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[undone monolith]

Hey I'm looking for level designers for a project. Is this the right place to ask or is it not allowed?

[storm patio]

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[undone monolith]

Oh thanks

[fallen barn]

Hello, I'm unsure if this problem is a bug where certain values I input in the inspector resets when I add a new element to the array. My unity's version is 6000.0.60f1. I'd appreciate if there's any way to fix this problem because it gets difficult to keep track of values I put into the array.

[storm patio]

it's not a bug, lock the inspector tab

there's a lock icon near the top right

that will prevent it from unfocusing/unselecting when you select other stuff

[frigid eagle]

you know if there is any way to recuperate my scene with a build ?

[storm patio]

not sure what you mean by "recuperate"
what exactly are you trying to achieve?

[inland river]

we don’t talk about that on this server

[frigid eagle]

im not talking to you thanks

[frigid eagle]

my scene went corrupted by a crash but i have a build of the scene before the crash

[storm patio]

do you have vcs?

[frigid eagle]

whats vcs?

[storm patio]

a version control system, it basically makes that situation not an issue

!vc

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[frigid eagle]

no

its 80gb project

[plain dagger]

Any backups?

[storm patio]

sounds like a great lesson to use vc in the future then

[frigid eagle]

when i push it it crashes

(github)

[plain dagger]

(if no to both you are shit out of luck)

[frigid eagle]

i dont have a real backup

the backup is before make the scene

[storm patio]

you don't have to push the entire thing, in fact you shouldn't
you would use a proper gitignore and use lfs for large files

[frigid eagle]

so there is no backup of the scene

[storm patio]

anyways that would be for later though

[plain dagger]

Is the project still using git?

[frigid eagle]

and when i open the scene now it have tons of gameobjects missing

[frigid eagle]

emm , no i guess

[storm patio]

it's probably possible to recover the scene from a build, but no clue how hard it'd be

[frigid eagle]

yeye ik

i use github before in other projects

[storm patio]

is it actually corrupted?

[frigid eagle]

but i have like 5 assets of maybe 5 gb

[storm patio]

or is stuff just missing

[frigid eagle]

or smthing like that

[frigid eagle]

missing objects, fathers broken and this shits

in the scrne i have a timeline too

and now there is no timeline ):

i have like an asteroid generator with 2k asteroids (gameobjects) inside

[inland river]

I think you can stop lamenting the loss publicly

[storm patio]

....whyy, why were those not prefabs

[frigid eagle]

And I think you should stop meddling where you're not wanted unless you have something useful to contribute.

they are prefabs

[storm patio]

were they in the scene?

[inland river]

This is not an emotional support forum, and you aren’t contributing here either

[frigid eagle]

but the generator instantiate diferent asteroids with diferents scales, rotation…

[frigid eagle]

yep but not like a prefab

i mean

i have 10 diferent asteroids

[storm patio]

if they're in the scene they aren't prefabs

[frigid eagle]

and the generator instantiates them ramdomly

[storm patio]

and put them in the scene in edit mode?

(this is unrelated to your issue btw, just curious what's going on there)

[frigid eagle]

this ls unity talk, im trying to find some help, you can keep talking shit

[frigid eagle]

let me send you the asset

[storm patio]

i don't need to see it

[frigid eagle]

okay

[storm patio]

just, like.. the 2000 asteroids weren't saved in the scene, right?

[frigid eagle]

the generator just takes the prefabs and instatiate them ramdomly

the amount i want

[storm patio]

at runtime, right?

[frigid eagle]

scale, position…

[frigid eagle]

maybe there are like 500

idk

[storm patio]

that's not what im asking

they definitely just shouldn't be saved in the scene

[frigid eagle]

im not understanding you sry mate

[storm patio]

were you saying you had 2000 asteroids in the scene here?

[frigid eagle]

I had a level flow with a character, environment (the asteroids), a timeline, enemies, and more. Now the scene is missing asteroids, the timeline is gone, the player and enemies are also missing, there are empty game objects without scripts, the parent that the asteroids had is gone, and the asteroids are scattered.

[frigid eagle]

yup

[storm patio]

they shouldnt have been in the scene

[frigid eagle]

it was lagging too

[storm patio]

that's all im saying

[frigid eagle]

and where they should be

[storm patio]

they'd only exist as prefabs and be instantiated and maybe pooled at runtime

[frigid eagle]

ye that can be bttr

[storm patio]

anyways, about your actual issue - backups and vc are the tools to prevent this situation

extracting the scene from the build might be possible, but it's probably gonna be a lot of work and you probably won't get much help here

[frigid eagle]

But asteroids have a fixed shape so they can be part of the flow. If the randomizer places them incorrectly, the player might get stuck and unable to advance.

[frigid eagle]

okay i will take a look

i asked chat gpt and he recomend me to delete Library and reload

[hexed path]

I'm feeling cheeky, so I'm going to say something mean spirited, elitist, and supremely unhelpful, but we need a channel where not having vibe coded is a precondition of posting.

Meaning: a channel limited to questions you would only encounter if you weren't trying to create meaningful software solely by natural language inputs.

[storm patio]

oh, i thought you wanted that channel to post the mean-spirited thing in

well, #1161868835423526933 exists, but it's gonna be practically impossible to actually enforce that precondition

[hexed path]

yeah - and I think a lot of us are struggling with what actually is sane, responsible use of code generation tools.

[mystic abyss]

I dont know if such a thing could even be possible with how the Editor behaves, but is there any kind of package that would allow components to be "grouped" together? All of these components are required for my system to run, but I pretty much have 3 different sets

I could, and probably will eventually just make 3 child GameObjects to handle this grouping. But I dont want to worry about doing that sort of thing just yet

[storm patio]

have you tried googling for such a package, for a start?

[mystic abyss]

mhmm, I poked around. But hadnt had any luck. Perhaps it was a bad search term, OpenUPM doesnt appear to have it either.
I figured Id ask as somebody might know of one

I would be surprised if such a thing exists, I dont think it feels like something the UnityEditor is designed to do

[hexed path]

This is going to be a little cryptic, but I'd start to think in terms of "is a..." verus "has a..." reltionships. You can certainly composit objects of different classes in C#.

[sterile dew]

Anyone ever have an issue where trying to rotate the camera around something causes it not to be able to rotate more than 180 degress ?

When I try to rotate a game object around another, it's working fine

When I attach the camera to the object which is being rotated, it can't go more than 180 degrees

[mighty moth]

picture 1 is the tutorial i'm following, picture 2 is my work, anyone could explain why my auto geometry looks completely different? (trying to do a soft body and this is pretty much the only reason my soft body works very weirdly)

tutorial I followed : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3avaX00MhYc&t=179s

[viral hill]

This has nothing to do with you camera. How are you attaching and rotating?

[hexed path]

looks like you've got a tesselation setting that is off?

maybe that's stating the obvious... sry

[mighty moth]

maybe that's it! how do i enable it

litterary have no idea

[hexed path]

I'm not sure, I just wanted to help you name the problem you are having.

[twin forge]

It's been over a month since I uploaded it, and I'm still waiting lol

[pearl grove]

how to create 3d editor in unity

[storm patio]

that's a pretty broad question, have you tried googling at all

[pearl grove]

i tried

but well, google only sent me install unity 3d editor

unity.com

[sterile dew]

After using SetParent, I'm just setting the position to be the same as another child under the same parent here

[pearl grove]

its editor for unity, not editor IN unity

[sterile dew]

Then I'm rotating the parent here

This works fine when the camera isn't attached as a child

But when it is attached, it stops after like 180 degrees while rotating

[strong fable]

once I break a joint how do I reattach it for object pooling purposes?

[storm patio]

configure your ide

!ide

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[sterile dew]

But I heard the vscode extension was broken ?

[storm patio]

not sure where you heard that

[sterile dew]

I already have it as the chosen external editor anyway

Besides, that's not my issue rn

[storm patio]

I already have it as the chosen external editor anyway
that isn't the only step to configuring vsc. have you installed .NET via the .NET Install Tool extension

Besides, that's not my issue rn
having a configured ide is a requirement to getting help here

[sterile dew]

Oh, in that case I suppose I need to check and see

[hexed path]

is there a bot command that points someone at good intro material like one of the beginner pathways on learn.unity.com?

