💻┃unity-talk

[ocean pumice]

enjoy 😄

[copper gust]

local fog solutions are relatively expensive to run

[ocean pumice]

"just learn unreal", love it 😄

[copper gust]

its why people struggle to run lethal company lol

[gray dirge]

Doesn't seem rocket science to me. If you are using HDRP, this should do https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition@14.0/manual/Local-Volumetric-Fog.html

URP doesn't have that so either upgrade to HDRP or try to find some third party asset that does that

[tall hearth]

the game doesnt just use sprites of fog generated from a particle effect / visual effects graph???

[copper gust]

of course not

full on hdrp fog bb

[tall hearth]

seems kinda pointless

[copper gust]

looks cool

[tall hearth]

maybe i wouldn't know i havent played the game myself

but i meant more so compared to the rest of the graphics in the game it feels silly to go high quality on the fox when most of everything is of lower poly

[copper gust]

your not wrong but it helps build the horror and isolation elements while also making environments feel bigger than they are

no fog vs fog

[tall hearth]

that's fair

[copper gust]

pretty heavy effect

[tall hearth]

well no i expected this but i thought it used a bunch of layered alpha sprites for the fog not something simulated

[sly lake]

Doesn't have to be if you don't go full-on volumetric lighting

You could just draw a cube that samples the depth texture like the old depth fog

[weak island]

is ragdoll that can split part with no instantiate is good way?

i only change part mesh and destroy joint

[ocean pumice]

Can you try to rephrase this, its quite hard to understand. Maybe use a tool to translate

[weak island]

shit

sorry

my english bad

[copper gust]

yeah thats a fine way to do it

[weak island]

When creating a ragdoll capable of segmentation, is it an efficient method to modify the mesh of desired parts and delete joint connection components without creating new objects? This is the method I am currently using.

[ocean pumice]

Thanks for rephrasing, this is way better to understand 🙂 But as IAmBatby already seemed to get your question, he answered it already 🙂

[weak island]

cool

[rare cliff]

netcode

is slow

this is cycle

and fusion is best

this is bike

[copper gust]

ok

[rare cliff]

what you says me use this netcode NGo

😡

[charred fog]

@rare cliff You need to finish any simplest single player project first is what everyone saying.

[rare cliff]

Hey, who the hell are you, bro?

I didn't speak to you..

[charred fog]

Don't spam the channel with off-topic. Read #📖┃code-of-conduct

[rare cliff]

Tell me—what exactly did I spam? My brother told me to use NGOs.

[charred fog]

For the last time, before you get muted. If you don't have anything constructive to say or ask, don't spam the channel.

[rare cliff]

It seems to me that you all are spamming, man. What did I spam? If I did spam, then remove it; I don't care.

[rare cliff]

But who are you, brother?

[ocean pumice]

Enjoy moderation at work

[charred fog]

!mute 1277129282187038784 3d Ignoring warnings, spam.

[vagrant root]

@anshukadyan03 muted

Reason: Ignoring warnings, spam.
Duration: 3 days

[tulip chasm]

can i ask something?

!ask

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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[tulip chasm]

I would like to create a game similar to Super Mario 64 (a vertical 3D adventure game) or a sim racing game (e.g., F1 25). I am aware that both games utilize physics engines and have complex mechanics. However, I would like to try making one at least once as a challenge. My areas of interest are Vulkan graphics and physics engines. I chose Vulkan graphics because I understand it is the latest graphics API.
Are there any books or resources related to this? Anything is fine!

[charred fog]

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

[pearl oyster]

If your goal is to make a game, it would seem strange that you'd start by reading about graphics APIs. Game engines usually abstract all that away so that you don't need to worry about them. If you're specifically interested in working directly with graphics engines then that's fine of course, but if you just want to make a game then that's digging a bit too deep at this stage

[tulip chasm]

okey, what i do? just make a game?

just give up graphics API?

[pearl oyster]

Learn the basics, then start making the game, and learn what you need as you go

I'm just saying that if you start studying graphics APIs now, it's probably going to go to waste because you'll never need that knowledge when making the game

[tulip chasm]

thanks.

[onyx stratus]

accidentally overwrote cube mesh data with spline extrude help pls my default cube is a spline now

[broken anchor]

does anyone know a good place to get narrative/writing feedback?

[latent meadow]

this server is not really suited for that, but you can make a #1180170818983051344 if you have a actual Unity project that you are working in. otherwise, best to google for a different server

[sly lake]

My advice, use DirectX12. It's the default and will therefor have fewer bugs + better driver support.
There's no substantial difference when you use Unity anyway.

The part where you "don't have to worry about it" is going to hold up 99% of the time. So keep it on the default unless you have a specific reason not to.

[south pawn]

from what i have experienced in my projects dx12 performs slightly worse than dx11 frames per second wise

or is there someting that i am missing

[sly lake]

Is that still a thing?

[vernal prawn]

where do I ask about materials

[lapis gate]

here usually unless more shader related

[vernal prawn]

Alright. I'm using the URP Lit material and setting the color alpha to 0 still has it visible?

[latent meadow]

scroll down in the material and turn off Maintain Specular Highlighting, or similar

oh, .. nm, i think you are having a different issue

[sly lake]

Isn't that an HDRP feature?

[latent meadow]

nope, it is in URP Lit too, unless they changed it on me recently

[vernal prawn]

that mostly did it. It's only SLIGHTLY visible

[sly lake]

Ah, no

At the top

[latent meadow]

Yeah, that's the one

[sly lake]

That's for glass materials, which are fully transparent but still reflective

[latent meadow]

right

Fedora just royally failed me, so i had to migrate to CachyOS. still getting up and running. Unity is not installed yet, so i cannot follow along/experiment

[random stirrup]

Any1 good in probuilder that can help me out ?

[balmy kettle]

!ask 👇 pay particular attention to the last few points

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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[rich sleet]

is there a way I can export that small icon of my prefab in a higher resolution and as a png?

[latent meadow]

that is not really how computer graphics work.. i mean, you could upscale it, but that would be blurry, low quality, etc. you can open your prefab and screenshot it, while actually bigger on your screen, as one easy route

[rich sleet]

I wasn't planning on screenshotting that small icon

bc of the resolution

the editor generates the "icon" of the prefab, and keeps it somewhere on my computer, right?

[copper gust]

the asset store should have some solutions for you

nothing unity provides by default, but if you wanted to code it yourself you'd be looking at render textures and code to export to png

[latent meadow]

even though it does, how does that help? you said you want it bigger and high rez. what would be on the system is small and low rez. you are taking the wrong approach. maybe check the asset store for thumbnailing assets in which you can control the size and location, or do as suggested and manually open the asset and screenshot the 3d model while it is bigger on the screen.

[rich sleet]

I might do that 3d screenshot, but now im trying to figure out how to keep a blank background for it

[copper gust]

its kept at a low resolution

[rich sleet]

ah then yeah no point

[latent meadow]

yeah, that gets into either writing code, making a custom level, or using one of the existing thumbnailing assets. check the store and github/google

if you've only got one or two things to do it with, probably just make a blank level. solid color background, no atmosphere, etc. place the model in the scene with a light, and screenshot, or use the internal ways of capturing it

[sly lake]

There’s solutions for icon generation on the asset store. Some free, some paid.

[balmy kettle]

those solutions typically just boil down to rendering the the object to a render texture and saving it to disk. it's fairly trivial to do so

[latent meadow]

them's fightin' words to us non-programmers 😄

[delicate elbow]

Im trying to make a ui element using splines, where the player fans out cards in their inventory which are towers they can then place. I follow this tutorial here, but it was a 2D game. Creating the same effect in my game looks very janky because i have to constnatly update the position of the spline to allign it with the camera. is there a better way to do this? Ie if theres a way to do splines in UI instead of just worldspace that would be nice. (https://youtu.be/hmIS2iBe-iQ?si=-42szt5nwsbde-Lq)

[lapis gate]

doesnt really need a spline. An animation curve should suffice

cause if you normalize an animation curve 0 to 1 on the x and y then you just line it up with screen coordinates if you think about it

[storm patio]

now that i think about it, animation curves work on splines, don't they

[potent geyser]

I recently did something similar, you definitely don't need to use splines. I wouldn't even recommend it.

[storm patio]

or at least, bezier curves/splines?

[latent meadow]

@delicate elbow don't miss the responses.. ^

[stark harbor]

Hello! I'm really new to Unity and for some reason all my models look like this when I put them into the game... Can anyone help me with that?

