💻┃unity-talk

[near wigeon]

the best thing you can do is get a mac, use online cloud/build service, use OpenCore or alike to run macos

mac is already particular with how you make the app in macos with gatekeeper and such, let alone from windows..

[copper gust]

do people just tell mac users to wine atp or nah, not familiar

[stuck flower]

Actually, the best thing you could do is just not build for mac. It's best not to enable them

They've made a mistake and need to realize it at some point

[gray frigate]

[gray frigate]

note that building a program on a mac wouldn't change this

[copper gust]

donating 1 mil to macosx,
hope they find a cure soon ❤️

[gray frigate]

it's still unsigned code

(well, i think it gets self-signed)

that's why it runs on your own machine

I've noticed that services like the Itch app strip the quarantine flags from downloads for you

so you don't notice

this does make you wonder what the value of that stuff is

[near wigeon]

yeah its annoying having to go into the settings to "let it run"

[gray frigate]

lol

[stuck flower]

To make the users instantly distrustful of any software not made by apple because if they let the users actually do things with their computers they'll realize that they don't have to have all of their data held hostage by the apple ecosystem

[gray frigate]

it's a good thing that Windows would never stop you from doing things with your computer

[storm patio]

mac is like, mildly gated linux

[gray frigate]

please use edge PLEASE USE EDGE WE'LL KILL YOUR DOG

[storm patio]

you could disable csrp, or whatever it's called. i forget

[storm patio]

i have procrastinated updating my macos version for several months at this point lmao

it requires a restart and i usually keep my device on for months at a time until it restarts itself, which.... i guess is probably not healthy

[worldly cave]

would a hackintosh not work for this

get yourself a used thinkpad or something and get it to work

[near wigeon]

yeah thats what OpenCore is.
it can, you just need the correct hardware for it to run on
I used to do this before i had a mac

tho frankly (used) mac minins are so cheap these days, its good to have one if you plan on doing multiplatform dev

[stuck flower]

Yeah, but, like, you can just not. They'll pester you but you could just get another browser. It doesn't force you to go into the settings and mess with bit flags to install the program it just pops up a message that says "pleae "

[worldly cave]

yeah i guess you still have to actually develop on it in some capacity

[errant schooner]

so my friend should have unity installed I can just send him the project and he can build it for me and all?

[near wigeon]

but now everything comes with Copilot ™ 😥

[gray frigate]

set up version control, then have you friend clone the project

if you aren't using version control, figure that out 😉

[near wigeon]

shoved adware directly in start menu.. tf was that about

[worldly cave]

i wonder what made microsoft drop the cortana branding for copilot

i guess appealing to gamers™ wasnt working out as much

[errant schooner]

I have github already with it so ye version control did not want to boot up for some reason

[near wigeon]

that one thing that was cool was the name (thanks halo)

[gray frigate]

it was very funny to name the voice assistant Cortana immediately before the Halo games made the character go insane and try to kill the galaxy

[worldly cave]

if bungie was still under microsoft and not sony we could have had durandal

[storm patio]

you just have to go into settings to press a button

[stuck flower]

Yes, but a layperson isn't gonna know what a quarantine bit is and how to do it. Windows you just... keep doing what you're doing

[near wigeon]

yeah its basically, We prevented this app from running
then you click "Open Anyway"

[storm patio]

but installing and uninstalling stuff is really nice imo
download a file, delete a file
sometimes there's an installer/uninstaller but usually not

[stuck flower]

You don't need to know anything

[storm patio]

you don't have to manage the quarantine bit. it really is just a single button

[gray frigate]

i love how that's done

[gray frigate]

i've noticed that it chmod -x's the executable in untrusted .app files; that's the annoying part

[storm patio]

i don't think ive ever encountered that

[gray frigate]

i wonder if i've done something weird

[storm patio]

usually you can either just right click > open > run anyway or settings > security & privacy > allow app > run anyway

with raw executables i guess i could see you needing to chmod +x but i don't think that's because of quarantine

[gray frigate]

but yeah, i develop mostly on my Macbook; I deploy to a Steam Deck to test linux and my PC to test Windows

[prime ibex]

ello i need help renewing my unity license and ive been struggling for over 45 minutes..

[near wigeon]

i only had to chmod on linux to run my own .net server apps

[storm patio]

what are you stuck on exactly?

[near wigeon]

in what way ? there isn't enough info here

[prime ibex]

i cannot find my serial number in any of my emails from when i downloaded unity (what i got told off of google) and when i press "Get a Free Personal License" it does nothing

[storm patio]

in the website, right? are there any errors in the browser console?

[prime ibex]

elaborate?.. im slow..

i have this

[storm patio]

so you already have a license

[prime ibex]

yes and i need to renew it because it wont let me upload avatars

[worldly cave]

avatars?

[prime ibex]

vrchat

[copper gust]

!vrchat

[vagrant root]

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

[stuck flower]

I don't think Unity's license has anything to do with VRChat's upload

[copper gust]

might be related to the version of unity being used

[prime ibex]

i have the most recent one, i had to redownload because the 2022.3.22f1 had issues

[untold breach]

yall I closed the parameters tab in animator on accident

how do I reopen it

[prime ibex]

it's letting me upload now? weird.. ill come back if my issue persists.

[copper gust]

what do you mean by the most recent one

[storm patio]

the eye icon

[prime ibex]

version of unity

[near wigeon]

the eyeball

[untold breach]

thanks

[copper gust]

is vrchat even compatible with that

[gray frigate]

If you didn't have a valid license, you would not be able to open Unity

you have some other issue

[prime ibex]

shi ok..

[gray frigate]

You cannot upload a VRChat avatar with anything other than 2022.3.22f1

[prime ibex]

ye

[gray frigate]

I mean, I guess you can try, but it won't work right

[copper gust]

i dont think so homie

[prime ibex]

i found that out the hard way

[prime ibex]

vrchat is compatible with unity, all avatars are processed through unity to be uploaded.

[gray frigate]

batby is talking about a specific unity version

you cannot use something like 6.3

[prime ibex]

ohh-

my bad

and i understand

[night kayak]

I recently upgraded my project to unity 6000.3.7f1
I had a simple setup working on a main menu & pause menu
on main menu shown & pause menu shown I was getting the first focusable element, focus it then blur it so gamepad navigation works, and this was working fine as follow

public virtual void Show()
{
    Root.style.display = DisplayStyle.Flex;
    Root.schedule.Execute(() =>
    {
        var firstFocusable = FindFirstFocusable(Root);
        //this is done just to focus the page without keeping the first item or element highlighted, we focus then blur
        firstFocusable?.Focus();
        firstFocusable?.Blur();
    });
}

private Focusable FindFirstFocusable(VisualElement root)
{
    if (root is Focusable f && root.style.display != DisplayStyle.None && f.focusable)
        return f;

    foreach (var child in root.Children())
    {
        var result = FindFirstFocusable(child);
        if (result != null)
            return result;
    }

    return null;
}

but after upgrade, this same logic is still working fine in the main menu
but when i pause the game, mouse movement stopped navigating, only keyboard arrows and joystick works
any idea where to go from here?
thanks

[flat breach]

hello, when my player picks up an Object, I'm setting 2 bools to true, and then the player can eventually throw it back if he wants if the 2 bools are true, the throw works and sometimes it doesn't in build, so I've tried to find what the issue is in editor and one of the bool isn't getting set to true sometimes, why could this happen?

[near wigeon]

depends on many factors...
you'd start by showing your setup- & code preferably in #💻┃code-beginner

[flat breach]

alright, I'll do it right away

[tiny silo]

Quick question, does not having a material on an object mean it cannot be statically batched? And thus it's better to have a material for things that could be statically batched?

[sly lake]

No material? That just means it won’t be rendered, right?

[tiny silo]

Ah, this is for Images in the UI system

I set a source image but no material for the vast majority of the UI elements

[sly lake]

Oh. No, those don’t need a material. They just default to the standard UI material.

[tiny silo]

Is it normal for them to take up 72 draw calls?

This seems like a lot for just the UI

[sly lake]

I don’t know if they can be batched

Probably not a concern though

[tiny silo]

Not the 55 SetPass calls either?

[sly lake]

Sounds about right for a render graph

[tiny silo]

I see

I'm basically rn looking for places I can apply batching to. I'm looking at upwards of 1500 draw calls when a lot of bullets are on screen

How about for generic objects? I'm using URP so is there a specific material I should be looking to apply to them to potentially save performance a little?

