🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[stiff axle]

How to fix

[hollow sable]

Hi, guys! We are working on a cartoon game in which we have multiple variations of the same asset in terms of textures (mainly colors, but also some details combined). Which is the better way to proceed with this? Different textures (I think it consumes lots of space)? A gray scale that multiplies with albedo inside the material? Another one? Thanks in advance 🙌🏻.

[fluid oak]

Grayscale that is colored in shader is a generally good method if you need lots of variations that are just color swaps.

[hollow sable]

Custom shader or URP’s default ones? And… any workflow to automate the generation of that grayscales?

[glacial vector]

This approach from Dying Light 2 is pretty interesting

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/767738215808761886/994278190287696002/image0.jpg

From here https://www.artstation.com/artwork/o2Wgam

[hollow sable]

So interesting for what we are looking for! Thanks a lot

[languid coyote]

can anyone please help me, every time i press everything disappear from scene but not UI, this all happened when i added a new scene and put them in the "scene in build"

[primal plume]

how to find my original scene

[lime pollen]

Look for the scene file in your project

[outer halo]

You shouldn't be "figuring it out", you should be learning how Unity works and applying that learning to your idea.

Start with the Unity Learn tutorials pinned in #💻┃unity-talk, or if you don't have the patience for learning Unity, at least look up how to use sprites in Unity.

[true geode]

So I'm sure this is some silly setting error, but I'm importing a cube in from blender as part of a scene, but the UV mapping seems to be off by exactly 0.5

Anyone might know what the issue is?

The material is just a basic lit URP material with the texture as its only input

[fluid oak]

Before we look into more esoteric options, have you checked the material to make sure that there isn't a .5 offset on the texture? Also, if you load the exported model in blender is the UV correct?

[true geode]

Also, if you load the exported model in blender is the UV correct?
🙏

The UV was centered in blender for some reason

Thank you

[woeful escarp]

Whenever I export my mesh as an fbx from blender for use in unity, it always ends up not rendering some of the faces

if there anything I could do in blender or unity to solve this issue?

just looked at in blender and it looks like my normals are completely jumbled

nvm

[visual reef]

Yeah, it's normals! But even if you get them right in blender, sometimes you have to select specific faces and 'flip normals' until it looks right in Unity.. do not question it !

[glacial vector]

I recommend turning on backface culling in blender so you can see the issue there already

[marsh loom]

How would I replace all prefabs of [name] in the scene with another prefab, while keeping the transformations of the placed prefabs?

It's too many to do with Alt drag 😦

[marsh loom]

Nevermind y'all, found this. Still works from 2017!
https://unity3d.college/2017/09/07/replace-gameobjects-or-prefabs-with-another-prefab/

[primal plume]

how can i not moving the background sword, when i animated my hand? its seem like attached bone, when i animate the hand part the back sword will follow?

[primal plume]

@lime pollen

anyone know how?

[pliant elm]

how do you guys re-import an updated model when I needed to change stuff in my modeler?
Re-import doesn't seems to do it.

[fallen harbor]

you can change bone influence

[primal plume]

okay noted

[misty lantern]

You can delete it in unity and import the new version with the same name
The references to the asset will not be lost, but it's a bit harder to keep a version history this way

[primal plume]

what should i do, if i missing my prefab?

couldn'tsee my progress

[misty lantern]

It works for .fbx mesh files at least
Haven't tried it with psb

As long as the name and location match perfectly

[primal plume]

How to rematch the location, i didnt move the origin file, when i close the file and open up. End up like this 😩

[lime pollen]

Don't ping people not currently in a conversation with you

[thin silo]

Hey! If I could have artists opinions about that, I'd be more than grateful!
#archived-game-design message

[primal plume]

Okay sorry

[primal plume]

Anyone know how to rematch, any tutorial

[raven nova]

Hello all. When using urp its been easy to upgrade the materials, but in HDRP I cant seem to find an option to upgrade materials in project to HDRP.

Is it not possible, or am I missing something ?

[frigid widget]

this looks like the option you are searching for

or did you go from build in to URP to HDRP ?

[fluid oak]

Give the sword its own bone, and remove the influence from the arm bones.

[dense horizon]

Hello.
Does this work with an character?

[keen sleet]

I imported this .fbx from blender, but I can't do anythign to the armature/mesh/UV map. Why is everything greyed out?

[kind umbra]

hello

should my rectangle look like this?

jaggy like thayt

[dense horizon]

Before 3 weeks I had the same problems. Search for "Blender to Unity Character export" on YouTube

[keen sleet]

you got it

[blissful relic]

you mean the edges?

you can use anti-aliasing to smooth them

[dense horizon]

It's getting better day by day.
I learn with the tutorial series of Kendra Games.
The basics for a platformer

[fluid oak]

Are you zoomed in?

[kind umbra]

its in game mode

[fluid oak]

Is game mode zoomed in?

[kind umbra]

no

it's at 1x

[kind umbra]

yes

is it normal to be like that?

or did i mess something up?

[shut reef]

sometimes it looks fine when you build it

[kind umbra]

yah i was thinking that once i do that it might change it

[shut reef]

worth a shot i suppose

[kind umbra]

never built something that wasnt for mobile before

ill just wait until i get further with it

[blissful relic]

no, you simply havent turned on antialiasing

[kind umbra]

ah ok

where do i find that?

[blissful relic]

Uhh its somewhere in project settings, quality I think

it might be a bit confusing at first

[kind umbra]

its alright

worse comes to worst

googling tiome!

[fluid oak]

That depends on your rendering path. Either under quality settings, or under your renderer. Also, needs to be enabled on the camera.

[wise jay]

Hey, I'm having troubles with using a texture for a model

When I look from a certain angle, the leaf becomes invisible even though it's there. I have render 2 sides on so thats not the problem

I'm using the transparent surface type, I'm guessing it has to do with that

I thought that I could make a simple shader graph to remove the background in the image myself, but it's already a png with no background

[glacial vector]

Try setting the blending mode to cutout @wise jay

This is issue is a result of several layers of transparency on the same mesh

[wise jay]

I don't have that option

[glacial vector]

Surface type then maybe

[wise jay]

Only Opaque and Transparent

I'm using URP, if that's important

[glacial vector]

Aha it's the alpha clipping checkbox

[wise jay]

Ah

[wise jay]

Nope, doesn't fix the weird transparency. I think the alpha clipping doesnt do anything because it's already a png, and there's nothing to further remove

Just increasing the value removes a bit more of the sides, but it doesn't make it look good

I've had this problem in so many occasions but have still never found a solution

oooh I might have the solution

[wise jay]

Yeah it's fixed. All I had to do was set it to opaque and use alpha clipping, which you suggested. Thanks for the help 🙂

[glacial vector]

Great, yeah it's a bit different in the old render pieline

[teal orbit]

Anyone have best practice tips for adding grass/foliage to your environments? At the moment, I just have grass sprites with transparent backgrounds mapped out to some planes that are bunched together and I just place them around.

I've heard about performance costs of overdraw due to the transparent backgrounds, but wasn't sure how negligible that actually was. My levels are also extremely low poly.

[eager mist]

anyone knows why i dont have a list of asset packages in Assets > Import Package. pretty sure there should be a list

there aint any

[manic coyote]

are you perhaps looking for the package manager

[eager mist]

i just wanted to add water and saw that you can find built in water asset

[manic coyote]

that's in the package manager. Assets > import package means you have a .unitypackage somewhere in your PC

[eager mist]

yes i have 2 packages but i dont think i have those prebuilt ones. is there a way to download those?

[lime pollen]

If you're looking for the standard assets, those don't exist anymore

[candid python]

Hey hi, sorry if this is the wrong channel, not sure if this question belongs here or in one of the Graphics channels, but I'm having an issue with a model and a normal map.

I have a model in Blender with a little fingerprint texture on it to give a claymation vibe, but when I try to import the fingerprint texture into Unity, it wraps very weirdly and I don't know how to fix it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It also happens on the face as well

Here's what the Material panel looks like. I've tried messing with the Tiling, Offset, Smoothness, Source, even the Rendering Mode

None of them seem to accomplish what I'm trying to do.

[supple osprey]

need help with a 3d model problem.
Im importing models from maya. but the custom pivots wont stay. Unity is only using a world/object pivot. and its just poiting according to the world coordinates. ive got a custom 45 degrees on an object, but its not importing it. any reason why its doing that?

(the texture isnt the one i should use. this is just a test piece)

the pivot origin positioning is right, but the angle is off.

[supple osprey]

what does the texture look like? i see youve tiled it.

[candid python]

This is the texture normally, which I then turn into a Normal Map with Create from Grayscale turned on in Unity

It's the same exact texture that is being used in Blender

[supple osprey]

and the UV?

[candid python]

UV?

[supple osprey]

didnt you UV it?

unwrap the models UV?

[candid python]

I commissioned the model, so I have no idea if it's been UV'd or not

[supple osprey]

hmm ok. i dont know blender, so i cant help you there.

[candid python]

I assume it would be like one of those unwrap type things where the entire textures of the model are on a single image and the face looks weird

But the thing is, the model doesn't have textures, it uses colored materials

This is the only texture there

(Aside form a heart on the chest but that one's already handled)

[supple osprey]

if you just added color then its no problem if its not unwrapped. but you need it to be unwrapped if you added on textures

i can check if its UV´d. but i need the model for it.

[candid python]

Okay, do you mind if I dm it to you?

[supple osprey]

go ahead.

[fluid oak]

You could probably use triplanar projection in the shader if you have no UVs; that would avoid seams like and even out the texel scale but could introduce other artifacts.

[supple osprey]

the model wasent UV´d

or was half done UV´d anyway. alot of UVs on the same space.

[lime pollen]

Yikes

[tame scaffold]

Anyone know how this effect was achieved in Children of Morta? It's like a pixel art x-ray.

Or, maybe even just what this is called so I can look into it further myself

[frigid widget]

something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szsWx9IQVDI

[tame scaffold]

Ah yes perfect! So it's a "renderer" doing this. I'll check it out, very much appreciated.

[fluid oak]

That tutorial gives a basic idea but is VERY out of date.

