💻┃unity-talk

[storm patio]

so you lied when you said they run at the same time

[sand harbor]

Uhh whats that?

Is that easy to change or did i f up?

[worldly cave]

Your render pipeline

And no you cant really change between the 2 easily

[storm patio]

the render pipeline you're using. if you're unfamiliar with that term, you're probably using whatever you set when you created the project. what template option did you select when you created the project?

[storm sierra]

They do have concurrent ones that also run equally to it.

There is a second layer of Job A and job B zone, A and B run equally and have their own entire daisy chain.

[storm patio]

does the thing that sets the bool, run at the same time as the thing that reads the bool

[sand harbor]

universal 3d i think or yk, something like that it said

[storm patio]

that's urp then

the u stands for universal

[worldly cave]

Then unless you have a package for it, urp has no built in volumetric effects

[storm sierra]

No, I made sure there is a slight gap for race conditions.

[storm patio]

so they aren't running at the same time

[sand harbor]

Can i change from urp to hdrp?

[storm patio]

they should be designed in a way to not have race conditions to begin with, a dependency check, not a time gap

[worldly cave]

You can, but its faster and far simpler to make a new project and just bring your assets over

[sand harbor]

And will nothing break?

[storm sierra]

Exactly, they are nearly running at the same time, but I keep it slightly off. That is the key I learned for burst code, from my prior experience. A dependency is also what I do use, they are all dependent on the last math to be finished.

[worldly cave]

A lot of things will

Mostly your materials and shaders

[sand harbor]

Shoot

That sucks

[storm sierra]

I am running a simulation hot loop that never turns off for the entire gameplay. The only reason I use burst code in this area is for ensuring I get almost zero down time of loading.

[worldly cave]

If you want volumetric fog or lighting in urp

Theres assets on the asset store

[storm patio]

anyways, the front page for the burst docs has an example of using nativearray of length 1 as an output for a job, so i do suspect you do need a nativearray for that

[sand harbor]

Oh okay!

What else would i iss on urp?

[storm patio]

it's important to remember why you do things, and to not prescribe them for unrelated situations

[storm sierra]

I agree

[storm patio]

you shouldn't be keeping it "slightly off" based on time, that's what a race condition is

[worldly cave]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.3/Documentation/Manual/render-pipelines-feature-comparison.html

[formal wadi]

helooo im new

[sand harbor]

ty

[sand harbor]

hi

[storm sierra]

Well it would fail if they didn't have any wait for the last data. I use a condition to only fire when the data comes in.

System 2 cannot function without data from system 1, it is essential math to have.

[storm patio]

(also before i forget, you shouldve mentioned burst in the message where you showed code. you didn't show any usage there at all, man)

[storm sierra]

I figured it was implied since NativeArray is pretty much entirely used on burst code.

[storm patio]

it isn't

you've been leaving out a ton of crucial info throughout these discussions

there's no difference we can see between someone using NativeArray for the heck of it or because their weird uncle described it or because they're using burst, unless it's actually mentioned

[storm sierra]

Fair enough

[sand harbor]

Wow theres like 3 free ones

[storm patio]

leaving stuff to be implied is not good communication in these spaces where just level of expertise is already wildly fluctuating

[worldly cave]

Most of the free ones arent even worth using imo

The kronnect assets and Haze are by far the best options

[storm patio]

so that just sounds like typical dependency checking to me, not a "gap" really

"gap" to me sounds like a fixed duration wait, which yeah would be a bandaid fix to a race condition

[sand harbor]

Ye no ye, Idk, Im not buying assets, that sucks, i get folks need money and deserve it, but i am not rlly going to spend money on that. Is it rlly difficult to fix the material and shader problems?

[worldly cave]

It depends on the assets you have

The biggest issue are going to be shaders

[sand harbor]

Well, does it help that i have no custom shaders?

[storm sierra]

Right now I can say I am very confident of working with burst code, getting it operational and clean. That is where I am most confident in skills for unity.

As for my current project, I have built a entire clock system, game save system using CRC32 for data checks, SQLite for data organization and I tend to use a server as authority model with fishnet as my method of communication between host and client.

[sand harbor]

Like a bit?

[undone monolith]

i searched for the quiz there, but it's not there

[storm patio]

i didn't say to search

it's just another tab in the sidebar, is it not

[undone monolith]

https://learn.unity.com/pathway/unity-essentials

I don't see one

[storm patio]

is there even a quiz lol

[undone monolith]

Yes

I've done the Editor, 3D and Audio quizzes

But they aren't in this site, I had to search seperately in a new tab

But I can't find the quiz for the programming essentials

[storm patio]

looks like the 6.3 version of the pathway removed them

change to the 6.0 version and they're there in the sidebar

[worldly cave]

yes

but before you do anything make sure you have version control set up

[sand harbor]

whats that?

[worldly cave]

!vc

[vagrant root]

Using version control in Unity

Unity Version Control

• Getting started

Git

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

[worldly cave]

to put it simply, basically a way to back up your project

[formal wadi]

what

[storm patio]

how

that's not even the unix epoch

[sand harbor]

So should i get the plugin?

[worldly cave]

i would recommend Git personally

but you always want some form of version control

its invaluable

just the other day as an example, i was tinkering with my project, and accidentally fucked something up beyond repair, thanks to version control i really only lost an hour of work, vs what could have been wraps for my project

[sand harbor]

Oh okay, but doesnt Git take like constant backuping, for like every hour of work?

[worldly cave]

thats the point, youre constantly backing your project up

you just choose how often you do it

but its not the same as like saving an entire copy of your project every time

rather git tracks changes you make to your project, and saves those changes specifically, meaning its really lightweight and fast

so lets say your project has
File A
File B
File C

You decide to change File C, git tracks that change and only "uploads" that change to the repository, it doesnt touch File A or B unless you also changed something there

and lets say you change your mind on the changes you made in C and would like the old version back, well you can always revert a change before you commit

[storm patio]

no

git isn't making several backups, it's a single backup with a history

[sand harbor]

Huh, always figured Im not really persistent enough for git

[storm patio]

you decide when to write history

[sand harbor]

Huh

[worldly cave]

i would highly recommend you stick to git

and not unitys version control

[sand harbor]

Huh, it said in the tutorial to do this

[storm patio]

uvc has the same workflow as git anyways. it's the vcs workflow, not the git workflow

[sand harbor]

here

[worldly cave]

yeah i just linked that to show you what version control is

[sand harbor]

ohhh

[worldly cave]

you dont have to use unity version control itself

[sand harbor]

Uhh i never used Git or GitHub, so i should probably find some tutorial then

[storm patio]

the uvc and git listings are separate options, they are separate vcs tools. you should not use both in the same project, to be clear

[sand harbor]

Okay, yeah, figured, just not used to any vcs, so i have no idea abt git, looking at a tutorial rn

[grave merlin]

hey!

[pale meadow]

Does anyone know music theory

[grave merlin]

im wondering how this game works, when u choose numbers = 7, balls go down, and what u chose fade away, any idea?

i meant how is it working in unity with game objects

[storm patio]

could be any number of things

there's multiple ways to do any given task. we can't answer "how does this game do it" unless it's open source or the devs said so in an interview or post or something

you could for example have an animation that modifies the alpha on a spriterenderer

[latent meadow]

could be physics, (probably not) could be simply, 'when object '7' is triggered to go bye bye, destroy object '7', the slide down object array 'currentlyshown' to fill the space. 'spawn new random object'.
it is a good idea to use the Pathways on the learning site.

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[latent meadow]

this is a Unity Dev server. try an art and music server, perhaps

[pale meadow]

Where

[pale meadow]

So you know nothing about music theory

[latent meadow]

you are off-topic. read the #📖┃code-of-conduct

[worldly cave]

do you understand the server you are in?

[stuck flower]

Sir this is a wendys

[trim hornet]

I understand bro

[wooden pebble]

I had to clear my WHOLE appdata folder for it work, not just unity. And yes i restarted my PC between each delete

So odd

[storm patio]

good lord what happened there

have you tried resetting your library

[trim hornet]

I'm trying right now

Reimport didn't help

[storm patio]

language files messed up ig...

[trim hornet]

It didn't help

[storm patio]

would probably reinstall the engine then

[trim hornet]

Could this be a problem caused by an old PC?

[latent meadow]

yeah, it got up in the middle of the night an rewired your new one 😁

but seriously.. you Might be able to recover by following the full uninstall guides. this would include locations you do not normally remove things from like AppData, assuming windows. you'd need to google for one (guide)

[storm patio]

my (barely educated) guess is that language files got corrupted, or something along those lines. if it's the base file then it could be due to a dying disk i guess? i'm not much of a hardware guy.

but yeah perhaps look into getting your files backed up lol

[latent meadow]

also, well.. doesn't look like you can, but lower the pipeline to dx10 to match your old video card

assuming that is possible directly

[spiral tide]

hi, are the unity quizzes gone? i'm doing the pathways from unity learn, and whenever i click the links from the tutorials, it takes me to a generic page on the pathway module

[latent meadow]

sorry, due to login issue, i cannot even check right now :/

[storm patio]

change the version to 6.0

seems they removed them in the 6.3 version

[storm patio]

you don't need to login to use unity learn btw

[latent meadow]

Oh! I thought the quizzes required login, thanks

[spiral tide]

oh makes sense, i'm using 6.3, thanks

[modern depot]

where do i go to ask for a little help (Someone made me an avatar for VRchat but its got over 500 errors)
and i am a noob an never used unity before

[storm patio]

oh im not sure about that, i didn't try that, but at least they show up in the sidebar (and you can view the path as a whole)

[storm patio]

if it's a vrchat issue then ask in the vrchat server, we wouldn't know how to help with that

!vrchat

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[modern depot]

oh alright thx

[winter slate]

Hey guys!

