🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[misty lantern]

@cyan lynx Since your problem seems to be occuring specifically on the meshes and textures, that suggests an art asset problem so it'd belong in this channel

I assume your asset problem resembles this
Color bleed at UV seams happens when there's no bleed margins
It happens over distance because mip mapping decreases texture resolution, both to reduce aliasing and to reduce rendering cost, effectively blurring the texture so bleeding problems become more apparent

here with enough color margins the problem is gone
This is in Blender but Unity renders textures the same way

[cyan lynx]

Luckily I'm using also blender and I've got it the concept behind this problem but in my case I'm unwrapping this part of road and exact this seams bleeds out the white line should I scale up its UV?

[misty lantern]

No obvious problem here
What of the adjacent UV island from the sidewalk?

[cyan lynx]

Sidewalk

Sidewalk's UV is quite big from rest this can be a problem?

[fickle pasture]

im trying to import this model from blender into unity but the legs mess up, is this a problem with import settings? every bone in the legs are keyed so im unsure

[eager mist]

Your normals might be inverted. In blender select the object that isn’t importing correctly > edit mode > a > shift + N to flip normals outside out and try importing again

[fickle pasture]

i've realized now that this seems to be a blender issue. the normals arent inverted the legs are just in the wrong position on export some reason

[violet walrus]

if its pro builder it has a option for that, if its a 3d model you would need to adjust its UV's in the 3d package to account for it

or do the textures with something like a tri-planner projection

[fleet pivot]

How many ppu is Ori and the Blind Forest?

[misty lantern]

Cube projected UV unwrapping in modeling software, or a triplanar projection shader in Unity for realtime

[blissful relic]

I dont think that game uses pixel art

so it doesnt really matter and theres no way to know without developer tools

[misty lantern]

It's more expensive than your usual lit or unlit shader using just UV mapping, and having to use multiple shaders may make batching more difficult but it depends on your platform really

Because triplanar mapping is calculated in realtime using position rather than UV coordinates, this means that textures may slide when geometry is moved or changed
This can be a positive or a negative

[hoary kindle]

Usually object space position is used for triplanar mapping so textures wont shift when the object is moved. Triplanar mapping requires 3 texture samples per pixel so it is definitely slower than single texture sample but not a problem on most cases. Biplanar mapping can be used too when the amount of texture samples is a problem (biplanar uses some math to get the sample count down to 2). @misty lantern what do you mean by "having to use multiple shaders" exactly?

[misty lantern]

In a rendered scene, regarding batching I mean

[hoary kindle]

I still dont understand. Why does using triplanar mapping require more shaders?

[misty lantern]

It doesn't, that was unclear of me
I assumed a situation where a triplanar shader is used in addition to everything else

Doesn't seem very common to use it for everything but I suppose that's perfectly possible

As far as I understand it's not ideal even for SRP batching to have multiple different shaders rendering at once, but it's not terribly by any means either

[hoary kindle]

If you have dozens or even hundreds of different shaders being rendered at once, it would start to become a problem, with only two different shaders it shouldnt be a problem. Even if you get everything batched into one draw call, it would make it two draw calls in which case the biggest bottleneck is definitely not the draw call count. In worst case that would double the draw call count but thats not very likely. When it comes to SRP batcher, the amount of different shaders is what matters more than the amount of materials. One more shader to the pool shouldnt be that big deal

[fleet pivot]

I know, they rendered 3D models as sprites.

[misty lantern]

Good to know that it's not a significant cost!

[fallow thorn]

that game is not pixel art, its 2.5D

[fallow thorn]

I dont think thats accurate, the game is actually 3D, but the camera is arbitrarily locked to a 2.5D perspective

much of the terrain and backgrounds are flat 2D, but just as much if it is 3D

[fluid oak]

Ori 1 used baked character sprites, Ori 2 used 3d character models

[high hill]

I'm having some weird trouble with the pixel art camera
I have a 3d model, which looks fine in the scene view, but once played (on the right) the pixels start getting messed up
sprites of the player and the rest of 2d things seem fine

(or would this be more of a 2d tools kind of issue, then I'll move my question there)

[grand birch]

I'm not sure if this belongs more in the Graphics-Shaders channel since this has to do with mixing textures in shader graph, but as it's me trying to wrap my head around workflow, it might be applicable here.

In any event, I'm used to working in Substance Designer, so I have a much better idea of how to generate the results that I'm looking for than inside of Unity. I have enclosed screenshots of both the Substance Graph and also the Unity Graph. As a disclaimer, I'm mixing UV Channels as well, so something seems to have gone a bit awry.

It seems that the first Lerp is successful, but the second one is not. For whatever reason, I'm not able to mix the masks like in Substance Designer. Does anyone know what the appropriate Unity solution would be?

[hidden basalt]

Hi guys, i’m really confused, I want to make a blockout, but don’t know if i should use Blender 3D or Unity’s Pro Builder. What are your recommendations please?

[blissful relic]

use a pixel perfect camera

[high hill]

I am using it

[high hill]

I’ll post the settings for it in a sec, as I must’ve messed up somewhere along the way

[high hill]

it took longer than a sec but here are the settings (virtual camera has the cinemachine pixel perfect component as well).
it's then rendered to a render texture

[grand birch]

If it were me, I'd probably learn an external 3D application, so in your case, Blender. I'm not familiar with Unity Pro Builder, so I don't know what its limitations are, but I'd want something that is specifically geared towards modeling with the widest application possible.

[misty lantern]

Pixel perfect camera works for pixel art because sprites are snapped to the pixel grid
Such process cannot be done to 3D meshes

Or rather it won't

[high hill]

Ah dangit

I guess I’ll try with a second camera which is not pixel perfect, then combine the two renders

[misty lantern]

You can have 3D but if anything that needs to keep its pixel proportions should be as prite

So, no "pixel art" textures on meshes and they should render much better

[dull light]

Hi! (not sure which channel to post this) Any idea why my sprites sometimes come with weird edges?

(used in UI Image with native size)

[misty lantern]

What do you mean by "weird"?

[dull light]

my sprite is purely green, but shows with yellowish edges

[misty lantern]

Probably compression, try setting it to none

[dull light]

this did nothing

[misty lantern]

Then I do not know

[dull light]

😦 ok thank you

[fluid oak]

Might be an issue with premultiplied alpha. If so, you either need to dilate the texture's rgb channels or try the psd fix checkbox in the image importer.

[dull light]

hmm I cant seem to find this option, to clarify it is only a png file not a psd (if it changes anything)

[fluid oak]

Well, then you'll probably need to dilate/pad the texture.

[dull light]

I'll tell that to the artist maybe it will make more sense for her 😅 thank you

[fluid oak]

https://substance3d.adobe.com/documentation/spdoc/files/134643719/134643715/1/1441715499000/padding_zoom.gif

Depending on your file the 'alpha is transparency' checkbox might fix it too.

[high hill]

for now I disabled everything pixel perfect and I have run into a different issue with the 3d model
for some reason in the game view the pixels of the render texture seem warped all around the image
I'm including the final camera looking at the render texture and the canvas with the render, as I'm not sure what could be causing this

[misty lantern]

Warped how? I'm not spotting warping between the scene and game views in the screenshot

[high hill]

those four pixels for example are all the same size in the scene view

while having variable sizes in the game view

which shouldn't happen with an orthographic camera to my knowledge

[misty lantern]

It definitely can happen if the texture pixels don't perfectly match the screen pixels

That's what the pixel perfect camera component aims to address after all

Also, I cannot see your zoom factor here but the game window will also cause that type of distortion if you use a non-integer scale factor for zooming

[high hill]

it happens even at 1, though I'll check if there is something going on with the model itself that messes it up, as stuff around it seems fine

[misty lantern]

It doesn't look really distracting to me

I think you've taken up a massive challenge trying to implement pixel perfect rendering for 3D meshes textures
The math is complicated enough for 2D sprites and with those you can guarantee a specific PPU to work with

[high hill]

so it's not possible to make it match the scene view?

[misty lantern]

It does "match" the scene view but that's not the problem you're trying to solve

Why scene view doesn't seem to suffer from that problem is because zooming in changes your display resolution relative to texture size, so the visual error becomes proportionally smaller

[high hill]

even when I'm zoomed out in the game view the problem is still visible

so there must be something I messed up that leads to that happening

maximized at scale 1 with pixel perfect-ness removed it still has uneven sizes of the pixels on the model

[main scaffold]

Im currently working on this game, and I can't really get an idea for a background that might look good. I was thinking the setting was in space or something

[bold lance]

How do you guys work with Substance Painter when your Mesh have multiple materials but you want only one texture ouput ?

I can't find any good workflow

[iron loom]

not sure what channel to pop this in, but does anyone know how to stop the clipping shown on the right when i get close to objects in scene view?

[night flame]

I'm making an armor system in my game that has parts of the body that will be swappable with other armor sets. Is it best to separate the base mesh into those pieces as well? And what's the best way to attach all of them to the same game object under 1 skeleton, rigged, etc?

[dense roost]

how do I make a sewer wall or walls for my platforming game

[high hill]

try looking at how sewer walls are made in other platforming games

[dense roost]

thx

[lime pollen]

Change the cameras near clipping plane

Or just click the object and press f

[dense roost]

if anyone uses LibreSprite how do u export in a big scale

[wicked agate]

Hi! I need to make an ice melt from top to bottom in unity. Any idea how can i do that? im thinking blendshape but is there another easy way ?

[misty lantern]

What kind of ice? A 3D mesh of some specific shape?

[shadow tulip]

i have a problem

[wicked agate]

yes a 3d shape

[shadow tulip]

in first stage my squire on the stage

but second

it is in the stage

why?

