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[gray frigate]

a 4K lightmap could neatly contain a 68-by-68 meter square at that density

[south burrow]

Does anyone know why this isnt working

In the particle system

I changed from billboard to mesh, and my mesh isnt showing up in the Meshes

Its a prefab

[gray frigate]

prefabs are not meshes!

a prefab can contain components that use meshes

the mesh is the actual blob of triangles

[south burrow]

ooh

[gray frigate]

if you look at an imported model, you'll see sub-asset meshes

anything with the grid

those are the things you can actually give to the particle system

[south burrow]

Further question is it possible to change the mesh rotation angle when using the view render alignment. I set it wrong in blender, but is it possible to change it here in the particle system

[fallen jay]

I don’t want to make games

But sometimes i do

[south burrow]

Screw it I fixed it in blender

I always want to make games

[polar basalt]

The map is around 500m x 500m and has like 200m of depth

Sooo what could I do?

[gray frigate]

If it's a large outdoor space, you should be using a much lower resolution

You don't need 60 light samples per meter

[polar basalt]

Yeah but even at this radius it looks very bad, the shadows look very pixelated and artefacted

[gray frigate]

show an example of your problem

[polar basalt]

Give me 10 minutes im not on pc right now

[copper gust]

Do you need to bake

If you have 60 big levels at some point baking is just gonna have to take up some amount of space

[gray frigate]

you can mix baked lighting and realtime lighting, of course

if you use Mixed lights, you can bake just the indirect lighting

and you can get away with a very low resolution for that

[polar basalt]

only for this level, since there is a area light i need baked and a lot of lights in "lamp posts"

gime me 5 min and i will show u the set up

[polar basalt]

yeah but i have an area light, and the lamp posts are mixed

i accidentally removed the baked data.. give me 5 minutes..

[sly lake]

Don’t bake shadows then

Use real-time shadows with baked indirect

[polar basalt]

what do you mean by baked indirect? i understand u mean mixed but how do i do baked indirect?

its just that

i have these lights, and i think its better to have one area light than 200 realtime lights

light is baking right now, its all black because i removed light data by accident

example of issue of shadows
and an example of where i use area light so i dont have 200 lights on the ceiling

any ideas?

[polar basalt]

@gray frigate ?

[copper gust]

What was the point of bringing up that you have 60 levels in regards to file size concerns if your only baking on 1 of them

[polar basalt]

because the size is just insane, and i know games that have the same amount of levels with baked lighting, and they arent that big (500mb per level), so what do other people do?

thats why im asking, what do people normally do in these situations

[polar basalt]

200 realtime lights on ceiling is like, way too much, so area light is the right solution then?
Because u can see all the lights at same time as you can see in the 2nd image

[plain dagger]

You can use light probes or probe volumes only with low density to save on space. You need to bake if this corridor is one mesh due to forward rendering light limits.
Deferred can overcome it.

[polar basalt]

i use deferred rendering

so do area light?

[plain dagger]

Probably best for a ceiling light like that.

[sly lake]

Deferred isn't necessarily fine with 200 lights in such a small area

[plain dagger]

It would be best baked but HDRP would do it a tad better than urp

[sly lake]

HDRP still uses FPTLL for it. So it'd see a ton of overlap here

I think I could get this running in a custom render pipeline but probably best to just not use that many lights 😏

[sly lake]

URP doesn't have real-time area lights. Just use fewer point lights. It's okay if the light sources don't match all the spots you have on the ceiling, nobody will notice. This is a normal thing for games to do.

[south burrow]

Particle system has a 1 second delay and I have no idea where that is coming from T_T

[shut sun]

Hello

[wraith pasture]

How would you go about having prefabs like some collectible item and every time you add one to your scene it adds a unique id to it.

Need to make it so when you revisit levels the already collected items do not appear anymore.

[vale harness]

Is anyone good at making gorilla tag horror fangames? pls if u wanna help me dev feel free to dm me!

[wraith pasture]

I could go to each script and set the id manually I guess for each of them but is there an automatic way when you drag the prefab into the scene to have it be unique?

[sly lake]

Yeah, I do that exact thing.

[ExecuteInEditor]
public class IdAssigner: MonoBehaviour
{
  public void Start()
  {
    #if UNITY_EDITOR
    var other = GetComponent<Other>();
    if(other.id == 0) 
    {
      other.id = DateTime.Now.Ticks;
      Thread.Sleep(1);
    }
    #endif
  }
}

[wraith pasture]

Ah right thanks I didn't remember you could do that

The Sleep is important?

[sly lake]

It ensures that the same ID will never be used twice, in this case

[wraith pasture]

Oh right you used the ticks nvm 😂

What happens to this MonoBehaviour when you build it?

[sly lake]

Just becomes an empty Start() block

[wraith pasture]

Do you autoremove it somehow?

ah I see

[sly lake]

Maybe you could have it auto-remove itself after generation

Add Destroy(this) after it

[wraith pasture]

I'll try that thank you again

[polar basalt]

i think ill just do one area light, and for the outside lights make an LOD system

i was able to decrease the lightmap from 500mb to 30mb

[sly lake]

Area lights are only baked though

At which point you might as well just count on the emissive material, which will also bake as a light source

[polar basalt]

yeah but having 200 point lights = bad performance, but not having them match is even worse, but no shadows is fine because the whole place is iluminated strongly so there shouldnt even be any shadows, only faint if towards wall, because light comes from all places in middle

idk if there is any other way then that would be cool

i tried emissive material xd its all yellow

[wraith pasture]

A bit different of a question. I want to paint like in unity terrain with the textures (just makes sense to me). afaik thats not a thing in Substance Painter, right? What other tool can I use which allows me to paint like that?

I basically just want to make a smallish terrain as a mesh (don't need all the terrain extras) and paint on it like unity terrain texture painter.

Hmm maybe I can just export the unity terrain as a mesh + texture after I am done?

[wide merlin]

does anyone know how to fix this emission lighting bug

[wraith pasture]

Wait, is this what Polybrush is?

[jagged yarrow]

hello everyone, im looking for some advice. i want to build a reasonably small realistic horror PCVR game but im not sure wether to use HDRP or URP shaders, i was wondering if anyone had any advice as this is my first time developing in VR?

[wraith pasture]

Ah great 😄 btw still advertised as a "feature" https://unity.com/features/polybrush

[austere dawn]

vertex painting is such an essential tool imo :/

[sly lake]

Probably go with URP for VR

It's doable but kinda hard to maintain such high framerates in HDRP

[lapis gate]

polybrush always seemed interesting but didn't really have shader graph support

basically terrain-lite

[mint gate]

I've done terrains in Painter many times, but I don't paint the textures directly. Instead I paint masks for the R/G/B channels, and then in Unity you set up a shader with tiling textures and blend then on top of each other using this mask

[lapis gate]

can do it in blender. Ideally what you do is use splatmapping and not the textures themselves for larger and reusable geometry where you map color values to textures

alternatively you can use vertex colors too

[wraith pasture]

Yea i tried the mask thing but it doesn't work exactly like unity where you can draw over already painted parts freely and don't have to erase from the top layer's mask (basically doesn't matter which order the layers are).

[wraith pasture]

I guess this works the same as the painter (let alone I have no clue how that is done)

[dapper steppe]

URP for sure. HDRP can look amazing in vr games but the performance can completely smash the idea of it without some major workings of optimization

[twin blade]

does anyone know how to make a gtag copy

[lapis gate]

Basically a custom shader where you compare color values then use a mix node to blend between the textures you're using

[dapper steppe]

Procedural generation with tile maps are dope been slowly working on a good system to get all my tiles and things to match up correctly

[twin blade]

im new to unity

[storm patio]

0 days since gtag copy

[wraith pasture]

#💻┃unity-talk message

we made it like an hour tho

[storm patio]

jeez

[lapis gate]

Like the whole idea of the masking is that you don't want to be making huge textures for every single object. Splatmaps can be low resolution/low precision because you don't care too much when we're talking large geometry

[wraith pasture]

I see. Is that how unity does it?

