🖼️┃2d-tools

[polar bluff]

I'm still pretty new to creating humanoid pixel art - any thoughts, recommendations, improvements?

[primal badger]

Hi can i ask for this, how do I make my camera settings like the one on the left with the grid

Currently, it's like the one on the right

which I find it hard to position the object with respect to the camera

[still tendon]

I'm trying to do 2 things.
1: I'm trying to get the Bionomic Commando font to have sharp edges
2: Im trying to get things to snap into 2D Places
But 1 I cant find a option for that and 2 even when I hold Ctrl it wont snap move

[elfin sandal]

open the sprite in sprite editor, go to slice, grid by cellsice

or you might have to do it manually in this case

[craggy lava]

guys anyone have a isometric square like that idk how make it lol i just need to test my placement system

i need a red and a green one now

[silver valve]

what is a good programm to create 2d pixel arts ?

[wet grotto]

how do i prevent my sprites from clipping though eachother?

[modest cargo]

I assume the tilemap extras package I linked earlier didn't have what you needed
So here, a whole selection of tilemap squares
https://opengameart.org/content/isometric-tiles

[deft mauve]

I needed to switch from the Universal Render Pipeline back to the default renderer, but when i did all my particle system textures turned to pink, how do i fix this?

[scenic latch]

has anyone run into this problem when using auto tiling you have to put the left wall tile, not the right?

[covert whale]

it's probably because there were materials on the particles that were in URP, try changing the materials back to the default ones

[torpid coral]

Is it possible for a rule tile to paint to a different tilemap? Im basically trying to seperate my walls and ground tiles but want the functionality of auto generating walls at runtime? Any ideas?

[tired turtle]

I'm looking for a 2D platform, any in mind?

[modest cargo]

I like the classical ones made of dirt with some green grass on top

[rare ravine]

can someone assist with my first attempt at baking a nav mesh?
i've created a tilemap, and i'd like to set all the tiles that aren't the road to not be walkable, and then have my monster walk down the road.
but currently, it says "Select a MeshRenderer or a Terrain from the scene"
if i try to add a MeshRenderer to my tilemap, it says it conflicts with Tilemap Renderer
❓

[rare ravine]

i figured out i had to add an experimental package, which allowed me to add a NavMeshModifier to my TileMap, and that let me perform a Bake...but there is just one tiny spot of walkable area right in the middle of my terrain??

[elfin sandal]

https://github.com/h8man/NavMeshPlus

have u tried looking into that?

[rare ravine]

thats what im looking at right now!

[modest cargo]

The navmesh is for mesh renderers aka 3D meshes only
The experimental package probably likewise, though I'm not 100% sure

[rare ravine]

doesnt look like much but i got it working !!

[green fern]

is there a way to get a traingle sprite in 2D? Or do I have to use 3D sprites for this?

[modest cargo]

You can draw a triangle and make that a sprite
I don't know what a "3D sprite" is in this context

[lament rose]

How can i conect two points with a visible line(kinda like DrawGizmos)

[modest cargo]

Would Line Renderer component work?

[lament rose]

Thx

[lament barn]

hey, anyone know if there's a way to make rule tiles detect tiles from other tilesets?

i wanted to make a spike rule tile that applied to the foreground automatically, since there's 4 kinds of spikes and i wanted to use the random output option of the rule tile, but since rule tiles don't seem to be rotatable and i cant find anything on different tilesets interacting i'm stumped

should i just make copies of the sprite rotated in each direction and place them manually?

[green fern]

Ah thnx. With a 3d sprite I meant 3d gameobject

[fierce scroll]

Is there a way to change the initialization order of the objects a tilemap creates? I'm using GameObject prefabs as tiles. Those objects have a script with an onEnable() function which has a dependency on the game world already existing. Outside of the tilemap I solved this by setting the script execution order so the game world script enabled first. However, a tilemap seems to call onEnable() for its tiles (i.e., the instances of the GameObject prefab) first, ignoring the execution order I've specified.

[light elk]

study anatomy that is what needed

[polar bluff]

Oh okay, thanks

[light elk]

n the book pixel logic is really good

[neon onyx]

Hi, can someone please send me a tutorial or a script for a swinging system around some point? I've been trying to do this from tutorials and stuff, but I get always error saying that it cannot create a 2d joint because it's connected to the player itself.

[solemn latch]

@neon onyx#⚛️┃physics

[neon onyx]

oh

but the rope doesn't have to be advanced, it's fine if it's just a line

[solemn latch]

You're not breaking any rules by asking in here, but you'll probably get better help there.

Also would probably help if you can describe what you're specifically trying to do

[neon onyx]

got it

[tribal sage]

https://gyazo.com/48ae514affe02d09d1a8c60fe2c9c9bf

Why when I try to slice it doesn't slice

[modest cargo]

The background is opaque so the automatic slice option doesn't know what to do

There are other slice options and you'll probably want a sprite with a transparent background anyway

[tribal sage]

I just realised that

What is the best way you recommend to remove the background?

[modest cargo]

Most image editors have a magic wand tool that can select colour regions which can be then deleted to transparency

[tribal sage]

Can you recommend me one rq?

There are many options rn

[modest cargo]

Gimp, I suppose

Awful to use but the most capable out of the free ones

[still tendon]

I AM AT MY WITS END!

I TRIED EVERYTHING to make my STUPID movement work but does it, NOPE
https://paste.myst.rs/1ueg3p02

[solemn latch]

Probably something like ```using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class player_movement : MonoBehaviour
{
[Min(1.5f)]
public float movement_speed = 1.5f;

private Rigidbody2D player;
float totalpos;

void Start()
{
    player = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
}

void Update()
{
    totalpos = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
}

void FixedUpdate()
{
    Vector2 v = New Vector2(0f,totalpos);
    player.MovePosition(player.position + v * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
}

}```

Though I prefer to use velocity rather than MovePosition.

[still tendon]

Thanks mate! =3

[marble dome]

I have used Unity for over a year and all of a sudden I can no longer assign textures to sprites. Anyone have any idea why this might be happening?

[rapid drum]

The texture type is not set to 2d & sprite or whatever it's called

[marble dome]

Thank you.

[runic portal]

How do I scale my UI Accordingly to each device?

Something with mine is just a tad bit off

Expected

Reality

[elfin sandal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html

[runic portal]

Okay I got it working

Now how do I fix the scrolling though?

It feels laggy

Like stuttery

[elfin sandal]

idk

[solemn latch]

Depends on what is causing the lag. If might be performance, it might be a problem with the controls.

[solemn latch]

If your PPU is 16, then you'd move 1/16 of a meter(1 unit) to move by approximately one pixel.

Or 0.0625

[solemn latch]

That would probably depend on the pivot

[worldly cypress]

when i import a transparent image (i think its transparent) from krita... well its not working... PLS HELP MEE

[worldly cypress]

or atleast tell me which app i need to use.. im a beginner btw just started today

[dreamy pier]

making sure it a png

And set the texture type to sprite(2D and UI)

[worldly cypress]

oh

but when i import a png

it says not supported

lemme try again

[worldly cypress]

omg ur a lifesaver ty my brain was leaking

[dreamy pier]

Glad it helped

[worldly cypress]

also how to get rid of this blue loading circle thingy

[dreamy pier]

click the sprite -> inspector -> filter mode -> point(no filter)

[worldly cypress]

oki

it worked

you tysm

[dreamy pier]

don't know what are u saying but thanks : D

[worldly cypress]

no it actually disappeared when I clicked off of it (deselect it)

[elfin sandal]

is the component an image or sprite renderer

because i think that circle only shows up in UI

might be a gizmo you can toggle

[modest cargo]

It's the pivot point marker
You don't really need to "get rid of it"

[feral karma]

why is that when i make a background layer, the objects in the background turn black

[feral karma]

just found out

[solemn latch]

Share with us

[arctic whale]

maby someone have a 2d healing texture for a retro game

something like a plus

[solemn latch]

➕

[feral karma]

whats a good tool to make 2d tiles for a 2d game

[elfin sandal]

aseprite

[still tendon]

Hey

Can we make a shader instead of using a pixel perfect?

Pixel perfect make animations look cripsy in movement

And maybe it pixelate think that should't be pixelated

Cause of stacking denied

But the my real question is can a pixelated shader ruin performance ?

This shader will be applied to many sprites

That have ik

For legs placement

[desert fox]

there was a very appreciated 2d vector light system for unity few years back

can someone tell me it's name

because I don't think it's the same as Universal RP

I think I saw it watching about Ori

[worldly cypress]

guys thanks for replying

this is how it turned out

now im scraping my brain cells to do the coding

but i suck at line code

so i went to visual scripting

AND ITS HARD TOO

[eager ravine]

mistake on sorting gameobjects but
how do I animate the parent head object without affecting the torso child object?

[abstract olive]

If you're transforming the object in any way, the children will follow. Separate the two objects.

