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[torpid cave]

so like, would it be the halo texture?

[near wigeon]

you don't need a texture for that, afaik is for the halo around lights ,there is a component for that

[torpid cave]

okay so what do i do to make the fog be a skybox instead?

[lapis gate]

skybox doesnt have depth

rather it doesn't have the depth that you probably want

so the secret here is you need something to write depth to like a moving inward sphere

[torpid cave]

yeah, i really cant code in C yet, ive barely learned GDscript, i was hoping theres a way to do it in the shader graph

or that theres a setting for it somewhere lol

[lapis gate]

just make a sphere and enable rendering both faces and child it to the camera

[torpid cave]

wont that cause a very hard fog depth?

idk how to explain

i like it fading into the fog

like, when fog covers something i like it to gradually do that

[lapis gate]

Well, try out the opaque sphere idea first and see how it goes. You can swap to a transparent sphere and write to depth but there's a few problems there (basically volumetric fog)

the sphere should be fine though. People usually suggest a box but you see more of that gradual change with something a bit more complex

[dense timber]

Hello,

Real quick question.. I am in Architecture and I really want to develop a video game. How do most people develop maps, is it in unity or an outside software? I am good with Revit, AutoCAD, and SKUP. Are there any good softwares similar to these?

[steel wren]

I know that Unity has their own greyboxing plugin called ProBuilder (Free in the package manager). Ultrakill has used it for many of their maps and I'm sure other games have as well.

I'm not toooooo familiar with how robust its feature set is, but from what I've seen it's very capable

Maya also has direct integration with Unity, so exporting is easy, but I'm sure the other autodesk products have similar functionality

there's also Unity Terrain, but from what I've heard online it's kinda outdated and not super optimized.

feel free to correct me if I'm wrong tho

[copper gust]

probuilder is pretty rough

lot of people use blender

[steel wren]

even for larger maps?

I'm pretty bad with either LOL

[tall hearth]

For a larger map i feel like the only tool in unity you'd intentionally use is the terrain tool

Like no nice looking house, mountainy terrain, forest, city will be made with probuilder

[lapis gate]

Blender seems plentiful for what I need

maybe with some substance painter since texturing in blender is pretty weak

[viscid storm]

Do you know the black grainy stuff you see when you look in a corner in a unity project? If so how do i get rid of it

[vivid river]

What grainy stuff?

[tall hearth]

no we dont you sure it's even a unity thing thats doing this

[viscid storm]

Oh well its called grain idk i want to get rid of it

I will just use ai

[lapis gate]

take a screenshot

[tall hearth]

please, we've got no clue what you're referring to

[ocean pumice]

Sounds to me like low res ambient occlusion or baked lightmaps

[warm glacier]

I use sketchup. Unity direct support it

Here sample, all model mostly sketchup

[tall hearth]

beautiful UI update unity ❤️ (installed Odin Inspector to my unity 6.3 project and it's bugging)

[vivid river]

such a nice overhaul

[tall hearth]

i almost thought that i could get to read / edit my serialized variables

[reef dome]

That doesnt sound like a unity but rather odin issue 😄

[tall hearth]

well the issue only popped up after switching from unity 6.0 to 6.3 same odin version for both

[reef dome]

I am having 0 problems with odin in 6.3 though, what version are you using exactly?

[tall hearth]

3.3.1.13

i did notice they released version 4.0 but i havent tried it yet

mainly cause i was using the educational version and my unity educational plan ended 2 months ago and unity wont let me start it again

[reef dome]

Hm I am on Unity 6000.3.01f + Odin 4.0.1.0 and it works fine

not sure how well odin 3 works on 6.3 though

[tall hearth]

i just posted how it works :/ it doesnt

gives a bunch of errors too

[reef dome]

can you post one?

[tall hearth]

saying i dont qualify for secondary, and i cant qualify for post-secondary since im in grade 12 which is secondary

[reef dome]

first line, update your odin

[tall hearth]

well as i said i cant :/

[reef dome]

Oh i thought you could atleast update to patch versions

[tall hearth]

oh wait nvm it let me

i lied

[reef dome]

usually patch versions are included cause of security patches, just major/minor versions might not be

[tall hearth]

it wouldn't let me installed the newest stable so i assumed it wouldn't let me install the version 3.3.1.14 patch

though i also just tried to install the newest 4.0 non stable and that also worked so idk why it didn't let me insall it a short bit ago

[reef dome]

4.0 isnt that big of a deal unless you want to use their visual editor though

[tall hearth]

yeah i doubt i'll use that, i mainly use it for the inspector stuff since seeing dictionaries is nice and keeping alot of stuff sectioned it nice too

i cant use it as advanced as some of the stuff they show off though

[reef dome]

i mean 4.0 is amazing for that, you can organize stuff without code, but as a programmer its whatever 😄

our artists/game designers love it though

[tall hearth]

lol could see that being the case

[reef dome]

one was raging a bit that he learned how to use odins attributes just to arrange his balancing config files and then odin releases 4.0 and he can do what he learned in the editor without code now 😄

[tall hearth]

curious what IDE do you use i've been having some bugs with vs 2026 and want to know if it's unity 6.3 thats doing it or vs 2026

[ocean pumice]

VS Code worked best for the last couple of years for me

[lapis gate]

VS code works pretty well but the plugin has some bugs in it requiring me to regen files sometimes

files like to pretend they aren't part of the workspace and assemblies breaking

[dapper current]

Why is the new unity hub version constantly eating 7.5% of my CPU? even when in tray? Previous versions didnt consume anything

This is infuriating

Its not even doing anything

[ocean pumice]

Yeh, heard that from others, but I never had this issue. Not sure, if its a OS thing. I am on macOS

[dapper current]

And i use i9-11900K

Its a good cpu

[silent mica]

Did you try restarting it?

[dapper current]

Ofc

This is sus

[ocean pumice]

Are you sure, nothing is currently downloading or whatever? Also can you check, what the 6 processes are?

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! I have a question. You know, I was wondering if I have to track all of my changes containing assets like models, audio files etc in github, because they are all large files and I have heard its not good practice to use version control for tracking anything except code files like text files. What do you think? I know about Git LFS maybe this is way to actually track both large files and small files in github?

[dapper current]

Nothing is installing

[ocean pumice]

Did you try to install an older version or reinstall Hub entirely?

Someone else was having issues with licenses yesterday and reinstall fixed his issue. not sure, if there is some caching of things going on that the newer version handles differently or whatever.

[dapper current]

Are you sure your Hub is not doing that?

Causing CPU usage

U can check in task manager

[ocean pumice]

I am on macOS, so not really comparable, but my Hub is at 0.2% CPU usage

[dapper current]

Alright thank you

[sly lake]

MacOS CPU usage is per core though

So if you have 16 cores it goes up to 1600% 😅

[dapper current]

Huh it stopped after i turned off unity (PROJECT) window
The hub must be doing something related to the project.. What is it though, unsure

[ocean pumice]

Per Core or thread? If I read this line correctly, it would be 0,1 * 41? 😄

[ocean pumice]

ohhh, now I understand, my 100% is basically 1600% (16x 100% of one cpu) and that 0,1% is 0,1% of those 1600 so 0,00625 of the entire basically 😄 good call

[stable galleon]

hi

[ocean needle]

what is most fastest way to transfer a file to colleague

me and my friend joined a gamejam and thats a our biggest issue rn

[vivid river]

Use Unity Version control , or git

[ocean needle]

first time i heard Unity Version control how to use it

[vivid river]

You can get more info about usage here

[tall hearth]

updating to Odin 4.0 did fix it btw so thank you

[ocean needle]

is that also transfer assets or only codes?

[ocean pumice]

It transfers the entire project. Its just like git, you throw in the project, it will take whatever files you give it, without having to work around with git lfs or something.

And its integrated into Unity, so you could basically push and pull from the Editor, if you want.

[vivid river]

everything is tracked together

[ocean pumice]

You can also have cross-project references and what not, but for a gamejam, you dont need that. Just set it up and use the basic features 🙂

[ocean needle]

how my teammate going to reach the project after this?

i clicked question marks and they opened a tab called unity cloud but dont know what to do next

[cyan geode]

how can i add textures to my models

[vivid river]

Add them to the Unity organization

[cyan geode]

and terrain

i looked in youtube stuff but all wanted plugins that are 3 gbs

so how can i actually do terrain asa beginner?

[vivid river]

There are built-in tools to shape and texture terrain

[cyan geode]

really?

where can i find them?

[vivid river]

These ones, were you asking other ones?

