💻┃unity-talk

[still stone]

Don't worry, that's how oceans are made

[tepid cove]

im trying to make a floor solid so i can stand on it and im so confused lolll

[still stone]

So make your floor object, ensure there's a collider attached

And make sure your character also has a collider

[slow dirge]

Might want to go over basics first.

!learn

[vagrant root]

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

[chilly blade]

you got this. Dont be afraid to make mistakes and break something its all part of it. Also beauty comes with time. If you rough up the map and scripts and get a basic feel then work from their you are are better off. you wont go crazy without time

[tepid cove]

im not gonna stop at all its frustrating is all im making a 2D game and im trying to make the floor walkable

[still stone]

Gives me hope for growing old, that I'll become beautiful

[chilly blade]

these are all from 2014 when i was starting, i was working on 5 diff projects because i wasnt sure what i wanted for a game.

[still stone]

Oh gods that UI is not contrasting, that would be a hard look at

[chilly blade]

it was and thank god i have learned from then

[still stone]

So using that, what would you recommend for others in their User interface, included just below is one of mine

[chilly blade]

These are from 2014, the pics above

[still stone]

I know, but you learnt from them and hopefully can advise others who are just starting out

[chilly blade]

My code back then was rough at best and i was working with GUI and had no idea what i was doing, the new UI systems help so much

[still stone]

So newer people should look into the new UI System, and what resources would you recommend if there are any out there

My go to resources for anything game dev outside of unity learn, are paid for, which a lot of people can't do

[chilly blade]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/ui-components This will help

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/working-with-ui-in-unity

https://learn.unity.com/search?k=["tag%3A5818e455090915002eeb1b8a"]

I have completed almost all the courses they offer. Honeslty could have them all done but i slack in this area

[still stone]

I moved onto looking into their foreign choices.. there wasn't enough

[chilly blade]

Their is always more to it, these are just starters

[tepid cove]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[still stone]

Bless you

[tepid cove]

i just wanna make floor ;-;

[chilly blade]

2d or 3d?

[tepid cove]

2dddddd

[chilly blade]

BoxCollider2D is applied?

CapsuleCollider2D, EdgeCollider2D other options

does the player have a collider?

[still stone]

What type of 2d... Top down or terraria style

[tepid cove]

i fucking hate myself

[tepid cove]

thank you

[chilly blade]

all part of learning

you're welcome

[stuck flower]

Maybe next time open with the question instead of whatever this is

[tepid cove]

sorry lol

[oak meadow]

Is it a good idea to have you player set an attack trigger for the animation controller say when a button is pressed then in the attack behavior script then have that call the attack function on the player controller

[sudden zephyr]

What happened I ask for only help not for Collebretion

[slow dirge]

You can try.
But if the help you need would require considerable commitment from the other person, you're unlikely to get it.

[craggy pollen]

yeah this is how you would do it

[tough lantern]

I keep getting out of memory errors bc code that I believe is repeating endlessly. Just wanna ask if these errors are causing unity to become very slow or if it's a separate issue

[craggy pollen]

#💻┃code-beginner and post your code

[tough lantern]

...not looking to fix code

asking if out of memory errors are what's causing my unity to lag

[daring birch]

hey, does anyone have an assetoad that i cloud use or borrow for my project? i'd really appreciate it.

[exotic relic]

What GPU do you have?

[tough lantern]

Apple m1

[exotic relic]

That’s the cpu but that should be sufficient.
While lagging, is there a blue progress bar at the bottom right corner of unity?

[slow dirge]

It's possible. Hard to say for sure without more details.

[storm patio]

probably not. sounds like a memory leak / excess memory use, which would cause both of those things

the error itself probably isn't the cause of the lag, but hints to the real cause

sounds like something you should profile, maybe?

[exotic relic]

If it’s not during runtime tho, it could be generating lighting or compiling shaders.
That’s why I ask if there is a blue progress bar at the bottom while you are experiencing the lag

[errant schooner]

I'm trying to launch a 3d hdrp game I was making and I upgraded it to the latest version and it keeps getting stuck after I fixed all the new errors when I rotate the cmaera in the scene it gets stuck on a compiling shader bar

[vapid ore]

For some reason I can't add sound to my project

[storm patio]

what's the issue you're having exactly?

[tough lantern]

It's during an action, 100% caused by my code, I don't remember there being any blue progress bar there... unity becomes unresponsive in the same way that it does before crashing.

[vapid ore]

I clicked on the add resource section as shown in the picture, and a sound from the windows system rang out signaling an error somewhere.

[storm patio]

by "lag", does it stutter or freeze

[tough lantern]

oh it freezes

when I say lag I mean that it takes a very long time to enter and exit play mode

[storm patio]

did you get an error message? anything crashed?

[tough lantern]

but in testing, it freezes for a solid minute before giving an error and just not executing the code I wrote

[storm patio]

could be some really long/infinite loop

[tough lantern]

which I'm thinking causes the lag

[exotic relic]

In that case if it only happens in the scene that uses your script, share your script

[tough lantern]

I'm pretty sure it's infinite

[vapid ore]

I did not receive any notification

[storm patio]

then it's your code that needs to be fixed

[storm patio]

perhaps check editor logs

!logs

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Unity Hub

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Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[tough lantern]

I'm not actually looking to find a solution right now, I can probably do that myself, I know the code is broken, I just wanted to know if this error is what was causing unity's lag ^^"

[storm patio]

correlation is not causation

the error is not causing lag

something is causing both

that something is probably your code

[tough lantern]

I know man 😭 I just asked because it might be 😭

[exotic relic]

If you don’t care for a solution then why ask

[tough lantern]

I didn't ask for a solution guys

I just asked

is this out of memory error causing my lag

[storm patio]

the answer is no

[tough lantern]

ty

[storm patio]

your question fundamentally implies that there's an issue that you want resolved - it doesn't really imply that you aren't asking for help with it at the moment
it kinda falls into the pattern of an "x/y problem" question

[tough lantern]

not really, yes there's an issue I want resolved, but I'm gonna try to resolve it on my own

[storm patio]

i get that, im saying the original question you asked doesn't convey that last part

[slow dirge]

We didn't even see that error of yours. How can we possibly answer that question??

[tough lantern]

bc i didn't realise the cause of the error was relevant __" I just assumed "out of memory error" was description enough

ig out of memory is... a lot more general than I was thinking

[storm patio]

errors are just reporting issues

they aren't themselves the issue

[tough lantern]

yeah and I thought it reported the issue well enough 😔

[placid jacinth]

Chris more like Chris Chan, lol

[tough lantern]

but ig lots of things can cause that

I think I do get it now anyway

[storm patio]

it did report the issue - out of memory, something's using a lot of memory

using a lot of memory (well, the things that come with it) can cause lag

errors themselves doesn't cause anything

[tough lantern]

this might be a terminology issue

do you mean "the message telling you "hey smn went wrong" doesn't cause lag"

[storm patio]

yes

[tough lantern]

omg I'm not that dumb 😭

[storm patio]

(that's what the error is, just a message)

[tough lantern]

isn't it just reporting the error tho?

[storm patio]

some people are (well not dumb, just inexperienced), i'm not making assumptions lol

[tough lantern]

ok no fair enough

I can agree with that

[storm patio]

not sure what you meant by this question, what's "it" here?

[tough lantern]

the "error"
I was thinking the message wasn't the error itself, but instead what reported that an error existed

not the error reporting the... issue? idk the term for that now then :/

[storm patio]

(there isn't really a solid term for that, i tend to go with issue)

[daring birch]

who have good asset road

[tough lantern]

like a 3d model?

[craggy pollen]

the assetstore

[vapid ore]

is this the fault?

