🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[ionic drift]

Heya! I am a software engineer and have little experience with DCC.

What is the best way to import assets made via Blender in Unity? I have a single .blend file that contains multiple pieces of meshes that represent modular level pieces that I will create complex prefabs of in Unity for my procedural level generator (á la Diablo/Path of Exile).

In Blender I initially created my own Python tool to export each piece as a .fbx file, however when I import them in Unity they get the wrong scale and rotation. I saw this https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/44318/1084 which suggests using the .blend file itself.

Which way is recommended? Any help at all is appreciated!

[ionic drift]

Looks like it worked fine by just setting the scale when exporting the .fbx file, still wonder whether there are "better" ways though? 🙂

[zinc temple]

guys can I make 2D assets using Canva ?

[shadow cradle]

any jpg png etc can be an asset

[ocean nova]

Hello, I have a problem with unity tiling, I have a perfectly working tileset and it working in the tile pallet but when I put in into scene there is this gap between tiles. How do I fix this?

[misty lantern]

Does your tilemap's pixels per unit value match the dimensions it's drawn to?

[ocean nova]

I don't know, I'm new to unity, how do I check that?

[misty lantern]

Texture import settings

[ocean nova]

Thank you

[hidden flame]

i rlly like what u did there with the background of ur tiles

[zinc temple]

I have same problem with assets I downloaded from unity asset store

though not the same type of gap

I think your problem can be fixed if you resize the pixels as shown in the asset preview down to the right

[misty lantern]

There are at least three different types of gaps or seams that can appear in tilemaps due to various circumstances

[oblique stump]

can LODGroups be imported from an FBX authored in maya / 3ds max? my use case is i have a hard surface pre-existing cinema graphics asset, with geometry attached to each part of a big hierarchy, and i would like correctly LOD it

without losing the way i have already customized the model non-destructively in the scene

so i can't lose all the hierarchy

[zinc temple]

My kind is some gap between tiles while playing the game, only solution I found is to make cell size 0.99 , and I had to change all colliders for my sprites to Capsule cuz they were squares and were stuck in the of the way sometimes

is there a better way to fix it ?

[shadow cradle]

Probably a pixel perfect problem if its the vertical lines

[left vector]

I'm not the artist on the project I'm working on, but they're providing sprites that are consistently a lot smaller than the bounding box for the image. For instance, it's a 64x64 image, but most of it is transparency. The actual sprite could fit in a 32x16 box.

Is this bad? It bothers me when I'm shifting colliders around for it in the editor, but does it have an actual performance cost? Should I do something like slice it down in the Sprite Editor?

[fluid oak]

Obviously it is lessefficient performance wise, though for most games it won't matter much.

[left vector]

Would trimming it in the sprite editor help?

[fluid oak]

Only if you really need to; the difference in the majority of cases will be minimal- the actual textures are still the same size after all.

[left vector]

I thought maybe it would increase performance in the scene if the textures displayed on screen were smaller, even if the base textures were larger.

[fluid oak]

It will, but not enough that you're likely to notice it for most games.

I suggest discussing it with your artist; they might have a reason for what they're doing.

Or they might be up for just adjusting their workflow.

It could be that the larger cells are there so that they can move the character around without you having to manually animate the pivot

[left vector]

Thanks, I was going to talk with them about it, but I wasn't sure if, idk, that's the way it was supposed to be done or something. They're putting every sprite in a perfect square, regardless of the shape. They said they read somewhere that the sprites had to be a multiple of 8 (pixel graphics), but this stuff's out of my expertise.

[fluid oak]

The actual sheet texture should be power of two sized. The size of the actual sprites has no real limit.

For unity anyway.

Of course, if your artist is trying to emulate a specific style then that could add additional constraints.

[left vector]

Does it have to be a power of 2 in both length and width?

[fluid oak]

It doesn't HAVE to be(unless your target hardware has that requirement) but it is best to.

[left vector]

By that I meant, did the length and width have to be the same? Like, 32x32 vs 16x32

[fluid oak]

Both height and width should be power of two if you want the benefit, yes. They don't need to be the same, though.

[misty lantern]

@left vector Another option is to generate a sprite atlas for all the sprites, which fits everything to a PoT texture asset regardless of their original dimensions
That said, following the PoT conventions still makes it much easier to fit sprites together, snap them on a grid and to keep track of their visual resolution as you will always have a clear idea of what their intended scale is

[left vector]

What does PoT stand for?

[misty lantern]

Power of Two

[left vector]

@misty lantern I looked up the manual page for it. It looks kind of like the Tilemap, but without the tiles. Does it work similarly?
The box sizes were bothering me because most of them weren't environment. It was stuff like player sprites, monsters, etc.

[misty lantern]

Sprite atlas is for packing all sprites into the same texture file to reduce texture loading and draw calls
You still use sprites as normal but the engine will know to refer to the atlas when loading them

In addition to this it means the empty space in the sprite sheets will be discarded, and you can easily define automatic margins which helps with tilemap gap issues

[left vector]

I'll check it out tomorrow, it sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the tip!

[misty lantern]

The more important thing would be for the artist to use the texture space efficiently, but sprite atlasing is a good technique to keep in mind in general

[proud citrus]

does anyone kno where i can find these icons

[misty lantern]

"Find"? In what context? 🤔

[proud citrus]

i want to use those in my program

do u have like a png or something

[misty lantern]

Aren't they right there in the picture

[proud citrus]

yea but if i use those then the resolution is too small

and it doesnt look right when i put it in my program

[misty lantern]

Windows has separate icons for each UI scale it switches between

[proud citrus]

how do i get those

[misty lantern]

They're just lines of pixels so you could recreate similar icons in paint in under a minute

[proud citrus]

ok

[fluid oak]

Yeah, it will literally be faster to draw them than to find a perfect match.

[zinc temple]

Hey guys what are the best alternatives for photoshop (for making sprites), that are free or at least have a free subscription for students ?

[misty lantern]

If you mean pixel art style sprites, the best one is Aseprite (or Libresprite if you want a free alternative)
For other digital art I recommend Gimp or Krita

[zinc temple]

Gimp and Krita are they free ?

I am only looking for free stuff

[zinc temple]

ok nice they are free

[zinc temple]

what do you think of Pixlr ?

[misty lantern]

Looks like it's designed for editing photos, so I doubt it'll be great for drawing sprites

[zinc temple]

ok thx

[misty lantern]

Krita is designed for digital painting, whereas Gimp has pretty much all the tools and effects you could need

[jaunty mantle]

Question how much does an mp4 effect performance?

Like for a funny gif meme

wait this might be the wrong channel

[rough geyser]

What option makes the light leaks go away? (They go away when I get close to them.)

The global volume I have set does not affect the light leaks.

[fluid oak]

Unreal 😄

Though playing with shadow bias and/or the lightmap padding will probably help

Maybe the cascade distances as well, making the first cascade a bit bigger; depends on the scale of your scene

[misty lantern]

More of a #archived-lighting question but since I'm here I'd say that happens because beyond the shadow distance (defined in quality settings) no light can be blocked by geometry, thus leaking

[rough geyser]

Figured, but changing shadow distance doesn't seem to make a difference.

[misty lantern]

Well, are the lights baked or realtime? Does changing any of the quality settings have any impact whatsoever?

[rough geyser]

mixed

[misty lantern]

Right, is the lighting baked?

[rough geyser]

yes

lighting is set to mixed.

[ashen lake]

Does anyone know what his error means
"NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
UnityEditor.AvatarSetupTool.MakeCharacterPositionValid (UnityEditor.AvatarSetupTool+BoneWrapper[] bones) (at <a259d3c004024353a2c217da97495055>:0)"

I keep getting it when I try to configure a humanoid rig

Nvm. I fixed something else and the error went away.

[tough ravine]

a commission

[fringe rock]

Hello everyone!! So I’ve been having an issue with a model I bought, whenever I put it into unity it only shows up as a file and not a model, and someone told me to use winrar and unpackage the file but I’ve zipped it or something like that, could someone mind to help me? :))

By the way this is a model for vrchat :3

[woven dome]

Someone told you to unzip it so you zipped it instead?

What's the file extension?

[lime pollen]

#archived-art-asset-showcase although it may be more suitable to post in a non game focused discord

[tough ravine]

oh 😦

[fluid oak]

Very nice! Gonna animate it?

[tough ravine]

don't know how T_T

[compact summit]

hi, do i put the normal map for my texture in the main maps or secondary maps section?

and what about roughness maps?

[misty lantern]

The secondary section is for normal and roughness of the detail map

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

[fluid oak]

Depends on whether you are talking the section of the sprite editor(in which case yes) or the material inspector(in which case no)

[compact summit]

so which is it for the material inspector?

[compact summit]

there's no options that are called roughness or detail, what are they called in unity 2019?

[misty lantern]

That really depends on the render pipeline
Can you show a screenshot of what the material inspector is looking like for you

[compact summit]

as u can see i have a single normal map, roughness, and texture for each of the 3 color ID materials

[misty lantern]

The secondary maps are for detail mapping like I said
I assume you don't intend to use them

[compact summit]

what's detail mapping?

[misty lantern]

It's explained in the link I posted

[compact summit]

i intend to use every map i have

[misty lantern]

Do you have detail maps?

[compact summit]

are they also called mask maps? if so then yes

[misty lantern]

Read the documentation page, or trust me and forget about the secondary maps section

[compact summit]

i know to put the normal map in the primary section now, but what about the mask map?

[fringe rock]

Here I’ll show you!

I think I may have done something? I’m not sure haha! How would I unzip the file so I can get the model? :))

[woven dome]

You need a program that can unpack RAR files, like WinRAR or 7-Zip

[fringe rock]

Oh!! I have the winrar file! I just don’t know how to like open it 🥲

[misty lantern]

You may want to read Nitku's advice a second time

[fringe rock]

Oh! My bad! I have the program

[compact summit]

how do i stop my model from clipping away when i get to close? selecting it and pressing f isn't working anymore

[misty lantern]

The scene window should have a dropdown menu for scene camera settings which allows you to manually define clipping planes

[compact summit]

which one do i increase or decrease?