The LWRP has been replaced by Universal Render Pipeline(URP) and render features can just be added directly to your URP settings asset

[tame scaffold]

Great note there. Thanks a lot! I'll keep that in mind when I get around to watching.

[fluid oak]

Assuming you are using URP already, I'd just skip the video and go to https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@10.1/manual/urp-renderer-feature.html

And if you are not using URP, I'd look up material 'stencil testing' pass

[primal plume]

does anyone know how to resolve this? any video i can refer?

[lapis elk]

did you try to reimport the prefabs folder?

If this is not working, you have to recreate the prefab

[dense horizon]

Mhh
The right Shoe is invisible.
Does anyone know how I can fix that

[glacial vector]

Apply scale in blender so it's not negative. This happens when you mirror

[dense horizon]

The Scale is at 1. I did it again but nothing changes 😒

[lapis elk]

looks like inverted normals

[dense horizon]

Ok
Should I recalculate the normals in Blender?

[glacial vector]

That should do it

[lapis elk]

Just have a look if they are inverted or not ^^

[dense horizon]

Thanks all.
The dog wants to go out.
I try it later

[spark raptor]

hey how can i cut shapes into meshes? i want to cut a rectangle in my wall plane to place door in here

[primal plume]

how to reimport?

[dense horizon]

The normals where the problem.
Thanks again.
@primal plume Maybe your prefabs are in the explorer.
Today I learned to update my models in the explorer.
That was one of my biggest problems

[fluid oak]

#🛠️┃probuilder

[merry fiber]

Hey, I recently made two models in blender.
For the first model I:

• Created a base
• Then in Edit Mode added another cube to start making the piece above the base.
  For the second model I:
• Used the Base from the previous model
• Made a new cube outside of edit mode (Aka they are treated as separate objects in the Blender inspector)

When I bring the object into Unity, the first object is treated as one model, whereas the second object is treated as two models and has the second model as a child of the Base

How do I make it so that the model is imported just like the first one? Parenting the Piece to the Base didn't help, it's still two different Game Objects in Unity

[merry fiber]

ANSWER:
I had to "Join" the objects in Blender

[blissful niche]

has anyone purchased 3d models from artstation before? im looking to buy some archviz assets and I'm wondering if they usually come UV mapped

i'm not good at that stuff :9

[candid python]

Hey hi yes, small question, I'm trying to import my model into Unity but it's not detecting any of the shapekeys I've set up at all, even though they are working perfectly fine in Blender.

[candid python]

The shapekeys are attached to the body itself, could that be a reason as to why it's not locating the shapekeys?

These are all the shapekeys attached to the body itself and the eyes, but no matter what I can't find any way for Unity to take these shapekeys with it, even though other model's shapekeys do transfer over.

[fervent breach]

Wacky, planes inside a transparent texture showing even through non transparent ones

[twilit basin]

How can I stop the texture stretch and make it repeat along the object?

[misty lantern]

The mesh needs to be created with non-stretched UVs in the desired shape (such as using Blender or ProBuilder) or the shader needs to be able to map textures uniformly regardless of UV stretching (such as Triplanar mapping)

[lime berry]

Currently I'm trying to modify an avatar. I imported the FBX file into Blender, made the changes, and reimported the FBX file back into Unity. The problem is, the avatar is now invisible. I'm not sure what I can do.

[merry elk]

Hey all, does anyone know what is the main difference between using Default texture type and 2D and UI specifically for images that are used as a background ?
by looking at the docs. it seems like both options are very similar :
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/TextureTypes.html

for instance this straightforward if it's a normal map 👍
But if it's a png image used as a background, should it stay default or be Sprite
also if it's a texture atlas - should it be default as well 🤔

[flint wasp]

Sooo.

My 2d assets pixelate at an zoom level of 1 when in the game scene.

In the project scene it can zoom in much more before pixels appear.

Why so and what can i do to make my assets look better?

[fluid oak]

If you are using it as a texture applied to an object, use default. If you are using it for placing the texture directly into a UI or the scene, use sprite.

[merry elk]

Cool ty

Does anyone here know what’s the difference between texture packer and unity atlas tools?

Which one is better

Also are there additional resources on how texture packs are used

[twilit basin]

I have a gap between the lines on sphere but texture is seamless. How can I fix that?

[lapis elk]

Show the uv pls

[twilit basin]

For some reason, I can't view UV mapping of the sphere from ProBuilder

[final ferry]

hey, i have a question about splitting a sketchfab model

how do i split the pants, cap, and torsos from each other

[swift estuary]

looks like they're already split, no?

[molten arch]

Please help

There's a material that I want separate but I don't need to make an atlas of it since there's nothing to combine with it. Since its just a material it doesn't embed with the model when I export it. When I try extracting the textures I only get the atlas texture I created while the material I want separate that DOESNT have an atlas of it does not appear.

so basically any material that I don't atlas doesn't pop up when I extract textures

[lime pollen]

you need to make a uv map to bake it. Otherwise you have to recreate the material in unity

[molten arch]

It already has a uv map

but I didn't bake it

How would I go about baking it

Should I bake the atlas?

I'm using the CATS addon

for VRchat avatars

[lime pollen]

not super familiar with blender but it should be pretty easy to look up how to do it

[molten arch]

So I just have to bake the texture

thats it

thats pretty straight forward, sounds easy.

hopefully this works

[woven epoch]

Question: if I rig something in blender, will it be rigged when I move it to unity?

[woven epoch]

Did it?

[lime pollen]

depends on what you mean by rig

bone influences will transfer over but not controls

[robust hull]

where can I get this kind of models?

[fluid oak]

Megascans, probably.

[eternal linden]

Hi. I don't know if this is the correct place to ask, but how can I fake the shadows of a moving object please? I've tried the decal projector but it literally dropped the performance 50%

[eternal linden]

for URP btw

[fluid oak]

@eternal linden so you can't just use shadows?

[eternal linden]

nope, they use too many resources because it's a VR game and the hardware is not too powerful

[fluid oak]

You'd probably get more answers if you asked in the right channel.

#archived-urp probably

Have you tried a negative light?

or #🥽┃virtual-reality

[shadow cradle]

if ps1 can draw shadows I don't see why your hardware can't

[fluid oak]

While I agree, I haven't worked with the hardware so I'm not about to get into that technical argument

[eternal linden]

it can, but performance is hit kinda badly

[lapis elk]

Blob shadows.

[eternal linden]

tried, but it says that the projector component is not supported in the active render pipeline

[lapis elk]

A blob shadow is just a 2d plane on the ground.

With a blurred black circle that looks like a shadow

https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-get-fake-shadows-like-that.386450/

[eternal linden]

yes, but why does it not work in my project then? Like, why do I get that warning?

[lime pollen]

I mean it says right there why it doesn't work. If you read the thread there are solutions that don't involve a projector

[lapis elk]

As is said, a Blobshadow is just a Plane with a blurred black circle.

[eternal linden]

but that plane needs to be in the ground all the time and has to adapt to different shapes of the ground, so a normal plane with just the blurred black circle wouldn't work. Sorry if I'm not understanding something

[misty lantern]

You might be using URP which also uses "Decal Projector" component, who knows

[misty lantern]

That's what decal projecting is intended to solve
Sometimes you can get by with just a nonconforming plane blob shadow

[eternal linden]

That's just the problem, I am trying to find something else because literally adding this thing drops the fps to half I don't know why

[misty lantern]

Documentation suggests using "screen space" instead of "dbuffer" as Technique on hardware that uses tile based rendering, but I don't know your situation really
Decals have a bit of overhead in any case I'm afraid

[eternal linden]

I'll try that thanks

[eternal linden]

and the other settings I leave them just like that?

[misty lantern]

Sure
Though if you're on deferred rendering path (which I doubt) the GBuffer setting may affect the performance, though I don't fully understand it

[eternal linden]

I don't think so, I think it uses the forward one, or the default one at least

okay still performance drops idk why 😦

guess won't be able to use it

[misty lantern]

I can't think of any other practical shadow methods
It might be worth taking a serious look at optimizing your current scene to get a grasp of how much headroom you have to work with

[eternal linden]

I don't really have much room to work with, so everything I do has to be as optimized as possible. The thing I don't understand is why the URP decal projector is just destroying the performance so much

[fluid oak]

You can understand why shadows projected onto the geometry hurt performance but can't understand why projecting images onto geometry does?

I mean, if you asked in a relevant channel and mentioned what hardware you were using, someone might be able to tell you.

Most likely, enabling decals disables some optimization, like disallowing single pass forward rendering.

[outer halo]

@dim forum There are no job posts here. You can use the forums for that.

[tribal ravine]

i really suck at Texturing/UV Mapping

but i would say im pretty good at 3D Modelling

so i dont know what to do, Should i make a Game with like 2 Colors or something?

Monochromatic Game?

or should i force myself to somehow wrap my head around getting actual good looking Texturing in my games

[hoary kindle]

Yes you should. If you think you can get good looking game with just few colors, why not but most likely you need to learn texture painting and uv unwrapping at some point

[wise jay]

Yes. But keep in mind that your textures should be of consistent quality at all times, otherwise it'll look like garbage

[safe parrot]

Which one of these is the best pickup art or how to improve it

[wise jay]

Wdym with pickup art?

[safe parrot]

like for a picup on the ground

[wise jay]

Ohh

like an upgrade or something

[safe parrot]

ammo refill

[wise jay]

Ahh

[misty lantern]

The most important is to communicate 1. what item it is 2. how to interact with it

Can't quite recognize what that's meant to be

[wise jay]

@safe parrot I'd say, make it a more military ammo box style image. Kinda like the one in the image, but it of course depends what the game style is and what it's about.

[misty lantern]

If you need to press a specific button to interact with it when the graphic is showing, it may be helpful to make it look like a physical button which inherently communicates its function

But there rarely are perfect solutions

[safe parrot]

Well you shoot sticky platforms so you can get across gaps

[wise jay]

that's.... not a lot of information on the visuals. How does the rest of your game look like?

Is it like the early mario games?

Or more retro styled?

Or like doodle jump?

