window or something else altogether

[sly lake]

Editor performance is not equal to game performance

[gray dirge]

That is very true. If the performance isn't enough to cause any problems for game testing etc. there's no need to worry

[shadow heron]

This server has rules miku. This isn't a social space. "Imagine calling someone on the phone, going hello! then putting them on hold". If you have an issue and need help with something then ask.

[copper gust]

its been 40min homie

[shadow heron]

Oh shit lol. My bad I'm half asleep.

[scarlet sluice]

Pretty normal if you have an object or editor window opened with a heavy custom editor. Wouldn't worry about it for your game's actual performance

[tawdry nebula]

my game isnt shwoing in game view i get a blue screen from when u open a new project there in scene view everything looks fine

any one know why its happening

[scarlet sluice]

Your camera might be in a weird position facing away from where your scene is?

[storm patio]

sounds like your camera just isn't capturing anything

are you in a 2d or a 3d project?

[tawdry nebula]

camera seems to be okay

because i have it facing the player using a script

basically what cinemachine does

[scarlet sluice]

The Z position of your camera should be below 0 during play mode probably

[quick axle]

alright thank you

[storm patio]

uhhh, in 2d?

[tawdry nebula]

z is 1

[storm patio]

you generally don't rotate cameras in 2d

[storm patio]

ok, it's -10, where it should be

[tulip panther]

yo anyone use Cursor as editor?

[storm patio]

this camera says its background is pink, you said you were getting a blue screen?

do you have any other cameras in the scene?

[tawdry nebula]

no, it was okay yesterday but now its broken

[storm patio]

do you have vcs?

[tawdry nebula]

vcs whats that?

[scarlet sluice]

huh check the culling mask is rendering everything and maybe tag it MainCamera

[storm patio]

version control system, basically either git or uvc

[tawdry nebula]

yes i have unity version controll on

[storm patio]

if you do, you could see changes you made compared to your last commit

[tawdry nebula]

how

[storm patio]

no clue with uvc, tbh

[tawdry nebula]

i looked it change sets it only shows 2 dates both are of today

[storm patio]

so you've only made commits today?

[steady ledge]

I am working on a campus virtual tour project
We have taken 360 degree images using photo sphere feature in google pixel mobile and imported them as panorama images in unity
then, we have implemented navigation between two images using buttons and it is working
but now, we need to implement navigation by using arrows (either keeping an arrow image or creating a UI), we are unable to achieve this
Can anyone please help me in this...

[tawdry nebula]

i just had it on cuz it seemed useful idk how you use it

all i did was add a small sprite today i remvoed it to check but the problems still there

[storm patio]

have you tried going through tutorials? are you getting any errors with an existing implementation (if you have one?)

[tawdry nebula]

can i share my project to you so you can have a look?

[steady ledge]

Yeah I have gone through tutorials and tried to implement it by following the chatgpt steps, but I am unable to acheive it

[scarlet sluice]

I can check it out via screen share if you're up for it

[tawdry nebula]

sure

[storm patio]

maybe don't follow genAI bs

we need more context about your specific issue, if you come here just asking for tutorials then you're just going to be pointed to tutorials

[storm patio]

have you tried searching t:Camera in the hierarchy tab just to confirm that there's only 1 camera

[scarlet sluice]

Send me a DM and we can try a short voice call.

[steady ledge]

Can you suggest me any youtube channel that tells all the tutorials perfectly..?

[tawdry nebula]

t:camera doesnt show anything but yes i did search camera only 1 showed up

[storm patio]

no, you can google for some

[storm patio]

the casing matters, im pretty sure

searching camera would just search by name

[steady ledge]

okay, thank you

[storm patio]

searching t:Camera would search for camera components, in case you accidentally added them to other gameobjects

[granite sorrel]

uuu cool

[storm patio]

please do not solicit private support, there's a reason community servers exist

[granite sorrel]

if you want, we can meet there (also if someone else is coming)

[storm patio]

screensharing is just a relatively poor way to give information, and doing DM support just negates all the benefits of having a community

[copper gust]

Na

[tawdry nebula]

i had a camera on one of the lights its fixed now thank you

[scarlet sluice]

yeah it's fine. it was an extra camera lol you were right

[tender imp]

Hello, can someone please help me? I keep getting these error messages when I open my project.

