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[flat breach]

sorry, I didn't understand, I'll do this

thank you

[storm patio]

right, you're not meant to share that. look for errors around the time where you created the project (keep in mind that the timestamps are in UTC)

[flat breach]

so just making One Parent for everything in my scene and setting its position to origin would work and not break everything right?

[potent geyser]

That's what we do for our art props so we can folder them.

[storm patio]

assuming stuff doesn't care about their specific parents (which they logically shouldn't under composition), yeah

[potent geyser]

Everything is tucked in there with a 0 origin

[daring plank]

Bois, I’ve just installed 6.3 for a new webGL project & it’s not allowing me to import any audio of any format reporting an error in the console stating that import has failed for an unknown reason.

I’ve reinstalled the engine & removed the library & obj folders to force a rebuild.

I’ve only just started my troubleshooting deep dive but I was wondering if this might have been anything anyone else has encountered? I’m also not sure this is an incompatibility issue associated with windows 10.

[flat breach]

alright, thanks

[storm patio]

"a parent at position 0,0,0, rotation 0,0,0, scale 1,1,1" is basically what the origin is

it's the position root objects are relative to, the rotation root objects inherit, and the scale root objects are factored by

[raw crown]

anyone looking to start a development team? preferably small, im decent a coding but need graphic designers/3d artists

[storm patio]

!collab

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[raw crown]

ahh, thank you

[vernal notch]

Hi, I got some issue in progress of my project. Is this the right server to ask?

[craggy pollen]

if you are talking about a unity project then yes

[vernal notch]

yes

Man I'm in unity server... why I'll ask about unreal or something else?

[undone monolith]

Hey where can I find an RTL Awareness kind of option in TMP settings?

[storm patio]

you'd be surprised...

[daring plank]

What’s vexing you boss?

[vernal notch]

So, I am trying to use this animator component with my player so that it'll work as soon as the variable becomes true, but for some reason it doesn't work.
that says "not assigned"

[vernal notch]

I mentioned just right above

[undone monolith]

what I personally do is have like an empty game object that allows you to control the scene. Attach your script there

[daring plank]

Select your player in the heirarcy & screenshot the inspector

[storm patio]

huh, weird. thought that error only came up with serialized fields

[undone monolith]

then drag and drop your animator variable in the inspector

[storm patio]

that does not sound right for what this is

[vernal notch]

Yes, I did that

[undone monolith]

assign your animator asset

[daring plank]

The animator is likely on a child object of the player

[subtle owl]

You did an action to a random animator. Serialize a specific animator you want :>.

[undone monolith]

Ohh because you set it to private, it isn't showing up in the inspector

[vernal notch]

but if I'll not use serialized field how am I gonna provide the reference?

[craggy pollen]

there is not Animator component on your gameobject you cant jsut use GetComponent randomly

[storm patio]

by assigning it in any other way, like you did there?

[daring plank]

You use the GetComponentInChildren instead of GetComponent

[vernal notch]

yes

[storm patio]

but yeah if it's not on the direct object, may as well use a serialized field

imo it's just easy to mess up with relatively nonspecific queries like that

[daring plank]

Try GetComponentInChildren instead. It’ll likely find it. But it’d be better to provide a public field which you assign via the inspector incase you later make a change which prevents the script from detecting the correct one

[vernal notch]

I have only one animator

[storm patio]

but you might have more in the future

ah wait, different reply

yeah no, that doesn't matter. you told unity to try to get an animator on the current gameobject, which doesn't have one

[subtle owl]

Yes but your script dont see it. It doesn't know.

[vernal notch]

private Animator animator;

then what does this line do?

[storm patio]

it declares a class field of type Animator

it doesn't really do anything

[craggy pollen]

declaring but not assigning anything to it

[undone monolith]

hey could anyone help with this?

[storm patio]

does tmp not handle that on its own? i kinda thought it would

[subtle owl]

[SerializeField] private Animator animator

And then call animator.SetBool(...);

[vernal notch]

I do have a request....please keep the comments slow and nice. I'll not be able to go through them all

[storm patio]

have you gone through unity essentials?

[undone monolith]

I tried adding Arabic to Unity's localization system, but I personally do not know any arabic

So when i try to copy and paste, apparently it's reverted

[vernal notch]

I am currently following a tutorial of codemonkeys, understanding him and then following along... He got no issues, then why do I?

[storm patio]

probably because you aren't doing what he's doing exactly

[craggy pollen]

because he put an animator on his gameobject and you missed that part

[storm patio]

unity essentials would probably benefit you a lot tbh

!learn

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[vernal notch]

serialize field is used to let our private field be shown in the inspector window

[craggy pollen]

the code might be the same but you forgot to slap the animator on the go

[vernal notch]

I did exactly.. double checked as well

[vernal notch]

that's a (not learn)

[undone monolith]

is there a workaround for this?

[storm patio]

yeah lmao, that always comes to mind when i use that...

[vernal notch]

wait lemme show his code as well

[storm patio]

may as well just link to the tutorial you're using

[craggy pollen]

the code is not even the same, you have the SetBool in the Update

[storm patio]

so your code isn't the same, not that the differences in this case really matter

[vernal notch]

yes, because he did that as well... trust me T_T

[vernal notch]

here

[undone monolith]

did you triple check? he must've made a seperate void function

[storm patio]

code isn't the only thing that matters

[vernal notch]

ofc then how will it update on every frame?

[storm patio]

may as well just link the tutorial

[craggy pollen]

if he is using GetComponent<Animator> that means there must be an freaking Animator on the GameObject, and this is what you forgot to do.

[vernal notch]

MyPlayerAnimator animator is added to PlayerVisual.... the same as he did becuase we don't have to apply animator to the parent.

[storm patio]

just link the damn tutorial man

[vernal notch]

drop the link here?

[proud burrow]

Shouldnt the script be in the gameobject that has the component?

[storm patio]

yes

[vernal notch]

I won't be banned for it?

[storm patio]

no

[vernal notch]

okay

https://youtu.be/AmGSEH7QcDg?si=6QAH_d2Xm3JKBiku&t=6050

[storm patio]

why would you be banned for giving crucial context for the thing you're asking for help with

[vernal notch]

idk links sharing = banned maybe

[storm patio]

yep, the exact timestamp you linked

[stuck flower]

The tutorial has PlayerAnimator and the Animator component on the same object

[craggy pollen]

i really hope it is not one of those 10 hour tuts from codemonkey

[stuck flower]

You, do not

[storm patio]

you do not have the same setup.

[vernal notch]

pardron, I didn't get your message

[storm patio]

oh hey digi

time to update the counter, eh?

[storm patio]

it was since here, buddy #💻┃unity-talk message

[proud burrow]

No biggie

[stuck flower]

Pulling it up now

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 199
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2026-01-21

Almost at the big 200

[copper gust]

GetComponent looks for a Component of that type on the GameObject the script running that code is on

The script running that code is on a GameObject that does not have an Animator component

[vernal notch]

I do see some differences here.. let me go through it

[copper gust]

it’s the equivalent of me asking you to call for a pizza on my phone while handing you nothing but air

[molten glade]

@storm patio @craggy pollen Thanks a lot, it works now! It failed before because my Unity license was broken from a previous install. I had Unity installed before, so the old license blocked project creation. I fixed it and now it works.

I Copypaste the logs

[craggy pollen]

noice

[molten glade]

I want to ask Can Unity be used like Unreal, where animators use it to render and polish their animations?

[vernal notch]

Thank you all for your efforts... I was unable to notice that problem by myself. Sorry for the mess

[copper gust]

Sure

[craggy pollen]

could you explain what you mean exactly

[copper gust]

So can Roblox

[proud burrow]

Means like the insane graphic in unreal used to make clip animations

But in unity

[craggy pollen]

i´d use blender for that tbh

[copper gust]

They didn’t say insane graphics, your adding stuff 😛

[thorny willow]

I got an issue about exporting this blender model to unity in fbx format. the issue is, that the leafs wont be there in unity. only on blender

[molten glade]

Usually, animators create their animations in Blender and then polish them in Unreal using effects and other elements. Can Unity be used the same way?