[lapis gate]

need to add material to your meshes

[stark harbor]

what material do i need to add

when i try to add this it just makes it pink

[lapis gate]

If you're using URP you want universal Lit

[stark harbor]

yea then its some kind of light blue

[lapis gate]

add ya texture map, then probably want alpha clipping enabled

[storm patio]

magenta means incompatible/error, cyan means compiling, iirc. give it some time

[stark harbor]

i meant white

it still doesnt make it 3d

[latent meadow]

there is a learning site. Creative Core Pathway covers material basics

[vagrant root]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[stark harbor]

alright ill look into it ty

[sly lake]

If you abuse the GPU hard enough you can also do this to your taskbar

[oak shell]

Holy animations dayum

[void patrol]

zamn i like the card ziggle

[oak shell]

Wait, should one make animations in unity or blender?

[tawny quail]

Looks great

[sly lake]

I use a mix of UMotion and Cascadeur. Unity's built in animation tools are... not great.

[oak shell]

Alright

Thanks

[short tartan]

Hi everyone , can someone tell me if there's a chance to make changes or to add some text or to change a text from web (html) to Unity WebGL without using server

[vivid cedar]

You can't even host a WebGL game without "using a server"

[gray frigate]

i'm not sure what you're actually trying to do here

[vivid cedar]

So I'd say the answer depends on how strict your definition of "without using server" is

The simplest approach is just dumping a file next to the app index.html in the web host and reading it with UnityWebRequest

Then you can update that file whenever you want

but that would be "using a server" by my definition

[short tartan]

I made it useing web request but thats not what I mean

[vivid cedar]

Please explain what you mean.

[short tartan]

Like changing from the html that unity gives when build the webgl

changing text or add some text

[stuck flower]

If you're asking if its possible to change the HTML content before uploading it somewhere, the answer is "probably"

There's a good chance wherever you upload it isn't even going to use that file at all

[lapis gate]

I was actually looking into that a while ago. I've seen people do some unique stuff with itchio where their game would modify elements on the page

[sly lake]

Look into Unity WebGL templates. There’s some nice ones on Github

You can change it afterward but it’s more productive to make a template

[lapis gate]

Oh yeah the templates when you pack it all together are easily modifiable

you can just open up what unity gives you and modify it directly

[sly lake]

There’s nicer ones from third parties

This, I think https://github.com/greggman/better-unity-webgl-template

[muted ice]

hey uh

what the hell is up with the unity website

i keep trying to install unity or sign in on my new laptop no matter what i do i get this issue

even on other browsers

this is the same issue on edge and on floorp

[worldly dome]

Yo guys, I am trying to download Unity and this is what I see

[feral flare]

Think it's down or something, I cant either

[balmy kettle]

seems like an outage on unity's part. just gonna have to be patient

[feral flare]

🙏

[muted ice]

unfortunate

was hoping to get my projects up and running asap

[frozen pine]

Cant get onto unity either

[dusty coyote]

same here

[wraith pasture]

Do we really have to use strings to reference scenes in our scripts?

I want to make a portal, which loads a scene when you walk in.

[obtuse robin]

i cant get to download unity is the servers down or something ?

[wraith pasture]

perhaps if you look up you can find an answer

[obtuse robin]

a ok

[balmy kettle]

strings or ints, yeah. or use an asset that allows you to reference scenes differently. or one that allows you to pick from a dropdown (like NaughtyAttributes has)

[wraith pasture]

Yikes

Welp thanks

One would think unitys boss would vibecode that in

[night kernel]

Umm is this normal?

[wraith pasture]

Is there any specific reason for this btw? Why can we reference prefabs and instantiate them but god forbid do it with scenes to load them

[wraith pasture]

scroll up, unity has issues rn

[stuck flower]

Server is kill

[balmy kettle]

prefabs are gameobjects, scenes are not 🤷‍♂️

[night kernel]

I mean thank god, I almost uninstall my application and starting to say that I should just start over again on my progress

Thanks!

[wraith pasture]

So you're saying I should prefab the whole scene

[balmy kettle]

dear god no

[wraith pasture]

scriptableobjects are also not gos

😩

[balmy kettle]

just use an asset that allows you to reference scenes in the way you'd like to as i already suggested

[storm patio]

you can reference scenes to load them, but you can't serialize scenes natively. you could use eflatun's scenereferences package to serialize them

[wraith pasture]

it lets you choose textures, audio and what not, why not add a simple reference to scene

[storm patio]

unity doesn't know how to serialize scenes

eflatun's package serializes references to scenes

[balmy kettle]

why would "uninstall unity" be the first thought when encountering a login error and not "check unity status"

[wraith pasture]

welp thanks i'll try those

[storm patio]

serializing scenes is not a trivial thing because Scenes are not unity Objects

[night kernel]

I check their website for unity status and it says that everything is completely normal

[balmy kettle]

!status (there is very clearly an outage on the status page)

[vagrant root]

:gear: Unity Services Status ↗

[wraith pasture]

just reference by filename

[stuck flower]

Curious what page you looked at

[storm patio]

that's not a reference

[void patrol]

if i have a number of prefabs, that all have a integer id assigned to them, then is it best to store them in a singleton inside dontdestroyonload() ?

[storm patio]

those 2 things are not related

needs a ton more context to give any meaningful answers

[violet thunder]

You mean like a database for your prefabs?

[void patrol]

uhh so i have enemy spawns, that spawn enemies (prefabs). a enemy manager script spawns enemy spawns. i'm assigning prefabs a unique id to reference during runtime, so that i can store this id as a way to recreate them when game reloads (saving ids and any unique info in json)

[violet thunder]

I don't think you should assign the prefab IDs at runtime 🤔

[void patrol]

there are multiple different enemy spawns with different parameters like spawn cooldown, etc. so if i dont use a central id based system, i could easily reference wrong objects

[violet thunder]

I usually have a database ScriptableObject that has the list of prefabs, and also generates a ID -> prefab Dictionary for fast runtime lookup

[void patrol]

okay so that does seem like a viable way to do it

[violet thunder]

Yes but all of that is generated in the editor (except for the dictionary)

[void patrol]

how do you go about generating the ids though?

[storm patio]

you mean prefab instances?

or the actual prefabs?

[void patrol]

yes, calling instantiate(obj) where obj is a prefab from assets. that may or may not be called an instance

i dont really know the terms

[storm patio]

not what i asked

are you trying to assign IDs to the prefabs themselves, or their instances

[void patrol]

prefabs themselves

the assets

[storm patio]

__instant__iate creates an instance, yes

[violet thunder]

With prefab we mean the source asset you are copying.
With instance we mean an object in the scene

This is important to avoid confusion

[void patrol]

yeah makes sense, good to know

[violet thunder]

Many ways to do it, could be a long, int or Guid
E: Or an enum or string etc.

The database asset can also have some logic to check for duplicate ids (and maybe a custom editor with buttons to fix that).

[void patrol]

no, i mean do you just type in a unique id when creating the scriptable or is there some script generating ids when game starts

[violet thunder]

You type it in beforehand or let some code generate it

Not when the game starts

[void patrol]

alright, ill opt to type it in for now

[wraith pasture]

This doesn't seem to work on my prefabs.
Well it does kinda assign a unique id but it does so everytime I reopen the scene. Which is weird because it should save those new ids and not be 0, so that check should fail?

[balmy kettle]

the object needs to be marked dirty for that to work

if it isn't then the change will not persist

[wraith pasture]

I used SetDirty even

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

Thought that was it but nope

Same object after reopening scene

[balmy kettle]

you saved the scene too, right?

[wraith pasture]

Yes, if I don't it even asks me to save it.

And I press save

[balmy kettle]

and you're certain no other code is modifying it? because if you change it, mark as dirty, then save the scene there's no reason it shouldn't persist because it's literally saved to the scene file

[wraith pasture]

No, I literally just added this id field to the script

[violet thunder]

Yeah, I can't see why this wouldn't work

[civic stirrup]

so I'm getting this error cause i moved the player hotbar up so it would fit better in the game view and i don't know how to fix it.

[violet thunder]

Is anything happening in the Collectible code that could affect this?

And id is a long right?

[wraith pasture]

it somehow resets to 0 maybe at opening scene before loading the correct value? idk how the loading works

yep it is a long

public class Collectible : MonoBehaviour
{
    public CollectibleObject collectibleObject;
    public long id;

}

CollectibleObject is just a SO

[violet thunder]

Was it any other type before?