[misty lantern]

Decrease near clipping plane, keep far clipping plane as it is, or decrease it if you start getting rendering issues

The closer the near and far planes are, the less issues there will be

[split juniper]

Mmm I'm kinda tired of clicking hard and graphic tablet is a wee too wonky for precise retopology, is there any good affordable ergonomic mouse someone recommends?

[misty lantern]

The ergonomy of your chair and desk matter vastly more than the ergonomy of your mouse, unless you have some particular physical condition that makes normal mice unsuitable

There's no way to make retopology easy currently, but you can make it easier with proper tools like RetopoFlow

CozyBlanket looks great for both speed and ergonomy, but it seems to be iPad only

The main thing though is to just figure out a work desk setup that you can use without strain for long hours, and get a high quality mouse that fits your personal needs and preferences likewise

"Ergonomic" mice are really expensive for their quality, and I haven't seen any that were supported by medical evidence to call "better" than other mice

[sweet cosmos]

looking to create an eye "sprite" sheet for my 3d model, is it better to keep the textures square (2048x2048) or what are the downsides of having wider textures? (1024 x 4096)

only con i can think of is matching uvs to the texture in blender, since they will be distorted by the image ratio, but i think i can handle that

[worldly basin]

Any way to tile these without having to copy paste the material 4 times and ajusting the Tiling?

[sweet drum]

yo can someone help me make a model

[fringe rock]

I think I zipped the model?

But I don’t know what I did wrong or right

I’m really confused :((

[fringe rock]

I don’t understand how this works but can someone explain to me in like detail? 🥲

I’ve unpacked or zipped it whatever it is

[outer halo]

What's inside of the zipped folder?

You don't bring zipped files into Unity. You put the actual files in and use them, for starters.

[fringe rock]

Oh!! How would I check what’s inside the zipped folder? :D.

[misty lantern]

You can open them with the file archiver program you got earlier in windows
I recommend googling for instructions if that part seems confusing

[fringe rock]

Oo okay!! Thank you I will do as you recommended to me! I’ll go check them now thank you :))

Did I get it right? I don’t see anything that says file archiver

[lime pollen]

Like Spazi said, you really should be googling instructions like "how to open a zip file". This is pretty basic computer knowledge you should get familiar with

[fringe rock]

Got it! Sorry, I’m just really bad at this stuff

[lime pollen]

You are not bad, just inexperienced

[woven dome]

The original file is apparently .rar

So the relevant search would be "how to unpack rar file windows"

[fringe rock]

Okay!! I’ll search that up, thank you!

[sweet drum]

yo could someone help me make a blender model?

[outer halo]

This isn't the place to ask for handouts. You can post jobs and collaborations on the forums though. #📖┃code-of-conduct has links.

[fringe rock]

Hey I’m back I watched a YouTube tutorial but it only showed me how to extract the file!

[split juniper]

Thanks a lot, this is good advice. It totally makes sense investing into something that does a great part of the strenuous work rather than a thing that dampers it. The desktop is pretty neat for now, the seat certainly can be improved, I'll gauge the whole installation knowing that in fact I have a broken hand so the click might be a bit more critical than for others

[split juniper]

For what I have understood, it's better to have rather compact textures in powers of 2 so that you can compress them in mipmaps that will be optimised by the shader at runtime depending on how far away your model is, and can also be reduced according to the LOD. I guess it's better to keep into square formats, it's been done like this since a long time, now I do not think it's mandatory but it's recommended

[lime pollen]

Presumably you should be able to use the contents of the folder in unity now. That would be the next thing to google

[fringe rock]

Oh yeah I messed up something, I tried to open it up but I put it with some Microsoft open up I’ll show you!

[wicked agate]

i model a character in blender rigged and animated with mixamo and when i upload it in unity collider is too small or in a different place like this.

I checked the origin point rotation and scale in blender they all seem okay any idea why this is happening ?

[primal plume]

I would like to ask a question, i want to make this skylight more transparent in unity how do i do it ?

the effect from photoshop

the effect after put it in unity more dull and solid. why?

[lime pollen]

change the material's opacity?

[primal plume]

in unity?

[lime pollen]

yes

[wicked agate]

its small like this after mixamo

[primal plume]

where can i change the opacity in unity @_@?

[lime pollen]

look at the object's material

[fluid oak]

If it is a sprite renderer, you can lower the alpha of the sprite renderer color.

[primal plume]

TQ!!! make it

[primal plume]

how to make delete the line that are no appearing in photoshop?

[primal plume]

the glow are attach with the glow,

open sprite editor , itso kay

sorry i am newbie here

[fluid oak]

I cannot understand you.

[primal plume]

How come i have a weird line on middle? How do i remove it

[sullen plank]

That looks like something you've created in your editor and imported this way. Edit asset and cut it out.

[primal plume]

Ok try later

[wicked agate]

Hi! I make models for unity and to paint them i have png with colors on it and i just scale down the uv maps and put them on the colors so its easier for unity users. So do i mess up their uv maps ? i mean when we want to bake light/shadow on that mesh would there be a problem ? ?

[misty lantern]

Lightmap baking uses the second UV channel
As long as you don't use that it's fine

[past trout]

im trying to create a pixil sprite with 64x64 resolution but sometimes the sprite comes out blurry such as this and im not sure how to fix it

[manic coyote]

Set the filter mode to point in the texture's inspector

[misty lantern]

Blurry? It could be that the PPU is wrong and/or you're viewing it zoomed in
Or if it's more smudged than blurred that'd be texture compression

[lavish scarab]

anyone knows why these white lines appear when I move away from the object? Ive model a new object in case it was with this one, I've changed textures but have no idea why they are appearing

there is no duplicated object or double sided material

[lapis elk]

i know what you mean. I think its located at the UV-Seam?

[lavish scarab]

Probably, Ima try placing the uvs in a different way

[lapis elk]

Do you have Mipmaps activated? (its in the import settings of the texture)
It **could **fix this.

[lavish scarab]

oh yea

thats exacly it

TNKSSSS

[lavish scarab]

❤️

[lapis elk]

How does it look like now? ^^

[lavish scarab]

now it doent show to white borders

tnks for the advice, Ive been struggling with this for 2 days, then remembered that there are people more experienced here and decided to give it a shot

[lapis elk]

Its always a good idea to ask for help here **AND **to help others too, because you learn so much from solving other peoples problems ^^

[misty lantern]

You should have always some marging between differently colored UV regions, and the region's color extended to that margin
Mipmapping will effectively blur the texture over a distance so it will bleed over

[lavish scarab]

does it affect in any other thing ? not having mipmap activated?

[misty lantern]

Mipmapping swaps textures to lower resolution over distance to achieve two pretty important things: to save rendering power and to filter them so they don't get grainy and flickery

[fluid oak]

Yeah, turning off mipmaps isn't ideal; the real solution is to fix your textures 😄

[limber rampart]

Can someone help me figure out why I can't change the filter mode to point? I imported this model as glTF if that helps.

[harsh dagger]

Imported materials cannot be edited. Try extracting it and re-applying.

[late wind]

Hey, so I've been trying to solve this for quite some time now. Been messing around with the export settings in picture 3, but to no success... I've also applied rotation to the object in Blender. Do I have to orient the ship at this angle in Blender in order to make the Z-axis be correctly forward? Picture 1 is Blender, Picture 2 is Unity.

[elfin mango]

I want to have this glassy look on my building but I can't find any material online, can you guys provide any link to the material

or is my approach totally wrong

[lapis elk]

Hi there.
There is a exporter from Blender to Unity.
I only use this one, it works perfectly.
https://github.com/EdyJ/blender-to-unity-fbx-exporter

[lapis elk]

Just create your own.
Just play around with the Smoothness slider and add a reflection Probe to the scene.

[fluid oak]

You'll probably need at least screenspace reflections for that kind of large surface with self reflections

[turbid tangle]

Hi, I wanted to pass information from one mesh to another and control it the way I prefer, so created a mesh, altered it and imported it to unity. The surprise for me was all meshes had different counts of vertices. Is there something I can do about it? https://youtu.be/xGz_dtxj-Ck

[lapis elk]

Did you check wether the vertices are the same in blender or whatever 3d software you use?

[turbid tangle]

yes

I have duplicated the mesh and just moved vertices around

I understand it might come from optimization while importing, but I'd like to avoid it

[turbid tangle]

I was able to solve

changed normals from Import to None in inspector

https://youtu.be/ie445ykMC6M

[lapis elk]

great!

[lime pollen]

Yeah the characters look like they're just flat meshes on a 3d plane, although unity does have a 2d lighting package

[shadow cradle]

You cant use 2d lighting ina 3d scene tho

[rotund kayak]

Hey there. Is it possible to extract multiple sprites from one sprite image? Like a have an image and if I slice it, it creates multiple sprites under the image. But I want them individually every single one as a own sprite if you understand.

[outer halo]

Don't crosspost.

When you splice a sprite sheet in Unity, it creates individual sprites for you. However, it keeps it all as one asset (the sheet) which is a good thing.

If you're asking if you can create completely new assets from it? No, it's not physically making copies. You would have to do that in something like Photoshop. Maybe run a script that batches it for you.

[elfin mango]

I added bloom from post processing but I it doesn't appear in my game camera

why is that so?

[lapis elk]

Show Camera Setting pls

[lapis elk]

Ok.. now look and find the mistake 😉

Hint: Its in the Rendering Tab ^^

[elfin mango]

ohhh

I am sorry

that was so noob of me

thanks for the help

[lapis elk]

no problem ^^ i know this

if this doesnt help, there is one thing more that might be a problem.

[elfin mango]

it does help

[lapis elk]

good

[elfin mango]

Hello again, I was making a grass shader following a tutorial on youtube, but I can't find "Double sided" parameter I am using URP 12.1 lit shader

[lapis elk]

Thats the same

[elfin mango]

Okay, but then why I can't see colour behind the mesh?

[lapis elk]

Did you figure it out?

[lapis elk]

Its a Lit shader i think? Then you have to deal with the Normal Vector and a "Is Front Face" Node.