[eager ravine]

ah I forgot to mentioned these gameobjs have animations
animations mess up when I separate them

[green dagger]

2D Gore (Like people playground) Where would i get started?

[solemn latch]

The hard part of coding was never the typing. It is figuring out the logic of what you want to do. 😄

[solemn latch]

You'll always have some problems as long as your hierarchy is messed up like that. You can kinda alleviate that using a script to counter the parent's movement, but you are probably better off biting the bullet and fixing the hierarchy and just reworking your animations.

[eager ravine]

ah thanks for the heads up, it's just a minute detail I wanna have
with the head bobbing up & down

doesn't affect the animation much

unrelated but is there a feature in unity that disables/hides the z-axis?

it's stumped me a few times when I thought my code wasn't working,
but turns out the z-axis is set to some random number

[worldly cypress]

ye lol

[solemn latch]

Unity is still a 3d engine no matter how you mess with it. Unless you're using rect transforms in a UI.

[eager ravine]

Ah gotcha thanks

[craggy lava]

What is the tilemap angles? My friend need the angles to drawn isometric assets

[queen hatch]

How do I modify a Box Collider 2D from it corners/vertexes in the Scene View?

[honest whale]

Why can't I enable read and write on the sprite sheet?

[modest cargo]

You can edit the edges by clicking the "edit collider" button
I don't think you can grab the corners specifically unless you use the rectangle tool to resize the whole object
Box colliders fundamentally do not have vertices, in case that becomes relevant

[modest cargo]

Did you google for "read write greyed out"?

[distant pecan]

Recently i've used Unity's animator for a 2D project for the first time in a long time, and i just realized how bad it's workflow is, due to that, for anyone wanting an better animator workflow for 2D games:
https://github.com/GabrielBigardi/Unity-2D-Sprite-Animator

[dim wraith]

Has anyone here used the Unity.VectorGraphics package?

need help understanding how to interact with it inside of a monobehavior and script changes to the vector images and such. Having trouble with the mixing of interfaces between Monobehaviour and IFill etc.

[solemn latch]

I have not, but I was under the impression that it was an asset processor so the actual asset would be a texture and not a vector?

(in the build)

I might be incorrect about that

[quiet nest]

whats the difference between using individual images and a tilemap?

performance wise etc

[desert fox]

You load a tilemap once

so whenever your shader / script requires an image, it obtains from the loaded tilemap

hence you save space on the memory and response time during the loading process

or if you're updating in certain range for instance

it would mean a lot to use one or the other

[fluid wave]

Hello, sorry to bother any of you, I have a question regarding an animated asset in a loop, that I need to move around randomly, I believe there is a way to run the sprite animation in a loop while moving it around but for the life of my I cannot seem to find how

[tribal pasture]

I know this is a stuipd quiestion but can some one help me learn movement cause ive watched so many videos and i just can figure it out

[solemn latch]

All sprites using the same tilemap and shader can be batched into a single draw call.

[solemn latch]

More specific questions would probably get better answers.

[solemn latch]

I'm not entirely sure I understand which part of that you need help with.

[fluid wave]

My Asset is using an animation in a loop, in this loop are all the sprites that make the animation, without having to add another animation module everytime I want to move it, is it possible that it can move randomly in a determined space?

[solemn latch]

You can just make a script to move it around separately from the animation?

[proven jasper]

sorry for the stupid question but i don't know how or where can i create something like textures for 2D game
i downloaded unity yesterday and i watched a bit of a videos about unity, but i don't saw how to create textures or own custom character without downloading already maded textures and player models (btw sorry if i make mistakes, my english is not perfect)

[jolly narwhal]

You have to make them in some other program and import into Unity.

[proven jasper]

oh okie then imma try using photoshop

thanks tho

[solemn latch]

Photoshop is what I use, usually.

[thorny laurel]

How does one create a grid in the sprite editor so that you can use it to snap to while outlining

[fluid wave]

you can create a tilemap

but you might need to fill it with a tile palette

@thorny laurel

[thorny laurel]

I’ve just been manually cutting out hundreds of them

Was there an easier way?

And if I have one sprite sheet that is similar to another is there any way for me to get the outlines for one and paste it on the second

[fluid wave]

I think this video might help you, he uses a 3rd party software that help in the creation of titlemaps and make them easier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRkT10D-Quo

[light relic]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/763495187787677697/978410453363478569/unknown.png
How can I make another opening into the spriteshape

[thorny laurel]

i wasted about 2 hours separating them but they look all weird bless my heart

[fluid wave]

learning pains

[thorny laurel]

what can ya do

[north cairn]

Is it me or are my isometric tiles... not isometric?

I can't get the tiles to lock into the grid properly

[north cairn]

This is what happens when I try to connect them

This is what all the tutorials get right off the bat

[solemn latch]

Your tiles are isometric. The grid is dimetric.

[last berry]

hi, was trying to add a 16x16 p crosshair to my game then scaled it by .5, it looks good but when moving it distorts a significant amount
any way to make it distort less?

[solemn latch]

Can you give more information? Is this a UI image, a sprite, a mouse cursor? What kind of distortion?

[last berry]

a sprite

the lines get thicker when moving

weirdly the less I move the worse it is

when I move it constantly it doesn't really affect it much

[solemn latch]

That is an issue with point filtered sprites that aren't using pixel perfect.

[rose scroll]

Hey, I'm looking how I can split one image (with multiple poses of my sprite) into multiple usable sprite tiles, but don't know the exact naming of that action so can't find any helpful information online, can somebody point me in the right direction?

[last berry]

I'll look into this, ty

[last berry]

A sprite atlas maybe?

[rose scroll]

I'll look into that, as an example I want to split this image into the 8 different tiles: https://opengameart.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/mage-1-85x94.png, so I can setup the animation, etc...

[last berry]

when you port it into unity put sprite mode to multiple then crop out the tiles in the sprite editor

[rose scroll]

Ok thanks I'll look into that!

[solemn latch]

You'd need to set the cell y size to 0.57735 instead of .5

[last berry]

I got it working ty 🤝

[north cairn]

Can you please tell me why that exact value?

[solemn latch]

Because I measured the angles in your screenshot. 0.57735 is the ratio you need for 'true isometric' tiles like you have.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Tilemap-Isometric-CreateIso.html

[north cairn]

I see

thanks a lot:)

Any idea what to do about this?
I tried playing around with the tilemap settings but it didn't work very well (as seen in the picture)

End goal is something like this:

[north cairn]

Yeah I literally have no clue what to do. I know the towers + trees are best on a second tilemap, but how do I make unity only render the top of chunks?

[north cairn]

It's working for the right side but not the left

I tried changing my tilemap sort order but none helped

[solemn latch]

I've not actually used the tilemap package at all so I am only going off of what I've read in the manual

Sorting order is the usual method

Are your pivots in the right place?

[round shale]

Is there anyway to separate the BoxCollider2D into layers so it doesn't collide with other sprites with bc2d as well?

[solemn latch]

Yes. You can set collision layers for 2d just like with 3d

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

[round shale]

Thank you

[scarlet eagle]

Hey guys in my project there have a bug..the bug is when the player jump and fall off he go through the tilemap and the player gone from the main camera...also coded separate tiles like floor tiles and colliders tiles...is it have any solution ? and using capsule collider for the player

[lean estuary]

How to set cell size for the tilemap grid and palette grid so they fit is explained in https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/working-with-hexagonal-and-isometric-tilemaps-2019-3# Or any of the isometric tilemap tutorials online.
Sorting tilemaps works the same way you sort sprites, they have own sorting layers you can set, set floor tiles to the lower layer and tilemap with feature to regular one so they are sorted with other objects.

You find palette grid on the palette asset. This could be confusing

[quiet nest]

Can you dynamically draw polygons for screen assets?

I want the colors of some game elements to be customizable

[craggy lava]

isometric assets have a trash quality for some reason

[north cairn]

I gave my palettes a layer each and even tried making a 2nd tilemap to separate the road from the terrain

This is what it gives

Sorry if this is obvious but I am unsure what to change

I changed layers, sorting order, 2 tilemaps, and none worked xD

[lean estuary]

What's you sprite size for the tile?

[north cairn]

250x235

[solemn latch]

Your game view is zoomed in.

[lean estuary]

You can see they are 2.5 times larger than the tile space. Yea, so set cell size accordingly. x cell size = 0.250 and 0.128 I think

Point is the bottom part of the sprite should fit

When you set correct x size set half of that to y

And pivot point of the tile sprite should be set to the middle of the perceived surface

Following a tutorial explaining this in detail with examples would be the best. There are plenty of those.

[north cairn]

Alright thanks alot:) I'll see what I can find

[lean estuary]

Also don't know what's happening there, they all should be on the same layer. They should be sorted properly if they have the pivot point setup in the same place, see previous message where it should be.

[north cairn]

yeah i'll look up how to change the pivot

[lean estuary]

So those top grass pieces have pivot point too low if they are on top

[craggy lava]

?

