💻┃unity-talk

[worthy glade]

I need a couple coders who are advanced

I also will do pay in around a months time

[flat breach]

yes it is what I needed, ty

[deft rock]

The type of people you're going to attract with your current pitch are beginners who will fizzle out within a month

[worldly cave]

At least he is paying

thats something

[worthy glade]

haven’t even said my pitch 🤦

[worldly cave]

you dont have to

this isnt the place for it

[worthy glade]

That’s why I haven’t said it

[worthy glade]

I’m not allowed to ask

[near wigeon]

Everyone needs people but turns out " I give credits " is always the true

[deft rock]

you asked poorly before you found out you weren't allowed to ask.

[worldly cave]

it is against the rules

so yeah you kinda arent

you can ask if anyone knows how to code or is good at 3d, but you cant do it in the context of looking for collaborative work

[worthy glade]

I can’t ask if anyone is good at coding

[deft rock]

pretty silly question to ask

[worthy glade]

I didt know that 🤷

u guys being rude for no reason I just was asking

[tribal lichen]

am tweaking. I hate unity 🫩

[deft rock]

no one is being rude

[worthy glade]

is this not rude?

[worthy glade]

And this?

[deft rock]

No, it's honesty

Maybe a bit blunt, but that is not rudeness.

[worthy glade]

your a brick wall

lol

[charred fog]

Keep the channel on topic, please.

[stuck flower]

No, it's honesty

And a bit generous. A month is pretty high. You'd be lucky to get a second DM

[craggy swan]

What do you guys think the best beginner game to make is? I've tried VR and realistic horror games but they just don't get finished because they are too complex for me. I want something that goes through some of the basic things unity has to offer and is not to complicated to create.

[reef dome]

recreation of old arcade or old console games

[vivid cedar]

something simple like a flappy bird kind of game with a simple gameplay loop

[reef dome]

My first game was Kirby 64 Checkerboard Chase, super fun to recreate

[worldly cave]

I think flappy bird is great

as well as jetpack joyride

its not as simple as pong but is simple enough

[craggy swan]

Yes. Like that idea. Do you think like a parkour game would be simple enough for a beginner because that's one of the options I've been thinking about starting.

[worldly cave]

A 2d platformer? sure

[reef dome]

2d parkour? yes
3d parkour? you will have trouble with animations and a wide array of other things

[worldly cave]

a 3d parkour game? no

[craggy swan]

That's true. But I might not even add animation and just have a basic player movement script with platforms. I also feel like a 2d platformer would be harder to make because I've never done 2d unity before.

[reef dome]

imo fluid animations is what makes parkour games fun

[craggy swan]

Yeah I agree

[near wigeon]

2d can be simpler because you don't have to worry about extra dimension

Simple 3d can still be an option, think infinite runners like subway surfers n alike. Simple mechanics , on rails.. 2d or 3d most of them share similar code

[worthy glade]

I’ve gotten multiple?

a month is completely reasonable

[flat breach]

aren't there mirror game samples compatible with URP?

[near wigeon]

probably? most Birp projects can just be converted.. there is nothing special besides the materials / shaders.
something you should ask on their discord though..

[flat breach]

well materials is a big issue, you can't see what happens lol

[near wigeon]

if they are not custom shaders they can just be converted

[flat breach]

I'll ask on their server though, thank you for helping me.

[near wigeon]

#1180170818983051344

[umbral urchin]

owo is offline

why

do you know

[stiff quest]

whats owo? Discord bot?

[umbral urchin]

yeah

owo is back

yeyyy

[stiff quest]

ask in owo server we dont even have that bot

[umbral urchin]

proably canged code

see you

[stuck flower]

This is the Unity server

[weary portal]

whats the max distance i can go from scene root before i have problems?

[storm patio]

depends on what problems you're referring to

and the scale of your game

unity uses single-precision floating-point values

the higher the value, the less precision you have, so it depends on how much precision you need

[weary portal]

What kind of problems can it cause? Besides physics

[potent geyser]

Lighting

Sounds

[storm patio]

anything that uses math

[potent geyser]

Anything that involves using floats to calculate anything

[weary portal]

Ok ill try it myself and find an acceptable limit

[stuck flower]

Bigger than you'd think, smaller than you'd hope

[weary portal]

Don't know how much i need tbh so i gotta think a bit about it. Im aware of the floating origin trick but dunno if the terrain plugin im using supports it

[worldly cave]

i mean it would have to be a really big scene for it to start becoming a problem

[umbral urchin]

i know

[celest wind]

Recommendation is like no more than 20,000 units but absolute max is like 100,000 with serious issues past that

[fleet canopy]

They’re referring to the #📖┃code-of-conduct where no off topic is allowed

[stuck flower]

So then why bring it up

[balmy kettle]

just FYI, it's 10k not 20k, it's number of significant digits that matter, not a specific number. so 20k is just as bad as 10k on account of the same number of significant digits

[weary portal]

Can u elaborate on this i dont understand

[balmy kettle]

just research floating point imprecision

[storm patio]

it's in binary though, the threshold would not be at 10k

the nearest thresholds would be ~8k (loss of 1/2048), ~16k (loss of 1/1024), ~33k (loss of 1/512)

[balmy kettle]

sure, 10k isn't the actual threshold, but it's still the recommended max distance to balance precision issues with distance

[storm patio]

i wouldn't know about recommended distances but just saying the reason you gave is misleading, 15k has the same precision as 10k but 20k has less precision

-# specifically this part
-# > so 20k is just as bad as 10k on account of the same number of significant digits
-# this is untrue, since they have different lengths in binary - in fact, any doubling increases the length by definition

[umbral urchin]

sorry

I just saw that Owo went offline for the first time.

I wanted to say it

But I apologize if I have disturbed you.

see you

[worldly cave]

why do people always double down on the stupidest stuff

[stuck flower]

This is the unity server

What does this have to do with Unity

[fleet canopy]

I think it’s best to leave it since it doesn’t matter

[umbral urchin]

ok

i new

[sly lake]

Depends what you're doing. I heard from one of the Frostbite engineers their cloth physics needed double precision just to hold up for the distance of a football field.

[umbral urchin]

i dont knowed

[sly lake]

But yeah, mostly under 10k you're alright

Since it also goes negative, that means you can make a 400km^2 map, which is insanely large.

[worldly cave]

damn 100 meters?

thats rough

[sly lake]

Yep, the higher the values, the more precision you lose.

And I presume this dealt with really small deltas

[flat breach]

hello what GetComponent(); does do? I've never seen and always used GetComponent<ComponentName>();

[sacred sparrow]

it's the same thing

GetComponent wants 2 params tho

or wait

[flat breach]

what are they?

[sacred sparrow]

it should tell you

i don't remember rn

[torn snow]

#💻┃code-beginner, but anyways, it's just an overload which lets you use typeof(Type) instead of <Type>

[sacred sparrow]

oh yeah it was 1

[torn snow]

It could be useful if you're passing types, but I've honestly never used it

[sacred sparrow]

i was thinking of SetComponent() XD

[flat breach]

I mean I'm not actually trying to use it in vs code or anything, it's just in a documentation

[flat breach]

ohh okay tyy

in my example, they didn't put in any parameters lol

[sacred sparrow]

also, if you can use Rider or visual studio

so you get actual intellisense

[torn snow]

I dont think a parameterless GetComponent is even a thing in Unity

[flat breach]

what's this?

[flat breach]

yea that's what I thought too it's weird coming from such a doc, Mirror

[sacred sparrow]

real IDEs

vs code is a better text editor basically

[flat breach]

ohh yea I use vs code

[sacred sparrow]

but not really an ide

[sacred sparrow]

and you really shouldn't here

Visual Studio is free

[flat breach]

isn't it?