Better try to get help omn the #archived-shaders Channel

[elfin mango]

okay thanks

[hazy moth]

Hey guys, it's a bit of a long shot but I'm struggling with an issue related to crunch compression in textures, and I'm really desperate for any direction with this. tl;dr, every time I try to load a scene (asynchronously) that contains crunched textures, on high framerates I get spammed with JobTempAlloc has allocations that are more than 4 frames old, and occasionally this may cause a fatal freeze in the middle of loading.

I have a repro project here https://forum.unity.com/threads/jobtempalloc-has-allocations-that-are-more-than-4-frames-old-with-crunch-compression.1315527/, and I would be SO grateful to anyone who can help me figure this out

[feral yarrow]

How to switch char with other char(.pmx) in Unity game?

any yt and others? i dont find

[dense oar]

I'm trying to bake a normal map from a high poly to a low poly in 3ds Max to use in Unity, but my bake results keep coming out wonky and unusuable.
The normals are completely wrong at the texture seams, there are huge weird gaps in places, and worst of all the flat sufaces take on this checkerboard appearance

Do you know a pipeline workflow to bake a normal map 'right'? because the ones max is generating are garbage

pictured - janked up corners, huge seam between faces

[pliant warren]

Hi guys, I'm currently painting normals for 2D sprites in Photoshop and testing out the normals in Unity and am having an issue with sprites displaying a very thin outline which becomes more or less visible depending on the lighting settings and placement.

I know the issue has to do with the soft pixels around the edges of the sprites being more visible on top of each other, but I'm not sure if there's anything that will fix this when exporting from photoshop or any changes I can make in Unity. With that said, I'm pretty new to Unity and am not a programmer, so I won't be able to deal with code to make any fixes.

Thank you!

[rustic heath]

why does my textures look so blurry in unity? here is how they look in blender (baked in 4k) and the seccond pic you can see them in unity. How can I fix it?

[hazy moth]

By default when you import a new texture to Unity, the max size is set to 2048. You can set it to 4096 and hit "Apply".

[rustic heath]

holy, I didnt know about that. thank you so much! You saved me from wasting another hours into this and loosing my mind

[fluid oak]

In unity, check remove matte in the import options

Because unity insists that premultiplied alpha is somehow incorrect unlike the entire rest of the industry.

[pliant warren]

will try this, thank you Pinballkitty

[eager mist]

Is there a way to change my import settings to legacy or something similar so if I import an fbx file it would automatically export materials? If I can't do that, is there an easy way to do this?

[fluid oak]

What do you mean 'legacy'? You can write an asset processer to do literally anything you want when an asset is imported.

[eager mist]

Thank you. I will look into that.

[late wind]

Thanks, gonna remake my shipmodel today, because I'm realizing more and more that if I keep fixing the game based on my current ship, I'll need to correct everything later. Like Vector3.right/forward/up along with scales and such

[lapis elk]

You can rotate the origin in Blender

[late wind]

Really? I was searching for a way to change the axis and such but couldn't find something like that. I guess you might mean something similar yet not exactly the same?
But as I've noticed, the scale xyz doesn't seem to line up accurately with the directions xyz. Certainly there are ways to fix it, but I think the best approach would be to just do it properly in blender you know. The ship I made was the third item and made in blender, and the first I imported to Unity, so I did a lot of mistakes that are hard to fix. Like simply moving the pivot point of an object doesn't seem to be a feature, which it is in cinema4d, which I am used to. Naturally, cinema 4d is a ~€100/month software, but still, I got used to that :/

But yes, there's also things I want to do more standardized on my ship(s) regardless 🙂

[lapis elk]

Yeah i moved from C4Dto Blender 2 Years ago, because C4D is shit for game assets.
But yes, you can move the pivot like in C4D

i rotatet the axis 45° on Z

But you have to make sure, that the Rotation will be Applied before exporting

Or.. nvm.. depends on your needs if you have to apply the rotation

[late wind]

Ye, I used it for making sweet call of duty montages some 10 years ago, then I just kept using it as a pirated version. I tried blender a few times, but I always felt there was so many less features and at the time I had no real plans on doing things in unity and such. Last thing I did was plan out how to furnish my apartment, helped a lot in selling the design to my wifey in the end.

[lapis elk]

😄 nice

[late wind]

Thanks 🙂

I'm gonna open up my ship model and see if I can make it all work properly

[lapis elk]

Yeah the step from C4D to Blender was weird. But its much better for Realtime purposes

[late wind]

Any specific reason why? I mean, aren't they just tools that can both export to fbx? :/ I'd certainly prefer to use c4d at this point in time, but also not gonna cough up the licensing fees while I'm doing medical studies xD

[lapis elk]

C4D doesnt have any smoothing groups or something, what makes creating good looking game assets very annoying.

[late wind]

I wouldn't be above using a pirated version tho... Then when my studies are done I'd just purchase the license and donate a couple of €100s 😛

[late wind]

I'm sure you're right, and I'm also certain it's better to learn Blender in case I decide to focus more on making games and such.

Something I'd die for tho, is hotkeys for the 3 manipulation tools :/

[lapis elk]

i had the decision between 3DS Max, Maya and Blender. I tried all of them and Blenders workflow fits me best.

[late wind]

Because atm, pressing "g" just grabs the object. And the buttons for the other tools doesn't give you the actual pivot tool

[late wind]

with a very big + being the fact that it's free

[lapis elk]

You press G and then the Axis you want it to move on

[late wind]

at least for amateurs, I'm sure they had some payment model as well

[lapis elk]

I spend like 25€ / Month to the Blender Dev Fond

[late wind]

It just does this, like it grabs the objects and moves it in all directions

or do you mean that I change my viewing perspective?

I'd prefer this thing.

Only way to get that one, afaik, is to press the tool with a mouseclick, and I hate not using shortcuts

[late wind]

Yeah, that's a good thing to do tbh. Sounds voluntary, right?

[lapis elk]

You Select the Model, hit "G" to move and then X,Y or Z to move it on the axis.

[late wind]

There's really no shortcut to get the pivot then :/

And is there really no way to simply move the objects pivot point?

Currently I go into editing mode, select all the polygons and move them. Which takes longer than a simple "move pivot" feature

[lapis elk]

i already showed you ^^

[late wind]

I'll be able to get used to this, but bothers me as I'm currently not used to it, and it's not how it works in unity anyways

[lapis elk]

And you can easily lay every function you want on the Quick Favorites (Q)

[late wind]

Aha, that's what that was referring to. I thought it was to changing the scene's axis. Haven't started going through what you sent me properly yet

[late wind]

what button for favorites?

[lapis elk]

Q

[late wind]

makes sense

Thanks, that is a lifesaver

[lapis elk]

i recommend Blender Guru:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIoXOplUvAw&list=PLjEaoINr3zgFX8ZsChQVQsuDSjEqdWMAD

😄

Everything you asked is in this tutorial

[late wind]

Ye, issue with these types of tutorials are that I know most things(I think I do at least, lol). But no really, it ends up with me getting bored, and most of the time the workflow they use doesn't fit me. I tend to just google specifically what I need, but sometimes, just realizing what to search for is tricky. But as you've recommended it, I'll certainly go over this one 🙂

[misty lantern]

ctrl + .

[late wind]

But I have actually watched quite a few things from Blender Guru tbh, just not the beginner type things, or at least not since I first tried using blender some 5 years ago

[lapis elk]

A wild Spazi appears and knows things 😄

[late wind]

Hm, just goes from this:

to this:

I think I'm not understanding how it's used :/

[lapis elk]

move it and you move the pivot

1:1 like in C4D 😄

[late wind]

Aha, that's what it's about. I thought it was for getting the move tool. But I don't know why, since clearly it was a response to the pivot question 😛

[late wind]

Thanks so much 😛 Another lifesaver! 😄

Ah, feels so good 😄

[barren locust]

Hello, does anyone know how to make 2d assets have the same color in Unity as they do in Aseprite? Currently when I export my assets and place them in Unity the color changes drastically even though I have no post processing applied to the camera. I'm using the built in render pipeline.

Here is what the asset looks like in aseprite

And here's in unity

And these are the import settings

[fluid oak]

Check the compression settings for your specific build target

Also, is there any transparency in the alpha channel?

[barren locust]

The compression method is set to Default.

How do I check if there is transparency in the alpha channel?

Nvmr, I fixed it. I had the wrong palette selected when exporting :/. Thanks for your help PinballKitty and sorry for bothering you.

[teal orbit]

Why is it that when I export an FBX from Blender and then import it into Unity, the MeshRenderers on the meshes are all turned off?

[wise berry]

Could somebody help me make a player model and or some cosmetics for a game that I am working on? If so please Dm me. also, I can't really pay.

[wise berry]

Impressive stuff it looks great

[eager mist]

thnx

[eager mist]

what you need

[wise berry]

Oh, I just need some simple player model right now with no modeling it looks like this. It sould look better soon with some BLOOM

[eager mist]

what

[wise berry]

I was saying that I haven't modeled anything yet.

[eager mist]

hm ok i we try

[wise berry]

Yay thx

[eager mist]

can you test these models

i think looks nice as character

@wise berry

[wise berry]

ok

Lol

[eager mist]

hmm just need foots yeah

take me 10m

[wise berry]

Ok

[wise berry]

Also If you want in the finished game I can Add something to credit you

[outer halo]

@wise berry This isn't the discord to ask for free handouts. If you want to try the forums, there's a collaboration section.

[wise berry]

oh ok

[wise berry]

Can you go on Dm

[eager mist]

heliroom

[woven dome]

#archived-art-asset-showcase

[eager mist]

hm sry i cant find

[eternal cypress]

@native marten how are you moving the model between blender and unity

[native marten]

Hello, i am working on a model (VRC model, though i do not believe this information is relevant) which is composed of several meshes, and one of them has this clipping thing onto the skin of the model. So i decided to mess with this particular mesh in blender to resize some polys in the clipping area.

Although, every time i try to save my modifications it keeps showing this instead, which is my very first attempt (ugly sleeve) at doing it...

[native marten]

just importing the .blend file and saving as a new file with a different name, why?