[latent meadow]

#🌱┃start-here

[scarlet shuttle]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[trim hornet]

It didn't help either...

[slim narwhal]

wow, installing this would double my old laptop's storage

[scarlet shuttle]

i didnt do anything

but then

-1 KB?

[trim hornet]

I'll try to download a later version

[scarlet shuttle]

BRO PARSES PROFILER DATA -1 KB HOLY

[slim narwhal]

yeah idk why
either its actually negative or its positive infinity

or it defaulted to -1

[scarlet shuttle]

guys im gonna have extra profiler data

[storm patio]

just keep profiling, you'll get infinite storage, trust

[scarlet shuttle]

cancel doesnt work

[storm patio]

do you have unsaved work or something, why can't you just force quit

[grim sundial]

wow, I just woke up...2fa still on, and my blind support ticket is still out from yesterday, and I'm guessing things are still mucked eh? oh well~

[scarlet shuttle]

wow my storage was 12,3 GB empty but now i have 100GB empty

[latent meadow]

I am talking directly to the senior community manager. she is actively looking into it

[grim sundial]

gotcha, thanks for update!

[crimson flicker]

my favorite thing in the entire world is importing an asset and having it move shit around -_-

does anyone know how to fix that from happening again?

[scarlet shuttle]

Task Manager - End Task

[storm patio]

it moves existing asset files around..?

[grim sundial]

if you're talking a purchased 3rd-party asset, just be more careful and try to get to an online readme or install notes to check if the package comes stuffed with project settings that re-write and routinely needs/expects you to install in a fresh project only. Or the author will instruct which boxes to keep tick/untick for special cases, like existing structures or render pipelines.

[crimson flicker]

yeah, I had a good scene built up, imported a character asset and it moved things around

[crimson flicker]

I only use Unity assets

well, assets from the store

[latent meadow]

importing means adding an asset to the project. this should affect nothing. Placing an object in the scene should also affect nothing unless there is user error. Explain exactly what happens, or share a video

[grim sundial]

Another good practice is only preview and check out new assets in a "bomb-proof" generic project meant for pre-emptive randomness. It's a better habit to have 0% worry and then to simply drag & drop and create your own custom tailored project folder prefabs which then can be exported as a streamlined safe package install into your actual project that needs it. Take note of the screenshots for the important steps here, so you ensure anything you want to extract is not broken, but keep in mind and take note of the folders/scripts that will be added, so you are never blindsided.

[crimson flicker]

I did explain, I imported the asset, went back to the scene and a lot of assets I had already placed were at the origin position

[crimson flicker]

I use the game engines built in import system, ill keep this in mind though, thank you

[latent meadow]

yes. point being, aside from user error, i have never seen that. it is just not something that randomly occurs

it will be interesting to see if following Lakermouses advice resolves it

[crimson flicker]

well its already set in stone, I cant go back in time to fix it lol which sucks

but I can use that to prevent anything in the future

[grim sundial]

yeah at least you have that mudroom/airlock safety buffer for future sound practice

this is also extremely important when tacking on a high exponential learning curve of how new assets and settings conflict with unity environment/packages installed and version control madness.

aka, basic version control completely breaks if some silly store asset decides to overwrite things not accounted for in your default version control methods

Hunan... welp, the 20$ sale is done, but as consolation, I was somehow able to create a new account with no 2fa to buy it there. Now i'll at least have some way to pull up a ticket to hopefully transfer the purchase to my main account since i'm not touching it/downloading it yet.

And I don't feel bad about this one since it was 95% off for full duration (not a glitch), and they mention 95% off on their sale page header > <;;

[crimson flicker]

@grim sundial it couldve been much worse, it coulve messed with the biggest build in my scene and im glad it didnt because its still a WIP

[grim sundial]

oh wow, I love me some realistic full dark lighting with some water reflection! awesome vibe~

[crimson flicker]

thank you! Its been a TON of work so far but its all coming together lol

[grim sundial]

looking forward to seeing your posted progress on the other channels! Continued best of luck and damage control

[crimson flicker]

yes, damage control is now my main focus 😂

[grim sundial]

funtime AOLKeyword for many of us here wink

[latent meadow]

yes 95% off is the pinnacle of flash deals.

[sand harbor]

I think this is a good repository and im fairly sure it might be working, I've never done this before though. What should i do now to get to the other rendering pipeline?

[lyric prairie]

yo

[zealous umbra]

Hello. I’m using the latest version of Cinemachine and Unity 6000.3.10f1. I previously worked with Unity 2019 (and 2022), where I had already built a camera system using Cinemachine: I use multiple cameras, each with its Confiner and PolygonCollider2D to define the boundaries of each room and handle transitions when moving from one to another.

Now I’m trying to do the same thing with the newer versions, but the transition behaves very strangely—almost as if it recalculates the position of the new room incorrectly and then corrects itself afterward (as shown in the video I’ll include below).

What’s even more curious is that if I navigate through the entire map and then return, the transitions start working perfectly! It doesn’t make sense to me.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Has anyone experienced the same issue? Thanks a lot.

Edit:
Forgot to mention: within the editor, it works perfectly. It is broken when using the final build.

[crimson flicker]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@3.0/manual/CinemachineConfiner2D.html#:~:text=In these cases%2C for efficiency,script by calling InvalidateCache%2C or

[sand harbor]

Hey yall, can anyone help me change the rendering pipeline in my project?

Not very many videos

[latent meadow]

probably because it is a PITA and not generally recommended.
if possible, start a new project and migrate your assets

[worldly cave]

like i said before

start a new hdrp project

and manually start transfering your assets over

[rare lance]

Where's the best place to get some help? I'm trying to cross the bridge of a model in blender to an asset in unity, running into all sorts of issues.

[latent meadow]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow

@grim sundial did you get your support email yet?

[crimson flicker]

youtube

[stuck flower]

Whatever the most relevant channel for your question is

!ask

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[sand harbor]

I did it and now im in my scene and i cant see nothing?also textures look a little messed up

wow

a lot of textures are just like gone

[worldly cave]

yeah like i said

urp and hdrp use different shaders

try your luck with the automatic shader converter

[sand harbor]

Wait I converted materials and they still dont work, but where is the shader convert?

[barren agate]

Does Anyone knows why my video result is glitch ...Trying to record simple animation using unity recorder...

Please help

[latent meadow]

probably talk to #1391720450752516147 , they might know

[barren agate]

Oh thanks 🙏🙏

[analog crane]

Is there any way at all to edit the official templates?

I'd like to make a few changes to URP templates that i have to do every time

(including removing TutorialInfo. Why does that even exist?)

[sand harbor]

Hey, is it maybe like a chance for it to be impossible? Or will it just be really tedious

[worldly cave]

it will be tedious because its not something youre expected to do

people who need hdrp features typically just make an hdrp project to begin with

so yeah it is a hassle

[sand harbor]

Ouch, I wish i started out with hdrp, why aint the better version the default?

Oh btw, uh where can i update the shaders? Its not like the materials that i can ubgrade

[potent geyser]

90% of users don't use HDRP

So few in fact, they're removing it eventually.

They're consolidating it all into URP and going back to one pipeline.

[sand harbor]

Why though? It seems wayyy better

Why wouldnt you want unreal engine but better

[latent meadow]

it is heavy on resources, at first glance

[potent geyser]

Waaaaay better for who?

[sand harbor]

I mean its unreal engine graphics and actual coding

[sand harbor]

folks with good pcs?

I reckon

[potent geyser]

If 90% of people are not using it, who's it way better for?

URP is already going to get alot of those HDRP features and be more or less way better.

[abstract umbra]

didnt they decide not to remove it ?

[potent geyser]

The latest talk about the new lighting even showed a clear example where you would have guessed it was HDRP.

[potent geyser]

Link?

[austere dawn]

Most realistic games you see being made with Unity are using an in house render pipeline right? Not sure of many games that use straight up HDRP

[crimson flicker]

HDRP isnt going anywhere from what Ive read, but they arent updating it anymore

[cursive sleet]

hi

[austere dawn]

they are unifying the render pipelines, they announced this

[balmy kettle]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/render-pipelines-strategy-for-2026/1710004

Going forward, we are focusing maintenance of HDRP on stability, regressions and critical issues of widely used functionalities while we continue to accelerate URP’s feature set and capabilities.
they aren't getting rid of HDRP (yet), but it isn't getting new features just getting maintenance

[crimson flicker]

I dont keep up with it too much, I just work on my game lol

[cursive sleet]

I am new here

[balmy kettle]

this is old news and no longer really accurate, see the link i posted for their most recent render pipeline strategy

[latent meadow]

#🌱┃start-here

[abstract umbra]

ok, link was posted already

[potent geyser]

Yep, that's what I was referring to. Saying it was being removed was the wrong language, just not worked on beyond Switch 2 bring added.

[austere dawn]

things move quick!

[sand harbor]

So, should i just like not upgrade?

[cursive sleet]

Its nice to be here

[gray frigate]

i always thought the "unified" idea sounded like a pipe dream lol

[balmy kettle]

pun intended?

[crimson flicker]

I mean, I really hope they can make URP look like HDRP though

[copper gust]

i mean the unification is still happening, it's just urp lol

[austere dawn]

well they're deprecating BiRP, putting HDRP on life support, and catching up integrating a lot of the HDRP features into URP, theyre sort of unifying the render pipelines.

