🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[brisk tartan]

How do I "build assetbundles"

trying to convert this stl to an asset bundle

managed to convert to obj

on bottom right its "lsisted" as an asset bundle but im seeing no option to "build"

want to export it so the final file is a .unity3d

[brisk tartan]

Why do i not have this option?

[brisk tartan]

😔

trying to use these assets in tts for my dnd which im dming

[brisk tartan]

I think I can just use the obj with an image map

but no idea how to do that either ]

[gritty narwhal]

Hey so i got an art relatet question but theres no channel for such things so imma just ask here...basically my problem is i got high resolution Art with pretty small details but importet in unity wenn the Objects are to small the details get super pixel-like is this just how it is or is there any solution to get better resolution with the art?

[outer halo]

I mean, the channel name is literally art asset workflow, so this would be the right channel.

Show a screenshot of what you mean?

You can start by turning off compression on the textures import settings.

[gritty narwhal]

so one is a closeup and the other one is in game

Also the lines of the fruits in my lifebar just look very low

[gritty narwhal]

even if zoomed in their high resolution

[gritty narwhal]

sorry my english is a little off...i missunderstood the channel name XD

[dull glade]

What’s the scale set at? What’s the original size (dimensions) of the asset

[gritty narwhal]

so scale is at 0.6 x 0.6y and 0.6 z and resolution of my original is about 1500x1500 px ig

zoomed in ingame is even worse

[dull glade]

Damn, idk. Try making a test scene with default camera and placing it in there real quick to see if it’s the same. Then check the texture settings for anything weird. Are all textures you’re using like this? If it is, which it looks like, then your camera settings could be wacky

[gritty narwhal]

ok thanks ill try and yeah all textures are like this

but should i scale it bigger in the new scene?

or that doesnt matter?

it aint getting better :(

[dull glade]

Do you have another unity project? (Or new) Place it in there see if it’s the same?

Are you having to scale it larger? It should be huge already… 1500x1500 is huge

[gritty narwhal]

yeah ik

its pretty big

[outer halo]

You're zooming the game window, which isn't how the game actually "zooms".

You need to set your aspect ratio, then when you want to zoom in, actually move the camera (perspective), or change the scale (orthographic).

[gritty narwhal]

i see thats making sense

but how do i make clean small objects

like the key over there on the wodden plattform is really undefined even though he has a clean original graphik

[brisk tartan]

Does anyone know how to get this to work?

[green panther]

I have a question on blender to unity workflow, when it comes to parenting I can get import a child to parent and that works but if that child has a child it will mess up in unity, is there a fix for this?

[glacial vector]

Does the mesh warp? If so that happens because you have non-uniform scaling on the parent object, and that messes up if the child is rotated

[green panther]

It just rotates or scales nothing is warping

I also applied the rotation and scale and transform before parenting too

[glacial vector]

Can you show the difference?

[eager mist]

Why does my wood texture look like this in Unity? I am using the normal map, diffuse texture and roughness map for the wood material

This is how it should look like

[glacial vector]

This Souter triangulating the gun before you export @eager mist

[eager mist]

What is a souter?

Sorry I am not english speaking xD

[glacial vector]

I'm sorry @eager mist it autocorrected

TRY triangulating the gun before you export

[eager mist]

Oh okay

[eager mist]

So I just have to use the triangulate modifier? (in Blender)

[glacial vector]

Yes

[eager mist]

And what settings would you recommend?

[glacial vector]

That I don't know. Just try!

[eager mist]

Okay

[eager mist]

Do I have to bake the textures then again?

[glacial vector]

No, the UVs should be the same

Unless you don't have UVs? What does your material look like?

[glacial vector]

Yeah that won't work in Unity

You will have to recreate the shader setup in Unity, OR unwrap the gun properly and then bake the textures

[eager mist]

Oh man okay...

But isnt this unwrapped?

[glacial vector]

That's not a very good UV map

You should have as little stretching as possible and avoid overlapping islands

[eager mist]

Okay than I will have to watch a tutorial on uv unwrapping again :D

But thanks for your help!

I thought you can just bake textures :(

[glacial vector]

You can, but that requires proper UVs

[eager mist]

Yeah and thats what I dont have lmfao

[eager mist]

Can I bake the textures of my model like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLQFopN--LY&ab_channel=Olav3DTutorials

[glacial vector]

Looks good to me

[dire gust]

is this the right place to ask for help with particle system related things

wait nvm theres a channel for particles how did i not see it

[mental frost]

Its kind of hard to see in the pictures but its very visible in game

On objects vertices I get this weird step effect where a straight line gets steps if that makes sense

I can't remember if I had this problem before switching to the URP but I am on the URP if thats helps with diagnosing the problem

How do you get rid of this stupid effect

[obtuse oyster]

You need to use a form of antialiasing

[mental frost]

Do you know what my problem is called so I can research it or resources to implement antialiasing

[obtuse oyster]

aliasing

[mental frost]

xD

Thank you

[tulip talon]

ok wasn't sure to ask this, but how do i fix the problem of textures bunching up on the side of an object and instead make it normal like the other object face?

here's what it looks like:

[hallow valve]

anyone

[tulip talon]

i haven't tried using blender with unity before, sorry

[glacial vector]

If this is made in blender you'll have to apply scale and unwrap again @tulip talon

[tulip talon]

no, it's a textured cube made in unity

i'll probably use blender for characters or smth like that

@glacial vector

[glacial vector]

You can't unwrap the cubes in unity any different

[tulip talon]

rip

[glacial vector]

So your options are to model the walls in blender/probuilder/something else, or use a world aligned shader that has other tradeoff

[tulip talon]

ty tho

[eager mist]

hey guys I've been incorporating uma into my project but I get all these werid errors
AddBonesRecursive: Gun_Tigger already exists in the dictionary! Consider renaming those bones. For example, Items under each hand bone can become LeftItems and RightItems.
AddBonesRecursive: Text already exists in the dictionary! Consider renaming those bones. For example, Items under each hand bone can become LeftItems and RightItems.

[narrow jay]

I'm having an issue where smaller objects aren't being rendered when far from the camera. My clipping plane is set very high so that's not it and the LOD on the prefabs I'm trying to render have the Culling turned off. Not sure why they aren't being rendered. If I increase their size they render but that doesn't help me.

[narrow jay]

Nevermind, I figured it out. Problem was at the shader level

[fathom atlas]

is there a tool for turning a bunch of pngs into a spritesheet?

[manic coyote]

Yeah. Found some on Google

[eager mist]

Can anybody help me

I exported a model from blender, then i imported it into unity then i added the base color material, normal map but the last material is missing

This is from blender

These bubbles are missing

This is how it looks in unity

And this is the bubbles texture but i dont know where i need to put it

[outer halo]

Well, how did you apply that in Blender?

[dire gust]

I downloaded an fbx model but when I put it into my scene, it has no textures or colours its just plain white. did i do something wrong

[agile vine]

the one with the red background is after i import to unity. Why is messing up the sprites like that?

[manic coyote]

Show the inspector of the texture

[agile vine]

I think it was the compression?

i changed it to none and it appears to be better

so, you don't compress sprites?

[manic coyote]

Yeah. Compression is fine until it starts affecting color imo

It's a balance

[fluid oak]

If it is a unity cube you could convert to a probuilder object and apply textures that way

[fluid oak]

Compression is good for large, high color textures but if you are using small images where the color of every specific pixel matters(i.e. pixel art sprites) then compression often isn't worth it.

[agile vine]

okay, thanks for responding.

that was my first ever pixel art, so I have NO idea what the heck is happening

[tulip talon]

thanks, works great!

[eager mist]

What?

The bubbles texture?

this is how the model came with

Lemme show you

that is the bubbles texture

ik its kinda confusing

[outer halo]

So you'll need to recreate that in Unity.

[eager mist]

bonnie1 is the base color

[eager mist]

umm okay but how? 🙂

and newbump2 is the normal

[outer halo]

Shader graph would be the easiest if you don't know how to hand write them.

[eager mist]

ummmm okay

i didnt know that its actually possible

and do i need to create a new material for that?

ok maybe you can help me

[outer halo]

You need to make a new shader, then set your material to use it.

[eager mist]

i never used a shader graph

[outer halo]

Something to start finding tutorials for, then.

[eager mist]

ok

do i need to create a unlit shader?

ok

why does it open visual studio

when i click on it, it opens visual studio

also im using the standard pipeline

@outer halo

[outer halo]

Standard doesn't have shader graph, that's why.

[eager mist]

ah

then what do i do

[sullen plank]

Not yet, anyway. So meanwhile you can use URP instead.

[eager mist]

nah

i dont want URP

there should be another way of getting that bubbles material thing

[outer halo]

Sure, combine the textures yourself in Photoshop or something, so you only have the one base map.

[eager mist]

oh yeah

good ideea

wait

but how do i make the texture transparent

[outer halo]

Something to look up on Google.

[eager mist]

because its black

[outer halo]

Specifically with regards to whatever software you're going to use to blend them.

[eager mist]

ah

[dire flicker]

This happens when you have duplicate "bones" in the hierarchy. Note that any gameobject under the rig is considered a "bone". To get around this, you have to name any helper objects with a unique name. If you are using this for mounting objects, look at the example scene.

[eager mist]

hey dose anyone how to export this tree to unity

Software is tree it

[outer halo]

Is there no option to export to FBX?

That said, I doubt it'll be as simple as dropping it into Unity.

[misty lantern]

See what export options it has
.fbx is accepted basically everywhere, .obj too with less features

[bleak cargo]

Hey guys I have a problem with my model. I made a floor plan in blender and extruded it up to make walls, then when I bring it into unity it seems that it’s not properly proportional. It’s all made to scale in Blender so why does it seems like on the side-side and front-back directions it’s smaller than it is in blender?