[copper gust]

No batching between canvases if that’s relevant to you

[tiny silo]

Ah, I just have the one canvas

iirc I heard you were supposed to try and keep those low?

[copper gust]

Depends on situation

anything that changes in a canvas will “dirty” the canvas causing the whole thing to be reprocessed

But as mentioned multiple canvases break batching so

[tiny silo]

Oh I see, that's a point then. Idk how many times the canvas is being redrawn every frame then

Alright so this is what I'm looking at in the middle of a dense attack

[sly lake]

Probably easier to just focus on the bullets

What’s your target hardware? I have a few ideas

[tiny silo]

My laptop has 8GB RAM and no GPU

[sly lake]

PC then?

[tiny silo]

If I can get it to run at 60 fps on there then I'd be happy

Yeah

[sly lake]

So long as it has DirectX11 support, the GPU resident drawer should work

In addition, you can render the bullets with instancing

The easiest way to do that is abusing a particle system

I’d do both

[tiny silo]

As in having a particle system render the bullets?

[sly lake]

Yep

You can loop through and set particle positions from code

[tiny silo]

Just a single one? Because bullet behaviours can change during their lifespan on some occasions

[sly lake]

If it’s the same mesh / material, then yeah

It’s about rendering, not behaviour

[copper gust]

I don’t know best message to share but i had a convo previously about material batching that could potentially be relevant if your not familiar with it and how you can see how batching works

#💻┃unity-talk message

[sly lake]

Instancing beats batching though

[tiny silo]

I'll have a look at that soon, thank you

[copper gust]

True but knowing how the frame debugger works is nice info regardless

[tiny silo]

So is Instancing with a particle system a known thing that has a tutorial or some documentation?

[copper gust]

Also if it’s instancing can’t you just gpu instance tick thingo rather than use a particle system? Im probably missing something

[sly lake]

Yes

[tiny silo]

I just wanna be sure since these terms are still new to me. These things can work well on something like a laptop that does not have a GPU, right?

[sly lake]

It has a GPU

Just integrated, I’m guessing

[tiny silo]

Right, yeah

So it'd help for that sort of situation, right?

[sly lake]

Helps in any situation

[copper gust]

optimisation is just doing things less. This indeed potentially does things less

[tiny silo]

Yeah just wanna be sure it's an optimisation that specifically helps that use case bc the game runs fine for most people but I noticed the common trend in those it did not work well for

[copper gust]

Once your more informed on the analysis tools unity offers you’ll get comfortable understanding what things in your game are doing the most and which shouldn’t be doing that much. Learning optimisation stuff is a bit of learning how to do that and a bit of just trying to random bullshit go on common techniques

[tiny silo]

But if I can use a particle system and still achieve the same effect and do all the stuff with bullets that I want to do then it sounds pretty perfect actually

[tiny silo]

Yeah I always knew I'd have to learn this eventually and always dreaded it so this is me taking that big step into the world of optimisation and analysis

So there are a lot of concepts I have to come to terms with

[copper gust]

Optimisation is good and bad since the comparisons can be a nice dopamine treat but potentially spending effort to make your game functionally behave the same way can be rough on morale

[tiny silo]

It can, but my really big fear with it is just the unknown, the idea that something I spend ages working on through my spaghetti code might not even improve anything or at least might not solve the core issue

I feel like it's the kind of process I have to experience in full once to gain that confidence to do it better in the future. If I send a new version of my game over to the complainant and they say it runs great that'd genuinely do so much for my confidence

[sand holly]

I feel so bad cus i cant code becas of school :<

[worldly cave]

Do you have a particular question?

this isnt a social space

[rain lichen]

yo so if anyone does unity and have been doing unity for a while i was wondering what this meant

System.BadImageFormatException: Format of the executable (.exe) or library (.dll) is invalid. at Mono.Cecil.PE.ImageReader.ReadImage()

i dont know what this means

[dusk gorge]

guys i imported something and my scene is gone and it says i last changed it in 2020

[storm patio]

are you looking at the right scene

[worldly cave]

also what do you mean imported in your scene?

if you imported a package thats scene agnostic

[dusk gorge]

It said something like changes had been made to scene want to reload?

[copper gust]

unless overwriting file names 😰

[storm patio]

did the asset have a scene file that overwrote yours or something

...hope you have version control

[dusk gorge]

i do

[storm patio]

then there's not really an issue then?

[dusk gorge]

but how do i get it back

[storm patio]

revert the changes to your scene via version control

[storm patio]

iirc if you deny this you can just save over the new scene

[dusk gorge]

but its to late

[storm patio]

version control is time travel

[dusk gorge]

So i cant get it back or can i

and how

[storm patio]

i just said how

[dusk gorge]

But idk where its located

[storm patio]

where what's located?

[copper gust]

What do you think version control is @dusk gorge

[dusk gorge]

Version controll to revert it

[storm patio]

it's the same menu you would use to add/commit

[dusk gorge]

Controll the version?

[storm patio]

control versions

[copper gust]

This isn’t a good sign

[storm patio]

right now you have a broken version

you had working versions previously

version control lets you change version to the working version

[dusk gorge]

oooooh

[storm patio]

well, hopefully you've actually been using the version control and you have a recent commit...

[copper gust]

Have you been using version control?

[dusk gorge]

nvm i just have to rebuild my entire game

[copper gust]

Yeahhh

[dusk gorge]

Yeah

[storm patio]

that would not solve the issue you're describing

oh boy.

[gray frigate]

if you have not entered play mode since doing this, there is probably a copy of your last-played scene stored by unity

[dusk gorge]

really?

[storm patio]

what do you think building would do to the scene files

[copper gust]

I would hesitate to assume terms are being used as literally and accurately as your assuming

[storm patio]

good point actually...

[gray frigate]

before you do anything else, open your project folder in Explorer and look in Temp/__Backupscenes

i believe that's still where the scene copy lives

[copper gust]

That sentence is fucked im tired lol

[gray frigate]

if there are files in there, make a copy of them

you can move them to Assets and change the extension to .unity

you must do this before entering play mode or quitting unity

[dusk gorge]

theres nothing in temp...

[copper gust]

That’s rough

[storm patio]

note that this is in project root, not in assets

[gray frigate]

so it would be the same folder as Assets, Packages, etc.

[fleet nexus]

Did you find out why? genuinely considering changing to Godot because of this

[gray frigate]

if memory usage is constantly growing, then something is leaking memory

[dusk gorge]

yeah

[gray frigate]

This is a somewhat common problem with assets that include scenes from the same template that you used

they'll have the same name (and probably even the same GUID)

so unity will happily overwrite your scene file

(assets should never do this, but...)

[storm patio]

morbidly funny tbh

[gray frigate]

the VRChat SDK has a similar problem

it helpfully copies a template scene into your project if there are no scenes yet

it does this BEFORE asset import can complete

so it can decide that there are no scenes in your project and overwrite an existing scene file

(this happens if you reimport all assets)

[oak meadow]

when i place a tile on my tilemap its a different tile than the one in the tile pallete is this a bug with my unity version?

[gray frigate]

can you show your tile palette?

if your tiles don't fit the grid properly, you may not be selecting the tile you think you are

[oak meadow]

yeah one second

yeah it is off a bit

Its like the grid is moved up a little bit i was having other errors too putting it in like it turning pink but if i can just move the grid up a bit so its accurate then that would work any idea how to do it

[worldly cave]

can this happen even if they are in different directories?

[copper gust]

Nope

[oak meadow]

okay nevermind just had to set the pivot point to center

[mint portal]

To unity developers, im a game designer and unity developer. for multiplayer frameworks should i learn photon or netcode & unity gaming services?

[worldly cave]

you can learn both

but its really just preference, imo i would start with netcode

since its a native solution

[mint portal]

i see thanks brother

[mint portal]

also if you know about it there is a course of unity: https://learn.unity.com/pathway/creative-core
is this worth investing time to and doing?

[worldly cave]

for netcode specifically?

[limpid hollow]

i forgot to ask how do you make a new repo

still very confused on how unity repos work

[charred fog]

@sonic bough Do you have a Unity related question?

[sonic bough]

Im new in unity i want to create bubble shooter/bubble Ball type game can you help!?

[deft rock]

I don't know, I don't use it. I'm sure the documentation will have instructions.