[lapis gate]

For the terrain, yes. Usually it's a 1024x1024 by default texture

[wraith pasture]

1024x1024 seems kinda tiny with how huge the default terrain is

[lapis gate]

Well, compared to say a character, you don't care about the exact precision of all the textures.

[twin blade]

🐢

[wraith pasture]

Hmm I guess so

[lapis gate]

Like you're not going to notice a difference if a single red pixel represents 1 meter or 2 meters of grass most of the time

[violet thunder]

Well that'd depend on the game

2 meters would be very noticeable for an FPS game

[lapis gate]

It depends on the textures you're using, but if say you're using dirt, grass, grass_2, dirt_2, it's not likely going to be a problem in blending

[wraith pasture]

Maybe I should just use meshes instead of trying to make terrains

I'm trying to go for levels like in spyro (ps1)

[lapis gate]

spyro probably does more by vertex color masking

which is very limited precision depending on the amount of verts of the geometry, but those older ps1 games never had very distinct blending per geometry

[lapis gate]

grass can be masking, but the edges look just to be uv mapping with tiling

really more likely for it all to be unwrapped

[wraith pasture]

I guess terrain would be overkill

[lapis gate]

I'd stick to vertex data and uv mapping yeah

[wraith pasture]

and make the meshes in blender?

[lapis gate]

sounds like the plan

[wraith pasture]

Hmm would you start with a plane and subdivide it?

or is there a smarter way

[lapis gate]

I'm more of a cube person myself

[wraith pasture]

not single vert fan smh

anyway thanks. I got my plan now

[lapis gate]

I'd suggest just doing a top-down drawing then tracing verts around the edges to give you some foundation

[sly lake]

It’s pretty noticeable

[wraith pasture]

sounds good

[sly lake]

If you could stream those damned textures I’d be making them much higher res

[brittle hound]

guys theres something wrong with my game

im a really new beginner to unity hub

and like look what happens when i start the game

[storm patio]

use mp4 so it embeds in discord

[brittle hound]

it will be a sound if i send it as mp3

wouldnt it

[storm patio]

mp4

[brittle hound]

here u go

[stuck flower]

It would. That's why they didn't say that

[brittle hound]

i thougt he said mp3

but whats wrong

[stuck flower]

Looks like either your ground has no collision or your object starts inside of its collider

[brittle hound]

how do i even add collision

i watch youtube tuts

[stuck flower]

By adding a collider

[brittle hound]

can i look at youtube tut

[stuck flower]

!learn

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[craggy pollen]

does the plane have a collider?

select it, then AddComponent > Collider

[untold hemlock]

punch animation not running

using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class Punch : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator PunchAnimation;

    public bool canPunch = true;

    private void Update()
    {
        if (canPunch == true && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0))
        {
            StartCoroutine(Punching());
        }
    }



    IEnumerator Punching()
    {
        PunchAnimation.SetTrigger("Punch");
        canPunch = false;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.30f);
        canPunch = true;
    }
}```

[storm patio]

!code

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[storm patio]

gonna need some more info than "not working"

what's not working? a specific transition? the animation clip itself?

[worldly cave]

Also you dont have an idle to punch transition of any kind set up

That entire state set up seems odd and unorthodox

[untold hemlock]

if I click LMB it should play the punch animation from Any State but it's not

[craggy pollen]

coudl it be that your bool is false because you changed it form the inspector
public bool canPunch = true; // change this to private instead public

[untold hemlock]

What about this?

[worldly cave]

That makes a lot more sense

[untold hemlock]

Thanks, now its working
@craggy pollen@worldly cave

[fair terrace]

I really like Unity, it's helping me make my game available quickly particulaily with the help of AI

[fair terrace]

maybe for the question reaction I am using GitHub copilot

[worldly cave]

The question is why are you telling us this

[fair terrace]

is this Unity official Discord ?

[worldly cave]

This is a help channel

Not a gen chat

[fair terrace]

I thought unity talk is the general channel

[worldly cave]

Its not

[copper gust]

we should start a counter everytime someone believes the channel name and category mean what they say

[latent meadow]

#💻┃unity-talk :Non-programming Unity development topics & questions not covered by specific channels. Prolonged discussions and game design questions should be threaded.

[worldly cave]

2 different #1161868835423526933 threads and the answer was still the same

This channel is a help channel

[copper gust]

dont really care

you cant say its not the general channel when it literally is 😛

like thats just reality

[worldly cave]

Thats a category

Not a channel name

[fair terrace]

I am a little bit frustrated by what have been said to me as I just have said something very positive to the communty as I am new here

[copper gust]

this channel is poorly named

its fair to be confused

[worldly cave]

Make a third thread

In #1161868835423526933

[latent meadow]

This is the closest channel to Unity General Chat. Nothing so far has been off topic. probably best to just let it go

[fair terrace]

Thank you

it's my first message, i've joined yesterday

[latent meadow]

good luck with your game. you can ude #1180170818983051344 to track/demonstrate your progress

also, you can

!ask

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[fair terrace]

okey I'll do

[latent meadow]

general bot message with useful info

[rich sleet]

does anyone know how to fix my button's pressed and selected color not matching what I picked at all?

[latent meadow]

perhaps talk to #📲┃ui-ux

[rich sleet]

i went there first but got no replies

[latent meadow]

see #📖┃code-of-conduct , specifically about cross-posting. things are not instant, and that is the correct room

[rich sleet]

do you have any idea on what it could be or no clue at all?

[balmy kettle]

reminder that it is a tint that is applied over the existing color of the texture

[digital sparrow]

Whenever i share a project thru github it loads a samplescene and not the actual scene, can someone help me out?

[copper gust]

have you opened the actual scene

[digital sparrow]

yeah im testing it on my laptop and its doing the same thing

[copper gust]

what does that mean

[balmy kettle]

that is expected behavior

unity saves the last loaded scene per device and is stored in a location you wouldn't be committing. so when the project is cloned from github no scene will be open by default

[digital sparrow]

I have 2 different accounts and 2 different computers im testing on because it wouldnt load for my friend

[digital sparrow]

really

is there a solution?

[balmy kettle]

yes, open the scene

[digital sparrow]

and?

[balmy kettle]

wdym "and?" that will mean the scene is open so it can be worked on just like any other file

[copper gust]

you might need to describe your problem more specifically

[balmy kettle]

there is no way to sync which scene was last opened. so again, when the project is cloned no scene will be open in the clone and the scene literally just needs to be opened

[digital sparrow]

what do you mean by literally open it

[balmy kettle]

do you not know how to open a scene in the project?

[digital sparrow]

nope

[balmy kettle]

so when you were asked if you opened the scene, what do you think was meant by that?

[digital sparrow]

if i opened the project

[balmy kettle]

yeah no, it was specifically about the scene. you open it just like any other file by double clicking it

[digital sparrow]

im a lil slow didnt know you needed to do that when someone shares a file

[balmy kettle]

were you also unaware that you could have more than one scene exist in a project?

[copper gust]

your not sharing a file

your sharing many many files

[worldly cave]

I talked about this the other day

[digital sparrow]

bruh no

[worldly cave]

A lot of people surprisingly dont know this

[digital sparrow]

literally been doing ts for years and i never knew that

im not rlly a pro though

[copper gust]

ok no thats your fault

respectfully

[balmy kettle]

then i'm genuinely curious how you thought that worked if you didn't even know how to open a scene . . .

[digital sparrow]

yea i get it

[worldly cave]

What did you think a scene was

[digital sparrow]

a scene u open lol

[worldly cave]

How would you implement multiple levels or a main menu in your game

[worldly cave]

Did that never cross your mind?

[copper gust]

prefabs

[digital sparrow]

yea lol

and force del

[copper gust]

scenes are just big prefabs tbh

[worldly cave]

They are useful for exactly that reason lol

And templates are a big win

[copper gust]

biggest benefit is memory management

[worldly cave]

Yeah and management in general too, easier to organize everything

Its just a staple and you cannot go "years" without knowing what they are....

