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[vapid spoke]

im trying to remake it for fun

you know photon

[viral hill]

how is this relevant

[vapid spoke]

im trying to make you understand the thing im trying to make for fun :]

and the things im using

[viral hill]

errors dont care about what you're making

[dense reef]

@sleek gazelle you can use transform translate if linear velocity is not what you are looking for it does not matter if you use it in Update the value u add in update will directly gives you a linear speed. Unless you will increment it.

[vapid spoke]

my project corrupted i give up

[dense reef]

omg you are Unity guy and you give up when faced up few errors

@vapid spoke Za Zombie was right you have mess with plugins inside your project you must find first error and try to fix it

[wind yoke]

When the versions were getting hacked

its an assumption

[viral hill]

no versions were "getting hacked". it was a vulnerability that always existed and could only take effect on compiled builds if the user's computer was already compromised

there are also no known incidents of this actually happening

[neat spear]

https://github.com/dgreenheck/OpenFracture

HOW I DOWNLOAD TS

[viral hill]

this is easily googleable

there are also instructions literally written from the author himself

[gloomy cape]

Can anybody give me a pc

[tacit lark]

yall ever tried to bake ur lightmaps and it made the lighting on ur model look inconsistent

[viral hill]

how do the arrangements of lights in your scene look? how many do you have?

[tacit lark]

well, to answer ur question

[viral hill]

and do you have a directional light? that should make 8 total

[tacit lark]

i dont have one

because theres no moon

[viral hill]

ok, i suspected that this maybe an issue with reaching the light limit (i believe 8 is the default). before going further, try setting those lights to realtime and then rebaking. if everything looks normal, then that's not the issue

[tacit lark]

ya i did bake with realtime lights in the bus

and everything did look normal

[viral hill]

try going into the model file for each affected object and checking "generate lightmap UV's"

[tacit lark]

already does have it checked

maybe i gotta fiddle with the settings here

[viral hill]

try unchecking it then. i know that it being checked can sometimes cause problems

[tacit lark]

if its unchecked then the bus is completely unlit when baked. ive tried before

[viral hill]

is the bus a single mesh?

[tacit lark]

yes

if you dont count the steering wheel n four wheels

[viral hill]

@tacit lark my bad, this suggestion wont fix the issue if it is actually the issue. try deactivating a few lights (probably best to deactivate the ones inside for now) and then rebaking

[tacit lark]

oki

[azure pond]

what are you trying to bake? is the car stationary?

[tacit lark]

yes it is

also why is this area green

[viral hill]

it's blue, from the sign

[azure pond]

what is the scale of the asset? and what materials are you using

is this a professional asset, like something from turbosquid?

or did you model it?

it looks like the smoothing groups are not set up correctly

this baking thing is a red herring, it will render incorrectly in real time too

[viral hill]

they said it looked fine with realtime lights

[tacit lark]

heres what it looks like with the interior lights turned off

[viral hill]

is that normal

[tacit lark]

beats me. but it looks more consistent

same cannot be said for the side though

[viral hill]

what's wrong about the side

[tacit lark]

green

it looks weird to me

[viral hill]

it's blue + yellow

from the street lights plus yellow from the side of the bus itself

[azure pond]

i think it's a red herring

like the realtime lights are interacting with the editor in a way that will not look right at runtime

you probably do not have baking tags set up correctly

[viral hill]

how do you know this is runtime

[azure pond]

it's worth reading how much scene setup you have to do

[tacit lark]

oh well. looks pretty normal from this angle

[viral hill]

yeah, max lighting was the issue

[fair cove]

PC? Do you mean a Player Controller script? If so, there are many ways to write one so that will depend on exactly what you need for your game

[gloomy cape]

No

Personal computer

[viral hill]

minimum age to be on discord is 13 i think

[tacit lark]

uhh.. maybe this isnt the right place to ask?

[gloomy cape]

Yeah

[fair cove]

Ah... Thats less likely someone could do that, even if they were willing, and that too, can be specific specs depending on the kind of development you want to do

[marsh apex]

Hello, are there any in this server or other discord servers for unity where aspiring game devs hang out in Voice chat and work on their games and help each other with questions when people have them?
I'm just curious because I've seen it for other communities and I'm trying to learn how to game dev and would appreciate talking with other Devs too.

[charred fog]

There are no voice channels, no. You can keep a devlog in #1180170818983051344 and engage other people in theirs if they ask for feedback.

[marsh apex]

Thank you for the info

[dusky forum]

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[whole gyro]

do you guys know any begineer rts game made in unity that i can learn from

[viral hill]

what is a beginner rts game

[rocky willow]

Whats diff b/w vs and vsc ? which one should i use as default

[frail fjord]

Is it necessary to know blender to make games on unity?

[charred fog]

I would recommend starting with VS, much easier to setup and it's a fully featured IDE. Essential Pathways will guide you installing it as well.

[charred fog]

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[frail fjord]

Hey can I ask something?

[charred fog]

If you intend to create or work with 3d models it would help. Sometimes you need to adjust models as well.

[frail fjord]

Btw can I create vfx and animation myself on unity?

[charred fog]

@void relic There's no promotion on the server

[void relic]

umm sorry about that lemme delete the message

[charred fog]

@void relic If you want to create a devlog for feedback and testing use #1180170818983051344

Make sure to read posting rules there as well.

[rocky willow]

Thanks :)

[void relic]

alright thanks for letting me know @charred fog

[sly lake]

Command buffers are how you talk to the GPU in modern graphics APIs. Unity’s is an abstraction layer that mirrors those.

But most of the commands are just “here are the resources I want you to use for the upcoming draw (or dispatch)” and the actual work is in the shader.

[rocky willow]

and hey , im seeing this, what does this mean

[charred fog]

See end of the message chain for possible clues https://discussions.unity.com/t/unable-to-use-udp-port-56326-for-vs-unity-messaging/845763/20

[viral hill]

yes

[frail fjord]

I intend to solo dev but my skills are too limited

[rocky willow]

Hmm for them it was Docker , But i wasn't using docker
anyways i thought it was harmless for now and proceedded :)

by the way , why done autofill come to autofill 😭..
yk life'd be easier

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[whole gyro]

Are there any tutorials for rts games on unity?

[charred fog]

Yes there are. Use a search engine to find them.

[digital parcel]

how to add unity in nvida?

my rtx graphics card is not being used for unity

[dusky forum]

Pretty certain when your textures are drawn to the screen, they must first be placed in vram and processed by the gpu etc
What's the actual issue?

[digital parcel]

my pc got two card , default and rtx

only default is being used by unity

this is how it is when i open unity

it works fine for other games

see my gpu 1 is spiking when unity open but not gpu0

my unity keeps on crashing too . could it be memory issue? i have 16 gb

is that not enough?

[dusky forum]

Not certain if there are any settings in Unity that can force certain hardware to be used instead of others. Googling suggests some OS workaround when launching the application but I'm assuming that's not what you're wanting. I don't know.

[digital parcel]

what could be the reason for crashing?

[dusky forum]

Depends. You'll need to provide us more information.

As is, the previous sounds like an XY problem.

[digital parcel]

it just crashes randomly

when i open the second tutorial file

it worked fine with the first one (till i tried to publish it)

[dusky forum]

You might want to inform folks about the tutorial you're following

[digital parcel]

the inbuilt ones

[pure igloo]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class ButtonScript : MonoBehaviour, IDragHandler
{
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    [SerializeField] private Button button;
    [SerializeField] GameObject GameObjectHolder;
    [SerializeField] Image ImageToRender;
    Vector2 mouse_pos;
    
