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[eternal gate]

what is the time complextity of gameobject.findwithtag ?

and how can i find time complextity of all functions ?

[potent geyser]

What functions counts towards your "all functions" lol

[eternal gate]

anything

[potent geyser]

Oh okay, you can find the "anything" list in the docs.

[eternal gate]

you sure ?

[potent geyser]

As for FindWithTag, it doesn't do anything special, it will just go through each object one by one until it finds a match.

[eternal gate]

i didnt se

[potent geyser]

It was sarcasm

[eternal gate]

i know lmao

[potent geyser]

Okay so then, guess what the time complexity of a function ithat iterates through each object would be 🤔

[eternal gate]

i think complextity is log2(n) but maybe there is an algoritm which i dont know find faster like O(1)

[eternal gate]

O(n)

by the way i cant see in docs

[eternal gate]

but there is an special algoritm binary search maybe yu knov

[potent geyser]

The docs don't give a breakdown of built in functions and their time complexity. What problem are you actually trying to solve here?

[eternal gate]

I just tryna optimize update function

[potent geyser]

For fun?

[eternal gate]

Nope i am standing on my business

[copper gust]

profiler time

[potent geyser]

You shouldn't be running any kind of Find in your Update function in general.

[eternal gate]

Can you tell an alternative?

[potent geyser]

Cache your references

If you need to find something, find it once, store it in a variable.

[eternal gate]

Thanks

[round badger]

I've set up a unity project and there is a git repo that me and a friend are using for version control and collaboration. I've invited him to my org but he still can't see the project in the unity hub?

[open lynx]

I don't know where I should be asking this question.
I cannot make a build of my game because I get this error : "An asset is marked with HideFlags.DontSave but is included in the build"

I tried looking for solutions online, and could only find one that recommendd having unity re-generate the library folder. I did that but it changed nothing

Complete error:
An asset is marked with HideFlags.DontSave but is included in the build:
Asset: 'Packages/com.unity.ugui/Editor Resources/Gizmos/TMP - Font Asset Icon.psd'
Asset name: TMP - Font Asset Icon
(You are probably referencing internal Unity data in your build.)
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallDelayFunctions ()

Now, i suggest this has something to do with my assemblies and the fact I tried to create editor tools in this project. But do you guys know of any way to pinpoint where that "wrongful inclusion of an editor element in build" comes from?

[stuck flower]

I'd suggest checking that file it's pointed you to and see if there's any import settings that you don't want. You could also uninstall and reinstall ugui and see if it fixes it.

Or just delete the file (and its associated .meta) and see if it either functions fine without it or re-downloads it on startup

[river arch]

How do I make an object orbit another object? I tried using Transform.rotatearound, but the poblem is when I stop doing it, it doesn't get the force preserved. Instead when I make it no longer orbit the object, it should retain the velocity it was rotating with

[sweet tartan]

try searching for it: Window -> Search -> New Window, turn off query builder mode at the top, paste this p: ref=<$object:"Packages/com.unity.ugui/Editor Resources/Gizmos/TMP - Font Asset Icon.psd",UnityEngine.Texture2D$>

[worldly cave]

like after you stop doing it, it should move forward tangentaly with the same velocity?

or?

[stuck flower]

!collab but "Make my game for me and I might give you some money if it becomes super popular" isn't a good business model

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[river arch]

Yeah

[worldly cave]

well then after you stop doing it... just move it forward with the same velocity lol

i dont understand what the issue here actually is

[river arch]

Yeah but I would have to calculate the velocity smh

[worldly cave]

well no?

[fathom ingot]

i never said make it for me just help me out a little and i said if it doesnt make profit then ill give full ownership so it would be yours

[worldly cave]

so what are you contributing to this project

[copper gust]

people would just make their own game

[worldly cave]

can you show me in code how you are currently rotating it please

send it in #💻┃code-beginner

[fathom ingot]

a map and what ever else i might need but i dont know how to script

[worldly cave]

so nothing of actual value

[fathom ingot]

in the end it could end up being your game

[open lynx]

I removed the file. But I get an new error that is clearly linked to assemblies now. I have to figure out how to see those in Rider. Especially the default assembly cretaed by Unity

[worldly cave]

let me guess this is some copy or fangame of a popular vr experience 😩

[fathom ingot]

i mean its going to be a simple game anyways

[copper gust]

im sorry but you won't find anyone

[stuck flower]

You wouldn't want to edit assemblies in rider, if you have assembly definitions in unity, you could modify them there

[worldly cave]

yeah because thats simply not how real life works lol

to assume that anyone would even say yes is painfully arrogant as well

[fathom ingot]

plus you'd still get paid so either way its kinda a win win

[stuck flower]

Again, if someone with the skills to make a game wanted to be credited and own a game, they'd just make their own

[fathom ingot]

dont make profit = ownership make profit = paid

[stuck flower]

My recommendation: Learn Unity and make it yourself.

!learn

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[copper gust]

a majority of games make no profit

[fathom ingot]

what if they didnt have what they needed plus im just asking i never said you had to do it

[charred fog]

@fathom ingot You've been directed to the proper place already.

[copper gust]

do you have what they didn't have though

[fathom ingot]

wym

[charred fog]

No need to argue that here

[charred fog]

This is a help channel, there's no off-topic

[fathom ingot]

oh really? thanks for the feedback

[charred fog]

If you have actual Unity related question, then ask here

[fathom ingot]

i didnt know

guess i shouldve checked tho

[charred fog]

You've been told that already

!collab

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[open lynx]

ok, I realize that the problem might very likely come from the Tests implemented by the friend who helps me out.
He added tests based on NUnit. But apparently those try to get exported in the build, as the build error contains "Failed to resolve assembly: 'nunit.framework"

Makes sense that the unit tests getting put in the build would collapse the whole thing, if taht's really what's going on. Question is now how do i stop that

[balmy kettle]

unit tests should be in their own testing assembly that is excluded from the build

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/test-framework/workflow-create-test-assembly.html

[open lynx]

My friend had done that. But I think I figured it out. There is a using of the NUnit package/assembly from a runtime script.

[feral palm]

Brand new to everything!

Do you folks have any good recommendations for keeping notes on things?

For example just went for a walk and saw how two mechanics could interact in the future. I would probably want to note down that idea for later, but wondering if there are any best practices or systems for it.

[river arch]

Maybe try obsidian

[hexed gate]

Is switching from unity to godot the best option

[worldly cave]

the best option for what

also dont crosspost

[hexed gate]

Best option for game development with many features to add without many limits

[worldly cave]

i dont think ive ever seen a question itself be wrong before

[copper gust]

godot has less features and more limitations compared to unity

[worldly cave]

not of the opinion that godot or unity are somehow better or worse than each other at "adding features without limits" more so the nature of the question itself

[hexed gate]

Ill try learning unity and compare with my godot experience that way its easier for me to pick the game engine thats more comfortable for game development

I actually like godot for its simplicity but your right , it has less features and more limitations that I want to add,
Unity is complex and hard for me a beginner.

[dusky forum]

How is Unity more difficult...

[hexed gate]

The interface

I actually spent time finding the inspector tab

Cause i closed it somewhere

Its like im controlling a nuclear reactor room , where buttons are close and small

With no labels , you have to hover so i have to hover each i terface in unity which is kinda annoying

[copper gust]

fair

there is a lot going on for a new person

[dusky forum]

Okay. Well, release a few games with each engine and you ought to get a good idea about the limiting factors of each engine.

[tall hearth]

Can i ask what you mean by "no labels"?

[hexed gate]

On some buttons it has no labels or text you have to hover on what it doees

I spend a few mins finding the inspector tab and its annoying 😭

[tall hearth]

Ima need an example cause i've used unity for 2 years now and dont recall seeing this once

[hexed gate]

No i solved it by resetting the layout

You can close tabs with the 3 dots right I did that and now I dont know how to get it back i checked everywhere cant seem to find hwo to make it pop back so i just resetted my layout .

[tall hearth]

right well for future reference there is a label (button) that's called Window if you click it, it opens a dropdown of many other menus the General tab has the Inspector window in there.

[hexed gate]

Thanks , 🙏

[wooden radish]

what are y'alls thoughts on my UI so far, i just started today so its still pretty early

[civic jetty]

Nice

This bit is weird but that is it.

[wooden radish]

yeah, its a square map panel, i'm gonna make it more defined later i think

[civic jetty]

Nice

[civic jetty]

I finally got my APIs working with an account system to make an ban system which is good.

[civic jetty]

I should fix the To appeal bit if it's not appealable anyways.

[wooden radish]

nice

can anyone help with a small issue? my canvas or something randomly changed size and now i see the outsides of the UI and it is so weird

[civic jetty]

Ctrl z?

[wooden radish]

didn't work first thing i tried

theres jusrt a bunch of space now...

what the hell man

[civic jetty]

Try that

[wooden radish]

nope

i fixed it for now i guess by forcing the canvas scale factor to a really specific number

but that was... really weird

[civic jetty]

You saved ealier?

[wooden radish]

i did yeah but i guess it got overwritten

[balmy kettle]

the size of the canvas and its contents are based on a few factors like the resolution and aspect ratio of the game view window, make sure this is set to the aspect ratio you are targeting rather than free aspect
also how you have your UI set to scale. see the pinned documentation in #📲┃ui-ux to learn how to correctly anchor and scale your UI for different aspect ratios

[wooden radish]

isee i see

ty

[wooden radish]

ah yeah it isnt scaling properly, that should fix it?