[lean estuary]

Your locked reference scale is too high to fit the screen. Set free Aspect.

[craggy lava]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NzfbhsnWPWWWeNFDykLMEaLD3YXEh6r0/view?usp=sharing

Take a look pls @solemn latch

Isometric titlemap

Default one

No Changes on scale

[amber gate]

Hopefully I am posting in the correct section. Dumb question of the day. I need to create acre size sections , 70x70 units, and there will be more than one. These acres will be gardens. I see how to create a plane in 3D but can not figure out a way to do it in 2D. I have googled the question several times and must not be wording it correctly.

[solemn latch]

I'm not downloading your game onto my phone, no matter how many times you ping me.

It likely has nothing to do with tilemaps. How do the sprites look just dragged into the scene?

[craggy lava]

Its not a game

Its Just the sprites

That iam having problems with

:/

[round shale]

Is there anyway an object can ignore one of the object's boxcollider2d?
I have an object with 2 boxcollider2d and both has their own function. Is there a way for another object to collide with that object but ignores 1 of the boxcolliders?

[solemn latch]

Put the colliders on separate child objects.

And put one on a different layer

[round shale]

thank you

[round shale]

I'm confused, how do I exactly do that?

[solemn latch]

Um, which part is giving you difficulty?

[round shale]

putting the colliders on separate child objects?

[solemn latch]

I mean, you make child objects and put your different colliders on them. So you can have different properties on each one?

Put them on different layers, etc

[craggy lava]

@solemn latch pls bro

[solemn latch]

I am not your fucking bro.

http://imgur.com/y7bhE4h

[lean estuary]

What are you asking exactly? I've already answered you, your resolution in the game window set too high shifting the scale, set to free aspect to fix.

[craggy lava]

i already did

stay the same

[craggy lava]

sorry sir

[lean estuary]

!warn 943821597201031189 Do not antagonize people helping you. If you don't know people's pronouns use non-gendered ones.

[barren orbit]

MetaAbuser#3654 has been warned.

[craggy lava]

what?

i said sorry sir

how its wrong

[lean estuary]

@craggy lava Suggest you research on your own time what are gender neutral pronouns... If you want to talk to people.

[craggy lava]

gender neutral pronouns are not a true thing

[lean estuary]

!mute 943821597201031189 1d Some time to research how read neutral gender pronouns are.

[barren orbit]

MetaAbuser#3654 was muted

[lean estuary]

*real

And not to be an ass as well...

[solemn latch]

I was thinking more of a 'I'm not your buddy, pal!' but that works too I suppose 😄

[neon onyx]

Hi! I have a hard time rigging a 2d pixel art character in my game. I'm rigging for the first time and don't know anything about rigging a character. I'm following Brackey's tutorial on how to do this but still looks awful. Any help would be appreciated.

[ebon dock]

I have a script derived from Tile. I can Asset > Create > MyTile and now i have an instance in my assets that I can customize through the editor. but how do i then use that Tile (not a monobehavior) in the other script that needs it?

am I supposed to put that Asset in Resources and Load it that way?

Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way. I want users to be able to change tiles by clicking on them. I have a scripted tile that draws the right thing when it's placed on the grid (works via the editor). I'd like my users to have the same ability.

[lean estuary]

If you are using tilemap to set the tile to coordinate it should be working the same way as if you place it manually in editor

Tilemap also has methods converting from world coordinated to tile coordinates which you can use to identify click location

[ebon dock]

i can get and set tiles. I can't seem to make an instance of a Tile that I store and then set into a tilemap. I have used Asset > Create to produce an instance, but IDK how to obtain that instance from within the game at run time.

sprites, scriptable tile, instance in bottom left; instance details right.

I have another script attached to GameController that is trying to tilemap.SetTile(x) but I can't find how to set x to Blueprint Tile Inst.

[lean estuary]

You can't create an asset. but you can instance and modify existing one

[thorny laurel]

is there an easy way to erase small defects in the sprite sheet? Like specifically editing singular squares other than exporting it and reimporting it?

I'm referring to the small defects caused by surrounding sprites in the sheet

[solemn latch]

@thorny laurel increase the padding in your sprite sheet?

@neon onyx sadly there isn't a particularly great tutorial thst I've seen: the brackeys one is maybe the worst though.

You seem to have the basic idea down, though; what seems to be the difficulty?

[dusty mirage]

Anyone know how to rotate a sprite in the tile pallete

[round shale]

Not sure if u could rotate it from the tile palette, but u could press the Bracket button on ur keyboard while placing the tiles it'll rotate

[north cairn]

I am working on a Tower Defense game with grid placement. Is there a way to make it so when the player places a building, it locks the position to that of a piece on the tilemap?

[obtuse moth]

got a little bit of an issue with tile palettes, basically it's not letting me place down any new tiles and I can only use the picker on already placed tiles to select them, even though this is my only palette, am I missing something?

[solemn latch]

It is certainly possible. Which parts do you have working, and which do you need help with?

[north cairn]

I just want to know what to research about so that I learn how to place a prefab on a grid tile that's available

[thorny laurel]

How would you do this?

and would padding add space between the squares? or would it take out a bit of the outsie

side*

this is how it looks, but some of the small pieces bleed over into the other sprites

also how would you add natural lighting to this?

is it possible with 2d?

[neon onyx]

hi, so, I asked on Dani's discord how did he make it so good looking, and I found out he didn't actually use the 2D rigging thing, but he created separate sprites for each of the body parts, and then he connected them together with hinge joints. I don't have a clue how to do that tho.

[solemn latch]

Not sue who Dani is or what results you're discussing?

[neon onyx]

wait, I'll send you a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAXVzzZsmE4

[left aurora]

How do i slice these two spritesheets ? Whenever I try to slice them , sprites of one spritesheet are of diffrent size than the other ?

the second spritesheet has a trail of dust making it longer , so how do i make the sprites of same size ?

[solemn latch]

But the sprites are not the same size

[left aurora]

so it will be ok in the game if the the sprites are different size ?

if they are not the same size , the blue lined rectangle changes its shape

[solemn latch]

It depends on what you're doing with it, but as long as the relative pivot points are in the right place it is usually fine.

[thorny laurel]

how come there is no "all packages" tab in package manager? is that a setting you need to enable>

trying to follow with this video

[north cairn]

What package are you searching for?

[hard nimbus]

for some reason there are small lines spawning randomly between the tiles (I'm using a tilemap)

[thorny laurel]

also there is no option to create a rendering pipeline in my unity

[north cairn]

it should be in the unity registry

okay

[thorny laurel]

this is the video but theres no option for rendering for me

and in components > rendering, everything is blanked out

[north cairn]

try "Edit > rendering pipeline" or something

[thorny laurel]

im blind?

[thorny laurel]

theres nothing for lighting in the unity registery

[north cairn]

search for "RP"

[thorny laurel]

which one do you think i should install

[north cairn]

probably the Universal

or core if lighting isn't very important in the game

[thorny laurel]

its just for extra small effects

ill install core

make it look slightly more cool

okay cool its installed

still no option to create a pipeline

[north cairn]

Is this still like that?

[thorny laurel]

yessir

im trying to install universal

see if that works

[thorny laurel]

alright universal shows this, but still no option to simply create a rendering pipeline

like it shows in this video

unless one of those is the same thing

would it just be the first option?

[north cairn]

Try the first one

yeah try that

[thorny laurel]

cool

okay it created the files, but ill have to figure out how to use them lol but thank you

[thorny laurel]

alright so i upgraded my scenes and stuff, followed instructions, but my scene is not black and no lights are affecting anything

unsure

[north cairn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KM16tivA4Y

Can you watch this to make sure you did it correctly?

it's very short and informative

[thorny laurel]

I watched that video at first but my unity didn’t have the method she used, so I looked up and used this instead

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.0/manual/features/rp-converter.html

I did the upgrade pipeline

Took like 10 minutes lol

[north cairn]

This is so funny I had to share it here

[still tendon]

anyone know how to make my ui scaled to any phone resolution

[mossy venture]

I'm worried I'm in the wrong channel for this but I'm not sure where else to ask, I have this topdown tileset I made and I need help on how to setup the rule tile in a more advanced way for this to work

I think I thought of a solution actually

[mossy venture]

nope, my solution isn't working as I thought it would

[delicate moat]

I've been having so many issues with hinge joints in unity 2d. I have put together a hinge joint rope with box colliders that are set to trigger. All rope segments have a tag "rope". I wrote a script that detects if the player is in a box collider and it has the tag "rope" and allows it to climb up it using velocity. The player will bob up and down before climbing up the next box collider and I am starting to really struggle with it. Any help is much appreciated.

[solemn latch]

You might need to be more specific in your questions.

[solemn latch]

Do the colliders overlap? Are you checking for all overlapping colliders, or just the first one it finds?

[delicate moat]

Just the one it finds first

They do overlap, especially when the rope moves

[solemn latch]

Are you doing any debugging of the collisions to see what is being detected when you have the 'bobbing'?