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        mouse_pos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Mouse.current.position.value);
    }
    public void OnClick()
    {
        ImageToRender.enabled = true;
        Debug.Log("Mouse Clicked.");
    }
    public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        ImageToRender.transform.position = mouse_pos;
        Debug.Log("Mouse being dragged.");
    }
    public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Instantiate(GameObjectHolder, mouse_pos, GameObjectHolder.transform.rotation);
        ImageToRender.enabled = false;
        Debug.Log("Mouse stopped dragging.");
    }
}
```this doesn't work. the image doesn't spawn while dragging, and neither does the gameobject gets instantiated. the code works on click, but it doesn't print the debug log

[full vale]

Serious question

Why can't I follow a single tutorial video in unity

nothing ever works with unity

My experince with unreal is much much better than unity

[dusky forum]

Where do you call on click? If it's set up from the inspector, show us where you've set it up via inspector.

[dusky forum]

#1202155978372423690

[full vale]

not the capabilities but the fact that projects actually work

[digital parcel]

it works fine tho , just crashes for me

[full vale]

What tutorials fo you recommend

ones that are for free

ill buy once i get deeper

[digital parcel]

whats your level ?

newbie?

[full vale]

yes

[dusky forum]

I'm pretty sure folks have suggested this already but perhaps use the pointer event for on click rather than a button event? Likely the button isn't triggering because something is blocking it or some other mess.

[digital parcel]

just do the inbuilt tutorials

where is the log for unity?

[full vale]

are those really helpful?

[digital parcel]

they tell yu the basics

[charred fog]

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[digital parcel]

move from that

[full vale]

k, thanks

[digital parcel]

how to know whats wrong using the log?

the log is too big ;-;

[dusky forum]

What I'm referring to
https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IPointerClickHandler.html

[pure igloo]

i made a script before this where i was using sprite renderers and stuff to load up images and people told me that that's not the way to do it. in that code though, i was using this logic

if (!Mouse.current.leftButton.isPressed)
{
    //erasing sprite
    if (spriteToRender.sprite != null)
    {
        spawn(mouse_pos);
        spriteToRender.sprite = null;
    }
}
else
{
    //rendering sprite when mouse button is pressed
    if (hit)
    {
        CheckForColliders(hit);
        //spriteToRender.sprite = spriterender.sprite;
    }
    //managing position of sprite renderer
    if (spriteToRender.sprite)
    {
        spriteToRender.transform.position = mouse_pos;
    }
}```
are you asking me to implement this or are there events which do this...which would be the correct way to do it

[dusky forum]

I mean, you're already doing so with your drag implementation. Might as well do so for click as well.

Just for clarity, you can implement multiple interfaces: cs class A : B, Drag, Click, Etc
You're only limited to a single inheritance.

[pure igloo]

it's not working though, the image position doesn't get updated inside the drag method

[dusky forum]

Does mouse stop dragging ever print?

[pure igloo]

nah

i think i found the problem

it's not being cloned as one of the childs....

and its size is very off too

[dusky forum]

So that function is never called. And it's the function that actually creates the object.

As for the image position, according to the code it's position is being updated. It's renderer isn't ever set to true though (and I'm unsure if the object holder not spawning has any unwanted behavior you're not expecting)

[pure igloo]

i do set it up to true though

 {
     ImageToRender.enabled = true;
     Debug.Log("Mouse Clicked.");
 }```

[dusky forum]

But according to you that isn't ever called

[pure igloo]

oh ya, so during runtime, it ain't set to true

[pure igloo]

object holder should get instantiated the moment mousbutton is not pressed

[dusky forum]

The only function that seems to be working at the moment would be the drag function that updates the disabled renderer (according to the logs and code)

[pure igloo]

suffice to say, working with sprite renderers was easier

[dusky forum]

Well, none of that is happening. Right now, only the position is being updated in the Drag event

[pure igloo]

i know that

[pure igloo]

also cus when a sprite is cloned, it doesn't require correct hierarchy to be visible cus the sorting layers do the job themselves

[dusky forum]

So back to the problem

the code works on click, but it doesn't print the debug log
If the log isn't printing, it's not working (no click is being detected and that function isn't being called)

[pure igloo]

just to be sure, this is what i want to be implemented

wait a sec, this ain't the place for it,prolly should go to #💻┃code-beginner

[tough lantern]

is it bad for performance to raycast every frame? I wanna check if the mouse is hovering over something and I've already got that running on input checks but i want to highlight objects when the mouse is hovering over them, and I imagine I need to use raycasts constantly to check if I'm hitting anything... unless Ipointer stuff works for it but I imagine it doesn't

[craggy pollen]

normal gameObjects or ui elements?

[pearl oyster]

You can do hundreds of raycasts every frame without any visible difference in performance. It's best to not worry about performance beforehand, just do what works and optimize later

[tough lantern]

normal gameObjects

3D space

[craggy pollen]

as Nitku said, you should not be worried to much, You could also use OnMouseOver

[tough lantern]

oh interesting ty

[gusty abyss]

how can you fix this light issue

[craggy pollen]

#1390346776804069396

[strange moon]

Video: how to make a unity game

Continues to create a map for the next 3 hours… facepalm

[viral hill]

what is the issue

[gusty abyss]

lights dont emit light on the celling

[viral hill]

i have no idea what im looking at

[gusty abyss]

4 lights

they dont emit light on the celling

how is it bright on top in places

[viral hill]

What types of lights are they

[gusty abyss]

area

[viral hill]

Spotlights?

[gusty abyss]

idk what ones to use

there ment to be tube lights

[viral hill]

Then yeah, obviously they won't illuminate the ceiling

[gusty abyss]

how do i do the celling

and floor

[viral hill]

You could always just use point lights. I'm not too sure if you can just bump up the indirect lighting factor on an area light and have it work out as intended

[gusty abyss]

it has to be one light

[viral hill]

What does

[gusty abyss]

the light

one light

ground and celling

emmiting

[viral hill]

Yeah, that's why I said to use point lights

[gusty abyss]

it dosent light the celling tho

[viral hill]

Why not

[gusty abyss]

it dose it in a odd way

[viral hill]

Then you're doing something very wrong

[gusty abyss]

what is this top hat shape

[viral hill]

Is this a point light? Show the inspector and show this light again with gizmos enabled

[gusty abyss]

its a point light

[hot acorn]

maybe ur point light is too close

to the ceiling

[gusty abyss]

even better

[viral hill]

That looks like the ceiling is just too metallic or smooth

[hot acorn]

yea

fr

maybe make ceiling like

0 metallic

and

smotthness about

0.3 - 0.5

idk actually im just assuming cuz im not into building

[gusty abyss]

its the celling

way to dark on the floor somehow

[hot acorn]

i think

u could move it a bit more

down

or use 2

lights

[gusty abyss]

its a working light

[viral hill]

Or just keep the area lights

[hot acorn]

spot light downward

and 1 very low intensity

light

[viral hill]

That would be horribly expensive

Don't do that

[hot acorn]

inside the lamp

just for glowing

[hot acorn]

okay if you say so

[viral hill]

Just keep the baked area lights plus the point lights

[gusty abyss]

i cant make it more bright

[viral hill]

Your range is way too low

[gusty abyss]

it dose not get to the floor

its at 60

[viral hill]

Turn on gizmos. That would make this a lot easier

[hot acorn]

bruh so lets say

[gusty abyss]

celling way to bright now

[hot acorn]

its unique part of your game

😭

[storm patio]

the folks in #1390346776804069396 would probably be able to help

[hot acorn]

fr

[gusty abyss]

no one responded there

[hot acorn]

dunno bro try chat gpt maybe

entrust this matter to higher powers 😭

[viral hill]

That's how default lighting works unfortunately

But yeah, hit up the rendering channel for better ideas

Honestly a directional light seems to be all you really need

Or just bump up the default environment lighting

[gusty abyss]

the celling is hurting my eyes

[hot acorn]

looks better imho

what type of game are you doing btw

[gusty abyss]

the floor is still too dark

a reactor game

[hot acorn]

that's cool

[hot acorn]

maybe

i just dont know what type of a light

you expecting

[gusty abyss]

these

[viral hill]

Can you stop complaining if you aren't gonna even bother trying the recommend solutions

It's getting annoying

[hot acorn]

chill gang

[rocky willow]

only closest word i saw in that , which matches with my pc situation is Hyper-V , but idk how to solve :)

[rocky willow]

Well good news , i disabled Hyper -V and its fine 🗣️

only gave a minor panic attack

[smoky tartan]

Ok. So the background to my question is I'm being asked to optimise some code and I want to check I have a good mental model for how work done on the CPU translates to work done on the GPU. In my case, a simplified mental model with a goodish fit to reality is perhaps more useful than a full blown technically accurate one, since I'm just checking my understanding of the the basics for now. like how I assumed an average time cost to all GPU commands, allowing me to control that as a single parameter.