[digital sparrow]

like i said im not a pro

i dont make a living off the shit its more of a hobby

[worldly cave]

You described 99% of the unity users here

[balmy kettle]

consider going through the unity essentials pathway on the unity learn site to at least reach "beginner" status with the editor

[worldly cave]

But you dont have to be a pro to know what scenes are

Respectfully this is a massive gap in essential knowledge

[digital sparrow]

yall be so passive aggresive

[digital sparrow]

are we frl

[latent meadow]

it is expected that you at least complete the basics and research before asking here. here is a link

!learn

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[worldly cave]

Knowing the basics of the editor is very important yes

[balmy kettle]

yes, because knowing how to open a scene is essential knowledge. it's not some obscure "pro-only knowledge", it is literally essential to working in unity

[digital sparrow]

i know the basics jesus christ

[worldly cave]

Obviously not

[balmy kettle]

you literally do not

[digital sparrow]

literally one thing

[worldly cave]

An important thing

You cant say you know "basic match" and not know division

[balmy kettle]

i guarantee there's more if you don't even know how to open a scene. seriously, do yourself a favor and learn how to use the editor

[digital sparrow]

how are u gonna tell me wat i know bruh

[worldly cave]

We can extrapolate

[digital sparrow]

not fin argue w disc warriors bro

i appreciate the help regardless

[balmy kettle]

suit yourself. i definitely won't be helping you in the future 🤷‍♂️

[worldly cave]

You shouldnt

Go learn bruh

[digital sparrow]

I actually fwu too 🥲

[balmy kettle]

i don't care, i don't help people who refuse to bother learning the fundamentals

[digital sparrow]

Not that i didnt bother but life happens and we forget or overlook things sometimes

[balmy kettle]

you're refusing right now

[worldly cave]

Nobody faults you for not knowing, but more so your reaction in being told that you should

[digital sparrow]

How im literally reading the shit rn 😂

As we speak

[latent meadow]

cool deal, let's move on then

[plain iron]

I should have asked this yesterday but can someone tell me how to find unity assets or frankly prebuilt things in general that would properly fit the architecture of a planned game? Like how do unity assets even combine into the same project i imagine it would create various kinds of script incompatibility errors. Well anyways i do not want to reinvent the wheel so it'd be awesome i know where and what to get the things i need

[minor tangle]

you go to windows-> packet manager

everything is in there

[latent meadow]

unlike C++ issues, c# is more forgiving when it comes to multiple scripts. Namespaces can be used (should be) as needed. Most things JustWork™ . for art assets, you can search the Unity Asset Store,. in addition to myriad paid assets, there are over 10000 free ones

[minor tangle]

I have a technical question. my rig is broken... I rig a sprite. i put it in the scene, apply skin ,see the bones but they don't properly stay skinned. any ideas? this is kind of a hardcore questions but i hoe anyone knows

[plain iron]

I dont care about art, i mean like entirely pathfinding, grid systems, maybe some kind of ease of action queing system etc. And the 2nd part of the question is still on finding out what i need since im a beginner

[latent meadow]

Same Place. GitHub too

!learn

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[minor tangle]

any ideas?

like, I would expect the bone to move the head and top of torso,but it just doesn't

[latent meadow]

probably talk to #🏃┃animation or #🖼️┃2d-tools

[woeful ginkgo]

Does anyone know the name of this model? I need a obj file of it for a project

[latent meadow]

that looks like the model from UE.. let me see if i can recall the name of the asset

Advanced Locomotion System

[woeful ginkgo]

That the name?

[latent meadow]

of the asset, yes, of the model, no.

at least very similar.

[woeful ginkgo]

Freak

[latent meadow]

clown

[woeful ginkgo]

I really need a obj file of it

[woeful ginkgo]

Freak you

[latent meadow]

<@&502884371011731486> this person does not need to be here ^

[woeful ginkgo]

I needed the name of the model

[copper gust]

why would someone just randomly know that

[sage basin]

This isn't a Unity question, and whatever this is isn't welcome here either.

[copper gust]

ima send you a photo of a fork in my kitchen let me know the name of it

[woeful ginkgo]

Well sry

Ima go try and find the thing now:p

[plain moon]

Hello

I need help in unity

[latent meadow]

!ask

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[plain moon]

Im trying to fix fire button to canvas but not fixing

[latent meadow]

read the message. no need to ping me.

[plain moon]

Ok

So can you tell how

[latent meadow]

can you see this? sometimes these things do not show on phones. those are the instructions to follow

[plain moon]

Ok

[craggy walrus]

bonjours je viens de me faire deconecter de unity pour triche alors que je triche pas

[latent meadow]

English server. please use a translator.

[safe garden]

hi all, I don't know if anyone can help with this, never really worked with network objects or scripts and trying to setup something quite simple, just a spinning object. I applied the script like some of the other objects in this scene, but whenever I play the scene the object is moved down underground. It spins fine, but I want the object to stay where it is placed in the scene, right now the scene plays and its lowered about 5 meters down

I thought it might have something to do with initial position settings in 'spinning object' dialog, but when I set those to 0 it still had the same issue

[latent meadow]

i have not played with networking in a while.. is that a custom networking setup/scripts/backend? or is that Unity Netcode and i just do not recognize its new iteration?

[safe garden]

ooo I don't know, would have to ask a team mate regarding that - I'm just chucking assets in engine! I can ask and come back here with that, I just figured it might be a simple fix

but will find out

[violet thunder]

What does the SpinningObject script exactly do to the position?

Maybe you can just comment that part out in the code so it doesn't modify the position

[safe garden]

@violet thunder will try that - ty

[cold sky]

So, position constraint component, Unity docs setting up an example of using it for a row of ducks, but does it actually work?
How do I set it up for a row of ducks? If you just connect ducks to each other the row would keep stretching

...or they just move like one which means no turning

I would expect it to have like "follow in radius" mode, it doesn't do that?

[slow dirge]

I think depends on its settings. Haven't used that component in a very long time.

[cold sky]

I can't make a working setup even combining it with a lookat constraint

[oblique cobalt]

Is there any way to ignore certain prefab changes? Specifically for purposes of the visual "changed" indicator

eg I want to have a prefab which is able to be instanced, and then have it's transform modified without dirtying the prefab changed thing, I want to save that indicator for actually interesting property changes

Also when editing a prefab I have a skybox, how can I adjust that to a 2d solid colour? Is that possible? I know unity is built to be primarily 3d.

For the scene view itself I can change that under cmd+9 (lighting) > env > skybox mat to none

[violet thunder]

There's a setting that lets you choose which scene is used for prefab previews

[oblique cobalt]

Thanks I'll have a bit better of a google haha

[violet thunder]

Oh also apparently you can change the background color

[oblique cobalt]

is that under lighting?

[violet thunder]

Preferences

I just searched "prefab"

[oblique cobalt]

I can see background now 👍

It seems to still be a skybox though

wereas if I switch back out to scene:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/we-cant-change-the-skybox-for-the-prefab-editing-scene/741321

"fixed" but no link or reference

nothing more painful haha

Maybe via the scripting API

Is it technically called the preview scene?

[frozen shore]

how do i fix these weird textures

[violet thunder]

@oblique cobalt You can set a custom scene for prefab editing here^
In Project settings > Editor

[oblique cobalt]

ahuh called preview scene apparently

Got it, thank you @violet thunder ❤️

[violet thunder]

Did you put a normal map into the color texture slot or something

[frozen shore]

no

i did extract textures

[violet thunder]

What is it supposed to look like?

Show the texture's import settings and the material too

[oblique cobalt]

Is there any default way to give a game object a in-depth textual explaination or any other way to "document" things within the editor? I'd like to describe why the scene is setup that way if possible, I could use a single empty "README" gameobject with a text comonent I guess?

Probably some editor setup for that specifically just wanted to check there is nothing people can think of builtin?

