💻┃unity-talk

[twilit plume]

where info regarding its index is stored

[odd aurora]

Hi! I'm having a persistent rotation issue with a layered animation setup.
I'm using an Avatar Mask to layer a weapon pose (upper body) over a walk/run animation (lower body). The upper body is twisted to the left.
All animations are set to Humanoid.
I enabled 'Bake into Pose' for Rotation and used 'Body Orientation'.
I excluded the Hips in the Avatar Mask (Transform tab).
I tried a Multi-Rotation Constraint via Animation Rigging to straighten the spine, but it's ignored.
Who's have the solution please

[craggy pollen]

#🏃┃animation

[odd aurora]

Thanks sorry

[honest arrow]

its been like this for like 3 minutes

its not even a new project

[thorny willow]

are u using unity 6.3?

[honest arrow]

yes

[gray frigate]

I've had the editor completely deadlock while starting up occasionally

[honest arrow]

it was working yesterday

[gray frigate]

i want to blame the asset importer system

i'll just kill it and try again, and if it deadlocks again, I delete the Library folder and make Unity reimport everything

[honest arrow]

ill close and reopen it

[thorny willow]

use unity 6.0

[honest arrow]

nuh uh

[thorny willow]

6.3 has performace issues

[honest arrow]

oh yeah it working

6.3 all the way

[gray frigate]

I used to get deadlocks all the time back in like...2022?

(on my Macbook)

it was really annoying

[thorny willow]

are u using 16gb ram?

[honest arrow]

32

[thorny willow]

bro for me it took very long to open project and as soon as i pressed playmode, my pc crashed and the bitlocker locked my pc and i had to get key

[honest arrow]

skill issue 💀

[gray frigate]

that...sounds more like a computer problem

[thorny willow]

no. this only happend on unity 6.3

[honest arrow]

thats what you get for using 6.0

[gray frigate]

it only happened so far 😉

[thorny willow]

no ill never use 6.3 anymore its performance issues

[thorny willow]

lmk if u see performance issues or smth unexpected

[honest arrow]

6.3 is goated

[thorny willow]

it eats 2 times the ram

[honest arrow]

skill issue

[thorny willow]

nah

[gray frigate]

no, your computer randomly crashed while using it

[honest arrow]

its only using a tiny bit more than chrome

[thorny willow]

pretty weird that this only happends when i use unity 6.3 aint it?

[gray frigate]

given that this chat is not overwhelmed by hundreds of people complaining that 6.3 blew up their computers, it sounds like a coincidence or some kind of unique issue on your end

[thorny willow]

i wish i could buy more ram but i aint computer expert.

[boreal river]

Hello, guys! When I am trying to open my scene I have an issue and I am not sure why something probably happened with Git.

The file 'Assets/Scenes/Main.unity' seems to have merge conflicts. Please open it in a text editor and fix the merge.

I cannot open my scene basically and I am getting this error

[storm patio]

sounds like you have merge conflicts, you should be able to open/see/fix them in whatever interface you're using for git

[boreal river]

Yes because we had a workshop on college 2 days ago I got my project to their PC with Github and something happened today on my PC and I had one issue like I couldn't push my changes today

[storm patio]

for example in vscode there'll be red exclamation marks in the source control tab

[storm patio]

that could be because of the merge conflicts

did you pull or merge anything in this repo

[boreal river]

In college no, but today it was asking to pull origin in Github Desktop and I did it and then it was saying Force Push

and I click on it and got stashed changes

[storm patio]

so that's where your merge conflicts come from

you gotta fix em

[boreal river]

I have asked AI to help me

[storm patio]

tip: don't

[boreal river]

It says I have to open notepad or vs code

etc

[storm patio]

that's what the error message itself says, but sure

[boreal river]

Have you ever had this issue?

[storm patio]

yes

[boreal river]

What was your approach to it?

[storm patio]

it's not a strange scenario, this is a normal part of vcs

[flat breach]

hello, why am I getting these errors?

[boreal river]

I just thought I lost my project and got really anxious

[storm patio]

i resolved the merge conflict in a text editor (vscode in my case, which has integrated support)

[boreal river]

Its a project for college

and I have deadlines

[toxic stream]

the versions may not match.

[boreal river]

and got very anxious

[slow dune]

I think version is not match.

[toxic stream]

delete Library folder and modify mainfest.json

[flat breach]

for me?

[storm patio]

try resetting your library, or i guess you could also remove that package if you aren't using it

[slow dune]

and you should see the variables declaration,

[toxic stream]

yes

[flat breach]

for me?

[storm patio]

@boreal river have you just tried googling what a merge conflict is and how to resolve one

[flat breach]

what do you mean by that? I created the project within my current version

[flat breach]

ohh okay

isn't library important?

[slow dune]

It's better chatgpt than googling.

[toxic stream]

yes,

[storm patio]

the version of the package might not match other packages for example

[flat breach]

what's library for?

[storm patio]

the library is basically a cache of your work

[flat breach]

ohh so it's an unity problem? it's my first time occuring this

[storm patio]

a lot more complicated than that but that's the gist

[storm patio]

it's an internal error, yes

[toxic stream]

This happens sometimes, and it may be caused by the defender.

[flat breach]

oh okayy

I will delete library then

[storm patio]

oh also make sure your project isn't in a synced folder, like onedrive

[toxic stream]

In my case, I created the project in C:\ ...

[flat breach]

it isn't, it' s on C disk

[flat breach]

same

[storm patio]

also you shouldn't modify manifest.json unless you know what you're doing

[slow dune]

This usually happens because of a version mismatch.

[flat breach]

ye I didn't understand that, I won't touch it, just remove library

[slow dune]

Your Unity version and the Collaborate package don’t match.

[flat breach]

why's that so? and what's the collaborate package, it's my first time seeing it

[storm patio]

it's for uvc iirc

unity's vcs

[flat breach]

oh

[toxic stream]

here you can remove this

[slow dune]

Open Unity Hub and Update your project to the latest LTS version Open the project again.

[flat breach]

should I delete the library too or just change this json?

[storm patio]

if you remove via the package manager, you can also manage deps as well, if any

[toxic stream]

no, unity editor will remove automatically.

[flat breach]

bruh I deleted my library

[slow dune]

If you don’t need Unity Collaborate:

Open Unity

Go to Window → Package Manager

Find Version Control / Collaborate

Either: Update it OR Remove it

Then restart Unity.

[storm patio]

you don't need to restart unity if you do that

[storm patio]

that's fine

[toxic stream]

no matter, don't worry, will make library again

[flat breach]

ohhh okay doing it would solve everything?

[slow dune]

That's my experience.

[flat breach]

I've updated the unity hub version and I'm getting this now bruh

[storm patio]

that's fine tbh

[toxic stream]

well,

[storm patio]

you can worry about it if you need to publish

it doesn't affect like, making a project

[toxic stream]

try to run project again without library folder now

[storm patio]

you can find time to install a version with the patch later

[flat breach]

I'm opening it

[toxic stream]

ok.

[flat breach]

ohh okay

[storm patio]

it'll take longer than normal as it rebuilds the library

[toxic stream]

this could be smart way to solve ur issues.

[flat breach]

yes that's what I thought lool

I still have the errors

should I remove the vc thing in the package manager or remove the json line?

[toxic stream]

yes, I think like that. or you can create new project and replace json file

[storm patio]

in the package manager

[wise yacht]

Was just thinking, it'd be really neat (and ik theres a lot of assets out there) if unity added icons for their folders, colours for their folders & scripts, etc. and maybe some nice custom script icons

Just as a quality thing

Especially as those assets tend to be paid

Tbf I think a few QOL things like that in unity could be nice

[gray frigate]

one annoying thing is that, if you give a component an icon, it shows up in the scene view by default

which can lead to a ton of pointless gizmos

[wise yacht]

True true

[gray frigate]

I had to write some mildly janky code to fix that on my classes

[wise yacht]

Tbf one other thing I think they need to improve is the gizmo menu right

like its hard to tell whats going on here

just a ton of checkboxes

[storm patio]

i mean, yeah?

[wise yacht]

like why is there a section for "light probe visualisation"? Would it be more readable in some sort of submenu

[modest meteor]

what they need to improve is the scene objects hierarchy

[wise yacht]

and have another submenu for enabling/disabling specific gizmos

• group gizmos together so u could disable all "light" or all "camera" gizmos at once

[wise yacht]

Yeah it seems to get a bit messy, although when I separate stuff into prefabs it does get better

[worldly cave]

theres a lot of qol stuff unity could do with integrating into the editor

[wise yacht]

yeah

[worldly cave]

first things first they should buy Odin Inspector and Serializer

[wise yacht]

one other thing off the top of myhead is having stuff like "readonly" fields in the inspector

Yeah fr

[wise yacht]

I mean you can argue that would bloat unity up quite a lot, but what they could do is buy odin and then use some bits in the base unity version (like the main bits) and then have an "advanced inspector" package with the bulk of the features

like the way TMPro is still optional yk

but really easy to use/install

[worldly cave]

i did mean it in the exact same way like probuilder and textmesh pro

[wise yacht]

Yeah, although i'd argue stuff like [readonly] or smth should be packaged with default unity

• being able to serialize abstract class & interface references

like that should be default behaviour imo

[worldly cave]

i also hope we eventually get that updated editor concept

but its been more than half a decade so i guess its a pipe dream

[wise yacht]

ooh it does look nicer

I mean just being a bit more customizable would be awesome

[full ridge]

Does Unity have a way to spread out some buttons in a UI evenly vertically without overlapping or going off the screen (them being stretched or compressed to fit is fine)

This is technically for a mod but it's using Unity's UI system, I've been trying to do this with these 10 [Placeholder] buttons for ages but can't figure it out, I can't tell if there's just a method I can't find online or if it's just not doable

[wise yacht]

it has a vertical layout group component

[gray frigate]

assuming this is uGUI (so, the component-based UI system), you want a VerticalLayoutGroup

[storm patio]

yeah this is what layout groups are for

[wise yacht]

love layout groups

[gray frigate]

you will want to turn off "Child Force Expand"

[wise yacht]

until i forget what all the checkboxes do

[gray frigate]

invert all of the checkboxes

[wise yacht]

imo its a bit tricky to know what they do

[gray frigate]

the default is maximally wrong

💥

[wise yacht]

ikr

[mellow scaffold]

can anyone tell me why materials wont tile? ive been trying to fix it for hours and i cant find help anywhere

[wise yacht]

do they use a texture

[gray frigate]

well, if your textures don't tile, then the material won't tile either!