[tall hearth]

right click in your hierarchy and under 3d object there's Terrain that's it

[sly lake]

On the Unity cloud website you'll need to configure your organization and who's in it

[rich walrus]

hello does anybody here know how to fix everytime i put textures on a cube everytime i stretch the cube it also streches the texture

it looks so goofy

pls send help

[vivid river]

adjust tilling

[ocean needle]

" 5 GB-hour of monthly data " whats that mean exactly

[vivid river]

that you cannot transfer more than 5 GB of data in any given hour? or something

[quaint delta]

hello i have a question about Unity versions

[ocean needle]

it also say month in same quote , that confused me

[sly lake]

There's an hourly rate per gigabyte, rather than a monthly rate.

But it basically means the first 5GB are free

Next month this is expanding to 25 I think

[quaint delta]

so i downloaded a different Unity version from a browser (not directly from Unity because it doesn't have the version i want) then installed it but when i try to make a project with the said version it dosen't work and it asks me to manage my license even tho i have in the Unity hub

[ocean needle]

so next month i have to pay or they will give 25gb for free

[sly lake]

Starting next month, the first 25GB will be free

[quaint delta]

i also don't know where to get the packages of that version im kinda lost

[sly lake]

Even I don't exceed this 😅

But I was paying them just cents each month

[vivid river]

did you mean modules?

[quaint delta]

android/ios support and other stuff

[rich walrus]

how? i just downloaded unity rn and everything is new for me:(

[vivid river]

Its also there under component installer

[vivid river]

A normal 3d cube when scaled just stretches the faces, you need to model the texture in blender or other

[quaint delta]

so i can download and install the version i want plus the other tools? but what about the license problem?

[rich walrus]

my pc cant handle the blender but thanks for helping:(

[vivid river]

quick solution: adjust tilling

[rich walrus]

btw do you accept commisions?

[gray salmon]

is it normal that my mesh collider is "wrong"

[quaint delta]

the version i want is 6000.0.25f1

[vivid river]

convex problems

[lapis gate]

read the warning

[gray salmon]

oh

[gray salmon]

thank you, i just saw it thanks to you :)
but how can i fix this?

do i need to fix smth in blender, or is it smth else

[lapis gate]

split by selection via blender

[vivid river]

commissions?

[gray salmon]

why?

[lapis gate]

Ya need to chunk out the mesh a bit

[gray salmon]

idk what u mean, can u please explain it in more detail

[gray bloom]

thats building looks like a cube why dont you use box collider

[gray salmon]

wait, i could make the grey object a seperate object. is that what u mean?

[lapis gate]

Big mesh too complex for mesh collider, multiple small meshes easier

[gray salmon]

ooh, alr. thank you

[rich walrus]

yes like making a game for money?

[rich walrus]

how about you? do you accept commisions?

[cyan geode]

where😥

[tall hearth]

In not the tab itself

You know the place you create new objects

[cyan geode]

ohhh

thanks found it

ok uh

now what

😭

[quaint delta]

bro I'll have to learn Unity first 😢

[cyan geode]

i click but nothing happens

[rich walrus]

oh aight

btw its not a big big game

its just a capstone game

[tall hearth]

Now you go through this cause im not walking you through how to use the terrain editor https://learn.unity.com/project/introduction-to-terrain-editor

[cyan geode]

okok

[vivid river]

set a height and go brrr

[cyan geode]

thanks

[cyan geode]

it workedd

thanks

now idk hwo to make textures or anything so ill have to watch the vid

[pulsar otter]

I wrote an article about game dev and want to get feedback

should i send here

[quaint delta]

brother pls help

[pulsar otter]

or in a certain channe;?

[vivid river]

#1180170818983051344 ig

[pulsar otter]

alright i guess

[tall hearth]

If you are looking to work with someone this is the wrong place

!collab

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[vivid river]

reactive the license?

[vivid river]

it has a You tube video about unity running in the background lol, i didn't muted the capture

[stuck dune]

hi
i did not used unity in 3 years, but now i downloaded it again and i cant see cameras fov visualization like this

instead of it, there is just this

can anyone help with it?

[vivid river]

turn this on

[stuck dune]

ow

thanks

[lean dew]

Hey all, got an annoying issue. When I stop playmode, the inspector selects a script/file/scriptableobject/random file usually from "packages". It does it everytime. It's done it since 6.0. Any ideas?

[potent geyser]

Nobody here works on the engine, so there's likely nothing anyone here can actually say in response.

If you think you've found a bug, you can submit it.

!bug

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[lean dew]

No worries, appreciate the reply, bless

[flat breach]

hi, where can I find the version control mode in the editor settings? I can't find anymore

[ocean pumice]

you mean the editor window?

[flat breach]

yup to change the vc mode

[ocean pumice]

Project Settings / version Control / Unity Version Control Settings?

[flat breach]

...it changed thank you lol

[ocean pumice]

yw 🙂

[ocean pumice]

You can also get there by Assets / Unity Version Control / Show Pending Changes view and use the little gear icon in that window top right corner, just for the future

[icy mica]

Hi

[dreamy snow]

anyone here knows why in unity 6.2 sample animation does not work ?

[proven obsidian]

how do i fix this

[agile arch]

hello can where can I ask for collaboration

[hidden dock]

hi, im making a game and im having trouble exporting models from blockbench to unity, anyone knows how to do it? i am not able to find much information on the internet about this specific topic.

[potent geyser]

!collab

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[potent geyser]

I haven't used it, but I would assume you could export whatever model you have as an FBX and then it would be as simple as just dragging that FBX into Unity.

[echo rune]

Hi i wonder if here is the right channel for a unity workflow topic?
The simple question is: database of prefabs or SO?

[gray frigate]

use sciptable objects if you need to store information about each prefab

for example, for each character in my game, I have a ScriptableObject that includes some basic information about the character, as well as a reference to the prefab

(in the future, I may turn that into an addressable asset reference)

[echo rune]

I used to do only SO for everything. Items, skills, monsters. And have nested SOs for compound set of data

But a lot of these template project assets just do prefab based and.. i guess i dont see why not

Prefab variant is nice. I think SO variant got suggested and that'd make them on par, in the "variant" sense

[obsidian river]

How does current job market look like for unity developer? I will join it in a year, and I have some experience as a team lead, writer, designer and programmer, so I imagine i would be the upper 'class' junior or lower class mid, because last I checked 'junior' and 'mid' terms aren't about "working in the company for salary" experience, but just how reliable you are. Or is going into mid level at the start something that only lucky few have managed?
Also what's the actual 'minimum' level for junior dev, to have something to compare myself with. And I get the fact that it's different from company to company, but sure there is a general imagination after such a long time no?

[lapis gate]

prefab variants I've been sticking to for smaller projects

SOs are nice but like ughhhh so much setup

[echo rune]

Like if the prefab has image, name, tooltip, etc
Sure in my past project i do 100% SO data. There's only 1 generic prefab for each data type (item, skill etc), and the categorization + compositions of those types are possible to be defined fully in data
And i'll be using Odin to manage them, and i guess odin can handle either approach just as well

But... i do sometimes like having to edit in the prefab view, with anything visual/gizmo related. Like, some can argue u can achieve all that in odin too if u still wanna go the path of 100% SO data (while still have the prefab scene viewer of the generic prefab type? I haven't personally tried this but sounds interesting if it's actually a thing)

[gray frigate]

I think an SO is appropriate if you frequently use the item without actually instantiating anything

[lapis gate]

it's good for inventory stuff when you don't want it on the scene that's for sure.

[gray frigate]

either way, both a prefab and a scriptable object are both just kinds of Unity objects

so they're going to feel very similar

[lapis gate]

The big, big problem with a strict SO workflow is that you do lose scene presence until that prefab reads the blueprint... but if this only happens at runtime then you lose out on that editor presence to get an idea what you're populating your scene with.

But if you were making like a card game, you don't really care for populating a scene with these prefabs anyway so they make a great single-prefab type of project

[echo rune]

This is definitely a good point. I do believe tho there is a "middle way" ?
E.g Just data for the specific item's stats. But from the prefab variant side there'll also be a number of items for specific ItemPrefab variant prefabs?
Altho... again even with this argument, everything can still be achieveable with 100% data, even with composable, polymorphic parts

Maybe for the prefab side, is parts of an item with some specific unity objects (if spawned as object in gameplay, e.g it's press button to pickup, but a complementary prefab as child of the main item prefab with a "auto pickup on range behavior", or some other behavior that'd affect the prefab instance's object hierarchy)

[flint latch]

Unity ads mediation wont let me build tvos because the ad libraries get added to the build even though ads isn't supported in tvos

[lapis gate]

SO workflow does really make object pooling really easy though

Just need to pool a single prefab and feed it blueprints

[gray frigate]

It's really easy to bikeshed yourself with this stuff, haha

I was working on a Soulslike game at one point; for it, I had:

• Prefabs for each weapon model (e.g. a short sword)
• ScriptableObjects for each distinct weapon (e.g. Dave's Cool Sword)
• Plain old C# objects that reference an SO and store a list of modifications

[echo rune]

I just wanna try something new, or old but better, even tho i'll definitely not aiming to go fully no data. I noticed several pain points and maybe i'm not utilizing unity's own component/data types
But this really gets so game specific tho

[echo rune]

1. So i recently discovered SpriteLibraryAsset. My game's 2.5D. So this is like ur weapon model equivalent
2. The full data yes
3. What's "list of modifications" like?
4. I'll probably have prefab (and the variants) for "Fx" object and its possible components. Like the slash smear, particles, additional (animated) images idk, audio scatter type(??) idk

[gray frigate]

modifications are things like enchantments or upgrades

These are properties of a specific item

[echo rune]

Specific item as in, an instance of that item yes?

