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[keen crystal]

then again, a subsidiary of one of my old employers, was ai/ml virus protection.. it created a lot of jobs.

[copper gust]

How many?

[keen crystal]

not gonna make up for anything considerable, but was a lot

[copper gust]

You can be rough with it

What is a lot

[storm patio]

-# take it out to dinner first, geez

[keen crystal]

lol, few hundred, but to handle one application..

[copper gust]

yeah i don't think the scale is balanced there 😛

[violet thunder]

Why do you think the tool they are showing is ai generated..? They never said that from what I can see

[keen crystal]

In the end, i don't care about the ai implementation, i'm happy i can spawn a process unity owns, hook to it, and spit out the stdout to a console... the ai wtuff is just fun for me

[mystic oriole]

OpenCode -> The open source AI coding agent

[violet thunder]

Ah I thought thats their own tool

[keen crystal]

right, but because im hooking to it, doesnt mean i used it to implement to unity

[keen crystal]

it is my tool.. not ai generated.. just used for ai to generate stuff

[mystic oriole]

yeah thats a lot of stuff to be offloading to a non human...

but if it makes you happy

[keen crystal]

the fun part is normally it makes me mad.. so i have things to fix..

[charred fog]

Don't start odd-topic discussions here.

[keen crystal]

@charred fog sorry, i didnt mean for this to escalate.. where would this type of discussion go?

[charred fog]

And off-topic as well

[keen crystal]

it is a cool unity project im working on.. all i meant to post

[charred fog]

Somewhere not on this server.

[keen crystal]

kk.. ill not post my unity projects in unity server,,

deleted my screenshots, i appologize

[copper gust]

would it not go in dev-logs?

[charred fog]

They were here to promote their "AI" tool

[keen crystal]

when i have a public showcase, ill do that

[copper gust]

is dev-logs not for promotion? or does this server not have a place for dev-logging editor tools?

[keen crystal]

nono.. i was just showing my current project, im not promoting anything

i thought it was fun to hook into opencode.. but others have their opinions

this probably wont go anywhere, its a research project at the moment

[charred fog]

This was in respect to guerrilla promotion/poll they were doing. If they want to post something built in Unity, they could use #1180170818983051344

[keen crystal]

?? im very confused..

[charred fog]

Then stop spamming

[copper gust]

this feels like another victim of someone assuming #unity-talk in a general category means its for unity talk in general

[mystic oriole]

His tool is goofy as hell and borderline useless in a real professional setting... but its still unity related

[charred fog]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[copper gust]

sure but initially you said it's offtopic and to post it in another server, both weren't really true

[keen crystal]

i agree, its a research project.. but i didnt mean to post in the wrong channel.

[copper gust]

i understand why they might be confused

[copper gust]

but it can go on this server? in #1180170818983051344?

[charred fog]

@copper gust Read the entire chat and stop spamming already

Everything was already addressed.

[keen crystal]

server or channel? im still confused.. ill just not post in this discord at all anymore if thats the choice

[copper gust]

I was actively participating in the entire chat, yes I read it
If you want me to stop discussing it that's one thing but calling this spam is a little ridiculous

I'd like to think it's pretty clear I'm not asking these questions in bad faith

[storm patio]

it's just the AI discussion that doesn't really fit here, no?

[charred fog]

To spell it out again. This was in respect to the off-topic discussion about "AI" tools

[copper gust]

Personally the distinction there did not seem clear

[keen crystal]

im still confused.. sorry for sharing a research project, i am not promoting, or taking sides on ai for.. its just a research project.. if im in the wrong channel ill put this stuff in dev-logs in the future.. if im in the wrong server, i guess unity is not interested in research projects

[copper gust]

It wasn't clearly explained tbh and this channel is poorly named. AFAIK You can use #1180170818983051344 for your project but there isn't really a place for the ai discussion that happened in response to your tool post

[charred fog]

For the last time. You were not "sharing" a research project, you started a polling discussion if you can monetize the "AI" tool etc, and other things that were touched on. This channel is not for marketing or promotion.

@copper gust @keen crystal Stop with the spam already. Last warning.

[barren nacelle]

I think my ssd died

I had my unity project on that ssd too

I’m so cooked

[viscid raft]

And GitHub or another type of hosting platform if you're smart

[barren nacelle]

I’m gonna have to start over again from scratch

[viscid raft]

One of the first things you learn with programming is to use version control. Not just to make it easier to track changes, you also publish your progress online in case of an SSD failure or a fire or something. Why didn't you do this part?

[barren nacelle]

I’m stupid that’s why

I was lazy

[viscid raft]

All I can say is let this be a lesson and back up your progress

And see if somebody can recover your data

[barren nacelle]

I did think of backing the project I was working on to a different ssd but I thought it was useless since the project I was working on wasn’t finished yet

Ssd was working fine yesterday night too but it suddenly died this morning

Well

[viscid raft]

I mean, literally any progress warrants proper backups. Making a GitHub repository takes only 1 minute

[barren nacelle]

It’ll probably be easier to do the project over again since I’ve done it once hopefully it’ll be easier the second time

[barren nacelle]

Yea, I’m gonna start doing this now

I literally had everything on that ssd backed up to a different drive

Only thing I didn’t have backed up was the project I was working on

[empty bridge]

Hey guys

Bro where I can look for team mates ?

[charred fog]

!collab

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[empty bridge]

Thank you bro

[safe garden]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/fullscreen-camera-effects/mesh-seam-blending-326839?srsltid=AfmBOooC8LUt4RmsDtbgq5lXVwMDAQa7eqtRQf4Smm_CyPwNi4f2ySSg

hi all, have any of you tried something like this for mesh blending on assets with terrain that kinda thing? or any better suggestions?

[latent meadow]

did you bother trying the free asset i linked when you asked previously?

[zenith bobcat]

Just got about 5 questions

1. What's an occluder
2. What's an occludee
3. How does occlusion culling work exactly? Is it whatevers not in the camera doesn't render?
   Realistically could I make a game for an igpu on unity 6 but the games low poly style

[latent meadow]

1. thing that is occluding the view of occludee
2. thing the has view of it blocked, occluded
3. yes to the first part. part 2: make sure the igpu meets min unity specs. it so, find a game that is like the one you want to make and check the sysreqs. add about 40%. if your computer meets or exceeds it, you should be able to make your game

[zenith bobcat]

I got hd 620 Igpu

My main gaming pc has an Rtx but i thought how do u optimise a game if u dont have bad hardware

[latent meadow]

stick to URP. your issue will be more about poly count than much else. there is not a lot of overhead in URP, BUT, keep things in mind,. Lighting should be baked. do not try realtime lighting on that gpu. also, that means, when you move an object in the scene, that lighting does not automatically update so you may have outlines and shadows there. you might want to consider Unlit.
Beyond this, time to start talking to the guys in the #1390346776804069396 room, most likely. if you do unlit, you will save Many headaches, but introduce others. everything is a balance in game dev

the profile/silhouette, will never match the original high poly model since the curves are just not there, but the texturing can be essentially identical. you would Bake the texture to the low poly model. a Normal Map will make it look amazingly like the HP model, with the silhouette caveat

[zenith bobcat]

Thanks this helps a lot

[rigid galleon]

Hey, not sure if this is the right place to ask, please redirect me if it's not.
I was wondering if it's ok to make an asset available on github freely under the WTFPL license or similar, and have it on the asset store as a paid asset as a donation system sort of?
I know others can redistribute it etc. since it's under the above mentioned license, I am just concerned whether this is against some rules.
Please @ me and thanks in advance!

[potent geyser]

Nope

This is the Unity development server, not whatever XboxUnity is.

[bitter horizon]

where do i learn C#

im an absolute begginer to coding

[storm patio]

there are resources pinned in #💻┃code-beginner

[pearl oyster]

Just like you were told the last time you asked: #💻┃unity-talk message

[bitter horizon]

haha how did you remember that

[pearl oyster]

How did you not?

[bitter horizon]

i forgot

[storm patio]

might want to get that checked

[rigid galleon]

bump

[storm patio]

i mean, any response you're gonna get is gonna be marked with IANAL
the "right place to ask" would probably be a contract or copyright lawyer

ig what you can do yourself is read through the applicable contracts/terms/agreements/licenses and see if they allow or disallow what you're doing

in general for licenses, you can't do anything other than what's explicitly allowed by said license. (since it's giving you a license to do those things)

not sure about terms or agreements though. again, IANAL

it's kind of a big ask to ask about how 2 agreements (probably more from the asset store/payment provider side) interact, there's an entire career for that 😆

[mossy vale]

Hi, is there anyone who's worked with Unity ECS and would like to talk for 5-10 minutes? Please message me privately; I'd be happy to hear from you, thanks.

[storm patio]

not how community support servers work, please don't delegate to dms

https://dontasktoask.com

[charred fog]

!collab

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[charred fog]

Don't cross-post, please.

