💻┃unity-talk

[azure pond]

and in the meantime, also do git --version

[gusty abyss]

PS C:\Users\USER\Desktop\New folder\Git Folder\Projects>```

git version 2.51.1.vfs.0.0
PS C:\Users\USER\Desktop\New folder\Git Folder\Projects>```

[azure pond]

okay

so you don't have a .gitattributes file

[gusty abyss]

yes?

[azure pond]

not anymore

you clearly deleted it at some point

[gusty abyss]

Do I need it?

[azure pond]

oh

why are you in Projects

what is the root of your git repository

go there.

🙁

[gusty abyss]

that is the root

[azure pond]

you are running your own git server, but you are very unsophisticated with git

why are you doing this?

[copper gust]

they have already explained it

[gusty abyss]

for convenience

[azure pond]

can you run git rev-parse --show-toplevel

[gusty abyss]

The reason i'm in New Folder is because I was in the process of recreating the repo from the beginning in the hopes that I would somehow remove git lfs

[gusty abyss]

C:/Users/USER/Desktop/New folder/Git Folder/Projects
PS C:\Users\USER\Desktop\New folder\Git Folder\Projects>```
Why don't you believe me?

[plain dagger]

You would want to make a new repo via git init because copying the .git folder would also keep the git lfs hooks

[gusty abyss]

I didn't copy the .git folder

I deleted it

[plain dagger]

then i have no fuckin idea 😆

are you using github desktop?

[azure pond]

it's not that i don't believe you

[gusty abyss]

no

[azure pond]

i think the problem is kind of exotic. you have accidentally configured a global / system level lfs setting

that is why it appears that lfs is running without you having configured it

[gusty abyss]

nvm i can google it

[deft rock]

Are you able to make job posts in this

[azure pond]

@gusty abyss go ahead and run git config --global core.attributesfile, then cat the contents of that file

[gusty abyss]

PS C:\Users\USER\Desktop\New folder\Git Folder\Projects>```
I think I might not have a global config folder

there's no .gitconfig

[azure pond]

your account is really called USER?

[gusty abyss]

yes

always has been

[azure pond]

🤦‍♂️

[gusty abyss]

what?

I like it

also have the same on my laptop so I can use the same local paths if I want to

[azure pond]

can you try .git/info/attributes? and is there a C:\Program Files\Git\etc\gitattributes file?

anyway i think you can figure this out

[gusty abyss]

If I could figure it out I wouldn't have asked here

[azure pond]

somewhere it is configured

you would have to query all these potential config locations

and remove it

you can also run git with all its verbosity settings

and i think i twill tell you where it is loading the config from

you can try adding a file you know is lfs tracked, and then see why / where it is configured that way to track that file

[azure pond]

you have a lot of development stuff going on

[gusty abyss]

out of luck here

also isn't .git/info/attributes in the .git folder in the repository?

[azure pond]

i guess it is? i mean i never had a problem like this before

you have to check everywhere

that is the equivalent of git config --local

[gusty abyss]

actually doesn't exist

[azure pond]

then you have to run with tracing and see why git lfs is here

[gusty abyss]

ok i'll google some more possible locations

[azure pond]

then you can rewrite the history to un-lfs-track the files

it could be on the other system!

it might not be on this one at all

[gusty abyss]

true

[azure pond]

you make changes to lfs objects, they will be tracked

it's done

you have to figure out which ones they are

but it's not this system, it seems

[gusty abyss]

but i've deleted the .git folder

this one was just created

[plain dagger]

some git clients will detect lfs and re init its state for you

some ask, some may not

[foggy jackal]

Hey guys, so I only joined this server for one reason: I'm having a problem with my Unity XR projects (for VR). can anyone help me...

[azure pond]

it doesn't work like that

git lfs has hooks. the files that are tracked by lfs exist in your repo as stubs that lfs is aware of. then it "smudges" (rewrites) them to the actual binary content. the other machine probably wrote it as lfs objects, failed to upload them, and now this machine thinks that it is supposed to upload those objects for the first time. it must have them.

[gusty abyss]

well there isn't anything in the linux server

[gusty abyss]

so lfs is baked into the files themselves?

[azure pond]

okay listen

[plain dagger]

lfs files are commited as "text pointers" so when lfs isnt working the file is not really there

[azure pond]

you have been toiling at this issue, and put this setup

where you have three computers into a precarious situation

you're just learning the hard way that this stuff is really arcane and low yield

somewhere, on some machine, lfs is configured to import a bunch of files

i don't know where!

it doesn't make sense for me to play guess and check and find out with you

once a file is tracked by lfs, it's not going to be untracked until you expressly say it should be

all the binaries everywhere on all the machines are going to know which files are tracked by lfs and use lfs to manage their data

[gusty abyss]

ok

Maybe I should just enable it

and be done with it

This isn't even unity related anymore. I just thought unity was doing some weird things because all the lfs files were unity's and because unity has that version control button when you create a new project

[azure pond]

you can't, you don't have an lfs server

it doesn't work well with bare repos

[gusty abyss]

why not just make it an lfs server

[azure pond]

actually it looks like none of the limitations matter

[gusty abyss]

cool

[safe garden]

yo guys, been playing escape from duckov - am curious as someone learning environments, do small rocks/pebbles like this get added as part of the normal map or individual meshes? guessing the former - looked like geo to me though

[prisma jackal]

how can i send massive scripts to my friend

cuz discord isnt letting me

its to big

[worldly cave]

should probably use

git

[worldly cave]

it really depends but normal maps would definitely be the smart choice

[copper gust]

If you want a fun learning exercise check out something like RenderDoc or Nvidia NSight and check it out yourself!

[viral hill]

lol what are the odds, i was just playing this game.

to answer your question, the easiest way to do this would be with a normal map and/or a height map on the material for the ground. (assuming the rocks are part of the ground material)

[viral hill]

use a pastebin

!code

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[safe garden]

normally I would agree, although to me here this really looks like geo - maybe its very low poly

but I imagined they wouldn't waste resources on tiny assets like that

[viral hill]

these look a lot bigger than in the previous image you sent. i assume pic 1 is with a normal map and pic 2 is separate meshes

[safe garden]

hmm might be right

[copper gust]

that almost looks like terrain detail objects or whatever

[worldly cave]

honestly the one youre pointing to still looks like a normal map to me

imo if you are working with that kind of level of detail you might as well use normals rather than actual geometry

[safe garden]

hmmm fair play, usually normals look a lot more flatter to me than that, but you're probably right, you wouldn't wanna waste geo on minute details

[viral hill]

the game is fairly low poly so they can get away with wasting draw calls on things like this without it affecting performance too too much

[deft rock]

!code

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Posting code

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[deft rock]

☝️ use a paste site

oh, someone already said.

[worldly cave]

i personally dont like optimization as an afterthought regardless of the games visual fidelity

[austere blaze]

Questions regarding collaboration

• If I share the project on Github, does that connect the Unity account or just the project files and they have to login to their own account?
• For a free Unity Organization, is the 3 seats including the owner? Or is it owner + 3 free seats?
• Do you need everyone to be part of an organization? Or can you just use Github?
• If each individual has a seat for all the assets used in a project, but are not part of the same organization, are they allowed to collaborate on the project? Or do you have to have all the seats on the same organization?

[viral hill]

i agree, but the addition of these rocks seems to be the afterthought in this scenario. would be weird if they added these small details before adding everything necessary to the gameplay loop

[north rover]

Hey guys, my name is jay, I need some help with my unity project very badly, anyone up to do a quick voice call? pls

[stuck flower]

!ask

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[safe garden]

another q - how can you achieve this grassy look on the stone, is it vertex painting?

[copper gust]

Some form of texture blending

[north rover]

Hey

So, the player gameobj is not the model we´re discussing

That model is the NPC

[copper gust]

this is not the right channel

[worldly cave]

i think we are past the animation issues

[worldly cave]

mostly trying to diagnose whats happening with the model now.

so i guess this is the right place kind of

[north rover]

cmon G, bruv just told to come here

[worldly cave]

does the npc model have bones or a skeleton of any kind

[viral hill]

You can do so with the default terrain component by painting multiple layers at less than full opacities

[copper gust]

(furthering my suspicions that maybe the rocks are terrain details)

[north rover]

How do I see if it does?

[worldly cave]

in the scene expand it all the way

[north rover]

It says it has a rig, but I don´t really know how to verify it

[worldly cave]

just like you did the player model

[worldly cave]

that screenshot you showed?

thats just an empty gameobject called rig

[safe garden]

Can you please advise on something - with terrain, I know you can blend terrain layers (textures converted into a terrain layer,) can this be done with materials? I wanted to do this with 2 toon shader materials but the problem is I only seem to be able to do terrain blending with textures. I have textures added but didn't want to use the typical URP lit shader as I wanted it to have a specific cel shaded look

[worldly cave]

yeah your model has no bones

its just a mesh

[copper gust]

It is possible yeah but you'd have to find/make a solution for it

[copper gust]

(eg. imagine a toy action figure thats just stiff, no joints to move/rotate the individual pieces of the body)

[safe garden]

any suggestions? I am kinda a beginner with unity i'm afraid

[north rover]

Damn, so just for future reference, how do I change only the model? I just drag it here?