[bleak cargo]

Yo backrooms?

[clear ember]

Currently im making my map out of a sort of tilemap of models for houses. Is there any better way of doing this?

It feels kind of slow

And I can imagine gets laggy after you have thousands of meshes

[fluid oak]

Is your camera FOV the same in blender and unity? Do you have the camera set to orthographic?

[silent river]

how do i put a material from the asset store into my game? i added it to my assets

[bleak cargo]

I’m in orthographic I even have measurements turned on

[tulip talon]

ye, been tryna make it word for word to the wiki so you can look at the wiki as a sort of guide for the game

[fluid oak]

But are the settings the same in both programs?

that will affect how things look a lot..

Also, do you have it as the child of a scaled object?

[silent river]

well i just got ignored

[outer halo]

Like any material, drag it onto a mesh.

[silent river]

but where do i get the material so i can?

because its not there

[outer halo]

You said you added it your assets, so that's where you would get it.

[silent river]

no i mean from the asset store

[outer halo]

You download the asset from the My Assets section of the Package Manager.

[silent river]

i clicked that

nvm

i found out its in package manager

[outer halo]

Quite literally what I just said:
#🔀┃art-asset-workflow message

[silent river]

oh lol

what is happening

[bleak cargo]

i cant even find those settings in unity

[viscid nacelle]

hello

anyone

tell how to animate

this

hello

i got this to coin to somehow aniamte

anyone know how to loop the aniamtions

[fluid oak]

For the game camera, the settings will be on the camera game object in the inspector. For the scene camera, the settings are(in most versions of unity) in the upper right corner of the scene view.

[outer halo]

@viscid nacelle Don't crosspost. #🏃┃animation

[eager mist]

What do people use for pixel art?

Ive heard aseprite is supposed to be the best

[solar arch]

Aseprite is cool yeah...

another fancy way to do it is via shader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmhj7RgVDzc

[fluid oak]

That is horrible. I mean, the technique is certainly useful for all sorts of things but that is nothing like 'pixel art.'

That's like posterizing a photo and calling it a cartoon.

[gray briar]

hey, can anyone tell me what is wrong with this stance please ?

i think that it doesn't look kite good, but can't figure out what's wrong with it

(i'm new into pixel art tho)

[fluid oak]

Proportions are a bit odd. Short front arm, long back arm, very low crotch

Assuming that's, like, a sword or something in their front arm and not just a really, really long arm

[gray briar]

ye the white part is a sword

i was trying to get something like this

[light cloud]

i think you should make the front leg bend a bit more and bring the character lower

[iron abyss]

Hi! I'm a programmer, and I have an artist who's working on this with me. We're both new to tilemaps. We're doing an isometric view and the tiles just look...strange. It's hard for me to explain because I don't have the vocabulary. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/vy5mp7ui0qe8ii4/Unity_2022-01-25_09-09-10.png It's almost like everything is rising to the left

[gritty narwhal]

can someone teach me how to make art that fits exactly one tile like i got a normal image with 1500x1500 px and it takes about 5 tiles space how can i make it to fit exactly one?

in the tile inspector its looking like its fitting one tile

[misty lantern]

Check out the image's Pixels Per Unit in import settings

[gritty narwhal]

thank u bro

that was fr the issue

[marble walrus]

Hello @gray briar. The image you are referencing has a dynamic and exciting pose. What's an easy way to compare this? We can look for the lines of action/movement. The easiest way to do this is to draw lines over top of a character/reference, at the hips, shoulders, arms and legs. Putting in the neck is useful too.

Check out attached picture. Just drawing the lines gives you a great reference if are trying to capture the same dynamics of the pose. Overlaying an image and dropping opacity in your image editor of choice is a nice way to compare, but try not to get in to the practice tracing (unless you want to). Learning to draw dynamic poses is challenging in itself - translating that to pixel art is a whole other story.

I would start with rough pose lines and build up your character from there. Have fun! 😁

[deep mantle]

How does it work to make a 2D level in Unity without a Tilemap/Tileset
I am trying to remake a Flash game and its levels are not tile based

[gray briar]

Thank you very much for that advice!

[frigid hull]

Best settings for exporting .fbx's from blender to unity without having to rotate or scale?

[bleak cargo]

anyone know why my UVs get messed up when importing to unity?

[wide wolf]

anyone knows if it's possible to change the uv map of an object without causing unity to change the engine-generated lightmap uv channel?

note that i'm not adding/removing/moving any vertex nor seam mark, i just wanted to rotate an uv island

or also: is there any way to extract the generated lightmap uv and import it in blender?

[fluid oak]

You can either create art assets outside of unity and import them, or you could build them in unity with stuff like Spriteshape.

[deep mantle]

So I can just put the asset into unity and try to figure out how to add collisions to it?
Thanks

[fluid oak]

Well, there isn't one single way. It depends on the sort of assets you're working with.

If you are importing sprites, you can generate physics shapes in the sprite editor or can manually add polygon or shape colliders to the game objects.

Or you can have the art completely separate from the level's colliders.

[vital thicket]

Amogus

[static goblet]

How do I create a 2D card-like object in a 3D space? (should only be visible from one side)

What I have at hand is a .png image right now

[outer halo]

You can use sprites in 3D, so just a sprite renderer.

[peak thorn]

hmm im having a bit of trouble connecting these two parts / __ \ ;;

[manic coyote]

There is a blender discord that might be better suited for your question

[peak thorn]

no problem! thanks for telling me this!

[full badger]

heyo, new guy here and wondering how I can import a layered sprite from paint.net

like I've seen people import a layered sprite from photoshop in tutorials, and was wondering if I could do the same with a paint.net file, since photoshop is expensive lol

[outer halo]

This isn't a job/collaboration discord. You can use the forums to find someone.

[rigid sparrow]

this is probably a common question but ... does the "bake axis" setting just effectively not work right when importing models directly from .blend files? it just flips the model 180 degrees around X instead of doing the real conversion from Z-up to Y-up

[eager mist]

me when the unity discord, the discord for the app to make projects, doesnt allow you to find help using unity to make a project

[jolly timber]

is backface culling checked off in ur 3d modeling prog

[glacial vector]

If you use blender, go to Mesh>Normals>Recalculate outside and try again

[fluid oak]

It looks, specifically, like you mirrored the top bit of the mesh(which flips the normals)

[supple orbit]

I have this issue where there is a blue line going through the tiles

I tried turning anti-aliasing off but it didnt work

Anyone know how to fix this?

[woven cradle]

Tiles have the right size?

[supple orbit]

Yeah they are all 16x16, its just these blocks in perticular that have a hole

[signal ferry]

hi my artists amazing ui is looking really pixelated, what is the best method to make it look as its intended?

this is what its supposed to look like

[fluid oak]

What are your import settings?

[dense linden]

Hi folks, apologies in advance if this is not the right place to ask this question, but I had a look through the various channels and this one looks to be the most suitable. I am a Unity / Blender beginner currently trying to make an escape-the-room type game in the style of those old flash games like Crimson Room, Viridian Room. I have the programming framework set up so am now getting busy making all the assets in Blender.

I was wondering if there is any specific material I can make in Unity and attach to my models in order to replicate the style of those old games? I will post a link below to some screenshots of what I am trying to achieve, but effectively, everything in the game is a solid colour with an almost cel-shaded style look, and the models all have a black outline. I know that there are toon shaders and so on available out there but that seems a little overkill for what I am trying to do.

One thing I have tried before is making a material have emission colour lighting and attach that to the object, but the result looks a little odd, so I'm not sure if that will work.

That's the link to some screenshots of what I am trying to replicate: https://www.wikihow.com/Escape-the-Crimson-Room

[signal ferry]

Here are my import settings

[fluid oak]

@signal ferry how large are your images? (Not the individual sprites, but the actual image file)

[signal ferry]

its around 900x700 pixels

[sudden coyote]

Anyone can help with finding a way to creating a side view ventilation shaft?

16 bit style*

[eager mist]

is there a way to take multiple images and pack them into one "spritesheet" from within unity or any software you know of that will let me?

[sudden coyote]

Sprite Atlas

[eager mist]

yes that. how can i make that?

[sudden coyote]

check the docs, its pretty easy and straightforward

create it, add the textures, done

[peak forge]

poiyomi shader can probably make that, its pretty easy to set up, just a couple toggle buttons in its settings

i have a UV problem, exporting blender fbx to unity works fine for everything, except for a few assets where the textures reset or something. i checked forum posts with similar problems, tried swapping UVs (theres only one on the door) reimporting as obj, nothing seems to work and i dont know why its just happening for a few models :c
figured it out, apparently the image texture size was a problem? actually i'm not sure, i rebaked it to a new uv and remapped, and that worked

[eager mist]

Is there a way i can use a spriteatlas for material albedo, or texture sheet so that i can do particle animations with that

[brave gyro]

what causes these lines (circles)

[woven cradle]

probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiré_pattern or one of its cousins

[fluid oak]

@signal ferry change the compression to high quality, and try power of two textures maybe.

[rich narwhal]

Hi, my blender model's normals aren't importing correctly, the thread is at #936796214026993684

[dense linden]

wonderful, thank you - i'll check it out!

[velvet kite]

My models' colors aren't being selected correctly from the color pallete material. The correct material is applied to the mesh and it has the right texture attached to it. What could be the issue here?

[misty lantern]

Since the palette texture is really small, you should set its filter mode to Point and disable compression in texture import settings

Oh and maybe best to disable mip maps also

[thorn bramble]

Hello , how do i export the obj with texture from blender

[velvet kite]

I'll pin this for when I'm at my PC

[candid mason]

I have this character, what would be the best way to have cloth physics on the lower half of his coat

and have it work with any animation

[shut halo]

hi, I just wanted to ask if maybe someone has any tips on how to export objects with textures into unity without having to reconnect all textures manually?
also uh maybe any ideas about how to get the cool look I got in blender (light wise) into unity?