[misty lantern]

More specifically?

If it's say, a cube, you can get by just by resizing it down

[round sigil]

Hi we re trying to switch to using

[green cloak]

Can I convert my all the assets to toon art style, cuz i have low end laptop and it can't handle the lights of unity, also i like toon shaders

[outer halo]

You can do whatever you wish.

[dense roost]

how do I improve this. it's a platform for a game

[rose lark]

Unity isnt detecting blender

What can I do so it automatically imports my .blend assets

[fluid oak]

Unity has depreciated that functionality in recent versions in favor of using fbx.

[blissful relic]

First thing would be adding shading

you can see a beginner's pixel art guide on youtube if you want to learn the basics

[glad cairn]

I'm running into some issues with how unity is processing a blendshape that I've set up in Blender for a model I'm using in VRChat. For some reason even at low blendshape values for this particular shape, it breaks the continuity of the normals even though there's no seam there.

Here's the import settings I'm using for the model:

[glad cairn]

Managed to solve this issue by setting the import to disable legacy blendshape normals, and setting both normals and blendshape normals mode to import

[graceful patio]

hey anyone here have any experience using the sprite resolver and SetCategoryAndLabel ?

[mortal knot]

Hello, I have some files here that are of the document type. When I open them it says UnityFS on top then some random symbols. How would I extract these into regular pngs?

[lime pollen]

of what type?

[knotty monolith]

Guys, has anyone tried to do something like, for example, we have two different SkinnedMesh , and we need to combine them into one, while recalculating the normals and merging the points that are very close to each other, this is in case to avoid visibility cut seam of these two meshes?

[mossy creek]

@knotty monolith

No, this is your mesh problem.

1. If you have a meshes with shared juncture loop, you can freeze normals and just put two different parts together, they will fit seamless.

2. Recalculate normals, without hard edges, after merging points in the single loop.

[silent sigil]

Can someone point me towards a video/tutorial to learn the concepts to use premade models i guess?
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/fantasy/free-low-poly-human-rpg-character-219979
I want to import that to test my game but cant seem to figure it out.

[unkempt mortar]

not sure if this is the right channel, whats the best file format to export 3D models from blender? (fbx, dae, etc)

Ive been using fbx but Ive also seen a lot of games use dae

[eager mist]

Far as I know, Unity uses FBX

thats what I use anyway

[fallow thorn]

Almost done with my pipeline for creating new weapon sprites for Ko to hold!
I only need to draw the weapon as a single frame, hit a few buttons, and I have 103 frames of animation for it~
Then I do touchups and smears by hand (though I may look into automating this too)
it all as 30~ sprite sheets using a script.. automatically creates a folder, renames the files, makes a copy of all the animation clips and renames those too

the last step is a bit tedious, having to go through all the override clips and replace sprites in keyframes, but maybe I can find a way to automate this too

also, seperated the slash smear, so it can be colored and glowy~

[ripe acorn]

Why is my spritesheet is so much worse in the sprite editor vs in photoshop?

[misty lantern]

Can you show the sprite sheet texture's import settings inspector in full?

[misty lantern]

Can you show the preview window below also, which has some info

[misty lantern]

I believe the reason is here that the width of your texture exceeds the defined Max Size 2048, so it gets downsampled resulting a blur

The sprite sheet seems to be packed a bit inefficiently

[ripe acorn]

Hm, interesting. Can you increase the max size? Or is smarter to just repack things more smartly

What's nice about this packing is each animation is on its own line

[misty lantern]

You can increase it, but smarter to pack more smartly
Usually you'd want to aim for PoT dimensions and a square texture shape

[ripe acorn]

PoT?

[misty lantern]

Power of two numbers, which are much easier for renderers to handle
Meaning 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 and so on

Though if you ultimately end up packing the sprites into a sprite atlas, the sprite dimensions won't matter

Since it's an entirely new texture

[ripe acorn]

No I'm probably doing things in a naive way

Like how many animated units would need to be out before the performance improvement from PoT would actually matter?

or sprite atlas.

[misty lantern]

PoT textures can be compressed better which usually means lower build size and RAM usage
Sprite atlases should take care of that, and have the added benefit of batching texture loads and draw calls together

Can't give you exact numbers though

[ripe acorn]

Hm, guess I need to look into sprite atlas

[misty lantern]

In my experience PoT textures are just easier to work with since you can standardize the size and resolution of every sprite

Those dimensions always form a divisible grid, and there's no guesswork of how many X sprites you can fit in Y number of level units, for example

[ripe acorn]

But what if each sprite requires a certain size such that they add up to something more or less than a power of 2

Just add empty space on?

[misty lantern]

Adding some empty space is usually an acceptable compromise if the item won't fit a PoT resolution exactly

[ripe acorn]

Guess I need to go redo these spritesheets le sigh

[misty lantern]

Making assets in that standard mostly helps you line up things mentally
When the sprite renderer samples them or when they're compiled to an atlas, they're cut out from their original sprite assets along their sprite outlines which conform to the sprite's pixel shape

[ripe acorn]

Yes I can't understand that. I just cut them out in a size equal to the largest space any of the sprites need, and then change the pivot point to be centered

or is that bad lol

[misty lantern]

Doesn't sound bad, if I understand correctly

You may not have to make a new sprite sheet, just increase the import Max Size for now

Deal with problems and optimizations later when it becomes relevant

If you end up generating a sprite atlas it may be wasted effort to have created optimized sprite sheets earlier

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53706f3be4b039e44f87f56b/1497162629787-JD6N53UHH19R3RZA9AWO/exportAtlas.png

Here's an example

These might have been in an inefficient spacious grid before being packed

But Unity keeps their outlines and pivot points when the atlas is generated

[ripe acorn]

hmm

So you can just make inefficient spritesheets and then just pack them in a sprite atlas later with no issue?

Like, there's nothing special I need to do now in order to enable that later?

[kind hollow]

Does anyone know why my fbx has these "holes" when imported into Unity? I've recalculated the normals many times and many different ways but it hasn't done anything.

[misty lantern]

Correct

[kind hollow]

There are also other holes, mostly in the legs

[misty lantern]

Check Skin Weight limits in quality settings
Blender has unlimited, I believe, but Unity defaults to something like 2 or 4

[kind hollow]

Yes! Thanks so much, setting it to unlimited fixed it

Is that a good idea though? Will it cause performance issues?

[misty lantern]

It will incur a performance cost, especially if your weight mapping relies on a lot of weights
Whether that's an "issue" will depend on your project and target devices

[kind hollow]

Ah okay, well, it shouldn't be too bad. The model is relatively simple.

Thanks for the advice, this was really eating at me

[timid frost]

Hi everyone, I have a problem with texturing objects. So I imported an asset for the first time in my project and I want to add textures to it. My problem is the textures are only showing like "simple materials", not the textures. So if I want to add my brown "wooden" texture, the object simply becomes brown but the textures arent showing. How to solve this?

[misty lantern]

It sounds like your mesh isn't UV unwrapped, assuming the material you're assigning correctly has the texture

[timid frost]

Thankyou!!!

[fluid oak]

In fact, depending on your build target unity might scale up your image to POT if it isn't atlased, which ends up with the same sort of artifacts as the shrinking to fit does.

[misty lantern]

That's a good point

Although some compression formats support NPOTs, it's only very selectively a reliable option

[weak meadow]

hello how are you guys, I'm having problems importing animations into unity, I'm new to this topic and I would like to know if someone can help me, by the way, my main language is Spanish

[tranquil bay]

Hello, is there any way to get rid of these lines between my prefabs?

[fluid oak]

Make them bigger?

[half field]

That is the edges of texture coming in or the sides of the cubes? Do not use loads of overlapping cubes it is very slow.

Hey how do you avoid dark edges on cutout materials where the background color comes in?

This link gives examples and to reduce issues at distance but is there a shader-only fix or easy tools to do this? https://asawicki.info/articles/alpha_test.php5

[misty lantern]

There seem to be a lot of different topics here
If you just mean to de-fringe textures you can check "alpha is transparency" in texture import settings and tthe colors will be dilated over to transparent regions

That does require that your texture isn't authored with visible fringes though

If they are you need to do dilation or defringing in an image editor first too

[half field]

de-fringe with "alpha is transparency"? Oh - it does it automatically! Also need "Mip maps preserve coverage" to help with things disappearing at distance. Should cover it all

[eager mist]

how would i make a post soviet building

ik how to model

dk how to texture

[lime pollen]

Then look up a texturing tutorial

[vast shale]

Any ideas on how to make a guide map in my game, like a pirate map? For now I did it by using an orthographic camera and the output of that camera in a top down view of the full map, and for icons I placed a sprite renderer in my player which I can see from the camera, but it looks a but bad, my idea was to have a 2d image as background and the icons to be above the 2d image so I can follow the player in real time

Looks like this

[tranquil bay]

They are 1x1 unity units, though. Same as my grid. Shouldn't they not have gaps?

[fluid oak]

But it does have gaps.

Precision is limited.

[tranquil bay]

Is the general solution to using 3d tiles then to make them 1.00001(etc) on each axis?

Or, I suppose, whichever amount clears out the gap

[fluid oak]

It depends on the project.

[fluid oak]

That's a pretty normal way to do it

[tranquil bay]

Hm, this is a Fantasy DOOM clone, but with the environment being made up of 3D tiles on separate layers. That doesn't help, does it?

In terms of the solution to the gaps

[vast shale]

Yh but it looks a bit bad

[tranquil bay]

They do appear slightly in game, so I want to try and fix it the best way I can

Seems like no matter what scale I give it the lines appear at some rate 😦

Oh psh, all I had to do was turn off MSAA.