[worldly cave]

yes

[viral hill]

afaik you can't use shaders other than the default shader on a GO with a terrain component unless you export the terrain as a seperate model file.

best to ask #⛰️┃terrain-3d with examples of what you want, though

[stuck flower]

Well, if it's not already a rigged model you'll also probably need to swap your MeshRenderer for a SkinnedMeshRenderer

[safe garden]

ok ty

[north rover]

Ok, I´ll try, If it don´t work I´ll come back here, thx kuzmo

[north rover]

So if I keep the model and change to SMR it´ll work?

[stuck flower]

Maybe? It'd probably just be easier to take whatever extra scripts are on this currently and just put them on the new model's prefab though

[north rover]

Nah, it just vanished lol

So, basically the easiest to do here is to change the model right? get one thats already rigged

[slim narwhal]

really quick question
does Resources have to be placed in Assets or can it be placed in any folder within Assets (like Assets/Enemies/Resources)

[north rover]

omg I´m having the same problem with another model, but this one is rigged I believe, but the Rig folder is empty as well

[stuck flower]

Pretty sure I literally just answered this in #💻┃code-beginner

[slim narwhal]

oh i didnt see lol sorry
so anywhere then

and if i have Assets/Apples/Prefabs/Resources/Hard-Mode, will it see any gameObjects in Hard-Mode?

this will make or break the entire thing for me

[stuck flower]

Every folder named Resources is available to the Resources system. No matter where it is.

You would just give it the path to the thing you want from the Resources folder

[north rover]

@worldly cave come back here my friend

[slim narwhal]

but if i have a subfolder in resources, then will it get all prefabs inside the subfolder even if i dont reference it in code?

[stuck flower]

You provide the path you want to load when using Resources.Load

that is the path from the Resources folder

[slim narwhal]

but i have gameobjects in the Resources folder and in the Hard-Mode folder within that resources folder
will it get all gameobjects in Resources and Hard-Mode or just Resources?

[stuck flower]

Depends on what path you give it

[slim narwhal]

if i give it ""?

[stuck flower]

Then you'd get nothing because you have to tell it which resource you want

[slim narwhal]

and i pass in GameObject

from LoadAll, not just Load

[stuck flower]

Then it would load all resources from the path you give it.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Resources.LoadAll.html

It even says what happens when you pass it an empty string

[slim narwhal]

from what i see, it only gets things in the main resources folder and not its subfolders. so i have to call it twice :/

[stuck flower]

I mean, you could just try it if you don't think the documentation is clear enough

Put the folder in, put an object in it, do a LoadAll and see if it's there

[slim narwhal]

turns out it does. and now i have to filter it out using code but im sure thats not too big of an issue.

[frigid sigil]

absoulte fuck around and find out

[fleet nacelle]

real talk guys, i feel like motion blur is actually awesome when implemented correctly, what do u think

I'm trying to understand why people always turn it off, and how can we implement it better

[frigid sigil]

motion blur is dogshit dude

[shadow heron]

Motion blur will always be disgusting 🚫

Literally hideous to look at

[frigid sigil]

im sorry NOT A SINGLE GAME did it good, im trying to move my camera then suddenly i feel like i got a eye headache

[fleet nacelle]

how is this a universal opinion i don't get it

[frigid sigil]

cuz at this point its not an opinion

its just a fact

no one does it good its always so dogshit

[viral hill]

I like motion blur, but let's stay on topic.

[frigid sigil]

what topic

[viral hill]

Unity related topics. Off topic discourse is discouraged here

[fleet nacelle]

i mean we can discuss game dev her3 right, it's a genuine question,

[viral hill]

Only if it's unity related

[stuck flower]

Usually because they don't want it on

That's really the long and short of it

[frigid sigil]

exactly, its talking about unity,which is a game app like dude we can just chat 😭

[viral hill]

No, this convo is much broader than just unity

[fleet nacelle]

so like let's say clair obscur, i feel like it's done right in that game...

[viral hill]

I don't make the rules, I'm just parroting them so that mods don't step in

[shadow heron]

If you want to have a "chat" then go to GDN discord they have one there.

[frigid sigil]

ok cool, why cant we just talk about it then, its a chat anyways

[viral hill]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[fleet nacelle]

except the overworld map part, which is too much

[copper gust]

the channel is slightly unideally named, it's about support questions relating to unity, not just a general discussion chat

[frigid sigil]

theres no dev talk so whats wrong with just chatting about game dev here

its in the general catagorey

not help or sumn

[charred fog]

This is a help/learning Unity channel, just like verything on the server. If you want to discuss game design or specific graphical topics create a thread.

[frigid sigil]

its in the general catagorey bro

[viral hill]

There is purposefully no general category here at all

[copper gust]

because it's about general unity questions

[mystic abyss]

There are many GameDev specific servers on discord

[charred fog]

Read the channel description and #📖┃code-of-conduct

[frigid sigil]

holy fuck ok dude why r yall triggered cuz we chatted about one game dev topic instead of unity talk itself when no one was doing it

[fleet nacelle]

okay fine got it chill

[copper gust]

you asked a question and people answered it..

[viral hill]

No one's mad. I'm just telling you the rules of the server

[mystic abyss]

A quick Google search will bring up the main ones, and you can still talk Unity GameDev in the context of those. They're a pretty good option for broad game development chat

[fleet nacelle]

i only came in this channel because there was no other channel labelled as game dev talk or general

[frigid sigil]

This

[shadow heron]

Just move on before you get silenced by a mod 🔫. You can just read the rules of the server.

[frigid sigil]

and other servers might not be as popular

[copper gust]

which is fair but the channel you guys might be looking for does not exist on this server

[frigid sigil]

pluh

[viral hill]

"This" is a purposeful decision

[charred fog]

Again, read the channel description as well.

[mystic abyss]

No, they are

[frigid sigil]

bro 😭 i meant as in "this" as this is what i meant

[viral hill]

I know

Reread what I said

[charred fog]

@frigid sigil Enough with the spam, create a thread if you want to continue the previous topic.

[mystic abyss]

I wonder if the #💻┃unity-talk being put into a category named "General" is what tricks a lot of folk into thinking this is more like a typical #497872194815393793 channel 🤔

[frigid sigil]

i aint spamming shit bro yall message 3 messages per 1 of me, all this because someone asked about hating motion blur and i sent 3 messages about talkign about it

[frigid sigil]

how old are you

[fleet nacelle]

@frigid sigil ur not gonna win arguments with them bruv just leave it, they'll just ban you.

[charred fog]

!warn 643780919009738752 Don't post off-topic on the server. Listen to moderation.

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@lexarubye warned

Reason: Don't post off-topic on the server. Listen to moderation.
Duration: Permanent

[viral hill]

Why are you so angry. No one's attacking you. You've already been given a work-around solution. You could always take it to DMs

[copper gust]

I think the name in itself also doesn't lend well towards the channels intent

[frigid sigil]

real

[copper gust]

i feel like general-support or something might be a little more clear

[mystic abyss]

Yeah, comparing that to "unity talk" makes me think that's more focused on support discussion

"talk" does seem a bit too casual

Perhaps best of both worlds,"Unity-Support"

[frigid sigil]

it is a non-programming , and it seems everyone is doing any type of support on #💻┃code-beginner so theres no reason to change it when its just gonna be a duplicate channel

[fleet nacelle]

yes because it feels pointless to go to another discord to discuss game dev stuff, if I'm developing in Unity, like in some cases i want opinions from people who are using the same engine as me.

[frigid sigil]

This

[copper gust]

you misunderstand, i'm not suggesting the intent of this channel changes, but the name could better reflect the intent

[copper gust]

people using #💻┃code-beginner for non code problems are mis-using the channel

[viral hill]

Then ask a specific question regarding the engine, not about a universal mechanic

[charred fog]

Unity-talk is quite explicit, you can't stop people from interpreting channels how they want to without reading #📖┃code-of-conduct . In that case just pointing out the rules should be enough.