[potent geyser]

This is the image I was referring to. This is URP

[abstract umbra]

even though im using HDRP, i have nothing against HDRP removal as long as they provide tested instructions how to move the project from hdrp to unified whatever pipeline its going to be without half the project getting broken

[crimson flicker]

yeah same

[copper gust]

they probably won't have that which is why it's not being removed

there is stuff that would just have to be rebuilt

[crimson flicker]

i almost punched my monitor earlier when my scene got messed up

im still new to this lol so anything that messes with my progress messes with my sanity

[latent meadow]

we need a 'get off the caffeine' emoji

[gray frigate]

shinyyyyy

[grim sundial]

hey! I just did.... super annoying though. They don't see it as anything wrong, or a bug on their end, so I have to go through the full process of verifying my identity to unlock a 2fa being manually set. Oh well better than nothing.

[gray frigate]

i gradually came to realize that most pretty rendering isn't really that special

[latent meadow]

I had to do the same thing

[grim sundial]

thank you for the ping... I have been doing other things and wouldn't have seen this till much later.

[latent meadow]

i know that in my case, i did activate it back in 2024 as it was a requirement to use the UGS at the time. but, since i never got any codes, and could not update my phone number, when they finally got around to activating the actual 2fa check two years later, i could not get in :/

[grim sundial]

gotcha... The only clue the rep states in my case is "We recently rolled out a security system update."

How that automatically did anything to toggle 2fa is beyond me. I feel super sorry for that initial report on this channel where he was pressed for time and unable to log in for a presentation on time.

[latent meadow]

indeed

[zealous umbra]

Interesting. I'm doing this and still I'm getting that cosmetic error in the final build. In the editor it works well.

[tepid horizon]

Are visual effects supposed to work out of the box or do you have to do other things besides just installing and popping in a vfx graph in a component

[vivid cedar]

You need to play it too. The entrypoint depends how the graph is set up and how the component is set up.

Also #✨┃vfx-and-particles

[formal wadi]

yea i deleted it locally at 01/01/0001, yes unity

[late hull]

how can you make unity run faster on a potato

[storm sierra]

What exactly do you mean by run faster?

[latent meadow]

more electrodes?

[late hull]

like are there quality settings to make the unity editor smoother, such as the scene camera rotating more smoothly

from performance

[storm sierra]

If your scene camera in play is rotating around with lag this is a performance issue in the setup of the game. The rendering is potentially too expensive or a background action is running. I would go into the profiler, go into the snapshot area and take a snapshot during playmode to see what cost so much on runtime.

This could also be external programs like chrome slowing you down if there is a billion tabs open

[latent meadow]

in Scene view or Game View? @late hull

[late hull]

scene view

I heard of a quality graphics matrix

but it apperently disappeared

[latent meadow]

try setting this in Project Settings

[neon nymph]

Hey guys! How do I make a realistic game in unity?

[latent meadow]

and you can see the other things there too. also, define potato. @late hull

[vagrant root]

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[late hull]

oh I just wanted my unity to run in potato conditions so that it doesn't take too much resources

[fair cove]

You can change the quality settings your game is using which also changes the quality settings Unity applies to the Game window specifically - the amount of editor windows (and the specific kinds) you have open will impact performance (for example, a console with 1K logs or the Scene window with 100 active objects using renderers will have a bigger impact on performance than a inspector with nothing selected or the Project window) - and the amount of things being rendered in your scene/hierarchy can also impact performance overall - when in play mode, things like the number of active cameras, physics objects, animators, particles, lights, post processing, etc playing will also impact performance, so it can be very dynamic how much resources Unity uses, depending on what your actually doing in it

[late hull]

Smth like along that

[latent meadow]

you don't just 'make a realistic game'. you start with the Essentials (see Essentials Pathway on the linked learning site) and you build from there

[neon nymph]

Ok thanks but I meant what's like the requirements?

[fair cove]

"realistic" can encompass many things, could you give an example or elaborate on exactly what you mean/want to do with "realistic" in your case?

[neon nymph]

Like my idea is to make a realistic game called "BioFall: Last Horizon" and the story and the characters can't be like a pixel game no it should be realistic
And as a example Resident Evil

That's what I meant

[fair cove]

In terms of graphics, I personally wouldnt call Resident Evil 1 "realistic" but in terms of perspective, its "realistic" in the sense of proportional characters and environments that reflect the real world - so if your going for that, then youd probably want to learn Blender or another 3D software, build some characters and props that make environments like tables, chairs, trees, stairs, etc, and apply tileable/seamless textures to your objects (which may require UV unwrapping most that are not a simple box shape), and maybe build them through a technique called "greyboxing" so you can test scale and design in-engine, then youll likely want to also play around with lighting and maybe post processing to make the environment look well-lit and fit your theme - if you mean the quality of graphics, that would come down to how you model your characters and environment, more detail has a cost to performance though

[neon nymph]

Ok ! I respect your answer and thanks for helping me but a question though is unity good for these kind of games or no?

[fair cove]

The engine is very much capable of doing this kind of realistic, its even technically possible to make a game as good as GTA or a literal simulation, most commercial engines are capable of this, however its not "easy" it will require some level of technical understanding and familiarity with the engines features itself to achieve that kind of realism, but it is very much doable, yes

And surprisingly, post processing + good lighting can go a long way with making things look good in 3D

[neon nymph]

Ok another thanks for your guidance and Ima learn and build somethings and I'll try to build the game that I want

[neon nymph]

But can I ask another question?

[fair cove]

Sure, thats what this server is here for, to help answer questions 😉

[neon nymph]

What's the first thing that I need to learn?

And what's the perfect platform that I can launch my game on it?

@fair cove

[fair cove]

!learn

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[fair cove]

If your completely new to the engine, then that Unity Learn link above will help you get started - if your also new to programming, then id suggest "w3schools" or "Microsoft Learn" to get familiar with C#, and if your new to game development/design in general, then maybe id look into some channels that focus on that, such as GameMakersToolKit, theres plenty of other resources too, these are just the first that come to mind

[fair cove]

There is no such thing as a "perfect platform" that entirely depends on your goals, budget and export (some storefronts like the Play Store only allow certain exports, in this case, the Play Store only allows mobile exports, while Steam allows many different kinds) - and depending on your goals, it may also require learning about marketing and advertising

[neon nymph]

Well I want to make this game for mobile and PC

[neon nymph]

But steam requires 100 dollars each game publish

And I play store I think paying only one time and it's 25

[fair cove]

Correct, this is why I say it depends on your budget and goals, 100 is a lot, but if you plan to sell your game and you plan to make more than 100 in sales, maybe its a worthwhile tradeoff, it really is a personal choice that has pros and cons (such as reaching a massive potential audience) - another popular choice is itch io, its free to publish to, but has a smaller potential audience and may be harder to sell games there as most games I seen do well there are usually free to play, again depending on your goals

[latent meadow]

!collab

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[last vortex]

mb

where can I post this?

[latent meadow]

on the forum linked in the bot message

[neon nymph]

Yeah ok thank you very much for your time and your help I really appreciate you

[fair cove]

Np, glad it could help

[mystic oriole]

So is CoreCLR going to fix the long reload times? I've seen sources saying it will, and sources saying it wont really

[balmy kettle]

i mean, we can really only speculate. theoretically yes, but we just have to wait and see

[inland river]

Expect to be disappointed.

[mystic oriole]

in the long term or short term

[mystic breach]

Hello! I’m trying to create first person controller, which script structure do you recommend? I saw someone that do horizontal on playerMovement and vertical on cameraController. And someone that do playerMovement & playerLook & cameraController and how I learn how to figure these types of thing by myself? By getting more experience on coding?

[latent meadow]

you will probably find several free assets on the store similar to what you are doing, that you can 'take apart' and learn from. there is also a #1390346827005431951 room for general coding questions. also, there is a learning site. Perhaps do the Junior Programmer Pathway. if you are brand new to Unity, Essentials Pathway is a good start. @mystic breach

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[mystic breach]

I already finished junior programmer and I didnt want to take free assets I want to write myself to make practice when time comes to customize I should be able to understand and modify easily. I know it is unefficient way to do but I wanna learn it anyway

[sudden sparrow]

i wanted to ask can i make the terrain invisible yet keep the grass that i scattered or painted over it

[latent meadow]

#⛰️┃terrain-3d

[royal wing]

Do you guys use "started" or "performed" for detecting key presses?

[uncut parcel]

I'm assuming that's an InputSystem thing and not InputManager. I haven't felt like switching over yet so I'm unfamiliar with it

[mystic breach]

It depends on the type of your action and type of button/joystick you have created

If you need to read active value you can use performed

[royal wing]

Say for example just a simple jump using the keyboard

[mystic breach]

I’d suggest performed

[royal wing]

Alr thanks man

[uncut parcel]

I'm assuming #1390346776804069396 would be the appropriate place to ask about URP shader stuff?

I just want to know if it's possible to make a variant of the lit shader and edit the shader code for it

without using shader graph

[storm patio]

yeah

shaders, lighting, all that goes in #1390346776804069396

[uncut parcel]

alright thanks

[winter slate]

Hello guys!

[chrome meteor]

does anyone know how to get rid of this weird typing

[copper gust]

insert key

[chrome meteor]

thx

[hallow bobcat]

Hello guys, I would like to ask again.

I want to export this as a Unity package and then import it into a new project. However, I think the problem is that it was not exported properly. When I try to import it, some parts are missing.

Could someone explain how to fix this issue?