[charred fog]

!Learn Yea, go through courses and tutorials then you'll have an idea how to do that.

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[sonic bough]

Ohh tysm

[charred fog]

If you are asking about Unity Version Control, there's a tutorial for that.

!vc

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Using version control in Unity

Unity Version Control

• Getting started

Git

Get the latest .gitignore file from here. It should be placed at the root of your Unity project directory.

[graceful bolt]

I need a dev for my GTAG copy

[vivid cedar]

!collab

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[stuck flower]

This is a Unity server

[storm patio]

-# unity's gotta overlap with that somewhere...

[worldly cave]

read the bot message

what it says

[limpid hollow]

is there a way to change the old username under my repo?

[charred fog]

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[lone maple]

Heyy

[wary roost]

Can I get some help plz

[worldly cave]

!ask

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[wary roost]

I reached out to mod mail and got no answer

[worldly cave]

what

who told you to do that

what kind of help do you need?

[storm patio]

mod mail is for moderation issues, do you need help with the server or with something else?

[wary roost]

Unity isn’t working for me whenever I grab a DDL file to upload to steam vr it’s not working I reached out to Steam and they said the file Unity gave me is corrupted and idk what to do and they said to reach out to a Unity employee there is a issue with certain files not working for steamworks for vr uploads

[storm patio]

you shouldntve contacted mod mail for that then, fyi

[worldly cave]

youre not going to find*** unity employees here

[storm patio]

modmail here is for staff of the server, not staff of unity

[worldly cave]

not ones responsible for support

this is a community server

[wary roost]

OMG 🤦‍♂️ it’s just so stressful me and my team have been working for hours to figure this out and it’s so stressful

We don’t know unity keeps feeding us corrupted files

[storm patio]

i believe contact would be through https://support.unity.com/hc/en-us

[restive wolf]

when creating modular assets, what factor should you use?

like power of 2?

[latent meadow]

I know i always make my music in powers of 2. but seriously, what Kind of assets?

[brisk trail]

shouldn't there be a visual studio code editor package?

[storm patio]

no, it was deprecated and now vscode uses the vs editor package instead

[cursive acorn]

how do you sync the walk/run animation from blender to unity? forward, backwards, etc animations are 2 sec at 30 fps. but i am noticing a loot of sliding

[brisk trail]

oh ok

[latent meadow]

complex subject. best to talk to #🏃┃animation

[brisk trail]

i still feel like there's a lot of missing auto complete even after configuring VSCode

[vagrant root]

<:error:1413114584763596884> Command not found

There's no command called vsc.

[latent meadow]

!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

[latent meadow]

Make sure you follow everything, because it Should be 'complete'

Are you by chance on Linux @brisk trail

[brisk trail]

no, window 10

[latent meadow]

ok

[brisk trail]

everythin from the page seems equal to what i have aside from the defined external VSCode option not having a defined version

[latent meadow]

that is fine

[restive wolf]

Modular assets in the sense of building levels. Bridges, floors, houses etc.

[brisk trail]

then i guess there's just things VSCode won't auto complete

[storm patio]

vscode should be similarly capable to vs if configured properly. what stuff are you finding missing?

[latent meadow]

well, if they are full things like a bridge, and not parts to Make a modular bridge, perhaps, yes. if they are smaller chunk modular, generally i would make a 1 and 2 size

[brisk trail]

autocomplete(examples being CompareTag and AddForce), missing errors(that the console's telling me about)

also, why are these being issues now? they weren't showing up before

[storm patio]

ok, so your ide isn't configured.

[brisk trail]

damn, but i followed the link provided by the bot

[storm patio]

an extra import was probably added by mistake

[storm patio]

have you installed .net using the .net install tool

[brisk trail]

i thought i did, heck i've i thought i'd used it before

ill double check

where can i check?

[storm patio]

in the output tab set to .net install tool, iirc? haven't done this in a while

output tab should be beside terminal/problems/debug console/ports

[stuck flower]

You added the System.Numerics namespace and now it doesn't know which library's Vector classes to use

[brisk trail]

it dont say nothing

[storm patio]

weird

what about after a restart of vscode?

[brisk trail]

still nothing

[storm patio]

have you run the "install .net" command?

[brisk trail]

where do i run it? Debug Console?

[storm patio]

command palette

ctrl+shift+p

[brisk trail]

also unrelated but after restarting VSC i got this error. dunno what nuget is

[plain dagger]

as long as unity is set to vs code for the external editor ignore it

[brisk trail]

aight

well it installed , and i noticed some things already have auto complete again

[storm patio]

well that does say you already have it

you do have vscode open to the project, right?

[brisk trail]

i think so

the auto complete's kinda inconsistent

[storm patio]

might take a bit to load

[brisk trail]

dunno why it insists on autocompleting vector3 to the systems.numeric one

[storm patio]

does the UnityEngine one show up?

maybe try regenerate project files in unity

[brisk trail]

not in autocomplete

[brisk trail]

how to?

also i am so confused is that jump command not the new system? It's what the tutorial said to use

[storm patio]

Input is the old system

[storm patio]

in the external tools menu, the one where you assigned the editor to vscode

[brisk trail]

then thay should really update the tutorial

Jump is cofigured just fine, how would it be written in the new system?

[storm patio]

pretty similarly to how you've written the movement

would be using wasPressedThisFrame or something like that as the analogue for GetButtonDown

[brisk trail]

alright, this seems to have worked, autocomplete now uses the corrce Vectors :)

[storm patio]

and you've gotten proper syntax highlighting now, correct?

[brisk trail]

yeah, i actually realize now that somethings weren't working now that we're working before when i did a test script on my own, like ForceMode. was not autocompleting the differnet force modes now but it was before. now things have differnet colors

[brisk trail]

i'm still super lost on the input thing tho i dont quite understand what calls wasPressedThisFrame

i think ill just switch my inputs to both

[storm patio]

you access wasPressedThisFrame

it's set by the inputsystem

just like how GetButtonDown returns a value determined by inputmanager

[brisk trail]

Inputsystem.wasPressedThisFrame?

i dont knwo the syntax

[storm patio]

like how you're detecting movement, but with wasPressedThisFrame instead of isPressed

[pulsar tiger]

I always want to make a telltale-like game with Nintendo 64 graphics.

[brisk trail]

so Keyboard.current.Jump.wasPressedThisFrame?

[storm patio]

there's no jump button on a keyboard, is there

you would need to set up actions to have names for these, and then you would access stuff a bit differently. with this api, you're querying the hardware, so you would need to check for the keyboard keys

so instead of Jump there, put in whatever key you want to represent jump
if it's space, then that would be spaceKey iirc

[brisk trail]

well it is space, but there's also defined action maps which is what was confusing me

[storm patio]

these are separate from your current reads

having them by name makes it easier to configure and manage for separate contexts and devices

#🖱️┃input-system message

[subtle owl]

Um...
Delete used library Numerics in your script?

Or was it already fixed?

[brisk trail]

well i've already done that, hadn't notice it before

[brisk jewel]

So for some reason my camera won't display any game objects in scene, i tried fixing the clipping planes and disabled culling but nothing worked this is 3D not 2D

[near wigeon]

screenshot both scene view and gameview side by side

[near wigeon]

have you tried

• new camera
• disabling PostProcessing maybe its something there
• Occlusion Culling tab do you have it baked by any chance?

[neon bobcat]

Just a quick question

while rendering in blender

[brisk jewel]

Never added post processing yet, have been re adding a camera, I don’t have the occlusion culling tab baked

[neon bobcat]

What happens if theres an elec cut off, and I have to turn off the pc

Like the UPS stays 10-15 mins

[latent meadow]

not a blender discord, and do finish a thought before pressing enter

[neon bobcat]

corn ball

[brisk jewel]

He’s right tho, if u want blender help, this ain’t the place

This is a unity discord server

[neon bobcat]

Not help

[near wigeon]

you should have the basic understanding on how a computer works and the software you try to use

[neon bobcat]

I guess I just came here when the Reddit users r online

[plain dagger]

power go bye bye? render go bye bye

[neon bobcat]

Have fun anyways

[near wigeon]

is it just this scene or multiple scenes ?

