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[quaint delta]

I’m looking for someone who has already created a simple/basic game and would be willing to share their file. It’s to help me understand how a game is structured, as I have a class assignment and would like to learn from a real example. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help!

[charred fog]

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[charred fog]

@celest fable Do you have a Unity related question?

[pearl oyster]

https://github.com/search?q=unity+topic%3Agame&type=repositories although it's not going to be as useful as you'd think

[potent geyser]

Sounds more like "so I can submit it for school because I waited until the last minute" to me.

[gray frigate]

I believe Unity comes with some sample games

notably --

these are available in the 6.2 and 6.3 LTS releases, as well as in 2022.3.22f1

[vivid river]

Cart Microgame?

[gray frigate]

Unity Learn should also have some projects.

[charred fog]

And come with a course explaining how they work.

[fallen dragon]

Am i tweaking its not on the scene

[quaint delta]

Hahahahaha

[gray frigate]

I don't understand what the problem is

[quaint delta]

I prepare un project but mine is very very bad :/

Ok thx guys

[charred fog]

Can't wait for them to submit Darkest Dungeon port.

[gray frigate]

Overconfidence is

i forgor

[charred fog]

insidious and slow killer

[fallen dragon]

Appearently spawning like this causes gameObject to be in some kind of void? i cant find them

[gray frigate]

you should make sure that the code is actually running; throw a Debug.Log in there

[fallen dragon]

no it is running

i fixed it

i placed DontDestroyOnLoad and it moved them to that scene

[potent geyser]

Are they actually spawning?

[fallen dragon]

they are

[gray frigate]

Ah, yeah

[potent geyser]

You're not giving them any position, either.

[fallen dragon]

            DontDestroyOnLoad(Instantiate(AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<GameObject>("Assets/_Assets/StaticUI.prefab")));
            DontDestroyOnLoad(Instantiate(AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<GameObject>("Assets/_Assets/CameraController.prefab")));

This fixed it but why were they not in the scene in the first place

[potent geyser]

You're inspecting a prefab, they're not going to show up in the hierarchy if that's what you're expecting. Leave that view so you can see the scene's hierarchy.

[fallen dragon]

i sent a screenshot here that was in scene view

the Main Camera wasnt in any of loaded scenes until i placed DontDestroyOnLoad inside the spawn logic

[potent geyser]

Then they're not spawning, which means that code either isn't running or those assets don't exist.

[deft rock]

this has a search , it wont show anything that doesn't match that search

[gray frigate]

Burnout was just confused that the camera was visible in the Scene View, but didn't appear in the Hierarchy

[fallen dragon]

In inspector the name was Main Camera, so searching "Main" should show it

[gray frigate]

I don't recognize that Hierarchy UI. I see that you're in 6.3, so maybe that's brand-new

[fallen dragon]

It is

[deft rock]

remove the search, press F with the cursor over the hierachy.. it'll (should) ping and reveal the object

[fallen dragon]

alright

it just zooms the object

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1380887559529435219/1448356899308437525/2025-12-11_01-51-51.mp4?ex=693af6f9&is=6939a579&hm=af91ea1b9c90031470bac4804df69f0f239da2c262226661a91aaaa483acaddd&

I can tell its there, it did spawn, its just not showing in scene

If i try to ping it (inspector > 3 dots > ping) it does nothing

so inspector cant find it

it has to be a bug because it just cant exist outside of any scene

[balmy kettle]

you didn't do something silly like assign the HideInInspector flag to the object, right?

[fallen dragon]

no

its literally getting GameObject and spawning it the moment it gets it

[balmy kettle]

okay and what about any components on the object that might be assigning to the hide flags? or whatever asset you're using that changes the hierarchy?

[fallen dragon]

here is camera controller itself

its the only component

Created new scene, pressed play
Same issue

[fallen dragon]

Sorry i misread.
I have no assets that modify hiearchy or any editor code.
I could try to recreate that on a fresh new project if you want

[balmy kettle]

ah, nevermind i see that there's a setting for a "new hierarchy"

[fallen dragon]

Okay i disabled new hierarchy, it was causing the issue

[balmy kettle]

!bug 👇 report it

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[fallen dragon]

alright

[balmy kettle]

testing out the new hierarchy myself just now and it has some useful features, being able to see each object's tag at a glance is useful. but holy hell does it just take up so much space for everything now. also it removes things like the cinemachine brain icon

[verbal valve]

How do I save all my projects before factory resetting

[vivid cedar]

git

[vivid river]

backup on a hard drive

[verbal valve]

whats that

[potent geyser]

It's basically cloud storage with version history.

[versed sphinx]

Guys, is there way to make sprite mask affect only selected sprite renderers?

[potent geyser]

All development projects should be using it, including Unity.

[verbal valve]

is their a tutorial on it?

[potent geyser]

Plenty, it's not a Unity specific thing.

[vivid cedar]

Many

[potent geyser]

You can make a free account on gitlab.com and create a repo. Then you can find a tutorial on how to use git with Unity.

[vivid cedar]

Yes read https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/sprite/mask/apply-mask-sprite.html

[verbal valve]

👍

[river oak]

👋

[fallen dragon]

I would make children not show their layer unless mouse is hovered on, if parent has the same layer.
It clogs window too much

[versed sphinx]

i've read this but i can't use sorting layers or order in layer because i use tilemaps and auto sprite sorting, is there any other way

[safe garden]

sorry not unity related but any of you guys bought a tutorial or training on Gumroad? I bought a kit earlier and DL'd some of the videos, now came back to check my Gumroad library but the kit is not there 🤔 never received a confirmation email for it either, so its just disappeared into the ether 😄

[versed sphinx]

oh wait that really what i need! Thanks a lot!

but How can I make sorting groups render sprites not as a single object?

[main pagoda]

I had an issue like this recently and it turned out to be because of a collider that was trigger the occlusion culling. I set that collider object which was for interaction purposes to not be occludee /occluder and that solved my problem.

[novel flower]

Hello , can someone help me with my project ?

I want do simple „Mario kart” game , but i do somthing wrong

I can’t drive

[craggy pollen]

ask a particular question

or explain your problem

[novel flower]

I can’t do anything

I have lots of problems

[vivid cedar]

Pretty straightforward

[novel flower]

I don’t know why

[vivid cedar]

The error is telling you exactly why

Your code is trying to use the old input system, but your project is set up to use the new one

Probably because new Unity projects are configured to use the new input system by default, and you're following an older tutorial

As it is hinting - you can change this setting in Player Settings

[craggy pollen]

reading error messages can be really helpful sometimes

[novel flower]

But I don’t know where I can find it

[vivid cedar]

Edit -> Project Settings -> Player -> Active Input Handling

[novel flower]

Oooo man thank u

[stuck flower]

!input

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How to Set Input

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

[craggy pollen]

https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/windows.html

[mild radish]

Installed Unity6000.3 using while using I noticed this new .slnx file..

• did a little research and it seems to maybe be replacing or accompanying the regular solution sln file.. and something something about it being experimental.. idk to be honest

before installing the new .NET sdk and (and trying to remove the old) I was wondering if there were alternatives? (I just noticed theres no .sln file anymore.. soo doubtful i could swap it [like disabling the .slnx one and using .sln])

• anyone done this yet or know more about whats going on:
  if theres ways to revert back to the old sln one.. ,
  if this is the correct solution (updating .NET.. im seeing .NET 10.0 as their current Download).. ,
  if theres anything else i need to do.. ,
  -# (i checked the plug-in in Unity, my External Tools settings, and all my extensions in to make sure everything was up to date..)

tbh, the sources and threads i've found are all over the place..
and alot of em are Linux related

[storm patio]

oh god, first thing i think of is it being a microsoft thing lmao
like with doc -> docx, ppt -> pptx, xls -> xlsx

[mild radish]

i'm gonna work with 0.60 for a while until i learn enough bout this to be comfortable

.NET is on 10 now.. i've been snoozing 👀

[mild radish]

new and improved 💪

[storm patio]

oh my god it is that

[mild radish]

lol

[tawny quail]

So they basically just made it xml instead of the weird custom format they had

[mild radish]

seems that way.. + the less likely to cause merge conflicts

reading a bit more about it now.. but not in context of Unity.. just C# pages i found

[rigid jay]

Hello i am a new guys who using unity and i need help for programming. Someone can help me pls

[storm patio]

!ask

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[rigid jay]

thanks

[storm patio]

what do you need help with?

[rigid jay]

i use the tutorial for programming and i write down like the video say but the editor say there are a Error

[storm patio]

what's the error

[boreal river]

Yes bro check it out. If anyone can help guys.

[storm patio]

we aren't psychic, we can't help you without sufficient info 😉

[rigid jay]

this error

[storm patio]

that's a syntax error

it means you made a mistake in the script and c# can't understand what you wrote

[exotic relic]

Did you read it?

[storm patio]

you probably forgot a closing brace somewhere

[stuck flower]

Looks like on line 34 of Collectible.cs it expects a }

[rigid jay]

do you see the problems ?

[storm patio]

!ide

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[stuck flower]

Can you show your code and the video's?

[storm patio]

the problem is what was mentioned previously, yes

[exotic relic]

Where you’re at right now type }

[craggy pollen]

you are missing a closing }

[rigid jay]

ok thanks you

[craggy pollen]

but read the bot message, you have to fix your ide

[lavish needle]

Quick question: why do I need to re-set my building block every time I open my project?