[lusty beacon]

Is there really no way to apply textures to backfaces of materials in unity? I need to do external fuckery for this?

[lime pollen]

Make a two sided material

[lusty beacon]

you mean externally?

[fluid oak]

A #archived-shaders inside unity.

[graceful patio]

hey anyone here us sprite library assets?

use*

[river lodge]

Im currently using the built in render pipeline, should I upgrade to the HDRP? I intend to make games for pc switch xbox and ps

not mobile

[outer halo]

Research what HDRP offers and make an informed choice.

[river lodge]

The thing is im looking to make a low poly game which I would think wouldnt need hdrp, but i've never touched shadergraphs, and ive read a few posts that suggest using hdrp for flat shading

But surely hdrp itself shouldnt be needed for this? or perhaps im missing something

[misty lantern]

Sounds like there's some misunderstanding
Flat shading is not related to any render pipeline, and HDRP specializes in realistic HD graphics, something you wouldn't use flat shading in

I'm pretty sure the Switch cannot run HDRP at all

[feral cipher]

Not sure if this question would be best suited for a blender workflow or unity workflow but: If I have a rig where I want to swap out a model, for my case it's sort of similar to a Sonic the hedgehog spindash effect, where I would switch out the character model with a sphere mesh, is it better to have the extra mesh as a part of the rig, controlled using blendshapes/bones and in the same base animation, or as a separate model with its own animation?

I'm not too familiar with the Unity animator and syncing up animations so i'm more lenient towards the former but wanted to check as I'm not too knowledgeable on the workflow

[misty lantern]

I'd make them entirely separate and just disable/enable the meshes as part of the animation state machine
No point in trying to turn the rigged mesh into a sphere, or having the sphere be a part of the armature at all since it won't need any of the same bones

[feral cipher]

Thank you very much for the quick response, last question but would it be better practice to keep both models in the same FBX file and separate them once imported or just separate FBX files initially?

sorry it seems like a minor issue, just want to get into better habits now whilst I'm learning

[whole anvil]

Hi, I'm trying to import blender files to unity but when I do they don't show in the scene view

[river lodge]

Gotcha, can you recommend somewhere to start researching? I'm not an artist or anything so I wanted to steer clear of her styled graphics. I'll have to start learning how shadergraph works too.

[misty lantern]

Exporting multiple objects in one file can be handy if you have a big set of meshes that's practical to import in a bundle, as they will all share import settings
Most of the time to me it seems more practical to import them separately so you can change import settings and modify them individually afterwards, and so you don't need to unpack them to move them around the hierarchy

[misty lantern]

https://youtu.be/xS6g15XL8jQ You could start from here, and also just google around about what the render pipelines do and to make sure the info in the video is up to date

[feral cipher]

tyvm for the info :D

[rotund iris]

Hi! I'm importing a model with rig into unity from blender. The rig appears to be the correct size in blender, however when importing into unity, the rigs shoulder bones are squished into the center for some reason, causing the arm bones to be much shorter than the mesh. Only these two bones are being messed with. The pelvis bones are still perfectly separated.

[misty lantern]

It might be because your armature object in blender isn't in 1,1,1 scale, so on export the transforms get applied weirdly

[kind hollow]

Does anyone know why my mesh distorts like this in Unity but not in Blender?

[modern vessel]

does anyone know why my tile pallet keeps doing this? It carries like a column of pixels every so often for no reason, I turned anti-aliasing off but nothing is fixing it.

[hoary vigil]

Hey everyone, I am having some issues relating to Unity compatibility between two versions of Blender. I have been using Unity 2.79b since the dawn of Pixel Strike 3D. Now, I would like to finally update my Blender to the latest, but my Unity models get renamed bones, the blend shapes seem broken, and overall just having an awful time (have for the past couple weeks trying to figure out the solution) after reimporting with the new version. The character on the left hasn't been opened and saved with the new Blender, but the one on the right has.

[misty lantern]

Blender's FBX exporter has been updated in some ways, and the Unity's .blend importing has been deprecated either in general or for new Blender versions, not sure which
You'd have to find settings (and potentially a script to help) for exporting to FBX, and standardize that as your worfklow
...If you really want to update Blender for that project anyhow
https://polynook.com/learn/how-to-export-models-from-blender-to-unity
This article goes over all the ways to correct discrepancies between the Blender's and Unity's mismatching spacial systems

[hoary vigil]

Thank you for this link!

[brazen bluff]

I am working on models for buildings and trying to determine whether or not to use overlapping UVs, like a tile map. The game will be first person so there is a concern about repeating detail, but my main concern is that with overlapping UVs I can't bake geometry in substance painter, so for instance I can't get an AO map at all.

The tile map thing seems better in every other way in terms of efficiency but not being able to bake geometry... is there a way around this?

[misty lantern]

You could have multiple UV maps
Unity uses the second UV channel for baked lightmaps, for example

[fluid oak]

This isn't a server for discussing ripping game assets.

[kind hollow]

It's not a game asset.

Well, obviously it is but the model isn't from any game but mine

[brazen bluff]

I found some stuff suggesting something like this but those made it sound like these 'secondary uv's for the lightmap are automatic from Unity when you bake it? That is to say, do I have to actually set that up before export somehow?

[fluid oak]

Like Spazi said, unity can support multiple uv maps and defaults to using the second set(uv1) for light baking.

You can use up to eight uv maps, theoretically.

[brazen bluff]

Sure what I mean is, do I have to set up those second UV maps myself or does unity generate them for the mesh automatically?

[fluid oak]

You can either have unity generate lightmap uvs or import them.

[brazen bluff]

I see, that'll be part of the import settings on the .fbx I suppose?

[fluid oak]

There is a checkbox in the mesh importer.

[brazen bluff]

So basically, if I'm using baked lighting (and that checkbox is set), then when I bake lighting it'll effectively reproduce the same effects (namely AO) I'd be getting from baking the mesh in sub paint?

[fluid oak]

Well, not necessarily; it will depend on your baking options in unity.

You can likely generate nicer occlusion in substance, or at least do it easier- but that won't take your unity scene into account.

[brazen bluff]

Oh sure I just mean within the mesh itself, like using repeating parts to compress the material for a building, the repeating parts that share UVs prevent you from baking in sub paint

Because it bakes each separate mesh piece into the same space on the UV creating loads of artifacts

But it's hard for me to imagine a game like, say, Tarkov, having all their buildings totally unwrapped without any overlapping UVs or shared materials like that

This looks fine without baking, but this can't be baked in sub paint

[brazen bluff]

If I'm at the point where I'm not baking in SubPaint, then is there any benefit to per-mesh materials at all? Over just having generic materials (i.e. "Timber", "Brick") that are just a seamless texture that the mesh samples via multiple material slots?

[umbral berry]

I have a question about some artifacts that show up, probably related to the texture I'm using. In the distance there are these gray lines:

I thought it might have something to do with anisotropic filtering and fiddled around with the settings, but it didn't change anything

(also I'm using it on a Tilemap Renderer)

[coarse crescent]

I'm trying to start a video to play as an animated background on game start, but it doesnt start playing until at least the 2nd freame, so it's showing the blue unity background until it starts playing. How do I have the video show on screen when it loads

[wide wasp]

That is pretty common- look up 'trimsheets.' You can create a mesh with two UV sets in it, one used for the tiling elements and one for the lightmapping.

[misty lantern]

The tilemap renderer will sample pixels from around the tile for whatever reason

Your tile sprites should have one pixel of padding/extrusion on the sheet

[umbral berry]

thank so much for the hint, that steered me in the right direction. I'm now using a Sprite Atlas for the source tilemap sprite. That automatically adds padding between the individual sprites which solves the issue.

[bleak frigate]

Hello! I'm currently having an issue with the PSD importer in Unity. In the images below, the right background is a PSB that I have imported through Unity's PSD Importer, and the left background is just a PNG of the whole image exported from the PSB. For whatever reason, the PSB looks incredibly blurry and compressed. I have included screenshots of the import settings for each of the files, and they seem to be exactly the same (minus a few settings that are exclusive to the PSD importer). No matter what I do, I can't manage to make the PSB less blurry/compressed. Does anybody know why the PSB would be rendering blurry, while a PNG of the exact same resolution and image looks fine?

[bleak frigate]

I fixed the issue, but I have no idea how if I'm being honest. All I did was set the PSB's max size down to 2048 and back up to 4096.

[fallow thorn]

set filter mode to point?

[misty lantern]

In your images it was 2048 so I assume that wasn't enough to store the data of all layers
What I believe is happening is that the PSB importer makes a sprite sheet of all the layers, so the dimensions will be much bigger the more layers you have

In other words if you for example have 4 layers on a 2048^2 image, they'd form a 2 by 2 grid 4096 in width and height
With a max size of 2048 the resolution would be squished to half of the original

[bleak frigate]

Ooooooh that makes a lot of sense! I see now. Good to know for the future! Thank you @misty lantern !

[misty lantern]

The PBS importer is designed for use with the skinned sprite renderer for characters made of body parts where this wouldn't be an issue, rather than whole layered images
I recommend you export to either flattened PNG or to multiple PNGs if you are working on backgrounds or level art

[bleak frigate]

Will do, that seems like a better call. Thanks again!

[dense oar]

I need it to actually be linear values and not just visually look sorta right

whoops wrong immage - in photoshop, how can I get a perfectly linear gradient of values of 1 at dead center to 0 at exach of the 6 corners?

[misty lantern]

I really wouldn't expect photoshop effects to have any mathematical accuracy like that, but it'd be trivial to make that in Blender with vertex colors

[dense oar]

thats fair, I ended up realizing I could do it in-shader instead of sampling a texture at all

[misty lantern]

If you end up needing the texture or a similar thing for some other purpose you can check this

The included baked texture should be in linear color space too

[dense oar]

Sweet, thanks

[native slate]

Hi everyone, I would like to know How much it costs to create a 2D simulation game?

