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[copper gust]

lowkey skill issue

[worldly cave]

highkey ngl

lets move to the thread.

[copper gust]

god no

fuck the thread lol

[lethal mason]

how can i find inspiration

[slow dirge]

For what?

[lament oriole]

Like in life or a project

Still also consider why you have this idea that you want to have inspiration for some project? What is the overarching goal or thing you expect of yourself, or want, etc

Before you find yourself potentially kinda just completing random stuff

[slow dirge]

Yeah, I feel like the order is wrong. You usually want to create something because you have inspiration. Not have inspiration because you want to create something.

[ebon rivet]

for player movement is better to move his position by vector or by using velocity ??

not even made in unity

[balmy kettle]

<@&502884371011731486>

[sage basin]

?softban 809873504111165510 bot scam

[novel scarab]

voidbytecode was softbanned.

[storm patio]

these aren't really mutually exclusive?

[ebon rivet]

i don't get it

[storm patio]

those are very broad concepts, not specific features. you can use both concepts in a controller

[ebon rivet]

thx

[steep dagger]

hey where can i go to get some help with issues im having

one of my gameobject transform positions randomly offset itself visually in the scene and idk how to fix it

[storm patio]

does it perhaps have an animation that's doing that

[steep dagger]

not unless unity did it by itself, i havent touched animations this project

okay its tied to the TMP behind it, its like trying to put the origin at the center of the object collection instead of just the parent object

how can i get it to just tie to the parent object

all my other origins are doing this too

[copper gust]

usually you should have pivot settings here

idk where they are in your unity

[steep dagger]

this is the vrchat sdk

havent changed anything afaik

[copper gust]

maybe ask in there server where that has moved idk

[steep dagger]

🤔

[copper gust]

thats the only real setting to adjust scene pivot positioning though afaik

[frozen shore]

how come when im exporting an fbx into unity theres 1 object thats in the wrong spot

[storm patio]

press grave/tilde (`/~) and show the toolbar. i don't remember what it's called but it should be there

[sand holly]

How’s everyone

[balmy palm]

https://nohello.net/en/

[sacred heron]

hi

[storm patio]

there's a link right above your message

[sand holly]

but i didint sey hello ;c i asked hoes everyon

[storm patio]

this isn't really a general chat channel

it's mainly a help channel

[hard forge]

Anyone know how to get funds for a huge game

[copper gust]

have you googled it

[worldly cave]

Plenty of ways

[gray dirge]

Most that have asked the same question probably didn't get the funds they wanted. Developing huge games requires huge studios which requires huge amounts of money. Many large game studios today have started from handful of friends developing games without external funds and when they found success in one of their projects, they could start hiring more and expanding the studio. I would assume it requires extraordinary game idea or a lot of experience in the industry to get meaningful amount of funds. The investors need to believe in your project to some day be the next big thing which most projects never become.

[potent geyser]

You can check your country/region for grants as well.

[worldly cave]

"Indie" publishers can fund your game given its one worth funding

It also requires you be an experienced developer and have some sort of vertical slice to show off

And that you can actually finish it

[ocean pumice]

your sentences do not make any sense to me. What is your actual question? I would start with the basic tutorials and just test around, try make something simple and come back with specific questions.

!learn

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[copper gust]

no

[ocean pumice]

so your next task is to get the rules of this server right, to not post offtopic or across multiple channels without any specific questions. This server is meant to help other users with specific issues. Its no general chat for telling people, how your day was or what you are doing right now, as this would clutter up the entire chat.

[storm patio]

this is, in fact, mostly a help server

[ocean pumice]

According your current messages, just be sure to read this and especially about the effort part to help others help you:
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[stuck flower]

Unity Player Robot? Is that an asset?

[deft rock]

Unity have Robot Kyle - mebbe that?

[stray apex]

Are there up to date learning resources on the scriptable render pipeline or render graph or renderer features?

[lapis gate]

https://unity.com/blog/biggest-edition-urp-ebook-unity-6
official e-book has some of the newer features

[stray apex]

Thank you 🙏

[tiny silo]

Hi. I'm at a point in my game where I need to think about optimisation, but I honestly don't even know where to start. Most people can play the game fine, but two instances where players were seeing a heavy amount of lag. One of these is my own laptop and another is a user who plays on laptop without a GPU. I've tried using the Profiler but I can't understand how to interpret its data and how to determine what the cause of the lag could be. A previous version of the demo did not have these problems. There is one thing that I suspect to be the cause:

My game is a bullet hell, so it's not uncommon to see hundreds of bullets on screen. Previously, these bullets had an animation component each to cycle through 4 sprites to make it look like they were pulsing. I was told previously that having an Animator component on every single bullet was very inefficient, so I made a new system, where bullets were comprised of 3 sprites, the colour, the centre and the outline, where the centre would get a shader to handle the pulsing animation. I wonder if this alternate approach actually makes things worse for people without a GPU?

I apologise for the long write-up

[stray apex]

In regards to the profiler there are many great videos about how to use it out there which can help you to narrow down what the problem really is. Usually it will tell you what is taking the longest down to the individual script.

[worldly cave]

Do you have object pooling for your bullets?

[tiny silo]

Yeah I use object pooling

[worldly cave]

Then you will need to try your luck with the profiler again

[tiny silo]

I'm just troubled because the game was working fine for these two laptops but now it isn't

[stray apex]

Do you remember anything you changed before and after the change in performance?

[tiny silo]

Um.... honestly not really. The complaint I got was that the game is at 60 fps just fine normally but drops to around 40 when a lot of bullets are on screen and even lower when a boss is on screen

Yeah, maybe I should. I just wanna be sure I can find the culprit(s) so I don't waste my time making a mode for low-end machines that doesn't even work

[worldly cave]

Is it a graphically demanding game?

[vivid cedar]

The profiler is THE way to start optimizing. You need to learn how to use it better, simply put. Anything else is a waste of your time

[worldly cave]

Is it 2d, 3d?

[tiny silo]

It's a 2D game

[worldly cave]

And this is the person who is playing on a laptop with an apu?

[vivid cedar]

If you want help interpreting the profiler results, feel free to share screenshots etc here

[tiny silo]

Ah alright I can do that

[tiny silo]

iirc yes but I might have to verify that

[tiny silo]

Alright I'll be back in a couple minutes

[worldly cave]

Well if someone is testing your game and giving you feedback on game performance you really need to get a lot of info on their end as well

Like pc specs for examples

[tiny silo]

Well I do have this

Right so I have this

Is there anything in particular from this that's important?

[potent geyser]

#1157336089242112090 is fine, yeah.

[tiny silo]

Could this be a cause for concern?

I'm not sure I'm interpreting this right but I force my game to run at 60 FPS so I think the GPU is running something to force it to stay at 60 FPS

[flat breach]

hello, what audio volume do you guys use most of the time to test your game in order to see if your AudioSources Volume are well set?

[tiny silo]

But this ParticleSystem.Draw is taking up most of the remaining 23%

[undone creek]

Hello. What could be wrong with this sprite or with my project settings. Sprite from figma with glow. But It looks bad in one of my projects. And it looks different with same settings in other project. So something wrong with settings. Maybe anybody faced the same problem.

[fading hull]

What about using no filter in filter mode?

[undone creek]

The same result unfortunately.

[fading hull]

Is changing max size doing something? By that I mean the sprite import settings

[undone creek]

Nope. It is how it looks with max size. Maybe something wrong with project settings and unity has import setting or something. It looks only bad on scene. It looks normal in sprite editor.

[gray dirge]

Those definitely seem like compression artefacts. Resizing (max size) or filtering shouldn't cause anything like that

[gray dirge]

Definitely doesn't seem good, still has a lot of those blocky artefacts in the sprite editor, just not as notable. Does the sprite have emission enabled or something like that which could make those semi transparent parts more visible?

[runic cloak]

Is anyone having issues with the asset store? When I try to look at a page for an asset, it redirects me to look at what I already have.

[terse crystal]

dang it

[stray apex]

That's normal, it's signing you in

[terse crystal]

my storage is getting full because of unity in 2025 because I was making someone a Baldi basic version of them :(

[stray apex]

Each unity version is at most like 15 gigs depending on what moduels you install

[tiny silo]

Alright so is 916 RenderLoop.Draw calls in the frame debugger good or bad or does it not say anything?

[stray apex]

How many do you have?