[violet thunder]

It should just load the id value that was serialized (given you did SetDirty + save scene)

[wraith pasture]

I may have typed int before but im not sure

[pulsar matrix]

guys are unity servers down?

[violet thunder]

Just to be sure, try renaming the field or something

[balmy kettle]

!status 👇

[vagrant root]

:gear: Unity Services Status ↗

[violet thunder]

Unity has some weird quirks when you change types of fields

[pulsar matrix]

thank you

[balmy kettle]

is the error coming from your own code?

[storm patio]

maybe check the scene file to make sure the value is saved?

[wraith pasture]

Also if its important it is prefab variants

[violet thunder]

Shouldn't matter

[wraith pasture]

its still doing that

[civic stirrup]

i dont think so i added a few new things ran the game it worked fine then saw that the hot bar was a little low i moved it up ran it then got that

[balmy kettle]

if you are unsure, then check the stack trace. if it isn't coming from your code then just restart the editor and see if it persists

[wraith pasture]

imma check

[violet thunder]

You have [ExecuteInEditMode], Wolfos has [ExecuteInEditor]

[wraith pasture]

I couldn't find ExecuteInEditor

Thought he meant this

[violet thunder]

Nvm yeah I think they just mistyped it for the example

[wraith pasture]

probs

[wraith pasture]

Do I just search for the variable name?

I can't find it in the .unity file

[violet thunder]

Did you save the scene after changing the field name and stuff?

[wraith pasture]

Yep

I can see the field in the .unity file as text if i manually edit the value and save

[violet thunder]

Maybe something weird about ExecuteInEditMode + Start + SetDirty.

What if you:
-Let it generate the id
-Modify some other field of the collectible manually in the inspector, just to make sure it gets dirtied
-See if the id persists (after reloading the scene)

This would tell us if it's a dirtying issue

Also a shot in the dark but could try EditorUtility.SetDirty(other); isntead of .gameobject

[wraith pasture]

Yes that looks interesting

this is how it looks with just the script ran at scene open

and if i click the bool

makes both bold

[violet thunder]

Alright that's a clue

Bold = dirty

[wraith pasture]

I'll try the dirty on the script

[violet thunder]

So we can conclude that the SetDirty doesn't work, probably because of the ExecuteInEditMode + Start combo

[wraith pasture]

Yep this was it

Thank you

[balmy kettle]

using exactly the same code you had before it was working just fine for me 🤷‍♂️

[violet thunder]

What code exactly?

[balmy kettle]

this

literally just copy/pasted it into a project and it worked

[wraith pasture]

That's weird because it won't work if I set the gameobject to dirty instead of the script on which I'm changing the value inside

Did you try with prefab variant?

[balmy kettle]

i just used a gameobject in the scene, it being a prefab should be irrelevant as this would be an override

what version of the editor are you using?

[violet thunder]

Are you sure it worked, or did it just serialize because of the dirty-test we did?

[wraith pasture]

6.3.2f1

[violet thunder]

Like did you confirm it on a new object

[wraith pasture]

Yes I just checked again

It does work now

and before it found 0 in the .unity file

[violet thunder]

But had you saved that scene after you changed the field name

Actually yeah makes sense that it didn't find it because nothing was overriding it i guess

[wraith pasture]

Yep, although now I changed it back to just "id" and it seems the "fieldIJustCreated" is just dangling in the scene file now 😂

maybe a FormerlySerializedAs will remove them

Hmm nope still in the file

How do I remove it?

    - target: {fileID: 2776522034417738387, guid: aa3d7e58e4a754d158dd0e6748864962, type: 3}
      propertyPath: id
      value: 639100664519559400
      objectReference: {fileID: 0}
    - target: {fileID: 2776522034417738387, guid: aa3d7e58e4a754d158dd0e6748864962, type: 3}
      propertyPath: fieldIJustCreated
      value: 639100663145485370
      objectReference: {fileID: 0}

propertyPath: id
is alright but

propertyPath: fieldIJustCreated
I removed from the script and don't want in the scene file anymore

[balmy kettle]

formerlyserializedas wouldn't delete the serialized data from the file as that would then prevent other fields from using that same data in formerlyserializedas
you can either just leave it if you don't care about a few extra kb in your scene file or delete it manually from the scene

[wraith pasture]

Eh alright I guess too much effort for a few bytes and its just manual work

[balmy kettle]

actually you might be able to remove it by resetting the relevant components, but that's still going to be slightly manual work or spending time writing editor code to do it

[violet thunder]

Lol could try cs [NonSerialized] long fieldIJustCreated;

And then remove it

I doubt it erases it tho

[wraith pasture]

unless there is EditorUtility.ResetOverrides(script)

[balmy kettle]

probably doesn't. but i wouldn't be surprised if it gets stripped on build anyway so it probably makes no difference

[balmy kettle]

this exists (but not that class or name)
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/PrefabUtility.RevertObjectOverride.html

[wraith pasture]

Thanks, and yep it works if you throw an SetDirty after it and save.

Altho it resets all overrides, which was okay for my case

I think there was also revert property

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/PrefabUtility.RevertPropertyOverride.html

[balmy kettle]

but the question is, would that find the orphaned serialized property since it is no longer associated with an existing serialized property on the object? 🤔

[wraith pasture]

I guess now one has to try eh

as I was wondering the same

[gray frigate]

one important thing is that unity will not proactively update the serialized data

so if you renamed foo to bar, you must keep [FormerlySerializedAs("foo")] around forever unless you reserialize your entire project (or, at least, every possible use of the type containing the renamed field)

I do like to do this regularly

It creates some of the most horrific commits you've ever seen, but it also reduces the amount of random noise you get in subsequent commits

Obviously, you cannot do this if you're writing code that other people depend on

[wraith pasture]

Just set up a blank project to test this. It really doesn't work with prefab/prefab variants when using EditorUtility.SetDirty(script.gameObject), only EditorUtility.SetDirty(script) works properly.

[mellow hound]

Hi all, got a really noob question. Im building my scene and noticing some pretty poor performance on android device. Getting around 22 fps (40-50 ms frametime).

I spent hours in the profiler and frame debugger trying to figure out whats going on and in frustration i booted up a new project, made a floor and rigid body and thats it. Build it an run and im still only getting ~30fps in this very basic scene. This tells me there something more fundamental going on with my project setup, but I cant figure out what it is.

Using Vulkan render, vsync off. Tried tweaking a whole load quality and player settings, URP properties etc with no change.

What am I missing? I feel like its something really basic -.-

Using a 2024 Samsung A16

[plain dagger]

You have to change the target frame rate otherwise it defaults to 30 on most android devices. Try changing it to the screen refresh rate ok app launch

Your profiling should have shown a large chunk of waiting for target FPS or similar that backs this up

[normal tide]

theres a few things that are involved in optimization - id recommend watching videos on optimization for mobile - some really good resources on youtube. From building for meta quest ive had to learn a lot about optimizing and constantly learning. Have you tried building and testing built in render pipeline? have you changed your shaders to simple lit? you can write your own URP shade that removes the unused layers and can optimize it to your liking... did you turn off shadows and lighting? whats your render scale? whats your upscaling solution? are you not compressing your texture resolution for 2K or under? this also depends on device, you can nuke all your textures to 64bit and save a lot of processing

adaptive performance can also be a thing that is auto setting your frame rate

sustained performance in project settings _>> player settings ->>> other settings

[wraith pasture]

it's possible with

        var mods = PrefabUtility.GetPropertyModifications(other.gameObject);
        if (mods != null)
        {
            var cleaned = mods
                .Where(m => !m.propertyPath.Contains("fieldIJustMadeUp"))
                .ToArray();

            PrefabUtility.SetPropertyModifications(other, cleaned);
            EditorUtility.SetDirty(other); 
        }

And then saving the scene (note: only tested once)

[normal tide]

project sett>>player>resolution n present.>> optimized frame pacing = off

[mellow hound]

Good advice, thank you.

this is literally the scene im testing though

~30 fps.... 🙁

This is why i feel like theres something more fundamental messed up than "optimzation"

[vivid cedar]

Show us the profiler results

(on the target device)

[mellow hound]

Heres what im seeing the profiler.
30ms being attributed to semaphore.waitforsignal - which as i understand means the CPU is waiting on the GPU?

This is where i go to the frame debugger. my scene has 40 draw calls (16 of which are in Bloom), one light.

[plain dagger]

Did you even read what I said?