[wanton hound]

Is there any way to edit an FBX file that lives in my assets folder?

instead of just replacing it when i export it from blender

[outer halo]

Don't crosspost this all across the discord.

[tropic dagger]

No

Sorry

[tropic dagger]

Can I post it again here

[outer halo]

Read the response in #931354451242000384

[sonic slate]

Hi i have a question, do you know if i can change the material color of blender object in Unity ?

[sullen plank]

Make prefab or a scene instance first and change there.

[sonic slate]

Ok thanks you Fogsight 🙂

[sullen plank]

@fallen canopy Ripping assets is not something to be discussed here.

If you want this font, find the original and consult the license

[fallen canopy]

aight imma dip

peace

[gloomy furnace]

Not sure if this is the correct place to ask, but i want to know what is the best why to import huge scenes from blender to unity. I am busy working on a project where i am creating an open world, and the towns and areas is going to be in the file, is there a way to bring in the assets with unity reconising the difrent blender instanses as prefabs, or blender exporting everything in correct prefabs, or other automated solutions

[rich narwhal]

Hey, visit #936796214026993684 for more info on my issue. Thanks folks!

[crimson dust]

Hey, i have a pmx model and a vmd animation, i was wondering how i can use this in unity? Thanks

[eager mist]

Hi guys iam creating an asset does anyone have any ideas of what to add?

Ultimate Game Jam kit:

• Platformer controller with many customizable features.

• Ability to drag and drop mutliple gun types

• Top down controller with ability to enable shooting bullets or arrows

• Enemy ai

• Obstacles

• Traps

• Gravity Swapping

• Grapple hook

• Wall jump ability

• Moving Platforms(2D and 3D)

• Wave System(2D and 3D)

• 2.5D character controller

• 1st person kinemtaic controller

• 1st person rigidbody controller

• 1st person shoot ability

• 1st person grapple hook(Rigidbody only)

• 3D wall run ability

• 2d Level Generator

• Bullet hell option

• Beautiful particle effects

• 3D enemy ai

• Main Menu

• Credits screen

• Menu system in unity edtior to create these options with one click

• Sound effects

[tribal ravine]

Hey guys Ive ran into this issue where i just cant decide what textures i should be using for my maps, i usually get my texture from sites such as ambientCG but no matter what textures i decide something about the map never looks right or "good"

Heres an example:
This is a textured version of this part of this map

This is an untextured version of the same shot

Why does the untextured version look more interesting than the textured one lol

Am i not choosing the right textures? Am i not choosing the right Colors?

if so how could i improve on that

[low flax]

I've somehow set scale factor for all my assets to 2. Anyone know how that can be done so I can avoid doing it in the future?

[outer halo]

@atomic path Don't crosspost. Just ask your question in #archived-shaders.

[fluid oak]

The textures you are choosing don't really give a good sense of what material those structures are meant to be.

I'm not really sure what the red is supposed to mean, either.

[tribal ravine]

Well i tried to think of what material those structures could be like the wall is a Concrete texture and the Steel parts are Steel obviously

[tribal ravine]

Well i tried making it all Black/Grey but it didnt look that great but the Red looks even worse now lol

[fluid oak]

I will say that that one unaligned piece is driving me nuts

That doesn't really look like concrete to me. More like stone.

Poured concrete walls usually are pretty smooth, with occasional small sharp features.

For the steel, maybe add rivets and panel separations to show that it is a constructed fame rather than just a chunk of marble

[tribal ravine]

Makes sense thanks for the feedback

[fluid oak]

I think yellow instead of red would make more sense for the railings; that is the usual color scheme for that sorta thing

[tribal ravine]

@fluid oak What program should i use for Texturing, Currently i use Substance Painter for Texturing Objects such as guns or decorations and such

But i dont know what to use when texturing a map

im currently just slapping these materials in Unity and then putting up the tiling thing

[tribal ravine]

Yeah that totally makes sense, i didnt use reference for this one just made the whole thing from my imagination but yellow makes more sense

[stark oracle]

i have two things i wanted to ask
first of all i wanted help making a decent looking murky ground tile for tileable background, its a top down game im making and im sorta bad with drawing

and second, i have a placeholder currently and i wanted to ask if it is possible to add a slight rotation to a tiled background to make it look non repeating

as a placeholder i have this pile of garbage

[misty lantern]

This is a tough artistic question
Unrealistic or stylized rendering here has the distinct advantage that parts that aren't realistic don't stick out to our eyes
The solid view here is also incredibly effective at conveying shape, whereas in the lit and textured version the shape of the object becomes kind of muddled

Parts of the environment very rarely look good if they don't "react" to their surroundings

So repeating material patters don't look great on objects that have variety in their shape

[tribal ravine]

Thats a really good point

could you elaborate further on this?

Im starting to notice how bad the colors are looking and really realizing why thanks to your guy's advice
Like why did i make the railings, wall and the Steel anchors all black?

[misty lantern]

Darker colors highlight the silhouette while lighter colors allow light to propagate and show the shape, generally

Baked lighting usually makes prettier and more real looking enviroments as the light can bounce around and lit objects in more interesting ways

[tribal ravine]

Oh no ive never had a good experience with baked lighting

ive gotten better at it but wow it just looks so bad for me

ive heard usually its the other way around, Baked > Realtime but for me thats not really working

[tribal ravine]

I wish i could find a youtube video or something on this

[misty lantern]

If you google for "environment texturing" the thingyou'll immediately notice is that there actually are very few solid textures in sight

Rather an environment consists of objects and shapes, and what the textures do is represent those objects and shapes

The shapes are in contact, and there is almost always some kind of detail where the shapes connect, or are in prolonged proximity

[tribal ravine]

you mean like adding fake detail with textures?

What i dont understand is what the workflow of texturing should be, Like obviously for objects you have to texture the objects individually but what about an entire Map?

[misty lantern]

"Trim sheets" are used to quickly add repeating variety to level geometry

http://www.evillair.net/v4/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/map-q3-el3t3lg-632x474.jpg

Here you can probably spot how the wall textures repeat obviously, yet they work well to make it look coherent and give the impression of different materials and building techniques used

here's an example from the natural world how everything has a kind of 1. variance 2. relationship or reaction to nearby shapes and materials 3. marks of manufacture or passage of time

[tribal ravine]

Is this being done with UV Mapping?

[tribal ravine]

i dont understand where the artist behind this level found all these textures tho

and then combined them so nicely

[misty lantern]

Most textures from that era are a combination of digital drawing and photo manipulation
The stone wall textures for example are likely a photograph of concrete grain with drawn tiles or ridges blended as an overlay
With modern resolutions that can easily look fake, but texture artists have more tools to work with

Like scanning real surfaces or creating procedural PBR materials

https://miro.medium.com/max/2000/0*I8hmQ3pdqlMahp4a.jpg

In this example the textures aren't super photorealistic by any means, or even terribly high quality, but what sells the effect is the amount of detail

There's staining on the wall that follows the edge of the ceiling and the floor, making it feel that it "reacts" to its surrounding shapes and materials

The planks have grain and ridges, giving them a visual direction
The floor boards would be quite repetitive if they were not covered up with stains and debris

All the sharp edges of the sewing machine table have scratches and wear

The important thing isn't that there's a lot of noise and wear, but that all of it serves a purpose of creating or breaking patterns

Even the shadows on the wall play a part in breaking up its visual monotony, even if they're not a part of the texturing

[tribal ravine]

Ah yeah i get what you mean, like an Enviromental Story in a texture

What i dont get is how i could apply these stains and such, is it like a brush?

[misty lantern]

Are you asking more so how to implement a stain in engine, or how to create the texture for it?

[tribal ravine]

Well im sure i can find a stain texture online but what do i use to apply these stain textures to everything

do i do that in Substance Painter? Blender?

[fluid oak]

Or with decals

[tribal ravine]

Decals as in a transparent plane with a texture?

[misty lantern]

That's one way
Sometimes engines have their dedicated systems for decals also
The stain could be a part of the texture or it could be applied on shader level also
There are a crazy number of tools and possibilities

[tribal ravine]

Damn

it feels like i learned alot of things and nothing at the same time lol

so i basically need to
Have more variety and less repetitiveness in the colors of my scene
Add more Environmental Story telling with Decals

[misty lantern]

Texturing is an art and most of arting is just practice
If you know the things to look at when referencing, practice should be more effective

[tribal ravine]

ill try practicing i just keep running onto this issue where i imagine the scene as textured and then after i texture it, it looks alot darker and dirtier than imagined

When your texturing something do you literally look at the object and say "This is wood" and then proceed to find a random wood texture that looks good and slap it in there?

[misty lantern]

Basically so

[tribal ravine]

How does the object then look like how you imagined it in the end lol

or a better question would be, Does it look like what you envisioned?

[misty lantern]

Rarely right away
If I use photo textures I often end up tweaking the brightness, contrast, hue and saturation

[tribal ravine]

im sorry if this question sounds a tad dumb but if texturing is a long tedious process how come people dont seem to really talk about it that much? Theres SOOO much information and content about 3D Modelling but at this point in time 3D modelling feels easier than texturing to me lol

Like ive seen many large scale maps be "Art Passed" and then be fully textured like the next day or so

doesnt really make sense to me

[misty lantern]

I guess the reason is because texture banks are so popular

[tribal ravine]

like ambient cg and such?

[misty lantern]

Yes

Professional studios can afford to paid texture banks that have basically everything they need in full PBR format

[tribal ravine]

Alright so the next step for me is to boot up that map again and retexture it i suppose?