[storm patio]

yes, exit play mode before importing assets

[storm patio]

consider something like this (a contrived example yeah, but hopefully to illustrate my point)

Transform deepestChild;

void Start() {
  deepestChild = transform;
  while (deepestChild.childCount > 0) {
    deepestChild = deepestChild.GetChild(1);
  };
}

void Update() {
  deepestChild.SendMessage("SomeMethod");
}
```suppose this code used to find the deepest child of the current gameobject (going only through the first child each time)
the issue/bug/mistake here is the `GetChild(1)` (where it should be `GetChild(0)`)

suppose there's a gameobject in this hierarchy which only has 1 child - then `deepestChild` would be `null`, then on the next cycle, you'd get a NullReferenceException.

then on Update, you'd get a NullReferenceException each frame.

the error from Start isn't the cause of the one from Update - the error from Start doesn't cause anything, except perhaps making the method terminate early (if that's in discussion)
rather, both errors are caused by the `GetChild(1)` bug

(i realize you may already understand this, but just to make sure we're on the same page)

[icy mica]

Hi yall

[wild blade]

hello

[unreal shore]

Hey!

[storm patio]

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

[tough lantern]

ok that does make sense yeah

[glass kraken]

@storm patio sorryy to ping you, but do you think this result is fine? It's my first try and I'm not using any components as you advised me to do:

[storm patio]

are you asking for feedback or what exactly

please don't ping specific people for help

if it looks good to you - if it achieves what you're going for - then it's fine

[glass kraken]

yes feedback of what u can see that's poorly done, u advised me to use a vertical layout component and a scroll rect component so I thought maybe that makes it look bad idk

[glass kraken]

okk sorry I won't do it anymore

[storm patio]

figure out what you're going for and then implement that

that is wholly up to you

[glass kraken]

I can't really see what I do, if it's good or not I don't know how to say but when I play a game I can see if he's good or not but when I try mine, I don't feel anything

[sweet charm]

I can tell u it looks more cartoon-ish rather than actual printed text, if that what u are trying to achieve

[tough lantern]

this feels a lot more game design focused which... I could be wrong but I don't think that's what this server is for. less about game development in general (tho maybe in #1180170818983051344) but otherwise technical support and such. Probably worth finding other places for that kind of feedback (there are plenty I'm sure)

[hushed hamlet]

If its game design, we would most certainly welcome that kind of chat in the /r/gamedev discord. Its almost entirely on design strategies these days.

[hushed hamlet]

Its a lot of text with a big font, bold, uppercase - so it competes with its own content for attention. My only advice would be to think of it in context of the game.

If its too much to pay attention to, players will quickly learn to discard the text and just skip it. Dungeoneers is a great example, cool game. But full pages of text that is meaningless to me as a player - teaches me to ignore it and just skip skip skip.

[sweet charm]

This is likely lore text that u usually scatter around the map to be collected as an option

[hushed hamlet]

Yeah I think so. I would just use a less overly bold font, if its like a book in the game. As it is I wouldn't pay attention to the content.

There is also some good book animation assets, and in some games ive found handwriting the book pages with actual pencil and diagrams, and then shader/sfx scribbling it to the page, can make it feel really good and rewarding to dig into the lore. But it might be grossly over the top.

[worthy trail]

How do I check if mouse is down AND within a specified position? I created a script to rotate the camera by dragging the screen, but I want to make it only start dragging if a specific part of the screen is being touched

[icy mica]

Uhh me don't know I don't even have a PC or Laptop :(

[plain dagger]

do that, check the current mouse position and if its not within a min/max range then dont let the drag begin

[worthy trail]

So I could store x and y min/max positions as variables, and then use if statements to check if the mouse is within that AND held down?

[plain dagger]

Yes

with the new input system you can get the mouse position with Mouse.current.position
This position is relative to the current Display size

[craggy pollen]

and consider the screen width and height too, you would not just declare some min max

[worthy trail]

Okay, let me try that. Thank you

[plain dagger]

you would define a normalised min max area

[worthy trail]

The suggestion worked, thanks so much!

[modest heart]

Um guys, it is normal to get asked an opinion about the server in the dm? (Ik that maybe it’s a dumb question but still)

[storm patio]

not really

DMs from people you don't know are almost always a bad idea

[slim sluice]

Hi guys

i just got unity

[radiant pewter]

seems 6000.0.62f1 still has the editor bug where stuff just disappears and vomits errors

I've never had it happen on the package manager until now though

[sweet charm]

Just switch to LTS

This has been happening for a while

[radiant pewter]

this IS LTS

[sweet charm]

I mean the lastest version

[radiant pewter]

you mean 6.2?

this is the latest 6 version

[radiant pewter]

I might have to try it

just sucks for group/uni projects because you can't just hop versions

[sweet charm]

I think they removed these from the install menu

It's best to go to the download archive

[whole kiln]

Why do my wheel collider not detect the floor?

[storm patio]

does the floor have anything that would make it be a floor?

a collider, perhaps

[whole kiln]

it has mesh collider

just couldn't figure out why the wheel collider not doing his job

[pale coyote]

I can finally run hdrp

[stable sky]

help, who knows Blender, why does my UV look fine in the first job and apply normally in unity, but in the second job, the UV looks strange and doesn't apply normally in unity

[viral hill]

ask the blender server

[last ember]

does anybody know where i can find unity player models for my gorilla tag fan game? i dont wanna use robot kyle or a human though

[sweet charm]

Unity asset store, Sketchfab

[strong fable]

how do I add a rendertexture as a light cookie on a point light? I've created a custom render texture asset and the point light cookie does show it in the picker but when I click it nothing happens

[nimble hedge]

anyone know how to fix this stuck?, i already stuck 1 hour ago and my ram become high to 100% ( 32gb ram )

[vivid cedar]

have you tried killing it and restarting?

[nimble hedge]

yep i already do that

[sweet charm]

Are u saving the project in SSD or HDD?

[nimble hedge]

ssd, no hdd in my device

[vivid cedar]

is it only this project that has trouble or all projects?

[nimble hedge]

i think all project

should i change editor?

[vivid cedar]

Which editor version are you using

[sweet charm]

6000.2.6f2

It's written there

[nimble hedge]

6000.2.6f2

[vivid cedar]

Can you try upgrading to the latest?

[sweet charm]

Try deleting the Library folder in the project first

[slow dirge]

You could also have a look at the editor logs to see what the editor was doing last.

[nimble hedge]

i think 6.2.6f2 is lastest?

[vivid cedar]

nope

[nimble hedge]

ok sec

[sweet charm]

This version is full of trouble anyways

[balmy kettle]

you're about 6 patches behind the latest, actually

[nimble hedge]

ahhh i see

Should I install the latest version?

[vivid cedar]

worth a shot

[nimble hedge]

my hub cannot open rn fk

is this lastest version?

[sweet charm]

Yes

[nimble hedge]

ok ill try to install

[fervent carbon]

yo guys im right now trynna publish my game as a solo dev, (on google play) but i need 12 testers how do i find these

bc im a solo dev, thts pretty hard to do

and i dont have alot of connections who are willing to test it

yk

[potent geyser]

Post online? Reddit? Other communities? We have #1180170818983051344 where you can post your game.

[misty rover]

Heya guys i have a question...

[potent island]

Hello everyone, I'm learning how to use unity's animator. I have multiple animation events I want to use at the same time. Is there a way to display clearer like in separate rows?

[potent geyser]

Nope

You could make a different function that a single event there calls, and then have that function call the group of functions instead?

[misty rover]

Im making this 2D pixel art game and i made my character ... i want him to be customiseable ... basically change the color of his clothes and hat with Hue/Saturation sliders... i asked ChatGPT whats the best way to do that with all 4 sides (front, left side, right side, back) and it told me thats i should export separately clothes, hat , and rest of the body for each view ,make them gray and then make a script for changing the colors ... but im not sure if thats right thats why im asking.....

And another thing im not sure how to do is how do i make it so the color change to every view of my character?
Because the "preview" will be the front view where the color will change but how do i apply it to other views as well?
thanks

[potent island]

I see, I'll try that ty

[neat spear]

Someone pls help me in #1390346776804069396

[celest oar]

er

[hushed hamlet]

That would work. If each layer is a separate image, you can tint them individually or use a custom shader.

Just keep in mind layers & materials = batch calls. And youll want to monitor for performance issues down the road.

(Depending on all the microdecisions you make on that path)

[misty rover]

yea thats why im asking because putting 12 images just on the character ... idk im new to this but it seems a lot

• i want to animate it so thats more images for each frame

also do u know the answer to my second question by any chance?

[hushed hamlet]

If its a separate layer, I.e. layer 12 "shirt" on each rotation, you can tint the material or use a shader.

Youll usually need to write some kind of avatar controller to keep that all in sync if you do it that way

You also could do the whole thing in a shader. Give it texture layers for each clothing layer, make them in white PNGs, and mask/multiply it by a colour or two to apply it. But that takes a bit more knowledge