[terse crystal]

Wait I fixed it read again

[tiny silo]

Oh it went up to 1500

[stray apex]

Im still confused 🙃

[sly lake]

There are multiple threads and GPU sync points. So long as every one of those is under 16ms you're good

[terse crystal]

my storage is getting full because of unity in 2025 because I was making someone a Baldi basic version of them :(

[stray apex]

Baldis basics is a super simple game why would a recreation of it be using storage

[tiny silo]

Ah does it say how much it is somewhere on the frame debugger?

[terse crystal]

For some reason

I was making fan made game

[sly lake]

In the profiler

Make sure you're profiling a build

[terse crystal]

And storage was like oh time to grow

[sly lake]

Editor performance is worse

[vivid cedar]

profiling a build on the target hardware that is having issues is ideal

[stray apex]

Is each texture a 8k HDR tiff or something??

[terse crystal]

No

accidently said n brah

Not the n word

just n

[tiny silo]

It's not hitting too high for me, but I'm doing this to find what's causing the lag for laptop users without a gpu

[stray apex]

If you need to clear up space check out space sniffer.

[terse crystal]

Space sniffer?

[sly lake]

Optimizing for a device you don't have is practically impossible.

[terse crystal]

Is space sniffer the best?

[stray apex]

I personally like it 🤷

[tiny silo]

Ok this might be a stupid question but how do you use the profiler on the problem computer? Do I have to move the game in its current state onto that laptop?

[terse crystal]

does it clean alot of storage tho

[sly lake]

No, the profiler can connect over the network

[stray apex]

No it helps you find what is taking up space so you can delete it

[terse crystal]

Ah k

[tiny silo]

Wait wtf really?

That's insane if true. Bc I have a laptop which suffers severe lag. I guess setting that up would be my next step then, right?

I have to imagine if my p good GPU is reaching 6ms then my laptop that doesn't have one is probably going to lag

[sly lake]

Is the GPU 6ms or is the main thread 6ms?

[tiny silo]

Damn I closed it idk what the difference is

But still, if I can connect over a network and use the profiler that way then that gives me a very obvious next step. So if I port a build of my game over to that laptop and use the profiler on this PC, I'd be able to connect the two?

[sly lake]

Yes

Make sure it's a development build

[vivid cedar]

The instructions can be found in the manual http://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/profiling-target-device.html

[sly lake]

Though if it's a Mac you won't have a GPU profiler

[tiny silo]

I see, thanks a ton. Had no idea that was an option, that makes this task like 10 times easier

[tiny silo]

Thankfully not an issue

[sly lake]

Good. The Metal debugger has been the bane of my existence these past few months 😄

[tiny silo]

Ah rip

[stray apex]

It's always just generic "render loop" or "gfx semaphor" 🥀 🥀 🥀

[sly lake]

Is it?

No, I'm talking about the crashes and unhelpful validation errors

[stray apex]

Oh I see

[sly lake]

The frame profiler is pretty good if you can make it that far

[stray apex]

Ahh I suppose I'm not in knee deep yet then 😅

[sand holly]

hello guys hru yall?

[gray frigate]

i've managed to get gpu captures through XCode

...once per run

the game freezes after the capture

at least the capture is really thorough

[sly lake]

Yeah, my engine does that too 🙂

[gray frigate]

it helped me realize that I should not be computing 4D simplex noise many times per-pixel

[stray apex]

Hehe it's very easy to get carried away with detailed noise functions when they look so cool

[gray frigate]

indeed

I now use texture-assisted noise, which is dramatically faster

(and i use less of it in the fragment stage)

https://github.com/cnlohr/shadertrixx/tree/main/Assets/cnlohr/Shaders/tanoise

[stray apex]

That's awesome

[worldly cave]

<@&502884371011731486>

[gray frigate]

You've been told to not post weird spam multiple times.

[worldly cave]

You said that too

Plenty of times

You keep shitposting and apologizing

[potent geyser]

?ban 947946516478312469 Continuing off topic spam

[novel scarab]

panthe2nd. was banned.

[gray frigate]

to answer the original questions:

• shader skill issue
• character controllers for fine control, rigidbodies if the player needs to be pushed around by the rest of the physics world

[sand holly]

what did i miss?

[potent geyser]

Nothing of importance. If you have a Unity question, feel free to ask. Otherwise, this isn't a gossip/hangout channel, thanks.

[lilac totem]

@wooden hemlock continue here

[wooden hemlock]

The game is a very simple one, u are a lighthouse keeper, on the day u collect materials to keep the lighthouse on, and in the night u control the light to attract ships or pirates (that u fight)

[lilac totem]

So 2 parts in game, collecting and using collected items, mini game with light

[lilac totem]

Thanks?!

[balmy kettle]

that means create a thread like what was already suggested

[lilac totem]

@wooden hemlock looks like unity talk isn't for talking about unity game making. Have to do it in thread. If you want, we can digest your project and split into small parts, which make it easier to make game and feel accomplish by finishing small part of the game

[gray frigate]

you'll want to make a thread anyway

otherwise you'll get swept away by a wall of other messages :p

You can link back to the thread if you need more input

[wooden hemlock]

I will just dm you if thats ok

[lilac totem]

Ok

[terse crystal]

Awh

why is some words blocked

dang it

people how can I stop my storage getting full because of unity?

[balmy kettle]

clear out unneeded data. remove old versions of packages from unity's global package cache, uninstall editor versions you no longer use, don't download every single asset you own just to have it downloaded, etc

[runic cloak]

I’m already signed in though, if I click on a link to look at the page for an asset, it just brings me to my assets

[balmy kettle]

basically: just use common sense storage organization

[terse crystal]

Should I delete old Projects

[balmy kettle]

do you need them in your storage?

[terse crystal]

tbh no

[balmy kettle]

then provided you either never plan to work on them again or you have a backup somewhere, then yes you should delete them if you don't need them and you need more storage space. this is literally just common sense

[near wigeon]

put them on github or something, or when I dont touch a project for a while I delete the Library folder which is most of the bulk anyway

[terse crystal]

I have to make a new drive

But it won't let me

Or idk

[near wigeon]

wdym "wont let me"

..computer 101 fail moment..

[terse crystal]

LelealalLalallLalalalalaalalalalalllalalalalalala

[stuck flower]

Why are you making a new partition

[terse crystal]

Are we serious

cuz uhh

running out of space

[stuck flower]

I would highly recommend you stay very far away from this screen until you learn how a computer works

[worldly cave]

what do you think a partition does

[terse crystal]

I can move games from the other drive

[worldly cave]

what

[near wigeon]

hows that going to help at all. its the same exact disk..

[terse crystal]

I'm getting full rn

[storm patio]

a partition divides things into parts
you aren't getting more storage. you're just splitting what you have up

[terse crystal]

Ok

[near wigeon]

put some of them on github w/ git, its practically free storage and good practice to use Version Control anyway..

[storm patio]

though, if you improperly partition with a full disk you probably would get some space back because it'd be deleting random files. so.. don't do that lmao

[terse crystal]

Ok

[stuck flower]

You'd probably end up with more space because you're about to irrevocably wipe your entire hard drive

[terse crystal]

okay

[stuck flower]

If you need more space either delete stuff or get a bigger hard drive

[tender thicket]

I like how its not even a screenshot

[gray frigate]

You can delete the Library folder from old projects to save some space. I do this for things I'm not actively working on.

[latent lake]

dude i moved one script to a different file then it closed all the scripts i had open in visual studio now a bunch of my scripts give so many random errors in them wtf happened

[vivid cedar]

looks like you duplicated your script

[latent lake]

oh wait yea, i thought moving it would not duplicate

[vivid cedar]

the error isn't random. it's saying the call is ambiguous because you defined it twice

[latent lake]

i just dragged and dropped

[broken rover]

Guys, if a tutorial on youtube doesn't have any link to a script repo or anything like that, then there's no reasonable expectancy for any legal repercussions if you yoink it and modify it yourself, right?

[worldly cave]

people wouldnt write tutorials if they didnt want the code being used elsewhere...

but you also kinda have it backwards

the reasonable expectancy is that you dont have the rights to redistribute it unless specified

[broken rover]

True, but at the same time they could expect it for use of personal projects only

I meant commercial use

[worldly cave]

in practice, most tutorials let you use the code however you want, but for commerical use i would play it safe and not use it unless its specified that you have free use

[broken rover]

Beautiful code I wanted to yoink and modify a bit but not a single license in sight

So I decided to bail

[brisk trail]

what's the difference between the full blue prefabs and the ones with a greyed side?