[gray frigate]

Yeah.

so an item in your inventory is:

• an item SO reference
• a quantity
• anything you've done to customize the item

quantity is annoying lol

inventories are annoying!

[echo rune]

So i guess u'll have a wrapper data type for runtime, for an item

[gray frigate]

everything about inventories sucks

you have fundamentally different kinds of items (weapons, key items, consumables) sloshing around

[echo rune]

Oh ya then stsackable. Then enchanting a stackable item is idk if worth the bother, etc

[gray frigate]

your inventory UI could simply collapse a list of many items into a single slot

but then you might wind up storing 50,000 copies of an item lmao

You could make consumables fundamentally different other kinds of items, of course

[lapis gate]

I've tried my luck at making this super polymorphic inventory with generics

[gray frigate]

I've gone in circles on this many times

[safe garden]

is there a quick way to 'reset' the collider on a mesh, for example if you duplicate a mesh, change the mesh itself through the filter but forget to update the collider?

[gray frigate]

then you wind up with gross downcasting

[lapis gate]

then my next project I just type checked everything

f it

[gray frigate]

right clicking the collider and hitting Reset may do it

I'm pretty sure that looks for a mesh filter

(this may also just clear the mesh reference entirely; i don't remember)

[safe garden]

hmmm doesn't seem to do anything reset

[violet thunder]

You can remove the mesh collider and then re-add it

Probably not that good if you use prefabs tho

[safe garden]

yea I just wondered if you could do that for multiple meshes as there's a few to go through

[violet thunder]

You can do it with multiple objects selected at once

It will look up the mesh for the collider per-object

That's the fastest way i know

[gray frigate]

i'm surprised that the Reset method isn't looking for the mesh filter

there must be some wacky internal code that does that

[violet thunder]

Yeah, i'd imagine they would call the same code as when adding the component

Apparently not

[gray frigate]

You should be able to script this if it's coming up a lot

My power just went out. I will not be able to write an example for a bit 🤣

[honest oyster]

guys i dont see a help channel

why do i not see + button in paint detail

[potent geyser]

This entire server is is a help channel, pick a relevant channel to your topic.

[honest oyster]

oh i asked here

[gray frigate]

Scroll down

[honest oyster]

oh i see now thanks

[safe garden]

sorry for the n00bishness, just out of curiosity what does the blue line on the left represent for an item in hierachy?

[storm patio]

it has prefab overrides

[safe garden]

ahh I see right

ty

[storm patio]

like the lines beside overridden fields in the inspector

[gray frigate]

You can view a list of overrides by selecting the object and opening the Overrides dropdown

[safe garden]

is it generally bad practice not to apply overrides on certain prefabs in the scene? stuff like if you're moving boxes or a gate, etc. and it gets the override symbol with the blue line

[storm patio]

if there's no reason to customize the specific instance, then there's just.. no reason to

that's not bad practice, no

the blue line is just an indicator, you shouldn't use it as a metric for whether something is good or bad

[safe garden]

ah got it, thanks

[rancid lake]

Is it just me or is there a 10% chance unity loads indefinitely anytime it pops up any sort of progress bar?

Reloading domain? Chance for infinite loading

Downloading files (through plugin), chance for infinite loading

etc

[sly lake]

There's the blackbox addon if you want something stricter
https://discussions.unity.com/t/blackbox-improved-prefab-workflows/942946

[lapis gate]

Fitting name that's for sure lel

[honest oyster]

i need another help TT

[sly lake]

Just you

[honest oyster]

why it say so i jut tapped once

[sly lake]

Bad settings I guess

[lapis gate]

I've never seen that warning before. Heck, brush always paints way too many objects when I use it

[sly lake]

Yeah I have it set to 0.02 and I can bring it up to 1 without it coming up with any warning

[honest oyster]

i kept the density to even one once gave the same error

[ivory horizon]

Anyone experience invoking firebase app distribution with fastlane from unity cloud build? https://discussions.unity.com/t/unity-cloud-build-push-to-firebase-app-distribution/1699820

[serene swift]

Hi everyone, hoping someone can help me with this, still pretty new.
I am trying to create a pivot point in a prefab comprised of primitive objects. Research tells me that I should be able to just create a parent GameObject, position it where the pivot will go, and then add the object as a child of the pivot. However, what I am observing is it just immediately adopting the transform of the child object and making adjustments is the same as adjusting the child GameObject directly.

[worldly cave]

do you have local transform or pivot transform on?

[serene swift]

I have it set to global

[gray frigate]

the more interesting one is the "Center" / "Pivot" setting

Center is a hilarious prank 99% of the time

press X or check the dropdown in the top left corner

you usually want to have this set to Pivot

[serene swift]

Ah I see. I was worrying about the reference point, but I just needed to set it to pivot. Thanks @gray frigate and @worldly cave!

[gray frigate]

Center will position the handle in the center of the bounding box of the object and all of its children

this can be handy in a few situatinos (like rotating many objects around a central point all at once)

[safe garden]

thanks!

last q for now, is there anyway to chop up a box collider like probuilder so that you can match the shape like this? red lines

[gray frigate]

No, you'd need to either use an exact mesh collider or make a low-poly mesh that roughly matches the object

[safe garden]

ah fair play - thanks!

[worldly cave]

you could also use multiple colliders and hack it

[safe garden]

yea I thought about maybe mixing a box and capsule collider to do it

but easier just to low poly it

[gray frigate]

A convex mesh collider may also be appropriate here

Although Unity refuses to bake them if you have more than 255 triangles

[safe garden]

what is the option for convex in colliders, just curious to know

is it just the way the normals are facing on the collider itself, or something else?

[worldly cave]

"convex"

[worldly cave]

it creates a hull around it

not nescessarilylike shrinkwrapping but if your shape is simple enough its accurate

[safe garden]

ah ok

I read convex are the most efficient ones to go with

in terms of colliders

but in that case what instance would you want to use a non convex collider?

oh I think I see, convex colliders are just more efficient

[gray frigate]

a convex shape is one without any dents or holes in it, basically

it's much easier to reason about convex shapes

a line can never pass through a convex shape more than twice

[burnt coral]

are there any enterprise level projects made in unity whose source code is available. Im trying to learn what programming is like for AAA games

[balmy kettle]

😮‍💨 rip gigaya which would have basically been exactly that

[worldly cave]

maybe but not for anything released past 2007

oh you said unity specifically

probably not? but theres a lot of Triple AAA games with public or ||leaked|| source codes you can always look at

[mint pilot]

Hey, I'm not really sure Where to ask this... but is anyone getting on unity 6.3 that when you rotate something it starts rotating by 600+ degrees instead of the usual I only just noticed it when using the regular rotate thing ?

rotatetd it just slightly and it Spins and spins instead of the direct normal rate left before , Right after

[worldly cave]

you probably changed your rotate step amount

[mint pilot]

hmm, I haven't really touched either the snapping nor anything it just sort of Started happening

and in snapping its sitll set to 15

Curious, thanks tho 😄

[gray frigate]

It's a known issue

I ran into it as well

https://discussions.unity.com/t/rotation-tool-stuck-in-endless-spin/1697367

[mint pilot]

oh 😅

[gray frigate]

double tap X to swap between local and global handle modes to temporarily fix it

apparently the issue occurs after a recompile

[mint pilot]

thanks man! It was driving me nuts I thought i had broken something haha 😅

its workable just a little annoying .

[tall hearth]

Was reading that, oddly havent come across this bug yet myself (also on 6.3) but it may be that im in 2d and not 3d

[mental gale]

I know that this discord is about Unity
But have some channel to talk about assets?
I need help with DOTween :/

[worldly cave]

ask

[mental gale]

I have a DOPath with some points

But how can I do a bezier movement?