[civic jetty]

What is an Shrdow?

[wooden radish]

doesn't that say Shadow?

[balmy kettle]

see the pinned documentation in ⁠📲┃ui-ux to learn how to correctly anchor and scale your UI for different aspect ratios

[civic jetty]

I need another pair of glasses

[wooden radish]

all good LOL

shadows are if you are on the dark side of a planet

your solar panels stop working

[civic jetty]

I'm currently changing my DB since mongo DB is bit annoying to work with.

So helpful render

[lethal mason]

how can i keep my vfx effect from spawning on effect

[wooden radish]

there is something so unnerving about the navicomp going down, i love it

[latent meadow]

#1180170818983051344 or a thread would be the place to continue. @wooden radish

[cold sky]

out of curiosity, why is transparency is such an issue in games?
the issue main issue is making it both working and optimized?
how poor for performance would be a shader where each pixel decide how to render through several layers?

[copper gust]

its not a simple thing to answer

[civic jetty]

Why would it shutting down all reading all only geting compass position and where it is?

[latent meadow]

you'd do best to talk to #1390346776804069396 , but part of it is, normally with opaque, there is a depth test. if a Sphere has 4 smaller Spheres behind it, these are most likely culled by the renderer. no major resources used to draw them. in the case of transparency, it Does have to draw the things behind it. not to mention many issues with depth testing, but, this leads to what is called overdraw. this is an expensive things to do. this is just a tiny example of some of the issues (and not a super accurate one, perhaps)

also, you can use the Profiler to do real-world tests to see the cost for yourself, on your hardware

[river arch]

I want to create a circle where I specify a constant and it draws a circle with the same center and the constant as a radius. I could do this in the start function in the script, but I want to see it in the scene before I start the game. How do i do so?

[latent meadow]

talk to #💻┃code-beginner but i THink you can do that in Awake, with [ExecuteAlways] or [ExecuteInEditMode] . they should know

[desert pivot]

umm hi
where can i talk about shaders?

it seems that the channel is archived

[latent meadow]

#1390346776804069396

[desert pivot]

ok thanks

[fallow steppe]

hi i have a big issue

i somehow messed up my camera

and i dont know how to fix it

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[fallow steppe]

this is what it was before a couple days ago

but now it looks more like this

[river arch]

How do I make a circle with a dashed outline and no fill?

[pearl oyster]

You'll have to point out what the messed up part is

[fallow steppe]

sorry

the width is smaller now

but the height is fijne

[pearl oyster]

The camera is the same aspect ratio as the game window

You'll have to expect that players have different aspect ratio screens anyway

[fallow steppe]

true, but how do i revert it?

my map is kinda being cut off rn

[pearl oyster]

Resize the editor windows so that the game window is the same ratio as before

[storm patio]

or set the game window to be a specific ratio

there's a dropdown where you can configure it

[pearl oyster]

It won't affect the built game

[fallow steppe]

where is the editor windows? sorry im new to unity

[storm patio]

they're the windows in your editor

eg scene, game, project, hierarchy, inspector

[fallow steppe]

thank you guys sm

appreciate it

[storm patio]

also consider doing this to make your life a bit easier

[fallow steppe]

yeah im taking it off free aspect

how do i know

like what the size is gonna be for every1

[storm patio]

you don't

the 16:9, 16:10 stuff will be a good baseline for typical monitors at fullscreen

but in general you should try to make it work for most ratios/resolutions

[fallow steppe]

i have my tile map but i lowk dont want some people to have a cut off grid

[fallow steppe]

ill prolly work in 16:9

@storm patio if i wanna add a house that fills the player's screen would i just use 16:9 and hope that it works for everyone? idk how it works

[storm patio]

you would not hope that it works for everyone because it definitely won't

test with some other ratios

decide what you want to support

you can also use letterboxing to force an aspect ratio, but that might be to the detriment of some ratios that you haven't accounted for

[tawdry nebula]

everything in my game manager is getting un assgined when i load the game from my home scene

i have 2 scencs sample (main game) home (just the home screen )

[fallow steppe]

as long as people are on 1920x1080 it should be fine

that will be the like

the standard

[storm patio]

what about people who want to play windowed?

[fallow steppe]

uhm, yikes i have no idea 😭

wish it could just like

[fallow steppe]

scale yk

[fallow steppe]

yeah its so over 😭

[storm patio]

that's what i'm trying to tell you lmao, you gotta make it at least work for normal-ish ratios

[fallow steppe]

so for some people the tiles might be cut off. i just noticed that. that might be a problem

[storm patio]

realistically - you could just develop for 16:9, and worry about it later - but it would not be "hope it works"

[fallow steppe]

true

i cant get my cam to fit my grid

[storm patio]

your grid appears to be 45x22, that's not gonna fit perfectly in 16:9

[fallow steppe]

my tiles are 48x48

Lowk shouldve tought about this before i did all of this

[storm patio]

i did not say your tiles were 45x22

[fallow steppe]

OH

wait

mb

[fallow steppe]

so im assuming i can just adjust it

rightt

[pearl oyster]

Why do you need to fit the grid exactly in the camera? Grid-based games don't usually do that

[storm patio]

you could just make the camera follow the player

[fallow steppe]

really? people dont do that?

[fallow steppe]

wait lowk smart

[pearl oyster]

No of course not

[storm patio]

no this is just.. typical

[fallow steppe]

Thanks, that made me feel better

[fallow steppe]

never made 2d games before sorry.

only 3d and not even in unity

lol

[storm patio]

undertale, stardew valley

[storm patio]

have you seen/played 2d top-down games before?

use those as reference points, not just your own experience making games

[fallow steppe]

yeah ofc

[storm patio]

do they fit the entire grid into the camera, typically?

[pearl oyster]

It would be a good idea to at least play the type of games you're making to learn what the conventions are

[fallow steppe]

nope

[storm patio]

exactly

[fallow steppe]

ye ive played a bunch of them but i wasnt rlly thinking of the mechanics of it. but ill pay more attention to that

[tawdry nebula]

everything in my game manager is getting un assgined when i load the game from my home scene
i have 2 scencs sample (main game) home (just the home screen )

[storm patio]

are the references all from the home scene?

this lacks quite a bit of context

[tawdry nebula]

sending a video

https://medal.tv/games/screen-capture/clips/muhVCye4JSey3OAD-?invite=cr-MSxHYzYsMjczNjI5NzM5&v=60

[storm patio]

it doesn't seem like the gamemanager in samplescene would be used at all

you're just using the one from homescene, no?

but yeah seems like gamemanager is doing way too much, a lot of scene-specific stuff, even though it's DDOL

[tawdry nebula]

game manager from sample scene has scripts that the home scene one doesnt

do you know of any way to fix this

or use another way to not have this happen

i need to submit this in day

[storm patio]

it kinda seems like you've built up 2 unrelated things that you're trying to have be the same thing?

do those gamemanagers even have anything in common that needs to persist between scenes

if yes, have those be the ddol singleton whatever

[tawdry nebula]

yes the player stats get carried over

[storm patio]

anything that isn't shared, that's specific to the scene, they need to be in the scene, not in the singleton gamemanager

it's a gamemanager, not a scenemanager

[tawdry nebula]

should i just make the home page thing in the same sample scene

[storm patio]

no clue what you're asking there

i already told you what you should do

[hexed gate]

is 47MB that big !!???

[storm patio]

is 47 million a big number

anyways this is a unity server

[quartz sky]

😭

[stone bolt]

hi

[sly lake]

Depends what you do with it. Just loading it into memory is fast. But doing operations on 47MB of data can take a lot of time

[latent meadow]

and imagine being gdrive where a million people a minute, and a billion bots are all trying to use the servers/cpu cycles. combined, it is astronomical.

[river arch]

How do I enable autosave?

Unity crashes a lot for me

[storm patio]

making ctrl+s into muscle memory is probably easiest lol

[latent meadow]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/autosave-43605
free

[river arch]

Okay I added it to my assets, now what?

[latent meadow]

IDK, RTM. I just pointed you to an asset. Edit: sorry, i entirely misread that for some reason, see below.

or just do what Chris said and press ctrl+s, habitually

[latent meadow]

oh.. i misread that. you have to open package manager and install it to your project.
if this is not something you are familiar with, you need to do the Essentials Pathway on the learning site

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[hexed gate]

Ughh so , I decided to do game development with godot instead of unity , im actually more confortable using godot as it provides what im looking for and thus its lightweight and doesnt lag a bit and it doesnt actually needs vscode in which unity uses cause its a hastle on code completion and godot already does that for me its more comfortable and its easy to implement mobile development and much more comfortable doing ui editing , anyone want to change my mind?

[remote summit]

hello can someone help me with a silly thing :D?

i have 3 buttoms with custom PNGs, since i put the PNGs on i cannot click on the one that is on top in the left, all fo the 3 images have that thing of target raycast off and they are in row in the hierarchy like buttom1 buttom 2 buttom 3 so they dont have other images in the middle

and im basically sure the few images i have also raycast target off. is there any way to debug it?

