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[jagged sage]

Ight then

Thanks tho

[hybrid oyster]

Yo is there a way to get Unity to use the namespace ThisNamespace; instead of namespace ThisNamespace {}

[fair cove]

Are you asking about including using ThisNamespace; at the top of your script to access classes inside that namespace from a specific script? Or are you asking if you can encapsulate a class in a namespace, without including the { } symbols? If the latter, keep in mind a single script can have multiple namespaces, so the symbols help the namespace know when to start and end the classes contained in it (also, this is not a feature of Unity, this style is more part of C# and is the same outside of Unity)

[storm patio]

declaring a namespace for the entire file is a c# feature that iirc is not available in the version of c# unity has

found it - "file-scoped namespaces", a c# 10 feature. i think they're just asking if it's possible to get that in a unity project considering the c# version constraints

[fair cove]

Ah, I see, interesting I did not know that was a C# 10 feature myself

[hybrid oyster]

I think the first one, the new C# feature where you can save an indentation by just doing namespace ThisNamespace; to encapsulate everything below it without using {}

[storm patio]

namespace X; and using X; are not the same, no

[storm patio]

from some past convos it sounds like there is a way to get later c# versions in unity but it's not an option within unity itself afaik

[quaint bane]

should i be using unitys build in version control or github

[violet thunder]

Yeah

[ocean pumice]

Whatever you feel better with. Unitys build in is, as the name states, build in the editor and you can use it to update and pull changes. I use both, one for a more code based framework and plastic/uvc for projects with visual assets.

[quaint bane]

if u use both does the code still get updated from git hub if you commit it on unitys vc

[hybrid oyster]

ahh okay so i gatta do a bunch of round about stuff

no worries, i'm mostly doing individual files anyways appreciate it

[storm patio]

you would not want to use both, they'd be conflicting if they ever become out of sync

[quaint bane]

how would i keep them in sync?

[ocean pumice]

Dont use both. The metadata from both versioning systems will mess up your repo on both ends and result in a faulty versioning.

[storm patio]

but the answer is no, they are completely separate systems

[storm patio]

everytime you do something in with vc, you would do it twice.

just use one and save yourself literally half the work

[ocean pumice]

Decide on one of the versioning systems and stay there. No reason to use two systems at all for one project.

[flat breach]

hi, how to prevent my ai character to slide on the navmesh surface? when he moves and rotates, he keeps slipping

[ionic fjord]

For some reason my builds get started in dx12, even though dx11 is in the Graphics API set in player settings.
Using 6.3lts using HDRP. Any ideas what this could be?

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[hot carbon]

Hi! Is anyone free to help me export my AR app? My project is finished but it fails to build into an .apk file. AR tracking works fine during Game scene via Vuforia Engine

[flat breach]

hi, what could be the reasons of a SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(); not working? I'm trying to load a scene using this, I've added debugs and it's getting run but it doesn't change of scene

[storm patio]

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[storm patio]

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[hot carbon]

There is no error and Console log is empty. All it says in Build Settings said Cannot build while editor is importing assets or compiling scripts. I tried Googling and it seems I'm the first user to face this problem

[storm patio]

have you tried restarting unity and/or refreshing assets? make sure you don't have any compile errors

[flat breach]

I'm not , https://paste.ofcode.org/SceMtnDwYYNQLASAJ8FL2d , only the GameOver() is important

https://paste.ofcode.org/xhyyZ6hQvhnRW36HDEMmLy , here's the part actually calling it from another script

[storm patio]

it's not being called concurrently with GG, right

[flat breach]

yes it's not

[storm patio]

make sure the scene is set in build settings and the name given matches

[flat breach]

it's

[storm patio]

also, just as a sanity check - you are getting the gameover brain log, right?

[flat breach]

yes, all the logs are getting logged

[storm patio]

does it work if you use LoadScene instead

i feel like this should be in a coroutine and yielded but i haven't found any docs that actually say that

[dusky forum]

Does the next scene simply not load or are you being sent to some other scene like the title scene etc?

[flat breach]

oh yea lemme try

[flat breach]

I thought this was the same as LoadScene, the only difference is it keeps the game running and you can use AsyncOperation to make it load without opening and such things

[storm patio]

it's intended for use with a coroutine, so i don't know if/how it'd work in this way

[flat breach]

actually, before it was working and since I've added this elsewhere, it doesn't work anymore, maybe this is the issue: https://paste.ofcode.org/PrfqTAL9c8Ku4aFgEzbu7X

[storm patio]

yeah that sounds like it's loaded waiting to be activated, so anything else wouldn't go through the pipeline

you generally don't need to preload scenes like this afaik

[flat breach]

ohh, so I can't load multiple scenes at the same time?

[storm patio]

you can, with Additive scene loading, but you aren't using that, and from the context doesn't seem like you'd want that

[flat breach]

it's because the scene was really big and it took too long to load it and I don't want the game to freeze

[storm patio]

well, that's what an async loading achieves, no freeze

(it'd still take a while, but that is a separate concern)

you could maybe preload this additively, but then you'd have to also manage unloading every other scene

(which isn't exactly a bad thing)

[flat breach]

yes, that's why I chose to use it and load the scene without opening it but it seems like I should change it back to how it was

[storm patio]

this scene isn't "loaded but not opened"

this is "mostly loaded"

[flat breach]

ohh yea, that'd be a lot of unnecessary work

[storm patio]

so with single scenes, you'd have to finish loading this, unload this, and then load the other scene

[ripe sky]

is talking about modding games allowed here?

[flat breach]

ohh ok, thank you so much for helping

[storm patio]

no, perhaps read #📖┃code-of-conduct

[ripe sky]

sorry english isnt my native language

ty!

[hot carbon]

I did, and even Reimport All Assets. No compile errors pop up so I can't identify the issue. I have video if you need extra details

[shadow heron]

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[mint lake]

yk, you should Xd

[night olive]

Thanks my bad

[mint lake]

you beat me to it 🤣

[night olive]

I’m new here, my bad

[night olive]

How do I access that

Legit never been here before

[deft rock]

access what?

click the link..?

[night olive]

ah, Then what? do I need an account?

sorry about all that

[deft rock]

you'll see what when you go there

[night olive]

thanks

sorry again folks

is there anywhere I can post my music?

in server?

my bad. first thing in the morning and I've only had two cups of coffee

[deft rock]

not really, no

[night olive]

oh

[deft rock]

It's a Unity server, for help with developing in Unity.

[night olive]

oh okay, my bad

I saw some roles for artists so I just assumed

[deft rock]

yeah, because artists make art for games and use Unity..

id:browse

[night olive]

thanks

my bad again folks, I'm still a bit drowsy this early in the morning

[deft rock]

maybe go get a coffee then 🙂

[night olive]

I already had three, still drowsy, thanks though

trying to cut back from six cups in the morning

[deft rock]

well, there's no off topic on here so..

[night olive]

oh my bad again

alright I'll just head out, sorry again folks

[dim beacon]

how are you guys optimising your 3d games? I'm always lingering about 200-300 fps with occlusion culling and v sync off, yet no matter what i do its always in that fps range...

[sly lake]

By profiling the build

Then optimizing based on that data

[vivid cedar]

Yep there is no optimization without profiling

[sly lake]

And measure in milliseconds, rather than frames per second, because it's a linear metric.

30 to 60fps is a much bigger difference than 200 to 300

[clear spoke]

huh

[vivid cedar]

Also 200-300fps, are we talking in the editor? With editor overhead that could be a pretty hard limit

[clear spoke]

100 > 30 lowk bro

[vivid cedar]

it's about percentages

[sly lake]

It's about time

[clear spoke]

oh ye mb

[sly lake]

33.333 ms vs 16.66666 is a 16ms optimization

Whereas 200 = 5ms and 300 = 3.333ms

So it's only 1.7

[whole gyro]

Hi

Can we use backend in unity

[deft rock]

sure, why not

[worldly cave]

is 200-300 fps in editor somehow supposed to be bad?

most people cant even tell the difference between 144 and 200 simply because a lot of modern monitors are 144hz

[dim beacon]

i mean it can be better can it not?

