💻┃unity-talk

[timid holly]

same as the video i send

[storm patio]

are you getting errors, or what exactly

"doesn't work" doesn't give us any info to work with at all

make sure you've saved and recompiled btw

[timid holly]

hmmm maybe is teh firepoint

[livid lagoon]

I create my own semi-realistic sprites, which should blend in the 3d environment.

[timid holly]

when i click teh left click to shoo, it appears me a message saying Hit A enemigo

[azure pond]

are you creating them yourself, like drawing them?

[livid lagoon]

They're rendered from 3d models.

[storm patio]

yeah you shouldn't have that if (firePoint == null) check tbh

if it's null, let it fail-fast

[azure pond]

did you model them?

i'm asking if you are a 3d artist

[worldly cave]

what is this a third degree lol

[storm patio]

anyways, do some debugging to see what point in the code is being reached

[livid lagoon]

I have some skill in Daz3D. I don't know if that makes me a 3d artist. I'm more of a programmer.

[timid holly]

so i remove this if (firePoint == null)?

[azure pond]

i think if you want to use chatgpt to answer questions like this you also need to improve the question you ask haha

it's totally valid to use it, but i can tell that you asked a bad question, because it's comparing a technology from Unreal to a technology to Unity

[storm patio]

and its return. this won't solve the issue, but if the issue is that firePoint is null, it'll make the issue more obvious

[azure pond]

adaptive GI is just a checkbox. you can see for yourself what it does. it's not a substitute for baked lighting

it's really an artistic question

[timid holly]

so i must change the null?

[azure pond]

do you have a screenshot of what things look like right now, from the correct camera angle?

[storm patio]

if it's currently null, yes

[azure pond]

have you written any code yet?

I don't wish to use baking for it, as it doesn't make much sense in this case.
i'm not sure if you know or don't know what to do yet haha

a screenshot will tell a big story

what you mean is, you have a standalone program right now that creates dungeons. but not in unity. correct?

[timid holly]

using UnityEngine;

public class WeaponUIShoot : MonoBehaviour
 {
    public int damage = 20;
    public float range = 50f;
    public LayerMask enemigoLayer;
    public GameObject shootEffect;
    public float effectTime = 0.1f;
    public Transform firePoint;

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            Shoot();
        }
    }

    void Shoot()
    {
        if (firePoint == null) return;

        if (shootEffect != null)
        {
            shootEffect.SetActive(true);
            Invoke(nameof(HideEffect), effectTime);
        }


        Ray ray = new Ray(firePoint.position, firePoint.forward);
        RaycastHit hit;

        Debug.DrawRay(firePoint.position, firePoint.forward * range, Color.red, 1f);

        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, range, enemigoLayer))
        {
            EnemyHealth enemy = hit.collider.GetComponent<EnemyHealth>();
            if (enemy != null)
            {
                enemy.TakeDamage(damage);
                Debug.Log("HIT A " + enemy.name);
            }
        }
    }

    void HideEffect()
    {
        if (shootEffect != null)
            shootEffect.SetActive(false);
    }
}

[storm patio]

you gotta lead with whatever you're going to say instead of just spamming your code and expecting us to read your mind here, mate

[stuck flower]

Then it's hitting the enemy

[timid holly]

yeah but the enemy dont die

[stuck flower]

What code is supposed to make the enemy die

[storm patio]

is the enemy's health going down

[azure pond]

well i think if the field is this open you have a lot of great approaches for making something really attractive

[timid holly]

yes, each hit is 20 of damage and the enemy have 100 HP

[azure pond]

it's probably a little premature to worry about lighting

[storm patio]

show the inspector of this component

[azure pond]

my suggestion is to first create a "reference frame" that shows the point of view, the style, etc. that you want to achieve

gotchya

[storm patio]

also, no, that's an assumption. i asked you to check if the enemy's health is actually going down

[azure pond]

so how do you want things to look

this looks nice

[stuck flower]

So is the health going down

[timid holly]

Thi is from the gun

[azure pond]

if you showed an artist what you have so far, they would probably suggest dungeon keeper with filters, which would be really attractive. like retro, a little new, and it would be capable of doing "dark"

[storm patio]

so you have 10 damage, not 20

[timid holly]

and this from the enemy

oh wait i forgot to show the health window

[azure pond]

i think there's a large mix of chatbot-authored and you-authored code that is going to be really complicated for people here to disentangle

[storm patio]

@timid holly we don't need this. actually check if the enemy's health is going down. use the 3 dots at the top of the inspector and change it to debug mode to see the private fields.

[livid lagoon]

With this there's no baking. I guess that's why I want to make sure Unity can offer that too. Seems like AdaptiveGI might be a good option.

[restive elk]

Hey can anyone recommend me pc hardware for smallteam/solo 3d game dev.

[proven obsidian]

what now

i just fixed the 18B shader variants

[azure pond]

the lighting in the screenshot is what it is. the torches on the wall are not illuminating the walls

[timid holly]

now it works

[stuck flower]

And when you call the function on EnemyHealth, does that function do anything

[azure pond]

you can add point lights in unity and unreal, and things will just work

[worldly cave]

your hardware should be able to run the game you plan to create

and by run i mean run well

[livid lagoon]

Yeah, that's a good way adding point lights.

[worldly cave]

but generally aim for a lot of ram and storage, as well as a good cpu

[azure pond]

what exactly are you trying to build? is this the first time you are making an android build of your own game? someone else's game

[proven obsidian]

first time

[azure pond]

with a reference frame, everything will be much easier

[proven obsidian]

dunno wich version of api i should set to

wait

Probably SDK is read only

[azure pond]

you can ignore this warning

[proven obsidian]

it says that

[timid holly]

so my friend ask me thus:You have to call the script that the enemy carries, and lower its life variable

[junior path]

Nintendo publisher ends contract on you without warning
Ok then I will reapply as a solo dev
I did that game jam entry why not add it to my application
Waits almost a month
Result
Devs that only make NSFW games apparently are better material then me
I wanna stop living

[worldly cave]

is there a question in all of this

[azure pond]

you can only publish to nintendo e-shop if you are working with a publisher

[junior path]

Actually yes, there is a question:
Nintendo, why.

[storm patio]

this is the unity server

[junior path]

It's related, I wanna do Switch game development

[stuck flower]

We can't really do anything about that

[storm patio]

complaining about nintendo is definitively not related to unity

[timid holly]

@storm patio is there a way i can use a code for this or i can i¡add it to my code?

[storm patio]

they are, believe it or not, 2 distinct entities

[azure pond]

well, i gave you the answer

[worldly cave]

this is a channel for help with unity, specifically any help that doesnt fit into the other channels

[storm patio]

please don't pester specific people for help. you haven't done the debugging i told you to do either.

[worldly cave]

what its not is a general chat

[tall hearth]

Is english your first language cause it's mine and im struggling to piece this sentence together

[storm patio]

it's understandable

[junior path]

yeah it stinks, but whatever, I guess I will find another publisher

[worldly cave]

considering everything they said so far i would say that sentence is pretty understandable

[timid holly]

my apologies and can you tell me the ebugging again?

[storm patio]

#💻┃unity-talk message we asked you this 4 times...

[tall hearth]

Add Debug logs into the code where the function is called with relevant data such as the damage

[timid holly]

i got it now

[restive elk]

Ok

[proven obsidian]

may i get help?

[tall hearth]

Cant really ask for hardware without a price

[timid holly]

so now the current health is on 0

[junior path]

what double stinks was that there was an asset I was developing for the Asset Store for consoles, and now I can't really do anything with that until I get someone else interested rip

[stuck flower]

So it seems like it's been lowered

Or it started at 0

So it seems to be working

[storm patio]

was it 0 to begin with, or after you hit it 10 times

[timid holly]

i hit him 10 times

[stuck flower]

So it's working

[timid holly]

now i must do to eliminate the enemy

[timid holly]

yes

[azure pond]

i think something like this is within your reach

[timid holly]

so when the enemy reach 0 HP it must dissapear

[storm patio]

so have you written something to make that happen

[worldly cave]

ai generated slop is within their reach?

hope not

[azure pond]

you need to figure out how to do a tilt-shift camera lens effect, so that the wall lines always appear parallel. the full screen effects add a lot - dust, scratches, film grain. you only need a nice arm and torch asset, some nice VFX graph effects for the flames, and some point lights. a lot of the props can be assets since they can be desaturated and brought out of the scene

[timid holly]

i have the destroy(gameObject)

in my enemy health scripts

[storm patio]

and is that code being reached

you've written it in a method that's never called

[azure pond]

@livid lagoon but you don't have to do anything exotic to render. seven point lights and AO in hdrp is not an issue.

[worldly cave]

comrade you are seriously misunderstanding the purpose of this channel

this is not general chat

[timid holly]

so i must make that part being called in the code so it can work

[charred fog]

There's no off-topic here. Read #📖┃code-of-conduct And use #1180170818983051344 for devlogs.