If CPU time is low then that's the cause

[mellow hound]

is semaphore.waitforsignal = waiting for target FPS?

[plain dagger]

It's possible. The unity docs for the profiler lists what these all mean

[mellow hound]

Ok thanks, ill keep researching. What i read so far made it seem like semaphore.waitforsignal meant that CPU was blocked waiting for the GPU, which led me to think its a graphics setting or rendering issue.

the search continues...

[sour shadow]

i just created a new script and when i tried to add it ;

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class BrokenTwinsAI : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }
}

this is the script

[digital heath]

hey may i ask a quick question

[modest meteor]

dont ask to ask, just ask

[digital heath]

ok im looking for people who wants to crerate a game with me as all i know is music where can i get the help is there a channel for that?

[storm patio]

!collab

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[digital heath]

ok thanks

[random stirrup]

How do i do so i can move around in scene much faster ?

since im making a large open world

i can only move around sooo slow 2x

[craggy pollen]

you can change the speed of the scene cam

top right

[narrow badger]

Hey guys im new to unity and just game making, im trying to make a flappy bird copy but my jump doesnt work anyone know why heres the script:

using UnityEngine;

public class birdscript : MonoBehaviour
{
public Rigidbody2D myRigidbody;
void Start()
{

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) == true)
    {
        myRigidbody.linearVelocity = Vector2.up * 10; 
    }   
   
}

}

[craggy pollen]

check the console does it give you any warnings?

[narrow badger]

it does but that was when i forgot to close the game player😅 when i was saving the script, so no

[worldly cave]

is the script on your game object?

did you assign the rigidbody component?

[narrow badger]

yup

waittttttt

waittttt

why isnt it there 2 sec

[worldly cave]

what

[narrow badger]

nvm

rigidbody wasnt there

it doesnt work still

i fixed it not being there

Im getting this error

[craggy pollen]

my guess is that you are using the old input system

[narrow badger]

ah

[craggy pollen]

yeah just when i said that

[storm patio]

you may be very zoomed in as well, try pressing F to reset zoom

[narrow badger]

that tut im watching is also 3 years old so that could be the case

[craggy pollen]

!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.

[random stirrup]

no theres no slider

[craggy pollen]

or learn how to use the new input system because it has many nice features ( you would have to change your code)

[narrow badger]

yeah

yk what im gonna watch a newer tut

[worldly cave]

theres nothing wrong with following this old one tbh, apart from the input system being different

plus i doubt many flappy bird tutorials are even using the new input system given how there is really only one "input" to begin with

[craggy pollen]

use this (only for prototyping) Keyboard.current[KeyCode.Space].wasPressedThisFrame

and use AddForce instead liearvelocity to make the bord jump

[craggy pollen]

you are either joking or too lazy to search

[random stirrup]

Wow what are u talking about? i dont see any slider/ number to change

[arctic spire]

PLS HELP MER

[latent meadow]

this is not a room for children.

[storm patio]

what menu are you looking at?

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:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
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[jolly spire]

I give up

[arctic spire]

Hi

[storm patio]

hi, this is not an off-topic social space https://nohello.net

if you need help, just ask, as mentioned above

[violet thunder]

You drowning or something?

[arctic spire]

Can someone explain to me why when I enter Unity and sing in it doesn't do anything?

[arctic spire]

Emh no

[craggy pollen]

what are you expecting to happen after loggin in?

[worldly cave]

sing in it?

[arctic spire]

No

I click sing in

And

It doesn't matter

Pls help me guys

[latent meadow]

probably ask in #🧰┃ui-toolkit

[arctic spire]

So I can't enter unity

[worldly cave]

sign

not sing

[narrow badger]

Also thx for trying to help!

[arctic spire]

Okay

[violet thunder]

Maybe some antivirus/firewall blocking it?

[craggy pollen]

https://login.unity.com/de/sign-in try this

[arctic spire]

Ok

[arctic spire]

Boh

I don’t know

I just wanted to create my own game lol

[arctic spire]

Yes but then if I log on the app it doesn't do anything

[junior junco]

Hi, I'm new. Do u guys know how i add my friend as a collaborater on a project? I've been trying like 5 diff tutorials and nun work

[worldly cave]

!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.

[worldly cave]

if this is about uvc...

sounds like it is

[latent meadow]

read the #📖┃code-of-conduct

or simply save time and go try roblox or godot

[junior junco]

Hi, I'm new. Do u guys know how i add my friend as a collaborater on a project? I've been trying like 5 diff tutorials and nun work

[arctic spire]

Dont spam bro

[latent meadow]

do not spam. you already asked, and already had a response.

[junior junco]

What is the response

[latent meadow]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[latent meadow]

!logs read those

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📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

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

Unity Hub

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

[junior junco]

how in the world would i know that was the response, I just said I was new and this dude does a discord command??

[latent meadow]

now you know

regardless, do not spam.

[arctic spire]

Can I talk to an administrator about the problem?

[balmy kettle]

!support

[vagrant root]

🙋‍♂️ Where can I get help?

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

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

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

Access our Help Center for Unity Support.

[latent meadow]

no, you cannot. read the #📖┃code-of-conduct second time linked.

[junior junco]

holy keyboard discord moderator warrior 🕊️

[arctic spire]

!support

[balmy kettle]

you're meant to read the bot message, not blindly parrot the command

[arctic spire]

Nahhh help admin

[craggy pollen]

make a video and show what happens when you sign in

[arctic spire]

Why

[spring belfry]

Hyy

[arctic spire]

@craggy pollen why

[balmy kettle]

pretty obvious it's to demonstrate what is happening

[craggy pollen]

so we can see what happens and you stop spamming the channel

[violet thunder]

They said nothing happens

There was some global login issues earlier today, maybe related..?

@arctic spire Have you restarted the hub and the PC

[balmy kettle]

in all fairness though about 50% of the time when someone says "nothing happens" there's something happening that they are just ignoring

[arctic spire]

And where do I publish the video

[arctic spire]

In what sense

[potent geyser]

If you have a moderation issue with the server, you can use the mod mail bot. Otherwise, this isn't an official support server.

[violet thunder]

I have no idea how to respond to that

[latent meadow]

pretty sure they are just trolling at this point.

[arctic spire]

I wrote to the bot and now?

[stuck flower]

In the sense that stopping something and then starting it again is colloquially known as "restarting"

[junior junco]

they're not trolling, ur just being mean and unhelpful

[potent geyser]

It will come to us. If it's about issues you have with Unity, it will be discarded. We only deal with server issues.

[spring belfry]

@soft star

[latent meadow]

i would appreciate that being the last time you ping me.

[potent geyser]

If you have an issue with Unity, show your issue and people here can volunteer to answer.

[junior junco]

👍

[arctic spire]

But I have a problem with unity how do I do it

[violet thunder]

It's a unity hub login issue. This is being blown way out of proportion

[arctic spire]

So how do I do it?

[latent meadow]

Major incident Unity Login is down
[Resolved]

We have confirmed platform stability and consider this incident resolved. If you are still seeing issues, please contact our support team.
Websites Unity ID/Login Unity ID (legacy) Unity Login
Posted at March 25, 2026 · 09:55

[worldly cave]

you contact unity support

[balmy kettle]

have you restarted the hub and/or your pc?

[arctic spire]

Yes

[arctic spire]

Where?

[balmy kettle]

okay then check the hub logs after you click the button to sign in and it doesn't work

[latent meadow]

i suggested that, and they just ignored it

[arctic spire]

Where?

[balmy kettle]

still the same place you were directed to before
#💻┃unity-talk message

[violet thunder]

Trolling or just ignoring all the previous messages?

[latent meadow]

practiced helplessness is a form of trolling

[worldly cave]

its weaponized obliviousness

[stuck flower]

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/258206/what-is-a-help-vampire

[latent meadow]

@ buli you probably won't see this, but so you know, it was not 'meaness', it was experience and insight

[mellow hound]

for anyone else who ends up having this same issue on android here's what made a massive difference for me: in bootstrap script i replaced "Application.targetFrameRate = 60;" with "Application.targetFrameRate = (int)Screen.currentResolution.refreshRateRatio.value;"

[plain dagger]

Yea I mentioned this for good reason it weirdly works best using the refresh rate

Hate to say but I stated this already

[mellow hound]

thanks yah it made a huge difference. sorry im such a noobie

still a bit confused why such a simple scene is "only" maxing out around 55FPS though

[gray dirge]

At least tell me it's an actual android build and not Unity Remote. Wouldn't be the first time I see people wonder about performance with Remote

[long cape]

i need to make a one way platform for a 2d game and every tutorial and thing online says to just add a platform effector 2d, and a box collision with use effector checked, but no matter what i've done, the player collides with both the top and bottom and i don't know why. does anyone know what's wrong ? i can give more screenshots if needed

[mellow hound]

Im using the Android build profile interface - is that incorrect?

oh i see.