[woven dome]

Anything between nothing to millions of dollars

[blissful relic]

Price of making a game depends on the scale

can you tell more about what you mean by "2D simulation game"?

[wicked agate]

I need to animate an ice block melting top to bottom and export that to unity. Any idea how i can pull that off ?
I tried with shape key but it didnt turn out so well

[misty lantern]

Did the resizing technique that I suggested earlier work?

[brittle sundial]

Hi guys. I have a project I'm working on where I already had several presets with blender files and when moving to a new computer they don't seem to load. I have Blender installed inside this computer and still Unity doesn't seem to want to read the files. I tried to check if inside my Unity settings there was something like "blender path for reading .blend files" but there is not something like that. Could someone help me?

[brittle sundial]

Reimport all is the solution. 👍

[alpine ridge]

im not able to drop my blender objects in unity , its giving me this error

can someone help me with this

[junior coral]

dont drag .blend files, export them into .fbx files

[alpine ridge]

oh okay thanks

[violet walrus]

dragging in blender files directly even if it works is just asking for future problems

best to just export fbx for unity

[fluid oak]

Can you be more specific about what didn't work with that technique, and the look you are going for?

[rancid kayak]

Is there a place where i can ask for help with textures?
I exported a chracter into unity but, When i drag the materials on their correct place then they dont change

[lime pollen]

Show the material in the inspector

[lime pollen]

I mean its doing exactly what the material is doing. There's no textures assigned

[rancid kayak]

Well it came with blender

all the blender materials have the same names

[lime pollen]

That doesn't matter

[rancid kayak]

Well

What should i do?

[lime pollen]

Does the object have textures?

[rancid kayak]

No

[lime pollen]

I mean in blender...

Actually just show what it's supposed to look like

[rancid kayak]

Yes

It does

I dont have any lights in blender but

yeah

[lime pollen]

Did you paint them on or what

[rancid kayak]

UV

I didnt paint

[lime pollen]

Then you should just grab the texture and assign it manually in unity

[rancid kayak]

?

[lime pollen]

What's confusing about that sentence

[rancid kayak]

I get the original image and then make it into a material in unity?

[lime pollen]

Yes, just stick it in the base map slot

[rancid kayak]

Well uhh

It uhh

Doesnt look right

[lime pollen]

Looks like your uvs aren't right

[rancid kayak]

Is there no way i cant export the FBX file with textures?

[rancid kayak]

I made them right

In blender

[lime pollen]

You might need to look up how to bake those textures then

[rancid kayak]

So I can export the fbx with textures?

right

?

[lime pollen]

I mean sure?

I don't use blender

[rancid kayak]

Alright

I do

[lime pollen]

No shit

[rancid kayak]

Wel

https://youtu.be/kEP34CbPWUo

I watched this and did the copy and embedded textures

but

My stuff still looks like this

[lime pollen]

Show the texture import settings

[lime pollen]

My guy that is not the texture import settings

Click on the texture in unity

[lime pollen]

That is not the texture

[rancid kayak]

I have like 7

[lime pollen]

None of those are textures

Click on the material tab on the model import settings and extract materials I guess

[rancid kayak]

It pulled up my file explorer

[lime pollen]

Yeah just pick a folder to put the extracted materials in

[rancid kayak]

Alright i just pressed Select Folder

So i put it in the assets

But

My characters neck is gone now

and the textures still aint there

[lime pollen]

Click on the character in the hierarchy and assign the materials

[rancid kayak]

Where do i assign the materials again?

[lime pollen]

In the mesh, open up the hierarchy

[rancid kayak]

What?

[lime pollen]

Click the arrows on the player object until you find the mesh

[rancid kayak]

I have it on the project view

but

It doesnt exist in the hierarchy

[lime pollen]

Yes it does, it's roundcube

[rancid kayak]

Alright

I have it open

[lime pollen]

So check if the materials are assigned correctly

[rancid kayak]

Im not sure how to see that

[lime pollen]

Click the arrow next to the Materials field

[rancid kayak]

Well i guess not

[lime pollen]

My guy that's not the materials field

It's above lighting

[rancid kayak]

Where is lighting?

[lime pollen]

Above probes

It's right there in your image

[rancid kayak]

Right

[lime pollen]

Well there's your problem

My guy, do you not see the words missing right there

Also side note

[rancid kayak]

Im sorry. What shall I do?

[lime pollen]

Assign the materials you just extracted to those slots

You might need some trial and error to figure out which ones are correct

[rancid kayak]

All the materials are gray or black

no skin colors

or face textures

[lime pollen]

Then you need to extract textures too

[misty lantern]

Thread this please

[lime pollen]

Well this hopefully will be over in a bit

[rancid kayak]

Hey guys

My character doesnt have any textures when i put him into unity

I used Blender to make the textures and i embedded the textures into character

but

Its still broken

Anyone have a way i can export the file into unity with the textures included

[prime berry]

So I have a glb I extracted (I lost original blender file), in blender it is just a few axis, imported in unity nothing is displayed.

[misty lantern]

As far as I know .glb importing is not supported without extra packages or plugins to add that functionality
Either look into those, or import the mesh into Blender, fix anything that may have changed and export it as .fbx

[prime berry]

well.... this is supposed to be a cat, now it's some axis stuff

@misty lantern

[misty lantern]

These seem to be empties where armature bones used to be
I'm not familiar with .glb files, but I assume since there's no geometry it wasn't imported or exported properly

[prime berry]

using asset studio extracting worked

[feral cipher]

Hello, just wanted to ask about parenting objects to bones in terms of blender to unity workflow, I've seen it addressed in posts before saying to instead parent them using weights but set all weights to max on every vertex, however wanted to check whether that's outdated/not necessary anymore and whether unity can handle objects parented to bones? Otherwise is it better practice to parent them in the unity hierarchy or to do the above and weight paint

[misty lantern]

Unity definitely can handle that and it may be cheaper to do it that way to reduce use of skinned mesh renderers
In the past I had trouble exporting objects with bone parents, especially with animation, from Blender to FBX but lately it seems to have worked okay

[feral cipher]

Glad to hear it works alright, I had mixed results but am starting to use a game rig rather than exporting my control rig so hopefully the results are more consistent

[misty lantern]

The caveat I believe is that you can't parent objects to "individual bones" in Blender, and you'd have to use the "child of" constraint instead, which is not exportable to FBX

The only workaround I know of is to parent the objects to bones in Unity after importing, but I haven't experimented much with that

[feral cipher]

I think you can as that's what I've done, unless it works differently to how I'm thinking, this is what I'm using:

[feral cipher]

yeah, if the above doesn't work this'll be my fallback as if my hierarchy isn't too messy it should be alright

[misty lantern]

That could be something I missed, or something that didn't work before
I'd try doing it with this either way

[feral cipher]

will do, tyvm for the fast response again btw 👍

[eager mist]

Is it bad to use "calculate" rather than "import" for normals on meshes? Does it hurt performance?

[misty lantern]

No, only asset import time in editor
Using calculate gives you less control over edge sharpness than a 3D model editor will, and it won't do anything if the edges are already flat
But I don't think there's any reason to avoid it if you want to recalculate normals

[winged obsidian]

Yeah, I just ran into this yesterday

[eager mist]

thank you!!!

[winged obsidian]

I use a package called "Quick Exporter" that lets me configure multiple groups of objects for FBX export. So, I used that to export the meshes separately, then just stuck them on in Unity.

(extremely useful add-on)

[misty lantern]

Did you try the parent to bone option also? It should work by first selecting the object, then the armature, then the bone in pose mode
It seems to have been added somewhat recently so most guides online are outdated

[winged obsidian]

Yeah, that's what I did

It showed up in some completely goofy position in Unity

[misty lantern]

Good to know
I'll certainly experiment with it too at some point

[muted fjord]

anyone know how to fix the way this normal map looks? (yes it's marked as a normal map)

this is what it looks like in substance painter

could it be an issue with tangent space/world space?

[obtuse oyster]

can you screenshot what it looks like in the inspector?

[obtuse oyster]

I mean the texture itself

I am just suspicious that you haven't used the OpenGL normal map format, and one of the channels is flipped

[muted fjord]

this?

I have substance set to OpenGL

nvm, fixed it

had to set these to "import" on the mesh

[obtuse oyster]

What was wrong, tiling, vertex normals or something?

Ah vertex normals

[muted fjord]

or wait

I'm confused

now when I set them back to "calculate" it still looks fine

maybe they just had to be recalculated or something

unity is weird ig

[fresh cargo]

How can I export a model from blender in Unity with the right orientation and without the -90 angle on the X axis? I tried changing the forward and Up axis as you can see in the image but nothing changes.. And if I check Apply Transform the light in Unity breaks and I can't even see the model

[sly onyx]

Would anyone be able to help me get the textures back on my model? I got a GLB from the model site im using and feeding it through blender to get a FBX with textures isnt working correctly

This is the unity view

textures are being recognized inside of blender but render like this

here is the proper rendering that I need

[misty lantern]

Import textures separately

[fluid oak]

Or just use a glb importer directly

[sly onyx]

i tried the glb importer

it locked up the model

i couldnt move the parts seperately

well

i could sorta

the models wouldnt move

but i think the hitboxes were moving

[sly onyx]

How do i export the textures out of the glb then?