I'm watching the tutorials, and the videos have a smooth curve
But when I try to reproduce the path, keeps this hard line

[gray frigate]

it looks like there's a PathType enum when constructing a DOPath

https://dotween.demigiant.com/documentation.php

see the "Path - no FROM" heading

what does the rest of the inspector look like?

maybe there is an option

[mighty matrix]

plsss

[modest meteor]

the gorilla tag discord server

[safe garden]

time to stop monkeying arounhd

[potent geyser]

This is not a support server for games made with Unity, this is a server for game development with Unity. If you have an issue with a game, you need to reach out to the developers/go to their community and bring it up.

[short flame]

hi is there any chat to help with an issue in unity?

[storm patio]

!ask

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[short flame]

ah okey

[worldly cave]

every chat here

[stuck canopy]

guys I opened the project today and it just did this? I'm in safe mode lmao there are a lot of errors likew this

last thing that happened was I pushed to a remote repo, didn't pull anything

[potent geyser]

You might have discard something. With Library folder errors like this, the fasted attempt at a fix is to close Unity and delete that folder so that it forces reimporting the packages when you open the project next.

[polar basalt]

you would be shocked for me to tell you

but yep it is possible to see

even system level hidden notifications

very cool tbh, and you can even cancel these notifications too

it was pretty easy to set up everything tbh

only like 44 builds.. done in a day..

[tall hearth]

is this something readily accessible to unity or was it a random sdk from a git repo type of thing?

[polar basalt]

made a java code

you have add your own permisions

need to extend the xml

and once app is downloaded, need go in apps->special permisions->notification access and turn it on

[tall hearth]

notification permissions grants it permission to read other notifications?

wtf

[polar basalt]

and also remove them the second they are made or later on based on what you do ig, as if the notification was never there, but being able to read it, get the id, get the package, name, text, importance and a lot more data

[tall hearth]

that sounds like huge security flaw how is none of this mentioned to the end user when accepting such permissions

[polar basalt]

it does? there is a big message that explains when u turn that one

[polar basalt]

also its not a pop up, you have to manually go here

[tall hearth]

we are refering to the same notifications permissions right?

[polar basalt]

probably not

android.permission.BIND_NOTIFICATION_LISTENER_SERVICE

[tall hearth]

yeah probably not then

[tall hearth]

yeah missed this one was thinking of the other popup that allows to send notifications

[polar basalt]

no thats just a simple permision

[tall hearth]

which is why i was so confused since i thought you were saying that it let all that happen :/

[polar basalt]

hahah no sorry for the confusion xd

[spare dome]

hello everybody

unity 6000.3 LTS does not support for 16kb page size?

i installed unity 6000.3 LTS, but this error occured

[gray frigate]

ah, this is a new Android requirement

I would expect 6.3 to include this

[untold gale]

i just fixed a bug in my game im so great im the best i need to let the world know.

[plain dagger]

It is supported but old libraries/plugins may not be updated and thus trigger the issue

[gray frigate]

yeah, it sounds like an issue with a native plugin

https://discussions.unity.com/t/info-unity-engine-support-for-16-kb-memory-page-sizes-android-15/1589588

You can check if a warning appears here, though

oh, right, this is literally how you check if that's the problem 🤣

i misread

the thread does suggest that an out-of-date Burst package would cause this problem

[naive cloud]

I added a URP asset to make an asset work and not show up as purple, and everything else became purple instead

[worldly cave]

so your project was built in and you upgraded to urp for 1 asset to work?

i think you have to use the built in to urp tool to update the rest of the assets in your scene

[plain dagger]

Yea any shader that was for built in rendering now wont work

[naive cloud]

yes pretty much

[worldly cave]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/urp/upgrading-from-birp.html

[naive cloud]

ok so I used the converter, now things are a bit laggy. Also the default material is now pink, is that normal?

(specifically when changing scenes)

[plain dagger]

Standard is no longer usable

the converter just changes materials from standard to urp lit for you

[red stream]

hey so i added this scroll view, with a content size fitter in its content, the scroll bar appears as soon as the text overflows... but not only does it not respond to any mouse input, manually adjusting the bar value to move it also doesn't scroll anything? i understood that it should respond to it by default, but it sounds like it's more broken than just mouse input not responding

[gray frigate]

Show the hierarchy for this scroll area

[gray frigate]

the missing mouse input is probably because the Log Box is eating all of the input events

you can use a Canvas Group to prevent Log Box (and anything attached to it) from blocking raycasts

that may help with that issue

is everything just a big block of text in Log Box, or are you adding more children?

[red stream]

hmm that should just be the default Content that gets created, renamed, with a text component added

[plain dagger]

That would only be if viewport overlaps the scroll bars

the default scroll view made is already setup correctly

[gray frigate]

i mean an inability to use the scroll wheel while your mouse is over the content

[red stream]

and i imagine in that case manually changing the bar value should still scroll it right?

[plain dagger]

pointer events from content would be usable by scroll rect

[red stream]

as in, atm it's just doing this, so it doesn't seem input related

[dense timber]

Goat ty

[gray frigate]

you can run into trouble if there's an Event Trigger anywhere in the hierarchy on the way to the scroll rect

(or anything that implements IScrollHandler)

[plain dagger]

Yea event trigger eats any event used which is dumb

[gray frigate]

i was just digging around in my git repo trying to figure out where I fixed this, because it was a major headache

I swear I had a class whose sole job was to make a new scroll event and send it directly to the ScrollRect

but I can find no such evidence of this!

[plain dagger]

If you have a scroll rect in a scroll rect then yea weird work arounds are needed

[gray frigate]

I stopped using EventHandler a while ago, so I think that resolved the problem (i just didn't understand it at the time)

ironically, this fix may have used an Event Trigger 😉

[plain dagger]

It should be avoided unless you need to listen to a random event at runtime

[red stream]

ok i tried adding the scroll view to the tutorial project

seems clear that there it makes more sense for the input to be stolen for the camera etc, but moving the bar value is also doing nothing

this is what i mean

[solid bay]

does anyone know why my UI buttons aren't working at all when timescale is set to 0?

i thought that was supposed to purely affect gameplay stuff

and its not working even though i have an animator on the UI stuff set to unscaled time

[red stream]

(nvm ig i just tried in a blank 3d project where it generally works, and confirmed that changing the bar value doesn't make it scroll, so that's not a good indicator of anything)

[worldly cave]

pretty much everything inside of your scene is "gameplay stuff", including UI so yes timescale does affect it

specifically it affects the eventsystem

which buttons rely on

[solid bay]

oh

is there any way to exclude those buttons from the timescale changes?

[gray salmon]

why cant i see the texture in unity?

[worldly cave]

your buttons need the event system to function

the event system needs an actual time scale

[worldly cave]

does your material in unity have the correct texture for the woods albedo?

[gray salmon]

uhm, idk. i exported the whole object from blender to unity, i thought its doing it automatically

[worldly cave]

import the textures seperately, create a new material with the textures and assign the new material to the model

you can also just check the material unity created when you imported the model and see if it has everything assigned properly

also if your material is to any degree procedural inside of blender it also has to be either baked or recreated through unitys shader graph

[glacial shuttle]

I was so nervous to click this button for the last few days...

[worldly cave]

[gray salmon]

couldnt i change smth here?

[worldly cave]

you can extract the materials and then assign the textures manually to the extracted materials

[plain dagger]

i think changing material creation mode lets you assign them in the importer

[worldly cave]

as well as verify the textures are assigned to the materials correctly

[solid bay]

how would that work code-wise in a universal game manager script/object?

[plain dagger]

If its animated in code then unscaled delta time should be used
setting an animator to unscaled time will work too

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-unscaledDeltaTime.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-unscaledTime.html

[mental pulsar]

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[mental pulsar]

!logs

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[gray salmon]

mmh

[plain dagger]

confirm the folder so it can do it 😐

read

[solid bay]

both the ui object and the button have an animator component but its still frozen

[worldly cave]

altough you can extract i can see none of your textures are assigned to your materials

so you will still need to assign them manually

also also thats way too many materials for an object like that

you can probably cram all of that into 1 if they are all just lit

[plain dagger]

then check if you changed it correctly because it will work when changed to unscaled time mode
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimatorUpdateMode.html

[plain dagger]

the "use a new material to colour a face" beginner trick

[worldly cave]

its mostly because thats something youre fine to do in blender when creating individual props

so people assume it can carry over without issue

always bake them onto 1 giant uv

[solid bay]

i have the update mode on both the canvas and the button set to unscaled time

the game manager object is in the same scene too

[plain dagger]

Not sure how thats relevent. If this is a ugui button with the animator anim mode then i cant think why it wouldnt work

[gray salmon]

i only have one texture, and: cant i export everything as one fbx-file?