[proud burrow]

Ok

[fleet canopy]

Apply the modifier

[molten glade]

and render as animations

[copper gust]

Sure

[fleet canopy]

Your leaves are a modifier which aren’t actually part of the tree

[molten glade]

Yess like that

[thorny willow]

this wont work bc after i apply it, the leafs dissapear in blender too.

[molten glade]

have you ever tried

[copper gust]

No

[molten glade]

noway

[copper gust]

Then your issue is with blender, not unity

[fleet canopy]

not sure about usually but you could do that

[thorny willow]

a blender mod told me to ask in the unity discord server

[molten glade]

very nice!

[proud burrow]

Some modifiers in blender dont work in unity

[molten glade]

i saw some animators made the animation scene fight with no bg and flat texture than he move to unreal and set up the environtment and effect there

[fleet canopy]

what kind of environment

if it’s a realistic one you could use hdrp

[molten glade]

zelda style

[copper gust]

If it’s realistic you should use other applications

[molten glade]

stylized

[copper gust]

That means nothing

[fleet canopy]

yes it does?

[molten glade]

with anime shading

[copper gust]

Almost every zelda game looks wildly different

[fleet canopy]

anime shading probably something close to wind waker maybe

[copper gust]

Cel shading…

[fleet canopy]

you could still do this with unity

Or even with blender

[molten glade]

okay i will seek for answer on yt

[shadow heron]

I am making a physics based game which will be in first person, would it be a good idea to switch between character controller and rigidbody? Character controller for normal movement, going up slopes and rigidbody to push objects / effected by explosions.

[copper gust]

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The fuck

[gusty abyss]

I am worry about my game project backend mean I'm beginner at these things ...So for saving player ranks stats and items that own by the user are store in backend ... So can someone tell me what is the actual process and which programming language is best for game backend tasks ??? Guide me

[stuck flower]

...what

[copper gust]

Honestly no disrespect but if you don’t know how to seek that information yourself then you need to work on your information seeking skills first

[storm patio]

wth, walmart?

(also, wouldn't #1157336089242112090 be a better place for that)

[copper gust]

Crazy collab that im sure like 1 doordash knockoff will use for support in a single country

[copper gust]

Honestly dunno how much is worth discussing lol

[gusty abyss]

Yeah I am also thinking of diving into backend basics but I ask bcz if someone already know about that it's easy to ask our confusions to a person rather than Ai or web articles

[copper gust]

If you get stuck your more than welcome to ask about specifics

Don’t use ai, it’s trash

[stuck flower]

Especially not for back-end

That's just begging to be hacked

[gusty abyss]

Ai 😭

[jolly wyvern]

can someone help me out i have a problem with a maze generator

[shadow heron]

Could I simulate physics with a character controller?

Like pushing objects / doing a ground slam etc.

[fleet canopy]

explain your problem and share code and screenshots so someone can help

[gray frigate]

A character controller doubles as a collider, so other physical objects will be pushed away by it

note that the character controller will do its best to not intersect with colliders

so if you move into a prop, you'll stop short of it

There's a message that gets sent when you hit something (OnControllerColliderHit). You can use that to apply forces

beyond that: you can do whatever you want with the CharacterController!

you can make it "ground slam" by just making it move down very quickly

[jolly wyvern]

idk how unity works i just got it have a maze generator script but i have no clue how to run it

[fleet canopy]

you probably have to attach it to a game object

additionally

!learn

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[fleet canopy]

might be for the best

[shadow heron]

Damn thanks for the info! Then I'm going to use the character controller. making a first person rigidbody controller is making me depressed lol. @gray frigate

[jolly wyvern]

i did that but still doesnt wanna run

[fleet canopy]

what happens when you try to run it

are there warnings or errors?

[jolly wyvern]

nothing

[fleet canopy]

%^

[jolly wyvern]

just not hing happens i am just to dumb to do this

spent 2h already on trying to run it

[fleet canopy]

considering you have no experience with unity again you should learn the basics

!learn

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[jolly wyvern]

i just need to do one maze then i am probably never using this again and i have to finish it in 3h beacuse of a dumb bet i made when i was drunk

[fleet canopy]

can you share the script

[jolly wyvern]

how?

[fleet canopy]

!code

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[jolly wyvern]

can u help me in vc cuz i have no clue how to paste it

[fleet canopy]

There is no vc

Also this is computer basics

control c and control v

[jolly wyvern]

got it copied

[stuck flower]

now paste it

[jolly wyvern]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using Random = UnityEngine.Random;

namespace ProceduralMaze
{
public class MazeGenerator : MonoBehaviour
{
public static MazeGenerator Instance;

    [SerializeField] MazeController mazeController;
    [SerializeField] GameObject mazeCellPrefab;

    public float cellSize = 1.0f;
    public int numberOfProps = 10;

    private void Awake()
    {
        Instance = this;
    }

    private void Start()
    {
        GenerateMaze();
    }

    [ContextMenu("GENERATE MAZE")]
    public void GenerateMaze()
    {
        MazeCell[,] maze = mazeController.GetMaze();
        GenerateMaze(maze);
    }

    private void GenerateMaze(MazeCell[,] maze)
    {
        for (int x = 0; x < mazeController.mazeWidth; x++)
        {
            for (int y = 0; y < mazeController.mazeHeight; y++)
            {
                GameObject newCell = Instantiate(mazeCellPrefab, new Vector3((float)x * cellSize, 0f, (float)y * cellSize), Quaternion.identity, transform);

                MazeCellObject mazeCell = newCell.GetComponent<MazeCellObject>();

                bool top = maze[x, y].topWall;
                bool left = maze[x, y].leftWall;
                bool right = x == mazeController.mazeWidth - 1;

                if (mazeController.exit.x == x && mazeController.exit.y == y)
                    right = false;

                bool bottom = y == 0;

                mazeCell.Init(top, bottom, left, right);
            }
        }
    }
}

}

[stuck flower]

!code

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[fleet canopy]

backticks are on the key with the squiggly line under escape

[stuck flower]

This is long enough to warrant a bin site

[jolly wyvern]

what?

[stuck flower]

You see the part where it says "large code blocks"

that's what you do when you have a large code block

[jolly wyvern]

i dont get it

[fleet canopy]

You havbe 2 functions defining GenerateMaze

[jolly wyvern]

the whole thing gave me like 3 scripts

[copper gust]

What thing

[fleet canopy]

What is MazeCell?

[jolly wyvern]

i think like a block

[fleet canopy]

no like

where's it defined

[jolly wyvern]

or something like that

[jolly wyvern]

no clue

[copper gust]

What thing gave you this code

[fleet canopy]

share all 3 scripts on one of the links above

!code

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[fleet canopy]

one of those links

[jolly wyvern]

the asset store

[copper gust]

ask the author

[fleet canopy]

you might be better off folloiwng a tutorial online for how to make a maze generator

if you;re not willing to go through the learn pathway

[jolly wyvern]

also it gave me a tutorial but i am too dumb to understand it

[fleet canopy]

!learn

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[fleet canopy]

would help

you could probably learn what you need in lik 1hours of the basics pathway idk

[jolly wyvern]

i have 3h to do it or i lose 1k

[copper gust]

More than an hour

[copper gust]

Then your losing 1k

Your not experienced enough to do this

[fleet canopy]

that's not helpful

[jolly wyvern]

💔

[jolly wyvern]

yeah i know

[fleet canopy]

if you really really really just want ot make a maze generator try following a tutorial or downloading one from online

[copper gust]

We aren’t fairies if someone puts themselves in an unviable scenario there’s nothing that can be done

[jolly wyvern]

tried doing that for 1h on yt got lost at 2 minutes into the tutorials

[copper gust]

Then you don’t care enough

respectfully

[fleet canopy]

well yeah we offered them the !learn pathway

they dont wanna do it

that's kind of their problem but

[jolly wyvern]

i know but the script is supposed to be hella easy

[worldly cave]

im just wondering what could possibly the context here and why is 1k on the line for a maze generator...

[copper gust]

Easy is a relative term

[fleet canopy]

they were drunk apparently

i think they're still drunk tbh

[jolly wyvern]

got drunk friends bet i couldnt do a maze in unity for 1k and not i am here

[worldly cave]

your friends are smart

[jolly wyvern]

yup

[worldly cave]

waited for the right time to make some easy money

good luck

[jolly wyvern]

the maze generator is supposed to take like 20 min

but i am to dumb to understand it

[fleet canopy]

assuming you spent time learning that is

without learning you cant possibly expect to make it in 20

[jolly wyvern]

thanks

[worldly cave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aeYq5BmDMg why not just follow this?