[unkempt anvil]

Why? You're perfectly capable of making your own decisions. If you prefer that tool, go for it

[hexed gate]

Just want opinions with people with experience

[unkempt anvil]

Unity has more launches. Godot is getting more since many devs switched over during the runtime fiasco. Both engines are good, and depending on specific needs, you might prefer one over the other

[storm patio]

use what you want, trying out many things is pretty typical to get general experience and mental models and to figure out what's comfortable for you

[inland river]

if you're on godot, and your game turns out to be a success, you can't port it to consoles.

[hexed gate]

Why tho?

[inland river]

because platform integrations cannot be provided for free and cannot be made open source. you would have to custom build all that with zero support an no access to the actual APIs unless you have a deal with the first party provider to give you access.

[storm patio]

is that not the same with unity?

[inland river]

unity provides full integration and SDKs for all relevant platforms

[storm patio]

oh so like, you do need a deal, but unity already provides that deal

[inland river]

no, unity already provides a verified and proven pipeline to export to any platform it officially supports. godot supports none of those.

[storm patio]

are you trying to click the images, or what exactly

[hexed gate]

Its okay its better to learn how it works tho

[inland river]

you will not learn how it works. its not something you build in a few months.

you only understand the value of an engine like unity once you actually make a successful game that needs to support multiple platforms.

godot is nicer to get started, its not nicer to actually launch a game with

[hexed gate]

But its never impossible to do console support tho in godot

[inland river]

everything is possible if you have the money, time and skills to do it

[unkempt anvil]

That's the point, you should pick an engine that simplifies what you want to accomplish

You can build anything from scratch

but you shouldn't want to (unless shipping isn't your goal)

[hexed gate]

Im determined on what I have even if it has a lesser community its the first game engine that made me comfortable to chose to

[inland river]

you can do whatever you like, whether you use the information you asked for is up to you.

nobody here cares what you choose.

[hexed gate]

Thanks , with your information you strengthened my intention to use godot more than unity I do like unity a bit but It lacks a thing that I mostly need

[remote summit]

Is a button with instead of qhite background i put a sprite i made with chatgpt so it looks pretty and just one of them i cant click now

[storm patio]

so you just replaced the Image of the button?

and you marked it to not be hit by raycasts?

[remote summit]

ye i marked all fo them

this is the one not being pressable and its same for the others

[storm patio]

seems to me like you'd want these to be raycast targets...

how is the hierarchy set up?

[remote summit]

i have 3 Game Objects that are like 3 groups that contains many others inside and the one containing theese buttons is the middle one

the hierarchy itself hasnt changed and it was working before

but when i put the new pngs it stopped working

and why do i want them raycast ? i dont know much about unity but AI always told me to deactive it

alr for some reason putting raycast on fixed it

lol

[storm patio]

yeah so just ditch AI, it's not going to help you learn lol

[remote summit]

idk why only one was not working with it off

but i put it on the 3 and now the one missing working

[storm patio]

i'm asking specifically about the hierarchy with the buttons

i'd guess you set it up incorrectly

[remote summit]

the hierarchy doesnt matter

[storm patio]

what object are these images in

[remote summit]

it laways was the left one

[storm patio]

it does, actually

[remote summit]

even if i moved htem

i mean in my scenario

[hexed gate]

I feel alien here

[remote summit]

bcs however i ordered them

it would still be the same one giving problems

[storm patio]

didn't you say you were a beginner

[remote summit]

but ye is fixed now wiht the raycast

[storm patio]

why are you so adamant on this lmao

[remote summit]

dont get u

[storm patio]

why are you so confident that it's not the issue 😆

[remote summit]

bcs i tried reordering them and it would still be the same problem

[storm patio]

it's not the order i'm talking about

[remote summit]

so i can say that is not the factor

[storm patio]

it's the tree structure

[ashen gull]

I'm lost, I wanna do a game using my computer to render the game and two phones to play (remotes/controller) , on one phones I also wanna render part of the game, the other is just like a ps/xbox controller

[remote summit]

i tried moving them 3 also to the top of the hierarchy

and not just the order between them

[storm patio]

ok if you're just gonna ignore what i have to say i think we're done here.

[remote summit]

¿?

[storm patio]

you come here wanting advice, yet you refuse to accept it

[storm patio]

what's the question you have exactly?

[remote summit]

bruh u asking and i answering but okay keep ur head on that rofl

[storm patio]

ok, imma be blunt here.
bugs come from incorrect assumptions. you've made some incorrect assumption. you're refusing to challenge your assumptions. i can't help you if you don't accept help

[remote summit]

ok enlighten me whats the correct assumption wiht that the hierarchy is not the problem if i tried to alter order between them and also moving them across the hierarchy to see if other image was the problem

[storm patio]

i didn't say the hierarchy was definitely the issue, but it's my best guess given the limited information. given that you're a beginner, i don't trust that you've actually completely eliminated that possibility

if you want to cooperate and give me some more info about the situation, eg actually showing the hierarchy (specifically on these buttons/images) and describing what components each object has, we can figure out what the original cause was, so you can avoid it in the future.

if you're not interested in that, i can't help you further

there's no "correct assumption" here, just that assuming something isn't the issue, and being confident to the point of refusing to recheck it, is not a good assumption

[remote summit]

these 3 are the buttoms. They dont have anything but the sprite modified and a function attached to the On click no extra components just a standard buttom out from when u create a new one ( it has also teh text but that comes with the buttom ).

[cunning oyster]

Hey can someone help me please ?

[storm patio]

!ask

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[remote summit]

and for more information it fixed itself after i put back raycast target on the 3 buttons

[storm patio]

to clarify - no extra components as in you didn't add any, and just modified the Image component that was there?

[remote summit]

yep no extra components i just modified the image sprite from white background to the new image. and the problem came as i told u only after i put the new image

[storm patio]

after you put the new image and disabled raycast target...?

[remote summit]

yep

[ashen gull]

hmm, is that feasible? actually we have 24h to do so

[remote summit]

i tend to disable raycast bcs i generate them with AI and it makes gigantic empty backgrounds that are not fit to the image itself so it covers large invisible areas normally and im lazy to cut them myself so i put it off

[storm patio]

so disabling raycast target means you can't actually click the image, but the text box is still clickable. i'd guess you probably were just clicking the text box

disabling raycast means you can't interact with it via the mouse/pointer, because the mouse/pointer detects what UI element it's over by raycasting

[remote summit]

so things are interactable through its sprite in general?

[storm patio]

for UI elements, yeah

anything that extends Graphics, i believe

[remote summit]

i see then makes sense clickable things need the raycast

ye im talking bout

buttoms input fields output texts

mostly

and then some random image

[storm patio]

yeah raycastTarget is a prop on Graphic

[storm patio]

if you don't have prior experience, definitely not lol

making even a simple game without prior experience within 24h is kinda a longshot ngl

[ashen gull]

Hmm okay, we're actually 4 (game jam) what's realistic for us then ? sorry, we're totally beginners

[storm patio]

mm that "totally beginners" part is probably the biggest constraint

i think for that timeframe and experience, you're going to have to stick to less involved ideas

that doesn't mean uncreative or stuff that already exists, just that you have to be very careful about the scope

plan ahead a lot, figure out what tasks you need, decompose into smaller steps to get a sense of how long it'll take, and then triple that amount of time

and honestly, be prepared to fail. it's not inevitable, but it's a strong possibility. timeframes are kinda hard lol

and if you do fail, there'll always more gamejams to participate in

[ashen gull]

Thank you for your opinion! yeah we're probably gonna fail but we don't really have much more time than that and that remote phone part is a constraint

[storm patio]

you could always take this idea beyond the timeframe of the gamejam as well

[ashen gull]

yeah of course

but we still need some working stuff to present too

[hidden blade]

How do I change WASD to ZASD?

[worldly cave]

can you clarify? Change it for what

the editor? your game?

[hidden blade]

For the editor please.

[worldly cave]

i dont think you can rebind that

unless its under edit -> shortcuts you cant directly change it

are you using an azerty keyboard?

[hidden blade]

Yeah. Indeed

[hidden blade]

Yes. Thank you so much!

[near epoch]

Is there any way i can make the Project Drawer in Unity6 list my folder path like in previous unity versions, where each directory is a clickable button?

[clever kindle]

is full rect mesh type on sprites generally preferable for 2D games?

[hidden blade]

In C# there are no pointers and references, so everything is done by the garbage collector, is this better for games, in any way?

[upper oracle]

Damn i almost didnt even change anything to my game, and now play console marked something in my new release as "undeclared data collection"

[clever kindle]

it's easier for you, generally
garbage collection is a process that takes a nonzero amount of processing, so technically speaking it makes it "worse"

manual memory management is a hassle though

[hidden blade]

Ok. Thanks. Because in C++ I needed to do the memory management manually

[quick zinc]

hi everyone a got idea of becaming insane game designer was thinking making cripts for game will make me quit but no ITS importing models to unity even tho i baked textures it wont load them on it idk
could anyone help me ? (╥﹏╥)

[plain dagger]

Yes unless overdraw is crazy impactful to your performance

[clever kindle]

perfect, thanks.
makes me wonder why Tight is even the default...