[teal plover]

idk how that counts as a job or a collab?

didnt ask anyone to do it for me or litteraly collab just point me on smth but alr

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! I can't find the documentation page of the Pixel Perfect Camera.

I want to read about it but I cant find it

oh

I am on a new Unity documentation page

I have searched about it on Google

Why there are 2 Doc pages for Unity?

[near wigeon]

wdym 2 Doc pages ?

[boreal river]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.pixel-perfect@1.0/manual/index.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/index.html

oh wait the other one is packages

I mean they are different

[near wigeon]

manual, api and packages

packages have the same thing, Manual part and the API part (code)

[boreal river]

Yes but why they are not on the same place?

Only manual & API are

[near wigeon]

because packages are maintained separately

[boreal river]

So where is the link for packages?

[fierce shuttle]

do build profile scripting defines apply on top of, or in place of the base defines?

[near wigeon]

usually google or the Documentation button in the package manager

[plain dagger]

Additional

ones such as UNITY_EDITOR and DEBUG are defined by unity where relevent

[fierce shuttle]

i see

so this whole time i had double defines lol

[worldly cave]

ever so slightly offtopic but did PraetorBlue leave the server? I needed to ask him something and i see he is no longer here

[storm patio]

his account was compromised so he was kicked as a precaution

he'll probably be back soon

[worldly cave]

ah unfortunate

[storm patio]

he still has access to the account though

[sinful trench]

is there any way to know when the next round of Unity AI beta testers will be released? or if there will be?

[flint birch]

❤️

[charred fog]

@flint birch Do you have a question?

[boreal river]

Hey, guys! In 2D games with use Pixel Perfect Camera instead of Camera ?

[flint birch]

i dont im just sharing my experience with unity

[boreal river]

I was just wondering we can't use the regular camera right?

[gray frigate]

the Pixel Perfect Camera is used to control the Camera

it's an extra component

[charred fog]

If you don's have a question don't post off-topic here

[storm patio]

you can, if you aren't using pixelart for example

[boreal river]

Yes but when I add pixel perfect camera when right click it adds automatically both camera and pixel perfect comp-onent

[storm patio]

yes, because pixelperfectcamera requires camera

[boreal river]

If you are using pixel art?

[gray frigate]

It's intended to be attached to the same object as the Camera component.

[storm patio]

then you should have a pixelperfectcamera alongside the camera

[gray frigate]

The point of the pixel-perfect camera is to make sure that pixel art aligns correctly to pixels on your monitor

[storm patio]

^ the camera still does the actual rendering

[gray frigate]

You don't need it if you aren't using pixel art

[boreal river]

Wait I got confused

[storm patio]

me and fen are saying the same thing

[boreal river]

A 2D game can be a game without the use of Pixel Art?

[gray frigate]

...i hope so

[storm patio]

hollow knight

[boreal river]

For one reason, I was always thinking that 2D games are somehow connected with pixel art

[gray frigate]

e.g. Dust: An Elysian Tail has hand-drawn 2D art

[worldly cave]

yes.

[storm patio]

that's just a misconception you have then

[copper gust]

all art is pixel art, just depends on the amount of pixels 😛

[worldly cave]

i would argue a majority of 2d games out now dont use pixel art

[gray frigate]

rocking up with my game made ENTIRELY out of SDFs

[boreal river]

Ok so what I have to keep in mind when working on 2D?

[storm patio]

rocking up with my game made ENTIRELY out of pixels (noita)

[copper gust]

unanswerable question

[storm patio]

that you're in 2d? this is an incredibly vague question

[boreal river]

I mean

[storm patio]

what do you have to keep in mind when walking?

[gray frigate]

pixel art games need to think harder about exactly how big their art assets are

[boreal river]

I was just confusing the Pixel Art with 2D games in general

[gray frigate]

2D games in general also need to think about that, i guess

[storm patio]

lmao what?

[gray frigate]

but you can resize non-pixel-art assets more reliably

[copper gust]

just wait until you see the 3d pixel art games

[storm patio]

images are far smaller than models

[gray frigate]

I'm not talking about filesize

I'm talking about the actual art

[storm patio]

ohhhh, yeah ok that makes sense

[gray frigate]

If your game is designed so that the main character is 40 pixels tall, you can't suddenly make a small enemy be 100px tall

you'll have to squash them or stretch the player

and now your pixel sizes are inconsistent

[boreal river]

3D Pixel art?

[storm patio]

minecraft

[boreal river]

oh ok

[storm patio]

there's also voxels

[violet thunder]

Voxel = volumetric pixel

[copper gust]

everything is nothing and nothing is everything

nothing matters

[storm patio]

you ever think about how the x in voxel stands for picture

[boreal river]

You know we have a 2D Arcade game to create I think I have mentioned that here in College on an Arcade Machine and you know we have to create our own 8-bit Audio, as well as our own sprites/pixel art on Aseprite.

And I am thinking right now bvecause I have no experience

[storm patio]

ok, so all those restrictions come from it being an arcade game, not from it being 2d

[boreal river]

I have to start learning & understanding theory of Pixel Art

[boreal river]

I assume yes

[storm patio]

i'm telling you

not asking

[boreal river]

Yes

We have many any restrictions like on size of each sprite, and all the settings we have to use

Hey, guys! Could you please explain to me what all these properties do in Pixel Perfect Camera, I mean I have to remember what each of them does right?

[charred fog]

Did you check the Manual explaining them?

[boreal river]

Yes I read it

[gray frigate]

what part do you not understand about it, then?

[charred fog]

So ask a specific question what you don't understand

[gray frigate]

it would be pretty inefficient to just read you the manual

[gray frigate]

and let's not get started about "texels"

[boreal river]

Crop frame and refernce resolution are the most confusing to me and lets say grid snapping

I think I have to try and experiment XD

otherwise

[storm patio]

reference resolution is what resolution in visual pixels you intend the viewport to be
crop frame, well, just try that one out

[boreal river]

oh its the same thing as it is for canvas

[storm patio]

not quite, similar concept

[boreal river]

Yes I mean its similar

[cosmic glade]

I am creating a simple shader graph that put a sprite on top of the existing MainTex

the issue is because the original MainTex is from a sprite sheet
and the sprite on top is just a single image so it gets strectched to fill all the sprite sheet space (UV problem I think)

I can fix this by diving the UV until it looks right but I don't know if that's the right solution. I feel like there is a better one

[gray frigate]

if you screen is 1000x1000, and the reference resolution is 100x100, it'll scale everything so that each pixel in your art assets takes up a 10-pixel square

so, the reference resolution is the size of the screen where each pixel in your art takes up exactly 1 pixel on the screen

[native holly]

Hey guys, just had a question. I want to make a party game (stick fight / rounds style) that you can play online and in person on one screen. What would be the best way of doing this in Unity 6?

Just dont wanna start the project then find out I did it wrong XD

[teal plover]

hello, i am using Ellen 2D asset pack from Unity and i want to put my Gun/Staff onto an object so i can pick it up later, does anybody know how to do that?

[worldly cave]

theres really no 1 right answer for this

what do you mean by "best way of doing this"

because thats a pretty broad question

[native holly]

I generally mean just is there a way that thats done most often / implemented easier

Like would I want 2 different scenes for online and local or is there a way to have them together

[worldly cave]

how familliar are you with networking to begin with?

[native holly]

This would be my first online style project so not too familliar

[craggy pollen]

may i ask how long you have been working in unity?

[native holly]

Ive worked in Unity for a few years now on and off

Just never got too into the online aspect of it and was curious

[worldly cave]

!learn

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[worldly cave]

there should be some pathways for basic networking here

but yeah you need to first learn how it all works youre missing some fundamental "context" i suppose

[native holly]

Thats grand, I kinda know how it works just not how to implement if that makes sense

[native holly]

Ill check this out tho thank you!

[copper gust]

Probably in here somewhere but suprisingly not a topic

[worldly cave]

damn really

[copper gust]

maybe this- oh its 25 minutes long

[native holly]

I found this which Ill check outhttps://learn.unity.com/course/unity-6-multiplayer-creation

[native holly]

Yeah found the same one XD

When looking up multiplaye this one also came up: https://learn.unity.com/project/net-check-converting-a-game-to-multiplayer

[latent meadow]

there is also a dedicated #1390346492019212368 room with resources at the top of the first pinned message

[last parcel]

can anyone explain how to build assetbundles?

i used this script but it didnt show anything

[copper gust]

youll probably have to ask whatever community this is for

[last parcel]

unity?