[frigid sigil]

yeah, that what my point

[frigid sigil]

misunderstood *

[mystic abyss]

Ultimately no matter what, majority of servers have a #497872194815393793 channel by default, so it's inevitable you'll get the occasional off-topic discussion, whether people read the rules or not

[copper gust]

Personally I think the frequency in which people misunderstand the channel points towards it not being explicit enough

[mystic abyss]

It's less common to find strictly "no casual conversation allowed" servers

[frigid sigil]

this is what i didnt like about unity server, most servers have a completely off topic channel for people to talk about literally anything, but the unity discord server not having a general game dev channel? surprised me

[charred fog]

#1180178376028327936 message

[copper gust]

Just not the vibe of the server

[mystic abyss]

This is something I feel also, but I get why

The venn diagram overlaps a great amount

[stuck flower]

That's intentional

[frigid sigil]

no i mean i dont want a off topic channel, it probably wouldnt be alive anyway i have much bigger servers to chat about anything on, i mean a general game dev channel

[charred fog]

We had that channel and it was rarely used and mostly abused for off-topic, etc. Hence the description of this channel to include that function as threads for casual game dev discussions

[frigid sigil]

then why did i get warned because i talked about motion blur in games bruh

if this was also intended as a half casual game dev discussion

[charred fog]

Because I told you twice to use a threads and stop with off-topic here

Which you are continuing to do still.

[stuck flower]

Mostly because you arent talking about that you're just arguing about what counts as off topic

[frigid sigil]

ah ok sorry my bad

[copper gust]

also

motion blur is dogshit dude
im sorry NOT A SINGLE GAME did it good, im trying to move my camera then suddenly i feel like i got a eye headache
cuz at this point its not an opinion
its just a fact
no one does it good its always so dogshit

is not a discussion, it's closer to a toddler rambling

[charred fog]

If you have server related questions/suggestions use #1161868835423526933
If you want a game dev discussion create a thread here.

[frigid sigil]

its over dude, just let it rest

call me a toddler all you want just let it die bruh

[frigid sigil]

ok thanks

[tall hearth]

this might fit better in something like #1390346776804069396 but i was curious for this like clothing why dont people set the material to render on both faces instead of just the front? i ask cause i have seen in many games with clothing options things like skirts or baggy shirts are just hidden on the back side and ruin emmersion

[south summit]

Guys, I need help here. My animations aren't getting any reference to the mesh or its bones because nothing shows up in the preview when I drag my model. I've tried everything: re-importing, verifying that the animation type is Generic, etc. The mesh with the bones are FBX files, and the animations are also separate files but with the same object data, although the second image shows something strange this error 🤔

[south summit]

pls im begging for it lmao 🙏

[slow dirge]

Not all engines/render pipelines/Shaders allow that by default. Then, many games also make it by design, since the backface wouldn't be visible in normals circumstances, and you'd want to avoid the price of rendering the back faces.

[tall hearth]

does rendering the back face increase costs that much?

[lapis gate]

cloth makes sense for backfaces

to render

[copper gust]

i mean it's double generally so it depends

[lapis gate]

Shader can exit instantly if it detects a backface

well, skip that fragment

[slow dirge]

Depends. It probably takes as much time as front faces, since you're basically running the same shader on these pixels. It could contribute to overdraw too if using a non opaque material.

[copper gust]

and generally character related models tend to be fairly high poly

[tall hearth]

yeah but thats mainly just the character and not the cloth no?

[lapis gate]

usually you dont really want backfaces exposed anyway

[tall hearth]

i guess but making clothing single face think and having it backed faced would be cheaper than thinker no?

[lapis gate]

yeah cloth as a single face is more retro, but lately devs will throw on solidify modifiers

but even retro games do connect cloth directly to the base model

[tall hearth]

yeah but im not talking about all clothing just the ones like a skirt that you can by default see the backside

which without having something like a sub-d modifier or backface showing look bad

[lapis gate]

If it looks fine with what you're doing then I don't see the problem

[undone monolith]

hey there's no errors in my project, but there is a bug in my game that I'm not sure what's the problem

i'm making a 2d visual novel, and i made a NextButton that upon clicking on-screen continues the story, however in one of the scenes, it doesn't appear

[vivid cedar]

A bug typically just means "the software (game) is not behaving as expected". This doesn't always manifest as a red error message somewhere. In fact, it usually does not.

You need to debug your code/game to figure out what's wrong exactly. Start with the code that is responsible for displaying the button

[undone monolith]

ahh that's my bad

[undone monolith]

i basically just copy and pasted the code that I used in my other scenes and tweaked it a bit

everything looks fine, but when i play, the button doesn't show up

[vivid cedar]

yep, so - start by adding some logs to the code that should be displaying the button. Make sure it's running, and make sure that the data is as expected there

I'm being pretty vague here because I have no idea what your code or your game looks like.

YOu should also start by pausing the game when you expect the button to be shown and checking if it's there in the hierarchy or not. it might be in the scene just not visible for some reason (like wrongly positioned for example)

[undone monolith]

i'll send my code in https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/497874004401586176

[pliant condor]

Hie can you help me

[violet thunder]

Just !ask your question in the proper channel, don't ping random people

!ask

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[pliant condor]

thank you

[gusty crater]

I'm trying to sanity check that I'm not crazy to wanting to copy PDB files for production builds on windows (just not to end users) so that I can debug crash dumps

[glossy thunder]

If I wanted to make a competitive fps game as a somewhat noobie mostly using ai to assist me in coding. What would be my best option for online? I see that photon bundle is going to flash sale in 9 hours and I've heard of it. I've never done online netoworking code before so I'm unsure of the best solution. I want something simple with no personal hosint myself. What are my options that are mostly plug n play that will work well and have been used enough that ai would have seen the code and be able to assist? thanks!

[copper gust]

Honestly probably nothing

ai is not even remotely good enough to get you anywhere close to that goal

[glossy thunder]

I also don't much care for what ai is doing to the creative landscape but I'm also not really looking for delusion. Just looking for an answer tbh

[pearl oyster]

That is the answer

[glossy thunder]

Not really lol. It's a copout

[pearl oyster]

Multiplayer is very hard even for experienced developers. Plug-n-play solution that you can just make work with the help of AI just doesn't exist

[hybrid brook]

anyone know how to fix an eperm, operation not petmitted error when installing packages?

[copper gust]

i have plenty to shit on about ai but genuinely based on the results that we get in here ai just isn't gonna get you anything remotely usuable for multiplayer without you doing a lot of work alongside it

ai to assist? maybe

ai to mostly do it? it's just not there

[hybrid brook]

making a multiplayer game without a background in networking is gonna be a hard time.
You gotta understand at least the basics.

[copper gust]

more than just the basics

[hybrid brook]

for sure, but like the more you know, the more you know how little you know.
edit:
Having the basics down will help you understand the scope of multiplayer at the very least.

[glossy thunder]

I know how the stuff works conceptually as well as having experience in a lot of those areas just not multiplayer gaming. I know client/server and packets, IT background sys admin, coded several games, etc. But I just wanted what is the ideal beginner solution because for a first time I figure a plugin asset that would be mostly pre solved would help me learn best. And fast results is always fun. but I had my ai code me a multiplayer game in html that worked in a single prompt so idk. Saying it can't do it is just wild to me.

[pearl oyster]

Why don't you ask AI what to use

[glossy thunder]

Because humans are better and available here?

[copper gust]

i can only go off what i've seen in my experience, i don't know what kind of stuff ai can scrape for whatever way html multiplayer is handled

[glossy thunder]

yeah that was my concern. html would be more readily available to learn off of. Unity scripts a bit more rare. especially any server side code.

[copper gust]

there's relatively pretty minimal amounts of resources available for ai to scrape for the networking solutions people use for networking and that's with the fact that even basic singleplayer prototypes are struggling for ai based on what people ask for help with here

I imagine html based multiplayer is a lot more primitive too compared to how you need to specifically work with unity's networking solutions in unity's hyper specific setup as well

[glossy thunder]

I figured there would be a premade asset that already had the basics done and I could just customize it to my liking. Nothing comes preloaded as a simple multiplayer game and then lets you springboard off it? Hmm

Maybe I'll just find something with really good documentation or the best reviews and just stumble my way through it.

[copper gust]

sure but as soon as you want to deviate from that the ai is going to springboard off into the void

[glossy thunder]

Nah if I can feed it the server code plus the client code it could figure it out from there. I just want to know whats the best multiplayer setup for a newbie that wants to make a 2v2 fps that needs to be easy to use, consistent, and accurate without the dev having to host anything lol

[copper gust]

just go netcode for gameobjects

[glossy thunder]

Is starting with a template solid or just go blank project?

[unborn gazelle]

Hello, I'm kinda new to unity and game dev.
Just want to know , is it valid to record my own audio from any audio source and use images (like for crosshairs ) from any source into my game ? Can i successfully publish it to steam and other platforms if I do that ?

Or I always have to use assets and stuffs from unity asset store

[copper gust]

Haha no you can very much make your own stuff

That is ideal !