[sacred sparrow]

nope

[torn snow]

What do you all think of Godot vs Unity? I cant decide between the two

[torn snow]

its just a code editor

[sacred sparrow]

Rider is free if you are a student

[flat breach]

I'm using visual studio code lol

[sacred sparrow]

get the actual visual studio

[flat breach]

okay I'll look at it, thank you

[torn snow]

Rider is my personal favorite too

[sacred sparrow]

same

[torn snow]

I'd rather go with Rider

[sacred sparrow]

i have it for free for being a student, lol

[torn snow]

it's free for non compercial projects

[sacred sparrow]

oh really?

cool

[balmy kettle]

yeah that was a change they made sometime last year

[worldly cave]

makes sense

money

[sacred sparrow]

i knew about PyCharm and Clion

[torn snow]

what do you all of Godot vs Unity? I can't really decide between the two

[sacred sparrow]

didn't think Rider too

[worldly cave]

youre going to get mostly biased answers here

[sacred sparrow]

it's your preference really

[worldly cave]

and not in the way you think

[torn snow]

ill ask in godot community too

[sacred sparrow]

and they will be biased too XD

[naive thistle]

Please what should I do
My gocoloco is not working in vrchat even though all the set up is complete and okay in Unity

[sacred sparrow]

!vrchat

[vagrant root]

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

[torn snow]

Yeah but I really cannot decide between the two

So I want to hear other's opinions

[sacred sparrow]

i would go with unity really

it's more mature

[torn snow]

so what I'll hear will be balanced

[dense cairn]

Have you tried both ? In the end you can do the type of game you want with both

[sacred sparrow]

also, does godot use C#?

i remember it didn't

[torn snow]

yeah I've tried both, I'm currently using Godot and it's really cool (but Unity is definitely more mature), and been using Unity for 3 years now

[torn snow]

You can use GDScript or C#

[sacred sparrow]

oh ok

[torn snow]

There are plugins for using other languages like rust

[broken rover]

It does

Although you can make entire games with only gdscript it's a perfectly sufficient language

I find it easier than c#

[vivid cedar]

I mean you're asking in the Unity discord so...

[broken rover]

Used unity for the vast majority of my time in game development (which to be fair isn't huge) but recently moved to godot

[dense cairn]

any specific reason you moved to godot ?

[torn snow]

So what are your thoughts?

[torn snow]

Yeah the point is to try to find people who use or have used both

[broken rover]

Not too sure honestly, just felt it was more my style

I'm more used to python development anyway and gdscript is similar in syntax

Plus Godot is open source and generally growing in community and features while Unity feels a bit more corporte

My take

[broken rover]

Also more lightweight

[broken rover]

Both are great honestly it just depends on you

What type of workflow you want, what features you value, etc.

[balmy kettle]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1202155978372423690
this covers unreal as well, but the discussion for which engine to pick of the available ones goes there, and there has been plenty of it you can read

[broken rover]

Godot uses a node system while unity uses a component system

Godot has a bit of a more lenient learning curve

Unity has a massive asset store tho and more diverse pipelines or graphic options

Along with other neat features

[storm patio]

intellisense is provided by the language server, which vscode supports

vsc is perfectly usable tbh

[sacred sparrow]

i don't really like it for java, C# or other big projects

i normally use it for mc addons or websites

[storm patio]

..alright, but vsc does still work perfectly fine for those

[young ravine]

wondering how i can export a gizmo as a mesh? is there a better channel to ask this question?

[gray dirge]

I don't know what that qustion even means? What Gizmo?

[young ravine]

uh sorry, it's a series of ellipse gizmos

[gray dirge]

What am I looking at? Why is it done using gizmos and why you need it to be a mesh?

[young ravine]

game uses this to generate a mesh, and i need to model something that conforms to said mesh in blender

[gray dirge]

I'm still very confused, what game? I'm asking because 1) whatever you are doing seems very unconventional 2) unity does not provide you any tools for that out of the box as far as I'm aware

[young ravine]

bonelab, this is a tool built by the creators of the game that is included in the SDK

[violet thunder]

No idea about bonelabs, but those gizmos are probably drawn using Gizmos.DrawMesh with some mesh as input

So "how to export the gizmos to mesh" isn't the right question

It's how to find the source meshes, if they are even available

[young ravine]

you manually adjust sliders until the gizmos roughly match up with your imported mesh

[violet thunder]

Ah so they are like procedural

Nevermind then

Probably better off asking a bonelab community or something

[young ravine]

yeah that's what i tried first to no avail

[plain dagger]

Well if you can get a mesh object reference you can produce an export a glb in editor
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cloud.gltfast@5.2/api/GLTFast.Export.GltfWriter.html

Otherwise assign the mesh to a gameobject (mesh renderer + mesh filter) and use the easier gameobject exporting/fbx exporter

[lunar sierra]

Is it normal to make 1 mistake and break everything without going back? Does unity auto save or something?

[near wigeon]

No

[lone maple]

What do I do with this

It’s red and I don’t understand

[lunar sierra]

When I try to load my last save, everything is still broken:/

[lone maple]

This what it says

[vivid cedar]

It means the prefab link is broken, so the prefab was either deleted or its meta file got a new uuid

[lone maple]

Ok

[vivid cedar]

So now you basically just have a regular object in the scene without a prefab backing it

[lone maple]

So do I find it

[vivid cedar]

If you know where it is you can reconnect the prefab link through the context menus

If it was deleted then you can either make a new prefab out of it or just break the prefab link

Up to you really

[lone maple]

Ok

[vivid cedar]

But if there were other copies of it in other scenes that's when it will become annoying

[lone maple]

Ok

[lapis nexus]

is anyone online rn that's worked a fog of war system before?

tryna do one with a tilemap on a game jam im doing

[nimble vigil]

In the Animation window, double-clicking a bone used to frame it in Scene view (like pressing F).
After updating Unity, it no longer zooms to the selected bone.
Is this a known change/bug in the latest version?

It used to help me with making poses for VR

[lapis nexus]

it is absolutely destroying me lol

[plain dagger]

That shouldnt be too hard. You would have the whole fog of war layer filled and as the player moves you keep removing tiles in some radius which will reveal more as the game progresses

[lapis nexus]

oh wait I guess I shouldve been more specific lol, fog of war is a bit of a poor description

the game is a 2d platformer, but it needs a sorta merged version of fog of war to support illusions which create non-euclidean mechanics related to the theme of the jam. this means that what Im trying to do is make tiles in line of of sight of the player appear, and have everything else invisible

[plain dagger]

well no a "fog of war" is usually where vision is obstructed (either by range or till you move there)

Ah let me try to find something about this

Cant find what I want but you can go about this in a few ways. Either with lots of physics raycasts to produce a "fan" of vision. This is often used to produce a mesh to then use with the effect.
You can also have your own node grid and ray march to detect visible and non visible nodes to then produce the effect. Someone else may be able to explain more

[lapis nexus]

alright thanks!

im gonna see if there are any tutorials on the subject

I already understand rays only at a pretty basic level, and combining that with tilemaps is gonna be interesting lol

[plain dagger]

If you have a fixed 2d grid via tilemap then using that for a visibility grid would be easier

you would probably need to multiply density though

To optimise it though may be getting too complex. The raycast way is a bit easier as it uses the physics system for lots of the hard work

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

Old but not bad. How the mask creation and use may need updating though to work in modern urp

[winged holly]

I've not had a single email about this and I've checked my spam folders and sent updates. Is there NOBODY at Unity support any more?

I guess they need the time to hire the tanker for all the piss they are taking!

[strange flume]

Unity 6.3 (latest 3.9f1). I can do stand alone builds and I get ~390fps in game, runs like butter. When I run the game in the editor I'm lucky to get 30fps. If I turn gizmos on it drops to 15fps, no clue what is happening, I have never seen this behaviour in Unity. Stock URP settings, very basic scene, as you can see none of my scripts are going berserk in the profiler. Its all EditorLoop, PlayerLoop, and RenderPlayModeViewCameras (i have one camera). I don't know what or where to look at for this. Anyone have any direction? Thanks!

[plain dagger]

Do you maximise the game view? We can see the editor loop is quite long so clearly impacting performance a lot

some editor tools like odin or naughty attributes can be quite slow and impact performance greatly

[strange flume]

I have it maximized yes, no odin or naughty, no packages to be honest.

[digital pelican]

idk how to use unity

[plain dagger]

Do you log a lot of things?

[strange flume]

Not really, I opened a blank project. and I'm seeing the same CPU exceeded randomly. SHouldn't be happening, i have a 16 core cpu, and nothing else is running 🙁

[slow dirge]

For editor loop, you can switch the profiler to editor mode to see what exactly affects it.