[modest meteor]

show us what you tried and what the problem is exactly
but importing models is just dragging an fbx into unity. and also dragging your textures into unity and making a material for it and assigning that to your model inside unity

[stuck flower]

ITS importing? Is that some weird proprietary format for something?

[worldly cave]

im assuming they meant "it's importing"

i.e the importing of models is what will make them quit or whatever

what im curious is what an "insane game designer" is

[stuck flower]

Oh that makes more sense.

I shouldn't debug right after waking up

[latent meadow]

doesn't it? what version? this is 6.3

[plain dagger]

I think it changes when it gets too long

I have seen it myself recently in 6.4

[latent meadow]

that makes sense

[near epoch]

It's 6.4.2f1, but it seems to have reverted after an editor restart.

[latent meadow]

i won't use 6.4, so couldn't say.. still beta to me

i just noticed, there is this too
that hover to see full path

oh, mouse is hidden. i was hovering over the eye, near the slider, bottom right. but yes, not as convenient as the path display you mentioned

[tropic oyster]

Would it be possible to host an API out of a unity server?

Does unity allow inbound web connections?

[pearl oyster]

Wouldn't be much of a server if it didn't allow connections

What do you mean by a Unity server exactly?

[plain dagger]

If the platform allows use of tcp/udp ports then yea you can host any "server" in a unity program

[tropic oyster]

like a dedicated server. I want like a maintenance web ui and would need an api

[tropic oyster]

makes sense

[pearl oyster]

If you mean the dedicated server build, it doesn't include any networking features by itself. It uses whatever networking library you've included in the game

[plain dagger]

sounds like a good ol http server to me

[tropic oyster]

that's the idea

[hidden blade]

Can I talk about C# here?

[plain dagger]

Not sure what options exist in c#. Last one I did was boost websockets in c++ for a sourcemod server

[tropic oyster]

I was hoping to find like the C# equivalent of express.js

[hidden blade]

or in Code general

[plain dagger]

#💻┃code-beginner or #1390346827005431951 or #1390355039272439868

[hidden blade]

Okay, thank you

[storm patio]

if it's related to unity sure, for stuff like winforms or console or whatever use the c# server

[storm patio]

where does the "unity server" part come in? it kinda sounds like you just want a server?

[latent meadow]

Unity C# can be discussed in #1390346827005431951

[tropic oyster]

well I want it to be integrated with my game's server

so like I can hit the /players endpoint and it will give me what players are online

[storm patio]

just for future reference, the way this convo went kinda falls into https://xyproblem.info , you probably shouldve led with that lol

[plain dagger]

See if this works
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.httplistener?view=net-9.0

And yea you need to be specific in future what kind of "server" you mean

[tropic oyster]

apologies

[echo rune]

Hi guys, is this normal?
Posting this bcoz well, it's a package by unity

[balmy kettle]

it's a known issue in some versions of the editor. update to the latest patch for that version and it will be resolved

alternatively you can just ignore it because it doesn't really change anything

[gusty abyss]

How difficult do you think it would be to make an Attribute & Ability System in Multiplayer using Unity's Net code for Game Objects? I am contemplating on making my game Co-Op.

[latent meadow]

if you know how, a bit. if you don't, very

AKA, no one can answer that.

#1390346492019212368

[balmy kettle]

how difficult
any question that starts with that can only be answered in one way:

[gusty abyss]

I am new to Multiplayer so I don't know much about it.

[hidden blade]

how do I add texture to terrain?

[latent meadow]

#⛰️┃terrain-3d , and also check the learning site

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[hidden blade]

thhank u !

I found out though

[cunning oyster]

doing a map is so hard wtf

everything i do is horribl

[wooden stirrup]

Same user, Ghostlight Production. Last account got hacked on Discord.

@rough schooner

[charred fog]

Why are you announcing this here?

[wooden stirrup]

Can't even dm so just telling my friend here.

[civic jetty]

I need more ram.

[charred fog]

@civic jetty There's no off-topic here. Do you have an actual question?

[civic jetty]

like why does unity takes so much ram.

[charred fog]

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

[latent meadow]

try godot.

[charred fog]

!ask

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[pseudo coyote]

YALL I NEED HELP

I cant find a way to fix it : (

[latent meadow]

!install

[vagrant root]

When Unity fails to install checklist

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

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

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

[latent meadow]

make sure a firewall is not blocking it

[pseudo coyote]

already tried

[charred fog]

Research your issue first https://www.google.com/search?q=unity+download+failed+socket+hang+up

[river arch]

I've created a new button. How do I change the text from "Button" to smth else

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[mental pulsar]

!logs

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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

[charred fog]

@mental pulsar You can just use the search feature to see the "logs" post. No need to spam it every time.

[latent meadow]

it's also listed in the pinned messages

[past gate]

can someone tell me why the all doing that? i dont know if its rotate or something

using UnityEngine;
public class ballmove : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Update()
    {
        float speedForward = 20f;
        float speedSide = 5f;

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
        {
            transform.position+=transform.forward * Time.deltaTime*5 ;
            print("W");
        }

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S))
        {
            print("S");
            transform.position -= transform.forward * Time.deltaTime*5;
        }

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A))
        {
            print("A");
            transform.position += transform.right * Time.deltaTime*5;
        }

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))
        {
            print("D");
            transform.position -= transform.right * Time.deltaTime*5;
        }
    }
}

i done know also why its flying

[balmy kettle]

if i had to guess, you probably put a dynamic rigidbody on it and it's depenetrating after you teleport it into another collider by moving it via transform.position instead of using the rigidbody to move

[past gate]

shouldnt i use it?

it will fly also

[balmy kettle]

i feel like you didn't bother reading the entire message

[past gate]

or i didnt understand it 🙂

[balmy kettle]

well i don't like playing guessing games, so if you don't understand something then you need to ask clarifying questions

[past gate]

so what you want to know 😂

[balmy kettle]

right so i'm done here now

[past gate]

i dont know the reasons for thats so 🙂

[charred fog]

@past gate You should start with physics movement tutorials on Unity Learn. Or better yet proper courses there.

!learn

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[past gate]

should i finish this one first? https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer/unit/player-control/tutorial/1-2-move-the-vehicle-with-your-first-line-of-c?version=6.0

[charred fog]

Junior Programmer is a more advanced course, you want to start with Essentials first.

[lilac totem]

Is there channel for doing Collab work? Want to do one interesting game demo. Maybe few weeks on project and nothing else.

[worldly cave]

!collab

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[latent meadow]

no. you would need the forums mentioned above ^

if you just want to have fun, there are #🕹️┃game-jams

[clever kindle]

Say I were to make a modular upgrades system for some projectile.

My thought process is upgrades are ScriptableObjects that have a callback when a bullet is fired by the player. If I wanted to, for instance, make the bullet apply a damage over time, I would give said bullet a ApplyStatusOnCollide MonoBehaviour that listens to a message sent by Projectile at which point it then applies the DoT to the collided

Is this a sensible architecture?

[balmy kettle]

!collab
also nobody is going to do that for free

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[sand harbor]

Hi yall, i just added a few models into the assets of my scene and the project closed and wont open, all the files are fine that's whats weird

[clever kindle]

Are you talking to me?

[balmy kettle]

no, the message i responded to was deleted

[clever kindle]

Ah

[safe stirrup]

bros

the other thing that said G U Y S is apparently blocked from the server for some reason??

try it urself

[balmy kettle]

you should read the information presented to you when things like that happen instead of immediately telling everyone else to try spamming nonsense

[safe stirrup]

who knows how to make a gtag copy

[balmy kettle]

#💻┃unity-talk message <- this still applies
and #📖┃code-of-conduct

[safe stirrup]

we in unity talk dumb f**k

[balmy kettle]

instead of acting like a petulant child, you should consider reading information that is presented to you. that is clearly a link to a specific message and not just a link to the channel

[safe stirrup]

bot

[pseudo coyote]

Idk why are yall arguing

[clever kindle]

Is this worth calling the moderators over..?

[safe stirrup]

nope

[pseudo coyote]

idk

[safe stirrup]

who knows how to make a gtag copy??

dm me if you do

[balmy kettle]

#💻┃unity-talk message <- this still applies
and #📖┃code-of-conduct
-# again

[clever kindle]

<@&502884371011731486>

[safe stirrup]

bruh this server sucks

im leaving fuck yall

[balmy kettle]

it's probably going to seem like every server sucks until you decide to stop spamming

[clever kindle]

And there they go...

[potent geyser]

!kick 1489288517107322920 See ya

[vagrant root]

<:error:1413114584763596884> Punishment not executed

User is not in guild.

[balmy kettle]

they already left

[clever kindle]

Anyway, um, I still would appreciate an answer to this.
I'm not nessicarily looking for an airtight solution, just some general guidance on what the idiomatic way to construct something like this would be in Unity.

[balmy kettle]

i mean, there's many ways to skin a cat.
if that is what came naturally to you, go ahead and give it a shot. if you run into trouble with that setup then you can always ask for specific help

[plain dagger]

Your initial design description isnt bad though

Allowing "upgrades" to modify what happens when an attack/thing happens works as long as things are designed with this in mind

e.g. before an attack is executed upgrades can modify it (e.g. add status effects and/or change damage in some AttackInfo object)

[clever kindle]

Oh good, okay
Thank you

[plain dagger]

If how "attacking" works is generic enough to do many things already then its easier to let upgrades alter it

[river arch]

Why do I receive the error? I have all my scenes there

[balmy kettle]

check your spelling

[river arch]

Thanls

[frail parcel]

OMG I am so annoyed when a script goes missing in a scene and I have no idea what it was.