[mild radish]

did you ever check the bounds of the object? check its parent scaling, etc..
make sure the bounds arent where they're not supposed to be..

https://discussions.unity.com/t/mesh-gameobject-disappears-at-certain-camera-angles/622965

maybe this.. idk

[novel flower]

Thanks , I got it bot my script is very bad

using UnityEngine;

public class MarioKartDriftController : MonoBehaviour
{
public float acceleration = 18f;
public float steering = 55f;
public float maxSpeed = 20f;

// Drift
public float normalDrift = 0.94f;
public float driftModeDrift = 0.80f;
public float driftSteeringMultiplier = 1.4f;
public float driftBoostForce = 6f;

private Rigidbody rb;
private bool isDrifting = false;
private float driftTimer = 0f;

void Start()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    rb.centerOfMass = new Vector3(0, -0.4f, 0); 
}

void FixedUpdate()
{
    float forward = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
    float steeringInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    bool driftButton = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift);

    // Backwards limit
    if (forward < 0 && rb.velocity.magnitude > 8f)
        forward = 0;

    // Speed limit
    if (rb.velocity.magnitude < maxSpeed)
        rb.AddForce(transform.forward * forward * acceleration, ForceMode.Acceleration);

    // Drift check
    if (driftButton && Mathf.Abs(steeringInput) > 0.1f)
    {
        isDrifting = true;
        driftTimer += Time.fixedDeltaTime;
    }
    else
    {
        if (isDrifting && driftTimer > 0.4f)
            rb.AddForce(transform.forward * driftBoostForce, ForceMode.Impulse);

        isDrifting = false;
        driftTimer = 0f;
    }

    // Steering
    float currentSteering = steeringInput * steering * Time.fixedDeltaTime;

    if (isDrifting)
        currentSteering *= driftSteeringMultiplier;

    rb.MoveRotation(rb.rotation * Quaternion.Euler(0f, currentSteering, 0f));

    // Grip / Slide
    Vector3 localVel = transform.InverseTransformDirection(rb.velocity);
    localVel.x *= isDrifting ? driftModeDrift : normalDrift;
    rb.velocity = transform.TransformDirection(localVel);
}

}

[stuck flower]

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[storm patio]

what's the issue

[novel flower]

It’s drive to fast drift don’t work , and If I crash my car go into air

Btw sory for my bad english im only 14

[river oak]

👋

[silent quest]

Hey I need help

Camera is set here before I hit play

The camera is a child of the player with no physics, but when I hit play this happens

[storm patio]

well, something's controlling it
do you have any of your own scripts?

[silent quest]

Yes I do

[storm patio]

try checking its position - does it change when you press play

[storm patio]

are any of them controlling the camera

[silent quest]

Yes but it only changes its position in one line

and it doesn't set it to 0.2

[storm patio]

have you tried commenting that out and see if the effect still persists

[naive cloud]

I've made a main menu for my main scene (which takes me to the main scene), and for some reason when it loads it, it's all dark

[storm patio]

what is dark, exactly?

you need to provide more context

[naive cloud]

i'll send a screenshot 1 sec

(this is when I load the main scene (pic) from my menu scene)

[storm patio]

and it isn't dark when you open the scene directly?

or what exactly

[naive cloud]

that

yeah I just fixed it

I had to generate lighting

(No clue why it worked by itself)

[gray frigate]

Unity automatically sets up some basic lighting data for you in the editor

[gray frigate]

including the ambient light probe and environment reflection probe

these provide light to anything that doesn't get it from specific light probes or reflection probes

you might notice that changing your skybox causes ambient lighting to change outside of play mode after a short delay, but not when you're already in play mode

[junior path]

Ok, time for a discussion:
Which do you use more?
Feel (MMFeedbacks) or DoTween?

What I get from both is that Feel is a more batteries included solution, and DoTween is a little more customizable.

[worldly cave]

dont know what feel is

but any tweening solution works fine

oh i see what feel is yeah

yeah it seems kinda pointless, nothing here you couldnt accomplish with tweening

[junior path]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/feel-183370
It's this

[sacred pelican]

Whats the correct channel for questions about inverse kinematics in the animation rigging package?

[worldly cave]

#🏃┃animation ?

[vestal vapor]

Is there any problem making a Windows build on a Mac?

[plain dagger]

I think that would be restricted to mono only

and uwp would not work but no one uses that shit

[junior path]

I was going to say: "Although, I wonder if it's possible to develop a tool to call MMFeedbacks from DoTween instance."
But then, I checked the DoTween website...

In comparison:

[gray frigate]

Never had any issues making Mono builds

I'm on an ARM macbook

i've tested that i can build to Windows (my PC), Mac (duh), and Linux (via a Steam Deck)

[polar basalt]

can mac not build to linux?

[gray frigate]

I mean that I tested it on those devices

after building on Mac

[polar basalt]

ohh okay

[fleet canopy]

mac can build to everything except UWP and maybe consoles

never had any issues with linux or windows

[upper flame]

im almost a month into game dev and i want to mainly focus on 3d so before i waste my time is it better to start out on 2d and learn there first

will that make learning 3d easier?

[balmy kettle]

no, most of the concepts you will learn are the same, except for when it comes to things like art. if you have no desire to do 2d, then don't go seeking specifically 2d tutorials to "make learning 3d easier"

[lapis gate]

they're both computationally similar, however there's some advantage to using 3D for rendering but not something to worry about

[upper flame]

so no need to start out on 2d i can just go to 3d right off the bat

[balmy kettle]

however, when trying to learn specific concepts don't also go out of your way to avoid 2d tutorials just because you're working in 3d, you need to learn the concepts not the geometry

[upper flame]

noted

[lapis gate]

also 3D assets are objectively easier to make ;)

which can be rasterized down to 2D!

[upper flame]

to me it feels like the opposite

is there a channel for tutorials on 3d? theres alot on youtube idk which to start with

[sudden ruin]

it is the opposite. 2d is way easier than 3d

[lapis gate]

It mostly comes down to animation for me and even though you can vectorize 2D animations, it just seems to flow better with 3D

[viscid storm]

Can you use the unity AI in a script to have a chating bot?

[sudden ruin]

no, you'd need to access some external API or run a local LLM

[viscid storm]

Oh ok i was wondering

[polar basalt]

i cant find any information, how often does Application.temporaryCachePath get cleaned?

[vivid cedar]

Depends on the platform

some platforms regularly clean them up (android/ios), some don't do it until a user takes some action (windows/macos)

[polar basalt]

ah so its the OS that does it

[polar basalt]

hmm, so i should clean it then manually or should i leave it to the OS?

[vivid cedar]

like should you write code in your game to clean it? Probably not.

[polar basalt]

i mean, in the place where i create it, because once i create it, i use it, and then i dont need it anymore

[ocean flicker]

Hello everybody i am new to unity. i thought i would ask the pros on reasons my unity window will not open

[polar basalt]

i mean, if u want people to help you should show the problem but not make a message so that people will have to wait for you to send the picture and wtv

by unity window do you mean unity editor itself wont open?

or unity hub

[ocean flicker]

unity editor

[polar basalt]

do you have any errors

[ocean flicker]

this is what i mean

[vivid cedar]

if you know you don't use it anymore you can certainly delete it.

[vivid cedar]

use mp4 to embed a video in discord

[ocean flicker]

this is what i mean.

[tight tundra]

Unity 6.3... can we do raytracing on OSX yet?

[gusty abyss]

is there any easier way to rotate my builds without code

[tight tundra]

Saw this in the notes, sounds exciting

GI: Published the Unified Raytracing API, which provides an API for creating cross-platform ray tracing shaders.

[fair cove]

If you mean on the engine/programming side, Unity Learn has "Pathways" that cover 3D development, they walk through a structured course then you can try some stuff on your own for practice, like moving a cube in the direction of the camera with input - if your specifically talking about modelling 3D assets, you can look up Blender tutorials, there is even a Blender discord, though in that regard id suggest starting with learning the software first (things like how to navigate and use the various tools) then try something specific like modeling a chair or other simple objects for practice, but theres no 1 specific channel that covers everything so its a good idea to look around and try many tutorials, maybe others explain the same thing in more understandable ways for you

[fair cove]

What do you mean by "rotate my builds"? Rotation is usually related to transforms

[gusty abyss]

like say i add a grey square

and i want to rotate it

ik how to

but it’s not a precise rotation

[topaz mulch]

Not exactly sure where to post this, but does anyone know what could be the cause of the leg bones being twisted like this? I am trying to record an animation in the editor using the GameObjectRecorder and creating an animation file using it. The animation looks fine in the scene view, while the animation file itself has the legs broken like that, but the rest of the bones all animate correctly. I'm at my wits end

[tall hearth]

Wdym its not a precise rotation how would you get any more precise then code?

[gusty abyss]

why would i have to rotate something with code

[tall hearth]

Also this explination isnt that good whats the use case

[gusty abyss]

okay

say i have

a path

and i want to flip it

[tall hearth]

Please one message not 50

[gusty abyss]

i have to rotate it all the way round

with the shitty rotate feature

wich doesn’t work very well as i cant get it exactly the same easily

[slow dirge]

You can hold ctrl to snap rotate

Or was it alt..? 🤔

Also you can set an actual number in the transform.