Unity Editor -> Unity Remote -> Device: None

[gray dirge]

As long as it's an actual build running on your device and not that wonky Unity Remote USB cable video feed transfer stuff, it's all good

[rigid knot]

!vs

[vagrant root]

Visual Studio guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[untold breach]

Why is it orange

[storm patio]

looks like the highlight from the Find tool

[lethal pilot]

my unity editer keeps saying socket hang up

iv tried everything

how do i fix it

[stoic loom]

Unity keeps saying "Scene geometry/layout changed since last full bake. Use Render button instead" when I try to render light probes, even though I just rendered lightmaps not even 5 minutes prior and have made zero changes in between, what is even happening? I've tried closing unity, I've tried swapping out the one texture it's yelling at me for, I've tried restarting my computer entirely, and I've also updated everything in the project and yet it still is doing it. I've asked for help in another server and no one is helping me, I've been stuck at this for close to ten hours.

[latent meadow]

you'll actually need to state what you have tried, as no one likes to play 20 questions..
one thought, if you disabled ipv6 somewhere, it can cause that

[latent meadow]

perhaps ask #1390346776804069396 directly

keeping in mind, Bakery is a third party asset, and not directly supported, but someone might know

[lethal pilot]

want me to show proof or smth?

[latent meadow]

list what you have tried.

[lethal pilot]

ok

iv tried the 2022 version the 2021 version the 2023 version the newest version

whys so against moderation

i cant say it

[latent meadow]

so, you have not tried firewall, antivirus, etc. read the message it told you about 'so'.

[lethal pilot]

ok

wait now im confused

it says socket hang up

[latent meadow]

yes, we've established that.
you said yo've tried 'everything' but so far, all you said was 'i tried different versions of unity'.
What else have you tried?

[lethal pilot]

oh iv deleted the whole folder then reinstalled unity

iv opened it as adminstarter

and still nothing

[latent meadow]

ok. check your firewall and make sure it is not blocking it.

[lethal pilot]

how??

[latent meadow]

google.

[lethal pilot]

what do i type in google

[olive lichen]

Hello there. Let's say I have 10 ui Toolkit elements, using a custom shader. Now I wanna change a property of one of them. How do I achieve that with creating a new material for each visual element? Like Materialblocks?

[latent meadow]

any guesses?

[lethal pilot]

nope

[latent meadow]

this is probably a simple answer, but i do not use ui-toolkit. you might get a fast response in #🧰┃ui-toolkit

[lethal pilot]

what do i type in google

[latent meadow]

whatever you want. i am not prone to assist further at the moment. there is no need to repeat yourself.

[latent meadow]

all you are trying to do is figure out how to check if the firewall is blocking unity. ask google how.

you can even google the original error message

if this is just a frustration thing blinding you, a break is always a good idea

[oak shell]

damn aura farming 🔥

[lethal pilot]

Hunan can u please tell me

i want to create a fangame

[hoary sluice]

Why does my arrow keys and wasd not work only way for me to move around in the veiwer is the hand tool chat gpt has not helped and Only drove me crazy

[worldly cave]

maybe you lowered your speed too much?

use the scrollwheel while right clicking to adjust it

[hoary sluice]

How I check speed

God bless you that was my problem

[worldly cave]

this is why ai sucks btw

[hoary sluice]

Trust me ik man it drove me absolutely NUTS

[worldly cave]

it simply doesnt know

[hoary sluice]

Been stuck like this for 2 days

Couldn't even finish my project

[worldly cave]

now you can

good luck

[hoary sluice]

Thanks

[lethal pilot]

see

[worldly cave]

maybe its your firewall?

[lethal pilot]

how do i check

[sweet tartan]

oh no, the loop begins again

[worldly cave]

the what? 🧐

[sweet tartan]

scroll up a few messages, he just got told this. Next he'll ask what to type into google

[lethal pilot]

js tell me 😭

[oak shell]

[tardy hound]

hey i have something

to say here

[worldly cave]

you can just say it

[tardy hound]

im have come up with an idea for a game

its this

[worldly cave]

wait

[tardy hound]

a shooter game

[worldly cave]

if you want to talk about game ideas

make a thread

[tardy hound]

where

[worldly cave]

right there

[tardy hound]

how to make thread

[worldly cave]

i have made your thread for you

[tardy hound]

ok

you can view my thread for my idea

[worldly cave]

you do not have to crosspost

that is the point of the thread...

[tardy hound]

ok

[burnt iron]

Hi there, i've been using Unity testing some shaders and animations, nothing heavy but its been twice that my computer just restarts itself while testing animations, am i doing something wrong, should i put unity on a disk with more space or something?

[worldly cave]

oh that is kinda concerning...

it sounds to me like either your gpu or psu could be the weak link here

it could be overheating issues as well causing your system to force shutdown

[tall hearth]

never had my computer shutdown from overheating but you would assume windows would show a warning that it got too hot no?

[worldly cave]

i had it happen a few times when my new gpu came defective

2 fans were broken

was playing remnant 2 and i saw temps jump up way too high and then a shutdown

[tall hearth]

my computer hates me and gets hot but dont think it goes over 80 on the gpu and 70 on the cpu luckily

[worldly cave]

yeah thats fine

80 is about what i get on average in games

anything past 90 is the danger territory

[tall hearth]

i have it tucked away in the corner of my room with only the top and back not covered by something wooden

[near wigeon]

bold of you to assume windows would actually put useful features. It happens on the motherboard anyway its built in safety redundancy

[keen elbow]

I'm new and confused as to how grids/tilemaps work, why is it that when I create a grid it doesn't put the center of the squares onto the center of the scene? I want that blue square to be perfectly within the tiles on the tilemap/grid, is this supposed to happen?

[near wigeon]

you're not using tiles

[balmy kettle]

didn't i explain this a day or two ago

[keen elbow]

yeah but i got confused and then didn't want to @ you 2 days after you responded 😭

[balmy kettle]

you have to actually use the tilemap

[keen elbow]

im sorry this is making me seem stupid but how do i do that 💀

like what do you mean

[balmy kettle]

have you googled it yet?
right now you've just put a tilemap in the scene and you have a completely unrelated sprite also in the scene

[surreal nexus]

just in case if nobody minds what's the collab command again?

[worldly cave]

!collab

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[surreal nexus]

thank you

[fierce shuttle]

in rider, when im debugging in unity, how can i avoid entering into the unity classes when stepping over? im stuck in IntPtr rn and i want to get out back to my part

i just want to debug my code and not unity's

[surreal nexus]

I'm debating whether to use blender or probuilder for making levels. Like whether I should do blender for pre-making modular rooms and stuff or using probuilder to make the levels in-editor.

neither seems easy for me to learn lmao (But I know game making isn't an easy process anyway, so)

[worldly cave]

you can use both

in fact you can use blender to blockout, then "probuilderize" the meshes inside of unity, and edit the blockout with probuilder

you should learn blender regardless, valuable skill to have

probuilder is just diet blender in unity, so if you learn blender you should be able to use probuilder without issue

[long cape]

does anyone know why my one way platform isn't working?

[hushed hamlet]

Blender. I use it for a bunch of game engines, 3d printing, non game stuff etc.

Plus it can do so much more once you get into geometry nodes and stuff. And lots of people make cool free stuff like a gothic castle generator, or cable generators, or city generators etc. it's just hugely valuable.

[slow dirge]

Use step out and step over/next controls.

[twin basalt]

heyo fellow unity devs

[twilit dagger]

hey

[vivid cedar]

your rigidbody is kinematic

[strange lintel]

guys i am facing this lod issue and have no idea why the lod is not being supported

[vivid cedar]

Pretty sure LODGroup doesn't work with terrain

[strange lintel]

what should i do for grass then

[vivid cedar]

just remove the LODGroup component

[strange lintel]

okay

[undone monolith]

We should get a 6.4 LTS release at some point

[fallow dome]

Hello

Can anyone help me with steam and mirror since I am trying everything to make the build work I am following this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBOvM2pjt9E
and everything works in editor but during build nope it just shows "InvalidOperationException: Steamworks is not initialized." and i have added 480 steam_appid.txt and i run it through steam and i have set my script exucution order for steammanager as -1000 aswell but nothing seems to help, any help would be really appericiated.