[still tendon]

uh i doubt its supposed to look like this?

[solemn latch]

Generally speaking, it shouldn't.

[still tendon]

😂

[leaden garden]

I try to import my Sprite in the scene but it isnt imported properly and only the head is imported

[mossy venture]

my bad, to put it better the tile rules get really weird when I tried adding the brick wall tile, I need it to appear on top of the floor tile, but then I need an edge tile at the top of that, so there's no good way to define it in the tile rules

[solemn latch]

Did you drag the prefab into the scene or just the single sprite?

[leaden garden]

its a .png

not a prefab

[solemn latch]

You sliced it into multiple sprites?

[leaden garden]

yes

to rig it

it asks me to create a animation whenver I drag it in the scene

[solemn latch]

If you multidrag multiple sprites at once into the scene it thinks you are dragging in animation frames.

Bring them in one at a time

[leaden garden]

I did

the entire image

which is stored in one

.png

it still thinks that whatever

ill try

[solemn latch]

The IMAGE is the source data. You have made multiple sprites out of it and unless you're using the psd importer to bring it in as a prefab then unity will treat it as separate sprites.

If you want them to be all one 'piece' then you would just rig the pieces as a single sprite.

[leaden garden]

thank you adding them to the scene one by one worked

[woven crow]

so I have my sprite sheets + animations set up

I have my (new) input system set up (I think)

what would be the best way to go about combining the two?

the genre is fighting game kinda

idle, jump, attack, etc

motion input specials, command normals

[solemn latch]

You'd probably want to set up your animator state machine, and figure out how you want to trigger it from your control script.

[woven crow]

the animator state machine I kinda have set up so I'm good there, I think

[delicate moat]

No I haven't yet, I've heard and tried many different things but they just don't seem to work.

[thorny laurel]

is there a reasonable size that you'd say you shouldn't go over when making a map, like a city or something?

or does unity handle large scenes well

ie should i split my city into small scenes somehow, or is it okay to have a massive scene

[solemn latch]

Can you be more specific about what you tried?

[solemn latch]

It is probably better to use smaller scenes when possible.

[lament rose]

I want to make smth like an infinite ruler, like a line would stretch infinitely and Numbers would rise in value and height. Any idea how

[thorny laurel]

hmm youre right

[delicate moat]

I changed around how the colliders overlapped, the shape of the colliders, size of the colliders. It doesn't seem to work, I get the same result

[scenic latch]

is there a way to make certain tiles have a different sorting layer?
my entire door prefab is sorted below the player
i would like the top half above so the player looks like its going under

[woven crow]

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to make sense of documentation
can anyone recommended which pages I should be looking at when trying to code the movement, jump, and attack animations, etc

[dull mortar]

hey, does anyone know how to fix this gap?

[solemn latch]

Add another tile layer and put the arch on that?

[solemn latch]

Is that two sprites next to each other or one sprite with a tiled texture?

[dull mortar]

1 tiled texture

i fixed it anyways

[hot quiver]

how do i mirror something in gimp

[solemn latch]

The docs aren't super well laid out so hard to give general advice aside from 'the section on animation,' but if you have specific questions...?

[misty monolith]

question about 2d tiles/extras scripting

I use the Tilemap.SetTile method to set a (RuleTile) tile wherever the player clicks, but all the tiles placed by the player remain in the scene after it's no longer running, like the tilemap asset was somehow permanently changed by the method

[misty monolith]

I should also note that those added tiles cannot be (most of the time) removed in the editor, but that may have nothing to do with my problem and just be a package bug or something

[north cairn]

Is there any way I can get the collider for each separate tile on the tilemap?

If any of these colliders are touched, the collider returns the position of the grid itself, not the tile

how do I get the tile's coords?

welp ig i'll place nodes then

[solemn latch]

I believe that tilemap has a method to get the tile at a coordinate

So you detect that you touched the tilemap and then pass the position to the method to get the tile

[opaque flint]

Hello, is there a way to show my tile palette the same way as i see it in my scene view ?
It is a 3d prefab used as tile

[fierce coyote]

does anyone know how to disable a rule tiles updating via code

[kind sundial]

Strange question but im trying to go through a game's assets for preservation and after extracting the games textures seem to all look like this

is this on purpose for something within unity where they look normal when applied to something? Or is there a way to fix this

[solemn latch]

No way to really tell, especially from the thumbnails.

[toxic holly]

Hey guys, Can this fat goose fly and turn with Unity 2d skeleton animation

[opaque flint]

Hello, i'm working on a 3D strategy game and i need an hexagonal tilemap, i made a tile model and i created a TileBase class, i want unity to place the gameObject at the tile's position and remove it when replacing the object, i have a problem where the object doesn't get placed but is visible in scene, I tried everything i was able to think of

[solemn latch]

What?

[hard wind]

so, idk where to ask i think here. i got a problem with the Tile palette, i got a tiles with different sizes, some are 128x128 some are 64x128. is there any way to make a good grid for this? as currently its not rly working.

[opaque flint]

try changing the Pixels per unit of your small tile's sprite

[hard wind]

where do i do this?

[opaque flint]

find the file of your sprite

in the tile palette prefab

[hard wind]

also what cell size should i set the grid ?

[opaque flint]

i don't know

depend of the project

[hard wind]

its like that rn, kinda wrong i'd say 😄

if i take a 128x128 tile

[opaque flint]

yes, try to increase the pixel's per unit of these sprites

[hard wind]

let me search google where exactly it is

[opaque flint]

where is your tile palette stored ?

send screen of the project tab please

[hard wind]

do i wanna set this to manual?

[opaque flint]

not, this is good

[opaque flint]

in the "atlas" find the oversized sprites

you should find the pixels per unit variable in the editor

[opaque flint]

yes, here increase the value

only for the oversized sprites

[hard wind]

oversized sprites are the 128x128 ones?

[opaque flint]

"Atlas" has a lot of child in this childs, find the 128x128 ones and change their pixel's per unit value

[hard wind]

theres nothing to change in the childs of the atlas

[hard wind]

ye

the screenshot above

is what i get when i click ther

[opaque flint]

oh, i don't know anymore sorry

[hard wind]

😦

[opaque flint]

i thought you were able to change them individually

[hard wind]

i might search for different tiles then with 64x64 only or something

even tho i like these alot

[opaque flint]

Hello, i made custom tiles for my game but they don't show up when i place them, they appear after some kind of update (saving/hitting play/undo)
Do you have an idea why ?

[hard wind]

anyone an idea why my tiles anret in the squares?

[opaque flint]

no idea

[hard wind]

i managed to fix it. but the problem is that the ones is 128x128 the other is 64x128. any way to get this working?

managed to got all working

i just did everything to 64x64 and now i place 2 tiles together

[gleaming sun]

hello, a question, do you know if with Unity I can do slashes in 2d?

[clever pond]

Hey I am having an issue with my tilemap. When i created the tilemap it worked fine. I continued to work on it now i can not seem to edit my tilemap anymore nor can i brush new tiles onto my scene. Any suggestion on how to fix?=

[nocturne dagger]

I'm gonna be using sprite.bounds.extents to get the top part of my sprites. It says that it uses the center of my sprite. Does it mean the pivot? Or the legit center center

[solemn latch]

The center of the bounding box.

[spice hare]

Yo so im like absolutely new to Unity, and I created a Square Sprite as a gameobject, how do I apply a texture to it instead of it just being a color?

ik im kinda stupid

tutorials just say to drag the texture on the gameobject tho it doesnt work

[opaque flint]

make sure your image is a sprite

click on your image and make sure this is set to sprite 2d and ui

and then you'll be able to drag it

[spice hare]

yo so thx i did it but this is the size of the texture, umm how can i change that to fit in?

[opaque flint]

Try increasing the pixels per unit

it will make it smaller

lower the value and the sprite will be bigger

[spice hare]

Oh ok thanks!

[thick dock]

Actually, while you're here:

Seeking the wisdom of the elders.

We have these character faces with lots of details.

There is a red skin tone shader, and a green eye color shader.

On top of this we have skin details and eyes. (There are noses and mouths and eyebrows too, all colorable. And a set of winkles, freckles, etc that need to match the skin tone beneath them like a skin-color decal.)

The skin colors rely on any alpha above the skin to also blend in with the color mask.

I think having the skin details all baked as one sprite is our best bet, the solution on the right, #1. (Two overlapping alphas: eyes, head.)

Another dev wants the solution on the left, which is the skin details under the eyes, #2. (Three overlapping alphas: eye, eye skin details, head.) And they want to apply the eye skin details with an overlay effect and simply change the skin detail color to match the face with a color matrix.)

I think #1 is the best solution. Better performance. But they fear that the overlay won't color correctly with a color mask using the same shader as the skin.

What would you do?