[solid bay]

it has the script to change the timescale

[worldly cave]

you can embed textures into fbx files im pretty sure

pretty sure directly through this

[gray salmon]

i have automatic

im changing it

[worldly cave]

set it to copy

[gray salmon]

what should i do wth the fbm file

[worldly cave]

the what file

[worldly cave]

thats a folder not a file and thats what contains your embeded maps

so import that with the fbx into your unity project

[gray salmon]

omg, thank you

[plain dagger]

the blender fbx exporter is not feature complete vs autodesk products

[verbal valve]

Can someone teach me in vc how to save my projects before factory reset

[copper gust]

no

[verbal valve]

dam

[gusty abyss]

save as

email file to urself

[verbal valve]

its 200 gb

[gusty abyss]

compress?

email

reset

download

uncompress

open in unity

save

delete file

[verbal valve]

Is it possible to email 200gb?

[mystic abyss]

is the assets folder 200gb?

these folders wouldnt need to be backed up, and often those take up a lot of space

[copper gust]

emailing is a pretty horrific suggestion

[worldly cave]

if the project is 200gb then youre only legitimate option is to buy an external ssd

[gusty abyss]

realy not

[worldly cave]

also ignore the person telling you to "email" yourself the project, that is not what you should do regardless of project size

[gusty abyss]

if it works it works

[mystic abyss]

that size, makes me wonder if they downloaded any packages. If thats the case, they wouldnt need to be backed up as they could be downloaded again in the future

[copper gust]

isnt there like a 20mb limit or something lmao

[worldly cave]

you can shave by pulling off your beard hair doesnt mean you should

also gmail uses your drive storage

which has a maximum capacity of 15gb on the free version

[copper gust]

at that point just put it on google drive, no?

[gusty abyss]

this was before he said the size btw

[verbal valve]

All the projects combined

[worldly cave]

doesnt change the fact its a terrible suggestion when most projects are a few gb minimum

[worldly cave]

external ssd

[verbal valve]

Im a vrc avatar creator so im trying to save stuff

[worldly cave]

thats about the only legitimate option you have for something of that size

[gusty abyss]

yet again resent matter

[blissful otter]

Hey guys, I'm literally about to be done with my game and it's due at 11:59 but there's a couple snags I keep hitting. First, my projectiles literally keep coming out massive for either the player or the enemy. Second, for some reason, after a lil bit into the round, my player just stops being able to do attacks at all and can only do projectiles and blocking. Third, my buttons that come up after the match is done aren't working. I've been trying to figure this stuff out for a while now, I had a bunch of other issues crop up earlier that I was able to fix but these three just keep persisting

https://paste.mod.gg/xqjljxdmfqaj/2

These are what I think could potentially be causing it

[mystic abyss]

external drive is always the way to go when dealing with significantly large size sets of files

[gusty abyss]

@verbal valve would dropbox work

[copper gust]

pay like $3 and you get 100gb on google drive

[gusty abyss]

or proton

[copper gust]

excluding library, logs folders etc. you might get under 100

[gusty abyss]

proton has no file size limit

back it up with that

[mystic abyss]

depending on your internet speed, it could take a very long time to upload all the stuff, then another long time to download it all again

[verbal valve]

I consistently get around 800 to 900 download and upload

With 4 MS

[copper gust]

no option is flawless

[gusty abyss]

or just delete it all

[mystic abyss]

internet speed aside, id say get a drive cause it never hurts to give yourself extra storage, and it's likely to be useful in the future

[worldly cave]

also external ssds are pretty cheap now

[verbal valve]

im getting one for christmas

[worldly cave]

problem solved then

[gusty abyss]

my laptop has 4tb of space tbf and i use 200gb

[verbal valve]

Im 8 gb free🙏🏼

[blissful otter]

I'm like literally 🤏 close to being done I've been working on ts all day like legitimately

@worldly cave any ideas?

You legitimately have saved me so much on this dumb ass project 😭

[verbal valve]

@worldly cave So I have a copy of it in my documents but its stuck syncing to onedrive

all my unity files

[blissful otter]

Or literally anyone I swear I just wanna be done already

[hushed hamlet]

Im at 22tbs, 9tb free still though. Future problem still 😄

But yeah, to the original subject, Unity processes the library with many many small files. You'll find an SSD can be a lot better for asset processing etc.

[blissful otter]

🥲

[hushed hamlet]

For #3, there are a few things to check. Im not seeing a Button component but a custom MenuButton, so im not sure if it is setup to listen properly to input. But if there is a full screen UI in front of it, it could be blocking clicking. Ensuring you have raycasting on the base canvas. That you have an EventSystem in place. And you may want to debug log the mouse clicks or put a breakpoint down to see what's happening.

To check for blocking ray casters, try disabling all the other UIs in front and see if clicking is working

Do other UI clicks work? Etc.

[blissful otter]

I used it before for my main menu scene and it was working fine, but I'm trying to check for that rn to see if there's anything in front of it

[hushed hamlet]

Yeah id start with that

[blissful otter]

Yeah I mean the other panels had raycast blocks on them but I turned them off, still nothing

I was able to fix the attacks not working, I'm just still having the button issues and the projectile being MASSIVE

Oh great and now I just realized they aren't even working in my tutorial anymore

Ok, I reverted it to an older version and it's working again

I'm trying one more thing with the buttons, if it works then I'm done, if not I'm nixxing them and just having it go back to main menu

[hushed hamlet]

Dont forget, whatever your midnight deadline is - create a few builds as you go. So if things are messing up at the last minute, you have another known less ideal build to submit.

[blissful otter]

Yeah true

The buttons are fixed so all of the main game stuff is done, the only thing is I had some stuff crop up in my tutorial

[sudden ruin]

have they gotten rid of the button to hide the ai menu button from the preferences tab in 6.3? i cant find it anymore

[tall hearth]

right click on the menu button

it'll bring up a small ui menu that has one option "Hide"

[sudden ruin]

oh yeah thanks

[ashen sinew]

Hi! Anyone down for a quick VC? im kind of new to unity and im not understanding why my animation is not working at all

[rancid whale]

sorry no VC but.. Does it work in the Inspector? Rig is set to Humanoid?

if you can provide more context, screenshots, I'm sure we can solve the issue

[mystic oriole]

is it normal have like at least 10k light probes per scene?

it feels dirty just spamming thousands of these things around every square inch of the map

[ashen sinew]

I'm trying to add a "jumping" animation to a piece on my game but its not jumping at all xd, on the inspector it seems to be working tho.

[rancid whale]

Sorry it's a bit unclear what the goal is here, even more unclear what the issue could be
Perhaps if your question & included context is as clear as possible someone will be able to answer

[near wigeon]

show transation from falling to armature

[near wigeon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/urp/probevolumes-concept.html

[mystic oriole]

too new

for my project

[teal meadow]

I'm having an extremely hard time installing a SDK to Unity. This is my first time using Unity and my project requires a certain SDK. I have it downloaded and unzipped. I googled my situation and I tried everything on how to get this SDK to work. I'm lost. Is there anyone who can help me get this working? Thank you for your response.

[ashen sinew]

Should I add smt there? im new with this xd

[ashen sinew]

Tyvm, ill try and explain more accurately :D

[near wigeon]

Condition is empty

nvm exit time is on

in playmode select the object with the animator , keep animator tab open / docked

[ashen sinew]

How can i do that?

[rancid whale]

I'll surely be back on tomorrow. If we can understand more about the project, we can accelerate your learning/understanding
There's a YouTube video called "**Escaping Unity Animator Hell" **that may be useful to you,
But honestly, by asking very specific questions here we can save you hours of watching videos / Googling / experimenting

For example "I want my player-controlled flying wizard to jump 2 meters high when the player presses space bar" would be much more informative than what you've sent thus far (shed more light on the overall goal here)
hope this is helpful sorta depends on how deeply you want to understand game dev / unity

[near wigeon]

I told you how, you're selcting the mesh for some reason.. dock the animator tab so it says up then you can see the specific animator thats playing in playmode

[ashen sinew]

tyvm a lot, i will write the question with all the details as the example you provided 😊🙌

[gilded blade]

anyone wanna help/teach me make a game or make it with me

[ashen sinew]

alrighty, ill try and see that

[rancid whale]

i hope someone will be down for that, but if not,
there's lots of easy to digest content on YouTube about how to make lots of types of games
and even courses that span multiple hours that show how to make a full game,
even from Unity themselves

[gilded blade]

idk who you are but u just motavated me

i want a begener so im at the same stage as the other person

[potent geyser]

!collab

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[gilded blade]

whats that

[potent geyser]

Otherwise, you can ask specific questions in this server.

[rancid whale]

https://learn.unity.com/project/roll-a-ball

[gilded blade]

bet

tysm

[teal meadow]

Can I get some advice on this please?