[worldly cave]

yeah and my house is pretty nice but it could be made of gold

[deft rock]

aim for stable fps, not some perceived holy grail of highheeerrr

[worldly cave]

i blame minecraft youtubers and streamers for bringing this false perception that fps matters at all past like 120

thats why you see those like "how to get 1000 fps in minecraft" or whatever the fuck videos everywhere sometimes

[lapis gate]

The eye can't see more than 30 fps anyway

[worldly cave]

thats not true

but you arent too far off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SzGQkI-IwM heres a good example as to why that "we cant see more than 30 fps" thing is a myth

[deft rock]

if that were true, you surely wouldn't be able to notice the difference when you drop between 120 and 90, back and forth.. but you can

[hybrid oyster]

Invalid Signature from a Package Manager but it's from com.unity

[vivid cedar]

We can definitely notice things higher than 30fps...

[deft rock]

known bug, being worked on, ignore

[worldly cave]

i think the limit is around 120fps

past that any difference is barely noticable

[hybrid oyster]

alright work thanks ❤️

[worldly cave]

also another issue is that monitor refresh rates affect it as well

[lapis gate]

I'm usually fine with 60

[worldly cave]

im fine with 60 but the issue is that no game can ever give you 60 consistently

so you frequently dip into 50

i much prefer close to 90 so i have that overhead

[lapis gate]

true kinda, but if you can push 120 then you can probably have stable 60

but dips in frame rate at 120 to say 90 arent that noticable that's for sure

meanwhile path of exile 2 will dip from 300 to 20

[worldly cave]

thats not necessarily true though

fps stability has little to do with how much fps you can have

[potent moss]

isn't that only for UI objects though?

or like how does it work for actual game objects?

[lapis gate]

Not something I looked much into, I would just assume if you can push some high frames you'd have the stability with syncing to something much lower

[undone monolith]

hey guys I recently installed Unity on a MacOS. I was wondering why I couldn't modify materials and all options were grayed out

[potent geyser]

You can't modify built in/imported materials. You have to duplicate it (CTRL+D with it selected in the project folder)

[undone monolith]

i tried creating my own sphere game object

I couldn't modify the material

[potent geyser]

Again, you have the duplicate the material. You cannot modify built-in or imported materials.

[undone monolith]

Oh the material...

I thought you meant game object

mb

[twilit crystal]

question
anyone can answer this

even vets

any one of yall actually done any Case or Class diagrams for your games...

[worldly cave]

very rarely honestly

maybe once ever

[potent geyser]

Sketched out loose plans in my notebook if I need to visualize something for myself. But never formally, no.

[teal turtle]

Hi, quick question about the tools from Time Ghost. I got them working on a scatter I exported from Houdini with a custom hda like the one they used. The only thing that I am really struggling with is rotation because apparently you can't/they didn't use quaternions? At least it looks like that in the point caches that they provided and it seems that way from just playing with some attributes but I hope I am wrong. If not, what would be the next easiest way of converting the rotation from Houdini to Unity?

Thinking about some custom script on the prefabs themselves that gets the pcOrientation, rotates the instance back and then applies the quaternion? I am really new to Unity so this would probably be unoptimized as fuck but I've been playing around with the rotation for a day now and I just want to give up

[deft rock]

The only thing that I am really struggling with is rotation because apparently you can't/they didn't use quaternions?

What do you mean by this. Unity has quaternions and euler functionality

My initial thought is that Houdini is exporting with the axis set differently to Unity (Y up, Z forward)..?

[teal turtle]

If I export the same quaternion I am using for Houdini, it doesn't do much. It seems to be dependent on degrees and maybe I am just being stupid but just simply using the quaternion doesn't work

[gray frigate]

show us what your problem is

[teal turtle]

ight lemme record a quick video then

[twilit crystal]

i lost brain cells doing 2 for a college assessment

[teal turtle]

Ight this took way too long, I hope this kind of explains it, basically nothing happens with the rotation

[lapis gate]

What if you open it up in blender

[teal turtle]

it's not a direct link with geometry, I just export a point cache that gets used by all the time ghost scripts in order to instance the prefabs

[lapis gate]

oh I see, but if it's just points why would it carry rotational data

seems like something you do on the unity side in that case

[worldly cave]

feels like it would be relatively simple to randomize the rotations no?

[teal turtle]

the rotation from Houdini respects the terrain normals and some other things like proximity to other scatters. + I don't know how I would add that because the scripts are so convoluted and there are so many of them. I am just trying to get the Time Ghost stuff to properly work because I am pretty new to Unity and doing this stuff in Houdini is the easiest and fastest method for me. Mabye I should really look into making some custom tools in the future but for now I just want to make a working bridge

[worldly cave]

"the rotation from Houdini respects the terrain normals and some other things like proximity to other scatters."

yeah you can do that directly in unity as well

unless houdini lets you somehow save the rotation per point or something and not just the location then theres no way to do this other than doing it directly in unity

[teal turtle]

it does, I have the entire thing exporting just fine, I can use the age, color and health fields in the shader and scale and position are working perfectly fine. The only problem is the rotation. This is basically a group of images that have 1 scatter point per pixel and then the scatterer (at least I assume) loops through them and instances the prefabs

[patent raptor]

guys i need help
i am unable to complete VR Pathways

i completed all tasks and submitted . even did all quizes
it shows 100% complete

but when i click on "complete pathways" , it shows "All content must be completed"

[lapis gate]

I would need to see the script, but I'm assuming you are putting these on a terrain as detail meshes, they usually are a pain in the butt to really modify cause it's instanced meshes. The easiest workaround here would be to rotate the mesh at the prefab level and not as it's placed upon the terrain.

Because detail meshes are done in patches, not per mesh

[teal turtle]

yeah there are like 20 scripts and I don't even know which one handles the instancing but imma try doing the rotation on prefab level

[lapis gate]

If you're using TerrainTrees then you have a bit more control with the TreeInstance data

Ideally you do want detail meshes for non-quad based grass though

[misty kestrel]

Does anyone know how to enable the scale pegs on the transform tool? Not sure why, but they've disappeared and I just cannot figure out how to make them reappear. I've checked all the gizmo visibility settings, and everything is visible. If anyone can help, It would be greatly appreciated

[rose maple]

can someone help me make my first game?

[craggy pollen]

we can help you with your questions yes

[rose maple]

oh ok

[outer lynx]

Guys PLS help me with this im trying to install andoroid build support and this shows up (im uning catchyOS)

[crisp harbor]

Hi I just got a older asset it shows pink textures. I'd like to convert it to URP. What is the best way of doing this?

I cant do "Convert Selected" because it doesn't seem to be an option. Also, I am trying to do Render Pipeline Converter but this is taking forever to Initialize Converters?

[potent geyser]

The converter is the proper way. Why it's taking forever, I don't know.

However, if the shader is custom made, then the converter won't work anyway. Custom shaders need to be hand converted.

[crisp harbor]

So I was able to get like 99% of the asset pack to work by manually changing the pink materials to urp lit

Better than nothing. Will just work with what I got lol

Converter was going through 40k items and stuck at 1% for like 10mins.

[potent geyser]

Yeah, doing it manually always works if you have the patience for it

[gray frigate]

clever use of the advanced search should help a lot there

[cloud flower]

I cant seem to get this as a bell curve can anyone help?