[worldly cave]

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

this is the community

[craggy pollen]

you got an error message there

[copper gust]

2018 unity building asset bundles

[worldly cave]

fair

[craggy pollen]

and make sure you put this script into the Editor folder

[copper gust]

what's the bundles for

[copper gust]

your code won't work if you have compile errors

[last parcel]

i only have error with another one

[copper gust]

ok

if you have any compile errors your code won't compile

you need to fix that

[last parcel]

the errors are from meshinfo.cs

[copper gust]

ok

[craggy pollen]

you have to

[last parcel]

just focus on creataassetbundle.cs

[copper gust]

please read

you need to fix all compile errors for all code to compile

[craggy pollen]

it is only the tires bro the car will still drive

[storm patio]

don't worry about that collapsed concrete support over there. i need you to help me figure out why this one is cracked

[rapid fog]

Hi 👋

[near wigeon]

https://nohello.net

[rapid fog]

Ok

[rapid fog]

But I don't know how to start conversation with someone because I don't know the th interested topic or hobbies of them

[near wigeon]

thats fine because this isn't a casual chit chat server anyway.
If you have a Unity question then ask it otherwise it doesn't belong

[rapid fog]

Ok I got it ☺️

[hushed hamlet]

There are a bunch good for that though, just poke around ! It can be nice. Getting feedback on other stuffs and such.

[dusky jay]

Hey guys I am trying to install the editor but the continue button is greyed out no matter what i click, can anyone help me?

I've tried selecting all of them or just windows, etc.

I've also tried running unity as admin, and also re opening.

mb guys the problem was simple and I just had to try one more thing.

The default installation was a drive that isn't plugged in anymore 😅

[latent meadow]

why did you block out the 'available'

@dusky jay

[patent iron]

Hi there! Am new to unity, and im trying to follow a pretty old tutorial on youtube on how to make an npc talk. The thing is, i want to open the discussion with the npc with "E", and then i want the player to click the button "Continue" on the bottom right of the texte box to go to the next sentence. my program works for "E", but idk why the button doesnt work at all, like nothing happens when i click on it. idk if the problem is my code or the button itself, so if there's someone here who can help me it would be very kind :)
||Also, sorry if i am not clear enough, english isnt my first language...||

[latent meadow]

the best way to get help with code is, instead of screenshots which will get people yelling 😅 , utilize this:

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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.

[patent iron]

oooh thanks am sorry lol

[worldly cave]

also post it in #💻┃code-beginner

[patent iron]

oh mb i didnt see it sorry

[dusky jay]

didn't, it's likely like that because it was trying to install to the unavailable drive

[latent meadow]

ah. well, that probably is the "well there's yer prob'lum"

[marble osprey]

Should i be worried that unity has been downloading visual studio for like 15 minutes now?

nvm i should have been there was a seperate window for it

[latent lake]

i would appreciate some advice on this: #1486904570863943731 message

[marble osprey]

Oh now i remember why I don't use unity anymore. I just doesn't open no error. Just doesn't work :)

[latent meadow]

it is not supported

[marble osprey]

whats not supported?

[atomic folio]

how do i disable copilot github in visual studio community

cause It keeps giving me these unneccessary things in my code

[marble osprey]

honest question how do i open unity?

[latent meadow]

you make a project in the hub, using the version you want to open. you then click that project to open it

[marble osprey]

that would be nice

[latent meadow]

i already told you that, that version is not supported

[marble osprey]

why did it let me install it?

Also sorry i wasn't sure if you were talking to me or someone else

[latent meadow]

checking something

[marble osprey]

Just giving more information. I downloaded it off unity hub itself

[latent meadow]

since this is an out of support version, the best i can suggest is digging through the logs to see where the error is

!logs

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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

[latent meadow]

from what i am reading, it Should technically launch

i honestly have no idea how you 'installed it through the hub" as that version should not be available in the hub

[marble osprey]

yeah this is literally why i quit unity after one project. It became super difficualt to even open projects

[latent meadow]

yes, that is what happens with unsupported version, honestly. also, doesn't vrchat support 2022?

That Is in the hub, and supported, generally

and why do you have to run as admin.. but.. no. you need to update your version.

[marble osprey]

I'm installing a new version, not sure if it will help cause I had this problem. I've had this happen before

Heres how i installed that verion in the unity hub

[latent meadow]

Ah! you cheated 😄

neat though.. i did not know it would pull older version like that anymore

[marble osprey]

If i remember right i keep having problems running unity projects on like any of the verions 😮‍💨

[latent meadow]

well, do not try to run old projects first. start with the oldest version that works, 2022, and make a new project. do not run the hub as admin.

and again, if you want to not be blind as to what is actually happening, read the logs.

[marble osprey]

The problem is its for adding things to vrchat. and i think they are locked to 2020

or 2019 i thought? idk

[latent meadow]

IDK. certainly not supported here (vrchat or the older version) so, probably best to ask them (vrchat discord)

it looks like you are on windows 10?

at minimum, make sure you are running at least 21H1

[atomic prism]

hey, So my friend was banned on this server and I wanted to know how could my friend appeal the decision. Is there any dedicated channel or something?

[latent meadow]

read the #📖┃code-of-conduct , check the section regarding what you are asking about. there is contact info/instructions

[marble osprey]

Thanks for the help Unstalling the 2020 version fixed it

[balmy sundial]

Is there a sub where you can discuss math?

[latent meadow]

if it is programming math, check with general coding perhaps. #📑┃channel-directory

[polar breach]

hey!

anyone know the basics of vr ui intractability?

[latent meadow]

yes, many people do.

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[empty grotto]

hey all, have you ever gotten any AI points top up?

i requested weeks ago and is still 0

is there any other way to get it or am I missing something?

[copper gust]

#1202574086115557446

[hushed hamlet]

It's a long topic but you might want to start with the xr interactive toolkit and associated learnings to begin with

The high level is world space UI, and avoid sticking things to the users face like a bad post it note (except for huds of course - in which case I recommend making it more of an removal helmet cuz we can)

[rocky whale]

heya

[gentle hill]

hello all! first time in the server. is it appropriate to ask questions here?

[hushed hamlet]

Yes and then check the channel list for anything specific. But you'll get redirected usually if it has a specialty group
I.e. #🔎┃find-a-channel message

[gentle hill]

got it! Thank you!

I'm trying to make a really simple game with playground asset for an assignment and i'm using the spaceship asteroid assets. Everything was fine until i hit a roadblock.

I was following a tutorial and i added destroy for points scriot on an asteroid. the concept is that the laser beams shooting out of the ship destroy the asteroid. but when the lasers hit the asteroid, they just pass through it

the laser has the bullet script and the asteroid has destroy for points script. But somehow the laser just passes through the asteroid

[shut tartan]

With only this data, it could be many things. Do the laser and meteor have colliders?

[gentle hill]

yes they both do have colliders. infact they collide when i turn off the trigger on the laser. but even then, the points doesnt work

[shut tartan]

Ohh, I see. So, the asteroid is a non-trigger collider, and the laser is a trigger collider?
In the code, are you using OnCollisionEnter() or OnTriggerEnter()?

[gentle hill]

i honestly didnt code anything. I was just using the script components. This is indeed my first day in UNITY haha

[torpid cave]

is it normal for an HLSL shader in unity to be hundreds of lines long?

its like impossible to read compared to C#

[copper gust]

Yes

It’s just the nature of writing super math heavy logic that has to be insanely fast

[torpid cave]

how do they usually get split? lighting and textures/colors?

[shut tartan]

Ah. Well, setting a collider to trigger makes it not do physics collisions, and only trigger OnTriggerEnter events and such things. That's why setting it to trigger makes it pass through.

[torpid cave]

do you know HLSL well? i was learning how to write it with claude and it told me to write "float4 shadowCoord = TransformWorldToShadowCoord(IN.positionWS)" but i cannot figure out the actual logic behind it, how does it work?

[shut tartan]

As for the points thing, you'd have to get into the code for that.

[torpid cave]

thats what i actually wanna do, but im also scared to break something and have the entire project turn magenta

thats a good idea

[copper gust]

Not at all so unlike claude i’m not gonna give you advice i don’t know about 😛

[torpid cave]

yeah its really confusing lol

unitys standard is a rabbit hole? also why did they remove just the basic standard shader? i only have options for unlit and a few others

[copper gust]

Or if you can use shadergraph

[torpid cave]

yeah i just sent a message about shadow stuff, i hate it. also yeah i do need the standard shader, where is it downloaded?

[torpid cave]

thats what i have been using but i wanna have more control of my materials and its better for me to learn HLSL anyways, i wanna learn how it works

im also on URP, and yeah i was more talking about when you right click to make a material i never see standard as an option

also do you know anything about deferred vs forward rendering? can shading be customized on deferred? i need to be able to make my shading pretty flat

yeah cel shading, im just wondering because the reason i switched from UE to unity is because i literally couldnt customize the shading calculation, there was a bandaid fix with post processing materials but that just takes the final rendered image and i would flatten the brightness of the pixels on screen, wondering if unity's deferred renderer is the same way

oh trust me i know 😂 i had to disable so much

i dont think i will ever go back to UE though, even though its way easier

yeah, im wondering if you can change the way the shading is calculated in unity's deferred renderer

yeah i already got a toon shader, i was just asking about the deferred renderer

i grabbed my toon shader from github i think XD

[lethal mason]

is there really any good way of creating a fully explorable earth liek the one in megaton rainfall

[slow dirge]

Not really. You'd need a custom render pipeline for this.