[eternal cypress]

1. Download this Blender addon
2. next time you move the model, go to Export -> Unity .RBX File. (and save under your project "Assets" folder or under any folder bellow this one)
3. go to unity and enjoy

[eternal cypress]

I believe unity may not work well with .blend files.
Blender and Unity both have great systems for Importing and Exporting.
you can also go to unity and right click your project window -> Import new asset and pick this one.

and also in blender make sure the object is good and sometimes you need to check if the settings are ok. (if there aren't any shadows, Effects running or any active cameras for example)

[native marten]

i am not sure of anything, i am an absolute novice in blender and unity.

maybe if i streamed the screen, could help me solve this? idk

[lime pollen]

if there are terms you don't understand, you should google them. Here's one to try: "export blender fbx to unity"

[native marten]

though unity accepts .blend, doesnt it?

[lime pollen]

yes but there might be issues if you're constantly updating like that. Just try fbx and see what happens

[native marten]

same issue

blender

unity

[split juniper]

what is your issue exactly? with the size of the screenshots it's impossible to see

you mean it's just not the same mesh?

@native marten

[native marten]

what appears in the blender one is my updated mesh, which i am trying to export to unity, but in unity it loads up as one of my early edits

[split juniper]

honestly i wouldn't touch .blend files in unity

export to .fbx following the right guidelines and you'll be okay

[native marten]

exporting it to fbx yields the same thing though, i am just lost atm

[split juniper]

if really you don't want to do it the proper way you can save as another file, import that one instead, and erase the previous ones

[split juniper]

you have to reimport your asset every time you update them

[native marten]

i already deleted my project and used the backup one, but every previw of the same mesh now just shows the weird mesh

[split juniper]

unity makes a copy of the imported asset inside of its own files

[native marten]

wait, could this be just me being a clown then? 🤡

[split juniper]

also check if your Mesh Renderer component isn't rendering the reference of an old mesh, that happens sometimes

[split juniper]

it happens to everyone

if i had to earn a dollar every time i forgot a silly thing i'd be a millionaire

[native marten]

reimport doesnt work wtf

[split juniper]

i'd be elon musk 😂

try exporting a fbx with a new name and import that one

and sometimes, closing and reopening the editor also works

but i'd strongly advise to export .fbx only with your selected objects and pay attention to the axis and units and the weirdo rotation issue. it's a bit of a hell but it's not too too complicated. there are plenty of tutorials on youtube

[rotund depot]

Closing/reopen editor and deleting the library folder - are the two most important things when working with unity

[native marten]

i am overloaded in information rn lol

ok, what am i supposed to do? it seems this weird mesh contaminated the backup mesh like a virus, surprise

[split juniper]

sometimes it can happen that a mesh gets stuck in the reference of the mesh renderer of something else, but that would be more likely happen if you're doing stuff by script

i doubt it's the case here

[rotund depot]

well, i would say close the editor, delete the library folder in the project and open unity again.

[split juniper]

you also might be exporting something that is turned invisible in blender

[rotund depot]

It will reimport everything and rebuilds all the references new and stuff
And yes... always use fbx

[native marten]

deleting library takes like 5gb huh

40k items found 😆

[split juniper]

here. if the eye is closed, it's not visible in your viewport but it might get exported nonetheless

[rotund depot]

Yeah, the library folder gets huge and bloated and with time full of errors.

[split juniper]

it also takes so long to assemble and compile

[native marten]

if this solves the issue i might kiss your shoes and kick myself in the groin, its been 2 hours since ive been looking into this

[split juniper]

you don't need to do all that it's okay 😆

first hope for the best then you'll see

[rotund depot]

Yeah reimporting may take a while... but lets say 90% ofthe time when unity behaves strange, deleting the library fixes it.

[native marten]

why is unity so wonderful and stupid at times? deleting the library is not even written in any tutorials or manuals

[split juniper]

i'd recommend to work with simple meshes before trying to manipulate more complex stuff so you can gradually understand things without them becoming overwhelming

[native marten]

i am only doing this because a model i bought came with a clipping issue and the author refuses to fix it

[split juniper]

there is a lot of legacy and also, as it's supposed to work, they're not gonna advertise that in their manuals

also turning off and starting over is like basic it solutions. deleting an entire library though i find it's a bit radical because your fix might be more localized than that but it can do i guess

this series of tutorials is really nice to have a little walkaround blender to unity setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap4SoG-KfKM&list=PLq7npTWbkgVBAtQs4p4iYxlfWrKRkNc6O

[rotund depot]

a lot is supposed to work but does not... but with time you know your way around it...

[native marten]

oh. and after this i need to optimise the model deleting polys and merging meshes, that will be another fun trip too, but thats on blender

[split juniper]

it's better not to have a ton of meshes enmeshed in each other but if it's well organized you should be fine, unity is meant to be able to manage complex stuff

for starting though it can be very confusing

[native marten]

vrc devs are stupid and want me to merge every single mesh into 1, even the toggleables

[split juniper]

it's much easier to manage

you get lost in crazy parenting SO fast

and as meshes do in fact have submeshes, most of the time unless you have specific dynamic behaviour required from a specific mesh component, joining all separate parts in one huge one is often a good call

i'm on both sides of the fence so as much as i like many meshes i try to avoid getting anything more complicated than a poor penguin 😂

hope you figure out what is going on with yours! take care 🙂

[native marten]

what should i do if this does not work?

[split juniper]

find someone else to ask or follow tutorials about this specific workflow to understand what's going on

me gonna sleep 🌠

[native marten]

rest well!

[split juniper]

ty 😊

[native marten]

well.. turns out deleting library did not solve the issue

[native marten]

not even creating a new project works lol

[mossy parcel]

Heyo, I've been having real confusing issues with my fbx objects. I think i understand that this has something to do with how i made the models in blender, a normals issue I think? but I dont know how i can fix it.
The picture is taken with just ambient lighting, no other sources of light and I get these strange seams / shadows on single objects.
The table on the left is a single face that dims right in the middle and the object on the right is two objects I combined together in blender and removed doubles. Which from what i've read for the past few hours should've remove this issue.

[fluid oak]

Are you recalculating normals in the importer or importing them?

[mossy parcel]

Oh my god. I was recalculating them in unity because of something i was doing a few weeks ago, but I ticked it back to import and it all looks great now. Thank you for reminding me of this!!! Time to mark this as another simple mistake that steals a few hours from me.

[native marten]

@split juniper@rotund depotsomebody realised my file had a shift key attached which was created by the author of the model, and that was the whole reason for this (total 10 hours to figure this out)

[white kestrel]

I bought some SFX on the asset store, but there's only an "Open in unity" button. How do I just download them so I can see them in my file explorer?

[fluid oak]

I believe that you can't do that anymore with the current version of the asset store.

[white kestrel]

Whatttt lol. I don't think I can fit 7GB of sound assets in my Unity project. Good thing I tested the waters before spending more money

[obsidian axle]

just make a project to store assets and import specific files you need

[next apex]

I have 2 questions! First

how do i make my avatar not mesh

[obtuse oyster]

https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[next apex]

and 2 how do i fix my spine heirarchy

[oak otter]

how do i get rid of "illegal Objects in path"

[hushed spear]

You need to add a material to it. Add mesh renderer to the object

[next apex]

I did that but it stayed mesh

ive extractted the texture already as well

even with the mesh render component it stays mesh

[hushed spear]

Can you expand the fox in hierarchy and send screenshot again

[hushed spear]

Put a material under element 0 in mesh renderer

drag your material from the project folder and put it on it. In the right

[next apex]

ive done that now. satill mesh

are you ok to call? may be easier if i share screen live

[hushed spear]

Sure but give me a sec

[next apex]

no prob

[obtuse oyster]

All this seems VR-chat specific; they have a discord that I linked and modding channels that cover this stuff

[next apex]

they are trying helping with the spine thing :) my main issue rn is mesh renderer in unity not showing my textures

[obtuse oyster]

presumably your skinned mesh renderer does not have a material

This random mesh renderer you added is irrelevant

I would presume the Body object has the SMR on it

[next apex]

im sorry. im new to this and trying to learn, where is the skinned mesh renderer then

[obtuse oyster]

but you can search to find it

also the material really should be mapped on the model asset, not just in the scene

[outer halo]

Can you? Sure, what's stopping you?

[misty lantern]

It's not being previewed with textures

[dense oar]

Why would my normal map be producing this square grid-ish appearance? The second image is if I remove the normal map, the grid doesnt appear.

I assume it has something to do with sampling or compression or bit rate of the normal map image itself??

if I SUPER crank up the contrast in photoshop, that grid does appear

but even after blurring it, the texture in unity looks the same - square grid

[agile gulch]

can anyone help me fix these blurred edges

[fiery bloom]

change the filtering to point in the import settings of the texture

[misty lantern]

The picture doesn't have enough clues to what's happening
You may have zoomed in the game view
The sprite may be viewed at a wrong scale with mipmapping enabled
The sprite may have been saved with blurred edges

[fluid oak]

You might be under a curse cast by a spiteful wizard.

[sinful patio]

I tried to import a sprite but when I resize or rotate it it looks all glitchy and stuff

[fluid oak]

You might have the opposite problem of Marg, where you want mipmapping and interpolation on?

[sinful patio]

Sorry, I have no idea what does mean

[fluid oak]

Well, you haven't shown your glitches so we can't see what they look like so this is just a guess.

But the settings used to make pixel art crisp also completely ruin scaling and rotation.

[fluid oak]

You'd probably want to enable bilinear filtering in the texture and use a shader like SmoothPixel if you want the pixels to rotate without artifacts

You can see the difference here

[agile gulch]

Its on point

[sinful patio]

Bilinear makes it blurry :(

[sinful patio]

wut

[outer halo]

@feral yarrow Stop spamming.

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow message

[misty lantern]

To rotate a pixel (point filtered) sprite without "glitches" there would have to be anti-aliasing

Unity doesn't do anti-aliasing for sprites, except with the full screen render scale quality setting which only goes up to 2x and is really expensive for it

[fluid oak]

Or a shader like the one I mentioned.