[final ferry]

it's not split. That's why i'm asking about it...

hey, i have a question about splitting a sketchfab model
how do i split the pants, cap, and torsos from each other

[final ferry]

when dragging one of them onto a part of the model, all of them drag with it. for example, all of them would drag to the upperchest

[safe parrot]

also is this better then my current guy

[safe parrot]

it is an ammo pickup refill that you go into to get it and it disappears

[final ferry]

anyone know why the jacket is see-through once it's put on the model?

[tribal ravine]

Can you elaborate on this

Also is there any good Tutorial on Texturing?

i struggle with Texturing Walls/Floors for maps

[misty lantern]

Its normals are inverted, either in the geometry itself or by inheriting a negative scale from a bone somehow

[wise jay]

yes, much better

[wise jay]

In some games, the character or npc's for example, look very realistic, though the other assets look like dogshit. That inconsistency in graphics is very bad because many people don't like it (and it will look unrealistic). You should make sure your game is in the style and the textures look similar

[safe parrot]

ok

[tribal ravine]

That sounds like mis-coordination between the 3D Artist making the Characters and the 3D Artist making the Enviroment

[wise jay]

Could be

[safe parrot]

still guys which is the best one

[safe parrot]

is this good?

[tribal ravine]

Is that a Flashlight?

or a green dil**

Can you give some context

[safe parrot]

I did

But I will again

It is an ammo refill pickup that you run into and pickup and it disappears

[misty lantern]

I really can't tell what that exactly is
But if you clarify the significance of that green and purple shape through gameplay elsewhere, it doesn't necessarily have to be so immediately obvious

Also, in the larger screenshot this graphic seemed much smaller and harder to distinguish than other objects

[safe parrot]

they are sticky platform bullets that the player shoots

[safe parrot]

I can make it larger

[misty lantern]

Something to consider is that usually you'll want every graphic to have the same visual resolution, or pixels per unit
This makes everything appear consistent and in pixel art style graphics visually more clear

Something you would think about in the beginning rather than mid-project, though

[safe parrot]

I thought about it at the beginning

I just think its too big now

I will make a new one

[west grove]

Not sure if anyone here does this but...

I am confused on the workflow to go from blender with UDIMs -> marmoset for baking -> substance painter. Was wondering if anyone has the correct workflow.

Marmoset requires everything to be in the 0,1 space and it separates by different materials. So I have 2 UV tiles so I put them both overlapping in 0,1 with different materials -> baked the maps -> exported an FBX with the same material and uvs in correct spot 0,1 and 0,2 but the problem is I have 2 sets of each map I need to plug into substance. Not sure how to resolve that?

[weak nimbus]

hey, i dont know if this is the right channel for that but is there a way in blender to merge a number of meshes into 1 while in edit mode?
this is 1 mesh while im not in edit mode because i joined it with the bool tool but when i go into edit mode it is still separate pieces but i want it to be 1 mesh without the lines, is that possible?

[lapis elk]

mark both and press M

[lapis elk]

then you can chose where to merge the vertices

you can also select all and merghe by distance

[soft sedge]

Can I add one material to a lot of models at the same time?

[wide yew]

Anybody an idea, where I can find (synthwave, retro, cyberpunk like ) traffic, environment assets.

[undone igloo]

all my 2D pixel art assets are in 32x32 but they dont scale into full HD properly, what should I do? (some pixels getting bigger than others)

[eager mist]

This might be a very novice question. But, I'm having some issues with texture maps. The texture image that I have imported does not seem to align to the object. I tried toying with the tiling (No luck). Anyone have a solution?

Not sure if I’m posting this question in the right channel 😅

[woven epoch]

I don't even know what a control is, so I'm probably good Then lol!

[fluid oak]

Is the UV map correct?

[white kestrel]

Does Aseprite support layers? Pixel artists I work with seem to have trouble exporting UI layers, almost like they are not working with a layer workflow to begin with

I also get a lot of uncropped images, and animations that are not lined up on a pixel grid

[zealous sphinx]

Hi, is there a way for Unity to automatically create a material and assign the corresponding textures when I import a new model to the project? (URP project)

[weak nimbus]

Hey, does anyone know any websites where i can buy splashart style art for my games? something like giant spider, snake orcs, dragons etc?

[misty lantern]

It does support layers, and layered animation too
Not sure how it's possible to mess up the pixel grid using a pixel art application

[eager mist]

nope... Just fixed it. Thanks!

[golden sigil]

what is the best reference resolution for mobile 2D(+ hopefully pixel perfect) landscape game? some people say to use something small like 360x800, some people say 1920x1080 is what they use... I'm stuck changing objects' positions and size only to get them out of screen in other resolutions now. Please, if possible, help.

[fluid oak]

Yes; you can write asset import processors to do pretty much anything.

[gloomy prawn]

Hi~ Is something specific required when exporting/importing a mesh from Blender into HDRP that isn't for URP? I am trying to follow some tutorials for billowing grass, and it appears when imported straight over in the URP as an asset, but in HDRP it's a blue box, and in the scene is invisible. Tried re-exporting it and searching, but a bit new to this.

[zealous sphinx]

Thanks for the info 👍

[frigid widget]

The only difference when importing a model files for URP vs HDRP VS build in RP is the default material that gets selected for the materials that get imported.

Can you show what you mean by blue box?

[robust hull]

are these quixel asset really for free? can I use for games?

[fluid oak]

Check the terms?

[primal plume]

anyone know how to resolve this? missing prefab with guid

[woven dome]

Add the prefabs again

[lapis elk]

Reimport prefabs is the only way i know

or change the GUID in the meta file manually

[primal plume]

how to reimport prefab? need a step by step tutorial @_@"

[lapis elk]

Is the prefab still existing in your Project folder?

[primal plume]

.meta file still existing in my project folder.

[lapis elk]

rest is gone?

[primal plume]

the psb still there

[lapis elk]

And you created a prefab from this psb?

[primal plume]

prefab mean meta file?

[lapis elk]

No 😄

[primal plume]

[lapis elk]

Looks like you did not create a prefab, if you dont know what it is ^^

[primal plume]

ya

[lapis elk]

What was this gameobject that is missing?

[primal plume]

but why showing this

[primal plume]

is still remain

in the folder

[lapis elk]

then just delete the missing one and use a new one

[primal plume]

as u can see here 2 psb file

[primal plume]

how?

[primal plume]

delete the red wording name?

[primal plume]

if i delete this, ineed to redo whole progress ?

[lapis elk]

I have no clue what you have done

[primal plume]

what i have done before, adjusting psb file intounity

i was doing a 2d gaming

[primal plume]

i have complete the simple map that i done actually,
another is the character animation

after that i save it,

the next day open up become like this

[lapis elk]

show me the inspector of the Character Unity missing prefab

is there still something attacked like the animator, if you animated it?

[primal plume]

i was doing a walking animation

only

just want to test it out

[lapis elk]

u can reuse all of the stuff there

[primal plume]

but how i do reconnect the missing

[lapis elk]

Just add your psb like you did before and copy the components from the old one with the missing prefab to your newly added one

[primal plume]

i found the issue, my 2d psd importer need to update

LOL

[primal plume]

thank dude, much appreicate

[lapis elk]

😄 np

[shell walrus]

Github + Blender + Unity: Does anyone create their Blender assets right alongside their Unity project in a github repository? What best practices are out there for Blender + Github (or does everyone just keep it out of git until the asset is done)?

[gloomy prawn]

This is the icon I was referring to, and above you can see that the transforms appear but the actual grass mesh is not visible

[frigid widget]

it seems that this model does not contain any mesh data
i assume its a fbx file?
what does it import when you open that file in blender?

[gloomy prawn]

Hmm, the 3d object file won't open in Blender at all. The original blender project is still saved, did I maybe export it wrong?

[frigid widget]

that seems plausible

[gloomy prawn]

If I'm running through that process again - is FBX the best file type to use? The documentation seemed to point at it being a general use type

[frigid widget]

Yes its one of the most used formats
if you import a blender file into unity it will ask blender for a FBX under the hood

[gloomy prawn]

Good to know, thank you. I've got the options while saving set up this way when I exported it last. I only have Mesh selected, does it need to be another* object as well?

[frigid widget]

should be fine
it works with that sittings and the default cube

[gloomy prawn]

Hm, same result. I think it's likely I don't have my global settings correct, or I may have goofed up when creating the new project. I'll have to troubleshoot it more after work, thank you for the help though, I really appreciate you. 🙂

[eager mist]

how to brush prefab in 2019

nvm

[barren stump]

how can i fix that the sprite looks like this when rotated?

[lapis elk]

Try Anti Aliasing

[barren stump]

but where? i looked for it already but cant seem to find, would have expected it in the post process volume but it isnt there

[fluid oak]

In the camera settings.

[barren stump]

it only says off/graphics settings, so i assume those graphics settings are in the project settings

well ok but how do i know what graphics quality the game is displayed in or how do i change it?

[fluid oak]

Project Settings > Quality

[frank cargo]

Hi all, I don't know if this is the proper place to ask but I want to re-create Atari's River Raid. So I found the attached spritesheet online but I don't know how to extract the individual elements

[visual reef]

Does anyone have any tips on how to go about animatingsomething like a HUD for a fighter jet? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHx-OWdHqf8) ref? Is 'Stop being cheap and buy the shape library asset' the best answer?

[lapis elk]

You can use several planes created and blender and place their UVs above the correct icon or use one Plane in Unity and use the Offset of a Material.

[primal plume]

how do i install this 2d platformer controller in my unity?

[misty lantern]

If it contains scripts and prefabs, drag them into unity's project window or assets folder
If it is an .unitypackage file, drag it into unity editor

[primal plume]

alright

[primal plume]

how do i having this in my character.
i learn it from youtube was open it from Component > script > 2Dplatformercontroller

i just drag into the folder like what u are saying

sorry i totally newbie @_@"

[misty lantern]

Looks good enough

[primal plume]

but how do i get this?

[misty lantern]

You have the necessary components and assets in your project
You should be able to follow the tutorial with them

[primal plume]

okay tq

[dusk knoll]

can anyone help me export a 3d model from blender to unity

been trying for hours but end up having the model having no textures

[misty lantern]

Import textures separately

[somber otter]

Yo guys im making a 2D top down game but idk how to make tiles and stuff (been using premade stuff up to this point but wanna make my own now for example grass,terrain etc..)