[misty lantern]

I think it'll be worth the effort

[tribal ravine]

Also i think you can make a duplicate of your object and put a bunch of unnecessary detail on it and then bake it as a normal map?

and then use that to add fake details?

[misty lantern]

That's very common
Normal maps can be used as trim maps as well

[tribal ravine]

Yeah for sure, Thanks man i think i asked about 3D Modelling about 7 months ago here in this discord server and i had no idea how to do any 3D work but i remember you encouraging me to try and it turned out well

i was really confused about Texturing but this conversation has cleared up things alot, Thanks again i really appreciate it

[misty lantern]

Here's one scene I used normal trims gratituously on
I don't think it's a super great piece because it's all a solid hunk of steel with no wear or anything, but the trims go a long way

and here's the normal map used for almost everything and mesh used to generate it

[tribal ravine]

Damn thats alot of detail

Do you have any advice on how i could be more efficient at picking the right textures?

or will i just get better at that with time

[misty lantern]

I feel that picking the right textures is one of my weaknesses, as evidenced by the use of steel on steel with steel in the above scene!
But what I would do to try to improve is to reference more photos and works of others

Over time I guess you'll build a "palette" of details that work well in many places, and a kind of internal logic how materials and shapes behave together

[oblique stump]

is anyone aware of a
(1) scanner
(2) that can save directly to google drive or dropbox
(3) that supports a lossless format like PNG?

[tribal ravine]

Alright ill put my trust on that

[rapid echo]

Using a procedural edge damage setup based on geometry nodes.
.
https://twitter.com/FarrukhAbdur/status/1489110526395404290?s=20&t=VhkEzfaKjdW9FYmdqv9QLg

Farrukh Abdur (@FarrukhAbdur)

Using procedural edge damage based on geometry nodes. Useful, good setup and free download from @csims314

#b3d #blender3d #gamedev #indiedev https://t.co/lMXv5FOfLr

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[glacial vector]

Really solid trim work @misty lantern 👌

[keen pasture]

n00b question (apologies if this is the wrong channel, seemed most appropriate): what have I done wrong with importing to Unity that Unity is now insisting my FBX is all one model (with 10 submeshes) when Blender is explicit that it's 10 separate models, each with one mesh? Is it still impossible (in Unity 2020) to have a single model file that contains multiple objects?

[misty lantern]

Sure you can
The FBX should contain multiple mesh objects

[tight patio]

Hey! I have a quick question and was wondering if someone can help me out. I cant seem to work out why some areas of my model are black when the material is a plain white material. its exported from 3ds max, and I dont think its a flipped normals issue. Thanks!

[keen pasture]

Unity declares they are a prefab ... that cannot be broken.

[misty lantern]

It's true that you can't unpack the mesh asset itself, or duplicate the 'objects' that are generated within it

What you can do is drag the mesh into a scene, right click on it and choose prefab>Unpack

Then you can move the individual meshes as you wish and make prefabs out of them

You can also make entirely new gameobjects with Mesh Filter component that refers to the 'mesh' assets inside of the FBX

Or if you want to detach the mesh assets from the FBX, you can duplicate them inside of the asset and they'll pop right out
For whatever reason you may need

[misty lantern]

Are you sure it's using a plain white material?
What do the mesh renderer's material slots look like

[tribal ravine]

Hey @misty lantern ive got a question, usually when i make a level i like to make all the objects in Blender and put them all together in Blender

but ive noticed that most people seem to make all the objects and then import them to unity and then put them all together in unity

When the texturing part comes should i be exporting all the objects that make up my level individually, texture them and then manually put them back in the scene or is there a better approach?

[misty lantern]

It's not totally wrong to build them in blender, but it's better to put them together in the engine, especially when the project grows, for multiple reasons

[tribal ravine]

Yeahh but i just find it so much more convenient to make an object and then actually see if it fits in the enviroment first before exporing to Unity

usually when i export to Unity by that time i have the whole map without textures but ive heard thats not a good approach

i dont know how other people do it tho

[misty lantern]

Building it first in blender is not effort spent well if it will be rebuilt in engine

But it can be helpful to have a kind of a test room where you build all the level pieces which has lighting similar to the game's world

But it's an easy trap to get caught in trying to make it look good in blender, only for it to look entirely different in engine

Most people make the levels entirely in engine, usually first with greyboxing, then make assets separately to those levels

If the meshes are separate, Unity can cull them when they're not being looked at, 50 barrels in a room only needs to be 1 barrel in the files
and most importantly modifying the level doesn't require you to export the whole thing again

[tribal ravine]

i mean the assets are all seperate when importing the whole map

[tribal ravine]

Seems like thats exactly what happend to me

[tribal ravine]

with this

[misty lantern]

That means it'll work with frustum and occlusion culling methods, but the files will still store duplicate meshes pointlessly

[tribal ravine]

Oh yeah it defo works with frustum and occlusion

im not worried about the optimization part but i understand how the level could look cool in blender but awful in Unity

but what if you wanted to add a table to your level, You Model the Table in Blender and when you put it in unity you realize it doesnt match the rest of the enviroment at all because you didnt have 3D reference of the level in there as you were making the table

But making the table in Blender while also being in the level in Blender your modelling it to the rest of the enviroment in real time if that makes sense

Thats why i like doing it this way but Unity Lighting is just not good to work with so the Enviroment literally looks better in Blender at all white than actually textured and lit up in Unity

[misty lantern]

You can model the assets in the same blend scene and export them separately

Being able to make the best of unity's rendering comes with study and experience

Blender's "studio" rendering does decisively more than simply put a white material on the meshes

[tribal ravine]

You mean like exporting them seperately so when i update the map i dont have to update the entire thing?

[misty lantern]

Yes

[tribal ravine]

Oh i thought you meant i should make each asset individually and then make up the level with them in unity

[misty lantern]

Well I did mean that, but there are many ways to the same result

If you need a forest, you could have one blend scene with one of each tree and bush next to each other, so you can make sure they fit together when modeling

Then assemble the forest itself in Unity

[tribal ravine]

What if i do that and then decide that all trees should have some random bumps on them

[misty lantern]

Add those bumps in Blender, then you can overwrite the mesh asset in Unity and the trees get updated
Or if you've made the forest out of tree prefabs you can update the prefab to use the new mesh without having to overwrite the asset

[tribal ravine]

the problem for me is that i find the Unity object moving/scaling/rotation system as intuitive as the blender one

[fluid oak]

You can design your scene in blender, convert all the objects to empties/nulls, and export that to unity. Then replace all the nulls with the appropriate prefabs

[barren moss]

Hey guys, I don't understand why but for some reason my project suddenly is missing the "build assetbundles" option, does anyone know what the issue is?

[fallow thorn]

Hey, I want to make a change/addition to a tile map I've previously made... if I reimport the png, I have to set up the physics shapes again, which is a time consuming process... is there a way to just replace the image, but keep the current cell and physics shapes

[low flax]

Hey! When I import from blender my animations become really janky if I change the scale factor from anything but 1. Anyone know about this?

[fluid oak]

Did you add the script to your project that creates that menu option?

[verbal reef]

Hello is it ok to ask questions here?
I am taking a course in VR development and am currently learning unity + blender for the practical parts.
I am having trouble importing my FBX file from blender to unity. When I Extract materials the material names all get extracted and created as new materials. However they are all just grey/white not the actual textures I used in blender

[fluid oak]

Did you include the textures in the file?

If not, you'll need to import them.

[verbal reef]

I tried to follow the course instructions when exporting the FBX file from blender, my understanding was that created/assigned materials in blender would be included in the .fbx file?

[fluid oak]

They are- I can see them right there in your screenshot

[verbal reef]

I used textures like these when creating the materials, do I need to include them in some way?

[fluid oak]

It creates unity materials that match the names of your blender ones, but it won't actually replicate the blender materials

There should be some option to include the textures, but that depends on your software. You can also import them to unity separately.

And then add them to your materials in unity

[verbal reef]

hmm, so if I have the materials now imported in unity, and I have the "texture jpgs" can I assign them manually to circumvent whatever happened here

I have all of these materials in blender

[radiant pendant]

left is unity, right is blender. Why does unity cut out certain faces?

[woven cradle]

my guess is inverted normals

[radiant pendant]

do you know a waz to fix it?

[woven cradle]

invert normals

or just to test it you can go to the material and enable backface

[outer halo]

@molten pawn Job/collaboration posts go on the forums, #📖┃code-of-conduct.

[cursive socket]

hey guys, not really sure where to ask this but heres the issue: Im using rigify in blender to export a rigged model, but the model has facial bones rigged and weighted, but humanoid rigs dont have a place to put this stuff, so as a result the entire face region doesnt animate or move. does anyone know the solution?

[late badge]

hey so i'm trying to import my city model inside my game, but whenever i try to do so, unity crashes. 2020.3.12f1

the model

idk if it's a problem with the model itself or unity, how can i fix this

[eager mist]

how many vertices does your model have?

[late badge]

too many

fixed it though

just upgraded my unity version

to 2021

[eager mist]

oh that's nice to hear!

[late badge]

smh that worked

[obtuse summit]

ello guize!

so basically i have a robot model, whose eyes are a bit behind on the model, but visible in unity idk how

But in exporting to blender

Its behind

But not visible

Images:

how can i fix

[long dragon]

I guess those eyes aren't meshes, it seems they are showing up on Unity due to an Emission texture attached on the material

On blender, in the texture files attached to the material I can see a small rounded yellow here. Maybe looking at the material in Unity you can confirm that.