[brisk anvil]

that is super weird,
if you must use unity packages, and you don't wanna start debugging whats missing and what's not,

Try moving everything you need to export into a single folder and then just export that

but though, still, it should work by just right clicking the scene and choosing export package.
It should auto detect everything inside of it + dependencies and usually even a lot more, I've never seen a case where it exported less

[polar basalt]

hey guys, does anyone know, can something like google login be used in desktop apps? every time i try to search up for anything it is android only??

[brisk anvil]

could it be that it exported but you don't know where in the new project it is?

[polar basalt]

am i searching the wrong thing

[brisk anvil]

you can do a login with google button which opens a webpage in the default pc's browser and that would redirect back to the game

[hallow bobcat]

I want to do that, but the submission requirement must be in Unity package format.

[polar basalt]

is there any documentation on that or a tutorial? anything that i try to search up for is outdated 10yrs ago videos

[ancient moat]

Hey, am I allowed to ask questions about which components to install when downloading Unity in this channel or do I have to approach a different channel?

[brisk anvil]

so move whatever you need in your submission into a new folder in the root of your /Assets folder,
And then right click that folder and submit that

[brisk anvil]

you can ask here

[ancient moat]

okay, i have MSVS26 installed already so i dont have that ticked but in the platforms part, which ones do i need?

[brisk anvil]

Try asking grok (he is really good with quick research questions like this one)

And once you find a good documentation / source, go to chatgpt or your favorite ai and try writing (in a clean, New scene!) a demo version of signing in with google. copy paste the documentation / guide / forum post you find.

[brisk anvil]

what are you planning to build for?

[ancient moat]

Windows

Other platforms later.

[brisk anvil]

so you probably don't need anything right now. if you have unity and an ide you should be good to go

[ancient moat]

alright

[polar basalt]

uhm im really sorry but that wont be helpful 😔 but yeah i will consult the docs

there seems to be some confusion between what there is

There is google sign in, google play sign in, open id and oAuth

i think gsi would work, ill give that a try

[brisk anvil]

don't worry though, if you will be missing something, you can easily install these later,
Or feel free to ping me.

[ancient moat]

yeah i knnow i can install missing stuff later, i was just asking be know if id need anything later, i have 6-7 months of experience with unreal engine but for my current game idea i think using ue would be overkill and a bit of a waste of time

[brisk anvil]

come on man, did you even try?
unity has it's own solution that supports Sign in with Google (and Apple/Email) via a web flow on all platforms.
You manage it through the unity dashboard (your project, authentication, player accounts).

[brisk anvil]

Nice, welcome to Unity! both engines are great, hope you have fun here

[ancient moat]

thank you

im assuming unity is similar to ue in the way the ECS behaves?

[brisk anvil]

there is an entity component system in unity as well but it's quite different, you can lookup on youtube / ai for the exact differences

[polar basalt]

im not doing unity multiplayer sadly though

i have to make this from scratch

[brisk anvil]

i5 Toolkit for Unity is recommended by many, works on all platforms + in the editor
Gives you an ID token / access token you can use with Firebase, your own backend, PlayFab, etc.

[sand harbor]

Hey yall, Im adding a duel minigame to my western and want to know, what are some ways to tell the player when to shoot instead of a big old "Draw" text on the screen, cause that kinda ruins the feel

[copper gust]

a bell ringing or a clock

[brisk inlet]

Guys does anyone know why my player ship is being destroyed as soon as the game starts unless I specifcially tell it to only collide with "Enemy" tags? It doesn't look like it's colliding with anything when the game starts...

[copper gust]

you can do Debug.Log(other.gameObject.name) in order to find out what it's hitting 🙂

[storm patio]

configure your ide

!ide

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[brisk inlet]

Oooh thank you I will try this 😄

[brisk inlet]

It says the terrain 😮 But it just doesn't look like it with the box collider..

[brisk inlet]

do you know which one I select to configure it? This is what I have

[storm patio]

the one that says vscode

(vs stands for visual studio)

[brisk inlet]

should I uninstall the one I have then reinstall the one you posted?

[storm patio]

i didn't tell you to install any other apps

i'm telling you to configure the app you already have

[brisk inlet]

How do I do that?

[hallow bobcat]

buf if i only move the file , it still not unitypackage format .

[storm patio]

the bot message gave you links to instructions

[brisk inlet]

It says it's signed, does that mean it's fixed?

[storm patio]

no, you don't need this package.

there's nothing to fix

[brisk inlet]

From the link it took me to it's talking about installing visual studio

[storm patio]

right, and you installed visual studio code editor, not visual studio editor

vscode uses the "visual studio editor" plugin in unity. it used to use "visual studio code editor" but now they're kinda merged.

[brisk inlet]

but all it tells me to do is install visual studio code

[storm patio]

step 2 is referring to the ide. you've already installed the ide.

[dusky forum]

They're referring to the extension in vscode

[brisk inlet]

so there should be another one?

[storm patio]

pay attention to the exact names, they're important, especially when microsoft wants to name things so similarly 💀

[storm patio]

you probably already have "visual studio editor" in unity installed

[dusky forum]

They're referring to extensions in vscode not unity

[sudden sparrow]

help with lightening

[dusky forum]

Click on the extension marketplace link to see what they're referring to. You only need the Unity extension (relative to what was instructed)

[storm patio]

perhaps ask #1390346776804069396

[brisk inlet]

I think I fixed it, thank you

I think it's correct now?

Does anyone know why my Player Ship is colliding with the Terrain? It doesn't look like it's touching, I don't know what to do

oh wait I figured it out, even though I moved the player ship I still have a timeline set that starts with a position where it touches the ground

so I need to change the timeline

[hallow bobcat]

i really got trouble in this situation , can someone help me to solve this

[brisk inlet]

OOOH fixed it >:DDD

[sweet tartan]

solve what exactly?

[hallow bobcat]

i exported the package from the project to unitypaclkage on the left and imported it into the one on the right, but I can't see the scene

[sweet tartan]

did you overwrite it with something? Or a package? You should never name any of your scenes SampleScene

[brisk anvil]

you need to right click on the scene file / folder, choose export to unity package / custom package and save it on disk.

[brisk anvil]

Well done!!! looks 🔥

maybe share in #🏆┃daily-win

[brisk anvil]

where is the scene in the original project

navigate to there in the new project

you can also search for the scene name in the search bar

[hallow bobcat]

already do that

but still not worked

[brisk anvil]

did you find the scene ifle itself

[hallow bobcat]

yesx

[brisk anvil]

what happens when you double click it

[storm patio]

yep that's properly configured

[hallow bobcat]

it still show default scene

[brisk anvil]

did you save your scene in the first project?

[hallow bobcat]

yess

[brisk anvil]

can you share a video of you saving to package and loading it in the other project

[hallow bobcat]

okayy

[merry pulsar]

can someone help me with visual studio and unity entegretion thing

it gives this

i cant put elements of unity such as "Transform" etc

[craggy pollen]

!ide

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• :question: Other/None

[hallow bobcat]

what dou think

[hallow bobcat]

What if my asset appears pink in another project? I mean, if the teaching assistant checks it and it looks pink in their scene, but it looks normal in mine?

[silent mica]

Are you not allowed to send the whole project? Would avoid some potential project configuration mismatches.

[hallow bobcat]

Hello,

To ensure consistency and fairness in the grading process, all students must submit a standard Unity Package.

This error message will not affect your selection of specific Assets for export. Please create a clean Unity Package that only includes the functional modules required for the assignment.

As long as you manually select your own Assets folder for export, you can still generate a correct Unity Package.

yes the ta send that email to me

so what should i do

[silent mica]

Your second video doesn't seem to demonstrate the issue you are talking about, but you can avoid the issue in the video by renaming or moving the scene to a different path 😛

[merry pulsar]

i already installed it, i cant use unity stuff on vs code

[hallow bobcat]

I’ve already opened the scene, but it’s not working. As you can see, nothing appears—I can’t see the terrain environment I created in the original project.

[silent mica]

You saved the default scene over it

[hallow bobcat]

i already delete the default scene

[silent mica]

Yes, but still had it open.

The prompt you got was about the open scene

[hallow bobcat]

i don't get it
so the issue was?

[brisk anvil]

you have a default scene which is overriding your imported scene (same name)

try renaming the scene you are trying to import

and then importing it

Hey @potent geyser zuma was one of my favorite games growing up!! 😮
I see you are releasing a similar game, is there a demo I can try?

[potent geyser]

Not publically unfortunately. Hopefully for the next Steam NextFest.

[brisk anvil]

awesome looking forward to it

[hallow bobcat]

okay got it , thankyou

how about if the asset tecxture change to pink

[sand harbor]

How do i make it so that time slowing down feels dramatic? I have a duel minigame where time slows down and you can see him reaching for the gun and all, but it doesnt feel so dramatic, cause there aint much movement to slow down and add to the effect

[hallow bobcat]

what it means

[charred fog]

!collab

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[brisk inlet]

Maybe try playing around with these post processing effects to add emphasis to the slowmotion. Also try some audio warping affects maybe.

[ember verge]

hellow guys, i wanna make a rain particle system in unity, so i never messed with particle system so can anybody help me to make one .

[raven spindle]

So I have come to realize that the hardest part of Game Development is motivation. When the work in creating your game starts to feel like work, how do you stay motivated to finish?

[lapis gate]

Need a goal post. Have a place to upload the game on a blog or your website.

Gamejams are great for this too as it pushes you to finish something in a time limit.