Worst part is that it does not even throw errors when that happens, just a warning. So easy to overlook for days or weeks.

And then there is no easy way to figure out what that script was.

[civic jetty]

use that search bar...

[frail parcel]

To search for what? It doesn't tell me what the script was.

[civic jetty]

Show me the error

[frail parcel]

And I don't even know when this happened, since it only shows a warning instead of an error message. Could be a week ago.

[civic jetty]

right click it and edit the script.

[frail parcel]

Nothing happens. Nothing in Unity or in VS

[charred fog]

You should not rename files outside of Unity, Unity manages updating names and references otherwise.

Also it helps to name the object after a component.

[frail parcel]

I promise you I never do. But I have seen this issue happen at least a few times a year. Not enough to make me give up, but each time it takes days to figure out what that script was.

[charred fog]

As well as using Version Control to check what it was.

[plain dagger]

As long as the meta file is renamed as alongside the .cs file and the class name it will work fine

[frail parcel]

I have version control, but since this is a scene file, it's not easy to figure out.

[plain dagger]

If you forgot to rename the meta file too its probably gone

Ah then you can just checkout the old meta file and rename that!

[charred fog]

You can stash changes and checkout the previous commit.

[frail parcel]

Says on Mar 16th, this was the change to the scene

I have no idea what that script was

[plain dagger]

git bisect or similar to locate what commit has the bad rename?

[frail parcel]

Bad rename to which file though?

[plain dagger]

to a monobehaviour .cs file i presume

If renamed without also renaming the .meta file unity will delete the old one and give the "new file" a new guid

[river arch]

How do I make an object collider of the same shape and size as the sprite?

[plain dagger]

poly collider

[frail parcel]

No, this is a "manager" object where I have multiple scripts

[charred fog]

You might want to figure out what moved or renamed your file as well. Don't keep it in the cloud enabled folders as well.

or deleted .meta file

[frail parcel]

Happens every few months. And it's always a pain to figure out. I have to usually restore the scene file from backblaze, but understanding when it went bad is a long process

Why is it such a hard task for unity to keep component/script names tied to the objects so even if there is a rename, it can tell me which script/component went missing

[charred fog]

Pretty sure it's not Unity related.

I've never seen it happen in all years using Unity.

[frail parcel]

I assure you this happens to everyone. Searching on google for this will tell you.

[charred fog]

You need to break serialization references outside of Unity for this to happen.

[frail parcel]

It may not be Unity related, but Unity needs to help keep track of what went wrong

[latent meadow]

wow. i just tried 6.3 for a while. that is a major mess of breaking API changes. it is what it is, and that is fine. just surprised me

[gray frigate]

Unity does not care about file names whatsoever here.

it stores the GUID+FileID of the MonoScript asset that the component is based on

[charred fog]

Unity's serialization is already tracking all the changes. Going out of their way to hunt down every script in the project through the system would be unreasonable

[gray frigate]

It would be nice if it stored that extra data, though

However, this kind of thing really shouldn't be happening in the first place

It means that you've either:

• discovered a fatal bug with unity's asset database
• moved files in a way that causes the .meta file to get lost

renaming an asset will not cause this kind of breakage

[charred fog]

I mean, keeping actual name of the thing would be nice, but it would be an additional bloat and rebuild time increase

[gray frigate]

It'd add a non-trivial amount of exdtra serialized data, yeah

[frail parcel]

Maybe giving an option to store than metadata someplace for those who want it.

[gray frigate]

for example, VRCFury (a tool for building VRChat avatars) stores the names of assets along with the reference, because it's very common for people to be missing random assets

[frail parcel]

If you google for that error "unity - the associated script can not be loaded" you'll see it's not just me

[gray frigate]

It would be reasonably easy to write a tool that just writes down every guid-filename pair somewhere

definitely doable, but I feel like it comes up infrequently enough to not be worth it

(you'll see tons of instances of that error happening because so many people use unity, especially novices)

[charred fog]

Considering Version Control as well

Which basicaly serves just that

[gray frigate]

avoiding the issue entirely is even better, indeed 😉

[frail parcel]

I have everything in git, but the last change shows this

And I have no idea what that file/component is

So not really helpful

[charred fog]

Like I've mentioned previously. Stash - checkout previous commit. And just look at the script in Unity

[gray frigate]

If there was no commit where the component existed, then you're out of luck there

[charred fog]

You have a time machine

[gray frigate]

this commit is adding the component (there will be a corresponding block later in the file for the component's data)

[gray frigate]

Oh, but that is probably not the case here

presumably the component was valid when that commit was made

if you want to do this by hand, instead of just checking out the commit and inspecting in unity, you can:

• locate the newly-added component in the YAML file
• copy its guid and use git grep to find the relevant .meta file

[frail parcel]

And in the last 25 days, I have probably 50 commits, and no idea which file would break this

[gray frigate]

i snoop around in the serialized data pretty often

[gray frigate]

if you have a long range to search over, consider git bisect

you mark "good" and "bad" commits, then repeatedly answer whether the current commit is good or bad

[charred fog]

Which brings to another point. Make incremental commits often. It doesn't cost you anything and better logs progress.

[frail parcel]

Anything I can do with the VS IDE instead of common prompts ?

[copper gust]

late to the convo but if the thing is still in a missing script component state stuff like this can work https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/ng-missing-script-recovery-102272

[gray frigate]

quite a tagline there

[gray frigate]

I don't really interact with Git outside of the terminal, so I'm not sure! (I also don't use VS)

[frail parcel]

I have tried it previously, but it just tells me to pick the correct script. If I knew what the script was, I would drag & drop

[copper gust]

ah sorry to hear that

sometimes it can auto pick it up

[frail parcel]

I do, one little feature and commit

[gray frigate]

it's pretty easy to use!

git bisect BAD_COMMIT GOOD_COMMIT

Then, it will repeatedly check out commits. Each time, you check if it's good or not and do either:

git bisect good
git bisect bad

You repeat this until it finds the commit across which the breakage happened

[frail parcel]

I have never seen it auto pick up in the years I have used it

[gray frigate]

so you might do git bisect HEAD HEAD~25 to scan the last 25 commits

the number of tests is logarithmic, so 25 commits would need around 5 checks

(this is incredible for finding breakages in very large codebases; i've used it for Blender before)

[frail parcel]

How does it find a bad commit?

I only every commit if build works and I have also play tested my changes

[gray frigate]

You're telling it if the commit is good or bad

in your case, "good" means that there is no missing component

and "bad" means there is

so you'd look at unity and see if there's a broken component

if there is, you run git bisect bad

otherwise, you run git bisect good

(this process can be automated if you can use a script to tell Git if a commit is good or not, but this is a manual case)

[frail parcel]

So I have to restore my changes to each of my previous 50 commits, and look in Unity to see when that component actually broke?

[gray frigate]

to analyze x commits, you need log2(x) tests

you're trying to find the first bad commit

if starts in the middle; if things are broken, then the first bad commit must be earlier

otherwise, it must be later

that's why it's called "bisect"

[river arch]

How do I update the polygon collider when I update the sprite?

[gray frigate]

each test cuts the number of commits to check in half

[gray frigate]

looks like you want https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/PolygonCollider2D.html

whoops, that's not the right link

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/PolygonCollider2D.CreateFromSprite.html

I'm not sure if you need to "clear" the collider first

[frail parcel]

I am sorry, this is going over my head. Let me look it up ton understand what I need to do step by step

[gray frigate]

oh right, i can't send gifs here

):

[river arch]

thanks

[gray frigate]

you might have heard of a "binary search" before

[peak helm]

hello 🙂

[gray frigate]

that's all this is

[charred fog]

https://tenor.com/view/binary-search-sequence-search-gif-20595028

[gray frigate]

of course, this won't be as useful if you go from "good" to "bad" repeatedly

but it will find one example of going from good to bad

[peak helm]

i just want to make a presentation for a huge event happening at my college, so i must consult with someone

[latent meadow]

and you are doing that in Unity?

[river arch]

Vscode says it cannot find the method. I am on unity 6.0 because of a person whoo doesn't contribute there anyways. When was it added?

[gray frigate]

oh dang, that method just showed up in 6.2

you can tell by looking here

I bet you can use SetPath to set the path based on a sprite's physics shape

yeah, this is a bit awkward, but it'll still work

[river arch]

What if I destroyed it and readded it? Would that work?

[gray frigate]

Possibly! I don't know if that setup process is editor-only

Give that a try and test it in a build

If that doesn't work, it looks like you can use https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Sprite.GetPhysicsShape.html to get a list of points from a sprite

automod is destroying me today

[peak helm]

yes because i want to make one in a unique way. to make it interactive

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[gray frigate]

coll.pathCount = sprite.GetPhysicsShapeCount();
List<Vector2> points = new();

for (int idx = 0; idx < coll.pathCount; ++idx) {
  sprite.GetPhysicsShape(idx, points);
  coll.SetPath(idx, points);
}

This should do the trick.