[ember walrus]

I'm not sure that's the right channel to ask about help on how to edit images more generally but since there are experimented people, here I go

For those who don't recognize, it is one of Geometry Dash's backgrounds

What I want to do is that the lighter it is on the image, the more transparent it becomes

E.g: perfectly white = invisible, perfectly black = completely opaque, #808080 = 50% transparent

I couldn't find what I needed despite my researches

Ideas?

[long dragon]

Hi, there are someways to do is to:
1 - Edit it on Photoshop, by exporting as a .TIF you can use this pattern in the alpha channel.
2 - When importing to unity, in the Texture Import Setting, set the Alpha Source to "From Grayscale".
3 - Create a simple transparent shader that reads this texture and applies its color as the color.a in the fragment output.

The second option seems the easier approach to use that as an alpha mask on a sprite renderer or a standard transparent material (to be used on a quad mesh)

[ember walrus]

I already have Unity (logic) so 2nd option seems about optimal, thanks

Update: it rather removed the black, but I think I can arrange it my way if I invert the shades first, then do the method, then reinvert the colors

How do I save the modified version then?

I seem to have some version which is transparent but I can't export it

[ember walrus]

Update: I found an alternate method by downloading a plugin for paint.net, though any help would still be welcome so I don't have to search again in the future ^^

[livid wagon]

Does anyone here use the FBXExporter Package and Maya Integration workflow? I'm trying to understand what problem it solves as opposed to just...resaving an FBX file ontop of my old one.

It feels to me like all it does is create a prefab for me, so that I'm not "Accidentally working with the asset prefab" instead

but if I just create my own normal prefab, doing normal Maya->Export FBX workflow feels identical to the Maya integrations FBXExporter can install to Maya

incase people don't know what I am talking about, it is this https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.formats.fbx@4.1/manual/integration.html

the integration scripts give you a little extra Menu in Maya that looks like this

According to discord searching, I think I am the only person who has ever mentioned FBXExporter in this channel since the dawn of time

And it's only been mentioned 8 times in the entire server (3 by me)

[outer halo]

Most people here are beginners, and less using Maya.

[obtuse oyster]

There's lots of results for "FBX Exporter".

[outer halo]

From what I remember when we tested it, the benefit was being able to do the setup of the hierarchy in Unity, export that and then have the artist make changes which will auto update in Unity.

[obtuse oyster]

I think the overview goes over what it contains pretty well, it's not as advanced as the MeshSync plugin if that's what you're expecting https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.formats.fbx@4.1/manual/index.html

[obtuse summit]

it is a mesh

it comes with it separated

[livid wagon]

i forgot about meshsync, thanks for reminding me

Another question. If I work at a studio that always has Maya licenses and always will, is there really any good reason to export to FBX? Wouldn't it just be easier to work purely in Maya files? (since Unity imports those just fine as long as you have a license).

In my case, the programmers don't actually have or need the art (and therefore don't need a Maya license). They load them via asset bundles later.

[livid wagon]

Thanks for reminding me to just read the front page of the manual. It really does seem to be a tool to export stuff from Unity to 3D software rather than offering much different in the way of exporting from 3D software to Unity

[eager mist]

Hi guys someone can send me rocket 2d with fly animation

[sullen plank]

@eager mist Not a place for requests, don't spam multiple channels.

[eager mist]

ok

[lime pollen]

that would bloat your game size real quick. also anyone that needs to work on the project would need a maya license

[livid wagon]

Right, the fbx is commonly binary and the raw Maya is commonly ASCII

That's a good point

[fluid oak]

I thought that the built game would use the same unity generated meshes whether you imported ascii or binary?

[sullen plank]

The mesh is stored in the assets, and when they are used in the project they only point to that original mesh.

[fluid oak]

Even after building? Huh.

I know that textures are all internally converted no matter what format they come in as

I don't see direct confirmation but the documentation does imply that the mesh that is saved to a build isn't just the fbx file

[sullen plank]

Yea, when project is built it could be stored more optimally (also likely stored more optimally in the Library cache). But in the editor if you want to have something persistent it has to be an asset.
A good example is ProBuilder. It stores its meshed as dynamic data in the scene itself in its objects, and if you lose the scene you lose everything. So it's a good practice after you create something in ProBuilder is to use its .obj exported to make it a persistent mesh in the asset so it can be used across scenes etc.

[fluid oak]

That's what I mean, though; ASCII or binary will be the same in the build, right?

[fluid oak]

If there is a mesh filter, you can save the mesh inside it directly as an asset. I used that to save procedural meshes from a script.

[sullen plank]

Inside the prefab? And it persisted on restart?

[fluid oak]

I've not used probuilder

But you just put this script into an /editor directory ```using UnityEditor;

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public static class MeshSaverEditor {

[MenuItem("CONTEXT/MeshFilter/Save Mesh...")]
public static void SaveMeshInPlace (MenuCommand menuCommand) {
    MeshFilter mf = menuCommand.context as MeshFilter;
    Mesh m = mf.sharedMesh;
    SaveMesh(m, m.name, false, true);
}

[MenuItem("CONTEXT/MeshFilter/Save Mesh As New Instance...")]
public static void SaveMeshNewInstanceItem (MenuCommand menuCommand) {
    MeshFilter mf = menuCommand.context as MeshFilter;
    Mesh m = mf.sharedMesh;
    SaveMesh(m, m.name, true, true);
}

public static void SaveMesh (Mesh mesh, string name, bool makeNewInstance, bool optimizeMesh) {
    string path = EditorUtility.SaveFilePanel("Save Separate Mesh Asset", "Assets/", name, "asset");
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(path)) return;
    
    path = FileUtil.GetProjectRelativePath(path);

    Mesh meshToSave = (makeNewInstance) ? Object.Instantiate(mesh) as Mesh : mesh;
    
    if (optimizeMesh)
         MeshUtility.Optimize(meshToSave);
    
    AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(meshToSave, path);
    AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
}

}

And it pops out a mesh you can pop into any mesh filter.

Saved as an asset

[fallow cedar]

Does anyone know how to create this kind of effect in unity?

[sullen plank]

Oh, that's pretty cool. I never tried to save meshes as separate assets through utility tools.
Otherwise without creating assets through asset tools it will hold the mesh created only during session, even if you reference it to the prefab.
But this works.

[solar arch]

You mean decal?

[fallow cedar]

I will give that a look!

[solar arch]

@fallow cedar https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/renderer-feature-decal.html

[fluid oak]

@sullen plank yeah, I needed to make meshes with a script, but I needed multiple ones and the script could only have one instance without breaking all the others, so I just copied out the generated meshes into assets.

And it had the added benefit of not needing any live scripts in the scene which helped performance.

Back before the burst compiler made 2d animation faster

[misty lantern]

Do you mean at runtime, or baked into meshes?

[fallow cedar]

Runtime i think?

[misty lantern]

Then you'll want to look into decals or shaders I think

[vocal solar]

anyone know if it's possible with ProBuilder to keep the changes you make when the game is running?

[fluid oak]

In editor or in a build?

In editor you can directly save the mesh like we've been discussing. In build... I have no idea whether the probuilder exporter function can save an external file.

[eager mist]

So I have a custom texture that I want to put in my model, I can figure out how to put it on the model though

The package of my model has this material

and I have my custom material for the model already made

*I exported this from blender as a FBX file btw

Im guessing I have to unpack the prefab

[obtuse oyster]

Replace the material via the model's material tab https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/FBXImporter-Materials.html
Scroll down to the image and it's (C) you're looking for

Prefabs will not update to those changes, just the model. So you will have to apply the material to the prefab too if you have made one already

[eager mist]

C?

im looking for C?

[obtuse oyster]

Scroll down to the image

[eager mist]

on the project tab?

this?

or this

[obtuse oyster]

In the link I linked in the very same post that sentence was in

[obtuse oyster]

This is set up correctly

[eager mist]

yeah

but Im trying to figure out what you meant with the prefabs texture wont update

[obtuse oyster]

if you have made a prefab out of this asset before you replaced the material then you will need to open it and update the material there too

[eager mist]

cause the model didnt change textures

[obtuse oyster]

Is that material in the slot even this one?

It should be the one with the texture on it

[eager mist]

well, it has a gray background so im guessing its part of the prefab

but it isnt connected

like the others

[obtuse oyster]

Replace the material via the model's material tab
It should be the one with the texture on it

if that material is some random grey material then you have not done that

[eager mist]

that material is my custom texture

[obtuse oyster]

select that material and show it

[eager mist]

this?

[obtuse oyster]

cool, so if you drag the model into your scene is not not textured?

[eager mist]

let me try

no

[obtuse oyster]

It's untextured? That doesn't make sense, what material does it have on the renderers?

[eager mist]

on the renders?

[obtuse oyster]

yes

[eager mist]

wdym with that

[obtuse oyster]

The materials on the objects in the scene

[eager mist]

it just has one material

[obtuse oyster]

And it's the material you expect?

[eager mist]

and its that custom one I made

no it isnt textured

ok so I have this material

thats connected to the model

is that it?

[obtuse oyster]

can you screenshot the model in the scene with the inspector open showing its material

[obtuse oyster]

the inspector of the renderer used by the object in the scene

[eager mist]

what renderer

[obtuse oyster]

select the object in the scene

[eager mist]

this?

[obtuse oyster]

click it again until you select the renderer, or look deeper in the hierarchy

[eager mist]

the body is selected

not the entire thing

[obtuse oyster]

That's what I wanted to see. The UVs must be wrong somehow, and it's just being textured with the corner of the material, that's all I can think of

Perhaps you've missed a setting in the blender export that exports UVs properly

though I'm not sure how you manage that 😄

[eager mist]

so its a blender problem?