[gray frigate]

this, along with those errors, indicates that these assets are designed for the built-in render pipeline

but your project is using the universal render pipeline

(which is now the default)

[raven spindle]

Those are some good ideas @lapis gate thanks, definitly worth a try.

[gray frigate]

It's possible to convert BiRP materials into URP equivalents. However, I'm guessing there is a custom shader being used here, and that wouldn't auto-convert

[brisk inlet]

I can give you some general advice for getting good at things, although I'm still very new to Unity. I used the following strategy to reach relatively high levels in competitive games - 2200 Elo in chess in all time controls, top 500 in an Aimlabs Red Bull Ready Check tournament, Immortal in Valorant, and Masters in Apex.

In anything difficult, you don’t just have to put in work, you also have to know when not to work and how to avoid burnout. This is what I do:
**Every morning, when you’re fresh and before you do anything that spikes your dopamine levels, practice the thing you want to get good at for a minimum of 20 minutes. **

You can go above 20 minutes if you’re “in the mood,” but if your focus starts to fade, stop at 20 minutes. If you can’t focus, diminishing returns kick in and slow your learning. If you push past that point, you go beyond diminishing returns and into burnout, which actively makes you perform worse.
Twenty minutes per day is a solid baseline that most people can commit to without sacrificing too much time or risking burnout. If you do this consistently, you’ll slowly start to notice a strong compounding knowledge effect over time.

Prioritise consistency over perfection.

[gray frigate]

this is a really helpful thing for me

playing games in the morning kind of scrambles my ability to work

[brisk inlet]

Yep, do the thing you're trying to learn/study/work on first before playing games because once you spike your dopamine levels it's psycologically harder to come back down and remain focused. Unless playing a game is the thing you're trying to improve in.

[lapis gate]

I usually only have like 3-4 hours after drinking my coffee

[brisk anvil]

would this be a good place to ask for asset store recommendations?

I have a bunch of stuff I'm looking for, paid assets, open source packages or even youtube tutorials as solutions

[wary adder]

my assts are coming in pink please help

[brisk anvil]

I just never ever leave my task list closed

I always have the smallest "dumbest" task for the next session, and if I am "unmotivated" (I call it Undirected instead) -> I write down a super quick todo that always starts with the most simple task set

So no "make the player fall between islands"

But actually: "1, find the player object 2. add a component 3. rigidbody 4. enable gravity" (go to this level of detail on your hard / tired days)
My rule is "the second I need to start researching while already focusing, I lose" - so always make sure you can picture your session's path to the goals before actually starting.

And another good tip I have:
I journal what I've done today, smallest tasks or bigger feelings, and what I am planning on doing tommorow.

just like @lapis gate coffee is my goat, I usually drink cold chocolate to wake up,
Then coffee cup (super hot so it takes a while to finish) to stay attached to my pc.

Once you have a clear goal, you are focused for a while, until you lose your flow because any reason, and you go back to these basics.

make sure to finish every day with any activity that doesn't require "general problem solving" around 20 minutes before bed to avoid overburn and "I don't wanna do this" the next day.

[raven spindle]

This is awesome. I can say I have experienced this an d just thought it was me losing focus and then becoming concerned. I will try this, thanks so much.

[brisk anvil]

oh also, I now go to work in other areas.
In my home I am already used to procastination or watching tv shows with my family which can drag me out of working.

I installed RDP on my computer and took a laptop / tablet with bluetooth keyboard so on weak days I can go work from somewhere else where I have nothing to do but basically work.

phone closed the entire time

[brisk anvil]

Thank you for this, "Prioritise consistency over perfection" is one of the best scentences for building and learning things

[brisk anvil]

try using the render pipeline upgrader in window -> rendering -> pipline coverter
And convert your materials which are pink

[raven spindle]

This is really great also, thanks so much. Cpme to think of it I do seem to be less focused without a game plan per day. Love the idea of Journaling this may help also.

[gray frigate]

I used to write a journal each day; that really helped me to understand exactly what I'd worked on

[brisk anvil]

goodluck bro, if you find any other good tips I'd love to hear from you again

[wary adder]

i dont see pipline coverter

[brisk anvil]

oh by the way, I also used to write down every time I went to procastinate "what I felt" and "what I went to do"

This kind of helped me rewire my brain to not do the specific stuff I didn't want to do instead of work.

[brisk anvil]

can you share a screenshot

this is what I am referencing

if you are not on 6.3 you might also have assets -> materials -> convert selected

[wary adder]

that wat am seeing

[worldly cave]

What version of unity are you using?

i think for you its located under a different tab in the toolbar

check Edit > Rendering

see if its there

[wary adder]

2022.3.22f1 for Vr chat

[brisk anvil]

which render pipeline are you using? could it be that you are on built in?

[wary adder]

i create the world the creator campion

[worldly cave]

the huh?

[brisk anvil]

you probably made a new project using built in render pipeline then

[wary adder]

for VRChat to upload

[worldly cave]

we still need to know what render pipeline you are using

[brisk anvil]

vrchat uses built in render pipeline

try making a new project and use the built in template, then import your assets and make sure they support built in.

[regal spoke]

can someone know how the fonction Graphic.DrawMeshNow work because the documentation tell "Draw a mesh" and that it so if someone know something intresting tell me 🙂

[copper gust]

what about it don't you understand

[lapis gate]

it draws mesh now

[regal spoke]

yes but how and where

that what i m trying to understand

[lapis gate]

This function will draw a given mesh immediately. Currently set shader and material (see Material.SetPass) will be used.

The mesh will be just drawn once, it won't be per-pixel lit and will not cast or receive realtime shadows. If you want full integration with lighting and shadowing, use Graphics.DrawMesh instead.

[regal spoke]

i already know that but that not enough for make the thing i want

thanks anyway

[copper gust]

we would need to know what you don't understand

you said that was how and where, we told you the how and where

[gritty dagger]

can someone help me in a question ?

[worldly cave]

!ask

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cant help if we dont know the question

[regal spoke]

if (rt == RtToModify.SpongeRT || rt == RtToModify.Both) {
paintMaterialSponge.SetTexture("_SprayTex", paintableObjectInstance.targetRenderTextureSpray);
paintMaterialSponge.SetTexture("_MainTex", paintableObjectInstance.targetRenderTextureSponge);

            cmdBuffer.SetRenderTarget(tempRT);
            cmdBuffer.ClearRenderTarget(true, true, Color.clear);
            cmdBuffer.Blit(paintableObjectInstance.targetRenderTextureSponge, tempRT);
            cmdBuffer.SetRenderTarget(tempRT);
            cmdBuffer.DrawMesh(mesh, collider.transform.localToWorldMatrix, paintMaterialSponge);
            cmdBuffer.Blit(tempRT, paintableObjectInstance.targetRenderTextureSponge);
        }

that is what i do and what i have understand is i to do a set render target to give the render target where i want to draw the texture for the mesh then pass the coord matrix and the shader and then draw on the texture. tell me if it's not clear

cmdBuffer.DrawMesh it's almost the same as Graphic.DrawMeshNow

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!ask i have a problem with my animation which i have downloaded from mixamo website . When i try to play my animation on my king model using animator and script (activate trigger) animation plays in an absolutely different way . I noticed that if i change animation type from generic to humanoid animation plays incorrect.

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[worldly cave]

that command was for you to read the bot message

you dont have to send it.

for animation issues you go to #🏃┃animation , as instructed in the same bot message

[sudden sparrow]

guys quick how to remove that grid plane like axis plane

[sudden sparrow]

tysm

[regal spoke]

np

[gritty dagger]

i have written there

[sudden sparrow]

somehow i cant paint grass i did before but now notworking

[empty grotto]

why is my model so sparkly? i dont even have a skybox in this scene?

[mild brook]

prolly a shiny material plus lights and bloom

[sudden sparrow]

im a total beginner itno unity and umm my console is filled with bugs ig idk am i supposed to do something?

[wary adder]

need help need someone to look at this build needs fix before i put it on VRchat but idk what am doing wrong

[tender marsh]

does anyone know why this directional light only works when in editor mode but in the build its absent?

[gray frigate]

i'm a little suspicious of how the Universal Additional Light Data component is disabled

[tender marsh]

no way

wait

[gray frigate]

i have no idea if that would cause that behavior

it just sticks out

[tender marsh]

nope still the same

[empty grotto]

seems to only change if I lower the smoothness. but the model doesnt look quite the same

[gray frigate]

the sparkliness is because of the smoothness, yes

a smoothness of 1 means that it's got a mirror-finish

imagine looking at a mirrored object in daylight

whatever part happens to face the sun will be blinding

[outer light]

This is a bit of a weird question but is anyone here well versed with AI? In my game I have robot enemies, and something interesting I wanted to do for a while is to have headshots on them actually degrade their cognition instead of just being bigger damage number, but I don't quite know what the performance degradation that an actual neural network would suffer from as it progressively sustains more damage actually looks like enough to model that in my game

[lapis gate]

every headshot removes a if statement in their statemachine

[near wigeon]

make different AI behavior components and replace the main component with each hit or whatever

[wary adder]

all my build in unity is pink please help

[gray frigate]

at any point that you make decisions, you could add a chance to make a completely random decision

if the AI system uses sensory inputs (e.g. the position of the player), give it a bogus value

[craggy verge]

Hola

[outer light]

Interesting, I'll try doing that thanks

[outer light]

Replace the component with something that does nonsense behaviour you mean?

