💻┃unity-talk

[wheat mountain]

I'm trying to figure out where to position a (largely) static camera so that the UI doesn't cover up anything in world space

[cinder star]

I need to show a whole code and etc so it's not good to ask it in public

[vivid cedar]

Make a thread

[stuck flower]

So then you probably aren't getting answered

[potent geyser]

!code to show the "whole" code

[vagrant root]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[worldly cave]

Why would it not be good to ask this in public

[potent geyser]

Please just recognize the bait, we've all been here long enough.

They want DMs

[cinder star]

Nvm I'll just figure it out somehow

[worldly cave]

@wheat mountain I feel like theres a better approach to your problem

[stuck flower]

They want to have someone commit to solving all of their problems without actually saying what they are because they can't be bothered to formulate a full thought and having someone entrapped in a conversation makes them unable to leave as they pile more and more demands on them eventually leaving someone basically being their personal code-slave so they can tell all their friends they made a video game.

[worldly cave]

Instead of solving a specific viewport position, you need to define a safe viewport rectangle that excludes your UI and then move the camera until all important world objects project inside that rectangle

If im understanding your problem correctly

This approach is simpler if it makes sense for what you want to accomplish

[cinder star]

Quick question, does anyone know why the shadow disappears early in the game as if there is some area around the camera that defines where you can see a shadow and where there is none at all?

[reef dew]

hi

[wheat mountain]

Perhaps a better diagram might help illustrate this better

[worldly cave]

This is more a #1390346776804069396 question

[wheat mountain]

It actually would be, but I don't know how to do that

[worldly cave]

The issue with hardcoding it is that different aspect ratios and resolutions might break it

In this scenario

[wheat mountain]

I thought the whole point of viewport coordinates and the like were to account for differences like that

[dark star]

can anyone help me figure out why my preview windows Shaded Draw Mode is showing me pitch black in HDRP? looks fine in-game and looks fine in Unlit Draw Mode. it's clearly something to do with HDRP exposure settings, but i'm messing with the DefaultSettingsVolumeProfile and i'm not seeing any difference. thanks

[violet thunder]

Check if the exposure is overridden in the scene view's camera settings

I'm on built in atm but IIRC it's in here

[stuck flower]

Sounds like you have too many shadows on one object. There's a limit to how many realtime shadows can be cast on a single object and it'll draw whatever's closest then stop until something moves.

If you have a lot of shadows on one object (for example, terrain), you might need to find ones that won't move and bake the shadows into it instead of using realtime.

[dark star]

it was the shader occlusion. it was set to 0

[cinder star]

Got it tnx

[dark star]

the global defaults for exposure were also wrong but now i can see the preview at least

[violet thunder]

A parameter in your shader or was it some other setting?

[median ermine]

is it possible to lock FPS to 60?

[violet thunder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Application-targetFrameRate.html

[lone maple]

Would I be able to import a project from godot to unity

[median ermine]

cool ty

[slow dirge]

No.

[median ermine]

and is there an easy way to check if 2 buttons are hit within the same frame/frame before/frame after

[potent geyser]

It's impossible for two buttons to be hit in the same frame

You need to check within some threshold

[violet thunder]

Yeah sounds like a simple timer would do

[worldly cave]

You could import certain engine agnostic assets, but thats about it

[lone maple]

Okay

[vague cairn]

can anyone help me figure out why when i click the eyeball on the gameobject it wont hide it?

[celest sparrow]

u need to hide them in another button

this button means include it, and aanother button to mean hide all of them included by eye button

thats the logic dont ask me why lol

[vague cairn]

weird

[celest sparrow]

and the another button is on the upside

of the scene

u will see it

it looks like a eye

[vague cairn]

ah

thanks

[steady ridge]

In unity 2d, my ui is getting messed up in different mobile devices(portrait), how do I make it adaptive

[modest meteor]

#📲┃ui-ux

[steady ridge]

Should I ask in this channel

I have done scale with screen size and 1080x1920 for portrait, still it gets messed up

See the cash at the top left is overwriting it

And the gap at the bottom and top

[cinder cove]

How do I learn how to make unity games

[modest meteor]

!learn

[vagrant root]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[spark granite]

I just created a project from URP 2D template. Why is there a skybox and a default 3D scene here though despite 2D template?

[stuck flower]

2D Unity is just 3D Unity with different physics components and camera type

There's always a 3D Scene

The templates just change which components are the default when importing certain assets or creating certain objects

[worldly cave]

yeah i dont know of a single engine where the 2D templates arent just 3D templates with an ortographic camera

[spiral stream]

is anyone here good with network? need some help trying to transfer from a mainmenu scene to a freeroam scene and spawning my character in

[worldly cave]

your Z axis still matters a ton in 2d

[worldly cave]

#1390346492019212368

[spark granite]

i'm more-so talking about this skybox

[copper gust]

the default scenes have a skybox

[worldly cave]

thats just the default skybox

[stuck flower]

Yeah, that's the default skybox

[copper gust]

you'll put 2d art in front of it

[worldly cave]

or change it if you want to use a skybox for whatever reason

[spark granite]

Well, I do remember that it wasn't there per default.

Or didn't used to be.

[copper gust]

you remember wrong

[worldly cave]

maybe you werent in the shaded scene view

i dont think it shows up in the unlit one

[copper gust]

urp has a different skybox than built in i think?

but it always had one

[spark granite]

Ah Wireframe Shaded View is correct

Merci

[worldly cave]

i dont know if i would use the word "correct" here, the skybox is still going to show up in your game view

[spark granite]

Although Game View still has the "wrong" view

[worldly cave]

this is just changing how the scene view looks

yes...

[spark granite]

Yeah I just noticed

[worldly cave]

because its not "wrong"

its litterally just a 3d scene with an orthographic camera, it has to have a skybox

[steady ridge]

Do you mean the scale with screen size option

[cinder cove]

Ty

[copper gust]

if you turn off all the background art in this screenshot you'd see a similar skybox

[spark granite]

Man listen, I am not in the mood for these Sheldon talks I put wrong in quotation signs because I know it is not wrong. It is just not what I want for my resulting game view to look like.

[copper gust]

(unless they turned off looking at it in the camera component, but it would still "be" there

[copper gust]

you put art infront of it

[worldly cave]

Then you already got the correct answer

twice now

[spark granite]

ENVIRONMENT

[steady ridge]

@unkempt anvil I have done screen with scale size, and match to 0.5, and the resolution to 1080x1920 on the canvas as well as on the game tab, it's still not fixed

[spark granite]

This is what I searched

[copper gust]

ok

[spark granite]

Putting art in front of it wouldn't solve the background though Although arguably a default background should never exist to begin with because there should just be proper background art but yeah.

[worldly cave]

if you put art in front of it, that art is your new background

[copper gust]

nah

[worldly cave]

thats the point

[copper gust]

you can stop rendering the skybox in the camera if you really care

[worldly cave]

even then you will have to put art as a background

[steady ridge]

Still buttons and text are getting overlapped, note the text in the bottom its getting cropped

[spark granite]

Uhh, my inspector for Camera looks completely different?

This is mine

[copper gust]

im using an older unity

same stuff

[vivid cedar]

you're using URP.
They're using BiRP

[spark granite]

Ah so you meant background by "art". I thought you were referring to enemies, npcs, environment and what not.

[vivid cedar]

it's not about unity version

[spark granite]

ah fair

[worldly cave]

yeah i meant background, basically whatever will have the furthest Z axis value in your scene

[copper gust]

when you think about how 2d games work literally imagine your recording with a camera and holding printed out art in front of the camera

you can do this in real life

[spark granite]

The thing I wonder about though. If I use Background = Solid Color and I'm using Wireframe Draw Mode, then I don't see a skybox, so that would "fix" my scene view (fix as in give me my desired experience in the editor). But if I use Wireframe Draw Mode, then I don't see any 2D lighting anymore and if I remember correctly 2D rendered entities also have lighting and stuff so that may be undesirable as well

[gilded pivot]

hey, i have a small question about using GPU Resident Drawer vs. GPU Instancing.
honestly, i’m not sure which one to choose.
i was using GPU Instancing alone before, but now i’m thinking of adding GPU Resident Drawer with GPU Occlusion Culling. the problem is i’m getting inconsistent FPS, and my GPU usage caps at around 50–60%.
should i switch pipelines and fully commit to GPU Resident Drawer with occlusion culling, or just keep it old-school and stick with instancing?