[lapis elk]

Show examples ^^

[misty lantern]

"how to make tiles" is pretty vague
There are many steps to this process, and many guides for them too

[limber patio]

Can I draw over/edit free assets I find on websites like "opengameart.org" (with credits given, of course)? Or is that a no go?

[woven dome]

Depends on the asset's license as always

[autumn prairie]

Hi i have modeled a tree in blender however when i inport it into unity the textures are completely gray for reference here is a side by side, and my export settings

[long stag]

anyone know why face isnt properly being put on? .fbx shows it fine in 3D viewer

[lapis elk]

Hard to tell if you dont show the correct face

[long stag]

Im not at home rn so cant show it in 3D viewer but its supposed to look like this, mainly the eyes dont align

[lime pollen]

Looks like a uv issue

[long stag]

Anything to fix that?

[lapis elk]

its nearly impossible to help with this amount of information 😄

[long stag]

I dont know what to give for information, i just notice something is wrong, you asked for a correct face which I showed, if you need more just say what you need and I can provide it

[lapis elk]

Okay. You said its looking correct in 3D Viewer? Which do you mean?
If its a UV problem, show me the UV of the face and the texture pls 🙂

[fluid oak]

The default unity materials don't support vertex colors.

[long stag]

i open the .fbx in 3D viewer and textures are where they are supposed to be, unless you mean something else then please tell me what else i can do, and for if its a UV problem, do you just need the face texture or am i misunderstanding? sorry im very new to this

[lapis elk]

cant tell from distance.. if you want send me the model and the textures via PN and i have a look

[lapis elk]

This model has 2 set of eyes. One Green set and one Grey set. And they seem to overlap each other

[long stag]

what does that mean?

[dry geyser]

Not allowed to access triangles/indices on mesh 'wallBottom_A' (isReadable is false; Read/Write must be enabled in import settings) UnityEngine.Mesh:get_triangles ()

does anyone know if its possible to take this mesh / model in a text file and mark some flag or property to make it writable? I looked in Unity in the properties and there is no ability to toggle it. I have a addon that handles meshes and navmeshe (A*) and it is unable to mark this file as writable.. even though it was able to fix a few other ones it complained about. Or can i open this mesh in blender and re-export and it will be readable then ?? thanks

[dawn sentinel]

You'll need to manually create and assign materials to the fbx in Unity.

If you exported a texture from Blender, then import it separately in Unity

[dapper spade]

Greetings all!
I am a 3d animator, but I am at a shop that has a whole new cast and crew.

I am looking for information on rigging characters for Unity.
Base package will be Maya (several cuts), and possibly Blender.

I'm looking for information on getting characters FROM Maya into Unity.

Is there a rigging or advanced animation channel around here?
Anyone wanna answer a few simple questions (in DM is fine)?

[lapis elk]

Hi,

im quite sure, that youtube has hundreds of videos how to get models from Maya to Unity.
Also for Blender. But i think if you want some 1:1 help (if you can find someone) you can also try it in the #🏃┃animation channel.

[dapper spade]

@lapis elk I'm actually looking for pipeline workflows for character rigging in Maya to Unity, from the Unity dev side.
I'm looking for information well beyond "importing models"

[autumn prairie]

what settings should iput to just export the texture

[marble dune]

Does anyone know a good resource to get clothing wrinkle references?

[lime pollen]

Look down 😄

[marble dune]

Bahaha. I have no boobs though. I'm working my female character for my game. I'm hunting through pinterest and it's normally really tight shirts.

[dense oar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874081329184799/1012468739272347718/unknown.png
How can I save my texture files without Gamma, or somehow remove the gamma issues im having in Shadergraph?

The top is the expected behaviour of Overlay, but the bottom is what I get if I dont gamma correct

I looked through Photoshop and could find no option to save or export without gamma baked in, and I dont want to have to remove gamma for every texture I use in-shader

even the output looks dark compared to gamma corrected output

[long stag]

so what do i do in order to have them not overlap it? and will it fix the problem im having?

[lime pollen]

You need to fix the uvs in blender

[long stag]

is there a tutorial for fixing it? i dont know blender that well

[eager mist]

details is it in urp or gama mode in unity webgl lighting menu, gamma 2.2 2.3 1.9 multiply in blender srgb! image or try to fix albedo light easy in unity and screenshot even if it works, near the result?

[lime pollen]

Look up a tutorial on how uvs work

I can't help you personally because I don't use blender

[long stag]

Ah, okay I'll try that

[dense oar]

One sec let me check that

[dense oar]

URP I guess? Blender is 3D software isnt it? I produce my textures with photoshop.

[candid hamlet]

Hello, I just imported 32by32 pixel art and the color changes. I've already looked online for help and the 32 pixels per unit is enabled and filter = Point(no filter) however the issues do not appear fixed. Left is the imported, right is the original?

[outer halo]

Try turning off compression on the asset in the import settings.

[candid hamlet]

thank, that did the trick

thanks*

[glad bone]

Ayo, I've got a question..
For a 2D map is it ok for me to have it just as a single image with multiple box colliders for obstacles rather than a tilemap with different layers? I have to offset some objects on the map quite often and making different variants of a tile for the tilemap every time would be a massive pain..

idk how is it performance wise (not much difference or a tilemap is better..?)

[distant ember]

My artist gave us these sprites (above), but when i play the game, they look like this (below). Im not really sure whats going on, as they werent doing this yesterday. How can I fix this?

They are 150x150, these are the import settings if thats relevant, and im using a cinemachine camera. I do not have the pixel perfect package

[sonic fog]

Ok, why does my normal map looks so weird when import it from blender to unity, I read online that it could be something to do with tangent space, but apparently blender and unity use the same tangent spaces, It could also be the bit depths, but whenever I change the tangent import settings on the rig it look like the normals shift positions.

[fluid oak]

Depends on how large the image is; you might want to break it up for technical reasons even if not using tiles.

But yes, you don't need to use tiles

[fluid oak]

Can you describe what is wrong or, better yet, show examples of the map in blender and in unity to show how it is supposed to look vs how it looks? There are a lot of potential normal map problems and it is hard to guess without looking.

[fluid oak]

Did you scale the game view? Did you scale the sprites?

[sonic fog]

Well, I have visible seams that are fixed by calculating tangents through the importer. I also have weird splotches of where it looks like it might be flat shaded. I've tried baking with flat shading in blender, triangulating before export and enabling tangent space in the fbx exporter, but nothing worked.

[distant ember]

Oh sorry, I forgot to mention that I already fixed this, thanks

[fluid oak]

Ok, way too many possible issues. Can you show some examples?

[sonic fog]

Give me a few minutes to open the project

[sonic fog]

I have the seams circled in blue, and the splotches in red. Unfortunately I do have to go to bed now but if I see your response when I wake up I will reply, thanks for the help so far.

[fluid oak]

And the normal maps look okay in blender when applied?

[wicked agate]

Hi! my character rigged in blender using rigify would it work in unity with mixamo animations if i choose humonoid in both ?

[lapis elk]

yes

[tribal ravine]

Am i the only one that only uses Cube Projection for texturing Walls and stuff (Interior)?

is Cube Projection the proper way to do it?

What do you guys use to UV Unwrap Walls, Floors, Stairs, Fences whatever

[sonic fog]

Yes.

[misty lantern]

All UV projection /unwrapping methods are proper if they produce acceptable UVs for an acceptable time/effort cost

Box projection for architecture sounds fine to me

(though unwrapping methods which generate more seams require more vertex data, which may or may not be a performance consideration)

[tribal ravine]

Yeah for sure it just seems like everyone's so focused on Seams and stuff, i dont know how to do that some Cube Projection almost feels like im cheating somewhere lol (in this case it might be performance issues?)

[misty lantern]

In my opinion UV unwrapping is all about cheating as much as you can
The significance of seam cost is up to testing and specific to your performance budget, as all optimization

[fluid oak]

And if you import the tangents and normals you get additional errors? Because usually with baked objects you want to use the imported tangents and normals whenever possible.

[sonic fog]

Well it makes the normal map positioned correctly, but it creates those seams you see in the screenshot.

If I calculate the tangents in milkspace (or whatever it's called) it gets rid of the seams but the normal map looks out of place

[fluid oak]

'out of place'?

Like, can you show the side to side comparison or something?

[sonic fog]

Unaligned in uv space, and yeah one sec

[fluid oak]

And the important thing is that you want the same normals and tangents used to bake the maps to display the maps

[sonic fog]

Yes

[fluid oak]

I'm presuming you mean mikktspace

[sonic fog]

Yeah lol

[fluid oak]

It isn't necessarily a matter of better or worse types of tangent generation; you need to have the same for the baking as for the reading. Any difference will show up as an error.

[sonic fog]

Well in that case it should work

Because I baked the model using the current tangents with the only difference being triangulation and I even tried baking with triangulation and it didn't work.

Pre milkspace glowup

Post tangent grindset

[fluid oak]

I mean, if you change the tangents you are using, change them in your model before baking not after

[sonic fog]

I did

[tribal ravine]

constipated_man.fbx

[sonic fog]

thanks

[lapis dock]

Hey, does anyone know why the sprite I added to my prefab appears in front of the text even though it's behind it in 3d space?

[rancid vessel]

Okay so I have a runway I made for a game
I need to export it at its full resolution which is 2250x85650
The only issue is that Unity seems to not like the large amount of pixels, giving me this issue. The issue is that I have to export the img at a much lower resolution resulting in this happening in-game rather than a crisp version of it

Does anyone know how I can get it to actually use the larger img?

[blissful relic]

have you tried using SortingLayers?

[lapis dock]

Yes I'm playing around with them now but not having much luck

If I create a new sorting layer for the text and one for the sprite and then play with the order should that work?

And do I have to add a canvas component to each object within the prefab?

[fluid oak]

There is no reason to use a 2250x85650 ever, outside of obscure data analysis purposes. It isn't even a powervof two, which means unity can't compress it properly.

[rancid vessel]

well hey I needed to.. What are ya gonna do

I needed a runway

so I made one

[fluid oak]

For a texture like that, use an SDF shader to render crisp text at large sizes with a small texture, or use modeled details instead of a giant texture.