[ionic void]

I can see GarbageCollector consume over 50%.

[strange flume]

Just flipped to EditorLoop, looks like Application.Tick->Application.UpdateScene is ~24ms. like 75k GC Alloc

[plain dagger]

got lots of objects in this scene? do they move around a lot/change parents?

[strange flume]

Never messed with EditorLoop stuff, this is all new. I have ~50 GO, nothing moving, all static.

[plain dagger]

Hmm try changing the editor update timing to the monitor refresh

about all I can think of

[strange flume]

I have other projects doing 100x as much and I don't get this same issue, so its just weird.

[plain dagger]

hopefully its just a bug that goes away or somethin

ive not experienced such things on good pcs myself but im mostly working on 6.1 rn

[slow dirge]

Is thta in the editor mode?

It would help if you took a screenshot of the profiler with more context and the hierarchy expanded.

[polar basalt]

did u try restart unity or pc

i had that bug once

not from pc tho, just unity being weird

but yeah it went away by just working on the game more, it just went away randomly

from 40-60 fps to 144 fps

[fierce bear]

Hello

[supple meteor]

looking for sm1 who can make a gtag fan game

[fleet canopy]

!collab

[vagrant root]

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

sorry

[main nacelle]

helloo

i was thinking that vaulting mechanics in unity so far are pretty non-dynamic as far as ive seen in videos

the most advanced ive seen is just using rootmotion and disabling collider which can break alot of the times 🤔

[fair cove]

If disabling the collider could break things in your game, what would an alternative approach look like for your game? And what constraints do you have with the design? For example, do you want to allow enemies to still attack the player and knock them off mid-vault?

[dapper carbon]

Any idea on what could be causing this basically empty project to be using up 7gb of memory 😭 . In total the editor + the game use like 10gb

[storm patio]

potentially the editor

use the profiler to, well, do profiling

[dapper carbon]

Tbh I’m new so looking at it is kinda gibberish at the moment but I’ll give it a shot

[inland umbra]

Well your second best option is asking the memory fairy or praying to memory Jesus

[dapper carbon]

Minimum System Requirements: 64 gb of ram

[plain iron]

I have never seen anything as infuriating as trying to port blender models into unity. It's the most buggy piece of trash I've ever seen.

I don't know if it's blender or units fault

[storm patio]

uh hi if you'd like to get help, #🔀┃art-asset-workflow would be the place for that, and you'd need to give some more info

[plain iron]

I'm not asking for help just venting my anger at unity

[hot cedar]

is there a way to stop this? i adcentally inported the entire Pc folder. and idk how to stop it :c

its been importing for like 5 hours

I JUST WANNA FINISH MY AVATAR 😭

[tall hearth]

not to ask a question right after someone else but
how do i stop having objects that are instanced / created during runtime not get delete after i stop runtime? seems to happen if there's alot happening at once to where it just skips the whole process to reset the scene after.
(the half crecent moon of cubes shouldn't be there is what i mean)

[hot cedar]

if anyone knows please tell me

[hot cedar]

do i have to leave it overnight or what?

[storm patio]

presumably force quit

hope you have vcs/backups

[hot cedar]

i dont

😐

[storm patio]

do you have domain reload disabled

[hot cedar]

well damn

[tall hearth]

not that i know of, it reloads if there isnt a large task going on when i stop it

[versed citrus]

yo where can i ask questions about errors?

[terse trout]

hola, alguien puede ayudarme en algo

y le pago

[primal creek]

#🔎┃find-a-channel and explain the error

[terse trout]

Does anyone know how to convert FBX to VRM? I'll pay

[tall hearth]

google said https://univrm.com/#FAQ's but no clue never heard of a VRM format till now ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[sly lake]

No, these are two very different formats that don't convert to one another.

Like, on a conceptual level.

[eager bolt]

So... I've messed something up that I can't figure out... I am prototyping (and learning) a small game and I thought it'd be nice to add a day/night cycle. I found a guide that apparently was very old and didn't really match my version of Unity (6.3), but now I see this whenever I play the game... It's like the skybox is a physical object within my scene, and it overlays everything. Please, if anyone has the time to point me in the correct direction I would love to become a little better at what I am doing 😛

[ocean pumice]

We dont know, what tutorial you followed. Id suggest, go the tutorial backwards and see, where it adds stuff that could result to this. Looks like something sphereish is being drawn to your camera/rendertexture or what not

[sly lake]

Yeah, I'd just undo that and find a tutorial that at least matches your render pipeline 🙂

[eager bolt]

Yeah, it looks like there's an actual object straight over my entire view. It doesn't change size when I zoom in/out... I think it has to do with my .shader-file

[ocean pumice]

Yeh, if your shader draws something on top of your screen in a postprocess effect or whatever, you got your location to debug

[shut rampart]

I think use Task manager to force quit and manually delete imported references from project folder.

[spark granite]

How exactly do you make a movement controller that collides with objects but isn't an exactly physics-based movement? I keep getting into this problem when I'm approaching Unity. Dynamic rigidbody is not correct here since that would simulate physics as far as I understand. CharacterController doesn't exist in 2D so that's out too. So my guess would be kinematic rigidbodies but my attempts using that one didn't go very successful, since I'm phasing through objects with a collider attached, even when I also give them a static rigidbody, so I'm mildly confused 😭

[tall hearth]

So my guess would be kinematic rigidbodies
yeah you might wanna go look up what kinematics is first

[spark granite]

Kinematic behaviour stops the Rigidbody2D from reacting to gravity or applied forces including contacts with other Kinematic or Static Rigidbody2D.
This isn't particularly helpful. "Stops from reacting to gravity or applied forces" sounds like what I have in mind, so I have full control over how the player movement behaves.

[tall hearth]

I meant the study of kinematics physics not on unity

But there answer os it will not work for what you want

Because that's not what it's designed for

[spark granite]

Kinematics is a subfield of physics and a branch of geometry. In physics, kinematics studies the geometrical aspects of motion of physical objects independent of forces that set them in motion.
Uhh I dont see how this is useful either

Seems to be the scientifical equivalent to the unity docs definition.

[tall hearth]

The use is it's saying why you assumed wrong for it working ~_~

Though the answer to your question is you make it yourself as far as i know

[spark granite]

Okay, and what toolset would be more useful here instead? Because from what I can see dynamic RBs and kinematic RBs are the only thing that Unity provides for us if we exclude doing the entire collision stack ourselves which I don't feel like I'm in the right spot to do this because 1. it completely overwhelms me just thinking about it and 2. I'm assuming Unity provides tools that make this more accessible.

Dynamic RB with gravity set to 0 and then either using MovePosition or .velocity on top of that is probably a possibility as well but I'm not sure how that hits on performance, especially when moving to 3D and when dealing with potentially 100s or 1000s of objects that may have these things attached.

[spark granite]

I don't understand what you mean. It says "physical objects independent of forces that set them in motion". This implies that there are no objects that can push other objects. But this doesn't seem to imply (at least for me as a non-physicist) that you can't get "stopped" in a sense of colliding with something.

Uhh, unless "colliding" with for example a wall is the equivalent of the wall pushing you at equal speed that you pushed it 🤔

[tall hearth]

Stopping something is a force

[spark granite]

But for that I would probably need some knowledge in physics.

[spark granite]

Ah, so my guess seems to have been correct.

What are kinematic RBs made for then? 🤔

[tall hearth]

Things that you only want to move through code such as a moving platform in a platformer

[spark granite]

And what keeps you from just altering transform.position?

[tall hearth]

You wouldn't want the platform to fly off it's track so you make it kinematic and drive its movement in code

[spark granite]

Oh, because that would not affect things standing on top of the platform.

[tall hearth]

Rigidbodies hate this

[spark granite]

Yeah, my point was not using a rigidbody at all for the platform.

And just move via position.

[tall hearth]

I mean you could

[spark granite]

But if I remember some vague things correctly, the player wouldn't move along with it, right.

Or what is the disadvantage of just moving it around with altering position?

[tall hearth]

But this comes with the draw back of if you have the platform collide it doesnt apply a force to the other object based off its speed (iirc)

[spark granite]

Yeah, so player wouldn't move along with it

I see

[echo island]

new here, how would i import knco / knpp files into unity?