[misty lantern]

If the textures are embedded in the mesh, you should be able to extract them when you import it into Blender, or when you import it in Unity

[sly onyx]

I cant import the glb into unity without the entire thing locking up

the glb has the textures already applied and fixed

i need an FBX with textures

[misty lantern]

So, if the textures seem to work after you import the mesh into Blender, you should be able to extract them or confirm that they're properly embedded so you can extract them in Unity

[sly onyx]

The textures render and are linked properly when I use a GLB importer for unity

they are linked but do not render in blender

and are not linked and do not render in the FBX

from blender

even when I try to export textures from the exported FBX from blender

I put Copy and export textures on the settings for blender too

[misty lantern]

If there are import settings to specify when importing .glb to blender, that might be where the issue is, though I'm really not familiar with that format

[misty lantern]

Copy and export seems to imply exporting, not embedding

[sly onyx]

ill try to get a video of what im doing

[misty lantern]

Just that the mesh has embedded textures doesn't necessarily mean the materials are using those textures

In Unity you always have to extract the embedded textures before they appear

[sly onyx]

this is the left eye selected in blender

that is the texture for the left eye

this is how its rendering in the view port in blender

[misty lantern]

With this cropping I can hardly tell what's going on

[sly onyx]

heres the whole window

[misty lantern]

You're in Solid View here which in most cases does not display materials/textures

[sly onyx]

i think i got into texture mode

i gotta reset the model i made too many changes to move the eye back

[misty lantern]

The Shading workspace additionally should let you see a list of materials and textures used by specific parts of a mesh, and the Image Editor in the same workspace lets you preview textures that exist in the file

If I recall correctly this is the operation that saves embedded textures to files

[sly onyx]

thank you so much man

[misty lantern]

Since it looks like the textures were correctly embedded, the "extract textures" button in Unity probably worked all the same

[sly onyx]

he has textures

yay

the absolute nightmare fuel was exported

teeth textures are weird lmao

theyre in documents/textures now

[sly onyx]

Thank you so much @misty lantern

the textures are loaded in unity now :D

[sly onyx]

The model has decided it wants to lock up again after being converted

i can move the whole model

just not individual parts of the model

the textures are mapped on i did that gif before i mapped them

the model is showing up with an avatar in its children

not sure if that has anything to do with it

this whole window is greyed out

that wasnt like that when i could move it

top is the textured one

bottom is the untextured movable one

[fluid oak]

You aren't moving the bones

Those are what moves body parts

[sly onyx]

How do I move the glasses and mask

They don’t have bones mapped

[steel jay]

When I'm in Front Orthographic view (edit mode) and hit g , then movement of the vertices is locked to the z axis. How did I accidentally activated this?

Ahhh, edit: it is locked to the y plane. How to deactivate that?

[misty lantern]

In what program?

[steel jay]

Oh sorry, I wanted to post into other channel. It's blender 🙂

[fluid oak]

Yes they do. They are mapped to the head bone.

You are using readyplayerme, they attach the accessories to the regular bones.

[steel jay]

When creating 3d models in blender, does it make any difference if most of my faces are triangles vs rectangles?

[misty lantern]

Ultimately only triangles really exist
Modeling programs convert quads and n-gons to triangles when rendering, and they're also converted to triangles when imported to a game engine
Quads and n-gons are basically a convention to make modeling easier

For example you can only use loop cuts with quads, and quads are much more practical to subdivide topologically

Working with n-gons doesn't have those benefits as quads have, but they may still be more convenient than triangles in some places
It's recommended to do a triangulate operation when you export, so you can control the process
Automatic triangulation may fail with some polygons and remove them entirely, in which case you'll get a warning in Unity console

[violet axle]

Are you allowed to put assets you make for your own game as assets on the asset store and still use them in your game?

[misty lantern]

I'm quite certain there are no rules or laws like that

[violet axle]

ok very cool, gives me more of a reason to make my own assets for my game

[winged obsidian]

I'm using the vector graphics package to import SVGs

and I'm making these SVGs in Illustrator at the moment

this is very tedious: I have to manually export the SVG every time I edit something

it feels like it'd be easy to write an Illustrator script to automate this; has anyone done that?

[eternal cypress]

Any good tools for creating humans? Something like unreal's metahuman

I am currently using UMA 2 but it seems to be very small in it's size and community...

[fluid oak]

Nobody that I know of but you can absolutely write an impost preprocessor to do it

[winged obsidian]

oh right! i've never done that before...

I am reluctant to make my import pipeline depend on Illustrator tho

I use Blender scripts to export FBXs for me, for example

[fluid oak]

It is fiddly but you usually only need to do it once and then it just works

[sly onyx]

Are they not able to be moved seperate then?

I just wanted to add a toggle to them to turn the glasses and mask off for vrc

[sly onyx]

i found the visibility toggle in the avatar section

[unkempt mortar]

why does blender squish my models like this?

if I apply the mesh in order to get correct proportions I have to scale it by like some weird combination of different numbers on each axis

[misty lantern]

You'll want to apply object transforms before you export, or when you export

[sharp flame]

It would be nice if blender and unity had better compatibility

[winged obsidian]

blame the .fbx format

i do it regularly

the Blender .fbx export script has some very funny comments in it

[violet walrus]

well reason is a combo of fbx format and blender being GPL

so its not able to use the official FBX sdk for its fbx support due to it being incompatible with the GPL licensing

is a addon called Better FBX that helps alot but does cost money

[misty lantern]

Both Blender and Unity are working towards better USD compatibility so maybe that'll replace FBX

[misty lantern]

@gloomy raptor You could demonstrate how the texture becomes "broken" and also show how it's applied in the blender shader
I don't know what you mean by "paint", but you don't really create art assets within Unity
PolyBrush can paint vertex colors, but it's probably not what you're looking for

[gloomy raptor]

I can slide over the screenshots later

[gloomy raptor]

@misty lantern sending the screenshots now

in blender vs in unity @misty lantern

i don't know if armatures/rigging have anything to do with it

[eager mist]

When I want to make a building with rooms
is it easier for beginners to use probuilder or to use an external program like blender?

[knotty ferry]

Hey can I ask something. can I use unity 3 program with out internet ? Or need to be open. Internet?

[misty lantern]

It looks mostly like a texture baking problem, but since you didn't mention doing that it seems most likely to be an issue with the UVs
I'd check for overlapping geometry or accidentally exported extra objects too in either case

[gloomy raptor]

I'll see about texture baking, that might be the issue

[misty lantern]

So, you are baking the texture in some way? If you aren't, then it can't be a baking problem

[gloomy raptor]

Then it's not baking problem

[misty lantern]

My guess is that something goes wrong with the UV map at some point, maybe multiple conflicting UV maps or something
You haven't shown it but it does not look good here with so many seams occuring all over the mesh

[gloomy raptor]

I'm confused with how the model broke so much, but there IS something that may be causing it

the model on the right is a rigged version of the model on the left, as in, a texture for a static, unrigged model is being put on the rigged one

[misty lantern]

Rigging wouldn't affect it, but they may have differing UV maps

UVs and vertex groups for rigging are both vertex data just the same, so you can't update just one of them

[gloomy raptor]

I managed to start texturing the rigged model, I'll see how that works out

[misty lantern]

Anyway, it seems like much less of a mystery if they're not the same mesh

[gloomy raptor]

You were right, it was a mesh issue

Now the texture works

[woeful chasm]

I have modeled my first object in blender and imported it into unity. It's a cylinder shape. The origin/pivot is in the middle of the object and I would like to have the pivot at the bottom-center of the cylinder so I can place it on the ground easier without "dialing it in" on the y axis each time. How can I do that?

[woeful chasm]

Also, are you not supposed to scale gameobjects? I heard somewhere that having a scale that isn't 1 will mess things up

[misty lantern]

You can change an object's origin point in Blender by applying transforms, or by using the origin edit mode with ctrl + .
In Unity you can also use empty parent gameobjects as pivots

[misty lantern]

You should only use non-1 scales when you need to
Consider that all scaling will be inherited down the hierarchy, and many components do not support non-uniform scales, or behave weirdly with them

[lusty beacon]

I'm using unity recorder to record gameplay. mp4 gives me an absolutely abhorrent quality and WEBM gives me 5 FPS. Any advice here?

[fluid oak]

Save frames and combine them externally?

[violet axle]

I would just use OBS
What does unity recorder offer that you cant do in a video editor?

[fluid oak]

The ability to record at non-realtime speed for higher quality mostly.

Also being able to record precise frame ranges.

[violet axle]

OBS does that too right

[fluid oak]

Not sure; can OBS tell unity to change its rendering speed?

[lusty beacon]

Full screen

[violet axle]

Well you can manually tell unity to render slower right

[fluid oak]

Yes. Using the recorder.

I personally mostly use the recorder when I want to capture a perfect loop since I can put in the precise number of frames I need.

[lusty beacon]

I ended up buying a full screen asset

can't deal with unity's shit

shadowplay is just much superior to this

[fluid oak]

Not if you're using an ATI card 😄

Really though, nobody is forcing you to use it.

[barren sail]

I have two similar meshes, one i downloaded and other is made by me with blender.
I use them to make grass, but that one which is downloaded work fine, while made by me mesh dont allow to place grass on the ground, i move the brush above ground and nothing happen, grass doesnt place
What am i miss?

[sly onyx]

is there a way to get the glasses and mask meshes on my model to move with the headbone without locking them down in blender?

[lime pollen]

You can have then as separate meshes and parent them manually

Or use a script

[white crypt]

Hi, does anyone have a simple tile set template for a side scroller pixel art game that I could use with libresprite (which is basically aseprite), or any other drawing software?
And another question, I want to make a tile set, but I'm not sure what tile sizes to use. I'm aiming for a resolution of 640x360p because I've heard it's easy to scale to 1920x1080p, but when I looked online, people recommended using 16x16, 32x32, or 64x64 tiles which don't seem to divide evenly into 360... I might just be dumb, but won't this mean there will always be some odd looking pixels? Thanks in advance!