[boreal river]

Yes that's exactly what I am thinking of them. The priest parent contains probably the meshes/models and the higs contain the bones/skeleton of the animation rig right?

[runic parrot]

havent used unity in a while but wasnt there a build button here

[runic parrot]

mb im just tweaking ty for the help

[fierce dock]

when i use unity version control. my freind goeso n the project we work etc etc and when he goes back on unity everything is gone for him but not me. even after i checked in everything nothing is popping up. the scenes are there but nothing is in the scene

[vivid cedar]

"everything is gone for him" is very vague

Sounds like you are either not properly committing and pulling changes or you're looking at different scenes or something like that

There's no magic here. You can look at the exact file changes you are pushing up and those he's pulling down. Simply make sure they are the same

[marble badge]

hello, can someone help me with Unity? My Sound doesn't work

[vivid cedar]

#🔊┃audio

[crude thicket]

can someone add me and join a call with me i need some help

[craggy pollen]

i doubt anyone will do that

why not just ask here

[crude thicket]

ik i just need help

[worldly cave]

what is it today especially with everyone wanting 1:1 calls instead of just asking their questions normally

[crude thicket]

bc its kinda private but kinda not i need someone to create a sketchfab account for me but use my email bc it wont let me login to the sketchfab unity plugin

[copper gust]

no one is going to do that for you

[crude thicket]

exactly my point

[gray dirge]

That sounds the scetchiest thing ever

[copper gust]

so leave tbh

[worldly cave]

this is also isnt the place

to find that kind of help

this is a unity server for help with unity issues

[potent geyser]

They ran away

[gray frigate]

[laugh track]

[worldly cave]

Any of yall keep getting those Unity hub surveys? Are they on some kind of timer or something because at this point every time i open the hub up im greeted by a survey asking me if i like unity

How many times can a man say "no i dont like unity" before they stop asking

[sacred sparrow]

huuuh, what?

[wraith pasture]

https://unity.com/products

[worldly cave]

what

[wraith pasture]

why is it a decimal number

[sacred sparrow]

oh lol, i was reading it as 80k

not 80,00 XD

[potent geyser]

Clearly it's just a spelling mistake and missing a 0

[worldly cave]

or the comma is a thousands seperator

and its meant to be written as 8,000

[potent geyser]

Someone start counting everything on the store

[wraith pasture]

[worldly cave]

with the amount of free assets that are just like "a tree i made" it might be in the millions

[graceful wedge]

hey can anyone help? i imported a free ps1 style shader but bc its not a urp shader it is pink. how do i fix it?

[worldly cave]

if its not made for urp youre either going to have to find one thats made for urp, or convert this one manually

since its a custom shader i dont think there are any automatic conversions

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! You know, I have a problem. So, when I detect an interactable object on editor I have an outline effect that shows up but when I interact with the same objects in build mode in some of them it doesn't show up what is happening?

I have an outline effect script that found on asset store

probably that one i have outline fill and outline mask and I didn't include it in always included shaders

no still doesn't work

let me send you a video

I have tried to delete the library folder

if can anyone support

please guys

[plain dagger]

You need to share more info. How does this outline work? Is it a post processing shader or surface shader?
There should be logs to indicate if the shader is missing in a build (try in a dev build)

[boreal river]

No bro its just a surface shader

I found this component on asset store

now I have tried to delete library and open the project again give me a second to see

no logs or anything

[plain dagger]

screenshot what happens in editor then in build

Missing shader variants can be the cause but if its used by a material in a scene or Resources then it will be included

[boreal river]

let me see if it works now because I add the outline fill and mask in the included shaders and now deleted the library and I am waiting for it to compile scripts and shaders again

[plain dagger]

always include can solve it too but may drastically increase build times

as that will include all variants in a shader which can be very high sometimes

[boreal river]

Yes I know I am waiting right now

all the time when I build my library back again I have to wait for the compilation to complete

my nerves

[plain dagger]

You didnt need to delete library, that only helps if somehow many assets imported incorrectly

[boreal river]

AI told me to XD

Bro I have tried everything

The only thing that Ididn't do was to delete so it recommend me to delete so I did

it says that deleting library often solves 99% of the problems

so maybe because I have included the shaders that were missing for outline it will work who knos

knows

I believe

It didn't work and I see the problem exists only for my book

its a puzzle I am making btw

In the editor it works

[copper gust]

(No one here cares what ai told you)

[boreal river]

Can you help in this situation because not even AI can

I dont wont to fight I wont to solve the issue

I am just asking for support

doesn't matter if its AI or not

[copper gust]

Ask the author

[boreal river]

Please bro help

[worldly cave]

how are we supposed to help

We dont know how the shader works, how you are implementing it

we have 0 context, so how are we supposed to help

[sly lake]

Deleting the Library folder solves some specific import issues but it’s rare

[boreal river]

I dont think I have any problems because the code I have written is clean and properly working so I have no clue what is happening

In the editor everything works fine

[remote needle]

are you sure?

[boreal river]

its amazing yes

I am 100% sure

In the editor everything works bro

everything

[worldly cave]

makes sense, nobody ever had issues because they made an assumption about their own work

[boreal river]

how I Am supposed to say

I have tried once to play my game on build and it worked it was once or twice but now it doesn't work

[worldly cave]

Its still not clear just how are we meant to help you

[remote needle]

what did you change between now and then

[boreal river]

nothing absolutely I didn't touch my outline effects or anything I was just working on other features

I was making a jumpscare

and animation for it

[remote needle]

getting strong grokslop vibes

[remote needle]

if it worked before clearly its something you've changed since then

[boreal river]

No this outline effect is not my code

I got it from asset store but anything else except this its mine

[balmy kettle]

until you show relevant setup details there's nothing anyone here can do except tell you to try things you've apparently already tried

[boreal river]

You dont know anything I think you dont have as much experience as my teacher has in college he says its an issue of the default build settings unity has

[remote needle]

you've literally given zero on ur issue pretty much

[worldly cave]

teacher in college

ok

[boreal river]

Yes he said its an issue of the default build settings unity has you have to solve it somehow but he didn't tell me yet how

[remote needle]

perhaps ask him?

[boreal river]

he is in call right now

he said to search on gemini you can fix it quickly

[copper gust]

What a shit teacher

lmao

[remote needle]

is that the state of college now?

[worldly cave]

Im like 99% sure his "teacher" is Gemini

[copper gust]

Very much so unfortunately

[remote needle]

🙏

[boreal river]

bro this guy know more things from you I was trying to get this answer but you didn't tell me that the issue has to do with default build settings of unity

he straightaway told me

whats the issue

[remote needle]

you literally gave us nothing

[copper gust]

If he told you the actual issue you would know how to fix it

He gave you some probably wrong guess

[worldly cave]

Im sure you were a lot more detailed with your gemini request than us so no wonder it knew the possible answer

we had 0 information to go off of

[copper gust]

Any teacher recommending their students use ai to learn should be unemployed 🙏

[worldly cave]

What self respecting college educator is this available for help though

[remote needle]

is that like the new normal or what im so out of the loop w this shit

[boreal river]

Stop hating because you gave me no clue

haha

[worldly cave]

actually

[boreal river]

I was trying 2 hours for now

[copper gust]

Yup

[worldly cave]

you gave us no clues

[remote needle]

this has to be ragebait no?

[worldly cave]

you got it mixed up

[copper gust]

Some places have required ai usage too

[boreal river]

yes I send everything to you from screenshots, videos

[worldly cave]

Litterally nothing of any actual use

so whats your point

[boreal river]

I send him the issue with the videos I send you and he told me what to do

he said straightforward

[copper gust]

Which was…

[boreal river]

whats happening

[worldly cave]

Okay, so why are you here then

[balmy kettle]

then congrats, it's solved

[boreal river]

Its an issue of default build settings in unity thats something for me

from nothing that I got from you

[copper gust]

that is nothing

[remote needle]

sends information to someone with relevant past experience with the project

asks discord with nothing
guys why cant you fix it?