[gusty abyss]

i was holding shift and control

[gusty abyss]

thx

[tall hearth]

You could also type in the transform for values, but this guys explination sucks are you wanting to change the rotation during run time or in the editor

[copper gust]

in editor

[gusty abyss]

in the editor

is that not obvious

[tall hearth]

No

[copper gust]

it mostly is

the term build has a defined meaning in development that is not what you we're using it for which might have confused people

[tall hearth]

You said "is there any easier way to rotate my builds without code" im going to assume if you were thinking of using code its be something that'd happen during runtime

[gusty abyss]

🤦‍♂️

i miss roblox developing

[copper gust]

once you get used to unity you won't feel that way 😛

[gusty abyss]

building is a lot easier in roblox

[storm patio]

we can't really read your mind

[storm patio]

code can run in the editor too

[copper gust]

this might be true (honestly unity's stuff is really rough considering how big it is) but i'd say give it abit more time before you fully decide this

[gusty abyss]

roblox just more simple

[tall hearth]

You can yes but if your goal is to rotate an object for design (say placing a rock on the side of a cliff nicely) writing code to do so would never cross your mind normally since it'd be a uge waste of time

[stuck flower]

because Roblox isn't game engine. It's a game you can make content for.

[gusty abyss]

doesn’t change the fact it’s easier

[stuck flower]

Simplicity comes with limitations

[stuck flower]

Simply laying face down and imagining your ideal video game is even easier than that

[gusty abyss]

roblox you can create without limits

[storm patio]

writing code to aid in doing editor stuff is not uncommon

[tall hearth]

Yeah no you cant -_-

[copper gust]

dunno about this one

[gusty abyss]

i managed to make a game with 20k ccu

[stuck flower]

How about selling a video game and actually keeping all the money

[copper gust]

i mean no one is doing that

[gusty abyss]

you can sell roblox games?

[tall hearth]

I didnt say it was :/

[storm patio]

https://en.help.roblox.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004647846-Roblox-Terms-of-Use#creator-terms

[stuck flower]

Well there you go. Sounds like a limit to me

[gusty abyss]

doesn’t matter

peopel do it anyways

[copper gust]

your either giving steam 30% or praying itch actually pays you out lmaoo

[gusty abyss]

and u can’t get banned for doing so

[storm patio]

it directly contradicts what you said lmao

[gusty abyss]

i sold my roblox game

my account is not banned

[copper gust]

anyway this is a kinda weird convo tbh cuz unity's 3d iteration tools really do be ass

love unity but

[storm patio]

a quick google disproves this

[tall hearth]

Ok making a popular game and a game that isnt bound by a whole bunch of limitations is 2 different things (assuming ccu means concurrent players and isnt some roblox term for the number of objects there are)

[stuck flower]

Unity isn't a 3D modeling software

[gusty abyss]

kid believes everything he sees online

[copper gust]

i never claimed it was

[gusty abyss]

20k ccu as in concurrent and a max of 45 on update day

[stuck flower]

It's also quite ass at recording podcasts. You just wouldn't use it for that

[storm patio]

i googled "i got banned roblox creator terms" and i got results of people claiming they got banned
why would one lie about htat

[gusty abyss]

you can’t get banned for sellling a game like i never seen it happen

[stuck flower]

kid doesn't understand the second two words of the phrase "fuck around find out"

[gusty abyss]

wah wah

[storm patio]

i never said you could? are you confusing me for digi

[tall hearth]

Surely you didnt read what i said

[copper gust]

respectfully you are way to smart for such a oddly silly take. 3d game engines have 3d greybox tooling. they are not opting out of providing the tooling as a design choice, they have a poor solution for it

[storm patio]

i responded to your message "you can create without limitations" by linking the limitations

[gusty abyss]

too many diff convos

can’t keep up

[storm patio]

maybe take some time before jumping to insults then

[stuck flower]

you'll get better at reading when you're older I'm sure

[gusty abyss]

make more than u and can’t read

insulting urself

[storm patio]

what part of that is "insulting themselves"

[gusty abyss]

because someone who apparently “can’t read” makes more than him

[stuck flower]

Unity kind of intentionally doesn't try to compete on that. Probuilder is a third-party solution they bought out, but they don't really expect anyone to be doing any modeling in-engine

[storm patio]

cool, you just.. pulled that out of your ass, didn't you

anyways we don't really need this convo, it's not going to be anywhere close to productive

[stuck flower]

I mean, you can't even type out a three letter word. Doesn't bode well for the claim that you're capable of reading

[storm patio]

(he's claiming that he's making more in spite of not reading)

[copper gust]

I really disagree with you just merging greyboxing/general 3d iteration with modeling like that. I get technically they are the same but I think they have wildly different scopes, expectations and overall goals. People using Source Engine need to use outside tools for proper modeling but Hammer is still more than enough for general iteration

[stuck flower]

I'm not saying that I would be opposed to better modeling tools in Unity, just that it's not really something that is necessary for it to function as a game engine. It wasn't designed to do that, so the existing solutions are kind of band-aids on top of it, which is why they're kind of clunky.

[copper gust]

I mean sure but i'd argue that it's neccasary for it to reasonably pass as a good game engine, hence why it's dissapointing that it's such a pain point in the engine

like 80% of what's in unity isn't "necessary"

[stuck flower]

Probuilder tries to fill that void, but it's still a round peg trying to fit in a square hole. It serves its purpose as quick prototyping tools which makes it less likely a better solution will ever come about. There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

[marble fiber]

I have 2 indentical planes, I copied and pasted them directly and moved it by -1200, for some reason, they are misaligned on one side, anyone know why?

for reference, I need them to be perfectly aligned for my oceran shader

the shader is turned off in the screenshots

[storm patio]

could be that the opposite edges weren't made ot be perfectly aligned?

or are they the builtin flat planes

[marble fiber]

its a normal plane duplicated that I made in blender, I'll try a unity plane

[sudden ruin]

what exactly is misaligned

[sudden ruin]

they're using the default plane mesh

[storm patio]

it's a prefab asset, so i don't think so

[sudden ruin]

why would that change anything

[marble fiber]

wait, lowkey

I think its my import settings

it aligns in blender, but it doesn't align in unity

cause the normal unity plane aligns

[storm patio]

i don't think it's the default - and they did say themselves it's not the unity one

it wasn't an object created with the default plane, it's something imported, and the mesh wasn't overridden, so it can't be the default plane

[marble fiber]

thats actually so strange

yeah, it works perfectly with the unity plane

[sudden ruin]

oh i see

[marble fiber]

what import setting could be causing that?

[storm patio]

what if you move it to the other side, +1200 instead, does that edge align? in case it's like, floating point issues

[storm patio]

fyi i managed to articulate my line of thinking if you're curious #💻┃unity-talk message

[marble fiber]

wait

its the actual mesh yeah

Is there a way to subdivide/make more quads on the unity default plane?

[chilly dune]

is there a help channel

[storm patio]

most of the channels here are help channels #🔎┃find-a-channel

[chilly dune]

ok

ok imma just ask here

i imported a model i am making and they yellow got overlayed like this how do i fix it

[sudden ruin]

it's tough to tell where the yellow is coming from in this screenshot alone, but it looks like your materials are non double sided. try enabling that in your material inspector and see if that helps. if it doesnt, you'll need to share more info

[chilly dune]

ok is that enabled in blender or unity

[sudden ruin]

unity

you might be able to enable it in blender too and have it carry over but im not sure

[chilly dune]

like here

[sudden ruin]

yeah, change render face to both after you make a copy of the material. this one is read-only

[chilly dune]

ok

[polar basalt]

nooo what is this

why did they do this

the fix button

how can i make that button go away

[storm patio]

go through settings and extensions, probably

[woeful spear]

I downloaded this first person character asset from Unity Store. It works fine but there's one issue. It can climb any height if there's even tiny slope. So it would climb any hill as hill is not at 90 degree angle. For example, this cube has some slope, so I can jump couple of times against it and it would climb on it. Can I prevent this behavior and put some limits without adding any code?

Character is on the slope in this image. Ideally, it should slip down or better, not even be able to jump on a slope.

There are some settings in Inspector but they didn't help.

[fierce shuttle]

what does the diagnostics system actually do?

it says its supposed to send me like crash reports and performance data but i've ran the game a couple times as well as some friends and none of that has been sent over

[slow dirge]

What kind of diagnostics system are you referring to?

[fierce shuttle]

Diagnostic Data

I was looking in the wrong place though, I found the data

just wanted a way to track crashes and stuff

[slow dirge]

Crash report system is included by default.

[potent geyser]

!collab

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[storm patio]

could you be more specific

what are you opening from? unity or file explorer?

the "external script editor" setting in unity, correct?

that's odd

[lean dune]

Guys quick question, if i were to make a gun system how can i make a view model work

[storm patio]

i got this message when i opened the hub, is this a general notification or does it indicate that the hub thinks there's not enough ram?
i definitely have more than 512 MB free

[lean dune]

Are there client sided scripts?

[storm patio]

what do you mean by that

[lean dune]

I cant say like?

Wikld

But its where only the player sees it

[storm patio]

everything is for the player to see

[lean dune]

nah like

other people wont see it

only the player

[storm patio]

what is the context

[lean dune]

So example in roblox studio theres 2 type of scripts

server script and local script

I want to know if theres a way for the player to only see stuff (not the other people)

[storm patio]

if local scripts didn't exist, the game wouldn't be able to run

[lean dune]

like for multiplayer

[lean dune]

Arent these server scripts?

Since its happening on the server

[storm patio]

is the player on the server?

or is the player on their own device, the client?

[lean dune]

No im talking about the scripts

[vivid cedar]

Unity isn't tied to a single networking framework the way Roblox is. Unity is a general purpose game engine. The details of "server" and "client" scripts etc are going to depend entirely on which networking framework you are using.