[worldly cave]

those are prefab variants

[brisk trail]

thx

[worldly cave]

!collab

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[worldly cave]

!Collab

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[brisk trail]

was following the 3d essentials pathway and for some reason the camera stoped rendering the skybox properly. in the game view it shows up yellow

[plain dagger]

expand "Environment" and check the settings there

[brisk trail]

Background type was set as uninitialized for some reason. setting it to skybox fixed it

could a keybind have changed it?

think i might have pressed something

[plain dagger]

Weird but yep that is the fix!
No idea, perhaps it was a miss click

[brisk trail]

why is the skybox so bright there?

[worldly cave]

looks to be just the part of the skybox, plus if you have your directional light there, and some bloom its going to look like that

[ornate jolt]

guys im working on an RPG is unity the right place to do that?

[balmy kettle]

any engine can be used to make an rpg. just research each one and see which fits your needs best

[ornate jolt]

unity is the simplest from what ive seen so ill stick with it

[worldly cave]

are you new to game development?

[ornate jolt]

very

[worldly cave]

because an "rpg" is quite an ambitious project

and i would highly recommend you wait on attempting it

[ornate jolt]

what do you recommend me starting with

[worldly cave]

something nice and simple

try pong or flappy bird

build something first, so you can get a feel for just how much effort it takes to make even the simplest games

[ornate jolt]

i understand the basics

at what stage do you think i will be capable of making an rpg

[worldly cave]

as a solo developer? depends wildly on the complexity

but even for experienced devs

its very difficult

very time consuming and is rarely ever done

[balmy kettle]

"rpg" is also incredibly non-descriptive for the actual game you plan to make. there are dozens of different kinds of rpgs ranging from "pretty simple" to "very difficult"

[ornate jolt]

true

let me make it clearer

[worldly cave]

yeah by rpg im giving you the benefit of the doubt here and assuming something like a simple 2d top down final fantasy clone

not like world of warcraft lol

[ornate jolt]

yeah because thats what i kind awanted to make

kinda wanted*

ik its a big project

ill try to make simple games first then

[worldly cave]

world of warcraft?

[ornate jolt]

not exactly

[worldly cave]

even 50% of world of warcraft

is impossible for a solo dev

regardless of experience

[slow dirge]

*World of warcraft killer

[ornate jolt]

i might have under estimated the difficulty of this

[worldly cave]

severely lol

hell even 20% of world of warcraft

would be impossible for a solo dev

and im talking like vanilla wow here lol

[ornate jolt]

are you familiar with the game trove?

[worldly cave]

yes

[ornate jolt]

something like that

[worldly cave]

trove took 50 employees 2 years to build

[slow dirge]

You could definitely implement the mechanics solo. Assuming single player(maybe crappy p2p multiplayer) it's the content and infrastructure that's the issue.

[worldly cave]

yeah to be fair, certain aspects of it are largely doable

its just all the important parts that wont be

[ornate jolt]

where can i find people who are willing to do this with me

[balmy kettle]

50 experienced employees*

[worldly cave]

nowhere

[ornate jolt]

exactly

[worldly cave]

thats not really how this works

huh?

if you want people to help you with this

[ornate jolt]

thats what i thought

[worldly cave]

prepare to pay a lot of money

because thats just how game development works

nobody will work on your dream project for you, for free

[ornate jolt]

true

[worldly cave]

i dont mean to shatter your hopes and dreams here lol, but an rpg like that is largely not doable solo

[slow dirge]

Depends on how much you pay.

[worldly cave]

the best example is the fact that there are no examples lol

its never been done by a singular person or even a 5 person team for a reason

its just logistically impossible

[ornate jolt]

my dreams were too big yeah

[worldly cave]

the good news is

[ornate jolt]

maybe i should bring it down a couple of levels

[worldly cave]

you will find another idea

another "dream game" one thats more realistic

and you will have a great time developing it

so dont lose hope because one idea was too ambitious, everyone has ambitious ideas, whats important are the ones that are doable, ones that become real through hard effort

[ornate jolt]

the only reason i wanted to make an RPG in the first place is because i havent been finding any good ones lately and i wanted to make one on my own that has everything i wanted thats what really got me into game developing in the first place

the thing is i have never even made a game

[worldly cave]

so start!

make something, the more games you make the closer you get

maybe not to an rpg but to something you want to make

[ornate jolt]

ill make flappy bird

[ornate jolt]

before i leave i have to admit that coding is really hard

[copper gust]

it is learning a whole new language

[oak shell]

So I can’t employ my friends for free… I suppose they patched that method

-# joke

[worldly cave]

a good friend wouldnt 😉

[oak shell]

Lmao fr

Best friends always give you the smaller piece of bread lmao

[jovial topaz]

Hello, I have a question:Is the Unity engine a good choice for developing a game similar to Forza Heroes 1?

[copper gust]

sure

[jovial topaz]

Can you explain further?

[copper gust]

not particularly

unity or unreal are more than capable to get you as close to forza horizon 1 as a single developer

[fair cove]

I would say this depends on what specifically your wanting to do - you can check the version of the editor you want to use and see if it has all the features and licensing youll need for the game your trying to build

For experienced developers, Unity offers a lot of customization, if you have a good technical understanding of shaders, rendering, physics and code, you could make a range of games in it, and same is true for most public engines, so the limitation of if you can make a specific kind of game in the engine is going to depend on your limitations as a programmer, designer and artist more than the limitations of the engine itself - however, a game like that I would say is doable but maybe not easy to create and will involve a bit of engineering and a good understanding of the engine itself, if your going for something specific when you say "similar" (like the lighting, art style, UI/UX, map scale, etc), and depending on your experience level and resources, that may or may not be a challenging part, regardless of engine

[steep dagger]

If I call vector3.up that is always with respect to the global world coordinates right

[sage basin]

it's literally just the numbers (x: 0, y: 1, z: 0)

[steep dagger]

i see

im just having a bit of a difficult wrapping my head around what is happening contextually when i raycast with this direction vector
this.transform.rotation * Vector3.up

[copper gust]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Debug.DrawRay.html

no need to guess 🙂

[steep dagger]

i mean i know it works, its more like the math

[gray dirge]

That's same as this.transform.up, don't know why it's written like that

You can look up how Quaternion * Vector3 is defined. It basically rotates the vector by the rotation

If you are working with pure rotations (quaternions), it makes sense to do the multiplication. For transforms .up, .right and .forward already exist and using TransformDirection/TransformPoint is possible so often you don't need that.

The documentation for the multiplication operator can be found here (the lower one of the two) https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Quaternion-operator_multiply.html though it doesn't include much.

[limpid hollow]

i was testing lighting in unity and this unity prefab has beautiful colors
but whenever i try to loud it onto mine the colors become dark

i don't know exactly what is causing this

[sly lake]

I think it's baked

Also seems like you're missing the floor

[limpid hollow]

the floors right there but greyish

[sly lake]

In the Level Template scene, can you go into the lighting menu?

https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.3/Documentation/Manual//lighting-window.html

[limpid hollow]

this may seem odd but could i ask you to send me screenshots from the site...

[sly lake]

Yeah, looks the same for me. Seems like the documentation is having a moment 🙂

Window > lighting or something

[limpid hollow]

btw the level template scene do you mean the top one or bottom one

cuz suprisingly thats what i named the bottom one

[limpid hollow]

does it require a camera to be there?

[sly lake]

No

[sly lake]

Top

[limpid hollow]

alright i opened it

[cinder sail]

🤠

[limpid hollow]

i think i might have figured it out

i noticed the realtime lightmaps are missing on my version

[safe garden]

hi all, quite new to shaders just wondering - what is the benefit of using something like Amplify shader editor over the standard shader graph? Is ASE have more QoL options or powerful nodes?

[safe garden]

ah interesting, thanks for the info

[limpid hollow]

tysm! i found a way to get it just how i like it!

[tidal leaf]

Hello

[safe garden]

Is there anyway to create a particle effect within the project folder itself? rather than scene view, didn't see an option

[safe garden]

ah good to know, ty!

[soft star]

is unity planning to switch to .NET runtime???

[deft rock]

yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtObK0arD_M

[brisk trail]

where's the audio resource proeprty?

i only see audio generator and output

is that what they mean?

[deft rock]

Which version of Unity are you using?

If that's 6.3 (haven't used it), it looks like the AudioSource has been changed up a bit.