[lime pollen]

Those sizes are powers of two, which makes it more efficient for computers to process

[white crypt]

Yeah... But if you try and fill a vertical column of 32x32 tile sets in a 640x360 screen, wouldn't it fit 11.25 times, which would make it weird? I might be overthinking it, idk

Oh, no, sorry
I am dumb
It would just cut off, but still look okay, right?

[lime pollen]

I think that's handled pretty easily by the pixel perfect camera. Honestly you can have non power of two textures and still be fine, modern computers are fast enough that it doesn't really matter too much

[white crypt]

Thanks!!

[kind hollow]

Does anyone know why my mesh distorts like this in Unity but not in Blender?
My skin weights in the project settings are set to unlimited

[misty lantern]

Are you sure it's distortion? It looks like there could be an UV seam there

[woeful chasm]

oh god my first model looks so cute oml

[junior coral]

it looks like a smol bean

[woeful chasm]

he squat but he thicc

updated the materials

Also, what's the difference between metallic map and smoothness? I understand smoothness but idk what metallic map is for

[sly onyx]

how would I do that

either way?

[lime pollen]

I mean parenting it manually is pretty straightforward

[fluid oak]

Just be careful with non power of two textures; depending on your build target unity might automatically scale up to the next power of two, if the hardware doesn't support npot. Not as common on modern hardware, but good to be aware of.

[fluid oak]

The tiles are based on standard tilesets from older games. The screen size is based on modern screens which are 16:9 aspect ratio- actual games would typically be 640x320, 320x200, 320x200 depending on the display. It is just usually considered better to cut a quarter tile off than to scale the image weirdly.

Of course, bear in mind that old tvs usually didn't display the full resolution of the tube- some got cut off at the edges. So playing on modern systems doesn't show old games quite correctly either.

[white crypt]

thanks a lot!!

[sly onyx]

i changed out the clothing on my character and blacked out everything

im going to attempt to make an animation for pulling down the mask

[stuck dagger]

im using adobe illustrator and im fairly new

how can i make the top piece droop to form an eye lookin thing

the center stays where it is, but the left and right sides will droop down

[fleet pivot]

Unity discord is not the place for unity unrelated things.

[stuck dagger]

i was also going to note, that it needed to be in such a way that when put into unity clipping would not be an issue

but whatever

[orchid stone]

What are some good pixel art resources you guys recommend for someone wanting to make some pixel art for his game?

this is my "art" lmao

[lime pollen]

http://derekyu.com/makegames/pixelart.html

[olive fox]

can anyone help with the script that is supposed to help put a mapped PNG file that’s been separated Into colour groups for a colour by number app? I’m having issues getting it to output the proper file.

[lime pollen]

just post the script, although #archived-code-general would be the best place to ask

[dreamy vine]

Hey, I have a problem with importing videos. Sometimes it works just fine and sometimes videos are imported as "Default Asset" instead of "VideoClip". They all have the same settings (VP8, webm with alpha). Any ideas?
Working on Linux, Unity version 2022.1.23.

[noble quest]

Hey so making a 2d game I have some pre made assets i want to use but they are 1422x2000!!! How do i go about using these or are they unusable because they are so big. If i simply change the width and height they become pixelated.

[winged obsidian]

I wonder if it's defaulting to point sampling or something

that would make it Extra Crunch when resizing

could you screenshot the Image component (or whatever you're using to display the image?)

[kind hollow]

Sorry for not answering, I was asleep. I can send you a photo of the seams if that helps.

[winged obsidian]

hmm, it doesn't show up there

let me go look in unity

what about when you select the asset itself? here's an example

please enjoy my programmer art

is "Filter Mode" set to "Bilinear"?

[noble quest]

yeah bilinear

[misty lantern]

Downsampling will always blur the details
But if your image is "too big to use", do you really need all that detail anyway?

[winged obsidian]

could you show what the image looks like when resized?

[misty lantern]

My hunch here is that it could be an image that's been upscaled with nearest neighbor filtering to try to keep it sharp, which would explain why it would seem to get particularly blurry when downsampled

[noble quest]

So i think I might have just accidentally remedied the issue

so i was altering the height and width which made it very pixelated

changing the scale seems to stop it from getting really pixelated

[misty lantern]

Of course the Image gameobject size and your game's screen display size will further alter the visual size and resolution

[noble quest]

Well thanks for the help anyway. THis is working for now so ill just stick with this thanks 🙂

[winged obsidian]

ah, changing the height/width of the transform versus the scale of the image?

I wouldn't expect the former to cause problems..

[noble quest]

To be fair im very new to this I might have done something else to screw it up without realising 😆

[winged obsidian]

yeah, so it'd be good to figure that out!

[misty lantern]

A 1422 by 2000 resolution image, or even bigger, is not usually by itself any kind of problem

The import resolution doesn't determine the display size or resolution, unless we're talking about precisely pixel perfect images

[kind hollow]

These are what the seams look like in that specific area

If it was a UV issue what could I do to fix the appearance?

I'm not entirely sure it is though

Because there are issues like this too

[kind hollow]

It does go away at these bone weight settings but other parts of the mesh deform as-well

Like this

[feral ibex]

let me guess, are you making a FNATI Toon?

[kind hollow]

No it's an Epic Mickey fan-game

I recently got a volunteer animator and he's great but the animation deforms when I import it

[timber fjord]

what ideal file size for character 3d model ?
and how to make it smaller?

[tranquil bay]

What are some of my options for adding blood splatters on my walls and floors during runtime when things die using the Built In Render Pipeline? I will be instantiating the blood splatters using particles that collide with the walls and floor. They will instantiate the blood effect where they land.

Checked out decals first but seems they were URP/HDRP only, then I looked at projectors which didnt seem to work well either. Now I'm thinking the best case scenario is to just instantiate the blood as a sprite where the particle lands.

[lime pollen]

#📲┃ui-ux is the better place to ask

[noble quest]

dammit i wish there was an easier way to transfer my messages there

[split timber]

you could convert to URP. Just use a version control software so you can revert if anything goes wrong haha.

Why didn't a projector work?

[tranquil bay]

I actually wanted to keep the project in BIRP, but I might have to change. The projector seemed to stretch the image all over my blocks, rather than actually painting it on. It's possible I didn't configure it right, but right now I'm thinking using the OnParticleCollision method might be the simplest way.

[split timber]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

But from my experience, urp isn't really different if you don't really touch the features that urp provides except for one or two... but then again I've barely used BIRP lol

[tranquil bay]

I wouldn't be opposed to trying it out, but I've made quite a few BIRP shaders so far and I'm not sure if I want to (or would even have to) rewrite them :p

I did end up getting it figure out with the OnCollision though. It's just a little sloppy because I'm not handling edge detection with it yet, so sometimes the blood pools overhang off the walls. A problem for another day.

[sand glade]

im not sure where i would put this if not here, but im having an issue with the unity asset store, where im pressing "Add to My Assets", and its not doing anything. Is this a common bug, or is there something i can do to fix this? (Im trying to install the Cineware by maxon asset)

[fluid oak]

URP can require a ton of work just to get up to basic feature parity with BiRP if you have an established project...

[split timber]

Well, i have no experience in converting projects. There you go @tranquil bay

[fluid oak]

For a game in that style, particles are probably your best bet; you really don't want to instantiate that many projectors if you can avoid it. to avoid z-fighting, you might need to add a slight offset to your particles.

[tranquil bay]

This was the correct assumption. Particles aligned to wall normals with a 0.001f offset to deal with z-fighting did the trick. I'll just have to figure out how to deal with 'overhanging' sprites now.

ie

[fluid oak]

For that specific example you could probably just not render backfaces. In general, given the aesthetic of the game it might not matter so much?

(Especially if you do use edge detection; that would get rid of most cases.)

[steel jay]

As I started sculting my character with bllender instead of modelling it, I realized that the number of vertices and tris is way higher (of course, tho).

Is there any number I should not exceed? I'm afraid i'm having more detail than unity can handle

[tranquil bay]

Yeah I've been having some trouble with the edge detection to actually get it to work, but I'll keep trying. You're right though that the style right now doesn't make it matter too much. I am afraid though that when I go up to a higher res (thinking about swapping over to 32x32) it might start to look a little whack.

[fluid oak]

If you really need it you could probably just use depth- basically the reverse of the standard 'soft particle' effect.

Instead of fading out at intersecting geometry, fade out if it doesn't.

[tranquil bay]

Oh that's actually a cool idea. I'm going to go see if I can get that working right now.

[olive fox]

ok great thank!

[steel jay]

these images are assets from the store. Can you tell, what blender technique is used to get this result?
Fully modelled with a lot of smoothing?
Subdivision Surface?
Sculting?

Something else entirely?

[fluid oak]

What result? The model? The texture?

[steel jay]

@fluid oak sorry, the model, I mean!

I will ask about the fur of the boar afterwards 😉

[fluid oak]

No real way to tell what technique or software was used. Probably sculpting, then baking details onto a retopologised mesh

[steel jay]

Ok, thank you. Sculting and then retopologizing sounds like a lot of work. I actually like sculpting, but I'm afraid of the number of triangles it creates.

Any suggestion where I could start reading (or youtube) about how to do this? I also saw things like UV/image editor in blender and something like "turn on grid to see distortion" in a video.

Now I'm super confused 😮

[fluid oak]

I mean, it is a gigantic topic and you'll be better off googling game modeling

I don't even use blender 😛

[steel jay]

Ok, thank you!