[potent geyser]

Put a keyframe in the middle, and set it's value to 0.5, 1

[cloud flower]

go tit thank you

[gray frigate]

alternatively, adjust the weights on the left point

(but for a proper bell curve, you need 3 points, yeah)

2 points could only give a parabola

[mild radish]

dang, its been so long since i worked on this project i forgot how i got the camera to not render these meshes

i was originally gonna use a layer and cull it from teh camera.. but i remember i got another suggestion and it worked..

but i can't recall what it was

[gray frigate]

there are also render layers

in the URP and HDRP, at least

[cloud flower]

is that a drone flight simulator

[gray frigate]

these are unrelated to the gameobject's layer

[mild radish]

ish

[cloud flower]

nice

[gray frigate]

a renderer/light can be part of many render layers at once

[cloud flower]

I work on space sim project

I gotta start working on lighting though and figuring that out cause the textures I pulled from Nasa website are kinda bright

[mild radish]

yea, i actually fly real ones.. and we're in the middle of a big winter storm.. so i figured i'd go back and work on this since i can't fly outside 🙁

[mild radish]

i'll check

im going to try to cycle thru some keywords to hopefully find where i got the suggestion from

it came from this server

[cloud flower]

yea thats why im messing with unity hahah got 18 inchs

snowed in

but I dabble in drones occasionally also

[mild radish]

we just got power back on 🙏 I need a laptop and a backup battery so i can use unity when our powers out

[cloud flower]

thankfully we didnt lose power we are just dealing with subzero temps atm

[mild radish]

#💻┃unity-talk message

"Shadows only" was the ticket

[cloud flower]

advanced question..... how could I pull a texture from a game?

obviously id get into the game files

[mild radish]

you cant/shouldn't ...
i think thats what im allowed to tell you..
b/c modding can't be discussed on this discord

[cloud flower]

aghhh

ok

[mild radish]

should be able to google it tho

theres websites that have a library of game's models/textures/etc

[cloud flower]

yea its not cut and dry the instructions I found are 10 years old for this specific game

[mild radish]

they're older games.. but theres lots of ripped assets already.. if ur doing something retro

[cloud flower]

oh its not retro lol

[mild radish]

https://www.spriters-resource.com/

[mild radish]

ohh.. welp google will be ur best friend

[cloud flower]

I wanna pull EVe onlines wh space nebula

[mild radish]

oh wow

i bet that stuff is enormous btw

[cloud flower]

yea I found textures on nasa and another site but its just not the feel I want

[mild radish]

u any good with photoshop?

[cloud flower]

what with texture making in PS?

[mild radish]

well image manipulation / compositing

you can use nasa's images as a base

[cloud flower]

not so much I know how to do heightmaps etc

[mild radish]

looked on unity asset store?

they have a free nebula/space pack or 2

not the greatest by any stretch of the imagination.. but adequate

[cloud flower]

i checked nasa and sketchfab I didnt like Unity might buy one of the paid one's though when I get paid. Personally I wish Gaias procedural world generator did space themes

But that asset is now $200

they have some killer astreroid models I wont have to reinvent though

nope those are just stls

[gray frigate]

Blender's "Extra Mesh Objects" add-on includes a nice rock generator

weird rock

[cloud flower]

Yea im realizing I cant solely use unity lol

Does blender make the textures also.

[sly lake]

Yes- badly

[sly lake]

The industry standard for textures is still Substance Painter / Designer, but that'll set you back a few hundred.

Material Maker looks like a promising free alternative.

[cloud flower]

im pretty sure I got that for free before

substance thru adobe

mil email years ago

[outer lynx]

PLEASE GUY SOMEONE

[sly lake]

Unity doesn't support whatever "catchyOS" is

[outer lynx]

catchyOs is a distro based on arch and unity supports arch

[turbid vapor]

👋 Analytics doesn't work in my production environment, wtf
https://pastebin.com/dPHYBfvV
Editor - works fine

Android build, Logcat - empty

[outer lynx]

ahh fuck all this shitty communty and this shitty engine 0 support burn in hell

[cloud flower]

damn dude its not that serious

[outer lynx]

i have this fuking engine and this fuking community

[cloud flower]

sudo pacman -S --needed
libx11 libxrandr libxinerama libxcursor libxi
libglvnd gtk3 nss alsa-lib
jdk17-openjdk

[agile jacinth]

im trying to get a free asset from the unity asset store, and the blue button that should say download or get asset or something is just loading ive been waiting forever. what do i do?

[outer lynx]

0 help i havent seen a community soo toxic since brainroot

[cloud flower]

dl those dependencies

[gray frigate]

<@&502884371011731486> obvious troll

[balmy kettle]

check to see if the asset ended up in "My Assets". if not, then clear cookies and cache for the site and try again (assuming you are referring to claiming the asset to your account)

[potent geyser]

@frosty pilot This is an English only server. They also left the server already, so you're desperately trying to reply to someone who isn't even going to see it.

[frosty pilot]

ok

[turbid vapor]

The asset can be removed, so loading will always be

[balmy kettle]

huh?

[cloud flower]

why is my DockPoint and DockRange have a Plus icon?

they have their corresponding scripts

[agile jacinth]

how do i clear cookies and cache?

[balmy kettle]

because they aren't part of the prefab, that indicates that you can apply the override to the prefab

[balmy kettle]

probably depends on your browser, but that can easily be googled

[agile jacinth]

alr

[cloud flower]

so drag them into the prefab?

no cause they already are

[balmy kettle]

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

[cloud flower]

reading

[balmy kettle]

are you sure you aren't looking at a different prefab?

because your models also appear as prefabs but you can't apply overrides to those. and i assume this is probably one of those

[cloud flower]

I guess itr has to deal with how I imported the glbb

and where I put it

[balmy kettle]

no, that's just how all 3d models work. they act as prefabs but you cannot apply overrides to them. you need to create a separate prefab from it

[cloud flower]

overrides being the tasks in scripts?

[balmy kettle]

overrides being anything you add or change via hierarchy or inspector in the scene. you know, those green plus icons you were just asking about and i told you they were overrides that hadn't been applied

[cloud flower]

yea DockPoint And DockRange are scripts

[frosty pilot]

Imported model is read only prefab

[cloud flower]

rather empty objects with scripts

[balmy kettle]

right, those objects you added in the hierarchy would be overrides because they are not on the prefab. but that prefab cannot be modified because it is a 3d model, so you need to create another actual prefab that you can apply your changes to that will happen to also contain the model prefab

[cloud flower]

prefab being another empty object then attach the model to that?

might actually clear up the issue I was having where it was only docking at a certain point of the structure lol

[balmy kettle]

you should really consider doing the unity essentials pathway on the learn site if you don't know what a prefab is

[cloud flower]

I do and I dont I have mega brainfog like the information is in my head but I have trouble remembering 🙁

[balmy kettle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/prefabs-introduction.html

you even claimed those were already applied to the prefab, so if you didn't know what a prefab was at the time, why did you say that?

[cloud flower]

and yeah I was gonna do the new tutorial again ive done past tutorials etc youtube series but this is an entirely new version and I last messed with unity 5 years ago

Honestly I think ive just confused myself even more

[ashen mica]

hello i've dumb question, how i can update my unity ? because i've the versino 3.2f1 and the last is 6000.3.5f2
Also, does taht will broke my project ?
I've this bug about package manager..

[cloud flower]

pretty sure updates to client are handled in unity hub

[frosty pilot]

Unity Hub -> Installs

[ashen mica]

I need to re-download all the engine again ?

[frosty pilot]

Yes

[ashen mica]

wow; okay lol

With all module again? web build, windows etc..

[cloud flower]

iits not a huge dl

[frosty pilot]

And after installing click on project version and select new unity version

[frosty pilot]

Yes

[frosty pilot]

The difference in versions is too small for something to break

[ashen mica]

It's insane in 2026 there is not update buttton and you need to redownload all lol it's strange

[stuck flower]

You're not supposed to update that often. Usually you'd just pick one and stick with it for the whole project

[tawny quail]

That's how most big engines work. Unity, Unreal, Godot, etc

[cloud flower]

Prefabs+ base item

whoops

[ashen mica]

Yeah, but actually Unity has a huge bug in some version, with input system and package manager

I've started unity last month

i think it's just bad luck

[cloud flower]

how can I disable skybox quickly to test stuff?

I dont see it in inspector anywhere

[ashen mica]

lightning tabs

[frosty pilot]

Skybox in Windows -> Lightning -> Light

[frosty pilot]

And disable in game you can in camera settings

[cloud flower]

yeah that isn't an option it wants me to go thru windows rendering lighting environment and remove skybox material I just didnt know if a shortcut existed

[ashen robin]

Hello everyone!