[misty lantern]

Oh that looks pretty cool

[fluid oak]

Looks much nicer in motion

[obtuse flare]

Can someone help me with some Blender to Unity shenanigans? I hate this workflow so much, I really need a solution for it..
How do I properly solve the rotation issue when importing Blender fbx files to Unity? I ALWAYS get weird rotation, is there no way to do this?

[fluid oak]

Can you be more specific?

[obtuse flare]

Its a common issue that blender fbx files when imported to Unity have unwanted rotations, I would adjust them manually but since there are scripts that rely on the forward vector actually being the forward direction, it would be a tedious workflow to rewrite code to solve it

All i want to do, is to export a ship from blender, that faces towards the -Y axis, to be imported in unity, with the correct rotation (aka it floating upright like youd expect from a ship), and have it at rotation 0 0 0

This is what i export

This is what i get when importing (note the rotation values and the actual rotation)

[coarse topaz]

yeah you have to do some weird stuff in blender before exporting to get it right on unity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap4SoG-KfKM

you basically apply it with -90 in x

then rotate -90 so it looks straight

but not applying

and then it looks right in unity...

XD

[lofty estuary]

Hy! Can I get some help with photoshop? I created a character in Illustrator and saved it as a PSD. I opened Photoshop and exported as and PSB for unity but It shows me all the paths and objects individually in Unity even tho I made them groups.

How can solve this issue

I put all the parts in individual layers like Brackies showed in the tutorial but I still got whis issue

like this

[obtuse flare]

I know of these solutions but i refuse to believe that this is still not being fixed / doable by some export options, do unity/blender indie teams really work like this?

Even an addon would do

[coarse topaz]

yeah well... what can I say...

we gotta work with what we have right?

[crimson sequoia]

does anyone know why this car looks low poly when i build the project to an exe?

i found it from the asset store
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/vehicles/land/realistic-mobile-car-demo-173467

it looks fine in unity

would it have anything to do with project settings?

[crimson sequoia]

dont bother responding

its not like i need help or anything

[fiery bloom]

It would be helpfull if you actually provided an image of the car in the exe, so that people trying to help know what the problem is, otherwise it's kinda hard to say anything if we don't know what's happening

[tiny marten]

mining mech

[final valve]

so i have this problem with importing images, the color of the image like glitches or idk what like it just does this thing when i import it in unity it changes color a bit but if i open it in computer its fine so it has to do something with unity. i had the same problem with multiple images and i dont know what to do

[outer halo]

@final valve You don't need to post this everywhere. Turn off compression of the asset as well. Scroll down in your screenshot.

[wicked agate]

Hi! I made a bear trap animation in blender but when i import the fbx to there are multiple armatures and only 1 of them work any idea what im doing wrong ?

[misty lantern]

These are not armatures, they're animation clips / actions with the name "armatureaction"

Blender will often leave actions lingering in the file if they existed even briefly

You can delete them manually before exporting through the Outliner set to Blender File

[hardy pawn]

I've got a problem that has been hassling me for a while now, and I've been turning it over in my brain to no avail.

Basically, I (think) I NEED to have multiple materials on each of my objects, or at least some sort of instanced versions of a material

This is because I'm unsure how to implement a per-color gradient remapper into a single material that has colors baked into a texture

So, for example, I have a tree, but I want to use four colors for it, two shades of brown, (To indicate the lightest and darkest possible wood colors and blend between them) and two shades of green, (Likewise, for the leaves)

If I used a single material for the entire tree with green and brown mapped to a single texture for the model, I would need to potentially use two textures, one with the light shades, and one with the dark shades

Or some other idea that is even more intricate and hard to integrate into a workflow without it making new asset production take prohibitively long

Is there a way I can have multiple, alterable materials on a single object without genuinely ruining my optimization in the long run, or to implement something with equivalent functionality where I need to establish things like colors, metallics, and the like on an object that needs specific color gradiation setups and multiple components?

I've heard about instanced materials, but I've had trouble figuring out if those are a workable solution to this issue, or if using many instanced versions of a material still calls unneccecary and performance draining draw calls.

[misty lantern]

@hardy pawn In this example do you need to shift between light and dark tones over a tree's polygon, between parts of the tree or between different trees?

[hardy pawn]

Parts of the tree. my plan for my game is to assign simple colors to parts of my models, but each color needs its own tailored color ramp to comply with a Color Grading Technique I'm using.

@misty lantern

So the leaves need a unique green to dark green color ramp that I choose, and the wood needs a unique brown to dark brown ramp.

[misty lantern]

I imagine you would have one texture with all the ramps shared across as many objects as possible

[hardy pawn]

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

While I can just bake the tree's colors to a texture map, so I could have one material for the tree which simply uses that texture map, I wouldn't be able to apply a color ramp of my choosing to both the wood and the leaves, unless there's a method I'm not thinking of.

[fluid oak]

Just use UVs and vertex colors?

[thin silo]

Where do you guys find art assets apart from Unity Store?

I know there's some other ones I heard in a video but I can't remember which :c

[frigid widget]

https://www.textures.com/
or
https://www.poliigon.com/
for textures

[night oasis]

So... I have a 2D object I am using in a 3D scene for some popups and things like that. Is there a way to make it always appear on top of other objects without changing its position?

[fluid oak]

There are a few options. What renderer are you using?

[night oasis]

Just the regular SpriteRenderer for 2D objects

[fluid oak]

I meant, standard, URP, HDRP, URP 2d? The rendering path

Because each rendering path has different ways of doing it

[night oasis]

Huh… not sure… But I think it’s URP

Imma check

Well... it says none and if this stackoverflow post is correct, it should be the "default one"?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60310609/how-do-i-determine-which-render-pipeline-im-using-in-an-existing-unity-project

[fluid oak]

Ok, two options. Either make a shader with ZTEST Always https://docs.unity.cn/2021.1/Documentation/Manual/SL-ZTest.html

Or use a second camera that only renders that object and renders on top of the other camera in the scene

[night oasis]

Interesting…. 谢谢啊！

[fluid oak]

没问题

[grizzled oracle]

Hello, I imported a sword fbx model from sketchfab which has the textures in the other folder. How do I apply these textures to the sword?

[lapis elk]

Use a Material and apply the Material

[wicked agate]

thank you so much yes that seem to be problem. Is there a way to just get the animation i want ? or should i make a new blender file for every animation ?

[misty lantern]

As I instructed you can delete the unwanted ones

but you can also export animations separately if that's what you wish

[wicked agate]

yes but i sometimes i have a file with 10 different animation and i just want to export 1 of them yet all come with it

how do i export just 1

[misty lantern]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/502171313201479681/1003203396192440360/unknown.png

I don't know if there's another way to exclude animations from the export besides deleting them for the process

[wicked agate]

okay i'll look into them thanks ❤️

[hardy pawn]

Does anyone have any good resources on the exact optimization implications of things like Material Instances and Variant Materials?

I'm still struggling to find consistent answers as to just how inefficient materials are in various contexts, especially in the case of examples like using one material, but assigning a texture and other values to it using a script per object, (Which creates a material instance, doesn't it?)

I just need answers to a lot of questions that seem like I should be able to just look them up, but I've had extreme trouble actually finding answers to my questions through casual googling.

For example, the documentation says that Variant Materials have no optimization benefits, but another resource I found online said that materials which use the same shader share batched calls, even if they are different materials

(Should I be posing these questions in #archived-shaders instead, or is it fine here?)

[lapis elk]

For example the documentation says that

[fiery bloom]

So I've got a photograph of a drawing, and I'd want to turn the line and the interior into a plain colour (see attachment). Does anyone know how to do this? The image on the left is what I have, and the picture on the right is what I'd like to obtain, except I need it to be truthfull to the original image, instead of a bad drawing.

[lapis elk]

Choose any vector based illustration programm like Illustrator.

[fiery bloom]

I didn't explain myself well enough. I don't want to draw over the photograph, I want to actually trace the lines in the photograph, sort of like edge detection (which, btw, I've tried and doesn't work)

[lapis elk]

in Unity?

Even Illustrator would struggle to vectorize your drawing automatically, because has no contrast etc.

[fiery bloom]

not necessarily

[fiery bloom]

I don't own Illustrator anyway

[dreamy vine]

Hey guys. Is there any way to make Unity include different assets (PNGs mostly) for a specific resolution during a build?
I've tried using Sprite Atlas with 4k graphics and a Variant Atlas with 0.5 scale, but the graphics from variant atlas looked bad (blurry) compared to what I get if I manually scale them and then import into unity. What I basically need is a build with 4k graphics and a separate build with FHD graphics.

My png import settings and atlas settings.

@slender jetty Anything wrong with those settings?

[slender jetty]

Why are you pinging me?

[dreamy vine]

You asked about my settings yesterday when I posted this question. I just reposted it on the right channel this time (I hope).

[slender jetty]

Ahh, the 4k graphics guy

That's like 100 questions ago 😛

[dreamy vine]

Oh, sorry, had no idea. Took me some time cause I wanted to double check everything to not waste anyone's time in case I made some stupid mistake or something.

[slender jetty]

What are your quality settings?

[slender jetty]

Very low

That would wreck your texture quality

No idea what that icon is though

Is it also bad on your computer?

[dreamy vine]

It's for "dedicated server" whatever it is. I build on windows tho.

Yep, bad on my pc as well.

[slender jetty]

Well, your settings seem fine to me, can you give a screenshot of the problem in your build?

[dreamy vine]

I mean, bad is a relative concept. What I mean is that it looks blurry compared to just using fhd png instead of atlas variant with 0.5 scale.

Maybe that's just how Unity scales the atlas and there's nothing wrong, I don't know.

[slender jetty]

Well you can change your filter mode to point, so it doesn't get averaged.

[slender jetty]

And I really dislike the fact that your original image is not a power of 2

[dreamy vine]

Point messes whole image in my case.

[slender jetty]

So it will recalculate it probably because it can't scale it to 0.5 in a good way.

[dreamy vine]

Well, I can set canvas size to po2 and test it again.

[slender jetty]

No, your original image needs to be a power of 2

[dreamy vine]

Not sure what you mean by that, sorry.