[copper gust]

genuinely consider other places for education

[worldly cave]

Guys solve my issues please

no i will not share relevant information

wtf you guys

[boreal river]

hahah

I gave you everything my heart to you

You werent able to help

just be honest

that you dont know the answer

[worldly cave]

Bro you came here asking for help, why are you now gloating someone else solved your issue for you

[boreal river]

dont waste my time and yours

[worldly cave]

what is this attitude

[remote needle]

ai enjoyer mindset i guess

[boreal river]

I send many screenshots and videos

What else I can do?

[worldly cave]

Give actually useful information

[balmy kettle]

your videos only demonstrated that it wasn't working. they didn't actually provide any relevant details

[worldly cave]

shit your educator clearly had access to

[boreal river]

I dont have script for the outline effect I have but its not mine

another person has written the functionality

[worldly cave]

if its in your project, then you have it

[copper gust]

have you read the readme

have you tried the samples

[worldly cave]

Some people make it impossible to help them istg

and then complain when they dont get help

[boreal river]

{
    public static OutlineEffect Instance;

    [SerializeField] private Outline[] outlineEffects;

    public Outline[] OutlineEffects => outlineEffects;

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (Instance == null)
        {
            Instance = this;
        }
        else
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }

    private void Start()
    {
        DisableObjectsOutlineEffect();
    }

    public void EnableFirstPuzzleObjectsOutlineEffect()
    {
        foreach (Outline outline in OutlineEffects)
        {
            outline.enabled = true;
        }
    }

    public void DisableObjectsOutlineEffect()
    {
        foreach (Outline outline in outlineEffects)
        {
            outline.enabled = false;
        }
    }
}```

thats my outline effect where I am using it to disable the outline the other guy has written

its a component so in my outline effect I enable and disable the outline component

[copper gust]

have you read the readme
have you tried the samples

[worldly cave]

I think continuing this is pointless

[boreal river]

I am telling you it works fine on editor

[copper gust]

ok

[boreal river]

I send you code guys

I dont know XD

[copper gust]

have you read the readme
have you tried the samples

[boreal river]

what read me and samples

what are you talking about

[remote needle]

🙏

[copper gust]

come back if you figure out what im talking about

[balmy kettle]

now show the inspector for that component

[boreal river]

there is an outline fill and mask

thats it

in samples

and a demo scene

[copper gust]

does the demo scene work in the build

[boreal river]

``Quick Outline

Developed by Chris Nolet (c) 2018

Instructions

To add an outline to an object, drag-and-drop the Outline.cs
script onto the object. The outline materials will be loaded
at runtime.

You can also add outlines programmatically with:

var outline = gameObject.AddComponent<Outline>();

outline.OutlineMode = Outline.Mode.OutlineAll;
outline.OutlineColor = Color.yellow;
outline.OutlineWidth = 5f;

The outline script does a small amount of work in Awake().
For best results, use outline.enabled to toggle the outline.
Avoid removing and re-adding the component if possible.

For large meshes, you may also like to enable 'Precompute
Outline' in the editor. This will reduce the amount of work
performed in Awake().

Troubleshooting

If the outline appears off-center, please try the following:

1. Set 'Read/Write Enabled' on each model's import settings.
2. Disable 'Optimize Mesh Data' in the player settings.
   ``

oh maybe?

I have to set read/write on the models I am using

[copper gust]

doubt it

does the demo scene work in the build

[boreal river]

wait give me a minutye

[balmy kettle]

the issue is also isolated to a single object which means it is very likely a scene set up issue

[boreal river]

I think my teacher was wrong

XD

[copper gust]

yeah no shit

[remote needle]

if theyre recommending to just use ai i doubt they're correct often

[worldly cave]

wrap it up

[copper gust]

(for extra context i've also had fine experience using the same asset in the past lmao)

[worldly cave]

bro spent the last 20 minutes gloating his awesome ass teacher solved this issue for him, and that we were useless

[boreal river]

Sorry guys you were right

he just didn't gave much attention to my message because was busy

Thanks btw 🙂

[boreal river]

He knows a lot bro do not hate people you dont know

he is 27

[remote needle]

isnt that literally what you were doing

[copper gust]

we know he's a teacher telling people to use ai to learn

that's enough to get a vibe

[worldly cave]

bro is 27

[boreal river]

He was at call

do not hate people you dont know guys

[worldly cave]

you did

[balmy kettle]

age means absolutely nothing here.
and if it did, then you better pay attention to everything i say since i'm older

[worldly cave]

for the past 15 minutes

until we helped you

[boreal river]

He has done a lot and I know it

[worldly cave]

sure he has

[remote needle]

a lot of prompts it seems

[boreal river]

Nope he got his degree in games programming college where I am now and it was 4 years ago

[worldly cave]

ah so it was all bullshit

[boreal river]

bro you dont know

[copper gust]

doesn't sound like a lot of work experience

[boreal river]

so anyway

[worldly cave]

called it already, nothing but rim baby

[boreal river]

ok you are better

fine

You got your answer?

That was what you were asking?

I am not here to hate someone

[worldly cave]

you called us useless and said we wasted your time

but ok

[boreal river]

I was just assuming you dont know much but luckily this guy @copper gust told me to read the samples and readme so congrats to this guy guys

I give my respect

this guy solved the issue

[remote needle]

just curious did you even attempt to check any of this beforehand

[worldly cave]

"I was just assuming you dont know much"

Bro you cant keep saying shit like this in the same breath as " dont hate on people you dont know" 😭

[boreal river]

no

I wasn't thinking of samples

and all this shit

[boreal river]

yes I didn't hate

[nocturne bolt]

Y'all I just killed my friend irl why is CTR+z not working

[boreal river]

I was just assuming you didn't know the answer cuz I send a lot of videos and screenshots

I didn't say you dont know anything you are unexperienced and insulting

[remote needle]

your videos and screenshots really didnt show much for us to help

[worldly cave]

Do you think we cannot read the messages you sent minutes ago

where you were very rude to the people here trying to help you

this isnt very academic of you...

[boreal river]

Ok i did what @copper gust tell me to do disable mesh data and read write on my model nothing happens

now I am thinking maybe my teacher is actually right

maybe probably its something that has to do with default settings

hahah

[copper gust]

sick

[boreal river]

Nothing solves the issue

yes I did

read the readme

and did what it says

[balmy kettle]

so do you plan to actually show relevant setup details or are we supposed to read your mind to see what you see in your scene

[boreal river]

to disable optimize mesh data and read/write enable on my models

[worldly cave]

but we have videos smh cant you see

[remote needle]

maybe this guy is the real gemini and we're just being ragebaited

[copper gust]

i did not tell you to disable that

[boreal river]

Readme said

[copper gust]

Readme did not say to disable that

[boreal river]

Troubleshooting

If the outline appears off-center, please try the following:

1. Set 'Read/Write Enabled' on each model's import settings.
2. Disable 'Optimize Mesh Data' in the player settings.

[balmy kettle]

If the outline appears off-center
did the outline appear off-center?