[storm patio]

there's one in the pinned messages in #💻┃code-beginner, but if you're looking for "beginner pathways on learn.unity.com" you can just search on that site

[silent obsidian]

Can somebody help me fix this I already tried to ask VR chat but the person there He had no idea what he was doing

[copper gust]

well we dont know what we're doing either

you'll have to go back

[silent obsidian]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[mighty moth]

anyone has an idea?

[silent obsidian]

This is getting way too complicated for me

I tried googling and nothing would show up I tried asking like several different people no one could help

[copper gust]

sorry to hear that

that is vr chat specific though

[whole gyro]

hey im trying to install unity

https://unity.com/releases/editor/archive

wheres the download button

[storm patio]

you should generally download the unity hub and then install editors via that

[whole gyro]

my machine has very low specs im trying to keep it light as posible

will unity hub make it heavier

[storm patio]

no

[copper gust]

generally you don't have too much of a choice regardless

[silent obsidian]

honestly it sucks

[storm patio]

it'll just make it easier to manage installations and projects

[whole gyro]

so i will need the hub?

[storm patio]

yeah

[whole gyro]

why does the archive page even exist then

[storm patio]

because the hub shows only the current LTS and latest releases (and latest alpha/beta, if you enable them)

the archive exists to archive previous versions that the hub doesn't show anymore (just to avoid clutter, since the hub is the primary way to install editors)

you can still install previous versions of the editor if you have a project using said version i believe, it's just not an option in the "new install" menu

[whole gyro]

ok, im being recomended the 3.5 version of hub by chatgpt

[copper gust]

no one here cares what chatgpt tells you

its useless period but even more useless because we dont know what you asked it

and then you would go and explain what you asked it and you've ended up skipping ai in the first place

should do that from the getgo

[mighty moth]

chat gpt told me to erase my project files 👍

[storm patio]

yeah just.. stop using chatgpt lol

it'll just inhibit you

[whole gyro]

ok

[mighty moth]

you guys have any experience on the bone/ auto geometry thing

[whole gyro]

which version of hub should i use to compensate for low specs?

[mighty moth]

just

get the newst one

[copper gust]

if your specs are low enough to where the unity hub version matters, i'd recomend not using unity

[mighty moth]

lol

[whole gyro]

i will ignore the flippant response

hopefully someone more helpful shows up

[copper gust]

no like actually

it's just a install hub

there is likely no real difference in performance and even if there was no one practically is going to know

if it's an actual problem you might need to look into something like godot

[mighty moth]

unless you have somehow less than 8 gigs of ram (which is the bare minimum in 2025) i think you should be able to run it

[whole gyro]

i have 12 gb of ram and a core i3

[mighty moth]

just

download

regular unity

[whole gyro]

alright, thank you

[storm patio]

they wouldn't really make a difference

you can't stream 1080p but compensate for slow internet by making the window smaller

just use the latest version

[balmy kettle]

wtf since when did the hub start auto-installing the latest editor version on a new (hub) install

[storm patio]

it what

[silent obsidian]

Oh my God it was a go go loco problem this entire time

[balmy kettle]

yeah, brand new hub install on a new computer. immediately after sign in it prompted me to get a personal license then immediately started downloading 6.2.12

[mighty moth]

anyone please i need help with this- i just cant make a softbody 😭

[potent geyser]

You're not likely going to find someone who is going to do a tutorial just to help debug.

[granite sorrel]

can i send a link to a telegram group i created to meet at the unite in barcelona?

[whole gyro]

https://login.unity.com/en/sign-up

i am unable to create an account

is there a captcha somehwere

[strong fable]

why cant I disable a joint? I dont wanna destroy the whole component and reattach it every time I dont want the behavior

[torpid totem]

I saw ts and got scared that I lost all my scripts randomly

they just got moved to the wrong folder

[whole gyro]

what should i do next?

[plain dagger]

read the text and follow the link?

[copper gust]

heres your reason ^

[whole gyro]

theres no option to download from the archives

[copper gust]

your browser is being weird

[vivid cedar]

Works on my machine

[whole gyro]

im on chrome

ill try on firefox

[copper gust]

im also on chrome

[whole gyro]

it works on firefox but not in chrome

[copper gust]

(2021 lts is also in the hub itself)

[storm patio]

you should install from the "official releases" section

[mighty moth]

fair enough

just wondering if anyone has any idea what went wrong

[storm patio]

could try asking #🖼️┃2d-tools

[mighty moth]

will do that

[potent geyser]

Nobody can begin to guess other than suggesting you didn't follow the tutorial.

Since the implementation is based on the tutorial that they didn't actually do?

Is there some sort of setting you missed when generating the auto geometry? Is there a difference in Unity versions and if so, check if there's a change in how that works?

[mighty moth]

i've spent 4 hours retracing every mistake i've made and this is the only place i just couldn't fix my mistake, I think it's a difference in unity version

[viral hill]

If this doesn't happen in a fresh project, the VRC sdk is probably the culprit

[undone monolith]

Hey guys i'm getting this error

[inland river]

what is ._System.Transactions in your project? looks like a missing prefix leading to an invalid path.

[undone monolith]

I'm actually not sure

[inland river]

System.Transactions is part of .NET, but the "._" is weird

[undone monolith]

So normally I work on my windows laptop, but today I added my project onto a Mac desktop

[inland river]

did you copy the /Library and /Package* folder from your PC? or just /Assets/*?

[undone monolith]

Everything

[inland river]

then you should delete library, temp and cache folders, then regenerate them on macOS, then try again

i.e. delete these
/Library
/Logs
/obj
/Temp

[storm patio]

uhh no don't delete Packages

that's where the manifest.json is

the packages are installed into Library/PackageCache

[storm patio]

@undone monolith don't delete this one

[undone monolith]

Ok 👍

I didn't delete them yet

[balmy kettle]

Assets, Packages, and ProjectSettings are really the only things you absolutely need to keep

[storm patio]

afaik you only really need to delete Library

Logs are writeonly, Temp can probably(?) flush itself

UserSettings you'd want to keep when transferring to your own devices of course

[undone monolith]

Ok I've only deleted Library. That's good right?

[storm patio]

what is obj, never seen that in a unity project
presumably also a writeonly build folder?

[undone monolith]

still getting this error

[inland river]

this points to you still having some sidecar/metadata files in your project that are confusing the build. A "._" file is a metadata file that points to a resource which may not exist.

Deleting /Library and any temp/build caches etc. while unity is closed, then rebuilding, should get rid of them.

[weak patrol]

Has anyone ever had a bugged debug screen

[pallid raven]

hi i'm on Linux, installed the hub, then used that to install the editor with android modules. the the editor works fine but does not recognize the android modules. I've looked it up, other people have reported in the past editor installing the android module files in the incorrect folders (especially the home folder). does not seem to be the case. I've uninstalled both hub and the editor multiple times, tried different versions including both the current lts and the latest. can't get it to work.

i've installed the hub through AUR fyi

hub reports that the module is installed but the editor says the otherwise

[radiant pewter]

why can I not uninstall this one?

nvm I just looked at the install path

idk how it even got there

[hushed hamlet]

Yup its a temporary build folder, safe to delete and just used by the build pipeline. I believe its only for specific build targets. Google says its VS, but I think its their windows or android build pipeline.

(To your point, safe to delete or ignore)

[white spade]

do have a question have any of you guys played fortnite save the world?

[mild radish]

is this relative? like tha game mode? the game? why u askin

[white spade]

im thinking of making a vr game similar to fnstw

[worn lance]

Hi everyone,

I’m having trouble getting my multiplayer game working in a standalone build using Unity Mirror with Fizzy Steamworks. Here’s the situation:

The multiplayer works perfectly in the Unity Editor.

I have a steam_appid.txt file with 480 inside.

I’ve initialized the SteamManager and also set the 480 AppID in my code.

If I run the build from Steam as a non-Steam game, the game starts as Spacewar (so Steam works).

However, if I run the build outside of Steam, nothing happens when trying to create/join a lobby.

The error in the logs is:

InvalidOperationException: Steamworks is not initialized.
Steamworks.InteropHelp.TestIfAvailableClient() ...

I suspect it might be related to Steam initialization, AppID placement, or build configuration.

Has anyone run into this? Any tips on how to make the build work outside of Steam while still using Steamworks + Mirror?

Thanks in advance!