[wise yacht]

and if so is the texture set to tile

yeah

[gray frigate]

show us the problem

[stiff quest]

Is this unity studio?

[worldly cave]

this is unity.

[wise yacht]

by default it's "clamp" and not "repeat"

[mellow scaffold]

have i set something wrong here then?

[wise yacht]

looks good to me

i think?

[gray frigate]

i'm unsure if your problem is "it doesn't repeat at all" or "it doesn't repeat seamlessly"

[mellow scaffold]

it doesnt repeat at all

[gray frigate]

show an example of the problem in the scene view, as well as your maetrial's inspector

[stiff quest]

looks like unity studio

[mellow scaffold]

this is the material and what it looks like when scaled

[gray frigate]

oh

[mellow scaffold]

doesnt matter if tiling is 1, 2 or 1 million

[wise yacht]

damn

[gray frigate]

Make sure you're changing these tiling + offset properties

[wise yacht]

ur defo tiling the first "tiling" box and not the one inside "detail inputs" right?

lmao

[gray frigate]

the detail ones won't do anything

[mellow scaffold]

oh yeah that works thanks

but still

when i scale it then it stretches again

[gray frigate]

Right, because the UV coordinates of your model range from [0,0] in one corner to [1,1] in the opposite corner

Scaling the object just stretches the model (and thus, stretches its UVs)

Perhaps you're looking for a triplanar shader, which uses the position of each pixel in the world to calculate a UV coordinate

so if your pixel is at [0.5, 0, 0.5], the resulting UV coordinate is [0.5, 0.5]

[mellow scaffold]

great so uhh that sounds good i just have no clue what that is

[gray frigate]

I'm not sure if the URP comes with a triplanar shader

It's very easy to set one up in the Shader Graph, though

there's a Triplanar node that does everything for you

[mellow scaffold]

never used the shader graph

im very very new

[gray frigate]

gimme a minute; i'll make an example

[worldly cave]

very powerful tool and the sooner you get used to it the better

you can do some amazing stuff with it

i dont know if you have experience in blender but basically it lets you create custom materials akin to blenders shader nodes.

[full ridge]

Stuff still seems to go offscreen when I resize the window (even with child force expand disabled), is there something else I need to configure?

[wise yacht]

Hmm, I'm not sure but you need the container to scale with screen size and then force child heights

[gray frigate]

They will only go off screen if the object with the VerticalLayoutGroup on it is too tall

(or if the vertical layout group does not understand how big they are)

If the buttons don't ask for any space, the layout group will think they are 0 pixels tall

can you show an example of the problem?

[gray frigate]

the base color is pretty simple here

it has more nodes for the normal map, metallic+smoothness map, and occlusion map

[mellow scaffold]

yeah so thats cool and it works perfect i just have no idea whatsoever what any of this means or how to do any of it

ty for showing that its possible tho ill work from there

[wise yacht]

Yo that would've been rlly helpful with using prototype textures lmao

[full ridge]

Is the VerticalLayoutGroup meant to be set to a specific size? Its sizeDelta defaults to 0, 0 and it seems like setting that to specific values does work, but it doesn't auto adjust when I resize the screen.

This is what's happening right now

[gray frigate]

on its own, a layout group will ask its children how much space they want, then ask its parent layout group for enough space to show them

if it has no parent layout group, it just uses whatever space it's been given

[sonic ferry]

anyone seen this error? Couldnt find anything aside from a AI overview on google, and apparently its happening 74 times?? Only thing I can think of is some UI package or something (the AI overview suggested its cuz of some UI), this is on a VR game using some OVRoverlaypackage for canvases

and nothing pops up when I click it, whether a script or a specific GO. Ive also been upgrading this project a few times, from 22.0.3 > 6.0 > 6.3, so possibly something there too ?

[gray frigate]

importantly, if the object with the layout group on it has a height of zero, it'll mash its children really close together

[plain dagger]

Layout groups have preferred sizes so if placed inside another layout group they can be set to the correct size.
Otherwise you need to add the "Content size fitter" component to set the actual rect transform size for the layout group.

Preferred size, min size and flexable size are used by layout groups when "control child width/height" is enabled

[fair flicker]

Can anyone of you who is working as a vfx artist in any studios tell me what are the skills industry is demanding and what are the salaries of a vfx artist as a fresher?

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! I got an issue with Occlusion Culling. So, for one reason when I am moving on my scene like forward a bit on a specific point I see in front of me objects to be invisible and the environment to be greyed why this happens?

I am trying right now to rebake to see whats happening

I put on every objects the right static flags I think

[ripe sphinx]

I'm seeing some "bunching" in this dynamically created list of setting controls. itonly affects a few of the settings, from the highlighted to "Scene Audio"

[polar basalt]

how do you duplicate a folder with everything within it? but for builds not editor?

[ripe sphinx]

What might i look at to fix it? Weirdly when you resize the window at all, the bunching goes away

[mellow scaffold]

@gray frigate i would like to thank you since i now have fixed the issue and it was all because of how you helped👍

[boreal river]

Anyone guys?

[gusty abyss]

wth are these arrows?? Are they new?

For some reason when I click the server button I can't click the client button

[dense knot]

Don't know if this can be a issue, but do you have a invisible object in that point? Like the door?

Is like unity thinks you can't see through that hole

[boreal river]

Yes the door if I move the camera a bit becomes invisible and the player can notice it

Now, I am creating a build

to check it out maybe it will work fine on the final build but really it doesn't have to behave like this I think

[dense knot]

But why the door is invisible? Or may be I didn't understood that 😅

[boreal river]

You mean the front door

yes of coure

course

its invisible like its really weird let me check on build

Yes the same happens

if I am going to disable the occlusion culling option on the main camera it works fine

but I wont have occlusion culling, what I need is to use occlusion culling for my game

I am going to check the static flags bro

[plain dagger]

you can use LayoutRebuilder to force layout to be recalculated
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.0/api/UnityEngine.UI.LayoutRebuilder.html#UnityEngine_UI_LayoutRebuilder_ForceRebuildLayoutImmediate_UnityEngine_RectTransform_

[boreal river]

I cannot understand which static flags to use for each object like I am getting confused sometimes like could you please help me guys understand the concept of occlusion culling ok I know what it does but really cannot understand where to use the static flags in which objects specifically?

[plain dagger]

static occlusion objects never move so occlusion vis leafs bake around them

[worldly cave]

is this performance based occlusion culling or are you doing some kind of effect?

[plain dagger]

the docs should explain this. It should also explain how portals work (occluders that we can toggle on and off)

[boreal river]

No bro its not an effect, its the occlusion culling window we use for optimization purposes, but the problem I have is probably related to static flags like occludee, occluder.

[worldly cave]

then what rob said is still valid

[boreal river]

Something weird I have done to my objects

[violet thunder]

Those are the "UI Navigation" arrows or whatever

For moving through UI with gamepads or keyboard

[gusty abyss]

I turned it off and it didn't really do anything

[gusty abyss]

OHHHh

that's cool

[river plinth]

So I have a really big school project to where I have to build a video game and I only have like one more month to do it. The only thing I have done is all the 3-D models but then when I started to get into unity, I realize how hard it was actually gonna be. So where can I find some help to build my game?

[flat breach]

hi do I need reflection probes there? I'm watching the unity tutorial on the Sponza atrium and I don't understand how to see if I need them or not

you can see the sky through the ground by the way

[gray frigate]

If you want to see something other than the skybox, you need a reflection probe.

[flat breach]

I don't want to see anything, I want to know if I need them or not

in the unity video, he sees weird green effects on the wall's materials and he said that's because it reflects the skybox and you need reflection probes

[worldly cave]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/ReflectionProbes.html

[flat breach]

I've read it

they don't answer my exact question

[worldly cave]

right and the first sentence tells you exactly when and why you should use reflection probes

[flat breach]

I know why you should use them and I'm asking if that's the case in my scene and if it is, why it's so

[worldly cave]

do you want your reflective objects in your scene to reflect?

[flat breach]

yes

but that's not just this lol man

[worldly cave]

[plain dagger]

My guy that is how this shit works

[worldly cave]

maybe he wants real time path tracing

per chance

[plain dagger]

You need screen space/ray traced reflections on OR reflection probes to fix this

[worldly cave]

could i interest you in my time machine

[sonic ferry]

im trying to build and run from unity itself to my 3s headset a developer build, but Im getting errors, but it doesnt give me specifics. Ive been able to build a non-developer build just fine though, and usually when there's something wrong (no password, actual syntax/compiler error), it would tell me but not sure where to look to fix

[flat breach]

yes okay

[sonic ferry]

is there nuance with a developer build im missing ?