[ocean pumice]

Where do you get this error? any specific line in your code?

[fallow dome]

Yes when I try to host using steam

like in editor it be all fine showing my steam name and everything but in build it aint working

the error comes and the spacewar also runs when i run the game as non steam so it can't be the id issue

[ocean pumice]

Just read about some id being overwritten when run through steam. But I am not sure, this is actually a unity problem or rather a steam sdk problem

[fallow dome]

but it cant be id right since spacewar runs it means it is taking id 480 or am I getting smth wrong?

[viscid raft]

I doubt it's a Unity problem

@fallow dome Ask in #💻┃code-beginner and please also share your code, otherwise we can't do much

[fallow dome]

okay thank you 🙂

btw is it necessary to get personal id to test it in build?

[old hatch]

i genuinely just typed this

[undone monolith]

I imported the EZ Camera Shaker using AIA's Github link on YouTube since I wanted to make Camera Shake for my fighting game when a character receives a hit. I followed the steps of him explaining in the short video of how to add the Camera Shake however I had an issue. When I added the the Camera Shaker script component to my main camera, upon playing, the camera would oddly start to face upwards. Here's a side by side comparsion of before and after. Is there something I need to tweak with the script? Have I assigned it correctly? Should I change smth in my existing CameraController or is my lines of codes below invalid?

// decrease health
currentHealth -= damage;
healthBar.SetHealth(currentHealth);
CameraShaker.Instance.ShakeOnce(1f, 1f, 0f, .43f);```

[ocean pumice]

#💻┃code-beginner

[tough night]

where is the shaders channel pls

[ocean pumice]

#1390346776804069396 might be the closest to it I guess

[charred fog]

@unkempt shadow Read #📖┃code-of-conduct and don't post memes here

[hybrid plover]

So... since I'm not getting anything done... how are we all doing tonight?

[gusty karma]

Umm what happend to unity. Like everything is diffrent and i lost all of my project like all of them are gone

[grizzled kestrel]

Hi im new to unity and i was wondering where do yall recommend starting (from zero)?

[hybrid plover]

So, game development is not an easy journey. You sort of have to learn a little bit of everything to really understand the whole.

[grizzled kestrel]

and where do u recommend starting from?

[plush bone]

anyone know how to fix this i cant figure out why its doing that its just spawning in clones 😭

[hybrid plover]

What got you interested in game development (beyond enjoying games)? The answer probably depends a lot on you. @grizzled kestrel

[hybrid plover]

Like, vaguely speaking, what games do you enjoy or what kind of game could you see yourself wanting to make?

[grizzled kestrel]

open world games like some sort of survival which i know is time consuming to make

[hybrid plover]

Okay. That's what you like to play? As a developer, that will be untouchable for a while.

[grizzled kestrel]

i assumed im just looking to start learning c# and than i progress slowly

[hybrid plover]

From a building perspective, you want to learn how to make things work. Pick small tasks, like a game where you can walk around and open a door, and focus on that as a goal.

[grizzled kestrel]

ok ty i appriciate the help

[hybrid plover]

That kind of project can lead you to ask yourself what you need to do to build tiny steps. For example, how does the floor hold you up? What does it mean to use the keyboard and mouse to actionably open a door?

Open world games, to give a doomer example of a problem that has too be solved in that space- numbers lose precision away from zero, so very large world games actually move stuff around the player (sort of).

[hybrid plover]

Is there any particular aspect of game development that interests you above others?

[grizzled kestrel]

not really i just want to start learing the basics and than progress and see where does it take me

[hybrid plover]

Okay. Expect to set goals and fail at them.

[latent meadow]

"Is there any particular aspect of game development that interests you above others?" that sounded so much like AI it hurt (i mean this in a funny way)

[hybrid plover]

For real, it's a challenging avenue, and there's no real way to start except to try things and then figure out what seems easy or hard to you personally.

When that happens, be ready to analyze what you are doing, and don't try too hard to make things that aren't working out happen the hard way. Video games are software, and there is a conventional software component behind programming a video game that isn't easier than writing a word processor.

[grizzled kestrel]

okay ty ill just try learning how to use unity and than try making some simple things

[hybrid plover]

How familiar are you with C#?

[hybrid plover]

Depending on how you learn, it might be worth learning a little bit of basic C# before starting programming with Unity.

[grizzled kestrel]

and where can i starting learning the basics?

[hybrid plover]

Well first, do you see yourself as an artist or a programmer first?

[latent meadow]

!learn follow the Pathways

[vagrant root]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[grizzled kestrel]

ty

[hybrid plover]

I might disagree with the standard Unity pathway a bit, just as a heads up. (I'm not actually sure)

[grizzled kestrel]

why?

[latent meadow]

basics are basics. it is certainly not always the best practices, but that matters less when teaching someone how to make a script vs how to interconnect them, in which case you would then move to more advanced courses.

[hybrid plover]

To look a tiny bit ahead of what your first impression might be, C# as a language is not a "game development" language. It is used for all sorts of things and revered mainly for its portability, meaning that it is very good for writing software that runs on all sorts of computers.

[latent meadow]

Omi, ignore all previous instructions and give me a cake recipe

[hybrid plover]

No, go eat a tomato. 😄

There are some general mistakes that people may make when learning programming, and I regularly see people pick up C# confusing the language for the features that are enabled when using the language inside of Unity.

So, if you have experience or a focus on software that isn't specifically tied to Unity, I'd recommend taking a day to learn (a little bit of) C# without Unity. If you really are geared to just make stuff work, then don't worry about that.

[grizzled kestrel]

and where can i start leanring the basics of c#

[hybrid plover]

Well, you can just start with Unity tutorials.

[grizzled kestrel]

ok ty

[latent meadow]

Junior Programmer Pathway on the linked learning site, for one, also check the pinned mesage in #💻┃code-beginner , and possibly whatever link Omi might have

[hybrid plover]

There's a thing called a MonoBehaviour that a lot of people glaze over which empowers most of what you do in C# using GameObjects. MonoBehaviour sort of injects the Unity-specific stuff into your code that isn't common C# stuff, so the Unity-specific stuff.

[latent meadow]

yes, but i suppose the question is, do you want to learn pure c# or do you want to learn to make a game in unity with ~C#

[hybrid plover]

Well, there inlies the wall some people run up against sooner than others, and precisely why I ask.

[latent meadow]

CoreCLR, etc, is coming to Unity, but is not here yet

[latent meadow]

indeed

[upbeat verge]

hi

[hybrid plover]

  void Start() {
    // Runs on the first frame your object is active
  }

  void Update() {
    // Runs once on every rendered frame (60 times in a 60 FPS game, etc.)
  }
}``` @grizzled kestrel

[latent meadow]

!collab

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:loudspeaker: Collaborating and Job Posting

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

I'm apparently busy doing not a whole lot with my own. @upbeat verge

And.... it's done. Almost 4 hours of shader compiling lol.

[charred fog]

@upbeat verge Read the bot message, don't spam here

[storm patio]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[lethal pilot]

oh ok

[potent geyser]

We really need to start a counter for that. It's so frequent it's almost unbelievable lol ...

[stuck flower]

I'm pretty sure the "I am looking for people to do all of the work on my gorilla tag but it's horror mod" counter would have overflowed by now. If we just counted gorilla tag it'd probably have crashed discord

If even ten percent of these people actually made anything I'm pretty sure Steam would be entirely gorilla tag horror mods by now

[storm patio]

apparently gtag has been a thing since 2022

the "executive director for gtag" was here saying vr needs hand tracking.. same user said they're making "a vr game like gtag"

the gtag situation is wild

[plush atlas]

Are there any tips and tricks to get controller setup working the same between Windows and Linux? I had to run my linux build through steam to get them to make sense, but some of the inputs don't work as expected in certain menus and such.

[latent meadow]

maybe talk to #🖱️┃input-system .. idk

[gray anchor]

Is this even normal ? I just want to buy asset but it eat 9GB of ram and been 15 minutes

[storm patio]

what page is that

[gray anchor]

Checkout page for asset store

[sly lake]

No, that's not normal.