[copper gust]

yup so Enabled and Disabled are two different words

[boreal river]

I dont know bro

[boreal river]

I dont know

it works fine in the editor

I cant understand myself

[balmy kettle]

well, use your eyes. is it off center or is it gone those are different things

[boreal river]

I got really confused

If I am on build mode I cant fly

[balmy kettle]

and show us the fucking setup details or go away because at this point you're just wasting everyone's time

[boreal river]

to see

I am playing the game

let me build my game on development build

[boreal river]

do not insult please I am going to call a moderator

[worldly cave]

Please do

[boreal river]

I didn't insult anyone here guys I am polite

[remote needle]

this cant be a real person

[balmy kettle]

point to the insult

[boreal river]

Do not swear

[worldly cave]

you did

[boreal river]

please

no I didn't swear

[worldly cave]

Why are you trying to gaslight us into believing you werent rude to us

[boreal river]

I got some errors

I think maybe thats the reason

[copper gust]

well there you go

[boreal river]

yes but those errors have nothing to do with the book

they are buttons on my keypad puzzle

[balmy kettle]

show 👏 the 👏 fucking 👏 setup 👏

[boreal river]

that I am making

[copper gust]

they dont need to

[boreal river]

Stop bro

[copper gust]

they can solve it off those errors

or if they cant its no longer our problem

[worldly cave]

stop what he is litterally asking for the thing that might let us help you

😭

[copper gust]

he has it now

thing solved

[boreal river]

no stop swearing

he is impolite

[worldly cave]

Swearing is not against the rules of this server

[boreal river]

Its against the rules of being a human being

[worldly cave]

if it was we wouldnt be so fucking good at it

[boreal river]

I think I found the issue anyway

[copper gust]

we know

you posted it

[boreal river]

I dont want to debate anymore

its not the place

[balmy kettle]

seems like they probably do need to, because from the error it would seem the outline component is attached to the button rather than the actual book which if they had bothered to show the fucking objects we would have seen this forever ago

[remote needle]

this could have been solved like 30minutes ago if you just posted something relevant

[boreal river]

thanks guys I still appreaciate your help and you know it

🙂

I am in this server for 2 almost 3 years now

[copper gust]

your caring too much 😄

[boreal river]

from when I have started my journey in Unity

[boreal river]

I didn't notice it because now a few minutes ago I ran the game on development build

stop insulting me bro

thats not cool

[stuck flower]

Looks like a bunch of the bttn meshes that aren't set as read/write, can you show the import settings of, for example, bttn7

[copper gust]

well yeah they just turned all the read/writes off

because it told him to turn them on

[balmy kettle]

saying "fuck" is not an insult. and if you had shown the relevant details like you were asked to half an hour ago this would have been solved

[copper gust]

(or just by reading the manual)

[worldly cave]

he has to be baiting atp

just any excuse not to share whats actually relevant

because its most likely written by AI and he has no clue what to actually show us

[copper gust]

theres nothing code wise he hasn't shared

[boreal river]

XD

I am myself have many experience in Unity and C#

I dont use anything

I know how to do decomposition myself

I dont want AI

[stuck flower]

Then why show the errors? If they're intentional then why show them?

[copper gust]

they aren't intentional

they cannot read

i'm not being rude

[latent meadow]

should be fine, as it is community support there

[boreal river]

I can write flowcharts, class diagrams, pseudocode and logic myself glad I am good at decomposition

[worldly cave]

yet you cant rtfm

crazy

[boreal river]

everything I have written wasn't AI generated I just dont have code to show you for outline

[worldly cave]

What good is any programming skill when common sense gets thrown out of the window

[boreal river]

for this issue I have cuz I cant understand whats the problem

[boreal river]

Bro this has nothing to do with code

haha

most probably

[worldly cave]

I know, i was responding to your message, so why dont you want to listen to boxfriend then

and show us something more relevant

[boreal river]

this is another issue with read write type shit

[copper gust]

if he reads what has been said a couple times he will fix the problem

[boreal river]

This has nothing to do with code

[stuck flower]

What even is the problem

[copper gust]

his outlines won't work

[worldly cave]

i dont think boxfriend asked for any code, did you even read anything he said before dismising his messages as insults?

[copper gust]

because they rely on read/write

and i think its applied to the wrong thing or smth aswell

[spark granite]

ok

[boreal river]

maybe?

when I am trying to create the build

[copper gust]

you should not have errors

fixing errors solves problems errors cause

[boreal river]

trying to set shader on material variant

what its most likely?

[copper gust]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[mystic roost]

Im getting this error every time i upload my avi to vrchat

[copper gust]

cant help with vrchat stuff here

you gotta go to there server

[mystic roost]

i figgured

[worldly cave]

👇

[vagrant root]

Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[worldly cave]

nvm they already left lol

[delicate jacinth]

yo who made this bot😔

[latent meadow]

what does it matter?

[delicate jacinth]

VRChat is nsfw ngl,

[celest sparrow]

lol

[worldly cave]

oh no, the horror

also its a pg13 game

[latent meadow]

perhaps that is part of the reason they are directed to another server. i do not see anything NSFW in that bot message, do you?

[celest sparrow]

its pg13 game?

damn

[worldly cave]

actually i was suprised that it has no official rating

but it is rated for ages 13+

[forest hollow]

PLEASE tell me I'm in a fucking nightmare right now.

[worldly cave]

so kind of?

[delicate jacinth]

no i am not talking the bot like who made this to send to everyone,

[worldly cave]

what

[delicate jacinth]

nvm i am dumb holy,

[worldly cave]

dawg that bot is called with a command !vrchat

[delicate jacinth]

really?

[worldly cave]

so people who are asking stuff about vrchat have a direct link to join their server

[worldly cave]

!vrchat

[vagrant root]

Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[latent meadow]

it does not send to 'everyone', it posts in the room.

[delicate jacinth]

wait is gorilla tag unity or no?

[worldly cave]

unfortunately for us

yes

[delicate jacinth]

is there like !gorillatag or no?

[latent meadow]

you can ask #1161868835423526933

[delicate jacinth]

okie dokie

[latent meadow]

vr-chat is a commonly confused thing that people think they can get support for here, because it has an SDK in the Engine, and no one wants to type out a link every time, or even have to explain that they cannot get support for it here. gtag does not involve the engine, so there is no link, as it is just one of many games made in Unty. Blender also has a link, because it is a commmonly needed link, as a tool that is often used, but not directly supported here

[copper gust]

gtag does involve the engine

[worldly cave]

theres also the !cs for the c# server

[worldly cave]

not in the way that vrchat does though

vrchat has their own sdk and everything

[copper gust]

does gtag not have similar stuff? just not as direct?

[worldly cave]

im pretty sure all the gtag kids just use a decompiled version of the game

[copper gust]

yeah but it's endorsed and welcomed

same as lethal

[worldly cave]

Is it? i thought they were cracking down on it hard

[copper gust]

maybe i messed the memo

[worldly cave]

I think the main issue is that on top of ripping the entire game and its code, a lot of these uninspired copies also just use their assets

which might be whats getting them shut down

[copper gust]

yeah

[worldly cave]

Perhaps for the best

[copper gust]

i could be mistaken but i wanna say thats due to the platform right

[worldly cave]

VR is already in the gutter in terms of quality

[copper gust]

usually people would just extend basegame with bepinex etc. but cuz it's android based

be cool if unity had more ways for devs to easily allow modding

[worldly cave]

I agree

i love modding

[stuck flower]

No, Gorilla Tag does not have Unity-based authoring tools where someone might have reasonable confusion as to whether the issue is with Unity or with the SDK. Gorilla Tag is just a cheap crap game children want to make their own versions of for some reason

[copper gust]

I'm pretty sure Gorilla Tag does have unity based authoring tools, just community based?

[stuck flower]

You're not making content for Gorilla Tag, you're making versions of Gorilla Tag

[worldly cave]

Its just decompiled versions of the game rebuilt but like this time the monkeys are wearing hats or some shit

[copper gust]

sure but again as i mentioned that's moreso due to technical limitations, it's the equivilent to a mod

im not defending the quality of this content of course lol

[stuck flower]

I think the actual difference is that VRChat actually has technical help channels and I don't think Gorilla Tag has a discord server at all

[worldly cave]

i just checked

it does

[copper gust]

that is a little psychotic fair

[worldly cave]

some 50k strong

median age of the server... 8

[stuck flower]

Is it an official one with support, or just a community server?

[copper gust]

i wouldn't blame them if they didn't though the amount of shit i've had to deal with from people just cuz my lethal sdk stuff exists

[worldly cave]

fuck if i know i aint joining that shit to find out

ill assume its probably semi official

like most game based servers

its community ran with official support

Most Official Official servers are kinda ass ngl

like the Destiny 2 server which is read only for some reason, so everyone uses the Subreddit's own discord server as the main one

[copper gust]

you don't update your mods within two days of an update and you get people dropping notepad essays about the state of communities 😭

[sacred sparrow]

what's happening?

[stuck flower]

Wondering if we can just pawn off the Gorilla Tag children to the GTag server with a bot command like we have for VRChat

[lusty turret]

hey guys i need help with unity

i tried downloading a new version of unity but it said that if i change the version of the project that i currently have it can cause some trouble , but in the other hand it says that the current unity version that im using is known for a security issue, what should i do ?