That said, if you can point to any specific inaccuracies, even the ones assumed for simplicity, please tell me. I just want to test my understanding.

For instance, am I understanding correctly that the frequent and regular spikes I've seen (spaced by multiple frames) in the profiler could be the result of the main thread filling the command buffer, causing the main thread to wait for it to empty, before then the buffer empties by more than a single frame allowing multiple frames to occur without spike again?

[plain dagger]

This page explains what some rendering markers mean: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/profiler-markers.html

Major ones that relate to your query are Gfx.WaitForPresentOnGfxThread and Gfx.WaitForCommands

[smoky tartan]

Thanks rob5300, I'll give it a read

[plain dagger]

It is complex and sometimes hard to diagnose issues but usually we are either waiting for the cpu or gpu which then informs our next steps for optimisation

[sly lake]

I don't think it's useful to think about the command buffer at all in this context. It's not about the commands that are enqueued but about what they represent. I.E. binding a big texture is slower than binding a small texture. Executing an expensive fragment shader costs more than a very basic one.

So really it gets highly specific and you just need to use the profiler to detect where any savings can be had.

[rocky willow]

does intellisense wont work good on vsc? only in vs?

[sly lake]

It should work in both.

[smoky tartan]

Fair enough. I'm probably getting too far into the weeds with that then. What led me there was that one optimisation available to me is to simply wholesale remove polys that are in view that are merely aesthetic. I figured this would reduce the number of draw commands but wanted to understand what I could expect to see from this in the profiler in the CPU bound vs GPU bound cases.

[plain dagger]

Removing triangles from a model reduced draw complexity is common

[sly lake]

Yep, but it wouldn't reduce draw calls

[plain dagger]

Indeed

[smoky tartan]

What about removing gameobjects?

[copper gust]

Except the niche cases where the drop in verts is enough to stop a batch from splitting due to hitting max verts, right?

[smoky tartan]

The scene is made up of a lot of tiny objects

[charred fog]

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[rocky willow]

wow , i been debugging unity more than debugging game 😭

[plain dagger]

Too many objects can lead to too many draw calls which have a cost regardless of the model they will eventually draw.
Look into batching as well as unitys draw instanced models functions

This is why things like terrain grass is not done with game objects

[rocky willow]

thanks again , i lost this thin :)

[smoky tartan]

This? https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/DrawCallBatching.html

[sly lake]

Yeah, eh that would be 35,791,394 vertices in DX12.

Idk if Unity has other limits but I don't think you're likely to run into that one

[plain dagger]

Yes. Unitys render pipelines like urp also have their own special batcher. You can use the frame debugger to see how things get drawn and observe what gets batched together into one draw call

It's also useful to check for overdraw but this depends on there being a depth prepass and opaque/transparent rendering

Rendering is complex 🙁

[smoky tartan]

It hadn't occurred to me to look for overdraw in the frame debugger. Thanks.

[rocky willow]

they didn told anything about unity 2025?

in extentions tab

[sly lake]

It’s the same in the current version

[plain dagger]

Yea it's useful to check but the scene view has render debug modes to help with this too.
I should also clarify, overdraw is bad in most cases when extreme but worse when we have complex pixel shaders (this is when depth pre pass or deferred rendering is best)

[rocky willow]

so according tho this everything is right? right?

[smoky tartan]

I'm not at my pc right now but yes I'll also check for what's already being batched as I have no idea.

[rocky willow]

Ok found something more interesting , could the failure of intellisense occur due to this?

[smoky tartan]

Do you mean this? https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@15.0/manual/features/rendering-debugger.html#rendering

[storm patio]

(unity 2025 isn't a thing, unity 2023 was released as unity 6 and we've been on 6.0, 6.1, etc)

[rocky willow]

oh wow , i see 😭

they could've told unity 6 instead of 2023 😭

[mystic lance]

Hello everyone

[storm patio]

it may be slightly outdated 🤷

[rocky willow]

i updated .net as final hope

nvm it works , i wanna cry 😭

[keen locust]

Anyone have experiences submitting ticket to unity support? How long does it usually take to hear back?

[rigid zodiac]

Hi, begginer here. Every project i start has these tutorial info, and inputsystem_actions. What are they? Ae they supposed to be there?

[digital parcel]

whats the amount of free ram needed to run unity comfortably?

unity keeps on crashing randomly

is there any way to find out the issue?

is this ram not enough?

[gaunt grail]

Whats the best way to do 2d top down movement for enmies in a game where theres lots like for a surviros game

[high osprey]

Hello can someone help me I have problem with the script file

In someone video the script looks like this

And my looks like this

Why isn't mine working?

[pearl oyster]

Because you named your class "1 S" which isn't a valid name

[half ridge]

I think it might help to review some C# basics a bit more.

[late solstice]

so guys....
rate unity from a scale of 1 to 10
and why?

[hot acorn]

10/10

(my pc is shit and cant handle ue)

[violet thunder]

Because it is different 🤔

[dire wyvern]

Which model file format is most preferred when working on a game? .fbx, .glb, etc.?

[brittle bobcat]

Rename the file name, and use new name file.

[reef dome]

Can you find this already or will it come out with the LTS version of 6.3?

I would be very interested about the entity <-> gameobject bridge

[reef dome]

FBX should be overall the preferred format as most tools that you encounter down the line should be able to work with it

For prototyping you can use .blender files btw (but any dev that wants to work with those files in Unity needs blender installed)

[graceful wedge]

how do i make baked lights effect everything. only some things get effected

nvm i figured it out

[sly lake]

FBX is the only file format that supports all functionality in Unity.

Well, Collada too but I heard somewhere they're removing that.

[sly lake]

Keep in mind Blender just broke backwards compatibility with .blend files again, so this can cause issues.

Though it's fine if all team members have the same version of Blender installed.

[native girder]

is there an easy way to make an animation play all the way through without it getting interrupted by other anims ?

id like the attackDash animation to play

[lapis gate]

are you sure it's the animation or your backend logic that's being interupted

you can add exit time on the dash, but if your backend statemachine is changing into another state before the dash is completed then that too needs to change

[native girder]

thx yeah i fiddled around with the code, it works now !

[half ridge]

Why so many states? I think using just one or two Blend Trees(2D) would be better than having many states for the animation.

[native girder]

oh... uh yeah.. i dont know what im doing and im trying to catch up on time for a project

i need to make a prototype of it

i had fun making the art for it, but ive never worked with unity

[half ridge]

You can see in these images a fully animated SWAT guy. It uses Blend Trees and Sub-State Machines.

[tidal stump]

is it possible to use a pre-recorded video as an Animation so i can add animation events and such?

[near wigeon]

maybe you could just use Timeline with a "Signal"
VideoTrack I believe

[native girder]

oh yeah, my first idea for a project was a 3d "climbing game" like jusant, the climbing mechanic from breath of the wild, smth like that, with a gloomy low poly art style, but as soon as i got done with the tutorial i couldnt really make progress alone.

and the tutorial used that

[tidal stump]

essentially what i wanna do is, whenever my character uses an ability, play an animation, and in that animation have an event to signal to the code that the ability has reached a point where the ability actually needs to shoot a projectile or something like that

and each ability will have a different point for that

[near wigeon]

why is it a video ?

anyway the suggestion can still stand

[tidal stump]

well the animation will not be a drawn animation but a recorded video

[near wigeon]

https://unity.com/blog/engine-platform/how-to-use-timeline-signals
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.timeline@1.8/manual/wf-signals.html

[tidal stump]

also do you think it'll be easier to just manually set a delay for each ability? or is that bad practice

[tidal stump]

tyvm :D

[near wigeon]

no

timing things is never that good

[half ridge]

Ah, I see! That sounds like a really cool idea. Climbing mechanics like Breath of the Wild are tricky. Maybe working with a team could help you make more progress.

[tidal stump]

Gotcha
gonna be hard to figure out how to differentiate between different video clips for different videos and such but i'll figure it out xd

[twilit canopy]

Yo guys

[near wigeon]

check the documentation on those components, if you get stuck / have more specific question post the details here and someone will pitch in

[tidal stump]

tyvm :D

[twilit canopy]

How are you all doing

[near wigeon]

this isn't a social / casual conversation space. Its for Unity Editor help questions

#🌱┃start-here

[twilit canopy]

Ah ok thx

I need help tho

[near wigeon]

!ask