#💻┃unity-talk message

[copper gust]

If that’s mod stuff then no we can’t help you, sorry

[teal meadow]

It’s to turn a FBX file into a knco or knpp file. So I can put it into the game as a placable object. This is allowed by the game developers and encouraged.

[copper gust]

I appreciate that but due to server rules and inexperience we still cannot help

You’d have to reach out to that relevant community

[teal meadow]

So you’re telling me you guys can not tell me how to install a SDK into unity rather it’s for a mod or not? Also due to my inexperience with the software y’all are unwilling to help?

Just trying to wrap my head around it.

Someone trying to use the software just needs help with said software.

[copper gust]

No, due to the inexperience if the members of the server. Even if it was allowed in the rules it’s very unlikely anyone is familiar with this SDK.

Mod related stuff is banned i believe due to mods being a grey area legally and this being the offical Unity server

[wraith spade]

why does unity 6.3 freeze up when i try to enter play mode?

its an LTS too lol

doesnt even say not responding on the window lol i went to the task manager to find out its not responding (probably just a stupid windows 11 thing)

[teal meadow]

I appreciate your responses, but I believe you’re miss understanding me. It’s crazy because if I didn’t include that link for the SDK then I would get the help. Thats crazy.

What a community!!!!

[wraith spade]

never mind it was infinitely looping cuz i forgot to set the bool that makes it stop looping

[hushed hamlet]

Its also just not something anyone in here uses. Youll need to contact whomever made the SDK.

The issue you are having (installationa and usage etc) we literally know nothing about. You gotta ask the folks who made it.

[rustic relic]

HI there I need help I made a small one level game but wheni run the full game exported it dosent work but in unity when making it does anyone know why?

[sage basin]

Explain what "doesn't work" means

[slender robin]

does unity provide a free solution to record the game screen in builds?

[inland umbra]

In builds? No

[obtuse rover]

is there a simple way to convert this to the modern input system?

[sage basin]

The input system docs have a page on that subject, it's pinned to #🖱️┃input-system

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.17/manual/Migration.html

[obtuse rover]

what is it under?

this?

im still confused

[solar crag]

Anyone has an issue related to Move/Rotate/Scale Tools ?
None of them are showing on my Scene when I click on an object. But while playing, it's showing

Couldn't find a matching channel for this, sorry if it's wrong place

Left is when I'm not playing, right is when i'm in play mode.

[keen sundial]

Has anyone downloaded 6.3.1f and tested? Does it feel super weird?
for example, Each refresh or Editor.Repaint feels like the whole OS/mouse is lagging? Multiple loadings in short intervals after each small actions?

[whole gyro]

hi

[fallen dragon]

Is this a known bug? Inspector doesnt update lists/arrays properly

[sly lake]

What's a good way to do this?

private void ToggleDebugLights()
{
  var debugLight = GameObject.Find("Debug light");
  if (debugLight == null) return;

  debugLight.SetActive(debugLight.activeSelf == false);
}

SetActive doesn't find anything if inactive and I don't really want to deal with specific components 😅

[pearl oyster]

You mean Find doesn't find inactive objects

[sly lake]

Yes

[pearl oyster]

I'd just make the light a singleton

[copper gust]

Can’t you turn the component off

[sly lake]

There's multiple lights under it

[copper gust]

getcomponentsinchildren brother

[sly lake]

Just so I can see while editing, because unlit mode is hella dark

[copper gust]

Or have a monobehaviour on the lights with a reference to the light

Findbytype

if your afraid of committing to a monobehaviour for editor tooling but cbf going the whole way using tags probably fine too

[sly lake]

It's already tagged with EditorOnly

[copper gust]

Shit solution but jank question, do what your doing but move the light to a child

Toggle the child

[sly lake]

This entire thing is jank 🙂

[strange moon]

Is there an Unity version thats stable? Hows 6.3?

I see that 6.3 is not stable from reading here

[sly lake]

6.0 works okay enough

[strange moon]

Im on 6.0.56 now

[sly lake]

.60 doesn't crash very often

[flat breach]

I don’t really understand what you’re trying to do right here but I’d make an array or a list variable for all the light game objects and then use a foreach loop to access their components

Are you just trying to toggle lights one by one or ?

[plain dagger]

Remember there are overloads to find inactive objects too!

[sly lake]

Working on dungeons is very dark. I have “debug lights” in there for during editing.

[sly lake]

Yeah only for the type-specific ones

[plain dagger]

If this is editor only you could just cheat and find all gameobjects and find by name

[sly lake]

Solved it anyway

Just toggling any light with “EditorOnly” tag

Which is a useful tag that entirely omits objects from builds

[thorny willow]

Yo guys i use unity for a few months and am experienced. but i want to start a new project that requires better shaders and more. So i want to hop on Unreal Engine. but i do not know c++ that well but do yall think its fast learning and is it worthwhile?

[flat breach]

hello,I' ve a lighting settings asset and I'm basically trying to change my environment's lighting indirect intensity but when I'm changing its value and rebake the lighting, it doesn't do anything

[sly lake]

If HDRP, it's on a volume component

[sly lake]

I'd always encourage trying multiple engines, but it takes a long time to get up to speed with Unreal, C++, and Unreal's insane C++ usage 😄

It's not an engine programmers typically like, though.

[flat breach]

yes but doing this will be affected on the screen not the game itself right? I thought it had to be done through the lighting tab itself

[gusty abyss]

Guys how could I simply add clothes to my characters? I made a seperate mesh that should fit my character, but using a skinnedmeshrenderer even with the same rig it doesn't work.

[flat breach]

when I'm changing the intensity, it doesn't change anything but when I add a directional light, it works

[hardy rover]

Chat. I went and exported a facility using planes from blender to unity using fbx. Resized it and just fall straight trough amy fix?

[fierce shuttle]

is there a way to build my project on a server? i have a server in my home with a better cpu than my pc

can i send my project to it automatically somehow

[gusty abyss]

anyone know?

[sly lake]

<@&502884371011731486>

[potent geyser]

?ban 1009751294354927688 bot

[novel scarab]

giorgietto_7765 was banned.

[sly lake]

The only way I know how to, is to include the clothes with the character in the same file.

[brisk anvil]

does anyone know any Unity servers with voice channels?
I joined a couple I found online but none have active vc.

[fair cove]

Your model will need colliders and a proper physics setup for collision to happen with those colliders and whatever shouldnt fall through it - you can check "Generate Colliders" in the import settings to use mesh colliders, which will give you base collision matching the geometry of your meshes, but there is a performance cost to using mesh colliders

[gusty abyss]

well that's a shame but thanks

[vapid notch]

Would anyone happen to know any good tutorials for making turn based strategy games? Had an idea that I had in my mind for a while now. Thought now might be the time to get to work on it.

[vivid river]

<@&502884371011731486> dual spam

[potent geyser]

?ban 430074908337242115 bot

[novel scarab]

.logson was banned.

[potent geyser]

?ban 226449157336989696 bot

[novel scarab]

fexyk was banned.

[lavish gale]

Sorry for asking this
But for a sound problem which channel should I go for asking my question ?

[vivid river]

#🔊┃audio ?

[lavish gale]

Dang thanks you bud

it wasn't on my list of channel

mb

[lament barn]

Hi, I've not done any proper game Development for a couple years and when I did it was never anything high level.
Now a few years later and I'm working as a programmer I want to get back into it. I've found an idea for a game and brainstormed a bit but unsure where to go from here, I see there's educators and such in here, but I was wondering if anyone had any recourses with regards to game design and incorporating that into the game development loop.

[charred fog]

If you are looking for a game design theory, you can find those on YouTube from GMTK, Noclip, etc.
For practical examples you can lookup courses on Unity Learn that feature full games and walk you through them.

!learn

[vagrant root]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[hardy rover]

Thanks alot

[lament barn]

That course they provide is perfect!
However as I'd potentially wanna learn a bit more case specific what to do and having a person with experience to talk to would greatly help with that, would you have any suggestions for that?

[charred fog]

I think Unity provide consultant services, don't think they are cheap though.

[worldly cave]

you could always consult the game design discord regarding certain things

[lament barn]

Oh there is one? I'll check that out, thanks!

[flat breach]

@sly lake ...

[sly lake]

It's pretty affordable

[craggy pollen]

#1390346776804069396

[flat breach]

buddy ragebaiting lol

[flat breach]

aight

[sly lake]

Idk what that means.

[storm patio]

please don't pester specific people to help.

[craggy pollen]

lighting can be tricky that is why there are beter places to ask

[flat breach]

as you said 1 month ago, you can with people that u initiated a conversation with which is the case there, are you hypocrite or talked without being aware?

please don't spread misinformation..