[vivid cedar]

Update the project to a new version

it said that if i change the version of the project that i currently have it can cause some trouble
This is just a boilerplate warning reminding you to back up your project before upgrading. if you're not using version control you should do that.

[lusty turret]

ok noob question, how do i update the project to a new version ? do i have to open it or do i just switch it in the unity hub ?

[plain dagger]

thats right, just open it with a newer version. it will ask if you want to do that and then go ahead.
You cannot downgrade safely

[vivid cedar]

switch the version in the hub and open the project

[lusty turret]

ok doing that

[polar basalt]

no its not, there are gtag copys and gtag fangames

fangames are all original, while copys are just a copy paste of gtag in which they just change some stuff around, and is not legal

[copper gust]

i thought the devs we're chill with it, apologies

[polar basalt]

the devs cant really fight against it because there are just so many of them

[copper gust]

(although it being legal or not is arguably irrelevant for these kinds of things)

[polar basalt]

but the people that make them just give up at one point because the stuff they want to add doesnt always work as they need tutorials or pre-made stuff

they cant code it so they will give up

[marble fiber]

How do I have 2 scenes loaded at the same time that are separate from each other with their lightings separate and everything?

[polar basalt]

Additive loading

[marble fiber]

Thanks

[copper gust]

i dont think lighting is gonna be seperate

[vivid cedar]

FYI the lighting model is always based on one scene and it's always the "active" scene

[polar basalt]

wont the lights just stack?

so it will be like double

[vivid cedar]

things like baked lightmaps and environment lighting are tied to a specific scene

[polar basalt]

ah i was thinking of realtime lights in that way

i had a bug where 2 scenes loaded on top of eachother and the lights just stacked, making the lighting just bright bright

[plain dagger]

unity supports loading many scenes at once

thats harder to do by accident via code though

[polar basalt]

i mean hard doesnt mean impossible, ive done that too xd, was supposed to unload a level and load another but it stopped when unloading hahwah but yeah its all working fine rn

[slow dirge]

Don't try to unload hahwah

[tulip fractal]

Hey hey, if someone that has been around the block with different network services such as play fab/ugs etc pros/cons that doesn't mind a few minutes of chatting. That would be super appreciated. 🙂

[balmy kettle]

https://dontasktoask.com

[tulip fractal]

Sorry, when I wrote it I had a feeling it would translate like this.

To rephrase. When I began my project, the programmer I hired took some research time as well as his own experiences to determine engine/how we would approach architecture. Ultimately the programmer had to take a more fruitful opportunity (100% supportive of that!). The project currently is a local rails server that connects with the Unity project. I now have the project and server set up on my local machine (was on the programmer's before) and while seeking to continue the project I receive a lot of extremely contrarian information from freelancers. I am having a difficult time (as a non technical person) to figure out how to revisit qualifying the pros/cons to the different options. Or, "where do I go from here?"

[near wigeon]

You still haven't explained what the objective of this project is.. still vague

[tulip fractal]

The project itself is an isometric pixel style auto battler with character collecting, leaderboards, chat, guild, etc.

Sorry, trying not to significantly spam while still adequately communicating. my apologies, harder to properly ask the questions when it's also a, "you don't know what you don't know/are inept on the topic inquiry"

[near wigeon]

Sounds like a big scope project.

[tulip fractal]

It has been 6-8 months so far yes

[worldly cave]

I think your biggest issue might be scope creep, do you have any programming skills yourself?

[tulip fractal]

No, that is why it has mostly been a hiring others to make it for me (simply put)

[worldly cave]

Im not going to sugar coat this, but youre in a very bad situation right now

[tulip fractal]

That is so true! Don't I know it!

[worldly cave]

Honestly for a project this big relying on individuals might not be the move

because every person does something different individually, and they will have conflicting "interpertations" of the same mechanics within your game.

You might find the best luck with at least 2 or 3 people at once to pick up where you are right now

basically throw the project at their mercy, if they strip it down bare to rework whatever the people before last did, let it be

right now you have a very ambitious and large project thats been passed down, even talented freelancers might not feel to eager to jump straight into something like that

[tulip fractal]

there are certainly some hindsight reflections, and like most things, they don't tend to go as cleanly as originally planned.

[left bobcat]

anyone know why the terrain is creating holes instead of applying my texture?

[tulip fractal]

I am not really opposed to that per se. It's like anything else, "if we do x, pros/cons?" and I think a lot of the people that are seeking projects really over state their expertise (where as I am pretty forward about my shortcomings)

[left bobcat]

all other layers work normally

[worldly cave]

Well people will naturally sell themselves to you

which leads to exagaration of personal skills

people arent eager to admit they dont know something in a job market this rough, a lot of people have the "figure it out along the way" kind of philosophy

Listen if after 8 months you have something worth showing, you could have someone throw together a vertical slice and try and pitch it to an investor or a publishing studio

[lusty turret]

ok guys bad news , i tried opening my project in the new version of unity and all the textures glitched out and they are all pink , what do i do ?

[tulip fractal]

This is the intention right now (not in this chat question, outside) . with trying to seek someone to do a review together, make a game plan/projections based on current progress, how far to go, then see if it's something to pursue now or revisit in the near future.

Edit: one of the potential freelancers that hasn't really checked out the project told me to ask around regarding the game service/networking part because they were going straight to, "you really should gut it and be in UGS/playfab"

[balmy kettle]

https://unity.huh.how/shaders/errors-with-srp

[left bobcat]

could someone please help me, this issue is so weird

oh i see

that is a huge limitation 🙁

[worldly cave]

really? you could do a lot with like 3

why do you need 8 for a singular piece of terrain

[stuck flower]

Pink means shader error which usually means incompatible render pipeline

[left bobcat]

i'm creating a really detailed forest environment

[lusty turret]

how do i fix it

[stuck flower]

Either use shaders compatible with your render pipeline, or use a render pipeline compatible with your shaders

[keen basin]

Why is my model upside down when i am importing from blender to unity?

[worldly cave]

https://polynook.com/learn/how-to-export-models-from-blender-to-unity

[waxen hamlet]

Some people: "AI is gonna take over ALL programming jobs!"
AI:

[worldly cave]

this is a help channel

[nova hinge]

is unity going to a promte base game engine ?

[worldly cave]

what

[waxen hamlet]

what's base game engine?

[nova hinge]

AI base promoting engine ?

like generative stuff and all?

[waxen hamlet]

they kinda have to talk about AI tho

since they're a public company

[worldly cave]

hopefuly not

hopefuly never

[potent geyser]

No, it's not going to be the new "base" game engine. They're just implementing AI features.

[waxen hamlet]

and that's what people invest in

[nova hinge]

i guess there are some rumers

[nova hinge]

ya exactly

[potent geyser]

Exactly, what?

That's completely opposite of what you're saying - being a prompt base game engine.

[worldly cave]

Not only that but i couldnt imagine anything worse than a game engine that you can only prompt in

how would you even get anything done at that point

[nova hinge]

i am generally asking about that will AI in Unity gonna be only promting base , doing stuff by promts rather old style

[waxen hamlet]

I'd prompt it to make me a game engine that doesn't have prompting

Unity will never go that route

[worldly cave]

"old style"

[nova hinge]

like how we use currently

[potent geyser]

No, Unity will not be prompt only. That's beyond ridiculous.

[worldly cave]

nothing will be prompt only, people are getting dumber but not that dumb

not this soon

I hope

[waxen hamlet]

No sane game engine company will ever go prompt only

[nova hinge]

gona happen one day

[waxen hamlet]

nope

[worldly cave]

the bubble will burst long before that

So nothing really to look forward to there lol

[nova hinge]

then Y Elon is making one

[waxen hamlet]

there will probably be prompt only engines, but unity will never switch

[worldly cave]

Because Elon Musk is a peak example of the dunning kruger effect in action

[potent geyser]

Okay, make this a thread, we're not doing our nth daily debate about AI

You can blush over Elon in a thread.