[lethal mason]

wdym

[slow dirge]

At most you can control the gbuffer contents.

[slow dirge]

Yes, a custom scriptable render pipeline.

[lethal mason]

damn

ight

ty

[torpid cave]

yeah thats what i was thinking, some game studios have proprietary engines where they can access the lighting and change it how they like while still having deferred

im sure forward is better for me anyways

[slow dirge]

I just realized you're a different person. I was not replying to you.

[slow dirge]

You don't need a custom engine. Unity allows creating your own render pipelines. That's the whole point of SRPs.

[torpid cave]

yeah thats why i love unity, it lets me do almost anything i want, but im probably not gonna use SRP, i just started learning coding in january

[hushed hamlet]

I've never played it but cesium or open street maps etc

[sullen scarab]

How does the project hierarchy look for specifically the player game object (soon to be prefab). Player body has gameplay-affecting components removed.

[light tree]

You know that Unity Multiplayer Servers are shutting down. Does anyone have recommendations on where I should migrate my matchmaking system and server infrastructure?

[hidden panther]

why is it like this in unity? is this a shader issue

[latent meadow]

why is what like what? there are lights on in blender, there are not lights on in Unity if that is what you mean. at least that is what it looks like. cannot tell more about the material without lights

[sullen scarab]

Just from experience, usually what you see in blender isn't going to be 1:1 with unity out of the gate

[craggy pollen]

if i understand that correctly you are asking how you can reference your prefab after instantiating

you´d do that by some kind of injecting the prefab into the instantiating object then you can work with that reference

[sullen scarab]

Oh, I was just asking if the structure looks nice. I know how to do prefab instantiation and such

[craggy pollen]

ok, it looks pretty organized to me

[hidden panther]

sry it's not bright enough, it's a backface culling issue so I had to flip the face on that ornate object

[rocky mirage]

hello, i want to learn more about building games in unity, is there a good course/place where i can get started?

[craggy pollen]

check the pinned channel messages

[signal grotto]

hey

would unity 6 web based support a networked rts game with 1000's on units in it

what would be the main limitations?

[storm patio]

yes

[storm patio]

depends

the question posed is very vague

1000 is not a super big number, in the scope of computers

[signal grotto]

I'm sure

[storm patio]

depending on what those units are or encompass, maybe the limitation would be cpu perf, or gpu perf, or ram, or your own ability to design or draw or code the units

so really, could be anything

it's too vague to properly answer.

[signal grotto]

I know graphics would be more limited

it's single threaded in web right?

the cpu calculations

[storm patio]

js is single threaded, but worker threads exist. i'm sure they're utilized in some capacity here

[signal grotto]

I see

afaik worker threads do not share memory working set with main thread

they need to message each other

[storm patio]

webgl supports

Hardware-accelerated 3D graphics for the browser environment

just bottom line, you have other things to worry about than perf, if that's what you're worried about

[hidden panther]

I watch code monkey course to learn unity, it helped a lot

and this is optional but I do recommend, learn programming language first. C# specifically but you can start with python or any other language, it helps a tonnn and save me headache from not understanding the course when it comes to the programming hha

[signal grotto]

I see

[empty grotto]

which is hte best for this? is unity AI or something else?

[storm patio]

none of them are really going to help unless you already know how to make things

[inland river]

what even is "this"?

[empty grotto]

i have software engineering background, just havent used unity ai or any of the ai tools for programming, so im wondering which is the best to use for programming using ai

[hidden panther]

I use claude AI for general use, it's a really good ai in my opinion better than chatgpt. but idk about claude code specifically for programming

[storm patio]

if you're asking me, they're all equally unnecessary lol

[blissful gale]

I need help making a gorilla tag copy!

[storm patio]

reset the clock...

!learn

[vagrant root]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[storm patio]

there are learning resources there ^

[wispy sail]

Why Unity suddenly as me where to save everytime I create script? I Already try reinstall (clean install) Unity & VS2026 but still same issue. This little bit annoy because it seem either Visual Studio or Unity (Latest) not connected with each other.

[blissful gale]

Kk

[empty grotto]

AI tools are an extension of you, they wont do your job, but they most definitely can help. thats what im trying to get to.

if I assign the architecture to the AI, would it understand what needs to be done and do it or do I need to babysit it all the way though

[storm patio]

because it needs to know where you want to save the script?

this is unrelated to your ide

you could create a script in the project window (or in your ide's project explorer), since that's in a specific folder

[hidden panther]

I usually create script in the project window, doesn't ask you where to save it because it will saved in the folder that is opened in that project window

[slow dirge]

In the past it would save the script in the project root when creating it from add component. Did they change it?

[hidden panther]

I remember it asking where to save when creating script from add component

[wispy sail]

Well, it really unpleasant to me. When did Unity change/remove this feature?

[slow dirge]

Hmm... I'm pretty sure it was saving at root by default for the last 5 years.

[hidden panther]

that's just what I remember, might be wrong

[hidden panther]

idk, you can still create script from the project window

if it bother you that much

[slow dirge]

Maybe check for settings that could be relevant in the preferences.

[wispy sail]

yeah I agree. I left Unity like for 3 year & comeback to it now. Then see this "weird" changer

[craggy pollen]

if you do it from the context menu it ´ll save the script at the path where you created the script by default

if you do it from the inspector it wil ask you where to save

[wispy sail]

Well, gonna adapt with new way of saving script

[hidden panther]

btw kamu dari indonesia kah bang? atau malaysia

[storm patio]

this is a primarily english server, sorry

[hidden panther]

oh okay

[wispy sail]

I'm a Malaysian

[hidden panther]

I see, kind of rare to see any southeast asian game dev

nice to meet you

[velvet galleon]

hola

[storm patio]

hi, this is not really a social space. if you have a question, feel free to ask
https://nohello.net

[hidden panther]

hey, need help with something?

[velvet galleon]

si , tengo problemas a la hora de configurar el editor de texto para poder trabajar , me recomiendan alguno?

[storm patio]

sorry, this is a primarily english server

[craggy pollen]

what makes him think everyone can speak spanish here?

[hidden panther]

I don't understand spanish 😭

[storm patio]

sounds like you need this?

!ide

[vagrant root]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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[craggy pollen]

oh that text editor ok, makes sense

[storm patio]

that's all i managed to gather from the words i recognized lol

[velvet galleon]

Oh, sorry, my question is that I'm having trouble configuring the code editor. Do you recommend any?

[storm patio]

@velvet galleon check out the configuration guides

[velvet galleon]

thanks

[potent moss]

do objects ever just stop taking up resources? like if a scene has a thousand moving objects that are a bajillion units away from the player and completely out of sight do they still take up the same resources as if they were right infront of them?

maybe weird question idk

[plain dagger]

Oo such a complex question to answer 😆

[craggy pollen]

to trim it down to the rendering process, the object will only be rendered within the range of your cams far clipping

so it is not the same if an object is far away or closer to the cam, you can test this out with the stats window, you will see the batches clearly

[plain dagger]

No for rendering we use LODs to reduce render complexity for objects far away

clipping planes do matter but that is a fixed boundary for not rendering anymore

Physics colliders/rigidbodies sleep and already have optimisations to efficiently check objects close by

[hidden panther]

but he said the objects is completely out of sight tho

[plain dagger]

They could be behind other meshes but not visible in the final frame but you are right

Learning about overdraw is important

many things matter 🤷‍♂️

[craggy pollen]

and inside the far clipping plane, we also have LODs and other methods to optimize the process, such as occlusion culling

[slow dirge]

They do take up memory(RAM) and their shaders/textures/meshes take up VRAM memory. Unless you unload them or use some kind of streaming technique.

[storm patio]

do objects ever just stop taking up resources?
when they stop existing and get GC'd

[slow dirge]

Scripts keep on running as well, unless you manually disable them. The only thing that is being disabled is rendering(via frustum culling) if they're off screen.

[plain dagger]

something something shadows

too many things contribute to "performance"

[hidden panther]

I wanna ask, how many draw calls is too much draw calls? I'm making a great hall scene

[craggy pollen]

it depends on the size of your scene, the meshes , how many materials you used etc etc

hard to answer it

[potent geyser]

🫸 🫷 about this much

[craggy pollen]

it is like asking how much horse power is too much for a vehicle

[potent geyser]

Or how long it takes to walk from here to there.

[craggy pollen]

generally speaking, you have to keep an eye on the overall fps, there are many ways on how to optimize your game, one important thing is the count of the pollys you are using in your scene.