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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[native girder]

yeah definitely, the project is for a module in college, we dont really learn how to do things, its more like "go off and see what you can make and we give you feedback"
i usually get really inspired for these projects, its rough when you re not on the same page with ppl that are in your team,
the person i work with doesnt care too much about the project

[half ridge]

I also know it is difficult when temmates do not care much..
In my Unity Project, I usually like doing small prototypes first.

[azure pond]

what is your big picture goal? to learn how to build and animate platformers?
more often than not, it is easier to manage frame-by-frame animations in code than the animation state machine

there isn't really a point to using the state machine with recorded animations because there are no transitions. it also looks like the parameters map 1:1 to states

[half ridge]

Personally I like using the Animator more than doing it all in code. The visual workflow just works better for me.

[native girder]

mh, i made a small page on what i want to achieve, that page was still on the other 3d project that i stopped working on, but fundamentally the idea is similar i guess,
the rough idea was to make it from checkpoint to checkpoint, originally i wanted to convey the feeling you get from reaching a bonfire in dark souls, combined with climbing where when u run out of stamina u fall, i think want the player to gain stamina everytime they go back to the checkpoint and i made a dash animation, id want those to be useable like 2-3 times per checkpoint, i have a drone model aswell, first i thought about maybe getting back charges for the dash everytime you destroy a drone with a dash, so it would be like a dash reset,
yeah but in general i want the player to traverse a level while being somewhat limited

i had a story for the 3d game, im not sure how i want the narrative to be in this small game

[azure pond]

i used to think this way but it is more or less only meant to copy a feature in AAA humanik workflows and gets in the way / too cantankerous for everything else. for example unity co. devs keep using it for UI examples which is terrible, it's awful for modeling ui

[native girder]

ive watched some tutorials and most ppl used the state system

going through tutorials can be rough

[woeful torrent]

I don't feel like I'm learning anything going through the tutorials it's not getting thru to me either

[balmy kettle]

make sure you're actually following courses that teach rather than just spoon feed you code and expect you to learn anything from that without a proper explanation

[native girder]

every now n then you pick on something nice, but it seems like alot of empty time where you follow along and after 1-2 hrs you realize its outdated or smth and it doesnt work, or you just dont know how to follow

[woeful torrent]

I was using the ones off Unity's own Learn site

[azure pond]

okay well if you just want to make a game, you will prefer using the more mountains platformer (2.5d) asset

it's hard to make platformers that feel like Some Other Game

[woeful torrent]

I know I'll never be able to code fully on my own I just wanna make a cylinder move that's still out of my league

[native girder]

probably should ve done smth like that, but it seems to slowly come together, im just throwing ideas at gpt and i see what happens 😄

[azure pond]

yeah that's kind of what i figured

it's better to use the asset. this stuff isn't something any of the chatbots can figure out

[native girder]

oh i used like a premade controller for the base and added on top of it

[azure pond]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/corgi-engine-2d-2-5d-platformer-26617?srsltid=AfmBOooMBbljcEwII6EWM04gCxo6zQE5yhc-RF1SfDI4_VQzIlD39SV5

[native girder]

its not "as" floaty as some of the other ones

[woeful torrent]

I feel like I have to learn coding out of obligation even though I'll never fully understand it or be able to work with it

[half ridge]

@native girder .if you want to learn code, do not use assets.

[native girder]

we have a prototype day on wednesday, i might revamp it and do smth like that we ll see

[azure pond]

:/

all you have to do is buy the asset and use it

and read what it says

read the documentation

[native girder]

😄 im almost there i guess

[azure pond]

it will teach you more about how to make these kinds of games than i can

or anyone else here

the asset can illuminate for you all the challenges of making this kind of game

[woeful torrent]

I remember buying Universal Fighting Engine and I still couldn't make a game work lol

[half ridge]

Yeah, I think what you said makes sense. I just want to add that if you rely only on assets and don’t try to analyze how they work, your coding skills won’t really improve.

[native girder]

sometimes i feel like i also learn things just by throwing questions at gpt and then figuring out why things are the way they are,

but ngl dabbling around with it for the last few days now was kinda fun

asking "why" is really important, but rn i dont have time for that unfortunately 😄

[woeful torrent]

Is there good assets for 3D platformers?

[half ridge]

@native girder .you use GPT-5.1?

[native girder]

the free one

i usually go like "i have these scripts, id like to ad this to it" and see what happens 😄

slow progress, but its progress

[dreamy dome]

Hello Can you Help me if you are a unity user

[balmy kettle]

!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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[balmy kettle]

pay particular attention to the last few points

[half ridge]

I have access to both GPT-5 and GPT-4, but I find the free version more useful than the paid one.

[native girder]

oh really ?

[half ridge]

Yep.

[dreamy dome]

UABEAVALONIA Import Dump problem

[azure pond]

what exactly are you demoing on wednesday? what is the goal?

[native girder]

a friend of mine works in IT and he has the paid one i think

[dreamy dome]

@vagrant root hello

[vagrant root]

<:error:1413114584763596884> Command not found

There's no command called hello.

[dreamy dome]

@balmy kettle how to work Unity bot

[balmy kettle]

why

[craggy pollen]

#🌱┃start-here

[native girder]

its a project for college where we just "go and figure out how to make a small game"

[craggy pollen]

and dont ping randomly people

[balmy kettle]

did you even bother reading the bot message when i used the ask command?

you don't use the bot to get help, you need to actually ask a question

[azure pond]

i've gone to college and i know, generally, that requirements in classes are not that vague lol

[dreamy dome]

Hmm command

[hot acorn]

#🌱┃start-here

[dreamy dome]

Come on, you guys tell me.

[hot acorn]

tell you what

how to use bot?

[dreamy dome]

My problem is just a small one which took me almost from 11:00 in the morning till 4:00 in the evening today to solve, but it is not solved yet.

[woeful torrent]

What's a good Unity Learn course for when you know the UI and some basic coding

[native girder]

mhh, yeah its not, but kinda is 😄
not sure how to break it down

[hot acorn]

what problem

[balmy kettle]

!ask 👇 (hint: read the bot message this time)

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

-# For more posting guidelines, go to #🌱┃start-here

[dreamy dome]

!ask

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

-# For more posting guidelines, go to #🌱┃start-here

[woeful torrent]

Sheesh I'm more workable with

[balmy kettle]

you don't parrot the command, you read the fucking message

[dreamy dome]

!ask UABEAvalonia Import Dump audio problem

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

-# For more posting guidelines, go to #🌱┃start-here

[azure pond]

wednesday is a long time from now. it really depends what your goals are haha

[woeful torrent]

I can't

[balmy kettle]

stop spamming the command and actually pay attention to the information being presented to you.

[azure pond]

i guess lesson number one is, you have to be less vague

[dreamy dome]

I'm new to the server itself so I don't understand how to use it?

[balmy kettle]

you don't use it. you read the bot's response

[woeful torrent]

READ

[native girder]

haha 😄
wait im making a video of what i have rn

[hot acorn]

dm me

open dm

[azure pond]

it's okay. don't use unity bot, it isn't a chatbot.

[azure pond]

you are speedrunning the "long" way of this journey

nobody asked for a video, i already know you have a WIP platformer

[storm patio]

please do not solicit DMs

[hot acorn]

damn why

what if

i want to make new friends

[azure pond]

@native girder what i am really saying is you have to define a clearer goal. if the goal is "a grab bag of features", you should use the asset

if your goal is to make a small game, then none of those features matter

do you see what i am saying?

are you familiar with the expanding brain meme?

[native girder]

but i have some already, its literally just a few things that i need to add

[azure pond]

"grab bag of features and gameplay" is expanding brain meme level 1

[storm patio]

not really what this server is for, sorry

[azure pond]

it really depends on what the goals are

i'm asking you what the goal is

you have to write that down

[native girder]

#💻┃unity-talk message

mister

[azure pond]

that is a "grab bag of features"

i will guarantee you, none of it will come through in a play through

is that the goal?

[native girder]

wdym

[azure pond]

somebody will pick up the controller, be confused, and try some stuff, and they won't know to dash or whatever

and then they'll be like, "okay"

and then your actual product will be a video that shows this grab bag of features nobody discovered

it won't be the game

[native girder]

its class mates and we ll talk about it

[azure pond]

your product is the conversation

[native girder]

what are you saying