[plain dagger]

Screen space reflections still fall back to sky/reflection probe so you cant use that only

[fair cove]

Depends on the kind of help you are looking for - Unity Learn can teach you how to use the engine, "w3schools" and several other online resources can teach you C# if your not familiar, there is a Jobs section on the Unity forums to hire others, and other paid services to hire devs, theres also resources like the Asset Store (which may or may not be free) and Github that may have templates, but without a good understanding of Unity and C#, using those other resources might be confusing when you want them to do specific things with the art you have - so what kind of help are you looking for? (also I think it is good you recognized this early on, many times ive seen help with school projects its always "I have 1 day left" or less)

[flat breach]

what you're saying is I need them to make reflections happen.But sometimes you need them to remove reflections issues too and that might be not the case here, that's what it says in this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlxuvvYZO4Q

[worldly cave]

if you want reflections, you need reflection probes

full stop

[gray frigate]

i must reiterate:

[flat breach]

I'm new to lighting, I'm learning it since 2 days and I don't really want to use any of these screen space volumes, I'll stick to light probes, reflection probes, baked lighting

[gray frigate]

reflection probes are necessary if you want to see reflections of the world around you, instead of the sky

you almost always want that

[flat breach]

I understand that and thank you for teaching but I'm trying to learn another thing there...if you can't help don't lol

[gray frigate]

i don't understand what "another thing" is here

[worldly cave]

how is anyone meant to help you when we dont know what you want

contrary to the apparently popular opinion but we cannot read minds

[flat breach]

sometimes, when you don't have reflection probes, some issues appear such as weird lighting effects on GameObjects, the guy in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlxuvvYZO4Q, said you could see them by ovveriding the smoothness albedo and normal in the rendering debugger and that's what I've asked, how to know if I need them with the screenshot I've sent earlier

[flat breach]

I've asked my question man lol chill, just read

[gray frigate]

how to know if I need them with the screenshot I've sent earlier

what is "them"?

[flat breach]

reflection probes

[gray frigate]

your question does not make any sense

you always need reflection probes

that's the simple answer

[worldly cave]

so we told you 3 times that you will always need reflection probes, and your question is "how do i know if i will need reflection probes"

the issues that person in the video mentions come from not having reflection probes

so the answer is still "you want reflection probes"

[flat breach]

in the last scene I've had, I added these reflection probes and my scene looked worse but anyway thank you I'll just add them and shut my mouth

[gray frigate]

show an example of the problem you're having

[worldly cave]

that might be a different issue

can you show how it looked?

[flat breach]

I've deleted my project by missclicking which is why I made another... I'm so dumb

[flat breach]

yes of course I had taken screenshots

[river plinth]

So right now the issue that I’m in is that I made a timeline for the cut scene that starts off the game, which is just a normal easy cutscene where he walks to his apartment. Sit down his keys and goes get his vacuum and then I don’t know how to transition that from doing that to be able to actually play in like add movement and I literally everything that I need.

What the game is about: my game is about you vacuuming your house and you vacuum all these dust buddies around your apartment and then once you collect all of them you pass out, so which means there will be another cutscene and then when you wake up, you are a dust bunny and you have to run away from your recorded vacuum so I’m gonna have to figure out how to record my vacuum movements and also how to make a main menu and do all that jazz

[gray frigate]

If the reflection probe was placed close to a light source, you can get unreasonably strong reflections

[worldly cave]

this is with probes?

[flat breach]

yes and without: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sjY5vAnl4A

[worldly cave]

how many did you use?

probes

[flat breach]

well I placed light sources everywhere ..... so how could I solve this issue

[flat breach]

mhmhh around 6 I'd say

one for each room

[worldly cave]

methodical placement of light sources

and reflection probes

[gray frigate]

i'd have to see what you actually did

it's hard to tell you anything if you don't have the scene

[flat breach]

yes.... I deleted it I'm so dumb

I tried to copy with CTRL V and pressed D instead

[gray frigate]

ctrl-D would duplicate assets

or was it shift-D?

[flat breach]

so I need to place light sources as far as possible from reflection probes?

[worldly cave]

i mean not nescessarily but like you shouldnt just drop random lights into your scene

[flat breach]

I don't know I forgot, I think I pressed CTRL d but it wasn't in unity btw, IN C:

[worldly cave]

just to light it up

A. it wont make sense
B. it will lead to conflicts with reflection probes

you want actual light sources, something physical in your scene to act as a logical light unit

like a room typically has ceiling lights

those can be your strongest lights

2 ceiling lights, maybe your scene has some wall mounted lights. etc. etc.

[flat breach]

that's far from I did lool, I most likely placed them random and without any light models

[worldly cave]

you dont need to nescessarily use models, they just help with representation, you ideally just want them to make sense, something you could see in a real life room

[flat breach]

yeee I see

by the way how to make emissive materials emit real light?

[flat breach]

I've made a material with a green base color and a green emissive, made the multiplication to 2, Gl baked and they didn't emit any light

[fair cove]

Well if you want to learn those things yourself "Unity Learn" is a good place to start, if you are already familiar with Unity and C# to some degree, you can try YouTube and looking up specific features like building menues with UIToolkit or the Canvas system, and looking up how to use the Input System to do movement (imo Unitys "how do I...?" page is really helpful and "samyam" on YouTube have good videos on different ways of using the input system) - then the recording part is probably going to be fairly challenging as there may be a lot of edge cases to consider beyond "save the position to a list at a fixed interval" - I personally have not used Timeline myself, so I have no suggestions there, most games will transition the last seconds of their cutscene to the position and angle the camera starts then disable the cutscene stuff and enable the player stuff in the same frame

However, learning all of that in 1 month, may be a bit challenging depending on how fast of a learner you are, and then applying all that you learned in the same month brings its own challenges

[river plinth]

Thx

Instead of the recording part, should I just do ai movement. And also forgot to say about the three different endings that I wanted. I wondered one of the endings to grab the keys from the apartment and then leave and then another ending would be taking the batteries out of the vacuum to like break the vacuum, and then lastly the last ending would probably be just dying from the vacuum.

[worldly cave]

you should probably make a thread for this.

[river plinth]

Good idea

In what channel?

[worldly cave]

this one

[river plinth]

Oh

[craggy swan]

Is it bad to use a unity store asset for a game that I release?

[potent geyser]

It's what they're there for ...?

[craggy swan]

I know but I feel like its a bit cheap

[potent geyser]

Then don't use them?

You are in control over your project

[copper gust]

i would wager any unity game released that you know of used at least one third party asset or plugin

games are big

[fair cove]

"cheap" in what way? Why do you think its "bad"?

[slow dirge]

You can probably upload the project as a template, but you can't distribute a built product

[worldly cave]

i dont think they were asking if they can upload their project to the asset store

in fact its kinda obvious what they are asking lol

[polar basalt]

i think they are just asking if using asset store will make a bad image to the game they are making

[worldly cave]

it depends on how well you use them, the word "asset flip" gets thrown around a lot but imo i wouldnt sweat it, a lot of great games use third party assets

[polar basalt]

as in "oh no your game is just made up of assets"

[worldly cave]

Rust for example has a lot of third party 3d models they still use in their game

and yet its like a top 10 game on steam rn and has been for a decade almost

[craggy swan]

oh okay

[polar basalt]

and a lot of games that are asset flips got a lot of money

[craggy swan]

im still adding my own assets aswell

[worldly cave]

i mean obviously lol

[copper gust]

hollow knight and silksong rely on playmaker
lethal company uses terrain2mesh and dungen etc.

[polar basalt]

pretty sure by assets he means like 3d models and so on

[copper gust]

same difference

[polar basalt]

i guess

[slow dirge]

I read it as "can I distribute/sell my game via the asset store" 😅

[fair cove]

I think you step into "asset flip" territory when you basically take the sample scene from the asset store and make a menu and call it a game, or your level is almost entirely assets maybe you decided to change the color of the materials it came with - but using a few assets (especially if you decide to modify them to better fit the theme and vision of your game) to help with your level design, I dont see as an "asset flip"

[copper gust]

even mario64 used asset packs 😛

[plain dagger]

people find where certain textures came from all the time

very true

[worldly cave]

funny it goes so deep i think when cod mw2 released (the new one) someone found a lamp model that was also in l4d2

so both activision and valve used the same exact model that probably came from some third party repo

[plain dagger]

You hear the hl2 shotgun sounds elsewhere too. Many things come from pre made packs

[gray frigate]

to me, the really important part of an "asset flip" is that the game mechanics are badly cobbled together

[river plinth]

Fuzz bunnies video game help

[balmy kettle]

To expand on this a little bit, there are many very popular games that had heavy use of asset store assets. Phasmophobia is one that comes to mind, most visual assets (or maybe even all of them) at the time the game launched were from the asset store but people didn't really care because the game was actually fun.
A notorious use of assets that included barely cobbled together gameplay is pretty much everything made by Digital Homicide (jimquisition fans will recognize this studio's name)

[worldly cave]

also PUBG too had a lot of third party assets

[copper gust]

Expedition 33 uses Miximo animations iirc

[exotic relic]

COD Mobile uses assets

[craggy swan]

Would any of you recommend a way to get better at c#?

like a youtube series or something?

[exotic relic]

Have you tried to make anything? You can look up a video on how to make something such as cookie clicker, and thatll teach you the interaction between code and ui

youll gradually catch on as you create things

[vivid river]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=krkbOLJSkOAQ9NSU&v=N775KsWQVkw&feature=youtu.be

[gray frigate]

THE SLAUGHTERING GROUNDS

glorious

[balmy kettle]

the best resource i've come across for actually learning the language is a (not-free) book 'The C# Player's Guide' by RB Whitaker. While it isn't free, it is absolutely worth the price because it structures the learning material in a very digestible way, provides relevant challenges to complete to reinforce the concepts it teaches, and also has a discord server that is fairly active where the author (and other readers) frequently help out with going through the book

[balmy kettle]

a game so good they had to bribe people to vote for them on steam greenlight!