[hidden panther]

mhm, fortunately it's runs really well for now

[plain dagger]

The profiler, frame debugger and urp/hdrp render debuggers can be used to investigate more if you notice performance issues
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.4/Documentation/Manual/urp/features/rendering-debugger-use.html

@hidden panther

[hidden panther]

oh I'll check that out

thanks

[wispy sail]

Inside Unity 6.1 under "What's new in Unity" Unity Manual. Well, that answer my question previous & no wonder why I feel confuse because the last time I use Unity is version 6.0 😅

[tropic oyster]

I need some insight on a project I'm working on. I'm making a stardew-esq game and I'm trying to figure out the UI/data model for the ground. I'm thinking of doing a tilemap based system but I'm realizing it would result in probably 4 layers of tilemaps and then a separate data layer. Wondering if there are better ways, and if the data layer should be 1 class per coordinate or 1 class per tilemap layer

[charred fog]

data cell doesn't need to know anything about tilemaps, just what features it contains, terrain type etc.

[tropic oyster]

But let's say a tile has grass base, rocky_modifier layer with visual component and crops layer

that's 3 visual layers and 2 logical layers

"rocky" modifier blocks non "rocky" tolerant plants. And plant layer has it's own grow logic

But I guess in theory I could implement interfaces

[charred fog]

data cell should not have anything beyond actual data and some helper methods related to fetching neighbours perhaps, for navigation tools.

[rigid galleon]

Hey, this video mentions that the unity team is on the lookout for external early adopters, and that you should reach out to some form of a contact or something.
I am not sure, but assuming that this is for unity partners etc., not for just anyone to test out, is that correct?
Just wanna make sure so I am not missing out on something I could be helping with.
https://youtu.be/_t6xVfrmEWU?t=671

[tropic oyster]

So how about this architecture.
registry of tileType single instances. These hold behavior in static functions
data layer storing state and references
tilemap layers

registry[ dataGrid[coords].classType ].onBreak(dataGrid[coords])

Where onBreak modifies dataLayer and tilemap layers

[charred fog]

Not sure what you trying to describe here.
When populating tiles you can discern what they are from cell data. You don't need to bake tiles types there.

And you need it only once to populate tilemap. It's very performant and can have huge size on screen.

[tropic oyster]

But I also need to modify the tilemap

[charred fog]

Still doesn't need anything but basic data types.

If you have cells with things growing, you add it to a manager that ticks aways those updating them and visuals if needed.

The manager would know which tilemap layer to update. Don't need to keep references to tilemap on the tile or anything like that

[tropic oyster]

I'm understanding the data layer and tilemap layer. I guess I'm struggling with how to do the behavior layer

data layer
{
background: "grass"
modifiers: ["rocky"]
crop: null
}

behavior layer
onPlace(item, dataObject) {
for (modifier in dataObject.modifiers)
if not item.crop.tolerances has modifier { exit function}
else
if (!crop) crop = item.crop
}

and then like how would I represent something like a chest

presumably a reference to a chestData table

[charred fog]

You data class would be very cluttered, you should separate it. If you need inventory on the cell, just put a collection on it.

Managing class should be managing actions.

[tropic oyster]

so behavior wouldn't be at the tile level? It should be a manager class? And then it would just infer behavior from data?

[charred fog]

yes

[tropic oyster]

How would it know that OnInteract for a chest is different for OnInteract for a door?
maybe tags I guess?
tags: [interactable]
id: chest

Sorry for all the questions, I have less experience with pure OOP. I'm used to web models

[charred fog]

It could be just a collection of interactable items to check. If collection exists and has an interactible item, check interaction accordingly to item type...

Details depend on the design you have

[tropic oyster]

note: i do want procedural world so data/memory reduction is valuable

[charred fog]

So if you remove interactable item, pass collection to the pool and null it.

You can also have separate dictionary with existing items, with tile coordinate as keys. Manage that more tightly

Making action on a tile, check with that collection if there's something to interact with

[tropic oyster]

so like
interactables = ["chest", "door"]
Interact(x, y, player)
if tileData[x,y].id in interactables

I guess my thought is if I need unique behavior for different interactables would that be baked into a dispatcher class

if (isChest) util.OnChestInteract
if (isDoor) util.OnDoorInteract

[charred fog]

You would want those items stored as objects and probably have common IInteractable interface

[tropic oyster]

ok so
registry.Register(new ChessClass(), "chest")
registry.Register(new DoorClass(), "door")

registry.Get("chest").Interact(tileData[x,y])

I'd probably check like registry.Get("chest").IsInstance(IInteractable)

obvi this is all pseudocode

[latent meadow]

<@&502884371011731486> i have no idea what this is supposed to be ^ #💻┃unity-talk message

they changed the message

[charred fog]

!kick 1380089249336135764 spam

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[glad marsh]

Is there anyone that knows how to work with vrchat avatars? I need something aspecially in that kind of catagory

[latent meadow]

vrchat is not supported here, in any way. you'll need to talk to their discord directly

[stuck flower]

!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

[warm elbow]

Which channel would I go to for help with shader graph nodes?

[gray dirge]

I think #1390346776804069396 is the closest we have to shaders nowadays

[warm elbow]

thanks

[hard parcel]

Wasnt there a channel to publish/show off projects/libraries ?

[balmy kettle]

#1180170818983051344

[exotic turret]

Guys how does a 2d converyor square works? What do i have to learn in order to code it?

[storm patio]

depends heavily on what kind of game and level/movement system you already have

[exotic turret]

No i mean, i dont have one. I know how to script a lot of things but I really wanted to start this new journey on a factory game since I always loved this kind of game. For now i only want to know how to script a converyor but I dont know where to start. I tried searching some tutorials even if there are few videos

I dont know where to start, what kind of mechanic do i have to learn to make a converoyr

[storm patio]

again, depends

design how you want it to behave

before that, design the overall systems it exists within

[exotic turret]

The most basic one, just an item moving on the converyors

[storm patio]

there is no "most basic one"

you have to decide how you want it to behave

[exotic turret]

Can u explain me? Sorry but im still learning

[storm patio]

consider hoppers in minecraft, or conveyors in satisfactory, or conveyers in mindustry, or conveyors in factorio, or conveyors in shapez.io
these all work vastly differently

not in complexity, just how they behave

"conveyor" is a vague goal
design what you want it to do, then figure out how to make those behaviors

[exotic turret]

An item moving forward on a conveyor

What do u mean with behaviour

[storm patio]

gotta get much more specific than that

does that item exist in the world? is it affected by physics, or does the conveyor statically move it, ignoring anything else?
does the conveyor exist on a grid? how does it interact with other conveyors, how does it interact with other objects/containers? what happens at the end of the conveyor?

etc, etc

[surreal nexus]

All I could say personally, is if you're looking for something that can still be interacted with

nevermind lol Chris got it

[exotic turret]

God, ok. Can u suggest me tutorials?

[storm patio]

figure out what you want it to do

go from there

i can't suggest tutorials without knowing what you're actually trying to make

again, "conveyor" is vague

many very different things can be described as conveyors

get more specific, and google with more specific terms

[exotic turret]

What if I make a grey square and add more of them in a line, and another smaller square on the first grey one and the smaller square move forward every second? Do i have to be more specific?

[storm patio]

yes

i'm not asking about how it looks

i'm asking about how it behaves

[surreal nexus]

What are you using as a reference for a conveyer belt system? Which games or whatever

[exotic turret]

Mindustry or factorio

Mindustry

[storm patio]

ok, now just for comparison - compare those systems to those in minecraft or in satisfactory. vastly different, yeah?

that's why you have to get more specific with details about behavior

[exotic turret]

Yes, way different than hoppers in minecraft

[exotic turret]

Like a square moving from a position 1 to position 2 to position 3 ?

[storm patio]

no

like how the square gets on or off the conveyor

[exotic turret]

Oh ok, lets suppose we have this square coming from an orange square (a drill)

[storm patio]

you can't have this exist in isolation. how does it work with the player, how does it work with other objects

no need to tell me this stuff

draw or write it out somewhere

get a clear picture of what your goal is

[exotic turret]

So u mean how does this square comes from or how it moves?

[storm patio]

such that someone who's never seen mindustry or factorio can get a clear picture of how this conveyor works within the context of the game

[storm patio]

everything

[exotic turret]

And what's the next step

[storm patio]

these are just example questions, and you'll need to decide on all of these (and more)

[storm patio]

once you have a clear picture, research

[exotic turret]

How can i decide how the square interacts in game

I mean do i have to script interactions like collisions etc?