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[clear raft]

Sorry, that deleted message was mine. I'm running into what seems like a bug to me in the unity editor (not the IDE). I am trying to generate an animation via Unity's built in AI Video to Motion generator. However, I cannot seem to see any model to choose (see the image attached). I can see models when I create animations from the Text to Motion option. I've checked and verified that my unity project is linked to the unity cloud and have reinstalled the com.unity.ai.generators package multiple times. I tried searching the discord but can't see anyone running into the same issue. I'm using Unity version 6000.2.12f1 and I have version 1.0.0-pre.20 of the ai generators package installed. Anyone have any tips for me?

[brave gust]

i think large channel descriptions break the browse channels thing on discord

it keeps jumping around like crazy

[copper gust]

#1202574086115557446

[clear raft]

@copper gust thank you!

[strong fable]

I was trying to find out how to "disable" a joint as this isnt really possible. I've come across using an empty with a rigidbody as the connected body. this pulls the actual object and that empty together so each disabled joint needs one of those dummies. now I've found out that disabling the dummy means the joint still works but it doesnt matter where that dummy is as it seems to not be pulling anymore. this means I can reuse 1 rigidbody on a disabled gameobject as the dummy for every joint I want to disable. this seems kinda hacky and I'd like to know if this could cause any problems.

[hushed hamlet]

To be honest, the whole joint system is pretty hacky. As long as your solution works, I wouldnt worry about it too much

[safe garden]

hi, when adding a terrain mesh is there a reason it would look faceted and have bad shading when adding a texture? when its just the default checker it looks fine, when I start adding color it looks a bit meh

[lapis gate]

Well, you can add a normal map to each texture layer if you want

[safe garden]

ahh good idea will try that ty

its supposed to be a toon shader as well so just wanted a flat normal but will try

[lapis gate]

but otherwise you're short of luck if you wanted to add any other type of texture maps unfortunately

[strong fable]

normally toon shaders do the banding via normals so you wouldnt want flat normals.

[dapper rune]

Yoo could anyone dev my game

[lethal jasper]

r u new to unity, bec uh Im a programmer but i suck

ill do it

lol

[polar basalt]

hey guys i have a problem, ray casting towards this object and detecting it wont work

(The one hightlighted - Called Circle) because its parent (Cube) has rigidbody, if i remove rigidbody, ray casting works, if i unparent circle from cube, ray casting works (even if they are in the same position), what is wrong?

[vivid cedar]

Working for100% chance you made an error somewhere - in your code or in the scene setup

Raycasts work, we know that for sure.

[strong fable]

just guessing here but rigidbodies also have a layermask override thingy. idk if that overrides what was set up on the collider.

[polar basalt]

the code is okay, it works on different obj, and it works if i remove rigidbody from parent

[vivid cedar]

I would say most likely if it stops working when you add a rigidbody it's probably because it's making the object fall away from its original position

did you happen to set this object as static?

[polar basalt]

no

[vivid cedar]

You will need to show more details

There is no "raycasts don't work on rigidbodies" bug

so the issue is somewhere in how you set stuff up

[polar basalt]

give me one second, im going to test this

[polar basalt]

no layer overrides

[vivid cedar]

layer overrides on colliders or rigidbodies are irrelevant for raycasts

[copper gust]

TIL

Kinda wild

[vivid cedar]

the layer collision matrix is also irrelevant for raycasts

[polar basalt]

ok

i recorded a video

its pretty weird tbh

compressing the video rn

[copper gust]

That makes sense because the raycast doesn’t originate from something that has a layer set, layer overrides theoretically change what the target layer is set to though which feels more inconsistent, no?

[polar basalt]

the indication that raycast works is by the text saying "You can interact by pressing [E]"

[copper gust]

Thats not a good indication because we don’t have the code

[vivid cedar]

can you show the code

also it looks like it is only working when there's a rigidbody?

[strong fable]

whats this error and why is it haunting me rn

[polar basalt]

Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit, 4f, ~PlayerLayer))
            {
                ObjectInteractable = hit.transform.GetComponent<InteractableObject>();
                Text.SetActive(ObjectInteractable != null);
            }
            else
            {
                Text.SetActive(false);
            }

its very small code

this is in update

def not the best code as i made this like 2 years ago but it gets the job done

[copper gust]

(Right now it does not :P)

[polar basalt]

no, it works every time, but if there is a rigidbody, and the code is not on the parent, it wont work even tho im looking at the child

[polar basalt]

i have this too

just ignore it

[copper gust]

the video is weird, why does the interactableobject component on clock 2 just dissapear when you mouse over it?

[strong fable]

my favourite kind of error. unfixable and not my fault

[copper gust]

you should debug what that raycast hits btw

[polar basalt]

because i removed it?

the window of the component doesnt get recorded with my screen recorder sadly

[polar basalt]

yeah thats a good idea

ah, so if both of them have rigidbody, and the parent doesnt have script, it works as normal, but as soon as child doesnt have rigidbody it work work anymore

its okay

[copper gust]

based on the information you have provided, rigidbodies are completely irrelevant to your problem

[polar basalt]

they are

this unusual behaviour does not happen when rigidbody is not present in neither

[copper gust]

your conclusion is wrong

based on the information you have provided

[polar basalt]

just look at the video, as soon as rigidbody is added it just breaks if the rigidbody is not on child and the parent doesnt have the script anymore

also, not only this script

others too

[copper gust]

your video is honestly too confusing to understand personally

[vivid cedar]

Yeah that's a code issue

[polar basalt]

okay then whats the problem with the code

[vivid cedar]

You're certainly using hit.ganeObject or something

Which automatically gets the parent of there's a Rigidbody

[polar basalt]

hit.transform.GetComponent<InteractableObject>()

[vivid cedar]

Instead of hit.collider

Yeah

That's it

Hit.transform

[polar basalt]

ah

i see

so it is the rigidbody fault

[vivid cedar]

Sort of

[polar basalt]

why does it get the parent

thats some weird behaviour tbh

[vivid cedar]

Read the documentation

[polar basalt]

yeah ill check that later

[vivid cedar]

It's in the docs for those properties on RaycastHut

[polar basalt]

didnt know thats a thing

[polar basalt]

should i change all of the scripts to hit.collider

instead of hit.transform?

[mild radish]

if you have:

• Rigidbody (parent)
  • Collider (child)

-> ray hits child

should i change all of the scripts to hit.collider
just depends.. on what your'e using the hit for.. and what object your seeking

[polar basalt]

in all of the scripts im seeking for what i hit, not the parent if it has rigidbody

so ig i changed it

[mild radish]

hit.collider the exact collider hit
hit.collider.transform the transform of the collider hit
hit.transform may go up to the Rigidbody parent
hit.rigidbody the Rigidbody of the object hit

[polar basalt]

will it take more power to process collider.transform instead of .transform?

[mild radish]

i also usually always getting the hit's collider

[polar basalt]

if i need .transform of the collider hit (in some cases)

[mild radish]

unity already has those cached internally i believe

[polar basalt]

i mean, if i do it like 15000 times

[mild radish]

still basically nothing

[polar basalt]

if its cached ig there wont be an issue

[safe garden]

hi guys, have any of you had this issue? Json Parse Error

[polar basalt]

dont ask why im doing it that much in some scripts

[mild radish]

meh.. i thought u were just being outrageous 🫠

[polar basalt]

no i actually do have a script that scales up with the user needs

[vivid cedar]

no

don't worry about it

it's fine

[polar basalt]

like selecting 15000 objects

[mild radish]

thats y we have forloops

it can handle it 💪

[polar basalt]

yeah but it does lag for like 1 sec for sure

[mild radish]

computers love repetition.. its like the equivilent of playing fetch

[polar basalt]

whatever method i do

[mild radish]

does it happen at runtime on a keybind or something? or at the beginning of a scene?

[polar basalt]

no, when user wants to select his placed objects

[mild radish]

usually u load all that stuff up into pools and whatnot.. (the little lag thats caused can ususally be hidden by a menu or a blackscreen / letterbox fading or something)

[polar basalt]

if he placed 15k and he selects 15k he will select 15k

i mean, its faster than unity's editor though

[polar basalt]

nah i loaded it in a list for now xd

the total placed objects

[mild radish]

from the sounds of ur project just what little ive heard sounds like lag might be something ur just dealing with for a while 😄

are u not trying to learn about using those tools for many objects..