[slow dirge]

How are these files related to unity?

[echo island]

kino mod for carx

[slow dirge]

And what makes you think that anyone here would know that?
Not to mention that molding is not an allowed topic on this server.

[sly lake]

We don't do mod support here, because it's completely game-specific so we can't really know

[nova forge]

My play and pause buttons have dissapeared. Ive tried resetting the layout and reinstalling unity. Does anybody know a fix?

[potent geyser]

Try resetting your layout, in the dropdown at the top right

[nova forge]

this one?

[nova forge]

found it. Still dont get my play button back

[deft rock]

Does Hotreload (or any other plugin/ asset you've got) change the editor UI?

[nova forge]

No. This happend all of a sudden. Also i tried going into other projects and its the same thing. Tried switching versions too but still same thing.

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[reef dome]

do rightclick on your bar at the top and set the checkmark at play mode controls

[nova forge]

Thank you!

[reef dome]

editing the toolbar is new since 6.3 so many people dont know that yet 😄

if you hold ctrl you can also drag them somehwere else

[pastel bough]

Im currently facing an issue where each time i either close my project for a moment and open or not open for a day or week, it just refuse to open and wont load

[polar basalt]

weird i got ghost pinged here hmm

[onyx stratus]

who can help me

[terse trout]

Is it possible to convert an FBX to a VMR?

[onyx stratus]

check youtube

i think so

[deft rock]

Do you mean VRM? If so, googling that very question says yes.. with solutions!

[cyan lion]

ok suppose i want to make a game which has graphics of multiple styles. like one level that has realistic graphics up to modern standards and other level with ps3 era graphics and feel, and other with ps2. so what would be different in these levels? just textures? and which render pipeline will be capable of such range?

is it easy to do like as easy as importing assets of set quality of level or do i have to fiddle with the graphics settings for it to be true to the style

[copper gust]

textures, models, post processing, particeles etc.

[cyan lion]

this is not something i have tried myself but something that came to my mind

[cyan lion]

what about lighting and render pipelines

how do i have multiple kinds of lighting in same project

which render pipeline would i use for this

[potent geyser]

Every aspect of what makes a seen visual, is something you need to work with to achieve some style you want.

[copper gust]

i guess hdrp

which is pretty hefty

[potent geyser]

If you want "realistic graphics up to modern standards", you would use HDRP.

[cyan lion]

what if i want multiple levels as mentioned above in different scenes

[potent geyser]

What about it?

[copper gust]

you don't get multiple to be clear

you pick 1 pipeline

[cyan lion]

so lets say i picked hdrp, can i make old retro graphics in it

[violet thunder]

HDRP can do pretty much everything the other pipelines can, but with some overhead

[potent geyser]

You can do whatever you want

[deft rock]

A game did this.. I forget its name. It start off like a gameboy, then progressed through the years to be more modern

[cyan lion]

in two different levels

[potent geyser]

This isn't a toy box with premade solutions, it's an empty canvas.

[deft rock]

Scene A does not affect what can be done in Scene B

[potent geyser]

If you want to go retro arcade, make a scene that uses sprites. Another with screenshaders for PS1 style graphics, etc. etc.

[cyan lion]

beautiful analogy

[violet thunder]

If HDRP prevented you from using low resolution textures and making custom shaders then that would be weird

[cyan lion]

i can have whatever asset quality in whatever pipeline, what i am talking about is the way they are rendered and lit, say for example having a ps2 style circle shadow, or full blown modern soft shadows

[violet thunder]

Hmm lighting is a good point

Not sure how much HDRP allows you to modify lighting models and such

[copper gust]

the answer is you can

i think you underestimate the work involved here if you really want it how you think you do

[cyan lion]

i did not think of the complexity when this idea came to my mind

i was watching a video with a walk cycle starting from a circle to a 2d character to full blown realistic 3d ones and this came to my mind

[deft rock]

'twas Evoland!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020470/Evoland_Legendary_Edition/

[terse trout]

But do you know how to do that?

[cyan lion]

its called infinity repeating

[deft rock]

If I read / watched the tutorials easily found doing a google search.. sure

[cyan lion]

are links allowed here?

[deft rock]

... yes, why wouldn't they be?

[cyan lion]

spammers

[copper gust]

we just shoot them

off topic links are not allowed 😛

[cyan lion]

this is where i got the idea from

[deft rock]

Ok, if links weren't allowed the bot would be setup to remove links.
If someone does spam, they're dealt with.

It's a help server, we need to be able to post RELEVANT links

[cyan lion]

is this ok or not

[deft rock]

grey area (IMO) - it's sort of relevant to you, we don't really need it

[violet thunder]

It is somewhat on topic so i'd say yes, but you can always remove the embed to make it not take 20 rows of space

[cyan lion]

i removed it to avoid any misunderstandings

you get the point

tho

[vale carbon]

Hey all I have a small problem on my Unity, the editor's handles rotations sensitivity are off the charts when I use my mouse. Can anyone help? Thanks 🙂

FOund on google, I need to use local in editor, weird as I didnt have this problem before

Ok, putting it in local then global again fixed it, wtf, at least its fixed 🙂 Thanks anyway

[versed glen]

Howdy! Very very silly question, but is there a way to transition a 2D game (as in, the player reaches the end of a section or interacts with a specific object) into a 3D game?

[vivid cedar]

This question is incredibly vague.

How easy it is depends on the game, the mechanics, the art, the controls, etc

There's definitely not a single button you can press to do it

[deft rock]

Unity's 2D is in a 3D world space anyway, so there's nothing stopping you doing it. The how, see above

[vivid cedar]

Yep all games are technically 3D already in Unity.

[versed glen]

Okay, makes sense
Shouldn't be all too complicated since you're right; the 2D is already in a 3D world. Thank you!

[potent geyser]

That's the second person asking about changing styles in a game, is this the new meta? Are we finally done with GTAG?

[deft rock]

How do I go from 2d to 3d to AR to VR ?!

[storm patio]

-# wouldn't it be VR to AR tbh

[potent geyser]

That already exists in MR format technically

[versed glen]

It's just a fun idea I've been working on in the background; my Unity knowledge is definetly limited when it comes to Unity, but learning is fun, eh?

[young vessel]

hii :3

[flat breach]

how to improve performances if I know the issue is rendering?

[deft rock]

it'll be whatever i want it to be!

[deft rock]

Rendering is a broad area, narrow it down to the specific part of rendering .. then research the optimisation techniques for that.

[flat breach]

alright, thank you, in my game I've an enemy which basically plays an attack animation(timeline) when he's near the player, to make this timeline appear everywhere, I made it using a localCamera and an in place animation for the enemy, but the game is played in sewers(narrow place) so sometimes the player can't see the enemy because the camera is behind a wall, I thought about adding infinite points everywhere where the attack animation wouldn't be an issue and then choose the nearest point and play the timeline there, do u think it's a good idea? I mean it looks like a lot of work for this

[tall hearth]

actually i had a similar question though i didnt want to ask, but do you know an answer to reduce batches, i have a scene that can expect 25k and i really doubt these numbers are any good as i get ~30 fps with just a bunch of cubes and nothing else? though at the same time 18k batches can still have me with ~90 fps

[deft rock]

Why not just reposition the attack to an appropriate position first?

[flat breach]

yes that's what I want to do by using a lot of empty GameObjects at every appropriate position, would there be a solution using code? I thought about using raycast but that'd be too hard to handle for this

[deft rock]

You don't need to add a load of gameobjects for positions, the world already has positions.

Just take the postion of the player and workout where to place this object from that info.

[flat breach]

okay, thank you

hello, I can't really see what's the most CPU consuming thing here, could someone help? it seems like everything is at the same level

[deft rock]

You said it was rendering? That's the graph below.

You can click on the graph to get more information about the selected frame

[flat breach]

I thought it was rendering, but now it looks like it's not the only issue when I look at the CPU usage graph

[deft rock]

Fair enough, click on it and sift through the table that appears below

[flat breach]

VSync is the thing on top?

nvm, it's "Others", do you know what others mean?

[jagged sage]

Where is the active input handling setting in a 2d project??