[storm patio]

didn't seem like an active convo anymore to me

what part of that was misinformation lol

[flat breach]

should've been more precise about the rules then since that's what you do

[charred fog]

Don't need to continue with this.

[sly lake]

It was fine.

[vivid river]

<@&502884371011731486>

[winter ginkgo]

hi

[charred fog]

for game ideas discussion create a thread here

[winter ginkgo]

Also feel free to give feedbacks :)

[hot tundra]

Hi! I want to make a simulator that contains a track and an autonomous car that only uses a camera as sensor. Do you have any advice on how should I simulate a camera in Unity? Also the simulator is in a 2D world.

[plain dagger]

that is very vague

[warm river]

if u use a render texture you can read data from that and use whatever ai u want

[plain dagger]

I have the feeling they need a completely different solution

[craggy pollen]

you´d have to provide more infos

camera as a sensor what does that even mean

[gray frigate]

sounds like a simulation of a line-following robot (or some similar idea)

if you want to genuinely simulate a camera input, then you can use a Camera that targets a render texture, yeah

you can then write code that takes the resulting image and makes decisions (just like you would for a real-world self-driving car)

[cyan geode]

hey i have a question why cant we use the words h m m

or other normal stuff

are they like an offense in some languages?

just asking

[vivid river]

as a variable names in coding?

[cyan geode]

no i mean in the server

i cant write it

[cerulean bison]

how would i fix this? im using version 2018.3.9f1

[hot tundra]

I have a render texture and the camera is already on the car, implemented, but I need a script that can use that render texture to track the right track line and the left track line, to be able to drift and let the car drive itself.

[plain dagger]

Re enable the ui package like it says (in the package manager)

[cerulean bison]

uhh there is no package manager

[slow dirge]

To avoid short and meaningless messages that don't contribute to the conversation.

[plain dagger]

Was it added in 2019? there must be something then in project settings then 🤔

[plain dagger]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.4/Documentation/Manual/pack-build.html
it has a 2018 page

[cyan geode]

Ah thats a fair answer

[plain dagger]

Then you need to look at the pixels in front of the car and use it to adjust its angle in some way

[pliant nacelle]

I'm looking for a 2D RPG character bundle. Please recommend pixel character bundles featuring nature-inspired knights, archers, wizards, monsters, and more!

[cerulean bison]

what do i do with this..?

[plain dagger]

well it says to also use the package manager so if you dont have that then I have no idea
Perhaps you can delete and have unity regen your package manifest in this project to fix this? (make sure its backed up)

[cerulean bison]

how do i do that..?

nvm fixed it

[pale furnace]

Would it be very bad for performance to have something like creating shadow volumes each frame be done mostly via cpu and not gpu? Mainly because I'm just very bad at HLSL.

[sly lake]

Yes 🙂

You would struggle to reach interactive framerates with a setup like that. Especially in Unity.

[pale furnace]

Damn it 💔

HLSL needs to die in a fire

[sly lake]

I know lol

Slang is a breath of fresh air. But I’m not sure how much sense it makes to use that with Unity

[pale furnace]

Sucks that it's also so hard to find any help for coding in hlsl via discord as well.

[gusty abyss]

quick question does Unity properly support exporting APKs on Linux specifically VR ones cause I tried and Sidequest created an error I don't remember it but just wondering for later on

[sly lake]

Yeah I think it does

[gusty abyss]

cool just askin cause SideQuest failed to sideload said apk to my headset last time I tried on Mint

now im on Ubuntu so hopefully like some of my other problems its OS dependent

[dense reef]

Hi any one know does UMA2 have discord public server?

[vivid river]

whos Uma2?

[sly lake]

Doesn’t look like it.

[pale furnace]

Hey so what do you think would be more performance intensive, using HDRP's raytraced shadows while turning off every other effect from raytracing, or having a fairly poorly optimized and coded compute shader based shadow volume system that runs each frame?

Especially while using portals that have render textures which require scenes to be rendered twice. Since shadow volumes would only need to be generated once but raytracing would have to be run two or three times depending on the scene through the Portals.

[worldly cave]

https://github.com/umasteeringgroup/UMA they have some links here

[dense reef]

I'm thinking to use UMA2 it but I'm not sure if graphics will be good after few years of development, what do you think is it good idea to use UMA2 for RPG if I planning to find publisher or publishers won't like the characters that can be reused in other games?

@worldly cave Thanks!

[gusty abyss]

yea idk wtf uma is

[worldly cave]

seems to be what metahuman for unreal is but for unity i guess

just a decade behind though

[gusty abyss]

damn I thought it came out a few years ago

not a decade

[dense reef]

it is updated few months ago

[worldly cave]

its first release was 12 years ago

[gusty abyss]

bit longer than a few months ago

[worldly cave]

it also doesnt look good....

[vivid river]

not that much

[gusty abyss]

12 years is a bit longer than last week

just a smidge

[dense reef]

It is link on UMA there is UMA2 updated

[worldly cave]

pretty sure they share the repo

[dense reef]

I found it is UMA3 in development maybe I should wait for it

[gusty abyss]

why make 3 different versions if you still update the main one every few weeks

bake the 2 versions into the main one making it better than both

[sly lake]

Using ray traced shadows is not that performance intensive, but it means all shadow casters will need to be in the RTAS which can be a difficult problem to solve.

[gusty abyss]

I thought shadows were one of the most intensive things to render

[pale furnace]

Really? I was using them in ue5 and they made a big impact. But that could just be because it was ue5. Does RTAS cull static shadows too or just dynamic?

[sly lake]

Yeah that’s why replacing them with ray tracing isn’t that big of a hit 😅

[junior path]

imagine quoting ue5 in the unity discord

the only missing thing from ue5 that is not in unity is nanite, but that will change soon

[pale furnace]

Just sayin. Had to use it for class and I used a similar concept as my current project. The raycast shadows hit performance hard when looking at a portal. I do understand they are fundamentally pretty different.

[gusty abyss]

been working on one but its slow development

[slow dirge]

Lumen is pretty unique as well.
And I don't think we're gonna get nanite in unity. Meshlets at best. But I don't think I've seen that on the road map.

[flat breach]

Would you advise me to switch to unreal engine? I’m trying to make PC games in Unity but the 3d modelling part seems to be much easier in unreal engine

[gusty abyss]

isn't Lumen just global illumination

heard games try to avoid it because its so intensive too

if they do use it theres a lot of noise

[slow dirge]

I would advice using the engine you're most familiar with. You can get the same visual quality in both engines. Though UE makes artist workflow easier, as you don't need to author lods manually.

[slow dirge]

It is. But global illumination is not one specific thing. It's a concept of realistic lighting. And there are many ways to achieve it.
Lumen implements it with voxelization and stuff. Unity relies mostly on probes or baking lights.

[gusty abyss]

I was thinking about Realtime GI

[slow dirge]

Pretty sure unity real-time GI relies on light probes.

Or hardware raycasting.

[flat breach]

I’m more familiar with Unity as that’s the only engine I’ve tried till now.But I really seem to be stuck with the visuals part as I’m not a good modeler and neither do I know a lot about lighting, and whenever I try to make a good looking environment my pc starts lagging,I’ve relatively a good pc btw, I know how to do most of the things but whenever I make a game this doesn’t look like it.

[waxen sun]

hey so like idk nothing about exporting/ building the games on unity and i tried it this is what happened. there is noting..

i meant nothing.

[slow dirge]

Though, it seens like Enlighten uses light maps instead. Honestly I'm not that familiar with high end rendering in unity. Was mostly dealing with it in other engines.

[flat breach]

Whenever I watch tutorials I understand everything and everything’s easy to replicate but when I do it looks bad …

[gusty abyss]

I never use realtime GI for VR cause it can lag the game

and unfortunately for me I cannot bake Adaptive Light Probes

unity forbids it I guess

[pale furnace]

OK maybe I should just use RT because I fed some pseudo code for a shadow volume system into an ai (I should clarify I don't ever use them for writing code, just critiquing pseudo code and I do generally avoid LLMs and am generally opposed to them) and it broke out of the ai sycophant polite persona and ripped into the code as some of the worst most unoptimized shit ever 💔 yeah I've gotta stay away from compute shaders

[junior path]

Yeah, there are assets like HTrace and AdaptiveGI that do realtime GI

[slow dirge]

Well, that's a very involved question. Maybe start a topic in #1390346776804069396 showing what you have and how it should look like according to the tutorial and someone might be able to explain the difference.

[gray bloom]

does this mean MovePosition is recommended for moving kinematic character? i used on dynamic body dont see any issue
saw some posts saying should avoid setting velocity directly too, what should i go for

[balmy kettle]

if you're moving a dynamic body then either move with forces or set velocity

[polar basalt]

hey guys, quick question, how do i get the data from clipboard if its a image?