I'd say don't use AI, but if you really must, state the version of Unity you're using so it will hopefully use the correct information.

[brisk trail]

yeah, it is 6.3

[ocean pumice]

//     A helper struct that allows you to object select and serialize a reference to
//     any UnityEngine.Object, MonoBehaviour or ScriptableObject that implements IAudioGenerator.

[brisk trail]

AI was useless -_-

[ocean pumice]

Looks like there was some refactor going on

//
// Summary:
//     A ProcessorInstance that generates audio data.
public struct GeneratorInstance : IEquatable<GeneratorInstance>

[brisk trail]

Well i used Audio Generator in place of audio resource and it seems to be having the intended effect

i.e. equal volume regardless of location, and audio actually playing

[deft rock]

That's because you have 'spatial blend' set to 2D

[brisk trail]

well yeah, but at that point in the tutorial it was intended

[fossil aurora]

Hey guys, I am having a shadow-light issue with jointed objects, I have two boxes one on top of another but the light affects them as if they were separate, I don't know if this is a shader issue, can anybody give me a tip for this? here is a ref image:

[violet thunder]

You need to use hard/sharp edges or bevel the edges so get more accurate lighting

Or did I misunderstand?

[fossil aurora]

oh so this is probably a problem with the model's normals?

[violet thunder]

Yeah

It needs more geometry to properly interpolate the normals

[fossil aurora]

you are absolutely right, changed the normals to from Import to Calculate and that totally did it:

thanks a lot!

[wise yacht]

What does coreCLR mean for unity

Is there like a website page describing it

[storm patio]

if you're asking about what coreclr is, consider googling that

[sly lake]

It'll become faster to work with

[wise yacht]

Nah more like the impact on unity

[wise yacht]

What like the editor or the actual games

[sly lake]

Both

[wise yacht]

Hell yeah

[plain dagger]

Mono = old
CoreCLR = shiny, new and fast

[copper gust]

curious on how fucked stuff like runtime assembly modification is in the context of coreclr, im pretty oblivious on those implications

@hollow lion #1390346492019212368 is for internet networking

[hollow lion]

How is this not networking there ? we are trying to get some opinions

In which channel can I ask then please ?

[copper gust]

there isn't particularly a channel for that kind of thing here afaik

[hollow lion]

Are you a developper ? if so can we present the project to you to atleast have an opinion please ?

[deft rock]

http://discussions.unity.com is probably the better place

[storm patio]

this is not a place for advertisement

[ornate jolt]

guys is coding using AI bad

[latent meadow]

using a hammer is bad, if you do not know how to use a hammer. AI is a tool like any other. it is Not your programmer

[ornate jolt]

where can i learn coding

[deft rock]

!learn

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[deft rock]

And all the pinned msgs in #💻┃code-beginner

[copper gust]

ai is a tool like any other just like most people using it 😄

[sly lake]

From my research notes; the basic principle is the same. You load the gameplay as a DLL with AssemblyLoadContext, rather than a build-time link. This will allow you to reload it.

There's a lot of things to consider then:

• Have to dereference everything
• Have to kill any background threads
• Have to force garbage collection, wait for it to complete, then force it again
• How does the editor maintain the data of types it no longer knows about until the reload is complete?
• What if a component or property was deleted, or renamed?

But I'm sure Mono doesn't make those any easier.

[copper gust]

#1202574086115557446

[terse crystal]

Aowisiwiwowow

I just got an iewsdesdea

idea

I can reset my pc

[storm patio]

you want to... delete all your files?

all documents, all projects, all logins, all settings, all apps

[granite sorrel]

hello, i was trying to use this package for code coverage but i discovered that it works only in editor mode, but i need it for my thesis to work in the executable game. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.testtools.codecoverage@1.1/manual/index.html do you guys know any solution?

[latent edge]

how can i make my UI not be clipped by world objects

im using camera screen space mode on my canvas

using the 2nd one i found a guide online, thanks tho

i rendered my ui to a different camera and put it in the stack but its still getting clipped by world objects, is there a setting or something i need to turn off

nvm i found the setting

[hard pike]

Apparently, when you have a canvas element prefab open in the Scene view, and you lock the inspector hierarchy, and then you drag a different canvas element prefab into the Scene view, Unity crashes!

[granite sorrel]

does anyone know if you can use code coverage also when playing the executabnle game?

[somber orchid]

Is anybody else able to assign unity licenses in the cloud dashboard right now? We got some seats for team members, but when the modal pops up, the browser essentially freezes and throws this issue when I inspect element. I can't interact with anything in the modal, cannot close it, and can only refresh the page to gain control again. I tried this on Firefox, Edge, Chrome and Safari mobile. Same result for each one

[tiny silo]

Continuing from yesterday, these were the findings when I tested a bullet pattern on my laptop. I've saved the entry since my laptop is seriously on its last legs. It certainly seems like rendering is causing the most trouble by a distance, but scripting and "others" are pretty rough as well. Is there any way I can isolate one category in the hierarchy to see what the leading issues are in these categories? And what it means in general for something to be in Other?

[gray frigate]

The profiling will be less accurate in the editor

there's a lot of extra ~stuff~ going on

that contributes to a fair bit of that "Other" category

[tiny silo]

Well I was connecting to a build on my laptop while this was on

[gray frigate]

You'll want to sort the hierarchy by time and look at the largest offenders

[gray frigate]

Ah, okay

Doesn't it change from "Play mode" to something else when doing remote profiling?

[tiny silo]

And my laptop was indeed running above 60 fps but well below it when bullets were on screen, much like the complaint I got said

[tiny silo]

I have absolutely no clue tbh

I thought I'd have to set more up but it was returning data that seemed very in line with what was happening on the laptop and I didn't have the game running in any way on my PC

It looks like RenderLoop.Draw is taking the vast majority of that rendering split. That's tied to the amount of draw calls there are each frame right?

Alright, I was trying to find a frame that was a good representative on the player's side. I wanna focus on familiarRedShot, which is a script that fires the bullets when the player does the input for it. Enemy bullets are pooled but the player's bullets are not pooled. I take it the Instantiate being called there so much is having a much worse effect on the game than it would have if I set up a pooling system for them, right?

[undone quest]

yoo

basically im making a boomer shooter like ultrakill and quake

i need 3d modelers

[near wigeon]

!collab 👇

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[undone quest]

can any oneuv yall hook me up

[gray frigate]

no, we cannot

[undone quest]

yeaah

lesgoo

rn im on the process of making the story

and the logo is being made by my friend

[undone quest]

friend me

cuz i cant friend you

[worldly cave]

read the bot message

[near wigeon]

I sent you the link to where to find collaborators, I'm not looking to collaborate with you myself

[undone quest]

there aint a bot

ion see no bot msg

[worldly cave]

weird im seeing 2 bots in this chat...

[near wigeon]

maybe you have bot blocked or something?

https://discussions.unity.com/c/collaboration/46

[worldly cave]

would show up as "blocked message"

[undone quest]

can you normally send me link

[near wigeon]

scroll up

[stuck flower]

!collab

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[worldly cave]

@undone questDo you not see this??

[dusk gorge]

i need help someone:

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@37e0d4fc2503\Editor\Tools\Converters\ReadonlyMaterialConverter\ReadonlyMaterialConverter.cs(159,18): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'MaterialReferenceChanger' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

i got this when i made my project

[storm patio]

enable embeds

[worldly cave]

ah yeah because the entire bot message is an embed

[storm patio]

it's in settings > chat

[worldly cave]

thats kinda a big oversight though

[stuck flower]

Check your package manager, see if anything needs to be updated. Probably the URP package

[dusk gorge]

nah i updated everything

[worldly cave]

does this happen every time you make a new project?

or was it just this one time?

[dusk gorge]

every time

[balmy kettle]

sounds like you might need to nuke your global package cache

[dusk gorge]

what does that mean

is it gonna ruin my game

[worldly cave]

are you using version control?