[plain dagger]

!input

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[jagged sage]

Yeah its literally not there

[plain dagger]

it literally is

[deft rock]

I always use the other view, I've never quite been able to understand this frame view. Setting is top left of this section, IIRC

[plain dagger]

you could also not use the old input as i presume thats why you are asking

oh look thats the wrong place

[jagged sage]

How so?

[balmy kettle]

https://screenshot.help
also you need to look in the player category in project settings

[plain dagger]

the left hand side bar has things to click

[jagged sage]

Oh

Ah

I think i missclicked into preferences instead

Mb

Thanks tho

[deft rock]

How is 'Preferences -> Tile Pallete' the same as 'Project Settings -> Player' ? 😄

[flat breach]

yea, it's so messy, you use this view right?

[jagged sage]

Yeah i was just confused

[flat breach]

I think PlayerLoop is the main issue, what does that mean though?

[deft rock]

yep

[deft rock]

expand the tree and find the specific item

oh, player loop doesn't have an expand

[flat breach]

yea it doesn't

this view is much better lol btw

[deft rock]

sort the 'total' column so that it has highest % at the top

[deft rock]

You'll have to google for more info on playerloop

[deft rock]

that did not sort anything, you just scrolled to the bottom..

[hot cedar]

Ok

[flat breach]

I'll google PlayerLoop and find the rendering issue

oh nvm it's playerloop too lol

[flat breach]

so PlayerLoop supposedly is the game core which runs everytime

[rose flicker]

How do I find stuff inside the folder?

[jolly blaze]

trying to figure out how to extract this to edit on since it's read only

[deft rock]

#🏃┃animation

[golden crane]

i need a little sanity check
20 kb of Garbage allocated every frame is very very bad, right ?

[plain dagger]

I feel like thats not that much? many things we do in c# allocates

[storm patio]

5000 ints doesn't seem too bad

[golden crane]

i dont know at all, i saw online some people asking if 800b is a lot so i thought i was way too far

i dont really know how garbage collection works yet

[plain dagger]

If it was 20MB then id be concerned

[storm patio]

don't worry about perf until it's an issue (or the other 2 cases)

[plain dagger]

Yea. The incremental GC already tries to not collect too much at once but yea a large allocation and large GC spike are things to look out for when profiling.

[golden crane]

oke thank yous

[plain dagger]

And incase this is webgl, that has a special extra gotcha that too much allocation at once can result in running out of memory (as unity cannot gc while user code is executing)

fun limitations of web asm

[sly lake]

I’d remove it

[golden crane]

i was trying to find what is causing so much garbage but i use visual scripting and it really doesnt let me see anything in the profiler
i just know my player controller is making a lot of it

idk if its my fault or if visual scripting just makes a lot of garbage by default

[plain dagger]

Unless you are using that alongside code id not worry about it

(usually those using visual scripting know nothing about allocation/gc)

[storm patio]

tbh you probably have more important things to worry about

[plain dagger]

like node sphaget

[versed citrus]

Can anyone help me with this error?
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at ApiUpdater.MovedFromOptimizer.Program.CollectMovedFromTypeNamesFromAssembly(String assemblyPath, StreamWriter outputFile, IAPIUpdaterListener logger)
at ApiUpdater.MovedFromOptimizer.Program.RealMain(String[] args)
at ApiUpdater.MovedFromOptimizer.Program.Main(String[] args)

[worldly cave]

"Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

[storm patio]

that looks like an internal error

[sly lake]

Ah, probably nothing that can be done about it then 😅

[worldly cave]

where are you getting this error?

[versed citrus]

Unity?

[worldly cave]

No i mean is it just in editor, or does it appear when you try to run the game?

[storm patio]

was this during the updating APIs thing

[sly lake]

For everyone else; https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9223-heap-allocations-viewer
Allocations are a death by a thousand cuts so get rid of per-frame allocs religiously.

[versed citrus]

Just in the console

[worldly cave]

When you run the game?

or just in general

[storm patio]

@versed citrus was it during this?

[versed citrus]

No

[storm patio]

where there's a pop-up telling you it found stuff that could be updated

[worldly cave]

Are you using an older version of unity?

[versed citrus]

Yeah

[plain dagger]

makes new list
death 🙁

[storm patio]

did you upgrade recently

[versed citrus]

No

[storm patio]

are you getting it continuously or has it just been a one-off

[versed citrus]

It’s just one

[storm patio]

could probably just ignore it then tbh...

[modest meteor]

you dont need a new list every frame though

[copper gust]

Errors that happen once didn’t happen 😅

[plain dagger]

who said each frame?

[worldly cave]

yeah if the error still lets you run the game it might be some internal editor issue

older versions seem to get those frequently

im assuming project is perhaps decompiled gtag

[plain dagger]

we gotta allocate stuff but just not be dumb about it

[versed citrus]

but i dosent let me build it

[worldly cave]

it doesnt let you build, or it doesnt let you run?

[versed citrus]

build

[storm patio]

what happens when you try

[versed citrus]

i get this: Error building Player because scripts have compile errors in the editor

[young vessel]

do you have UnityEditor references in your scripts?

[copper gust]

Weird guess

[versed citrus]

dont think so

[copper gust]

Whats the compile error

[young vessel]

check that out, just in case

[balmy kettle]

read the other errors in your console

[copper gust]

should be pretty clear

[versed citrus]

only have one

[balmy kettle]

show it

screenshot the entire console window

[versed citrus]

i have 2 now

[balmy kettle]

those are wildly different time stamps. clear the console and try again

[worldly cave]

I think this is an issue with the api updater

maybe deleting library could be a fix

[versed citrus]

only one disappears

[balmy kettle]

which one doesn't

[versed citrus]

i tried

[worldly cave]

the second wont appear because they havent tried building it yet

[versed citrus]

the top one

[worldly cave]

wait what huh

the top one stays or the bottom one?

[balmy kettle]

does its timestamp change when you clear the console?

[versed citrus]

top one stays

[balmy kettle]

have you restarted the editor recently? because that's not a compile error so it shouldn't stick around unless it happens again, in which case its timestamp should change

[versed citrus]

a couple hours ago

[balmy kettle]

restart now

[versed citrus]

ok

done

[storm patio]

....and do you still get the error?

[versed citrus]

yup

different timestamp but yeah

[worldly cave]

Have you tried deleting the library folder?

[versed citrus]

yeah

i can try again if u want

[worldly cave]

no point if you already tried it

you said this was an older version of unity? which one?

[balmy kettle]

if you create a brand new project, does this error appear?

[versed citrus]

2022.3.62f3

[versed citrus]

lemme try

[hushed hamlet]

I'm assuming you've looked at this like this.
https://discussions.unity.com/t/system-nullreferenceexception-for-script-that-apperantly-dosent-exist/934886
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/195f5sg/compiler_error_for_a_script_which_dosent_exist/

[versed citrus]

no...

[hushed hamlet]

It doesn't seem helpful anyway tbh 😄

[versed citrus]

oh okay

[versed citrus]

i dont

[flat breach]

hello, is there a way to make a navmesh agent go to a baked surface if there are no "ways" to go to it?

[copper gust]

what do you want to happen

[flat breach]

I have an agent which already has a corresponding surface, unfortunately the surface is seperated into 2 areas, when he's in one, he can't go to the other one and vice versa, I'd like him to be able to switch

[flat breach]

should I just create a navmesh Link?

[cedar beacon]

hello

[storm patio]

!collab

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[tall hearth]

not sure if it works between two surfaces but have you tried the warp function that navmesh agents have?

[daring dove]

why am i unable to drag image files onto my image component in the UI? i've tried png, bmp, psd

[storm patio]

image files when imported are Texture2Ds. only if they're set to sprites, then sprite mode single are they also usable as Sprites, so make sure they're imported correctly

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[daring dove]

i'll look into that thank you

[jagged sage]

What is [System.Obsolete]

[storm patio]

this is easily googlable. the docs will explain

[daring dove]

fixed the sprite issue thanks

[rose flicker]

I can't remove this package

[graceful light]

I no clue why it looks like this

[worldly cave]

changing from free aspect to something like full hd

[stuck flower]

https://screenshot.help/

[worldly cave]

put your scale to 1x

[graceful light]

It did not fix it

[tall hearth]

You can turn on anti aliasing on your camera component

Assuming you mean why the edge looks so pixelated though you being zoomed in 4x also affects that

[flat breach]

hello, what's the recommended light type if I want to have ambient lighting(can't see where it comes from) and for light models like the ones in this picture

[worldly cave]

how old is this screenshot bruh

what component?