[storm patio]

yes, if the scripts are only running on the server, the client won't see them

there needs to be something on the client so the client can see things

[lean dune]

How can i do stuff like, lets say... Gun pickup

[storm patio]

that's a very broad thing

[lean dune]

I alread have a plan in mind

[vivid cedar]

That's a complicated system involving a bunch of different pieces

[lean dune]

But is parenting the gun to the camera will fix it?

[vivid cedar]

not really something I can just answer in a few discord comments

[lean dune]

i mean will not be visible to other people

[storm patio]

depends on how it's set up

these aren't exactly simple, 1-rule things

these are flexible systems that can do what you want them to

[lean dune]

nvm imma just try it

[storm patio]

if you have a specific issue or question, you're gonna have to ask it with specificity

we cannot read your mind

you haven't given us any context or info to actually use to answer your question

[lean dune]

its hard to explain

yeah

ill just do it

last question

what shader should i use to import texture

cuz

thres nothing here that shows textures thingy

im tryna attach a gun texture

[potent geyser]

Those words don't make sense. Shaders don't import anything.

You can always just use the default lit shader as a starting point, assuming whatever model you're using doesn't require something custom.

[woeful spear]

Do I need to turn on "Low res..." option?

When I selected 16:9 aspect ratio, the low res option was also checked. I disabled it and it made UI look better but also changed their placements a little.

[vivid cedar]

do you "need to"? No, not unless you want to simulate low-res devices.

See explanation of what it is here: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/GameView.html

[woeful spear]

Okay. Also, when disabling low res checkbox, the UI (e.g., that orange+white bar item in corner), shifted a little towards center of screen. With low res, it was more towards corner. So I guess the low res was not real position but just emulated for low res devices?

So I guess I'd have to adjust UI again with low res option disabled.

Or maybe optimize for both

[vivid cedar]

FIrst off make sure the scale slider wasn't changing

it may just be that the view was zoomed'

[woeful spear]

I'll check again

[vivid cedar]

but if it's always set to 1, that means your UI isn't anchored properly.

[woeful spear]

When I check Low Res, the scale changes:

It sets to 1.3x. Can't change it to 1.0

[vivid cedar]

yes, this is expected, because your game view is too large for the low resolution

generally you don't want to check this box

[woeful spear]

Okay, I'll read more on that.

[zealous hornet]

Does anyone have any idea why the wall on the left appears darker than the right side wall when I generate lighting even though they're practically in the same lighting conditions? (URP)
Also, for the record, I'm only using real-time lighting. All the walls, windows, and other building pieces except for the door are marked as static.

[lapis gate]

Bad normals, different shaders? Try #1390346776804069396

[ocean pumice]

Are you using any reflection probe by chance?

[zealous hornet]

nope

[ocean pumice]

than follow Maos suggestion to open a thread and check your meshs normals. Its nothing, that Unity just does on accident 😄

[zealous hornet]

I think the normals seem okay - They're not triangulated but they're relatively simple so I assume unity can probably handle that, also thanks I'll take a look at #1390346776804069396

[zealous hornet]

okie will do, thanks!

[ocean pumice]

maybe you gotta check your import settings too, if Unity is creating something on import instead of importing the raw values, keep quads and what not

[zealous hornet]

imma give keep quads a try

update: seems checking "keep quads" on the mesh's import settings and lowering the lightmap parameters' resolution preset fixed it for now

[fathom stone]

hey I dunno where a good place to ask this question would be but a lot of my unity projects are seemingly eating up my main storage on my pc and I wanna get like the most cost efficient option for any game related projects I work on. Would It be better to get SSD or HDD for stuff like unity projects. assumingly like SSD for active projects and HDD for like projects not typically opened yeah but would It hurt my HDD too much if I were to work actively on the HDD? bunch of questions for sure

[ocean pumice]

I have never seen a hard drive die before I replaced it in the last decades 😉 So you should be good to go with a HDD for some kind of "archive". But if you want to work from an HDD and its not something fancy like a raid system, you might just have a bad time importing, opening and updating things, as HDD is just slower. But if you are organized in keeping active projects on your SSD and "older" ones on the HDD, thats not the worst setup to have. About your question of hurting your HDD, no, not really but it can hurt your patience, if you gotta wait for projects to open and what not. So I would never go back to a standard HDD for working on any kind of project.

[fathom stone]

alright, thank you!

storage is so expensive for a regular ol guy like me

and all my silly projects in blender and unity take up so much space

[ocean pumice]

If its about money, I would def. go for an HDD and just try to be as much organized as I can, so you can buy a bigger HDD just to have the space and then just keep the active ones on SSD. I guess, you are not part of any github company account or something, where just deleting projects and keeping them in git with gitlfs be a thing, right?

[nimble vigil]

So now with unity 6.3 HDRP and URP are combined?

[warm glacier]

have anyone never talk about Arknight Enfield? heard they are using heavily modified Unity, but some source say they still see the same unity structure in the source code decompile.
the game looks clean and beautiful though

[ocean pumice]

what ever means "heavily modified Unity". Could also just be the editor being modified to fit their needs and what not. Modified could mean anything. Do you have any source to read? 🙂

[warm glacier]

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/arknights-endfield-devs-heavily-modified-unity-to-accommodate-the-games-100000-polygon-characters-models-and-massive-factory-systems/ old news though, the game already released

thats whats they claimed though~ but i'm not the one who dig inside unity code 😄

[nimble vigil]

Unity has no hard limit on polygons as far as I know. It can do more than 100k poly

[storm patio]

this doesn't sound like heavily modified unity, this just sounds like unity with a lot of their own systems added

[warm glacier]

yeah thats what i thought too... because ECS already in unity for long now lol

[storm patio]

and the rendering thing, is that not just an SRP?

it's a lot of work, and it deviates from what unity does built-in, sure, but it's not modifying anything

[ocean pumice]

But the AI overview thing is also not really 100% correct when its relying on the article 😄 In the article they say, they extended it, not implemented the ECS system...

Hard to tell without knowing, what exactly they did. But yeh, from the article, it sounds like they either extended systems or trashed them and used their own systems to get the features they wanted. But to vague to really conclude what they modified in the end

[storm patio]

building on top of existing systems or replacing systems sounds much easier than modifying them

[warm glacier]

yeah. probably "heavily/maximize" use unity feature should be the agenda XD

[ocean pumice]

Not sure what they did about the realtime shadows for example. Could be a modification or even a new system

[jovial plover]

is there a way to have a ton of real time shadows without performancing tanking

[warm glacier]

need to make a script far distance point lights will auto turn off shadows

[fickle rapids]

does anyone know why the control panel is showing blue in vr in unity 3d

[vivid river]

If its blue its compiling shaders...

[fickle rapids]

do i have to wait or is there any fix

[near wigeon]

blue or purple ?

[fickle rapids]

you can see its purple

[near wigeon]

yeah but you said blue..anyway purple means a shader error / broken material

[vivid river]

You probably have to conver the render pipeline

[fickle rapids]

any fix for that you know

[livid blaze]

Need suggetion for how can I more optimize my webgl build and how to check what's taking so much space any leads would be helpful

[fickle rapids]

how

[near wigeon]

if you dont show what exactly that material is supposed to be , how can one possibly offer anything .. You have to show the setup

[fickle rapids]

right

[near wigeon]

do a Dev build and connect the profiler
https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/Manual/profiler-profiling-applications.html#:~:text=WebGL

[fickle rapids]

here is the complete video as it is showing default materials i dont understand why

[near wigeon]

what is your target platform set to?

[fickle rapids]

it was windows now i shifted to android and its showing. thanks great idea.

[chilly locust]

does this server have support channel? I need to report one of the worst type of bots

[near wigeon]

!support

[vagrant root]

🙋‍♂️ Where can I get help?

Take a look at #🔎┃find-a-channel
You can also access Discussions for questions!

:warning: This is not a channel for official support.

Please do not ping admins, moderators, or staff with Unity issues.

Access our Help Center for Unity Support.

[chilly locust]

thx, I already noticed the bio of the unity modmail so I sent it there

[vivid river]

Report to Steam then, they have good moderation they will eventually swat the game dev

[deft rock]

what's a unity server going to do about it ?

[chilly locust]

this is the FOURTH OR FIFTH TIME THIS HAPPENED

[vivid river]

remove the game

[chilly locust]

discord bot using AI trying to be my friend just to get me to play the stupid game

[chilly locust]

there is no proof the discord bots are their business and I assume its been reported many times already because this happens alot on disocrd

[copper gust]

btw this is very much not "one of the worst" kinda bots

[chilly locust]

the game would be gone already

[charred fog]

Don't post off-topic on the server, please.

[vivid river]

then report to Discord why exactly Unty game engine?

[copper gust]

the fact it leads to an actual steam game probably makes it one of the better kinda bots tbh

[chilly locust]

I'm sorry, I did that to warn ppl

[chilly locust]

the bot was from here, nvm

[charred fog]

This is a learning community about Unity

[charred fog]

And you've reported it and it was removed. No need to spam in learning channels

[upper flame]

i just installed unity on my laptop nd when i create a project it just disappears from the hub

loads for a bit then disappears

i cant find a fix

[vivid river]

How does it looks like

[charred fog]

Make sure project files location is local and in non system location

[upper flame]

i made a seperate file for projects in my D drive

[upper flame]

i cant screen record on my laptop for some reason

[vivid river]

unity Hub has write access to that drive

[charred fog]

!logs Check hub logs

[vagrant root]

📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log
MacOS: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Editor.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log

Unity Hub

Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[upper flame]

what do i do with this

[vivid river]

Check for errors why it was unable to create a project

[tall hearth]

No clue why it happens but what if you go to add then add from disk (think its called that) and add the project folder from your D drive

[upper flame]

the project folder isnt even there for some reason

[tall hearth]

It should add the project back, though there may be a problem with your install for why they are getting removed so the project may not work

[charred fog]

The logs should tell you exactly what's happening.