[jolly wyvern]

watched got lost 2 minutes into the tutorial

[worldly cave]

do you really have to understand it?

[fleet canopy]

i 1up this tutorial it was good imo

[worldly cave]

why not just copy it

and not give a shit about learning anything

[copper gust]

i wish i had enough money to not care like that

wild

[fleet canopy]

they even provide the code link in the description

you could copy their script and follow the tutorial on how to implement it

[jolly wyvern]

can someone help me in call please

[copper gust]

Nope

[fleet canopy]

this server has no off topic or vc

[copper gust]

no calls here

[fleet canopy]

and no dms are allowed either

[jolly wyvern]

like a dm

[copper gust]

Nope

[jolly wyvern]

why?

[fleet canopy]

it's a community server

you askhere so the community can help

[copper gust]

It’s a unmoderated and unarchived communication method

Shit for learning

[worldly cave]

im still wondering why dont you just follow the tutorial

without having to understand it

just copy what they do 1:1 and be done with it

unless understanding it is also a part of it

[jolly wyvern]

like i just do the same thing she does and i just fu.. it up somehow

[fleet canopy]

the code is in the description

[worldly cave]

have you done anything in unity ever before?

[fleet canopy]

you can just focus on following the unity editor parts

[fleet canopy]

they havent

[jolly wyvern]

nope

[fleet canopy]

agaain

!learn would be good

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[fleet canopy]

but they dont wanna

[deft rock]

Then you haven't done the same thing. Keep going over it until it works and is the same

[worldly cave]

so why the hell did you even make a bet centered around unity?

youve never used it before

[fleet canopy]

that's not relevant

they can just follow the tutorial

[jolly wyvern]

idk how we got into unity

[fleet canopy]

better

[worldly cave]

i could guess.

[fleet canopy]

put the video at halfx speed and like keep pasuing it until everything looks the exact same

[jolly wyvern]

its my cousin playing it but alr

[fleet canopy]

They even start the tutorial at the project creation screen

you get to follow from absolute 0

[jolly wyvern]

like i dont have my own discord i use my cousins

[gray frigate]

this sounds like a creative writing exercise

this is ridiculous

[fleet canopy]

they have no time to follow a tutorial or learn unity but they need a maze generator

[gray frigate]

or they lose $1,000, and this is their cousin's vrchat account

[worldly cave]

yeah im very insistent on asking about that 1k because i kinda know its bullshit lol

but i wanna hear what more they can think of

[fleet canopy]

they probably still drinking dude

we've given them all the tips anyways it's not worth pursuing further

[stuck flower]

There's no point trying to force someone to learn when they just don't want to. If $1,000 won't even motivate someone to put in a singular iota of effort our opinions certainly aren't gonna do anything. Best to just ignore them and move on.

[shadow heron]

Hey so I am using a character controller and I have this script where it allows the player to push objects that have a rigidbody. When I push an object the object that is being pushed stutters a lot and yes interpolate is on in the rigidbody. any ideas how I can fix this.

Script: https://paste.ofcode.org/zjJ6p9t8YJdYm8maSR3xuM

[stuck flower]

Why use AddForceAtPoint if you're using the object's position as the origin? Wouldn't it make more sense to use the point of collision, or to just use a normal AddForce?

Also, since CC updates in the normal update loop but physics occurs in FixedUpdate, there's going to be some amount of jitter you can't really avoid. They don't play nice together

[shadow heron]

Is there a way to to make the push objects smooth with the character controller?

[stuck flower]

Not really. The CC isn't designed to work with physics objects. If you want a player object that can exert forces but not respond to them, that's what a Kinematic rigidbody is for

[shadow heron]

damn, would it be a good idea to go for a hybrid approach? character controller for normal movement and rigidbody for physics stuff like pushing objects etc.

[stuck flower]

Kinematic is the hybrid approach

It's a rigidbody that goes only exactly where you tell it like a CC. It doesn't have the built in stair-climbing, but that can usually be solved by just making your stairs into slopes

[shadow heron]

It sounds extremely tempting, could I make it similar to the cc? so no more issues with friction?

[stuck flower]

A kinematic rigidbody does not respond to any forces. It only moves when you tell it to in code

[shadow heron]

Alright I'm going for kinematic then, thanks 👍

[royal dune]

Im working on a modular snow system using a shader and render texture, and I've noticed that if the camera is not the same size as the object that has the shader applied, it has scaling issues

Is there a way to fix this without just scaling the cam

bc Ive heard thats bad for performance

like is there a way to tile them?

[deft rock]

I can't see that being true at all. Makes zero sense. But you can profile that to find out for yourself.

Though that seems like a poor 'solution' as you'll have multiple objects on screen at differen scales. I'd wager the problem is with the shader.

[royal dune]

Im reworking the shader to be based on the camera pos

[ember fossil]

it hes auto error fixerr and deep reseearch

you forgot colliders

[potent geyser]

At this point this discord is making this for you, but also you know by now that code questions belong in #💻┃code-beginner.

Also:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-isKinematic.html

[ember fossil]

yes bro is super noob in coding imho

if he cant fix that

[proud burrow]

Lol

[shadow heron]

Would like to see you try as its not a collider issue...

[worldly cave]

youre litterally promoting an ai tool

[ember fossil]

try asking gemini at least

[worldly cave]

so i wouldnt say youre in the clear either.

[ember fossil]

ai tool is now fixing all its bugs

[shadow heron]

telling me I am a "noob" when your promoting ai tool is crazy

[ember fossil]

its super mega tool

[ember fossil]

what about Google promoting Google Antigravity IDE then

[fleet canopy]

you don’t have to use it

nobody is forcing you to make slop

this is not unity related anymore

[worldly cave]

i wonder why google would promote their own tool

fascinating

[ember fossil]

i coded minecraft chunk in 1 day using AI with just simple copy-paste

[fleet canopy]

you did not code it then

[worldly cave]

"coded"

lmao

[ember fossil]

and then same day coede minecradft world

[potent geyser]

We don't need to wave our AI skillsets around, this isn't Unity related, we can move on.

[fleet canopy]

not unity related

[ember fossil]

vibe-coded

[stuck flower]

"skill"sets

[ember fossil]

gamedesigneres dont need programmers programmers killled own profession and became coding consultants

[potent geyser]

Okay we got it, move on please.

[worldly cave]

anyone else get random errors in the consoles if their SO's have a serialized list of more than 10 elements

nothing seems to break

[potent geyser]

Yeah, that's common

[ember fossil]

someone please try the tool can in share code here i need feedback

[worldly cave]

weird, i guess a gimmick of the editor then

[potent geyser]

You can share it in #1179447338188673034.

[ember fossil]

OK

[stuck flower]

0/10 AI isn't art

[frank thicket]

i made it myself

not ai

[ember fossil]

mo tool is slow as snail

[worldly cave]

can you guys not

this is not gen chat

or off topic

[stuck flower]

<@&502884371011731486> off topic spam

[worldly cave]

this is a help channel

[ember fossil]

OK i will not spam

[worldly cave]

this is also a blatant lie

nor is it the channel to get art feedback, let alone art you did not make.

[frank thicket]

idgaf its not AI, literally ive never used AI to create any images

[ember fossil]

add of topic and memes channels then???

[worldly cave]

this is not the server for things like that

[stuck flower]

No

[ember fossil]

OK

[worldly cave]

what software did you make it in

[frank thicket]

why you telling him where he can talk its discord who cares

[worldly cave]

is this this dudes alt

what the hell is going on

[royal dune]

guys ive been trying to make dynamic snow for forever and it isnt scaleable for some reason 😠

[frank thicket]

blender

[solar sapphire]

Hello people. I need someone to help me with my tools. It's a easy work.

[balmy kettle]

!ask

[stuck flower]

As in just the falling snow effect or like actually landing and accumulating on the ground?

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[worldly cave]

uhuh and did you use photon or tide for the particles?