[unborn gazelle]

I mean if I record and audio from a source , or create a simple png for crosshairs, is that valid ?

[copper gust]

Yes

Well depends on which source audio wise

[pearl oyster]

Depends what the source is? You can't record from other games or movies or such, they're likely to be copyrighted

If you record sounds from around you or make your own crosshair from scratch then of course that's ok

[unborn gazelle]

Ooh , I was thinking of recording gun sounds from movies and other gun showcase yt channels 😅 ...

And regarding the crosshairs, does the free ones available on websites like PngWing , etc works ?

[pearl oyster]

You'll have to read their license

[unreal jewel]

you definitely want to check the license that stuff is distributed under, and anything that doesn't explicitly specify a license i'd avoid using

though if you need crosshairs, there are plenty you can find online under permissive licences for free
here's one with cc0 (means you're completely free to use it for anything with no attribution, however you still should attribute if you can!) https://kenney.nl/assets/crosshair-pack

[unborn gazelle]

Yeah , I am using this exact crosshairs pack

And yeah will definitely read the licence

[unreal jewel]

recording gun sounds from movies you should probably avoid

you can find some on websites like freesound or pixabay

[stuck ocean]

im trying to install unity 6.2 in unity hub, why does it say validation failed? i have over 200gb capacity in C: and tried disabling the windows defender firewall but they dont work
checking the info-log.json, i see Error occured in 'Source Availablity Check'. SafeAxiosError: Request failed with status code 404"
how can i fix it?

[hybrid brook]

not sure, but I ran into a similar issue with one of the default packages and downgrading the unity version solved the issue.

[stuck ocean]

ive searched online and found out it may be due to unity hub downloading the china version of unity instead of the global one (hong kong here)
but still idk why it fails to download

[pearl oyster]

If you're in China it's the other way around. You have to use the Chinese version. The normal version is blocked

[willow ermine]

Anyone know when the roadmap talk is?

[frail goblet]

uh this is weird

is this a new VS2026 feature

[mystic abyss]

I recall that being there for a while, it just filters the solution to display whats relavent

Rider has a similar feature

[frail goblet]

ohh, I see

I have never seen this thing before lol

got so used to Solution Explorer

[mystic abyss]

Yeah, I got used to that too

one day that unity explorer sort of appeared

The programming gods decided to bless you today 🙏

[frail goblet]

frrr 🗣️

this is actually a bit more easy to look at than the Solution Explorer

[halcyon mango]

idk waiting for that too

[willow ermine]

Someone said 3 hours

[inland hornet]

Hey Hey Hey!

I have a good news

I finally published my first game

[pale coyote]

Steam?

[inland hornet]

no, playstore

[pale coyote]

What's the name?

[inland hornet]

I am a small indie

[pale coyote]

Same

[inland hornet]

Chippu-Code Game

is there any chat in this server where I can advertise it

[pale coyote]

You can't advertise here but share your journey on how you made it

For advertising do youtube, tik tok, instagram, etc...

#1180170818983051344

[inland hornet]

It took me 6 months, but I finally did it

[inland hornet]

No, I mean is there any channel on this server where developers put the link of thier games

because I think I have seen one before

[pale coyote]

Idk man

Nice game

I like the idea

I can help if you want

For the graphics

[storm patio]

you can use #1180170818983051344 for posting like, about the development process, but it's not really for marketing/advertisement. we don't have anything like that here unfortunately

[inland hornet]

OK, anyways

The game name is Chippu-Code Game, Its a small puzzle game inspired by the W3School code game, its a lot different from that W3 school code game but also same at the same time

[winged flume]

[drifting jacinth]

Hi

[inland hornet]

you must try, it only takes 15 minutes to finish it

[pale coyote]

I tried i5

[inland hornet]

How??

[pale coyote]

I'm on my phone rn

[charred fog]

As you've been pointed out already, this is not a place for promotion

[inland hornet]

I didnt promote anything, I am just talking about my first game

[pale coyote]

The logo looks ai generated. Try making it better or make it very simplistic

[charred fog]

If you just released something you can do a one time post about that in #🏆┃daily-win , otherwise post a log in #1180170818983051344

[charred fog]

There's no off-topic here. This is a learning community.

[inland hornet]

Oh sorry 😅 I always talked here

[drifting jacinth]

And Why Did Here Are Not #off-topic Next To This Channel?

[inland hornet]

any off topic channel in this server??

[charred fog]

#1180178376028327936 message

[pale coyote]

This is my new game I'm working on, I wanted to add a border on the roads so the player doesn't fall off however adding box colliders will take a long time. Is there a easier way?

[drifting jacinth]

Off-Topic Can Be Have Some Rules 💀

[inland hornet]

got it

I'll take care from next time

[charred fog]

You can build a collider procedurally from the edge of the road.

[drifting jacinth]

Nah... I'm Never Had Make A Working Unity Game Before...

Export As Windows App > Crash
Try To Cancel > More Crash
Endtask > Project Broken

That Why I Never Had Some Working Game Before

[charred fog]

@drifting jacinth If you've built that in 3d editor, you can also just have invisible flaps on a mesh that collider will use.

Wrong mention... @pale coyote ^^

Or rather cut them out and export separately, you don't want your road to use partially transparent material.

[analog crane]

Can't wait for Unity 6.5 (i assume that's when the CoreCLR preview release will start)

[sly lake]

Will probably be a few years before it's shippable

[analog crane]

i'm using alpha software all the time, i'd say if it doesn't crash with what i'm gonna do, it's good enough

[solar panther]

Who owns this server?

[storm patio]

what does it matter?

are you trying to contact them for something

[solar panther]

No, just wondering.

[safe garden]

hey guys, just wondering what is this icon meaning in hierachy?

[storm patio]

that's a prefab variant
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/hierarchy-reference.html

[safe garden]

ah ty

[safe garden]

sorry, is there a way to unpack a prefab instance? I can do it with a normal prefab but with a prefab instance I don't get that option

[sly lake]

Should be the same, no? Right click > prefab > unpack

[safe garden]

I only get those options on a PF instance

[lavish gale]

prefab your road and add barrier ?

[storm patio]

if it's in the hierarchy it's a prefab instance, the prefab itself is an asset in the project pane

are you referring to the prefab variant?

[uncut rivet]

Anyone know why my Ui is gone

Like for the playmode button it’s just a texture

[deft rock]

because you did something

ohh, or do you mean editor UI?

[pale coyote]

How

[lone galleon]

Anyone know an asset i can purchase or make, just like Sakura rabbit made. The effect with the "sweat dripping" on the face?

[unborn gazelle]

Can anyone tell me how to use the bullet trail Fx prefab that comes with the polygon battle royal pack ....like what's the intended way to use it. (Since it got an animator component and an avatar on it)

So far I only made trails using the trail renderers and ray cast way.

This is something new for me

[deft rock]

speak to the publisher of the asset - after reading the docs that come with it

[fringe pagoda]

...unity in fortnite??

[olive knoll]

guys can anyone send a link to visual studio 2017

[lapis gate]

Unity Lumen™

[pale coyote]

That would be crazy

[sly lake]

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/

[olive knoll]

thanks

[pale coyote]

I had added volumetric clouds to my project. Whenever I reopen it. Everything stays as it is except the volume profile. The sky resets back to normal.

Also can someone explain what ray tracing profile does?

[sly lake]

Volumes are not for enabling post processing, they simply allow you to override default settings (in some cases those settings are disabled though)

So the ray tracing profile allows you to override settings for ray tracing

I think it controls the size and shape of the BVH and such

[remote tangle]

Anyone know the best way to make a 3D player model like that of Aether/Lumine from Genshin Impact?

[sly lake]

Blender, learn it.

[pale coyote]

Best way is by making it yourself

It's not that hard

[remote tangle]

yes, i know, thats what im asking

[pale coyote]

Then take a picture as a reference

[remote tangle]

i dont have much, if any, usable experience in blender

[sly lake]

Same workflow as other characters. Sculpting, retopo, rigging, texturing. Just different style.

[pale coyote]

First just make the base out of spheres then you can try to blend it in, rig it, colour it, etc..

There are plenty of tutorials on yt but don't watch the big ones, just watch some small short videos. The best way to learn is by experiencing it yourself. Do whatever you can. If you have any problems search it up or try to fix it by trial and error

Those big tutorials don't really teach you much

Try to explore yourself

Or

I have a shortcut

[remote tangle]

Could I use a model of aether/lumine as reference for size and how much detail to use for the rendering?

[sly lake]

That sounds questionably legal

[pale coyote]

Use an AI for it. (Preferably meshy ai)
Note: will be faster but won't teach you anything

[remote tangle]

I don't know if thats illegal or not, I won't use their actual model, just use it as a size and detail reference

if it's not illegal ofc

[sly lake]

I would stay away from this approach in general. Just use reference pictures.