[storm patio]

a 3d rigidbody moved with MovePosition detects collisions but ignores them

[gray bloom]

detect but ignore? i can still collide and stop

[balmy kettle]

that's likely just a coincidence. what's likely happening is that your rigidbody is depenetrating every physics update so it looks like MovePosition is actually colliding with objects

if you use MovePosition to move an object such that it would pass entirely through another collider in one move that collision would be ignored

[mystic oriole]

So I've just discovered the shadow limitation of 4 overlapping mixed lights.
Can I circumvent this by having having a baked light and realtime light for each "mixed" light in my scene? Is this gonna cause any issues?

[knotty sky]

so i tried to bake my occulison culling and it crashes unity does anyone know how to fix ????

[balmy kettle]

!logs 👇 check the editor logs to see what might be causing the crash

[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

[knotty sky]

it let me rebake it after i cleared it

so what do i do now

[balmy kettle]

if it crashed again then look at the logs

[nocturne sonnet]

Im starting to lose my mind a little here, why is package manager ALWAYS grayed out?

Im using unity hub too, so idk

[sweet tartan]

are you selecting a file/dir that's part of a package in Packages/?

[static pulsar]

That is for opening a package you have currently selected in the package manager.

Just opening the package manager is Window -> Package Management -> Package Manager

[nocturne sonnet]

Ahhh. So they switched it up

I just jumped from a like five year older version

I highly appreciate it

[tall hearth]

there should be an Asset store dropdown > My Assets just behind that, that opens it

[cedar flare]

how do i make an actually good game?

i feel like this isnt a thing thats really talked about

[nocturne sonnet]

Round two of "please show me my stupidity." why is merge objects grey?

The errors are shader errors btw

My other mesh combiner tool apparently has a limit, and I'[m trying to get probuilder to operate

[potent geyser]

The simple way would be to just use both input systems, which you can turn on in the Player Settings.

!input

[vagrant root]

How to Set Input

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

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

[obtuse rover]

Thank you

Where is it?

I can't find Active input handling under player

Where?

[plain dagger]

try expanding one of the headings 😐

Its in other settings but try a bit more to locate things yourself

[obtuse rover]

i looked in all of them

[plain dagger]

Why do you want to combine these? this is a bad idea

[plain dagger]

its in other settings trust me

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/playersettings-windows.html#Other

[obtuse rover]

ok

[nocturne sonnet]

To export into Blender, as otherwise it just throw items everyhwere upon importing it

It requires me combining the meshes into one solid object otherwise

[plain dagger]

you can use the GLTF package to easily export many objects

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cloud.gltfast@6.15/manual/index.html

[nocturne sonnet]

Will it retain its same space, size and rotation?

[plain dagger]

yea you can do a whole scene just fine with it. It will produce a gltf file which blender has support for

[hushed hamlet]

I mostly use Better FBX Exporter, but GLTF can be extremely handy

[nocturne sonnet]

Awesome, give me one second to try it

What if it prodcues like... one for every item?

When I went to export, it decided every small file needed a GLTF; not just one exported file

Ah wait, I see my issue

[plain dagger]

If you select many gameobjects at once it should include them all

[nocturne sonnet]

Yeah, I did it the opposite. Selecting them made it try to make seperate files, but just export at the top fixed it

Does it also export textures with it?

[short grove]

Question working using blender n unity for my assets
Is it better to just do shader maps in unity or does blender have some tools to port shaders into unity without much issue

Way more familiar with blender's shader maps n im not sure why but I'm having issues with unity's

[inner jay]

I want the gradient fade effect at the end of the arm so I use transparent on the material but when I do the fingers look seethrough. When I enable opaque it doesnt look good on the end of the arm but it fixes the issue. Im using URP lit

[potent geyser]

?ban 1381171211932794930 bot

[novel scarab]

onigallant was banned.

[junior path]

Me trying to think of new ways to make bank by implementing features that Unity should had already done

[potent geyser]

Templates were announced at Unite, so it's coming.

[gusty abyss]

Im light-probing it

[thick rock]

Guys, I named the game object same as the class name and tried to add it, but it's not working.

[tall hearth]

is there an error in the console?

[thick rock]

yes 2 error's

[tall hearth]

fix them

[stuck flower]

Make sure that there are no compile errors and that the file name and class name match.

[tall hearth]

the file name and class name match
not sure if they are on it but unity 6 doesn't need this

[polar basalt]

guys is it safe to call directory to delete folder and recreate it line after line?

or would that create any problems

if the system is slow or smth

[stuck flower]

It's what the error says

[tall hearth]

why would you need this? also line after line as in same frame or frame after frame

[tall hearth]

i see that but unity 6 doesn't need them to have the same name

[polar basalt]

same frame

recreating folder

what else lol

[tall hearth]

might've read the first thing wrong

[polar basalt]

is there a better way to delete everything from folder?

deleting each file from inside will be worse that just the folder no?

[tall hearth]

unsure really i haven't had a case where i need to

im sure your idea would work though

[warm locust]

i made this wavy shader for a ui image but it doesn't apply in the scene tab and is just white in the game tab?

[polar basalt]

yes it would but im scared on some devices it may not finish deleting before calling the create?

or does it first delete 100% then move on to next line?

i dont understand this exactly tbh

[tall hearth]

well does calling a function to do something do everything in that function before going to the next line?

[polar basalt]

yes youre right

im just thinking it would call the system

and the system does it

and then the game just keeps going line by line while system is going

like async yk

[tall hearth]

yeah and the system isn't limited to one thing at a time if you make a folder with the same name as an old one it give it a new place in the system not the same as the last

[thick rock]

@tall hearth @stuck flower thank you + Does anyone know a simple idea for puzzle to implementation?

[polar basalt]

im sorry but what

dont understand this wording sorry

[tall hearth]

basically saying i wouldn't worry

if you want you could do an await Task.Run ( i think thats the one)

[polar basalt]

is unitask better for that though?

[tall hearth]

dont know what that is

[polar basalt]

https://github.com/Cysharp/UniTask

[queen raven]

How many hours per week does someone need to spend working/coding/ in unity to start trying to make it a career? Like how much time should someone spend on their own before trying to apply for a game dev position?

[tall hearth]

maybe not sure, most i know async / await is limited to the system tick rate so it checks every ~16ms (though this is also dependent on the cpu), and well how to use it

[polar basalt]

yes but Task allocated im pretty sure

there was a table made by someone

difference between async, task and unitask

i just remember seeing it

[tall hearth]

again no clue never heard of unitask till now just said if you were worried you could use it to add a call back delay ensuring it was deleted

like what's done with jobs

[warm locust]

bump

[inner jay]

hlp pls

[junior path]

https://foxsterdev.medium.com/how-to-template-your-unity-project-cc021231e33e
So this will come as an official feature?

[eager tiger]

hey guys is there like a channel to showcase your steam projects made in unity? D: i just see a showcase section for in-engine work, but what about finished games? or similar?

[edgy vector]

How do i code shaders🥲

[junior path]

Shader graph

[potent geyser]

Presumably yes. They haven't said the specifics yet.

[warm locust]

hlsl or shader graph

[ashen dock]

is there a channel i can message for help with a project i am working on

[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.

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

[ashen dock]

not really helping

[balmy kettle]

try reading the entire bot message

[cosmic shard]

Hello, I just upgraded from 6.2 to 6.3LTS and everything is working exactly the same, except my build icon is just not applying. I tried changing from DX11 to 12, playing with code stripping, mono/il2cpp, toggling on/off that checkbox, deleting the library folder (and waiting 3 hours for shader compilation on the next build), etc. Nobody in this discord or on a search engine seems to have this problem except me so I'm very confused

(windows 10 x64)

[sly solar]

Quick question, in the past I got used to opening unity projects in the editor version I created them in. Is this no longer a thing? Unity hub is actively warning me not to use those versions

in the past it would say newer versions wouldn't work as well

[balmy kettle]

it's warning you because there are security vulnerabilities in those specific versions. you should still be able to open the projects though, but it is recommended to download versions without the vulnerability

[sly solar]

is the whole backwards compatibility thing an non-isssue nowadays?

[balmy kettle]

what "backwards compatibility thing" are you referring to

[sly solar]

In the past if I wanted to open a project

in the latest version of the editor

it would say "you should open this in the version you made it in"

[balmy kettle]

you never bothered to actually read the message, did you?

[sly solar]

Uh..I mean there's no need to be rude. It was a quite a while ago but the message seemed to imply that the version mismatch might cause some breaking changes

but alright

[noble locust]

is there a reason why i can't edit the material?

i wanna change the object's material