[azure pond]

you might as well spend 10x more time writing, which btw, is exactly what your instructor would say

[native girder]

damn

[near wigeon]

it is encouraged to help with unity questions on this server so answers can be vetted by others

[graceful wedge]

can anyone help? my character joints attached to bones are really slow for some reason how do i fix this

[near wigeon]

#⚛️┃physics and show setup otherwise no one can help with anything..

vague questions just get ignored

[half ridge]

show me detail

[little dune]

yo can someone help me out? Am I able to make this bar not look like that when I change the image type to filled?

this is what I want which is on sliced but I want it to be on filled image type

[near wigeon]

you need the fill part to be a plain color then apply the second layer as the border

make like a 2x2 white png box or some and use filled then layer the sliced part menus the color ontop as border

[reef dome]

Can you find this already or will it come out with the LTS version of 6.3?

[little dune]

thanks nav

[near wigeon]

most likely 6.3LTS since thats what it claims to be for

[little dune]

wdym layer the sliced part ontop as border nav?

[reef dome]

Mhh do we have the example of entity -> gameobject bridge somewhere else already?
Would be the dream for me, I worked with an ECS system before that could directly operate on gameobjects, manually syncing between a gameobject and entity is sometimes a bit weird, so I'd like to see Unity's solution

[near wigeon]

if you want the rounded border png I mean, you can use the sliced image so its stretches ok

[reef dome]

• Slider border <- contains the background image
  • Slider content <- You change the width of this for loading bar progress
    • Slider image <- this is your tiled image, full width + height of the parent

[little dune]

but I need to use the filled for my script and stuff to work

[cyan lion]

Tbh it's true to a degree. But I wanted to learn aaa gamedev and unreal has a lot of things for aaa games that are missing in unity as of yet.

[exotic relic]

What makes a game AAA to you?

Good graphics dont define a good game

[near wigeon]

thats why I said keep the color part that moves as Filled but you need a plain image like a 2x2 square

[little dune]

im confused

[reef dome]

I think you two are talking about different things right now

[lost holly]

I'm just starting out in game dev with unity, if I have small questions about the engine would this be the channel to ask it?

[storm patio]

yes

[little dune]

Im trying to make this round image thingy look like the box one while still maintaining the image type to be filled.

[sweet charm]

When we talk about that, we usually mean a team with big scale and huge budget. AAA never associated with good games

[storm patio]

yes, though you may get redirected. it'll hard to tell what questions are small, as a beginner.

don't take redirections personally, we're trying to point you to people who can more adequately answer your questions 😉

[woeful torrent]

idk why nothing shows under Recommended Leaning

[exotic relic]

Why cant you have a big team in unity?

[lost holly]

I'm looking in to the new input system since most guides I see are using the old one. I'm a bit confused on why I need to make a "Player Input" Component and additionally connect it to the script. Is the Player Input component for getting the engine to read the inputs in the first place?

[sweet charm]

I never said u can’t

[storm patio]

no, PlayerInput is one of the ways to link the input system to your own scripts. it's not required (there are other ways), but it's the easiest to get into when starting out tbh.

[reef dome]

You can achieve it via this setup, though its not using the image fill amount anymore

[cyan lion]

AI is slowly making everything I want to learn and have learnt and enjoy doing obsolete. Also I think those who have low level knowledge of the systems may be able to fix stuff that ai can't get right. Someone who uses ai and can't do things manually will be stuck to its limitations. Also game as an art form should be made from human expression not generated by an ai. Something about ai making art doesn't feel right as a human. I knowing some of the process and hardships of gamedev will appreciate a hand made game way more than something made by an ai of off a sentence.

[little dune]

thats the problem, but I'll just change my script to work with the sliced thing

[storm patio]

AI is slowly making everything I want to learn and have learnt and enjoy doing obsolete.
definitely not, you can just ignore it tbh

[near wigeon]

using width is sketchy

better off doing as multiple layers with fill underneath 🤷‍♂️

[reef dome]

yeah was just a quickly thrown together prototype

[reef dome]

I'm not entirely sure how that setup would look like though, can you give an example?

[cyan lion]

What if I want a job in it. I currently do and learn 3d art as a hobby but what if my job role in aaa studio is replaced by a guy who types sentences?

[storm patio]

it isn't

[reef dome]

AAA level 3d models will never be AI generatable

its just too complex

[storm patio]

well, the ones that are aren't good games in those regards anyways tbh

AI stands out

and not particularly in a good way

[exotic relic]

@cyan lion is just saying that you require using Unreal to make aaa games & have a big team. Yet, unity is well capable of that if you put enough effort into it. Plenty of million dollar games have been made with unity. You just dont see it often because so many unity games are published, not many unreal games get published.

[near wigeon]

I just gotta get to my pc in a bit, I'm on train. if its not solved, I'll make an example

[cyan lion]

There already exists ai that claims to make production ready assets. Even if they are not there yet by the rate of progress of ai technology they will be there soon.

[lost holly]

I couldn't understand that. I'm basically linking the Input Actions assets to both the script and the component separately for it to work. I'm wondering what they do seperately.

[little dune]

whats the best 3d model type to be imported into unity

[storm patio]

they do the same job, you don't need both here

[near wigeon]

fbx probably

[little dune]

ok

thanks

[reef dome]

Keyword is on claims, I work in a company whose parent company heavily invests in AI and the one thing we learned quickly is dont touch 3d asset generators for anything other than prototyping 😄
I'm not very big on AI and the AI craze in my company is sometimes scary, people replace their common sense with chatgpt, but that part looked particularely bad

[cyan lion]

Big teams tend to have in house engines or use unreal/cryengine

[cyan lion]

Why is that so

[exotic relic]

Sure, but that doesnt mean you need to switch to unreal to be able to have a big team

Lets say for example COD Mobile by Activision, made in Unity. Among us.. made in Unity

Escape from Tarkov

[modest meteor]

plenty of 100 million dollar games have been made by a single person, too, in unity. like lethal company

[reef dome]

Legends of Runeterra by Riot Games -> Unity

[cyan lion]

Even big studios use unity for mobile games or non aaa games. But for proper aaa 3d games of modern standard it is very likely unreal or an in-house engine will be used

[sweet charm]

I thought Amongus was just a small team

[near wigeon]

little game known as Heartstone? Marvel Snap ?

[cyan lion]

Read this

[reef dome]

You are not thinking about AAA titles, you are thinking about high fidelity titles, in which unreal is better, yes, its a common thing people tend to switch up 😄

[exotic relic]

Producing with unity is way faster, and there are more popular games made with unity than unreal.

[cyan lion]

Well we need to define aaa. What I mean by aaa is big games with demanding graphics made for the current hardware and uses most of it

[reef dome]

AAA basically just means big budget behind the project, it says nothing about the graphics

[exotic relic]

Exactly this!

You just need good models XD

[cyan lion]

Yeah I agree on this.

[exotic relic]

Unity can have insane graphics, if you use good models...

Rarely do people bother to import good models

[cyan lion]

Does unity HDRP have a light system that can give realtime lighting without the need to bake lightmaps, reflection probes etc?

[worldly cave]

if youre aiming for realism unreal is hilariously a bad choice

[exotic relic]

You do not need HDRP, but if you understand it then it could help

[worldly cave]

simply because of their dependance on lambertian diffuse which makes everything look like plastic garbage

[near wigeon]

verdun ww1 game looks pretty good for unity
so does tarkov

[reef dome]

dont they fix that with substrate materials?

[sweet charm]

Idk about this but the impression of UE5 was pretty good

[cyan lion]

If that's so obvious and publicly known flaw why is it that no one at epic has worked on it yet. To my knowledge Lambert is a material or shader I used in maya, is that what you referring to

[worldly cave]

theres actually a really good and detailed video talking about why

[cyan lion]

Dm me or send here if links are allowed

[worldly cave]

but it boils down to, consumers didnt care, project leads didnt know.

[fleet canopy]

If you don’t change any of the settings in unity you’re also gonna get something that looks bad

[worldly cave]

not the same thing

unreals problem is something different

and it even let you switch to oren nayar at some point but im pretty sure that was either abandoned or removed

[worldly cave]

lemme see if i can get it

[cyan lion]

Why do consumers have a say on technical aspects of games, these decisions are made by developers right?

[worldly cave]

if consumers dont care about it developers dont really care to change it

especially in triple a games

because its a different sort of philosophy

its business first for most of the companies

[cyan lion]