[stuck flower]

!collab

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[frosty pilot]

Hello

[idle robin]

I’m finding it difficult to activate my license

[ashen robin]

Where can I post memes at?

[frosty pilot]

Memes not allowed in this server

[cloud flower]

this is sketchfab 3d model can anyone tell me why in the 3d model view its showing numbers?

Im not sure if that signifies something with the model or not

[stuck flower]

Another server

[woeful loom]

can someone tell me how to enable the gizmo cause i can't find how to enable it for the life of me

[balmy kettle]

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

[gleaming shard]

is there a way for each element in the list to have two variables like for example every element i can drag in an object and type in an integer

[woeful loom]

yea i've been looking at that but i can't find it and my unity doesn't really look like that

[balmy kettle]

use a list of some serializable struct

[balmy kettle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/display-and-hide-overlay.html

[gleaming shard]

thanks

now im gonna spend my time learning what that is lmao

[frosty pilot]

its structs with [Serializable] attribute

You can see they fields in inspector

[woeful loom]

but what am i supposed to do with that ?

[balmy kettle]

use the provided information to open the relevant overlay so you can enable gizmos

[woeful loom]

but i don't know which one is the relevant overlay and whatever i find on the ethernet always has some old overlay where the gizmo is wide in the open

[balmy kettle]

try reading the information on the page provided and you might find something that will help you

[gleaming shard]

ohhh i understand thanks

[lone galleon]

Anyone know an newer version of this tutorial ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JkG-orTQO8

[balmy kettle]

presumably the makers of the asset used in that video might

[gleaming shard]

but what if i wanted to do this

[frosty pilot]

Its ok

[balmy kettle]

you can't use non-static fields inside of a field initializer. that field will either need to be a property (which will get recalculated each time you access it) or will need to be assigned in the constructor

[frosty pilot]

public int DropAmount =>

add >

But it always be random

[stuck flower]

Do you want it to roll every time you access dropAmount or do you want it to roll once on creation and then stick with that

[gleaming shard]

i wanna roll it once

[stuck flower]

Then you'll want to assign a value to dropAmount in the constructor

[frosty pilot]

Well set this in awake in owner script

[stuck flower]

or on Reset
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.Reset.html

if it's meant to be set in the inspector

[gleaming shard]

so basically i have to read the list and for each element i pick a random value and set it?

[frosty pilot]

Yes

You dont have Awake method in this classes

You need to call it manually

foreach (var obj in objs)
    obj.Init();

[gleaming shard]

i got it thanks

[ember fossil]

i made a game

level 0

[frosty pilot]

#1180170818983051344

[ember fossil]

ok

[slate veldt]

hey guys. i am so lost. i want to learn but have no idea where to start. i really want to make 3d games. any suggestions?

[frosty pilot]

1 step - learn C#
2 step - learn Unity
3 step - learn how coding

[ember fossil]

download Google antigravity Unity and Unity Hub, watch tutorials on Youtube make something like a game i posted

[frosty pilot]

!learn btw

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[slate veldt]

thanks so much guys

[ember fossil]

i can giuve you code of game DM me and look how the code works\

[slate veldt]

that would be great! thanks

[cloud flower]

Im using unity learn and gpt to learn and build

[slate veldt]

was it useful or no

i should say is it

[cloud flower]

if you know what your doing and the questions to ask and are tech savy you should be able to get something going but def use unity learn as well

I use it more as a hey wtf gimme an idea of what I did wrong

[slate veldt]

ok yeah ok i used ChatGPT for java and html wtf moments

[cloud flower]

theres so many different options in unity its crazy to not wanna look stuff up constantly

unless you KNOW unity

[slate veldt]

ok thanks for the info, it has helped a lot

[cloud flower]

np

[quaint bane]

does it matter what unity version i use

[cloud flower]

compatability with assets etc for one I would think

[slate veldt]

from what i have heard LTS is best for stability

[cloud flower]

yea im using 6.3 LTS

[slate veldt]

same

[frosty pilot]

im using 7.3 LTS

[cloud flower]

its the newest version I believe

nope

how 7.3?

[slate veldt]

i was wondering same

maybe typo, idk

[cloud flower]

so pretty

will doing anything with lighting make that pop anymore or is it all gonna be my skybox settings?

[gray frigate]

you can bump up the contrast with color grading

(exactly how you do this depends on which render pipeline you are using)

[cloud flower]

URP

ill find it

[cloud flower]

how are people recording mini clips to show here in discord obs?

[ripe trout]

hii is anyone who’s familiar with animating movement open to helping me i got most of it but one part isn’t working 🥹

[slow dirge]

That or windows snipping tool.

Also Xbox game bar overlay. It's usually installed in windows by default.

[cloud flower]

I cant get rid of the pause in the particle stream

[frosty pilot]

It in emission

[cloud flower]

only thing is rate over time is set at 600

[frosty pilot]

Show

[frosty pilot]

Hmm set duration to 5

[cloud flower]

changing that just changes the amount

ok

[frosty pilot]

I mean problem in max particles

[cloud flower]

Hmmmm I dunno I cant seem to figure it out might just start over again

[frosty pilot]

And disable looping

Amm

Duration can be infinity?

[cloud flower]

Yea max particles I do need to lower that just decreases the amount of dust present

duration doesnt seem to be changing anything

[gray frigate]

You're hitting the particle limit

you have a max of 2000 particles

so if you emit 600 per second, you'll hit the limit after 3.33 seconds

turn up the limit or reduce the particle lifetime

[cloud flower]

yeah I figured It out I have it set to 6k now

made a few other tweaks as well it looks cool now

actually looks like a constant stream of dust drifting thru space

[gray frigate]

also, one thing that might be helpful for you

you can turn off the selection outline in the scene view

this is helpful when working on particle systems

the orange outline can make it hard to tell what's actually going on

[cloud flower]

oh cool ok

how can I turn off the grid I know there was a way I cant find it

nvm got it

[cloud flower]

Hmmmm how can I have scene view and game view open side by side? I can get top and bottom but not side

[frosty pilot]

you can

[cloud flower]

cant?

[frosty pilot]

Can

[cloud flower]

oh ive been messing with the layouts etc and trying to move it I cant get it

this is best I can get

[slow dirge]

Should be able to place it with drag and dropping the tab.

[cloud flower]

whoops I got it hahaha I just had to play with it long enough But I kinda liked the top and bottom I ss

[gusty abyss]

If you make a indie game should you copy right it with the government?

[frosty pilot]

Well, it's mostly just about names and trademarks

[gusty abyss]

So how would I go about doing a trade make for my and and such

Just want to make sure I am safe as I had a name and an account on x than someone took my name and trade marked it than I got banned

[frosty pilot]

Well account in X and game is different things

[gusty abyss]

O well I want to make sure my game is safe 100%

[frosty pilot]

You will newer be sure if you not Nintendo

[gusty abyss]

What do you mean

[frosty pilot]

Btw scandals are very useful for the popularity of the game

[frosty pilot]

If you want your game to be 100% safe, then don't release it

Because all the resources and source code will be on the torrents next week

[gusty abyss]

Lol I want to release it when it's time just want to know how to make it so people can't take my name and such

[slow dirge]

Hire a lawyer to check hat for you.

[gusty abyss]

What do you mean

[gusty abyss]

Ok thank you.

[slow dirge]

Don't provide your source code or assets in public access.

If it's gonna come to court, whoever has the source and proof of development wins.

[frosty pilot]

Even if you register, if the person who stole the name of the game from you is in another country, you will be able to resolve the conflict in less than a month

[frosty pilot]

The courts do not work well if the persons are located in different countries

[slow dirge]

Yea, but at least you can get some fairness on major publishing platforms, like steam and such. Obviously you can't stop people from ripping your game and hosting it somewhere pretending they developed it. Not that I see any point in doing that.