[sweet atlas]

We got Unity and Epic Games collab before GTA6 😆

[pale coyote]

Using it as a reference won't get you into any legal trouble. If you want you can download a model and modify it(colours, shape,) this also is a good way

[sly lake]

But this is getting ahead of ourselves.

[sly lake]

You'll need to learn how to sculpt first, which is a journey. Best not to start with a full character

[pale coyote]

This is what most big games do like gta5, cyberpunk

And this is also what I'm doing rn

But up to you how you want to make it

[remote tangle]

I did use to scult, many things, but never multiple things in a single project, like their character models have eyes, front hair, some clothing, and head as a separate object

its been over a year, but ill just have to brute force it ig

[fair cove]

This would most likely be done with some kind of shader, and maybe some procedural texture or UVs for the "dripping" part - maybe you could look into how screen space shaders are made for effects like "rain on screen/camera", then apply it to world space - I imagine it would be easier to do in ShaderGraph, but maybe people in#1390346776804069396 might know more

[sweet atlas]

In my job the artist that makes the game art uses ai in the psd files that he sends to us. Not everything is AI but some % is.

I've learned to embrace AI as a tool

[pale coyote]

I use ai to learn c#

[sweet atlas]

The visual studio copilot AI is a godsend

[pale coyote]

It gives me codes with errors or incomplete. Then guides me how it should be then I Try to make it like that

[sweet atlas]

Everytime im facing a complex time at solving a complex problem in code, it helps me to solve it and saves me time

Work smarter, not harder

[pale coyote]

When I download terrain tools, are the stamps not supposed to come with it? Because I saw that in a video the person using it had alot of other brushes however I didn't get any.

[sly lake]

I don't think any stamps come with terrain tools, no.

[lapis gate]

AI is getting there but still I don't treat it any more than a more advance search engine as google has been pretty garbo for a while

[pale coyote]

Yea I used chatgpt to help me build my first pc

Saved me ton of time

[sly lake]

DuckDuckGo's AI search is pretty good

Doesn't seem to bullshit as much as Google

[lapis gate]

Apparently Google's AI is being valued very high lately, but it still tell you to eat rocks for a better diet the last time I checked

[pale coyote]

Ai can also be really good for content. I saw a video where a person tries to replicate a game using different AIs

It got lots of view

[lapis gate]

prompting to generate code isn't scalable

[sly lake]

Even in small batches it can screw you over if you don't know how to review it

[lapis gate]

copilot does have an edge (teehee) as it does live in the environment, but trying to prompt your ideas from the english language into a computer language will never be exact

[sly lake]

I vibe coded some stuff now I have a List<T> with potentially thousands of GC allocations per frame in my render loop.

[lapis gate]

honestly if you want to write good prompts to translate I'd suggest taking some courses in discreet math

[sly lake]

What's worse is when you don't know enough C# to understand how this is a bad idea 😏

[olive knoll]

guys is visual studio 2026 good or no?

[velvet crane]

Hey everyone

I am a Blender artist. Can I get my models in Unity games?

Other people’s

[lapis gate]

yes

well, into your project yes

[sly lake]

You may be able to publish your work on the Asset Store

[velvet crane]

I am still learning Unity. I am very interested in creating educational games for high school educators to employ in their instruction.

[pure jackal]

A preview of the Core CLR coming to a future Unity 6 in editor desktop player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC3WlucHGuk&t=2212s

[sly lake]

-# preview

[pure jackal]

Will add that note

[plain dagger]

Im glad its not dead, will be cool to see the speed and compilation improvements

[pale coyote]

When I add tress. Is there a way I can add like a Mesh collider to it? Because I just phase through the trees which is very unrealistic

[south summit]

Guys, I need help here. My animations aren't getting any reference to the mesh or its bones because nothing shows up in the preview when I drag my model. I've tried everything: re-importing, verifying that the animation type is Generic, etc. The mesh with the bones are FBX files, and the animations are also separate files but with the same object data, although the second image shows something strange this error 🤔

[potent geyser]

Keep this stuff in https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1352599815770341479, it isn't Unity related.

[keen locust]

Does anyone know if there is a tool for Terrain to auto generate but up to objects already placed, I have a rough sketched path and want to terrain up to it

[sly lake]

Only capsule collider is supported for terrain trees.

[pale coyote]

Ok well how do I add it

[pearl grove]

how can i quickly remove all deleted scripts from all prefabs

[copper gust]

Need it so bad

[south summit]

hi, sir 😄 can you help me? *pingless

[pearl grove]

i have a big amount of prefabs, and they were created with some package idk, i dont need that so i can just remove all the scripts

[sly lake]

I don't see it as something they have much of a choice in. The Mono platform has no future. It's a ticking clock.

[pearl grove]

how can i remove all the error scripts at once?

[plain dagger]

fix them all in one go 😆

[viral hill]

prefab is a broad term

[pearl grove]

yes

[pearl grove]

the file

[plain dagger]

Oh you mean missing components from removed scripts?

[copper gust]

How

[viral hill]

that's still broad

[pearl grove]

yes

[viral hill]

because it explains nothing about the purpose of it, which i presume is important in this context

[sly lake]

It's not

I understand what they're asking

[pearl grove]

its just some models composed together

[plain dagger]

There is an editor function that can be used to remove them all but i forget what it is 😐

[copper gust]

Theres something on the asset store iirc

That too

[pearl grove]

and i dont have package it depends on

[viral hill]

yeah, that's what i was getting at. if all you need are models, you can remove any code

[pearl grove]

but i dont really need those crappy scripts

[copper gust]

That is what they are asking about yes

[keen locust]

@sly lake does the emoji mean no

[sly lake]

The emoji means I don't know what you're asking

[pearl grove]

i have a hella lot of prefabs

and in best case it can have 1 script

or like 10

how can i clean it all in one sweep

[viral hill]

are you actually getting errors or are they warnings?

[pearl grove]

errors

[keen locust]

i have a path going upwards, just placeholder 3d objects, just wondered if terrain has a feature where it auto generates in a space but stops before it overrides already placed objects

[viral hill]

just sort your assets by type "script" and delete any that came with that package

[pearl grove]

i want to do it fast

because there is a lot of error scripts

[viral hill]

that's not an error...

[copper gust]

It is

Prefabs wont save with that iirc

[pearl grove]

yes

[sly lake]

Also causes other issues

[plain dagger]

FOUND IT https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObjectUtility.RemoveMonoBehavioursWithMissingScript.html

[sly lake]

Runtime doesn't like it, I think

[pearl grove]

You are trying to save a Prefab with a missing script. This is not allowed.
Please change the script or remove it from the GameObject 'MonitorStand'.
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallUpdateFunctions ()

[copper gust]

Eh it complains but doesn’t do anything harmful as far as i know

[viral hill]

ah i had no idea

[pearl grove]

how to pull that off

[pearl grove]

i also need to remove rigidbodies and colliders so it does

i cant save the prefab

[copper gust]

Not related to what i was answering

[past igloo]

hi does anynone know if i can have a whole 2d game on unity and from where can i download it

[plain dagger]

It would need to be executed on your prefab assets before trying to modify them in any way

[pearl grove]

how do i do that

[plain dagger]

Using code to add a menu item like this:

using UnityEditor;

[MenuItem("Assets/Remove Missing Components...")]
public static void RemoveMissingComponentsEditor()
{
    AssetDatabase.DisallowAutoRefresh();
    try
    {
        foreach(var gameObj in Selection.gameObjects)
        {
            GameObjectUtility.RemoveMonoBehavioursWithMissingScript(gameObj);
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        AssetDatabase.AllowAutoRefresh();
    }
}

you should be able to select multiple assets, r click and run this

[pearl grove]

tysm

you saved me

[burnt pendant]

[viral hill]

holy hell https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1p130nm/unity_developers_will_be_able_to_bring_their/

[burnt pendant]

[burnt pendant]

It was because of this news that I just found out that I came back here to read what people are saying about it.

[viral hill]

what are you opinions on it?

[burnt pendant]

I don't fully understand what he means, but I suppose it would be emulating the engine in Fortnite for its map creation system.

[hushed hamlet]

Meanwhile all we've asked for is a few bug fixes 🤣

[viral hill]

i dont think it's an emulation exactly, he talks about how they'll be connected via specialized networking protocols...

[burnt pendant]

We'll have to wait and see how it goes, but it's an interesting proposal to see; something similar would be the MILLISTRA from GENSHIN, which uses UNITY as its base engine.

[weary portal]

Did they announce anything serious or just the Fortnite bs?

[viral hill]

WHAT? YOU WANT BUG FIXES AND NOT NEW USELESS FEATURES?!