[worldly cave]

#1390346776804069396

[graceful light]

Well I’m stupid I was in game and not in scene

[prisma nacelle]

Aura

[flat breach]

average nitro owner

[prisma nacelle]

Also hi chat

[peak nest]

Unity asset store having trouble? Says something is on sale, but then it isn't

[vivid cedar]

If you go to checkout does it show the discount there?

[peak nest]

Nope!

[vivid cedar]

sounds like a bug then yaeh

[balmy kettle]

fwiw i'm seeing that it is not on sale

[vivid cedar]

I am also not seeing a sale here. Maybe you have some cached thing or something

[prisma nacelle]

Does it charge you that much once you go to checkout?

[peak nest]

Again, yes, it's $55 at checkout

[prisma nacelle]

Hmmm, have you tried to close your browser and come back to it.

[balmy kettle]

because the asset is not on sale right now, the first image is likely a cache issue

[prisma nacelle]

Maybe the sale is over and Unity didn't update that all the way?

[cloud mason]

This feels like a really dumb question but what is the default tool a unity project uses? Where I can just click on an object (this is a 2D project if that makes a difference) and move it around and see it in the editor? I clicked the View Tool on accident and now I don't know what I was doing before but none of the tools I'm trying here are working how it worked before and its slowing me down so much lol

[storm patio]

probably the first one

[cloud mason]

No that ones the view tool and you can't select things in it?

[storm patio]

move tool i think is the name?

huh, might be the rect transform tool then?

the 5th one

[cloud mason]

I think so. It still feels funny but I'm probably insane

Thanks :D

[storm patio]

i mean, there's only 6, you could just go through them all

[cloud mason]

I did and it was being weird

The rectangle one was not working like this before, I think I pressed some other setting and messed it up in between

[left coyote]

does anyone know how I can make inverse kinematics so that the hand is on the lever and rotates with the lever (the wrist)?

[vivid cedar]

You kind of answered the question yourself - use inverse kinematics

[lone maple]

Can someone help me figure out unity

[vivid cedar]

Find a package for it or use Unity's animation rigging package which I believe has IK in it

[vivid cedar]

!ask

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[left coyote]

how tho

is it used with a script?

[vivid cedar]

Have you done any research at all?

The "how" depends on which package/library you use

and of course - everything can be used with scripts.

[lone maple]

I would need help with developing a game

[potent geyser]

!collab is where you can go.

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[rugged rapids]

Hey everyone,
Are any of the members here Persian or Iranian speakers?

[left coyote]

why is it not connected when I move it

its a bone in blender

[worldly cave]

Because youre not moving the pose in unity

youre taking that seperate mesh and just moving it

its no different than moving the mesh outside of pose mode in blender

[plain dagger]

Is it skinned to the bones correctly?

[left coyote]

how do i move it then?

[worldly cave]

Wait that shouldnt happen 🧐

You might have a broken bone chain

[vivid cedar]

such bones are generally only rotated not moved directly

[silent mica]

Rotate bones

[left coyote]

how do I know

[worldly cave]

oh youre litterally moving it

yeah you rotate to pose, i didnt see the move tool gizmo

[left coyote]

yeah I just noticed 😭

[worldly cave]

but the fact its still disconnect is an issue

even if you use the move tool, if its rigged properly it should still deform

[silent mica]

Might be intended with this style

[worldly cave]

maybe

[vivid cedar]

it depends how the model is weighted to the bones

[left coyote]

is writing a script for inverse kinematics the best method?

[vivid cedar]

I would highly recommend using an existing IK solution

[left coyote]

which one?

[vivid cedar]

Maybe start with Unity's

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

[reef dome]

After which action does this happen?

[nocturne bolt]

Y'all I'm very new to unity. How come the bubble for my audio source doesn't do anything? Like I can be out of the bubble and I still hear the sound

[vivid cedar]

where's your audio listener

[nocturne bolt]

On my VR player

[vivid cedar]

Are you sure that's not the "min distance" radius?

By default the min distance is 1 and the max distance is like 500

if it's the min distance radius that would just be the point at which the volume begins to fall off

[nocturne bolt]

I put them both to one

[vivid cedar]

Basically - there's two bubbles

[nocturne bolt]

Yet I still hear it

[vivid cedar]

ok and what does your falloff curve look like?

Does it ever go to 0?

You would need to make it go to 0 for it to be completely inaudible

[nocturne bolt]

The red one does not go to 0

[vivid cedar]

that would be why then

[nocturne bolt]

What do I do to make it go to the bottom

[vivid cedar]

drag it

or right click the key and edit it manually

[nocturne bolt]

Now there is no minimum distance. It says controlled by curve

That's a good thing?

[vivid cedar]

that just means you're wholly using that curve now instead of hard cutoff points

Just look at your curve. The y axis is volume, the x axis is distance

and set it up how you wish

[worldly cave]

Pro tip, dont use logarithmic (which is the default)

sounds like ass, because it directly tries to mimic real life

[left coyote]

does anyone know why my IK is bugging like that?

[potent geyser]

#1180170818983051344

[pliant nacelle]

Oh ok!

[heady gorge]

something ive kind of wondered for a while is whether or not its better practice to put actual values as variables in the script, or to leave the floats or ints blank and change them through the inspector?

is there a particular downside to doing it in the inspector?

[solid yew]

It can be good to set default values in the script (at least for more primitive data like bools, floats, ints, etc.)

but for reference types that you're actually assigning through the inspector you just leave them unassigned

[heady gorge]

thanks

[plain dagger]

Btw that default value gets used as the initial serialized value so post creating a component instance changing that does nothing

You can also use Reset() to auto set values on adding a component/resetting

e.g. get a component and assign

[solid yew]

oh right I didn't realize that, thanks

[shadow heron]

!Collab

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:loudspeaker: Collaborating and Job Posting

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Please, use Discussions to promote yourself as job-seeking, advertise commercial job offers, or look for non-commercial projects to participate in:
• ** Collaboration & Jobs**

[fossil jacinth]

um what

What’s that

[plain dagger]

its saying "dont do that here"

[shadow heron]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[undone vapor]

Hey, I am hoping someone could help me understand my problem. I have installed Unity Hub through Flathub on Bazzite (Fedora Linux) and tried to install the Unity Editor with Android and Windows Build Support and while the Editor does install with Linux Build Support. Android and Windows just refuses and errors with "Install Failed: Installation Failed" and yes I have even tried the latest Unity Editor Version but even that doesn't work.

[hot cedar]

that works so much. thank you

[heady gorge]

its been a while since ive poked around in unity, and while i understand i can use fog to reduce player visibility and make things darker, is there a way to just... make things even more darker? primarily with shadows, i guess?

i removed the directional light, and removed the skybox as a light source but it feels like nothing is changing enough

[azure grove]

you can change it to where you can define 1 to 3 colors for the ambient light use that instead of a sky box for ambient

[heady gorge]

am i in the wrong place

i... clicked generate lighting? it kind of helped

[azure grove]

also could be environment reflections as well

since that is applied additive

[heady gorge]

oh yeah that did it

thank you

just gotta figure out why everything looks purple...

[near wigeon]

purple is shader error

[heady gorge]

i meant more like a purple tint

a photo is probably better

i'll keepe xperimenting

[versed citrus]

can anyone help w/ this error? System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at ApiUpdater.MovedFromOptimizer.Program.CollectMovedFromTypeNamesFromAssembly(String assemblyPath, StreamWriter outputFile, IAPIUpdaterListener logger)
at ApiUpdater.MovedFromOptimizer.Program.RealMain(String[] args)
at ApiUpdater.MovedFromOptimizer.Program.Main(String[] args)

[worldly cave]

You mentioned earlier that this was an older version of unity

Have you tried updating?

[versed citrus]

yeah i thought someone might be able to help now

[worldly cave]

Have you tried updating the editor version?

Is there any particular reason youre using the older one?