Entities

[elder sandal]

who wanna make a game with me a horror game like REPO

[polar basalt]

well thats mean

xd

also no im not dealing with lag

the only lag there is, is from user wanting to select 15k objects by doing box select

like this i mean

idk why i stuck to 15k for today but yeah it can be any number, the lower it is the more unlaggier it will be

[copper gust]

Well yeah no offense but at that scale you’d just need to write better code

In many different ways

Depends on the specifics ofc

[mild radish]

15k is alot of objects.. to be checking for colliders and selecting and deselecting... and lord knows what else ;D

[polar basalt]

no no, the colider thing, the thing i showed is something else

has nothing to do with the level creator

[mild radish]

ohh okay..

😅 physics be like: phew..

[polar basalt]

there is physics too...

but not in the level creator, only when you play

IF you added the rigidbody component to that object

[gusty abyss]

Can you not make a skinned mesh renderer for an imported model manually?

[vivid cedar]

wdym by "make a skinned mesh renderer"?

Do you mean the actual bone weight painting and stuff?

[gusty abyss]

no

I mean like I got a model i imported from blender

and I had a prefab that used an older version

what im trying to do is add new parts from that imported model to the existing prefab

[vivid cedar]

what are "parts" in this context?

[gusty abyss]

as in new skinned mesh renderer

[vivid cedar]

You're either talking about bones, or you're talking about child objects with their own renderers

[gusty abyss]

let me ss wait

[vivid cedar]

which is it

[gusty abyss]

the latter

even tho I set exact same properties it doesn't show up

[vivid cedar]

if there are child objects with their own renderers they're not related to the skinned mesh renderer

skinned renderers don't use child renderers

they use a rigged model and bone transforms

[gusty abyss]

first is from the imported model, and 2nd is from my prefab

it just doesn't show up

[vivid cedar]

these screenshots are cropped maybe a bit too much

[copper gust]

Also gizmos are off in left if that’s relevant

[gusty abyss]

it is not really

the bounding box is the same place

[vivid cedar]

no - like, gizmos are disabled

so they're not visible

[gusty abyss]

here ill enable it, it's still in the same place just no mesh shows up

[vivid cedar]

right so - seeing the full hierarchy and full inspector etc would be helpful

[vivid cedar]

To be clear we're trying to see this brown diaper thingy?

[gusty abyss]

yes exactly

[vivid cedar]

ok so - can you show some uncropped screenshots

Like does the new one even have all the bones it needs?

[gusty abyss]

they are identical

the rigs

this robe is just set with some weight, so it might be due to that

[fickle isle]

i just downloaded unity and the editor installer reccommends me to download 12f1 but online it says to use the lts install. wihch one should i use

[vivid cedar]

online it says to use the lts install
What does "online" mean?

[fickle isle]

like on reddit and stuff

[vivid cedar]

LTS just means "this is an old version that's still supported"

"Supported" means it's the current version

which is of course, also supported

[fickle isle]

so i should go with the reccomended install?

[vivid cedar]

Unless you have some special reason, you should use the Recommended version in the Hub

[oak blade]

@humble abyss i wanna be mod, how to become mod

[stuck flower]

Not pinging the administrator with asinine bullshit is usually a good start

[wheat mountain]

So what's the most common method for implementing a variable jump? I'm seeing a method that cuts the upward velocity in half if the button is released, one that increases gravity if released, and I assume a method where upward velocity is cut entirely when the button is released is used, but it doesn't seem to be something I see

[lapis gate]

if you're using forces you can usually just use an impulse :D

[wheat mountain]

What do you mean?

[lapis gate]

oh yeah the half-jump stuff wouldnt work with it though. It's up to preference

usually analog does have some sensitivity, but kbm does not

so cutting the velocity (or lessening it for the remainder) if released sooner sounds like the idea

[wheat mountain]

Well that would explain why I seem to get more jump height variation with this than when I use my controller
https://www.finalparsec.com/tools/jump_calculator

[wheat mountain]

What's making me question this approach is that I don't feel there's a whole lot of variety in horizontal distance when I do this

[lapis gate]

Yeah, I've not really played many games recently that do the half jump stuff. Usually mario games do have it though

as least I know smash brothers it's a vital thing

[wheat mountain]

I'm not sure if having a horizontal speed of 10 m/s is absurd usually, but that's what I have to have just to get it to have the distance vary by 2m

And a max jump height of 4

[lapis gate]

comes down to preference with that stuff so there's usually no wrong way, only if it feels good

[wheat mountain]

I want the variable jump height to actually affect how far the character can long jump in some meaningful way and I feel like the current approach just isn't doing it

[lapis gate]

Pretty cool site which ill probably save for future reference

[wheat mountain]

Now that I look at the code again, a move speed of 10 is what this uses, too, but I also feel like I get greater distance variability with this than with the code I wrote. It seemed like you said this could be down to k&m vs controller though?

[lapis gate]

I think I mispoke, but it's not so much the buttons that add some deviations but holding up an analog to continue air time

but just pressing a single button like this site here would just come down to how long it's held

seems to work pretty well too

[wheat mountain]

Oh the way I have the code set up in my own code is that it moves both forward and jumps with the press of a single button

It only applies the horizontal velocity once

The problem seems to be that I can't get a jump height any lower than 1 with the way I have it set up now, but for some reason the site's code can get it down to 0.5

[lapis gate]

The site gives you the source to the controller with save there

[wheat mountain]

Which means the variation can (and often does) become 3m instead of 2

[wheat mountain]

Oh I know, but I'm not entirely sure what it's doing differently from me

[lapis gate]

so it uses rigidbody here and it's affected by stuff like mass and friction/dampening probably?

[wheat mountain]

I'm also using a rigidbody

{
    [SerializeField] InputActionAsset actionMap;

    Rigidbody rb;

    [SerializeField] float moveSpeed;
    [SerializeField] float jumpHeight;
    [SerializeField] float timeToApex;
    [SerializeField] float timeToDescent;

    float ascendingG;
    float descendingG;
    float initBoost;

    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();

        //Activate and link action map
        if (!actionMap.FindActionMap("Player").enabled) { actionMap.FindActionMap("Player").Enable(); }

        //Calculate actually useful jump variables
        ascendingG = 2 * jumpHeight / Mathf.Pow(timeToApex, 2);
        descendingG = 2 * jumpHeight / Mathf.Pow(timeToDescent - timeToApex, 2);
        initBoost = Mathf.Sqrt(2 * ascendingG * jumpHeight); //Put -Physics.gravity.y as the default in case of emergency

        //Set up jump
        InputAction jump = actionMap.FindActionMap("Player").FindAction("Jump");
        jump.performed += (InputAction.CallbackContext cc) => { rb.linearVelocity = Vector3.forward * moveSpeed + Vector3.up * initBoost; };
        jump.canceled += (InputAction.CallbackContext cc) => { if (rb.linearVelocity.y > 0) { rb.linearVelocity += Vector3.down * rb.linearVelocity.y / 2.5f; } };
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        //Gravity procedure
        if (rb.linearVelocity.y > 0) { rb.linearVelocity += Vector3.down * ascendingG * Time.fixedDeltaTime; }
        else { rb.linearVelocity += Vector3.down * descendingG * Time.fixedDeltaTime; }
    }
}```

[lapis gate]

Should post it in #💻┃code-beginner, but what you have here looks fine. I usually just throw on impulse though so I'm probably not the biggest help here rofl

[wheat mountain]

I'm not sure what that means, though

"Throw on impulse" I mean. I'm not sure what you mean by that

[lapis gate]

Instead of setting velocity, the other way you usually use rigidbodies is through forces

but impulse wouldn't work with the half-jump idea as it's an instant application of a large amount of force. AddForce however can work

like setting velocity actually ignores a lot of features of what rigidbodies usually provide such as adding that mass into the equation

I would imagine it would still apply somewhat, but your code here is updating it every update so probably not

[wheat mountain]

Well this is certainly an interesting solution. I think this is more in line with what Final Parsec uses anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVfR14UNNDo

[lapis gate]

Oh yeah sabastian always got the goods

[wheat mountain]

He's where I initially learned about marching cubes from, though it took another video by The Coding Train for me to really understand the concept

[oak meadow]

I want to import a whole folder into unity but it will only let me import images

[potent geyser]

Drag the folder into your project in the file explorer

What does it contain other than images?

[oak meadow]

nothing i figured it out thanks

[undone monolith]

still error

what's the reason behind their hate?