[neon bobcat]

@near wigeon grow tf up pal u aint tuff

[near wigeon]

is it past your bed time ?
quit spamming offtopic nonsense

blocked 👋

[neon bobcat]

Dude really said blocked

[brisk jewel]

Just that scene

[near wigeon]

try setting Depth to -1

but the fact that preview also isn't working is odd

[brisk jewel]

Nothing happened

[near wigeon]

did you bake lighting or something ?

[brisk jewel]

Yea?

[near wigeon]

maybe its just really dark

[brisk jewel]

That doesn’t make sense though, since you clearly saw in the scene view that everything was well lit up

[near wigeon]

true. maybe you added an asset that messes with the renderer or cam somehow ?

[digital sparrow]

yo does anyone know their way around version control

[near wigeon]

https://dontasktoask.com

[digital sparrow]

i have smb whos connected to unity ver control but when they load the project all the objects are empty

does anyone have an idea why

[worldly cave]

What do you mean by the objects are empty? Like they dont have their components?

Or do you mean the scene itself is empty?

Because that almost always means they didnt actually open a scene up and are looking at an unsaved default scene

[digital sparrow]

yes

everythin gis a empty shell

[worldly cave]

Can they share a screenshot?

[oak shell]

Wassup guys. Bye

[plain dagger]

reminds me of git lfs when thats not working properly

[oak shell]

Ima disappear now for a few days and pop in for no good reason

[digital sparrow]

wait no its empty

[worldly cave]

So the scene is empty?

[digital sparrow]

yep

[worldly cave]

Then they didnt load the correct scene.

How is this even an issue and especially one this common

[digital sparrow]

idk

bruh im jus tryna figure ts out

[worldly cave]

People collaborating on a project yet they dont know what scenes are

Tell him to open the scene you want him to see

Located wherever you saved it

[digital sparrow]

its in the unity dashboard

idk how to use ts niether does he

[worldly cave]

Your scene is almost certainly saved somewhere in your project folders.

[digital sparrow]

yep

[worldly cave]

So have him open it.

[digital sparrow]

alr how does he get to it lol

in in the dashboard under projects correct

[worldly cave]

If its a project you made its almost certainly a scene you saved

If he wants to open the scene, he finds it where you saved it in the project folders inside of the unity editor...

[digital sparrow]

this is what he seeing

idk if you have the right idea of whats wrong

he used devops bruh we lost asf rn ngl

[worldly cave]

This is almost completely unrelated to what you mentioned...

This has nothing to do with scenes

!vc

[vagrant root]

Using version control in Unity

Unity Version Control

• Getting started

Git

Get the latest .gitignore file from here. It should be placed at the root of your Unity project directory.

[near wigeon]

did you not add Assets folder?

[digital sparrow]

omgggg

[near wigeon]

also dont dox your friends email

[worldly cave]

Did you not commit the entire project?

[digital sparrow]

my mistake

[digital sparrow]

thats 2022.1

[near wigeon]

should still work the same afaik

or just like switch to the superior Git, and use something like github

[digital sparrow]

which one is easier

[near wigeon]

they're both easy but git has more learning resources and hasnt changed in forever
plus Unity version control / package tends to always break at some point it seems

not saying its the case now..could be you not properly commiting or knowing how to pull changes, but just saying..

[digital sparrow]

Lol I think i did it right these steps are a repeat of what i did

[near wigeon]

so you have the assets folder or not ?

[digital sparrow]

Yea

[hushed wigeon]

hi i am working on horror game in uinty and i made that's sound

[hushed hamlet]

Sounding good my man, keep pushing 🙂

[hushed wigeon]

thank

[thin sequoia]

Hey hows it going?

I have a quick question

can somone tell me if my tutorial system for my game is good or not? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b9IbBQiKuR6KGXmHAOC_zqEo7m7GAFGl5NTazpCNgcM/edit?usp=sharing

[storm patio]

this is a unity server

[austere mason]

🤦

[thin sequoia]

Im just talking about the over concept though

[storm patio]

this is a unity server though.

[thin sequoia]

Do people in here not know how to make a good tutorial

[storm patio]

there's no off-topic here

tutorials are highly specific to the game/context

[restive pollen]

I'm using Unity 6000.3.6f1. I want to build targetting minimum API level 22-23...
Is there any way?

[austere mason]

Legacy API
don't support modern
render pipelines
Stick to
2021 LTS or drop the
old hardware

[night leaf]

Hi

Who has working mixamo

[restive pollen]

So, there's no way to Build for API 23 without downgrading the Unity?

[night leaf]

How to load model 17K triaugles + to mixamo

[latent jay]

I'm still a beginner at Unity and Blender (used for a month in 2022, quit to learn software development, and started relearning Unity these past couple days).

Question:
If I wanted to make customizable mecha characters that have their head/body/arms/legs swapped out with new parts (mix and match parts to make unique builds ingame, like armored core)... How would one go about that design wise?

Is it something done entirely in blender within single a 3d model file having multiple swappable pieces and you just have Unity tell it to show a certain piece in Unity based on what parts the character decided to equip... Or is it something where you attach completely separate models (multiple 3d files) and fuse the skeleton together or something along that line?

[vivid cedar]

The simplest approach is multiple models and multiple renderers

[latent jay]

in what way?

[vivid cedar]

To be honest I'm not even sure if there are serious alternatives

[prisma pond]

hello, having some issue with my editor is this right place to ask for help

just installed unity on my newly built PC, and i dont know why scene view is so jittery when i move around in the scene. it wasnt like this before

[prisma pond]

nvm, solved on its own after restarting pc

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! I cant remember what this does in the hierarchy?

[storm patio]

it prevents selecting it from scene view

isn't this info available if you hover

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/Hierarchy.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/ScenePickingControls.html

[boreal river]

only this object or its child objects and yes

what exactly?

[copper gust]

Click it and find out

[storm patio]

you can choose

read docs

[cold folio]

How can I make the cars fall into a straight line

rather than having multiple objects spawning and move

just one object moving

and then keep spawning infinitely within a straight line

[ocean pumice]

Is this using the shuriken particle system? If so, look into the emission shape and also max count and lifetime

[cold folio]

How can I check so

[violet thunder]

Shuriken particle system = particle system component

(I wouldn't use shuriken to describe it - it's not a name that is really visible anywhere to users)

[cold folio]

How can I acess the setting to turn it off

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! I was wondering, is there a way to somehow sync my animation clip with my sound? I have an unlock door animation with a key and I want at the time it turns to unlock the door to hear the unlock sound. I have heard about events in the animation window, what do you think?

[austere mason]

I'm telling you that water gets wet
And you want to try to touch the water without getting wet

[austere mason]

Animation Events
are the standard
Use them or waste time
With manual timers

[potent geyser]

Use Timeline instead

If you need to sync things over time. If it's just to trigger a sound at a specific frame, then an animation event is fine .

[boreal river]

Yes I can just modify the animation clip to sync my sound or just add an animation event. I have seen a tutorial on animation events right now they are cool

[potent geyser]

Timeline is neither of those, and is meant for syncing multiple things.

[boreal river]

I dont know about timeline

what is this?

I have to download a package?

to get the tool?

[potent geyser]

Yes

[boreal river]

let me see

[cold folio]

What settings do I need to go to get there to disable it

[boreal river]

It says: Use Unity Timeline to create cinematic content, game-play sequences, audio sequences, and complex particle effects.

So what it does exactly?

Its about creating all these things but how you can sync audio with animation with this?

I think I have to see a tutorial on it as well XD

[potent geyser]

You put things on a timeline to sync up when things happen so you can align it.

[noble cloud]

created this post here, feedback welcome 🙏

[potent geyser]

If by sync, you actually mean modify a sound file to align with the animation then no, Unity isn't that tool. You have to do that externally.

[boreal river]

What I want is when the animation is played so the unlock one to sync the sound with the animation

to make it realistic you know

I wont do it externally probably, but I am going to somehow use the animation event and call the unlock logic at the point where my animation is actually playing the unlock animation.

or maybe just modify the animation itself to sync with the sound

So, from what I understand timeline is a more advanced tool compare to animator right?

its like animator but it has more features right?

[storm patio]

no need to advertise your thread

[potent geyser]

If you can't change your audio file, then you have sync your animation with the sound file, yes.

[sacred panther]

Timeline is a dynamic tool to do that, to decouple the multitude of syncing logic from the actual animation clip.

[potent geyser]

One of the two has to change to work with the other.

