🛠️┃probuilder

[young vapor]

whats not working?

[barren oasis]

thew window isnt like in the tutorial

u get different width

[young vapor]

also you should never stretch meshes

always extrude

[barren oasis]

doesnt matter

this is for this example

[young vapor]

wdym the width is different

[barren oasis]

u saw the window

[barren oasis]

hi

tel;l; me whyu he gets a perfect window

and I dont

[young vapor]

huh what does your look like instead then? you showed me a completely different object

btw you can also just give loopcuts/edgeloop a try that might work better

[barren oasis]

the window frames

are different sizes

on both sides

unlike in the tutorial

[young vapor]

idk show me what yours looks like

[barren oasis]

in my last video

u didnt watch it

[young vapor]

you showed a different object

[barren oasis]

yes

good I did

it shows the same issue

[young vapor]

the shapes are different

idk this stretching method I dont use it much like this, just use edgeloops and call it a day

the edges loops dont care about widths they always come out symmetrical

using stretch mode, if your outer wall is different size than inner wall its gonna give that issue idk why its different than video, it looks old as shit, im not surprised if something changed

[barren oasis]

then why dotn theyt ciome out symmetrical

:?"

on my house

@navoro

@young vapor

[barren oasis]

i wait for u

[young vapor]

like I said I'm not sure , so use Edge Loops Instead?

[barren oasis]

I dont use unity for building anymore

it's crap

[knotty marsh]

you are not selecting both faces it seems

[barren oasis]

do u know why this is?

[knotty marsh]

you have 2 verticies in eachother, and grabbed one of them

[barren oasis]

why do i have 2?

[knotty marsh]

you can select both of them and do SHIFT + drag while in Xray mode select and press M to merge by distance

I believe it was

[barren oasis]

I created a plane

[knotty marsh]

also you can just select all 4 verticies and press F to fill btw

[barren oasis]

shouldnt have more than 4

[knotty marsh]

correct, what makes you think it has more than 4? you may have extruded a vertex on accident

[barren oasis]

i tyryh moving one

to the corner

[knotty marsh]

you can merge them or select all 4 of the vertices you want to fill and press F

[barren oasis]

why is it that only the top vertecies have this issue?:

[knotty marsh]

you most likely extruded them on accident

SHIFT + D does that

[haughty sonnet]

you stopped using probuilder because its crap and now you have the same issues in blender?
also why are you asking blender questions in the probuilder channel. there is #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[forest vortex]

There's !blender

[rustic mauve]

A supportive community for Blender artists of all levels. Share your work, ask for help, and learn from others! https://discord.com/invite/blender

[barren oasis]

yes, I quit NoobBuilder

[knotty marsh]

yes you should probably ask in a blender server but this is an easy fix which I told you how to fix already

[forest vortex]

And it looks like they already have at the same time as here, and also arguing there as well instead of providing information.

[knotty marsh]

they asked in the blender discord? why ask here then, that's what I don't get

did I not give them the answer to their question as well?

[barren oasis]

Is there no probuilder window in Unity 6?

Oh its in the tool bar

That sucks (Really bad)

[supple saddle]

i hate the new version lol

[barren oasis]

Me too, it’s awful

[young vapor]

there was no reason to touch it but the devs insist that "its better trust me bro" attitude its kinda annoying. Almost like bruh we use this shit every day now, you don't

[sage sinew]

Hey so I want to make curved pathways for my horror game with pro builder. Is it possible in pro builder? if so how can I do it?

[young vapor]

what kind of curved pathways

there are many ways to make curved paths

[sage sinew]

Like when your in a forest and there are different path ways to take

it kind of curves

[young vapor]

that depends, most of those are terrains

and you would just sculpt the path

[sage sinew]

with poly brush?

[young vapor]

yes or terrain asset

[sage sinew]

so its not possible to make it in pro builder?

[young vapor]

it is but thats better if you want to make a solid ground path type thing

like a brick road or something

[sage sinew]

oh

[young vapor]

just extrude and set the origin to Center

[sage sinew]

alright thanks

[nimble steppe]

Why doesn't uv appear?