[violet thunder]

Don't think there's anything built-in for that, no

Another thing you can do is something like cs public class ReadmeComponent : MonoBehaviour { [TextArea] public string text; }

Do whatever suits you best

[oblique cobalt]

You legend, I literally had that minus the attribute and was googling around for if there was any rich text support and had settled on doing a customeditor just to expand the text area 😆

That saves me the customeditor at least

I think I've given up on rich text or WYSIWYG for now lol

maybe if I use the Readme a lot

[violet thunder]

Sorry I don't know much about embedded materials - you might want to ask #🔀┃art-asset-workflow anyway

(That's a lot of materials though)

[storm patio]

you could use this to like, have 2 modes
edit the text with rich text tags, then display the formatted text
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/StyledText.html#editor-gui

-# at least, i think so, based on docs. i don't have experience with this kind of thing myself

[plucky aspen]

quick question about repositories:
i made a file for a college game and then had to duplicate it for an editor version switch.
If I can't find it on the repositories list but its on Unity Cloud, what do I do to make it show on the repo list?

i.e. from laptop to pc

nvm i found it. i just misnamed it-

[violet thunder]

Yes you can just GUILayout.Label the text with a GUIStyle that has richText enabled - needs a custom editor but nothing too complex
Or without a custom editor you can just use OnValidate and update a Text component I guess @oblique cobalt

[copper gust]

Anchoring

[foggy widget]

whicu channel is good for visual scripting
my uni is making me do visual scripting rather than code and i swear this is harder than advanced physics
actually considering dropping this subject atp 💀

nvm theres a visual scripting category didnt see that

[sly lake]

You can test this in the editor by setting the resolution / aspect ratio of the game window.

Ultrawide isn't that hard, just move things to the side. It's 16:10 you gotta look out for.

[stone sundial]

guys, is it possible to open a python game using unity?

[vivid cedar]

wdym by "open" it?

You can run any program you want on a windows or linux PC with https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.diagnostics.process.start?view=net-10.0

but that will run it as a completely separate program.

[stone sundial]

code a python game then use unity to open it using scripts

[vivid cedar]

Like this yes

I don't really understand why you want to do this though

[storm patio]

you still didn't really clarify what you mean by "open"

[gusty abyss]

Hello, I want to learn to make 3D games with Unity. Where can I find an up-to-date tutorial / course? I know a bit of C# already.

[stone sundial]

is there a code that opens files using unity? that is my only question

[vivid cedar]

!learn

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[vivid cedar]

I already showed you

[stone sundial]

thx

[raw apex]

when urp shadows suck, time to use decals instead
urp left decal right

[gusty abyss]

Thank you! I take a look in here.

[rough field]

The URP shadow looks more like a shadow then the decal

sounds like you just want hard shadows

[raw apex]

I want shadows that capture all details of my vehicle

I can tweak the colour etc to be exactly like the urp shadow, I could blur it with distance, I just want a shadow that's not poor quality. my decal works even at 500m distance

[hazy furnace]

Wait is unity hub supposed to be downloaded from unity cloud now?

I remember it wasn't this way before

[near wigeon]

things change 🤷‍♂️

[south burrow]

Question, how do I spawn a mesh (regular mesh) cause I want to use it for collision after the execution of a particle system?

[stuck flower]

Make a prefab of it, call Instantiate on that prefab

[gray frigate]

this kind of lighting should be fine with a pretty low lightmap resolution

the weird blotchiness makes me think you have other issues

[gray frigate]

a mesh is just a blob of triangles

if you want to create an object that uses a mesh for collision, slap a MeshCollider onto an empty object and plug the mesh in

(and then make a prefab out of it, as digiholic suggested!)

[south burrow]

Got it

[viscid monolith]

Hey, I need help with main camera. I’ve been doing everything I turn on post processing and main camera. It’s sort of volume layer. I put it on everything and URP won’t show on my camera at all. I need help.

[near wigeon]

show relevant info, with screenshots

[vivid cedar]

• What are you trying to do?
• How did you try to do it?
• What's happening that you don't expect?

[viscid monolith]

Well, I checked off post processing inside of main camera render and nothing shows that I did with urp

[vivid cedar]

What are you trying to accomplish? Just disabling postprocessing?

[viscid monolith]

This is the area with urP and without urP

And I have post processing check on the main camera

[vivid cedar]

What do you mean "with URP and without URP"?

URP is a project-wide thing

you're either using URP or you're using a different pipeline (BiRP, HDRP)

[near wigeon]

where is the Volume in screenshots

is this like a decompiled project? 🙄

[viscid monolith]

What I mean was the game that I’m looking at has urp in the game that was inside of the camera doesn’t have it even though I checked off post process

[viscid monolith]

No

Guys, I got it working thanks for all your help

[vivid cedar]

I'll be honest I have no idea what you are saying.

My best guess is a confusion between "URP" and "post processing"

[craggy pollen]

he posted about this in the pp channel too

[brisk trail]

was trying to animate a simple box button to learn the animator, but for some reason when i click the button there's a big delay before the animation plays

what's the issue here?

[craggy pollen]

uncheck has Exit time

[storm patio]

and/or remove transition duration

[brisk trail]

yeah, but now it isnt automatically toggling back to the unclicked state

[craggy pollen]

that has nothing to do with the issue you mentioned

show us the transition that goes back

[brisk trail]

it's the one in the image

[craggy pollen]

do you have defined any conditions for the transition? otherwise it goes back automatically

otherwise #🏃┃animation for further animation related questions

[steel thicket]

hi guys. im trying to make a 2d sprite using the urp in unity 6 blurry but im having some issues, could anybody help me?

im quite of a beginner

[vivid cedar]

!ask

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[drowsy hull]

Eughhh, 6 months away from tutorials, I've forgotten 90% of what I learned and now I can't figure out how to do simple things anymore.

[worldly cave]

honestly no shame in starting over

!learn

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[worldly cave]

there might be a lot that you do know that you arent aware of

[drowsy hull]

I know, I just don't want to have to start over again

I learn best by doing, and I've already done it all, I don't wanna do the same exercises again. If I try and read the tutorials, nothing is gonna stick.

I also left off 87% of the way through the pathway course, so I'm like "I am so close to the end, I just wanna finish it"

[lapis gate]

just make some simple game

do like snake or galaga

[drowsy hull]

The things I'm capable of making currently wouldn't help me with my current exercise

lol, you think I'm way more experienced than I actually am

[balmy kettle]

go through the earlier lessons as a refresher then

[lapis gate]

having some project to focus on gives you more direction on what to research

[drowsy hull]

Well the exercise it's given me is a breakout game, so I do have a game to work with. I'm just struggling with the actual exercise of "Implement data persistence between scenes"

[lapis gate]

that's a little more intermediate honestly

I'd just do single scene breakout and say f that

[drowsy hull]

Well the exercise is data persistance, so that's what I gotta do

It's just tricky because something I've always struggled with is how to reference data

[lapis gate]

It's helpful in the long run, yeah. But loading everything upfront nowadays isn't that big of a problem, especially for smaller games.

[drowsy hull]

I can try and use the prior tutorials to help me, but they were about colour and a lot of stuff had already been set up in different scripts, the final exercise is all about text and that change in the data type is screwing with my head because now I can't just copy the previous tutorials to make it work

[polar basalt]

what other issues could it be? i switched to smth else for the moment but just for a future reference

[balmy kettle]

so go through the beginning lessons in the pathway to refresh your memory on how to do things

sitting in discord whining about how you can't remember how to do this stuff is going to get you literally nowhere, but if you actually make an effort to go over that content again you'll probably find you are picking it up much easier this go around and you may even gain a better understanding

[teal plover]

Hi, i am new with Unity and i got a task from course i am taking via school. It's to make an 2D game. I am trying to make kinda of horror house puzzle game called House of Echoes. But i am having problems finding the right assets for it. Example is tilemap etc. If someone can help me it would greatly help me in speeding things up.

[craggy pollen]

itch io is a nice place for 2d art

you can find free and paid assets there

[teal plover]

i tried there but i didn't get much results in finding tilemaps for 2D maybe i didn't look good or smth

[craggy pollen]

maybe

[worldly cave]

what?

those are very common

https://itch.io/game-assets/tag-tilemap

you litterally just have to google "itchio tilemaps" and thats it....