[viral hill]

can you navigate to that file via your file explorer? send a screenshot of the file at the end of that path

[undone monolith]

@viral hill

[viral hill]

That's not the same thing

[hardy fossil]

I'm tryina isolate a specific layer to be rendered by a different camera so I can flatten it and apply a shader to it to make it look like a 2d... thing. Having trouble figuring out how to make it not render anything else and give it an alpha of 0 so I can only render the object. Currently using camera stacking for this. The alpha value in my urp sample buffer is 1 for the whole thing for some reason, am I misunderstanding something?

I've just got a very basic shader hooked up into a fullscreen render feature in the camera that's supposed to render only one layer. as you can see, the entire screen is tinted red when only those bubbles should be a solid red

my only guess is I'm using the urp sample buffer wrong

[lapis gate]

so what's the point of splitting r here. Feels like that whole vector3 is pointless

[hardy fossil]

just for testing

so I can see if I can change the colour of the bubbles without affecting the rest of my screen

my only idea so far has been a render texture but I'd like it to be the same res as my game so I'd ideally like to avoid it

[lapis gate]

perhaps you want to make all alpha everything that doesn't contain red

if plugging in alpha isnt the idea

[hardy fossil]

I mean alpha seems to be 1 everywhere for some reason

[lapis gate]

alright so alpha should be everything not red then

which then gives you a mask

[hardy fossil]

it uh

this is not what the mask should look like

I just hooked alpha directly to the colour as well so I can visualise it, it should just be single-ing out those bubbles

instead, it's all white, so something about the overlay camera is not setting the alpha to 0 when it should

a mask is what I'm trying to get but it doesn't seem to wanna work

[lapis gate]

right well did you try my suggestion to check for blue/green and zeroing the alpha

and perhaps if the value of red != 1

usually when you do these masks your camera should be culling everything you don't need

[hardy fossil]

I'm unsure what you mean

mind you the bubbles just have an unlit material that's solid white

and the camera is set to cull everything that isn't on their layer

I'm just unsure what the suggestion is

[lapis gate]

if it captures uninitialized space it will have an alpha value of 0 I believe... actually should double check on that

[hardy fossil]

here, this is what I did to get that white screen

[lapis gate]

could also try to set a solid color like black and make black = alpha (r = 0)

on the camera

[hardy fossil]

I don't see the option

the overlay camera seems a bit more restrictive than I thought

[lapis gate]

any reason it's an overlay

[hardy fossil]

just trying to avoid using a render texture

since I want this to be consistent with screen res

[lapis gate]

right well I was going to suggest just use a render texture cause that seems what you're doing with extra steps

[hardy fossil]

I could compromise and make a render texture at runtime that uses the screen res as its width/height

[glossy trout]

which option do I click on to add a script that controls the movement of the camera when user presses WASD?

[storm patio]

"new script"

or if the project/tutorial provides one, you'd have to use what the tutorial says to use

[woeful spear]

I'm trying to use Local Volume for post processing. It works when I move near the object where I've placed the box volume (in play mode). But right now the change is abrupt. Can I make it gradual and fading?

[ocean pumice]

If they hate your game because it would have been made in Unity, they would not be worth the effort to create a game. I think its a cute idea to make a little game for someone, no matter how you made it. it could be a pen and paper game either.

"Doesnt really work" is nothing, anyone could work with to help you 😉 What is not working? what did you try? how did you set it up?

[potent geyser]

You like, rotate the object like any other object, about the pivot.

Lol they once again delete their vague question when the answer isn't taking the bait to hand hold them.

[safe garden]

hi all, just had a quick q - I want to paint another separate sand material on my terrain but its overriden by the green floor, is there a way to use these 2 materials together? right now I can't paint any sand

[analog hollow]

can someone help me with my school project

[charred fog]

!ask

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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[analog hollow]

is it not possible to get live help?

[hexed path]

People are grouchy here, just go ahead and ask your question, and read the guidelines that Fogsight posted.

[twin tangle]

hey everyone

so I am working on a switching system for guns, and I am like stuck. So I got an arm mesh and seperate gun models, but I am not so sure how to set tuem up. Like can't decide between if I should export each gun already attached to the hands so like the viewmodel is one unit including gun or should I keep hands and guns seperate and snap the gun to an anchor point? I thought about using seperate viewmodels for each gun, so like picking up a gun swaps the whole viewmodel, because I couldn't figure out how to attach a gun properly to my existing rig

maybe any tutorial could help if you know one

[potent geyser]

"Live" help is you asking a question so people can provide answers.

[analog hollow]

i mean like speaking with one in real time

[potent geyser]

The "proper' way is to use some sort of marker (empty) objects on your weapons and positioning the bones to match them. The quick and dirty way that might be easier is using separate models as you said, which is fine really, if you're not attaching these to a body as well. If you find it easier/faster to just animate them in Blender.

[potent geyser]

That's not how this server works, no. We don't have VC channels.

[twin tangle]

so like I export the gun and arm animation seperately and make it a child of that bone in unity

[potent geyser]

Which bone?

[twin tangle]

I mean the gun position on hand*

[potent geyser]

Depends. If you're using IK, it probably wouldn't be a child of a the hand since those would conflict. If it's an animation, then your animation would animate a weapon socket object to position the weapon where it needs to be, and the weapon would be a child of that specifically.

[mighty moth]

can you animate the 2d characters directly in unity?

[viral hill]

You dont paint materials, you paint textures via texture layers. you already have a sand layer, just create a new green layer

[near wigeon]

depends

can you redraw frames, no.
can you put frames together to create animation sure,
can you animate "2d ik / bones " to make dynamic / animations. Sure

[balmy palm]

Something more parallel would be animating with sheer calculations as well, although there are definitely limitations to that.

compared to key animation.

[proper lion]

where is urp asset?

[storm patio]

gonna have to be a bit more specific than that. what are you trying to do?

[proper lion]

I want to increase the visibility distance of the shadows and I was told about the urp asset

[storm patio]

it's...quite a bit more than an asset, it's a render pipeline (what the rp stands for)

[proper lion]

so how can I increase the visibility distance of the shadows?

[near wigeon]

go into Project Settigns -> Graphics you have the asset there

then you can find the renderer and other stuff from there too

[hushed hamlet]

When you add URP to a project, you need to (or the demo scenes already come with) a URP asset. It's like a file full of settings.

The easiest way is yeah where Nav suggested.

[proper lion]

thats what I want to fix

[hushed hamlet]

More on creating the asset (if you don't have one) here:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@10.1/manual/InstallURPIntoAProject.html
You can lookup the settings here:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@10.1/manual/universalrp-asset.html

This is what you want to look for

[proper lion]

that?

[hushed hamlet]

Does it match the image I shared above it?

[proper lion]

idk I need to download it in package manager?

[hushed hamlet]

Follow the links I shared on how to find the file and what to change.

[proper lion]

ok

thanks

[proper lion]

idk nothing has changed, you can check if I got it right

[signal vigil]

I installed Unity 2022.3.62f2 LTS after the security issue. Often my inspectors don't render correctly the first time I select a gameObject. Deselecting and selecting again fixes the issue but this is annoying as hell. Is anybody else experiencing this and is there a fix besides downloading another version?

First screenshot is not rendering correctly, second one is after selecting any other GO and then selecting the original one a second time.

[pearl oyster]

Install 62f3 where it's fixed

[signal vigil]

Well I guessed it ok thanks.

[gusty abyss]

I opened my project in Unity today and it's giving me this error. I can't open any windows; I right-click on a prefab or anything else and it doesn't open, and it keeps giving this error. Does anyone know how to fix it?

[near wigeon]

try resetting the layout maybe

[glass kraken]

where is the place I can find people to collaborate with already? I forgot

[near wigeon]

!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**

[storm patio]

the link above is available in #📖┃code-of-conduct

[novel kelp]

Im using unity meta XR for my vr game, if i wanted to switch out the hand model that comes with the vr rig with my own hand model (which has the same bones applied to it) what should i do?

[gusty abyss]

It worked, thank you so much for your help.

[viral hill]

#🥽┃virtual-reality

[novel kelp]

ty

[proper lion]

why im trying to edit my shadow distance and nothing hapend

urp asset is also connected here?