[versed citrus]

imma try now

[versed citrus]

i just prefer the one im using

[versed citrus]

its still there

[worldly cave]

You updated the editor in 3 minutes? Dayum

Is this project entirely and originaly your own? Or did you pull it from some repo?

You said the issue doesnt appear on new projects right?

[versed citrus]

i got some objects from others but not without permission first

but other than that, its my own

[worldly cave]

Honestly at this point i have no clue, if restarting, deleting the library and updating your editor didnt fix it

[sour elk]

question im making a soundtrack to my game where can i post for feedback? Thanks!

[worldly cave]

#1180170818983051344

[left bobcat]

uhhhhh guysss?

[slow dirge]

Update your editor version. It's a known bug.

[potent geyser]

There's no off topic here. Maybe find a general PC/gaming server.

[pale brook]

Hi, I'm wanting to start game development and I made my first project but it says project not found. I've tried changing the folder to save it in and I've remade the project but it still says it. Anyone know how to fix it?

[balmy kettle]

!logs check the hub logs 👇 you'll want to look at the logs where you tried to make the project because it likely failed to do so

[vagrant root]

📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log
MacOS: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Editor.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log

Unity Hub

Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[maiden hemlock]

is there a channel about like, game design stuff?

like figuring out mechanics and how things look and work for the player and all that?

[lapis gate]

had one

[past agate]

I was in the middle of my grant application - due by 11:59 and got locked out.... at 11:30!! Anyone else/

[past ember]

Same!

[past agate]

Ugh I've been finalizing this all week offline as suggested.

[past ember]

There doesn't seem to be an official email either

[past agate]

I did take a screenshot of the time if there's anyone at Unity to show

I'm hoping to submit

[vivid rain]

Locked out of grant. They closed it ten minutes early?

[past agate]

They locked me out 1/2 hour early...

[vivid rain]

I only tried to submit at around 1:45 AM CST (11:44 PST). Arrrrgh. 😭

Did they mix up the time zones somehow? All the official documentation clearly states that submissions closed at 11:59 PM PST, and that clearly was not the case.

This may just be the exhaustion speaking, but I feel a bit devastated at the moment. 🙃😭

Well... time to sleep I guess. If there's been no official word on the prematurely closed application portal by tomorrow, I'll try to reach out to folks who might know how or why this happened.

[charred fog]

!support Contact support. No guarantee any of these messages will be noticed at all here.

[vagrant root]

🙋‍♂️ Where can I get help?

Take a look at #🔎┃find-a-channel
You can also access Discussions for questions!

:warning: This is not a channel for official support.

Please do not ping admins, moderators, or staff with Unity issues.

Access our Help Center for Unity Support.

[past agate]

Me too... feeling devastated I'm sure there is a support line or email

[charred fog]

The link is in the bot message

@past agate #🤝┃introductions channel is not for starting discussions. If you looking for support, use the link.

Otherwise use the dedicated UFH channel

[past ember]

If you have an invite, would appreciate it

[charred fog]

Make sure you've picked up the role that opens access to them #👥│ufh-chat

Looks like it might be manual, I've given you the role for now

[hushed marlin]

hey, where i can ask for help. i have lighting bake problem

[charred fog]

#1390346776804069396 , there's Lighting tag

[heady gorge]

this has been a problem i feel like ive never managed to get around, and have just never found a solution but:

lets say i have a flashlight, and i want a specific within the specific cone to be detected and then vaporized

[tall hearth]

you would probably want to use some for of raycast

[heady gorge]

right, but then the problem i ran into with that is that a raycast is too precise

i'd need multiple raycasts, but iirc raycasts are costly on performance?

[tall hearth]

or you could also just use a cone mesh and use collision checking

[tall hearth]

from what i know not really (though i may be wrong), there are ways to easily test this though

the big thing is how many you are running a few dozen could be ran fine

[heady gorge]

oof

it will be trial and error i suppose
thank you

[tall hearth]

and as i also stated you can use an object that has a trigger cone mesh with a tag and the object that you want effected by the light check if collisions are from that tag

[fluid shadow]

hey, I wanted to ask : where can I find the Application Entry Point setting? like I know its in the android tab > other setting > configuration but I checked every single setting there and I found nothing

[static pulsar]

My approach to this would be to use a single Physics.SphereCastNonAlloc to find everything in a sphere around the flashlight, then go through every RaycastHit and do the math to figure out if it's in the specific cone you're looking for

[fluid shadow]

GUUUYS
I need help with a google cardboard game thing I am making and I am getting more confused by the second
I followed all the steps for android in this document : https://developers.google.com/cardboard/develop/unity/quickstart#build_your_project
my phone is plugged in and usb debugging is on
run device is selected

what should I do???????

because nothing actually happens when I build and run my game, I click save and nothing happens, no .apk is created, nothing!

[vapid dock]

Hey, do you guys use Visual Studio Code (Blue) or Visual Studio (Purple)? I noticed that VS sudgests what can be used/typed and makes auto-completions but it takes much longer to open than VSC. but VSC has no fancy features like sudgestions and such. IS there a way to make VS load faster OR for VSC to know unitys methods and classes?

[storm patio]

but VSC has no fancy features like sudgestions and such.
it does though

!ide

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💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[storm patio]

sounds like you have not configured VSC

anyways the difference here is that VS is a purpose-made ide. it's heavier but comes with more stuff OOTB
VSC is a text editor that's really extensible, so it's much lighter but requires more setup

[vapid dock]

had to look up what IDE means 😅 so what is actually better for unity? I am no coder and really the only reason I code is becuase I want to learn game developlent (as a hobby) and coding is just a part of it and theres no way around

[storm patio]

both work fine

it's up to preference

[vapid dock]

my preference would be the auto completion and for the programm being fast. can I make VS faster or VSC "smarter"?

[storm patio]

personally i do a lot of things, which would necessitate multiple IDEs if i went that route, so i use VSC to do everything in a single app

[storm patio]

every editor supports autocompletion. configure your ide.

[vapid dock]

I tried but i didnt find a reliable way to make VSC knowing the unity methods. Tried different tutorials end ended up breaking VSC so I had to re-install it

[sour shadow]

how do i disable looping in animations? (if its ever on)

[vapid dock]

also is "editor" the wrong term? I always call them text or code editor but you guys keep calling them IDE

[storm patio]

"ide" is just a more specific term, the "e" still stands for editor

[storm patio]

it's a field on animation clips

[sour shadow]

ok

[storm patio]

you would configure your ide to do so

have you checked the guide i linked above

[vapid dock]

so I have to describe everything myself? I tought theres just a addon I can download and tell VSC to use it

[sour shadow]

i disabled it but in the preview it still loops
Chris

[violet thunder]

So you installed the Unity extension etc. according to the guide?

Did you miss this perhaps
#💻┃unity-talk message

[vapid dock]

yes I did, and it is installed but I still dont get all the sudgestions

[storm patio]

there are some more steps

[violet thunder]

Whats missing?

[storm patio]

install c# dev kit, unity, .net install tool
install .net using the .net install tool
restart vsc

[storm patio]

does it loop in the actual usage, or just in the preview

[sour shadow]

i dont know, imma see

[vapid dock]

did all of those, followed the instructions, still nothing

so Is there a way to just make VS boot faster?

[storm patio]

sounds like you did it wrong then tbh

[sour shadow]

how do i run an AnimationClip

[storm patio]

you need an animator or an animation component

consider looking up some tutorials for the animation system

[vapid dock]

what more can i do than installing Unity, .NET and Dev Kit? Set Unitys PReferences to VSC insdead of VS but still nothing

[storm patio]

have you actually installed .net within vscode, not just the .net install tool

[vapid dock]

i did both

[sour shadow]

like this?(if not imma go look up som tutorials)

[storm patio]

go look up some tutorials

don't do random guessing

[storm patio]

and you verified in the output window that it installed successfully?

also, have you regenerated project files, since it sounds like you swapped over from vs

[sour shadow]

tried, cant seem to find what i need

[cerulean silo]

can anyone remember how u open package manager to get the samples tab?

took me ages last time now ive forgot..

[storm patio]

aren't samples in each individual package

[cerulean silo]

no the samples tab only appears if u open the package manager in some obscure way

well as of unity 6 something thats how it is

took me 3 days to find , why didnt i note it down grr

[storm patio]

the manual seems to indicate that the samples are still in the details view of each package

[cerulean silo]

yeh, but somehow they arent

ahah u need to click in project->updates!.. (no idea why)

oh im wrong actually.