[fluid oak]

No, you didn't need to.

[rancid vessel]

..

I needed a runway..

they are long and skinny

u ever seen one?

I needed that resolution so it would look good

u want me to do it at 35x2000 px or something?

there isn't any quality

you don't even know my use case tbh

I'm just wondering if there is a way to make it work at that resolution

[fluid oak]

It isn't just the size, it is the specific dimensions. 2250x85650 isn't a power of two so unity can't properly compress it. And it might actually be larger than unity can actually process at all outside of a compute shader.

[rancid vessel]

You can turn off that compression

[fluid oak]

Insulting me won't make your game look good.

Second, many gpus won't accept such a texture.

It is a gigantic texture with very little actual information. You don't need a ginormous texture. That is exactly what sdf shaders were invented for.

You also probably should be using the highest quality mipmapping and filtering options.

[rancid vessel]

I'm using it in a game I didn't create!

I'm just trying to export it into the game

[fluid oak]

Ok, so you didn't say that. In that case I can't magically know what kind of data the game I don't know is expecting.

[rancid vessel]

Look man if u don't want to help don't cirtisize

I'm sorry I was brought into your pathetic life

[outer halo]

If they weren't trying to help, they wouldn't have spent the last 10+ minutes interacting with you, don't be dramatic please.

Of course specifying these details are important

[rancid vessel]

It's a simple question

[lime pollen]

it is not

[outer halo]

Also, no need to insult people either

[rancid vessel]

he could literally tell me if it would be possible to use the higher texture or not

literally a yes or no question

[lime pollen]

not without enough details

but the answer is likely no

[rancid vessel]

I want to know if I can use the higher texture without it outputting this error or not

[outer halo]

Your question was: Does anyone know how I can get it to actually use the larger img?

The answer was either not to, because it's not needed, or to use SDF Shaders.

[fluid oak]

It isn't a simple question. Most GPUs won't even accept anything larger than a 4k image as a texture from unity(some will accept an 8k), and in most cases unity will enforce a 4k limit.

So even if you convince unity to do it, that won't make it work.

[rancid vessel]

wow wasn't that easy

[fluid oak]

I did mention that earlier, you know.

[outer halo]

They obviously don't want to hear it, let's just move on.

[fluid oak]

They don't need to be a jackass any more than they need an image larger than the nasa deep field telescopes can handle.

[lime pollen]

they're also talking about modding a game so

[fluid oak]

Anyway, you don't need super high res to get at least better results than that. This was using a super low res, low quality jpg screenshot of that texture.

[lapis elk]

LOL. How big is an 2250x85650 px texture? Like 100 MB? 😄

[lapis elk]

Btw. Do you have some information about the SDF Shader? Could be interesting for me 😄 Is there a useful doc somewhere? Didnt finde any.

[fluid oak]

https://www.ronja-tutorials.com/post/034-2d-sdf-basics/

You can also look at the shaders TextMeshPro uses- those are also SDFs and that's how it renders nice clean text

[lapis elk]

Ah oh.. good to know that TMP is like the same ^^ i already use those

[fluid oak]

A good way to think of SDFs is like as a height map that you cut off at a certain elevation.

So even if the height map is kinda low detail you can still get a sharp line where you 'slice' it

[lapis elk]

Sounds good, and is a perfect idea to use for the airplane ramp ^^

[fluid oak]

Well, even a 1k texture with anisotropic filtering would probably give decent results but yes; you can make basically massive text and stuff with tiny textures using SDFs

[limpid grail]

guys

why is the sprite scale bigger than the image

?

[limpid grail]

bruh

scales are very weird

scales are very weird in unity

look at this

there is scale and size

and both of them change scale

there is also sliced and tiled

[tender shuttle]

Here, I condensed the question into one message...

so I tried importing my pixel textures into Unity, in the Editor it looks fine, but in game it looks like a few pixels stretched for some reason even though I didn't do anything else

now some pixels are stretched downwards?

what?

[fluid oak]

Look at the image you posted; that big warning message in the middle of it answers your question.

[fluid oak]

That comes from pixels in the sprite not lining up with the screen pixels so it interpolates awkwardly. Usual fixes are to either use a pixel perfect camera or to use a shader that handles it like SmoothSprite.

[tender shuttle]

I already have a pixel perfect camera though...

[cosmic lion]

Generated some sick inspiration with DALL E for my fighting game! AI is beyond my comprehension!

[radiant plinth]

so i have this silly problem that idk how to call it but basically the sprites are little higher of the ground, those are the hitboxs that i made on the player

[radiant plinth]

the blue squares are wall checks and the small green one is ground check

[fluid oak]

So... put them in the right place?

[tribal ravine]

Nice i recently used DALL E mini for Inspiration to create something in Unity

[cosmic lion]

Looking good! The future is here my friend!;)

[tribal ravine]

Haha the “future” will just give you the entire thing as a .fbx file fully textured and fully lit up

[flint creek]

I've a question, is there a method to properly import 3D model assets into Unity? I tried to do so but some of the textures were not rendered and it appeared in a lower quality / resolution than the preview.

[glacial vector]

Textures need to be imported separately @flint creek

[dark cape]

Any tip what software to use to create textures for meshes?

[fringe yoke]

Substance painter

Or Mari

[dark cape]

thanks

looks like what I was looking for

[eager mist]

i made this fish. i'm learning unity by plagiarising famous games without tutorials, what's the best file format?

[violet walrus]

anythign that is lossless

[eager mist]

png it is then?

[violet walrus]

the input file format does not matter that much, since its not how things are represented in the game

so yeah png, tiff, targa all would be fine

might be easier to manage alpha if its png

[eager mist]

targa🗿

[dark cape]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/texture-compression-formats.html

[eager mist]

png is just generally my favourite so

[violet walrus]

yeah so use it

[eager mist]

well my go-to in any scenario

[violet walrus]

as long as there is no quality loss in the format its fine since unity will be compressing thigns for you later, and even with no compression it will be representing the data different in the build

the format you save with, is literally just for exchange purposes and getting the data into unity

[eager mist]

oh yeah

[dark cape]

oh wait

I actually sent wrong link

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

here's more relevant

I haven't actually came to this question myself

but I personally like the idea of having textures in PSD format (assuming I'll work with PS)

[violet walrus]

yeah i dislike that, tend to keep source art assets separated from the exported assets for game

but your workflow would depend on how you want to do things, and stuff like team size and how the project is managed

[dark cape]

Keeping art sources separates sometimes leads to unatomated import (meaning you have to export every asset into separate format and then import into Unity folder) which is uuuugh

[violet walrus]

not sure if psd's have the same problem, but putting stuff like .ma or .blend files in assets can also cause a hell of a lot of headaches for your teammates and make it hard to impossible to open the project depending on your environment setup

[wise osprey]

Hey! So I am starting to model buildings, tents and other world pieces and I am really stuck with modular assets. I don't know the standard measurements for a wall, a doorway, a window etc. Can anyone point me in the right direction ?

[misty lantern]

Look into architectural and home renovation sites as well as as hardware store catalogs for real world accurate specifications
The standards can vary by country and purpose

[verbal iris]

is there any L.O.D settings there ?

[fluid carbon]

Can someone help me I am trying to export my model into mixamo and when I do my colors don't show and it looks like my models texture was cut in half. Also in the blender Texture Paint mode it only shows half of my texture but it apears on both halves of my model.

[verbal iris]

try to check the *Face Orientation *
on blender Overlays window

[short umbra]

I have a tilemap and one part of it overlaps my player but the other doesnt. Why?

[fluid oak]

Looks like your UV map is mirrored.

[eager mist]

why is that gross colour there around the eye and mouth? this is what it should look like (it's 64x64)

[misty lantern]

Compression and filtering

[eager mist]

ah

i did compression in Krita but it was lossless it said

as a PNG

what do you mean by filtering

[misty lantern]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-TextureImporter.html

You'll want no compression and no filtering

[eager mist]

how do i do that?

[misty lantern]

If you look at the documentation I linked you can see fields "filter mode" and "compression" in the texture import window

[eager mist]

ohhhh ok, thanks

[digital kestrel]

Hey! I have multiple textures for my terrain, each in it's own asset. Now, I'm mapping the terrain by code (kinda like minecraft). And giving a material to it. I need to create a tilemap from these textures. How can I do that? I know I can go to photoshop/other software and put the textures there, but then the resulting texture will be big/a pain to edit

[tame scaffold]

Would shadows, like those seen here in Forager, be part of the sprite itself, or a single "shadow" sprite on a shadow layer?

I'm thinking it's the latter for moving objects, but the former for stationary

So the trees would have a built-in shadow, but the moving characters would have a shadow layer

[charred portal]

I Dont understand Pixel art, Im a very hands on learner with plenty of time on my hand so i decided to go big or go home with a pixel art fighting game, but no tutorials I have seen tell me how to make characters like street fighter does, so far all I have is a story and character ideas and its ANNOYING, could someone send me a video or smthn like that

[misty lantern]

I hope you don't expect a tutorial to let you make art on par with a team of veteran artists in a medium you have no experience in
https://www.derekyu.com/makegames/pixelart.html this is the most comprehensive guide out there

[lime pollen]

Lol was just about to link that

Even then, this tutorial will not be a substitute for general art fundamentals like anatomy, shading, lighting, etc

Don't expect to be making SF tier animations in a week

[charred portal]

I wasnt being that ambitous, just wanted something would help me get the general idea of how its done, thanks 🙂

[misty lantern]

With old games like Street Fighter you should be able to find their sprite sheets online to examine directly how they look up close
That combined with pixel art fundamentals is all there is "to it", aside from raw skill

[fluid carbon]

This is what it looks like

Nevermind i got it. i just had to make the axis, bisect, and flip the x in the mirror modifier

[neon briar]

how should I design textures for a 2d unity game? More specifically, should I design them to be neutrally colored or pre-bake the intended final pixel color into the texture?