[thick axle]

cans samone help me please for a project i need realy need help

[viral hill]

!ask

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[ripe sphinx]

So like im trying to distribute my unity app to collaborators that need it to do their work

[plain dagger]

!vc

[ripe sphinx]

And the past week we've been using onedrive

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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.

[plain dagger]

yea stop that before you loose data, use source control like git or unity vc

github has free private hosting

[ripe sphinx]

The project is on azure devops

Ideally id want to create a build pipeline

But that looks to be a involved

But i cant even figure out how to upload artifacts on there

[plain dagger]

github and gitlab have CI features so you will be fine

using onedrive/dropbox is such a bad solution that will surely fuck you over at some point

[ripe sphinx]

Whats the workflow tho? Like i don't want to have to create a new repo in GitHub

If i have one in azure devops

[plain dagger]

do you already have a source control reposotory?

[ripe sphinx]

Yes. Im using azuredevops

[plain dagger]

thats not a source control system to my knowledge

oh its git

[ripe sphinx]

Its just git + a bunch of project management stuff

Yes

Not a niche thing by anymeans lol

[plain dagger]

thanks for saying it was git earlier! /s

[ripe sphinx]

I didnt think i had to

[plain dagger]

i told you to use soemthing like git so clearly I wasnt aware what azure offers

Its like me saying i use aws without any more clarification

[ripe sphinx]

In anycase

Like even within ADO im not sure how to create artifacts

Without getting very involved

[sleek gazelle]

yo real quick question, why are my public variables of offset not showing up in the script component in unity inspector?

thank you 😄

[balmy kettle]

you probably have compile errors

[sleek gazelle]

ahhhh u were right, thank you :3

[proper lion]

Should i add LOD group to a low poly rocks

[viral hill]

you do you

[stable sky]

Why does the gizmo move when I import a model from blender to unity?

[viral hill]

is your pivot set to center instead of pivot

[vivid cedar]

yeah you're looking at the geometric center here.

If you set your tool handle position to Pivot mode instead of Center you'll see the pivot.

(The Z key will toggle between these modes)

[glass kraken]

ohh okay I'll do that next time thanks bro

[glass kraken]

should I make a dialogue player? like a voice that reads the whole text once opened and the player can only move when it's all read?

[slate galleon]

hello everynyan! my friend asks for unity help! the flashlight he made makes weird shadow artifacts when the light creates other shadows. how to fix it??

[dawn topaz]

Hi, guys i'm making a ragdoll and i have the configurabe joint on each "bone" and i was wondering how does the axis work? The orange and green arrow where should they be pointing? is green arrow the "up" reference?

[proper lion]

Should i add LOD group to a low poly rocks

[sly lake]

If they get nearly imperceptibly small, on-screen, then yes. You’ll want a LOD group with at least culling.

[vivid cedar]

Can you point to one of the "weird shadow artifacts"?

[sweet charm]

I think they mean the lines behind the door

[slate galleon]

like these!

[vivid cedar]

Got it - no idea 😆

[slate galleon]

omg

[vivid cedar]

#1390346776804069396

[slate galleon]

@vivid cedar ok thanks!

[dawn topaz]

Or is there any tutorial that like explains this stuff? The gizmo is very confusing

[stable sky]

Does anyone know how to make a gizmo in the terrain model?

[unreal lintel]

Hay Guys I need some help I've been building this horror game right and I've Watched a tutorial since I am new to building stuff in unity and I Wrote the Script Exactly as the video shows and I keep getting an error and this is what error message I get no matter what Build Index I choose

Scene with build index: 3 couldn't be loaded because it has not been added to the active build profile or shared scene list.
To add a scene to the active build profile or shared scene list use the menu File->Build Profiles
UnityEngine.SceneManagement.SceneManager:LoadScene (int)
MainMenu:PlayGame () (at Assets/Important Stuff/Scripts/MainMenu.cs:10)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem:Update ()

[plain dagger]

Did you read the error and check your build scene list? do you have 4 scenes?

[unreal lintel]

yes I'll show you

[plain dagger]

yea so you have 2 scenes only

so why are you trying to use index 3

[unreal lintel]

I only have Build index 1 and 0 which is the main menu and game and no matter what Build index Number I put in the Script it just increases the number at the bottom left

ive tried one and it just says couldnt load build index 2

even though i have put build index 1 in the code

and the build index number is 1 as you can see via the Scene List

[plain dagger]

can you share the code?

!code

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[unreal lintel]

code ?

as in the script ?

[plain dagger]

the code you are using to load the scene

[unreal lintel]

yea sure 1 sec

how do i send it to you do i click the link on the thing above ?

[plain dagger]

pick one of those websites and share you code via it (e.g. mod.gg)

[unreal lintel]

ok I Chose mod.gg

do I just post it there and thats it ?

[plain dagger]

you have to press save there and then share the unique url

[unreal lintel]

Like this ?
https://paste.mod.gg/ldfsdmenudob/0

And also it keeps saying its on line 10 for the error message

[plain dagger]

Do you understand what this code is doing? its trying to load the scene next after the current scene

therefore the current scene must be last in the list

[unreal lintel]

I'm gonna be honest not really I dont know anything about coding

[plain dagger]

then time to learn some!

[stable sky]

Why do I set the gizmo at the bottom of the object in Blender, but it's not in the right place in Unity?

[unreal lintel]

I've been trying

It's difficult

[storm patio]

make sure your tool is set to pivot instead of center

[plain dagger]

The part to understand is this: SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1

[unreal lintel]

Especilly when no one can teach me I know there is youtube but its just boring asf lmao

[plain dagger]

we get the currently loaded scenes build index, then ADD 1. Then this new number is passed to the LoadScene() function

basic maths!

[stuck flower]

What do you think "the current scene's build index plus one" is going to give you if you're on scene 1

[unreal lintel]

I dunno much maths either lmao 🤣

[storm patio]

you don't know addition?

give yourself some credit

[unreal lintel]

well yes

[plain dagger]

1+1 = 2

[stuck flower]

This is literally one plus one

if that's too hard, you should probably find another hobby

[unreal lintel]

yes I know but thats not what I ment XD

[storm patio]

exactly! you know this stuff! you got this

[plain dagger]

thats why i tried to point out to you that its simple addition

we get a number, add 1 to it and then use the result

[unreal lintel]

well as long as its just that its Should be easy enough

[storm patio]

trust me - it looks a lot harder than it is. it is hard, yes, but not as hard as it seems

a lot of things derive from basic (or less complex) concepts

just gotta identify them

[unreal lintel]

I've been trying to Build my game for like 5 days straight and The fact I still gotta learn code and Build the scripts is scaring me XD

[storm patio]

this isn't a wholly foreign system

yeah that's pretty normal, but gotta get over that fear eventually

[plain dagger]

@unreal lintel does it help if we re write the code like this?

int currentSceneIndex = SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex;
int nextSceneIndex = currentSceneIndex + 1;
SceneManager.LoadScene(nextSceneIndex);

this is functionally the same as your code

[unreal lintel]

a little but I gotta know what everything means for me to understand it fully

[stuck flower]

So, find whatever you don't understand and look it up

What is the thing that doesn't make sense there?

[unreal lintel]

everything

XD

[plain dagger]

Then you may need to learn more about programming first

[stuck flower]

Then you should probably do the pinned courses or !learn before anything else

[storm patio]

does x + 1 make sense to you?

[stuck flower]

Oh right the bot doesn't work unless it's at the start

[storm patio]

that's already more than nothing that you understand

[stuck flower]

!learn

[vagrant root]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[unreal lintel]

Its funny because I can Design stuff and make the game look good I just cannot Code anything lmao thats litterly the only thing I need to learn and I'll be good

[unreal lintel]

no because its just A Letter and a number if I knew what the letter meant then yes I would

[plain dagger]

int x = 5;
int result = x + 1;

[stuck flower]

Then you might need to learn some basic algebra first

it's going to be necessary

[unreal lintel]

bro I know what algebra is I'm saying there is no context before Giving me the x + 1 if there was context like what Rob just put x=5 and then the resut then yes now I Understand

[viral hill]

the context is in the name

[unreal lintel]

huh ?

[viral hill]

what do you think an index is

[upbeat snow]

hi guys im so sorry to interrupt and if this is a really idiotic question, but is there anyway to make it not disappear when ive barely even moved towards it? i wasnt paying attention and something really random happened but i have zero idea what it was. im very new to unity. i have zero idea what to search up to fix this
hopefully this is an easy question to answer im kind of desperate and it's really annoying to me
apologies for terrible grammar and any spelling mistakes, i don't typically pay attention to that unless if i am writing something that's important

[unreal lintel]

I dunno tbh Probably something to do with like numbers like value stuff or sm

[upbeat snow]

sorry for interrupting i just really gotta fix this

[viral hill]

select it and press f

[viral hill]

yeah basic english is a requirement for game dev

[unreal lintel]

Well was I right or wrong ?

I assume I'm right

[upbeat snow]

thank you! (>'-'<)

[viral hill]

this doesnt even mean anything lmao

[stuck flower]

In this case, x is currentSceneIndex. You know what that is

[unreal lintel]