[gusty abyss]

True

[frosty pilot]

Theft can still be proved of course if it was extremely brazen

[cloud flower]

Ok so I create an empty object drop it on my playership and drop a glb on that reset the transforms to 0,0,0 the GLB Shuttlecraft is still not on the playership what gives

[frosty pilot]

But to be honest, it's better to really learn this from real lawyers rather than people from a chat

But of course, if you want to be 100% sure that the name of the game is safe, then the name will need to be registered in every country in the world

[cloud flower]

I got it

Nope haha

gerrrrrr

im fighting the UI

[gusty abyss]

Thanks

[storm patio]

copyright exists from the time of creation, it's patents and trademarks that you have to register

[gusty abyss]

✌️ yolo

one of the players hands

[frosty pilot]

Too little

[gusty abyss]

my pc is going to explode

[cloud flower]

wheres the coordinate system selection dropdown menu?

[storm patio]

in unity? there isn't one, you can't choose

[patent raptor]

guys.. in Unity pathways VR Development
it showing "All content must be completed"

but i already completed all the sections and showing 100%
then also it doesnt let me complete the pathways

[storm patio]

ah, that

[cloud flower]

yea doing that essentials

[storm patio]

it's in the toolbar in scene view, if you don't see it it's hidden

you can press the grave mark to open the overlay menu to show it

[cloud flower]

this

[storm patio]

well, TIL what that's called

yes, the one with options between local and global

[cloud flower]

and what exactly does that do im confusede

[storm patio]

it changes the tool handle orientations

try rotating a gameobject then switch between local/global, see how the handles change

the arrows/boxes for translating/scaling, the alignment of the rings for rotating

[cloud flower]

I see the difference in tools but they dont move any different

is it not snapped to grid in local?

no I dunno im not seeing a difference maybe somethings broke

[cloud flower]

ohhhhh it makes it at an angle

[storm patio]

aligned to the local axes, yes

[cyan lion]

did you make the texture?

[fleet canopy]

They were asking for one

[gusty abyss]

So how can I force black bars I feel like it would be better for my game

Ive tried every screen mode

[balmy kettle]

you have to do letterboxing manually

there are likely assets that handle it for you though

[gusty abyss]

I swear ive done it by accident

but alr

[cloud flower]

when dragging on orbit how do I snap it

it 90 180 etc

[storm patio]

pixel perfect camera has an option for it, you might be thinking of that (but it wouldn't work for this in 3d)

[gusty abyss]

my game is a bodycam horror game so wanted to give it a shot

[sage basin]

it's not called that, it's just made it up

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PositioningGameObjects.html#GizmoHandlePositions

[cloud flower]

how do I create a physics material Im not seeing it and thats what tutorial says

[near wigeon]

[potent geyser]

You really just need to check the documentation instead of riding this server all day.

[cloud flower]

yeah thats what it says in tutorial except it aint there

[potent geyser]

Make sure you have the documentation set to the version you're using, if things got moved around (I don't think it did but who knows)

[balmy kettle]

show what you see instead

[cosmic igloo]

it will help us to show what ur trying and why its not working

[near wigeon]

hasn't changed

[near wigeon]

thats not where manual says

[balmy kettle]

you create the physics material in the project window not in the hierarchy

[near wigeon]

thats the hierarchy..

[balmy kettle]

or literally go to the menu that the google result showed

[frosty pilot]

200iq

[near wigeon]

that pesky reading..

[storm patio]

also that is a context menu not the menu bar

[frosty pilot]

We need menu of menus

[storm patio]

that's what the menu bar is

[forest python]

Anybody have any idea on how to create advanced medical simulations…like tissue tearing and stuff in unity

[cloud flower]

I dont get the point of holding V and dragging cursor its suppose to snap but its not snapping the way I expect I cant get this lined up

its just one side omg

yea I found a video its not working right

tutorial doesnt do a good job explaining that you gotta drag the lil box

[storm patio]

<@&502884371011731486> scam

[sage basin]

?softban 1461260360823869683 crypto scam

[novel scarab]

noble_dolphin_89363 was softbanned.

[cloud flower]

well 3d essentials is done

[ocean pumice]

V is for vertex snapping, if you did not know yet. you click on a vertex of your mesh and drag it onto another vertex on a mesh to align them

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PositioningGameObjects.html

[sly lake]

Unfortunately it breaks when there's a terrain in the scene

[mild grove]

Hey! Is there a way to directly import a package from Package Manager/Asset Store without downloading it locally first and then importing it to the project? It uses a bit too much storage

[idle robin]

I’m creating a game I need partners

[storm patio]

!collab

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[idle robin]

Yh

[fluid jay]

I am using starter third person controller for silent hill camera design

when vcam switches my player moves with direction of previous vcam, untill i stop and do the input.
Any helpful tips?

[idle robin]

Can you help me activate my license

[fluid jay]

what's the problem

[idle robin]

Check dm let’s talk

[fluid jay]

ok

[storm patio]

@idle robin @fluid jay please do not delegate to DMs, and please do not ping specific people for help

it negates the benefits of having a community server

[fluid jay]

ok GIH is having problem activating the license

[turbid vapor]

This won't start, wtf

I ignored Tilpalti because I'm an individual, but isn't that a problem?

[ocean pumice]

you should get some logs into your code to know, what is happening on runtime. Probably the _isInitialized failed or something

[remote echo]

Hi there. I cannot change my font for the UI. I have it in TTF and SDF both in the Resources > Fonts & Materials and in a separate folder in my project. Does someone know how i could fix that?

[ocean pumice]

Stop messaging everyone!

[ocean pumice]

What happens exactly? You cant assign the sdf to your UI textfield or you cant select it from the popup?

[remote echo]

i cannot select it because it wont be shown. is ttf fine tho?

[ocean pumice]

you need to create a TMP_Font Asset out of it, as the pop up states in the title

[remote echo]

oh damn i did not see that. thanks!

wich resolution is recommended for the output?

[deft rock]

just leave it on the default unless there are issue with what that produces

[remote echo]

okay thanks!

[idle robin]

I just need help thats all

[ocean pumice]

So you are egoistically just writing everyone you find is active? I guarantee you, that wont make people help you. at least not me. You could go with the flow and ask your question here as everybody does.

[deft rock]

!ask

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[glossy kindle]

there's no specific channel for account/license stuff so posting in general. on tuesday i opened hub only to be met with an error telling me i'm not allowed a personal license:

"You are unable to use Unity Personal because your company or organization are using a paid tier of Unity Editor License. [...]"

the only unity organization i'm a part of does have a pro user, although the studio only uses it for console exports and does not make the $200k annual revenue limit themselves. i'm personally a freelancer that makes considerably less than that per year, as do my other clients. therefore i don't see any reason why i am forbidden from using a personal license. naturally, i have nothing besides this message to go on - no emails from unity telling me why my personal license has been revoked, just this vague message in the hub.

i raised a support ticket explaining the situation but have had no response, and presumably as a personal user i am at the back of the queue to get any support. until this is resolved i can't open any projects, which is a fairly critical issue for myself and my clients.

any ideas how i might be able to get a response out of unity more quickly, besides purchasing a license i shouldn't need and cannot afford?

[ocean pumice]

As you are part of an organization, you opt out of the freelancer account. You need to create your own personal account, that is not tied to any organization, so you could be able to use your own licenses (personal in that case).

[glossy kindle]

i have left the organization and am stuck with the same problem. the only organization i am in is my personal one but i still have the error message about using a paid tier.

organizations have worked in the past, maybe there was a ToS change in the last couple of months that changed it?

[fluid jay]

I was facing same issue but i forgot how it solved?

license was not activating

[glossy kindle]

i tried creating another personal account not tied to any organization and it had the same issue, so i get the feeling the block is not actually applied at the account level but to my IP or physical hardware.

[glossy kindle]

okay, i've created a new personal account which appears to allow a personal license with a gmail address: my original account (and the second one i created) used my personal domain, so it would appear unity blocked all accounts on that custom domain. this means the error message is misleading, it's not an account- or organization-level block at all, but something put in place arbitrarily and without communication from unity compliance.