[upper flame]

i cant find it😭

[charred fog]

Copy related Hub logs path (in the bot message) in your file browser window and press enter.

Then open and read the latest log there

[upper flame]

i can open the editor one but not the hub

doesnt show up idk why

[polar basalt]

Where can i find the other examples? how can i add the NotificationListenerService ? i want to see other app's notifications

[tall hearth]

You want to read the other notifications a person has on their phone?

I would be shocked if this was even possible as that sounds like a huge security risk

[polar basalt]

yes that is possible

requires admin level kinda magic

[charred fog]

!install You should do a clean reinstall following this. Including the Hub.

[vagrant root]

When Unity fails to install checklist

• Make sure you have enough space including on C: drive.
• Check that it's not being blocked by antivirus/security programs.
• Look through the logs for a real reason why the setup fails they are pinned [here](#💻┃unity-talk message).

If you still have issues, perform a clean install in another location:

• Install the Hub and Unity in a non-system drive or a clean new folder in the root of C: drive.
• Failing that use the recovery Refresh option or reinstall OS entirely then repeat the previous step.

[tall hearth]

I mean sure on a code standpoint, but i mean on data accessibility which im not sure if the phone would give you that data

[upper flame]

is 10gb on c enough? i thought i could install it on the d drive

[charred fog]

If it's not in the correct location that doesn't follow that path, might not be even installed correctly.

[polar basalt]

idk thats why im here, i just want to show the user the notifications in an UI

im making an app for myself

my own phone is bad at showing notifications

[vivid river]

unity editor is around 7gb [base]

[charred fog]

You still need a lot of space on C drive as well.

[polar basalt]

sometimes it shows it on screen, sometimes it only vibrates :/

[charred fog]

And new project itself requires several Gb in cached packages etc.

[upper flame]

problem is i have around 100gb free on the d drive but only 10 on c thats why i want it to be on the d drive

[charred fog]

It's barely enough just for temp files

[tall hearth]

Projects get huge my first one i spent 6 months on is only a 100MB build file but the project folder is 27GB -_-

[vivid river]

You can reinstall and use D:

[upper flame]

gonna do that rn

[charred fog]

It installs a lot of required things on C anyway even when target location different.

[vivid river]

and keep Unity Hub in the C only

[upper flame]

so hub on C and editor and projects on D

[charred fog]

Hub can be anywhere, it doesn't matter

Your project is not created likely because you ran out of temp files space on C drive

[tall hearth]

I think fogsight is saying that although you can use a seperate drive for the projects or editor versions the cached data while installing them goes to C and not D so you'll need the minimum space for that data on C to even install it

[upper flame]

how much is that

[tall hearth]

No clue i dont have to worry about storage but im sure you'll need more than the 10GB you have

Heck im shocked windows lets you install stuff with that little amount it'd be actively killing the drive (at least if its a SSD)

[upper flame]

im usually on my pc it runs fine im just using my laptop for the time being while im away

[polar basalt]

ah, i found something that works, it adds the permisions, but what does it mean by mymodulename

i dont exactly understand what module is uhhhhh

i just left it as yourModuleName haha but it works 🤷‍♂️

i see my app in "SpecialPermissions/AccessNotifications"

[keen jetty]

how do you guys usually measure optimization?

60fps on your targetted specs

or optimize it to hell, even if it takes longer

[reef dome]

            var hasStatChanges = AddStatChanges(nextLevelData, levelData);
            hasStatChanges |= AddFeatureUnlocks(level, buildingModel);
            
            View.SetStatusUpdatesActive(hasStatChanges);

Another day, another lesson taught by copilot 😄 I didnt know |= is usable outside of bit operations

[storm patio]

-# i mean it still kinda is a bitwise operation, in a way

[vivid cedar]

You can even use | for logical operations too (rather than ||).

Just note this code will be potentially less efficient than:

var hasStatChanges = AddStatChanges(nextLevelData, levelData) || AddFeatureUnlocks(level, buildingModel);``` 
because it can't short-circuit like `||` can

(til || is the spoiler tag in discord 😆 )

[reef dome]

yeah but I dont want it to stop after AddStatChanges, cause both of them have sideeffects 😄

[vivid cedar]

ah yeah if they have side effects that's fine

This would be logically equivalent:

var hasStatChanges = AddStatChanges(nextLevelData, levelData) | AddFeatureUnlocks(level, buildingModel);```

[reef dome]

makes sense, good to know 😄

[violet thunder]

Profiler is the main tool for measuring performance

Standalone profiler prererably, deep profiling if needed

Also frame debugger and memory profiler

[livid kraken]

Hey, so after updating the Unity Hub last night I got this error message and it's not letting me try again or contact support. Tried adding a new personal license and signing out and back in too but that didn't work either. I really need to access my projects right now. Anyone else has this problem?

[ocean pumice]

Refresh also does not work?

[livid kraken]

Tried it, doesn't work

[ocean pumice]

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[potent geyser]

!ban 216991706145488897 scam

[vagrant root]

@iver_88 banned

Reason: scam
Duration: Permanent

[potent geyser]

?ban 217934909086367744 scam

[novel scarab]

mathelot was banned.

[livid kraken]

Is there a way for me to revert to another unity hub version?

Maybe the one before I updated last night

Because so far nothing in the docs is helping

[ocean pumice]

I could imagine, there is something in the application support files or how they are called for your user, that do not fit with the new hub version. You could check on the download archive page

[livid kraken]

If I install the unity version again, will the hub be reverted too?

[ocean pumice]

Ah dang, its only versions for the editor in the download page. The hub will stay what it was. But you could try remove it entirely if you did not already

[ocean pumice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/hub/manual/InstallHub.html here are some versions as download

[livid kraken]

Thanks!

Reinstalling the hub did it for me

Thank you so much 😭💖

[deft rock]

no

[safe garden]

do the draw modes have hotkeys assigned or can you assign them? checked shortcuts but couldn't see them

[potent reef]

I want to create a horror game but dont know where to start. If i start with the house where should i build it in unity or blender? Which would you recommend also should count collision. Should i use like house floor plans?

[safe garden]

ahhh there ya go - thank you mate!

[safe garden]

If you're starting off I would really recommend keeping it small scale and just doing a room or 2 to learn the process, etc. before taking on a whole house. Literally can be a cube with some props, light it in unity, focus on just doing a room and creating the horror ambience, its a lot easier and you can see how it turns out

[deft rock]

I find it best to start of with the functionality, the mechanics. Break those down into a list and work on them.

Also, models are generally done in a modelling program, you could use pro-build but.. i think it takes more effort to do something good than blender

[twilit crystal]

i cant create a sprite and dunno y

[storm patio]

could you give some more context

what are you trying to do? import something? create something in code?

[twilit crystal]

ok soo i made a simple reticle for a fps project
its an image file
and images for canvas require a sprite

i am trying to create a sprite object but it wont make one

[potent reef]

I need like ideas what type of horror game to make

[gray frigate]

the default image importer settings give you a Texture, which is, indeed, not a kind of Sprite

[storm patio]

sounds like you're conflating 2 things - "image" in the "image file" and "image for canvas" are unrelated

[ocean pumice]

Switch the import of your texture from Default to UI/Sprite or how its called

[deft rock]

select the image in the project window -> change the import settings to sprite in the dropdown

[twilit crystal]

i see it

[potent reef]

Lets say I make 1 room and how do I know if its big enougth, even after I build the walls can I still make the room bigger?

[twilit crystal]

whats netx after that

[deft rock]

have a lil think

[twilit crystal]

wait got it

[gray frigate]

you should now have one or more Sprite assets imported from that image

[twilit crystal]

changed it to a single sprite

and it works

thanks for the help :D

[gray frigate]

it may default to Multiple, which can then wind up giving you zero sprites until you configure it properly, yeah.

[deft rock]

.. play it and test it.

[deft rock]

sorry, yes! Forgot about that, for some reason now that setting is 'multiple' by default

[gray frigate]

the trivial answer is "yes", because you can always make the room again

depending on how you made the room, it could be as simple as scaling up an object

or it could require modeling work

[safe garden]

honestly not trying to be a douche or rude here, but I would highly recommend if you're new forget doing a house entirely unless you want to make it very primitive, its better to just do something like greyboxing where you keep it very simple and it gives you an idea of scale and how detailed you want to go with it. I would look into beginner's training on environments etc. before ever tackling a project like the one you mentioned as you could quickly find yourself overwhelmed, that would be my advice anyway

[gray frigate]

i've gotten hung up on how I designed my grayboxing assets 😭

"but what grid size should I use?"

[vivid river]

The floor and walls are individual objects so you can space/size them

[ocean pumice]

From how you phrase your questions, it sounds like you are quite new to the whole field of game dev. If you want to learn about creating/prototyping a game, you can always visit the learn platform for Unity. If you want to learn how to create assets, you are better at some blender server to ask and have tutorials to look at. But those can be both quite demanding tasks, so you should step back a bit and decide, what you are up to first. If its game dev, you are better off taking PhilMs advice for just blocking out the world and test. The simplest looking games can have the most complex mechanics behind it and the most beautiful games can have the worst experience for a player 😄 So you decide, whats your first small goal (which should be a small little game with a small amount of mechanics, maybe even one) and go from there. Also read about prototyping in gamedesign (not the art of games, but the concept of it) and learn how iteration can help you learn from failure.