[noble cloud]

I wanted to post here instead of a thread, but I did not want to interrupt any ongoing discussion, however, threads are not so visible, hence the forwarded message... you're welcome

[storm patio]

having it in #1202574086115557446 is the proper place. people who are interested would be there already, hence advertising the post being unnecessary

[boreal river]

Now, I have some errors because I add an animation event I think

or maybe not

What is this error XD?

[storm patio]

sounds like an internal error

[native shard]

hello 👋 homhomies

[storm patio]

try restarting the editor

[native shard]

Hi guys, I work in 3D modeling for games, VRChat avatars, and animations. Not trying to spam, just putting it out there in case anyone needs a modeler.

[storm patio]

!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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[storm patio]

that was not an invitation for a friend request. read the bot message.

[boreal river]

I have a question. My unlock door method is on another script and I have made a new event script for the animation event and I am calling this unlock method in the event script that I am using for the animation but for one reason I hear it twice, I think it executes the unlock logic twice

[storm patio]

validate that assumption, put in a debug log or something

[boreal river]

Primarily, my unlock door method which has the sound for the unlock door lives inside the door script, but I have made an event and call this method on this event

[cursive ermine]

hello, im having a funny problem. I made a bullet (star blaster tutorial) and I have 2 bullets (enemy prefab and player prefab) with different layers, one enemy and the other one player.

So when I take the player (spaceship) and collide it with other enemy layer objects, it works, when I take the enemybullet and collide it with the player, it works.

But when I take the bullet player and collide it with the enemySpaceShips it just doesnt.

The playerbullet and the enemybullet, are literally the same, the difference is in the tag

[boreal river]

Yes its executed twice

[limpid hollow]

i made the icons disappear, how do i make them reappear? like the light icon being under the light

[boreal river]

I thought the event will execute the code only once when the trigger happens

[storm patio]

check if gizmos are enabled

[storm patio]

so is it tags or layers exactly?

[cursive ermine]

Layers

[storm patio]

cool so what's your question exactly?

[limpid hollow]

what button is that?

[storm patio]

could you clarify what you mean by "works" and "doesn't work" in your case

[storm patio]

should be at the top right of the scene view, on the toolbar
if you don't have a toolbar it may be hidden, press grave/tilde (`/~) to bring up the overlay menu selection and enable it

im not sure what the menu is called exactly

[boreal river]

I think its executed twice and I hear the unlock sound two times instead of one

I have to remove my animation event maybe?

[cursive ermine]

I have 4 objects
playerShip
enemyShip
playerBullet
enemyBullet

all the collisions works except when the playerBullet has the player layer, suddenly doesnt detect collisions with nothing.

[limpid hollow]

so in these menus?

[storm patio]

that's not a question...

[storm patio]

the right most one, the sphere with dots. that's the gizmo menu

[storm patio]

how is your layer collision matrix set up?

[storm patio]

do either the player bullet or the enemy ships have a dynamic rigidbody?

actually i should just link that

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/collision-matrix-2d

[cursive ermine]

They all are kinematic, what it surprises me is that is just doesnt work when that specific object that tag

[storm patio]

dynamic rigidbodies drive collisions, so it sounds like it's just the player that has the dynamic rigidbody

[cursive ermine]

They all have kinematics

[storm patio]

not saying you're lying, but what you've said so far conflicts with that

so either there's been some gap in communication, or some assumption you've made has been wrong

[cursive ermine]

i dont think you are calling me a liar or anything, you are just trying to help. I'll do more debugging

[limpid hollow]

tysm!

[storm patio]

yeah just saying that preemptively, it always feels like that to me with this stuff lol

[latent jay]

I'm new to unity/gamedev but I have a list of like 5 games that I want to make in a certain order based on difficulty with my two dream games at the end being saved for when im skilled enough (2030'ish).

Is it pretty common for people to plan so many specific games this far ahead of time based on building up experience towards them. 😛

[boreal river]

Instead of making dream game make simple small games my recommendation

[storm patio]

not sure, i don't think i've heard much of that kind of super long term planning

[latent jay]

the first 2 are small games, 3rd one is a medium game, last two are big games

[storm patio]

you'll learn a lot as you go, so make sure your plans are very flexible lol

[boreal river]

I have made 3 small 2D games and have made some prototypes by attending courses and currently working on my 2 psychological horror games one already on steam and teh other one is not yet but will be in 1-2 months. I think you have to start small thats the best advice you can start like I started with Unity Learn courses they are cool

[latent jay]

certain kind of 2d crafting game -> a type of obstacle course game -> 3d sidescroller -> mobile tcg board-card game ( big project) -> 3d action arena game (the distant dream game) 😄

[storm patio]

oh those are big big games

[latent jay]

yeah big big games i want to start in the 2030's lol

[boreal river]

And this throughout my experience with Unity like almost 4 years and you know what 3 almost 4 years and I still think I dont know much, I have to get better like never touched multiplayer (networking), neither AI as well a lot you know I have to learn a lot like 3-4 years are nothing, you always have to learn and adapt with new technology & features all the time. Our industry not only Video Games is huge and deep XD.

[obsidian bolt]

Why does everyone wanna make a gtag copy in here???

[boreal river]

@latent jay Hey! Also, there is something called project-based learning. You don't have to try and learn everything at the same time, you can leave some Unity Specific features and when the time comes you will learn them because you will have to apply these concepts to your project. Like I said, I don't know networking & AI because I didn't have to make one on my games because I was making single player games that doesn't require.

Just keep in mind this 🙂

[rigid galleon]

Hey, I was wondering if there's some info on when stuff like volumetric fog from HDRP will be ported to URP?
I've seen talks about it months ago, yet still nothing.
I am aware there are assets that achieve this, but I can't really use them as my project is foss, and will likely be licensed under MIT.
To be specific, I am referring to a box that has dense fog, not just volumetric lights that make the realistic distance fog.
Please @ me and thanks in advance!

[worldly cave]

Lack of creativity and or avarice

[deft rock]

and youth, I'm willing to bet 99% of the people wanting to make a gtag copy are < 15 y/o

[sinful ridge]

Guys, what do you recommend taking?
More hard drive memory or RAM?
My project weighs approximately 100-120 GB.
There are many objects on the map, approximately 10-20 thousand. Everywhere you need to work with objects, render, change materials, work on code, and so on.
Plus, there’s also the build of the game. So far the build weighs 8 GB.

I have a 512 GB disk, 8 GB of RAM, 1650 and i5-10400f

[ivory dock]

[rigid galleon]

I'd say probably ram if the project already fits on your disk.
8GB is not a lot, even smaller projects eat it up.

But I'd be worried about vram too, I have a project that's a few gb, and even that can eat up vram if not optimized well, are you sure your gpu can handle that?

[sinful ridge]

Oh yes, I forgot to say.
Approximately 340 GB is already occupied by other programs, including Unity. The project, including the archive, weighs about 150 GB in total, I have about 20 GB left

[deft rock]

RAM is memory.
Hard drive/ solid state/ etc is storage.

Ideally.. with such a large project, both. More storage so you've more room to play with and not worry about running out of space. More RAM for the running of the project.

Both are horrendously bloated price wise now and will be for probably the year.

[rigid galleon]

In that case, I am not sure tbh.
If you can't get it on your disk, you obviously won't be able to work.
Keep in mind that unity also has to generate the library directory, which on it's own can be at least a few gb, and I'd assume way more for larger projects(it usually ends up being bigger than the project itself).
And even if you were to get it on your disk, I highly doubt your current pc would be able to even open the project without crashing, let alone work on it.
But I could be mistaken, I am just speaking from my experience.

[sinful ridge]

I don’t know, but video cards in my region are very expensive these days. I want to start small: RAM or hard drive. I'm thinking about taking another 8 GB of RAM, but I remember that I don't have enough disk space yet

[deft rock]

you should be able to work out for yourself which to get first

[rigid galleon]

Understandable, pretty much all the hardware is extremely overpriced atm.
If you are just starting out with unity, is this really the project you want to take on tho?
I understand the desire to work on your dream project etc., but you gotta keep in mind that large projects require powerful hardware, game dev is an expensive hobby.

[sinful ridge]

I think so too

[deft rock]

Does the build struggle to run? -> RAM
Does the build run fine, but struggling to keep enough space? -> storage

[sinful ridge]

No, I’ve been working for a long time and am already thinking about starting to build a computer

[rigid galleon]

I wish I could provide more help, but I sadly just don't know.
P much all my projects never exceeded 10gb with library, so I unfortunately don't have the needed experience.
I wish you the best of luck tho.