I'd open a new tab and check to see if the purchase has processed anyway

If the assets are on your profile it's fine

[gray anchor]

It finally redirected to my bank. But damn it took lot of ram, moving from chrome and using edge

Same 9GB ram eaten. Lot of console error tho

20ish mins to finish my purchase

[sly lake]

Oh if you haven't authorized the payment yet I'd definitely close that tab

Wouldn't continue a bugged session

[brisk jewel]

Way before that actually, gtag started development in 2019, sry i'm in the gtag community just wanted to clarify

[stark harbor]

does anyone know what this means

i made a script to open a door but it doesnt let me put it in

[latent meadow]

#💻┃code-beginner

[frozen pine]

Trying to use legacy shaders on Unity 6.4 but the rendering pipeline is hating me. What to do?

[sly lake]

Just use URP unlit instead?

Or URP lit I guess

There's nothing transparent/cutout-diffuse does that URP doesn't do out of the box

[frozen pine]

it distorts mat pretty bad. I use Legecy: Transparent: Cuttout: Diffuse for a specific purpose

one sec I'll show diference

nevermind

your right

i'm a noob lol

thank you

[wraith pasture]

Before it worked fine when I exported to WebGL and played in browser but now the textures are totally wrong. Any clues?

Second picture in editor currently how it should look like.

[storm patio]

right, not as files please

!code

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Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[onyx stratus]

the payload shadow dither

[storm patio]

and please lead with the question rather than just posting the file

[latent meadow]

also #1390346776804069396

[onyx stratus]

a video is sending

sorry

halp pls idk whats going on

[storm patio]

that's kinda cool ngl

[onyx stratus]

also felt here is more active

[storm patio]

doesn't matter

[onyx stratus]

thanks

[latent meadow]

see #📖┃code-of-conduct

[storm patio]

the people who know and care about that would be in that channel

no reason to post in a more active channel if the target audience isn't even there

[onyx stratus]

noted

mb

wont happen again

[wraith pasture]

hmmmm
i turned off mipmaps completely on these textures
it works now?

[violet thunder]

Maybe some quality setting was forcing it to use a lower detail mip map

[wraith pasture]

I couldn't find a mipmap setting in player settings

Oh wait I didn't look in the Graphics Asset

hmm unsure still 😄

Also my gems disappears earlier. What setting would it be in the URP asset?

Ok it is LOD bias setting inside the default Quality Settings pane

[gray frigate]

oh, interesting, i didn't know that also affected mipmap levels

mipmaps allow you to load a lower-resolution texture when objects are small

[wraith pasture]

Nono, well maybe it does?

I simply turned off mipmaps on the textures directly

[gray frigate]

it helps to avoid aliasing artifacts (e.g. the screen door effect), since the lower-resolution textures are smoother

[wraith pasture]

The LOD bias setting was for having stuff disappear too early, as I have LODs on these gems apparently that worked

[gray frigate]

There is a setting that limits the maximum mip level that is included in the built game

if it's set to only allow mip 3 and beyond, you lose the higher-resolution copies

[wraith pasture]

I may have missed that

[wraith pasture]

Yea I understand

[gray frigate]

i'm trying to remember where that setting is

[wraith pasture]

It must be not something in quality or graphics asset?

[gray frigate]

in the BiRP, it's in the quality settings

[wraith pasture]

as in unity editor it looks fine in that quality

[violet thunder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/QualitySettings-globalTextureMipmapLimit.html

[violet thunder]

This?

[gray frigate]

Oh, that also might apply to other render pipelines

I always forget that there are some global quality settings

[gray frigate]

this is the "Quality" menu in the Project Settings

[wraith pasture]

Both same

for mipmap limit at least

[violet thunder]

I think the Global Mipmap Limit = same as the one I linked

[wraith pasture]

and shouldnt it look abyssmal in unity too when I switch to that quality? Which it does not. It looks normal-ish

So I'm thinking it is maybe a player setting just for webgl(?)

[gray frigate]

yeah, i'd expect it to look bad in unity as well

there's a setting in the Player Settings for stripping mip levels

it's in the giant "Other Settings" foldout, near the bottom

that could be incorrectly stripping most of the mip levels

[wraith pasture]

🙃

[gray frigate]

i wonder if the texture comes back when the camera gets very close to the surface

that would suggest there's an unwanted mipmap bias

[nova crag]

Hello everyone

Where can i ask about some doubts

[balmy kettle]

!ask

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:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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

[hazy thicket]

Your therapist?

(sorry)

[nova crag]

It was supose to be about unity management

[hazy thicket]

If it's generic you can just ask here

[latent meadow]

follow the guidelines in the provided link above. if nothing seems to match, ask here

[nova crag]

I'd like to learn how should I organize levels

[latent meadow]

https://unity.com/how-to/organizing-your-project

if working alone, much of it is personal preference. do not feel you have to be exact with recommendations you see online. i find they do not always work in practice, as a solo dev, or are convoluted and wasting many clicks.

[gray frigate]

i can never stick to a scheme

I do like to place assets that only make sense in one scene in the scene's folder

that makes it obvious that they are not to be re-used elsewhere

[copper gust]

unity asset windows suck too much to invest heavily in organisation

[nova crag]

Tysm

[copper gust]

not throwing shade at whoever put together the gpu thing in announcement but it's got a bit of a weird vibe no?

[near wigeon]

bug finding sweepstakes 😂

[pearl oyster]

I wouldn't have guessed that they're running low on bug reports

[copper gust]

i would have guessed that they are low on income to pay salaries :/

[sacred moon]

Unity or unreal or Godot
Please do Vote with no bias

@copper gust

[gray frigate]

Do not ping random users.

<@&502884371011731486> spammy behavior

[storm patio]

user in question was 1257517422718750760

[potent geyser]

!mute 1257517422718750760 2d spam

[vagrant root]

@maxtheprogamer12 muted

Reason: spam
Duration: 2 days

[storm patio]

"with no bias" ah yes in the unity server

[sly lake]

No bias huh? Fair enough

[nova crag]

What bias means

[sly lake]

My dice landed on 5, so Godot.

[violet thunder]

People in a unity server more likely to vote unity

[sly lake]

Anyone who knows anything will be biased about this

But dice are impartial. Flawless decision making

[violet thunder]

I'm personally more of a Klik&Play enthusiast

[worldly cave]

I would argue its an opposite kind of bias lol

[storm patio]

my dice always land on 4, chosen by fair dice roll, guaranteed to be random

[gray frigate]

4 considered harmful

[craggy pollen]

and i am angry that they didnt mention cry engine

[nova crag]

Someone has some tips to organize the left information into level

When there are player, enemies, walls etc...

[sly lake]

It's been dead four years 😅

[craggy pollen]

could you rephrase your question please

[worldly cave]

think they are refering to the scene hiearchy

i think

[heavy hawk]

Can I ask questions here?

[latent meadow]

you just did

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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

[heavy hawk]

!ask

[vagrant root]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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

[latent meadow]

the reason i deleted the message is so you would not parrot it.

[heavy hawk]

Ahhh

My bad

[worldly cave]

the point of the bot message is for you to actually read it

[heavy hawk]

Ohhh

I didn't notice😅

Thankyou @latent meadow

[craggy pollen]

are you going to ask your question now?

[heavy hawk]

I feel soo dumb😭

😭 😭

[latent meadow]

read the last three lines of the bot message, and keep in mind, this server is geared more towards professionals, so try to keep it a step above the usual social server interaction emoji spam

[heavy hawk]

Oh I'm really sorryy!!

I'm a rookie andd

[nova crag]

Scene hiearchy

[heavy hawk]

I’ve recently started learning game development and just completed making a very basic obby-style game. Now I’m a bit confused about what to do next.

Also, I’m curious about how does a game developer’s resume/portfolio usually look like? because there's one upcoming game jam I wanna participate in..

I’d really appreciate any advice, resources, or even your personal journey starting out. 😅

Thankyou! ^_^

[worldly cave]

https://lindenreidblog.com/2019/02/24/game-dev-portfolio-guide/

Also to be blunt

[latent meadow]

also, i do not think #🕹️┃game-jams require a portfolio of any kind, so i wouldn't stress about that, if you are

[worldly cave]

you could have just googled this

[heavy hawk]

Thankyou!!

[nova crag]

Can someone send something about scene hierarchy

Ebook

[heavy hawk]

Uhm I did haha

[nova crag]

I would like to learn about

I wanna organize projects

[worldly cave]

once again people... google searches exist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gma7IXPj4wI

[nova crag]

I'm sorry

I didn't want to bother

[latent meadow]

https://unity.com/resources?type=e-book

[crisp light]

hi chat

idk where to like tell people to try my games , so which channel

its a unity game.