well I gave you like 2 answers either something to do with numbers or a value

thats what I said

hold up lemme search it up real quick

[storm patio]

i don't think index is a common everyday term, tbf

[stuck flower]

Your original question shows that you know what a scene index is

and you've correctly identified that you have 0 and 1

and that your error is when you try to load index 2

Now, if your only possible "current scenes" are 0 or 1

[upbeat snow]

https://www.mathplanet.com/education/programming/real-thinking/index#!
hopefully this source is correct : ), i also do not know fully what index means.

[viral hill]

if youve read a book, you know what an index is

[stuck flower]

and you're adding 1 to them

which one

becomes 2

[unreal lintel]

no I'm trying to load 1 and the number 1 is selected in the script

[viral hill]

at least i'd hope

[stuck flower]

No, you're loading the current index plus one

that is literally the only line of code in your script

[unreal lintel]

listen here x5342634 if your here just to Irritate me just dont I'm not in the mood right now I just wanna fix this problem and lowkey your being a douche so please just stop ok if I dont or do know it what ever I dont care

[upbeat snow]

also the press f thing seems to not work, is there any other possible solutions for this issue?

[viral hill]

lower your near camera clipping plane value

[stuck flower]

There's a difference between "not knowing" and "refusing to know"

Literally, read your one line of code. It's in english, and contains basic arithmetic. It isn't magic, the words mean things

SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1);

This is basically english

[viral hill]

willful ignorance is annoying. i am also "not in the mood"

[stuck flower]

As long as you have even a slight concept of what a "Scene" and "scene index" are, which your initial question shows you do

Give it a try, you don't actually need to know any code to know what this line does. Like, actually try it. It's easier than you think

[upbeat snow]

this worked, thank you so much !

[unreal lintel]

I know that its English I just asked what it was and then it for some reason turned into an Argument for no reason I Simply Asked a question tried to understand it to fix the problem I am having and for some people they got irritated for no reason and now we are argueing for litterly no reason at all even though I asked one thing and this is all over some index or code bs saying I cant code or dont understand stuff and I need to learn it which I will do but you dont need to be Annoying about it you know

[storm patio]

not all books have indices, and not all people use them - of the people that do, not all of them know what it means

[unreal lintel]

just say do you know this If not here is what it means or something like that or just Say hay this is wrong here is how to fix it you know, there is no need to be rude about it

and this is not 100% Aimed at you Digiholic

[stuck flower]

I'm just trying to get you to give it a chance, to try to think through the line of code you wrote, and see if you can figure out what it does. You seem to be assuming the code is more complicated than it is, and have a sort of mental block on thinking through what it does. It's a thought process you will need to break, and this is a good example to start with

[upbeat snow]

i mean i read books and i still did not fully know what index meant, although if you do not know something youd like to learn it, you should do sum research on it. sometimes im not good at focusing on stuff, but maybe there's someplace to learn it that demonstrates it in a much easier way to focus? idk

[storm patio]

it's normal to not understand things. but to say you don't understand concepts that you just said you understand isn't going to be productive.

you definitely understand addition. you absolutely know what it means to say x + 1. maybe you don't understand the specific usage and that's fine. but just saying you don't understand anything isn't going to get us anywhere

[viral hill]

it's not about whether or not you've made use of an index, it is the application of context clues. you can very obviously see the word "index" in a book (which im sure literally everyone has seen at least once before), and then realize that the labeled parts of the book are related to the word "index" since they are on the same page. this has lesser to do with not knowing, and more to do with refusing to know.

[unreal lintel]

and yes I was trying to and I was Willing to understand it its just this X534 what ever his name is had a little momment up here

so that kinda got me a little irritated

and I am willing to learn its just it sounded rude from my POV

[upbeat snow]

sometimes i read tone over text badly and get the wrong idea, so i just ask if theyre being rude and/or passive aggressive or if they're just being genuine . also sorry if i randomly got here i just like going on rants about things

[unreal lintel]

and FYI for the past messages Yes I know basic English Yes I know Basic math and no I dont know much code however I do want to learn it ok

[upbeat snow]

also ive been trying to learn more about computer parts and programming recently as well :)

[storm patio]

i think you're overestimating the amount of context in an index page. it's labels, sure. but "index" as a term is simultaneously briader and more specific than that

the indexing of a book is only barely related to indexing scenes, there's multiple layers of history there

[storm patio]

code is mostly english and math, it's not all foreign - you can read a lot of parts as if they were english/math to get a basic understanding

[unreal lintel]

and I'm sorry if It seemed aimed at you digiholic its just Because of the X534 Guy he kinda just said something that kinda just annoyed me a little

[supple heron]

I really can't believe there is so much discussion about the word index when the problem is clear - lack of programming fundamentals. Going over a couple of hours of basic C# programming course would be enough.

[unreal lintel]

yea I know that dont worry its just that The way you Do the code Like you gotta put specific lines of stuff and I dont really know where and when to put it there you know

[storm patio]

https://xkcd.com/2501/
i think you're falling into this @viral hill

[viral hill]

i disagree. critical thinking is a necessary skill that basic tutorials will not teach you, which i believe is the current problem

[storm patio]

cool, that's for writing though - do you at least understand when reading the snippet mentioned above

[unreal lintel]

what snippit was that again

there was like 3

[viral hill]

i would agree with you if this was something even a tad bit more complicated. i dont quite see it as such

[supple heron]

Critical thinking is necessary but no amount of it will let you code. If the problem is with understanding that code executes from top to bottom, what variables are, how assignments work that's lack of fundamentals. Soft skills are nice, but sometimes you need basic knowledge. And again - no amount of critical thinking is going to replace that.

[storm patio]

im referring to this #💻┃unity-talk message

[storm patio]

the basic knowledge (at the most fundamental level) is here as far as i can tell - just not being applied.

i can't believe there's so much discussion going on about the core issue. this isn't a rare sight with beginners

there's been like another 2 of these in the past few days

[unreal lintel]

yes Partly I understand it but in what way do I understand it as in what it does or the words ?

[storm patio]

the overall concept of what it's doing

[unreal lintel]

yes I understand it

Mostly

[storm patio]

which part don't you understand, specifically?

[plain dagger]

If int myVar = 4 doesnt make sense then you need to step back and learn about some programming basics
You need those basics to be able to read the text and know what its going to do
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/get-started-c-sharp-part-1/

[supple heron]

The basic knowledge is not there. We're talking about a change of scene. With all the due respect - it's a matter of calling a static method with a parameter. There are no concepts, no understanding needed. Like @plain dagger says - programming basics are needed and there is no way to skip that. We can be nice but we won't help original poster to resolve the issue by being nice. If we want to enable him/her/them to make games, there is no way to skip learning the coding basics.

[storm patio]

never said one could skip them...?

[unreal lintel]

well What I am getting from it is I Think its saying

"CurrentSceneindex = "Which I guess Is saying the Current Scene index is
then is says "SceneManager.GetActiveScene().BuildIndex;" and this is I think Is saying to the sceneManager to get the active scene Index
and the other line " NextSceneIndex = CurrentSceneIndex + 1; " Which is saying The next scene index is + 1
and the last line " SceneManager.LoadScene(nextSceneIndex); " which I think is saying to the Scene Manager to load the Next Scene Index

I think I got it right I'm not 100% on it but That is what my brains telling me

[plain dagger]

its okay to stop and go learn about it correctly

[unreal lintel]

I know that But I just said What I think it means

[plain dagger]

The task we are performing is getting the currently loaded scenes index (e.g. 0), adding 1 and then using the result (e.g. 1) to load a scene

You are kinda close but there is no need to try to guess or explain it to us, use the great online resources to learn and research these topics

then you can come back to unity once you understand these better

[unreal lintel]

No I know there was a guy named chris He said what part dont I understand specificly and I just said what I thought it all meant

because I cant really pin point it

[still stream]

is this a repo people use these days? https://github.com/realgamessoftware/dear-imgui-unity it seems like it could be useful for the most part. i had a quick look through it and im not entirely sure if its really that different from the ways you would do editor implementations already, unless the extensions they made here take in any draw call and makes the gui into unity ui

[storm patio]

...well, that wasn't really what i asked

[upbeat snow]

also make sure those sources are trusted and dont tell lies and misinformation (>'-'<) (no hate just mentioning :)