Because if I plan to allow for something like a day and night cycle that dynamically changes the color of textures, or any sort of color grading in general, then if i pre-bake a certain color scheme i'm going for in the overall scene directly into individual textures, then that will interfere with any colored lighting or color grading. But there's also no way I can guarantee the envisioned final pixel color just by using color grading on a neutral colored texture

[charred portal]

This is the base ive got for the first character 'Iris & Agony' its not the best but this is practically my first game so any advice other than adding limbs? (Because I know I need them im just having trouble with positioning.)

[lime pollen]

instead of worrying about the textures themselves, you should think about what combination of methods will give you the final result you want. There are many ways to manipulate the look of your game like lighting, shaders, post processing, etc, textures are just a part of it

[neon briar]

@lime pollen that's specifically what I'm talking about though. I plan on using lighting, custom shaders and PP, which makes it seem like it wouldn't make sense to pre-design textures to look like their final appearance because it would interfere with those things.

For example if I envision the color scheme of a scene to be tinted blue and I use PP for that, it wouldn't make sense to pre-bake the blue into the textures because that texture would get a double dose of blue. Same for if I want to have blue light or something to affect the texture. Which is why it appears to make sense that textures should be designed to be a neutral color with the expectation that theyll be tinted blue by the PP. And allow them to be properly tinted by any other color dynamically if I wanted. It also allows for re-use of assets in different scenes with a different color scheme.

But I don't know what the standard is which is why I'm asking. I've renderdoced a few games and it appears like most of them design neutral colored textures and then use PP to get the color scheme they want for the final output. But at the same time I assume it can be limiting if I'm going for a specific type of color scheme that color grading or any other PP effect can't realistically achieve on every texture.

[lime pollen]

I mean its a tradeoff at that point. Do you want full control over every texture? then don't use PP and bake everything. Otherwise design your textures around the PP and other effects that you might use. There isn't really a standard here, its whatever fits your vision and pipeline

[hollow drift]

only thing I can suggest is learning to make characters for things like MUGEN or Rivals of Aether, there's guides for those

if you wanna go with a really old-school approach, you can rasterize pre-rendered 3d models/animations and convert those to sprites, more or less how games like DKC1 have amazing sprite work and fidelity (given all the limitations of developer tools and the hardware at the time)

[lapis elk]

Is it possible to pack multiple Meshes that have their own tiling textures into an atlas or does the tiling not work anymore when it gets packed?

[misty lantern]

There's some tricks to it, but yes UV coordinates can be made repeat within the larger map
https://forum.unity.com/threads/wrapping-repeat-a-tile-in-a-texture-atlas.873967/

[lapis elk]

urgh.. dont know if this is worth the time handling the problem 😄

[sick belfry]

anyone can help me or send me a tut vid in my Dms

[fervent plover]

you can simply increase the tiling inside the material that you have applied, and set that to the size of the object

[sick belfry]

in blender?

[fervent plover]

no, inside unity

or if you want to make this automatic, i recommend trying probuilder
it auto scales materials, and makes model editing easy inside the editor

[zealous sphinx]

Hi, does anybody have experience painting RGB masks with Polybrush?

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but I'm trying to use the vertex colors as color masks and when I choose a single channel to paint white, it paints throughout all RGB channels. The same with deleting (painting black), I choose a single channel but it always paints all channels black.

A workaround to paint a channel individually is to make RGB colors (R=1,0,0 and so on) and paint throughout all channels (instead of choosing a single channel) but there's still the issue not being able to paint black a single channel.

Any help?

[cloud marsh]

Hi. Is it possible to import Maya Instances to Unity, automatically making prefabs of these instances, to avoid duplicate geometries? 🤔
I have a Maya scene with a lot of instances and I want to send that scene to Unity keeping it optimized of course.
Any suggestion will be appreciated!

[zealous sphinx]

Maybe with

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetPostprocessor.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PrefabUtility.html

[misty lantern]

The wall needs to be UV unwrapped to display properly in Unity
In Blender if you're using mapping node to map the texture, or any other texture coordinate besides UV, that information will not carry over on export

[cloud marsh]

Looks promising ! Thanks

[pure charm]

is there a way to extract textures from a texture array?

[fluid oak]

Unity wants whatever bone holds the root motion to be the root bone. That is usually either the hips, or a parent of the hips placed at the origin.

Not sure what that is from, but if you are using the mecanim humanoid then you ideally will remove non-mecanim bones.

[charred portal]

I cant find exactly what I'm looking for on Fivirr, I need an anime-like style for my fighting game (Pixel or Art), So anyone know where I can find someone like that?

[lime pollen]

upwork, or post on the forums or other discords

[fluid oak]

Well, it really comes down to your needs. If you don't need any of the humanoid features, you don't need to worry about the humanoid restrictions.

[fluid oak]

That isn't retargeting, it is just reuse.

And the other main features are stuff like the built in inverse kinematics and pose space transformations.

[fluid oak]

So yeah, if you are only using animations you made for the rig you made them for, you don't need retargeting. And you can use alternatives for IK.

[fluid oak]

Check your export settings; unity uses different coordinates from blender so you have to tell it to account for that(I don't recall the setting name off the top of my head)

Well, as a non blender user I dunno. Hopefully someone else can help 😄

[misty lantern]

It's not enough to have the right orientations on export
Technically you'd have to rotate the meshes +90 degrees in X axis before exporting, which is what I assume "Apply Transform" does, but with limitations

https://github.com/EdyJ/blender-to-unity-fbx-exporter This should do it for you, and includes a more detailed explanation of why this task is not straightforward

[tribal ravine]

Y up is the only correct way

because Y not

[odd inlet]

Is there anyway to find free UI designs and UI Text that I can use for Prototyping games and for Portfolio games?

[lime pollen]

https://www.kenney.nl/assets?q=ui

[odd inlet]

What about custom designed fonts for things like titles?

[outer halo]

If it's custom, then it has to be custom made ...

But there are plenty of free or cheap fonts out there. You can start with Google Fonts too.

[pure elm]

Y is up because of cartesian plane

Y is sideways because if you lay the cartesian plane on a flat table then the only way to describe the upward motion is Z

Z is sideways because if you put the cartesian plane on an upright chalk board then Z is the only way to describe fore and back motion

is a matter of perspective

[twin wedge]

does anyone here have a like a tutorial asset which has a like a floor and platforms ramps and walls just to test player movement in and like wall running and grappling

just dm me if you have something basic like that

[misty lantern]

You can't unless someone makes that plugin for Unity as well

Though you don't need a plugin if you only need the final mesh

[frigid karma]

how can i generate lightning on my sphere

[worn tundra]

Hey, I was trying to transform the cone primitive in blender and import it into unity. When I export and pull it across, the mesh in unity shows the base cone primitive with the transformations of scale and angle in the transform property. Can I get it to have the mesh be the post transformed version? I'd like to then do transformation relative to that being 1:1:1

[misty lantern]

You have to do apply transforms operation if you want object scale to be passed onto mesh data

[twin wedge]

does anyone here have a like a tutorial asset which has a like a floor and platforms ramps and walls just to test player movement in and like wall running and grappling

[trail stag]

would anybody happen to know why the shader to rgb + color ramp produces a black texture but without them the texture is fine?

[misty lantern]

You can't plug a "color" output into a shader input

[lusty meteor]

Is there a way to automatically pre-multiply alpha for image assets?

[tribal ravine]

You need to keep the original BDSF or whatever

Cant just put Color Ramp into the Material Output

doesnt make much sense

[keen sleet]

Long story Short I'm trying to animate a UV and I can't figure out how the hell I'm supposed to do that

Isn't there supposed to be a tiling option? So I can move the UV's coordinates around a map?

[lime pollen]

its on the material

[keen sleet]

@lime pollen are you talking about the bounds?

@lime pollen I'm really not sure what you mean by that?

[fluid oak]

Unity has the third person controller sample.

[lime pollen]

no, I'm saying the UV properties are on the material, not the other components

[twin wedge]

whats tat

[keen sleet]

@lime pollen Oh I know the UV properties are on the material, but how do I move their tiling between keyframes? Or is that something I don't handle in the animation inspector?

[misty lantern]

When using a sprite renderer, assigning a different sprite in a keyframe is moving the UVs

Your model is not 2D so I'm not sure that you want to be using the sprite renderer component with it

[lime pollen]

looks like they're using it to animate the mouth

but yeah you shouldn't be using a sprite renderer to do that

[keen sleet]

I'm not sure why the sprite renderer is even there to begin with

[pine fossil]

can anyone tell me why when I try to import a simple sphere into unity with a texture image the uv map is all fucked up so the texture doens't go on right?

[fluid oak]

Not unless you give us more info. Are your material settings correct? Is your UV map correct? Is your texture correct? Does the exported file work when imported back into your original software?

[limpid grail]

how to remove empty border?

[sullen plank]

Use edit button on the asset and apply new border with automated tools

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

You can use custom outline tool it can generate one automatically if the sprite is uneven

Oh year if you need it for collisions you may need to set custom physics shape the same way as well

[limpid grail]

i cant

it doesnt change

it worked when i set sprite mode to multiple thanks

[balmy bough]

so

i made this in blender and when i exported it

i get this

someone can help me fix it?

[tribal ravine]

Are you using a Blender Shader or something?

[balmy bough]

ye

[tribal ravine]

Cant really use Blender Shaders in Unity lol

Thats 2 different Render Engines

[balmy bough]

💀

[tribal ravine]

You need to find it for Unity

whatever that type of shader is

is that like a Cell Shader?

[balmy bough]

cell shader xd?

idk man, im new to this lol

[tribal ravine]

Just look it up you cant use Blender Shaders in Unity

Blender uses Eevee

Unity uses its own thing

basic logic

[balmy bough]

cycles 2

well, 'll try to find out

Thanks man

[balmy bough]

Hey man

nah forget it

[outer halo]

You can set the face to both on the default shaders. But ideally, you just flip the face so it's pointing outwards.

[proven cobalt]

are 2d normal maps buggy?

they're not working for any of the sprites I have implemented for

[outer halo]

You do it in Blender

Well, you flip faces in blender. If you want to set it to render both in Unity, it'll be an option in Unity on the material itself.

[balmy bough]

hey osteel

it's me man how's going?

also, can you help me on something?