[waxen hamlet]

Elon fanbase & AI engines

[spark granite]

Ok but then how are these people gonna make games

[stuck flower]

The same way they always have: By not doing it

[old thunder]

how do you go about achieving parallax effects in 2d side scroller game? im looking at a demo scene from an asset pack and they seem to just have a camera w/ perspective projection and different sprites at different Z values without any code \ scripting. Is this the proper way to do it?

[vivid cedar]

most 2d side scrollers use orthographic cameras and have scripts that move background SpriteRenderers for parallax

[old thunder]

ok thats what i was wondering, thanks

is there any advantage \ disadvantage doing it one way or the other? i guess just investigating the sprites in the scene view in this demo is a bit tedious because everything is placed in a 3d way

[vivid cedar]

Of course. Every decision you make is a tradeoff. Orthographic cameras have a lot of advantages for 2D games - the most important being the pixel-perfectness of it.

the disadvantage is you have to write the code and set it all up

[old thunder]

makes sense, wont it be hard to preview how things look in the scene editor because the movement of the sprites in layers only happens when the game is running?

[vivid cedar]

sure, you can consider that another disadvantage I guess

[left bobcat]

does anyone know any shader that could be similar to this one but for HDRP?

[near wigeon]

probably easy to make in shadergraph

[left bobcat]

true but i want it to interact with light that would be more difficult

[near wigeon]

not if you figure out which nodes you need

theres this floating around too
https://discussions.unity.com/t/hdrp-particle-system-shaders/735478

[mossy quiver]

hi im looking for a dev team to help me make my game

[near wigeon]

!collab

[vagrant root]

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[left bobcat]

cheers

i figured it out

[smoky delta]

this is not a big problem, but why? (i m talking about size)

6000.0.67f1

nah, i changed inspector size and now it's normal size

[near wigeon]

if you can reproduce it , file a bug report

[old thunder]

im importing this spritesheet from a asset pack and just wondering how this was set up to be a single sprite. The mesh type is set to tight so i would've thought unity would just cut up each region that isn't continuous into multiple sprites, but these little puffs are included with the main cloud, was the process of cutting up the spritesheet into sprites not automated?

[balmy kettle]

you can dictate how the sprite editor slices if you don't leave it at automatic

[hard crown]

where can i ask a unity issue

[worn crown]

Depends on the issue. Like a unity bug?

Real quick question myself - do yall know why Unity is showing an empty polygon whenever I import a .fbx? Its not showing the missing polygon whenever I import it in blender. Note Im in Unity 6.0 in case that makes a difference. I havent had the same problem with other models imported. Is this a Unity bug? Unity has been acting up on this model a lot though, like not importing animations and textures without help.
(Please @ me if you respond, thanks!)

[white junco]

is here the best place to me share a problem that i having with a game that uses Unity? i'm playing nightripper by puppet combo, and the most recent version has a camera problem which slowly gets off from character, i've been trying for hours find where's the problem using unity explorer and DnSpy, i tried to replace the recent camera codes from AssemblyCSsharp to an older code where this problem won't happen, but nothing work so far

[stark agate]

Looks like a normals issue

Edit Mode -> Press A to select all -> Mesh -> Normals -> Recalculate Outside

[worn crown]

I’ve never even heard of something like that. Thank you so much!

[potent geyser]

Unfortunately we don't allow modding/ripping discussions here. If you have a problem with a game, you need to contact the developer of it.

[white junco]

oh, sorry. thanks🫡

[oak meadow]

Should i predict projectiles? or just let the lag be shown

[summer minnow]

is this a netcode question for a multiplayer game?

[oak meadow]

just a general networking question im asking if its best to do it or not yes for a multiplayer game

[spice locust]

Any idea how to change the pivot point of a prefab? Anything I try, it just resets to the middle of the mesh.

I figured out a hacky solution, but it's far from clean, and I'd like to learn the proper way of doing it.
I also tried following YT videos, but the solutions don't work, so I would suspect something's wrong with the editor, but I'm not sure really.
Any recommendations on what to try are welcome

SOLVED: I had scene view set at "Center" instead of "Pivot"

[summer minnow]

I think you should lookup if the devs of the games you like and are using as inspiration have a video on their netcode.
I like overwatch, they have a yt video where they explain design decisions behind their netcode.
I don't think there is an easy yes or no answer.
There are also many options on how to predict something.
For PVE its probably less important than for PVP and it generally depends a lot on your game.
If you want to develop a marvel rivals or an overwatch I would consider it.

[oak meadow]

Okay yeah thanks

[sacred sparrow]

if you use Netcode for Entities, they can be auto predicted

i'm gonna use that netcode for my game

[old thunder]

i have a spriteshape that has multiple sprites possible for a certain angle (like top of a player platform) does unity randomly pick between them to generate variety? if i want to handcraft one particular object using one of the particular choices because it would look good in some spot how do i do that?

am i just forced to use a different spriteshape profile?

[brave maple]

Hi I'm new here, not sure if i could send this question in this channel or not so do lmk if I should ask this elsewhere :')
Anyway this is my school assignment and i imported the file sent by my groupmate, when i press play and start to move around, the sprite just shrinks, how can i fix it?

[spice locust]

First thing I would suspect is the movement script here

[sacred sparrow]

send the script

[tired snow]

This error has been making me crazy
All of the commands of making it move and collision stuffs are doing fine so whyy

[sacred sparrow]

well, it tells you

you are trying to draw a Gizmo outside the correct function

[tired snow]

So how do i fix it? Is that located at the script exactly or in the inspector?

[sacred sparrow]

it tells you the script and line

[tired snow]

i checked the script but theres seems to have no red in them

[sage basin]

You can't call OnDrawGizmos from Update and expect it to work, OnDrawGizmos is called automatically by Unity at the right time

[sacred sparrow]

well, in this case you will not see a red line

[sage basin]

It's an exception, not a compiler error

[tired snow]

I got it now!! thank you so much

[brave maple]

Ahh it's okay i managed to figure it out, it was the scaling issue

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! I have a question. Render pipeline converter what it does is to conver every material I have from built in for example to URP lets say? Its the quickest way to upgrade your materials?

[reef dome]

Yes, it does for 99% of them, custom shaders and some special materials cannot be converted though

[boreal river]

Do you know why I am getting those errors?

[potent moss]

try reading the error messages ?

[boreal river]

Basically, when building my project file

my game

yes I am not sure what it says material variant of what

and I do have the tree prefab

on my terrain

I was wondering maybe my terrain data is corrupted

do you think it happens?

and in which cases?

[reef dome]

the tree error is most likely from a terrain that has a tree put somehwere of which the prefab does not exist anymore

[boreal river]

yes I have only one tree prefab right now

and I can see it in project files

I mean it exists

[reef dome]

Yes but the terrain seems to reference a different tree that does not exist anymore

index 1 indicates atleast a 2nd tree added

(as it starts with index 0)

[boreal river]

How is this supposed to happen? Do you think I have it somewhere in the scene and I didn't delete it but

[reef dome]

you added it to terrain and then removed the prefab

if your scene is small and you can easily reapply trees I would clear all trees and put them again

[slow dirge]

Can maybe find/remove it programmatically

[boreal river]

I did it nothing fixed XD

I was wondering

[reef dome]

do you have a 2nd terrain somewhere you are not aware of?

[boreal river]

maybe it has to do with terrain settings

I know this channel is not about terrain but

[reef dome]

i mean baseline questions like that are fine here

[boreal river]

I am sure 100% not only one

Maybe it has to do with terrain settings

something

[reef dome]

can you show a screenshot of your terrain paint trees tab?

[boreal river]

Do you want me to send a recording maybe?

[reef dome]

nah just a screenshot of this

[reef dome]

hmm other than you having a 2nd terrain somehwere im out of ideas

[boreal river]

I have a second terrain data

but its not the one I am using

[slow dirge]

Maybe share the error callstacks. It might provide some more context.

[boreal river]

I have only one terrain

[slow dirge]

Try deleting it if it's not used.

[boreal river]

Ok I think it magically fixed I have deleted the second terrain data you said and I see no errors

[slow dirge]

Was likely referenced in some scene.

Or included in the build for some other reason(resources, addressables, etc...)