[cunning zephyr]

This page isn’t working
login.unity.com redirected you too many times.

Try deleting your cookies.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

does anyone know what to do with this

i deleted cookies and browsing data

[vivid stag]

Im new to c#

[gray frigate]

i just logged in fine, so it's not broken for everyone, at least 😉

[gray frigate]

try another browser, maybe?

could also be a browser extension doing something weird

[vivid river]

and i got logged out 🥀

[mild radish]

check out your browser.. (try another) like Fen mentioned..
b/c it is indeed working.. I signed in fine.. / my hub is fine.. / my license is fine..
so its most likely specific to you or rather your browser/connection

[wise yacht]

Would anyone recommend the Feel asset?

it looks really cool but I'm trying to figure out if it's more worth it to just make my own polish or to go for it

[mild radish]

ive seen it used a lot.
personally i think you could manage to do most of that stuff yourself..
the asset just makes it a lot easier and faster

you can also do alot of it w/ a simple Tweening library..

[wise yacht]

Fair

I wonder how it handles stuff like screenshake - like does it work with cinemachine etc.

[mild radish]

iTween, DoTween, LeanTween, PrimeTween

[wise yacht]

Yeah I already use DOTween and its very good

[mild radish]

pretty sure it just shakes a Transform..

that Transform could be a cinemachine cam.. but i don't think its specific to cinemachine

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/camera-shake-fx-146554

[wise yacht]

and tbf it wouldn't be too hard to like make my own version of it with some base interface/class that u can add multiple to a scriptable object

and then just make my own effects

[mild radish]

i've used this asset in the past.. (also just shakes a transform)..
but it has distance.. and strength built in..

[wise yacht]

is probably more worth it than buying the asset

[mild radish]

so I liked that.. (bigger shakes for closer explosions, etc)

[wise yacht]

yeah that's pretty cool tbf

[mild radish]

nah, like i said.. most of it is simple tweens..

the asset just makes it really easy

[wise yacht]

Yeah

[mild radish]

but if u make something up yourself (thats modular)

u can build out ur own library of effects

[wise yacht]

I mean I looked at Feel and it looked just like a modular system with scriptable objects

[mild radish]

that being said... 25 bux isn't a whole lot for an asset u can re-use like that

[wise yacht]

so I figured it wouldn't be that hard to make my own

[wise yacht]

also a good point yeah

I've never acc bought an asset before icl

So I was looking at popular ones like Feel and Odin inspector etc.

[mild radish]

Odin is on my wishlist too.. (for 4 years now)

[wise yacht]

It was on sale I saw

Almost got it

[mild radish]

i've built alot of my own since then tho.. (i'd still like to check it out) lol

[wise yacht]

But I don't really need it afaik

For now lol

[mild radish]

its a quality of life asset

[wise yacht]

Yeah

I think

Once my game gets past prototyping and into a more content-creating phase

then I might get it to make some inspector tools for said content-creation yk

[brisk anvil]

why are there no voice channels here?

I love to hang out on other game dev / unreal servers, Unity is my main and favorite engine, I would love to just chill here 24/7.
VC also helps me stay focused and working on the project

[strong fable]

how do I get a structuredbuffer into shader graph? I've found very few information on this so far and when I did they declared a buffer inside a custom node but when I do this I just get an uninitialized ressource error.

[stuck flower]

This isn't a social server. There's not really hanging out to be done here

[brisk anvil]

there are like haundreds of people, what hard could a vc cause?

[mild radish]

moderation would be a nightmare

[queen raven]

I just finished my first game! Nobody would be interested in moving a circle to a finish line, but it works! How would I go about packaging it all up and sending to others to play. I plan on using this info for other projects as well. Can anyone give me a good link with instructions to follow?

[stuck flower]

There's like 45,000 people here actually.

[brisk anvil]

build, send a zip! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdaxiltoPyA

[mild radish]

there's other Unity discords w/ VC if you look enough..
(although even there they don't seem to be really active)
just people sitting in them streaming their dev-work
UnityDeveloperCommunity being one..

its probably b/c this channel is Officially tied to the company..
the other one i mentioned is not

[strong fable]

if you wanna get a little fancy throw it onto itch.io

[brisk anvil]

exactly, so what do you mean by "There's not really hanging out to be done here" 😆
there is a lot of hanging out to be done

how do other servers put moderation on vc?
Unreal engine and game dev universe servers have like 24/7 people talking about the cool stuff they are building now with share screens all the time

but it's always godot and unreal.

[stuck flower]

Because you can't hang out with 45,000 people

[brisk anvil]

thank you, I will check it out! please share more servers for that!

[mild radish]

thats the only one i know of.. (that im a part of)

wouldn't know any others.. srry

[vivid river]

disboard or top.gg

[mild radish]

Because you can't hang out with 45,000 people

imagine 1 of those 45,000 people say "Hi"
and then 44,999 other's respond "Hello" 👀 lol
-# Server Crash 💥

[brisk anvil]

do you think 45,000 people are active now?

[mild radish]

lol.. obviously not..

only half of em are online 😏

[brisk anvil]

bro come on, there's max 50 people seeing this,
if we actually had vc I'm sure it won't get more than 10 users active max at any time

unless there's a Unite which would be awesome to hang around here with

[harsh ferry]

People have multiple discords so technically no

[mild radish]

im not on one side or the other.. thats just the way it is..
its been discussed and mentioned thousands of times.. soo much so they've put it in the
[⁠Read before posting](#1180178376028327936 message)

[brisk anvil]

unity dev community has 30,000+ users, 0 active in channels, last message 30 minutes ago.
unreal community has 125,000+ users and 5 people active right now in vc.

Just imagine how big and active this server can get if we had vc

[brisk anvil]

sorry, I think this is a childish argument. whatever though

nevermind me

[mild radish]

i'm not arguing.. just stating the facts.. and showing specific quoted statements of what the Moderators and Administrators have settled on.. -> https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1180178376028327936

personally I don't care one way or the other.. but im nobody.

[polar basalt]

int importance = sbn.getNotification().getImportance() + 1;
^
symbol: method getImportance()
location: class Notification
Note: C:\Unity Projects\Simple Phone\Library\Bee\Android\Prj\IL2CPP\Gradle\unityLibrary\src\main\java\com\marius\notifications\NotificationBridgeService.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.

im a little bit lost

how do i get the importance of notifications in android?

hey man please read the channel desc and delete this, thank you

[undone monolith]

Oh right i apologise. Is there an off topic?

[polar basalt]

also yeah i should have went to code but its a build error so ig this works

[polar basalt]

no

[stuck flower]

No.

[buoyant cave]

Whats everyone's opinions on visual scripting?

[strong fable]

goated in unreal tbh

[mild radish]

"gross" - personal opinion

[undone monolith]

I'd say it's better to learn to code yourself. Ultimately more customization

[stuck flower]

It's a noob trap. It sounds easier but you have literal decades of resources on how to do things in code, and very little on how to do things in whatever specific visual scripting system you are using. Anyone who likely knows enough about the system to be of assistance is just using normal code.

[vivid river]

You have more power over code

[undone monolith]

Exactly

[stuck flower]

The hard part of coding isn't the typing of the words, and that's all that visual scripting really makes easier

[mild radish]

it always works out better for ya if you understand what the code is doing..
or in case of visual scripting to understand what the node is doing..

like digi said.. its a trap imo

[stuck flower]

All the hard parts are still there but now you've lost that knowledge bank

[undone monolith]

The amount of freedom and choices is what makes it daunting

[mild radish]

there's always more than one path to the solution..
once you get there tho you can go back and find the best path to the solution..

knowing multiple paths to the solution is even better imo

eventually you could know most if not all the paths to the solution 😉

[buoyant cave]

Thanks for everyone's opinions :)

[mild radish]

who knows what path those visual nodes are taking..

if ur just not wanting to excel in code.. and ur an artist, or sound engineer or something else..
and it works for you to just code w/ visual stuff.. i wouldn't say anythings wrong with that

[storm patio]

(in general) there's 3 major parts to programming:

• Language - The syntax, structure, and paradigm of each language
• Library - The interfaces and utilities that each environment or toolset provides
• Logic - The algorithms to do work at runtime

Logic is almost completely transferrable between each language and environment, you just have to learn the specific Language and Library that you're using
Language is also shared quite a bit between languages

of course, learning 1 part at a time is easier than learning everything at once, which is why tools like scratch or code.org are popular as coding courses for beginners, especially kids, because it only focuses on the Logic aspect
visual scripting doesn't make the actual programming, the logic part, easier. it just makes the Language aspect simpler, in exchange for less flexibility

flexibility vs simplicity is a tradeoff

[craggy pollen]

you are very restricted and limited with visual scripting, especially solution unity provides. it is really weak compared to unreal engine´s blue print visual scrpting

in short terms, learn programming and do it right.