[unreal lintel]

I know I just I cant Pin point it

thats why I did it

[plain dagger]

I linked to a microsoft made learning resource, i think its safe 😆

[upbeat snow]

awesome! maybe i should look at it myself :)

[ripe sphinx]

I think id concur tbh

Like it is a vaguely cs term. Apart from maybe the index of a book

But it's not the same usage

[storm patio]

and the index of a book isn't used very often nowadays either

[upbeat snow]

idk the answer to this, but does anyone else do? it seems like everyone is focussing more about this index meaning situation

[supple heron]

Is there anything specific you miss in the standard UI implementation?

[still stream]

🤷‍♂️ i was just made aware of the dear-imgui library from some friends that arent unity devs, and they linked me that as a unity integration for it but ive never heard of it from anyone else so my guess would be either its a hidden gem or its obsolete

[supple heron]

I hope I am not wrong but I think imgui is the old, not really relevant UI implementation?

[still stream]

i just made my own quick implementation of a readonly table, but other than that im not really missing much

yea it is the old one

[supple heron]

So honestly I would probably stay as far away as I can from it haha. If you have a very UI heavy game and need a lot of CSS like styles with reusable components, then I'd go with UI Toolkit, but for everything else I would use uGUI. For table you could use vertical and horizontal layout groups or if the cells are all the same size there is also the grid layout

[sleek forum]

where do i go to ask help for ui issues

[sly lake]

It is really good for rendering some quick debug text

Just make sure not to use it in release because it performs like ass

[supple heron]

Hmm, how would that differ from just putting TMP_Text and setting it's text to a certain value? (It's a real question, not critique, I have never used it)

[storm patio]

#📲┃ui-ux

[still stream]

yeah UI toolkit was my thought to go with as well

[sly lake]

Just plop OnGUI near the relevant code you want to debug

No need to setup GameObjects, or find them

Of course this use case is rare.

[still stream]

ah, well i suppose quick debug text wouldnt be - an entire property drawer for the purposes to make debugging for designers as smooth as possible so they dont need to touch code nearly as much

[sly lake]

Quick as in quick to setup

[still stream]

wouldnt this be the same as making a quick editor window tho?

[sly lake]

No. It can be added within the class that already has your info

Idk. It’s rare but it comes in handy from time to time

[still stream]

ah, well ill keep it in my mind archive if i ever find a use case for it

[sly lake]

Mostly for debugging in builds

[still stream]

isee

thanks for the info

[supple heron]

Nice, thank you so much! :)

[chilly blade]

like he said just make sure to remove once not needed its hell for performance

[supple heron]

Yeah, I would still use a serialized field for debug in inspector or TMP_Text to debug in game. No that much work! :)

[gusty abyss]

why dose unity 6 ran like crap

[still stream]

does it? im not having issues and my lappy is kinda meh

[sly lake]

Sounds like a you problem

[gusty abyss]

unity 6 uses way to m ram mate

unreal dose not

[sly lake]

Okay

[gusty abyss]

unity is not relastic

bu

[still stream]

unreal uses way too much gpu for my taste tho. i can barely run it on the laptop that runs unity just fine

[gusty abyss]

i expact it to run a bit better

[sly lake]

UE5 wanted 72GB of RAM to use all my cores while compiling but okay 😅

[still stream]

i run out of memory with it and it makes undo's break inside of unreal

[gusty abyss]

somehow unreal runs better then unity for me

[sly lake]

Now that is unheard of

[still stream]

i've had several crashes in unreal because i tried to undo

[worldly cave]

🤨

unity is as realistic as you want it to be

[gusty abyss]

never had issue with unreal only unity

but i only know unity

[still stream]

i dont wanna be that guy but there is only one thing to do with that

[gusty abyss]

i need to ask

if theres any

[sly lake]

Hmm. Odd. Unity has always been faster for me, used fewer resources, and ran better on potato computers

[gusty abyss]

related settings to use of your Ram/Gpu

[worldly cave]

what are your specs?

what cpu and how much ram

[sleek forum]

guys help me #📲┃ui-ux

[gusty abyss]

i9 intel 4070 rtx

[worldly cave]

crossposting wont get you help faster

[gusty abyss]

32gb ram

[worldly cave]

ram?

[sly lake]

[gusty abyss]

its like a leak

[worldly cave]

sounds to me like you should probably reinstall unity or something lol

[gusty abyss]

unity sometimes gose and uses way to mutch

[sly lake]

Right. That’s a bug

[still stream]

and operating system are you on?

[gusty abyss]

windows 11

[still stream]

hm, im not aware of any win11 bugs that does anything like that

[worldly cave]

so when you say its running bad youre talking about in editor performance right?

not that your project itself is running terribly

[gusty abyss]

so im seeing it using 12% but it sometimes uses 30% or up when not doing anything is that like a leak

[worldly cave]

no

[still stream]

have you checked the profiler if there is anything taking more resources than it should?

[gusty abyss]

ram use

[worldly cave]

no

what im saying is

is this entirely just from the unity editor

or when you are in playmode

[gusty abyss]

unity editor

[worldly cave]

i mean 30% memory usage is not too crazy

[still stream]

also having turned on debugging makes it less efficient too

so unless you are debugging i woudnt have it on

[gusty abyss]

ah

[quaint delta]

hi

[gusty abyss]

what about the slight flashing

[still stream]

then i mean this in the bottom right corner, it means its on

[quaint delta]

i need a little help

[gusty abyss]

kk

[still stream]

ask away

[gusty abyss]

dose unity not like G-Sync monitors

as it flashes

OH

its windows

[still stream]

no idea

[gusty abyss]

they did a thing were even discord and unity hub has issues with a visual issue

[still stream]

classic

[quaint delta]

so i heard that the 2D/3D universal and 2D/3D mobile are basically the same templates but the options in them are a bit switched is it true?

[still stream]

yeah afaik thats accurate

havent used the mobile one but i think so

[gusty abyss]

its a windows issue

[still stream]

if they are both scriptable pipelines then the are

[quaint delta]

so i have this problem where i can't get the D2 mobile template

it's not available for download

someone said that i have to download all the unity versions first

[still stream]

i believe you gotta download the specific template as you download your unity version or something like that

[still stream]

no, i think the template is specific for your selected version

[quaint delta]

so some versions might not have the template i need?

[still stream]

i might be wrong as i havent done it before but it is true that not all templates are available by default and you gotta get them

[still stream]

i think pretty much all newer versions of unity should have it as long its not ancient

[cold bronze]

Isn't it a shame if I use AI to make music for a game?

[still stream]

as a consumer i would see it as a cop out personally, but as a dev i understand the struggle. but also friends to help out with that is great

[quaint delta]

I've need off to a bad start in unity because of this and i had to go back and forth in other cities nearby to find someone who could fix the problem but nothing works im currently just hopeless at this point

[still stream]

i can have a quick look to see if i can figure it out

do you need a specific version?

[cold bronze]

What I mean is that I'm a bit ashamed to sign it as my own work because the computer did it for me.

[still stream]

yeah, i would feel the same

[quaint delta]

do you recommend i reinstalled unity?

[still stream]

i dont think you should need to but you might. if you dont need a specific version i can find whichever newest one should have the 2D mobile template for you

[quaint delta]

just a version that have 2D and 3D mobile in then and not very old would do i would appreciate it

[cold bronze]

I want to do this but I can't find samples for this

[gusty abyss]

whys unity ui flickering

now

[storm patio]

impossible to answer without any info

[gusty abyss]

its something with Windows Hz and Gpu Drivers people say

the new windows update gave issue with screen issues

[still stream]

i dont know much about audio design but i believe the synths used in undertale is free which is basically this style

[gusty abyss]

like its not only unity but unity dose it the most visable

[cold bronze]

undertale samples are like you just open game files

[still stream]

oh you mean just audio clips not the instruments?

[quaint delta]

also anybody here have some spare assets by any chance 👉 👈

[cold bronze]

audio and voice lines. I don't want to make a copy of Undertale but I want to do a 8 bit version like Undertale

[worldly cave]

theres tons of quality free assets on the unity asset store

but it depends on what you need

[still stream]

there are also kinda terrible audio assets on freesound but if you know audio you can edit them into something good

[mild radish]

pixabay is pretty legit

you'll still need to do basic editing.. but they have a great library.. and most of it is free to use personally and commercially

[still stream]

hmm from what i can find it seems like there might not be a template made for mobile 2d urp. but it shouldnt be too different from using a 3d urp mobile template and just add the packages you need for 2d

[quaint delta]

well you see... my country is boycotted so i can't get to some websites easily even with vpn

[mild radish]

ya, i usually run 3d templates for my 2d projects,

[lapis gate]

what

[worldly cave]

i highly doubt the unity asset store is not available to you

[mild radish]

u really only need to add the 2D Package in the Package manager..

has sprites and all that stuff

[worldly cave]

https://assetstore.unity.com/

[lapis gate]

https://itch.io/
Try that one too. Good for general assets too

[quaint delta]

thanks i'll give it a try

[gusty abyss]

This flash on the ui

is annoying

[mild radish]

what you mean? the only mobile template i see uses the Built-in not URP unless im missing it

[quaint delta]

yup i can't get in

[sly lake]

Why tho

[worldly cave]