[deft rock]

It's set at 50 and that's a small value. What are you actually changing?
Does your light in the scene have shadows enabled?
It looks like you might have two render pipeline assets - are you editing the one that is assigned?

[spare frigate]

my vrchat cc keeps opening unity hub whenever i try open a project, i fixed it by updating my unity hub but now its doing it again and i have no updates that need to be done?

[balmy kettle]

!vrchat

[vagrant root]

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

[pure igloo]

i am adding a new script as a component, and its showing up dim...i can't even access nro change its SerializedFields

[balmy kettle]

do you have compile errors

[pure igloo]

not on this script atleast

[deft rock]

that's possibly a conflicting class name too

[pure igloo]

oh wait

nvm

[deft rock]

there's already a Unity component called 'Animator'.. you can't use that

[balmy kettle]

doesn't matter, any compile errors prevent all scripts from compiling

[pure igloo]

u r right, i understood what i was doing wrong

[balmy kettle]

so long as they aren't trying to declare it in the UnityEngine namespace that wouldn't actually cause any issues other than confusion for anyone reading code that references the component

[pure igloo]

worked thx

[proper lion]

im changing 50 but nothing change

[proper lion]

default render pipeline I set there my urp asset, is this right?

[storm patio]

this server is for unity discussion specifically, not a social space, sorry

[regal cedar]

I am having this issue on terrain same terrain layer but different color on each terrain

[storm patio]

perhaps ask in #⛰️┃terrain-3d, if that's the terrain tool (not familiar with it so not sure)

[pure igloo]

stupid question but if this were the gameobject, how can i make its Animator GameObject active?
the class being reference is called animator and its declared using private animator anim; and i wanna make this anim turn on, using something like anim.objectAnimator.setActive(true); which actually doesn't exist. any ideas?

said class

[stuck flower]

GameObjects have SetActive. Components have enabled

[storm patio]

(and Animator isn't a gameobject, it's a component attached to the UIDroplet gameobject)

[pure igloo]

i deduced that...

but hell yeah, i can understand your language!

[viral hill]

have you baked your lighting before creating the 2nd terrain and not again after?

[regal cedar]

i tried baking it again but one still remains dark when I clear baked light data all turns out dark like this

Idk about baking tbh

[viral hill]

I mean, are both terrains still the same color though?

After clearing baking data

[regal cedar]

yes but its too dark even after increasing lighting 🥲

[worn furnace]

Getting very weird FPS issues with unity today

Nothing selected in editor, barely 10 scripts made so far, none more than 50ish lines, in a relatively new project

and for some reason starting today when I hit play, the editor view drops to 2fps

[viral hill]

make none of the objects in your scene static, switch your light mode to realtime, and then rebake

[regal cedar]

alright

[worn furnace]

there's a performance checker for unity modes right?

[modest meteor]

yeah there's the profiler https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/Profiler.html

[bold yarrow]

Anybody experienced navmesh problems today or recently?

Baking doesn't work in a fresh project

[pure igloo]

mouseScript.spawn (UnityEngine.Vector3 mouse_pos) (at Assets/Scripts/mouseScript.cs:61)
mouseScript.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/mouseScript.cs:34)```

void spawn(Vector3 mouse_pos)
{
GameObject tempDroplet = Instantiate(dropletObject, mouse_pos, dropletObject.transform.rotation);
tempDroplet.SetActive(true);
anim.objectAnimator.enabled = true;
}```
what is this? i don't think it should be null...

[worn furnace]

ok yeah the CPU active time is almost 11 times higher than target framerate, at 630ms

[bold yarrow]

well animator could be null

[worn furnace]

something's clearly very wrong but it shouldnt be, this is a small project and i havent changed anything

[pure igloo]

not null...

[bold yarrow]

Okay then debug every line

[viral hill]

which line is it pointing to

[bold yarrow]

dropletObject could be null

[modest meteor]

where is line 61

[pure igloo]

anim.objectAnimator.enabled = true;

[bold yarrow]

whats anim?

[worn furnace]

What's the Semaphore.WaitForSignal in the profiler?

[pure igloo]

private animator anim;

[near wigeon]

did you check for copies

serializefield on public is pointless, theyre already serialized

[pure igloo]

as in...when the copies are being created, they have animator or not

[bold yarrow]

so what do you mean by anim.objectAnimator?
Could just do anim.enabled no?

Also, debug every line as I said.

[pure igloo]

i can't access the object through the other script in that case

[near wigeon]

then dont add SerializeField..

[viral hill]

yes you can

[bold yarrow]

It's not pointless

[pure igloo]

i need to, to access the animator component

[near wigeon]

serializefield is for private fields

so yes its pointless on public

hence the 3 dots visual studio

[pure igloo]

how would you do gameObject.Animator then

how would you access it?

[bold yarrow]

the point of being serialized is so that it's modifyable in the editor and saved by unity

[pure igloo]

i thoguth this too

[worn furnace]

Can someone who knows stuff about the profiler help me out please? Its a load of terms and numbers that don't mean much to me, and the 'Others' section is constantly spiking and its unclear what that refers to

[bold yarrow]

you just use gameObject.GetComponent on Start()

[near wigeon]

public fields are already serialized in the inspector, what dont you get?

[viral hill]

"others" usually refers to the editor itself. do a build and see if it gets better. if it doesnt, do a deep profile

[near wigeon]

as in you probably have a copy of the script where its not assigned in the insector

[pure igloo]

worked out

thx

wait a sec

[near wigeon]

either anim or objectAnimator was null

no questions about it

[pure igloo]

then why the hell did it not work out the other way then

[viral hill]

what are anim and objectAnimator?

[near wigeon]

if it was assigned through inspector, there is no point in doing GetComponent

so anim was never assigned

[pure igloo]

animator is the type, objectAnimator is of data type Animator

[near wigeon]

anim is not the type

[pure igloo]

exactly, i am pretty sure is was assigned

[pure igloo]

sry

[near wigeon]

anim is the variable for animator

[pure igloo]

srysry

[worn furnace]

forget seeing if it gets better, the build just doesnt respond full stop >_>

[near wigeon]

if its private it was never assigned

not through inspector at least

thats whyGet Component works, but you mind as well SerializeField and assign it through inspector

thats what serializeField is for

[pure igloo]

it was though

[near wigeon]

thats not anim

[viral hill]

what does your task manager look like while this is happening? is it using tons of resources?

[near wigeon]

the variable anim

[bold yarrow]

Can anybody quickly bake a navmesh surface onto a basic plane?

[pure igloo]

oh wait

[bold yarrow]

For me it doesn't work in a new project might be doing something wrong

[viral hill]

follow a tutorial

[near wigeon]

private animator anim was never assigned

your naming is pretty poor hence the confusion

[worn furnace]

Nope, the resource usage barely changes - and it shouldnt be an infinite loop of any kind because I don't have any loops in this project yet, and haven't made script changes since it previously worked...

[pure igloo]

ya, that's what i am seeing, it was never, i thought it automatically referred to the component attached

[pure igloo]

pls teach me about naming, i am dog at naming

[near wigeon]

no you just declare it, it doesn't auto do anything you explicitly tell it

[viral hill]

why are you bringin up infinite loops...? if that was the case, the editor would fully freeze, not have lag spikes

[pure igloo]

i can't name stuff, neither can i remember people's names

[near wigeon]

name it for the purpose it does

[viral hill]

either way, there is something wrong with the editor app itself

[bold yarrow]

I have worked with it 100 times but it doesn't do nothing

[pure igloo]

i declared it

[earnest trail]

Hi everyone, I recently joined and I don't know which game to start. Can you help me?

[near wigeon]

declared it yes, but never assigned..

[worn furnace]

how you do diagnose/profile for editor specifically? It also runs perfectly smoothly before I hit play

[modest meteor]

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[pure igloo]

aiaiaiaia

[near wigeon]

there is no autoassignment

[pure igloo]

wait

[viral hill]

wait so there's no problem unless you hit play?

[near wigeon]

what is the purpose of this animator component anyway

[worn furnace]

yep - perfectly smooth hundreds of fps, then i hit play and it drops to 2fps

[viral hill]

create a fresh scene and see if it lags

[worn furnace]

New scene runs smoothly

[viral hill]

look at your tri and batch count in the scene that is causing issues. if it is insanely high, that is the culprit. if not, your code is the issue

[worn furnace]

how do you check tri/batch count of a scene

[viral hill]

same way you check fps

[pure igloo]

so as far as i know, there are two ways in which you can refer components:

1. make serialized fields and assign it in the inspector
2. make a script, serialize a field, attach component to that field in the inspector, then refer to that object in the scipt using inspector. i was tryna do the latter, it didn't work. this animator anim was supposed to refer to the type and get access to the type's animator so that i could enable it when required.