[tight portal]

Hi guys i don't know if this is the right channel but it seemed to be the more appropriate

I have this mesh that i want to apply to my blue controller,the object in the hyearchy is made by 2 parts cause it is a requisit for online stuff

the mesh is based on the "Controller blue" object and not for the other one and this is the result

my question is,if i apply the mesh collider for the object "Controller blue" is there a way to resize it for the other object called "Controller master client..."?

[hollow citrus]

How must I rig a character so that I can juse unity uLipSync? Are there any good tutorials

[thorny wasp]

massive noob with blender/3d model engines, How doo I combine these into one mesh?

[wooden quail]

ctrl+j

[lunar ibex]

Just a very very simple question: how do you recommend doing backgrounds for a 2d game in pixel art so that they don't become blurry nor being needed a hundred trillion game objects for background

like in what website sohuld i make them for example

[wooden quail]

depends on what kind of background you are after...

if you only need an image.. you could scale it and use point sampling, that would preserve the pixels sharpness

[lunar ibex]

top down view hand made pixel art

[wooden quail]

do you use single images or tiles?

[lunar ibex]

what are the tiles?

oh that thing, i forgot they existed thanks

tilemaps

[wooden quail]

yeah

so.. if you are going for a static screen or with minimal scrolling, like a point-and-click game. I would paint the backgrounds and scale them up with point sampling to avoid blurring

otherways you are best of using tiles I think

even then I would still use point sampling to avoid blurring

[lunar ibex]

ok thank you

i am not anything of an artist, so i will make something simple

[violet axle]

If I'm exporting from blender into Unity, what smoothing option do I want? Normals Only, or Edges Only? I read that game engines dont support Face.

and yes my model does have edges I want smooth

whoops wrong way apparently only faces and vertices

not edge

and normals ofc

not sure what is the best one though

[lunar ibex]

A simple question: i know in pixel art all pixels should be the same size(with exceptions)
Do you think the player/objects should/could have different sizes of pixels without making everything look bad
Is is normal or not?

[violet axle]

try it out

[misty lantern]

Not normal
Up to your artistic eye and ability to make it work, though

[dry oxide]

Hi, I don't know if it is the right place to ask but you see how in blender you can "shade smooth", how can you do the same in unity ? Because after importing my objects they look kind of ugly

[misty lantern]

I have never needed anything besides "normals only", as only vertices in Unity have normals

[violet axle]

alright, I will use that then

[misty lantern]

When you export your mesh, its smooth/sharp normals should carry over as-is
Additionally, Unity's mesh import settings have the a field for recalculating normals with a specific angle rather than importing them

[dry oxide]

hhmm you are right I tried it again with another object and it looks smooth so something might have gone wrong with my export from blender to unity

[dry oxide]

Do I need to reexport everything or is there a way of recalculating the normals to have them smooth ?

[misty lantern]

Yes, in import settings as I mentioned

[dry oxide]

Oh yes I found it thx 🙂

[violet axle]

yo

Does anyone know if i can use quixel mixer with the included free materials to texture models for my game

or is that not allowed by the terms? i cant find any clear definitions of what's marked as "UE-Only Content"

and I cant find any clear definitions of what is "licensed content", like does that include the free materials given to me? and am I even allowed to use these free materials in a commercial manner? I cant really tell what im allowed to do just by reading the terms once.

[misty lantern]

As far as I understand, no, unless you pay for the service

[violet axle]

is there anything like quixel mixer / substance painter I can use thats free

or is 3D modelling with cool materials just inherently expensive

[hoary kindle]

I think good tools are paid. You can use blender to paint textures too but its surely not as good as the paid alternatives

[violet axle]

it isnt thats why I want something else

but i dont want a subscription, not sure I can sustain it

and literally everything is a subscription

[tepid charm]

There is steam version of Substance Painter with perpetual license

[fluid oak]

There are several 3d painting tools, some of which are free. I've heard good things about Armorpaint, which is very inexpensive to buy or free if you are willing to compile it yourself.

[tepid charm]

true but I have used Substance painter for a few years now, rather like it, had the perpetual before Adobe bought then out. Only reason I got the steam edition was becasue they added 3d mouse support. So much better for navigation

[fluid oak]

Oh, whups, meant to respond to @violet axle there

[wide wasp]

I think it can look fine, and in fact wasn't uncommon even back in older games.

Several older games had high res sprites on low res backgrounds, for instance, or used other tricks.

[violet axle]

ArmorPaint is what im using now, i usually forget to reply to these if i solve them myself lol
ArmorPaint is good, but its very technical to use especially if you self-compile, because some real weird stuff happens when you try to use cloud naterials after opening the program from a folder other than its build folder, as well as many other weird quirks to work around

[fluid oak]

Yeah, well, this is still the best time in history for free software so I dunno.

[wide wasp]

Substance Painter is one of the most bloated pieces of software I've ever used from Adobe, and that is saying a lot. And it certainly has its own quirks.

[wise jay]

Should I use jpgs or pngs for all textures?

pngs take 2x as much space for the same res

[fluid oak]

Use PNGs or PSDs. Unity does its own compression so you lose any benefit from JPG but keep the low image quality.

Basically, all textures are converted to the same format when building the game.

[wise jay]

Ahh alright, thanks!

[fluid oak]

So just import the highest quality and set the compression settings inside unity.

[coarse spire]

Is there any compression settings in the Editor that's actually lossless?
I have PNGs that actually hold precise non-color data for some shaders, so I can't afford any artifact.
Am I condemned to "None" compression? Because that's way worse than the original PNG.

[exotic gulch]

why does my bullet look different in game

it normally looks like this but while changing its x values it distorts(?)

[hoary kindle]

I assume that is only few pixels wide on the game window?

[exotic gulch]

sorry I couldn't understand

the one at the top is game view and the bottom one is scene view

[hoary kindle]

What I meant is, how large the bullet is on the screen?

[exotic gulch]

yeah its super small

[hoary kindle]

Are you using pixel perfect camera?

[exotic gulch]

Idk what that is but I don't think so

[hoary kindle]

If not, you should really consider doing so

[exotic gulch]

Its a space invaders game

No camera movement is involved

[misty lantern]

A monitor screen can only display one color per pixel, so if your sprites get really small the pixels of their graphics will not line up with the pixels of the screen
That's what the pixel perfect camera aims to address

[sterile tinsel]

How do i fix the issue of seeing through my unity objects. I dont have the same object but I seem to be having the same problem as this guy : https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/169851/my-blender-object-is-see-through-in-unity

[lime pollen]

have you tried the solution that was suggested?

[sterile tinsel]

i just dont rlly understand them

[lime pollen]

then try reading the solution in the pins of this channel

[sterile tinsel]

k

[fluid oak]

All files in the data are losslessly compressed in the build, image or not.

Lossy texture compression is in addition to that.

The type of compression depends on your build platform- I believe that the default for most of them is ZIP but you can change that.

[steel jay]

While sculting my character, I did hips and then the legs (with mirror modifier). I then applied the mirror modifier to the legs and joined them with the hips.
Then I remeshed, and then this happened between the legs:
Why are some vertices suddenly connected?

Similar thing happened at the crotch btw

[misty lantern]

That's how remeshing do

[steel jay]

Ok, so I have to delete edges by hand?

[misty lantern]

Yes, if you can't avoid them by tweaking remesh settings

Remeshing doesn't create final geometry though so you'll be going over it manually anyway

Sometimes it's better to model a character with a reference pose that avoids tightly bundled geometry

[steel jay]

Yeah i used a reference but the legs are pretty much together. I will retopo afterwards, anyways. Just wondered what's going on. Thanks

[steel jay]

I'm pretty new to making game characters (with sculpting) and have questions to the general workflow (it's a more stylyzed character):

• do I add creases for e.g. muscles as part of the sculpting process (before re-topo) or as part of the uv-meshing/baking?
• same for hair: do I retopo hair, or is it better do do it completely with modelling after retopo?

Sorry if something does not make quite sense, I havn't done any retopo/uv meshing at all so far

[misty lantern]

In this workflow you would sculpt all the body's details as accurately as possible, then do a low-poly mesh on top of that with retopo, then bake all the details into normal maps from the high-poly to low-poly

Hair depends on the type of hair

Hair can be sculpted, but most types are made separately, such as hair cards

[steel jay]

@misty lantern
That's the level of hair detail I'm aiming for:

[misty lantern]

These likely have the same sculpt-retopo-bake workflow as bodies often do

[steel jay]

So the hair is sculpted?

[misty lantern]

Looks that way

[steel jay]

Thank you so much!

[nova jungle]

Hi, is here someone who wish to work with me on my project, i need a 2d art designer, for sprites, maps, etc.

[lime pollen]

!collab

[lilac edge]

📢 Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on discord.
Please use the forums:
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[nova jungle]

?

[outer halo]

If you read the bot message, maybe you wouldn't be so confused.

[nova jungle]

Yeah, thx

[ionic badger]

3D or non 3D, wich is better, and do you have some tips to improve it?

[odd sentinel]

I have a texture that i want this pipe with back culling to render on, but when i put it on it, it renders as a solid color. I've played with some settings but nothing works

[lime pollen]

Is the pipe uv mapped?

[odd sentinel]

I tried but the uv thing in blender gives this:

for a straight tube

[misty lantern]

You'll want to make a better UV unwrap

[lime pollen]

Well there's your problem, you need to look up how to do it properly instead of relying on the auto uv

[odd sentinel]

So, i get the UV map right then it'll just work?

Like i put it in the game and then add the texture on the model

[misty lantern]

UV map determines how the texture is mapped to the mesh surface so that part will work, yes

[odd sentinel]

Ok i figured out how to unwrap now, thank you very much

:D

[winged obsidian]

Question about materials imported from FBX files: can I hide them?