[teal plover]

wow

sry i was looking like 2D tilemaps horror house etc those kind of things

and thats why i got so little results

[craggy pollen]

whats is up with all these horror games every one wants to make horror games suddenly

[teal plover]

nah

i just wanted for it to have eerie feeling

wanted it to be unique for the task

[craggy pollen]

yeah just joking

[worldly cave]

optimizing searching stuff is a life skill

it gets better over time i suppose

[teal plover]

fair

[obtuse ridge]

Hello, I'm new here I'd like to ask some questions for how do I work with unity as I am working with something at the moment and I am pretty confused over it, at that I had to work all by myself with youtube and yeah I'm pretty lacking over knowledge over this program

[craggy pollen]

and what is your actual question now?

[worldly cave]

!ask

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
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[glass ether]

Im making a vr game and how do i export the file cuz when u build the apk and try and go to where i saved it i CANT FIND IT please help

[near wigeon]

so did it say it completed the build succesfully in the console?

[glass ether]

lemme see

emmm

[obtuse ridge]

I tried looking up stuff, the problem is rather just for me so I can't find any solutions, I included the screenshot, as you can see exporting is greyed out, I did try both T pose buttons but they're still grey

[worldly cave]

is this for vrchat?

[near wigeon]

that outta do it "failed"

[teal plover]

i try to use tilemap and nothing shows on the desktop?

[worldly cave]

what are you expecting to show up on your desktop?

[glass ether]

olk so what should i do

[obtuse ridge]

Yes, but I did ask in their server but they didn't properly respond to me/help me

[worldly cave]

we cant really help you here

[teal plover]

tile pallete that i am drawing ;-;

[worldly cave]

for third party assets

you need to find help with them

we can only really help with unity vanilla problems

[teal plover]

doesnt even work with vanila tile pallete

[worldly cave]

i was talking to the other person

[obtuse ridge]

Ah I see, thank you for your time

[worldly cave]

anyways im confused as to what you meant by desktop

[teal plover]

meant this mb

[near wigeon]

so is this a new project or what ?

[glass ether]

yep just started

[teal plover]

for some reason when i click left click it goes to an eye dropper

ima restart app

[craggy pollen]

making a vr game as a beginner can be a little bit overwhelming, i would recommend you start with some basic stuff first

[near wigeon]

did you make sure you selected the correct options in the project settings or set it to Android ?
Idk much about VR but there should be the same settings

[glass ether]

i might be on the wrong editor version so im switching

[near wigeon]

make sure the android SDK is properly installed for the version of unity you're using or you might get wrong API versions

[untold gull]

Can someone help me to figure why my model is missing faces when I import it from blender to unity, also my textures on the wall don't show up

[worldly cave]

almost certainly flipped normals

[untold gull]

I should do shift + n ?

[vivid cedar]

you should turn on the face orientation visualization in blender and flip the normals that are incorrect.

[untold gull]

how do I turn on face orientation visualization

[vivid cedar]

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.91/editors/3dview/display/overlays.html
Find "face orientation"

[untold gull]

ty

[teal plover]

eh somehow i cant go into draw mode

[untold gull]

is it me or everything seems alright ?

[craggy pollen]

ehm you have not turned the gizmos on

[teal plover]

can draw on right side but not on the Scene

[craggy pollen]

should be some kind of lines facing into the direction

[untold gull]

how do I turn the gizmos on

[teal plover]

anyone knows fix plz

[worldly cave]

what is that other mesh?

[untold gull]

what other mesh ?

the castle collision ?

[worldly cave]

yes

[vivid cedar]

yes this looks ok to me

[untold gull]

it's for the collision but I moved it

[untold gull]

but it still have the problem

[worldly cave]

show us your import settings in unity

[vivid cedar]

(also your export settings from blender)

[worldly cave]

well theres a lot of things wrong with whats pictured here

but i dont think any of it could cause your current issue

what happens if you swap the materials on the mesh?

add a basic material to everything

actually 🧐

i cant even remember what this does

[gray frigate]

this just means you won't have any normal vectors

winding order (the order in which the vertices are connected to form a triangle) is what determines whether or not you have a frontface or a backface

You should absolutely be importing or calculating normals

i'm not clear on how lighting even works without that

[worldly cave]

also good opportunity to fix those export settings

[gray frigate]

the export settings look fine to me

[worldly cave]

Z up

-y forward

[gray frigate]

oh right! I've never actually changed those, so I didn't notice

I was looking at the Apply Scalings and apply Transform options

[worldly cave]

aslo exporting all object types

if there are other object types in the scene or children of the mesh

they will appear as empties in unity

[gray frigate]

you also get the MAXIMUM INTENSITY LIGHT

[untold gull]

oh that's why I found the light was a bit too intense

do someone have a tutorial for blender to unity cuz I'm a bit los

also is unity 2022 version is a good version or is it trash ?

[lapis gate]

Could be considered the standard nowadays

[visual python]

learn blender before unity

[untold gull]

I did

[visual python]

makes unity seem like a cakewalk lol

[untold gull]

I'm already a bit experienced

I meant a tutorial for importing a model from blender to unity

[visual python]

however im struggling to find out how to connect a cloth bone to a chest...

[untold gull]

oh

[visual python]

typically export using fbx and then import by dragging the folder in by your downloads

but i also assume its differing from what ur trying to do

[untold gull]

btw please tell me that unity support blender rigs and animation ??

[visual python]

iffy

but yeah

[untold gull]

okay thx

[visual python]

i assume it should since itll pick up rigs from blender

[untold gull]

that's what I did but I think what I did wrong is in the export and import settings

I'm going to search on ytb

[visual python]

leaf bones?

[visual python]

this makes her chest clip through a damn solid chest plate

cant figure out how to fix that

[distant coyote]

can someone help me out with how to make level design

trying to do a map for a fast-phased 3d platformer which has wall run, grappling, etc. but takes place in a office so does anyone have any tips

[worthy socket]

what do you need help with?

[stark quiver]

anyone have some c# resources

[distant coyote]

so i want to make a still going office not like ruined kind of. So no random gaps but this makes the player say "Just walk" and i want to prevent this

[worthy socket]

i'm not sure i understand everything but i would say that you would need to have some monsters or challenge, or something breaking to make the player jump over stuff maybe?

[distant coyote]

in the story we are the ceo and the objective is to fire employees with low efficiency (and also the mc is robot) so, it would be weird to be a monster or some kind of threat in a working office and i couldn't think of a challenge do you have any ideas?

[stuck flower]

If you don't even know what the conflict is then you appear to not actually have a game idea, you just want to make an office

[boreal river]

Hello, guys! You kno I have a question. I am making a 2D Arcade Game in Unity and it will be played on an Arcade Cabinet / Machine. I was wondering what is the Input System of an Arcade Machine. It will feature both Single-Player & Two-Player modes.

[gray frigate]

that's going to be hardware-dependent

I bet the cabinet is a Windows machine, and the controls are presented to Windows as a generic gamepad

but that's just my bet 😉

[boreal river]

By the way, its not my Arcade Machine XD

Its for college, our coordinator and one of our teachers they have made their own Arcade Machine its only the monitor and the analogs and all these stuff its not full cabinet yet but it will be soon

As an assignment we have to make an Arcade Game to play on the Machine

I was just wondering what are the inputs

[balmy kettle]

surely you could ask the instructors who are literally designing it?

[boreal river]

Yes I know but I am not there right now XD

I mean its not generic?

I dont think it has a difference

[balmy kettle]

well nobody here is either, and only the people putting it together would know for sure

[stuck flower]

It could be. It could also not be

[storm patio]

one of the input systems for an arcade machine are fed through pokey chips which are copyrighted and thus illegal for you to use, not sure unity has a driver for pokey chips

[boreal river]

They said it will be developed in Unity

[stuck flower]

I've seen custom arcade cabinets that are basically just xbox controllers and I've seen some that literally feed into wires soldered into a PCB

[boreal river]

does it matter?#

[storm patio]

yes

[stuck flower]

So, there's not really anything any of us can say

[storm patio]

if it didn't, you wouldn't be asking

[stuck flower]

You could just make a generic one and change the mappings if it doesn't work. That's what the Input System is for

[boreal river]

So, I can't make a 2D Arcade game on Arcade Machine you mean?

[gray frigate]

we have no idea what this machine is

[storm patio]

nobody said that

[boreal river]

With Unity I mean?

[gray frigate]

how long is a piece of string?