[royal dune]

like walking around and having footsteps and whatnot

[frank thicket]

i used blender and photoshop

[stuck flower]

If it's decals then you can probably make a decently scaleable system. If it's mesh deformation you're probably going to set a GPU on fire after a while unless you hide stuff

[ember fossil]

can i share game trailer or concept art here?

[solar sapphire]

I need someone to rig models from a specific game

[balmy kettle]

!collab 👇

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[royal dune]

wait wdym decals like adding just a footprint image

[stuck flower]

No, #1180170818983051344 for an ongoing project or #🏆┃daily-win for one-offs

[worldly cave]

you can share a trailer in #1180170818983051344 or #🏆┃daily-win, thats about it

[royal dune]

I might just do that at this point

im so done

[charred fog]

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[royal dune]

I am doing mesh deformation I think

[solar sapphire]

I just want someone to rig models for me. If thats not asking too much

[stuck flower]

Yes, you can paint a footprint into the ground, and even use stuff like heightmaps to make it look like it's set in

[twin wigeon]

Does anyone have problem with unity on linux

[worldly cave]

read the bot message

[balmy kettle]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[stuck flower]

And you can ask it in the forum for asking people to do stuff that you were linked to

[frank thicket]

💀

[twin wigeon]

When I move windows around inside it it is buggy

[worldly cave]

#🐧┃linux

[charred fog]

@frank thicket No-one is interested in "AI" generated spam, don't post off-topic here.

[frank thicket]

are you fucking dumb

[worldly cave]

bruh lol

how you gonna claim ai art as your own and call other people dumb when you get called out

[charred fog]

!ban 1290405643576152097 Spam, insults.

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[worldly cave]

what does your current attempt look like

not visually

but like what are you trying to accomplish on a more technical level i guess

[royal dune]

well it kinda just was not appearing lol

[solar sapphire]

The bot is fucked up, sorry.

[royal dune]

oh

well the game is like set in antartica and stuff

so there is a lot of snow

its kinda mouthwashing vibes

[worldly cave]

im talking about the current task you have at hand

not the point

[stuck flower]

Yeah, unless you're doing like, a major physics sim you should probably just use decals for footprints and tracks

[royal dune]

I just want the snow to look good for the retro/mouthwashing style

[worldly cave]

describe to me in the most abstracted way as to what you are trying to do with the footsteps or snow or whatever

[royal dune]

look good

[worldly cave]

dude.

[stuck flower]

If you're going for retro then you definitely shouldn't be doing mesh deformation

[worldly cave]

nvm

[royal dune]

I really dont know how to explain it bro

[stuck flower]

That's the kind of stuff that brings modern gpus to their knees

[royal dune]

I dont even know what im doing

[worldly cave]

well thats your first problem, not the snow itself

[stuck flower]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/renderer-feature-decal.html

[royal dune]

aight imma just pivot to that thx

[worldly cave]

but you havent really planned out or structured what you want to do

[royal dune]

1. make snow that looks good 2. happy

[worldly cave]

im just gonna pretend like youre doing this on purpose now

[royal dune]

I dont even know bro

[worldly cave]

bruh thats all the more reason to actually plan your mechanic out, on a more technical level, break it down into its mvp

that way you get somewhere even if you get stuck somewhere else.

"funny"

[charred fog]

Yet continuing to spam off-topic after two warnings.

[ember fossil]

thets not spam

pls mute for month not bun instead cause ban is bad

[charred fog]

@ember fossil For the last time. If you don't have anything constructive, Unity related to say, don't spam the channel.

[ember fossil]

i am making games on Unity

someone pls help i dont know how to make procedural generator tht generates location from cubes based on prompt

[worldly cave]

based on prompt?

what

oh more ai stuff im guessing.

[ember fossil]

like gemini and meshy

[charred fog]

!learn Start actually learning the engine and the language, this is not the AI hotline.

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[worldly cave]

yeah youre not going to have any luck finding help with ai tools of any kind here

most of the active people here are staunchly anti ai

[ember fossil]

no one likes my friend gemini

[short wind]

it's a shame so many won't embrace the power of the new tools we have available

AI is not mean to replace the understanding of coding principles

[charred fog]

Actually learning programming helps with critical thinking. Like for example realizing you should stop the off-topic spam when you are about to get banned.

[short wind]

merely to cut out the busywork

[ember fossil]

i understand coding principles i will write all code in assembler to optimize it 🙂

[short wind]

i certainly have no qualms about using spellcheck over memorising a dictionary - how is AI any different?

if it can produce a helpful result, it's a helpful tool

[worldly cave]

no dictionary ever made ram impossible to buy.

[short wind]

market forces are a bugger at that

[worldly cave]

ai is just pointless tools for lazy people.

[charred fog]

Enough with the off-topic.

[stoic lake]

spellcheck cant write the whole 500 line script for you and still requires your own knowledge and critical thinking

[short wind]

it can - but yes you do still need the critical thinking

[charred fog]

You want to commiserate about your "AI" woes go to grok server or something.

[ember fossil]

suggestion add #ai-vibe-coders

[short wind]

i had almost zero unity knowledge yesterday, and this afternoon i am comfortable porting my coding knowledge to the platform thanks to the aid of ai

[ember fossil]

ai-vibe-coders-talk channel

[fleet canopy]

that’s called not this server

[royal dune]

#no

[ember fossil]

for unity i mean

[fleet canopy]

I think you guys should probably listen to fogsight

[ember fossil]

why coding in unity using gemini is banned ?

[potent geyser]

If you continue with the non-unity discussion, you will be muted. Stop putting noise in this channel, thanks.

[short wind]

i do have a general unity question - do people tend to script directly in unity's interface or import from VScode or similar?

[fleet canopy]

there is no interface in unity for coding

[potent geyser]

You can't code directly in Unity

[balmy kettle]

directly in unity's interface
that's not possible

[short wind]

so you're always forced to import scripting files from external source

hmmm intersting

[royal dune]

bro has not TOUCHED unity coding omg

holy cow

[fleet canopy]

Yes you would set up an ide for coding the most popular being vs or vs code

[short wind]

it means the functional reality relies very heavily on the GUI

[fleet canopy]

!ide shows most of the supported ides

[potent geyser]

Yes, Visual Studio is the most common. It comes with the install via Unity Hub.

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[ember fossil]

i am alwaus talking about my gemini tool for unity not coding on gemini without unity

[fleet canopy]

dude they’ve told you to stop 😭

[short wind]

no i imported mine with VScode - it seemed natural but was curious were there an alternative

[potent geyser]

Keep your tool discussion to your #1179447338188673034 thread.

[royal dune]

bro just shut your mouth about your AI girlfriend holy crap

[ember fossil]

and my unity version update not works pls help

[balmy kettle]

would you complain about needing to create your 3d models in another program? how about textures? scripts are just assets like everything else, they just happen to have code that unity will compile.

[short wind]

not compain per se but there's a lot to go wrong when bringing together so many segmented technologies

[fleet canopy]

there’s millions of released games where this wasn’t an issue

[short wind]

yes the compiler carries the load and compatibility requirements for plugins etc

[potent geyser]

I don't think anything has ever gone wrong with it. It's not part of the final Build.

[plain dagger]

Unity used to include an ide (monodevelop) and we celebrated when that ended

[short wind]

but the reality is never so succinct

[worldly cave]

honestly apart from godot i cant think of a single other game engine that has a built in IDE of some kind

[balmy kettle]

it's not even "bringing together segmented technologies", it's just writing code in a proper IDE . . .

[stoic lake]

no point reinventing the wheel

[deft rock]

You edit code with an IDE, you don't import the files - they're created in Unity and "import" when created/ edited... and will do this with or without an IDE installed.

[ember fossil]

my program is slower than stone

[short wind]

ah no you see that's kind of exactly my point - there is certainly is value if the wheel has a better iteration

[fleet canopy]

if you have a problem explain it so people can help

[stoic lake]

are you just arguing for the sake of it

[potent geyser]

There is nothing to fix though?

[worldly cave]

only ai bros would think they can reinvent the wheel

[short wind]

no im being serious

[balmy kettle]

imagine being forced to write your code in the unity editor which is already not great on performance just navigating a scene. now it has to implement IDE features like a debugger, linting, etc? that would be absolute ass

[stoic lake]

sure you are

[royal dune]

literally name an actual issue that it has. like a single one.