[wraith crypt]

i was having issues with unity's tilepaletts where i cannot layer isometric tiles ontop of one another

[lean estuary]

tiles are sorted using their pivot point, make sure it is set to the middle of the bottom "floor" rectangle

[wraith crypt]

i believe it is

[lean estuary]

make sure sorting order is not flipped in settings

[wraith crypt]

where would i see that again

oh i see

it is correct

[lean estuary]

try others

[wraith crypt]

yes this is the only one that works

[lean estuary]

also with chunk mode

[wraith crypt]

chunk mode breaks it worse

i followed a video perfectly and this is the only point where it fails

[lean estuary]

Are your tiles extend from the floor down?

[wraith crypt]

dont think so

not sure what that means

[lean estuary]

I'm having hard time reading how a single tile suppose to look

They look fine right now if the were floor tile with wall under...

[wraith crypt]

suposed to be on top of the other ones

like this

[lean estuary]

So they are sorted correctly, it's just your pivot point is on top but it should be on the bottom part

or vice versa

[wraith crypt]

even if that were true it would effect all the tiles equally

[lean estuary]

not sure for which you are going

They are sorted correctly though

it's just they are not on the correct pivot

[wraith crypt]

pivot is correct

[lean estuary]

Oh, I think you are changing z position there

[wraith crypt]

thats how the video does it

[lean estuary]

TileMap is technically 3d, you are changing z level

So your 3d tiles are not sorted correctly?

Not sure about that then, haven't used tilemap in 3d. Make sure you are not missing something in the tutorial

[cerulean bane]

Hi everyone. Working on a 2D tile based game, and I'm wondering if there's a way of overlapping tiles in a single cell, single layer and single Z position.
What I want to accomplish is having a single set of tiles for an object (a tree, for instance) and being able to just draw a big square and let Unity automatically 'overlap' tiles according to Y position, instead of making new art of the tiles overlapped and then using these.

I'm guessing rule tiles would be the way to go

[spare gull]

I'm having issues with blurry sprites can someone help?

[cerulean bane]

On sprite import, make sure you use Point filter, not bilinear. Also in quality settings, make sure you use Full Res as Texture quality

[lethal tundra]

Hey guys just a quick question, is it possible to make a 2d pixel art style slashing effect in unity? or should I just draw it into the sprite? Because drawing makes it look very static

[solemn latch]

You'll need to be more specific. You almost certainly can, though it is hard to give specific advice for such a vague question.

[lethal tundra]

sorry Im not too sure how to describe it, something similar like this. I know with the 3d model then it would be easier, not too sure with a 2d sprite based animation

[solemn latch]

You could do that as its own sprite on top, or you could do it with a shader, probably using particles.

Lots of options

[lethal tundra]

interesting, will look into it, thanks!

[spare gull]

I've tried this as well as other fixes

[cerulean bane]

Does it happen the moment you import it? Or only in game?

[solemn latch]

Your sprites might just be blurry.

[atomic slate]

Hello! I'm hoping someone here could figure this out... When I paint this tile it looks right in scene view (left) but in game view (right) it seems to have an extra bit of white and I can't figure out what is causing this.

aha! Changing the camera projection to perspective fixed it.

[still tendon]

hello, I dunno if this is the right channel to ask or not, hopefully i'm not wrong, but, how can I overlap two sprites? the thing it's I have a character with a separate sword slash animation and I'd like to animate it

[elfin sandal]

sprite sorting layers

[silver trench]

Hi all. In 2D, are you able to copy a part of a Tilemap, and paste it?
I seem to be able to select an area (by pressing [S] in the Tile Palette window), and from there I can Move my current selection (with [M]) - but is it possible to copy-paste-move a selected area on your tilemap?

[split portal]

You can because ive done it before, and im not near unity right now so cant remember how.

Does anyone know if Unity is planning on letting us have more tools in tilemap? a line tool would be great.

[split portal]

anyone know if there is a way i can save tilemaps as PNG images?

[silver trench]

You near a machine with Unity on it yet, @split portal ? 😄
Anyone knows how/if you can copy-paste an area of your tilemap? (see above question)

[still tendon]

I'm using Tilemap to set up my background, but I'm seeing black lines sometimes. Is this normal?

[solemn latch]

Pretty normal, since about 1/3 of the tilemap questions we get are about that.

The most common solution is to add padding to your tile textures or make the sprites slightly larger than the tilemap tile size.

[modest cargo]

There are two types of lines/seams that occur very commonly
If they're gaps like here they seem to be, you would make the tiles larger as suggested
Or a cleaner but more complex solution is to use pixel perfect camera
Adding padding to tiles helps if the seams are color bleeding from adjacent tiles on the tilemap

[cold marten]

might need some helpe, it-s not letting me creating transitions from default animation

[still tendon]

Hi, i dont know if this is right place to ask but, is rigidbody2D reason why my character flips? And if it is, how do i disable it?

[solemn wraith]

hey if I have a sprite with a solid background color, how do I mark that color as the transparent color for my sprite?

[solemn latch]

You'd need to make a custom #archived-shaders for that.

[solemn wraith]

Oh. Yeah I went back into my image editor and made it clear there. Thx tho

[solemn latch]

@opaque girder don't worry about the size of the ui- that is by default 1 meter per pixel so it is way too large for regular non ui objects.

The scale(or pixels per meter) will indeed affect the physics and look of things, and the default is a bit high for pix er l art but decent for high res sprites.

Just try to think of it as being entirely separate from the rest of the scene. If you need to see how it looks with the game world look at the game view.

[muted night]

Why can't maps make themselves

[lean estuary]

Yes they can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdCgi9E90jw

[muted night]

I'll trt this and answer in 2 Hours when i figure it out

Already back

Don't want to be mean it looks cool but i don't think it'll help me

[lean estuary]

Might need a few more hours to figure it out. Some resources. https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

[spark kiln]

Using the PSD Importer to have a character in my game. I'm trying to create a shader outline around the character sprites but it's being cut off by the tight mesh around the sprites, which is expected. However, the "Extrude Edges" value that would presumably solve this does absolutely nothing? Is it broken or am I missing something?

Can't find anything on this

[still tendon]

Rigidbody constraints

[edgy pecan]

hi guys, can i ask isometric tile grid questions in herE?

[solemn latch]

Probably.

[edgy pecan]

I'm struggling to understanding the height level for isometric tiles, ive followed youtube guide and done some reading but i can't understand that part ive cirlced in red, im drawing those tiles on the same z axis but they dont look like they are on the 'ground' level which i hve labeled

[granite parcel]

how can i make these not random and in order i tried to sort them but when i reloaded the game they were just random

[amber slate]

how do i resize the logo?

[modest cargo]

You can tweak some of its appearance in Project Settings>Player>Splash Image
But not by much
You'd have to get a premium licence of unity for full control over it

[amber slate]

oh

very sad

[weak tulip]

Hello everybody, does anybody know to fix this issue im having with ui overlaping itself

[weak tulip]

?

[neon onyx]

Hi, how can I make good 2d pivot points on my character? My character looks like this right now:

[still tendon]

i made my 2d tileset and now export in unity ,now i tryy to paint the pixel is not fitting on grid , what should i do

[elfin sandal]

Does the tile class have an update method?

I want to animate tile transforms

How does tilebase.getanimationdata get called? Can i use that for custom animations?

[elfin sandal]

Is everything about tilemap's code just kept secret?

[solemn latch]

There is documentation, it just isn't very good from what I recall.

[solemn latch]

I'm not quite sure what you would consider to be good?

[elfin sandal]

i know they show some functions but there's not enough to make a customized tilemap

gotta do a bunch of work arounds

[solemn latch]

You have read through https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.html presumably

[elfin sandal]

yea

[fallen forum]

Anybody know why the transparency of this png looks so different in the actual image compared to the Image on the Canvas?

the glow looks super blown-out on the canvas image

[tawdry tiger]

A question for everyone, can you name me an app with which I can draw 2D figures?

[frozen grove]

does anyone know how i can get frames from blender and turn them into a 2D animation?

[zenith garden]

hi :). sorry for the message if its already solved. you can lock axes of objects in unity. if you lock the x axes, it should no longer flip

[still tendon]

ok thx

[elfin sandal]

I'm trying to register tile posititions in a monobehavior so they can be edited during runtime
with the tilemap
but the array keeps getting reset when the game starts
here's my scripts
https://hatebin.com/zrseusaqvy
https://hatebin.com/eypjwtriiq

public void RegisterTile(Vector3Int tilepos, int Index)
    {
        TilePositions = new Vector3Int[1];
        TilePositions[0] = tilepos;
        print("registering tile at " + tilepos + " at index " + Index);
    }

//this code does get called in paint while the game isn't running
//but when the game starts the monobehavior says there is no array

[tiny nest]

Can someone help with this?

[cobalt raptor]

you need to modify the pivot of the sprite to align it to the grid

[tiny nest]

but does it take up 4 cells or does it only take 1 and be offset?