[dusk gorge]

no

[worldly cave]

it could

thats why version control exists

and why you should always be using it

[balmy kettle]

the global package cache is unrelated to any single project and is literally just a cache of the packages. it will not "ruin" anything

[stuck flower]

not really

[worldly cave]

im trying to make a point

yeah im exaggerating obviously

but i deemed it a valuable opportunity to teach someone about version control and back ups

:)

[gray frigate]

you should be using version control for a myriad of reasons

[dusk gorge]

yeah but im new so i did not know what it did and now i have a somewhat good game

[gray frigate]

many of which involve "not losing everything"

[dusk gorge]

so how can i fix it

[balmy kettle]

you should theoretically be able to fix this per project by updating all packages then deleting the Library folder from within the project.
that won't stop it appearing for new projects though, so you'd need to find out where unity stores the global package cache for your platform and delete that. that should stop it from happening with new projects

[dusk gorge]

ok but idk if it's in my project the global package cache or on my device itself

im on windows 10

[balmy kettle]

"global" implying not per project so obviously not in the project itself. the project has its own package cache which is in that Library folder

also make sure you are only deleting that stuff while the unity editor is closed

[dusk gorge]

alr

[gray frigate]

when you install a package, unity grabs it from the global package cache if it's already available

this is why new projects are broken: they're all using the same broken copy of the package

sometimes I just delete the cache because it's too big

(Burst is a big offender there)

[frozen monolith]

Hey, quick question, I'm trying to use a command line argument for a project in the unity hub, but it never uses it. doesnt matter what I put into it it never applies. is there a more manual way of forcing these arguments?

[chrome forge]

Hey, Can someone help me with my unity hub?

[near wigeon]

!ask

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[near wigeon]

why are you spamming the command

[modest meteor]

so that's why discord was calling him a "likely spammer"

[near wigeon]

true

[chrome forge]

wdym?

[near wigeon]

im surpised the mods/admins still havent implemented a spam prevention for the same command..

[worldly cave]

love the people who see that command and assume they have to then send it as well

[gray frigate]

reminds me of people spamming !giveaway in twitch chats

[near wigeon]

after today learned that the embeds thing hides them so maybe they dont even see it

[worldly cave]

i dont think the ask one is an embed

but the collab one is

that should probably be brought to attention

[dusk gorge]

Its a little later but i cant find globalpackagecache do you know where it could be on windows 10

[worldly cave]

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\cache\upm

[dusk gorge]

thanks

[feral flare]

Anyone know how to change this on UVCS repositories? It's my very first Unity name, it's not my organization's name, but for some reason whatever this tag is contains my very first Unity username

It's on every project, not sure what the icon next to it represents, it's just weird is all

[dusk gorge]

Do i just delete upm?

[worldly cave]

iirc the entire cache folder works?

[frozen monolith]

ok, fixed my problem. installed a different version of the hub instead of the flatpak version

[near wigeon]

flatpak causing issues always..

[frozen monolith]

yep

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! I was wondering what's the difference between tag and comparetag?

[gray frigate]

.tag is a property that tells you the tag of an object

CompareTag checks if the object has a specific tag

[boreal river]

so its the same thing

[gray frigate]

I think the latter saves some work

[boreal river]

I mean yes the difference is in the type

[gray frigate]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/GameObject.CompareTag.html

specifically, when you pass it a TagHandle

[boreal river]

yes I read documentation thanks

I always read

And there is nothing saying the difference

[gray frigate]

that lets it avoid looking up the name in the list of tags

This overload of the method, which takes a TagHandle, can be faster than the overload which takes a string, particularly if the same TagHandle can be reused for many calls.

[boreal river]

I can just search it on google but anyway

I just wanted your answer

Whats the difference

[near wigeon]

one thing I can tell you besides CompareTag being faster to check..
if you do.tag == "MyTag"
and tag doesn't exist nothing happens.
if you do .CompareTag("MyTag") and it doesn't exist it throws you a warning about tag being not defined

In most cases though you should opt in for using Components instead, they are type safe , strings are not

[stuck flower]

Tags are not stored as strings. They're stored as hashes. Going from string to hash is basically free, going from hash to string requires a lookup.

obj.tag == "something" takes the tag hash, gets the string from the lookup, then does a string comparison.
obj.CompareTag("something") converts "something" into its hash code then does a numeric comparison. Much faster.

Plus, if you feed nonsense into CompareTag, it'll give you a warning in the console.

[balmy kettle]

also you can pre-hash the tag to a TagHandle and pass that to CompareTag for yet another slight performance benefit

[raven tiger]

Any way to prevent Visual Studio(2026) to open a new instance of VS every time I open up a new script that are in the same project? I just want a new window with the script to pop beside the already open script.

[balmy kettle]

huh, that's odd behavior. is vs configured so that it actually recognizes your project/assemblies and doesn't just show "Miscellaneous Files" as the assembly for each script file you open?

[raven tiger]

How can I verify this?

[balmy kettle]

look with your eyes and see if it says "Miscellaneous Files" where it should show the assembly in the toolbar

[flat breach]

hi, I don't really understand what the projection depth is in decal projectors, is it like the material depth?

oh okay, so if there are 2 walls having the same rotation and facing eachother, with a high projection depth, the decal will be projected onto both the walls?

I thought it'd give the texture depth effect, like with grass etc

oh okay, thank you really much for helping me.

[hollow quiver]

will built in character controller ever have an update that lets it detect collisions while not moving?

[dusk gorge]

I deleted the entire cache folder but nothing works, im i cooked?

[worldly cave]

Nothing works in what way?

Unity should automatically create the cache folder

[dusk gorge]

i think it did but the error is still here

i thought making a game wouldnt be this hard

[worldly cave]

Did you try reinstalling the editor?

Or updating it

[dusk gorge]

yeah

if i reinstalled it already is it alr updated

[balmy kettle]

only if you installed the latest patch version

[dusk gorge]

wait what

[balmy kettle]

what is confusing about that? when you install the editor you have to pick the version you are installing. if you installed a version that isn't the latest patch then naturally it isn't "updated"

[dusk gorge]

oh

ok

i did

So now i smehow have to fix this stupd error

[balmy kettle]

what version of the editor do you have and what version of URP do you have

and also, you deleted the Library folder from within that project, right?

[dusk gorge]

Unity 6.3 LTS

[balmy kettle]

specific version number

[dusk gorge]

ok

6000.3.10f1

[dusk gorge]

yeah

[balmy kettle]

did you also delete the global package cache as was suggested?

[dusk gorge]

yes

[balmy kettle]

before or after you deleted the library folder and launched unity

[dusk gorge]

i think before deleting library

17.3.0 is the version of URP

[balmy kettle]

if you are unsure then try deleting the library again to be absolutely sure that it isn't trying to pull the broken package from the cache

[dusk gorge]

actually i remember now

I deleted th eglobal package cache first then library

[void ermine]

my first blender build!!

( started blender for the first time literally 10 minutes before )

[desert kiln]

Wow, I cant even remember what my first model was

Great job dude

[void ermine]

thanks

[nimble geode]

Would anyone be willing to be working on a game

We are trying to make the worlds scariest and shortest game

[deft rock]

!collab

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[nimble geode]

So you wanna work on it

[storm patio]

no

read the bot message

[neon bobcat]

Im kinda confused, I have not used unity and blender yet .
But in general Im trying to learn some stuff before I get into game development, so for the animation part do I do it in blender or in the game engine ? I mean for the cut scene .
How do I make things in blender then use them in a game engine

[worldly cave]

most of the time animations themselves are created in thid party programs like blender and imported into unity

to import an animation into unity its just a matter of exporting it with whatever fbx you want

or alone skinless

as for "cutscenes" well that really depends on how you personally handle that, and theres no 1 right answer

[worldly cave]

the reason we animate outside of unity is because the animation tools inside of unity leave a lot to be desired

and you are better of using software specifically built for that one purpose

[sacred sand]

Is anyone here using version control ? Im paying for it but im getting an error saying I must upgrade because i hit the free storage limit

[deft rock]

lots of people are using 'version control', it's a pretty essential part of development

be more specific though, do you mean Unity Version Control?

[sacred sand]

Yeah, that's why im posting on the Unity talk channel

[deft rock]

the majority of people use Git, another 'version control'.. so it helps to be specific.