[azure pond]

but you need a reference frame

if you want to do this.

[charred fog]

@azure pond Stop posting slop already

It doesn't illustrate anything

[worldly cave]

heres my woke take, feeding screenshots of someone elses game through ai is not very nice.

[azure pond]

hmm i didn't do that

[storm patio]

look at what method you're currently calling to deal damage, and look at what method the logic to kill the enemy is in

[storm patio]

where'd this image come from #💻┃unity-talk message

[worldly cave]

i wonder sooner believe you found that somewhere online than you perfectly prompting ai to create an almost 1:1 copy of someone elses work with major alternatives such as post processing without feeding the source image into the ai itself.

[azure pond]

https://gemini.google.com/share/6885badc94df
honestly i think it's really useful to see how i do things haha

[storm patio]

hmm can't find it online with reverse image search

[junior path]

I see, my apologies, I wasn't aware of that rule

[storm patio]

ok, so you're giving images plagiarized from several games?

[azure pond]

there was a lot of precision in what i asked for and why i did the sequence of things that i did. if you wanted to work with an artist, you'd have to use these words and level of detail anyway.

[gentle shale]

Hey guys, is there any way to make light pass through a transparent object?

[charred fog]

No-one cares. Enough with the off-topic

[azure pond]

hmm well the guy was asking really precisely how to solve a lighting issue. in my experience, to do things like lighting, you need a reference

and he seemed pretty game

[storm patio]

didn't really seem like your thread of convo was relevant to unity to me
-# could say that for a lot...

[charred fog]

It can be a difficult subject, you should ask in #1390346776804069396

[azure pond]

i suppose i could suggest, the user creates a reference image to help them sort out art problems using unity's built in generative art tooling, i just want him to actually succeed haha

[worldly cave]

nothing says wanting someone to succeed than telling me to use ai art as references

[charred fog]

No need to continue this.

[junior path]

Yeah, that's bad

[ember lark]

Hello friends, can I ask you a question?

[worldly cave]

always

[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

[ember lark]

If I wanted to develop a game similar to Cry of Fear, how long might it take?

[balmy kettle]

how long is a piece of string

[worldly cave]

🫸 🫷

[junior path]

The length of my motivation

[worldly cave]

but yeah this massively depends on a lot of factors theres no 1 true answer

but if it helps you get a better perspective cry of fear took like 4 to 5 years to make

and they were a 5 person team iirc

[potent geyser]

A quick Google search says it took 4 years, and was done by more than one person. So there's your minimum. Good luck.

[ember lark]

I had the idea to create a game similar to Cry of Fear, but with a different scenario. 😅

[worldly cave]

those are not the factors i was talking about.

[ember lark]

‏😳

[worldly cave]

anyways you got the closest you can to an answer to a question like this

[ember lark]

Thx 🙏

[junior path]

Wasn't that game made in GoldSrc?

[potent geyser]

And?

[worldly cave]

if anything making it in goldsrc probably saved them some time in the long run

[junior path]

I mean, I guess I can see that since you don't have to reinvent the wheel in terms of movement, weapons, etc.

But I sometimes wonder, what if x game was made in a different engine

[ember lark]

I want to create a game using the Unity engine, similar to Cry of Fear, but with a different story and scenario. Although I don't know anything about the engine, I will learn and use the Unity Assist store. I would appreciate your encouragement ❤️

[junior path]

Not that I consider that a bad thing, just a fun thought experiment

[worldly cave]

thats a very ambitious project for a first game

i say keep that idea on a backburner and start with something smaller in scope

well you should actually start with learning how to use unity and make games first

thats kinda the priority here

[ember lark]

Of course I will perform simple tasks, but I will master the aspect I aspire to.

[ember lark]

Yes, I will do this.

[grand nacelle]

is there a channel to ask about linux suppoort?

[potent geyser]

#🐧┃linux seems appropriate

[vale pulsar]

Hey, I got a warning in Unity and I’m new to Unity. Where can I ask for help with this?

[storm patio]

what's the warning?

[vale pulsar]

can i upload my screenshot here?

[storm patio]

yes

[vale pulsar]

this is the one

[balmy kettle]

https://unity.huh.how/common-warnings/console-warnings/missing-script

[vale pulsar]

Thank You..

[ripe sphinx]

hey yall

do you recommend any resources

if i wanna get into the nitty gritty of how animations work in unity?

i'm trying to fix some ui stutturing in one of my scenes

and for another scene i need to figure out another thing around how some values that we set affect a sprite

[vale pulsar]

i cant find there is there any other solutions ?

[balmy kettle]

make sure to read the entire page and actually pay attention to what it is telling you

[vale pulsar]

i dont know what exactly it is i just began to learn unity like 2 days ago

[balmy kettle]

well then it's a good thing that there is a webpage with explicit instructions on what you need to check for, it even includes a link to a script that does it for you

but the thing is, you have to actually read the information on that page

[vale pulsar]

okayy ty

[charred fog]

Stuttering happens usually when object being updated out of frame sync. Provide all relevant information in #🏃┃animation and video of the problem perhaps as well, so people can point out what else to show.

[ripe sphinx]

ohh kk

[gusty abyss]

Why is my scene view white

in game its normal

[stuck flower]

Clear your search bar

[gusty abyss]

oh thanks

[sour jewel]

Was the "Hide AI Menu" option removed from 6000.3? The docs says it should be in the General section of the settings. (removing my search for "AI" made no difference to the general pane)

Never mind, if you right-click you can select hide:

[dense bone]

quiestion how do i start up on a 2D game and how do I add a friend to help make the game????

because im kind stuck T^T

[balmy kettle]

!vc for collaborating with others 👇

[vagrant root]

Using version control in Unity

Unity Version Control

• Getting started

Git

Get the latest .gitignore file from here. It should be placed at the root of your Unity project directory.

[balmy kettle]

!learn for how to get started and actually work in the engine 👇

[vagrant root]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[dense bone]

how would i make a game with others on the platform its self?

[balmy kettle]

what do you mean by that

[dense bone]

how would i be able to make a game with a friend on the same thing like we both work on the same

[sour jewel]

like pair programming?

[dense bone]

ya

[balmy kettle]

you use version control to work with others. game development is not a multiplayer game where you can work on the same thing at the same time and see live changes

[storm patio]

pair programming just isn't really feasible with real projects

[sour jewel]

I dont think unity has a built in thing, but you can use MS teams or something else to have your friend control your screen. There's also likely a live code sharing extensions for your coding IDE

[storm patio]

even with something like live share, you're better off just coding separately. otherwise you basically only have 1 person working and the other spectating

[storm patio]

this is not a good solution, no

[sour jewel]

sorry didn't know you were the person who asked

[storm patio]

im not

[dense bone]

okay thank you

[sour jewel]

ik, you were being rude

[storm patio]

i'm rude for saying that pair programming isn't a good way of collaboration?

[balmy kettle]

did you know that a solution can still be bad even if you think it would solve what they are specifically asking?

[storm patio]

remote access isn't even "working together", it's one person working and another person spectating

[sour jewel]

don't care, better than "no solution, sorry"!

[storm patio]

we did give solutions though

that's what vcs is

[sour jewel]

i hate discord so much (plus reddit)

[balmy kettle]

if you don't plan to actually read responses and instead prefer to just yell bad solutions to people, why use them in the first place?

[storm patio]

fun fact, sometimes suggesting a bad solution is even worse than no solution at all

[sour jewel]

Yes I did, VCS is what they did not want, did you even read THEIR responses??

[storm patio]

which message said that?

[sour jewel]

fun fact youre no fun at parties

[balmy kettle]

it may not have been what they wanted, but it is still objectively the correct solution for what they are actually attempting.
what you suggested may have answered the actual content of the question, but it is still objectively a bad solution

[storm patio]

are you trying to be helpful here or do you just want to feel helpful and deny any alternative answer

[charred fog]

@sour jewel Please don't start off-topic arguments here

[sour jewel]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[storm patio]

cool, that message doesn't say they don't want vcs. they want collaboration, and vcs is the closest thing that's actually feasible

[charred fog]

Sidenote, pair-programming is not really accessing files at the same time, it is actually one person monitoring the work.

[junior path]

Huh. Til

[storm patio]

huh, yeah, that makes more sense.

[sour jewel]

Sorry I freak out at who I feel are know-it-alls. I will disappear for a few months and think about my hot-headedness

[storm patio]

so, remote access or screensharing would work for pair programming then? just not anything collaborative, just spectating like i mentioned

[charred fog]

But to actually use Unity project at the same time it is problematic. There is a paid extension that does that though.