[boreal river]

Also, I have another issue

thats from yesterday

[copper gust]

The first result i found on google had the same advice btw

[boreal river]

What exactly?

[copper gust]

The error

[boreal river]

oh ok

So, I still cant find the solution to the problem of my Outline effect

I am out of ideas

[copper gust]

ask your teacher

[boreal river]

Why my outline works in play mode and it doesn't on build mode

I will most probably today

[slow dirge]

Use the frame debugger or dedicated graphics debugger to investigate

[boreal river]

how this fram debugger works

[slow dirge]

That's the part where you read the documentation

[boreal river]

Can you explain with few words what it does

[slow dirge]

It allows you to see information on render passes and draw calls.

[reef dome]

quick tip, if you want google to stop putting ai ontop just add "fuck"/"shit" at the end of your search 😄

be careful with searches in which that word would make sense though.... 😐

[boreal river]

Can you explain why AI gives misleading ifnormation because thats your point?

[copper gust]

thats not my point

[boreal river]

ITs machine learning

Yes what?

[copper gust]

you can google things to find more about them

[reef dome]

If AI doesnt know the answer it will hallucinate one, never trust the google AI for topics you couldnt fact-check while reading it

[boreal river]

Basically, what I do is searching from different sources

I do search in docs

[reef dome]

The AIs task it to make you happy, not to give you a correct answer

[boreal river]

youtube, ebooks

but also AI if nothing works

[copper gust]

you should google errors and things you want to know about

it will help

[boreal river]

I do

[copper gust]

did you google what the frame debugger was

did you google your tree prefab index error

[boreal river]

in forums as well

[boreal river]

no 🙂

[reef dome]

As a baseline, only use AI if you are able to spot when the AI lies, so a baseline of knowledge is required

[copper gust]

well there you go

[boreal river]

I use AI when there is a hard terminology/concept to understand so basically for hard concepts to understand sometimes

[reef dome]

if you don't understand it the AI could lie to you outright and you wouldnt notice, so don't

[boreal river]

I dont use it at all for coding stuff, I do my own decomposition like designing flowcharts, pseudocode, class diagrams and actually writing logic myself

[reef dome]

step 1 is understanding yourself, always

[boreal river]

divide and conquer is my thing

[boreal river]

yes I agree

100%

I have seen a guy 15 years old on a game jam was working on roblox studio and was copy pasting code all the time you can imagine for the global game jam with had 2 weeks ago

cant

[spice locust]

It's a good tool if used correctly

But enough knowledge is required to be able to spot the mistakes

[balmy palm]

Havn't touched ai in my learning process. Honestly looking up tutorials for unity components or looking up c# documentries on some formula's or keywords is alot more rewarding.

[worldly cave]

Rewarding and beneficial in the long run

[undone monolith]

I’m working on a mobile fighting game in Unity that uses UI buttons for attacks and a joystick for movement.
Each playable character (Ahri, Jinx, Mel, and Vi) has the same FightingController script attached, and I assign the four attack buttons to call the public methods MobileAttack1(), MobileAttack2(), MobileAttack3(), and MobileAttack4() on the corresponding character’s FightingController. When I test each character individually by activating them one at a time, Ahri’s mobile attack buttons work correctly. But for the other characters, Jinx, Mel, and Vi. Pressing the mobile attack buttons does not trigger any attacks. Movement, joystick input, opponent health detection, and PC keyboard attacks all work correctly on every character. Only the mobile UI attack buttons fail for these three characters. When I press the mobile attack buttons on Jinx, Mel, or Vi, Unity spams errors in the Console, all pointing to the PerformAttack() method in the FightingController script. I am trying to understand why the mobile attack buttons only work for Ahri but not for the other characters, even though they all use the same script and all other gameplay systems work. Below is the full script I’m using for all the player GameObjects
https://paste.ofcode.org/iadKLb4RRHyRUiZDw4UcSZ

[boreal river]

I am not sure why @copper gust hates AI so much AI XD

He had a bad experience with AI not really sure

Maybe he thinks AI will take over humanity and our wolrd

Its just a tool thats it

like google

we had google before and it was something very interesting to us

at the first time

[spice locust]

Not sure either, also not sure how can he downvote "its a good tool if used correctly" like what, you disagree? Then in your opinion its a bad tool if used correctly?

It just doesnt make sense

[storm patio]

it's misleading tbh. it's not really an appropriate recommendation because the audience just doesn't have the necessary experience to filter out the bs

it's a tool, yes. the difference here is that it's incredibly easy to misuse

[spice locust]

Yeah thats why I said below that you need knowledge to use it properly

[boreal river]

you mean the prompt enginneering thing

[storm patio]

no

[boreal river]

it requires exp

[storm patio]

that's completely irrelevant to what i'm talking about

[near wigeon]

With experience you realize the real limitations and it becomes just a clerical tool at best

[storm patio]

some beginners will read that and think "oh ive made a few scripts already (copied from tutorials), should be fine" and then come to us with mangled 400 line scripts with 500 comments asking us what's wrong

it's annoying.

[near wigeon]

but you do you , when your code doesn't make consistent and cohesive sense through the project, maybe you learn that way maybe you won't

"Feed it your project and parameters / restrictions" the story is the same

[spice locust]

I disagree that I'm at fault for people misjudging their knowledge and skills.

However if that's what leads people to post scripts like that, and waste time, I have to agree that it could be beneficial to minimize AI talk or encouragement

[storm patio]

misjudging skill wouldn't be your fault, but in my experience stuff like that can easily be misconstrued. beginners often misjudge their own skill

(also keep in mind that messages here are public and the eventual reader may not be your intended target)

[ocean pumice]

As your line states, this is the issue, so you should debug, whats happening. Use breakpoints or jsut simple logs to get all valeus that might be null
animator.Play(attackAnimations[attackIndex]);

[static pulsar]

The best way to figure this out is attaching a debugger to the editor and putting a breakpoint in PerformAttack. Something is null and the debugger will show what is null immediately.
The most likely explanation for your issue is that the animator object is null when PerformAttack is called.
Since you say PerformMovement works for all characters, the GameObjects probably all have an Animator component (double check that though), but since you get the components in Awake, they might still be null if Awake was never called on them. This would be the case if the GameObject starts out as inactive and is never activated before PerformAttack is called. It seems the mobile attack buttons are bound to MobileAttack on every character's gameobject simultaneously, even the inactive ones. You can quickly find out if that is the issue by entering play mode, activating the character gameobjects by hand and deactivating them again so Awake has a chance to run. If it works after that, this is the issue.

[spice locust]

Yeah makes sense, it might be better not to encourage AI if there is a high chance people won't use it properly

[storm patio]

-# damn, a reasonable discussion, what a breath of fresh air

[sonic cairn]

Hi everyone, sorry for breaking the subject here... I have a really important question. I have been developing with Unity for many years now, and as weird as this may sound, I have never really used Assembly Definitions besides the standard one Unity creates for us. As my current personal project has grown very much larger, it might be beneficial to start using them ASAP. However this would take a LOT of work to refactor, and I even heard that adding assembly definitions clean up any SerializedField references from existent prefabs (which would just break the game completely, nice). So I just want to hear your opinion: Is this true? If not, do you think it is worth doing the refactor knowing that this is a commercial product that will launch and be maintained for years? If so, do you guys have any sources for guides helping to do this carefully on bigger projects?

[ocean pumice]

I cant remember adding asmdef killing my prefabs scripts. But you can easily test it after backing up your project. Apart from that, asmdefs are quite handy to structure your code, assign correct relations to other packages that you need to use and separate or secure your scripts from interfering with other packages, that might use classes with the same name for example.

[sly lake]

It's not worth it. They speed up compilation, yes, but assembly reload typically takes much longer than compilation anyway.

[sonic cairn]

hmmm, interesting

two very different opinions here, hard to not overthink it for me 😭

[sly lake]

I mean, I share the opinion that it's good for structuring your code.

[ocean pumice]

I can make it clearer for you. I am coming from a position of developing packages that are gonna be reused in other projects. So its a) required by Unity packages to introduce an assembly and b) also to secure my code from not running into name issues with other packages someone MIGHT use with similar class names

[sly lake]

But for an existing project it's a lot of work for no benefit.