[viral hill]

seems serious for a niche group of people, doesnt really do much for anyone else

[burnt pendant]

Yes

[viral hill]

i assume this is all hype to bring more traction to fortnite again

[burnt pendant]

That's always the goal; they need content for their platform, so they must be able to allow the use of other engines.

[copper gust]

More likely for Unity more than Fortnite

[modest meteor]

why would i put my game on fortnite instead of steam though

[burnt pendant]

[copper gust]

Different userbase i guess, core audience there might be more open to playing smaller roblox esque mini games

Presumably handles networking in some form too

built in character controller and all that

[compact vigil]

hi can anyone tell me how i can animate a value which is coming from shader graph in particle system like i want to dissolve a sphere but not able to find the solution

[viral hill]

animate a value?

are you asking about a specific shader functionality?

[deft rock]

in code? use a tweener/ lerp
with the animation? record the value change -> google to learn how

[polar basalt]

i swear i was able to add an extension now i cant anymore

how did i manage to add it then on my 'SliderExtensions', if i try to add 'Slider' onto the 'SliderExtensions' it gives off the same error, of 'SliderExtensions' onto the 'Sliders'

[hushed hamlet]

Its telling you to remove the existing toggle first

[compact vigil]

yes i want to animate this dissolve value like we do in vfx graph with get life attribute

[polar basalt]

yeah, but i was able to add sliderExtensions script to objects that already had "Slider" component

[viral hill]

you'd have to do this via code. you can just lerp the value for a basic effect

[compact vigil]

i dont knwo that

[polar basalt]

i did not do this manually, (copying the data from the old sliders)

[viral hill]

don't know what specifically?

[compact vigil]

to code

and animate the vcalue

[viral hill]

then learn

[polar basalt]

maybe first have it be a monobehaviour, add it, then change it back to extend toggle?

[hushed hamlet]

Youll need to check in with whomever made the extension. Or if its yours, you may need to share some code in a coding channel for it.

[safe garden]

is there a fast way to weed out what meshes in your scene don't have collisions? other than jumping through them

[polar basalt]

i made it, im just wondering, maybe its because it was first "MonoBehaviour" then i made it extend "Slider"

so i have to do the same ig?

[dusk nova]

Fortnite

[hushed hamlet]

Yes that would do it.

[modest meteor]

try "t: Collider" into the search?

[polar basalt]

is there any way to kinda not have to do this every time?

[hushed hamlet]

You cant have two derived sliders on the same object.

[copper gust]

Better use of prefabs 😛

[safe garden]

sick, nice one!

[polar basalt]

i want to still derive from it tho

[hushed hamlet]

Because then it isn't an extension of an existing one, its a new one.

[polar basalt]

yes

[hushed hamlet]

That's like saying I want two apples but I only want to see one

[polar basalt]

i mean yeah but its only for a short time

i just need it to be there so i can copy the data

yk what i mean, like the colors, the min/max and so on

and then i remove the unity ui component

[viral hill]

holy hell you can just... do that 🥹

i've been typing out the name of each component when searching for it without realizing you can just do a broad search with the type name

[hushed hamlet]

The engine is going to stop you from having two toggles on one object, so youll need to work around that. Id probably use an editor script as middleware

[polar basalt]

ah so copy data, delete the component, add my component, transfer data

[hushed hamlet]

And do lots of pretesting

[polar basalt]

that could be done, but im lazy :p

also multi copying data would be kinda hard

but one a time i can see that done

[hushed hamlet]

Im pretty comfortable with editor scripts, so that's how id tackle it. But there are lots of ways. Copy the toggle to a temporary object for example, then you can remove it and change it.

Its a painful process when you need to switch out a built inn component with custom ones later into design

[polar basalt]

i see

thank you

[hushed hamlet]

If you do go down the editor tooling path, just remember you need to mark objects as dirty when you modify them or they won't actually save when you come back to the scene.

[polar basalt]

yes i know that, thank you ;)

btw, changed to mono, then back, everything is fine now :p

[potent geyser]

There's no off topic here, thanks.

[balmy swan]

What an insane Announcement today. Unity and Unreal partnering a common payment engine in app (versus having to use the app stores and their 30% cut), AND Unity titles will run inside of Fortnite. WHAAAAAATTTTTT !!!!

As a VR developer this is BIG and it may be the nail in the coffin for Meta's Horizon World as Unity developers like me are never going to be able to tap into that market as it is closed to Horizon creators, using Horizon only tools that are locked to Horizon World and the Horizon OS. I have always been disappointed that Meta went this way instead of providing a foundation for developers using leading edge tools like Unity, Unreal, Godot and more to all link up via portals and such in an open Metaverse, versus a closed vendor specific one where you still have to search traditional flat screen stores to find content if you can even get past the Horizon World clutter.

Being able to put my Theme Park inside of the Fortnite Metaverse and be exposed to 100s of millions of players is exactly the future I have been developing my app for 5 years for. Bring it on and don’t stop there ig hope. Bring in Steam and other VR apps and games too as the Metaverse has got to be cross platform and ubiquitous, not the closed one Meta is developing.

Lots of work to do for sure including Fortnite VR Avatars if there are not some already. This will take years, but I hope the new payment SDK will incentivise fast track development.

[stuck flower]

...Fortnite runs other games?

[glass kraken]

hi, I'm not really used to making games with HDRP, it's my first time and when I'm in the project, it always lags, is it normal?

[potent geyser]

Why do people ask "is it normal", baffles me.

[viral hill]

just announced #1440723925557579979 message

[potent geyser]

Yes, an unuseable use of a tool is normal.

Of course it's not "normal". It's heavy, sure, and if your hardware can't support it, it's going to lag

[stuck flower]

Again... Fortnite runs other games?

What does it even mean to release a game "in fortnite"

[viral hill]

Tim Sweeney breifly goes over it in the linked video

im not exactly sure how it works myself

[pearl oyster]

Apparently it has evolved into a Roblox-like publishing platform where people can publish and play unrelated games built with their tools

[copper gust]

it's interesting because i assume you wont have access to the character controller in unity right? will it just be exporting assetbundle esque stuff?

[glass kraken]

I've a RTX 4070 and a Ryzen 7 7000 series, which is why I ask whether it's normal or not because that should be enough to run this kinda program, I don't think all the devs who make games with HDRP have 4k USD Computers.Could I know why it "baffles" you?

[potent geyser]

You're assuming all devs make high end quality games in HDRP?

I have more or less the same, and we've used HDRP + Raytracing at work and it was more or less smooth.

[glass kraken]

did I? I said the devs who use HDRP, never said they all do

[potent geyser]

You're not going to be zipping around the scene camera completely buttery smooth, but it was useable just fine.

[glass kraken]

yes that's exactly what happens to me and it's also slow, manageable to work with but annoying

[viral hill]

Check your task manager. That will answer all of your questions

[potent geyser]

Okay, so then if youre question is, if it's not going to be super smooth, then yes that's normal. Especially if you're using raytracing and it's doing that both in your scene + game view simultaneously.

[glass kraken]

okay thank you for your help

[undone nova]

Question. Is implementing online Co-op (2-4) difficult? My thought process was one player hosts the game and a backup server fills in the gaps if the hosts connection sucks. I can't seem to find any resources about this online

[stuck flower]

If the player is hosting, how does "the backup server" know what is going on

[plain dagger]

what is a "backup server"?
If one player is the host then their connection matters. You need a p2p design to avoid having a single host

[potent geyser]

You could also just use Unity's Lobby/Relay stuff and not doing this manually?

[sly lake]

Even if it can, 30-something fps in the editor is pretty normal.

[potent geyser]

Cries in pathtracing

Never again

[sly lake]

That’s seconds per frame

[undone nova]

I meant relay server, something players connect to if the direct connection fails

[stuck flower]

If you want the server to take over when the player's connection fails, that means that the server needs to be informed of all of the player data going on at any given time, which means you just have a client-server system with extra steps

[undone nova]

Im looking at games like lethal company, REPO, etc and wondering how they implemented networking. I have found Unity's relay for secure p2p
https://unity.com/products/relay, and Steam's offering https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer#networking

[copper gust]

lethal uses ngo, repo uses photon

[modest meteor]

i think they also use steam's peer to peer networking

which is free

[safe garden]

hey all, bit confused here if anyone can help. I have a prefab within a prefab, I dragged a mesh into the nested prefab and wanted to apply override, but the option isn't appearing. Even though the mesh is dragged into the nested prefab, when opening the prefab to take a look at it, it appears white...... not sure what's happening?

[wise yacht]

I know this question is quite vague, but I have this above my RPC

[ServerRpc(InvokePermission = RpcInvokePermission.Everyone)]

and then when trying to invoke the RPC from a non-owner... I get this error? (Using NGO).

I understand the question is a bit vague just wanted to know if im being stupid and missed something.