[sacred sand]

Yeah sorry, I'm using Unity's Plastic SCM

[delicate elk]

i made sprites for my 2d game but i didn't realize filling in the meta data needed for them is this difficult

[balmy kettle]

depending on what you actually mean by that, it shouldn't be 🤔

[delicate elk]

i'll show you

all of them are easy except a couple

[balmy kettle]

yeah i'm not downloading whatever that is to view it

[delicate elk]

{
"schemaVersion": 1,
"assetType": "unit",

"id": "unit_swordsman_basic",

"displayName": "Basic Swordsman",

// Author art once facing right, then flip for the other side by default.
"masterFacing": "right",
"flipAllowed": true,

// Used when importing frames into Unity.
"pixelsPerUnit": 100,

// Full frame canvas every clip should align to unless a clip overrides it.
"defaultCanvasSizePx": [128, 128],

// Foot/root anchor for the unit body.
"defaultPivotPx": [64, 12],

// Optional: where a simple shadow would anchor if we add one later.
"shadowAnchorPx": [64, 10],

"clips": {
"move": {
"folder": "Move",
"framePrefix": "move_",
"frameCount": 8,
"fps": 12,
"loop": true,
"canvasSizePx": [128, 128],
"pivotPx": [64, 12],
"events": []
},

"attack_primary": {
  "folder": "Attack",
  "framePrefix": "attack_",
  "frameCount": 6,
  "fps": 12,
  "loop": false,
  "canvasSizePx": [128, 128],
  "pivotPx": [64, 12],
  "events": [
    {
      "timeSeconds": 0.25,
      "type": "attack_emit",
      "attackKey": "attack_primary",

      // World- or emitter-relative origin for spawned visual effects.
      "originPx": [90, 54]
    },
    {
      "timeSeconds": 0.25,
      "type": "effect_emit",
      "effectKey": "slash_small",
      "originPx": [90, 54]
    }
  ]
},

"knocked_back": {
  "folder": "KnockedBack",
  "framePrefix": "knock_",
  "frameCount": 3,
  "fps": 10,
  "loop": false,
  "canvasSizePx": [128, 128],
  "pivotPx": [64, 12],
  "events": []
},

"death": {
  "folder": "Death",
  "framePrefix": "death_",
  "frameCount": 5,
  "fps": 10,
  "loop": false,
  "canvasSizePx": [128, 128],
  "pivotPx": [64, 12],
  "events": [
    {
      "timeSeconds": 0.42,
      "type": "death_remove_hint"

[balmy kettle]

!code
but also this has nothing to do with it being a sprite, and entirely to do with your design and apparent lack of editor tools to help you with setting this up

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[delicate elk]

yeah that's the problem i have 0 experience with tools like asesprite

i can draw and code but not handle sprites yet

[balmy kettle]

this isn't "handling sprites" this appears to be manually setting up animation data as json and has nothing to do with it being a sprite. is this for some asset or package you are using? because this isn't something you typically would need to do in unity

[delicate elk]

im building an rts tug of war sidescroll game

[balmy kettle]

that has literally nothing at all to do with anything that has been said

[delicate elk]

like metal slug attack, age of war, cartoon wars, etc

[balmy kettle]

still not relevant

[delicate elk]

it is

[balmy kettle]

how

[delicate elk]

because i need the exact point where the attack happens for example

to handle the attack event visually

[balmy kettle]

you can set up your animations in unity and set animation events if you need to trigger something at a specific point in the animation

you don't need to manually fill out json data to animate a sprite. with the mention of aseprite, i'd imagine this is hyper specific to importing aseprite data and not just importing sprites

if you are certain that you absolutely need this data structured in this way then you should look into writing some tools that will help you automate the process

[delicate elk]

yeah that's what im tryna figure out...

the problem is when i tried just dumping the sprite the game was a mess. i need to align visual effects of attacks with the exact attack positions

idk what im doing wrong tbh but i figure if i gather such specific data it would make things more deterministic

also im only using unity animation events for very minor things.

i built my own attack events simulation that is seperate from the presentation layer.

[plain dagger]

I usually do timing myself and avoid anim events as they kinda suck to add and use

[gaunt hedge]

hey guys the project is stuck like this

i reinstalled the um

version and stuff

[latent meadow]

and how long has it beed sitting there?

[gaunt hedge]

like 30 minutes 😭

ive been starting it off and off

[latent meadow]

has it ever worked, or is this your start?, do not keep restarting it. how long has it sat at the longest point?

[gaunt hedge]

longst like 45 minutes

its been months since ive been able to open it i just eanted to try again

its a huge project

[latent meadow]

are things active, or is it idle

[gaunt hedge]

i think it might be too many files

um i only have discord open

it just says applicaiton not responding (im on mac)

[latent meadow]

open task manager ans see if it is doing anything

oh. aside from saying check the logs, i cannot help with mac

[gaunt hedge]

its not a ram issue either

[gaunt hedge]

ok now it wont even open to this screen

sheesh

ima just leave it open whikle i go eat dinner ig

[latent meadow]

you can delete the Library and let it rebuild. that will also take time

[balmy kettle]

huge project
haven't actually opened it in months
i'd bet it's just a lot of stuff it needs to reimport. if you've only given it 45 minutes at most then just give it more time, if it truly is huge then it will take a long time

[gaunt hedge]

nah but it was like this back in the day as well

like one day it just

started doing this so i gave up trying now im truing again

[gaunt hedge]

might try this

[balmy kettle]

keep in mind that deleting the library will mean that it needs to reimport everything so it will take way longer than you may expect for it to open (though i suspect that's probably what caused this in the first place)

[latent meadow]

yeah, probably not the best suggestion i had

[gaunt hedge]

yeaaa ill just leave it open for a few hours see what happens

ig i might not have been patient enough but like

the fact that this had just started happening one day without me doing anything does worry me

[royal egret]

eu procuro desenvolvedor de jogos mobile

portugues br

[steep dagger]

For my current project, i need to dynamically show indicators on a chessboard showing valid moves. Regarding the actual indicator itself, I currently am using 64 gameobjects in a pre-determined order toggling their active state to reflect turning them on and off. I dont know much about unity and this method feels a little... primitive. Is there a better way to do this?

[tender thicket]

maybe a two dimensional array for the class and a method that does the indicating?

[steep dagger]

a two dimensional array of gameobjects?

[tender thicket]

the class the gameobject has

[steep dagger]

hmmm that sounds like a good way to set it up, i guess i just dont know the comparison of the impact on performance or general cohesiveness of doing this as an array of gameobjects or as like a shader or smth (idk what shaders do)

my intuition as a programmer tells me theres probably a better way to go about doing this

but maybe hammering together the class/gameobjects is just the best way

[copper gust]

its 64 objects

i wouldn't worry about performance

[fair terrace]

Hi, I am new to Unity, actually I am following the Tanks tutorial

[noble locust]

any ideas as to what might be causing a parent and child object to rotate in opposite directions? im on pivot/local

[copper gust]

is the child rotated already?

[noble locust]

wdym

the child is the pink square in the back

[gaunt hedge]

btw this worked

like instantly 😭

wild

[exotic relic]

Switch the pivot from global to local. The setting is near the tabs that say Game and Scene

[trail comet]

guys i have a wiered problem i have unity project of coonecting thw devices with wifidirect if i make build on unity 6000.3.10f1 they are not able to connect . but if i mae build from unity 2022.3.62f1 they connect why this is hapening?

[zealous latch]

Does anyone have experience with other engines? I’m new here and I haven’t decided which engine to choose for my first game. At first, I chose UE5, but I don’t think I can optimize the performance very well. However, I want my game to be able to run on as many different types of computers as possible.

[copper gust]

Sounds like unity’s a good pick then

[zealous latch]

Yes. So now I'm considering Unity, but I'm worried that it might be too difficult for Unity to handle cinematic animation.

[sage basin]

!ban 1283560486633476183 racism

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@veronica6902 banned

Reason: racism
Duration: Permanent

[zealous latch]

wat just happened?

[viscid raft]

Occasionally people join just to cause attention, don't worry

[zealous latch]

Ah, I see. Thank you for your explanation.

[pearl oyster]

It's very rarely a question of what the engine can do, but what you can do. Engine limits don't come into play until projects become very big (AAA level)

[barren nacelle]

My laptop crashed

[zealous latch]

I’m an animator, so I was thinking that the UE5 toolkit might be more familiar to me.

[barren nacelle]

It’s not turning on anymore 😭
All cuz I downloaded the unity 6 version

It keeps giving me a blue screen

[zealous latch]

omg

[barren nacelle]

I’m so cooked
I think I gotta reset my laptop, but I don’t have anything backed up 😭

[viscid raft]

Sorry to break it to you but downloading an app like Unity 6 is not going to cause your laptop to brick itself.

Sounds like your laptop has different problems

[barren nacelle]

Nah my laptop was running fine before I downloaded it tho

I downloaded both the latest 6.3 version and the 6

[zealous latch]

I’m not sure whether this idea is right or not. I chose UE5 at that time, but after a few days I found that it’s hard for me to handle performance optimization in future development. I’m not sure which engine suits me better.