[cobalt raptor]

it only takes up one cell

but has a large sprite

if you want each corner to take up their own cell they need to be their own tiles

[tiny nest]

speaking of that, I can not select multiple tiles and put them down for some reason, I need to put them 1 by 1

Unless I'm doing it wrong

[cobalt raptor]

when selecting in the palette you can click and drag to select a range of tiles to place

[tiny nest]

so for that, I set the sprite type to multiple and then I add them all into the palette?

[cobalt raptor]

that is one way to do it, yes

[tiny nest]

there is another?

[cobalt raptor]

that is the easiest way to do it, I should say

yes, do that

[tiny nest]

is there a more complicated but better for long term way?

[cobalt raptor]

no, that's fine

[tiny nest]

alright then

let me try

but wait, I can't select the object as one without selecting 4

[cobalt raptor]

correct

[tiny nest]

and there is no way to fix that?

[cobalt raptor]

only by making it a single tile

[tiny nest]

well it currently works

[cobalt raptor]

👍

[tiny nest]

well you know beds in minecraft? where you put one block of the bed down and it sets down another? how would this translate to this?

[cobalt raptor]

you can build a custom brush script that would do something like that

[tiny nest]

and would that make it not have this much clutter for 1 block?

[cobalt raptor]

no, the clutter would be there in the assets, it would just be handled by a script

the other way to do this is to make your tile have a 2x2 sprite and a 2x2 collider

and offset the pivot so it lines up

collision-wise it would be the same

[tiny nest]

makes sense, but it wouldn't be directly related to the tilemap object

[cobalt raptor]

not sure what you mean

[tiny nest]

like I would have to parent the sprite to the tilemap object instead of it being a brush on a palette

[cobalt raptor]

that shouldn't be necessary

[tiny nest]

I see

oh btw, do you have any tips for me to organize my assets?

[tiny nest]

like should this need a folder?

or can I set some sort of "group" instead of a full on folder?

[cobalt raptor]

that is totally up to you how you want to organize it

[tiny nest]

I see, thank you Mad.

could I ping you another day if I have questions?

[cobalt raptor]

I'm not on frequently these days

best to ask the channel

[tiny nest]

ah

alright then, thank you anyway

[elfin sandal]

Anyone have any suggestions for this problem?

[fading tusk]

does the 2d animation it not support root bones?

[solemn latch]

It does support root motion. The root is the actual gameobject, not the bones.

[worn zealot]

You CAN programmatically assign a 2d bone as the 'root' but it is a convoluted process.

[remote sapphire]

Hi i have a question. I tried to make a endless runner with tile palette. I set the start position to the end of the old map part but whenever I want to paint a new platform the position changes );

How to fix that?

I set the position of the folder from this (LevelPart1) to the end but after I paint something it changes ):

pls ping for answer and tell if more information/pictures are needed

[charred spoke]

Hi i was trying to get auto tiling and i dont know how to create the rule tile, as the unity manual says Create > Tiles, now, wheres is "Tiles"?

[elfin sandal]

Download 2d extras

[modest furnace]

So I'm relatively proficient in Photoshop/Illustrator, but every video I've seen of game devs drawing 2d sprites, always uses some software specifically meant for that. What is that software called? I know I've seen it recommended somewhere but don't remember the name. I don't know if this is the one but see the picture for a screengrab of the software from a video I watched.

Second, I'm assuming a lot of these designers are also proficient in PS/Illustrator yet they still choose to use it, so I assume there is a reason for it so I'm not wrong in probably switching to it?

Thanks!

[fiery crown]

#archived-game-design message
I have no idea myself, but saw this.

Nvm, it's not for sprites in general, sorry.

[modest cargo]

This is called Aseprite
It's pretty cheap but there's also a free, less complete version of it by the name of Libresprite

PS and Illustrator are quite painful to use even if you're proficient with them, and weren't designed with pixel art in mind

[dreamy dune]

Ñ

😱

[strong zodiac]

Hi, could someone help me with a problem? When I go to a certain part of my tilemap it doesn't appear (even tough nothing is being changed, nothing get's disabled or change layers or change Z position). It only happens when I try to use a multiscene workflow, but if I put the tilemap on the base scene (the one with the player, camera, etc) it never disappears

[spring grotto]

I can’t find a good movement script I’ve tried to make my own but I took a break for 5 or so months and lost my scripts anyone have a good working movement script for 2d

[tiny nest]

There's the tarodev one but it doesn't use unity's physics system I think

[tiny nest]

I am using a tilemap here, and the collider isn't smooth, how do I fix this?

[tiny nest]

Anyone?

[charred spoke]

it is downloaded

[tiny nest]

You can also compile Aseprite's source code which sounds much more complicated than it is, you get all the functionality but give up auto update

[modest cargo]

Sure, I just don't want people to come complaining to me when they get stuck with the process 😄

[modest cargo]

The polygon colliders get their shape from the "physics shape" as defined by the sprite editor
You can tweak or regenerate the shape to be more favourable from there

[tiny nest]

I tried but it didn't budge. Was thinking of using a polygon collider but that will make me need to make a separate tilemap for slanted tiles exclusively

And even then, I'm trying to find a way to make the player controller not cause me to slide on them but instead tilt the player to tres the slanted tiles as normal horizontal ones, similar to how Strike Force Heroes 3 does it

this should probably go in #💻┃code-beginner

[tiny nest]

I'll go there, but I need to know what to do with this

[modest cargo]

Right, I think I meant tilemap collider since that would use the physics shape as well

[still tendon]

Any tips for making sprites look better? I'm trying to make a mobile game and they don't look good.

[worn zealot]

Those look the same to me.

[spring grotto]

Try using square box colliders and rotate them and shrink them to the correct size

[tiny nest]

Yes but still it will make me have to put it on a separate tilemap with no tilemap collider on it

[spring grotto]

Oh

[tiny nest]

I've tried to put them on a separate tilemap and gave it both a tilemap collider and a composite collider, better results, still bad and unreliable

[sharp apex]

@still tendon You could try to import the SVG package and make all the UI buttons as vector graphics. As for the sprites, ensure you follow the recommended setting guidelines for mobile...

[rich saddle]

Need help, when start playing on the phone, the textures become very blurred, how to fix it?

[still tendon]

Where can I find the recommended setting guidelines for mobile?

[jaunty girder]

i am getting these transparent parts while making a tile map

how do i prevent that

i am also completely new to unity but i used unreal for 3 years

[modest cargo]

If you want to layer multiple tiles, you would need multiple overlapping tilemaps

[jaunty girder]

i did at the left panel

[modest cargo]

Are you sure you're drawing the surfaces and background on separate layers, and that the grey area is transparency on the sprite sheet?

[jaunty girder]

Grey area is the world color so it is transparent

I dont use background

As a image

Its a tile map as well

I shouldnt do it like that probably

[solemn latch]

Unity does transparency using alpha channels unless you are using a custom shader.

[jaunty girder]

It is alpha masked

yeah i made it

after i restarted it worked

[raw flax]

hi there ! I have an issue with my tiles. I put a collider on my tiles and the ground is flat. My player can only move horizontal, but sometimes he do a little jump without reason. Someon can help me ?

[old beacon]

hey im trying to make a terraria resource pack for the first time in aseprite and 1 pixel on the sprites in the game are 4 times the normal size so i thought i should scale the sprite down to 25% but it just made the resolution worse. Any suggestions?

[old beacon]

nvm

[maiden moat]

Hi all, I'm trying to update a sprite sheet in my project (I usually do so by replacing the file so that I keep my existing sprite references).

Whilst trying to slice the new tiles, I noticed that 4 tiles (the dark grey ones to the right) cannot be detected normally. They are only included when I ask to "Keep Empty Rects". Does anyone know why this happens and if there's a fix for this? Feel free to @ me here where necessary, thanks!

[maiden moat]

Additional Info: I've found that I am unable to manually slice new rects as well, drawing a new rect anywhere on this sprite sheet simply selects the tile titled "DungeonTiles_113"

I should also note that I faced this issue last night and brute forced a fix by ticking "Keep Empty Rects" and deleting the actual empty rects. This resulted in index gaps between tiles (e.g. DungeonTiles_113 jumps to DungeonTiles_200)

Edit 1: Reimporting all assets has not fixed the issue, will try upgrading from 2021.3.1f1 to 2021.3.4f1 next

[solemn latch]

What are your slicing settings?

[maiden moat]

I've also tried the "Safe" method to no avail

I've also tried Cell By Cell Count, no good either

I added a test tile (bottom right) to see if it would change anything. The Sprite Editor sliced the new tile for me, but ignored the problematic tiles.

[solemn latch]

Odd. Is there anything weird about the alpha channel for those tiles or something?

[maiden moat]

I don't believe so, every pixel is either 255 or 0 for the alpha value

It seems that the coordinates are blacklisted or something, I copied over an existing sprite to one of the tile coords and it's not recognised either

This seems to be an isolated issue, I'm able to draw new rects in other sprite sheets

I'm thinking that something is wrong with the .meta file for this asset, but I'm not sure how to delve deeper

Might try deleting the .meta file as a last resort, but that's quite undesirable as slicing the sheet from scratch will rearrange some sprite names. This will mess up my rule tiles.