[obtuse oyster]

It may also be that the texture used is not set to repeat, and the UVs are not in 0->1 UV space

It's easiest to check the texture's repeat mode first

[eager mist]

I dont see a repeat mode

[obtuse oyster]

It's the Wrap Mode

make sure it's set to Repeat

[eager mist]

I also dont see a wrap mode?

[obtuse oyster]

On the texture? It's directly below the Advanced dropdown

[eager mist]

where are you seeing this?

[obtuse oyster]

that is the material, not the texture

[eager mist]

it already is on repeat

[obtuse oyster]

Cool, then the issue is probably that the model hasn't had UVs exported from blender

[eager mist]

wow this is confusing

[obtuse oyster]

I am not sure how it manages to happen though so... that's a new one for me

[obtuse oyster]

maybe the UV map used in blender is not UV0, which is the UV channel used for texture in Unity

I have no idea though, I've never seen this issue before

[eager mist]

maybe

ok so

I have it textures in blender in texture paint

but not in uv editing

do I need it in uv editing for it to work?

[obtuse oyster]

I'm not familiar enough with blender to know where the issue could be at this point or how to fix it, sorry

[eager mist]

ok

I can join the blender discord then lol

[shut halo]

hi, I need some help in fixing an asset that is not importing properly

like the materials just broken honestly

[long dragon]

Could you send a screenshot or share more details?
Also, if it has something as a pink colored object, could you also share what Render Pipeline are you using? (Built-in, URP or HDRP)

[shut halo]

in blender (uv unwrapped and whatevs)

in unity

[shut halo]

just did. thank you for even looking at it

[long dragon]

Hmm, it seems ok. So it is weird it now showing the via lactea there. Could you inspect the model on a new empty scene in Unity?
Some things that might be affecting:

• It might displaying the emissive on the upper side on Unity (could you check the top side of the ceiling?)
• The emissive might be with a low intensity (could you increase its intensity on the HDR Color Input there to check?)

Those are my initial guesses. The UV seems ok on blender.

[flint hollow]

Hi, I'm having issues with an animation I made in blender involving transformations (rotation and translation) - I transformed an object in the collection, but once I export as an FBX to Unity, it applies the translation to the whole model/collection?

Animations I do to the armature export correctly, but transformations on the object - or part of it - appear on their own timeline when I switch between Pose Mode and Object Mode. My workflow is to to do the animations on the main timeline and cut them in Unity.

I did try messing with the Z-forward transforms and the global/local checkbox on export, but not sure if I'm missing something or doing somethin wrong to begin with.

[tribal ravine]

@misty lantern is it a good idea to use Those unity Material assets that come with like 300+ materials that are easier to drag and drop

or is it better to find textures yourself

for learning experience i suppose

[glacial hound]

how do u make a object become a solid and not make the player go throught it

and also add texture and colours to it

[sullen plank]

https://learn.unity.com/course/create-with-code

[glacial hound]

:/

[sullen plank]

You are asking a very basic thing, this course will teach you how to use the engine.

[turbid haven]

you could just point him in the right direction and mention a collider.

also, how Do I change a light's fall off point

like how do I extend the range of the effect seen above

Im very new to lighting in hdrp

When I increase the "Volumetric fog distance" of the global volume, it makes the quality of the light go to shit. How do I keep the quality of the fog good and increase the range?

🥲

@glacial hound add a collider to the object, then readjust. IF your importing something from blender, look under "generate colliders" in import settings

although the resource provided by the other dude is a good one, you could also try reading the docs on colliders!

gl!

figured it out for anyone with the same issue. You need to click the settings in the top of global fog volume, increase distance of volumetric fog, and manually adjust the quality to a higher settings. Or use balanced. with higher settings Either way, it works.

[glacial hound]

tysm this is helping me alot

[deep imp]

human vision is so weird. i am looking at colors i could use for a tech tree with a lot of stages and it always surprises me how colors between red and green are very distinct from each other but colors between green and blue just seems to flow into each other, and that's probably different from person to person as well.

[fluid oak]

Though I think that the perceived brightness contrast is important too

[deep imp]

yeah

i will have roman numerals as well though and the color is mostly just for background of the tech images, might also just be a border.

[fluid oak]

Look at your icons in black and white

[deep imp]

i will keep that in mind thanks

[misty lantern]

@deep imp https://colorbrewer2.org/ this tool is made for maps but if you click "qualitative" it can generate distinct color selections for any purpose

Even has a colorblind safe option

"Number of data classes" would be the number of colors in the palette

[reef grotto]

wow that's really useful! thanks for sharing!

[soft ruin]

have a someone a model for a gun ?

[outer halo]

There's no doubt plenty online and on the asset store.

[fluid oak]

All I have are hilarious gifs of people failing to properly shoot guns.

[deep imp]

that's really cool

[past kestrel]

Any tutorials on how to balance pixel art sprites PPU with image reference PPU, canvas reference PPU and lastly image size?

[solar arch]

https://christopherhilton88.medium.com/calculating-the-pixels-per-unit-ppu-for-a-background-in-unity-4c953fe04cf1

tons of this topic on internet...

[pine laurel]

Can someone help me with these , the black Spots kind of thing on the walls they appeared on wall after I compressed the textures but the wall didn't had textures

[misty lantern]

@pine laurel Looks like a baked lightmap which is a texture and can suffer from compression artifacts like any other

[fluid oak]

I mean, you could probably do it with probuilder. It would just be harder.

[solar arch]

You can do this in blender with custom brush in like 1 minute 😃

[eager mist]

Why are my prefabs colourless in the assets folder?

[timber hinge]

Got any link to a tut?! 😮

HELP REQUEST: I've imported an asset in Unity. Everything looks fine, except for these two parts.
The normals are on the right side of the meshes, I've checked in Blender, but, no matter what, they always look reversed, in the engine.
Any idea why?
This piece has about 30k triangles, one single object, and only these two parts look wrong. =p
And only inside Unity HDRP!!
In Blender it's perfect.
Help! -.-

[royal cobalt]

What pizel/inch do u guys use when creating assets/sprites?

[timber hinge]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow message

FIXED IT!!
Even though I had fixed the normals in Blender, and clicked on "Reimport", Unity didn't reimport s**t.
I had to delete the mesh in the assets library and manually import it again.
Same for all the textures as I tweaked them.... =p

[misty lantern]

"Reimport" imports the model from 'project asset folder' into editor's own database
If you updated the mesh elsewhere in your file system reimporting does not fetch it from there, even though that would seem intuitive at first

[timber hinge]

So what's the correct workflow for updating a mesh/texture?

[misty lantern]

You can delete the asset and import the updated one in its place
This should update all the references as well
Not sure if there's a more "correct" way

[timber hinge]

Not really about the correct workflow, it'd just be much more convenient if, say, tweaking a texture would not require such a roundabout way to update it in the engine. -.-'

[misty lantern]

Or you can edit and overwrite the asset directly, but that way it's harder to keep old variations of the assets around

[balmy quail]

I'm new to Unity and I've been trying to add a texture to a .fbx file I imported from Blender, I know the textures are there (at least in Blender) but even with all my googling the option to add texture is not in Inspector, unless I'm doing something wrong.

[lime pollen]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/missing-textures-from-imported-fbx-file-in-unity-since-update.518577/#:~:text=missing its textures.-,To solve this in blender%2C on export fbx settings%2C you,did the trick for me. Try this solution

[rough geyser]

So I'm having some issues with textures and stretching. The image shows 3 different 3d objects and I Want the texture to be the same size for all three. Is there a way to fix this in the inspector or do I have to make a script for this?

Tiling is set 1 to 1. I'd like it to not change scaling depending on the size or dimensions of the object though.

This has been haunting me for days.

[ruby turret]

Been having the same issue 😿

[rough geyser]

fr. almost like we're doing the same project or something

[rough geyser]

also does anyone know any free assets that include office ceiling LED lights?

[misty lantern]

Texture size on a wall is in most cases based on UV maps of the surface, so if you scale the mesh, its UVs get scaled also
"Tiling" is a per-material multiplier of this scale
Normally you'd make the wall using a mesh editor like ProBuilder or Blender and ensure there that the UV maps are of correct size, and not scale the mesh in engine
Another option is to use a shader that controls the texture tiling using some method such as triplanar mapping

[rough geyser]

Tried blender and it was absolute hell. I'll try probuilder out- thank you.

[glad aspen]

Any of you kind folks setup custom import processes/scripts for bringing models? I'm attempting to customize the material that gets applied to fbxs and have had some luck doing it but have a few more questions about the process that the docs aren't clear about

[fluid oak]

Can't hurt to ask those questions and see if they trigger any neurons..

[sonic slate]

Anyone know why the property of scale and rotation in Unity is different to the blender property ?

[solar arch]

For obvious reasons?.. two different products, and two different software

you must apply transform when exporting

[sonic slate]

Thanks 😁

[solar arch]

Don't forget to apply it first in blender by hitting ctrl+a then select scale @sonic slate

[boreal vault]

Can anyone help me come up with the layout for my social deception game's map plz?

[outer halo]

This channel is for art integration help and discussions. If you want to find team members to help with your game, post on the collaboration forums ( #📖┃code-of-conduct)

[boreal vault]

its not a collab, its helping cuz i am trying to come up with a map.

[outer halo]

Yes, that would be a collaboration. As in someone would help you, for free ( I assume you're not paying ).

[boreal vault]

i cant access the forums cuz of personal reasons.

i am literally just trying to get some ideas.

not collabing with someone?

[outer halo]

If you have an art integration question, feel free to ask in this channel.

If you want ideas, make a thread in #archived-game-design.

[eager mist]

Help, whenever I try importing anything into my assets in Unity, it makes an error saying it cannot find the file specified and crashes.

[eager mist]

is creating your own 2d assets difficult if you have no experience in art?