[worldly cave]

also i couldnt imagine anything worse

like whats the benefit lol

[charred fog]

Normally you would use version control and separate work files

[violet thunder]

I see your frustration but you are judging the whole server on 1 person or 2

[sour jewel]

nope, again sorry

[storm patio]

it was actually 3, smh

[balmy kettle]

there's practically no benefit for it.
in fact, it's more like a negative because it gives an excuse to not learn the industry standard way of collaboration

[sour jewel]

i get too mad sorry Chris and boxfriend

[worldly cave]

imagine 30 people trying to work on a project at the same exact time

in realtime

[balmy kettle]

absolute chaos

[storm patio]

i imagine it'd go like that one image of a construction worker in a hole with like 29 others standing around said hole

[sour jewel]

I use VCS for everything, but sometimes when working with a co-worker at my day-job it's easier to just get control of their screen for a moment and show them

-or ping-pong ideas with a pair-programming session

[storm patio]

oh definitely, even more so with physical control and/or pointing

[sour jewel]

MS teams lags, but when you're remote it's all you got

[storm patio]

lord knows how many times ive screenshared and pointed at my own screen...

[gray frigate]

pvp enabled zone

[worldly cave]

could be a fun challenge though

thats about it

[gray frigate]

same vibes as "i invited my discord server to help me write an essay"

[storm patio]

"30 speedrunners share an inventory" and half of them are actively sabotaging the operation... at least there's teamwork

[stuck flower]

You've given me an idea for a youtube video

[storm patio]

it already exists 😔

[stuck flower]

Randomizer Among Us. One person in the multiworld is the imposter and needs to hinder everyone's progress without being called out

[storm patio]

that sounds hilarious

[gray frigate]

opening random .meta files and incrementing the guid

You know

There's no reason you couldn't just make all of your assets have sequential GUIDs

(ignoring zero; that's generally treated as a "null"/invalid guid)

I'm not sure Unity's IDs are even GUIDs, actually; they may just be completely random 128 bit values

(well, UUIDs, but whatever)

GUID is a better name; fight me

[violet thunder]

I thought thats what GUIDs are 🤔

[gray frigate]

there are many UUID versions, each of which is generated in a different way

a random integer is very unlikely to be a valid GUID, in the sense that the numbers didn't come from the correct place

i love how goofy this is

[storm patio]

what even lmao

[violet thunder]

Lol

[storm patio]

huh, 20 bytes?

thought UUID/GUID was 16 usually

[violet thunder]

64+16+16+8*8?

[gray frigate]

this is from Win32

so long is 32 bits

trolled again

[storm patio]

ah

[violet thunder]

Ah

[storm patio]

thanks i hate it

[gray frigate]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.guid.newguid?view=net-10.0

this is more relevant

it creates a v4 UUID, which is mostly random data

except for bits 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, and 15

[storm patio]

-# bytes?

[gray frigate]

no, bits

[storm patio]

huh, cool

[gray frigate]

yeah, I grabbed a random Unity GUID and it doesn't have a valid version

so i think these are just 128 random bits

[gray frigate]

er, those bits are parts of specific chunks of the GUID

that makes more sense now

[polar basalt]

a whole warzone will go on that person's screen 😭

[gray frigate]

I noticed that the Splines package has code for drawing handles for spline data

this stuff

however, it doesn't seem like it actually ever uses them

which is a bit weird!

[tawny quail]

The illusion of features

[gray frigate]

this would be handy for getting data aligned properly

[forest otter]

Hey guys, I need opinions, if you decide to, of course. Would it be worth it to design a level in Blender for the SOLE purpose of just acting as a layout, so that when you export the pieces, you'll already know what fits where, scales, and whatnot?

[potent geyser]

That's called a blockout, and yes it could be useful.

[worldly cave]

you could also do it inside of unity with probuilder

if you want to be playable as well

[lyric schooner]

Wow Unity ty for the newest updates. And C# 10 ftw!! Super stoked!

[tawny quail]

Where do you see 10?

[balmy kettle]

yeah, c# 10 is not really supported

it's possible to get access to the syntactic sugar that c# 10 provides (even as far as some of what c# 14 provides) but it's not something that's actually supported and requires tweaking certain things to even get it working in the first place

[lyric schooner]

Oh I saw something after upgrading to the latest Unity LTS version about C# 10.0 (not within the Unity itself), and I assumed it was this.
So we can now use like this:
$("Hello" + {sir}) or close with the $ to represent variables now. Thought this was 10.0 lol

[balmy kettle]

string interpolation is old
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/tokens/interpolated

[lyric schooner]

Oh my gosh I never knew this! I knew it were popular for other languages. Omg lmao! Thank you for clarifying!
I am super happy I upgrade my project to the latest version of unity. It has been a hugely productive day yay

[lyric schooner]

I had errors relating to interpolation is what made me upgrade actually. C# im sure it was.

[balmy kettle]

string interpolation has been around since c# 6, which was released 10 years ago

and the syntax for it has not changed. so if you had errors, it was likely what you wrote and not interpolation itself

[lyric schooner]

Makes sense. I do now remember using it before taking a break.

My project bugged out at the time very likely. Fixed now.

[lyric schooner]

It were some older callbacks compared to newer version of Unity. Maybe not relating to the interpolation.
I read the docs and also use AI which may be confused with version calls

It has definitely fixed since updating

[gray frigate]

maybe you were trying to use raw strings? those are too new to use in Unity

i.e.

"""
wow
big
string
"""

[lyric schooner]

I have now created an OS simulator game. It is perfect, but it is boring. It will be more hehe.

Full file / folder app structures for both Desktop and FileExplorer, TextEditor, Terminal etc 😉

Drag and drop and nesting and swapping everywhere. Fully works. Rename, create, delete etc.

Friends and family become bored so I never talk about it haha.

What are you all working on?

Stuck a little with vertical layout menu for UI if here is fine to ask.

[plain dagger]

verbatim string literals also exist https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/strings/#verbatim-string-literals

[young rapids]

Anyone else ever run into an issue where baking occlusion data corrupts the scene and crashes the editor whenever said scene is loaded?
It's ~40mb of data, not the smallest scene but also not insanely huge either.

I've tried manually clearing caches/deleting the occlusion folders/yeeting the occlusion part of the scene file manually, but issue still persists.

[gray frigate]

nope, that's a new one

[slow dirge]

Maybe start from checking the crash report. Other than that, reverting the scene data to the last working version in version control.

[chilly crypt]

Hello

[young rapids]

Pretty much what I'm doing, more or less binary searching my own vcs atm. 😄

Just wondering if it was a known issue with 6

[primal nimbus]

so I'm making a metroidvania

and I'm using additive scenes

and each room is a different scene

is this good practice?

or should I have a different way of handling rooms?

[reef dome]

<@&502884371011731486> not sure about this one but it looks hella suspicous 😄

[sage basin]

!warn 946576139651014657 do not post links to random sites without context

[vagrant root]

@captainamerica48551 warned

Reason: do not post links to random sites without context
Duration: Permanent

[near wigeon]

depends on the situation, the project requirements, design etc

loading and unloading scenes can cause some delay time..
additive loading can help, or just loading and unloading prefabs as rooms.. really depends.. different scenes means also factoring how to handle persistent player data, enemies and other gameplay elements

[coral prairie]

Hi, im trying to change the unity install location in unityhub, and it doesn't let me for any of the locations. i click the text box or folder, and it does nothing. it lets me select the text but not delete or edit it at all. im on arch based linux

[torn ravine]

Is there any way to make new gameobjects and stuff default to be positioned at 0,0,0 unless I explicitly drag it somewhere in the scene? It's so odd that everytime I add something its at some seemingly random coordinate position lmao

[near wigeon]

its based on your scene view camera

try edit -> preferences ->scene view create objects at origin tickbox

[torn ravine]

Ah that makes sense, I was wondering where it got those position values lol. I'll try that, thanks 🙂

[torn ravine]

Is it supposed to be here?

[near wigeon]

ohh try that dropdown I guess, which version of unity you at

[torn ravine]

oh yeah the drop down has a world origin option, duh, sorry I should have caught that haha. I'm on 6.3 LTS

[near wigeon]

ohh I guess it was changed since 6.0

[crystal jay]

Hey there. I wanna make a 4v4 tag team fighting game and smash bros platform fighter and some mini games so. I wanna seperate 3 game modes in 1 project. This is my idea.

Call me kailo and nice to meet you all. Im 20 (Almost 21) year old guy who is a web developer in Visual Studio Code.

[polar basalt]

Did u find any issues on 6.3? Im thinking of switching to that but im scared of finding issues only like 5 months after..

[crystal jay]

I filed a prototype name of 4v4 tag team game namdd Project 4VT

So i call it a 4v4 tag team and smash bros project fighting game. So i will be making and designing 40 character slots and 20 Fighting Stages and 20 Smash Stages and then 20 Minigames.