[silent mica]

Installing another version of Unity should have very minimal effects to the overall system. I would really pay attention to the error codes and backup anything important.

I would switch to a tech support community for this, but you should be able to access your drive through external media.

[barren nacelle]

Hmm, well for now I’ll try to access files I have on my current ssd with a different laptop and see what happens

[barren nacelle]

Ye, I’ll try doing this

[wooden pebble]

How long does it usually take to compile your games?

[copper gust]

depends

[storm patio]

how long is a piece of string

[safe garden]

hey guys, just a quick basic shader graph q - what is the difference between putting a node here on the left dialog and just adding a node in the center?

or are the ones added on the left a graph of their own, that kinda thing?

[eager bloom]

im trying to make a ocean with water surface asset from One Click Add Water -Stylized Water Shader, idk why i follow the readme file but it's still being pink like this

anyone know what's the problem and how to fix it?

[copper gust]

the stuff on the left are your field variables, they will show up in material inspector

variables in the graph itself are the equivalent to hardcoded local variables

[copper gust]

what pipeline are you using and does that package support that pipeline?

[eager bloom]

idk how to check it sorry, i'm a beginner

is it on project setting?

[eager bloom]

this??

[copper gust]

your using HDRP

you'd have to check if that asset supports hdrp

[wooden pebble]

It is not

[safe garden]

ahh got you - thanks!

[wooden pebble]

@eager bloom

[eager bloom]

but i want to use it, how to chang it to URP?

[copper gust]

realistically making a new project in URP

[wooden pebble]

I don't think you can change it mid project

You'd have to make a new project

[eager bloom]

ouhh

[copper gust]

(URP & HDRP)

[storm patio]

what there says it's hdrp? i wouldve thought that would be birp

[sudden zephyr]

What's up guys

[copper gust]

looks like kinda messed up hdrp ngl

[eager bloom]

oh okay i understand now, thanks guys

[wooden pebble]

This too

[storm patio]

wouldn't this just mean it's installed

[sudden zephyr]

🥺

[storm patio]

@sudden zephyr this isn't a social server https://nohello.net

[copper gust]

i made the assumption that it being installed on a beginner project implied it was a hdrp install. might be wrong there

[storm patio]

fair enough

[copper gust]

either way same conclusion but fair point

[sudden zephyr]

Get it

[wooden pebble]

Nothing much, just remaking my grab script for the 20th time lol, but yeah this isnt a social server like @storm patio said

[copper gust]

im kinda suprised unity can't detect when you install a incompatible thing like that

i guess its probably just a choice

[storm patio]

-# well it turns pink smh

[wooden pebble]

Uhhh i dont have it on my URP project, and on none of my BIRP proejcts

[storm patio]

...which would mean you don't have hdrp installed

[eager bloom]

🤔

[storm patio]

"birp/urp/hdrp projects" aren't really separate things, it's just what rp you have set. the birp/urp/hdrp options are just which templates to use, you can change the rp after the fact

...assuming you know what you're doing, i guess. i definitely don't

[wooden pebble]

But I do... I have made project with it before to mess around

[storm patio]

so you would have hdrp on that project.

this is a per-project thing

they're modules/assets

[copper gust]

yeah i think theres a couple steps and places you need to poke and prod for a proper pipeline swap, i'm too scared to miss something and stress about it later

[wooden pebble]

Yeah so why would a beginner have it in a BIRP/URP project?

[copper gust]

mistakes

[wooden pebble]

I like graphics and messing around but i have no clue what i do lol

[storm patio]

either they installed it separately by accident, installed it separately following some guide, or they had an hdrp project to begin with

[copper gust]

were kinda hyper analyzing free support here but assumptions make either party and asshole and you'd be suprised what you miss when you don't 100% lock in info when troubleshooting

[wooden pebble]

I am assuming they mad a HDRP project i doubt a tutorial would tell you to do that. I haven't encounteredx any at least

[zealous latch]

is there any good animation toolkit for unity

[storm patio]

...there are tutorials for everything

[wooden pebble]

True

[storm patio]

it sounds you're making a lot of unbased assumptions

[eager bloom]

a little question, for my case about that graphic thingy, is it possible to just import it to a new URP project or maybe HDRP project?

[wooden pebble]

I forgot to add a duration to my Debug.DrawRay lol

[storm patio]

you can import the original asset into a new urp project, and it should work OOTB, according to the rp compatibility table posted earlier

[copper gust]

if the asset doesn't support the pipeline your using realistically you just cannot use it

[eager bloom]

basically migrating?

i see, okay thanks

[barren nacelle]

Mixamo?

[violet thunder]

If you dont give it a duration, it should only draw for one frame. Although in the scene view it might not repaint it properly as you see

[wooden pebble]

Oh, i didn't know that

[violet thunder]

This should make it update properly and clear old lines

[wooden pebble]

I just stopped the game and it fixed it self

[neon bobcat]

Thank u so much for this, it helps alot

[zealous latch]

thank you! im gonna google it

[strong dust]

this is going for quite a while now... what can I do?

[storm patio]

define "a while"

[strong dust]

+10min

[storm patio]

wait, not even for the editor?

[strong dust]

i just wanted to install the IL2CPP, the editor was already instaled

[storm patio]

i guess this would still apply

!install

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When Unity fails to install checklist

• Make sure you have enough space including on C: drive.
• Check that it's not being blocked by antivirus/security programs.
• Look through the logs for a real reason why the setup fails they are pinned [here](#💻┃unity-talk message).

If you still have issues, perform a clean install in another location:

• Install the Hub and Unity in a non-system drive or a clean new folder in the root of C: drive.
• Failing that use the recovery Refresh option or reinstall OS entirely then repeat the previous step.

[strong dust]

windows security system has been really annoying lately, it conflicts alot with Unreal Cpp scripts, it can be that I guess

[latent jay]

Question:
Anyone know of some good tutorials (or free courses) focused on teaching everything needed to make my own character controllers beyond just teaching the super basics? I want to learn how everything works beyond just the beginner guides.

Haven't touched Unity/Gamedev in like 3-4 years and now i'm trying it again after spending much of that time learning software development.

[copper gust]

@drifting depot very detailed post which is good but you wanna put it in #💻┃code-beginner

also offtopic but did discord update their text viewer? i've never seen a full file upload have language colouring before 🤔

if this had proper line numbering it would almost be acceptable

[storm patio]

no

it's colored based on file extension. if you paste in a massive chunk of text it turns into message.txt so you won't get any highlighting unless you change the file extension, or if the viewer changes the highlight language themselves

[copper gust]

neat, dunno how i missed that

[drifting depot]

OK, thank u

[storm patio]

probably just that most who would know to set the extension would just use a paste site

[boreal river]

Something is happening with Github XD

Why it takes a lot of time?

[storm patio]

refresh the page

[boreal river]

I know this is off topic but I had to ask

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! For one reason, when player interacts with the object in front of him, the door is closing but you see the close door audio source is not positioned/placed at the position of the door, even though I am using the SetParent() for it to attach it as a child.

You can see it becomes a child in the hierarchy but its not placed at the door position.

You can see under bathroom door handle.

I will try to 0 local position, rotation and scale of my door audio to check maybe its going to work.

[boreal river]

Yes this worked nevermind!

[latent jay]

bleh, by chance does anyone know how to popup the probuilder window? 😛

[uneven sky]

Where can I go to find resources/discussion about hiring unity devs for my project?

[dusk crystal]

why does tank1 rotate with its wheel

should not the anim windows show like this?

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[boreal river]

I would really recommend learning Game Maths instead of trying to create it with Animations. Game maths is the most important concept in games, you will have to know how to apply maths to do specific calculations like rotating your turret and everything its really important skill.

Aniamtions are for things such as a door maybe that you can animate very quick

Or an equip animation for example

so where it makes sense you create animations where not I dont think you have to waste time with anims

it will cause more errors than you think

also with animations its not realistic, instead with math you can create something reallyt smooth.

[dusk crystal]

tutorial i watch show this

I dont know what happened.it seems work like the tutorial

[sly lake]

Obtain the skeleton book!

[boreal river]

That's very very heavy book and basically maths are heavy. You just need Game Math to know how to use these methods and understand the logic of Quaternions, Vectors, Matrices and all these concepts I dont think he has and we all have to know the heavy math like mathematician do.

[limpid hollow]

how do i change a cringy repository name from when i was younger

[sly lake]

I would not recommend changing the repository name on Unity VCS

I did this once. Don't, trust me.