There are many things that customer doesn't know is happening underhood not all of it is motivated by whether consumer will care if he knew that...

[worldly cave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZtNU-4yqtI

its not a perfect video but i found it to be generally agreeable with a lot of the issues it points out

[near wigeon]

"realism" in games is hilarious tbh..

[worldly cave]

i think its mostly refering to visual realism

and not logical

[exotic relic]

You dont want it too real, its no longer a game...

[sweet charm]

Well ppl do use UE in vfx and film making stuff

[exotic relic]

Its faster to render lighting in unreal, sure. coding is a nightmare though.

[azure pond]

the unreal / unity distinction is really simple to understand:

• unity is for developers who MAKE games
• unreal is for developers who get games FINANCED

[worldly cave]

both of those are generalizations and dont have a lot of bearing on reality

both are engines with their own respective pros and cons

and there shouldnt be any elitism around them

especially not here

[azure pond]

i even capitalized the important distinctions for you

[worldly cave]

and i still stand behind what i just said.

[near wigeon]

oh god now I remember why blocked this doctor kid, just spewing nonsense

[azure pond]

🙁

they're both excellent engines from a technical point of view, but i'm trying to illuminate why you see xyz game use so-and-so engine better

[cyan lion]

All developers make games. The difference lies in size of team and budgets.

[azure pond]

once you understand what the difference between, well i have a budget and i have to go and make a game for that budget, versus say, i want to convince a publisher to make a game that i am pitching, it becomes a lot more clear

[cyan lion]

Interesting video

I'm watching it

[azure pond]

how many games have you gotten published?

how much budget has anyone ever given you to run, to boss people around, so to speak?

to put it straightforward terms

[worldly cave]

i dont think you understand how publishing works

like at all

[azure pond]

i work in game publishing...

i don't know

[worldly cave]

do you think getting a publisher for your game is the equivalent of pitching a script to netflix or something....

[worldly cave]

whats your linkedin

not even that just let us know where in general do you work when you say "game publishing"

[azure pond]

there is a large diversity of scenarios for what publishing means, but overwhelmingly, the vast majority of people on here, who are at the stage of deciding what engine to use, would essentially be pitching an idea, competing with the equivalent of ex-Blizzard producers, for various sizes of checks, to develop a prototype

that's of course, not how most games are made, even if that's what most people want to do. most of the time, the games that actually get "published" are, more or less, done, and the money the people are getting is spent in complex ways, like paying back loans and further marketing or whatever.

[worldly cave]

i still am wondering what publisher you work for

because unless you can substantiate it with some evidence i have no reason to believe anything you say lol

[azure pond]

i don't really want to discuss that, in order to talk openly here. it's not complicated, i like to give good advice

that's on you. i think you can read the substance of what i'm saying and you're going to wind up agreeing with me anyway

[graceful wedge]

im getting some issues where my collision boxes are being triggered when iim not even close. how do i fix this

[azure pond]

but the short of it is, if you haven't already made the game, you should choose unreal if your goal is, i want people to give me a large check ($250k for 3 people making an "indie" title - and people can mean, mom and dad! they can mean your own bank account!) because you will make the most saleable video of gameplay with it.

you should choose unity if you already have $250k (for EXAMPLE) to spend, and you can competently scope $250k worth of whatever product you are making, and you just want to make it. it will be more efficient, and more saleable in the places games actually get sold and what kinds of games $250k can make

[near wigeon]

if you dont show the setup how should we know

we are not mind readers

[graceful wedge]

what am i supposed to show though. idk whats causing the issue

[worldly cave]

for starters whatever game object has the collisions youre talking about

and whatever game object is triggering it

[modest meteor]

if you mean triggers, then debug what's hitting the trigger. easy

[graceful wedge]

how?

[azure pond]

another POV of this is, everything is valid, they're entertainment products. if consumers care about game engines, they matter. i know that's not what you are talking about, but it's true

[modest meteor]

in your ontriggerenter add a Debug.Log(collider.gameObject.name)

[azure pond]

i don't think it matters that much to consumers generally. so it's not a big issue

[tacit lark]

oh yeah back to this, but its not about the bus anymore

[azure pond]

but there was a lot of turmoil in the industry when developers decided to "make" it matter, at least in some sense, i still think all the twitter posts in the world about unity licensing schemes didn't really matter, but it was perceived to matter, which is sort of the same thing. it's hard to know. this is why i wrote what i did - it's pretty robust!
unity is for people who make games.
unreal is for people who get games financed.

[tacit lark]

its about the sidewalk (which was auto-generated by easyroads v3)

[urban fractal]

how do i change a texture in unity of a map download

for example gorilla tag

[tacit lark]

and the terrain

i have no idea why these two aren't being baked

[near wigeon]

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[near wigeon]

also again we cannot discuss modded content, and those were not obtained without being extracted assets which is against this server

not sure whats so hard to comprehend

[azure pond]

that particular parent company has someone very, very good working on a specific AI generator for a very specific audience, that happens to matter because the game is huge. you're talking about something very exceptional 🙂
in general, because they are not early adopters of technology, most game studios who try to do the same thing will fail.

[azure pond]

well things change all the time. i am just saying, the people who have very big visibility into this, that's their advice: gain broad experiences.

[azure pond]

i'm sure when that one guy - it's ONE guy - gets around to doing the 3D problem, it will be good too.

[reef dome]

Huh i said the 3d workflow isnt working out 😄

[azure pond]

that's correct. but perhaps there's other kinds of art that is working out (there is)

[reef dome]

it sounds like you know which company I work at?

[azure pond]

probably not, no. but could be

this stuff is so sensitive

[reef dome]

I think we are way to small for you to know 😄

[azure pond]

haha

i'm already saying stuff that sounds way more contrarian than it actually is

[reef dome]

Can you send me a DM with the company name you suspect?
Your sentence

that particular parent company has someone very, very good working on a specific AI generator for a very specific audience
made it sound like you think which one it was 😄

[azure pond]

why dig the hole deeper

[tacit lark]

nvm i fixed the terrain, but the sidewalk is still an issue

[pure igloo]

anyone know how to fix this?

[jade carbon]

guys what do you think if i add this asset https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131

[dusky forum]

Uncollapse the messages and try fixing the top most error first

[pure igloo]

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

[dusky forum]

Ignoring the graph errors, what would be next?

[azure pond]

com.unity.CharacterController is the official version of that package for DOTS, made by the same guy, who i think even works for unity now, it's very good
kinematic is the best one for that kind of game if you are using gameobjects

[pure igloo]

its mostly related to null value error

[near wigeon]

most likely due to your animation renamed or something missing

[near wigeon]

if you need it add it, if you don't then don't add it

[tacit lark]

soo yeah. not a clue why the sidewalk isn't being baked. its not as simple as ticking "generate lightmap uvs", because this mesh doesn't have an option for it

[pure igloo]

i have a sprite renderer which more or less has the same components like the image, it doesn't produce any errors

[modest meteor]

is it static?

[tacit lark]

yes

it is

[near wigeon]

animator/animation

[uncut ridge]

hi guys i set a brush png but i cant brush on terrain

[heady siren]

why my trees sideways

[uncut ridge]

how i can fix

[storm patio]

if they're using the same animation it could be that the prop theyre trying to set doesn't exist on one of them

what are you usding those 2 for?

[storm patio]

that's not much info to go off of

[lapis gate]

Part of entities though unfortunately. x_x

[storm patio]

perhaps ask #⛰️┃terrain-3d if that's the terrain tool thing

[ionic berry]

hi guys does anybody know a fix for this problem i downloaded a mesh and rigged it in mixamo and animations + all my animations are humanoid

[pure igloo]

so you know how i made the mistake of using sprite renderers for UI, well, the one which animates, uses it. the other one, having the image component, is showin the sprite is missing error

[storm patio]

that isn't any better

[heady siren]

in blender i have changed the axis rotation everytime but they always end up pointing that way

[storm patio]

that's not what i asked mate

[lapis gate]

Funny how DOTS gets a bunch of expanded modules over gameobject workflow. Similarly with the networking module where entities does have networked prediction compared to gameobjects

[pure igloo]

i will use them to act as a trash bin