[ember fossil]

Google Antigravity or other?

[potent geyser]

What issue does Visual Studio or any other supported IDE cause that is an issue for your development?

[fleet canopy]

There are more options than just visual studio

[worldly cave]

holy shit with the current amount of random editor errors i couldnt imagine the nightmare of writing code directly inside unity

[stoic lake]

and if there was something missing so badly why not just create an extension instead of a whole new in built editor

[royal dune]

that too it would actually be terrible sometimes lol

[short wind]

well not so much the wheel but let's say the architecture of procedural gaming - late game behaviour tanks due to nested decision trees and poor optimisation that is at best nlogn

[fleet canopy]

it’s actually quite nice that the editor isn’t in unity so that when unity crashes my scripts are all fine

[balmy kettle]

so another actually segmented AI bullshit tech? no thanks. i'll stick to a real IDE

[worldly cave]

would rather code in notepad than use cursor or antigrav

[royal dune]

"well actually my analogy was stupid but heres another dumb one"

[deft rock]

There's an asset on the store that puts a code editor in Unity. I tried it.. used it like twice, it was just ... no where near as good as VS

[fleet canopy]

would it just be a tab like the scene view is

[ember fossil]

always using this secret feature not joke or spam

[short wind]

i propose an architecture that doesn't magically optimise the DT - it removes the problem by taking the DT out of a linear computational chain

[brave ridge]

Were you also serious when saying you were working on a way to avoid unitys compilation time entirely?
Seems like a lot of meaningless talk to me

[fleet canopy]

that sounds horrendous

[short wind]

yes i was

because it's the same thing

[stoic lake]

its already a pain trying to use shader graphs like that imagine a code editor 😭

[royal dune]

WHAT PROBLEM BRO 😭

[plain dagger]

playcanvas but its online and the way to not use their editor requires extra tooling

[fleet canopy]

jetbrains rider and maybe visual studio run unity compilation when you press save so actually you save a bit of time

[short wind]

anno, stellaris, total war -late game is horrendous

[fleet canopy]

what does that mean

[deft rock]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/script-inspector-3-3535

[short wind]

imagine if you could scale the world with zero practical runtime

[royal dune]

I think those are just... poorly optimised.

[short wind]

it means the world slows down! the more agents the more islands the more interactions - it blows up

[potent geyser]

This person is equating the IDE with bad code

[short wind]

and no, that's only part of the problem - the best optimisers max out at nlogn

[royal dune]

ALSO total war doesnt even use unity so that isnt even related at all lol

[potent geyser]

Which we all obviously know are not the same thing.

[stoic lake]

AI "developer" discovers that bad code runs slow

[short wind]

my solution is static order

[royal dune]

"this game that doesnt use unity runs bad, so unity is bad" bro what

[short wind]

you can go from 10 agents to 10MILLION agents with virutally zero increase in computational overhead

[potent geyser]

This is unhinged, please thread this since this is going to go on.

[brave ridge]

At this point I'm not even sure if thats AI. Just seems like someone who is throwing terms around they dont understand, with 0 results

Ai would at least be a little more coherent

[stuck flower]

Is there something in the water or are all these idiot tech bros just looking to find more people to buy in before the bubble bursts

[royal dune]

the second option

and the first

[fleet canopy]

bubble bursts next year when OpenAI goes bankrupt

[stuck flower]

Nah earlier they were arguing about how AI would replace programmers and it's sad how we don't embrace the future. Then they started this wild tangent

[fleet canopy]

I don’t see what they’re asking

[royal dune]

🎉

[short wind]

late game engine performance optimisation

[fleet canopy]

They want their code to compile without compiling

[stoic lake]

well this is the same person who said they understtand unity in a day thanks to AI and then asked if there was an in built code editor

its just a bit silly

[worldly cave]

ai tech bros are desperate to sound smart and sophisticated, so they just talk about random bullshit they know nothing about pretending like they understand it, the problem with that is it falls apart the second you talk to people who actually know whats happening.

[potent geyser]

There's a thread. Dive into that nonsense if you wish.

[balmy kettle]

somehow it isn't as bad as the guy that was basically sentient LinkedIn that was in here last night/this morning

[stuck flower]

There was a post about Elon Musk a while back when he started publicly showing his ass about code:
"Everyone told me Elon was a genius about cars. I don't understand cars so I took their word for it.
Then they told me he was a genius about space. I don't understand space so I took their word for it.
Now they're saying he's a genius about code. I do actually know about code and now I know to stay the hell away from his cars and rockets"

The confidence man act will get you far with other know-nothings but earns only ridicule by even casual aficionados.

[stoic lake]

same guy who based developer performance based on how many lines of code they had written

[worldly cave]

was it like "uCodeEditor" or something?

i remember that one being abandoned

[tepid verge]

Good evening everyone.

I started teaching Unity back at version 2.6. I’ve hit a a lot of questions over the years, but this is when I don’t know how to start solving.

Unity has a number of tool kits for people to make their games more accessible.

I have a really intelligent and talented game designer in my course this semester who has severe physical challenges.

Does anyone know of any resources for making working in the engine more accessible?

I’m hoping someone knows of some or can point me in a direction.

[worldly cave]

Ive heard of screen readers for people who have sight issues, but i personally dont know of any other accessibility tools, have you had any luck on the asset store or the forums?

[solar sapphire]

I need help on rigging models

[gray frigate]

I believe 6.3 got better screen reader support, actually

oh, that's more for runtime screen reading

It depends a lot on what the disabilies are.

[deft rock]

@worldly cave

[worldly cave]

i feel like you already got an answer to this

nobody is going to rig models for you

theres no collaborative work here

[gusty abyss]

Heya, has anyone had the bug where it's download for the editer download for the latest verison where it's stuck on 99% Because mines sat on 99% for atleast 2 hours now

[plain dagger]

Visual scripting makes it easier to do logic (works like unreal blueprints). Would that help?

[solar sapphire]

Nobody? You sure?

[worldly cave]

nobody because this isnt the place to find people for collaborative work

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[worldly cave]

A. people rarely even offer job services here.
B. its pretty much against the rules for a few very obvious reasons

[solar sapphire]

I got some

[worldly cave]

congrats, now you dont have to ask anymore

[stoic lake]

so go with them then??

[worldly cave]

also mind you random bots do constantly dm people here about rigging and modeling shit for them

so if you got one of those 99% chance its a scam

[solar sapphire]

Just provoking

[worldly cave]

right, so I was right lol

[stoic lake]

someone dmed me about a month ago asking if i wanted to join their studio as a developer

[worldly cave]

ive had like a hundred dms and friend requests

[stoic lake]

thought it was probably a scam as they had an anime pfp

[worldly cave]

maybe like 2 were real

the rest were scams

mostly people like "hey i wanna rig your model for you" or some shit

[solar sapphire]

Bro you so unnecessary for some reason lol

[worldly cave]

why are you so stubborn lol

[stuck flower]

"hey your pfp is so cute! where did you get it?"

Like ten of them a day

[solar sapphire]

What that have to do with anything chumbb

[worldly cave]

dawg youve been told like 5 times this server isnt a place for collaborative work 😭

[stuck flower]

You've been given your answer. If you have nothing on-topic to post then you can stop posting.

[worldly cave]

why are you so persistent by this time you could have found someone on upwork or fiverr to rig your shit for you

[solar sapphire]

Yes, bitch.

[stoic lake]

damn i didnt think people cared about pfps that much

[worldly cave]

bruh why are you so hostile

whats in the water today

[solar sapphire]

Why are you so unecessary

[stuck flower]

I'm in a lot of art-adjacent servers so it's all AI bots trying to sell profile pics

[worldly cave]

unecessary what

[solar sapphire]

what

[stuck flower]

<@&502884371011731486>

[solar sapphire]

Fuck you too so

[worldly cave]

something tells me this guy isnt finding his rigging pal here

[solar sapphire]

I got two, bitch

[worldly cave]

so go with them lmao

why are you so stubborn to find a person here when youve been told its not the place to do that

if you have 2 seperate people

what is this logic

[sage basin]

!ban 1409236219300282568 insurmountable hostility

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@theonlysuprememaster banned

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[worldly cave]

insurmountable is actually crazy

[keen swan]

ah, so that's who dm'd me, cool

glad i didn't engage further lmao

[stoic lake]

at least he tried starting with manners

[stuck flower]

For what it's worth, DMing another user here out of the blue without asking first is also grounds for banning and if anyone else does that, you should report them.