[storm patio]

you could do that to make it behave as desired, sure. but you need to figure out what that desired behavior is first

[exotic turret]

Ok i'll try to make a project

Ty 🙂

[echo rune]

Hi all. Is it possible for a single project folder be a local version of a cloud repo, and at the same time a local hosted repo ?
Using plastic

I managed to have a project be a local repo with plastic
But i want several pushes to be done locally before actually pushing a more meaningful commit to the cloud repo

[storm patio]

i don't know plastic specifically, but in git this would involve the local repo being a clone of the cloud repo, and then the active project being a clone of the local repo. forks might make the workflow better
you could probably google how to do that in plastic, if it's different

[echo rune]

What's updated in the fork can be pushed to the main repo?

And i guess a repo is a repo, regardless if it's in local hosted or cloud hosted?

And if the fork (which i'll set to be a local hosted) have 10 commits (and it'll be a lot bcoz it's meant to be for personal workflow use, just for personal track keeping), and when want to push the changes in the local hosted into the main repo (in the cloud), then the 10 commits will be pushed too? Bcoz this is not what i want. Preferably i can make the push from local hosted fork to cloud main only as 1 push

[storm patio]

afaik yes, it's the upstream remote by default in git (though usually you would pr across fork boundaries)

[storm patio]

for git yeah, i just don't know if it's the same concept in plastic. never used it

[storm patio]

you could have a "squash commit", or whatever plastic calls that

[solemn yarrow]

Hyyyyy

Sup guys

[storm patio]

hi, this is not a social server
if you have a question, feel free to ask
https://nohello.net

[solemn yarrow]

Ooo mb

[wanton pollen]

Hey guys, how do you get music for your games? Any tools?

[exotic relic]

Looking up no copyright music online. But now that you mention tools, you could probably easily use ai to generate a song loop.
Take some google searches

[surreal nexus]

Keep in mind that if you start to use AI you'd have to include that tag if you do itch or Steam, and that's a red flag for some people. Not all, obviously. But I've seen a few reviewers be adverse. Of course, it's all how you use the AI.

[exotic relic]

Ah yea I see that tag on tons of new games now

Voice over and stuff

[surreal nexus]

Yeah I'm not particularly into trying a game that is heavily AI based, whether it be images, music, or voices unless it's either only used in tandem with real effort, or just as a parody.

And even then the game can still not go down well with people who take it too seriously. I've seen that too.

[manic lily]

gng can i get help in here?

[exotic relic]

In a couple years people will have to get used to it. It’s everywhere and unity has now implemented ai in the editor itself

[wanton pollen]

Would you say it’s a big issue rn with game music specifically?

I have trouble finding AIs that fit my game they’re all pop or edm, or for general use not specifically game dev focused

[exotic relic]

Check the Unity asset store?

[copper gust]

you can just find or make music without involving ai

its easy

games did it for decades

[wanton pollen]

Right but those aren’t original to you

[near wigeon]

you need to get a composer if you want original music that fits your game, no way around it

[exotic relic]

Ah probably rephrase your question then. How to make your own music

[wanton pollen]

Yeah true I’m just trying to get some semi professional ones

[copper gust]

pay money

[wanton pollen]

Expensive though

[copper gust]

ok

the things you want cost money

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[surreal nexus]

Or you could beg someone and take whatever slop someone gives you when they probably used AI just to get you off their back. (Don't do that)

[exotic relic]

Quite most published content in 2025+ is made by ai

[wanton pollen]

Right I’m just thinking a cheap game music generator could be nice

[copper gust]

ok go google it

[wanton pollen]

To hire a composer it could cost hundreds or to make it yourself it probably won’t be good

[craggy pollen]

did you have a question

[wanton pollen]

Thing is I couldn’t find any ones for devs specifically

[manic lily]

yep just confused where I can get support, I have an issue with my game not unity itself i think

[near wigeon]

wants original music but wants to use a generator xD

[copper gust]

any generator is for devs?

[exotic relic]

That’s why I’m a bit confused trying to answer the question

[near wigeon]

this is for unity developers not games made with unity

[manic lily]

OHHHH

[wanton pollen]

I haven’t come across one for devs specifically though they’re all for like youtubers or general use

[manic lily]

no what

[wanton pollen]

And their music don’t match an indie dev style

[manic lily]

I'm making a game in unity rn

[copper gust]

there isn't any for devs specifically

you style it

or you pay someone

or you make it yourself outright

[wanton pollen]

Right right

[copper gust]

or you dont make a game with music

[near wigeon]

so then ask your question ?

[wanton pollen]

Nah I get ut

[manic lily]

But why the HELL is my game kinda grainy?

like my house glows too

[wanton pollen]

Just quick question you think if someone made one for devs specifically it would be helpful?

[copper gust]

not really

[near wigeon]

postprocessing probably / AO

[wanton pollen]

Why not?

[gray dirge]

Screen Space Ambient Occlusion would be my first guess

[manic lily]

yep

[copper gust]

music isn't bound by just indie games or anything

its genre and mood based

[wanton pollen]

Hm okay

[surreal nexus]

Good question for someone who's good at #💥┃post-processing

[exotic relic]

What render pipeline?

[wanton pollen]

Just that the ones I found are all just like ambience, edm, pop, or lofi 🥲

Haven’t found like a style that I think fits games

[near wigeon]

not sure what kinda answer you're expecting here

[copper gust]

all those genres could fit games

just maybe not your game

[near wigeon]

you either get someone that does it to your game custom or you do it yourself

[manic lily]

URP

[surreal nexus]

I use no copyright stuff as placeholders to see what kinda vibe I like, use that as a jumping off point, then go from there with either paying someone or trying my hand at it.

[exotic relic]

Check the settings folder or wherever you put your URP settings, you can test disabling ambient occlusion

[manic lily]

Could AO be somewhere here?

[near wigeon]

Its most likely the URP renderer feature

[craggy pollen]

learn to reduce problems down

you could simply disable the pp and see if it is what you want then find out it has to be one of the pp effects

[near wigeon]

AO its on the renderer asset

easy to find the one active
Project Settings -> Graphics -> PipelineAsset -> Renderer Asset

[manic lily]

Thank you guys so much!

[acoustic pollen]

hello here, just wanna know a something, did u try make animations with unity like used blender or maya before, as for models and make it for a game with animations inside unity instead make animations or cutsences on blender

[latent meadow]

!collab

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We do not accept job or collab posts on Discord.
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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[latent meadow]

talk to the #🕹️┃game-jams room maybe

[vagrant root]

:loudspeaker: Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on Discord.
Please, use Discussions to promote yourself as job-seeking, advertise commercial job offers, or look for non-commercial projects to participate in:
• ** Collaboration & Jobs**

[latent meadow]

do not parrot the command. read it

[rustic chasm]

I tried to get into the collab forums myself, but unfortuantely it is just in limbo for me.... I'm just wanting to see if I can get people to help with an MMO project....

[near wigeon]

be realistic what do you think someone is going to dedicate a lot of time on such a complex project type without proper compensation

[rustic chasm]

NO no.... just a client test to see how well things are functioning....I've already got the Tick Based deterministic framework down..... dynamic weapons, vehicles, territory control, etc... I'm doing the work basically by myself.

[near wigeon]

if you're looking for testers why not post in #1180170818983051344 and show the work you've done so far that might intice someone to lend a hand if its just testing

[rustic chasm]

Good idea... that is why I was trying to go to Collab but dev-logs works as well 🙂

Thank you @near wigeon

[red zodiac]

Who has Unity in mobile if you have pls dm me

[copper gust]

noone

[storm patio]

also please do not solicit DMs

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[red zodiac]

Why

[storm patio]

for legitimate questions, it defeats the purpose of a community server
just in general, we don't condone it, since it's impossible to moderate DMs, but of course we can't outright prevent people from going to DMs and getting scammed

[red zodiac]

I not falling this again

If people ask Password I just ignore

[storm patio]

that's not what a scam is, but ok

[red zodiac]

I need android Unity

[storm patio]

doesn't exist

[near wigeon]

no such thing

[red zodiac]

If there Unofficial?

With Unity android

[near wigeon]

not likely

antyhing you find is probably a scam/malware

[red zodiac]

virustotal?

[latent meadow]

this is not covered here. there is no official version.

[copper gust]

there just is not any unity for mobile version

offical unoffical

does not exist

[red zodiac]

Then I will Search In google

[copper gust]

google wont show you

because it does not exist

[red zodiac]

Google won't show me

I just wanted make Baldi's Basics mod );

[restive wolf]

Would you recommend using Spine or unity's built in sprite tools?

[red zodiac]

What is that

[storm patio]

a) you wouldn't realistically be doing that on mobile
b) we don't support modding discussions here.

[surreal nexus]

do area lights in blender show up in unity does anyone know? Because I for the life of me can't make it happen

[copper gust]

area lights in unity only work in a baked context

[surreal nexus]

so if I make a fluorescent light in a rectangle shape, how do I make it light up like an actual fluorescent in a room?

[reef perch]

[copper gust]

either baked lighting or not doing exactly what you want to do

[sand ocean]

what gitignore are yall using?