[copper gust]

#1390346492019212368

[wise yacht]

My plan was to go there next if there was no simple fix/simple thing i did wrong

[viral hill]

you cant have a prefab within a prefab. if you try, it just becomes a normal GO and loses the prefab reference

[deft rock]

it's not clear where things are.

If you have put something new in the nested prefab, and want to apply that to the original.. then the option to override is on that nested prefabs gameobject, not the root parent

[deft rock]

this is wrong.

[viral hill]

how can you have a prefab inside a prefab without the reference being lost

[copper gust]

dragging it in 👍

or any way you would expect to do that

the reference being lost thing your talking about just isn't a thing

[quasi sigil]

hello, I need help with my project

[deft rock]

if you're looking for team mates then 👇

!collab

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[viral hill]

oh i guess im mistaken

@safe garden disregard what i said

[safe garden]

sorry for the n00b q - how do you locate the original game object for that nested prefab? right now I've selected it in the hierachy and I believe its the top most level of that particular prefab

[deft rock]

share a screenshot

[undone nova]

Has anyone used fishnet? I see many ppl online saying its the best

[copper gust]

dunno, i dont know of any of those related games you mentioned using it tho

[wise yacht]

I looked into it but disregarded it for a reason i can't remember

[safe garden]

JG_RedTemple is supposed to be the prefab for the whole temple bit

[undone nova]

Im seeing there is no matchmaking/lobby services provided https://www.reddit.com/r/unity/comments/1e8kbyj/mirror_photon_or_netcode_for_gameobjects/

[viral hill]

press the little arrow

on the right side of where the name is

[wise yacht]

Hm yeah - I went with NGO in the end but i'm not 100% sure why (although having used Photon in the past, I prefer NGO so much more to photon)

[potent geyser]

All these networking options are more or less the same, and will make claims and do comparisons to prove their point. Just be aware that the Fishnet guy has sleeper accounts he uses to self promote his stuff, so while there may be legit claims/testimonials, you never know. But there's no reason you can't use Unity's native multiplayer for something coop.

[deft rock]

That is the nested prefab and where I would expect override to be.

Open the PF_Environment prefab (select it from the GO above) and see if that makes a diff

[undone nova]

you know whats crazy I suspected some funny bizness on this thread lol

[safe garden]

the PF_Environment prefab selection shows the overrides menu, just not the RedTemple one

[stuck flower]

You can. Nested Prefabs became possible like six years ago

[undone nova]

so you allow users/ yourself to host their own servers, but you use the NGO sdk or whatev to make lobbies/matchmaking, game session and handle the client to server connection during all of this? just trying to understand

[stuck flower]

Pretty sure that's all the guy who made FishNet on like thirty alts. He got banned here for doing that at least. No idea if the framework is good or not but the guerilla marketing is annoying

[safe garden]

I'll tinker with it and report back - haven't slept that well so might have derp brain rn, ty for now

[copper gust]

nooo what gave it away 😭

[undone nova]

gotta respect the hustle, but not the product

[copper gust]

arguable

[stuck flower]

I feel like it's the other way around

[dusk nova]

Does visual scripting for unity receive updates still or nah

Idk where to ask the question im new here

[modest meteor]

#1390346878394040320 probably

[dusk nova]

I had a feeling that would be the place thanks

[undone nova]

I found a paid client hosted option with NGO https://unity.com/products/distributed-authority

https://youtu.be/3jBOTk_qozA

[strange pond]

Hello

[tall hearth]

You saying fishnet is good?

[stuck flower]

Respect != endorsement

I'm saying I respect putting in the effort to make a network layer because that's a ton of work. I don't respect the hidden shilling

[tall hearth]

Ah fair point

[high osprey]

Hello can someone tell my what did I turn on that makes my sphere disappear when I zoom it

[viral hill]

click ISO in the top right of the scene tab

[storm patio]

also make sure the clipping planes are appropriate

press F to focus the object and reset zoom

[high osprey]

Thinks

[brisk anvil]

do we know when is next year's unite?

[glass kraken]

hi, I've just set up a HDRI sky in my HDRP scene but the scene is full black and I can't see any sky on it

[viral hill]

Show your volume component

[viral hill]

maybe your intensity multiplier is too low?

[viral hill]

oh actually, change the mode to exposure or lux instead of multiplier

or turn off intensity mode completely

[glass kraken]

I don't think so, when I increase it,it doesn't change anything and I can see the sky in playmode, just my scene is fully dark

[glass kraken]

doesn't change anything

[glass kraken]

doesn't change anything neither

[viral hill]

wait so you can see the sky but the scene lighting is weird, you mean?

[glass kraken]

I can see the sky in playmode, but not in the scene itself you know

[viral hill]

i dont understand. can you send a pic of what it looks like

[viral hill]

oh you mean you can see it in game view but not scene view?

[glass kraken]

yes exactly

[glass kraken]

yes

[keen locust]

pretty sure you need a directional light

[viral hill]

press this little icon and check if skybox is enabled

[viral hill]

they have one

[glass kraken]

the sun is one

[keen locust]

ohh okay

[glass kraken]

it is

[viral hill]

hmm this makes me think that this is a weird exposure thing. try selecting your camera from the hierarchy and pressing f

[viral hill]

oh my god...

you are using an unshaded draw mode

🤦‍♂️

[glass kraken]

what's this?

[viral hill]

click this icon

[glass kraken]

omggg

thank you sooo much

does this option hide the sky?

[viral hill]

lol im so used to URP that i forgot HDRP does this

[green valve]

Do we have a timeline on when Unity 6.3 will become the new LTS?

[glass kraken]

same, it's my first time using HDRP

anyway, thank you so much

[viral hill]

i've been using HDRP for a few months now and im still not fully used to it 😅

[glass kraken]

😂 I bet it will come bro dont worry

[sly lake]

They’re wireframe, lit + wireframe, unlit and lit modes specifically

Unlit is pretty useful when you’re working in a low-light scene (or don’t have lighting setup yet)

[copper gust]

The trick is just using an unlit shader for your entire game 😇

[late gazelle]

improve compiling scripts time, it takes minutes

please, with only 3 scripts every save took 5 minute

[craggy pollen]

there is a better place to post this

[late gazelle]

doesnt matter where

tbh

[storm patio]

we can't do shit, this is a community server

[late gazelle]

yeah i know

[storm patio]

there is staff here, yes, but it's mostly community managers

[frosty spire]

Hello, I’m not sure if this channel is the right place to ask, but I’ve just started learning Unity and I’m currently following the tutorial below.
In the tutorial, the character can walk in “game” mode, but mine can’t. Could it be an issue with the controls? I’ve tried everything, but none of the keys work. Does anyone know the solution, please?

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/get-started-with-the-unity-editor (Part 10)

[storm patio]

are you getting any errors

[frosty spire]

How do I see them ? I don't think so

[storm patio]

see the console tab, and errors would also show up at the bottom

[balmy kettle]

!input

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

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

[frosty spire]

It worked !! Thank youu !

[safe garden]

I just had a quick q for environment art practices - if you have a modular kit which is made up of several meshes, is it better practice to export it to engine as one fbx and split it up in engine, or to export it as individual pieces and then piece and snap it together in engine?

[deft rock]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[wraith pasture]

Unity really needs to update their store to be more friendly..
One of the 2 assets I bought in my order does not show up in "My Assets" and also not in package manager.

I just bought the assets and haven't downloaded any of them even once and a refund request creates a ticket which will probably be reviewed in who knows how many weeks and then maybe even declined for no reason.
With that backlog message it's really not great either...

[pulsar spruce]

So are all unity games gonna be forced into fortnite or is it optional for developers?

[copper gust]

You would specifically have to build for that in mind i think

Impossible to force

[stable perch]

wait what?

[wraith pasture]

Literally stated in the ToS/EULA too, where is the "automatic" refund?? why does it create a ticket which you have to wait for like we live in caveman times

[wraith pasture]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1440723925557579979

[south summit]

HEYYY

HELP, 1 DAY

Even if it's just one word, answer me, but don't leave me alone

[deft rock]

of course it's optional..

[deft rock]

There can be a delay with bought assets not showing up in 'My Assets' , usually sorted within a couple hours IIRC

[wraith pasture]

yea but now I still want the automatic refund which doesn't even work

[deft rock]

You MIGHT have to wait for it to show up in your 'My Assets' (essentially the system catching up that you've bought it) to get the refund - but I'm just speculating.

[wraith pasture]

it creates a ticket and not an immediate refund even though all the criteria are met, not sure whats automatic about that

[wraith pasture]

Tried with the asset that did show up too, same thing

[deft rock]

bought together?