[outer halo]

Isn't any skill difficult if you have no experience in it?

[split terrace]

lol

[eager mist]

no, driving was pretty easy

video games

coloring books

lifting

[unkempt bluff]

Do all assets work in linux? I didn't see it listed anywhere as to what platforms they work on.

[rose wagon]

Can someone hop in a call with me and help me with adding a this sprite to my game.

[steep tulip]

you want help with adding a sprite in your game?

[rose wagon]

Well not so much adding, more setting it up.

I'm learning as I go, but having some guidance would help tremendously.

[steep tulip]

oop are you starting out on unity?

[rose wagon]

Yes I am, haha.

Currently majoring in Computer Science, trying to make a small game for a project due soon and starting on unity.

[steep tulip]

oop

you should search a youtube vid first yk

[rose wagon]

I have watched so many YouTube videos haha and still doing so.

But theres nothing like having someone there to help guide you through whatever problems you may encounter.

[eager mist]

anyone know if its possible to export a maya scene using arnold shaders and proxy geo into unity?

[glad aspen]

Fbxs have some sort of Arnold shader functionality. Not sure about ma/mbs though

[eager mist]

what about proxy's back to mesh?

[glad aspen]

Not sure what you mean by proxy in this case

[eager mist]

ive converted the geo in maya to arnold proxy geo so that it only is visible and gets used once you start a render

[glad aspen]

Ah k. So some Arnold specific functionality? That I have no knowledge of, sorry!

[eager mist]

yes. okay no problem. thought ill try my luck since people here are more responsive than in the arnold discord 😉

[high vault]

Can anyone point me to a good stylized character modeling course? Preferably under 20eu

[red yacht]

anyone know how to cut an object in blender?

I want to separate a magazine from a weapon that is modeled as 1 complete object

[outer halo]

Select the faces, press P and seperate by selection.

[copper solstice]

I got some sbsar files and when I import it to substance it comes out blank. I'm not sure how to fix jt

[neat trout]

which road looks better

[viscid stream]

definitely #1

[neat trout]

Thanks 🙂

[eager mist]

How can i get tiling adequate to size of 3D object?

[dull glade]

im a regular user of git and I have a partner who wants to use Collaborate. Can we both do our own thing without stepping on each others toes or is there a workflow we need to adhere to?

[lime pollen]

You should probably tell them that Collaborate is being deprecated

[dull glade]

Oh. 😦

[magic grotto]

why is the model facing forwards when imported but the rig makes it face backwards?

[solar arch]

Blender? Apply transform when exporting.. you may as well hit ctrl+a and select position or just all

[glad aspen]

Is there anyway to export models with materials & textures in Maya that they get imported into Unity with correct hooks to said textures? Like perhaps a particular shader material to use in maya for it to be setup correctly to come into unity with the least amount of manual work

(into URP btw)

[river apex]

is that veigar?

[grizzled garnet]

Putting together a 16 colour palette for a pixel game, using the 6-bit method (each channel can only have 0, 85, 170, or 255 for values)
I ditched purple in order to get more earthy tones, as I don't expect to need purple for anything.
Thoughts?

[outer halo]

Looks a bit vibrant, but if it works for the game, then run with it.

Have you checked out this website before? It's a great resource for pixel palettes:
https://lospec.com/palette-list

[grizzled garnet]

The vibrancy mostly comes from the 6bit restriction, it's difficult to make truly unsaturated colours

[misty lantern]

The colors on old hardware with limited palettes were still chosen based on what the software was expected to need
So, you still have freedom within those 6 bits

[grizzled garnet]

6bit means 2bits for red, 2bits for green, 2bits for blue.
So I can't make 72, 106, 157 as a colour, only 85, 85, 170 as the closest match, for example

[red yacht]

sometimes I have to close unity to get my animation controller to play the updates, despite saving 😦 anyone else run into this

[misty lantern]

The data is limited but you can choose how it's interpreted
If I'm not totally misunderstanding how it works

[grizzled garnet]

Well, I wanted to use the 6bit method, were each channel can only have 4 levels, and those levels are evenly distributed (i.e. EGA colours, SEGA master system, etc.)
Mostly for fun, to see what I could come up with within those restrictions.
Rather than using a hardware-defined palette like some other machines had

[misty lantern]

Ah, even distribution does restrict you pretty much

[grizzled garnet]

There are some unsaturated colours I could swap in. Possibly swapping out the dark yellow/brown, or one of the bottom blue shades

Now I got a more tan shade, probably more useful than the dark yellow/brown

[misty lantern]

Personally I'm all for bending the rules if it means better results

[fluid oak]

Unity removed native substance support because they couldn't keep up with updating it. Now you have to get the(free) substance asset in the store that adobe keeps updated.

[candid badger]

I modified the mesh of a downloaded asset in Blender and brought it back to Unity, but I'm getting this weird triangle whenever I reapply the normal map

I suspect I screwed up something related to the UV mapping but where is that stored within unity?

Never mind, that's a thing you fix in Blender not Unity

[neon dock]

Why is my exprorted fbx completely different from the one in blender? Obj works fine but I need bones to aniamte it

[flat mortar]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.formats.fbx@4.1/manual/index.html

maybe this will help

[lime pollen]

he's not trying to export it from unity, so that package would be useless to him

[flat mortar]

oh damn i misread

[flat mortar]

i don't know a lot about the workflow from blender to unity but i would say check your blender export settings, maybe see if "apply transform" is checked

im not sure what you mean by completely different

[neon dock]

arm position, pose is completely different

[flat mortar]

i dont think poses get exported

i think you'd have to export animations to do that

why not just pose it in unity?

[neon dock]

oh i just happened to pose it in blender, maybe yeah ill pose it in unity

[neon dock]

i just undid all the poses and it still has problems, but every other 3d viewer sees it fine

[loud cradle]

Is there a way to set the layer of an object in unity, e.g. I only want to set the layer for the top platform to "ground" of the stool since I want the player to only jump on that area.

[honest coral]

can i see what ur drawing with the colour palette

plz

[fluid oak]

You can add a child object that is set to a different layer if you need to

[grizzled garnet]

I haven't drawn anything yet

[honest coral]

rip

[lone leaf]

What is the best way to represent a card in a 3D game? The card will have a front and a back. I thought of just using a quad for the actual card, but not sure how id handle the card flipping as I dont think its possible to add a texture to the back of the quad as well

Whats the best way of going about this?

[wraith willow]

I am trying to edit the textures of the track in the karting Mini project. I am using an image material and it totally works on the straight track. But the curved track just displays a solid color. If i change the offset, the color changes to another color within the image. Believe me. I have tried everything I can think of. Other people's solutions don't help. I've even made a new identical material and set it to that instead. Thanks for any help, it is all appreciated. I don't know what kind of things I should include so let me know if you need a screenshot of something.

[silent quartz]

Hi!

If I have a blender model in my game, and I then open the model in blender - from Unity -, and I edit it, will it then edit the model in the game, or do I have to export it again?

Thanks

[misty lantern]

Whatever changes you make to the file that exists inside of your project's asset folder will show up in the editor

[silent quartz]

Awesome, thanks!

[misty lantern]

If you import the mesh from elsewhere in your file system, Unity will make a copy in the assets folder and use that

[astral sleet]

Does anyone know how I can parent objects like in Unity for blender? Ok that was really vague but you know when you make an empty GameObject and put stuff under it to make it sorta like cleaner and easier to work with? How can I do that in blender and have it transfer the "empty GameObjects" into Unity? Is there something specific I need to use?

This is my first time trying to be actually clean in Blender because I never made big stuff so this is kinda new to me lol

[glad aspen]

You can parent stuff in blender. The (new as of >2.8) does show this by default in the outline view. Ctl P I think parents and the view setting I can't remember atm. I can get back to you later when I'm at the cpu though

Sorry, doesn't show parental relationship by default

(not "does show this..." )

[astral sleet]

Alr thank you

[glad aspen]

Here's the run down. You can just drag and drop to rearrange the hierachy or do the whole ctrl+P route, picking the object that will be the parent last (it'll have the lighter orange border) @astral sleet

[astral sleet]

Thank you!

[fathom kraken]

Hi, I've imported Unity's Particle Pack which has annihilated my entire project, what can I do to revert or fix this?

[fathom kraken]

usual update of materials to URP doesn't work

[fathom kraken]

one problem solved, that pack set this to None

compile errors are still ongoing

[brittle falcon]

Why does my imported fbx model show this info instead of just the normal things?

Every object has it now

[glad aspen]

What did you import from (what dcc made the fbx?)

[brittle falcon]

exported it from blender

[glad aspen]

Oh weird, everything?

[brittle falcon]

yep

If I just create a cube it has it too

[glad aspen]

You in local mode? (just a stab in the dark)

[digital kestrel]

@brittle falcon Apply scale and rotation with ctrl + a

[glad aspen]

The button beside the snap magnet in unity

[brittle falcon]

Doesn't matter, both local and global space

shows the same information

[brittle falcon]

Did that(in blender)

[glad aspen]

Yeah, thought so. I debug mode?

[brittle falcon]

but also newly created cube's in unity have it

[digital kestrel]

Thats.. pretty weird. And in a clean scene?

[glad aspen]

Indeed weird

[brittle falcon]

in a new scene it has it too

[digital kestrel]

Use the normal mode instead of the debug

It shows the same?

[brittle falcon]

oooooh

🤦‍♂️

[glad aspen]

Yeah, wondering the same.

Was that it?

[brittle falcon]

Yes finally

thank you so much

[digital kestrel]

Hahahhahaha n.n

[glad aspen]

Noice

[brittle falcon]

I was already wondering since when did the animator controller change

because last time I used unity it was easy and now I couldn't add normal conditions or change the name of the states

Thank you guys!