[storm patio]

where did you get that from

[stuck flower]

What machine

Is this a PC with an Xbox-branded Fightpad or is this like an original Pac-Man machine you're sideloading a ROM onto

[storm patio]

you're basically asking us, "i have this black box that i don't know anything about. tell me about this box"

[boreal river]

What else bro

[gray frigate]

"arcade machine" is a category of things

what color is a cat?

[boreal river]

like this

[gray frigate]

this question has no meaningful answer

[storm patio]

actually that machine, or did you just pull that from google

it's the insides that matter

[boreal river]

But its not the whole cabinet

its only the monitor and the analogs for now

[stuck flower]

Yes, we all know what an Arcade Cabinet looks like

That's not the question

[storm patio]

you could make this cabinet with a windows pc.
you could make this cabinet with a raspberry pi.
you could make this cabinet with a pcb.

[stuck flower]

Is this actually running on a Rampage Machine because if so then that's answerable

An "arcade input" can be literally any input device. It can be an Xbox controller. It could be a keyboard. It could be a fuckin mouse. The actual buttons and stick do not determine how the device is actually read from

[boreal river]

I think its windows pc

[storm patio]

cool, what input devices can interface onto a windows pc

those are your "arcade machine inputs"

[stuck flower]

None of this matters anyway because the entire point of the Input System is to create actions and assign functions to those instead of tying it directly to hardware input anyway

[polar basalt]

ive asked this some long time ago, but seriously, whenver i make a new project, it takes like 5 seconds to load into playmode, and i have tested it into my own game, where i have very complex scripts, geometry and so on, and it is instant whenever i want to playtest

is there some setting or something?

[balmy kettle]

your project that loads into it quickly likely has domain reloading disabled.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/domain-reloading.html

[worthy socket]

maybe some stuff falls on the side like a bunch of box with stuff in it?

[polar basalt]

oh wow you are right

is that bad?

[balmy kettle]

i mean, that means there's extra work you gotta do, per the documentation i linked, but it's not bad

[stuck flower]

It means that if you make changes in code then go straight into play mode, those changes might not be in there

[balmy kettle]

nah, domain still reloads after a recompile. it means that statics aren't reset

[polar basalt]

oh yeah i have to wait some time otherwise everything breaks

[balmy kettle]

auto asset refresh disabled means code may not immediately recompile on change

[stuck flower]

Oh, I thought it was the other way around. I thought a reload triggered the recompile

[polar basalt]

oh i thought statics not reseting was something normal

[balmy kettle]

nope, that's caused by the domain not being reloaded

[polar basalt]

yeah i noticed that because if domain refreshes when i make changes to code the statics get reset too

wow i thought thats normal.. eh its alright anyway

you get used to it

as long as it doesnt mess up anything

[balmy kettle]

yeah, if you're writing your code in a way that compensates for it, then having domain reload disabled is great. just read through that page i linked to see what all it affects so you fully understand everything you need to do
also i saw that either 6.4 or 6.5 has a new attribute that will generate code to reset statics for you so it's even easier to manage (though i already wrote my own source generator to do it)

[polar basalt]

i mean, all of the code that i have compensates for it and has no issue as i thought its normal, also thats really nice and yes imma check it out right now

[outer path]

Hello

[untold gull]

does anyone knows how I can add a zone where when I enter inside it play a background music ?

[balmy kettle]

look up trigger colliders

[untold gull]

ok thx

[gray frigate]

entering play mode in under a second is Very Cool

designing for Domain Reload being disabled has helped me to avoid leaving "garbage" behind

e.g. having a player object subscribe to input action events, but never unsubscribing

which would also cause problems if I started destroying and re-creating the player!

[untold gull]

hey I managed to do it but how can I add some sort of fade in and fade out ?

[balmy kettle]

do you mean for the audio?

[gray frigate]

instead of just playing/stopping the audio, consider slowly changing its volume

(and playing/stopping it if necessary)

Mathf.MoveTowards is handy for this

float target = inZone ? 1 : 0;

source.volume = Mathf.MoveTowards(source.volume, target, Time.deltaTime / 3); // this will be a 3 second fade

to decide if you should play or stop it, you'd do something like...

float oldVolume = source.volume;
// mess with the volume

if (oldVolume == 0 && source.volume > 0)
  source.Play();
else if (oldVolume != 0 && source.volume == 0)
  source.Stop();

[untold gull]

in which script do I implement this

oh I get it wait

[gray frigate]

importantly, you need to remember whether the player is in or out of the zone, so you'd add a field to the script (inZone, in my example) to store that

this is pretty much exactly what I've done for area-based audio in my VRChat worlds

[untold gull]

hey I have another question

I don't have the bar at the top where I can activate gizmos or diable shaders

how do I activate it

[balmy kettle]

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

[untold gull]

ty

I have a character controller asset but not from the unity store and when I import it on unity 2022 version everything is fine but when I import it in the newest version there a script errors and textures are missing

could someone tell me how to fix that

[balmy kettle]

the errors would point to what is wrong and you just need to fix them. as for missing textures, do you mean they appear to be magenta? because that means that the render pipeline their shaders are for is not compatible with the pipeline you use in your project so they need to be converted (presumably to URP which has a material converter that works for non-custom shaders)

[untold gull]

oh I see now thx

[languid sonnet]

You guys know some good places to learn C# other than the Unity documents?

[balmy kettle]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in #💻┃code-beginner

[untold gull]

anyone knows how I can update the input system ?

[balmy kettle]

!input

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How to Set Input

To set Active Input Handling, go to:
Project Settings > Player > Active Input Handling

• Input Manager (Old): Use the original Input settings.
• Input System Package (New): Uses the new input system package.
• Both: Use both systems.

[vestal seal]

Does anyone know what this means? I’m new to this and I’m trying to make a vr chat avatar so everything’s from scratch

[copper gust]

!vrchat

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

[vestal seal]

Thank you I just thought maybe since I’m doing this in unity to ask here

[balmy kettle]

the message is also pretty self-explanatory unless this is literally your first few minutes on unity. "waist" is not a child of "hip"

[frosty path]

hey i was wondering if anyone could help me with an issue of exporting a model from unity to blender

[digital sparrow]

yeo

does anyone know a tool for resizing abnormally large obj models

without blender

[copper gust]

blender

[digital sparrow]

fuck blender

[slow dirge]

Change the scale in the import settings in unity.

[digital sparrow]

problem is its a door, i literally have to scale it down to .02 and that messes with the hindge joint and boxz collider

and its not just me working on it so i dont want people to get confused

ill just resize in blender bro

[slow dirge]

Import settings scale should have the same effect as rescaling in blender.

Not sure why you think it's related to physics and collider.

[untold gull]

OOOO TYSM

[digital sparrow]

ok bro

just realized your talking about import settings mb

[charred fog]

@stark quiver Don't post off-topic images. See #📖┃code-of-conduct

[lapis gate]

jokes on you, I prefer c++

[slow dirge]

Probably not. I've never seen a case of someone wanting to move to a different engine in the middle of the project. And code is probably the least of your issues in that regard. I'd worry more about asset workflow differences.

Wrong server...

!collab

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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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[sharp roost]

generative ai tools are defined as "software applications that use machine learning models, such as LLMs and GANs, to create new content—text, images, code, audio, or video—based on user prompts" so does that mean if i use chatgpt to help me code a unity game i have to label my game as "used generative ai tools"?

[slow dirge]

I think code is quite a grey area. Technically it applies, but there's no real way to enforce it.

[slow dirge]

Is that a declaration for steam publishing?

[mystic oriole]

Am I going crazy or do materials in URP just look blurry at a distance?

[lapis gate]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap

[sharp slate]

I am going off to college soon a looking for a laptop, do any of you guys have experience coding on a thinkpad, specifically the X1 Carbon?

[latent meadow]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1249155543264657408

[latent meadow]

<@&502884371011731486> ^

read the #📖┃code-of-conduct . there is no place for this here. stick to Unity subject only.

[charred fog]

@drifting zodiac There's no off-topic here.

[drifting zodiac]

I'm talking about the tool in Unity.

[charred fog]

@drifting zodiac You want to do marketing, do that somewhere else

[drifting zodiac]

I'm not trying to market anything; I'm gathering ideas from people to develop a project.