[sly lake]

What are the requirements for this? Does the fog need to react to lighting or can it just be additive? All light types or is directional-only okay? And does it need to sample shadows?

[sinful ridge]

Thanks

[raven tiger]

I m currently going through the Essential Pathway and I m wondering, am I the only one missing the project solution .sln/.slnx and .csproj files?

If I create a new blank project template, not tuto related, my project folder is fine, solution is there and all.

The problem since there's no solution, for the essential pathway, every time I open a script it opens a new VS session and on top of that I don't have access to the Unity explorer window and to all the Unity related intellisense and such.

The screenshot is what my project folder looks like. Normally .slnx and .csproj should be there. What does you folder looks like?

ty

[rigid galleon]

It'd certainly be nice if it was to react to light, as that's how the particles I have rn behave.
I tried implementing raymarching, but I am way too incompetent for that sadly, nor do I have enough time to do a deep dive into rendering and shaders.
Here's sort of what it should look like, the fog on the bottom.

[hearty grove]

I started getting driver timeouts when running my project in unity, so I can't work on it now

[sly lake]

Does the lighting in this scene change drastically or could it be artistically tweaked to match?

[rigid galleon]

I guess I could fake it, it's p much all static lighting.

[sly lake]

If you have a budget I could look into it. But I can't beat the asset store on pricing

[rigid galleon]

I wish, my net worth is $0 💀

But I do appreciate the offer tho.

[storm patio]

you could sell the computer you're using right now

oh wait...

[sly lake]

If someone paid me in computers I'd be quite upset. I have eh...five?

[storm patio]

could take one off your hands free of charge, no need to thank me 🙂‍↕️

[sly lake]

If the next guy doesn't show up I might give one away at this point haha

Getting rid of a computer isn't as easy as it used to be

[crude pivot]

Why isn't the entire ground visible in my scene? I have the grid and ground objects set up, but I can't see everything

[sly lake]

This usually happens when the scene camera is behind the object. If you click the "2D" button at the top of the viewport it'll show the layers in 3D

[crude pivot]

no its not showing up

[sly lake]

What if you double click the terrain in the hierarchy?

[violet thunder]

Looks like your camera is behind the scene too

[sly lake]

Oh, I see

[violet thunder]

But yeah could just be really zoomed out

[sly lake]

It's facing Z-

Might simply be looking at the (culled) back of it

[crude pivot]

it takes me thara but not shows up

[crude pivot]

how do i fix it

[sly lake]

Wait, is it?

[violet thunder]

Oh it's not lol

[storm patio]

no i think that's Z+

[violet thunder]

My mistake

I just assumed the Z handle was behind :p

[storm patio]

try selecting the ground and press F

[sly lake]

They already did

[storm patio]

ah i just noticed, was looking for "F" lol

in my defense, i suggested that a few minutes ago, they crossposted.

[storm patio]

could you not hide half the inspector

there's a lot of info there that you've hidden

[violet thunder]

Could it be hidden via the layers menu

[crude pivot]

oh thanks

[storm patio]

isn't that for physics layers?
though i guess it could still apply

[crude pivot]

it was hidden

[storm patio]

ah, aight

[violet thunder]

Nah it's for visibility

It's here in newer versions

I often use it to hide UI objects

Physics layers and rendering layers are shared if you didnt know

[storm patio]

they aren't

in TagManager.asset, physics layers are defined in layers, sorting layers are defined in m_SortingLayers
there's a fixed 32 layers because it uses a bitfield, but you can create/delete sorting layers, they're used by reference

[storm patio]

these are physics layers

wait are "rendering layers" not "sorting layers"

[violet thunder]

I think you're confused

[storm patio]

i assumed they were synonyms but i didn't consider that

i may be

[storm patio]

could you clarify on this point

[violet thunder]

For example, a camera's culling mask in built in RP:

[violet thunder]

Yeah different thing, sorting layers are for sorting sprite depth

[storm patio]

alright. a lot of stuff is making much more sense with that revelation now lmao

[violet thunder]

(Also the SRPs have a RenderingLayerMask which is used to specify which lights affect which objects etc.)

[storm patio]

i assumed "rendering layer" referred to "sorting layer"

to check my understanding - these are just "layers" in general and are used by both rendering and physics, right?

[violet thunder]

Yep

That's why you sometimes need to have the renderer on a different object than the collider/Rigidbody, so they can have different layers

[storm patio]

that makes sense, thanks

[queen raven]

I'm learning C# and can read almost any code and understand what it's doing, and i have about 10 hours of exploring the unity game engine. So far i have imported a character asset from the store and got it walking and attacking. i have also figured out how to pick up items using tags and triggers. I'm also just now trying out github. What else would i need to learn before applying for positions? more importantly, where can I learn it from? I'm broke as all getout, so free suggestions please.

[storm patio]

10 hours is.. not a lot of experience to be considering a career

[queen raven]

yep, I know. except that when I say 10 hours I mean in unity. between godot, unity, unreal, rpgmaker, and other engines it's more around 100 or so.

I'm just trying to find the one that fits me and so far unity is jiving better

[storm patio]

if you're looking for unity positions then they'd be looking for a lot of familiarity with unity specifically

[queen raven]

I plan on it. dedicating about 10-15 hours a week this summer to learning. I got the work ethic, desire, and ability to learn. I would just like to know from the more seasoned developers what's the entry level point.

[storm patio]

i don't have industry experience, but probably try making some stuff. there'll be issues and learning opportunities that come up as you go

[queen raven]

Not in my location. I'm in nowhere Arkansas and I'm the only nerd in about 100 miles that I know of. well, at least no other nerds interested in game development.

[storm patio]

a lot of stuff is remote-capable, so you aren't just competing with the folks nearby

[latent meadow]

make sure you are comfortable with most of the subject matter on the learning site, that applies to your interest. but, also, simply look at the job requirements. thatis really the only way to know where to focus your time. there used to be a Unity Certification that you may want to look into, although, it seems, many 'in the know' have said that may not really be required.

!learn

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[violet gazelle]

Question for anyone familiar; trying to figure out what this specific problem would be referred to as:

[storm patio]

everything on the learning site is a bit much

[storm patio]

what's the problem in question

[violet gazelle]

Where the lighting is causing several "bands" of shading- and what direction I can look towards for fixing it

[latent meadow]

based on "100 hours, now i want a job" i figured it matched, but that is honestly why i added 'look at the job requirements'

[latent meadow]

there will always be banding on 8 bit screens. that goes away when you get into 10bit HDR, although your example is quite 'loud'.. perhaps talk to #1390346776804069396 if no one comes through here pretty quickly

[storm patio]

that's fair, but the learning site varies quite a bit in quality and content ime

some outdated stuff too

[violet gazelle]

Okay so its just generally referred to as "banding"- that might help a little help

[storm patio]

(just saying the learning site may not be a very good benchmark for overall understanding)

[violet gazelle]

I'll bug the rendering channel then for sure

[latent meadow]

ok, it was more of a generalization than an absolute directive, but since it is bothering you, and you are not incorrect, i will try to re-word it

[queen raven]

lol. I have gotten through a few of the learning projects as well. They're fine, but I feel like it's alot of time to learn only one or two things. right now I'm just making my own little games and setting a single goal each week. Seems like that's the way to go once you get familiar enough.

I've made a list of things I want to implement into my game:

1. player movement (done)
2. import asset and use as player instead of shape object (done)
3. Attack animation on mouse click (done)
4. pick up objects on ground (done)
5. add object to inventory
6. make sound when event happens (done)
7. transition from one level to the next by using portal or doorway (working on it now)
8. design AI bot to chase player and kill on contact (done)
9. redesign AI bot to attack player and cause damage instead of insta-kill
10. create NPC that gives quests and items

so far this is my wish list of things to accomplish within the next few months. not just get them in my game but be able to do it without help the next time. anything else i should add to the list?

[slate dew]

Why does it say RandomRangeInt cnt be used from a monobehavior construction what does that mean

also using UnityEngine.Random doesnt exist in vscode for some reason

[slate dew]

Someone help with this please

[latent meadow]

asking in the correct room is step 1. try #💻┃code-beginner

[slate dew]

I asked there too

[latent meadow]

do not crosspost.