[polar basalt]

Are you just sharing the idea or smth? Or introducing yourself here? There is no offtopic channel here its only help channels so idrk if this is the right place

[coral prairie]

uhhh i tried to update it and this happened, i reinstalled and its still like this.. im using the aur version "unityhub", i have arch not debian or ubuntu

it's an empty window with black text that appears to be some kinda ai prompt

[polar basalt]

[polar basalt]

Is this Unity? Or is this like a text editor that opens or smth? Im pretty sure Unity has nothing to do with perplexity, something is very weird

[coral prairie]

this is meant to be unityhub

unless unityhub on aur is a virus

though it was what i had installed prior

[polar basalt]

I have no idea what is aur sorry i dont use linux :(

[coral prairie]

arch user repository

[polar basalt]

Maybe try ask here? #🐧┃linux

Also try search there trough messages

You may find someone that had the same issue with aur or smth but i kinda doubt it tbh

Also try find if thats the best way to do it, idk how else but just saying

[near wigeon]

should be fine as long as its aquired from archlinux.org

[coral prairie]

i just used yay i assumed it was from aur

[coral prairie]

something isn't fine for sure

[balmy kettle]

this isn't an issue with the collision, it is an issue with a variable not being assigned
https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

[torn ravine]

I'm pretty new to unity so I don't really have a frame of reference for how the older version were

[balmy kettle]

and where do you assign it

[obtuse rover]

fuck.

whoopsie

i did not do that

[torn ravine]

I'm following a unity learn tutorial and reached this step:

4. Set Local Coordinates

With the FireTransform GameObject selected, open the Toggle Tool Handle Rotation dropdown located at the top of the Scene view and select Local.

But I don't see what it's talking about, what am I missing?

[balmy kettle]

you've got the relevant overlay hidden
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/overlays.html

[torn ravine]

How do I unhide it

[balmy kettle]

if only there were a link that gave you information about overlays

[torn ravine]

🙄 you dont have to be a prick. You were like this last time lmao. You can inform someone without being pretentious.

I'll check out that link, thanks

[balmy kettle]

you can also click links before asking questions that would obviously be answered by the supplied link. i didn't just provide the link for shits and giggles, mate. it was obviously to help you figure out how to unhide it

[obtuse rover]

How do i fix this "Assets\Scripts\Logic.cs(32,13): error CS1061: 'Flap' does not contain a definition for 'canFlap' and no accessible extension method 'canFlap' accepting a first argument of type 'Flap' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

[balmy kettle]

presumably you want to create that variable in the Flap class

[obtuse rover]

i have

[balmy kettle]

not according to that error. show the relevant code in a code channel (like #💻┃code-beginner )

[obtuse rover]

oh ok, the actual script is called Bee, but because i renamed it, it only accepts the origional name

does that help?

[balmy kettle]

what? this is about the class Flap that you are attempting to use the canFlap variable on

if you need further help with this, then show the code in a code channel.

[latent meadow]

annoying. misleading.

[neat tinsel]

Can someone help me make my ai monster move. I've been struggling past 2 hours. I am unity noob. The player can walk, but not the monster for some reason.

[balmy kettle]

you're going to need to provide more information, like your actual code. but do so in a code channel

[obtuse rover]

how do i make this work properly?

[tawny quail]

CompareTag

[balmy kettle]

and back to #💻┃code-beginner because that's where code questions belong

[obtuse rover]

sorry

[neon nacelle]

I've been dealing with a problem regarding my terrain. I have a large map. The width is 276,000. This entire map is divided into sections with Width = 92,000 and Length = 100,000. The white-and-grey checker pattern of the first terrain I placed at (0, 0, 0) does not vibrate. However, every other terrain does. This vibration occurs both in the scene and the game. It occurs with both the player camera and the scene camera. It only vibrates when the camera is moving either with WASD or when looking around while stationary. In addition, even near the world origin of (0, 0, 0), the other terrains still vibrate. The vibration does not occur when the camera is not moving. I tried a floating origin script and it did not fix anything. I can tell it is not the camera itself that is vibrating because nearby referencing points are still.

[balmy kettle]

that sounds more like the camera is stuttering and not an issue with the terrain.
how are you actually moving the camera

[neon nacelle]

with WASD. This is the scene camera for one so the default way. It isn't the camera, as all surrounding reference points remain stationary.

and it's only withing a 4 meter radius of th camera

[balmy kettle]

with WASD
yeah i meant how in the code, the buttons you press to move it are irrelevant

[neon nacelle]

Well I don't know what to tell you bro. This is the scene camera. Whatever Unity decided.

Also, in the game, the starter pack FPS controller.

[violet thunder]

100k units per chunk? Floating point precision issues start to be visible at a few thousand units

[violet thunder]

In addition, even near the world origin of (0, 0, 0), the other terrains still vibrate.
With this you mean the camera is at 0, 0, 0? Or the terrain?

[marble fiber]

At what position does floating point become an issue?

Like > 10,000?

[violet thunder]

I'd say closer to 1000-2000

The wobbles creep in

[neon nacelle]

Both. So, of course, (0, 0, 0) is connected to 4 different terrains. One of the terrain's transformation things says (0, 0, 0). Another one is (0, 0, -100,000). Even though I am standing on 0,0,0 If I look over, the terrain jitters. But if I turn around, the terrain of that original terrain is not jittering.

[marble fiber]

Gg, I’m making a game based sea travel and the sea extends to like 5000

[neon nacelle]

Also I should add that I am not getting a floating point error with any of them right now

[violet thunder]

Your chunks are simply too large/too far apart

You should either scale everything down or split it into way smaller chunks

And probably implement floating origin in any case

What type of game is it if it needs this kind of scale?

[neon nacelle]

Just a silly little war simulator on a large-scale map lol
Thanks, I'll go ahead and learn about chunks and stuff. I'll also try the floating origin thing again. I'm new to all of this and I've been learning as I go for the past week and a half.

[neon nacelle]

You are a lifesaver. Turning one of the chunks into 64 worked. Thank you. Time to create another 704 chunks

Thank you

[stark copper]

Hello, sorry I'm new there (and french), I would like to find an official Unity discord (or chan) dedicated to the coding Unity + C# + Android + Smartphone, I create an app for android in 2D. Could you help me please?

[pearl oyster]

#📱┃mobile

[chilly crypt]

Sorry to sound sudden but is there any moders for unity games ? Because i dont trust fiverr cause they all look sus with 5 stars and no examples of past work

[copper gust]

no paid work here and no modding here

sorry

[pearl oyster]

double whammy

[tired flame]

do yall use collision detection or raycasting to detect whether a player is grounded?

whats the better choice here

[chilly crypt]

That’s fair :T

I honestly might learn it so I do it myself

[vague trail]

raycast is better, that only check when u need (when u click space) , raycast detection collider exactly than collider (because collider collision check in physic update can missing collision event

[strong fable]

is there an OnEnabled type method for outside runtime? when I pull an object with the script into the scene this fires once basically.

[soft cobalt]

can anyone help me with setting up a fullscreen UI canvas in a 2d project? im lost, i want it to cover the whole screen and treat bottom left as cords 0,0. But currently it seems to be behaving like a standard camera

[pearl oyster]

I don't know what you mean by standard camera but screen space canvas is always full screen. The scene view doesn't show it that way, you have to look in the game view

[soft cobalt]

in game view it appears just like in the scene view

[pearl oyster]

The joystick's anchor is wrong

if you want it always in the bottom left corner it should be anchored there

[soft cobalt]

what you're saying is the canvas is in fact covering the full screen but I need to anchor the stuff I put inside it?

[pearl oyster]

Yes

[soft cobalt]

ok thanks that makes sense

[pearl oyster]

If you haven't changed the anchor then it's placed in relation to the center of the canvas instead of the corners

[soft cobalt]

can child objects be placed normally if the parent is anchored?

[plain dagger]

whats "normally" in your mind?

[soft cobalt]

regular transform with set positions

[plain dagger]

in UGUI? not really

you can still set position/localPosition in code if you want

Otherwise you need to correctly set anchors because their anchored position is relative to them

[soft cobalt]

cuz this isnt working

[plain dagger]

Anchors are relative to the parent, so perhaps the parent rect transform is also not setup correctly

Learn more here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html#anchors

[soft cobalt]

can you tell if rect transform is not setup correctly from the screenshots

[plain dagger]

I am guessing you want it elsewhere but its easier if you read the docs and learn how these work yourself

Then you can set it as you want

[pearl oyster]

The anchor is still wrong. It should be "bottom left". I don't even know where the "custom" comes from

[plain dagger]

its custom when you move the anchors yourself

[soft cobalt]

i'll just read, i didnt search up any documentation of this because I assumed its gonna be super simple to get UI working

[plain dagger]

UI is usually complex because we need systems to handle different screen sizes and aspect ratios

thats why these features exist

[soft cobalt]

yeah but im not even trying to handle diffrent screens yet I just want the joystick to appear in the bottom left corner of the screen

[plain dagger]

Then all anchors want to be bottom left BUT its parent also needs to be set correctly
If its parent is your canvas then thats not an issue

[soft cobalt]

this doesnt work, i'm sure there's something wrong with the canvas, not my positioning

are we sure its always fullscreen

[pearl oyster]

Show what you have in the joystick's inspector now

[soft cobalt]

if i pause and resize the canvas the anchor behaves as it should

[pearl oyster]

Again you have to look at the game view

[soft cobalt]

everything is the exact same in game view

[pearl oyster]

You have set the joystick to be 214 and 215 pixels from the bottom left corner

If you want it to be exactly in the bottom left corner those should be 0

[soft cobalt]

are you ai

[pearl oyster]

wat

[soft cobalt]

this is completely irrelevant and intentional

[pearl oyster]

What is?