[worldly cave]

how peculiar

the animator and the component are on the same game object as well

Hit_1 has a singular animation event at the end that calls OnHitAnimationEnd(), yet it keeps giving me the error

bruh nvm actual brain fart moment i added the parenthesis into the function name inside the event

[copper gust]

god i hate animationevents

so clunky

[worldly cave]

anything that has you doing case sensitive bullshit like that needs to go

[ripe sphinx]

i have a ui question

[worldly cave]

#📲┃ui-ux

[gray frigate]

basically everything is case-sensitive, by default

as it should be

it would be very strange if a large number of completely different strings were all equal

[copper gust]

anything that has you doing string reliant stuff like that should go 😛

animationevents just yucky

[worldly cave]

i meant mostly in editor stuff like that, i mean you can already do this with events, you can assign listeners in the inspector and it gives you a nice drop down and everything

no reason animation events couldnt have something similliar

[gray frigate]

there is a huge reason they can't, actually

UnityEvents can directly reference other objects in the scene

Animations don't live in a specific scene. They're just assets.

However, I believe you can at least get a dropdown of valid names if you select a scene object with an animator that uses the animation

(which you need to do if you want to record animations)

[fair cove]

I always suggest "w3schools" or "Microsoft Learn", their sites go over the basics, have quizzes and imo the best feature, they have on-site terminals so you can practice and test the code you learn about and experiment with why things are the way they are showing you to do them - once you have a good understanding of the basic topics, combining those topics to make some simple problems to solve (like "C# challenges", Microsoft Learn even have several), is a great way to learn imo, all free alternatives depending on how you learn best - I would also suggest taking either physical or digital notes as you learn, the act of writing can help you remember info, but dont try to memorize everything (instead focus on understanding things), documentation exist so you dont HAVE to memorize everything - and if your already familiar with the basics, id suggest checking out "Infallible Code" on YouTube as an introduction with code patterns and architecture

[vivid river]

leetcode?

[worldly cave]

actually its spelled l337 code

p34k 2009 v1835

[vivid river]

n00b

[tawny quail]

Animancer my beloved

[gray frigate]

Animancer mentioned!!

[potent geyser]

I received that for free and I've still yet to try it.

[tawny quail]

It's a complete replacement in every project for me

Can wait for an animation to finish (what a wild concept holy moly) and also basically control it all via code if you wanted. Also has mixers you can tweak in the inspector which can handle your crossfades, events, etc

[copper gust]

feel like they could probably round those floats for readability but maybe animation nerds like knowing to that extent

[potent geyser]

Yeah, I definitely know it's usefulness (kind of how I got it for free because I showed interest when it was first coming out lol), but I just am lazy sometimes.

And now my game has no character controller, so ...

[worldly cave]

I have a couple of assets i bought that i never used

even though i probably should

[tawny quail]

I recently discovered Asset Inventory 3 and it's quite cool after you index all your assets. Can drag-n-drop a single asset from a package without importing it, and search for stuff over all of them Makes picking sound files so much easier

[worldly cave]

oh thats actually really useful

im using multiple sound packages and they have like 500 clips in each

so something like this might be very good

[tawny quail]

I don't have like any of my sound packs indexed, but that's what it looks like

[worldly cave]

this reminds me of the old gmod Q menu

but yeah it seems very useful to have

[tawny quail]

Oh nice

[worldly cave]

i might just have to buy it

oh its even on sale

[tawny siren]

Does anyone here have experience with shader graph? I need help making a cylindrical vertex billboard (around the Z axis)

[sonic ferry]

anyone comfortable with the profiler tool enough to get down and dirty with some captures I got ? C:

I was able to finally get a developer build with the deep profiler on to run via the headset hardware (been working on performance for a minutee and was able to get improvements but on the headset it still runs like cheeks)

Ive got a few different captures with both a normal and deep profiler, major difference between the two is that the blue "scripts" section gets WAY bigger with the deep profiler, so im hoping it's just doing its thing as the deeep profiler, but with so much information, im having trouble pinpointing actual problem areas

[slow dirge]

1. You should sort by time column.

2. Start from sharing a non deep profiling capture.

[sonic ferry]

well this is the first one I did, non deep profile, and I sorted by time but I'd think the time and the percentage use would be tied together no ?

its still pretty bad but unlike the deep profiler its not going to like 15fps

and then there's a lot of internal stuff going on (the big part i keep getting confused on cuz im not entirely sure how it all relates together), such as an XRUpdate, BufferBatchMode, TrailGeometryJob...

the biggest question I could have right now is determining whether or not its a logic issue on the developer side (crap scripts), or if it's internal settings (an example would be how if u set the input handling in player settings to both, it warns you about performance issues if you dont pick either legacy or new), but this was also the biggest performance boost I was able to get when I was using the PC hardware, settings that I changed via some YT tutorials and just google searches

[gusty abyss]

Is following all the tutorials in unity app or at least the beginner ones a good way to learn

I can tell that I’m just gonna spin my wheels if I just watch videos on YouTube. Is there anything better? I feel like the stuff on unity should be at least decent right?

[hushed hamlet]

If i was to learn today, id mix udemy, youtube and a little bit of unity learn

But the way I always learned was by making a small game, and working my way through the manual. I must've read the unity manual top to bottom a hundred times ~15 years ago at the 4.x era.

Then making a bunch of small games and working your way up.

[slow dirge]

The scripts are just 1.2 ms here. Most of the time comes from what seems to be rendering and the xr update, which I'm not sure what it does. Try expanding the FinishFrameRendering to see more details on it.

[hushed hamlet]

Its probably helpful to mention that the profilers much better at cpu bound issues. Most VR games struggle on the GPU side. The quest 2 & 3 for example have other optimization guides that may be more helpful.

[hushed hamlet]

Given the profiler is showing the biggest delay for you on the graphic performance side, id start here. Its for the quest but the same advice will help a lot on steamvr etc as well.

In a basic sense, tris, batch counts and real-time lights are very important to minimize.

https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unity/unity-perf/

[sonic ferry]

well here's the post update, we got a few textures for camera/screen display stuff such as the map, but thats about all I can understand aside from the internal stuff

[sonic ferry]

thanks Ill look into this. Btw, how did you determine its the graphics performance side though? The CPU is red all over, plus the scripting (blue) and rendering (lime green), are about the same in difference

oh, the 60% framerendering line at the top ? lol

makes sense

[slow dirge]

It seems to me like you have a lot of cameras in the scene that render at the same time. Is that correct?

[sonic ferry]

Would using fbx instead of prefabs be a performance thing? The scene is built with these for the structures and walls, but not as prefabs

[sonic ferry]

and yea, bc its VR, I remember options regarding the left and right eye cameras and how they can be optimized, in terms of the main cam (some player settings). Then we got like 7 rendertextures to display screens, such as the map and a few "consoles"

[slow dirge]

I'd try disabling rendering to these render textures for starters to see how much impact they have.

[gusty abyss]

Will definitely be reading the manual I never even knew this was a thing non of the beginner guide videos I’ve watch mention it they just say make games and google stuff.

[slow dirge]

It seems to me like each one is adding at least 1ms to the cpu time stacking up to most of the cpu rendering time you get.

[hushed hamlet]

There is a lot of ... things can cause the scripts and CPU to appear delayed, but the biggest tell for me was the Waiting for VR or whatever. Thats usually when the CPU is waiting for the GPU to complete, so it misleads the numbers.

I also fix a lot of XR projects though and its very very rarely code related outside of something obvious. I dont even dig into that until I know I have the tris, batches and lights under control.

But id start with the game view / stats screen and seeing what your poly and batches are at. If too many realtime lights are causing the issue, youll usually see the poly counts or batches counts doubling at runtime, etc.

But yeah, it does depend on the headset too. SteamVR you can push about 3x to 4x the graphic quality versus a quest 2 for example.

You can do some stuff to really profile deeper (i.e. the quest has a toolkit from meta that has its own profilers) and you can profile off the device etc. But 95% of the time, just checklisting some things will get you there.

Also, the reason I keep saying the headsets matter, is I can push a Pico 3/4 about 1.5x harder than a Q3. And Steam about 2x harder than the Pico, etc. But I typically use the Quest 2 spec as my minimum supported test device.

(Having a wall of headsets at your disposal for testing helps)

(And agonizing over your own VR framework also helps)

[sonic ferry]

well, something odd I found was during my research, I found that meta recommends between 1.3 - 1.8 million triangles, and been using that stats pop up in the game view shows ~900k. When I was following Valem's tuts on performance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgf3F--VoPg), I really thought the ambient occlusion stuff would be the final nail to ensure I meet the fps requirements, but sadly it did like aboslutely 0 (big) changes as far as I could see. When baking, I could in the scene view visually see all the gameobjects not in view disappear from the scene view (which it was not doing before since I hadnt set it up until recently), but again, didnt really help anything regarding performance (even though the triangle count went down to around ~200k depending on which way the camera was facing). Im gonna be looking at ur link, and now that I got the profiler working with the headset, Imma try to just disable/enable things like what dlich mentioned, and go from there. I was really hoping not to have to take this apart like this, but I dont think i got another choice atm lol

but ill probably be back next week or smthing ngl

[hushed hamlet]

Ill also say some shaders also just run really poorly on android/VR. Specifically a lot of the free outline and water shaders.

[hushed hamlet]

Yeah optimizing XR could just about be a career all to itself 😄

[hushed hamlet]

Also, my internal goal, is usually below 500k poly and 150 batches, only 1 light allowed as mixed, all others baked and the environment static baked.