I'll give descriptive names to the materials in Blender, but I don't want to actually use them. I want to replace them with that "material override" option in the import settings.

So I wind up with two materials with the same name

"Post" -> from importing the FBX
"Post" -> from the material I manually created and configured in Unity

I override the object's "Post" material with my own "Post" material

that works fine, but now I see two materials named "Post" in the inspector...

[ancient plinth]

Hey I'm messing around with a Parallax Occlusion shader but I'm getting weird results

It looks sweet but the edges and seams distort

Not only that but it doesn't seem possible to have there be a center point for it to be displaced.

like it can only be displaced inwards or outwards instead of both at the same time, while the middlemost grey stays in the same spot

I tried fixing it by masking off the edges and seams but that didn't work

I've seen games like Isonzo that use Parallax Occlusion on their buildings and they font seem to run into these issues.

Does anyone know any workarounds for getting it look good?

[fluid oak]

Discontinuities/seams will always look bad because the mesh's normals change suddenly.

You'd probably need to adjust the normals to avoid that.

[sly onyx]

How do people make these weird uv maps that have the assets everywhere and properly map them

[violet walrus]

can you be more descriptive

talking about when people map multiple assets from like a atlas or trim sheet?

[violet axle]

@ember pollen i figured id ask you since you work at unity right? do you know if you are allowed to make assets and sell them, and then also use them in your own games?

[ember pollen]

I'm not an asset store man but I would guess so. To sell on the asset store you need to own the copyright to the assets. That seems orthogonal to using them in your own game where you'd technically just be your own customer.

[violet axle]

lemme pay myself some money RQ

alright done, should be good

[ember pollen]

taxes go brrr

[violet axle]

fuck

[exotic dune]

Someone knows how performance hungry blend shapes are in a large amount (40-60) that are not dynamically used during gameplay but only once when a new scene is loaded?

[ripe vale]

How do I make those sheets that have an arrow containing the images inside like this one?

[misty lantern]

Sprite type: multiple and then slice them in the sprite editor

[ripe vale]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

THANKS @misty lantern

[halcyon galleon]

hey why when I export my model from blender to unity, where in blender the rotation of the selected part is 0,0,0 (no parent) in unity the part is rotated -89 degrees (it is the right side up but the rotation is still there). It messes up some scripts

[grave garnet]

It's because Unity's up direction is Y while blender's up direction is Z

You can fix it with some of the settings in the FBX export dialogue in blender

I'm personally just used to rotating everything 90 degrees on the X in blender though

[halcyon galleon]

I'm importing the blender .blend file straight to unity

[halcyon galleon]

ouch

wait

why this works normally

[grave garnet]

What am I looking at?

[halcyon galleon]

I mean why in unity the rotation of that object is 0,0,0

[grave garnet]

Maybe its parent is rotated

[grave garnet]

In unity I mean.

[halcyon galleon]

oh

it's still not rotated in unity

[grave garnet]

Is it a child of anything in unity?

[halcyon galleon]

no

oh wait

it is rotated sorry

[grave garnet]

If youre using that workflow then you don't have access to the FBX export settings on blender side, and have to fix the rotations manually

By rotating 90 degrees on X and applying rotation, then rotating it back

[halcyon galleon]

oohh that way

[bleak abyss]

New to unity, be gentle. I want to create a 3d triangle to represent a cameras field of view, it needs to be reused but overridden in every case, so I need like a base prefab. I managed to use some code I found online but have issues with attaching scripts so want to create my own, how do I go about this

[grave garnet]

1. Select the object in blender (in Object mode)
2. R + X + 90 to rotate it
3. Go to Edit mode and select everything, R + X + -90 to counter-rotate it back

[halcyon galleon]

oh my god thank you saved my day :DD

yeah I know how to do that

I didn't think of that for some reason

[grave garnet]

Yeah just making sure

[lime pollen]

This feels like a coding issue, you should elaborate on your problem and show what you have done so far in #💻┃code-beginner

[daring sigil]

hi, anyone could tell any suggestion about a good 3D model for a 3D web mobile app?

I was trying FBX but is slow in my phone

[lime pollen]

The format doesn't matter too much here, what matters is the properties of the model itself

[daring sigil]

do u mean import settings?

[lime pollen]

No like how many polys it has and how big the textures are

[daring sigil]

oh ok ok, then I need to put low polys in my 3D model

please other question @lime pollen, do u know why a camera inside 3D mesh like a car all the mesh is invisible?

[lime pollen]

Because polygons are only rendered on one side unless you explicitly use a two sided material

[pastel junco]

Hi, when I import my model into Unity parts of the mesh are "Broken" like the faces dont connect

[lime pollen]

See the pins for a possible solution

[pastel junco]

what pins sorry

[pastel junco]

Never mind I fixed it

[winged flicker]

So i don't think I've seen this before. Why are my childed objects warping when i rotate them? Even basic cubes warp. In fact i noticed when i create a cube inside another gameobject, it's more of a rectangle than a cube right now.

Example with cube :

[fluid oak]

The parent is scaled, which will cause children to warp when rotated because they are in 'parent space.'

The easiest way to deal with it would be to either not scale the parent non-uniformly, or add an intermediate transform into the hierarchy that is scaled in the inverse of the parent to counteract the scaling.

[dreamy basin]

Hey guys, I think this is probably the channel with cloesest topic to post this - There's a mesh-related survey on Unity forum. If you too have mesh related feedback pls spend sometime to fill the survey.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/feedback-wanted-mesh-area-survey.1420949/#post-8959143

[mint river]

the normals on my model in blender are flipped when I export them to unity (yes i have backface culling enabled in blender) is it something to do with an invalid mesh?

[sly onyx]

Does anyone know why when I export through FBX the polys on this hat just disappear in unity? the first photo is in Unity, the second is in 3D viewer, and the 3rd is the wireframe

they look fine from underneath which is the weird part to me

[lime pollen]

See pins for possible solution

[sly onyx]

tried flipping the normals

just messed it up more

both blender and unity dont like the file now

[misty lantern]

You probably have warnings in the console about self-intersecting polygons being discarded when you import it into Unity

This is usually solved by doing a Triangulate operation to those faces before exporting, but more important is to avoid such dreadful topology in the first place

Avoid n-gons and stretched faces

[stoic crescent]

dreadful is a fitting term shivers

[trail stag]

how come exporting textures from substance painter it gives me a normal map and an opengl normal map? which one should i use?

[misty lantern]

I haven't used SP but from what I understand exporting from it with an Unity template should logically only create an OpenGL normal map which is what Unity uses

[outer wagon]

who can help to create graphics for 2d game?

[sly onyx]

how would I do that?

[misty lantern]

which part?

[sly onyx]

the triangulate operation

how do I do that in the settings

[misty lantern]

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/meshes/editing/face/triangulate_faces.html
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/modifiers/generate/triangulate.html there's a modifier as well

[woeful chasm]

I have a model prefab were I have materials assigned to the different parts. I can't apply them to the model prefab because you can't modify model prefabs. I then tried to create a prefab from the modified model prefab and it prompted me to create a prefab variant from the model prefab. Is this how it's normally done?

[misty lantern]

You can use on demand remapping from mesh import settings' materials tab to change what materials it uses

In my experience you'll be using meshes within another prefab 90% of the time either out of convenience or necessity, in which case the assigned materials might as well be an override of the parent prefab

[woeful chasm]

Thank you

[sly onyx]

Thanks :D

[plush blade]

Hi, i am looking for texture related tips. Like how do you guys texture your 3D models. There are so many ways to do it, but when ever i try to texture something it just dosnt look right, some times its stretched or blury even when messing with unwraping for multiple hours. Also tried doing just regular colors as my models are low poly, but then it just looks bland and with 0 detail.
I did find a game "ziggys adventures" and in it the developers have made there textures have super small texture like details, but from distance it looks basicly like a regular color. How can i get the same effect while keeping the same detail and size thru out all my models.

Example image from that game:

[plush blade]

Or this one: (its like a black and white texture was colored)

I cant describe it but it looks like a Noise texture with a color on top

[winged obsidian]

@solar lake how does the baked texture look if you select it in the UV editor?

[solar lake]

brb

[winged obsidian]

ok, that looks sane

maybe the material's Tile field is set to something other than [1,1]

[winged obsidian]

that's the intensity of the normal map

also, that doesn't look like a normal map at all

however, you need to be looking at another spot on the material

i don't have unity open and can't remember the exact location

can you screenshot the inspector for the material?

[winged obsidian]

that is not the material

that is the texture

[solar lake]

oh

[solar lake]

there

[winged obsidian]

the tiling looks fine

but that is absolutely not a normal map

a normal map should have a roughly sky-blue color

it looks like you baked a Combined texture

which you'd use instead of albedo + metallic + smoothness + normal + ... maps

[solar lake]

it does but when exported it looks weird

[winged obsidian]

that is not the same image

[solar lake]

it is

i exported it direcly

[winged obsidian]

it's a completely different color

[solar lake]

it looks like this inside of file explorer

in unity it looks like this idk why]

[winged obsidian]

is that the same file?

[solar lake]

yep

[winged obsidian]

right click on finalbake in unity and hit "show in explorer"

[winged obsidian]

okay, so that really is the same image

hmm

[solar lake]

yeah

[winged obsidian]

if you right click and hit Refresh, does anything happen?

(on finalbake, in unity)

[solar lake]

nope

[winged obsidian]

mind dropping the file in here?

[winged obsidian]

it looks proper when i import it on my end

[solar lake]

odd

[winged obsidian]

actually, try Reimport instead of Refresh