[storm patio]

sooo where were they

i don't have unity 6 installed, so i wouldn't actually know.

[sour shadow]

how do i make it not automatically play with one anim?

[storm patio]

have a separate default state

[sour shadow]

ok

[void egret]

Has anyone else seen this editor glitch where it loses the last digit (or sometimes multiple digits) of an edited property? I've seen this for a long time but I don't know of a way to consistently repro it

[void egret]

I just submitted a bug report

[storm patio]

not really the place for such advertisement. if you'd like to do it properly/formally, contact mods. otherwise it's no different to a drive-by advertisement spam

hi, this is a help channel - if you'd like to show off your work, use #🏆┃daily-win or #1180170818983051344

[ember fossil]

ok

[hazy cedar]

sorry, where I can post this?

[storm patio]

there's no dedicated space for this. contact mods if you want to post it formally

[hazy cedar]

thx chriss

[charred fog]

@hazy cedar For your other question, outside of #1080140002849214464 only promotion of free resources is allowed, in #1179447338188673034

[hazy cedar]

The earlier question came up because the server asked whether I’m an asset publisher. I do have an Asset Store publisher account, since the long-term plan is to release the research results as a tool on the Unity Asset Store.

That said, my main focus here is the survey and the research behind it. And you honestly made my day by creating the new channel — thank you, Fogsight.

[ember fossil]

any ideas on how to make cool game about crabs i am making retro topdown 2d shooter

[vivid cedar]

It's hard to imagine a game about crabs that isn't cool

[plucky aspen]

crabs are great

[copper gust]

maybe a health awareness one

[plucky aspen]

step 1: make a crab.
step 2: make a game.
step 3: win

[storm patio]

horseshoe crabs

[ember fossil]

done but stll not cool enough

[granite turret]

Hi, I am new in untiy and I am having some problem with the ground detection stuff, can anyone help me please?

[storm patio]

!ask

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.

-# For more posting guidelines, go to #🌱┃start-here

[pine shell]

Hey everyone, i got a issue with Unity, a pretty common one i Guess. Despite looking on the web, i can't find a solution to it. Where can i ask for help ? Thanks everyone !

[storm patio]

most channels here are help channels #🔎┃find-a-channel

[random stirrup]

how can i get unity ai points?

without requesting?

like cant i buy some or something? i started with 0

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! What do you think of the controls tutorial up there UI/UX?

[worldly cave]

#1180170818983051344 for feeback

[boreal river]

Btw I sent 5 hours ago and until now I got no answer in #📲┃ui-ux

[worldly cave]

because #1180170818983051344 is the channel for feedback

not #💻┃unity-talk or #📲┃ui-ux

[boreal river]

These channels are for what?

[storm patio]

for help

[boreal river]

just questions

[storm patio]

yes

or technical discussions, occasionally

mostly questions.

[worldly cave]

sometimes game design queries, but kept to their own threads as well

[lapis nexus]

yo is anyone online rn thats good with TileMapCollider2Ds?

got a wack problem im trying to solve

[worldly cave]

just ask

if someone knows they will help

[lapis nexus]

I was just typing something out while you said that lol

anyways basically the trouble is that when the collider is applied to these corner sprites it turns into a triangle, this is a problem because Im using the collider as a shadow caster and thus it ends up blocking some of the terrain behind it

does anyone know how to get the collider to more strictly maintain accuracy to the sprite's bounds?

[storm patio]

i believe you'd need to change the physics shapes set in the source texture, via the sprite editor

[lapis nexus]

oh yeah that makes sense

was too busy editing the sprite and just forgot about the attatched texture component

alright thanks a bunch

[cursive abyss]

Hi i need help i was trying to make an game with an friend and he downloaded VS Code but there is like an message all the time that .NET thing didnt got found i dont know how to fix that and we really need help

[maiden escarp]

I have a problem and i am not sure what the source of the problem is so I don't know which channel to ask in

can I ask here?

[storm patio]

have you installed .net using the ".net install tool" extension

[maiden escarp]

(I dont know if the source is visual scripting related idk if thats considered programming)

[storm patio]

ask in a channel relevant to the issue - if you're unsure, ask here, and if there's a better place for it you'll be redirected

[maiden escarp]

ok
so I'm a beginner just learning and I can't figure out why but after trying to add jumping to my game my player (Im just using a capsule for it for learning purposes) started to sink into the ground halfway everytime I click start
Im not sure what the reason could be (first is what happens when i click start, second is what it should be like (floating a bit above the ground)

[craggy pollen]

it seems like the collider is just too small, increase it

[maiden escarp]

Ok ill give that a try

[storm patio]

or your collider is positioned incorrectly

[worldly cave]

sounds to me like he just needs to download the latest .net version

[maiden escarp]

this worked 😭 ty I feel so silly that I couldn't figure that out

[cursive abyss]

Yes @storm patio he has it but i mean there are no Tab Completters like Recommandations (sorry for my bad english)

[worldly cave]

!ide

[vagrant root]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[cursive abyss]

I mean i am not that stupid i works perfectly fine on My PC

[worldly cave]

did you just laugh react yourself

[cursive abyss]

yea

[iron shoal]

Yo guys is anyone experienced with rigged player models in blender? mine isnt working good

[maiden hemlock]

What's the problem?

[iron shoal]

In my gorilla locomotion game whenever the hand goes down on the floor it just like floats

Like the colliders are messed up but i checked every collider and evceything looks fine

[maiden hemlock]

The floor and hand colliders are the right shapes/sizes?

[iron shoal]

Yep the sphere colliders are perfectly inside the hand

I adjusted them but nop difference

[maiden hemlock]

To me, it looks like it's colliding correctly and the IK is just pulling it away

I'm also not too sure what you are wanting it to look like. Do you want the hand to be partially in the floor?

[iron shoal]

Yeah kind of

This is my IK Fabric settings

[maiden hemlock]

I'm not that familiar with IK stuff, you might need to ask in #🏃┃animation

[sly notch]

hi! uhh one question. while downloading the unity,i managed to not download this visual studio thingy. i did (2nd pic) but i havent choosed gaming section(1st pic). can i somehow find that visual studio somewhere in unity or i need to install all over again?

a bit random question ik but im completely new into this

[tidal raft]

does anyone know if there are any other reasons to get this message when installing aside from the system requirements?

[plain dagger]

What are your pc specs? Make sure anti virus isnt blocking stuff too

[iron shoal]

You dont need visual studio at all you can just use notepad for scripts or whatever

So thats what I recommend if you arent doing advanced coding and visual studio is having problems

[worldly cave]

Please dont recommend people to use notepad as their ide....

[left coyote]

anyone know why my IK is bugging like that?

[sly notch]

i got the same thing when i downloaded unity.

but after i restarted pc it worked

[tidal raft]

ok ill try this first

[tidal raft]

i compared my specs and it all checked out, except for the graphics api i didnt understand it

[sly notch]

btw any solutiuon for visual studio?

where to find it

[plain dagger]

then what gpu do you have?

[plain dagger]

Download community version https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

[left coyote]

how do I check that?

[tidal raft]

nvidia geforce mx350

[worldly cave]

thats a laptop gpu*

you have about 2gb of vram

[tidal raft]

can that not run unity?

[plain dagger]

hmm but it does support dx12 its not too old.
Do you have the latest nvidia drivers installed? I dont know actually if unity has a vram min

If you check dxdiag you can see some stats

e.g.

[worldly cave]

It should be able to, you just wont be making any "detailed" games im afraid

[tidal raft]

ok thats fine

im just trying to do low level stuff

[plain dagger]

what shows in the "display" tab in dxdiag?

launch via run or start menu search

[sly notch]

do i need to have that thing i sent downloaded?

no prob just wondering how important that is

[plain dagger]

sorry what?

dont worry about the other sections you only need what it adds for "unity"

[sly notch]

this one i meant

[plain dagger]

you can add things later and it will prompt you if you would need to install more

hmm yes a screenshot with no indication

[sly notch]

middle ones

[plain dagger]

just leave it as is

[sly notch]

okay then

thanks