well that sucks but its also the nature of embargos 🤷

use a vpn

thats all i can tell you

[mild radish]

multiple threads seem to have this solution work

also check ur Graphics API in the Other Settings of the Project Settings > Player >

[quaint delta]

already using a vpn as im talking. life is not fair lol. but i won't give up

[gusty abyss]

send me that and i will check that too

[mild radish]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/after-updating-to-the-latest-version-the-scene-window-flickers/908272/18

its not the exact same window thats flickering.. but it seems to apply to different windows for different people..
i've seen the entire thing flicker.. ive seen it flicker black.. or white.. or grey.. and so on..

[gusty abyss]

what do i need to do here

[lime spruce]

guys I got 32gb ddr5 6400mhz cl32 teamgroup teforce delta rgb grey for 139$ what do you think and is it enough for my gamedev journey in 3d?

[quaint delta]

this could also work

[mild radish]

well the first solution would involve just deleting ur Library folder in the project and reopening

1. Reset Layout
2. Delete/Rebuild Library
3. Mess with api and extra tsuff

[worldly cave]

is that one stick of ram?

you should ideally get dual channel at the very least

even if it means buying less memory over all

[mild radish]

who runs 1 stick of 32 over 2 sticks of 16 👀 ??

do people do that? lol

[lime spruce]

16gb times two

its dual channel

[gusty abyss]

its a new project

[lime spruce]

I bought it from local store in my country

[worldly cave]

thats fine

more than enough

what mobo do you have though

better question did you already install the new ram

🤔

[lime spruce]

just starting I thought buying ram first is the best thing I can do for future proof

[still stream]

bruh, why they do that but on the other templates they put it in the name if its built in or not

consistency, what is it? (although that one isnt mobile but same argument)

[worldly cave]

so youre only building the pc right now?

[lime spruce]

yup

[worldly cave]

welp i dont know how smart going with ram first is because now you sort of limited yourself to mobo compatibility

[lime spruce]

all my saving went into ram just like that

[worldly cave]

not a smart move unfortunately

but it doesnt matter i guess

just make sure you buy a mobo that supports ddr5 memory

and spend more than you planned on the power supply.

[lime spruce]

well I saw ram pricing in my country is low so I went with it

ryzen 5 7500f for 110$ is it a good start?

[charred fog]

@lime spruce For the hardware discussion #1249155543264657408 message

[sly lake]

Yes.

[gusty abyss]

did 3 of them aint fixed

[mild radish]

are your graphics drivers updated?

[gusty abyss]

yah

is it G-Sync

it was G-Sync

https://discussions.unity.com/t/unity-editor-creates-flickering-on-main-monitor-and-reduces-framerate/781615/8

[gusty abyss]

unity ui broke itself

cant add compoments or anything

cursor fixed it

[terse kettle]

anybody knows what to do when my mixamo animations look diferent in play mode then in the animations previev i dont mean any broken hands or legs but rather head facing up instead of forward or when running inseat of upper legs and head being straight they are bobbing to sides

[worldly cave]

do you have any layers set up in the animator?

[terse kettle]

just 1

[small glen]

how can I fix the hanging on loading domain? I end up restarting unity like a dozen times an hour

sometimes it hangs b2b even if I don't change anything

[viral hill]

what version are you on

[small glen]

6000.2.9f1

[viral hill]

try deleting your library folder

[ancient moat]

someone knows how to use vivox?

[balmy kettle]

!ask 👇 also #1390346533127458889

[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.

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[supple heron]

By the way, earlier discussion about UI Toolkit made me think - how production ready the solution is? Does Unity have any data on how many companies/games actually use it? Would be great to read about it somewhere

[hushed hamlet]

Its only just barely rolled out world space, so i havent had a chance to review it and test it. But their new localization is only supported in it etc.

The initial world space rollout had a lot of reports of VR and AR issues when I last checked, so ive bottom prioritied it.

Im not sure id trust unitys usage numbers personally... but I dont know of many people using it in a production released product atm.

But I would like to give it a go when I have time

[supple heron]

Thanks for those insights, really useful! :)

[frigid eagle]

Hi, I opened Unity 6 and closed it before it finished loading (by pressing the X on the screen). Later, I ran Unity again, and the scene I was in was completely broken, with missing game objects and more. I tried running the scene to see if it would load completely, but it didn't. Is there any way to recover my scene? Thanks

[potent geyser]

There's no way to recover scenes, no. Unity will have a recovery scene if there's a crash (not happening here).

The proper method of keeping things safe is using version control to keep cloud backups of your project.

[indigo stratus]

hello guys! im new to this. whats a good place to get started and get over the intimidation of simply looking at unity?

[lapis gate]

Depends where you're at with general coding, but I suggest understanding core concepts and the basics of c# before diving too far into unity

[indigo stratus]

0 prior knowledge of coding at all, completely new to all of it

[lapis gate]

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php
I'd tackle all the categories on the left there. It has an inbrowser compiler, but I would suggest hooking up an IDE like visual studios first and creating a project yourself

After you feel comfortable I'd dig into what Unity has to offer with their own courses

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[frigid eagle]

ok so i lost my entire scene right?

[lapis gate]

Does it give the option to open the scene in safe mode?

[frigid eagle]

no, it opens the scene and the gameobjects are missing or broken

i closed in this interface , and now the scene is broken

[lapis gate]

Right, so sounds like it didn't save the most previous session, but if you did modify scripts and reloaded the most previous save then you could run into serialization problems from the scene

[frigid eagle]

what do you mean?

[lapis gate]

It means start learning about version control to prevent running into these issues in the future

[quiet spear]

hi, if i have a problem with unity, where can i ask for help?

[balmy kettle]

!ask

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[half fiber]

wtf is wrong with unity? Trying to click and drag something causes a loading bar? lmao.

Does anyone else have this experience with the editor? Is this normal?

[exotic relic]

Be sure to save your project (CTRL+S) and wait for it to finish loading. Could happen for a lot of reasons. What editor version are you using? If theres room to upgrade you could try that.

[half fiber]

6000.2

Noted

[exotic relic]

.10?

[half fiber]

Yep .10f1

I'm coming over from Godot. I think your Ctrl+s to save may have done the trick

[exotic relic]

Right. before tabing out of unity program get in the habit of saving

I will agree with you however, on that version I personally have noticed more loading times, that could change in the future, just have to look out for new versions.

[half fiber]

I use save all hotkey a lot during game developing. But I'm just going through the tutorial right now. Any particular reason? Does Unity have a known issue with crashing/freezing up when tabbing out or losing focus?

[copper gust]

6.2 has had some weird vibes in general, not saying thats the reason but

[exotic relic]

Its not exactly that saving is the solution, but when you save scripts in visual studio and the scene it will need to reload. So by having you make sure all of it is saved it allows the editor to complete reloading everything it needs to. If stuff is unsaved, there could be slight conflict of some stuff not up to date, potentially causing back to back reloads

[copper gust]

saving the scene shouldnt need to reload

[half fiber]

I put my computer on hibernate/sleep with this project open

then reopened it later

[exotic relic]

I agree. Unless they are using some sort of extra tools or havent saved scripts

[half fiber]

could be it

naw not using anything extra in unity itself

Also, is there a way to make game objects have unique icons? Rather than the humble cube? Or to customize the colors of the editor?

[exotic relic]

When you click on one, at the top right by its name theres a dropdown with a color selector

[finite atlas]

hiya. I've just cloned a unity cloud build configuration to do ios dev builds. despite being (almost) exactly the same as a working config, it fails. the only difference is the new config uses a development cert/profile.

the distribution build target works, the development build target connects to git then automatically disconnects, eventually failing after five attempts. it's the same git repo in both cases. the only difference is the cert/profile, and it's not getting to that stage at all.

any idea what might have gone wrong?

[half fiber]

Attempting to play the game per the tutorial resulted in this. Going on for 1:15 or so.

1. Does tabbing out or losing focus on unity cause severe issues?
2. Is this normal?

[finite atlas]

do you have auto-rebuild changes or anything like that? or auto-rebuild on focus change? I can't remember if I'm thinking about unity or intelliJ

[half fiber]

I'm not even modifying any code related to unity rn

I don't think so. Unless that's a default editor setting. I'm new to Unity, just doing the tutorial.

[copper gust]

going into play mode should cause a reload by default, but it should not be a minute long by any means

[half fiber]

Is there documentation for Unity. I think reading may be more useful than a video. I tried to look for "Unity documentation" but just got a bunch of videos.

[viral hill]

i doubt videos are the only thing you got

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[lapis gate]

By default settings the domain will reload the next time the editor is focused if you modified any scripts in the environment and saved them

[half fiber]

Hi Mao. I remember you from the Godot server. Do you find Unity sluggish?