[charred fog]

If you don't have a Unity engine related question, don't spam the channel.

[drifting zodiac]

My friend, that's exactly my problem! I'm collecting data in Unity by finding things that are difficult for humans to do, for artificial intelligence purposes.

[charred fog]

!mute 291341238274097153 3d Ignoring warnings, off-topic spam

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@kuta.y muted

Reason: Ignoring warnings, off-topic spam
Duration: 3 days

[latent meadow]

Literally called Market Research.

[sharp roost]

no something i saw on a unity article showcasing a game saying it wasnt using generative ai tools

[rare cliff]

Which collider should I use for the house—a Box Collider or a Mesh Collider—such that the house acts like a solid wall, while the windows and doors remain distinct entities?🤔 🤔 🤔

[latent meadow]

Are the doors and windows separate, or is it one big block model?

[rare cliff]

For Windows and for remote use, I deleted the face using Blender software.

[latent meadow]

so, you intend for the door and windows to be walk-through portals?

[rare cliff]

Yes

Which collider should I use for a multiplayer game?

[latent meadow]

well.. a single big block collider would not work then. you would either use multiple box colliders and assemble them properly, or use a mesh collider.

of course, a mesh collider is dependent on them being actual separate entities

[rare cliff]

ok i try using Mesh Colliders

[latent meadow]

you can use box colliders for the door and windows. the house is not a box, so a box collider would not work, since you want portals. use a mesh collider on the house model, and box colliders on the windows and door. they Must be separate

[pliant sable]

how do i get the resident role

[latent meadow]

also, multiple box colliders for the house Might be cheaper than a mesh collider. all psrt of tests you will need to do.

[latent meadow]

it is selectively given based on time here, and useful participation. maybe ask again in a year

[pliant sable]

a year?? damn

[rare cliff]

And Tress, vehicles, Rocks Which collider use Mesh or Box

[latent meadow]

it literally depends on the accuracy you require. the more accurate, the more expensive.

start with box, until you have a reason not to.

[rare cliff]

I am creating a Battle Royale mobile game with multiple maps.

[pliant sable]

okay so i need some help here. my game is extremely laggy since there are tens of thousands of assets (trees rocks bushes etc) and even after adding occlusion culling AND LODs, it still never gets above 20 fps. are there any more ways to improve fps?

[latent meadow]

what pipeline?

[rare cliff]

URP

[latent meadow]

are you using batching?

[pliant sable]

dalright im getting ignored

[rare cliff]

means

[pliant sable]

im sorry for interrupting your very important conversation

[latent meadow]

that was directed at the other guy

[pliant sable]

i shall now excuse myself

[solid yew]

how many draw calls do you have? are you using GPU instancing?

[rare cliff]

ok, sorry

[pliant sable]

i lwk dont know what this is 💀

i only started using unity in january and took a 1 month break\

i still have a lot of stuff to learn

[solid yew]

alright I see, google them

and batching

[latent meadow]

https://unity.com/resources/ultimate-guide-to-profiling-unity-games-unity-6
https://unity.com/resources/console-pc-game-performance-optimization-unity-6

[pliant sable]

i cant enable gpu instancing because i made the models in blender so the materials are read only

[latent meadow]

!learn

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[solid yew]

yes you can, you need to make new materials in unity

[copper gust]

make the materials in unity

[pliant sable]

...
there are like what hundreds of materials

[rare cliff]

[pliant sable]

well i mean most of them are duplicates so ig i can discard them

is there a way to just edit them anyways?

[rare cliff]

tools

[pliant sable]

whta tools

like an addon or smth?\

i forgot what unity calls them

so the same type of thing as probuilder right? that is in the tools tab

[rare cliff]

check your message

DM

[copper gust]

dont do this thanks

we avoid dm help here

[rare cliff]

this is scret tool

i have pro tools using for scripts

[copper gust]

its not a secret

it's something you could easily find on google

or if you dont wanna import anything you can just ctrl + d to duplicate the material/asset

[pliant sable]

what is it called?

pro tools?

[copper gust]

that other person is being weird idk

[rare cliff]

only direct message

DM

[copper gust]

@pliant sable just a suggestion from a stranger

dont download scripts from strangers who refuse to post them publicly

<@&502884371011731486> weird vibe

[pliant sable]

obviously

thats screaming malware

[rare cliff]

hey i was just kidding

[pliant sable]

this guy be giving off indian vibes for some reason

[rare cliff]

I want to talk to this brother just like that

[south burrow]

Hey, I have a question, how do I set my subemitter to be triggered after the death of my particle system instead of death of individual particles

[latent meadow]

best to ask #✨┃vfx-and-particles

[latent meadow]

use threads if you have anything legitimate to contribute. also, see #📖┃code-of-conduct

[copper gust]

The reason is racism, fuck off with that kinda energy

[pliant sable]

okay mb

[latent meadow]

make sure to read the #📖┃code-of-conduct

[south burrow]

Alright done

[pliant sable]

why cant i react?

[south burrow]

Probably has react turned off

Its a setting

[latent meadow]

you can. within the bounds of the linked rules. also, keep in mind, this is more of a professional setting (that is the intent) .. oh maybe i misunderstood what you meant by react

[pliant sable]

oh didnt know that was a thing

brb

[charred fog]

!warn 1369226694480756736 Don't spam off-topic on the server. And don't need racist comments here.

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@zyqwyx warned

Reason: Don't spam off-topic on the server. And don't need racist comments here.
Duration: Permanent

[charred fog]

Or anywhere really.

[copper gust]

theres the other weird dm person too

[charred fog]

@rare cliff Don't spam off-topic here as well. Keep to the constructive activities.

[rare cliff]

No, I am not doing any spam, I don't even know how to spam, I am an individual game developer like you all.

[charred fog]

Don't solicit DMs on the server or post off-topic.

[rare cliff]

If I have made a mistake, I apologize for it.

[latent meadow]

"Spam" refers to unsolicited, unhelpful, repetitive, and/or annoying messages/posts, off-topic, solicitation, etc

[rare cliff]

Ok

[ocean pumice]

Just want to confirm, that the new Unity Studio publish link thinks, its on a desktop browser when opened on iOS. Did anyone try this yet and experienced the same behaviour?

[pliant sable]

permanant?

[slow dirge]

Forever warned

[latent meadow]

it is explained in the #📖┃code-of-conduct you were directed to

[odd patio]

im playing a 2020 unity game and im trying to find out how to disable pbr. i cant find a command line, should i look inside the asset files? i can just erase the pbrs?

not that i think there would really be a cmd for disabling pbr

or maybe add a config file in the app folder

[ocean pumice]

This sounds like some kind of modding, which is not supported/allowed on this server. But apart from that, how do you think, "disabling" pbr should work? its not just a toggle on a material to turn off or on

[odd patio]

no, the developer did not add an option for it.

[latent meadow]

as mentioned, this is not something that is covered here. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[odd patio]

hate to burst anyones bubble but putting stuff on the internet strips all private aspects 😂

[latent meadow]

did you post that on the wrong server, or do you think you are making some sort of point that would change the rules here?

Regardless of the status of a particular game, modding and decompiling are not topics that are allowed to be discussed here, as the techniques and information can be used for nefarious purposes, as well as benign.

[copper gust]

It’s not banned to prevent nefarious reasons it’s just unity tos type shit

Most people here are pro modding but it’s an official unity server

[sly lake]

The idea that there should be an option to disable PBR is kinda funny ngl

[latent meadow]

DM @Unity ModMail for rule violations, moderation questions, role access, or other server concerns.

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[gaunt oar]

Hi

[gray flame]

Not sure if this is the right channel.... Any suggestions on how to go about finding playtesters for a prototype? I want to go beyond my friends but not so far as publishing it somewhere official. I have it hosted on my own website for testing.

[ocean pumice]

https://discussions.unity.com/tags/c/collaboration/46/non-commercial-collaboration-seeking/160018

[latent meadow]

you could also make a #1180170818983051344 and put a request there

[bleak sable]

Hello i was wondering if theres a waz to put rigidbodys have physics on waters or oceans (HDRP 6.3LTS)

[sly lake]

I don't think there's anything built in for this, but you can sample the water height and base it off that.