[radiant pewter]

is it normal for a scriptable object to get corrupted EVERY TIME you change its class in Unity 6? I could have sworn it wasn't like this on Unity 2022

[lapis gate]

you mean breaking serialization? I've had that happen a few times but that's why we back up before touching that stuff

[sudden rapids]

Can someone link me code monkeys game jam live?

Thanks!

It is a unity engine participation live

[potent geyser]

Are you really unable to just type the channel name into Youtube? 🤔

[radiant pewter]

it's just annoying tbh

[real sphinx]

do you try uninstalling your unity editor

[tender imp]

no

[keen swan]

how do i access a unity project shared to me with unity cloud

[fierce shuttle]

anyone here have experience with steamworks? Im just waiting for my tax stuff to verify and I'm wondering if I want to work with the API, will I have to upload a new build each time to mess with it?

[near wigeon]

if you're talking about VC and if it was properly setup, you add from the hub

[keen swan]

Unity Technologies

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this is an email i got about it, but i dont see anything in my unity hub or im not looking well enough

i dont see any link to join it tho in the mail

[balmy kettle]

You would select the option to add a project then add it from version control or whatever the remote option currently says

[plain dagger]

If you are in this organisation already I think it requires no further action

you should have access to the project on unity cloud

[keen swan]

ye im in the organization

ohhhh i needed to switch organizations from my personal one to his

lmao

ty for the help lol

[keen swan]

still not seeing it, where would i find unity cloud on the unity hub?

[storm patio]

it's a website

[keen swan]

ah and how would i then edit the game, since i dont think that would be on the website too

[near wigeon]

the hub to add the project

Add from Repository

[plain dagger]

a project can be linked to a unity cloud project

the actual project files could be stored with unity vc or git, you didnt say

[keen swan]

ah icccc just figured there would be a tab but this is smarter

ty

[plain dagger]

you go online to do other unity cloud things for a project (e.g. remote config)

[keen swan]

is it good to use unity version conrol or not

control

[near wigeon]

Git is better

[keen swan]

any setup guides?

[potent topaz]

Hi can someone tell me they see these rectangle rendering bugs in the editor UI too?!

[near wigeon]

if you Unity Git Setup I'm sure there's plenty

[keen swan]

alr once again, ty for the help

[balmy kettle]

https://unity.huh.how/info/git

[worthy trail]

Hello, does anyone know how to make the unity mobile orientation landscape instead of portrait?

[plain dagger]

change the allowed orientations in player settings for your mobile platforms.

should be with the resolution settings

[hexed path]

hey what am I missing out on by doing Unity dev on a mac? "Unknown, unknowns."

it works pretty well for me so far

[near wigeon]

what?

[hexed path]

I'm just curious if there is anything to be won by switching to Windows.

[near wigeon]

you're missing out the spyware and adware on windows /s

[hexed path]

you sound like a mac user 🙂

[near wigeon]

I prefer Unix user ::P

[hexed path]

ah ok. elite.

[near wigeon]

fun fact though, unity runs flawless on ARM

[hexed path]

I haven't had any problem on apple silicon.

the only thing I can't do is preview on Quest 3

[worthy trail]

Under the 'Player' section of the project settings?

[hexed path]

but I can push an APK

[near wigeon]

I think thats something Meta broke no? Idk if any android preview ever worked on unity in general

[plain dagger]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/class-PlayerSettingsAndroid.htm
The Orientation section

[near wigeon]

I always push APK to preview anyway

[hexed path]

fwiw it worked on the DK1 a bazillion years ago before Oculus yanked their Mac drivers. irrelevant piece of history at this point.

[hexed path]

what do you do in place of logcat when you need to debug?

[near wigeon]

wdym I still use Logcat

also you need is ADB to work, I also have it working wireless besides USB

[plain dagger]

you can use a debugger if you enable script debugging for a build

[hexed path]

I have to look into that. With the APK running on the device I've always found that I lost my unity console logging.

logcat works yes, I got confused for a second.

[worthy trail]

This is all I see

[plain dagger]

what platform is this for?

make sure ios/android support is installed so you can change settings for those platforms...

[worthy trail]

Yeahh, that's the issue. I'll install them now, thank youu

[naive estuary]

Im trying to bake the lights and this is the result. What's wrong?

[plain dagger]

Does that happen in the scene view? What if you change the scene view to the unlit mode?

It looks like z-fighting

[hexed path]

I was going to say z-fighting too

[naive estuary]

It doesn't happen in unlit mode. but it happens in playe mode too