[near wigeon]

yeah basically but they are all part of the same parent so its easy to swap

[empty grotto]

but lowering it the model looks very plane. as if the contrast isnt there anymore.

im confused on the right number

[outer light]

My first naive and really stupid thought was to train an actual neural network and use the trained network to control enemy behaviour in final gameplay, and with every headshot disable random neurons in the network to model damage, but I forsaw that not working very well 😅

[lapis gate]

can also have a latency value that increases the more damage it sustains so their actions take a little longer to process when changing states

[gray frigate]

what textures do you have? I see a few plugged into the material right now

You need a variety of smoothness values

high smoothness for glossy parts, low smoothness for matte parts

[tender marsh]

does anyone have thoughts about this?

[gray frigate]

this is another shot in the dark, but try generating baked lighting for your scene

ctrl+9 to open the lighting window, then hit Generate

without baked data, the editor automatically sets some things up (e.g. the ambient light probe) for you, but that doesn't happen in the built game

this usually causes the built game to look weirdly dark

i'm still not sure why this would happen, though

Another possibility is that your editor quality settings don't match what's being used in-game

try switching quality settings (Project Settings > Quality, then click on one of the options to select it)

make sure the light still works no matter which setting you choose

(you'll see different things; this is in a VRC World project)

[tender marsh]

holly molly

thank you very much for everything

brb

[gray frigate]

If you can't reproduce the issue in the editor, then I guess I'd start testing how other things behave

e.g. do point lights work?

That's usually what causes problems

The main directional light should always work

[tender marsh]

So i tried generating the lighting it shows data but for some reason the light dispears and when i generate lighting again re apears so idk about that. Tried all the quality settings ,all work. But still the direction light is the only light that doesnt work..

also i dont know if it really matters but these are the quality settings that are shown

[rare lance]

Is there any way to make a late night fog look good? I'm trying to recreate my scene from blender:

[plain dagger]

Fog is "drawn" in lit shaders and therefore does not show up on the sky. You can change your sky colour to match or use post processing fog effects instead

[rare lance]

Any recommended resources for the post processing?

[sudden sparrow]

how do i solve this red errors T^T

[lapis gate]

yes

[plain dagger]

Try this (not tested myself) https://github.com/sinnwrig/URP-Fog-Volumes

[gray frigate]

volumetric fog is reasonably simple to implement, but can also be very expensive!

[lapis gate]

Ya need depth. Skybox != depth

[gray frigate]

i'm not sure what you mean by this

[lapis gate]

You need an inverse sphere if you want to use URP fog here

[gray frigate]

i don't know what you're talking about

[rare lance]

There needs to be objects for the fog to project onto

skybox doesn't count?

[gray frigate]

oh, you could surround the entire world in a sphere, yes

[lapis gate]

You have a few ways to go about it, but inverse sphere is the most common way. You child it to the camera

[gray frigate]

Unity's built-in fog isn't a post-processing effect – every single shader just calculates and applies the fog on its own

I often write custom skybox shaders that apply fog near the horizon

I know that the HDRP has this kind of thing built in

[rare lance]

Yeah, I think I'll go for some volumetric fog route.

[gray frigate]

volumetric fog will produce the auras around light sources

[rare lance]

lovely

[plain dagger]

Yea thats why i shared that package 😐

fog done in surface shader is kinda poo poo

[gray frigate]

it's supe easy to implement if you have something like APV

in VRChat, we have an equivalent system for per-pixel light data

you just sample the ambient light at multiple points along a line for each pixel

(this has a pretty significant performance cost)

[plain dagger]

forward?

[gray frigate]

this is forward-rendered, yeah

[plain dagger]

vr chat surprises me soo much all the time the weird shit you guys do to avoid upgrading unity version 😆

[gray frigate]

i mean, it's on 2022.3 right now

vaguely modern!

the big thing is that user-generated content relies on custom shaders, which makes changing anything about the rendering uh

very hard

single-pass-stereo-instanced (SPS-I) never wound up happening

VRC is still just doing double-wide rendering (rather than rendering into an array of two textures)

[lapis gate]

That looks pretty good. I've been playing around with some URP clouds and water that's very similar to what you get in HDRP from some public repos.

[copper gust]

2022.3 is so fineee

i've been lethal companing it up on it too

[plain dagger]

No wonder why unity want to just supe up URP 😆
There are some great third party options for water for URP

[latent pagoda]

In which context do you often need marching squares/cubes ? I learned it. But now I need to decide if I preactice it once a week so the knowledge doesn't rust. Or if I just let it rust because I am not gonna need it.

[plain dagger]

Its a technique for basically only one thing, to produce a mesh from voxels. You can look it up again if you need it in future

[lapis gate]

Just another alg to know. You use it when you need it

also very relative to the fog discussion misread that, was thinking raymarching, but similarly, just another alg you google when it's relative when you need it.

average dev probably doesn't need to know the math behind it all unless you are serious about creating systems around it

[empty grotto]

is there any way to remove the baked layer from scene? its pissing me off to see it every time i need to do something.

[near wigeon]

gizmos menu you can select specific components to hide such as navmesh surface

also the navmesh overlay menu has an option to "only show when selected"

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ai.navigation@1.1/manual/NavigationOverlay.html#surfaces

[empty grotto]

I thought of gizmos but it doesnt do it. as for navigation overlay., i cant seem to find the Only show when selected

[near wigeon]

navigation overlay is something that is in the scene view not on the component itself

[empty grotto]

wtf where did you get that?

what is that?

[near wigeon]

or the gizmos menu but personally think the overlay is better

[empty grotto]

I dont have it somehow

[near wigeon]

click the 3 dots of scene view

or cs `

[empty grotto]

OMG I HAD FORGOTTEN THIS EXISTS

thank you so incredibly much bro!!

[short grotto]

is it possible to convert a shader from brp to urp

i found this blood effect shader but when i put it on material it becomes pin,

pink

[latent meadow]

it depends. you should talk to #1391720450752516147

[short grotto]

sure

[lunar spire]

i have a question, not sure if this makes sense but should i make a new animation clip for every npc? like for example, all my npc's idle animation is just 2 frame. can i just like.. switch the sprites for the same animation clip somehow or is it generally done by making new animation clip for each npc?

[vivid cedar]

I would probably use https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.4/Documentation/Manual/AnimatorOverrideController.html

[bright lynx]

Hi!
I was a Godot Game Developer for 2 years and I want to switch to Unity, so what is the best channel to start learning from?

[vivid cedar]

!learn

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[bright lynx]

Thanks 😊🙏

And what about code monkey channel, is it good?

[vivid cedar]

I don't care for it because I don't feel like it teaches you generally useful skills. It more teaches you how to do things within CodeMonkey's own world of libraries and tools

But that's just me. Many people like it

[grim arch]

follow his 10hr course (if you've got the time and effort)

[bright lynx]

He also made a roadmap is it worth it to follow it?

[lunar spire]

i saw a video about this earlier and it looks like it still needs me to make new animation clips, right? its just so that i can use one controller only. im really new to game dev so correct me about this but my concern is that many animation clips seems like a waste of space or maybe i'm wrong

[grim arch]

im not sure as i haven't watched it myself

[polar basalt]

does anyone here have any experience with playfab and their google login? i tried asking in their server (1 year ago and today) and both of the times i get the result that the playfab staff themselves have no idea as they never used it

[near wigeon]

playfab still alive ? lul

[polar basalt]

yep and their docs look like old remnants

videos from decades ago

[near wigeon]

shit at this point even unitys cloud solutions outshine their outdated crap

[lapis gate]

You will still need unique clips, but this allows you to use 1 animation controller with multiple override controllers

so you don't have to reconstruct the animation state machine per override

[polar basalt]

is unity cloud solutions free (like how in playfab first 100k users free)?

[near wigeon]

the have a free tier, look at the site for specifics because its been a while since I checked the terms

iirc they were pretty generous at the time

[polar basalt]

oh and also, yk the 100k user free thing in playfab? it got changed to 1k for new titles

[polar basalt]

ah i hate when pricing changes

[lunar spire]

I see, so thats how everyone usually does it then? i was kind of scared making my project messy by making a lot of animation clips for each npc

[near wigeon]

maintaining such infrastructures cost boatloads of * money , if you don't have many paying customers the terms and services start shrinking

[polar basalt]

yeah thats true too

i hope that unity maintains their paying customers then, tbh i might look into that even now

[lapis gate]

It's a solution to reduce the need of multiple unique controllers, but you will always be using unique clips if frames are different

[polar basalt]

which package does what playfab does? im pretty sure its broken up into multiple? im looking for just an account system for secure log in and just leaderboards and friend system

[near wigeon]

when I last checked they boasted having games like Apex and such hosting on their platform, so perhaps they do. Been a while since I kept up with those one size fitts all solutions

[near wigeon]

indeed
so you want the Authentication package and Leaderboards / Friend System have their own too

[polar basalt]

thank you. ill look into that rn

[lapis gate]

So if you do have a bunch of clips per NPC I suggest you to make a directory per npc to keep things organize

[near wigeon]

sadly last time I had used it, the Google latest auth was done through Unitys Accounts which was annoying..it is kinda seamless but annoying cause it has the Unity branding there..
Otherwise it goes through the Play Accounts @polar basalt

[lunar spire]

alright then, thanks!

[latent meadow]

note, there is an #🏃┃animation channel. it is a complex subject

[polar basalt]

wait, but im making a desktop game (Windows/Linux/Mac)

google play is not something i can use for desktop can i?

[near wigeon]

no i meant thats the only other way they support Google Sign in if you dont go through the Unity Player Accounts

[polar basalt]

wait ill check that out rn

[polar basalt]

sign in with unity???