[bleak sable]

ok thank you

[sly lake]

Basic concept is just "if point of mass is below water surface, apply force upwards"

Then tune from there as you inevitably launch it into space on the first try

[surreal badge]

is there any good documentation for the EventSystem and InputSystemUIInputModule components at all? (also whoever named that one should be shamed 🤪)

[tidal helm]

hello I'm new to unity can someone help me pls ??

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[drifting solstice]

I can't rename anything. I couldn't find an appropriate channel so I'm just posting here. Does anyone have any ideas?

[latent meadow]

have you tried restarting UNity yet?

[limpid arch]

are you guys integrating llm code gen into your projects?

[void patrol]

restart unity, this happens sometimes

[latent meadow]

some are, some aren't. there is a #1202574086115557446 room for specific questions

[drifting solstice]

Restarting doesn't help

[void patrol]

set layout to default from top right

[latent meadow]

perhaps try deleting the Library and letting it rebuild. one thing.. assuming you are on Windows, are you sure your project folder is not controlled by OneDrive?

[drifting solstice]

That doesn't help either

[drifting solstice]

Project folder is not on one drive, I am on windows, and deleting the Library folder doesn't help

It's on a 16GB RAMDISK

[latent meadow]

perhaps you have a custom Editor script interfering

[void patrol]

im not sure then, when i have this problem a restart fixes it, maybe restart pc too

[stuck flower]

Try using F2 instead of the context menu

[drifting solstice]

I removed all my editor scripts and that didn't fix it

[drifting solstice]

Already have

[drifting solstice]

That works

weird

[stuck flower]

I think your mouse is clicking twice

So you edit it then click out of it at the same time

[latent meadow]

neat insight

[drifting solstice]

It's not

I think this might just be a very specific bug

[stuck flower]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[latent meadow]

It's Gremlins

[drifting solstice]

what's that?

[stuck flower]

It seems kind of hardware related, I don't know if it's a Unity issue

[drifting solstice]

hardware related??

[stuck flower]

It looks like it's opening the edit then deselecting it

You can see the selection goes gray

Something else is getting focused

[drifting solstice]

I don't see anything like this on any other application

[latent meadow]

Gremlins is a joke. originally used around WW2, i think, to describe unexplained aircraft malfunctions

[drifting solstice]

ah

I don't think unity is being unfocused at all

Submitted a bug report

[gray frigate]

I have an annoying issue where creating an asset from a context menu fails the first time I try it every once in a while

i wonder if there's any relation

[hidden grove]

In Unity, is it possible for the chest duration to continue even if we're not in the game? Is there such a system?

[copper gust]

chest duration?

[hidden grove]

box ? clash royale

[latent meadow]

save time left when exiting, and real world time. when going back in, compare times, do math

[hidden grove]

Can Unity do this? Let's say we set a 50-minute timer, but if we log in 10 minutes later, could it change to 40 minutes?

[vivid cedar]

it's not a unity question

it's just your code

And you would just use timestamps

[copper gust]

any chance your using probuilder? i dont have facts just a vibe

[vivid cedar]

i.e. save the expiration as a timestamp, not as a number of seconds. e.g. "box expires at 5pm" instead of "box expires in 50 minutes"

then all your code has to do is check the current time

[latent meadow]

neat

[gray frigate]

notably, the game client should not be responsible for "counting down"

[vivid cedar]

yep all times should be based on the server

[gray frigate]

otherwise your players will discover magical time dilation powers

[vivid cedar]

and validated by the server

[copper gust]

depends on the game 😛

[gray frigate]

going into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and getting 3,000 lootboxes

[vivid cedar]

Anyone do any Animal Crossing time travelling? 😛

[copper gust]

when i was like 15 i had a pretty ok time playing farmville 2 with time travel lowkey lol

[gray frigate]

I do have it installed, but I don't use it

I'll chuck it and see if the problem goes away

[copper gust]

nah i doubt it then

i just feel like sometimes probuilder window somehow eats some of my inputs

[gray frigate]

oh, actually, i also have these issues in my VRC projects

and i don't have it in there for sure

[craggy pollen]

test it out and see

[stuck flower]

Don't crosspost

[worldly cave]

or rather, delete the original when you post a second time in the correct channel lol

[hidden grove]

I just discovered that place, I'm not sharing it elsewhere.

[short night]

пацы, го материться

[latent meadow]

English server, please use a translator

[hidden grove]

Why doesn't Unity offer content for FPS games? They should have included a tutorial kit for HDRP and a weapon-based FPS game. Their tutorial kits are always 2D and low-poly style.

[latent meadow]

there is a whole multiplayer RPG game/tutorial/project called Boss Room, and much more. the few listed in hub are only a small sample

also, FPS turns into melee rpg pretty easily. that is all part of the learning process.

there quickly comes a point when you have to stop looking for the exact tutorial, and start applying what you've learned

[copper gust]

here u go

[hidden grove]

However, what I mean is a simple HDRP and FPS single-player tutorial set.

[worldly cave]

youre being a bit too picky at this point

[latent meadow]

functionally, there is no difference between URP and HDRP as far as a FPS tutorial goes.

[hidden grove]

Unity isn't selective; most games are low-poly style, and if Unity offered a simple tutorial for HDRP FPS, such games would become more widespread. I mean high quality fps like unreal engine fps game

[worldly cave]

i think you are placing too much importance on the pipeline here

[latent meadow]

no, such games would become more asset flips to try to make a penny. no one whould actually know what they are doing. hence the 'stop looking for exact tutorials and start applying what you've learned'

[copper gust]

if you can't put two different sample packs together you cannot make that kind of game

the tutorials should not be for "hdrp fps" because thats two things

teaching hdrp is completely seperate from teaching fps

[stuck flower]

Unity has approximately four templates that can be considered game genres at all and three of them are FPSes

I don't know what more you want other than "I shouldn't have to make a video game if I want to make a video game"

[copper gust]

pen + apple = penapple

[hidden grove]

Unreal Engine offers many assets for free, and high-quality graphics. What I mean is, we don't see many games like that from Unity; they make both 2D and low-poly games. Are there any Unity games that have come out recently with good graphics?

[stuck flower]

Unity also offers many assets for free. Both engines have god-awful asset flips that no one actually wants to play

[hidden grove]

I know about free assets, but higher quality ones are very expensive.

[worldly cave]

"Unity games that have come out recently with good graphics?"

yes

[worldly cave]

perfectly logical

[stuck flower]

• Good
• Fast
• Cheap

Pick two.

[worldly cave]

higher quality stuff is more expensive, incredible breakthrough

[hidden grove]

When I say "lol," I mean that Unreal Engine gives it away for free.

[worldly cave]

"free"

[stuck flower]

So then everyone uses them for cheap slop and now using the Unreal FPS template is a fast track to getting your game utterly ignored

Also,
https://assetstore.unity.com/top-assets/top-free

If you want to make something good, I'm afraid you'll need to put in effort.

If this is a deal breaker, maybe game development isn't for you

[hidden grove]

Just asking for FPS and HDRP tutorial sets doesn't make me a game developer 😄 lol . How are you going to make a game without knowing how to make a tutorial set for that? 😄 You're funny.

[stuck flower]

...by learning

[worldly cave]

you were shown multiple fps templates

[stuck flower]

Do you think literally every game that exists was made because someone made a tutorial on how to do that exact game

Is there a "Resident Evil Requiem" tutorial I missed somewhere

[worldly cave]

were you not at the seminar?

[stuck flower]

You learn things and then put them together in your specific ways for your specific ideas

There are many FPS templates. There are many HDRP tutorials. Take that peanut butter and dip it in that chocolate

[worldly cave]

also a lot of the problems you have here stem from the fact that you assume that the render pipeline has any importance to what you want to learn

because you keep saying "hdrp fps"

[copper gust]

Also just generally the biggest point here is engines have different interests, Unreal is built pretty heavily to do more "realistic" games, Unity is not

that is not by accident

Unity dominates multi platform usage with flexible hardware requirements