It copies the physics shapes over one at a time

One thing I'm unsure about is how this'd interact with, say, mirroring the SpriteRenderer

[charred fog]

That was old bot this time as well. Don't have access to that to tweak. Put multiple links in the same message to avoid.

[charred fog]

!Learn - Your best bet is to start with Unity tutorials. Courses would be better, but you can modify any walking sim tutorial with locomotion to turn it into a gallery showcase in a pinch.

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[peak helm]

i get worried about time though. the presentation is due friday. i can make a visual example of what i want to do. so if theres anybody to walk me through it

[gray frigate]

if you're learning unity from scratch, this does not sound practical

the main things that come to mind, though:

• Cinemachine makes it easy to do nice camera transitions, which you'll probably want
• You can use 3D TextMeshPro objects to display text in the world without needing to create a canvas-based UI
• You can build a URP project (which is now the default rendering system) for WebGL and play it in a browser

[peak helm]

thanks !!

heres an intro i made for the presentation when the application/website opens

[paper hawk]

Who's in charge of this server

I have something to discuss with the owner

[latent meadow]

please try to sell your latest gimmick or look for a job elsewhere

[gray frigate]

it's me, John Unity

[gray frigate]

you won't really need to create any complex gameplay systems here

this could be a good place to use Timeline

a presentation built in unity could very well just be a bunch of Cinemachine cameras that you switch between

[peak helm]

do you mean it in a way where the ui and menu is 2d?

thats what im going for, like to create a menu similar to one of those classic phones with a really cool one. let me search for it rq

[potent geyser]

You can DM the @karmic maple to make a ticket.

[paper hawk]

Okay

[gray frigate]

You could use a Canvas-based UI for the controls

[gray frigate]

I'm imagining that you'd be moving around in 3D space for each "slide"

if this is just a close approximation of a slideshow then i would not do it in unity

[peak helm]

where else would i do it?

[gray frigate]

what are you actually trying to create here?

[peak helm]

sorry for saying much im trying my best to be more easy 😓

so i want to make an exe file so i can have it on a usb so i can plug it in a laptop at my college. so heres an order: [[[ mp4 of intro ]]] [[[ loading animation on corner ]]] [[[ first names to appear on who was responsible for the making of the presentation ]]] [[[ a start menu ]]] [[[ a menu where it leads to the orbs that takes you to the slide we are looking at ]]] [[[ and a finishing touch with a thank you message 🙂 ]]]

and i also want to know how i can animate the menus. like the stepmania menu when your choosing a song. i dont want to bloat the app with extra things like scenes

so this is the specific way i can explain. if theres anything you would want me to look into 🙂

to make this less overwhelming, i just want to do the mp4 of intro first. ill ask for the rest later

[charred fog]

Unless you buy an asset that already does that for you, this brings us back to Unity Learn link. You can find a tutorial for everything you listed there.

[peak helm]

alright !

ill try my best to make it. and ill come here if i have any issues with the app

thank you all

[charred fog]

Consider starting with Pathways Essentials first, to understand the engine.

[peak helm]

alright. its just menus im making. ill try to do what i see there

[charred fog]

It's not just menus. It's understanding how objects, components and referencing works. How animation systems work. How UI works. Each of those are a sizable topic.

Not to mention scripting it all together.

[peak helm]

aw thank you. i needed to hear that animation system thing

alright, i think im good to go. again, thank you all 🙂

[fringe escarp]

Hey everyone, I'm from Brazil but I understand English perfectly and I wanted to know if any of you know how to create 3D games in Unity. I want to create one.

[peak helm]

speaking for him here, anything for him to start off on? i think he just needs to know how to make a menu first

[latent meadow]

best start is the Pathways on the learning site

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[peak helm]

well on what specific thing though? lets ask him first on what the game starts off with

[latent meadow]

do the Essentials first

[latent meadow]

you feel free to do as you will.

[peak helm]

making games is like art. it takes some time to learn how to create things. so what does the game start with? an intro? startup menu?

[fringe escarp]

Man, I'm trying to make a game like Dark Souls, but I don't know how to do the camera behind the character or the movement system.

[fringe escarp]

You guys are very lucky to be born in the United States, it must be great there. Here in Brazil it's horrible, it's a country full of corruption and nobody cares about anything, that's why no engine is from here.

[latent meadow]

please stay on topic.

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[fringe escarp]

Brazil is a horrible place to live.

[peak helm]

well you gotta learn how to have leadership skills. cant just throw a book on their desk and expect them to know how to read it, or even know where to start off on. people are different. and if its something complex they want to learn, of course theyre gonna ask a human with experience to teach them. you have that knowledge, so lead them on where theyre supposed to start

[peak helm]

i wouldnt bring that up here. lets keep things on topic

[fringe escarp]

Sorry, bro.

[peak helm]

its alr, i get expressive too

[latent meadow]

ok, let me inform you. i have had you blocked for a while, so there is no need to direct messages at me. you have fun now, ya hear

[peak helm]

? what did i do to you

whenever somebody asks me to teach them art like "i want to learn how to draw!!!" of course ill lead them through it. i have 5 people in my life that takes lessons from me

its only ever bad if theyre fully dependant on you. but even so, thats the only way they know. provide them something specific to take on. making emotionally charged decisions like blocking me even though i didnt even message you at all shows how thin your skin is for me to crawl under, and i didnt even try to do that

this is self reflection for you. take some time to daydream about it. i take psychology classes fyi

[peak helm]

i'd say to unsend these messages. so our minds can be safe 🙂 👍👍

[fair cove]

This is also a problem when teaching people on the programming or math side of things as well, people can become "dependent" on you as a teacher, because they either may not understand the basics that helps them work through their specific problem, or they may not understand the technical skills like how to properly research and parse the info they find that leads them to an answer, so there is also a consideration of how you help, it may not always be to directly answer the question asked but help them understand the skills for something similar questions, which in turn also (indirectly) answers their questions, with less dependency as they understand those basics and research, at least this has been my experience with teaching

[peak helm]

well for this case, i do give my students like basics to do, and 3 of them are already searching up the things on their own, only coming towards me about my techniques. its like teaching them how to fly. i was never able to get onto art at first because even doing my research, i was pretty much lost in the unnecessary details. i'd say its good for them to be dependant because they need it, not when it becomes the usual to develop the skills on their own. communication skills and not seeing through the persons head clearly is what was missing here

like how many of us tried to learn blender for the first time. i tried to do the donut thing lmao

and again, people are different. like me today, im really new to unity. i came here because i just want to know how to do some certain things. not a lot

[fair cove]

I think this is a bit different, if you already have technical skills and your just learning a new software or you intend to use that software for very specific goals and not actually learn the software in its entirety, then you can look up specific content and practice that - for example, I only really use Blender for correcting export settings, and occasionally creating animations with tools that are already setup for me, I dont really have a need or interest in learning rigs, and UVs and all the modifiers just cause I dont plan to use the software to its fullest - if I were to become a 3D modeller or animator, then it would probably make more sense to start with understanding the basics of the software, how to navigate it, then the most common ways other artists use those basics and modifiers to achieve specific goals - I do agree though that people all learn differently and use various software for different goals, and sometimes it makes sense to "meet someone where they are at" even if that point initially feels like "hand holding" for a bit, as long as that hand holding isnt something that can be learned in the basics (or when the basics are only taught in a way the student does not learn best)

Also I just realized how detailed this conversation could get, so maybe it would be better for us to continue in a thread if you did want to discuss it more - I didnt think explaining our thoughts would end up with such lengthy messages lol my bad

[brisk drift]

I have problem. Unity project wont open

Also I don't a appdate folder

[balmy kettle]

!logs 👇 did you check the logs to see why the project isn't opening

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[uncut parcel]

So from what I understand the newest versions of Unity don't let you open a settings dialog on game launch anymore? I just want to give people the option to choose which monitor it displays on without them having to make a shortcut with a launch argument

seems like something they should have left in until they replaced it

[slow dirge]

I think the reasoning behind this is that what comes before the game is launched, is not the game, so a game engine shouldn't handle it. You can totally implement your own launcher with external configs for your own game. It's just not done via unity now.

[uncut parcel]

I guess I can understand that but it's definitely inconvenient

[slow dirge]

You can always go back to the old unity version that had the external config

[copper gust]

those kinda settings windows sucks in some situations though (eg. steam deck)

[near wigeon]

something pretty easy to add yourself tbh

[uncut parcel]

is there at least a player setting in the build options somewhere to set the displayed monitor?

I don't even really need game options beforehand, just that much would be fine

it likes to open on my second monitor for whatever reason even though it's not my primary display

[keen elbow]

I have an object that the player can drag around that I want to add a little flavor to. I want the chess piece to kinda dangle while the player is holding it so that it tilts around a pivot point on the object. The object moves to the cursor by grabbing the mouse's position and setting the transform position, shown in the 2nd picture. I thought I could do this by adding some sort of physics to the object, so that it naturally sways with the momentum of dragging the object around, but I'm not completely sure that would work. Is there a better way to do this?