[near wigeon]

no you don't sign in through Unity, you still can using Google

[polar basalt]

ah i see thats why

[polar basalt]

oh what

im confused

xd im sorry

[near wigeon]

from my video a while back.. Here is what is roughly looks like

[polar basalt]

ah thats awesome then, i thought you had to use actual unity accounts (the one u make for unity hub and all of that)

[near wigeon]

so basically Unity is registered as the trusted developer for Google and those platforms so you don't have to deal with that on your own

[clever rivet]

I'm new to unity and am currently doing the tutorials. I have general questions, like is it possible to zoom to cursor. Where do I ask these type of questions?

[near wigeon]

anything is possible

[copper gust]

For general editor usage questions like that here would be the place yeah

[clever rivet]

ok, thanks!... Is it possible to zoom to cursor? 😅 google tells me i need scripts to do it, but is there not just a tickbox for it somewhere?

[near wigeon]

oh if you mean the editor itself thats a whole different case

thought you meant ingame

[clever rivet]

yeah, in the editor

[near wigeon]

does scrollbar not do that anyway?

[clever rivet]

scrollbar? scroll wheel on mouse zooms towards whatever editor is focused on

[latent meadow]

not that i am aware of, no

[near wigeon]

Yea you'd need an editor script for that afaik

get exact cursor and shift the cam view to that

[wary adder]

I am making a world within the Unity VR chat I put all materials shaders to VR chat/mobile/diffuse and the entire scene where the model is for this build it completely white how do I fix it? I’m also in the 2022.322 F1 edition in unity.

[clever rivet]

got to say I am really impressed with the tutorials in Unity!

[latent meadow]

pretty sure you have been told already that vrchat SDK is not supported here. if you have the SDK installed, it is no longer Unity.

they have their own discord you can ask on

[polar basalt]

the pricing for these seems amazing, but the leaderboard one seems weird?

[near wigeon]

weird in what way ? forgot what it was before but pretty sure its been stayed free or maybe CCU

like I said its stayed pretty generous for a while, I doubt they will tax heavily on it though cause its pretty basic to do/mantain..

look at for example the Friends API / feature

50,000 Active Users / Month
they expect you to be a pretty big game / company before charging and making serious cash

50 GB / month
for CCD (cloud content delivery) bandwidth is also pretty generous . you can basically deliver free updates to an entire big game, DLC from their servers monthly

[sacred sparrow]

what happened to my inspector, lol

unity started throwing errors too XD

[polar basalt]

nono, it doesnt say the limit thats what i meant, it says "free for a limited time"

what does that mean

how much time and what after

[near wigeon]

Only unity and the number crunchers will know, my guess is as good as yours xD

"As soon as we have enough users to be able to properly monatize it"

[polar basalt]

i see that some person had the same question 1 year ago, but got no answer either

[polar basalt]

yeah its probably that but that seems omminous

[near wigeon]

even if it changes my guess would be it won't be that extreme considering the other limits are pretty abundant

[polar basalt]

what if they go on and say they want 100$ monthly from me 😔

[polar basalt]

yeah thats true

just hope they dont deprecate any of these

[near wigeon]

at worst you can just leverage their auth system and store your own leaderboard / DB externally, more control but a bit more complex

[near wigeon]

always find a way to make backups if you plan on this going into productions so your users won't lose progress, a simple migration is easier than total loss

[polar basalt]

yes thats true

[near wigeon]

pretty simple too, if you don't manage it your own with each entry you can also do some sort of event trigger through cloud code to then backup into another cloud / file storage externally.
Users cannot know what cloud code you run from unity

[granite lava]

I'm doing that "Scriptable Objects as Static references" thing from that Ted Talk and I have a SO with a GameObject reference on my project and during runtime when I set it it says "Type mismatch", it does work normally though, if I click on it it highlights the correct object on the hierarchy, is that something for me to worry about or is it normal?

[copper gust]

It’s normal when doing that kinda thing

[gray frigate]

Did you change the type of the field at any point?

[gray frigate]

Does it happen if an asset is currently referencing a scene object?

[novel venture]

guys there is way to ahve multiple animator windows?

i have 2 anim controller and i need them side by side but idk how to achive that

[plain dagger]

try locking one, then locking the other

Im not sure if that will work but worth a shot

[umbral mason]

hiii yall

[novel venture]

ok

[copper gust]

Yeah iirc

[gray frigate]

It makes sense for the inspector to get confused, since that reference cannot be serialized

[novel venture]

can i send videos?

[latent meadow]

use avi or mp4 format and they should embed. there is a size max, i do not recall what it is

and of course, they must be on topic

[novel venture]

why it doesnt add the keyframe?

[latent meadow]

#🏃┃animation

[novel venture]

ok

[left coyote]

which channel is used to ask for improvements of the look of a game?

[latent meadow]

you would make a #1180170818983051344 and ask for input there

I think you could also make a Thread. looks like that might be allowed now

[left coyote]

here?

[latent meadow]

i just got word that i am mistaken. they would ask that you use #1180170818983051344

unless it is a technical question about something not working, then you can #🔎┃find-a-channel

[charred fog]

Or making something to work. Like achieving a specific effect or mechanic.

[sacred sparrow]

!collab

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[sacred sparrow]

(needed the link, srry)

[charred fog]

You can find all the links in #📖┃code-of-conduct

[granite lava]

Hmm, no? I just have it been set on Awake and that's it

[sacred sparrow]

oh thx

[gray frigate]

As in, change the code so that it’s a GameObject instead of something else

That could also cause that message

[granite lava]

public class GameObjectVariable : ScriptableObject
{
    public GameObject Value;
}

[gray frigate]

In the past, I mean 😛

But I don’t think you did

[granite lava]

I don't understand what you mean

[crimson flicker]

lol im bad with animations because I havent really messed with them inside of Unity but how is this?

[old plank]

bro this damn song

😭

[crimson flicker]

what lol

I made it with Suno, but its fire aint it

[old plank]

ohhhhh

i thought it was some random dude

nah u hard

[crimson flicker]

its a mashup I made with Falling in Reverse, Jelly Roll, Diggy Graves and Eminem

[latent meadow]

as i think you've been told, this is not a showcase room. use your #1180170818983051344 or to a lesser degree, #🏆┃daily-win

[crimson flicker]

actually no i havent been told but keep on keepin on warrior

[trail parrot]

sigh anyone know how to help me please, I been stuck hours watching every guide tryna get things from the github to correct this, anything helps everytime i try to bake with All game Objects or even Volume , it does not bake properly. I know its not working cause the nav mesh should be baking right beside this npc and i cannot see the actual bake (blue area like i see in tutorials) thanks in advance

[latent meadow]

most likely the tutorials are using the older plugin, which had things in different locations. but, could be a number of things. probably best to talk to #🤖┃ai-navigation

@trail parrot

[fervent vine]

Hi, don't know how to run unita on linux mint???

[latent meadow]

it is not officially supported on Mint. but, best to talk to the #🐧┃linux room

[fervent vine]

Thank you

[trail parrot]

thank you for actually replying ill try over there. i looked so deep into this its frying my f***ng brains loool

[balmy cipher]

i need help with this

[latent meadow]

#🥽┃virtual-reality perhaps

[kindred light]

after updating to Unity 6.4, my cursor in play mode has changed. It now looks like the CMake logo

[latent meadow]

<@&502884371011731486> racism #💻┃unity-talk message

<@&502884371011731486> clown ^

[charred fog]

?ban 1439644640839209040 Racism

[novel scarab]

ferretgt._46409 was banned.

[sudden sparrow]

as a beginner i wanted to ask like i made my scene like imported everythiiing with blender and now also made my player but the player is like passing through everything what should i do

[latent meadow]

things cannot collide unless they have colliders. if you start at the Pathways on the learning site, they show you these basics.

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[sudden sparrow]

no im making myself

[latent meadow]

... that does not even apply to what i said. i sent you to a learning site so you can learn How to make it yourself.

[sudden sparrow]

yeah yeahh im reading

[eager kiln]

isnt there any vc server here

[storm patio]

no https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1180178376028327936

[undone monolith]

Oh thanks

[bitter sparrow]

Why I can't see the blue surface of the navmesh?

I have gizmos enabled, "show navmesh" set to true, baked the mesh

[azure trout]

could anyone help me at all?

[bitter sparrow]

https://dontasktoask.com

[undone monolith]

What the heck is this language?

[vernal prawn]

Where may I ask about Materials? I'm trying to find some good prototype textures, but I don't want to use Gridbox. I want to find checked materials in different colours. (just 2 colours)

[potent geyser]

Kenney Assets has a pack of textures. You can also search the Unity Asset store.

[vernal prawn]

haven't found anything on the unity store

kenney also doesn't have what I need

[potent geyser]

Can't possibly imagine what pattern you need to prototyping. Either way, seems like you need to make your own or pay someone.

[vernal prawn]

I said "I want to find checked materials in different colours. (just 2 colours)"
something like this

[potent geyser]

Take the grey scale one and change the material colour

[vernal prawn]

that

no

it's exactly not what I want

[potent geyser]

Lol

[vernal prawn]

I said that I don't want to use gridbox

[potent geyser]

Can't imagine what pattern you need for prototyping.

[vernal prawn]

this pattern??

[potent geyser]

That isn't a grid?

Or are you confusing the shape seen here as the texture (the cube)

[vernal prawn]

it's Checked, as I said.

I didn't say I want a grid I want checked textures

like a Chess board

[potent geyser]

A chessboard is a grid

[vernal prawn]

okay?

it's also checked

I didn't say I don't want a Grid, I said I don't wanna use the typical GridBox textures

[potent geyser]

Instead of stating what you don't want, why not state what you actually want?