With that I almost never have to worry about optimizing

[slow dirge]

If you want to analyze performance further without "trying stuff out"(which you'll need to do at some point anyway), you should look at the native tools your platform provides for debugging. There's usually a GPU debugger that can provide accurate time per draw call, sometimes cpu profiling tools as well.

[sonic ferry]

https://developers.meta.com/horizon/documentation/unity/ts-renderdoc-for-oculus/

[cyan lion]

In unity suppose i am making a 3d game. I imported 4k textures for all the assets. Would i need to reexport textures from substance for lower settings or can unity automatically generate lower resolution textures

[slow dirge]

It can, yes. You have the max size setting in the texture (import) settings.

[exotic relic]

in unity if you click on the texture there are plenty of settings for resolution

[rugged rapids]

**1. Select your texture
2. Go to the inspector window
3. Go to "Max Size , Compression" and customize your texture

or..

1. Edit > Project Settings > Quality.
2. Work by Quality Setting (https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-QualitySettings.html?ampDeviceId=R_Lv4kZEZyHVzTn7s1Z6k0&ampSessionId=1766552435376&ampTimestamp=1766638951123)**

[willow wind]

related to development cycle/progress tho, i just thought before i started to build the game world/stories, maybe i should have a scene where i can put every single game features/NPCs/stores....etc

and once every single NPCs/gameplay is confirmed, i will start to build the world

maybe this will be better

[drifting jacinth]

LOOK AT WHAT I JUST DID!!!

[slow dirge]

Don't crosspost

!collab

[vagrant root]

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Please, use Discussions to promote yourself as job-seeking, advertise commercial job offers, or look for non-commercial projects to participate in:
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[drifting jacinth]

So Yea Uhh... When I Build And If I Select Same Folder And It's Will Replace Right?

[copper gust]

<@&502884371011731486>

[sage basin]

?ban 893924425181827205 bot spam

[novel scarab]

alfarizie_ was banned.

[open sphinx]

why is there no thing to put an image in there

[elder geyser]

For a gizmo/handle solution within a game what would be a good method to draw the gizmos? I see there is an old GL API but i think the Graphics API is newer? The idea is to have some gizmos for editing some properties for example a spline path that you can adjust.

[craggy pollen]

you are probably using a wrong shader

[plain dagger]

Because you are meant to have this data in other channels of another texture. the URP/HDRP docs will explain the specifics for the shader

[sly lake]

This doesn’t look like HDRP/lit

[pale coyote]

Guys is there a way in which I can make my HUD look imperfect. I'm making a game where the view is through a camera and camera are supposed to have unclear footage. I managed to add noise the game itself but not the UI

[sly lake]

Need to schedule your noise pass after UI draw

[pale coyote]

How

[zealous grail]

hello does anyone know what setting is making this happen? when i zoom into the map anything on the bottom just dissapears

[sly lake]

Depends on render pipeline

[pale coyote]

It's loading don't worry

[sly lake]

Check documentation

[pale coyote]

Hdrp

[craggy pollen]

double click on an object in the hierarchy for focus

[pale coyote]

Oh wait the clipping glitch. Just focus on a object and then zoom in and out

[craggy pollen]

( a small object on the surface for example)

[pale coyote]

F to focus

[zealous grail]

oh thank you it works!

[pale coyote]

This is very annoying lol.

What u making anyways?

[sly lake]

You can disable this permanently

Top of the scene view there’s a camera button, disable the automatic clipping and set to 0.01 / 10,000

[zealous grail]

vr video game with a procedurally generated dungeon enviroment, it focuses heavily on enemy ai which i thought is always lacking in vr games and videogames

alongside it there will be procedurally generated physics for enemies, including hit reactions, fistfighting and melle combat

think of it as the last of us 2 inspired from the terms of ai

i don't have a release date and i'm working on it alone

also the theme is going to be die hard like going up a skyscraper fighting terrorists

[cyan lion]

hey thanks

ok i had another question, when using adaptive probe volumes, can we use reflection probes as well or they are not meant to be used together

[rugged rapids]

friends, anyone interested in practicing together?

[sly lake]

I believe APV resolves both, but the APV probes will be lower resolution. Which is not necessarily a problem. Depends on what you’re doing.

I imagine they could be used together but you’d have to try

[cyan lion]

my scene has both of them. i asked just to confirm wether it works or not or am i doing it wrong

[sly lake]

Toggle the reflection probes

See if anything changes

[cyan lion]

yeah the shiny materials are affected

but turning apv on and off does nothing

why is that the case

[median roost]

my autocomplete recently broke in vsc

anyone know how to fix this

like wth is going on

[craggy pollen]

!ide

[vagrant root]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[sly lake]

Indirect lighting isn’t always very obvious

[cyan lion]

never happened to me but a reset of settings or reinstall should fix it, also i use visual studio community not vscode.

can we do debugging in vs code?

[median roost]

whats diffrent with community?

[cyan lion]

debugging

vs community is an full fledged IDE

[silk fractal]

You are meant to put metallic or smoothness into RGBA channels of other maps, as it was already said.

[craggy pollen]

yes

[cyan lion]

VS code i think is just a text editor with autocomplete

[cyan lion]

where is the button and how do we add breakpoints

[craggy pollen]

you have to find out, but it does have debugging function

[cyan lion]

i want to ask another thing. why do i need to press generate lighting before baking apvs

arent both seperates systems

like apv is apv, and generate lighting in lighting settings is enlighten

[craggy pollen]

are you lookign for A* pathfinding?

[sly lake]

You select one in RP settings

[cyan lion]

selecting here?

[sly lake]

Nah it’s already active

[sly lake]

But you select one of two for your project

[cyan lion]

this

[sly lake]

Yeah

[drifting jacinth]

Ahh! Bug!

[ionic rover]

Can someone help me pls? Unity can't load cfg files correctly

[plain dagger]

what makes you think it supports them?

[ionic rover]

wdym

I use 2019.4.18f1 for part tools, I load spaces, but there are no props listed in cfg

KSP engine is Unity

[craggy pollen]

what bug

[ionic rover]

I get FormatException: input string was not in correct format

[plain dagger]

oh is this modding? we dont talk about that here per the rules

[drifting jacinth]

It's Was Not Resize When In Fullscreen!

[craggy pollen]

looks like normal behaviour to me

[ionic rover]

It is not only about modding

Unity can't load cfgs properly

I installed C# for Unity from Visual Studio 2019 installer

and yet it still can't read code properly

[plain dagger]

unity has no support for cfg files so i honestly dont understand what the issue really is
If its for modding or some toolkit for KSP then you need to check elsewhere

[drifting jacinth]

nvm I Will Set My Game To Windowed Only

[craggy pollen]

yep that is a solution

[ionic rover]

I don't think toolkit got issues. Others have no problems. Only me. Looks like my C# is broken. Can someone help me to install it correctly pls?

[plain dagger]

VS plays no role in code compilation so its not the problem

visual studio or visual studio code or something else are just used to edit code

[ionic rover]

Isn't cfg written in C#? Im gonna send screen

does it look like C#?

[plain dagger]

100% NO

[zealous grail]

how long does it take for materials to render in

[median roost]

wrong pipline

[zealous grail]

right i need urp i think

i do

its compatible

[drifting jacinth]

Guys? What Is This?

[plain dagger]

It crashed!

[drifting jacinth]

Oh Nah

[plain dagger]

If it keeps happening then report it with the window that shows up

[cyan lion]

this is unity being funny

i get this when i try to bake sometimes

is it normal

[drifting jacinth]

It's Really Of Very Normal For Me (I Have Only 8 GB Ram)

[cyan lion]

i have 16 gb

but vram only 4

[drifting jacinth]

Unity Is Entering Safe Mode 💀

[plain dagger]

Thats when you have a compilation error

[drifting jacinth]

Yea... 99999999999999999999999 Is Not A Good Number For Set UI Elements To FullScreen

[drifting jacinth]

I Was Stuck Here...

nvm... Reinstall Editor It's Need To Ok

[flat breach]

hello how do lighting settings work? can I have different ones per scene or not?

[flat breach]

I've just made another scene and when I go to the lighting settings, the same asset appears

[drifting jacinth]

Huh... I Just See A New Bug

During My Editor Crashed And Every Game In My PC (That Made With Unity) Was Crash Too
After I Restart My PC... Anything Fine

[violet thunder]

You probably just need to open the scene in unity again

If I understand what youre saying

[lament merlin]

can anyone tell me how to install unity on macos

plz

[drifting jacinth]

Unity Hub

[lament merlin]

yh but i tried it and it say this application cannot open on this device

[drifting jacinth]

Huh

[lament merlin]

do you want a screen shot

it might make more sense then

[drifting jacinth]

Let Me See...

[lament merlin]

wait

[lament merlin]

here

[drifting jacinth]

No Any Reason Provided?

[lament merlin]

nope you can see in the bootom corner the unity hub icon and i opened it and this thing pop up

[drifting jacinth]

Not Support On This Mac... Hmm... It's Mean Your Mac Can't Run Unity Hub (I Think)

[lament merlin]

yh i think the same as well becasue i tried multiple times but the same thing pop up

[lament merlin]

what are the mac requirements to run unity hub though

[drifting jacinth]

idk

[lament merlin]

ok thanks

[gusty abyss]

Hi!

I'm new to this server

[drifting jacinth]

Hi

I See

[gusty abyss]

I have a question

[drifting jacinth]

Ok? (Me Again?)

[gusty abyss]

If I want to show you one of my projects, where can I show it?

[potent geyser]

You make a video of it

[gusty abyss]

Recently I started to create an FPS Chess game and I want to show you my game.

[gusty abyss]

Yeah, but in which channel should I post it?