[haughty sonnet]

have you selected a face in the face mode?

[nimble steppe]

I already solve it , thanks to

[green jacinth]

I'd like to set my probuilder model's pivot to another arbitrary unity transform. (I can get it close, selecting vertices nearby and doing a "set pivot to selection" but it's not perfect, I could do it if I could select a single vertex, position it where I want the pivot, and then setting a pivot, but I also don't know how to add a "loose" vertex to my model just for the sake of setting the pivot?

[nimble steppe]

How i can do this with my Probuilder? ||Credits to LemonMaster66||

[green jacinth]

you import your floorplan as a texture, put it on a plane or quad and make a polyshape over it. like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBOBgfcTgY

but I think it's easier to extend boxes over your floor map and then invert normals like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AssT4YGgE3g

[nimble steppe]

tysm

[acoustic quarry]

Hello, how do you edit an existing game object?

I want to edit Y measurement of my object

I'm working with Unity 2021.3.42f1

nvm I figured it out

[young vapor]

Hey guys, if you're having issues with pivot not being at the corner vertex even though you selected (first vertex) or the texture is not aligned because of it. Its a current bug I reported in PB 6
https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/probuilder-shape-pivot-location-is-always-in-the-center-when-the-pivot-is-set-to-first-vertex-and-a-shape-is-placed-while-holding-shift

[pulsar roost]

Is there a way to add more.. cuts (?) in this place? I want it to be smooth and curvy

[knotty marsh]

yes, use loop cuts
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@4.0/manual/Edge_InsertLoop.html

[pulsar roost]

I know there are loop cuts, but I want this place to get curvy. If I add more loop cuts, I may have to position them manually

[knotty marsh]

you could make a loop cut in the middle and drag it out and bevel the edges, although I do not know if it works like blender 🤔
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@4.2/manual/Edge_Bevel.html

hm, I guess it does not create curved surfaces

[pulsar roost]

Is there any other way?

[knotty marsh]

I do not know any other easy way using probuilder other than loop cuts and or Blender

you could probably find an asset which deals with bezier curves and can extrude meshes onto them, or write your own (Probuilder does have a beziercurve function but you cannot change the shape I believe)

[hollow gust]

Wait wtf, there's no specific window for all the Probuilder Tools anymore?

Have there been any updates to Probuilder that makes cutting out shapes from existing shapes easier? That's probably the one feature that's really missing for me in PB.

RealtimeCSG has it, but I don't think it's been updated in a while.

[barren oasis]

Yes, probuilder is basically now built into the tool bar when you install it

[young vapor]

Boolean Operation, although its still considered "Experimental"

[sage sinew]

Hey I want to add blood on the floor and walls. could I do it with poly brush if so how?

[young vapor]

better off using decal projectors

[sage sinew]

what are decal projectors?

[young vapor]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/urp/renderer-feature-decal.html

[sage sinew]

just watched some videos about it and my god!!!

never knew this existed lol

thanks!!!

going to enjoy this 😎

@young vapor Just tested this out and its amazing thanks!

[young vapor]

one of those better be mine 😛 jk

[sage sinew]

can I have loads of them?

will it drop my fps?

[young vapor]

make sure to check GPU instancing

[sage sinew]

of course I will be using occlusion culling later on

[sage sinew]

whats that and how?

[young vapor]

its a checkbox, probably collapsed in the Advanced settings of the decal project or shader/material

[sage sinew]

is this bad?

[young vapor]

hmm try restart unity as it says

[sage sinew]

I will

[young vapor]

i think its trying to reduce all the ones you have to 1

[sage sinew]

thanks for telling me about decal projector. I have so many ideas, can't choose one lmao

[sage sinew]

I restarted it and its fixed thanks!

@young vapor do you know where I can get free blood decals?

[young vapor]

I usually cut / photoshop my own

internet is full of blod splats and stuff you just have to remove their bg , now days is easy af with those ai things too

[sage sinew]

so I can just get a blood splatter thats a png?