[ocean pumice]

Yes, that is true. If Unity detects, that you are constantly using a free version inside a organisation network, they will revoke your license, because otherwise everyone could just do that to avoid costs

[glossy kindle]

i am not, and never have been, on an organisation network.

[ocean pumice]

Ah, but you had an account with the domain name in your email? well, thats also understandable then

[glossy kindle]

no

it's my personal domain, for which there is no company registered anywhere, let alone one that crosses the $200k threshold

[deft rock]

There has been several cases of Unity banning/ blocking freelancers that they believe to be on the wrong license.

[glossy kindle]

i can understand it's a grey area and difficult to manage from a compliance perspective but it's disappointing that they resort to shadowbanning custom domains instead of reaching out to confirm situations, or writing honest error messages. i have contracts and invoices that i would be happy to share with them to confirm my situation, and the client studio is eager to communicate as well, but there is no route open to do so.

[turbid vapor]

All fine, Dashboard bugged or I dunno, Launch isn't working

[ocean pumice]

Might be a mix of not enough people for support and too many people avoiding licenses which might lead to an automated system trying to find the "right ones"

[glossy kindle]

i am sure the reason is perfectly explicable, but it's inexcusable if it blocks people who are not in breach of any rules from working.

[deft rock]

I was trying to find a particular example I remember from a Reddit post.. can't find it.

Someone had to kick up a real stink to be heard and get their account back - I wanna say it was sometime in 2024 or 23

Their communication when it happens is non-existent , it is rediculous

[glossy kindle]

I don't think i can recommend this engine anymore

[ocean pumice]

I might agree with the companys way of doing things to be blamed. Still fine with the engine, even if in my personal situation, there are also no other options yet 😄

[glossy kindle]

i think it's worth trying godot, it's competitive these days ;) i still need unity for a few legacy projects, but i will be advocating for godot in any new ones since unity clearly do not care for those without deep pockets

[idle robin]

Same problem having difficulties in activating my license I’ve tried several ways but not working

[ocean pumice]

I would love to switch if godots output was good enough, but have not seen any high fidelity visuals yet. Might look into it later this year

But tbh I am just hoping, Unity gets its stuff together in the future

[idle robin]

Yh

[glossy kindle]

i have been hoping unity would get better nearly my entire professional career but it seems to be on a steady decline, I don't have time to hope 😂

godot got SSR in the latest 4.6 update! though in my experience, in projects that need graphics capability I've always used unreal as hdrp is such a pig

[hybrid oyster]

Is there a way to just get the Player Armature from the Starter Asset without the Controller?

I'm still learning and there's a lot of stuff it added in and I just wanted the Player Armature so i could visually see how it works, have that thingy set up and be able to attach my own Cinemachine Camera too it... Well the Character Controller Script is fine (i just gatta go through it) but there's alot of other people's data and variables in there so it just feels overwhelming

[ember verge]

can someone help me with fixing this pickup system ??
i have used two sockets , one for hand position and one for gun position , but there positions are not matching properly i dont know why.

[latent meadow]

!ask

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[ember verge]

i am on the correct channel i guess

[latent meadow]

unlikely, and, you have not even asked a valid question yet.

if you are looking for partners:

!collab

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[ember verge]

no no , i just want to fix that pickup issue , so i am finding someone who can help me to fix that or tell me any solution ,

[latent meadow]

ask an actual question. we are not mind readers

[ember verge]

i know brother , but anyone who ever solve the issue will get the idea by looking at the image i provided

[latent meadow]

it's your socket direction (qwait, maybe he does not use sockets).. um.. it's your code (wait, maybe he is defining it in the animation) .. it's your animation. wai maybe.. ... do you understand?

explain what you have tried, how you are doing things, etc, etc. this is not a one solution fits all. there are dozens of reasons it could do that.

so no, no one can tell why fromn a single image.

[ember verge]

i have use the sockets , one for hand position and one in gun prefab , but they are not connectiing properly , i even ask gpt for the help

[ember verge]

okay brother , ill update that

[lone maple]

Do I gotta buy anything to start anything

[latent meadow]

i am making a concerted effort to control my sarcasm.

[lone maple]

👍

[latent meadow]

assuming you know you are in the Unity Dev Discord, and already have a computer, and this is about starting with Unity, the answer is no. you do not need to make any purchases to start making a project right away

[lone maple]

Ok

Thanks

[latent meadow]

keep in mind, even Unity tutorials may direct you to the Unity Asset Store, but that would be for free items.

[lone maple]

Ohk

So how would I get a base

[latent meadow]

be more specific

[lone maple]

Army base

[latent meadow]

make one in modeling software. buy one. hope you can find one for free.

[lone maple]

Ok

Do I need to have a account with unity

[latent meadow]

yes. using Unity requires an account. it does not require a credit card. just an email address and some information, IIRC

[lone maple]

Ok

[mental raptor]

Hi. Hope its ok to ask here (new): What is the best way into understanding the concept of scenes and transitions btw.?

[storm patio]

can't really say there's a best, everyone learns differently, everyone thinks differently, everyone has different backgrounds and experiences
it also differs between types of games and each game in general

there's several ways to analogize stuff like this as well

you could think of them as different stages to play out, different scenes as in a movie, different levels, etc

if the existing tutorials/explanations aren't clicking, perhaps just play around with them in a test/dummy project a bit

[golden crane]

Hello
How can i get the name of a package so i can manually download a specific version of it ? theres no option to do that and i only know of installing specific versions by name but i have no idea what its name is (something like com.unity.advancedcablecreator ?)
i couldnt find answers on unity discussions

[half flint]

Hello guys, when using protobuf as a protocol to communicate with a server, I do not need the .proto file, but it would still be quite easy to reverse engineer since dumping il2cpp compiled games is pretty easy. Now im wondering how one would protect the logic that is used when interpreting the content that is received using the described way, since programs like wireshark can easily obtain the packages.

[frosty pilot]

You can do that in add menu

[golden crane]

yeah but i dont know the name of it, its something specific

[deft rock]

right mouse click the 'Packages' folder in the project window -> show in explorer -> open the manifest.json -> find it there -> change the version number

[golden crane]

thanks !

[frosty pilot]

You have a + button at the top left

[deft rock]

you can't add something you don't know the name of.

[frosty pilot]

I thought it was the package itself, not the name

[deft rock]

It's from the asset store too.. and I don't know how that affects it being a package

[golden crane]

it is not in there for some reason
huh-

[deft rock]

the reason (probably) being it's from the asset store

store assets aren't packages,

and there's no versioning, you can't get older versions of them from the store

[golden crane]

ohhh okay

[deft rock]

you'll have to contact the asset publisher

I hadn't looked at the screenshot properly when I first replied, and you cropped out information that would have been useful

[golden crane]

my bad, thanks for the help ^^

[river steeple]

help, how do I stop unity from distorting short sfx in web build compiles?
its keeps happening but only the sfx that are really short

[lapis gate]

Hmm, haven't ran into that issue. I know messing with the reverb and any of the extra tooling you can use on them kinda falls flat though

[frosty pilot]

If asset is not open source

[copper gust]

That doesn’t change what they said

But if you can’t contact them

Not much you can do

[north loom]

hi

im new to unity

does anybody have any videso they would recommend

[stuck flower]

!learn

[vagrant root]

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[full grove]

Hi

[heady gorge]

i have a question, since i dont really know how to describe it, so please bear with me. yall know how if you stand in front of a projector and whatever is in front of you is now hidden by the shadows

is it possible to do something like that in unity, but there is an actual image on the projector

[storm patio]

of course it's possible (though i wouldn't know how to do it myself)

have you perhaps tried searching along the lines of "unity projector with shadow"?

[craggy pollen]

not sure if i understand this correclty, are you looking for a decal projector effect

[stuck flower]

Decal Projectors penetrate objects and paint on any surface within their range though, and I spent so long trying to figure out how to give them a "shadow" that I eventually just gave up and decided I didn't care any more

[heady gorge]

this might be something beyond me

[lapis gate]

you mean like create a shadow behind you?

could try to combine with a light source maybe

[crimson comet]

Hello can anyone help me with my UI Bug?