[polar basalt]

where can i ask questions about java

can i ask here

or is there any channel

[vivid river]

Unity doesn't uses java so no

[polar basalt]

unity does use java

if you make android games

[vivid river]

oh

[polar basalt]

anyways i will just ask here since its just a short correct me question

NotificationManager nm = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) 
        {
            String channelId = sbn.getNotification().getChannelId();
            if (channelId != null) 
            {
                NotificationChannel channel = nm.getNotificationChannel(channelId);
                if (channel != null) 
                {
                    importance = channel.getImportance();
                    hasSound = channel.getSound() != null;
                    hasVibrate = channel.shouldVibrate();
                }
            }
        }

did i do something wrong?

i dont know exactly how to debug in java where it stopped, but none of these variables get set

and i do have a version bigger than 26, (i tested without the first if statement and everything is okay still same results)

[left bobcat]

Guys every single time I fully shut down my computer and open unity this is what happens when I open any project? If I just put it to sleep this won't happen

InvalidOperationException: [BeginRecording] This API cannot be called when Render Graph is active, please call it outside of 
InvalidOperationException: [EndFrame] This API cannot be called when Render Graph is active, please call it outside of RecordRenderGraph().

[sly lake]

Random editor error noise

[left bobcat]

Yeah but it breaks the entire project lol I have to delete the library folder and fully reopen the project for it to start working

it gets annoying pretty quick

[sly lake]

I can imagine

[left bobcat]

considering the library rebuild takes like 20-30m

yk anything that i can do to fix it

it didnt happen before when i had my unity 5

now that i use unity 6.2 it breaks all the time

[polar basalt]

try upgrading to a diff version?

[left bobcat]

perhaps but i dont wanna downgrade and i heard 6.3 has tons of bugs

[tall hearth]

Holy you got 100GB of library data?

[left bobcat]

no lol just about 15-20gb

[tall hearth]

And 20-30 minutes? You running off a hdd?

[left bobcat]

i got a samsung SSD

lemme check the r/w speeds

[tall hearth]

Im sure it has less than 6.2, also been using it myself on a new project and havent experienced any yet.

[left bobcat]

right now i am rebuilding it again

[cyan lion]

is there any way to get volumetric shadows and lighting on emissive materials while using adaptive probe volumes

[left bobcat]

okay ill give it a shot then

[mild radish]

6.3 doesn't play well my VSCode on my machine.
had to drop back down to 6.0.6 until i get it figured out
slnx files n whatnot

[tall hearth]

Id finish rebuilding and make a copy of some form first

[left bobcat]

thats not very promising 😭

[left bobcat]

okay fairs making a copy before it corrupts is a good idea

[mild radish]

the engine itself didn't have issues.. only my VSCode can't open the solution correctly b/c it uses slnx instead of the sln

its a user-error i just aint figured it out yet

[left bobcat]

ohh i see

[mild radish]

definitely make a copy tho.. b4 u go about porting it from one version to anothe

[tall hearth]

Wait is that what this is? I did notice that the intellisense in visual studio community for unity 6.3 was really buggy but i wasnt certain if it was unity 6.3 or the vs 2026 that did this

[cyan lion]

hey anyone knows?

[left bobcat]

yeah thats smart, one time i didn't and it was a pretty big project took me ages to fix that mistake

[mild radish]

#💻┃unity-talk message for me atleast.. I ran into this issue yesterday

you can see the screenshot of my vscode..

[left bobcat]

Also, anyone wanna give me some feedback about the graphics of my game? I'd appriciate it

[tall hearth]

Since things like [SerializeField] would try and put the varible inside the [] so i'd be like [SerializeField private int health = 100;]

[mild radish]

none of my intellisense and stuff work anymore.. unless i upgrade to the newest .NET sdk i guess

[mild radish]

thats neat 👀 lol

[mild radish]

do that in #🏆┃daily-win or a #1180170818983051344

[cyan lion]

where else can i ask this

[tall hearth]

I'd also double up on brackets when writing functions so itd be void Thing(())

[mild radish]

sounds like a #1390346776804069396 type of thing

[left bobcat]

can't post a full video of the game yet, it's a private project, would rather only a few select people see it

[mild radish]

well, mine doesn't even recognize Monobehaviour anymore...

it realizes its a Unity object (but i think thats just b/c of the Unity VSCode Plugin)...
it can't open the slnx file.. so it wont load up my solution properly

[cyan lion]

oh and another question, is this server run by official unity technologies or is it just a community server?

[mild radish]

so i'll have to upgrade my .NET sdk to 9.0.2 or higher..
my plug-in isnt doing it automatically.. soo i have to install it directly from the website.. and hopefully that will work.. on the website its .NET 10.0

but im not ready to change my SDK yet.. soo im just finishing up on 6000.0.60 before I move over to the 6.3 LTS

but i intend to..

[mild radish]

its an Official Community channel.. so yea

theres a Unity Administrator -> active over there...

but the Moderators are volunteers I believe.. but vetted by Unity

its a community server tho all in all..
you can't get direct support from Unity

you still need to submit a Ticket for that

[tall hearth]

Hmm maybe vs 2026 uses .NET 10.0 so that may be why i didnt get this

[mild radish]

ya, i imagine visual studio works without a hitch

i uninstalled it a while back for storage issues..

so i couldn't test that on my own

[tall hearth]

Well works is being too nice for what its doing to me :/

[mild radish]

i wasn't even aware VS was on 2026.. last i remember it was still 2022

learn something new everyday 🌈 ⭐

[tall hearth]

Yeah its new like 2 weeks max

[silk moth]

idk if its only me but i dont like what unity tries to do with ai and some other things in the newer unity versions, sure there are some feature now which seam to be very useful but i still prefer the older unity versions

[mild radish]

i agree

i don't mess with the AI stuffs tho.. soo out of sight out of mind

its the way of the world tho... no avoiding it completely

[silk moth]

i still see people make games with unity 2017- unity 5 even

[mild radish]

i respect those still using Unity 5 💪 lmao

[tall hearth]

Sadly

[silk moth]

hell yeah

[mild radish]

yup, the best is yet to come 😏

[silk moth]

in my option the unity 2022 versions are peak

[mild radish]

2022 were flawless

(from my experience)

[silk moth]

i had a game i was originally developing in unity 6 but after some errors with the inspector where for some reason elements of a list were duplicating themselves i immediately switched back xD

wait i think i got a clip but idk

i reported the bug and even the support said that they acknowledged the bug but could find out why xD

[vivid river]

its just perfect 🤌

[silk moth]

yeah okay so I had a list of a custom dialog class in Unity. Each element had a string for the dialog text and a UnityEvent that fired when the dialog was used. When I added a new element, Unity duplicated the previous one as usual. But when I changed the dialog text in the new element, the text in the previous element also changed.

dont mind me using chatgpt, im a trrible writer

wtf

[tall hearth]

Ew light mode

[safe garden]

is there a way to export terrain as an fbx or obj?

I tried FBX exporter but it just comes into Blender as an empty

[vivid cedar]

FBX exporter doesn't support terrain:

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.formats.fbx@5.1/manual/features-behaviors-exported-attributes.html

[gray frigate]

I've written scripts to do this at least twice, haha

lemme go find one..

put this into an Editor folder

oh wait, this needs another script

This will generate a mesh asset in Assets/Generated/

(you can tell I tried to just write an FBX directly, given that I have using Autodesk.Fbx;, but I couldn't work out if that was doable)

[gray frigate]

Plug that mesh into a MeshFilter and you can then export the object to an FBX file

I used this to export a terrain into Blender for procedurally generating parts of a level

[safe garden]

I'll try now thanks, bit of a n00b though never ran custom scripts like this

so will have to just take a look

[gray frigate]

Put both into Assets/Editor/ (make the folder if needed) and you should see a new Tools/Terrain to Mesh option in the menubar

it bakes the currently-selected terrain

[safe garden]

oh I see it! will try now

😭

[gray frigate]

it also might not work if you don't created a "Generated" folder

yeah

[safe garden]

ok will try that now

[gray frigate]

make a folder with that name inside of Assets

[safe garden]

it did work but it has a .mesh file now

so I'm assuming you have to convert this to fbx somehow

[gray frigate]

you'll need to do this

you can create a Cube and then swap out the mesh its MeshFilter points at

[safe garden]

oh I need to check for mesh filter ok 👍🏻

[gray frigate]

(MeshRenderer doesn't point at a mesh directly: it gets data from the MeshFilter)

you can then export that entire object

[safe garden]

oh dude that's great thank you

do you know is there a way to import back the terrain mesh (the new generated one I mean) in exactly the same place as the original? so there's no difference effectively

[gray frigate]

I believe I set it up so that if you put the object at the same position as the terrain, it lines up

[safe garden]

sweet thanks!

trying now

[gray frigate]

(that's how I checked that I did it right)

i also use it for emitting particles

although i should really use a decimated version for that, ha

[sage pewter]

Anyone having issues breaking URP upgrading from 6.2 to 6.3??? never had this issues upgrading from 6 to 6.2

there seems to be some Burst Compiler issues IJob and etc...

[gray frigate]

show the actual errors you're getting

[gray frigate]

(you may need to update packages after an editor version change)

[gray salmon]

(the arrows r different)

[potent moss]

maybe stupid question but is unity decent at all for card game prototypes? or would it be better to use something else?

[worldly cave]

i think its because you arent dragging just the model but like the model asset group unity has created

expand this arrow

and see if there is a seperate mesh you can drag

[fresh cypress]

Hey everyone! I am fairly new to unity, I’m trying to implement a right-click context menu for my stairs in Unity. The idea is that when I right click on a staircase, a UI menu should appear with options like “Go to First Floor” or “Go to Top Floor”. I already have dynamic ui with text but i just want the same thing but for when I right click said object to give me a list of options like a dropdown box or something.

Here’s my current setup:

I have a PlayerInteraction script handling clicks and hover tooltips.