[limpid hollow]

i honestly just don't wanna be reminded of my 2012 cringy username

[gusty abyss]

I can't rename anything. I've tried restarting the editor, deleting the Library folder and Reimporting all assets. Nothing helps

[deft rock]

If you don't care about the current commit history, safest thing to do is create a new repo, copy the project into it and push.

[undone monolith]

Why does the final look so different from the original model in Blender? The glasses textures covers visibility of the eyes and my shirt logo got this black stain as well

[last mantle]

Hii, where can I ask some questions about wheel colliders?

[undone monolith]

Ahh yes I modified the materials for the glasses and the logo

as for the smoothness of the model, where can i find that?

[brisk trail]

currently on step 8 for implementing the collecting script on the scripting essentials pathway, and got this error. There's nothing on the console so i don't know what the issue is. I've checked my script and no semicolon seems to be missing. What could be the issue?

here's my script rn

[violet thunder]

Are you sure you haven't hidden the errors in the console?

In the top right of console

[brisk trail]

oop, yeah errors werent selected wasnt selecte

oh i had an extra period on instantiate i think

[violet thunder]

You should also see the error highlighted here, but your IDE isn't configured

That's rider right...?

!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

[brisk trail]

yeah, i have the unity extention installed, but havnet configured

[brisk trail]

VSCode

[violet thunder]

Oh whoops

Yeah see the VSC instructions in that bot message

[undone monolith]

Oh yes it looks amazing now. Tysm

[brisk trail]

seems the issue was that i was in safe reading mode. Saying i trusted the file and adding an error on purpose shows me the error

[undone monolith]

well that part, no

But i think it's fine

I still couldn't get that same anime style look with calculate on normals

[violet thunder]

What about tangents?

Something's definitely wrong in that imported model

[undone monolith]

the settings are correct right?

[violet thunder]

Or maybe its normal map is not imported as normal map

[violet thunder]

Check if this is the issue or if other tangent/normal import modes will fix it

[brisk trail]

i've noticed there are some functions that VSCode doesn't auto complete, like CompareTag, is there something i can do about that?

[violet thunder]

Check the bot message a bit above your screenshots

It's probably not configured properly

[undone monolith]

Oh yeah the normal maps weren't set to normal lol

[violet thunder]

Nvm youre the same guy lol

[undone monolith]

I can use a toon shader to make the model more like an anime style character right?

[violet thunder]

Either you are trying to type it for something that doesn't have CompareTag, or your VSC still isn't configured

[brisk trail]

yeah, i didnt end up confguring it cause my other issue got solved in a different way

i'll look into it

[violet thunder]

It recognizes C# syntax errors but doesn't know about unity yet

[storm patio]

you should configure it regardless

[brisk trail]

i'm not sure how to, i already set VSCode as the ide of choice in unity, and the link in the bot message didn't explain much more than that

[violet thunder]

https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code

[storm patio]

there's quite a few more steps than that

[violet thunder]

This shows some more troubleshooting steps
And yes there are more than 1 step

[storm patio]

make sure you have the package in unity, the proper extensions in vscode, and you've installed the .net sdk
you can do the last one using the .net install tool from in vscode, and then restart vscode when it finishes

[urban sorrel]

vvhoever is free can you help me vvith model in unity please?

hovv to connect 152 materials into one baked?

[stuck flower]

Is your w key broken

[urban sorrel]

i've tried 2k and 4k, but about 64k x 64k have not

ill try

[delicate elk]

is this here the only way to download unity assistant? it downloads but never finishes, and when i close and reopen the project, it says there are compilation errors which makes me get into safe mode and remove the ai packages.

and the ai ui never shows

[kindred swift]

Someone is spamming advertisements of their game in other peoples #1180170818983051344 😭

[dusk gorge]

guys i need help. so my project had this error and its very annoying. Now i wanted to ask, can i just make a new project and use the same scene get the same Photon (For my multiplayer) and also have the same build with the keystore for apk or do i have to do everything all over again

[potent geyser]

Why do you think creating a new project is going to fix your error?

[deft rock]

You could do all that, but it'll be a lot more work than ... just fixing the error.

[exotic relic]

Yes you can use the same scene. Make a new project then in your PC files you’ll be looking for the Assets folder. You can copy what you need from the other project Assets into your new one

Consider sharing the error, are you sure it isn’t something in your code or a bug in that editor version?

[dusk gorge]

Bc i had this error for days. I tried every method in the book, stayed up for hours so yeah but the new project doesnt have this and im making a vr game and it isnt that hard to set u

up

[dusk gorge]

ok wait

[potent geyser]

An empty new project of course won't "have this".

But if you start copying things over, it would be pretty safe to assume that "this" will happen again?

[exotic relic]

You’re right to some extent. But it could be an editor bug. If it is something of his, maybe he can gradually copy stuff over till it happens again

[dusk gorge]

library\packagecache\com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@37e0d4fc2503\editor\tools\converters\readonlymaterialconverter\readonlymaterialconverter.cs(159,18): error cs0246: the type or namespace name 'materialreferencechanger' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[stuck flower]

Close the project, delete the package cache:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/upm-cache.html

And then delete the library folder of the project. Then restart.

[latent meadow]

cool deal

[dusk gorge]

i did that countless times

[latent meadow]

!collab

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[latent meadow]

delete the message, read the #📖┃code-of-conduct

<@&502884371011731486> spammer #💻┃unity-talk message ignoring rules

[rich sleet]

what chat do I ask people about UI design for my game?

[latent meadow]

as in how to do something or "do you think this is good?"

[rich sleet]

I have a reference on something I want to do but I don't know how the developers of the game im inspiring from did it

[latent meadow]

probably just start here then

[rich sleet]

this picture is from an old version of 7 days to die, so I'm making a inventory for my game, it works just like minecraft, what I'm trying to figure out is how they did the backpack UI sprite, and the slots themselves also are decorated and whatnot. I find it full of personality and I'm trying to achieve something similar but made by me

I'm just the coder of my game and my buddy is the 3d modeler, none of us have a good notion of graphic design, so that's why I'm asking it here, thought it'd be appropriate asking it here since the game im taking inspiration from is also using the same engine

[latent meadow]

not sure exactly what you mean.. do you mean the outline glow effect?

[rich sleet]

no no, the entire inventory itself is wrapped around a "backpack" sprite

[copper gust]

its not wrapped

its on top

[rich sleet]

its meant to look like a backpack is what I mean

[copper gust]

you just like

draw it

lowkey

[latent meadow]

ok, that is basically an image. it's layer would be behind the sprites

you use #📲┃ui-ux or #🧰┃ui-toolkit to align and place things

[rich sleet]

what about the slots? they have like some shadow patches

[copper gust]

drawn

[stuck flower]

Also drawn

[rich sleet]

hmm, any tips on how to get a similar look?

[copper gust]

not anything that would be particularly relevant to a unity discord

[latent meadow]

... IDK what else to say other than, make it.. you have control over the art..

[copper gust]

make a inventory system that isn't themed at all i guess

work from there

[rich sleet]

so unity wise, its just an image rendered under the inventory right?

[latent meadow]

basically

[rich sleet]

and that they aligned it perfectly

with the slots themselves

[stuck flower]

Draw it similarly?

[copper gust]

other way around but it probably doesn't matter

[rich sleet]

no yeah I dont know how to make it all realistic/textured at all, but ig thats a whole different topic

[copper gust]

the brownie edge is probably a different texture than the background one

if that helps make any sense

[rich sleet]

yeah for now it might have to be it

[latent meadow]

have you checked out the learning site?

[stuck flower]

!learn

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[stuck flower]

Has to be at the start of a message

[latent meadow]

Ah, thanks. i prefer the old bot 🙂

[rich sleet]

i'm gonna check it out

might aswell

[stuck flower]

But this seems to mostly be an art thing, not a unity thing

[rich sleet]

yeah I just wanted to know what I was looking at and if its something complicated or not

[violet thunder]

Never knew the UI used to look like that, it's so bland in the newer versions

Probably ditched it because it was too much work to make all menus look that detailed 😅

[rich sleet]

it is, im trying to avoid it

[rich sleet]

it had way more personality though

[errant schooner]

Is it possible to build a game for mac on windows?

cos I tried sending my friend a zip with the .app file and it wasn't letting him run it

[near wigeon]

supposedly with mono backend but its always been a crapshoot