[worldly cave]

ah so they were looking to rip unity models

makes sense

[royal dune]

guys I found one of his two "rigging pals"

[worldly cave]

a double rule break

[keen swan]

thanks, yeah i had a feeling it was not exactly kosher behavior

[worldly cave]

this is the most bans in the shortest time ive seen in this channel

[stoic lake]

want another?

[worldly cave]

all fresh accounts too

[royal dune]

if any of you guys have quick access to a tutorial on decal depth stuff (for snow footprints) that would be great

im confused for some reason

[charred fog]

Report to modmail bot next time, please.

[stuck flower]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSMjTK8d7GQ

[royal dune]

thank you, you're actually carrying

[stuck flower]

You can make the decal materials use PBR materials, so they'll have a heightmap and normal map and whatnot, that'll give them the illusion of depth

[royal dune]

ok thx

[tepid verge]

These are good suggestions. I’ll check there. I suspect I will find discussions about making games accessible (which is wonderful) if I find something I’ll put together a list

[royal dune]

wait so I just make a PBR material of the decal I want and change the normal map or heightmap until it looks good

[worldly cave]

yeah most discussions will be about making the games themselves more accessible, so make sure you look for "unity editor" stuff specifically

[tepid verge]

I’m certainly planning on showing visuals scripting. Although the size of the pins might be an issue. The student has limited manual mobility limited to one hand

[stuck flower]

Start with a basic decal that's just like, a black foot shape

then once you have that, you can start working on a better material

[royal dune]

ok

thx again

does this look like a good foot shape

[plain dagger]

I think unity mostly responds well to windows UI scaling but you can also zoom in the interface.
Alternate mice may also help like a ball, vertical mouse or even a special controller set up to emulate a mouse.

I think its worth exploring as without visual scripting you would need to type some things to make logic (unless using a very well pre made library of components)

[tepid verge]

I’m very concerned with how he will place assets in the scene. So much three dimensional nav assumes two hands working in concert.

[plain dagger]

You can enable grid snapping and customise the stepping but yea its tricky.
I have no idea if the old pro grids package works but that made it easy to force placement on the x/y/z plane

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/overlay-grid-snap-reference.html

[royal dune]

yeah I just realised idk how to make normal maps lol

nvm I found a very good very totally helpful tutorial from youtube shorts

gosh what a very informative and amazing place

gee whiz

anyway jokes aside is there an easy way to do this without photoshop

[plain dagger]

Ive used this before https://cpetry.github.io/NormalMap-Online/

But the best way is to bake em in blender (if comfortable with blender)

[royal dune]

but can you do that with a 2d image

idk how blender works that well

im like ok at modeling but thats about it

[plain dagger]

With blender we can project one mesh onto another to produce a normal map

Other programs like substance painter can do this automatically for you if you provide a high and low poly

[royal dune]

ill watch a tutorial blender normal map stuff later I guess, this is pretty much just as a placeholder for now

[plain dagger]

Its a little funky but can give good results:
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/cycles/baking.html
the main annoying part is correctly selecting objects in order (which sets the from and to mesh) as well as having an output texture selected

[keen swan]

so you're saying you know how to rig....

[royal dune]

thx

Im not saying I dont know how to...

[keen swan]

lmao

[royal dune]

I love just looking down and seeing this as my footsteps

I cant remove the background for some reason lol

I think I got a fake png again smh

idk why people do that

[fleet canopy]

you could tell because of the grid

usually on google images if it doesn’t have a grid and when you click it it gets a grid it is transparent

or you can use tools to remove it

[gray frigate]

hm, that makes typing incredibly difficult. I wonder if visual scripting + speech to text for searching would work

[royal dune]

yeah I know, it didnt have one before I clicked it

idk how this still happened

[gray frigate]

(even when using visual scripting, you still need to type a fair bit)

[royal dune]

fixed it

now it looks even more cursed

normalMap online is actually pretty good for now

what is the best way to spawn in new footsteps as im walking

would it just be instantiateing and destroying a decal projector

[balmy kettle]

i'd pool them, but basically yeah

[royal dune]

ok thx

just for refrence so that I am aware of how much ive been messing up in the past, how much does pooling objects imporve optimization over instantiating a new one each time

[near wigeon]

a lot if you frequently destroy and spawn the same objects

those operations aren't free

[royal dune]

 private Queue<GameObject> pool = new Queue<GameObject>();

what did I mess up, it is saying that Quere<> doesnt exist and idk if I need to do some using Unity.pool or whatever

gosh darn it

[near wigeon]

you don't need a Queue if you're using Unitys pooling system

[royal dune]

bad tutorial I guess

[gray frigate]

this would be appropriate if you were making your own pooling system

and Queue would be come from the System.Collections.Generic namespace, if you do want to go that route

[near wigeon]

You just make it an ObjectPool<T>, there are other types as well def check docs

[gray frigate]

(annoyingly, PriorityQueue isn't available to us yet)

[royal dune]

im just going to find a tutorial from a dude I actually use a lot rather than some random one

it will be better in the long run

[near wigeon]

or use the official learning material?

like https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/65df850fedbc2a082fb11029#65e0cf5cedbc2a22f86a6cb8

[royal dune]

or that

that would work too

[gray frigate]

I use ListPool and DictionaryPool quite a bit

[royal dune]

when Im doing objectpool<> can the thing in the <> be lit whatever

or does it need to be out of a list of thingies

[near wigeon]

its a T so any object of typeT
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Pool.ObjectPool_1.html

[royal dune]

I will try to figure out what that means but sure

Imma just follow the unity tutorial

[near wigeon]

as long as its an Object, you can put anything there

[royal dune]

oh ok thx

[gray frigate]

the name between the angle brackets is a type parameter

ObjectPool<> on its own is ill-defined

It's not a complete type yet

ObjectPool<int> is a valid type

well, not really, since you can't use int there

[near wigeon]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/generics/

[gray frigate]

but ObjectPool<GameObject> would be :p

It's like how List<> on its own isn't a type you can use

a list of what?

[royal dune]

well yeah I get that

I just didnt know what T meant

I didnt realise it was a gameobject

[gray frigate]

it's a placeholder for a specific type

[near wigeon]

T is used in generic, when you can pass in your own Type

[royal dune]

thank you guys all for putting so much effort into helping me though lol

actually carrying my project

Do I want to make the object pool script stuff inside the script where I am going to be putting objects into it

[near wigeon]

if you want to learn more about this stuff the resources are out there, like
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/c-sharp/generics-and-generic-classes-c-sharp/

[royal dune]

or can I just refrence the object pool

[near wigeon]

T can also be constrained to specific types, like GetComponent<T> would have different constraints that what you can pass in List<T>

[royal dune]

oh ok

[near wigeon]

no pooling script should be its own thing IMO

[royal dune]

ok

and than I just refrence that and do get?

[near wigeon]

You can see in the example they are just making it a Singleton and only deals with getting and release to pool

[near wigeon]

pretty much or create your own method like the example

[balmy kettle]

fun fact, but GetComponent doesn't actually have any generic constraints. it does some runtime checks but that's about it

otherwise it wouldn't be possible to constrain to both UnityEngine.Object and an interface

[near wigeon]

huh.. learn new things every day

oh yea forgot for a sec we can use interface in GetComponent too lol

[gray frigate]

a recurring bugbear

I have a soundboard system i'm developing for VRChat avatars. I want to let people use either:

• an AudioClip, directly
• a ScriptableObject that lets you configure the sound

actually, this is an even worse problem, since I can't even make an interface that both implement, haha

(i'm just doing two lists, I think)

Animancer has something similar going on (you can use an AnimationClip or its own ScriptableObject types)

as a result, the object picker accepts any unity object

which makes searching kind of annoying

[tepid verge]

Additional challenge. Necessities technology to communicate. Requires text to speech.