[shy ivy]

Any users that model, rig, and animate from Blender, to FBX, to Unity care to share their settings and any other steps for the process? I just fixed yet another problem with my workflow where rigged animated bodies are distorted when you press play in Unity. Now my process seems to work, but I've continually found problems until now. So, I'd like to see how someone else does their export process before I continue, in case something else is wrong.

Some settings are changed from their defaults because I do use some meshes from my exported assets as mesh colliders. I also want to keep the rotation and scale of any top-most parent object of any asset as the defaults. Currently the top-most parent and mesh objects are being imported with zeroed rotation and 1:1 scale, but the armature rig is being rotated -90 degrees on the X axis. This is tolerable so far, as the animations work in game and I can still reference the meshes without issue. I also don't rotate or scale the models prior to exporting... ANYMORE.

[shy ivy]

Like @fluid oak said, more info please. My textures and UVs are working fine, so we could compare the process and see what you're doing different to find the problem. I assume by the way you phrased your message, the textured model looks fine in Blender when you set the Viewport Shading ( top-right ) to Rendered.

[shy ivy]

A correction on my settings. I forgot to set "FBX Units Scale", which is the real reason my rigs were being scaled up times 100.

[spring stratus]

for some reason i cannot press this button can anyone help?>

[fluid oak]

Probably missing a raycaster on your UI canvas

[lapis elk]

or something is infront of the button

[mint rune]

Would this be the appropriate place to ask about shaders?

[outer halo]

#archived-shaders

[mint rune]

@outer halo apparently I'm blind, thanks

[dark moth]

Hi, I think this is the right spot for this, but please let me know if I need to move this to something like the scripting channel.

I've been working on a 2.5D game that's a very small resolution (320x180) and it has 3D environments with 2D character/enemy sprites. It's very much like the DS Pokemon games where the camera is tilted slightly and the sprites are also tilted to give them an "upright" appearance.
One problem I've found is that, when moving the camera, sprites may begin to stretch or distort.

Is there a good way to avoid this beyond just increasing the resolution? Normally I'd just ignore it, but sometimes the sprites get distorted so badly that it looks super goofy lol.

[misty lantern]

The sprites must be rendered using pixel perfect principles / components
https://blog.unity.com/technology/2d-pixel-perfect-how-to-set-up-your-unity-project-for-retro-8-bits-games
Which means they must never be scaled or rotated non-incrementally and their position must be snapped to the pixel grid

[dark moth]

Oh, this looks perfect! I'll go check this out. Thank you!

[misty lantern]

The blog post mentions the "pixel perfect package" but iirc if you're using URP or cinemachine they may have their own variants of it
It also only works with sprite renderers using an orthographic camera specifically

[dark moth]

Yeah, I'm probably just going to mess around with it. I found this nice StackOverflow thread discussing the problem in a little more detail, which I'll also be referencing.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35785291/getting-giggly-effect-when-slowly-moving-a-sprite/35829604#35829604

[misty lantern]

This phenomenon also happens when moving the camera, even if the sprite is perfectly snappy, so if the camera motion is slow or smoothly damped, everything seems to jitter in relation to camera

[dreamy bough]

Is it possible to import quick select sets from maya to unity?

[lime pollen]

unity doesn't have a concept of sets so no

[dreamy bough]

Damn XD

[fluid oak]

That's not entirely true; Unity has selection sets but they aren't imported from maya.

[elfin ruin]

Does this sprite size in the inspector directly equals the build size?

I've changed many sprites from NPOT to POT, their size here have dramatically reduced

But the Android build pack size didn't get down that much

[misty lantern]

I believe that number is for texture size in graphics memory

[fluid oak]

Correct

[elfin ruin]

ok great to know

[dull escarp]

can someone explain why my texture im importing isnt showing up as a usable texture?

[obtuse oyster]

What extension does the texture use?

[dull escarp]

whats that?

extention

im just usina jpeg i found off of google

[obtuse oyster]

like .png, .jpg, etc

[dull escarp]

its says .jpg online but in my files it says .jfi

.jfif*

thats probably why, but i cant find a jpg i need

they're all saving as jfif

weird

[elfin ruin]

And will using Atlas reduce the build size?

[dull escarp]

can someone help me try and import this texture im using? its not popping up as a texture i have, its a .jfif, but i couldnt find a .jpg online

[glad rampart]

convert it then maybe

many online ones do it for free

[dull escarp]

k

[obtuse oyster]

I have never heard of jfif before, but yeah that's definitely the issue. Unity won't support extremely random formats like that and you'll need to convert it to something more standard
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AssetTypes.html

[lofty egret]

How do I stop light bleeding through the corners of probuilder meshes ?

Anyone have some tips because seriously how can we go to the moon but cannot write light propagation logic that prevents bleed through corners

[fluid oak]

Mess with your shadow bias, add additional occluders, ask in #archived-lighting.

[lofty egret]

is it really possible that in 2022 we still need to manually add occluder meshes because corners let light bleed through? that seems so insane to me

[fluid oak]

I mean, I'm no expert on it.

But this isn't #archived-lighting so

Your geometry seems to be pretty badly optimized for lighting from what little I can see in the screenshot, all single sided geometry that is shallowly intersecting

[nimble ibex]

Hey so I'm having a problem with this

And was wondering if someone knows the problem

(NOTE: Used blender for the "Map" that isn't working)

[eager mist]

No, this is because of your meshes and bias

[misty lantern]

No, I'm quite sure
A texture atlas will have no difference in the amount of data or the compression compared to individual files
The only difference is that the GPU can save draw calls and loading operations

[elfin ruin]

That's what I think so too but everyone else is saying it can reduce the build size

But I don't trust them that much

[fluid oak]

A texture atlas might actually slightly increase the build size depending on your settings.

But it won't decrease it a lot unless you are scaling the atlas down. Which you shouldn't.

[fluid oak]

Who exactly is 'everybody else?'

[serene roost]

Hi, does anyone know if there are any limit on blendshape count in a skinnedMeshRenderer?

[elfin ruin]

all over the internet

but then again, like I said, if you google any sentences, it will has many sources to back it up

[obtuse flare]

I have a basic question about 3D environments, if I were to design an area or a level, lets say the Ocarina of Time beginning area, would the best practice workflow be to model this area entirely in blender and import it to Unity, or would you model each thing you need seperately and then put it together in Unity? (Yes, I know both are possible and have their own benefits and mertis, I'm just looking for opinions or guidance)

[lapis elk]

you should create them seperately to be able to tweak it on the fly in unity if you need

[fluid oak]

It depends on a lot of things. For instance, if you are using unity terrain, that would make a good case for starting out in unity for the blocking out.

[obtuse flare]

Thanks for the advice, any suggestion on how I would go about say model a castle in blender on top of a unity terrain hill? Or a dam between mountains? Any way to have some sort of reference to the terrain while modeling?

[fluid oak]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.terrain-tools@2.0/manual/toolbox-export-heightmaps.html

[fervent breach]

With the cloth system, is there a way to select edge loops or are we stuck selecting each cloth particle individually?

[fluid oak]

No built in way. You can set cloth particles by script though so it might be possible.

[fervent breach]

all g

tyty

[misty lantern]

If I were making a big area with a castle I would first do a rough sketch of the whole thing in blender with terrain and all
It would be very unoptimized at that point, but it can be tested and iterated
Later it can be used as a reference for building the terrain and placing props in unity
At that point I would figure out what kind of modular castle parts can be used to build a castle that matches the sketch

But all of this is situational as said

[still pivot]

How would you draw lines on top of a game field 3D cube (you can think of it as a pool table)? I don't want the lines to be part of every single texture used on the board cube, and the lines can be a single color.

The best idea I've had so far is to make really flat cubes and spheres with no collision, but I wonder if there isn't a better way.

[misty lantern]

There's many different ways to make lines
Depends on what the lines need to do
or what they need to look like

[fluid oak]

Could use a projector, or a light cookie, or a 'render objects' pass with a separate shader, or a depth based postprocess/render feature

[misty lantern]

A line renderer, or two-dimensional geometry covering the mesh using solid color or tiling line texture on it

[ancient rampart]

i can't seem to import the asset i've downloaded for some reason, pls help

[misty lantern]

"You seem to be offline" is probably the issue

[ancient rampart]

i suppose so but idk how to get rid of it tho

[ancient rampart]

my internet connection always look like that lol

it's actually connecting rn

[candid gate]

How do you guys use roughness maps from PBR materials in Unity?

[humble lynx]

Hi guys, i just wanted to ask of parallax corrected reflections like these are possible with reflections probe
https://youtu.be/kZJhe1B6668
https://youtu.be/mzakSpNv1t0

Any kind of answers would be very appreciated

[fluid oak]

Use the 'box projection' option on your reflection probes?

[humble lynx]

And it automatically has parallax correction?

And will look screen space-ish?

Or is that just a thing for hdrp? Im using urp

Without parallax correction the baked reflections will just move around

[humble lynx]

ye it works

thanks

[languid rover]

Hey, does anyone know why when I import this model from blender it is missing its groin

I am using it or AR / Vtubing stuff so used Cats to export and is all one mesh for 6 martials. (incase any of this helps)

[dense horizon]

Maybe you have to switch the direction of the faces from inside to outside and Reimport it

[white vapor]

Is there a way to import the hierarchy of a scene in a project to a scene in another project?

[fluid oak]

Save it as a package and import the package.

[white vapor]

Thx

[pastel swallow]

hi all! New to Unity here :^) I'm trying to replicate this chat box exactly and currently using InputField and Button and messing with settings there but still haven't been able to have rounded corners or get a color gradient. Any advice for how I should go about this?

[outer halo]

There are no options to make it rounded or gradient, you need to be importing your art as needed.

[pastel swallow]

Gotcha, so the input box and send button should be images?

[outer halo]

Yes. You would also 9slice then in Unity so you could stretch them without losing the rounded sides.

[solar arch]

Re-posting, posted it on #💻┃unity-talk feel free to remove this post as this channel seems more appropriate to post it.. just want to share a 100% free assets
https://thebasemesh.com/model-library

All of it are CC0

[hushed bay]

I have a problem with the unity editor.... So I have this sprite image (Space Ship Updated.png) in my project. When i move it to the editor or create a sprite out of it, it gives me this (unknown.png). Why the white color part is not showing up in the unity editor?