[plain dagger]

HDRP? You can use realtime area lights.
URP? Baked emission from a mesh or baked area light

[plain dagger]

the one from the big github collection

[surreal nexus]

Only problem is I sadly don't know how to use baked lighting and URP.

[plain dagger]

Time to learn!

[plain dagger]

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

[surreal nexus]

thanks I'll look

[plain dagger]

ask here or in #1391720450752516147 for help with baked light

[copper gust]

or don't use baked lighting

and figure out some close-ish comprimise with other lighting options

[plain dagger]

For "long" lights its quite hard

[surreal nexus]

I'm not a lighting expert by any means though so I don't know how to implement it.

[plain dagger]

Baked is best but you can read up on the other lights unity offers to decide.
Area lights are baked only in URP due to their complexity but allow for a rectangle of light which is more useful for this situation

[sand ocean]

the default one from github?

[plain dagger]

Yes https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore

[near wigeon]

I use this as well + I add some for the macos DS_Store

[sand ocean]

isn't the default one has some missing things?

I think I've heard that it is missing OS things

[plain dagger]

When ive added it it hasnt mattered as i use windows

[sand ocean]

does it already include the file for window os?

[near wigeon]

it works across all OS you don't need anything else

[plain dagger]

Only random file windows would add would be a thumbnail cache

[storm patio]

it's missing .DS_Store

that's the only one i know of though

[near wigeon]

Yea thats the one I added, you don't need to just a personal preference

[storm patio]

ah didn't see that you mentioned it already, mb

[sand ocean]

Thank you all I freaked out because there was many different gitignore for unity online and saw someone said default one is incomplete

just to make sure, 61 file change is reasonable number when creating new project, right?

[storm patio]

i don't think that's a very reasonable metric

just verify if it's detecting files it should, and not detecting files it shouldn't

[sand ocean]

seems like it included tutorial info file like this png

[copper gust]

Thats in your project

[sand ocean]

oh wait

it is

[livid bluff]

Hello! I know this is probably not the correct channel but while fixing HDRP in Raldi's Crackhouse [I plan to make a RTX mod for it] it makes everything pink...

[storm patio]

sorry, we don't support modding here #📖┃code-of-conduct

[livid bluff]

Its alright

I atleast [tried] making HDRP work...?

[near wigeon]

pink = shader error

[livid bluff]

Yeah, well the entire UI turned pink [except for the window]

I will try restarting UnityEngine editor if that fixes anything

[exotic relic]

You can’t just extract a game and expect it to recompile. Making a mod that way is not going to work out because at that point you’d be shipping an entirely new version of the game instead of a mod.
Rtx mods are made by injecting render passes and making use of the game depth buffers.

[livid bluff]

True but the source code for the game got published in archive.org [however im not even giving a link because I dont want to get myself into any trouble :3]

[copper gust]

that is not relevant whatsoever

[sand ocean]

I was migrating my previous project to github desktop.. is this fine number?

That was stupid question. It depends on the project

[storm patio]

you don't migrate stuff to gh desktop, do you just mean git

(gh desktop is just a client for git)

[sand ocean]

sorry for poor word choice. I just created new repsoitory, clone in gh desktop and moved all everything in previous project file to new file

[storm patio]

why..

you can just create the repo where the project already is

[sand ocean]

ohhhh

[sand ocean]

it was my second time using git

[storm patio]

this way you don't have to change all your project paths in unity hub or your ide

[storm patio]

(you can still move the project back and not have to change those paths if you haven't already updated them)

[sand ocean]

do you think the way I did it will create any problem?

[storm patio]

it'll mess up the project paths, as previously mentioned

[sand ocean]

in unity hub?

[storm patio]

(also "migrating" is a specific term, it doesn't really sound like you migrated anything here)

[storm patio]

that's half of what i said, yes.

[sand ocean]

sorry I don't quite understand. can i not just do "add project from disk" or is there any other problem beside that?

[polar breach]

i made it so the ui does stick to the user, but it's toggleable. also is the ui automatically server sided, in that other people can see your ui if you were to be in a multiplayer game?

[latent meadow]

rule of thumb.. Nothing is 'automagic' when it comes to multiplayer

[hushed hamlet]

You need to manually sync and match that data. But it's usually in most multiplayer framework tutorials depending on the framework you picked

If it was unreal though, and you remembered to loop it through their events, then I'd say yes it's kind of auto magic. But that comes with its own headaches.

[copper gust]

networkvariables are kinda close to magic

[lofty bay]

Hii Does anyone know why my heart particles dosnt go front of sky and water but it works front of trees and other stuff. How do i fix it?

[hushed hamlet]

Hard to say. It's probably the shaders the VR chat folks used for water and sky. You might just need to change the render order in the shader, but I'm not sure if it allows that. Id be guessing without looking at the VR chat particle setup tbh.

Probably an easy fix for VR chat buffs though. Like just a shader or material swap.

[plain dagger]

!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

[plain dagger]

vr chat does too much weird shit so best to ask there ^

[lofty bay]

i did ask there tooo :D

[gray frigate]

you may be rendering it:

• before render queue 2500
• without ZWrite being on

this would cause the skybox to render on top of your particles

transparent stuff (i.e. things without ZWrite) need to go after 2500

[plain dagger]

transparent particles would not write depth (unless alpha cutout)

[gray frigate]

the default is 3000, so you'd have to have changed something

[plain dagger]

i just presume vrchat things use shaders doing wacky ass things so who knows if the default is good or not

[gray frigate]

eh, it's not that wild

Water can be exciting, since it might render slightly before or after most transparent things

but the skybox is pretty cut and dry

[plain dagger]

Then i presume then in this case that the sky + water draw after opaques and depth just happens to make those particles remain visible

[gray frigate]

The sky will draw at 2500.5 (after 2500, before 2501)

and yeah, the particles will survive if something else opaque happened to render to that pixel

[plain dagger]

well glad we sorted that and for it to have been useful /s

[gray frigate]

i am not sure how to interpret this

[plain dagger]

not a knock at you, just that op is probably long gone 😆

[lofty bay]

thats it thank uuuu. it worked on the sea and now ill do the same thing to the sky if possible :D !!!

[gray frigate]

what did you actually do?

changing it to render after 2500 would have fixed it vanishing in front of the sky

barring some kind of post-processing effect that does fog based on depth

[lofty bay]

I change the render queue

[gray frigate]

For this kind of effect, you should probably just set your particle material to cutout mode

what shader are you using?

[upbeat egret]

@silent mica

u there my brodie

@humble abyss

u there

[gray frigate]

do not ping random staff members (or members in general)

[near wigeon]

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[upbeat egret]

who tf is u giving lessons

im here for

business

im here for serious stuff

[gray frigate]

low-effort trolling is not permitted in this server

[upbeat egret]

does it fucking seem like

im trolling

[silent mica]

Use mod mail if you need to reach out to staff.

[upbeat egret]

look at me

im literally most serious person u will see on discord

[upbeat egret]

could we do in dms

or

must modmail

[silent mica]

Use mod mail. Don't use this channel like this going forward.

[copper gust]

sometimes i wish we could skip to the part where they get banned. if only they knew they all act the exact same 😭

[near wigeon]

it also says it in the #📖┃code-of-conduct

[upbeat egret]

@silent mica danny check the modmail would ya

[stuck flower]

He says, with an anime profile picture

[upbeat egret]

just for the thick of it

ur lil to late

to the party

[polar breach]

Thank you, final question i swear 😭 but do you know how i can share all of my assets/files with a co-developer? They have access to my project, they just dont have any of the assets.

[hushed hamlet]

Sure, we use git (self hosted Bitbucket) and it lets the team check in and share assets and code.

Unity does have its own one too that might help (unity version control). But you'll need to learn a bit about pushing and pulling and conflicts.

There are other ones like you that company in kelowna

[polar breach]

Oof, thank you. Do you know of any good yt tutorials that'll explain how to set this all up?

And by git you mean github correct?

[plain dagger]

GIT is the system

[hushed hamlet]

You can use GitHub, I don't like it's limits or the whole Microsoft > AI capturing people's code thing. But we use self hosted gitlab, which is like... Its better when you have a bigger company (cuz no fees no limits)

But these guys are also cool for trying new tools if you want a free way to live edit scenes together

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/level-design/scene-fusion-2-lite-real-time-collaboration-285247

I can't help much on the whole learning things

[plain dagger]

lets not suggest self hosting git to beginners

Just use github or gitlab or some other free git repo host

[hushed hamlet]

I'm not suggesting they get vendor locked to unity either for code sharing.

[plain dagger]

I just think its going to be too difficult to handle

[hushed hamlet]

Agreed though gitlab or GitHub free is good as long as they fit within the limits

[polar breach]

that scene fusion looks pretty good

[hushed hamlet]

Yeah scene fusion is cool, interesting company too

[polar breach]

its just a tool that updates 1 scene realtime for every collaborator, correct?