[gray frigate]

ah, so verbal input isn't possible either

Eye-tracking comes to mind

[clever kindle]

I know there's specialized windows software to allow for more control from the handicapped, with the use of a peripheral...

As a stopgap for better solutions, perhaps a large trackball?

I've heard of those being used by people suffering from carpal tunnel

[royal dune]

How do I make VS stop autoCompleting into the completly wrong thing

It autoCompletes when I click space

instead of like tab or enter or something

[worldly cave]

can you give an example?

are you talking about copilot?

[gray frigate]

you may need to change the key that accepts a completion

i remember having to change this a long time ago

[royal dune]

I dont think its copilot

I think imma just change the completion key

bc its just completing whenever I try to click space

actually it might have been copilot I had it enabled on accident

I just redownloaded VS

[gray frigate]

If it's suggesting large auto-completes that don't make sense, that's "Intellicode"

[royal dune]

I got rid of the dumb AI dont worry

[gray frigate]

i turned it off instantly

[solid oracle]

Good afternoon. I would like to get some advice from development experts. Let me start with some background. I've been writing a book for three years and wanted to try myself as a writer. However, it so happened that I enrolled in applied mathematics and discovered programming. And around last summer, I wanted to try rewriting the book into game lore, but first, I needed to learn the basics of development. After asking around and researching the topic, I decided to choose Unity as my starting point.

But now I'm facing the issue that I can't work as a solo developer with all my ambitions. I've learned the programming language and the basics of the engine but realized it's not enough to bring my idea to life. I turned to 3D modeling, thinking that with my artistic skills, I'd quickly adapt, but it's not for me: modeling is a completely separate art form. If I try to develop in that direction too, I'll burn out before creating anything unique for the game.

In short, I'm now focusing on C#. So, why am I telling you all this:

I want to know where I should publish my ideas and in which communities to write about them or look for a team? I've seen many developers share their ideas and projects on YouTube, TikTok, etc. (I'm considering that too, but that's not the point now). I was suggested Reddit communities, but again, I don't know which one to choose—some have strict posting requirements, while others are inactive.

Should I prioritize lore or graphics?
Or should I forget about a large project altogether and start with simple projects to showcase them for self-promotion, attracting attention, or seeking funding?

I'm completely new to interacting with communities because so far, I've been learning gamedev on my own through videos, reading Unity documentation on the official website, and studying what now feels like useless definitions and concepts. Unity updates also force me to relearn some fundamental aspects.

Lately, I've been feeling overwhelmed and don't know what to do. I can't bring myself to work on the kinds of projects many beginners do because they don't interest me. Many of my games have never been published anywhere; I just set them aside to polish them to perfection later.

Alright. I need advice on where to look for a team and funding.

Also, if I want to be the team lead on my project, should I focus on one specialization or do I need to learn everything?

Will knowledge of the programming language and the engine be enough? Or do I also need to study modeling? While I'm familiar with it, I'm not proficient enough to call myself a modeler.

And is knowledge of the engine's internal architecture ("skeleton") even necessary? I was told I'm wasting my time on useless study. Is it enough to simply know the engine's toolkit?

I started with the intention of switching to Unreal later, but now I'm reluctant to abandon Unity since I've put a lot of effort into it, and I'm thinking of continuing to develop with it.

Thanks in advance if anyone offers good advice. I can't say I've shared all my concerns, but I hope someone will provide criticism and advice to a beginner like me.

[near wigeon]

holy novel

[solid oracle]

I'm sorry, I don't know where else to ask for advice. Apologies for the inconvenience.

[near wigeon]

start small, finish and publish simple games... and focus on one core skill (C#/gameplay programming). Don’t try to do everything. Share work on platforms like reddit, discord, and itch.io to find collaborators.

[worldly cave]

yeah if your idea is far too ambitious to do solo then you should probably wait till you develop some more skill to do it

you dont have to hurry to get it done, it will wait for you once you get there

start smaller, a lot smaller

unless you have a shit ton of money, the chances of you finding a team willing to help you with your passion project is close to 0

[near wigeon]

and you don't need deep engine internals or 3D modeling to lead a project, use assets or teammate for that

[worldly cave]

"Should I prioritize lore or graphics?"

this is also a very beginner front loaded question

the answer is prioritize getting something, anything out there.

[near wigeon]

and basically you're overthinking

thats why they call it "paralysis by analysis"

[gray frigate]

game jams are a great way to just Make Something

Creating stuff and finding out where the problems arise is super helpful

[near wigeon]

if I want to be the team lead on my project
and on this .. If you have to lead you cannot procrastinate, you need to be confident in your decisions

but yeah a jam could give you good feel into what it like.. and exp..
there are no real pressures.. there is just enough goal to reach, but you can submit something unfinished, people still appreciate trying it

[solid oracle]

Thank you all for the advice. I think I'll move slowly, at a pace that matches my level. Could you recommend specific communities I should join?

Yes, I overthink things, especially for my level. I'm often told that. Perhaps that's why I'm making slow progress in implementing my ideas.

In any case, thank you.

[worldly cave]

"Could you recommend specific communities I should join?"

what kind and for what purpose?

this is a good community as any for help

for more casual stuff theres a few discords you can find on google

[solid oracle]

Oh, right, of course. Sorry. It's just that I wanted to have a few communities for variety. This is my first time in a community like this.

[royal dune]

ngl, kinda gave up on pooling for now, Ill prob try again eventually, but I could not understand that unity tutorial and the other tutorial I used took way to long just to not work

[near wigeon]

I wouldnt worry about pooling too much in the beginning , get the thing working first. Improve the metrics later

though its pretty simple, I suggest you learn it on a smaller scale

[royal dune]

Well I was trying to build a general system for pooling literally everything

And it just had to many checks for me I guess

idk

[clever kindle]

Copilot keeps suggesting complete nonsense

I turned it off but I think it turned itself back on

Thank you Microsoft very cool

[tepid verge]

Realize that finishing making a game is also a skill. Game development is fun right up to the point where it isn’t fun any more. Thats where you move from prototyper to developer.

Highly recommend reading this classic post from Derek Yu

https://makegames.tumblr.com/post/1136623767/finishing-a-game

Make Games

Finishing a Game

As I work towards completing my own game, I've been thinking a lot about finishing projects in general. I've noticed that there are a lot of talented developers out there that have trouble finishing games. Truthfully, I've left a long trail of unfinished games in my wake... I think everyone has. Not every project is going to pan out, for whatever reason. But if you find yourself consistently backing out of game projects that have a lot of potential, it could be worth taking a step back and examining why this happens.

We've all had that feeling about at least one game, comic book, movie, etc., that comes out: "Gee, I could do better than this! This is overrated." But it's important to take a step back and realize that, hey, they put in the time to finish a project and I haven't. That's at least one thing they might be better than me at, and it's probably why they have the recognition I don't! If you treat finishing like a skill, rather than simply a step in the process, you can acknowle...

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[royal dune]

whenever I debug my player rotation it always comes out as less then 1 even though it quite often is definently not 1

[regal cobalt]

what's the latest trend in newest Unity versions? Can I have something like CustomEvents.cs defining 200 : CustomEventScriptableObject types? 😄

[storm patio]

let me guess, you're reading rotation.x/y/z

[royal dune]

that was... a pretty good guess

[storm patio]

that's a normalized quaternion. don't use quaternions directly

you're probably looking for transform.eulerAngles

[regal cobalt]

you should mostly be working with transform.forward = ... and, for reading or slightly more advanced stuff, transform.eulerAngles

[royal dune]

oh yeah that should work

thank you

[storm patio]

i don't think you'd be able to use them since SOs need to reference their source class by file

SOs and MBs are still 1 per file because of that

[clever kindle]

Game Jams are important because they force you to actually finish stuff

[regal cobalt]

I just tried real quick -- you can instantiate/create them, but their .asset version still shows like this

[storm patio]

what the...