[fickle nebula]

Hi everyone I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to make materials that look like tinted glass red, blue, green, and so on I have seen a few tutorials on this but none of them look clear like glass

[eager mist]

where do i have to put the roughness map in material?

[outer halo]

Unity uses Smoothness (opposite of roughness). It goes into the Metallic slot in your screenshot.

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

[eager mist]

i tried but it doesnt work, the whole material is reflective now

good thing i found a build in shader called Autodesk interactive shader and it has a roughness slot

[outer halo]

Yes because you're using roughness into smoothing which will be the opposite. Of course it won't work.

[eager mist]

but for some reason it doesnt reflect the lighting

only close light so i had to add 2 directional lightings

[fluid oak]

Are you using a lit sprite shader with no lights?

[outer halo]

@glad citrus #854851968446365696 on how to ask a proper question

Also, don't crosspost.

[golden sigil]

Good morning! May I ask someone with experience in pixel perfect 2d games - how would you approach making such a game for mobile platforms? That includes questions such as:

1. is 32 ppu ok if I want middle-pixelated style or should I change it?
   2.0 How to understand reference resolution, and what I mean by that is for example -
   2.1 is 480x270 an okay resolution to choose?
   2.2. Should an artist draw how the game view would look like in canvas with reference resolution?
2. What canvas scaler(UI) options should I choose?
   4.0 Why simulator with different scaling(view I mean) options shows different results(eats/adds some pixels)
   4.1 Should I rely on viewing the game in simulator mode at all or should I change to relying on 480x270 game view?
3. Why can't I change the camera's lens ortho size? I want for example to be able to not only move it but also zoom in and out, how do I do it?
4. Should I avoid scaling things and if no, which sprite scaling ratios are okay?
5. What things did I miss? - if possible, please add them here
   I can provide any additional info needed.

[blissful relic]

1. Entirely up to personal preference. Higher PPU will give you more details but will be tougher to make
2. I think you have to modify the reference resolution for that
3. Its usually avoided because pixels of different sizes can look weird but maybe you can make it work

[golden sigil]

5 - that's the problem, sprites and pixel perfect camera have ppu, and if I can change pixel perfect camera's one I don't think i can change all the sprites' ppu values in runtime

[blissful relic]

ppu shouldnt be affected by zooming

its just how many pixels you have in one unit

For example if your tiles are 16x16 pixels in size and you want each tile to be 1 unit

[golden sigil]

ooh, I see! so if I want pixel pefrectness, I should try to make a script that changes resolution from 16 multiply by 1 x 9 multiply by 1 to for example 16 multiply by my_value_here x 9 multiply by my_value_here?

[blissful relic]

well uhh idk

you can make a default ref resolution variable and just multiply it by zoom value

[golden sigil]

I'm just worried about which values I can use as zoom values and which I cannot, do you know something about that?

[blissful relic]

to keep things 100% pixel perfect, you want all game pixel to be same size in screen pixels, but pixel perfect camera should take care of that for you

idk you should probably just experiment

[golden sigil]

experimented a bit, turns out I can zoom and pixel pefrect camera it seems takes care of which value I can zoom and which I cannot but there's a kind of problem, it's instant, not smooth. it's by logic, yes, but I'm not sure if pixel perfectness is the best thing anymore. should I try pixel perfectness at all?

[blissful relic]

generally smooth zooming and pixel perfect dont 100% go together, but for example Terraria made it work well

[golden sigil]

Yes, I tried, it doesn't work easily it seems. that's why I'm asking, should I try pixel perfect at all if I'm trying to make a 2d top down pixel rpg for mobile? Something between terraria and stardew.

[blissful relic]

well I guess that one is up to experimentation

[golden sigil]

that's why I'm asking whether you would go for pixel perfect or not

[blissful relic]

I would

because not having pixel perfect can mess up the game visually

especially if youre using a tilemap

[golden sigil]

but how then would you fix different resolutions having different amount of view shown? Like, it's a bit unfair if someone can see a projectile and someone not

[blissful relic]

are you doing multiplayer or something?

[golden sigil]

no, coop and ranking board might be a thing in future, but that's it

[blissful relic]

Well, ranking boards in singleplayer game will 100% get plagued by cheaters

so I'd advise against them

and about the resolution thing, the difference is unlikely to be significant

[golden sigil]

My problem is only and only that I cannot tell my artist how to draw, like, on which canvas, that's why I'm here

[blissful relic]

what kind of game are we even talking about

[golden sigil]

2d top down pixel rpg for mobile

[blissful relic]

tilemap, right?

[golden sigil]

objects - no, they are placed by hand and tiles - yes

[blissful relic]

well, unless the RPG is difficult, fast-paced, focused on ranged attacks then resolution probably won't matter

and I'm not sure what do you mean by canvas, just pick a tile size and stick to it

like 16x16 is a common choice

[golden sigil]

they need to choose x and y size in their art program so they could see how objects would look like in game, so we don't get objects a lot smaller or bigger than other objects

[blissful relic]

uhh idk what's the issue, when I do art for my projects I just have a very large canvas where I draw the tiles and sprites wherever I deem comfortable

if you're worried that a tree is going to be too big, put some tiles on layer below it

I think you're overthinking a non-existent issue

[golden sigil]

might be. so for example for the portal to be 3x size or player you would want to know the size of player sprite and 3x it, right? like, our player is a bit less than 50x50(the whole sprite is 50x50), should the portal be a bit less than 150x150? right now the portal is small because it's 100x100

[blissful relic]

have you picked a tile size already?

because you should base your sprite sizes on that

[golden sigil]

yes. tile size is 32x32. we can change it though if needed.

[golden sigil]

what? okay, so one our tile is 32x32, why we need to adjust sprites based on that?

[blissful relic]

you probably want all the sprites to actually fit your environment

and tile size is the least resizable thing because you'd have to redo every single tile you have

[golden sigil]

not hard when you have 2 tiles.

[blissful relic]

well yes, but before you start making tiles and sprites in large amounts you want to have the size already decided

ehh you're overthinking the problem probably

[golden sigil]

might be xd. so you would suggest pick 16x16 or 32x32 first, then make for example a 640x640 canvas, draw player with the size related to tiles we want, then start drawing objects?

[blissful relic]

ehh I think you should just go and experiment a bit

[golden sigil]

Could you please tell if I'm right or wrong in the question above?

[blissful relic]

it's art, you work in a way that is most effective for you

[golden sigil]

I just don't want to get objects of different sizes, that's all xd xd xd

[golden sigil]

that's why I'm asking if my approach is great or not

[blissful relic]

draw a bunch of placeholder tiles so you can make a placeholder game area and test the sprites on it

[golden sigil]

but that goes back to the problem of choosing the sizes of placeholder game area

[blissful relic]

how much you/your artist are experienced in pixel art?

[golden sigil]

I don't draw. My artist - 1 day.

[blissful relic]

So you're beginners

then I recommend going for a simple style, like 16x16, 12x12 or even 8x8 if possible

[golden sigil]

may I ask why? they said that it's easier for them to go for higher res because it's more of their general style, like, not pixel one

[blissful relic]

smaller tile sizes are simpler - less squares to deal with means you have less details to worry about. Just pick whatever size is comfortable for you. But keep in mind that pixel art and line-art are two different worlds

simply doing line-art in a low resolution isn't pixel art

[golden sigil]

This is their tiles. I personally think they are great, but what do you think?

[blissful relic]

they're 32x32?

[golden sigil]

yes.

[blissful relic]

yeah they look pretty good, though they don't look like conventional pixel art to me, more like realistic

[golden sigil]

is this a bad thing?

[blissful relic]

no, it's fine

just a different style from what I was thinking about

it's something like factorio's style

[golden sigil]

yes. And we are hoping it will work 🙂 Thank you for your time, we appreciate that!!

[blissful relic]

yw

[golden sigil]

if it's ok, may I ask another question, is it possible to make day/night cycle system specifically on unity built-in pipeline? If so, what light should I choose? I have 4 choices.

[blissful relic]

uhh idk never worked with these, you should probably search online

[golden sigil]

okie, will try!

[hushed bay]

That was actually the case lol...
I fixed it by increasing the light intensity...

[steady jetty]

Are sprite atlases not used anymore? I keep seeing different opinions on this. I'm told Unity puts it together automatically for you when you build the game? I have hundreds of sprites. Do I need to make atlases for them?

Oh maybe I should post this under #🖼️┃2d-tools

[dim yoke]

Sorry if this question doesnt belong here, but why is the default player armature from the unity Starter Assets - third person controller package all pink when i import it?

Like this

[fluid oak]

That package was made in built-in renderer and you are probably using #archived-urp ?

[dim yoke]

Ah, yeah

[timid grove]

Hi ... I'm working on my first project. It should be a top down game. At the moment I'm struggeling to create a good looking background (gras ground). I tried to use a Tilemap but when I'm zoom in or out there a some graphic effects and overall it looks not good. I tried to use bigger Tiles up to 200 pixel. Should I use a big background image instead of Tiles? What is the best practises? My goal is a Background like in Rimworld or Airport CEO.

[digital sapphire]

we need more information to help you, but im sure bigger resolution for tiles is not the answer

[timid grove]

At the moment my background looks like

I'm trying to get something like that

Should I use a big image? Or do I have to combine multiply tilesets?

[bright delta]

so i imported this model from blender(wasn't made by me,but modified) and the camera seems to point in the wrong direction when created,i have no idea why as the applied the rotation to the model and confirmed that all the bones have a rotation of (0,0,0),any idea why this is happening?

[jaunty edge]

Hello. I'm new here and I have a question. I want to learn level design in unity and I my question is: When I open project and start making map, place assets etc. How I can share this project / map with my friend who will start programing on top of it?

[timid grove]

You could use a version control system like GIT

Or use the build in team system from unity. But I have no experience with this

https://unity.com/products/unity-teams

[jaunty edge]

Thank you!

[bright delta]

Also some parts seem to rotated for some reason when i imported it,even tho i applied the rotation and made sure there is no different values between unity and blender

any idea why?