[soft cobalt]

joystick being at 214 215

its rendering in the center of the screen

[pearl oyster]

So what's the problem then?

[soft cobalt]

it isnt meant to be in the center of the screen

[pearl oyster]

...then move it to where you want it?

[copper gust]

(they are trying)

[soft cobalt]

compiling c++ sfml to mobile seems easier than this

[copper gust]

forget how you wanna set this up but iirc generally you want that slider to be on the right

and scale with height rather than width

dunno if that's your problem specifically here but that canvas rect in the scene looks a little odd

[soft cobalt]

yea thats my problem

and it renders exactly the same as it looks in the scene instead of being fullscreen

[copper gust]

make that slider 1 and post a screenshot of the gameview w/ gizmos turned on

[soft cobalt]

nothing changed

[copper gust]

Is there a reason behind your reference pixels per unit being 200 rather than 100?

[soft cobalt]

i was just changing it trying to see if it helps fix anything

how is it even possible that a canvas fails to do the one thing its meant to do, which is render at fullscreen??

[copper gust]

haven't seen this particular issue happen before tbh

little strange

does making a new one work?

[soft cobalt]

no it creates this one every time

is unity 2d just garbage?

[ionic ermine]

guys im working on a timeline

in unity

for a storycutsene intro sort

how can i add a fade in and out

for the texts

[cedar idol]

Hello Guys i need your help in something ,

i would like to know how to make a TAG (variable) turned ON (true) when an Object A is in the front of Object B (sensor : limit switch)
i did some test with the help of chat gpt but it doesnt work

[copper gust]

what have you tried to google

[soft cobalt]

specify what object A being in front of object B means

[cedar idol]

object A is the gray Big cube , when it comes in front of the small blue 3D Sensor it should turn ON a Variable

[soft cobalt]

you just modify transform.tag variable

thats it

[copper gust]

what isn't working

[cedar idol]

i cant see the tag switch from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 in the console

[soft cobalt]

that means hit never doesnt equal laststate

[copper gust]

You haven't provided code that would log 0 or 1 into the console, we'd need to see the whole context

[cedar idol]

im noob could you please clarify things to me 🙏

[soft cobalt]

learn how to code before using unity

[copper gust]

What in here would log 0 or 1?

[cedar idol]

my goal is not to creat a game or something , just creating a simple simulation lab to test my Industrial Programmable Logic Controller Logic and program for my personalized process

[cedar idol]

[Header("Sensor -> PLC (DB100 inputs)")]
[Tooltip("PLC address to write the limit switch state (object present = true).")]
public string limitSwitchAddress = "DB100.DBX0.4";

[Tooltip("Log when the limit switch write changes.")]
public bool logSensorWrites = true;

[copper gust]

those don't do anything

they are things

[copper gust]

What in what you are showing me would log 0 or 1 in the console

[buoyant igloo]

Hi! I'm having an awful time trying to implement the outline in my game. I tried various approaches and tutorials, every single one didn't work or had many errors. The last one I'm trying to implement uses the inverted hull, and I'm trying to implement it in the simplest way possible:

[plain dagger]

ask more in #1391720450752516147

[deft rock]

UI doesn't need to use colliders.
What components are on 'Joy' and 'Stick' ?

You shouldn't be changing the scale of UI elements, they're best left at 1,1,1 and you use height/ width to set the size. Changing the scale is just asking for trouble (not with alignment, it's just an aside)

[soft cobalt]

im using the colliders for input detection and storing circle radiuses
they only have transform and sprite renderer components (scale 100 in transform)
is it fine if parent has scale 1,1,1?

also this isnt even relevant to my problem, the canvas itself is broken, not the ui elements

[deft rock]

sprite renderers are for game objects, not UI - that is why you can't align it correctly

re-do them with UI Image

[soft cobalt]

wait holy shit image works thank you so much

it was the elements after all

only took 1,5 hours of raging

so much wasted time

[deft rock]

yeah, couldn't be the canvas.. it's a screenspace one

[soft cobalt]

how exactly is sprite renderer and image diffrent?

[deft rock]

one is for UI (image) and one isn't (SpriteRenderer)

[soft cobalt]

how do they function diffrently

[copper gust]

one is built for the UI Canvas system

one is built for more isolated, general usage

[soft cobalt]

is switching from sprite renderer to image gonna break my joystick code?

[copper gust]

probablyyy not but

depends

[soft cobalt]

at least i can stop wasting my time now so idm if it breaks

it didnt break lets gooo

Also sorry for being mean earlier, I was really angry because of this

[flat breach]

hello, I have a PBR texture, how can I make a material for this? the only available slots are those, there is not metallic, roughness, ambient occlusion, opacity,

[strong fable]

for (int i = 0; i < _count; i++)
    dist = min(dist, distance(worldPos, _posBuffer[i]));
Result[id.xy] = max(0, 1 - dist);```

can someone explain to me why this darker line between 2 positions happens?

I get that this is the line where the distances to both center points are equal but min(0.5, 0.5) is still 0.5 or not?

[potent geyser]

Because there's light?

[soft cobalt]

any reasons why Touchscreen.current would be null even when I run my game on phone? I have new input system enabled

[sand spade]

UA CHATS??

[charred fog]

This is an English speaking community

[vivid river]

Whats ua?

[sand spade]

Only English?

[sand spade]

Ukraine

[strong breach]

hey sup is there a channel based on help with shadergraph i can't find it

[quaint dove]

What kind of UI editor is being used in this video, and how can I enable the same, please?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm95z0PwGD4

[vast arch]

hello, i have a question; is it possible to set the background type of the environment in the camera to transparent ?

any answer would be extremely appreciated ive been trying to find a solution for a very long time

[copper gust]

solid colour no opacity?

[deft rock]

It's probably an asset bought from the store. Unity doesn't have anything like this for you to enable

[vast arch]

first thing i tried ... did not work, it showed the color instead

[copper gust]

oh

unitialized

[soft cobalt]

please help I tried some solutions from forums and they didnt work

[gray dirge]

There is no darker line. It is very common visual illution that happens in many similar situations. If you zoom closer to it or use a color picker feature, it will reveal to you how there's no line, it's just the two gradients meeting and our brains misinterpreting it. Problem solved?

[deft rock]

what will be showing if the camera skybox is transparent?

[copper gust]

another cameras skybox

[deft rock]

want them to reply and be clear, because they haven't said

[gray dirge]

@strong fable Just to prove it to you, here's the same picture you sent me bit modified. I cut the image somewhere from the left side and mirrored it around the X axis in GIMP. You can still see the line (though maybe little dimmer due to the contrast change). If it still bothers you, I'm sure there are ways to blend the gradients more smoothly but it certainly isn't a bug in your code, rather in our eyes

Looks lil sus I agree

[strong fable]

yea after I zoomed in I realized its my caveman brain making things up. I've applied some smoothing to get rid of it

[gray dirge]

In some sense there is a line though. The closer you get to the middle, the color gets darker from both sides and reaches the darkest point at the middle where there is clear discontinuity in the rate of change of the gradient. Smoothing of some kind is the only way to get rid of it (I assume dithering wouldn't do much for this kind of lines). I have seen this effect many times before and many times I have thought my shader is bugged, if somebody knows a name for this effect, I would be insterested

[charred fog]

#1390346776804069396

[neat minnow]

Could someone help me? I'm having an issue with the unity play mode

For some reason, I can't exit play mode

[inland river]

if you can't do anything in the editor, force-quit and restart. likely causes: infinite (or long running ) loop in your code, some sort of async function that runs on the main thread but doesn't complete (deadlock maybe), debugger breakpoint.

[neat minnow]

I can. It's something weird that happens. Sometimes, the profiler and the package manager pops up, and when that happens I can't exit play mode

[proven obsidian]

how do i fix this

[slow dirge]

Fix what?

[proven obsidian]

i mean how i can fix the read only thing, it prevents me from building apk

[slow dirge]

We're not even sure what is read only. You cropped the shit out of that message.

[proven obsidian]

oh wait

[slow dirge]

You should provide some more context.

[slow dirge]

We're not psychics here.

[copper gust]

those are not errors apparently

there's couple threads online

[proven obsidian]

do i need to move sdk folder to somewhere else?

[copper gust]

google the problem

[slow dirge]

When do you get this? Where? Is there more info to it? Did you try making the folder non read-only in the explorer?

[proven obsidian]

i did but didnt found the solution

[proven obsidian]

yeah i tried

but it sets automatically to true

[copper gust]

what did you find

[slow dirge]

What about my other questions? And share links to whatever you found online.