[near wigeon]

doesn't sound like a normal thing, did you ever launch the game in 2nd monitor or something ? it might've saved that setting

[uncut parcel]

I don't think so

[near wigeon]

is it in window mode?
try set fullscreen mode to Exclusive fullscreen

[uncut parcel]

I'd rather just set it to windowed and then drag it over tbh if that's what it takes

[near wigeon]

#💻┃code-beginner | #1390355039272439868 / #1390346827005431951

[near wigeon]

if you do that close it on primary monitor then it should save that for next launch afaik

[uncut parcel]

that's probably what I'll do

[native barn]

Hellooo

I was wondering if anyone could help me? I wanna start using unity for more realistic album covers and movies, but I can't figure out how to change the lighting and do the camera stuff

Maybe start animating in the future?

[near wigeon]

!learn

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[native barn]

yeah it's a little unclear...

[near wigeon]

whats unclear?

if you want to learn how the editor works you go through the courses that teach you the basics of the editor

[native barn]

Yeah i'm reading it right now, I'll come back if it's still unclear

[near wigeon]

its pathways, you start with the essentials and move up

[uncut parcel]

Currently working on implementing this idea and I've discovered that apparently instantiating a mesh, even with baked animation data, doesn't really work properly alongside the rig if it wasn't there at runtime. I.e. I can parent them, but they break and don't animate and stay at the world origin.

Wonder how I can fix that

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58161828/mesh-not-animating-when-parts-are-spawned-from-script
someone in this post claims it needs to be the same name as the original mesh so I can try some troubleshooting from there

[hushed jolt]

Hey, does someone know if and how you can use ai sprites in a video game that you want to commercialize

[near wigeon]

something you can easily google, not really a unity question.
the answer is it depends, where you distribute it

[copper gust]

does it

[vivid cedar]

It's evolving in the courts right now. Basically yes you can, but you won't be able to copyright/trademark it. For example if you make your main character with AI, you don't get to trademark/copyright that character

[hushed jolt]

Yeah you know I realised as I asked i should rather ask an ai

[vivid cedar]

it's complicated - ask a lawyer basically 😛

[near wigeon]

seeking legal advice on chatbot is even worse

[copper gust]

said by people who deserve to run into problems

[balmy kettle]

lmao don't seek legal advice from discord or an AI, especially an AI

[hushed jolt]

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT

So is Gemini really lying then?
The short answer is yes, you generally can, but there are some significant legal nuances you should know before you start shipping your game.

Here is the breakdown of the situation as of 2026:

1. Google's Stance on Ownership

Google’s Terms of Service state that they do not claim ownership of the content you generate. This means they won't come knocking for royalties or a percentage of your game’s revenue. You are free to use these images in commercial projects like marketing materials, textures, or character portraits.

[copper gust]

we are not lawyers

use gemini if you want

we cant stop you

if your using ai for legal advice honestly reconsider releasing stuff

insane behaviour

[uncut parcel]

lmao bro

[river arch]

How do you draw a circle with a dashed outline

[near wigeon]

I'd use shadergraph

[copper gust]

a linerenderer can do it aswell

[river arch]

can you give me an example?

[copper gust]

well you'd use some code to get a list of positions in a circle

and you'd use a material with a dash

[river arch]

How do yyou create a material with a dash?

[copper gust]

a texture

[storm patio]

you could also do like, an n-gon with every other line missing, couldn't you

said from the perspective of someone with no experience with materials or textures or shaders

[river arch]

True

[storm patio]

though if this is meant to be a sprite (doesn't need to be super dynamic) you could also draw it as an image

[river arch]

The artist of the project is currently eeping ima the only awake

[storm patio]

you don't need much artistry to draw a circle and erase half

[river arch]

True but like i don'nt even have a draving program

[near wigeon]

gimp

[storm patio]

svgviewer.dev (vector)
piskelapp.com (raster)
ms paint (raster)
powerpoint (vector)
draw.io (vector)

[copper gust]

aesprite

[near wigeon]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=dashed+circle+gimp

[river arch]

I forgot that I already downloaded a png from internet

[storm patio]

aseprite has a relatively high barrier to entry. i'm intentionally avoiding that

[river arch]

But if I try to use it, it will just display one sgment

[storm patio]

you set it to multiple and autosliced, didn't you

[near wigeon]

its sliced?

[storm patio]

set it to sprite mode single

[near wigeon]

unity assuming we always import sprite maps lol

[river arch]

Where? I don't see the option

[near wigeon]

what silly ass change

[storm patio]

i don't think unity automatically slices? or did they recently change it to do that

[storm patio]

in the texture import settings

[balmy kettle]

pretty sure it does auto slice when it imports as multiple for the first time

[near wigeon]

I didn't think it did on multiple but mig've i havent used new versions

[storm patio]

i don't recall it automatically slicing anything, just setting it to multiple (and making it unusable until sliced)

[near wigeon]

ya at least for tilemap it never did for me idk

[balmy kettle]

at least this is the behavior i've been seeing recently where people are wondering why they only see part of their sprite, though i haven't tested it myself

[storm patio]

maybe my import presets messed with that

the issue/question that stands out more in my mind is "sprites" not being usable because they're set to multiple and haven't been sliced

[river arch]

How do I make the color of the circle changeable?

[balmy kettle]

make the sprite white instead of black. the color property only tints the sprite

[real river]

hi, was the asset store discount code from the student plan discontinued? tried to use my code and it said it was expired. the student plan page also doesn't mention it anymore

[near wigeon]

it only says Synty packs, so probably

[wraith pasture]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.sdk.linux-arm64@1.0/manual/index.html

When I click on getting started it says page not found

Where is the correct page?

[near wigeon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/embedded-linux.html

[spare galleon]

does the lateupdate() run in the prelateupdate or the postlateupdate loop ?

[near wigeon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/execution-order.html

[wraith pasture]

thank you

[spare galleon]

it just said lateupdate

[near wigeon]

prelateupdate / postlateupdate isn't a thing 🤔

[spare galleon]

i dont see the lateupdate loop when i print out all the playerloop

i only see the pre and post lateupdate

[near wigeon]

wdym "all the player loop"

[spare galleon]

PlayerLoopSystem

[wraith pasture]

ohh

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[near wigeon]

what do you mean you don't see it ?

[spare galleon]

what i dont get your point
im saying i only see the pre and post lateupdate in the default playerloopsystem
which one the lateupdate() run on

[near wigeon]

no idea what you're talking about sorry

[spare galleon]

alr fr

[near wigeon]

you kinda just asked without giving any context of what u trying to accomplish

[spare galleon]

you know the lateupdate() right?
but inside the default playerloopsystem there is only pre and post lateupdate i just want to know which one it running on

[near wigeon]

I know lateupdate, I never touched the lowlevel stuff so dunno . probably best ask in #1390346827005431951 | #1390355039272439868

[spare galleon]

alr bet but i dont have any code to show

[near wigeon]

thats fine..its still a coding topic

[river arch]

How do i know whats's the exact error?

[ripe furnace]

damn

[storm patio]

does the details box not give more info?

[river arch]

WHere is the modules folder?

Is it like in unity's source code?

Wait isn't unity propertiary?

[storm patio]

im confused where you're getting that lead

[lament adder]

Hey everyone. Trying to get a trim sheet which includes a glass material into unity. Both the model and the texture is mine. I'm exporting from substance as Unity HD Render Pipeline and using BaseMap, MaskMap, and NormalMap with HDRP/Lit material set to Transparent. It's looking like this. I shouldnt be able to see the inner side. How can i fix this?

[river arch]

In the debug window

[river arch]

Here

[storm patio]

i'm referring to the details box at the bottom of the console

[storm patio]

that's not the debug window

[river arch]

Whathever

[storm patio]

there's a window that's actually called Debug

names mean things

[river arch]

Whathever

What I need is help to import the window

[storm patio]

so is there any extra info in the box at the bottom

[river arch]

You mean this?

[storm patio]

no, at the bottom of the console, like i said

[river arch]

nothing

[storm patio]

alright well given it's in .cpp i would guess this is an internal error or the file is invalid or corrupted somehow. have you tried googling that filepath?

[regal spoke]

I think it’s because u use transparent for both. U need to have two material set list in substance painter and have two material with the same texture but one on transparent for the glass and another for the non transparent stuf on opaque and put it in your mesh renderer with the two materials set list afer reexporting your object

[regal spoke]

Lmk if it’s clear

[storm patio]

are you able to open/view the mp4 directly, outside of unity?

[river arch]

Yeah

[storm patio]

what OS are you on?

[river arch]

loonix

[storm patio]

ah, that'd do it

yeah there's a lot of forums about mp4 having issues on linux

something about codec patents

[potent fossil]

yo

[river arch]

So should I convert the video to some other format using ffmpreg?

[potent fossil]

guys i am making a multiplayer vr game using a backend so it cant be modded

shooter game

[regal spoke]

The problem is the wall is transparent too so you see though it

[potent fossil]

i verified my org so i can upload my game too applab on the meta store

[storm patio]

seems like it
https://discussions.unity.com/t/error-importing-mp4-file/750762/5
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/VideoSources-FileCompatibility.html

(also it's ffmpeg)

[potent fossil]

what stuff you guys making with unity?

[river arch]

1. What format is ideal
2. It is ffmpreg and you won't convince me otherwise

[storm patio]

@potent fossil this isn't a space for chitchat, btw

[potent fossil]

Code Help?

[storm patio]

i'm not super familiar with video formats, but webm would probably work, wouldn't be able to say it's better than the other 2 though

[storm patio]

Unity development topics & questions not covered by specific channels.