[heady siren]

here ima just go to #⛰️┃terrain-3d

[storm patio]

iirc this is a common issue, try googling about it, or try #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[pure igloo]

player drags deployed units near the dragon, then the dragon destroys them and plays animation

[primal sleet]

Hi guys, I am making a 2D bullet hell game(top down). For my enemy path finding I am using MoveTowards() on 2D Rigid Body. However when the player goes behind a wall the enemy tries to go throught he wall. How can I make the enemy go around the walls? I thought of using A* but I don't think performace wise it's good in a bullet hell game.

[storm patio]

you have 2 objects here. why do you have 2
one is the trashbin, cool. which one, and what is the other for

[storm patio]

well if you want pathfinding then you're gpnna need some kind of pathfinding

[pure igloo]

oh, the one which uses sprite renderer is going to be deleted, i just wanted to know what i had attached, so that i could copy the same components onto the object using image UI

[primal sleet]

Is there a way to do pathfinding like raycast for these types of solutions?

[lapis gate]

Sure, but if you raycast against a wall what's your logic now

[primal sleet]

Go left/right until the raycast is flase for hitting a wall?

[lapis gate]

you can do ye old keep holding right until it resolves

sure, but still not more performant than a one-time path calc

[storm patio]

but that wouldnt be very robust for enemy pathing

[primal sleet]

is there a more efficeient/better way then holding left/right? or what's the industry standard for navagation in 2d bullet hell top down games?

[storm patio]

better? yeah, actual pathfinding

[primal sleet]

so A*?

[storm patio]

sure

[lapis gate]

https://arongranberg.com/astar/documentation/stable/pathfinding2d.html
Package provides 2D navmesh for free. I think some agent controllers are offered too for free but limited

[primal sleet]

I'll just code A* i guess, since its pretty simple.

[jade carbon]

m looking throught videos or they too old or not working well
ahhh

[pure igloo]

anyone got any idea?

[umbral stone]

“There was an issue creating the organization or repository. Please try again later” does anyone know how to fix this issue?

[craggy pollen]

soo what is it

[pure igloo]

this error keeps popping up, along with a null reference error (NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object). so toothless was previously implemented using sprite renderers, he was supposed to blast stuff dragged before him, now, while trying to implement him using image component, this shows up. i am pretty sure, all the components are more or less the same for both the gameobjects but i dunno why it's happening

[craggy pollen]

when exactly do these errors occour?

[pure igloo]

before i even start the game

[uncut ridge]

same game! good

[pure igloo]

wot

[tacit lark]

guess i'll have to make a forum post in #1390346776804069396 unless thats not where it goes

[azure pond]

yeah, ultimately all the games people want to make - metroidvanias, fpses, etc. - need entities if you want to do it without asset store packages

even moremountains 2.5d doesn't use unity physics for platformers

[uncut ridge]

guys why when i refresh list of assets and this error coming

how i can fix

i logged to

[azure pond]

you can use 2d sprites in a 3d world. if you're confident you do not need multiplayer, model your game on the xz plane naturalistically, use colliders, and use the built in navmesh. you can also use the navmesh package that aron granberg has like @lapis gate said, but you will run into more issues trying to do an xy game

[native fox]

Hi, i have a question
in unity 2D, how can i make an interaction (like walking up to doors) take the player to the next scene?

[reef dome]

That particular problem would be solved by a collider set to trigger that your code catches with "OnTriggerEnter" and then a scene load

However it sounds like you are asking more in general, I recommend checking out !learn

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[uncut ridge]

guys why is this erroring when i open package manager my assets and i cant see my assets

[reef dome]

close the editor and unity hub (make sure to close it in tray), then reopen both, if that doesnt help log out in hub and log back in

[potent moss]

is it possible to make a scene object a button in unity? or like how would you go about making stuff like the door buttons from the various fnaf games?

[lapis gate]

Sure

[reef dome]

if its UI unity has built in functions

if its a physical object ingame you can raycast from the player perspective and if that raycast hits something with a specific script on it you execute a function on that script

[neat spear]

where? and what i do?

[reef dome]

https://github.com/dgreenheck/OpenFracture?tab=readme-ov-file#unity-package-manager

that link will scroll to the right headline

[uncut ridge]

i do before its not working

[reef dome]

even the relog thing?

[potent moss]

how would you raycast a mouse input though?

[uncut ridge]

its erroring like this

[reef dome]

you project the mouse cursor on the game coordinate matrix and then do a raycast from camera origin to that projection

[reef dome]

Still the question, did you already log out and in?

[uncut ridge]

no im log now

[mild sonnet]

hi good day i really want to make a 2.5d game but i am not seeing any tutorials or something that can help me to make one

[reef dome]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CameraRays-cast.html

[uncut ridge]

yayy its solved

thank sidia

[reef dome]

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[mild sonnet]

how

[potent moss]

oh is it actually just a function unity has built in

[reef dome]

The link the bot posted as an answer to !learn

[reef dome]

a combination of 2 built in functions, yes

[viral hill]

Literally read the page that you linked

[potent moss]

thanks king sidia 💖

[mild sonnet]

sorry i am new to this i i dont know what your saying

[reef dome]

click on the Link that @vagrant root posted

[mild sonnet]

thx so much sidio

[craggy pollen]

how comes you did not find any tutorials i wonder

[pure igloo]

can you animate UI images

[craggy pollen]

yes

[pure igloo]

i know you can, but can you import a animation already present and slap it onto an image and make it work

said animation is read only

[craggy pollen]

if the animation was particulaly for the ui yes

[pure igloo]

and uses sprites

[pure igloo]

what does that mean

[mild sonnet]

yo

[craggy pollen]

image and sprite are not the same S1nth

[mild sonnet]

@reef dome

[pure igloo]

i just made an animation on asesprite, imported it, then made a gameboject having an image component and an animator component. can i use this imported animation file and make it work with an image component

or can it ony be used with sprite renderers

[craggy pollen]

nah i think it only works for sprites

[pure igloo]

cus i am encountering a problem with ui images right now, where it ain't animating anything

ahh ok

[craggy pollen]

i think you are still mixing up sprites and ui elements. in this case you can use a sprite for your dragon

[pure igloo]

i don't think the dragon's a part of the game though cus like, it's supposed to be implemented as a usser interface where the user can sell deployed units....

[craggy pollen]

it is more like a learning plattform with step by step tutorials and docs. 2.5 is nothing else than 3d in 2d view,

[mild sonnet]

k thx

[craggy pollen]

do you like learning by wathcing videos, if yes youtube is your friend

i was just curious why you said you couldn´t find any 2.5 tutorials

[mild sonnet]

it was saying i could not find what your looking for

[mild sonnet]

but i found some though

[craggy pollen]

i ment your first message

[mild sonnet]

oh

[fluid flower]

Okay, look, random question but... uh... anyone knows where source imagine went on the UI images? I'm pretty new, so this is really throwing me for a loop....

[mild radish]

the image component is collapsed..

see the arrow tailess arrow next to it? how its -> instead of facing down like the rest

[stiff quest]

Triangle

[fluid flower]

I'm absolutly stupid.

[mild radish]

it all good 👍

[fluid flower]

And probably too tired.

Group of six noobs doing a uni project, and I somehow get to do the all nighter cause we need a demo ready by morning lol.

[stiff quest]

nah you just learnt something its good

[fluid flower]

Thanks for the help guys.

While I'm here asking stupid questions, why is my spong not visable in game view?

[craggy pollen]

sorting layer

[reef dome]

from what you are showing we cannot find out 😄

[obtuse radish]

can you all go to link

[craggy pollen]

no

[plain dagger]

looks sus af

[uncut ridge]

guys how we enable light in new version

like this

[craggy pollen]

the sprite is not infront of the cam that is why it can not be rendered you can change the z axis or work with sorting layers

[uncut ridge]

i cant see that button

[fluid flower]

oh... Thanks!

[viral hill]

i think you're looking for the draw mode gizmos?

[uncut ridge]

yea

i want open light

its dark and boring

i cant see my editor

[viral hill]

it's these

[hushed hamlet]

Why would we do that? How is it related to Unity? What do you need or want people to go to your link for? Use your words as best you can, take your time.

[viral hill]

the rightmost one is what you want

[uncut ridge]

i opened this before

[viral hill]

opened what

[uncut ridge]

this

[reef dome]

<@&502884371011731486> screamer (dont click)

[viral hill]

again, what did you open

[obtuse radish]

its prankk

[hushed hamlet]

I reported it to Discord too, whatever it is

Let them ban the account

[obtuse radish]

hahhaha

[reef dome]

nah its just shitty behaviour, do your kiddy stuff elsewhere

[uncut ridge]

unlit draw mode

[viral hill]