[proven obsidian]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/unity-android-build-fail/942899/11
https://community.gamedev.tv/t/unity-failed-to-build-the-sdk-is-read-only-and-gradle-build-failed/231017
https://discussions.unity.com/t/solved-exception-while-marshaling-probably-the-sdk-is-read-only/928948

found these

tried to change the api levels

[copper gust]

this thread has stuff to read

[proven obsidian]

Error: Could not find or load main class com.google.prefab.cli.AppKt
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.prefab.cli.AppKt

i need to install android studio?

[slow dirge]

Share the whole error

Share it following the code sharing guidelines:

!code

[vagrant root]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[slow dirge]

Also, for future reference, it should be in the #📱┃mobile channel.

[tropic oyster]

Can someone explain why placing a camera as a child of an object like binds the sprite, ui and camera on the same plane?

[vivid cedar]

what do you mean by that?

what sprite? What UI?

[tropic oyster]

So I have an object
I have a canvas/UI nested beneath it
I have a sprite beneath it
I have a camera beneath it

The renderering worked before I put the camera beneath the root of the object

[vivid cedar]

When you say "beneath it" you mean as children in the hierarchy?

[tropic oyster]

yeah

[vivid cedar]

Ok so what's the confusion exactly?

Are you moving the parent object?

[tropic oyster]

It's not rendering the sprite

[vivid cedar]

Where is the sprite and where is the camera?

Their positions matter

And not just the x/y positions. Z too.

[tropic oyster]

I can't move the camera relative to the sprite

[vivid cedar]

WDYM by that

how are you trying to move it and what happens when you try?

[tropic oyster]

They stay on the same Z no matter what I do

[vivid cedar]

Are you using cinemachine

or a camera script

Show some screenshots of what you're doing

[vivid cedar]

and what are the things you are trying?

[tropic oyster]

I tried changing Z values, nothing happened.
I rotated the camera and could see a cross-section which indicates is a clipping issue because they are on the same plane

[tropic oyster]

im using the default camera?

[vivid cedar]

Again can you show some screenshots please

[vivid cedar]

When you say "nothing happened" what does that mean? Did the numbers just not change? Or what

[tropic oyster]

the numbers change but the position of the camera relative to the sprite doesn't change

[vivid cedar]

Ok I think you're just confused by the fact you have your tool handle position set to CEnter

Press Z or click this to change it to Pivot

[tropic oyster]

didn't do anything

still can't see the sprite in the scene

He's there lol, just hiding on the plane

[granite garden]

Hello, I'm a complete beginner with Unity. I'm trying to work on a project, but unfortunately, I'm stuck on shaders and materials. The problem isn't so much the code itself, but Unity's logic. If someone could come and help me in pm, I would be very grateful. (I don't think I'm that far from figuring it out.)

[vivid cedar]

just looks like something is in front of him

[tropic oyster]

that's the UI

[vivid cedar]

indeed

[tropic oyster]

But the ui is attached to the camera, it's not in the scene

[vivid cedar]

I mean it looks like we found him, so is your problem solved or not

I'm confused

I saw him here too

[tropic oyster]

He isn't rendering in the game

[vivid cedar]

You haven't shown the game view yet

[vivid cedar]

I also can't see his z position here, but x and y are 10 and -8, might not be in the camera view

[vivid cedar]

he's probably just behind some of this other stuff

[tropic oyster]

he. is. on. the. camera. plane

[vivid cedar]

What sorting layer and order in layer is everything on?

2D sorting works on that stuff before physical distance

[tropic oyster]

They are all on default

[vivid cedar]

You also cropped out his z position here

[vivid cedar]

well that's a problem

you'll want to have the characters on a higher layer

so they draw in front

[tropic oyster]

oh

it's on 10

[vivid cedar]

try disabling all those other objects for a second I bet he appears

[tropic oyster]

nope

he's getting culled by the camera

i figured it out, I just set the clipping plane to -1

[solid bay]

does anyone know why cursor.lockstate and cursor.visible aren't working in my unpause method? i have a print statement to check that the method is indeed getting to that point but those two particular statements arent working (to lock the cursor and set it invisible) but the cursor movement statement does work

whats weird is that setting both of those to unlocked and true respectively in the pause method works fine

and it only reapplies when i click the window again

[old ember]

Hello, I need help setting the font and interface scale in Unity.

How can I manually change the interface scale in Unity? There are only presets and system settings. But 125% is too small for me, and the system setting of 135% is too large.

Can I change the font and interface scale separately in the editor?

If I set the system font in Unity's settings, the font doesn't look like my Windows font; it's too wide. Can I change the system font or add my own font?

[ripe sphinx]

i want to use the memory profiler to capture states in a scene when the garbage collector spins up

but how do i isolate the snapshot to that point in time?

[arctic portal]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/landscapes/low-poly-simple-nature-pack-162153

i found this asset pack with low poly models and LOD groups. any chance i can use these assets in blender to model whatever i need and get it back in unity with the LOD groups?

[potent geyser]

Models are just fbx files which can be opened and overridden externally, sure.

[arctic portal]

so i'll have to download the asset, put it unity, covert to fbx using a package, then put it into blender or is there an easier way?

[potent geyser]

No?

The models will already be FBX.

Unity doesn't use any special file format for models in the engine.

[ripe sphinx]

oh btw one ting

how do yall merge unity ui files?

what's the standard practice around this?

[potent geyser]

By not. One person works in the prefab and commits it. If there's conflicts, the one person makes the changes themselves.

[arctic portal]

im dumb, i got it... thanks a lot!

[ripe sphinx]

oh kk

so i guess the takeaway from that then is that you have to be very careful about logging the changes that you made

so that you dont end up missing something later

(which generally is good practice anyway ofc)

ok and there's no sense in trying to only commit specific parts of a unity scene file?

if you make 1 change you commit the entire thing in?

[mild radish]

the commit knows what has changed... and updates accordingly..

thats the purpose of it.. so its not a full read and write each time

it keps up w/ changes.. diff

[echo rune]

Hi all. I'm still on unity 2022. I was on 2021 but I think the only reason to upgrade back then was bcoz an asset required using FindObjectsByType

Anyways, i'm about to get Microsplat URP for 2022 but since MS is per unity version, i'm considering checking out 2023 or even 6
My game's 2.5D (3D environment, character is pixel art sprites)
Might go multiplayer (using photon fusion)
Might lock in to use microsplat

Anyways, the safer question is, is 2023 LTS stable enough and recommended over 2022 LTS nowadays?
Or to my surprise, could unity 6 be good? I saw their hybrid 3D/2D lighting and it might be relevant for us, and auto LOD, etc, but it's too new...

[balmy kettle]

there is no 2023 LTS, Unity 6 was the LTS version that came from the 2023 version (because it was renamed before being released as LTS)

[echo rune]

Ah yes i'm seeing something unusual about that in the download archive

And wth is this? They put versions behind paywall now?

[balmy kettle]

there's nothing unusual. the version that was originally called 2023 was renamed to Unity 6 before it released as an LTS version. there is no version called 2023 that was ever LTS

[strong fable]

are cameraNormal and cameraDepth available before opaques are drawn?

[balmy kettle]

this has pretty much always been the case. after the 2 year LTS period only enterprise and industry licenses get bug fixes for that version

[storm patio]

keeping stuff maintained is an added cost. LTS is basically keeping an old version up-to-date with bug or security patches. at some point they restrict their releases to paying customers

(other than the critical security patches)

[echo rune]

Right ok

I mean wow 2022 is 3(4?) years ago already by now

[balmy kettle]

almost 3 years old, yes. it released as LTS in 2023

[echo rune]

I felt like the versioning for 2021 onwards were kinda off

Maybe bcoz covid

[balmy kettle]

no

[echo rune]

I'm just joking

[balmy kettle]

joking about the versioning being "kinda off"?

because that's what i was saying no to

[echo rune]

Anyways this project's not in production yet so thinking about choosing a newer unity version. But just not sure which one

[balmy kettle]

just go with the latest LTS if you haven't even started production yet

[echo rune]

Is it not? Then maybe my time perception is the one that's off, bcoz of covid

[balmy kettle]

in what way do you think it was "kinda off"? if you're referring to the fact that the LTS versions released in the year following the year that the version implies, that's because the versions were named for the year they were created, but they go through several iterations of tech stream releases before being released as LTS

[echo rune]

Oh this is what i meant. Unity 2023 is what's around for 2023 and 2024. There was no unity 2024
Unity 6 was out on 2025

Oh also ya 2025 is this year

[balmy kettle]

2023 literally became unity 6. they were the same version, it was just a rename because they are going back to the old naming scheme

and 6 released over a year ago, it did not release this year

[storm patio]

first full release april 29th 2024

[echo rune]

Oh ya

[storm patio]

if you're looking in the archive, make sure you've selected "all versions", not "supported"

[echo rune]

I think i'm the one that's off

[vivid river]

Security alert?