[digital kestrel]

No problem

[ornate mesa]

I need help with this mmd model. This looks like this in blender but then I put it in unity it looks like this . I tried added the material but I never seen material like this .This is how the model looks like when I tried to add the material (I am trying to make it into a vrchat avatar. )

[misty lantern]

Seems like you managed to add most of the materials already
What's the problem exactly

[ornate mesa]

That It looks like this and I'm not sure how to fix it

[glad aspen]

So eyes, bag & Jewish side hair? 😉

How many material slots does the model have?

[misty lantern]

Hair has the wrong material and the bones are a offset a bit, but that shouldn't be unfixable

The eyes probably use some kind of UV animation for changing expressions which doesn't work in Unity one-to-one, but you should still get some kind of eyes when you assign the eye material to the eye material slot

[ornate mesa]

If you want I can send you the model to check it

[ornate mesa]

Sadly I can't check on unity because this pc.

[misty lantern]

I'm not sure what would I check
Seems like you're on the right track, just having some challenges getting the textures, materials and material slots to match

[ornate mesa]

Oh okay

[ornate mesa]

What I meant by cheacking it is to see if it has any other problems that I don't know about

The first time I made a mmd to avatar one someone told me it had a problem and they fixed it for me

[royal blaze]

Is there a specific pixel art style this is called, as I am relatively new to pixel art and would like to replicate something like this

[eager mist]

Question what is a good resolution for a UI button and resolution for a small icon ?

[smoky spindle]

its called low res pixel art i think. this picture has no anti aliasing

and is small

[rose wagon]

Can somebody help me fix my health bar scaling?

[untold cloak]

Hiya all, Im pretty new to unity and have never imported anything there before, I tried importing this house I made in blender to test it out but the colors are all wrong

This is how it is meant to look btw

[royal blaze]

yeah that seems right, thanks

[misty lantern]

If your color palette texture is very small, you'll want to turn off mip mapping and set compression to none
Otherwise the color regions will become distorted and so do the colors

[hoary pawn]

the renderer in blender and unity are different, so you'll have to tweak the materials and textures after exporting

[untold cloak]

Thanks a lot! looks a lot better now!

[misty lantern]

Forgot to mention that point filter but you got that too!

[tender frigate]

Why does this happens to my sprite?

[misty lantern]

Does it do that by itself or in the process of slicing it?

[tender frigate]

I think both

[misty lantern]

So, when you import any sprite and set mode to multiple it already looks like that?

[tender frigate]

Yes

And everytime when I open up the sprite editor the previous slicing is lost

[trail stag]

how come unity isn't able to correctly figure out my little bat model? exported in fbx and tried adjusting normals and other things but it never quite gets it right

[proper carbon]

How can i export a Scene so i can import it into Blender?

[glad aspen]

Fbx exporter asset in the u ity registry prolly

[eager mist]

I have a weird problem with my model

When I orbit this part sticking out of the helmet, the front goes transparent

its fine in blender

and thats the only thing part of the model that does that

[outer halo]

Flip the normals of those faces.

[eager mist]

ok

Ill try

It worked thanks!

[solar arch]

play along with the import settings, more importantly, the normals section, try set to calculate.
Sometimes when you have a very tight distance between faces, it would cause artifacts such as that shown in the picture

I think you have an overlapping faces, judging by the screenshot

[jade solar]

👆 these are animations, any idea if i have a switch i can turn on, that these animations automatically play in the assets window?
(currently, i have to drag each prefab/animation into the game world to see how they look, which is no ideal solution).

[jade solar]

EDIT: solved (me idiot..), i can just double click them, this open prefabs view and i an then switch through each.

[north wolf]

https://i.imgur.com/TIxjyOI.png uhm how do i avoid this transparency effect when i draw in gimp?

or see through effect

whatever this is

[solar arch]

make another layer, fill it with whatever color and set the order of the layer lower than that blue square

[north wolf]

https://i.imgur.com/xcpwoMN.png its still doing this

i need to click multiple times on the same pixel to make it more opaque ig

[fallow cedar]

When using global illumination, is having both realtime GI and baked GI enabled redundant? Should i just use one or the other?

[split garnet]

I'm very new to Unity so I hope this makes sense.

Let's say I wanted to create some basic geometric flat coloured shapes in my game like this:
https://theme.zdassets.com/theme_assets/9969920/333349b307ed7d53924cb798f551f4cbd310c097.png

Maybe I'm making a game like Thomas Was Alone, or Thoth, and I just want a bunch of flat colourful objects that I can reshape by dragging vertices.

Would it be better optimised if I used Sprite Textures designed in Photoshop, and used the Sprite Renderer to tweak the exact cropping of them, or used Mesh objects where the actual colour itself is coming from within Unity (let's assume for argument's sake that I'll never want to change the colours or shapes dynamically after initially importing them into the scene).

Sorry if this is badly worded, or if I just plain don't understand the dichotomy between the two options. Just experimenting with Unity and don't want to make the game way harder to run than it needs to be,

[regal nexus]

when i import my 2d block into unity which is 8x8 pixels how can i make it look better and not that blurry?

[eager mist]

Texture filter mode

[misty lantern]

best to disable mip mapping and compression as well

[faint bone]

when attempting to configure my model's rig, it does this to the hands. apparently this is how they look in their t-pose

this is how they should look

(if this is in the wrong channel i havent been here in a while srry)

[regal nexus]

how do i make my 2d block the same size as the tilemap grid because its 8x8 pixels so its really small

[misty lantern]

Look up pixels per unit in import settings

[buoyant swallow]

So in my game, im planing to make it so that you can purchase decals for your spaceship. eg racing stripes while still being able to change the color of your ship? what would be the best way of doing this? A game i took inspiration from basically has a plain texture of the vehicle and then layers e.g racing stripes on top of it. from the looks of it, the plain texture is just an AO (that is also colorable). How could i replicate this in unity?

[distant coral]

Hello I'm Having an issue with material skin colors. Frankly I don't even know what's happening anymore.

She has two skin colors: One of which I'm changing it to have a corset piercing instead.

• original skin color (I plan to use with/without harness)
• skin color with corset piercing (I plan to use without harness)

For some reason on the original avatar (which I purchased with a scene including the avatar ready for vrchat upload) both materials appear causing the black to look faded (brown color) When I drag the fbx into the scene it fixes this problem but I'm stuck trying to figure out exactly how and what to add for toggles/dynamic bones/colliders to work again

Is there any way to fix this and avoid all the trouble?

[candid badger]

Hi, what is the best workflow/format to use to send somebody a completed scene file?

They want to take all the assets within the scene and port them to a different scene as-is

So what I am thinking of doing is putting everything in the scene into an empty gameobject with 0 transforms, making that a prefab, and sending them that prefab

Will this break anything?

[lime pollen]

export it to a package

[celest mist]

Why exactly cant I drag more sprites into the tilemap?

[sullen plank]

Need to convert images to sprite type and add their sprites.

[sullen plank]

On lit materials lighting influences end color.

[flint verge]

i have a mesh with 3 submeshes and 3 materials

problem is that reordering materials (which are all the same standard shader), for some reason forces a material use on several submeshes

meaning, sub 1 and 2 will use single material

how is that even possible

[obtuse oyster]

Shouldn't happen afaik. Are you doing this in the inspector?

[flint verge]

code and inspector, same result

[flint verge]

it only works in one configuration

i have no clue, i cant find any info online, nothing in docs

[flint verge]

fixed, was problem with my code

[obtuse oyster]

Why did it not work in the inspector then 🤔

[tribal pivot]

@sweet mauve click on the sprite asset in your project (on the bottom of the screen), then on the right inspector set filter mode > point (no filter)

[dry geyser]

if I make a model in Blender, animate it with a rig, and then after I try to make a LOD1 LOD2, how do i get the animations to work on all 3 LOD's Do i just export for first LOD and unity will make the others work? or is that 3 armatures? or is that what the avatar is for? my animations are done with bones and vertex groups on a single mesh. can 1 set of bones work on all 3 meshes LOD1 /2/3 ? or is there something I can go research for LOD models + animations export from blender to unity?

im exporting animations in the Non linear action editor

[karmic beacon]

How do you deal with merge conflicts in unity, specifically for the scene? I'm using Github Desktop and every time we have a merge conflict, it seems like we're forced to lose tons of progress from one user

[lime pollen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgoCp2tzRh0

[obtuse oyster]

Set up UnityYAMLMerge https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SmartMerge.html

It does an alright job of handling basic merging of scenes and prefabs. Though you should still avoid modifying the same files through proper project management.

[karmic beacon]

thanks for the tips

[distant coral]

Tysm! Yes I had someone mention this to me just yesterday ^_^ ty for replying

[fair pollen]

Model in Blender

Same model in Unity. Is this... Okay?

Same model without light.

[obtuse oyster]

Blender's view on vertices is different to Unity.
Different applications store vertex attributes in different ways, Unity needs separate verts for different attributes. Which can be colours, normal information for smoothness/hard edges, UVs, etc

[fair pollen]

So the answer is. Yes it is okay?

[obtuse oyster]

🤷 sure

[fair pollen]

Thank you very much, so i just tested it, and in editor around 4mil tris i feel to 40fps, so i guess i should aim for around 2-3mil verts budget?

Any links you can give me to read on optimization for models specifically for unity/blender?

Sorry if questions are stupid, not a 3d modeler myself 🙂

[dire sparrow]

This armature won't import to unity, only Armature.001 imports successfully. What is this armature and how do I import this one?

[flint verge]

because i generated submesh copy on top of another submesh

basically didnt clear the buffer as a result first the whole mesh was put in 0, then part 2/3 were put in 2, and then 3 in 3