[regal cobalt]

I had just heard that they fixed something related to this, so was wondering if Unity 6 had some improvements

[storm patio]

do they not have the reference in the asset?

if you look at the text version

[balmy kettle]

it was a 2022.2 fix that allows the source file to be named differently than the contained class.
unfortunately editor stuff still requires 1 MB/SO per file (though you can work with them being multiple in the same file purely in code at runtime)

[regal cobalt]

ohh, gotcha, thanks

yeah it's a great QOL thing for runtime MBs, taking advantage of Update etc with just a local class

[regal cobalt]

yeah the m_Script reference is 0

probably tries to assign it to whatever file has definedTypes.First() == thisMonoScript.Type

[teal shadow]

Hi

[near wigeon]

https://nohello.net

[balmy kettle]

!collab

[vagrant root]

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[gray frigate]

Unity serialization does not care at all about the C# class – just the MonoScript asset!

i've never actually tried doing that though

exciting

[gray frigate]

(now, on the other hand, a [SerializeReference] field does care about exact C# type names)

[regal cobalt]

pretty sure it maps them by some text comparison -- probably roslyn

[dawn marlin]

Yo

I’m new to building games

[regal cobalt]

it's most certainly fixable but maybe they don't tweak to prevent performance issues -- or something

[gray frigate]

by only referring to the GUID and FileID of the MonoScript asset, renaming a type/changing its namespace/etc. doesn't cause any problems

which is very nice

[dawn marlin]

Do yall know how to build a gtag copie

[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.
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[timber sail]

Real talk, why is there a dedicated sdk from unity to order shit from walmart but we still don't have light nodes in shadergraph?
Like I spent the last 4 hours trying to figure out why additional lights wont work because of the unity version I'm using and which random keywords that constantly change they've decided allow you to have additional lights work.

[potent geyser]

Because the people who would work on that sdk are not the same as the people who would work on light nodes for shadergraph. It's not a one or the other thing, regardless if the sdk is useless for almost every Unity user.

[fleet canopy]

unity themselves worked with walmart to make the sdk but it's likely that walmart had their own engineers working alongside to make it as well

(and yes, these big box grocery chains do have their own engineers)

[noble locust]

if i reference an action like SetBrightness.Int for a knob interactable class what would i set the int number to?

[vivid cedar]

huh

you're going to need to provide some context - for example what do you mean by an "action" and what does "SetBrightness.Int" mean?

[noble locust]

gimme a sec ill get an example

[still quiver]

hello, i want to make a game where the player can equip different gear and customize their charcter, how would i make this with this tool? i feel like making a sheet for every variant is impossible and impractical

[whole finch]

this looks cool i dont know anything about scripting and im new but that looks cool

[still quiver]

thanks! i bought it off of itch

[whole finch]

how long have you been like scripting for

[still quiver]

i started python last year, then i learned c, then c# and now unity

[whole finch]

wait are they different codes each?

sorry im like all new to this

[still quiver]

yeah theyre all different languages

[vivid cedar]

Unity is a game engine.
Python, C, and C# are programming languages

[whole finch]

the only coding language ive tried to learn was roblox but its limited

[vivid cedar]

It's not really clear what you're asking or what this picture is. Is this a mockup of your game? A screenshot from some existing game or tool?

[still quiver]

this is a tool that can create spreedsheets for a character

[vivid cedar]

spreadsheets? Or spritesheets?

[storm patio]

roblox is an engine, the language is luau

[whole finch]

im aware

[still quiver]

spritesheets sry for the confusionm

[vivid cedar]

no you wouldn't make a spritesheet for every variation. One simple approach is compositing multiple renderers and using 2D skeletal animation

[still quiver]

will i need to use an external program? whats an easy way to do that?

[vivid cedar]

here's a good intro to 2d skeletal animation in Unity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXIuizGzY2A

you can imagine it's easy to simply attach other renderers, e.g. different armor pieces, etc to the bones

[still quiver]

thanks

[safe garden]

hey all, previously when I was dragging out prefabs or meshes onto a surface it would auto snap to it, now they're being dragged in below the surface - is there an option I may have accidentally disabled for this? 🤔

[ocean pumice]

maybe this

[bitter sparrow]

Hey, is there a way to clear GC in the browser in a WebGL project?

System.GC.Collect(); does not work

[pearl oyster]

#🌐┃web but which GC do you mean? The "emulated" C# one or the browser's JS one?

[bitter sparrow]

thanks, didn't notice that channel

The "emulated" C# one or the browser's JS one?
Both

but right now JS one seems to be a bigger problem as it fills quicker

[pearl oyster]

There's no way to force GC in a browser for JS

Normally there's no need to either, the browser handles it

[bleak quartz]

guys how can I fix that scene view problem omg

I cant zoom anymore

[proud burrow]

uhh, try clicking an object and press f

[bleak quartz]

It didnt fix

[proud burrow]

press 2 twice

[bleak quartz]

two?

[proud burrow]

yes

[bleak quartz]

when Im using my mouse wheel its fine

for zooming in and out

but I cant use W with right mouse hold to move around

it just makes that thing appear

I cant properly work anymore due to that lol

can I reset all hotkeys and such easily? without destroying my layout

[storm patio]

try switching to perspective mode maybe?

[bleak quartz]

how

[storm patio]

but yeah generally focusing an object should fix zoom limit stuff

[proud burrow]

try changing the scene and going back to it

[bleak quartz]

I tried, its same on all scenes

[storm patio]

there should be a gizmo with axes in the top left of scene view or smth like that. or if you don't see it it's probably hidden

i don't remember exactly how you would unhide it. grave mark menu, maybe

[bleak quartz]

look how terrible it looks

[storm patio]

press the grave mark/backtick on your keyboard

the key to the left of 1 in the numrow

[storm patio]

huh, orientation is enabled there?

[slow dirge]

Wither they're not showing the full window, or they're in 2d editor mode.

[sage basin]

if they hover Orientation it should highlight where it is

[storm patio]

they aren't in 2d mode

[sage basin]

they're not in 2D mode

I presume the stupidly long element at the left is it, and they've collapsed it down to nothing

[storm patio]

uh, i meant top right here. not sure why i said top left

ah, there it is

[slow dirge]

It was top left in the end 😅

[bleak quartz]

omg its fixed

it was in iso I think

thank you guys I appreciate it, it was killing me

[storm patio]

yeah, that's isometric mode

[bleak quartz]

I have no idea how I enabled it

I guess some hotkey

[sage basin]

It's very rude that they renamed that from the Scene gizmo to Orientation overlay and now I have to update my docs

[hybrid oyster]

Yo so are there any docs on specific game genres or even books for Unity?

[sage basin]

thousands

[safe garden]

looks lovely!

[hybrid oyster]

I am going to be reading the User Manual and watching some generic YouTube videos about Unity

But the tutorials where they're like "lets make this kind of game" ends up having you like copying their scripts rather than understanding why it works that way yah know what I mean?

Do you know of a repository or something where I can read stuff and get some titles of books and stuff?

[bleak quartz]

thank you!

[hybrid oyster]

ill have to start tackling the unity courses as well... like the ones provided by unity

[bleak quartz]

I learned all the basics with unity learn, its pretty good honestly

[strong raft]

yall r too good at ts

im still stuck at this

[bleak quartz]

ahaha I made the same course too!, keep it up you will learn I remember this one

[strong raft]

alr alr , its day 3 of me learning unity ngl so im still fresh out of the oven

[bleak quartz]

carl's episodes are pretty good and fun to do

later, I stopped though and started to learn with trial and error

[strong raft]

the only problem i have with them is that they are a bit slow and when i run the video on X2 my internet just cantt keep up

[strong raft]

im already adding random shit too lol i even discovered a glitch with the car movement

[bleak quartz]

arent they are like 10 min lol

[strong raft]

each video is like 6mins but its very simple stuff that can be explained in 1 minute

[bleak quartz]

later episodes doesnt even have a video 🥀

[strong raft]

like why do i need 10mins to write transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.delTatime **speed);

[strong raft]

daim

[strong raft]

igonore the second * , discord is just weird

[bleak quartz]

I remember I have comment in one the episodes after videos gone, something like rip carl it got likes hahaha

[storm patio]

that's called markdown, put it in proper code formatting

or put in some backslashes to escape it

[strong raft]

btw , do u think making a Tower defense game as a first project is a good idea?

[sage basin]

depends what you define as first project. I would start extremely small

[bleak quartz]

It will teach you concepts about pathfinding, or road connectors, projectiles, homing mechanics, resource management and ui

[strong raft]

DAIUM