[slender jetty]

Not a problem, no need to apologize.
What I mean is your original image is 2160, not 2048

So it will force it to 1024 in your scaled image

And it messes everything up

Point should not give you a problem, it should give you the exact image it was

[dreamy vine]

What if I just open that png in gimp and then cut the canvas size to 2048 and then reimport into Unity?

[slender jetty]

Yeah, just make sure you clip it, and not rescale it, otherwise GIMP will ask you the same question of how you want to do the Filtering

[dreamy vine]

Yea, sure. And btw, this is how it looks when I use point filter.

[slender jetty]

Yeah, in some parts it will be 1 pixel off

So it is indeed wrongly scaling it

And with Bilinear it will smudge it over to hide this fact

[dreamy vine]

Still the same unfortunately.

[slender jetty]

Can you post the image?

So I can try?

[dreamy vine]

The first one might weigh a lot, cause I've been messing with export settings, disabling compression and so on. Here's the original png I got from the guy who made it.

[slender jetty]

This image also jagged edges btw

[dreamy vine]

Well, I don't know, maybe it has something to do with the image itself, but I've tested atlases with multiple different images I got from different people/downloaded from the internet and they were always more blurry than the versions I manually scaled down in gimp.

[slender jetty]

Is this the difference you are talking about?

Because there is some difference, but not a lot.

It's mostly just that Photos of windows has a less dark background

[fluid oak]

Well, that isn't going to happen with THAT source image.

[dreamy vine]

Uhm, I'm not sure. But when I look at the comparison I posted earlier, the image on the right is noticeably more blurry than the one on the left. Especially the text. #🔀┃art-asset-workflow message

[fluid oak]

Have you tried setting the filtering to trilinear instead of bilinear? Not sure if that will affect the packing scaling

But yes, generally speaking the scaling in unity will generally be worse than that done by a proper image editor.

[dreamy vine]

Yea, I have. No difference. I've spent about 30 hours now trying to solve this issue. Using different settings, images and whatever else I came up with.

Is there any other way to use different resolution assets for different builds?

[fluid oak]

And you've changed the height AND width to be power of two dimensions?

[dreamy vine]

Yup.

[fluid oak]

possibly stupid question... what build target do you have set?

Did you make sure that your build target's settings are correct, not just your defaults?

[dreamy vine]

Is this what you're talking about?

[slender jetty]

This is the clearest I can get them

Left is 2048 and right is 1024

Still janky though

[dreamy vine]

I don't really mind having a bit blurry fhd version, but my employer does, so... 😛

[fluid oak]

disable compression just to see what happens?

[slender jetty]

I don't understand why it does the jagged edges, since it's point filtered.

Trilinear/bilinear helps, but it smudges it out

[fluid oak]

Only use point filter if you aren't scaling it at all

[slender jetty]

It's 1x1

[fluid oak]

Point filter is usually used for chunky pixel art where you want visible pixels.

[slender jetty]

Not scaled at all, and the right one is just the half of it

[dreamy vine]

Well, bilinear/trilinear interpolates between texels, so it gets blurry.

[fluid oak]

When you say not scaled at all, you mean you have pixel perfect camera set up and have it set so 1 px on screen is 1 px in the image?

Or something else

[slender jetty]

On a Quad that is scale 1x1x1

[fluid oak]

...reference resolution 320x180?

[dreamy vine]

Not sure how Untiy actually processes it, but I have a scene setup to match my 4k graphics and it all looks good. Then I create an atlas and atlas variant with 0.5 scale, build the game and run it on a FHD screen.

[slender jetty]

Sorry, not used to pixel perfect.

[fluid oak]

Did that help?

[slender jetty]

You can see the pixels now 😛

[fluid oak]

Though I'm not really sure why you're using pixel perfect in the first place.

[slender jetty]

First one was without

Like half an hour ago

Then I tried this

Also weird

[dreamy vine]

My camera settings.

With images being 100 pixels per unit.

[slender jetty]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow message
These were with a normal camera

[slender jetty]

Anyhow, I don't know.

[dreamy vine]

Well, thanks for your time ❤️

[slender jetty]

Couldn't let it go 😛
This is my final result with RawImages:

[dreamy vine]

This won't do it for me 😦 Thanks for trying though.

I used to work in a different engine and wrote custom code to recalculate positions and some other stuff based on the config resolution so I could use either 4k or fhd assets. I might end up doing something similar here, I don't know.

[slender jetty]

Too bad and no problem, was fun and educational to figure this out. 👍
It is 3.4 times zoomed in though, don't know if you noticed. This is without zoom, looks crispy to me:

Anyhow, you do you. If you figure it out I would like to see the result so I could use the crispiness in my game too 😛

[thin silo]

How would you guys turn this kind of tilemap into something less dark? Like, without editing it (or just a little bit), maybe there's a way to arrange it in a way that'll make it less dark?

https://penusbmic.itch.io/sci-fi-platformer-dark-edition

[fluid oak]

If you don't want a dark platformer why are you using 'THE DARK SERIES'?

There are hundreds of cheerful, bright tilemaps on the asset store and OGA

[thin silo]

Because I'm a Patreon of this guy so I wanted to use his assets ^^

And yeah I've seen all the bright and cheerful assets (not all, but a lot), and I'm not planning on making something like Pokemon or Animal Crossing, it's too.. bright let's say, too joyful

I like the deep and oppressive feel of this tileset, it's just a bit dark

For example I like the style of this background

[lime pollen]

That seems like a counterproductive way to get what you want

you can edit the sprite colors or use a shaders i guess, but that seems rather limiting

[thin silo]

Yeah I was just wondering if there was some artist shenanigans for it haha, I'm surprised by incredibly creative techniques everyday, so you never know!

[fluid oak]

I mean, you can just slap some postprocessing on top of it

Everyone loves postprocessing

Or you can edit the assets

[thin silo]

Yeah I'll try to work around it

Or I'll just give them to my girlfriend and tell her "make some art magic shenanigans with that please" hahaha

[dreamy vine]

I've noticed that if I set Max Texture Size in sprite settings to 1024 (2048 is the original image size) and resize algorithm to bilinear instead of mitchell it resizes the sprite way better than the atlas variant with scale set to 0.5 does. There are some small glitches, but you have to look really closely to notice them. I would have to check more assets to see if it actually works or it's just a coincidence. Bilinear resize algorithm seems to do good job keeping the image sharp, but there's no such option in atlas settings, so it doesn't really solve my problem, cause I'd have to go through all of the sprites and set a specific texture size for each of them.
Here are the settings I used.

[tawdry cedar]

Hey, is there a way for users to see assets in-game without downloading them?

Like i know that when you install a game, you download the actual 3d models with texture files and all that stuff related to it

But is there a way to have players see 3d models without them actually having those downloaded?

[fluid oak]

in what context

[tawdry cedar]

I'm thinking about games like CSGO or GTA which are kept alive by community server where the players always have to download packs of assets to be able to play on those servers and see all the cars / guns in-game, but wouldn't it be awesome to have a system in your game that would allow server owners to upload their assets only to the servers and players wouldn't be forced to download whole GBs of data just to play on those servers?

When i used to play FiveM (Multiplayer mod for GTA 5), before I uninstalled it, the folder that held all the assets of the servers i was playing it had over 200GB which is absolutely enormous but required to play on those servers

If the server has a BMW 3 series, I am required to download it's 3D model, textures, sound files, everything because otherwise it would just be a rectangle with pink missing texture

[lime pollen]

you'd need to implement some sort of model viewer in game and host the assets on a server. It won't be a great user experience though because of latency

also if you want to actually use those assets in gameplay, it'll just be stadia 😛

[fluid oak]

If you stream the assets during play the data still needs to get to the player, except now it will be trying to do it while you need that bandwidth for the actual game.

[nimble iris]

hi guys. it seems like artists / designers use more vram than us programmers but it's also a domain I enjoy. I'm buying a new laptop soon and I'm trying to get the rtx 3080 to work into my budget.

basically I can get:
i7 12th gen - 64gb of ram - rtx 3070ti 8g
or
r7 5th or sixth gen - 32gb of ram - rtx 3080 16g

both are in the lenovo legion laptops and have the highest available wattage of laptop gpu.

anywho you guys do all the 3d modeling and what not so you might be able to help me decide which one to get. 🙂

[remote vault]

isnt there any

free post processing tool available that is beginner friendly

[lime pollen]

The post processing package?

[remote vault]

yes

[lime pollen]

I mean why not just use that

[remote vault]

i cant find it..

[lime pollen]

Look in the package manager

[remote vault]

oka

@lime pollen

nvm i found it

thanks

[flat mortar]

Whats the best way to billboard a 2D model in 3D? I've tried making my own billboard script but I don't think it is very fast and I might have a bunch of these 2D models on the screen at once so I don't want it to lag the game updating every single one's rotation all of the time.

[lime pollen]

Why do you think it's not fast?

[shadow cradle]

just use it

focus on making games instead of efficient code

[misty lantern]

If all you do in a script is update the rotation I'm sure it'll be perfectly fine

Shaders can be used to do billboarding on the GPU but that's more complex, may have issues with bounds and in most situations offers neglible gains

[teal orbit]

Anyone know what settings to properly match a 60 FOV camera in Blender to a 60 FOV camera in Unity? The animations aren't frame the same between Blender to Unity

[rough geyser]

I'm still having the same issue. idk how to get rid of the light leaks.

[brisk wedge]

All right, I'm having trouble figuring out why a texture which will not display properly everywhere else will display in Unity just fine.
I don't animate in unity; I animate in Blender, so any help you guys can provide me that can assist me in exporting the texture to something I can use on the model I have extracted would really help.
If I could just remove the text at the bottom of the first image, I could copy the texture and paste it somewhere.

[lime pollen]

Post texture import settings

[lime pollen]

The preview looks fine. Where are you viewing it?

[brisk wedge]

I'd like to save this and have the entire texture show up when I open it in a different program

ANYWHERE ELSE.

Shows up like this elsewhere

[lime pollen]

You might just need to import it into an image editor and change the alpha values manually

[brisk wedge]

supposed to display like this

[brisk wedge]

Where and how can I reverse alpha values?