[potent geyser]

If you want showcase your game, you can use #1180170818983051344

[gusty abyss]

Oh, ok

Thx 👍

[drifting jacinth]

Bye Bye To Unity 6.2 And Welcome To 6.3

[ionic rover]

I have tried everything. I reinstalled Unity, reinstalled Visual Studio, and nothing works.

It still can't read cfg properly

Do I have to install unity with visual studio in one drive?

[drifting jacinth]

I Think Not

New Updater Found!

Do You Want To Update The Updater Before Update Your App?

[gray frigate]

do you know if your macbook is using an Intel CPU or Apple Silicon?

[gray frigate]

alternatively: what model year is your macbook?

[thorny willow]

guys are you guys experiencing unity crash after playing on vr and click stop game too?

[ionic rover]

I have done experiments, Unity can't read .cfg, but can make one

The format of previous and new cfgs are same

Unity can only save them, but not import.

configs of space. I can't load props

cfg I made in unity(It can't load its props too)

Can someone explain to me why Unity can make things, but not import?

And I get Format exception error

imput string was not in correct format

But the languages of those cfgs are same

[flat breach]

hi, could you guys please tell me what to improve in my lighting there? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2mQPianMgo

[ionic rover]

Anyone can help me? Is it problem with system? Like it can't give Unity some permissions

[muted elm]

Hi! I think I understand your problem. Unity can create the .cfg file, but it can’t import the old one because the parser is very strict. Even if both files look the same, there’s usually a small hidden difference that causes the FormatException. It can be things like extra spaces, different number format (comma/dot), BOM characters, or different line endings. That’s why Unity reads the file it creates, but not the older one.

[ionic rover]

Hey, I have already fixed this problem, but thanks for answer!

[lean merlin]

i wont

[ionic rover]

My system was in russian

And it was the problem

So I changes to english

And boom! All internals now have props listed in cfg

[muted elm]

No problem! And thanks anyway. If you ever need anything, just let me know!

[flat breach]

I don’t care lol

[potent geyser]

#🏆┃daily-win or #1180170818983051344 for projects.

[drifting jacinth]

Ok

[flat breach]

hello, someone explained me that if I wanted a dark environment and put on a dark skybox and reflection probes, the sky wouldn't matter.And I didn't understand it and I've just tried every possible combinations in a project and he was wrong, reflection probes if baked and put after the skybox will bake the reflections that are also based on the skybox but once baked if you remove the sky and put another one, nothing will change. He was wrong right?

[flat breach]

I'd really appreciate an answer for this, that's the only thing that's stuck in my head, thank you.

[toxic stream]

😉

cool

[craggy pollen]

could be a question for #1390346776804069396

lighting in unity can be really overwhelming

[gray frigate]

the reflection probes won't change until you bake them again

[torpid seal]

Hi I am new

[craggy pollen]

hi new

[flat breach]

well yes and that's what I did lol

[flat breach]

ye

[vestal patrol]

is the A* pathfinding project by Aron Granberg still the best free pathfinding asset available?

[worldly cave]

the what the who?

[vestal patrol]

Aron Granbergs A* pathfinding project. its the only thing that really appears when you search "2d pathfinding unity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvtFUfJ6CP8

[rigid galleon]

Hey, I am not sure where to ask this tbh as it's an advice question, let me know if I should move it to another channel.
I am working on a game that's fully physics based, and I would like the player to affect all the other rigidbodies, but the player shouldn't really be affected by them.
I found a great FOSS asset, Better Physics that should solve this exact issue, however, it sadly appears to be broken in newer unity versions.
Here's a short video showing exactly what happens:
https://youtu.be/BPDS2-cXU0E?t=41
You can see that as soon as I hit the fruit, katana gets pushed down.
So I was wondering what the alternatives to this asset would be?
Like does unity have something built in, should I just resort to using vastly different rb masses(has it's own downsides), or is there something else I am fully unaware of?
Please @ me and thanks in advance!

[balmy kettle]

if it is actually "broken in newer unity versions" then you should submit an issue on the github so praetor can fix it

[rigid galleon]

Already have, Praetor has sadly been busy the past few months and wasn't able to get to it, so I am looking for alternatives as I didn't get an update in quite a while.
I am sadly not competent enough to fix this myself either :/

[violet mountain]

Hey guys, Wassup!
Anybody has any experience of upgrading an old—I mean very old—Unity project (5.6, 2017) to current Unity versions like Unity 6.0 or 6.3?

[sweet charm]

A* is just one of many algorithms. It comes down to ur game design to decide which algorithm suits the best. But if u don’t have any experience with it, nothing hurts to follow the tutorial.

[open sphinx]

i dont get it?

[silk fractal]

Take a look at what is "Channel Packing" online

You basically put greyscale map (roughness, metallic, AO, whatever) into Red, Green and Blue (and Alpha channel too, but it's optional) channels.

Since greyscale map is greyscale, and not colour, it uses simple values in range from 0 to 1, that you can put into 1 colour channel.

But Unity uses some own channel packing conventions, so you'll have to learn that yourself, I am learning these myself.

[open sphinx]

still don't get it✌️

[worldly cave]

it doesnt sound like you are trying to get it...

[silk fractal]

Just take a look online, at what this is.

[worldly cave]

what dont you get in particular

theres nothing here that you cant take some initiative and look up yourself

[silk fractal]

It may sound too abstract, normally Channel Packing is best explained visually.

[silk fractal]

To be fair, 90% of stuff I tried to look up on Unity is hard to understand from docs, or from tutorials

Personally that's why I joined this Discord server.

[worldly cave]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/urp/shaders-in-universalrp-channel-packed-texture.html the manual explains it pretty well

[gray frigate]

images are made up of multiple channels: typically red, green, and blue

many images also have an alpha channel, which can be used for transparency

however, these channels don't have to be used to represent colors

they can store whatever data you want

[near ivy]

I'm trying to launch the editor right now but its failing to do so, I'm not seeing in the editor log any critical issues except that 'Native extension' not found

I'm been modifying the assembly heavily, mostly by renames and moves, should I just let it run a very long time? I dont think editing 36 files guarantees appearing frozen

[gray frigate]

in what way is it failing?

is it freezing?

I've run into situations where the asset importer deadlocks completely on startup

[near ivy]

Freezing in Load scripting assemblies

Begin MonoManager ReloadAssembly
Registering precompiled unity dll's ...
Register platform support module: ~/Unity/Hub/Editor/6000.3.2f1/Editor/Data/PlaybackEngines/LinuxStandaloneSupport/UnityEditor.LinuxStandalone.Extensions.dll
 Registered in 0,001020 seconds.
- Loaded All Assemblies, in  0,184 seconds
Native extension for LinuxStandalone target not found
 
(Unity:63485): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 21:02:34.302: g_dbus_proxy_call_sync_internal: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed

(Unity:63485): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 21:02:34.381: g_dbus_proxy_call_sync_internal: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed

(Unity:63485): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 21:02:34.382: g_dbus_proxy_call_sync_internal: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Package Manager log level set to [2]```

[gray frigate]

and a few dbus errors, which I've concluded are just how linux works 😉

[near ivy]

Glib doesn't matter I believe as I get plenty of those errors

[strange moon]

Does Unity run on macbook arm?

[storm patio]

yes

[gray frigate]

my usual first guess is to try deleting the Library folder so that Unity has to reimport all of your assets

[gray frigate]

yes, and it works well

[strange moon]

So can compile to all platforms as usual?

[gray frigate]

Yes, I build for Windows, macOS, and Linux

[storm patio]

yes, that's unrelated to it being runnable on mac

[near ivy]

Oh yeah something I've thought about is since I'm modifying everything on Rider, that includes .meta files, should I try getting rid of them?

[strange moon]

Thanks

[storm patio]

https://docs.unity3d.com/hub/manual/InstallHub.html

[gray frigate]

well, being able to produce x86 binaries is an extra leap

(but Unity handles this properly)

[gray frigate]

what are you actually doing?

notably, you should not be editing the contents of .meta files (and especially not deleting them) if you don't know exactly what you're doing in there

the .meta file is how unity identifies the asset

[silk osprey]

Hey uh is this the right channel to help with a weird console error I have for my game ?

[gray frigate]

deleting the .meta file will make Unity think it's a brand-new asset and break all existing references to the asset

[near ivy]

Yes I am aware, but I'm been moving files around and Rider just modifies the meta files as well as they appear in the git history

[strange moon]

Hmm depends how the cross compilation is done. Unity does a great job in hiding all the technical challenges

[gray frigate]

Rider is aware of the meaning of .meta file, so it'll move them for you, yeah

[storm patio]

first step is to ask with the relevant info. if this isn't the right channel you'll be redirected

!ask

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[near ivy]

Doesn't seem like getting rid of Library does it

[silk osprey]

I see, well there's this error, I have strictly no idea where it is from.
TLS Allocator ALLOC_TEMP_TLS, underlying allocator ALLOC_TEMP_MAIN has unfreed allocations, size 349

I tried disabling most of my scripts and it still appears.

[gray frigate]

This may just be an internal Unity problem.

This error gets logged if something forgets to dispose of a data buffer correctly

Does restarting the editor make it stop?

[silk osprey]

i'll try it out

[near ivy]

Oh right, I should mention that since I upgraded to 6.3, the package manifest got modified without me doing anything and removed Linux systools

[silk osprey]

seems like it's gone, pretty weird

i think it appeared with a huge lagspike when i tested my game

[potent geyser]

That error is a memory leak, so something is looping infinitely. Either caused by you or the editor. It's impossible to say from the error alone.

[silk osprey]

Yeah i got into a little looping error so that must have been why, still thanks for helping

[near ivy]

Oh also the the main Unity thread is just sleeping, so im unsure what's even going on

Seems like mono is crashing? Reverting to a previous commit that did work does nothing.