some people were saying 6000.2 is funny

[lapis gate]

oh hi, uh yeah it's rather slow but there are promises with Unity 7 that will hopefully resolve a lot of issues

[copper gust]

perhaps try using the lts version of unity 2022

[half fiber]

omg. It took me 40 seconds (still ongoing) to quit the project.

its still not done, god help me

there we go

maybe this is just tutorials? but as a programmer I dont understand why that would be the issue.

[copper gust]

it shouldnt be the tutorials

[finite atlas]

where do I find my project ID (UPID) in the devops console? where it says it look just has nothing like that

[sudden zephyr]

How hard to. Ake 3d game
Cause I Made 2d Game It's take 1 month

[copper gust]

depends on the game

[half fiber]

LTS = long term stability?
Is 2022 known to be more performant? Or was that more of a long shot suggestion?

[half fiber]

depends on how detailed the models are and how much animation you do

[lapis gate]

It's just slow unfortunately. Like any small changes will require a full domain reload and it only gets worse the larger the project gets

[half fiber]

it's not slower at all neccessarily.

[sudden zephyr]

Like Normal racing track game

[exotic relic]

If you saved your scene, you can right click the icon in your taskbar and end task if you are using windows 11

[half fiber]

i would say it's not harder than 2D really.

[sudden zephyr]

Okey

[copper gust]

long term support

Unity 6 is newer and revamped a few things that some people have had some oddities on, 2022 LTS Version is a lot more reliable and at the very least might help in determining what your problem is

[half fiber]

3D physics calculations maybe. If you're being very detailed.

[sudden zephyr]

But I'm Beaginer

[half fiber]

I know. I have to do that for Broken Arrow. Which is a game made in Unity lol

It's just more slug

[exotic relic]

2022 is pretty good

[half fiber]

if that was the only issue, i'd be fine

[half fiber]

you made a 2D game. You understand the basics. Try making a 3D game.

You don't have to do much animation or 3D modeling for a racing game unless ur making Forza

[exotic relic]

You could also use assets from Unity asset store

[sudden zephyr]

Tell me one thing if I Need Mamber for team. How I Can Find In This Server It's a server purpose not Collaboration

[lapis gate]

2022 was pretty sturdy and really no difference if you are making a 2D gamehonestly

6 provides a lot of new rendering goodies though

[half fiber]

good as in more performant/snappier? Does it quit quickly, for example?

[half fiber]

try r/INAT? try r/gamedev

[copper gust]

all unity versions should quit fairly quickly, expicially on a small project. what you are experiencing is not normal behaviour

[half fiber]

im not sure what you're asking to be honest

[sudden zephyr]

Me

[half fiber]

yeah

you're looking for a thread or forum list?

[sudden zephyr]

See dm It's Ban To Talk Here about it

[half fiber]

i swear to god if this is a scam

[copper gust]

doubt its a scam but they are being weird

[sudden zephyr]

No

I'm just Looking for a Start-up

Maybe u understand

[half fiber]

Are you looking for members for your team? Or are you looking to join a start-up?

[sudden zephyr]

Looking for a mamber Who Are Beaginer like me Cause We Learn and Build together U Know Smart People not combined with beginners

[balmy kettle]

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[sudden zephyr]

Okey

What it is

[clever flume]

my path finding algorithm works perfectly im so happy:

[sudden zephyr]

Goat 🐐🐐

[half fiber]

Are you on 6002.1f or whatever? Or do you use 2022 LTS?

[copper gust]

personally i haven't used 6 whatsoever

6.2 has had a bunch of complaints here

[sleek gazelle]

does this detect if mouse is clicked? am i understanding this right?

so if i replace "Mouse0" with "Q", will the if statement be fulfilled when the Q key is pressed?

thank you 😄

[half fiber]

Anything that makes you want to upgrade?
Also, what's the deal with "6000.2" why not just "6.2"

[half fiber]

the security exploit was the only thing keeping unity together lol

[copper gust]

there's some stuff like terrain shaders but overall nothing like completely mind blowing like how godots major versions differ

[half fiber]

You're making a 3D game?

[copper gust]

6000.2 vs 6.2 just how they present it

ive made many games

[sudden zephyr]

I have a laptop lenovo loq 15 rtx2050 12gb ram and intel i5hx what do you think how better work in hard 3d model game's

[half fiber]

"I have a lenovo laptop with an RTX2050, 12GB RAM, and Intel I5HX".
I think you will be fine if your laptop has a dedicated GPU

I used to develop on an RX 580

Which is older than the RTX 2050 iirc

[near wigeon]

yes

[sleek gazelle]

thank you 😄

[half fiber]

Is this supposed to take several minutes? I'm launching the 2D platformer learning project.

[balmy kettle]

it is normal for a project to take a while to open for the first time. it's importing all the assets and packages that were included in the project template

[half fiber]

Ah.
When I do a custom project that wont be as much of an issue?

[balmy kettle]

it will still need to import any assets/packages included from the template

[sudden zephyr]

First time it's take long after Than It's Take 15-20 second

Glb Format Directly support in unity

[half fiber]

What's the difference between prefabs and scenes?

[copper gust]

you can kind of thing of them as the same thing

tbh

[exotic relic]

scenes are where your actual gameplay is contained, 1 scene could be your main menu and then a button switches you to a new scene for your game. This could also divide several levels. so youll go from scene named level1 to load level2. You can copy paste your hierarchy to the other scene. Or make a prefab by drag dropping some hierarchy object into the assets section.
A prefab is a object that contains data/items/scripts etc without being in the scene. What the use case is, so that you can instantiate it at runtime. For example in multiplayer a character will be a prefab so that you can spawn many of them. A zombie would be a prefab so you can keep spawning them.

Another use for prefabs would be to duplicate them in your scene, then if you go inside one prefab and change something then it will change all of those objects in your scene at once

[half fiber]

That's a good explanation. Thank you.
Is there a way to make it so that changing one instantiated prefab of a certain type (at runtime) will not change all others of that type I've spawned in the scene?

Or is that already a feature

[copper gust]

that is just what happens normally

[half fiber]

Ah I understand

[exotic relic]

So lets say i build something like this in my scene. I have a parent empty object and a bunch of objects as a child... ill make a prefab by drag/dropping that parent object into the assets below

Now that its a prefab, theres a open button

When you open it you can edit it, and if you save that itll apply changes to all of those in your scene

If you place that prefab in your scene and want to edit it as is and it not be a prefab anymore, you can right click that object and press unpack completely.

[pulsar spruce]

So how do Unity developers go about mapping/level design? What's the process?

[exotic relic]

Elaborate on that. It depends on what you are trying to create, what sort of environment you need for YOUR game

[copper gust]

https://trello.com/b/AM3ZOmAd/level-design-compendium

[pulsar spruce]

well I mean for 3d games. For making brushes for buildings or corridors etc.

[near wigeon]

blockout in probuilder . then you can refine more details in blender

[exotic relic]

Thats a very broad situation. You could purchase some models. You could make some in blender. You could make some in game with probuilder asset. You could just use 3d objects.

But when you make that you create a prefab out of that and duplicate it to move them around your scene

[bleak mantle]

im having a small issue with importing my model to unity

if this is the right channel to as this problem

[exotic relic]

Is there any issues with the model itself? you can press clear on console

[near wigeon]

more like #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

sounds like those bones might not move properly if the weight isn't correctly painted..

[half fiber]

Has anyone here implemented modding to their games or have that in mind? Scripting hooks/IL stuff/json?

[bleak mantle]

im not even sure if the model has issues itself

[exotic relic]

Mod support, or hacking a game?

[half fiber]

mod support? Not sure what you mean by hacking a game lol.

[exotic relic]

We arent allowed to talk about modding other games here. But if you mean support, well that totally depends on what you are trying to allow being modded

[half fiber]

Like you decompiled it?

Oh Im just talking about making things easier for modders

to work on MY game

and there's stuff like Harmony/IL weaving that Unity has that Godot doesn't.

[exotic relic]

Ok you dont mean textures or settings - i was going to say you could store stuff in json files for ppl to edit

if you dont have anything specific you want people to change, and simply want a "i dont care if people hack/mod my game" then compile as mono (default) lol

[bleak mantle]

quick question, how to i import a rig model with all its textures/materials from blender?

[half fiber]

I do that already/know about exposing data to people.

Was more interested in C# scripting hooks/harmony and what people think of that.

[exotic relic]

Thats really up to you. Each persons game is different. You could offer API

[near wigeon]

[copper gust]

not much you can help modders with harmony wise from your end

in general just good code is easier to work with

avoid enums when you can

[exotic relic]

You could create a namespace dll for people to use as api 🤷‍♀️

[bleak mantle]

Now that is really helpful! thank you so much for giving me a proper answer! (also i feel dumb for asking a question like that lol)

[near wigeon]

well yea its easily googleable, and has been asked to death?

[half fiber]

right, scripting hooks

[bleak mantle]

mb

[half fiber]

im trying to decide between godot and unity

and out of the box moddability is one of the things that may be an advantage in unitys favor

[exotic relic]

unity is quite easy and very open

[bleak mantle]

that is truly up to you

[copper gust]

are there any major modding communities for a godot game? biggest i can think of is webfishing i wanna say?