[lament adder]

There is a setting called Transparent Depth Pass. That was causing it. Since the panels arent closed meshes, it didnt know if the part that overlapped with the transparent part on camera was transparent as well. I turned it on and its fixed now

[regal spoke]

Ok cool i did not know that good to know

[lament adder]

also does anyone know of an easy udim workflow for unity? shader or directly material?

i dont want to lerp / smoothstep all 5 of tiles for each map 😂

[latent meadow]

#1390346776804069396 #🖼️┃2d-tools

[pseudo coyote]

Hi

[heady gorge]

the tragedy of realizing that if i actually want to see my game get completed, i do in fact have to work on it

who could have done this to me

[eager quiver]

How do I delete something from the default volume profile?

[cerulean marsh]

Can Anyone Help Me I’m New To Unity And I’m Trying To Make a Gtag Fangame

[storm patio]

!ask

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[ashen gull]

Heey, little update after 24h, we did it, it works! With the phones in wifi that serves as remotes and showing things too

[storm patio]

!collab

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[cursive canopy]

Hi, I'm wondering how in games this can be done for mobile game, in this project i have x4 printer and a table as u can see the printer is spawning papers clone and each paper is a gameobject (cube mesh) very low triangles. In the gif there are about 6400 paper spawned in total right now wich is 130k~ Tris and the game drop from 280 fps ~ to 30 fps
Does anyone know how this can be done ? i want to keep the visual pallet stacking & i don't know if it's done like that (multiple clones gameobject stacking ) or another method
Also i have Enabled Gpu instancing in the paper material and used crunch comprissor quality

[pearl oyster]

The main optimization is that when the papers are in a stack they're replaced by one stack object instead of having each paper be a separate object

[latent meadow]

so perhaps have the paper stack be a single cube that you keep increasing the height of, instead of actual individual papers

@cursive canopy

[cursive canopy]

You mean i have to render a new big paper that look like 1000 paper (example ) a switch it with script whenever it hit the number to reduce objects and look like it's 1000 paper stacking right ?

[brisk anvil]

in the new input system,
What is the difference between "gamepad" and "joystick"?

they both include controller inputs.

[storm patio]

gamepad is for typical known controllers from major vendors
joystick is more abstract and can be used for unknown controllers

[latent meadow]

basically, yes, but keep in mind what i said.. have a resizeable cube that is the paper stack. you do not need to do much other than change the vertical dimension. set the material up to look like paper edges

[brisk anvil]

perfect thanks

[storm patio]

Class Gamepad
An Xbox-style gamepad with two sticks, a D-Pad, four face buttons, two triggers, two shoulder buttons, and two menu buttons that usually sit in the midsection of the gamepad.

Class Joystick
A joystick with an arbitrary number of buttons and axes.

[brisk anvil]

when testing I notice joystick applies to all my gamepads, shouldn't I just always use this?

[storm patio]

you can see the supported controllers (that are resolved as Gamepads) here
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.19/manual/SupportedDevices.html#gamepads

[brisk anvil]

if someone would like to go wild and connect a driving wheel controller to his pc, I'm guessing joystick would support it while gamepad won't

[storm patio]

if i understand correctly, anything else will be resolved as a Joystick

[brisk anvil]

oh this is exactly what I was looking for

[storm patio]

assuming the wheel doesn't report itself as an xbox controller or something, yeah. i don't know how those work at that level

[cursive canopy]

Thank you so much @latent meadow @pearl oyster

[regal spoke]

Did u know a good extension for vs code for shader i search for a while and i can’t fine a good option for that

[ashen timber]

hello friends 🙂 Not a programming question but can I use DDS images in Unity ? it's 2026, I hope so. 🙏

[storm patio]

seems like it, yeah
there's a DDS entry here 👇
https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/Manual/BuiltInImporters.html

[ashen timber]

Ty.

now to find out how to remove the background or add alpha

its a test dds, i have some custom ones I made in Photoshop

[storm patio]

check the import settings to see if there are settings for that

[ashen timber]

didn't see any

trying to find docs on the site about dds atm

[rigid galleon]

Hey, I was wondering if there's some way to use unity fully offline?
I really like the engine, and have been using it for years, but it really bothers me that it requires internet access at least once every 30 days no matter what.
Say I go to my family that lives in a remote place w no internet access for an extended period, I wanna be able to keep working on my project, yet I can't, and that really bothers me.
So I was wondering if there's a solution to this problem or if I should reconsider my engine choice.

[latent meadow]

you would have to purchase an enterprise license, IIRC

so for indie purposes, no, not really.

[rigid galleon]

I see, and if I was to do that, do I get infinite access offline, or would I still have to check in every once in a while?

[latent meadow]

AFAIK, that comes with a license File, so no, no checking in. of course, talk directly to unity before doing anything.

Now, as far as what you are saying, if your only issue is connectivity, and not philosophical, just use a cell phone as a hub for a moment every 30 days when Unity insists on a license check

[rigid galleon]

It's both.
I both plan on going to remote places for extended periods of time, but it's also a bit of a what if question.
Sure, lets say I had mobile network where I'm going, what if something happens and I can no longer activate a unity license, not even w network connectivity, what then?
I honestly find the internet connectivity thing really troubling as I'm trying to have a fully local setup, and unity is p much the only thing stopping me from doing that :/

Unity is genuinely the absolute best engine I've ever used, it just feels natural to me, but this 1 aspect of it is really bothering me.

[latent meadow]

then, the original option, if you can afford it

[rigid galleon]

Just a q about enterprise thing, it seems to be a yearly subscription, so what when a year passes, do I lose the license?

[latent meadow]

i do not have first hand experience. it would be unwise for me to try to answer

[rigid galleon]

Understood, appreciate all the info you provided regardless!

[quartz monolith]

hello ! is it possible to replace the "unassigned" material directly in unity ? i have the three texture but i just struggled alot with blender recently and i cant seem to assign the texture correctly

[brisk anvil]

click on "what" object and the inspector will show the export menu.
you can then extract the material and change it's colors / assign texture

[latent meadow]

yes. you would go to the import settings.. bastically, click on the thing you imported. go to the materials section. Extract Materials.

it is best that you go through the basics on the Learning site, and also check out unity.huh.how

[vagrant root]

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[brisk anvil]

https://unity.huh.how/ is a legendary site

[latent meadow]

it was made by vertx

[quartz monolith]

ITS WORKING NO WAY ( i'am really dumb i already did this 2 hour ago and i thought this wasnt working becausse i didnt see it was extracting the material i thought i had to assign the texture ) for the last 3 hour i was trying to bake thing and try random stuff on blender and i was going crazy tysm guys

[latent meadow]

yw. still make sure you do the Pathways or you will run into a Lot of things that do not make sense

[quartz monolith]

oh it just make me think about something , i'am currently saving my texture in my document but i should create a folder in my unity game to stock it in there 😅

[latent meadow]

it makes sense to keep them separate, yes

[brisk anvil]

really?? what a legend

can't believe I missed it, just noticed his @ is what.how

[clever kindle]

I'm aware you can use public GameObject prefab to create a serializable field for a prefab you wish to instantiate, but is there any way to limit it to only prefabs? Is there a reason why one shouldn't?

[balmy kettle]

there is not without some OnValidate shenanigans. but also you should ideally be referring to your prefabs by a component on them that you care about rather than just GameObject, that way Instantiate will return the reference to the component saving you a GetComponent call

[storm patio]

but is there any way to limit it to only prefabs
not just via types
Is there a reason why one shouldn't?
i don't think it really matters. i could imagine assigning scene gameobjects being useful for testing, as a potential usecase

[clever kindle]

So fromcs public class BulletShooter : MonoBehaviour { public GameObject bullet; public void Fire() { GameObject bulletInstance = Instantiate(bullet); bulletInstance.transform.position = transform.position; bulletInstance.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().linearVelocity = new Vector2(0, 1); } } to```diff
{

• public GameObject bullet;

• public Rigidbody2D bullet;
  ...

•   GameObject bulletInstance = Instantiate(bullet);
  

•   GameObject bulletInstance = Instantiate(bullet.gameObject);
    etc. etc.
  

Is this what you mean?
Hmm. What I think I don't understand is why Unity insists these concepts should be merged

[storm patio]

you would not have that second change

mm no, you would have a slightly different change

[balmy kettle]

the only change on that second line is the type of the instance variable

[storm patio]

-       GameObject bulletInstance = Instantiate(bullet);
+       Rigidbody2D bulletInstance = Instantiate(bullet);

[clever kindle]

ah

okay, well... Two things

[storm patio]

you'd also remove the GetComponent

[storm patio]

Hmm. What I think I don't understand is why Unity insists these concepts should be merged
what concepts exactly?

[clever kindle]

yeah, that's assumed

[storm patio]

some people don't make the connection lol, just making sure

[clever kindle]

Well, From my perspective, there's a very large difference between "A reference to an instance in a prefab that you intend to instantiate" and "A reference to a component you wish to call upon, manage, or read"

[storm patio]

stuff in the scene can be Instantiated as well

it's effectively a clone

[clever kindle]

Sure, but why would one want that?

[storm patio]

🤷, but it's not really a separate concept. those are separate usages for the same structure

you can technically modify/read prefabs too, just that it only "works" in the editor