[slate dew]

Sorry

[inner geyser]

Anyone got some good tips on optimization for particle system?

Thanks, I guess can't squeeze much out of particle system as it's already pretty good.

[neon bobcat]

Whats that thing u use to capture movements ? I cant find the name of it, this equipment used in RE 8 & 9 and GTA 6 where a person wears it on their body and it captures their movements

Oh bruh thats what its called

Mb

Is there a specific software for it or u could just use it with blender

Damn its kinda expensive

But 500-1000 should be fine maybe

[inner geyser]

I saw once that auto desk has that software

[neon bobcat]

Oh okay

Thanks

[inner geyser]

There can be alternatives for mocap suit, some ai models are good in this

[worldly cave]

the suit and the equipment is what costs money

the software is typically inclduded

theres cheaper alternatives, such as using any of those video to mocap ai tools (requires a lot of clean up to give usable results) or the classic pseye camera set up which holds up surprisingly well

[neon bobcat]

Oh

[solar flint]

Hey all, quick question.
Anyone here running many A/B tests in parallel on mobile?
Need to run like 10-20 tests at the same time, by different teams, without tests clashing with each other.
I am considering isolated “builds inside one build,” but it feels messy and has a lot of downsides.
Any better setup that worked for you in real production?

[neon bobcat]

This is really helpful I appreciate it thanks alot mate

[worldly cave]

imo using mocap is not a replacement for animation though

because you have to clean up mocap and make it actually work and look good

[neon bobcat]

Yeah, I have seen lots of variations in the price, probably the quality and accuracy differ, I would try the AI ones at least for now, until I get the suit

[glad dagger]

hey

[worn ferry]

Can anyone be my dev

[stuck flower]

How much are you willing to pay

[worn ferry]

Vr?

[worldly cave]

!collab

[stuck flower]

That's not an answer

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[worldly cave]

your payment is a vr headset duh

[worn ferry]

No I mean can do vr

[worldly cave]

check out the bot message

[worn ferry]

Dms

[stuck flower]

No

Read the bot message, and if you're going to look for someone to make a game for you, you'd best be prepared to pay

[worldly cave]

If you want someone to make the game for you

learn to read lmao

bro left

[stuck flower]

Makes sense, they weren't here to ask any questions anyway

[heady gorge]

was trying to figure out how to do a save system. i realized i had to actually figure out what i wanted to save

i was just wondering, would it make sense to create a game object that holds a script that doesnt get destroyed on load? it just follows the player the entire time.

but the script itself holds the data of the things i want to save. when i want the player death count to be tracked, i was thinking maybe i'd just have it on that script, and every script would just reference that one

and then when its time to save, i just have it save the data of that script. just a massive script of booleans and ints, and it sort of holds the information of everything. and then partially rewrite my scripts so that they all start running based on those bools.

[topaz vessel]

Im kinda new to making vr games

So uhh

So i have a model

And i made it into an avatar i think

[worldly cave]

avatar?

[topaz vessel]

Ya

[worldly cave]

like an animation avatar?

[topaz vessel]

No

I want it to be the player

I got yuji

Now how do i make him like yourself

The character

[worldly cave]

Is this for vrchat?

[topaz vessel]

No

Im making my own game

In unity

I want it to be a jjk fighting game

[worldly cave]

this really depends on what "yourself" means in your own game

[topaz vessel]

Like the character

[worldly cave]

we need a lot more context here

[topaz vessel]

Like how in gtag your a monke

In my game i want you to be yuji

[worldly cave]

well you would start by adding some kind of player controller script to the model

but it sounds to me like you might be very new to unity in general

and not just vr games

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[topaz vessel]

You got a vid

[worldly cave]

a vid? no i got something far more useful

[copper gust]

yeah this would probably not be your first or second or third game ngl

[worldly cave]

check the bot message

[heady gorge]

unity learn is generally pretty great

[worldly cave]

this wouldnt be your 5th game to be honest lol

[heady gorge]

i mean you're probably not going to go through everything, which i didnt but 🤷

[topaz vessel]

Yippy

Thanks

[heady gorge]

basics are great

[stuck flower]

So, instead of using a gorilla model, you would use a yuji model

[copper gust]

which would look amazing ngl

[topaz vessel]

Ya

[stuck flower]

That's it that's the whole answer

[heady gorge]

does anyone have any experience with save systems though
does this make sense or is there an easier method

[topaz vessel]

Idk how to make an avatar and all that stuff

[worldly cave]

the terminology you are using

is very confusing

[copper gust]

prob #💻┃code-beginner

[topaz vessel]

Me?

[worldly cave]

yes

[topaz vessel]

Oh

The player model

[stuck flower]

A DDOL "tracker" object is a fairly normal design pattern. If you make sure to load the old data on start and save it on quit you can just have that one persistent thing holding all the data you need

[worldly cave]

be honest do you have any experience in unity in general?

and or game development

[stuck flower]

Then go through the unity courses you've been linked to

[topaz vessel]

Uhh nah

[worldly cave]

then i say put your "jjk fighting game" on hold for now... and focus on learning the basics, follow those tutorials i linked you

[topaz vessel]

K thanks

[topaz vessel]

K thanks

Wait but is unity automaticlly becomes a vr game?

Cuz im pretty sure i gotta add smth

[worldly cave]

not really how that works

but you could use vr templates

i would still recommend you just pause that idea

because its far beyond your current capabilities

[topaz vessel]

Ya ik

[worldly cave]

youre missing some fundamental understanding of how unity works

you need that before anything

its also quite an ambitious idea to begin with, especially for a beginner

[topaz vessel]

But does it work the same if i wanna make it into vr game

[copper gust]

it does not work the same

[topaz vessel]

Like are the courses are like for vr games or non vr games

[copper gust]

you would do the non vr stuff first then the vr stuff

[topaz vessel]

Oh ok

But are the things diff

[copper gust]

yes

very

[topaz vessel]

So where can i find tutorials for the vr thinf after i do the non vr thing

[copper gust]

i'd worry about that after you do the non vr stuff

[topaz vessel]

Umm ok

[copper gust]

what you want is not easy to make

[topaz vessel]

Yaaa

Sad

Thanks for the help

[near wigeon]

what makes VR different is Locomotion
and interaction with other objects (pretty sure unity created components for this)
the rest is pretty much anything else you'd do normally in unity

@topaz vessel one of the pathways you've been linked to in Learn. Its not difficult you just need to know the basic unity concepts first so you know what a gameobject even is etc..
https://learn.unity.com/pathway/vr-development?version=6.2

[gray frigate]

i just found that you can hold cmd+shift and right click to get a dropdown of all overlapping objects under the cursor

very neat!

(i presume it'd be ctrl+shift on windows)

[near wigeon]

oh nice iirc this used to require an asset..weird for me doesnt always pop up on the first click

[sly lake]

Just cmd

Or was it just shift?

Either way, it’s only one key

[limpid hollow]

i tried to bring my unity project from my laptop to pc but the unzip process is taking forever is it intentional for 5 gbs to take 10 hours?

[true cypress]

Do you HAVE to learn how to make textures if you want to get into VFX? Or is there some kind of library plugin for textures that anyone knows? If there is one pls tell me anyone 🙏

[near wigeon]

its both

[near wigeon]

you should've transferred it without the Library folder included

would've saved a lot of GBs

[sly lake]

I just tested, it's just CMD

[limpid hollow]

how do i do it im new to unity and all of this is confusing me

[near wigeon]

actually yea you right

[near wigeon]

this has nothing to do with unity , its computer usage thing

you know how to delete a folder yes?

[limpid hollow]

yea

[near wigeon]

then delete library folder, zip it and transfer it over then unzip

faster unzipping, but it will take a bit to load the project on first launch cause it has to rebuild it

[gray frigate]

Ah, shift was enabling multi-selection; it is indeed just cmd

It also doesn't work in 2022.3, sad

[gray frigate]

don't worry; it's not obvious

the Library is made up of stuff that unity has generated from your assets

(as well as stuff like 'which scene was last open?')

You can safely exclude the Library when making backups or sharing a project

[near wigeon]

yeah before we had to use something like this
https://github.com/vertxxyz/NSelection

[gray frigate]

i created a component that lets me quickly set the "no select" toggle on objects

mostly for stuff like post-processing renderers that fill the entire screen

[near wigeon]

wait isn't there a shortcut for that?