[charred fog]

!ask a full question

[vagrant root]

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[elder pumice]

Anyone else run into this issue recently? My license was working just fine yesterday, but now unity hub says no. Trying to add a new license does nothing

[craggy pollen]

sing out and sign in again, might be helpful

[elder pumice]

one step ahead of you. Also already tried relaunching unity hub

[nova brook]

clear unity cache

[elder pumice]

good diea. What is the filepath for this?

[nova brook]

C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\Cache

If this one isnt work try fully uninstalling unity hub just unity hub then after installing locate your editor

[elder pumice]

the uninstall process is frozen 🙃

[nova brook]

Yeah Now that's confirmed it's unity Problem mean it's got corrupted window installer not work properly bcz it just remove software not all the background cache junk files so use glary utilities a software for completely removing software and also junk background processes

[lone maple]

So what is unity for

[worldly cave]

its a game engine

[lone maple]

Like I can make a rp game with it

[worldly cave]

you can litterally make whatever you want

given you have the skills, money, ambition and patience

[lone maple]

Ohk that sounds like something cool but do I gotta pay

[worldly cave]

you dont have to pay

you can make a game with a 0 budget

[storm patio]

well you gotta be able to sustain yourself somehow

[vivid cedar]

you can make any game you want with it

[lone maple]

Can yall walk me through a step on it please

[worldly cave]

a step on what

[lone maple]

Like I’m new too it

[worldly cave]

if you want to learn unity a discord channel walkthrough is not the way to do it

[vagrant root]

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[vivid cedar]

making games is a monthslong or yearslong process

[worldly cave]

games take time

even simple games

[lone maple]

I know that

[worldly cave]

ive been working on my own for 5 months now and im only just nearing the alpha release, that and about 500 dollars down/up in assets i bought to make this process faster

[lone maple]

Okay that’s cool

[elder pumice]

reinstall worked. Thank you!

[nova brook]

No Problem... Enjoy

[pseudo flare]

I recently updated to Unity 6.3 6000.3.5f2 and I've noticed Unity has a lot of.. Whatever this is, open? I assumed it was normal when there were only 2-3 but it seems to add one each time scripts get reloaded.

Is this something I should be concerned about? There are too many to see on my monitor 💀

[nova brook]

Something wrong I think hehehe

I am using 6000.3.5f1 but not seen this thing for now

[pseudo flare]

They're multiplying

I can't even see the editor anymore

[charred fog]

6f1 is out already, you should also probably restart your PC as well.

[craggy pollen]

what are we looking at

[pseudo flare]

I'm seeing some stuff about DX12 being broken with multi-monitor setups.. Will try DX11 🤔

[gray frigate]

I'd try resetting your editor layout

Something is trying (and failing, over and over) to display an editor window

you can pick a layout template in the top right corner of the editor

[lone maple]

What one do I install

[craggy pollen]

most recent and recommended one

[latent meadow]

6000.0.66f2 for the most stable adventure

in my opinion

[lone maple]

Ok

What one is it

[worldly cave]

!screenshot

[vagrant root]

<:error:1413114584763596884> Command not found

There's no command called screenshot.

[worldly cave]

the fuck

fuck it here, https://screenshot.help/

also youre asking which one was it but you were litterally told "the recommended" one

[latent meadow]

or literally the exact number i typed out is on that screen. do put in the effort or responses tend to quickly dwindle

[latent meadow]

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

[worldly cave]

also what is it with people who even when taking pictures of their screen do it in the weirdest possible way

[latent meadow]

they are probably trying to keep themselves out of the shot

[worldly cave]

gosh if there was only a way you could take what you see on your screen

and somehow save it

like a camera shot

but for a screen

a shotscreen perhaps

[humble haven]

can somebody help me with my game

[latent meadow]

!collab

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[worldly cave]

are you asking for help with a specific issue or are you looking for people to work with on your game?

if its the former you should probably ask that directly with all the relevant info

[humble haven]

thx, i dont know how to BE the character playing
i'm a camera

[worldly cave]

ok thats something

we are still going to need a lot more information as to what you are trying to do

in unity you are the camera most of the time, attached to something you control or dont control, thats kinda how games work lol

[humble haven]

chatgpt says im supposed to be the character (camera attached to the character)

[latent meadow]

you should go through the basic tutorials on the learning site before much else.

!learn

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[worldly cave]

you should probably not use ai

especially if you are just learning how to use unity

its not going to help you

youre also fundamentally missunderstanding some core concepts here

in games you really arent anything

theres no way to tell the game "im this thing", its a lot more abstracted than that

in a weird way

but its all going to make sense eventually, you just need to get started with the learning pathways linked above and you should be good to go

and also drop the ai if you can

[lone maple]

I used all these and it keep saying failed

[worldly cave]

how are we meant to help you if you arent going to listen to us.

[stuck flower]

https://screenshot.help/

[worldly cave]

this was linked

3 times now

[humble haven]

ok

[stuck flower]

Are you literally trying to take the worst photos possible

[humble haven]

ok

[vivid cedar]

https://unity.huh.how/unity-hub/editor-installation-issues

[humble haven]

thx, i appreciate the feedback @worldly cave

[worldly cave]

youre welcome

and good luck

its a long but fun road ahead

[humble haven]

thx hunanbean

[humble haven]

yeah, thank you

bye

[craggy pollen]

to give you a small hint on your question, you make your player move and attach the camera to the player as a child object

[humble haven]

yeah i did that, but i cant move

[craggy pollen]

do you have some code for us

ideally some non ai code

[humble haven]

umm, no

it ai code

[craggy pollen]

ok i dont want to see that code

[humble haven]

i get it

[latent meadow]

from #📖┃code-of-conduct
"Don’t post unverified AI-generated responses in questions or answers; check for accuracy, and state what’s AI-generated."

[worldly cave]

to be fair thats more so for people giving answers

but yeah nobody wants to help clean up ai generated code for someone else

this isnt what this server is for

[latent meadow]

i would say it is for either, equally. "in questions or answers"

!collab

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[humble haven]

oh, sorry

[latent meadow]

no worries, that's why there's a bot message for it:)

[humble haven]

:) anyways, bye

[tame agate]

I wasn't really sure where to ask this question. If it's the wrong place, let me know.

I'm developing a short horror game. You are tasked with investigating a property that has been collecting illegal abominations. You need to find each abominations essence in order to destroy them, without being killed by them.

I have a few abominations, but I wanted to know how many would be enough before I put the game out there.

I have:
-the clown: will charge and kill you if you take your eyes off it whilst in range.
-howler: cute dog like creature that is friendly unless you enter a specific location
-living floor: if you stand on it for too long it will eat you and it blends in
-shrieking violets: if you get too close or make too much noise they will kill you with sound.

Would this be enough for release in your opinions?

[stuck flower]

Do you have an actual game yet or just ideas

[storm patio]

#1180170818983051344 would be the place for this

[lone maple]

I’m lost at why it won’t let me get the editor

[vivid cedar]

Even one could be enough if it's engaging/fleshed out enough. The scope of the game is really up to you

[tame agate]

Its mostly completed without models.

Player controller is mostly done
All enemies mentioned are done (excluding models)
Health system is complete

I need to sort out menus and death.

[storm patio]

what's the issue?

if you're getting errors show them in a screenshot or something

[stuck flower]

So then just finish the game

[storm patio]

man what the hell is this

[lone maple]

I done all these and the same thing happened

[stuck flower]

https://screenshot.help/

[storm patio]

those are terrible to look at

take proper screenshots, i can barely read this

[stuck flower]

!screenshots

[vagrant root]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[storm patio]

i don't want to break my neck just to read a sentence lmao

[tame agate]

I'm trying to work out at what point there's enough and begin making it look nice. I'm really bad for moving on to polish too soon and loosing momentum. @stuck flower
I guess there's no right answer

[stray apex]

How do I get my transparent shader graph material to still be added to the depth texture?