[wraith pasture]

yep

in one invoice. One of them shows in my assets, the other not. I was charged that exact amount. And refund is NOT automatic.. it created a ticket for each of the assets when I did a refund request on each of them

https://unity.com/legal/as-terms#:~:text=2.8.3 Automatic refunds,an upgrade path.

[safe garden]

if you unpack a prefab in order to add more objects to it, will it lose its reference to the other meshes? I'm guessing it would be like creating a completely new prefab

[deft rock]

unpacking a prefab just breaks the connection to the prefab asset, all the children of the prefab keep their references - why wouldn't they?

[safe garden]

ahh got you 👍🏻

[deft rock]

it's also not creating another prefab - unpacking a prefab turns it into a "normal" game object

[safe garden]

but say if you had animation attached to it, you unpack the prefab turning it into a game object, isn't this going to mess things up? maybe am not thinking about it correctly

[deft rock]

no, why would it

it's not relevant what the prefab has on it/ the children..

[safe garden]

ahh I see ok

[deft rock]

Unpacking just breaks the link to the prefab asset (the file in /Assets in the Project window).. making it a non-prefab

it would be a useless feature to also remove all references and break everything

[safe garden]

so say you have a prefab, PF_Environment as we discussed before, you unpack it in hierachy because you want to add new objects to it, I'm assuming you could then just use Prefab > Replace to copy over the pre-existing prefab you had in library - if that makes sense

that's good to know about not losing references though thanks!

[deft rock]

If you want to add new things to the prefab.. you do not need to unpack it

[stuck flower]

If you want to add things to the prefab, add them to the prefab.

[deft rock]

Either add them to the prefab in the scene, and then apply the overrides ... or open the prefab and add them there, save and close

[stuck flower]

Not the one in the scene

[safe garden]

ahhh ok thank you guys

👍🏻

[deft rock]

!learn

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[deft rock]

☝️ do the prefab lessons

[safe garden]

yes I should do these now - fo sho 🙏🏻

[stuck flower]

I am pretty sure I have said this exact thing to you multiple times already

[safe garden]

ok sorry, just a bit of a newb

[pearl grove]

how can i make gui that wont suck

i cant just let dev console and hints to be cut off like that

[copper gust]

proper anchoring and usage of auto font sizing

[pearl grove]

how

that console is centered on top left

is that how im suposed to do that?

[tribal flume]

uh should this happen

[pearl grove]

scale issue

its parent has non-1, 1, 1 scale

it atleast explains the mesh

[tribal flume]

yes that's problem

damn that takes more work to do

(for unity)

i guess that makes sense tho

[pearl grove]

i only realized that because in early beta for fireworks mania when crouching you will get squished, as well as your tool and it will distort when looking up or down

[tribal flume]

yeah, this features of distorting mesh based on local scale vectors seems to hurt more than help and it also takes more complicated mesh calculations

[pearl grove]

you... just dont scale them...

[tribal flume]

but scale is useful

[tribal flume]

for like crouching as you said here

[pearl grove]

no

there are properties

on cc AND tic tac collider

[tribal flume]

tic tac?

[pearl grove]

lets be honest

90% of fps characters in unity looks like tic tac candy

[tribal flume]

no they are BEANS

[pearl grove]

hell nah

beans are dented and a little curved

tic tacs are more accuate

[graceful wedge]

I made a keystore for my game and whenever I build it I need to put the password in. Every time I tried i forgot what happened but it worked then I tried the same password not even 5 minutes later and it said it’s wrong. Is there a way to find out what it is again?

[south summit]

Guys, question why my animation couldnt have a preview mesh?

My model and animations are at separated fbx files

[azure pond]

what kind of game are you trying to make?

[south summit]

But should contain the same data

Also it's possible to create animations on unity?

Animation clips

[azure pond]

unity doesn't know the two files are related

[azure pond]

i think you know the answer is yes, so what do you really mean?

[pearl grove]

its a part of the game

sometimes dev tools that are handy to debug the game can become a part of it

like half life 2 can become sandbox by pressing ~

[south summit]

Idk, replicate them on unity format

Copy pasting the data

[south summit]

Okkk.... Sooo in blender how is dealt with that condition?

[azure pond]

blender has code to deal with it, unity does not
you can easily create an fbx with both the mesh that gets animated and multiple animation clips. this will make things easier to visualize.

[azure pond]

there are some asset store assets that provide this kind of functionality

[pearl grove]

nope

im making smth like editor mode

[graceful wedge]

Is there a way to remove my keystore?

[azure pond]

are you planning to write a lot of UI?

[azure pond]

what are you trying to do?

[pearl grove]

kinda

only property editor

[azure pond]

there are great assets to try first, so you can get a feel for what this is

and see how the code is organized

then it'll be easier to do yourself

[graceful wedge]

I “forgot” my password 5 minutes after it worked and I seem to remember only using it for adding my game to a store but that didn’t work. If it’s needed is there a way for unity to email me or something telling me what it is

[pearl grove]

1. Im broke
2. I dont want external dependencies in my project
3. Im broke
4. I will probaly make the editor part opensource

[azure pond]

my suggestion is to implement ui with UI toolkit, if you want to have a lot of it

it forces you to decouple things in a good way

[graceful wedge]

The annoying thing about this is apparently I need the password to be set to build my project

[azure pond]

what are you trying to do? you want to upload your android build to google play?

you don't need a keystore to build your project

[graceful wedge]

Android to meta quest store

[graceful wedge]

No but there’s no way to remove it

[azure pond]

have you already released the game?

[azure pond]

how do you figure

[graceful wedge]

To itch.io yes not to the meta store

[graceful wedge]

Is there a way to remove it

[azure pond]

do you mean remove it from the editor settings?

like what do you mean, remove it?

[graceful wedge]

The keystore option

Because I created a keystore it keeps telling me I need to set the right password to build

[azure pond]

you are struggling mightily with what should be a very simple way to interact with the UI

https://developers.meta.com/horizon/resources/publish-mobile-app-signing have you read this?

you will create a new keystore. you can't lose this thing

[graceful wedge]

The issue is I don’t remember my password apparently and I need a way to figure out what it is

[azure pond]

or lose its password or whatever

[pearl grove]

i said it wont be a lot

[azure pond]

it doesn't matter at this stage

because you've never published to any stores that implement signing

[graceful wedge]

Fine. I just wish I could remove that feature

[azure pond]

once you've created the keystore, you should store it in a password manager like 1password

and include the password for the keystore in there

[graceful wedge]

Yeah that makes sense. But what’s weird is that password I’m sure worked not even 5 minutes prior

[azure pond]

google play manages signing for you

[azure pond]

well you havent' shared any error. you can see what password is saved by looking at the editor preferences yaml directly

[graceful wedge]

Where’s that?

[azure pond]

i think you can poke around ProjectSettings

[graceful wedge]

Ok I’ll have a look

[azure pond]

grep -r "keystore" ProjectSettings/

[rough edge]

Hi! Where can I find help with unity glitches?

[viral hill]

!ask and #🔎┃find-a-channel

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[safe garden]

hey guys, how would you typically blend 2 different textures on a mesh, guessing vertex painting? not referring to terrain here, just a normal mesh, like grass and sand

[stuck flower]

Probably a custom shader

[plain dagger]

using vertex colours is a good route but a "splat map" can also be used
both need a custom shader but isnt hard to do with shader graph

[safe garden]

thanks guys I'll try that 👍🏻

[viral hill]

you have to toggle it via the 3 dots at the top right of the scene tab and enabling overlay menu

[polar basalt]

hey guys

where do these icons come from?

[lapis gate]

unity

[polar basalt]

i want to locate them but i cant find

[polar basalt]

yeah thats pretty helpfull

[lapis gate]

well, open up the toolkit package and look around

[polar basalt]

toolkit package?? pretty sure i dont have that?

[lapis gate]

isn't that what these icons are form

[polar basalt]

yeah but where do i find the toolkit package?

im sorry if i sound dumb i really dont know what tool kit is

never heard of that

i mean, ive heard of it but i dont think i ever went trough that

[lapis gate]

I mean can you show me where those icons are from if not the Toolkit

[polar basalt]

idk what toolkit is, where do i find that?

[lapis gate]

oh it's a built-in package eh

[robust sundial]

Hello

[bleak pulsar]

when implementing a dialog tree do you use use dictionary look up for dialog node or just use tree traversal? since each dialog can have a choice and a choice can either invoke next dialog or invoke a global action.

[lapis gate]

https://gist.github.com/maxha651/85e5350b2fcca361a435c156f2c24f48

probably in there

[lapis gate]

Does it look like a tree? Then do trees ;p

[polar basalt]

what am i supposed to do with this, im trying to find the texture file, i dont want EditorGUIUtility

[lapis gate]

Read the top and look into that.

As is, it seems like you can use it in your project, but unless you read more into it I'm not entirely sure if you can save it to your disk elsewhere