[stuck flower]

Okay, you've created the box that can hold a value.
Where do you actually put anything in the box?

[pure igloo]

i know what it means to instantialise something...

i just don't know what to do to do it in unity

[viral hill]

actually, i forgot that your task manager doesnt use many resources. this is probably not it but check it anyways

[stuck flower]

private animator anim creates a variable. You need to actually assign the value to something.

[earnest trail]

Are there any Russian speakers here?

[stuck flower]

Which animator do you want to assign it to?

[near wigeon]

that doesnt answer the question specifically about your animator script

[near wigeon]

its the same way in any C#
you use =

except in unity you can use the inspector as well with serialized fields

[pure igloo]

what's the rvalue

[near wigeon]

either public or [SerializeField] private

[viral hill]

english only server

[worn furnace]

The value randomly changes between two values when just moving mouse around on the PC, but the more constant one is 15m tris and 5524 batches, no clue if thosoe numbers are low/high etc

[near wigeon]

when you do Car car;
you will get error
car.color = red

[viral hill]

15m?????????

are you sure?

[near wigeon]

because you declared it, but never assigned it.

if you did
Car car = new() car.color = red then it works
but Unity components work different in that you cannot new() them

[pure igloo]

to animate thos temp gameobjects when i deploy em

[worn furnace]

that's what it says

[viral hill]

how is your task manager not screaming at you. send a pic of your task manager while you are in playmode

[earnest trail]

I've been looking for this community for a long time. I'll have to learn English 🙂

[near wigeon]

why not refer to the animator directly instead of doing anim.ObjectAnimator

[worn furnace]

Unity is displayed as 'recovering scene backups' here

[modest meteor]

didnt you say you got an empty scene? where are those 15 million triangles coming from

[viral hill]

where is your gpu section

[viral hill]

this is a non empty scene

[pure igloo]

i forgot how to do it using getcomponent...

also, cus i wanted to try it out, since i did a simlar thing for something else

[worn furnace]

Oh - I didnt have task manager expanded

[near wigeon]

what does GetCompponent have anything to do with anything if you can just use inspecor

[worn furnace]

gpu section is complaining, yep

[near wigeon]

if this script is just to hold a reference to animator, maybe use AnimatorHolder or something less ambiguous than using something named like unitys Animator

[viral hill]

yeah you have a ton of optimization to do. where did the models in the scene come from? is this an asset pack?

[pure igloo]

oh that's better naming thx, ima use it then

[worn furnace]

Various packs, yes - I was mostly using asset pack or free models to prototype

Its odd though - I've been using the same models for multiple days and haven't had FPS issues until just now

[tall hearth]

Have you tried closing and opening the editor?

[viral hill]

lmao they have 15m tris and 5k batches rendering

[worn furnace]

I closed it a few times already yes

[viral hill]

that's not gonna help

[viral hill]

use the wireframe draw mode on your scene view and look at areas that are super dark

[tall hearth]

Right but if the meshes are static the count doesnt matter all too much (unless they dont even have a gpu)

[viral hill]

maybe you duped GO's on accident

[worn furnace]

I've figured out part of the issue

[near wigeon]

basically you want the name to explain the purpose of the component / object
same as with variables names

[viral hill]

which count?

[tall hearth]

The tri count, though 5k batches is insane

[tall hearth]

Did you add a lot of lights to the scene?

[viral hill]

it absolutely matters. 15m is crazy high

[pure igloo]

i mean...i know that, but the first thing that popped into mind in this scenario, was to call it animator or dropletanimator, i am rly bad at naming....

[viral hill]

static wont really help with this

[worn furnace]

I have 8 extra cameras set up going to render textures, and disabling all cams except the player one drop the tris heavily

[near wigeon]

its not an animator because Animator is already a component that does something specific

[viral hill]

holy hell 8 cameras?

[near wigeon]

it doesnt animate anything

[worn furnace]

how else do you render security camera like objects?

[pure igloo]

but its an animator component...it does animate

[near wigeon]

it comes with time though, and practice just keep it in mind

[viral hill]

by using different cams, but NOT by having them all active at the same time

[near wigeon]

no its using animator perhaps but doesnt itself animate

[worn furnace]

I coded them to only enable and render one frame every second, to cut down on performance

[tall hearth]

Well first off i think you disable them when not in use

[pure igloo]

got it

[stuck flower]

The built-in Unity component Animator does the animating. Your custom animator component doesn't actually do the animating, the Animator does

[modest meteor]

did you try occlusion culling

[stuck flower]

This sort of confusion is exactly why you shouldn't use the same name as a unity component

[tall hearth]

Idk i might be miss remembering, though i also havent had a camera render above ~4m before

[copper gust]

throwing random guesses at the performance issue is useless

[viral hill]

i doubt this is working as expected

[copper gust]

profile profile profile

[worn furnace]

that's what I'm taking a look at now

[copper gust]

this just means nothing lmao, there is no evidence to support this

[worn furnace]

it means nothing but it points me in a direction to check

[pure igloo]

and here i am with 1 min wait time on my stupid game

sometimes it takes even 2 mins

[copper gust]

not what they are talking about

[tall hearth]

Profiling would too lol

[worn furnace]

I tried using the profiler but its just nonsense to me lmao

[pure igloo]

ah ok...

[viral hill]

making objects static helps decrease batches as they can use a more efficient batching method. tris doesnt really play into this

[copper gust]

gotta learn it 😛

[worn furnace]

Ok yup - there's an error in the coroutine that toggled the cameras - weirdly I havent changed that code today so I don't know why it suddenly caused issues whereas it didnt before? But now editor's running at a relatively decent 30fps when playing again

[viral hill]

if it was working as expected, they wouldnt be rendering 8x more than normal 😐

[noble locust]

I’m having errors with asset bundle has anyone here used it and think they could help?

It seems like my IDE doesn’t acknowledge the editor tool that comes from asset bundle and it’s causing errors when building said bundles

I’m using version 2020.43.8f of unity

[worn furnace]

I do need to get better models anyways though since a project this small shouldnt have even a couple million tris...

[copper gust]

what errors and why such a old version of unity

[noble locust]

Making a mod for a game that runs on unity

[copper gust]

we can't help you with that here

[worn furnace]

ty for the help @viral hill

[noble locust]

I know but I just don’t understand what the errors are saying

[copper gust]

feel free to post them but there's a good chance we don't either, your using a very old unity

[viral hill]

@worn furnace take a look at this. she ran into a similar issue with having multiple cameras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_RN8o1b3g&t=224s&pp=ygUaaG93IHRvIG9wdGltaXplIHVuaXR5IGdhbWU%3D

[earnest trail]

How can I find people for the project?

[stuck flower]

!collab

[modest meteor]

!collab

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[stuck flower]

DOUBLE KILL

[pure igloo]

damn

[worn furnace]

disabling the cameras if they're not being looked at is also a good tip, ty

[copper gust]

no clue why this is a photo

if scripts have compile errors in the editor, fix them

[noble locust]

I’m on mobile rn so I can’t copy paste multiple messages

[noble locust]

Where can I find that?

[copper gust]

there should be errors in the console

[noble locust]

Right

And I just double click on them?

[copper gust]

sure

[noble locust]

And what if the editor itself is broken

[copper gust]

you find a community thats modding whatever your modding and ask there

[noble locust]

Oh I didn’t know it was specific to that

[stuck flower]

Then the solution to that is "update the editor"

[copper gust]

i dont know either

[pure igloo]

editors can break...?

[copper gust]

anything can break

[noble locust]

Scripts seem to not be reading that the editor exists

[copper gust]

it's usually user error though

[noble locust]

And it probably is

[copper gust]

the editor won't exist in play mode

[noble locust]

I’m not in play mode

[copper gust]

will the script be in the build?

or mod or whatever

[stable perch]

oh wait wrong channel

lemme move it

[noble locust]

Hold on what does “the script” refer to

You mean the source of the error?

[copper gust]

sure

[smoky lintel]

so i've noticed that the latest 6.3 beta has removed the built-in templates, is this intentional?