[lime pollen]

Depends on your image editor

[fluid oak]

This isn't a game ripping discord

[brisk wedge]

Could you give me one that can find alpha values and reverse them?

[brisk wedge]

I apologize. I didn't know where else to go at the time.

[lime pollen]

Literally any of them

Also yeah game ripping is a nono

[brisk wedge]

Is there a way I can at least get rid of the text at the bottom while I preview?

[split lark]

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this, but I am having a weird issue with FBX files going from Blender to Unity. My guess is it's some issue with the actual exporting process, as when I tried reimporting the files to Blender, they were similarly broken, despite the original Blender file being seemingly fine. The issue I'm having is that (seemingly suddenly) the model I exported has parts that are, the best way I can describe, hollow. Like the normals are broken. In Blender this seems to happen only to parts that I had specifically UV mapped, while in Unity it only happens to the right half of the model.

Please DM me for more info and stuff.

[fluid oak]

The 'right half of the model' thing is usually caused by mirroring the object while creating it, and accidentally mirroring the normals as well.

In any case, https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/editing/mesh/normals.html#recalculate should be what you need.

[split lark]

I’ll give that a try, and let you know if the problem persists

[fluid oak]

Hopefully it does! I'm not actually a blender user myself, but I see that problem posted so often the answer rubbed off on me.

[split lark]

This sadly did not seem to fix my issue. I'm very new to Blender, so having these weird issues pop up seemingly out of thin air is a little frustrating.

[fluid oak]

You might have other problems with your geometry(disconnected faces, overlapping faces, extraneous points, etc) that could interfere with normal calculation.

What happens if you calculate normals in unity instead of importing?

[split lark]

How do you do that?

[fluid oak]

In the importer, under 'model'

[eager mist]

idk if im in the right channel but

why does my sprite have worse quality when i flip it in photoshop?

it looks good when i flip it and then when i save it and get it into unity the quality is bad

[fluid oak]

are your import settings the same for both sprites?

[eager mist]

well the one who isnt flipped is from an asset pack

ive tried changing this but doesnt really change anything

[fluid oak]

Ok, doesn't actually answer the question but I'm gonna guess 'no' then.

[split lark]

This didn't fix it either. I did notice that around the model there are weird points though that when clicked, select the forearm part of the model... That may be connected I assume

[fluid oak]

I meant your import settings in unity.

[split lark]

Oh wait, that's just where the default T pose transform for it was.

[eager mist]

im just saving the image into a folder in unity

[fluid oak]

Yeah, sounds like there are problems with your model that are outside of my blender familiarity to diagnose. Try looking on a blender forum/discord maybe for help cleaning up your model?

[split lark]

Okay, thanks for your assistance. 👌

[fluid oak]

You need to set the import settings for your image to match the import settings of the one you copied.

[fluid oak]

Incidentally, you could also have just flipped it by checking 'flip' in the sprite renderer?

[eager mist]

alright thank you

[eager mist]

yeah it was the settings i changed bilinear to point no filter

[wind carbon]

anyone know why my unity model is using all one color for some parts despite working fine in unreal and blender? It was working yesterday but i updated the texture which still works for the other models that use the texture but not my guns and i tried reimporting everything new but it's still getting this result

[fluid oak]

Did you delete the UV map?

[wind carbon]

in blender and unreal the uvs work fine, is there somewhere extra unity stores the uv information because I deleted all the files and tried to fresh import it in unity

[fluid oak]

Did you try reapplying the textures in unity?

[split lark]

I have found and fixed the issue I was having. Turns out it was something tied to the scaling of the offending parts. The offending parts were scaled to a negative due to the way I chose to create symmetry, having duplicated the parts and used the mirror shortcut. The fix was to apply all of the transforms, then recalculate the normals. I hope this helps anyone who has this weirdly specific problem, lol.

[woven dome]

That looks about the same as the texture

Set the tiling and/or offset so that it doesn't repeat

[south bronze]

So the game I'm working on requires a scene where a pipe bursts and water leaks out; all I find when I Google "unity water tutorial" is like ocean shaders and stuff; I have a theory about how to go about it but figured I'd ask around before dedicating time to a stupid idea: Could I just make a mesh of water burst from the pipe and throw a water material on it or is that going to look terrible lol

[clever mirage]

guys i have problem with transform from blender to unity with animation, can i sheir screen and someone can help me? (youtube didnt work )

[fluid oak]

I mean, that's what Bioshock did.

You'll probably want some particles as well.

[harsh dagger]

This will also depend how stylized your game is — the more it is, the more you can get away with meshes. Particles do help with all styles, though.

You can also try transparent materials with scrolling textures to make it look like it is flowing (that's how old games used to make waterfalls and this sort of stuff).

[rough geyser]

Still having issues with this.

[fluid oak]

Making the lightmaps bigger/increasing the padding?

[rough geyser]

I'm not using lightmaps tho

and the lightleaks go away when I get close to them

well actually I am. but idk which one I should change.

[rough geyser]

with shadow distance at 0 and 40. 20 is all I really need but I'm still getting light leaks that are not close to the player. And they'll disappear once I get close. idk why this is.

[rough geyser]

fixed it. It was the fade distance on the shadow option for lights.

[eager mist]

Guys, I do not understand how the canvas works. So I have this cancel button which will .setActive(false) to the Play Panel and hide it, also a button which will .setActive(true) to this Play panel to display it.
After I .setActive(false) to this Play Panel, the next time I .setActive(true) to it, the cancel button will be unable to interact. May I know what the issue? :0

[rough geyser]

Does the button still recognize that the mouse is there by highlighting when you hover over it?

[eager mist]

erm, it doesn't. It still displayed but unable to interact with it.

[rough geyser]

Does your hierarchy display an "event system" while you are unable to use the button? Or is the event system maybe disabled?

[eager mist]

No, I guess.

[rough geyser]

Buttons and other ui elements require an "Event system" in order to activate. Make sure you are not de-activating your event system.

[eager mist]

I nvr touch the event system before :0

[eager mist]

Ya, I'm sure I didn't de-activate it

What I confuse was I did the same way to close the other canvas but the close button still works after I re active it

it just suddenly dun works :<

Is there a difference between this 2

[rough geyser]

How many canvas's do you have in the scene? and are there any code differences between the one that worked and the one that didn't?

[eager mist]

erm..ermm I have a lot of canvas

I didn't do coding for the button. I use the onclick function from the button itself

[rough geyser]

It could be an issue of layering. Check the button in the scene view while playing the game to see if there's anything out of the ordinary. Check if the button's borders are still where they need to be.

[eager mist]

why does the Cancel button work the first time but unable to interact the second time I active it? :0

by re active the canvas does it change the layer?

[rough geyser]

This sounds like it could be an issue with code.

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1225741/disable-ui-button.html

[eager mist]

I active the panel and the close button work. The second time I active the panel and the close button refuse to work :<

[rough geyser]

maybe change your Canvas GraphicRaycaster BlockingMask from Nothing to either Everything or UI(or whichever layer your button is).

[eager mist]

This one rite? :0

[rough geyser]

yes

[eager mist]

ya, its Everything all the time :<

[rough geyser]

While the game is running, check if the button is being covered by other canvas elements.

[eager mist]

how can I check it?

[rough geyser]

Click on scene view while your game is running and search for the button in the hierarchy. Then double check that none of the other canvas objects are overlapping atop of the button.

[eager mist]

there nothing

[rough geyser]

Are you absolutely sure that the Event system is still in your hierarchy when you run into this issue?

[eager mist]

ya It still alive

all other button that I do in the exact same way works

When I press on the button, it show nothing selected

ermerm, actually I can't even detect the button

like the whole play panel is unable to detect but they do appear when I re active

[rough geyser]

Huh... I don't know... do you think this could be an issue with your code? Try posting your issue and code in one of the code channels. Maybe they can determine what the issue is.

[eager mist]

but there no code involve

sorryy Pecoraa

thanks for your time 😭

[rough geyser]

It's alright. I suggest you check out the unity documentation for more information on UI elements. You may find your answer there.

[eager mist]

pain

[eager mist]

erm my last question

should I have nested canvas?

and..what the use of canvas? :0

[rough geyser]

A canvas is what holds all of your UI elements. all UI elements must be children of such a Canvas.

[eager mist]

that means one Canvas in a scene is enuf?

[rough geyser]

I've personally never done nested canvas's, as they can be a bit complicated and disorienting. I typically do 1-4 canvas's per scene depending on what project I'm doing.

[rough geyser]

It depends.

[eager mist]

I see

Thanks Pecora

i..erm solve it

Previously the object containing all them is a canvas

after remove the canvas, they works :<

aw

[outer halo]

If you need to interact with anything that is a child of a canvas, you need to put a GraphicsRaycaster component on the canvas object as well.

Also this is a #📲┃ui-ux question in the future.

[eager mist]

oh my sorry

[light crater]

can anyone help me with importing a painted blender file into unity without the model being all white

[misty lantern]

You should save the painted texture to an external file and import that file into unity

[west storm]

is there a way I can stop this from happening, I am using two rule tiles

[fluid oak]

Define 'this' please? I can't actually tell what it's supposed to look like

[stiff axle]

Hey someone help me how do I open a .tex file or convert it so I can edit it

[west storm]

I want the tiles to "merge together", right now the rule tile is acting like there is no tile there and is rendering as such

[dry geyser]

How many UV maps can a single object bring in? If I was making a snap layout environment and I had walls done with a trim sheet, how would I create alternate textures that use different uv cords. Can I bring in 2 uv cords for the walls and pick which one I want at the material level? Or would I be better off re-exporting the second uv map models as a new model?

[misty lantern]

I don't know what the upper limit is but one extra should be totally fine
Unity prefers you use the first and third channels, as the second one is used for baked lightmapping

[dry geyser]

ok thanks, good to know, i remember something about lightmaps on one of them, i will do some tests later today and just see what happens. thanks

[fluid oak]

Eight.

That's the official number at least; I never tested it.