[exotic relic]

tbh they could even just use the assembly as api lol, unity is super free

[bleak mantle]

i havent played webfishing in almost a year, peak game

[copper gust]

ehhh theres some stuff that comes up that can be problematic

it gets into more niche stuff though

[half fiber]

exactly

i had to do a doubletake

I just asked that exact quesiton in the godot discord

[copper gust]

lmao

[exotic relic]

unity is probably going to give you good capability.

[copper gust]

for reference im the author of one of the bigger unity game community modding api's so i do have abit of experience

[lapis gate]

does webfishing have mods?

I do know people hacked it like crazy

people were deleting save files of other users lel

[exotic relic]

just give players the project files to edit in unity 🤣

[copper gust]

basegame resources being loaded are tied to the earliest scene they are referenced in being loaded and modders cannot make those resources load any earlier/directly

modifying enums as an outside modder sucksssss and is borderline non-viable

modders cannot add new Tags to a unity project at runtime which can be a bigger problem

those are the biggest brick walls i've found with unity

[copper gust]

modders can already do that 😛

[exotic relic]

I know. a little drag and drop action 😁. But to make it easy, just give out the project 🤷‍♀️

[half fiber]

what is a tag anyway

[copper gust]

its a unity feature that lets you put a specific string based "tag" on a gameobject

they kinda suck ngl

[exotic relic]

layer and tag kind of cancel each other out

[copper gust]

naurr

[near wigeon]

unrelated

[lapis gate]

tags dont exist

[copper gust]

checking for components is just a better way to do anything a tag does

[exotic relic]

oh i see what you mean im sorry, i only read the last msg

[half fiber]

you made a unity extension?

[copper gust]

i do some unoffical stuff for lethal company

[half fiber]

Are there like, extensions for the unity editor for me as a developer. So that I can have a built-in mod manager for example. Or automatically scan my files and add scripting hooks for every method and function?

[copper gust]

nope

not impossible but i do not know of any public project that exists for something like that

[half fiber]

How do you modify stuff to make modding easier for lethal company? How is it different from Rimworld?

[copper gust]

you don't need scripting hooks for every function though

harmony does that

[half fiber]

ofc, was giving a hypothetical

Is Unity's source code open?

[lapis gate]

sure for 100k

[half fiber]

open enough to make extensions for the editor I mean

ah

[copper gust]

my mod has it's own system that handles custom content loaded from files called AssetBundles which are a thing Unity offers that are like compiled dlcs/updates/mods rather than full projects

and it then intergrates that content into the base game code

so while i don't have experience in making modding easier, i do know how it could be easier from experience doing it the harder ways 😛

[near wigeon]

skyline does it pretty good, and KBP except is missing steamworkshop unlike skyline

[copper gust]

some people would see that as a positive 😄

[night steppe]

hi

[near wigeon]

https://nohello.net

[night steppe]

sorry 🙁

[half fiber]

dont listen to them

hi

arbitrary rules from silly people

now if u ask to ask

ur a stinker

[half fiber]

Do you mean if I have a script called character.cs, the modded code can potentially be merged directly into character.cs? It's not just a scripting hook?

[hexed path]

getting my feet wet with particles. Appreciate any suggestions.

[near wigeon]

#1180170818983051344 | #🏆┃daily-win

[night steppe]

I think he was shot at the end

[hexed path]

wait what?

[hexed path]

sorry my brain isn't working I guess? I don't understand.

[night steppe]

Never mind, it might be my mistake, my English is not very good, I couldn't make the joke.

[hexed path]

ok no worries. sorry I'm a bit daft.

[half fiber]

For those of you with projects you've been working on for months that have some stuff on it. What kind of compile times are we looking at when you hit "play" to test some changes?

Iteration speed is important

[hexed path]

Take a look at assembly definitions and assemblies if you havent.

[potent geyser]

Or turn off domain reloading

[hexed path]

what's people's take on specialization? Are people trying to team up, or is everyone a lone wolf doing both art and C# (and sound design, and music, and vfx...etc)? In the context of the certs unity offers are ppl going for both the artist and the programmer tracks?

[lapis gate]

Well, you can turn off domain reloading but then you'll spend 30 minutes scratching your head when the UI doesnt update

"Am I in playmode? Is there a compile error somewhere?"

[near wigeon]

skill issue

[hushed hamlet]

I have some in the 20gb+ range on both unity and unreal. With unity, they play within a few seconds - the same as a smaller project. If it takes a long time it could be an overloaded scene (and would correlate with loading times between scenes)...

The project size and how long you worked on it shouldn't influence the play time. Its just how much is in the scene or processing needs to run.

[half fiber]

Odd question that may not be the right place. It's more of a question for modders which some of you are.
Would using GDScript (Godot's language) rather than C# deter you from modding a game? Since it's not a common language in industry or CS-related jobs? Do a lot of modders have day jobs related to CS?

[hushed hamlet]

But yeah domain reloading, and there are some bugs where unity can continually cycle every 120 seconds to keep reloading. But thats caused by a few things.

[lapis gate]

Everything but audio here. It's worth understanding some artsy stuff even if you aren't an artist as you want to be asset savvy at minimum.

I should learn how to edit sound samples a bit more though

[hushed hamlet]

I often do a lot of it myself, ill hire out if im too overloaded. Im probably a little unique in that i have a lengthy audio, 3d modeling and programming background as different lengthy careers in life (but its also a little different once you have any semblance of a team, as you arent as alone).

I cant speak to the certs, I think if you pursue them its better to do it for yourself.

[lapis gate]

For modding I would probably prefer GDScript honestly

I might as well be developing the game if I had to mod in c# :)

[hushed hamlet]

True

[lapis gate]

Any python-esque language would be nice

[hexed path]

checking out red iron labs. do you have a permanent team?

[hushed hamlet]

I like to use whatever language is fastest for that mod or game or plugin. For example, nakama is a cool backend - supports like 4 languages for plugins. TS is most natural for me, but a huge pain to configure. LUA is the least amount of code to make changes, instant reload, no compile - so I used it for all our plugins cuz less effort

[copper gust]

It’s not that bad

[hushed hamlet]

Yup! It helps a lot 🙂

[half fiber]

rimworld is all C# for modding right?

or does it use lua?

[half fiber]

Regarding that. When you say integrate that content into the base game's code. What happens if two mods try to work on the same script?

I'm seeing if this is similar to godot's .pck system. Where the script just gets overwritten by a mod. Or if you meant something else.

[copper gust]

You reading harmony docs will answer that better than i could

[half fiber]

yeah i know about harmony

was asking about assetbundles

i see

so it's similar to .pck's. You can modify the code and overwrite. But if two mods try to overwrite, you run into trouble without harmony.

[copper gust]

assetbundles are codeless

[mighty moth]

good morning people

[copper gust]

there is no overlapping with them

[mighty moth]

anyone here has any idea how to make a functioning non-buggy softbody? I've spent roughly 3 hours yesterday trying to recreate a buggy tutorial from 4 years ago on softbodies and haven't found any tutorial as good as that one

[proud burrow]

hello, Does anyone know how to fix this. everytime i try making a build for android this pops up for this project ONLY(every other project works fine). when i build it just builds for an eternity

[copper gust]

have you done what it says

[upbeat snow]

hi folks, i got another random error (it mightve been caused because my cat almost shut off my pc on the project) but i can only move around in my scene when i have a specific window open

[proud burrow]

litellary everything

and it gets stuck on building scene 0

[mystic abyss]

Have you tried restarting?

[wild blade]

first thing i made

[strange moon]

How to get the unity license key if I use the free Unity version?

[ember frigate]

no need it's free version

[strange moon]

If I need?

[slow dirge]

Probably from the unity hub, or in your unity dashboard.

This is not really the place for this.

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[storm patio]

ah whoops missed that dlich already sent that, mb

[ember frigate]

Ok thanks

[sleek gazelle]

does anybody know how to get that parallax effect by putting objects further behind in a game scene? thank you 😄

idk why it aint workin

[pearl oyster]

It's not enough to put the objects back in 3d space because you'd need perspective and the 2d camera doesn't have that. You have to make a script that actually moves the pillars when the camera moves

[sleek gazelle]

ahhh so its either i have a script for that, or I use a 3d camera?

[pearl oyster]

Yes, but it's not a good idea to switch to 3d camera just for this

[storm patio]

you'd usually have scripts for parallax in 2d

you can google for tutorials pretty easily

[sleek gazelle]

what if i just enable the perspective mode instead of orthographic?

or is that the same thing

[pearl oyster]

That's the only difference between 2d and 3d camera

[sleek gazelle]

ic

whys it a bad idea to do that?

not doubting you im just like a huge newbie

so i dunno the repurcussions

[storm patio]

the stuff at the edges of the screen are "farther" from the camera too

[pearl oyster]

The 2d camera is much simpler to work with, for example when trying to determine where the player clicks or how much of the game is visible in the camera. You lose all that if you use a 3d camera in a 2d game

[sleek gazelle]

i see, thank you very much 😄

[sleek gazelle]

ahhhh