I created a ContextMenuManager and buttonPrefab to show the options.

The ContextMenuManager is a child of my TooltipCanvas (parent).

The menu shows in the debug when I right click, but nothing happens in play mode, the buttons don’t appear or are hidden immediately.

I think it might be a reference issue, but I’ve assigned a buttonPrefab in the inspector.

Here’s what I’m using to trigger it in PlayerInteraction:

if (interact != null && interact.type == WorldInteract.InteractionType.Stairs)
{
 int currentFloor = interact.manager.CurrentFloorIndex;
 var options = WorldInteract.GetAvailableOptions(currentFloor);
 ContextMenuManager.Instance.Show(options, hit.point, interact);
}

Any help would be amazing!

[sly lake]

Never understood the point of this split. Nothing else uses the MeshFilter 😅

[mild radish]

one is the shape and one is how that shape is rendered
oh, nvm not the same thing being discussed

[stuck flower]

Well, SkinnedMeshRenderer

[sly lake]

SkinnedMeshRenderer doesn’t use it

[stuck flower]

Really? Well then

[sly lake]

It just references the Mesh asset directly

[mild radish]

Unity is a great option for card-games..

[gray frigate]

It's the other way around!

MeshRenderer can get data from things other than a MeshFilter

e.g. the legacy TextMesh component

as well as the non-UI TextMeshPro

[gray frigate]

well, actually, that one is just a hidden MeshFilter

yaknow

[stuck flower]

The Mesh of The.

[gray frigate]

all of this appears to be Evil Internal Magic

there is no "mesh provider" interface or base class

[gray frigate]

hidden components are fun surprises

[rustic kettle]

Hey does anybody know a solution to this ?

In the editor the areas are dark but in the build it is bright for some reason. What can be the reason for this ? It is supposed to be dark like the editor

[violet thunder]

You need to access a hidden renderer with GetComponent<ParticleRenderer>() to change anything on the PS rendering tab via a script 😵‍💫

Always found that weird

[gray frigate]

Have you generated lighting in the Lighting window?

[rustic kettle]

Right now the lights are realtime only, so I don't think so I have to generate lighting cuz that would just create black lightmaps

[naive cloud]

I am working on a unity project on two computers, on one it works, on the other things I made on one don't.

(I am using unity version control to push and pull things back and forth)

Is there a general cause to this?

[gray frigate]

You can turn off baked GI – but you still want to do this to make sure you have a valid ambient light probe

[gray frigate]

what does "works" mean here?

[rustic kettle]

okay lemme give it a quick try

[gray frigate]

The editor does this for you if no lighting data has been generated, but this won't happen in the built game

[naive cloud]

I have a flag object (stores events by name if they have happened). As an example I press a button, it stores the flag in a dictionary, and when the object is seen by a listener in the dictionary, it opens a door. That stores "BlueDoor1" event as having happened.

On one computer where I got it to work, it works. I pushed it and tried to edit it on another computer and it doesn't do anything

[gray frigate]

Does it continue working on the first computer after closing and reopening the editor?

[naive cloud]

yes

maybe I have to restart the other editor?

I haven't done that after pulling from unity version control

lemme try

[gray frigate]

That should not be needed.

Restarting can catch some funny situations where your game only works because of something that did not get saved correctly

[naive cloud]

and that fixed it

[gray frigate]

well, go figure :p

[naive cloud]

idk bro unity has been doing some weird stuff to me

(I restarted unity on the computer it didn't work and now it does)

Welp eitherway thanks for the help

[fair cove]

If your options are being logged, I would also log if your canvas is enabled and all the parents that your context is a part of, if it is hiding immediately, then something in your logic is controlling its state maybe when it should not be - if the issue were that you forgot to assign something, then you should be getting some kind of null reference exception, if your not getting any errors, then it sounds like a logical problem (where things dont behave as expected but no error is produced) and not a runtime problem (where an error is produced)

[viscid storm]

i made this water effect anybody like it?

[worldly cave]

#🏆┃daily-win #1180170818983051344

[dapper pollen]

Yo, is there a channel where we can show our work or smt? Just curious.

[stuck flower]

Look at the message directly above yours

[glossy thunder]

My raycasts stopped working overnight. No project changes at all and now they don't function properly..

[potent geyser]

Code does not change over night.

[sturdy jacinth]

Where would I sell my Unity game idk work like 500 usd ?

for publishers to upload

[glossy thunder]

thats why I think some project setting got changed or something. It is extremely odd

[potent geyser]

Project settings don't change on their own, over night, either.

[glossy thunder]

I know what you're driving at but it isn't very helpful as I genuinely haven't touched anything except the input manager old warning and I hit no.

[potent geyser]

What isn't helpful is not providing any information on how your project works. What the code is ( #💻┃code-beginner) or how you're expecting the raycasts to do.

[stuck flower]

Instead of trying to puzzle out why it broke, just accept it broke and start following the breadcrumbs as if you had changed something

[potent geyser]

So start with some information that can be useful to figure it out.

[glossy thunder]

yeah that's what I'm doing but I don't exactly know where to start. I asked just to see if this is a common issue or not, it seems no. So I'll just keep digging I guess.

[potent geyser]

I mean, you mentioned the input manager. If that changed and you were using one method and switched to another, then it could very well be that it's not the raycasts not working but that your input to make them fire, isn't. That's assuming the raycasts you're mentioning are being triggered by input, which we can't know without additional information.

[gray frigate]

you should verify that anything is happening at all, yes

use Debug.DrawRay to visualize the raycast

something like Debug.DrawRay(origin, direction * maxLength, Color.red, 3f);

this will draw a red line that lives for 3 seconds

[gray frigate]

No problem has ever been solved by telling the computer that it shouldn't have stopped working 😉

[glossy thunder]

you are missing the reasoning for my message but theres no point explaining. I just verified that raycasts are indeed firing and I'm not sure why they are being blocked. I'll keep cracking away at it. Thanks guys

[gray frigate]

visualize the actual raycast (like this) to verify that they're behaving the way you think they are

[glossy thunder]

yeah it's on the right spot, just not seeing things

[gray frigate]

can you show me the code that performs the raycast?

just the line itself is sufficient

[glossy thunder]

    void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        if (!Application.isPlaying) return;

        Ray ray = mainCamera.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit))

            // Draw a bright magenta line from camera
            Gizmos.color = Color.magenta;
        Gizmos.DrawLine(ray.origin, ray.origin + ray.direction * 100f);

        // Draw a sphere at ray origin
        Gizmos.color = Color.cyan;
        Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(ray.origin, 0.5f);
        {
            // Show exact hit point
            Gizmos.color = Color.red;
            Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(hit.point, 0.1f);

            // Show which tile it converts to
            Vector2Int gridPos = GridManager.Instance.WorldToGrid(hit.point);
            Vector3 tileCenter = GridManager.Instance.GridToWorld(gridPos);
            tileCenter += new Vector3(0.5f, 0, 0.5f); // Center of tile

            Gizmos.color = Color.yellow;
            Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(tileCenter, 0.15f);

            // Draw line between them
            Gizmos.color = Color.white;
            Gizmos.DrawLine(hit.point, tileCenter);
        }
    }

[gray frigate]

note that the if (Physics.Raycast...) line only guards the following Gizmos.color = Color.magenta; line

you have an unrelated block statement a few lines later

also, putting this inside OnDrawGizmos is kind of weird

[glossy thunder]

I took off all layer masks and it still won't hit anything even though there are obvious colliders. The only thing I can find from googling is if we are casting from within a collider it can mess it up. So I'm trying to verify that isn't happening.

[gray frigate]

I would sanity check if physics is...physicsing at all, like by doing a gigantic OverlapSphere query

[glossy thunder]

Sorry I'm not sure what that means but I'm suspecting something is very wrong yes.

[glossy thunder]

would this be the issue?

jfc

that was it

[glossy thunder]

my phys was off and I have never once gone into that sub section of menus before. Just a heads up. Sometimes computers do weird stuff lol

[potent geyser]

Sorry, but no, they just don't.

As long as it's working now, however you want to justify it is up to you.

[glossy thunder]

must have been elite hackers or something sure

you can have an ego on a random person in discord that's fine, but if you truly don't believe that computers just randomly do dumb shit sometimes then idk that's just not reality.

[sturdy jacinth]

how to i make my shawdows more soft ?

[torpid cave]

how do i make skybox fog? yknow how in older games geometry used to just fade out into the skybox?

[sudden ruin]

If you mean increase the quality, you can do so in the pipeline asset

[sudden ruin]

Preferably provide an example

[torpid cave]

i dont really got a good one currently, its just exactly as i said, the fog matches 1:1 with the skybox so it looks as if the geometry fades into the skybox when its actually just fog, matched to the skybox.

[sudden ruin]

Yeah I've got no clue what you're talking about

[near wigeon]

https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/rendering/part-14/

[torpid cave]

im brand new to unity, how much experience do i need to understand this?

[lapis gate]

are you new to graphical pipelines

[near wigeon]

just go to the environment in lighting tab and play around with the fog modes

[lapis gate]

yeah unity already has a bunch of things done for you

[torpid cave]

kinda, i used alot of unreal, and a little bit of godot, i would still probably call myself a noob even after almost 2 yrs

i probably wouldnt understand most of this

[lapis gate]

no clue why the fog is still in the lighting settings though. Better off in the volume imo

[near wigeon]

the old one had fog in PostProcessing

[lapis gate]

any case distance fog is basically taking the final rendering depth map, and for those with greater depth -> make pixel more foggier