[storm patio]

the old versions are out of support of course

yeah #📢┃announcements message

[echo rune]

Ok so that'd be 6000.3 kinda

[storm patio]

not "kinda", that's just.. what the latest LTS minor version is currently

[echo rune]

Any 2.5D devs know anything cool n worthy features in 6000.3 ?

[balmy kettle]

it just released as an LTS version a couple weeks ago so you've got nearly 2 full years of bug fixes to look forward to, as opposed to 6.0 which is the previous LTS which has less than a year of bug fixes left

[echo rune]

Well... 6000.3.2f1. The 2f1 is such a low number that i don't trust that as much as ... 6000.0.64f1 for example

[balmy kettle]

that's really silly reasoning

[sly lake]

Not really

It typically gets more stable over time

[echo rune]

I like my LTS to have high version number

[balmy kettle]

just because it has had fewer patches doesn't mean it has more bugs. it's newer and obviously includes patches that were made for previous versions, it's not like it didn't get any of those

[echo rune]

The later major (6.3, the .3 is major i think?) means more "new features"
And these new features are what i'm wary about

Either the whole version can get messed to have this new feature, or me having too high expectation to insist on using those said new features only to be disappointed by how early it still is

[sly lake]

It's no guarantee, but in general, more mature LTS versions definitely skew more stable.

[balmy kettle]

technically the .3 part is the minor version, but it seems like they are being treated as major versions now which is . . . odd
the semantic versioning is major.minor.patch

[solid bay]

help please

[echo rune]

Sometimes i see people set these states in Update to be very sure (some particular clicks can cause the state to be in limbo depending on platform)
And to be sure, make sure u check ref of this visible/lockstate to make sure and triple make sure that no other code sets this elsewhere

[storm patio]

though there's the extra fx/bx/ax bits that aren't part of semver...

what do those x versions mean anyways?
why couldn't they just increment the patch number

is there some syncing between like f and b releases that this solves

[echo rune]

Alpha Beta Final

[storm patio]

im not sure f is final

(but that's not what my message was about, in case you misread)

[solid bay]

i only have the two methods that set it, as well as in the start method of the camera script but that only occurs once

and the methods are only called through the escape key atm

the rest of them work, its just the cursor states

[storm patio]

apparently there used to be p versions too, that's interesting

[echo rune]

P for "probably"

[echo rune]

IIRC escape key also messes up cursor lock state innately? CMIIW

[storm patio]

is that also a thing outside of webgl?

[balmy kettle]

i think it actually is supposed to be final.
and they usually don't increment those numbers unless there's some reason they decide they need to reissue a patch. like the security vulnerability, they technically made no other changes besides removing that vulnerability so they probably reasoned it didn't need a patch version increment since they were basically reissuing the same patch

[storm patio]

fair enough

[solid bay]

that does also bring up the issue ive been having where my ui buttons completely freeze after i pause

like they dont even change when i hover over them

and i cant click a single one

[storm patio]

it sounds like you might not be undoing what you did when you pause completely

[balmy kettle]

are you setting time scale to 0 and using animations? because that would do it if your animations use scaled time

[solid bay]

im just using the base unity buttons atm

[deft rock]

the x means how many rc's it went through before being released to public

[solid bay]

whatever animations are built in is whats there

[echo rune]

Well it ultimately depend on what are the things u do in the pause

[solid bay]

but yes timescale does get set to 0

but thats about it

[storm patio]

in an internal process?

[deft rock]

yes

[storm patio]

and does it get set back to what it should be normally when you unpause?

[solid bay]

yeah

[storm patio]

have you verified that through debugging or anything else in the scene that uses scaled time

[solid bay]

yes, when i press escape again the game goes back to normal

i have debug statements at the end of each method and both go off when they are supposed to

[balmy kettle]

also just to be clear, you are clicking back into the game window after closing the pause menu/pressing escape, right? if you press escape it releases the cursor from the game view so in game the cursor can be locked, but because the editor released focus from the game view when you pressed escape that means you can see the cursor

[solid bay]

oh

will it be like that when the game is an independent app

like is that function only in place for the editor

[balmy kettle]

no, that's just how the editor works

it might work like that on web builds too, but that might depend on what the browser is doing

[solid bay]

so yes to this

[balmy kettle]

yes, that is what i said.

[solid bay]

alr

whats going on with the ui buttons then

[storm patio]

to be clear, you're referring to UI buttons within your game, right

how are you pointing at ui buttons if your cursor is locked

[finite fox]

Hi, my game size does not exceed 600 MB, but some players say they cannot enter the game scene until more than 5 minutes pass.
On my device, it takes less than two minutes and I’m already inside the game.

I tried to find solutions but couldn’t.
I modified the scene loading code, but they still say the same thing.
I also uploaded the vehicles to GitHub to reduce the game size, and the size became smaller, but they still have the same problem.

So what is the solution?

[storm patio]

the issue isn't necessarily loading assets, it could also be initialization, stuff inside Awake in your scenes for example

I also uploaded the vehicles to GitHub to reduce the game size, and the size became smaller
this.. doesn't make sense. this just isn't how stuff works

[finite fox]

What is your advice?

[storm patio]

in regards to what?

[solid bay]

the pause method unlocks it

[solid bay]

yes

[finite fox]

to fix the problem >>

[storm patio]

do profiling to figure out where the issue actually is, rather than guessing

[storm patio]

oh so you're referring to UI buttons in your pause menu?

[solid bay]

yes

when timescale is 0 the buttons dont do their onclick thing

[storm patio]

well if timescale is 0 while paused then those buttons won't animate if they're using scaled time, obviously

[solid bay]

and they dont change when hovering over

[solid bay]

i have animators on both the buttons and the pause menu itself set to unscaled time

[storm patio]

oh this is a different story then

do you have an event system with the proper input module

are buttons anywhere else working?

[solid bay]

the title screen ones are but thats in a different scene

[balmy kettle]

and have you confirmed they do work when timescale is 1?

[storm patio]

are there any other buttons in the scene where you're pausing?

[solid bay]

oh my god im stupid

[storm patio]

it's sounding like the issue is this

[solid bay]

i didnt have the event system set to dontdestroyonload

[frank vigil]

Does anyone know where I can find this specific asset <pack>? I know it **may **be a **deprecated **unity asset pack with fantasy creatures. Possibly hand painted textures<?>
Anyways, this first asset was called Either Clawbug or Claw Bug.
It came with more creatures such as the Elemental, a rock golem type of creature.
There was also a raptor and wasp, and possibly a plant<?> creature too.
May have been part of a larger pack.

[deft rock]

what's with the weird use of <> throughout that msg

[mild radish]

if you've purchased in the past you can still download deprecated packages you own..

• otherwise: you'd need to find the publisher's info.. and see if they've also posted it in other marketplaces.. or publically via a github or something

[frank vigil]

If Im not sure about something

[ionic ermine]

this menu looks really bland

can someone give me some tips

to make it look better

[worldly cave]

you should probably make a thread for this

but also a very good idea is just to look at references from games you think have good menus and go from there

[marble fiber]

Wait, is floating point origin basically a must making anything relatively large scale? I measured and 1000 units doesn't seem like a lot

How would you even tackle floating point origin in multiplayer? Localized Origin points basically but then how would you sync the positions of objects together?

[worldly cave]

1000 units isnt a lot

anything past that is already murky territory though

and you will see noticably bigger issues at like 10k or more, even games that do floating point origins have issues at large scales

rust is a good example, its a pretty optimizied game for its size but at the far edges of the map you can see a lot of "artifacts"

[primal creek]

hi, i have a climbing system similiar to that of dying light 2. i wanted to add support for moving objects, so that the player moves along with the object they are holding onto. at first i tried to just set the player's parent to the object they are holding, but i realized it may cause some problems and there might be a more elegant way. do you guys have any ideas? i think about using position constraint, but i'm afraid it might collide with transform.DOMove() (dotween) which i use to smoothly move the player towards the ledge.

[worldly cave]

You could track the moving objects position delta each frame and add it to the players position in LateUpdate this stacks on top of DOTween rather than fighting it.

[primal creek]

oh, right, that's another thing i thought of. thanks, i'll try that.

[torn ravine]

@balmy kettle sorry for being a bit snappy yesterday, I do appreciate the help.

[solid bay]

how do i stop buttons from making extra eventsystems?

im trying to make them switch between menus but every time i do that i get an error about there being 2 event systems in the scene

even though before the press there was only the one

[balmy kettle]

are you certain the issue isn't that one of those menus has an event system that you've made DDOL? because that DDOL event system won't be destroyed, and if you aren't checking if one already exists and destroying extras then each time you go into that scene that has the DDOL event system you get another one

[solid bay]

i did make the one that existed before pressing anything DDOL because thats what fixed the button issue

how do i check and stop it then

[balmy kettle]

right, and each time you enter that scene you get a new one that also gets made DDOL. so you can either put an event system into each scene that needs it manually, or you can use whatever component you are making it DDOL with to check if there is already an event system active, and if so destroy the new object

[solid bay]

do i just find by name?