You should have at least one, though

[ocean pumice]

So I also agree with wolfos here 😄 Already having a project thats not gonna be reused somewhere else as package, you might just pack it into one asmdef and thats enough assembly structuring for you

[sonic cairn]

interesting, so the best tip would be: "Do it from the beginning next time"?

[sly lake]

Yes

Though not too much because it does slow down assembly reload a lot

[sonic cairn]

When you say that, are you referring to the Assembly CSharp one? I assume not

[sly lake]

No

Just pack it into a single asmdef (or two if you also have editor code) so you can properly manage dependencies

[ocean pumice]

It also heavily depends on your project. I am working with multiplatform and lot of editor and runtime scripts, so its just clean to know, what packages are being used where. But apart from that, you are good to go with namespaces and folders just for code structure

[sonic cairn]

The problem is that adding just one asmdef makes me have to add a lot of them, because on script might have dependecies with another, which might have dependencies with another and so on.

[ocean pumice]

If you have a scripts folder, you can just create an asmdef file in there and all scripts in the folder hierarchy will be included

[sonic cairn]

yeah, that makes sense!

[sonic cairn]

Yeah but then I get like 999 errors and when I start adding the asmdef references I also notice that some plugins I'm using also doesn't have amdefs for some reason

so adding just one can very quickly become a refactor

[ocean pumice]

haha no no, its not that drastic as you think it is

You most likely are getting Unity errors, because you have to include the Unity stuff you are using in your asmdef inspector

[ocean pumice]

plugins != package

[sonic cairn]

I added the Unity references and a lot of Plugin references, but even after that I get some errors related to some assets I'm using, such as DunGen and Modern UI. These assets do not have any asmdef, so I think I would have to create one for them as well (?) lol

[sonic cairn]

I actually meant assets

[reef dome]

Now that I see the discussion here, is there a any downsides/updsides between these two apart from preference:

- Scripts
  - Player
    - PlayerMovement.cs
    - PlayerCamera.cs
  - Enemy
    - EnemyAI.cs
- Prefabs
  - Player
    - PlayerPrefab.prefab
    - Camera.prefab
  - Enemy
    - Enemy1.prefab
    - Enemy2.prefab
- Audio
  - ...
- Sprites
  - ...

versus

- Features
  - Player
    - Prefabs
      - PlayerPrefab.prefab
      - Camera.prefab
    - Audio
      - ...
    - Sprites
      - ...      
    - PlayerMovement.cs // Scripts at baselevel or scripts subfolder, preference
    - PlayerCamera.cs
  - Enemy
    - Prefabs
      - Enemy1.prefab
      - Enemy2.prefab
    - Audio
      - ...
    - Sprites
      - ...      
    - EnemyAI.cs 

[ocean pumice]

Yep, you are right. if they are outside of your asmdef folder location, you need to create one for them and add them

[ocean pumice]

well, you are putting prefabs in a scripts folder. I wouldnt look for a videogame in the bakery

[reef dome]

yeah sorry, top folder is features, not script on 2nd 😄

[ocean pumice]

Haha, just saw the change 😄

[sonic cairn]

got it

[reef dome]

i currently prefer v2 cause all feature stuff is together and i dont need to scroll to another section of the hierarchy to find related things

[ocean pumice]

In that case, its personal preference Id say. But features is not really some naming I would use tho. Its an Asset. So I would keep the upper version, where the Assets Folder is categorized into asset types and within the types you got the actual assets.

[sonic cairn]

thanks for sharing opinions, it's interesting to know that the benefit of asmdefs (at least as of right now) is mostly for organizing... Also, can we confirm that creating asmdefs DO NOT clean up serialized references? lol

[ocean pumice]

if you go with the second version, you always have to keep that structure throughout all "Features" you add. Might lead to big folder structures depending ont he amount of assets, but I get why you like it right now

[ocean pumice]

Try it 😄 I am quite sure, as long as you include all needed asmdefs like uniyt UI when you got a prefab woth canvas UI, it should work and nto break. maybe you heard someone exactly missing that part of not including unity specific stuff

[sly lake]

I mix it somewhat. Though code is always separate!

[reef dome]

I am currently working on projects that have millions in dev cost and are an appropriate size, the old projects follows v1, the new one we are working on v2, and I enjoy v2 very much more, easier to find related things

Might lead to big folder structures
On bigger projects very much true for the first version aswell 😄

[ocean pumice]

I have seen both depending on who worked with unity. Artists tend to tie all assets AND scripts to a folder that belongs to their visual asset while developers tend to separate visuals from code

[sly lake]

Mostly just use the bookmarks feature a lot

[reef dome]

i have basically never done that xD

just was never sure if it had real dev implications other than how you interact with the folders

[sly lake]

I used to keep code in a different git submodule when I still used git. I'm not sure that's possible if you mix them.

[ocean pumice]

That would be xlinks in plastic scm speech, right? I do not trust them at all 😄

[reef dome]

I can understand code being seperate though

Theres no chance im seperating prefabs and UI sprites again though, that was a pain of switching back and forth everytime xD

[ocean pumice]

When using good naming, you can just use the popup window to assign them 😄

[sly lake]

When your project is big enough it takes like 10 seconds to load that window 😅

[reef dome]

yep

[ocean pumice]

😄 true

[reef dome]

And yeah our projects are too big for that, on older editor versions that window created a clean crash, newer ones perform a bit better

[keen basin]

I have my blender animated model with some actions built in also it doesnt have any bones, it has separated parts that are animated. How do i import it right into unity with all my animations saved?

[sacred sparrow]

drag and drop

[keen basin]

blend file?

[sacred sparrow]

no

export it as fbx first...

[keen basin]

i tried

it made it all up with a mess

[sacred sparrow]

wdym a mess

[sacred sparrow]

show your fbx export settings

[sacred sparrow]

check on YT how to fix mesh indices in blender

that may help

[keen basin]

Havent found any info about that

[sacred sparrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fXCsgH5ppE

this here maybe

[keen basin]

I think the problem is not about face recalculating. It s about export settings i believe or smth like that

[sacred sparrow]

try it anyway

those export settings seem correct

[sour shadow]

i am using UnityEditor 2020.2.2f1 and i cant disable some of my scripts, how do i let em do that

[near wigeon]

You can only disable scripts if they use methods like start , update etc. Does it

[sour shadow]

it uses OnTriggerEnter2D

[near wigeon]

Then no because can run regardless

Unless entire game object is disabled

[balmy kettle]

fwiw though that checkbox is there regardless of compatible methods in newer versions

not that it is useful if none of the affected methods are present in the component

[near wigeon]

ah unity confusing things further

[past canopy]

Hi

[pliant nacelle]

I accidentally deleted the dev log thread image, is it okay to reupload it?

Or is there no way to re-upload the photo to the original location?

[sacred sparrow]

you an't unfortunately

discord does not allow it

afaik

[pliant nacelle]

Right. Can I upload my game Discord server to the thread?

[charred fog]

bot will nuke it

I'm pretty sure if you host the image on third party site like Imgur and put the link in the first message, it should show up as a front image

Or put anything with embed there

[pliant nacelle]

thank you

[pliant nacelle]

wow thank you!!!

[pliant nacelle]

Can I upload videos from social media like YouTube or x? In the dev log thread

thank you!!!

[potent geyser]

The bot will only remove discord links or quick succession images.

[charred fog]

Gameplay related things, showcase, not just a channel/socials promotion.

[pliant nacelle]

yes!

I'm only going to post videos related to the games I make!

[dry elbow]

Hi

[flat breach]

hi, what's the best sync tool to have 2 clients in unity editor with mirror?

[balmy kettle]

if unity's multiplayer play mode isn't sufficient then parrelsync should be (assuming that is what you are referring to)

[worthy glade]

Anyone good at 3d design and map modeling?

more so I need coders

for a VR game

[balmy kettle]

!collab 👇

[vagrant root]

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[near wigeon]

What are you offering to the project

but yeah you gotta make a post on the ynity forums linked above

[worthy glade]

like what my team does?

[near wigeon]

No like you personally

[worthy glade]

I do graphic, 3d, map design, a little coding not good at it tho