[maiden moat]

Update: I deleted every sprite reference not in use (I've only used sprites from a safe state so far) and resliced the sheet. Everything seems to be ok now. When I checked the .meta file before this, I noticed numerous ghost references to sprites that I deleted when I brute forced the "Keep Empty Rects" method (see reply for info). I suspect that those ghost references somehow interfered with the slicing.

I'm also able to slice manually now, so that's neat!

Thanks for the help Pinballkitty!

[solemn latch]

Ah, good!

[cerulean condor]

how do i change opacity of a sprite shape?

[coarse sparrow]

uh so

you see where it says "A" in the Color panel

that slider controls opacity

@cerulean condor ^^^^

hope it helps

[cerulean condor]

i mean i showed the screenshot like this because

that's what i did

i set "A" to 0 and it didn't make it invisible

[coarse sparrow]

oh what

thats really weird hmm

maybe another solution could be just turning the spriterenderer off

[solemn latch]

Are you using a material with vertex colors?

[cerulean condor]

what's that?

i'm using unity's sprite shape so i dunno if it would use vertex colors

[solemn latch]

In the Spriteshape you add materials.

And in the material you choose what shader to use

Most sprite materials have vertex colors enabled and that is what the color property of the renderer sets

[solemn latch]

But most others don't

[neon matrix]

not sure where i ask this

but like i added an ms paint sprite

as a placeholder

the thing is,

it's much bigger than the default square sprite

when i loaded it in

it just outfit the collider by like a lot

i was wondering if there were any other ways to

fix this

other than by changing the scale

[cerulean condor]

late reply so in the pic i provided, the alpha channel is the only one ignored, otherwise changing the RGB value does change the color of the sprite

so i guess it is a material with vertex colors?

[solemn latch]

And it is a transparent shader?

[solemn latch]

@neon matrixIn the import settings you can change the pixels per unit

[neon matrix]

import settings?

[solemn latch]

For the sprite

[neon matrix]

this place?

[solemn latch]

It does say pixels per unit there, right? I can literally see it in your screenshot.

[neon matrix]

yeah it's just

wait "import settings" right there

lol i can't read

[cerulean condor]

which shader do i pick?

cause these are the shaders i got

[solemn latch]

Hm, if you're using that material you should be fine. Very strange.

What renderer are you using?

[cerulean condor]

given it uses lit, Universal Render Pipeline

[solemn latch]

I was making sure that you weren't trying to use a urp material in built-in.

I've not actually tried sprite shape with the 2d renderer

Wonder if there's a bug.

[cerulean condor]

from what i saw in 2018

yes

the info is confusing

because it implied that alpha channel wouldn't work at all

but i tried a non spriteshape sprite

and its alpha channel worked

[solemn latch]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/spriteshape-alpha-value-of-color-not-working-unity-2021-2-7f1-spriteshape-7-0-3.1245676/

I don't use the 2d renderer because it is shit

So I wasn't aware of the problem offhand

[spiral monolith]

fix?

[spiral monolith]

like

see through

now i have a new problem

why is it all pink now

[surreal valve]

it would help if we know what was wrong

what is it supposed to look like

[spiral monolith]

uh not that

[surreal valve]

that isn’t helpful

if you cant even tell us what its supposed to look like, how can we help?

what even is it

[spiral monolith]

green

[spiral monolith]

green grass top view

[surreal valve]

is it a tilemap?

[spiral monolith]

ye

[tiny nest]

is it possible to add multiple polygon colliders on 1 tilemap? it appears to me as no

[tiny nest]

if you deleted something off your object palette, it gets deleted on the scene and is replaced with a pink color to distinguish it

[surreal valve]

maybe your scaling is wrong

[tiny nest]

and are there and possible workarounds for this? the tilemap collider doesn't work well with the slanted objects I had

[tiny nest]

?

@surreal valve explain?

[spiral monolith]

uh i never deleted the plaette

[tiny nest]

I think it must either have something to do with that OR it has to do with your render pipeline

[tiny nest]

Can anyone help me with this?

[spiral monolith]

ok

[cerulean condor]

yeah i saw that post so i was hoping the fix came after that, guess not

[solemn latch]

Well, they seem to have a kindasorta fix posted, though obviously I can't test it

At least you know it is a known issue

[cerulean condor]

what version did they put the fix?

[solemn latch]

in the forum post

[solemn latch]

Grr, the 'apply' button is instead 'reverting' randomly. It throws this error when it happens: ```ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException (System.ExceptionArgument argument, System.ExceptionResource resource) (at <695d1cc93cca45069c528c15c9fdd749>:0)
System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException () (at <695d1cc93cca45069c528c15c9fdd749>:0)
UnityEditor.U2D.Animation.MeshCache.GetWeight (System.Int32 index) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.2d.animation@5.0.4/Editor/SkinningModule/SkinningCache/MeshCache.cs:87)
UnityEditor.U2D.Animation.SpriteMeshDataController.GetMultiEditChannelData (UnityEditor.U2D.Animation.ISelection`1[T] selection, System.Int32 channel, System.Boolean& enabled, System.Int32& boneIndex, System.Single& weight, System.Boolean& isEnabledMixed, System.Boolean& isBoneIndexMixed, System.Boolean& isWeightMixed) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.2d.animation@5.0.4/Editor/SkinningModule/SpriteMeshData/SpriteMeshDataController.cs:419)
UnityEditor.U2D.Animation.WeightInspector.ChannelsGUI () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.2d.animation@5.0.4/Editor/SkinningModule/IMGUI/WeightInspector.cs:58)
UnityEditor.U2D.Animation.WeightInspector.OnInspectorGUI () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.2d.animation@5.0.4/Editor/SkinningModule/IMGUI/WeightInspector.cs:40)
UnityEditor.U2D.Animation.WeightInspectorIMGUIPanel.OnGUI () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.2d.animation@5.0.4/Editor/SkinningModule/UI/WeightInspectorIMGUIPanel.cs:41)
UnityEngine.UIElements.IMGUIContainer.DoOnGUI (UnityEngine.Event evt, UnityEngine.Matrix4x4 parentTransform, UnityEngine.Rect clippingRect, System.Boolean isComputingLayout, UnityEngine.Rect layoutSize, System.Action onGUIHandler, System.Boolean canAffectFocus) (at <6aef74cd6e9c4a708ea4a51c97de39d4>:0)
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallUpdateFunctions()

In the sprite editor.

[light elk]

hey @solemn latch you know does unity 2D animation package have sprite deformation?

[modest cargo]

That's exactly what it does
Shouldn't be too hard to read the docs

[modest cargo]

Time to report a bug, perhaps
Fortunately they're still actively working on 2D tools over there

[light elk]

well it looks the tech release have it not the lts 2021?

[solemn latch]

Literally the point of the package.

[old dust]

could anyone help me with the pixel-perfect camera component because it keeps talking about the odd number resolution

Does anyone know how to fix it

please ping me if you do answer

[solemn latch]

Don't use an odd-numbered resolution for your camera.

[old dust]

...how do i make it..not odd

[solemn latch]

SO FRUSTRATING

This didn't happen at all in my last project and it is happening over and over tonight

[solemn latch]

https://i.imgur.com/WxU0w7J.mp4

Look at this crap

Happens at 00:26

[solemn latch]

<@&502884371011731486>

[solemn latch]

It shouldn't have too many problems.

You can combine multiple sprites into a layer group which makes it a lot easier to do that kinda thing

[distant swallow]

Idea came to mind: create a set of objects from an inscription
Script from the texture of the second camera looks for the color of the pixel, if black, then creates an object for it. How would you do it differently?

[solemn latch]

I suppose it depends on your ultimate goal

[viral gorge]

Guys.

How do I resize the grids to fit my sprite size?

This image is originally 16x16 or 32x32

How to draw them on grid?

[opaque summit]

Have you considered using a tilemap and making a palette for your sprites?

Using a tilemap allows you to draw in a grid

[viral gorge]

How again?

I haven't used unity in a while.

[opaque summit]

I don't have unity open but

in the hierarchy

If you right click and go into 2d, you will have an option to use tilemaps and then rectangular

And if you press on your sprite image you should be able to resize them to their proper pixel size. So the default size is 100 for every sprite but you can put it back down to 32 or 16

Unless your sprites are very tiny in the first place then keep it at 100

[viral gorge]

Why does my character spawn on air?

[modest cargo]

I think you're in a better position to investigate that problem than we are

[viral gorge]

Wait @modest cargo

[modest cargo]

I am stopped dead in my tracks

[sick mauve]

Hello, I am loving the ability of the Sprite Editor to provide custom physics for my tiles. I have a lot of custom physics to provide, as the automatic system doesn't like the sloped floors of the pixel art I am using. That's fine, I don't mind drawing physics BUT I find it tedious to have to limit myself to 1 cell at a time. I have 512x512 tilesets set to "Multiple" and then Split by 32x32 chunks. The sloped floors take up many tiles and it's a bit tedious to draw physics in individual cells, then attempt to match them up to their neighbors.