[balmy kettle]

hint: look at the documentation for EventSystem

[solid bay]

the scripting api page?

[versed tulip]

How do I make lights not blast objects with pure white? (Like adding a limit or something)

[potent geyser]

Lower their intensity?

[versed tulip]

That makes everything darker, just objects that get closer.

[solid bay]

i did the manual thing, but is there any way to get all the objects that exist in DDOL?

like to avoid duplicates between scenes

[balmy kettle]

what do you mean "i did the manual thing"?
and why are you making so many objects DDOL in the first place that you need to be able to get all of them?

[solid bay]

i just put an eventsystem in both the scenes and took it out of DDOL (i only have the 2 for now), and i just need all the UIs to be in DDOL so i can switch between which one is active at a certain moment

i have them all within one object that i can easily call a method on

[balmy kettle]

and how are you referencing it to call a method on it?

[solid bay]

basically just this

[balmy kettle]

i didn't ask what the method you were calling was, i was asking how you are referencing the object to call the method in the first place

[solid bay]

this method is in the gamemanager script, and escmenus (the object that contains all the UIs) is in DDOL

[solid bay]

the gamemanager is in DDOL as well

[balmy kettle]

so how do other objects reference that

[solid bay]

it has a public method that the DDOL menus call via button presses

[balmy kettle]

again, that is not what i asked

[solid bay]

im confused then

what are you asking

[balmy kettle]

i am asking how other objects are referencing the game manager

not what they are doing with it, but how they communicate with it in the first place

[solid bay]

by... calling a method from it??

thats the only part that references the gamemanager atm

[balmy kettle]

how do they reference it to call that method. you can't call a method on something you don't have a reference to

[solid bay]

this ig

[balmy kettle]

so nothing else references the GameManager anywhere at all?

specifically in your code

and, again, i am asking about other objects that are not DDOL

[solid bay]

only to use getter methods

and its just in the camera script to check that the camera should be active basically

[balmy kettle]

what the hell does that even mean

[solid bay]

i reference it once to check the state of the game in my camera script

[balmy kettle]

so your camera has a reference to the GameManager? if yes, how does it reference it

[solid bay]

by finding it via name and then getting the script

since its in the other scene

i dont see what this has to do with the problem tho

whats happening is that every time the title scene is reloaded, the objects that are in DDOL get duplicated because they are a part of said scene

[balmy kettle]

you're literally asking how to get objects that are DDOL. congrats, you've found a way to get an object that is DDOL.

[solid bay]

finding by name is incredibly inefficient tho

[balmy kettle]

i am aware of that. i am not saying that is the only way, i am trying to make you realize that is one way you are doing it already

i'm done with this conversation though. if you need further help post the relevant code and context in a code channel so someone else can help you.

[solid bay]

not necessarily, find by name works with anything that has that name

im trying to find a way to specifically return all the objects that exist within the DDOL context

[storm patio]

probably this https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.Scene.GetRootGameObjects.html

but you probably shouldn't be using that for most purposes

[solid bay]

no, since it would return stuff like the player and camera too

[fair cove]

I would try asking in #1390346776804069396 and if your using a render pipeline, then you may have more options to work with, either with the lightsource itself, or with the renderer thats "very close" to the source

[storm patio]

are those DDOL?

[solid bay]

no

[storm patio]

then you're looking in the wrong scene

DDOL is pretty much just an entirely separate scene that doesn't get unloaded

[tranquil briar]

Is this a normal percentage distribution? This is my first release so I don't know

[solid bay]

ahhhh ok

[storm patio]

but this seems like the wrong way to go about things if you're trying to get references through this

https://xyproblem.info

[solid bay]

so i get all the objects from that, and delete anything matching that in the original scene?

[storm patio]

mm yeah no this is not the way to do it

[solid bay]

what would be

[storm patio]

what is this about, a singleton?

the eventsystem singleton?

[balmy kettle]

they effectively want to use the singleton pattern, yes.

[solid bay]

i think so?

not the eventsystem thing i already fixed that

unless going for the singleton thing would make it more efficient than just having one eventsystem in each scene

[tall imp]

Hello guys
I was wondering what tool do you use for managing projects as a game dev
I heard people recommending milanote, clickup
I need some with a generous free plan

[storm patio]

the eventsystem is already basically a singleton

[balmy kettle]

i just use obsidian.md and a kanban board 🤷‍♂️

[storm patio]

you could probably check through https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem.html#UnityEngine_EventSystems_EventSystem_current

[storm patio]

google docs for long-term planning, trello/github for planning work and just a discord channel/message for jotting down ideas

[balmy kettle]

they would have seen that if they'd bothered to check the docs like i suggested over half an hour ago

[storm patio]

yeah i saw that message and i checked and that was the first thing i saw too

[worldly cave]

i personally love trello

but my current go to is a custom website i run on github pages

[balmy kettle]

trello is good, but didn't they recently cut down their free tier by quite a bit?

or am i thinking of another of the many sites that offer the same service

[storm patio]

hmm, no clue, haven't checked on it in quite a while

i do recall getting an email from atlassian about bitbucket though

[solid bay]

Wdym?

[fair cove]

MilaNote is a good one, I heard good things about Notion, I think even Github/Atlasian have tools though I dont know how "free" all of them are - I personally keep it simple and use Trello and Google Docs with templates - are there specific features you need for managing your projects that are a "must" for you?

[storm patio]

maybe it's in the same vein as that (or if you're misremembering, you might be thinking of that)

[storm patio]

i mean exactly what i said. which part do you want clarification on

[balmy kettle]

yeah github and other git hosts offer project management stuff now. pretty useful tbh
https://docs.github.com/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with-projects/learning-about-projects/about-projects

[worldly cave]

i think ultimately it depends how precise and deep you want your "management" to be

[tall imp]

Nah i just need a tool that doesn't have a steep learning curve, and have support for kanban board

[worldly cave]

trello then ig

[balmy kettle]

obisidian is just markdown and there are plugins for kanban, or github projects if you want it directly connected to your repository

[storm patio]

trello is atlassian's

[storm patio]

kanban is pretty simple, most platforms for kanban have pretty much the same learning curve

[fair cove]

Oh nice, I remember looking into a bunch of Atlassian before and they had a lot of different products

[storm patio]

actually to be precise, trello was bought by atlassian, it wasn't created by atlassian

[tall imp]

Okay so i guess i gotta try trello

[solid bay]

I’m a bit confused on wha exactly a singleton is

And also how an event system is one

[storm patio]

"singleton" is a pattern in OOP contexts when some class can only really have 1 valid instance.

in unity, this is somewhat shifted for components that are supposed to have 1 active instance. EventSystem and AudioListener are these "singleton" components for example. EventSystem exposes the current active instance via its static current prop.

[solid bay]

Is that enforced theough the message about there being multiple of that component active?

[storm patio]

no, the message is a warning of the violation of the singleton constraint

[solid bay]

how does the singleton part of it work then

[storm patio]

not sure what you're asking there

the "singleton part" is an assumption in the way it's designed, a design choice

the .current property is just a manifestation of that design choice

[solid bay]

does that property allow me to get rid of duplicates?

[storm patio]

not directly, but it can help

but imo you could also just try to not have duplicates to begin with

[solid bay]

how would i do that

[storm patio]

like having a separate additive scene instead of using DDOL

though, if you're using DDOL a lot already, this would kinda change how the project/scenes are structured, so maybe it's not such a good suggestion in that case

[solid bay]

atm its only the UI elements and managers that are in DDOL, and the only times scenes change is via the buttons

so maybe it could work, im just not too sure how to do it

actually wait not really

bc my "back to title screen" button unloads the gameplay scene

[solid bay]

what option is there to remove duplicates then

if im still using ddol

[plain dagger]

the option is writing code!

[gray frigate]

note that DontDestroyOnLoad is basically just an additive scene that Unity makes it easy to create, move things into, and keep around

so it's a very similar idea

[gray frigate]

(although, I guess, the difference is that you're not sending things to the additive scene here, right?)

okay, yes, so there is a difference. please laugh at me

If you're looking for an easy way to make sure a scene gets loaded when the game starts, RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethodAttribute is extremely helpful

It lets you run a method as the game starts up

[solid bay]

idk if thats needed

basically my problem is that when the game starts, i put the managers and UIs into DDOL, and then when i go back into the title screen scene, those objects get loaded again and go into DDOL again

[split egret]

random question, why does a cylinder have a capsule collider and not a cylinder collider?
are capsules easier for the collision?

[violet thunder]

Capsule is a simpler shape mathematically and it has its own primitive collider type, CapsuleCollider.
Cylinder is more complex so it would need to use a MeshCollider with a cylinder mesh.

Maybe they wanted to stick to primitive colliders for the basic 3D objects

Performance reasons, who knowws

[plain dagger]

You need extra logic to check if an instance already exists
if yes, destroy the new one

If you load a scene again, it loads everything

private static MyType instance;

if(instance != null)
{
  Destroy(gameObject);
}
else instance = this;