[cyan geode]

guys ik that this is a dumb question but is there actually a chance to be like hired in companies and stuff by just learning designing and modeling and learning script languages?

[copper gust]

if you get really good at one or two of those things, yes

[worldly cave]

getting a job in the industry is a pipe dream at this point

and one that isnt particularly worth it anymore

Companies also dont care if you know how to write code or 3d model, they dont care if you "learned" in a sense, they almost exclusively care about what you can do with that knowledge, and for that you need experience, projects, portfolios etc. etc.

[cyan geode]

whats the solution for that?

[worldly cave]

You start working now

on projects on your own

after some time and hopefully some success you leverage that and apply for jobs at game studios

[cyan geode]

like as someone who has no experience and a 17 yo

what do you advice me to do

or focus on the most

[worldly cave]

to start working...

make games

however you know how

everything else you will learn along the way

[solar panther]

I’m not making fan-games and becoming fan-game developer anymore.

I’m wanted to make my own official game for becoming official game developer.

[worldly cave]

nothing wrong with making fan games, and making fan games doesnt make you any less of a game developer lol

[tawny quail]

Good examples of insanely good fan games are Black Mesa (recreation of Half-Life 1) and Entropy Zero: 2 (essentially Half-Life 3 through the eyes of the bad guys).

[worldly cave]

also any scp game

scp 5k in particular

game is such a vibe actually

[vague pebble]

Unity is shit i am switching

[copper gust]

ok

[gusty abyss]

i just loaded up my project and everything in the scene has randomly moved and rescaled do u guys know wtf could have happened and if its fixable without having to replace everything

[storm patio]

that's not much info to go off of, but sure here are some ideas

• you didn't save, this is a previous version
• your file got corrupted, maybe due to syncing files like what onedrive does (you should not sync project folders)
• someone else modified the file, maybe through vcs, and you're looking at a new version

[crimson elbow]

Does anyone know of any good tutorial, or assets that make putting a level together easier?

[storm patio]

depends a lot on your project

[gusty abyss]

okay it cant be any of those but i don't have any other info i stopped working yestday saved shut it down and then turned my pc off and went to bed loaded it back up today and everything is screwed . nobody else has acsess to the files and its saved directly on a hard drive weird ig ima spent the next few hours fixing everything

[near ivy]

on bootup, how many processes are Unity supposed to have? Still debugging this thing, to see why it doesn't launch. Currently only haves the package manager and the licensing process, both are sleeping

Actually since the last line of the editor.log is erroring on the package manager I just checked upm.log

[2025-12-24T21:53:19.942Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.system.runtime.compilerservices.unsafe] failed with status code [502]

...Is it possible that getting a 502 on a package makes the packager manager hang, which makes the editor never load?

[storm patio]

weird, the website doesn't seem to be down

[near ivy]

Seems its a package manager issue since I just terminated it and Unity restarted another package man process but the launcher progressed and I got new logs in the editor log

[storm patio]

502 is bad gateway, a server-side issue

[near ivy]

Servers can answer however they like to mislead attackers, I might be having a IP issue

Yeah I just updated upm.log after 5 minutes and I got a single 502 again for the same package

Okay, maybe it just doesn't like the Unity client right now, since I can access it just fine through the same IP as my browser's yet UPM cannot load it

[storm patio]

do you have other unity versions installed? maybe try with those if you do

[near ivy]

Infact I upgraded to beta 6.4 instead of using 6.3 and it doesn't work there

[storm patio]

and it did work in 6.3?

or did you have the same issue

[near ivy]

Yesterday / earlier, yes, but not now

For example, launching with 6.4:

[2025-12-24T22:08:51.320Z][INFO] Command-line: ~/Unity/Hub/Editor/6000.4.0b2/Editor/Data/Resources/PackageManager/Server/UnityPackageManager -s 15880 -ipc -ipc-path /tmp/Unity-Upm-15880.sock -l 2
[2025-12-24T22:08:51.324Z][INFO] IPC server started (IPC path=/tmp/Unity-Upm-15880.sock).
[2025-12-24T22:08:51.324Z][INFO] Hint: To connect to this UPM instance, launch Unity with the command-line parameter -upmIpcPath Upm-15880.
[2025-12-24T22:08:53.146Z][INFO] project:add-dependency <-- Request received
params: {
  "packageId": "com.unity.sdk.linux-x86_64"
}
[2025-12-24T22:08:53.155Z][INFO] project:add-dependency <-- Request received
params: {
  "packageId": "com.unity.toolchain.linux-x86_64-linux"
}
[2025-12-24T22:08:53.277Z][INFO] project:list-packages <-- Request received
params: {}```

After params it hangs and 5 minutes later ill get a 502 error out of a package

[fleet canopy]

You should probably report this to unity considering it’s a beta version

If it worked fine in 6.3 then your issue is there

if you have a backup of the project try loading with 6.3 to see if that’s actually just a beta issue

[near ivy]

It also hanged in 6.3

[balmy kettle]

!collab 👇

[vagrant root]

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[velvet crown]

Tysm mate!

[near ivy]

Just came back after my last message, 20 minutes, UPM is really trying hard:

[2025-12-24T22:11:09.015Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.microsoft.codeanalysis.csharp] failed with status code [502]
[2025-12-24T22:13:24.179Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.system.buffers] failed with status code [502]
[2025-12-24T22:15:39.346Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.system.memory] failed with status code [502]
[2025-12-24T22:17:54.510Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.system.runtime.compilerservices.unsafe] failed with status code [502]
[2025-12-24T22:20:09.682Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.system.io.pipelines] failed with status code [502]
[2025-12-24T22:22:24.846Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.system.buffers] failed with status code [502]
[2025-12-24T22:22:24.849Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.system.runtime.compilerservices.unsafe] failed with status code [502]
[2025-12-24T22:22:24.850Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.system.text.encoding.codepages] failed with status code [502]
[2025-12-24T22:22:24.852Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.microsoft.codeanalysis.analyzers] failed with status code [502]
[2025-12-24T22:22:24.853Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.system.collections.immutable] failed with status code [502]
[2025-12-24T22:24:40.014Z][ERROR] Error: Request [GET https://unitynuget-registry.openupm.com/org.nuget.system.numerics.vectors] failed with status code [502]

So unless someone knows how to disable UPM temporarily, I guess I'll just remove these packages from the manifest

[gusty abyss]

What can I do if I've completely and utterly fucked the MPPM (Multiplayer Play Mode) Package?

I removed and recreated the configurations, removed and reinstalled the package and reimported all assets and it's still fucked

The editor windows have broken GUI and don't receive input

The GUI looks the same as the main editor, which isn't how that should be and the title is some random string

And it's not even all windows, specifically the middle one which is supposed to be Player 2

[worldly cave]

nothing is irreparable with version control, when was your last commit?

[silent mica]

Moving back to the good old ParrelSync worked for me after dealing with Unity's solution for a bit.

[gusty abyss]

Actually those preferences are saved with playerprefs outside the project

and also i don't have version control right now because i kind of broke it temporarily

i had a bare repository on my server with all my projects in and some error happened and I can't fix it right now

[gusty abyss]

How is it?

Is it faster or slower?

More or less cumbersome?

[gusty abyss]

I should probably clarify that the reason it broke is because I accidentally loaded an editor layout for one of those windows

Which I shouldn't have done

    static LayoutOnPlay()
    {
        EditorApplication.playModeStateChanged += OnPlayModeChanged;
    }

    static void OnPlayModeChanged(PlayModeStateChange state)
    {
        GameObject uiManagerObject = GameObject.Find("UI");
        UIManager UIManager = uiManagerObject.GetComponent<UIManager>();

        if (state == PlayModeStateChange.EnteredPlayMode)
        {

            if (IsMultiplayerPlayModeWindow())
            {
                UIManager.OnClick_Client();
                return;
            }
            else
            {
                DeferredLoad("Testing");
                UIManager.OnClick_Server();
                UIManager.OnClick_Client();
            }
        }
        if (state == PlayModeStateChange.ExitingPlayMode && !IsMultiplayerPlayModeWindow())
        {
            DeferredLoad("Layout");
        }
    }

    static bool IsMultiplayerPlayModeWindow()
    {
        // Check if this is a clone/virtual player instance
        // Multiplayer Play Mode windows are launched with specific command line arguments
        string[] args = System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs();

        for (int i = 0; i < args.Length; i++)
        {
            if (args[i] == "com.unity.mppm.clone")
            {
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    static void DeferredLoad(string name)
    {
        EditorApplication.delayCall += () => Load(name);
    }

From this editor script

[balmy kettle]

can you not just reset the layout?

[gusty abyss]

It wasn't like this exactly, I just added the checks to see if it's in an MPPM window now

[gusty abyss]

no I don't think so

[balmy kettle]

have you at least tried

[gusty abyss]

The MPPM windows have their own thing

[gusty abyss]

I don't know how to

[gusty abyss]

I'm saying no because loading any editor layout is what ruins it

[silent mica]

It won me back by actually working consistently. Ultimately both of these solutions do the same thing.

[gusty abyss]

Which is why there isn't a dropdown to do so

[balmy kettle]

okay but have you tried from the main window where that option is available

it is supposed to reset all layouts

[gusty abyss]

no it only resets that specific window

[tame estuary]

Hi everyone, has anyone here used Mesh Baker before?

I'm trying to do this on a house, but the corners are bugged, only the corners.

[crude robin]

Is this laptop good for unity?