[gray frigate]

on a variety of objects across the entire scene

notably, the visibility/interaction flags don't get kept when you add a prefab to the scene

this is a VRC club world and I have a lot of light prefabs

which have big volumetric fog cones on 'em

they were extremely annoying to click on

[near wigeon]

ohhh neat.
I've only done it for UI cause canvas gets in the way of selection lol

[gray frigate]

oh yeah

i often just have the entire "UI" object hidden

[trail mountain]

what's this green thing mean? I duplicated my inventory ui to make the store ui

[worldly cave]

means its an unappended addition to a prefab in your scene

[trail mountain]

ah thanks

[stoic cypress]

this error says the mario game object has no animator but you can see it does, please help

[stuck flower]

There's no Mario component on this object. Which object has that script on it?

[stoic cypress]

sorry you're right its in test animation but the visual script searches for object named mario what did i do wrong

[stuck flower]

No idea how visual scripting works. Normally I'd say debug the object you got and make sure that it's the one you expect but you're on your own for finding out how

[worldly cave]

is Mario active or inactive at any point?

[stoic cypress]

his idle animation works on start but when I click S or A I get an error

[worldly cave]

maybe ask in #1390346878394040320

[rocky mirage]

helloo, im new to using unity and i want to ask why there is some sort of greyish layer on my ui, when the text is super big it doesnt show the grey layer, but when it is small it appears

[storm patio]

this is a text-specific thing iirc, try asking in #📲┃ui-ux

[rocky mirage]

oo okay thank you

[topaz vessel]

Yo any help someone

[final rapids]

any of y’all ever played gorilla tag games ? or anything like it? i’m a kinda young coder and i need help with my gane

i made the trailer for it and everything

[topaz vessel]

I downloaded smth from the project settings but it dosent show me the androidsettings

[topaz vessel]

I know someone who can help

If your making a gtag fan game

[final rapids]

yeah it’s a fangame

this is a peice of my trailer

[topaz vessel]

Look up "b.awesome tut"

[final rapids]

on what

[topaz vessel]

Yt

[latent meadow]

not a place for self-promotion. read the #📖┃code-of-conduct and use #1180170818983051344

[topaz vessel]

Youtube

[topaz vessel]

He didnt

He asked for help

[latent meadow]

a trailer does not belong here.

[topaz vessel]

But ya a lil biy

[topaz vessel]

Oh ya

[final rapids]

oh

[stuck flower]

Then what is the trailer for

[topaz vessel]

Mb my brain aint braining

[storm patio]

@final rapids you said you needed help but you still have not asked a question

[topaz vessel]

Any 1 helpm

[storm patio]

you don't download stuff from project settings

[final rapids]

well isn’t this where i ask for help

[topaz vessel]

Cuz i alr helped him

[stuck flower]

Yes, which you still haven't done yet

[storm patio]

yes, and you have not actually asked a question

[topaz vessel]

Basiclly cloudy go to youtube and type b.awesome tut

Uhh i alr told him

[storm patio]

do you mean you installed an editor module or what exactly? @topaz vessel

[topaz vessel]

No i just know someone which has a step bt step guide to make a gtag fan game

What he wants to make

[storm patio]

yikes

that's also not what i asked there

[copper gust]

you know he said he already has a trailer right

[topaz vessel]

Huh

[storm patio]

i'm asking about the question you asked

[topaz vessel]

Wdym

Oh

[final rapids]

nevermind i can’t build the fangame

[storm patio]

lmao

[final rapids]

on my. chromebook

i mean i can install unity on my linux terminal

like some sudo apt install “the unity name”

or some shit

[topaz vessel]

So any 1 can help with a question

[storm patio]

this juxtaposition here is wild

[storm patio]

i already asked you for elaboration

and no, we cannot help without a question, so these kinds of messages are unnecessary

[topaz vessel]

K mb. So i downloaded xr for my vr game but i dont see any android options

[copper gust]

what options should be there

[topaz vessel]

Wait

Window setting smth else and android settings

In project settings

Yo any 1?

[sage basin]

Did you add the Android module to your editor via the Unity hub?

[topaz vessel]

Wait i needa do that?

Thanks

Just how do i do that

[topaz vessel]

Thanks

[exotic quartz]

what was the fix? I am having the same problem 😄

[primal moss]

Has anyone else had issues with textmeshpro in unity 6?

The outline/drop shadow materials simply dont work in my project

[latent meadow]

just a thought, are you using SDF or Bitmap font setting

[primal moss]

Sdf

[latent meadow]

ok. it is not that, then

[primal moss]

I imagine being such an old project, the sdf defaults are probably in a broken state after many updates

Is there a quick and safe way to reset defaults

I swear this isnt normal

Whatever ill just modify the default material since it doesnt want to add a variant to the object

[tiny silo]

So something that was a bit of a problem following this conversation. It was going fine, following a tutorial where they demonstrate GPU instancing and how to use it, but I realised that it's a 3D thing. I'm currently using SpriteRenderers and 2D components because it's a 2D game, so I haven't worked with meshes at all. I would have guessed the mesh should be a quad but I imagine I'm missing some important info on how to get it to work in 2D

[latent meadow]

There is a dedicated #🖼️┃2d-tools room, so you know

[tiny silo]

Ah, I thought it might not be permissible since my issue was more specifically around batching and GPU instancing

[latent meadow]

it is mostly an 'if you do not get an answer in the next couple hours, maybe try..'

[jaunty totem]

i feel real stupid here but whats going on here? i have a ui element spawned and parented to my canvas but its invisible in game view while being right there in scene view

ive moved it back and forth on all axes so i know its not just right outside view or something

either way if theres a better way to spawn elements on my canvas that would also be sick

[latent meadow]

#📲┃ui-ux

[jaunty totem]

oop

[topaz vessel]

yo guys why is my preset manager empty>

[woeful escarp]

I want to ask you all

I'm not a unity dev, but, I might be coming here in a few months with something of a request

[near wigeon]

this is not a unity question

[woeful escarp]

Sorry, I'll go to a different channel

[near wigeon]

different server sure

[woeful escarp]

I'm sorry, are you basically telling me to go fuck myself?

[near wigeon]

I'm saying if its not a unityengine question, it doesn't belong on the server

[woeful escarp]

Nice

Real nice

[latent lake]

anyone knows whats this about

[near wigeon]

you tried refreshing cache / deleting library folder ?

[latent lake]

the whole ibrary folder?

[near wigeon]

yea nuke it

[latent lake]

it regenerates when u ope nthe project right

[near wigeon]

indeed. just might take some time

[latent lake]

okay just wanted to double check

i coulda sworn i deleted te folder

[near wigeon]

wait you already did it? you closed unity before doing it?

[latent lake]

yes

[sleek obsidian]

hii, I need help, I can't download Unity. Could someone tell me what might be happening, maybe the site is down or something?

[latent meadow]

unsure, but i am getting this when trying to log into hub

[storm patio]

that's not the site to download unity

[near wigeon]

yea

you have to like be logged in into a unity account before downloading .. weird

[sleek obsidian]

What do you mean? Isn't this the one?

[storm patio]

yes, the previous one (cloud.unity.com) was not

[sleek obsidian]

I'm already logged in, from what I see haha

[near wigeon]

thats where it redirects you

[latent lake]

unchecking Enable Compilation in burst -> jobs then clicking play amde the error go away but i cant uninstall and reinstall the package cuz somethign depends on it

[storm patio]

wth, since when?

or has it always been like that and i never noticed

[near wigeon]

Ik recent I guess cause now its behind a login / comes from their own cloud servers ig

i think before they just used regular cdn

[sleek obsidian]

So what's the website now?

[near wigeon]

download is working fine on my end, must be something on whatever server you're getting thrown to

[near wigeon]

download it from here
https://docs.unity3d.com/hub/manual/InstallLegacyHub.html

update it after

[sleek obsidian]

Thanks a lot, man, I was trying to figure out what it was.

[latent meadow]

interesting. Unity Hub used to open the browser, so you could login (Fedora, KDE). Now, it just errors out, as shown above, if you are not logged in already in the default browser. i use another browser for that, so i temporarily set the browser i Am logged in on as default, then all worked fine.
#💻┃unity-talk message

[latent meadow]

well, the download of an editor started at a comfy 72MiB/s and opted to drop to 8MiB/s :/