you are doing a horrible job of explaining what you mean. how do you open a draw mode?

[uncut ridge]

thanks i search in google i dont know what you want

[viral hill]

that's actually against discord TOS? the more you know

[fluid flower]

Sorting layers fixed it. You guys are awesome. How is code writing easier than figuring out layers in unity?

[reef dome]

most likely not, but they got booted from here so atleast that

[hushed hamlet]

I dont even know what they were sharing - just easier to let discord sort it out when its suspicious. If they get enough reports on someone or see them keep trying to pull people away to external content, they'll put a flag on the account to warn others im sure.

[reef dome]

it was a screamer, just an image thats blinking with an extremely loud scream sound

I just re-setup my pc and volume settings werent good yet, so i got blasted by that on full volume

[tacit lark]

so i got some grass here and the number of draw calls is unbearably high. do you guys have any tips on how to reduce it?

[viral hill]

700 is not that high

[viral hill]

look into gpu instanced grass, though

[hushed hamlet]

700s likely a problem on mobile. Definitely want to get that lower if you can

[tacit lark]

huh

ill try

[viral hill]

i talked to this person yesterday and they were doing vrchat related stuff

[reef dome]

first thing is gpu instancing on the materials, try if enabling it helps

[hushed hamlet]

Ywah in that case, 2.1m tris and 700 batches will be a problem

Ita well above the Quest 2 recomendations and a common headset for VR Chat

[reef dome]

oof wait, 2.1m tris, vrchat will just surrender

[tacit lark]

oh, um

[viral hill]

ooh i had no idea the specs were that bad

[reef dome]

vr is 2x fullHD or more 3cm from your eye

so you see every little detail

and it really draws on the gpu

[hushed hamlet]

Its all good, they have a not well known cheat sheet here
https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unity/unity-perf/

My default is to try and keep it below 1m and 150 batches if they might be using a Quest 2. I imagine that might be harder with VRChat as you lose some controls and it likes its low poly style.

[tacit lark]

dunno if its possible to even gpu-instance grass details

[reef dome]

well check the material of that grass, enable it and see if it got better 😄

[tacit lark]

its not a material...

lol

[reef dome]

oh its a 2d thing 😄

i thought its meshes

[hushed hamlet]

You could just disable a bunch if things, hit play, turn them on and off to find out what is consuming your batches and tris

[viral hill]

bump up the detail resolution on your terrain. that will make it use more GPU resources but should lower batches by a lot

[tacit lark]

okay

imma try to find a balance

[viral hill]

detail resolution per patch* @tacit lark

[tacit lark]

barely made a dent in the draw calls

[viral hill]

what did you set it to

and what is your detail res

[plain dagger]

Can you show the angle from the scene view with wireframe mode and overdraw visualisation (if you have this)?

[south summit]

How does quake makes his enemies animations? And entities etc? 🤔

The game Quake, it's pretty different his animation ways lmao

Procedural animation?

[worldly cave]

i highly doubt quake 1996 was using much in terms of procedural animation 🤔

almost certainly all animated by hand

probably even vertex by vertex lol

[lapis gate]

pretty much

[little dune]

I'm going to use Unreal Engine from now on

[azure pond]

there are assets for vegetation that are designed for common grass scenarios and perform well. generally grass is done as a vfx graph shader in modern unity for best performance

[spiral steppe]

Anybody know how to make tank raycast suspension

[viral hill]

You'll have to explain what that even is

[austere fable]

Hello.

[near wigeon]

https://nohello.net

[austere fable]

Oh. I was looking for a team to join. Mb.

[south summit]

how?

how quake makes his animations instead using smds?

[worldly cave]

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[austere fable]

Oh ok ty.

[worldly cave]

are you perhaps under the impression that "quake" is an individual who created a guy named after himself 🤔

[azure pond]

quake came from the era of alias poweranimator (aka maya) and the models were animated there with bones and such, with the animations baked out into vertex animations. then there is a bunch of quantization / compression applied to them to improve performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdvJ3ED7Esg

[azure pond]

i know what you are talking about an dit's pretty complicated haha

[spiral steppe]

Do you know how or nah

[worldly cave]

if you would clarify what a "tank raycast suspension" is im sure a lot of other people might know how to help you

from what i gather im assuming youre talking about literal tanks right? and youre hoping to simulate some kind of suspension mechanic using raycasts?

[spiral steppe]

I'm talking about realistic tank wheels and movement with rigidbody, and the wheels raycast to the ground to see where they should be

[spiral steppe]

Yeah this

[viral hill]

i think it's just a small language barrier

[spiral steppe]

I'm also struggling with armor pen calculation

[worldly cave]

well

i doubt anybody can specifically help you

with those specific issues

you really have to break it all down

into multiple smaller challenges

theres no magic solution apart from you either watching a tutorial or using someone elses implementation

[spiral steppe]

I see

But also for armor pen calculations, it is very weird because you have to get the normal angle and everything

[azure pond]

Edy's Vehicle Physics Pro (or the free asset he authored) both do this well, among other stuff you need for vehicles

[worldly cave]

if you want to do it yourself start off with regular car suspension

figure that out first

then "diversify"

[azure pond]

i don't know if Advanced Vehicle Physics models treads

[spiral steppe]

The bigger issue is like

[azure pond]

the thing you are trying to do is really complicated

[spiral steppe]

I sorta know how to do it but it just

There's so many things I need to implement

In order to have an organized system later

And it's so painful doing that

[azure pond]

yeah. and it cannot be vibecoded either

[spiral steppe]

Genuine pain

[azure pond]

you will like Edy's vehicle physics

i've used it in a real game, it is well done

[spiral steppe]

Hmmm I see

[azure pond]

i just don't know if it specifically does tire treads

he probably has worked on it, it might be a different vehicle physics package of his

[spiral steppe]

Kk thx

[south summit]

Lmao, his first name is quake?

Earthquake

[gusty abyss]

How can you make a textmesh pro not glow in the dark

[vivid cedar]

you need to give it a lit material

[gusty abyss]

how

[vivid cedar]

Find or create an SDF lit material and assign it to the TextMeshPro component

[gusty abyss]

what is that

[vivid cedar]

Time to start googling or asking an ai assistant about these terms

[gusty abyss]

im asking here

[vivid cedar]

You sure are

[gusty abyss]

i dont know how

[hexed path]

Where are you starting from? Are you pretty experienced with Unity, or no? Learn.unity.com is a great place to start -- I got a lot out of the pathways there.

[gusty abyss]

i know the unity grpah and were stuff is

[hexed path]

I'm not an expert on your question - but I think the scientific (or old school) term for what you are exploring is 'emissive' materials. That term, and the term 'SDF lit material' that was just suggested might be a good trailhead for you.

[gusty abyss]

how do i get this lit

[vivid cedar]

that's why I recommended you start looking up what I mentioned. You will get much better more thorough answers if you google it than if I were to cobble together some explanation here

[gusty abyss]

none of this works

[vivid cedar]

yes there isn't one built in

you must find one someone else made or create it yourself

start looking it up

[gusty abyss]

what is this

[hexed path]

You might also look at CreativeCore here - it will do a deep dive on materials: https://learn.unity.com/pathways

[gusty abyss]

i just need the text to not glow

in hdrp

i cant find one

[vivid cedar]

just google "hdrp TextMeshPro lit material"

you will find plenty of information

[slim cradle]

Hey does anyone know how to use the Kinematic Character Controller ? I have a huge bug

And I cannot find that bug online

at all

[vivid cedar]

Lots of people know how to use it. You should explain your issue

If it's code related do so in a code channel

[slim cradle]

ok ill send a big chunk of text

[slim cradle]

idk if it is

[balmy kettle]

Don't Ask To Ask

[slim cradle]

because idk where the issue comes from

[slim cradle]

I’ve had issues trying to implement what I want with a RigidBody or a CharacterController so I discovered the best of both worlds: the Kinematic Character Controller asset. But I have a huge issue and I don’t know how to fix it.

When I get off ledges, my character jumps on its own (even with no jump code).
I thought it came from the step handler of the KCC, but nope, not from any settings of the KCC.

I tried changing my movement code, nothing.

Then I pinpointed a part of the issue: if I apply gravity while already on the ground, it doesnt happen, but the KCC adds force towards your direction even if it’s a down force (collide & slide with floating point precision errors).

Here

[balmy kettle]

you'll need to show your movement code in a code channel

[slim cradle]

That's the thing... My movement code isn't the issue

I tried stripping all of it and just adding a force in a direction

same result

[vivid cedar]

You can debug the KCC code to find out where it's happening, or contact the developer to see if they have an idea

[slim cradle]

KCC code is too advanced and big i can't, idk if contacting the developer will work. Last time he's been active was in april, and on other projects