[noble locust]

Then yeah I think so

[viral hill]

built in is no longer being supported from now on

they announced this a while ago

[noble locust]

Asset bundles go in a folder with a custom .dll that then gets uploaded to the game

[copper gust]

so when they are in the build/mod, the editor wont exist, so the scripts code can't reference the editor

[noble locust]

So you’re saying I should delete the scripts?

[copper gust]

no

you should understand what your doing

[smoky lintel]

yeah, but I still use the templates and install the pipeline once I have the project created.

[copper gust]

i dont say that as an insult

[noble locust]

I’m kinda new to unity

[copper gust]

you need to find support in whatever community this is for

[noble locust]

I just feel like if I keep asking questions in the modding server eventually no one will respond to them

[copper gust]

we can't help you with your current experience without the context you can't provide here

[viral hill]

ok and

[noble locust]

I can send images later maybe

[copper gust]

images will not help

[noble locust]

Oh

[plain dagger]

When you build, unity recompiles all code for this platform. Editor only classes and namespaces don't exist there so compile errors may happen

The solution is to have editor code in editor only assemblies/folders OR to use conditional compilation

[south summit]

I WANT TO ASK ONE THING CLEARLY. When I drag my weapon to any slot, it has an excessive offset that's wrong, and I want it to be properly aligned with the same slot object. In the individual prefabs, it looks perfectly fine, but I wouldn't know what's causing it.

[earnest trail]

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[south summit]

the same with muzzle flashes

[viral hill]

Wdym slot? Do you mean making it a child?

[south summit]

yes

a bit simple slot system

its when i parent it manually not though script

[potent geyser]

Zero out the position/rotation on the transform.

[noble locust]

In that case shouldn’t the asset bundle plugin have come with its own editor code to prevent this problem? Otherwise no one would be able to pack bundles??

[viral hill]

Set the transform pos to 0,0,0

[south summit]

in the scripting idk if it will happen

[south summit]

which

[potent geyser]

All of it?

[copper gust]

rob can't answer that question as presumably rob does not actively mod that 2020 unity game

we can't help you here

[viral hill]

Of your objects that you are making a child

[pure igloo]

aight, so i checked it out and i am very very sure, that i have assigned everything in order to make it work. i kid you not, i rly don't understand what i have not assigned.

[south summit]

yeah the point that each time im setting it as a child it gets the same pos

it isnt a permanent solution

[smoky lintel]

i'm not saying they should keep supporting the built-in pipeline

[noble locust]

Asset bundle browser isn’t commonly used then I’m guessing

[plain dagger]

It's probably old or was put inside an asmdef which breaks the auto Editor folder as editor only code functionality.
You can build bundles with code yourself anyway or use addressables.

[viral hill]

After you make it a child, reset the transform pos

[copper gust]

it is, that's not what your error was saying

[smoky lintel]

didn't they stop supporting it

[near wigeon]

are you getting error ? which line

[noble locust]

Oh

[smoky lintel]

i haven't seen it in the package manager since like 2020

[noble locust]

Just my luck

[plain dagger]

Oh wait this is mod related? I joined mid convo

[copper gust]

thats because of stupid dumb reasons it works perfectly fine on modern-ish versions at the very least

[noble locust]

Yeah mod for a game

[copper gust]

unity 2020 mod related

its just too hyper specific for someone new to unity to get help with here

[plain dagger]

No wonder it's half broken. Not much more I can say!

[noble locust]

🫩

[plain dagger]

Do not discuss mod tools here

[noble locust]

How come?

[copper gust]

i mean bepinex can be used for non modding purposes

[viral hill]

Rules

[noble locust]

Oh I see

[noble locust]

Do you guys think copilot would help at all

For reading errors

[copper gust]

no

[pure igloo]

i was getting this error, after getcomponent, it worked just saying

[plain dagger]

Read the rules #📖┃code-of-conduct

[viral hill]

Hell no

[balmy kettle]

because the component was not assigned

[copper gust]

sounds like it was null then you made it not null which fixed the "it was null" error so yeah

[pure igloo]

spoonfeed me, exactly which thing in inspector was actually null

[balmy kettle]

the part that wasn't showing up because your variable was private but not serialized as previously explained

[copper gust]

the part that wasnt in the inspector

[smoky lintel]

yeah, i knew that they were going to do that I just didn't expect them to remove the template project, at least so soon. Damn, guess i'll have to get used to deleting the unessecary assets that the URP template creates

[noble locust]

Also what does the iconography that’s like a text bubble mean because it’s a debug issue but not necessarily a warning nor an error

[copper gust]

a log

[smoky lintel]

it's called a message, and it's mainly used for keeping track of stuff for debugging purposes

[pure igloo]

after doing this,it still did not work though

[noble locust]

And would looking at it help at all or

[copper gust]

how does it look in the inspector

[noble locust]

Should I just quit unity ✌️

[balmy kettle]

your issue was the anim variable, not the objectAnimator variable

[copper gust]

for modding that game? maybe

[pure igloo]

ahhhhhhhh

i get it!!

[proper lion]

please help me how to increase shadow rendering in URP

[pure igloo]

i finally get it

[proper lion]

My trees and other stuff looks very bad when far

[pure igloo]

the anim variable needs to be serialized and then assigned the script in the inspector yeah??

[balmy kettle]

now i hope you'll learn to use better names for things so you don't get everything confused

[noble locust]

Would redoing the set up process for unity and then porting the modded prefabs possibly fix it?

[copper gust]

dude

we do not know

[pure igloo]

i am trying, trust me, i am really bad at coming up with right names

[copper gust]

we can say "sure" to anything you suggest

its not that we dont want to help you, we cannot

[noble locust]

I know I just don’t know if the category of errors maybe gives a clue to how local or global the issue is

[copper gust]

i would suggest either asking the community this is intended for, or not doing this kind of project

[balmy kettle]

names should be clear about what the object actually does. right now your animator component does not actually perform any animations, so it is poorly named. it might communicate with the actual Animator, but it itself does not animate, it controls the animator. so it could be named AnimatorController (though that name still conflicts with a unity type) or AnimatorManager or something that makes it clear that it is not the animator itself but controls it

[noble locust]

I spent months making these models in blender and now I can’t even get them into the game

Im not trying to burden you

[pure igloo]

i will just name it animatorStorer or just use this

[balmy kettle]

sure, that works too. but also what is the actual point of this component? what is it supposed to do

[south summit]

how?

just that?

[balmy kettle]

if the entire point of the component is to just store a reference to the animator then it is useless

[viral hill]

bruh wdym how

via code or manually in the editor

[near wigeon]

pretty much, you can just rference animator directly where you need animator

[viral hill]

what other oprions are there

[pure igloo]

i know, its useless, i just wanted to try to apply what you told me before about doing stuff in a similar fashion

[copper gust]

(how would they know if they are asking that question)

[pure igloo]

referencing components through scripts

[balmy kettle]

but that's irrelevant here because you can just directly reference the Animator

[pure igloo]

i know

[balmy kettle]

there is no need for a middleman component that just holds the reference to the animator. you're doing more work that way

[viral hill]

because i've talked to them before and they know this already

[pure igloo]

also, if i were to try modding a game or smth(using an older unity version or smth)...you guys wouldn't be able to help correct?

[copper gust]

correct

[balmy kettle]

you would need to contact that game's modding community for help

[pure igloo]

good thing it has one hehe

although, the first modder of any game must be big brain being able to do that without needing help

[novel kelp]

how can i show a model's wireframe in unity?

[viral hill]

scene view or game view

[novel kelp]

also can you subdivide a plane in unity?

i want to make ocean waves but the plane is very low poly

[stuck flower]

Okay but why do you need to reference a component that references a component, instead of just referencing that last component directly

[lime vector]

guys can anyone tell me pls why if i import a png into unity it only registers 1 of thr 3 objects? (dont kill me im new)

[pure igloo]

check my prev msgs, not trying to be rude...i have already typed out my reasoning before a couple of time so...

[viral hill]

check your sprite mode

[lime vector]

how❤

[stuck flower]

I've been following this but I don't see where you answered what this component formerly known as animator is supposed to do

[viral hill]

right above in the left side menu in the screenshot u sent

[stuck flower]

https://screenshot.help/

[lime vector]

pssst i dont have disc on my pc

[stuck flower]

Okay but you do