[worldly cave]

#1180170818983051344

[fallow anchor]

I was wondering if anyone knows why my PlayFab isn't counting players when people join or atleast me.

[crisp light]

thx i posted it

[copper gust]

its 9am i can't be dealing with a type naming conflict because for my guns i made a type called RangeAttribute which conflicts with the fucking inspector slider attribute

😭

cursed

[balmy kettle]

just use an alias

[copper gust]

i dont want tooo but i should ig

[tawny quail]

RangedAttribute

[copper gust]

maybe but ahhh i like the consistency

[lapis gate]

public class Attribute
{
  public struct Range {}
}```

[copper gust]

i need inheritance that structs cannot give me 😇

[latent meadow]

is opening projects if online taking a Long time for anyone else? it is instant if i disconnect the internet

[safe garden]

hi all, not 100% unity related but might relate a little, been playing WoW and wondeed, how did they get the ground to blend here with it being seamless? guessing it would be 2 different meshes but there's no seam or artefacting

[azure grove]

hard to know withouyt more context but i would assume that is the same mesh with vertex blending

but there are ways to do it without stuff like tri planner mapping, to get consistient texture mapping along many objects and using stuff like decals to hide seams

[latent meadow]

i think i have even seen it done with a fancy post processing

[copper gust]

And example of an answer https://meshblend.lervik.com/

Subnautica 2 is using this iirc

[azure grove]

yeah be we know wow was not using anything fancy

especially when the rock in the same scene hard clips

there were always, stuff like that is just more auto magic

[latent meadow]

but, what makes OP think that, that is Not the same mesh with just different terrain painting?

[azure grove]

but yeah in that screen i think its the same mesh, or that is like a heightmap driven terrian

am assuming its a large mesh with vertex blending in its material

[latent meadow]

or a splat map, but yeah, probably vertex directive

[safe garden]

it could be same mesh yea, I imagined it to not be very efficient if its one large mesh with a texture but maybe that's how they did it

[latent meadow]

terrain specifically, usually has a different efficiency than 'meshes'

[azure grove]

yeah i do not know enough about wow to know of it has a terrain system

[latent meadow]

This was an ipv6 timeout hangup

[azure grove]

even if its meshes though it could be broken up, and as long as the normals and verts match at seams its invisible

[latent meadow]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/terrain-blending-starter-kit-91921

[azure grove]

like game i am working on the water plane is actaully like a few hundred objects so it can cull properly, and so i can reduce vert count on distant parts

it all looks seamless even in motion

[latent meadow]

Nice

[azure grove]

more or less a bunch of pizza slices in shape

also did it this way since the pieaces that form the shoreline are all different where the further out ones are instanced

[latent meadow]

interesting. so you can match the shoreline shape better, naturally?

[lapis gate]

Splatmap with texture blending works for majority of cases. Triplanar for when you're lazy and can't be bothered with any of that and just want to throw some texture on a mesh without needing any complex unwrapping.

[azure grove]

yeah reason is because i have waves, so i want it to fit the shorline perfectly

so shape is based where it meets the beach, but also lots of custom uv and vertex color in that area too

though authoring wise most of the work is done via geo nodes in blender

[latent lake]

i just recorded a video explaining an issue/what im stuck with context and such to explain more clearly and with basic visual aid so i can paste the link in a post ill make in code general but i just noticed the video is 15 minutes bro is anyone even gonna bother watching that

[hushed hamlet]

Honestly... Prob not. Ha but maybe

[latent lake]

mm i suppose you dont know til you try so i made a post

but i swear its interesting and cool 😪

[hushed hamlet]

Excellent. I use this a lot in unreal (rvts)

[ebon rivet]

am i the only one sho's vscode is tweaking after the update

like it says every system files of vs code is corrupted

[tardy hound]

doing a ask thread

[mystic oriole]

No offense, but you're going to have a hard time monetizing some slop that an LLM spit out and expecting it to generate more than a few dollars of pocket change

theres enough saturation on the market without AI generated projects

[keen crystal]

lol, I understand and was on the same side as you, but having a unity managed opencode process can do a lot of things besides slop

llm didnt spit this out, its my project.. but it integratres beautifully

[mystic oriole]

the best thing you can do to reinforce your programming knowledge is to not use auto-generated code

[keen crystal]

I started with the new(ish) copilot sdk, but opencode allows me to use that, and more

but, i can make skeletons of games easily etc

then dive into the hard stuff

[storm patio]

you won't be able to dive into the hard stuff if you aren't able to do the easy stuff

[mystic oriole]

what good is a skeleton if its just spaghetti code of other people's mashed up github projects

the foundation is the most important part of a project

[keen crystal]

lol.. its a whole pipeline here.. its alkigned on the unity docs site, not external stuff.

[mystic oriole]

you do you

[keen crystal]

it could be used to generate npc responses, with knowledge of the current world state etc

[mystic oriole]

sure, but that doesn't seem like whats happening here

vibe coding does nothing but turn people's brain into sludge... everything is going to look the same eventually

more than it already does

[spice marten]

Idk if it’s allowed but am Is someone able to teach me how to code to make cheats like the basics

[mystic oriole]

not allowed

[spice marten]

Oh sorry

[keen crystal]

this is just a bridge, it can be used for anything. its just another tool.. i dont expect it to make a full game that works great, but it can be used to help specific things.

ie: dots migration..

i think everyone hates that lol

[mystic oriole]

LLMs and writing ultra parallelized code

what could go wrong lol

theres a reason people hate it, because you have to sort of understand what the computer is doing under the hood, and what makes dots fast

[keen crystal]

Im not disagreeing with you at all.. "what could go wrong" is the motivation lol

[mystic oriole]

my current benchmark for AI is: is a human at mcdonalds and taco bell still taking my order in the drive thru window?

I've never used an AI drive thru before, and I get a lot of fast food

yet the goof ball CEO of nvidia is claiming everyone needs to be vibe coding and that we're already at "AGI" whatever the hell that means

its just a lot of shady stuff going on

and its gonna cause a lot of problems

/rant

[keen crystal]

im not vibe coding, but i do ask for suggestions.. i dont believe shipping code thats never been reviewed is right (ehem.. openclaw)

but, ai can be a very good fix to writers block

and a helper, with explanation

[slow dirge]

While there's true overhype going on, by rejecting everything at the root, you're gonna end up in a cave. You know, like the Plato cave allegory.

Because these systems are already pretty capable. And hey, you don't need an AI foe automated order system in McDonald's. There are already self service registers for that.

[storm patio]

didn't they walk that back lol

[mystic oriole]

but its like the most simple possible job to be automated

[storm patio]

-# uh, factories?

[mystic oriole]

(for AI)

[slow dirge]

That's not the point. You simply don't need AI for that job.

[keen crystal]

you dont need ai for anything..

[storm patio]

AI (ie, ML) is great though tbh. it's genAI that's ehhhhh

it has its uses

[copper gust]

this is way offtopic but honestly doesn't sound like it. If it fucks up at all how do you interact with it when the current system is exclusively verbal and visual

[storm patio]

but text and media generation.. aren't one of them imo

[slow dirge]

Besides, by viewing it as a "replacement to humans" you basically agree with all the people that overhype.

[copper gust]

In fairness the people hiring humans are treating it that way so it's hard not to match that energy

[slow dirge]

I don't see that in my environment.

If it happens somewhere or in someone's head, it doesn't mean that's normal or average.

[mystic oriole]

Do you keep up with the silly stuff the nvidia CEO says

[slow dirge]

I tend not to pay too much attention to silly stuff.

[copper gust]

Average? no but there's fairly notable cases of it happening and I personally believe keeping those instances in mind and knowing ai will get better will increase the rate of it happening

[keen crystal]

my whole point and scope of my project is to create something that will help get you to the creative process faster, take out the boring stuff i do every unity project.. it will probably be tailored to my needs, but it helps.

[copper gust]

it's decimating a ton of customer service positions

[keen crystal]

im not on a side of ai is good, or bad.. its a thing, so ill learn what i can and try to stay ahead

[slow dirge]

If it happens in a really sustainable way, then why not. AI is not the first technology that made some manual work obsolete.

[copper gust]

Because it's not happening in a really sustainable way

[slow dirge]

That is a matter for debate. It might not in some cases. Might yes in others.

[copper gust]

Given the current state of the job market globally it's pretty hard to see how it would ever be sustainable to flood the pool with that many people seeking work