[vernal prawn]

I stated it right here???

[vernal prawn]

AND here

[potent geyser]

I understand you want checkered. Checkered is a grid of alternating colours.

[vernal prawn]

yes that is what I said I want

[potent geyser]

Yep, and I linked a screenshot, pointed to the checkered alternating white and grey texture and suggested you use that and change the material colour which would tint it to be like your green example.

[vernal prawn]

Yes, but the image is a GRIDBOX, which is what I stated I do NOT want

[potent geyser]

What is a grid box to you?

[vernal prawn]

these are literally gridbox textures

this is a Checked texture

plain checked

[potent geyser]

It seems that the white one I pointed to is just plain white and grey.

[vernal prawn]

NOT gridbox

[potent geyser]

You're intentionally showing the colours which are not.

[vernal prawn]

what are you talking about?

it's an example of what I want

it's an example of a checked texture

[polar basalt]

i mean if u want just make a quick shader with shader graph

[vernal prawn]

Textures are fine

[vernal prawn]

the plus signs kinda piss me off

I need it plain

[undone monolith]

Unity already provides a default checker texture

[polar basalt]

just edit the texture then? its just 2 colors it shouldnt be that hard to just draw over

[vernal prawn]

yes, but I also need the other 16 colors with the darkened versions

I can do that by myself, I just thought that I could find it online

[polar basalt]

wait, what texture colors do u even want

[vernal prawn]

just the basic 16

red, green, blue, yellow etc.

[polar basalt]

yellow x white? red x white?

[undone monolith]

@vernal prawn is this what you are looking for?

[vernal prawn]

no, like the example above just a checked texture with the same color, one tile darker, one brighter

[undone monolith]

unity already provides a checker texture

[vernal prawn]

does it?

[undone monolith]

check this

[potent geyser]

Again, just change the material colour and it will tint the greyscale

[vernal prawn]

I don't have a default checker

[polar basalt]

try this i guess

https://www.imageonlinetools.com/checkerboard-generator/

[vernal prawn]

ah right, I didn't really think of that

[polar basalt]

and put your own colors

[vernal prawn]

I guess that would work

alr thanks y'all sorry for bothering (except Osteel, you may live in burden)

[potent geyser]

Your wit didn't land as hard as you thought it would.

[vernal prawn]

that's actually kinda cringe ngl

[potent geyser]

You had your answer (multiple times), go and make your project

[vernal prawn]

Well I got my answer out of everyone but you, you directed me to the thing I told you I don't want

[undone monolith]

he does that with everyone (from personal experience)

I got my answer from someone else, whereas osteel was just treating me like dogwater

[potent geyser]

Yes, not a grid box so I pointed out a checkered non grid box.

Yes, with alternating colours, so I pointed out to change the material colour to tint it (three times)

Yes, without the markings, so I said to use Photoshop and bring them out.

The built in grid was a better solution in the end but no need to get upset about it.

[vernal prawn]

well you weren't really clear about it, and you also said that you don't know what I want after I've shown you the example checker image I want. Don't cry to us over your own mistakes

[polar basalt]

is this a right place to ask question about unity auth package?

[vernal prawn]

seems like it

I think

[undone monolith]

usually best bet is to try and research online, it could either be google or youtube. People here at Unity discord just give out rude responses

[vernal prawn]

then don't be one of those people?

I mean I get yer point

people ARE assholes

[undone monolith]

yeah I just don't ask for help here now. Personal experience from my stay in this server

[vernal prawn]

either way, Thanks

[polar basalt]

does anyone know how to set up unity's auth with photon? something like playfab has that out of the box, but for unity i would need to make my own proxy??? does anyone know how to do anything like that? im guessing cloud script or something but ive never used that, also im using the unity player account system for login

if there is any tutorial or docs that would be helpful, i cant find anything, even if i search on google or discord

[bitter sparrow]

any ideas?

[vernal prawn]

#🤖┃ai-navigation I'm pretty sure

[bitter sparrow]

thanks, didnt notice that one

[sand harbor]

Is there a way to make the particles slow as well when you scale time?

[potent geyser]

I thought that already happens? What is the delta time property set to on the particle system?

[ionic night]

Hi guys are there anyone to help me about fishnet and steamworks

[terse crystal]

hi

[undone monolith]

Hey

[ionic night]

I’m using FishNet with FishySteamworks in Unity to implement Steam P2P multiplayer, but clients are unable to connect to the host. When joining a lobby, the connection transitions from “Connecting” to “FindingRoute” and then fails with a timeout during rendezvous, while the console repeatedly shows k_ESteamNetworkingAvailability_Failed, indicating that Steam relay networking is unavailable. The host creates the lobby correctly and sets the HostSteamID, and the client reads this and attempts to connect via FishySteamworks, but the connection still fails. I’ve confirmed that SteamAPI initializes properly and callbacks are running. Can anyone help?

[potent geyser]

For what it's worth, the Fishnet guy has his own discord where he's know to be very active.
https://discord.com/servers/firstgeargames-fish-networking-424284635074134018

[ionic night]

thanks

[grand hornet]

Has anybody used the mediapipe plugin in unity?

[mental notch]

Hi, I’m using Unity Starter Assets Third Person Controller (CharacterController) and a train moving with splines (not Rigidbody).

Problem: when the player enters the train and the train starts moving, the player does not stay inside. The train moves away and the player gets left behind / slides instead of inheriting the train movement.

I’m not talking about jumping off the train, but about staying inside while it moves in real time.

I want GTA-style metro behavior where the player can walk inside the wagon while the city moves outside.

What’s the best approach here?

parent player to train?,
apply train delta manually with CharacterController.Move()?,
camera collision issue with Cinemachine?,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrDqOVqjNdw

[potent geyser]

This is a common issue with moving platforms. Basic solutions online will say to just child the object to the platform.

But the proper solution is to take the velocity of the platform and apply it in addition to the input of the character.

So you need to first determine that the character is on a platform through some detection such as Ray casting, then have platforms store their velocity so the character can grab it and use it.

[warped vector]

Is it normal for an object to not receive OnPointerDown event on play mode on the first click? I assume this is because the game has to "capture" the focus first before it can register the event.

However, what's strange to me is that OnPointerEnter is received even when not clicked inside the game

[warped vector]

I'm curious as why this is a bad solution

I thought it would do the velocity calculation automatically then

[potent geyser]

Nothing is automatic, no. Childing it will force its transform to update with the parent, and in addition to that you'll be moving separately. It'll jitter most likely.

It won't automagically pass velocity information to a child rigidbody

[stoic jungle]

So,I have the concept of what I wanna make, but I honestly don’t know where to start

Like do you make the sprites first? Or do you try to code a platform or something

[worldly cave]

people typically start by prototyping whatever idea they have

[stoic jungle]

So trying to code to see if it works

[warped vector]

I would suggest prototyping with paper, board game pieces and such

[worldly cave]

its to verify that whatever idea you have is conceptually worth creating

[warped vector]

No need to code anything if the gameplay loop doesn't work

[stoic jungle]

The gameplay loops mainly gonna be a fighting game

And I’ve had this idea for about a year now with no real progress on actually developing it, other then some sketches and such

[warped vector]

For example this is my current project, some type of slay the spire-like deck builder

I have created lots of code but every piece of graphics is just a colored rectangle

If I can make it into a playable and fun game, then I can working on the assets

I know people who do the opposite though

[stoic jungle]

Ya, I haven’t actually coded before nor have I made anything in the unity engine except for a blank canvas, so I kinda wanna start somewhere and see what I can get going. When you mean prototype your talking about like using a circle and seeing if you can make it move the way you want it too right?

[warped vector]

Yes exactly

[stoic jungle]

Without any actual sprites or anything, just sort of basic shapes to try stuff out with

[warped vector]

For 3D games, people typically use the basic capsule model to represent a human character

[stoic jungle]

Can you just add shapes in a 2d one?

Or would you have to manually add it yourself

[worldly cave]

i think you should start off with learning unity basics first

and getting familliar with the editor

its a long road between your first steps and making a game

!learn

[vagrant root]

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[warped vector]

Basic 2D shapes are built-in as such, but definitely do some beginner tutorial project before attempting your own game

You'll be surprised how much learning is involved

[worldly cave]

you'll be surprised at how much effort it takes to make even a simple game

how much time especially

[stoic jungle]

I was mostly planning on watching a shit ton of tutorials and hope it works

[warped vector]

I recommend that as step 2

[worldly cave]

i would start off with the unity learning pathways

you need to actually learn and get familliar with the editor

thats non negotiable

[stoic jungle]

Oh no ya,I don’t doubt it takes alot of time and effort, I’ve seen a lot of game dev logs on my shorts feed where people are at like day 130 of working on there game

[worldly cave]

even day 130 is generous lol

shit can go up to 3+ years

[stoic jungle]

So learn what the stuff in unity does

[stoic jungle]

We ballin

[worldly cave]

learn how to use unity as an editor yes

follow the learning pathways

[stoic jungle]

There’s just so many ideas for all these characters I have that I wanna put somewhere, but suppose that’ll have to wait

Wanna like, start with making 4 characters before I can call it a beta and that itself is gonna take a while

[warped vector]

Make some kind of folder where you can dump all ideas and writings

[storm patio]

tip: write all those ideas down

[stoic jungle]

I do have a note book I’m writing them in

[storm patio]

ah, i was too slow lmao

[stoic jungle]

Question……how do you do that

[storm patio]

go through the learning pathways and follow along...?

they have instructions