[balmy kettle]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1249155543264657408

[radiant pewter]

any idea what this means?

wait it means I am an idiot

ignore me

[vague trail]

wait to redeem code available

only a code available per day

[vestal patrol]

ok so, i have a map. I want to make it so that when i click on a predetermined spot on the map, a character will go to that predetermined spot, sort of like the map screen from super mario whatever-game-the-map-came-from. trying to use A* pathfinding to make this happen, but the physics are making the character bounce around instead of snaping to each point. Its also quite... efficient. Anyone have any better solutions for this before i dedicate all of this time to fixing it?

[potent geyser]

A* is the goto for pathfinding dynamic paths. The fact your physics is countering it is a flaw in how you implemented the movement, not the A* itself. However, if you're making a world map with nodes the player can move between,t hen you can just do that manually?

Place the nodes down, define the "path" between two nodes, and just use that to traverse along between them. A spline would be a good solution for a path to follow, and it doesn't require physics.

[heady gorge]

random question
in a case where i'm trying to detect if something is close enough to actually be hit, should i use a collider and simply detect if the object goes into that collider, or should i measure how far away the entity is?

in this case, the game has no extra floors, so its not like we're going to run into the issue of being above or below something and then it tries to hit the player

ive been thinking about it for a bit and im just wondering if i could potentially get more value out of measuring the distance
like in the case that this is a boss, let's say i only want it to do a specific move that only happens if they're a certain distance away, that sounds great.

but for like a minor enemy that will realistically only have 1 or 2 moves at best, it might be unnecessary?

the main thing about the second plan to me is that i'm just not sure how to make it performance efficient if the enemies are randomly spawning. i dont want it checking every moment for like 12 enemies at a time if the player is a certain distance or not

[hidden grotto]

Hello, trying to learn Unity for a Job interview i was watching a tutorial on it, it showd that the mode can be changed from default to hdr, there is no such option for me, can anyone help? I apologise in advance is this is the wrong channel to ask this stupid question,
Thank You.

[hidden grotto]

NM i'm a fucking idoit

[oak meadow]

Whats the best way to find an object in a scene I don't want to use too much server cpu or resources I am thinking getting all the objects in the scene then Finding by tag

[copper gust]

what are you trying to do

[oak meadow]

when my player loads into a scene I want to get a reference to the gamemanager

[copper gust]

Generally you'd want to use a "Singleton" programming pattern inside the GameManager then

[oak meadow]

I have multiple players in the server and they are in different scenes so i have duplicate gamemanagers in each scene

[copper gust]

I would suggest not having duplicate gamemanagers in the scene

Perhaps a single one in 1 scene?

[oak meadow]

well each gamemanager tracks like gamestate and stuff i guess its possible but not sure if its the best way

[copper gust]

when you say each gamemanager

is it the same class

or are you saying there are different "managers"

[oak meadow]

Its the same game manager object just duplicated in different scenes

[copper gust]

That is certainly unconventional

does this manage the game or like just a level/the stuff in that one scene

[oak meadow]

It generates the map spawns the players character tracks the timer then saves the stats to the backend

if thats what you were asking

[oak meadow]

I could store the players correct scene name and have the gamemanager tell an object in the lobby scene the scene that its in and have the lobby object give the reference to the player Would this be better

[wooden cove]

I'm trying to merge a branch using UVC, but apparently there are a few conflicts i have to resolve

the unity docs say this but

i can't find it anywhere it seems

[steady elbow]

huh

[violet thunder]

Set its rotation to zero and try again

Does it still happen?

[steady elbow]

yep

[agile arch]

can anyone help me adding my existing unity project to a github repo

[craggy pollen]

if you have Visual Studio you can do that from the Git tab

or you can use git desktop to do that

[slow dirge]

Or git cli

[craggy pollen]

or that

[open sphinx]

private Rigidbody rb; why does it not work

[dusky forum]

What's wrong with it (the error)?

[open sphinx]

it says the modifier is not valid for the item

[dusky forum]

Are you placing it within the correct scope?

I'm assuming the private access modifier is throwing a tantrum because you've got the variable in some local (method) scope.

[open sphinx]

i put it in the public class scope

should i make a private class

[dusky forum]

Maybe show more context (code)

And move this to #💻┃code-beginner

[open sphinx]

sure

[dusky forum]

!code

[vagrant root]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[solar panther]

Am i allowed to download free button sounds effect from website to import on Audio Source?

[dusky forum]

There's also the asset store (plenty of free stuff)

[gusty abyss]

Hi! I have a question. I want to create a game. I want to use some assets from Unity Asset Store. But I see that there are some licenses. Which license is for making public games to sell?

[craggy pollen]

https://assetstore.unity.com/browse/eula-faq

https://unity.com/legal/as-terms

[gusty abyss]

Thx

[steady elbow]

im new to unity, how do i make the uv triplanar in a 3d material?
do i really have to use the shader graph?

[ocean locust]

hey gamers

[noble cargo]

yo wsp

hows everyones christmas

[safe python]

Sup

[ocean locust]

it's good so far :)

making christmas dinner with my boyfriend

trying to figure out in my brain how a mechanic i wanna add to my game could work

[noble cargo]

cool i wanna create a vr game but i mostly manage and cant find devs

[ocean locust]

aw that's a shame

that's why i only do small solo projects tbf😭

the idea of giving someone else my baby is... scary

[noble cargo]

fair

yh

[ocean locust]

i have dev friends that offer to help but i just use them to consult with

mostly because "my vision"

[noble cargo]

fair i have bad vision too

[ocean locust]

😭

my vision also sucks but i meant creative vision lol

[noble cargo]

oh lol

[ocean locust]

i say that, but my friends have already morphed this game from "cutesy cozy game where you play as a witch" to "basically schedule 1 but potion brewing". so,

[noble cargo]

lol the only game ive tryed to make is from a tutorial and even then its cinfusing but i know the engine but not coding

[ocean locust]

ie i wanted the ability to crush or dry herbs and flowers. they said "what if you crushed up and dried poppy seeds?". or, "what if you put rotten fruit and sugar in your cauldron?" and now it's taken.. a turn

[noble cargo]

lol

[steady elbow]

what does this mean

[noble cargo]

idk

[ocean locust]

it's very hard to balance the tone when your animal crossing-inspired cozy game suddenly has the ability to get the town hooked on opiates and moonshine 😭

[ocean locust]

that's fair, it can be pretty difficult!

i kind of wish i hadn't quit the programming course i was in when i was younger, because it'd make this stuff waaaay easier now lol

[noble cargo]

expecialy when im 13 but im taking coding classes at school so

[ocean locust]

aw yeah, you'll get there

[noble cargo]

i po[e

hope

what was that spelling

[ocean locust]

you pope

[balmy palm]

Pretty cool. Couldn’t get into coding back when i was 13 myself.

[subtle owl]

You got conflicts with Input. Change this setting.

[ocean locust]

i was too busy listening to mcr and having dumb drama when i was 13 tbh

[noble cargo]

yh my 2 friends mastered python so im trying to learn this too flex

[ocean locust]

python is a good skill to have!

[noble cargo]

yh im desent no where near them

[balmy palm]

Excuse my lack of knowledge but does python have libraries? Or is it just basic raw coding?

[noble cargo]

cant remember tbh ive kida blocked school out till january at least

[balmy palm]

Well you’re certainly fluent in english, that’s certainly great for coding.

[noble cargo]

im really not

at all

[balmy palm]

Well, not fluent, perhaps but i’m inclined to believe that it’s your native language.

[ocean locust]

there are, yeah

i also learned python in school though and they didn't teach us anything about libraries 😭

[subtle owl]

Its easier but it stays to be difficult to learn. Not everyone has experience and skill in number manipulation and math for example. But yes, a most of knowledge is stored in English.

[balmy palm]

Lmao. I guess it was just the basics then.

[balmy palm]

Honestly math perhaps not the most important thing out there, but it’s a very powerful part of programming for sure

[subtle owl]

Trigonometry for sure...

[balmy palm]

Some could argue that math is the hardest part of programming

Which i wouldn’t object upon.

[main venture]

Good morning and marry christmas everyone

[balmy palm]

It’s actually evening here

Lol

[late tiger]

i keep getting this what could be wrong deleted the library folder and added it to windows defender but doesn t stop lol the code is good

[late tiger]

🙃

[wide salmon]

is there any beginner that’s learning like me? I like to think that if we learn together it’d be fun

[tall hearth]

I couldn't either (my computer was so bad it took 8 minutes to load a web browser)

[balmy palm]

I heard from a friend that back in the 90’s or early 2000’s they had computers in college or libraries that would take like 10 minutes to boot up.

And they would play some flash games

Nowadays some people can't even endure a 5 minute youtube video. We've come a long way

[steady elbow]

should be enough for grass....

[late tiger]

Anyone lol

[steady elbow]

well, i dont know how to fix it, i just started learning unity like... today

[pearl oyster]

You don't need to answer if you don't know

[pearl oyster]

If you don't need the test runner package you can just delete it from the package manager

[steady elbow]

how do i make an input in the shader graph, so that i can change its value from inspector?

[late tiger]

Fair tought it was a common issue but couldn t find it 😅

[torn heart]

when i export meshes from Blender it uses the wrong axis as up axis in local space (even when setting y as up in blenders export settings) how can i fix that?

[storm patio]

(they were talking to banкa)

[exotic relic]

This is normal or common.

Create an empty object in your scene, place your imported as a child object. Now the parent object can be rotated however you need and when you are ready you can drag&drop it into the assets section of the editor to create a new proper prefab

[gray frigate]

for non-skinned meshes, you can check the "Apply Transforms" option in Blender's FBX exporter

(this causes issues for skinned meshes, iirc)

[steady elbow]

i love shader graph, my main shader looks like that so far

[unique light]

Gorilla. Tag

[gusty abyss]

Sorry guys not to be annoying but a rlly need help im the top post 🙏 https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1402650252443652377

[worldly cave]

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