[hushed hamlet]

Yup

[polar breach]

interesting company?

[hushed hamlet]

It's usually paired with git.

It's a lot to explain over discord ha sorry it's a thick topic

[polar breach]

Boy, I'm gonna have to figure out git I suppose

[polar breach]

all good lol

Thanks again

[hushed hamlet]

Git is super important. And you end up using it a lot in software outside of unity anyway

Once you get past it's pain points anyways

So locally you all use git. And then the repo itself gets hosted somewhere you all share. Which is usually like GitHub, gitlab, bitbucket or unity's own uvcs

[polar breach]

ahh, that makes sense

[hushed hamlet]

But it can be a whole learning topic all to itself

[polar breach]

I'm gonna be watching yt tutorials for a while now lol

[hidden panther]

do you guys now what I should search for a material similar to this? I search for concrete pbr and it's too rough, marble is way too smooth. or maybe I should search on different websites

[dawn flicker]

I'm making a VR game and i have this problem and i don't know how to fix this

i kept having this problem for over 2 years now

[hushed hamlet]

You could make one pretty quickly, but just any granite tile. You can also reduce the roughness in the materials if you like

[hushed hamlet]

Is it the dark line? It could be light, light baking, AO maps, etc. we would need more info.

[dawn flicker]

Yes it's the random dark line

I have no idea why it does that

but almost every map i make in blender, that happens

[hushed hamlet]

Youll want to share a screenshot of the material and probably the texture

[dawn flicker]

ight gimme 1 sec

[hushed hamlet]

Are you doing light baking? If so, make sure `Generate UV maps' is turned on, for the imported mesh. And rebake it

[dawn flicker]

I always turn that on

[hushed hamlet]

Ok those textures are telling. The dark line is right on the edge of your textures. Are all three tiling seamlessly?

You can also try clearing the normal map and the detail map temporarily just to check

(I'm not seeing an obvious issue though fwiw)

[dawn flicker]

Wym tiling exactly?

These are the faces in blender

and the dark line is where the 2nd face is

yk what i mean

[hushed hamlet]

Like if the textures aren't tiling seamlessly, it can look darker on one side.

It's probably not the mesh

[polar breach]

Could it be lighting?

[hushed hamlet]

It's probably the texture images

[dawn flicker]

ohh, they are tiling

[dawn flicker]

idek

it also happened in my other project

[dawn flicker]

i used this texture multiple times and i didn't have this problem before until i started having it late 2025

[polar breach]

also the best tutorial i could find is 1 hour for the BASICS of git...I'm going to be old by the time this video is done

[dawn flicker]

some times in 2024

[copper gust]

see whats different in wherever you used it without issue

[polar breach]

have you tried putting a light in the dark area?

if it doesn't look lighter afterwards, it's most definitely a texture issue

[dawn flicker]

nope, lemme try

i also seen multiple games use this texture and they didn't have this problem

[queen raven]

Is there any kind of group or other discord server specifically for complete newbs at unity/coding to get together and try to learn/work together?

[copper gust]

you cannot know what exact texture a game is using just by looking at them ingame

[dawn flicker]

The game dev sent me the exact same one

it's from ambientcg

[hidden panther]

oh yea I found some similar texture searching granite tile

thanks

[hushed hamlet]

np! I have an old asset pack on the store I made with like ~230 materials. it has a bunch of marble and granite types in it. If u aren't happy with that one lemme know and ill toss u a redemption code

But i feel like these days you can find them everywhere

[hidden panther]

ohh really? sure that'd be a pleasure

[hushed hamlet]

I'll add and dm it to u. its an old pack though, ~2018

[hidden panther]

hha it's fine, tbh I still have difficulty searching for free texture that I'm looking for. I only rely on sketchuptexture club website

[hushed hamlet]

It's all good I'm just happy to see someone use it

[bright sparrow]

Opened a project and nothing is showing up in the 3d view. Not even in a new scene. Stuff are there when I change shading mode, but nothing appears in most of other shading modes, including shaded, wireframe, shaded wireframe

Here's a new project with an empty scene for comparison

Here's the same suv imported into the new project

[hushed hamlet]

It could be the errors in the console might show what's happening. You may also want to try Windows > Reset layout. I doubt that would fix it. But worth trying. Ive seen URP do weird things like this before but it's been an age.

[bright sparrow]

I figured it's something to do with rendering, so I checked project settings, and changed rendering pipeline asset to none, and now everything is showing... kinda... it's still broken. I don't know how to have a "default" rendering pipeline to work

[slow dirge]

Is it a decompiled project..?

[bright sparrow]

yeah

[slow dirge]

Then it makes sense that stuff would be broken. Also, we can't assist with decompiled projects here.

[bright sparrow]

Is it kinda illegal? I figured the best way to learn is to learn from an actual game

And the dev is pretty open about the game, had streamed development, and is friends with people who decompile and data mine his game

[hushed hamlet]

Its just against the discord group policy

Theres lots of legit cases, just the policy.

[bright sparrow]

Got you, thanks for letting me know

[slow dirge]

Regarding learning from it, there might be quite a few quirks or things that you wouldn't see in actual project, so might not be the best learning material.

[hushed hamlet]

On an aside, there is a whole bunch of free open-source Unity games on GitHub, the I'm Unity Learn as well as like Itch with source of the asset store even. So definitely take a look at some good games that you can to learn from. It can help.

I have a game sample up on the asset store. But I haven't updated it to 6.x. but I really should update all my assets

[bright sparrow]

I'm on 2022 version, downloaded it a few years back, haven't updated still, hate waiting for downloads to finish

[untold fulcrum]

Heyo. I'm not sure if there is a more suitable channel for this kind of question, so I'll ask here and will be grateful for an answer.

I'm new to using Unity assets, and I want to know if it is OK to buy an asset pack of animated low poly monsters and retarget animations or modify materials inside the project. The common sense tells me it must be fine, but I wanted to double-check.

[potent geyser]

Yep, that's an intended use of asset packs.

[untold fulcrum]

Thank you!

[storm patio]

iirc that one assumes you already have a local repo. there's a few more steps to create a local repo from an existing project

but maybe gh desktop has changed since i last used it 🤷

[austere prawn]

@feral lintel this person is creating a huge scam recently i worked for hum like 3 unity projects and he asked me he will gurantee pay but hi did not contact me for 2 months asking me that i am out of town this and that please everyone complain and report this person immediately

[copper gust]

there's no one to complain or report to

im sorry you were scammed

[cedar lagoon]

can anyone help me with this it just keeps giving this bug (btw it for android if it helps)
"Build completed with a result of 'Failed' in 49 seconds (48961 ms)
4 errors
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallDelayFunctions ()"

[safe garden]

Hi all, I have a tricky thing I want to achieve (right now my base level of Unity is pretty beginner-intermediate, its a lot better than when I stared this project, but still learning the ropes as a generalist.) Right now on our project there's mainly a 'toon' shader involved, that is giving everything a comic-style 'cartoony' for lack of a better word look. The lighting on the level is a little bright so have to tweak that. Anyway to the task at hand:

Trying to create an electric spark and be able to show emissive on it, but I only want the emissive to be apparent on the vfx spark itself, not the rest of the level. When I add a post process volume and start increasing bloom, the whole level is lit up. Is there a way to localize the bloom effect just to a single asset? Alternatively is there a way to fake that?

[craggy pollen]

you could have a second cam only for the sparks and pp

[copper gust]

i think this is a tutorial specific to what you want https://lindenreidblog.com/2018/09/13/using-command-buffers-in-unity-selective-bloom/

i dont have personal experience in it

[safe garden]

thank you guys

@craggy pollen will give that a quick try first - do you know if this is much of a performance hit on a game having a 2nd cam just for post processing effects?

not planning to go super crazy with it just testing previz right now

[craggy pollen]

hard to say how it affects your game, keep an eye on the stats and profiler

[safe garden]

trying now, cheers!

[brisk anvil]

Can you share links to open source unity games on github?

All my projects are open source but I can't find more

[brisk anvil]

Try giving chatgpt / grok the full log from that console message

[copper gust]

or try posting the full log here..

[brisk anvil]

Always an option but being able to solve this on your own would save us time and improve your skills,

This is usually not a complicated issue which a simple google can solve.

[copper gust]

absolutely

improve your skills by googling and not using AI

[brisk anvil]

Whatever helps you solve it on your own as long as you understand what you are doing

We are here to build games, not just systems

[copper gust]

If they understood what they were doing they wouldn't need the help 😄
Have a nice day tho

[brisk anvil]

You too

[sly lake]

Google:
“you should add non-toxic glue to your pizza”

[brisk anvil]

Hey maybe Stack Overflow gotta point.
Have you ever tried non-toxic glue on your pizza?