[craggy pollen]

you wont believe how many times that dude has been shown a better way to post a screenshot

[storm patio]

@lone maple support is a 2-way street. if you are not willing to share information about your issue properly, we aren't gonna want to help you very much

[lone maple]

I am

[storm patio]

you are not. you are sending photos of a screen, which is a very poor way to show a screen

[lone maple]

I installed the unity from the website and I tried to install the editor and it said failed

[storm patio]

there's this thing called screenshots

[lone maple]

Ohk

[storm patio]

and we need more info to help, and you need to provide that properly.

you've been told this multiple times

[worldly cave]

5 to be exact

[lone maple]

Ok

[worldly cave]

whats the point of asking for help if you wont even consider what people tell you

[storm patio]

damn, i didn't scroll up enough, thought it was 2

[worldly cave]

what is there to accomplish

[storm patio]

ngl if i knew it were 5 i probably wouldn't even engage 😆

[lone maple]

Ima get to it now

Unless I’m doing it wrong

[worldly cave]

im convinced its some kind of trolling atp lol

[lone maple]

Nah

[storm patio]

damn it's been a whole hour of this

[worldly cave]

youre not really proving it otherwise atp

[cloud flower]

win shift s drag and drop from pictures

[worldly cave]

you dont have to drag and drop anything, you can just paste it

[cloud flower]

oh yea cv

ctrl v

I usually just right click paste haha

[storm patio]

what happened to prntscrn&ctrl+v

[worldly cave]

nothing

but theres a difference between doing your whole screen vs a section of it

woah

technology

[storm patio]

i remembered it just pulling up snipping tool to make you do it yourself, but maybe i'm wrong on that

i haven't used windows in ages

[worldly cave]

win shift s pulls up the snipping tool

or a version of the snipping tool

printscreen is just the entire screen

[storm patio]

yes, and i remembered printscreen also doing so, trying to sell you snipping tool

[cloud flower]

yea i thought about going to linux but I dunno man having to relearn what ive known my entire life

[storm patio]

printscreen
"Hey, there's this new feature called Snipping tool, you should try it"

[worldly cave]

okay good, you figured out screenshots

[flat breach]

hi, why do I get a "cannot build player while it is importing assets or compiling"?, nothing is getting imported

[lone maple]

Yes

[worldly cave]

now lets see if you can screenshot us something important

because your current screenshot means nothing

[storm patio]

it seems like you've already downloaded this before? why are you downloading it again

also you've already installed the hub

[lone maple]

What

[storm patio]

weren't you haven't issues with installing an editor, not the hub

[worldly cave]

you have the unity hub installed, why are you screenshoting the firefox downloads thing

[storm patio]

i mistyped, mb

[worldly cave]

how is that relevant

[cloud flower]

yall gotta slow down your probably confusing the poor fella

[worldly cave]

considering this has been going on for an hour

if we were any slower here we might help him fix this by april

next year

[lone maple]

im new to this tbr

[storm patio]

mate, what is the issue you're having

let's not spam random screenshots here, just the useful ones

[worldly cave]

yeah its good you figured out screenshots but what good are they if they are useless

[lone maple]

so can i use this to make a game

[worldly cave]

iirc you asked that already and the answer is yes

unity is a game engine

[cloud flower]

might I suggest a comptia course or 2 first

[lone maple]

i just dont know to go to the thing i need

[worldly cave]

we dont know either

[lone maple]

what

[worldly cave]

because we dont know what the thing you need is

[storm patio]

what is the issue you're having

[stuck flower]

Probably not.

Other people? Sure. But you making a game might be a little out of reach.

[worldly cave]

contrary to the popular belief, but none of us are mindreaders

[lone maple]

im trying to make a rp game

[flat breach]

hi, why do I get a "cannot build player while it is importing assets or compiling"?, nothing is getting imported

[cloud flower]

yea but why are you here?

whats ur question

[lone maple]

i needed help im new to unity

[storm patio]

what do you need help with

we can't read your mind

[worldly cave]

we are somehow back on step 0 here

[cloud flower]

like me i wanna know if this calls on player control libraries or something like that

[storm patio]

i feel like step 0 would be posting the question

[cloud flower]

!learn

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[cloud flower]

do that

thatll teach you how to make a game lol

[worldly cave]

i dont think that helps me, what im extrapolating here is that they cant even download the editor

but i could swear they were linked to that bot message for download and install issues

so i fail to see where the continued problem is

[flat breach]

hi, why do I get a "cannot build player while it is importing assets or compiling"?, nothing is getting imported

[cloud flower]

I had install issues too and it was becuase I wasnt installing on MAIN drive try that if you havent already

[stuck flower]

Try restarting

[flat breach]

still not working

[storm patio]

what about a library reset?

[stuck flower]

Do you have any compile errors

[storm patio]

i recall someone also getting this recently

but i didn't find any answers to that chain of messages

[cloud flower]

but no seriously this calls on controls right? like without this it cant access what all it needs to this would be the library right?

[flat breach]

no I don't

[storm patio]

oh i thought that was rhetorical/example, what's your question exactly?

[flat breach]

should I remove library and let it rebuild?

[storm patio]

what do you mean by "calls on controls"

[storm patio]

while the project is closed, yes - that's what a library reset refers to

[cloud flower]

like mouse keyboard etc it calls on that

I dunno maybe im overthinking it

[storm patio]

what do you mean by "calls on"

that's just not a term that's used anywhere near this context, so i have no idea what you're asking

[cloud flower]

then try explainging to me what the namespaces are actually doing

like they are libraries?

[storm patio]

they don't do anything, they're just.. namespaces

they give structure to libraries, sure, but they're not 1:1 to libraries.
a single library can have many namespaces, a single namespace can include multiple libraries

do you know the concept of "space" in terms of like "vector space" or "solution space"

[cloud flower]

yup so totally not what I thought but sort of still leaving me confused a lil bit

[storm patio]

(not required to know, but if you do it'll provide a nice analogy, that's all)

[stuck flower]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/types/namespaces

[cloud flower]

im at th epart in tutorial where it just has you put on a random player script and then says try and figure out what the code does. it doesnt tell me what each line does etc so im trying to figure all that out before moving on

like I know some of it but not all of it

[storm patio]

typically you can just google keywords + "C#" and get pretty solid answers

or you can search in c# docs directly

pretty crucial skill to have

[worldly cave]

most of the times when tutorials say "figure out what the code does"

they are talking about some kind of implementation of something in one of the classes

like a function called run() or something

[stuck flower]

What tutorial says that

[worldly cave]

right

and im assuming theres actual code there

thats cut off

maybe a class

some functions

[cloud flower]

yeah the player movement script

[worldly cave]

right

[worldly cave]

thats what they are asking you to try and understand

[cloud flower]

yup and its alot

[worldly cave]

its not really a lot but for a begineer it can be challenging

this isnt a requirement also, they are letting you test the waters yourself

[cloud flower]

I know the green are comments not actually code

[worldly cave]

for example look at this, you should probably be able to understand whats being done here

even if you have very basic programming experience

[cloud flower]

yea its the forward and back speeds and turnign speed

[worldly cave]

right but you understand fundamentally what they are

thats the question

[storm patio]

yeah they're asking you to try to understand the overall logic and flow of the main part, FixedUpdate in this case, not every detail and inner working

[worldly cave]

they are variables, public so visible in the inspector

[storm patio]

not that you shouldn't learn those, but that's not what the tutorial is asking of you

[worldly cave]

the tutorial isnt saying "look at every line of code here individually and understand what it all does"

that would be a waste of time and wont teach you much

[cloud flower]

ok ok it just wants me to try and I get a general idea of some of it so move on

[flat breach]

it's actually rebuilding it, but I've just seen these 2 errors, do you think that could be them? it doesn't prevent the game from running though$

[flat breach]

it still doesn't build it

OH yea I've multiple errors, do you guys know how to fix it?

[glad crow]

Hello guys,would anyone help me create world generation in unity 2D?