[thin silo]

How do you guys setup your camera Size when using a pre-made art? Cause I found some crazy tilesets from penusbmic, but I'm not sure what size of camera to use so the art looks as intended and not too big or too small

And I'm afraid to use a random camera size, I don't know if it has an importance of impact on future things

[dry geyser]

make a cube that is 1.8m tall and pretend that is a human. then set your models and assets up according to that scale

[fluid oak]

Base it on the pixels per unit of the art you are using, probably. You can also ask the artist what their intended reference resolution is I suppose and work from that

[stiff axle]

how can I change the color of a 2Dtexture that glows?

[fluid oak]

Can you be more specific?

[stiff axle]

can I dm you because its a little long

eh, actually ill just post here

ok theres this game called SMT NOCTURNE III, and it is made with unity, so i have learned to extract compress assets, with UABEA, and extract the PNGS from textures, edit them, then place them back via the texture plugin in UABEA, everything works but for a glowing texture, here is an example

[fluid oak]

This isn't really a discord for ripping assets or hacking/editing published games.

[stiff axle]

really...?

well atleast the question of, how do I recolor a 2dtexture that glows, without masking it with the recolor and the glow doesn't work anymore

someone else recolored it and it displays fine, but when I recolored it, it disappears

[fluid oak]

That's not really a unity question, is it? More a matter of editing the texture file, I'd think.

[stiff axle]

I don't see anything in #📖┃code-of-conduct that says I cannot ask about texture editing

But if you're not going to help then nevermind

[fluid oak]

Well, you haven't given enough information to help you more than what I suggested, anyway.

[inland barn]

well, we have no clue how the glow works and thus we don't know how to recolor the texture

Other than going into photoshop and changing some colors

[fluid oak]

Exactly. You say someone else did it; have you tried just asking them how?

[warped rain]

You can get better rule tiles here https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/2d-techdemos/blob/master/Assets/Tilemap/Rule Tiles/Rule Override Tile/ExampleSiblingRuleTile.cs

[lost lion]

is there a way to detect on a mesh which texture a raycast hits, if it uses polybrush texture blending

[obsidian axle]

@lost lion using collider.material.name.Contains("MaterialName") might be enough
if all the polybrush materials are named in a way that they can be found like that

[lost lion]

I think I'll just use terrain because I want to find the texture not just the material

[fluid oak]

You can find the triangle and the texture coordinate, not sure how polybrush stores its data

If it is vertex color data you can get that, if it is a splatmap texture you can use the uvs to get it.

Polybrush might have its own method to provide that data, too

I'd ask in #🛠️┃probuilder

[lost lion]

ok

[foggy willow]

is it possible to move a object from unity to blender?

[tame scaffold]

Yep. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.formats.fbx@2.0/manual/index.html

Does anyone know what's up with pixel art sizes? I'm seeing some odd dimensions like 42x42 and 24x24 that I'm not familiar with. I thought everything was supposed to be 8x8, 16x16, 32x32, or 64x64?

[foggy willow]

so if im not using the 2018 one i cant?

[tame scaffold]

Nah you can just find another version or something through the package manager. It might even be built in, not sure.

If you google Unity to Blender fbx you should find what you're looking for, that's what I did the other day when I did this

[fluid oak]

there are various exporters for various formats on github as well

[graceful ingot]

I downloaded the free vox assest, however the rendered image that I'm given looks much better than when I import it. In this picture you can see that the gun has a nice outline on all the edges, however when I import it into Unity, nothing 😦 any ideas or help? Here is what the gun should/how id like it to look: https://creazilla.com/nodes/1432911-pixel-weapons-3d-model

how it currently looks

maybe im not using the png for the material properly?

[glacial vector]

That's not in the texture, that is a shader thing you would have to add yourself

[graceful ingot]

hm alright. I find that odd since he includes pngs of the guns with the shaders in the file

there's an ID mask png included, what are those typically used for? I cant quite find an answer

[glacial vector]

Creators are free to upload whatever renders they will. Most likely that image is rendered in something like blender, whereas the model itself can be used in any program

What does the ID map look like?

[graceful ingot]

this lol

[glacial vector]

Then I don't know

[graceful ingot]

this was the "palette" I was given that I turned into the material

well thanks for the help and info!

[wide ginkgo]

hello! i have a question, i set the reference resolution in the pixel perfect camera 90 and 45 but the actual resolution seems to be much bigger than that, since when i import sprites into unity they look much smaller than i expect them to be. what should i do to get the result i want?

[harsh dagger]

@wide ginkgo I also want a very specific window size, I want to display 22x16 tiles in a screen. Since my PPU is 8, I multiplied 8 by the desired tile dimensions which is the result that I inserted in reference resolution as you can see in the image.

Then I crop the frame so it doesn't display anything past that

Is this what you were trying to do?

It might be that your reference resolution is too small (it's smaller than your PPU even)!

[wide ginkgo]

hey yeah thats what id like to do too! now i changed it to 64 x 32 but as you can see there are more than 8 8x8 grass tiles appearing on the horizontal at the same time 😩

[harsh dagger]

Change your reference resolution X to 512

[wide ginkgo]

and the y?

[harsh dagger]

I don't know how many tiles you want on the Y axis but just multiply 64 * the amount

If you want 10 tiles on the Y, it would be 640 (64* 10 = 640)

[harsh dagger]

Well, you will just have to play with these numbers

[wide ginkgo]

but how will i know the actual resolution of my game 😩

since i want my pixel art to scale a certain way too

[harsh dagger]

That is why I use the frame crop

[wide ginkgo]

what is that?

[harsh dagger]

And it works on both 16:10 and 16:9 aspect ratio

That option to add black bars in the Pixel Perfect Camera component

[wide ginkgo]

ahh bummer, it doesnt seem to be helping my case

[harsh dagger]

Did you set your imported sprites to the same PPU value you are using in your Pixel Perfect Camera component?

Mine is 8, so I set 8 on import settings and that camera component

And so far it has been working the way I explained

[wide ginkgo]

AHH that was the thing 😩

thanks a lot!!

[harsh dagger]

Does it work the want you intended it to now?

[harsh dagger]

I'm glad you got it to work! 👍

[wide ginkgo]

ahh it does make it bigger but now i have problems with the grid 🥲

[harsh dagger]

The scene view grid or a tilemap grid?

If the later, cell sizes should be set to 1

[wide ginkgo]

😫 the dude i was following said to put the cell size to 0.08 oh boy

[harsh dagger]

Cell size makes more logical sense to be 1, you want 1 in-game unit to be represented by 1 cell

So if you move a tile 2 cells to the right, it will be 2 in-game units to the right and etc

[wide ginkgo]

should the cell size be 1 in the palette setings or the grid settings?

cause if i set it to 1 in the grid settings they become gigantic

[harsh dagger]

The grid, is the scale of your grid also set to 1?

[wide ginkgo]

yeah the scale is 1

and if i make it 1 they become really big

[lone kelp]

guys im trying 2d art for the first time can someone tell me if this is good or if its looking goofy im not done but just so far

im not tryna direct copy

just influence

[harsh dagger]

If you zoom out in your scene view, select both the camera where the Pixel Perfect Camera component is set to run in edit mode, then also select your grid, does the amount of cells inside the camera bounding boxes match the amount you were aiming for?

If yes, it's a matter of deleting your generated tiles and re-creating them

It's a weird bug that can happen and happened to me multiple times before

Like, look at mine, 22 by 16. The cells match perfectly

[wide ginkgo]

yeah id say for me its slightly less 💀

[real wolf]

Hello

What is a standard image format in games today? Someone said DDS but some also use PNG.

Unity imports image files as textures. Unity supports most common image file types, such as BMP, TIF, TGA, JPG, and PSD. If you save your layered Photoshop (.psd) files in your Assets folder, Unity imports them as flattened images. Read more about importing textures.

ok got it, so no DDS

TIF it is 🙂

[lament kite]

Hay all, Right now, Trying to give some lighting depth to my 2d art for my game, I’m working with “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks”.
here’s what I’ve done
a urp material that holds the drawing,
a normal map of that drawing, roughly made as a white outline with some extra.
a sprite renderer with the same texture as the material
(changing it messes stuff up, but not sure if that ones necessary?) the result is... close enough to what I want. I’m not sure yet how “sprite animation” will work with materials instead, but before I do this for the thousands of sprites this game will have, does anyone have any advice/better approaches/ obvious bitfalls? also, not sure if this is the right channel? Thank you.

[fluid oak]

DDS is standard in the industry but using them with unity is tricky. most imported textures get converted to unity's internal format but, iirc, dds files are used as is so without scripting you can't set filtering, etc.

[merry elk]

Cross posting from other channels not sure where to ask:
#💻┃unity-talk message

[primal plume]

hey

[primal plume]

i have done the png file nicely in layer in unity, but when i open back the file is missing ?
why?

feel abit exhausted 🥺

The progress was gone, why

[misty lantern]

You have a blank scene opened here

[fluid oak]

Yeah, that does seem to be the case.

[stiff axle]

How do I replace a certain model in an assetbundle, with another object

[jade furnace]

You can go to the folder of the assetbundle through windows/mac/linux, and then rename the object you want to replace with the exact same name.

[stiff axle]

I mean how do i open the uncompressed assetbundle through unity, and replace the model inside it with another one, then save the asset bundle for it to be inserted in game

[fluid oak]

This isn't a server for hacking games.

[jade furnace]

yeah I read this question wrong

[heady sail]

Hey this is a great tip thanks.
So you find it's worth just going through asset by asset to set the max res on the Import Setting with bilinear over Atlas scaling in general?

[charred tendon]

(lmk if this isn't the right channel)

I'm trying to switch out the Base Map texture for each layer in a material with the HDRP/LayeredLit shader at runtime from code, anyone know how to do that? I'm not particularly versed at shader stuff

[fluid oak]

You can do it per build target too

You can also write a asset processer script that will only work on specific folders

So you can put all the files you want handled a certain way into one folder

[primal plume]

Anyway to resolve this? Restive my missing progress

[tame scaffold]

my biggest suggestion would be to start with a smaller canvas, like 16x32 or 32x64

[lime pollen]

like spazi said, you have a blank scene open. look for your original scene

[stiff axle]

I get this issue when generating mesh