What I want is to be able to draw the physics across multiple tiles at once, and have the system automatically split this up according the splice pattern. Is this possible?

EDIT: I am ok with 3rd party tools. If it is not possible, I am considering writing a program capable of splitting one set of physicsShape data in the .meta file of a texture set to Single mode, then copy that data over into many physicsShape data sets for each tile in a .meta file of a texture set to Multiple mode.

[solemn latch]

That third option sounds really useful! If you do it please let us know

[sick mauve]

I will try! I can't promise it wouldn't be command line and super hacky!

[sick mauve]

I like the idea of having to solve that programming challenge. Very leetcode 😄

[solemn latch]

Can't be worse than my failed attempts to add modules to the sprite editor

[light elk]

is unity learn or the blog for learning the 2D animation good enough or suggest some kind of other resources?

[solemn latch]

The manual

Because there is a lot that the 'learn' stuff doesn't cover, or which is out of date.

[tranquil sierra]

is there an easier way to copy the collisions for all of the top bits to the bottom bits?
edit: ive made a macro to where it clicks paste every time i press the V key

[crude matrix]

Anyone used the 2D animation package? Why is Sprite Resolver component always greyed out?

I am following the docs but cannot change the category

[crude matrix]

Actually I just realized I forgot to add the Sprite Library component. I'll double check tomorrow.

[solemn latch]

I really hate what they did with sprite resolver

So pointlessly bad

[modest cargo]

<@&502884371011731486>

[abstract olive]

@supple talon There's no off topic/advertising in this discord.

[rich iron]

I just updated my editor version to 2021 LTS from 2020 LTS, and my tile palette has changed grid size somehow. How do I get this back to having square grid cells?

[golden root]

How do I generate Normal Maps from my art so I can use the 2D Lights to bring about depth? Does this even apply for pixel art?

[elfin sandal]

You have ro do it manually

Look up sprite illuminator

[still tendon]

hey all, I'm learning a bunch of different stuff from Unity lately, I got a couple months experience of Unreal and less with Unity but, never rigged a 2D character so I'm trying that, I can't even find anywhere on the internet for the solution to my problem it's weird. Image sums it up, the packages are locked, I unlock and they keep locking back up. It's a 2D empty project, so I'm not sure what's wrong. I updated versions too from 2021.3.4f1 to 2021.3.5f1, when I did, I think the PSD Importer wasn't locking itself but 2D animation and others were, even with PSD importer unlocked I still couldn't get all those things, to create bones and all that to try out. thanks in advance ^^

[short furnace]

any pixel art programs where i can copy paste images

[solemn latch]

Does the image have a .psb file extension?

Despite the name, the PSD importer package only works with PSB files.

[still tendon]

Oh that worked exactly as I expected now it all makes sense lol thank you ;w; not sure how I missed that

[solemn latch]

Yeah, the package is poorly named.

[hoary temple]

hi im just wondering which apps are u using guys for pixel arts

[modest cargo]

@short furnace @hoary temple Aseprite, or Libresprite if you don't want to pay

[hoary temple]

i bought aseprite but i was just wondering what are u using

[modest cargo]

I can safely say that Aseprite is wiping the floor with all of the competition 😄

[hoary temple]

yeah i think the same way its easy to use and have every single tool

[short furnace]

alr

[modest cargo]

Collab offers belong in the forums as per #📖┃code-of-conduct

[gray juniper]

Salute

[abstract olive]

You've already been told twice before that job and collaboration posts don't belong here. 🤔

[gray juniper]

This time it was about a question I have

[abstract olive]

Then just ask your question and anyone can answer. #854851968446365696 on how to ask a proper question in this discord.

[gray juniper]

Don’t ask to ask

Yeah yeah I’m familiar with this

I’m looking for a good pixel art designing application - I prefer free.
Any ideas?

[modest cargo]

You can scroll up a bit there was just a discussion about that topic

[gray juniper]

Yeah I just say that

[neon matrix]

any way to set default import settings for images?

rn i have to set all my images to the point filter

like by hand

[still tendon]

Anyone know what could cause my sprite to be of angle to the tilemap?

i made the sprite with guidelines of 60 degrees

which should be correct, for what i know

[abstract olive]

Is that the angle your art is using? Because to me it seems to be 45.

[still tendon]

I followed a guide to setup gridguides in Gimp, and it said that isometric should be 60 degrees either way to end up with guides that look like this

im not a 2d guy, so i dont know if that completely wrong

[fresh nymph]

Good afternoon guys, I need a little help, what happens is that I want to perfectly join these 2 sprites and I can't find how, if I do it manually, there is always an edge of the collider that makes my character fall. What can I do with this?

[neon matrix]

any way to set default import settings for images?
rn i have to set all my images to the point filter
like by hand

[fresh nymph]

To auto-select sprites?

[neon matrix]

sorry, i don't really get what you mean by that?

[sick mauve]

I noticed some folks talking about paying for Asesprite. I feel it needs to be said paying for Asesprite is totally optional. It's open source and you can build it yourself. There are tutorials online to help you do so.

[solemn latch]

Well, someone has to pay or development will stop 😄

[sage prairie]

#💻┃unity-talk

[nocturne plank]

Hi i wanted to add and animate little running alpaca in my main menu screen

if i place the alpaca in canvas its invisible but if i place it outside of canvas its also invisible

i cant place it as image in canvas as it's prefab imported with .psb

how can i make it visible?

she is in front of everything

ahaaaa!!! render mode world space on canvas!!

nope it broke the canvas

ok, it has to be screen space camera

[frail halo]

So when you create a Custom Rule tile, it has a variable named customField (or something, i don't remember exactly) but, is there a way to ACCESS it from a script?

[sick mauve]

Of course of course, and I hope many continue to pay. I think many will pay for the convenience, I just wanted it stated for all those folks struggling financially on budget less projects. I toiled like that for years

[modest cargo]

That's why I also recommend Libreoffice, even though I think Aseprite deserves every penny
Usually the ones who ask are total newbs, and I don't want to send them to do something as complex as software compilation
Next they'd be in need of tech support

[sick mauve]

Fair point!

[leaden sky]

anyone using inkscape. How can I preserve the size of objects? I mean if I import a background to inkscape of 1920x1080 it will be a lot bigger. I want to sort of use the same units as in Unity .

[solemn latch]

You set the pixels per unit in the importer settings.

[leaden sky]

thanks. I got confused as I tried to import to inkscape and the image got larger, found a setting for that. And then I think I now have the same px dimensions in inkscape and unity importer.

[tranquil basin]

Hello, I have a tilemap on a grid that is set up as isometric Z as Y. I was wondering if there’s any way to rotate the entire tilemap at 90 degree intervals

[tawdry fractal]

Hello, could someone help me, is there a way in unity 2d to make it so light doesn't go through walls? Thank you

[lost cedar]

use the universal render pipeline

[hollow crown]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@14.0/manual/2DShadows.html

[tawdry fractal]

I am using it

its just that the light bleeds through walls

[lost cedar]

oh

then change the Shadow Opacity to 1

in the light settings

ah wait i think i know what the problem is

you are using a tilemap?

[tawdry fractal]

Ye

[lost cedar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzJ5QIy-klM

basically

make sure the material is sprite-lit-default and not sprite-default for the tilemap that should cast shadows

[tawdry fractal]

It already is

My tilemaps already have that material :(

[lost cedar]

oh

[tawdry fractal]

its just that the light goes past the wall, I want it to stop before it

or at it I guess

[lost cedar]

well what i did was i basically just wrote a custom shadow caster :/

[tawdry fractal]

I see

[lost cedar]

https://pastebin.com/CFUGt0NA

this is the code

the best settings are already set as the defaults

[tawdry fractal]

I use it as a shadow caster?

[lost cedar]

it also tells you if there is something within your view
just have to set the target layer

sort of

put it only on the lights that cast shadows

for point lights use 360°
for flashlight type lights use anything from 0 to 180 (or any value really)

[tawdry fractal]

I get two errors

[lost cedar]

ah my bad

[tawdry fractal]

All good

[lost cedar]

yea, for the errors that are tied to the data, you have to use your own values, but basically I think the only value that you need to use is the range of the light
so just delete the LiveData data and the Init() void

it runs on the cpu so be careful to not use too many instances of the script tho
i made it mainly only for my player's flashlight

[tawdry fractal]

I see

Im creating variables for viewrange and viewangle now

[lost cedar]

i also suggest to use a gameobject pooler if you wanna have more of them, so only the close ones are active

[tawdry fractal]

this is how I have it

[lost cedar]

ah yes

i forgot it's quite complicated '-'