[young vapor]

yup you can use any png file just set up transparency correctly

[sage sinew]

@young vapor hey I have a decal on my door it has a open slide animation. How can I make the decal stick to it? I tried to parent the decal to the door but this happens.

https://streamable.com/n5o6wu

[young vapor]

are the door and wall different layers? you could exclude the wall layer for that one

[sage sinew]

well the door has a layer called door

the wall doesn't have a layer just default

[young vapor]

so make that projector only project on door layer

otherwise try making the projection depth as small as possible so it tries going behind wall but its probably more jank

[sage sinew]

how?

[young vapor]

ah I think you have to use Rendering layers instead of regular layers

that should make it easier

[sage sinew]

what should I put the rendering layer as?

[sage sinew]

should I name the door as the same as the rendering layer in my decal projector?

[young vapor]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@16.0/manual/features/rendering-layers.html

check this first

[sage sinew]

I added the rendering layer now what?

I named it as the same layer as my doo

door

[young vapor]

did you read the page I sent

it describes the full process

[sage sinew]

yes still didn't work a bit confused

@young vapor never mind it WORKS!!!

just messed up the layers that all

[green jacinth]

I was able to reassign uv coordinates in the uv editor, it would show me the texture I would select my faces or vertices could snap and move them around, now all of a sudden my uv editor is blank, is there any common pitfalls or settings I can check?

[wet compass]

Hi guys
What should i do if Extrude Edges doesn't work? Shift + drag also doesn't extrude it.

[haughty sonnet]

submit a bug report

[wet compass]

did it send a report if it still asks me do i really want to close it?

[haughty sonnet]

probably not

[wet compass]

they have a bug in bug reporter, nice👍

[haughty sonnet]

time to report that as well 😭

[sage sinew]

@young vapor rendering layers are so fucking awesome and the decal projector itself. Just made this level for my game 😎

[young vapor]

Looks good 🔥 decals are awesome indeed

[kindred bone]

hi guys!

currently im using the Unity Probuilder right now, but i dont know how to divide object apart
such as above, im using extrude to created a "house" but now i want to spit them apart into 5 piece of walls
is there exist "sperate tool" in pro builder?
i really need helps, im a noob on modeling, Thanks!

@young vapor hi! can you help me? Really thanks!

[young vapor]

Hi, please don’t tag someone into your question who’s not actively helping you. It’s against server rules #📖┃code-of-conduct

With that being said, my suggestion would be to select the faces on each wall you want to separate as it’s own object and use the detach faces function.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@5.0/manual/Face_Detach.html

[kindred bone]

Okay, thanks for the help! i will being cautious next time!

So, is there any possible to delete the edge loop?

[sage sinew]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/possibility-to-delete-edge-loop/800683

[sage sinew]

I don't think you can delete an edge loop maybe I'm wrong idk I have never been in a situation where I wanted to delete an edge loop

[kindred bone]

Thank you!

This is the situation that i want to delete the edge loop

they are so ugly

how can i solve it?

[sage sinew]

I guess this is the only way 🤷 https://youtu.be/iswAk99GmtA?si=n_I1M3QSGwiqp3KS

[kindred bone]

Ok, thanks! but looks like probuilder still need to be updated, the functions of this tools are still not compeleted

if i want to do some advanced manual then i need to export my project into blender and do it in there

i cant just finished it unity

[sage sinew]

Yh I have faced some things that are annoying to deal with like when subdividing an object and on one side there are loads of vertices and on the other parts there are either none or less vertices.

[wise glade]

how do i stop the material from repeating after an edge in probuilder?

[inner oracle]

Probuilder 6: Insert Edge Loop - Grid and Snap = 0.25, Adding the first X and Y edges work fine but any consecutive additions are 'off' (by maybe 0.10) and will not snap to the desired grids, why is that?

[haughty sonnet]

use the UV editor

[sage sinew]

I am using decals to place these blood effects and how can I stop it from showing from the other side of the wall? If I reduce the projection depth it will not show anymore. I dont want to hide the decals on the walls as I need them to be on the wall not the other side as well.

https://streamable.com/0rw96y

I'm rotating it so it goes along the wall corners smoothly

[sage sinew]

@young vapor Sorry for bothering you, Do you know how to fix this? When adding to a decal on a wall how can I make it stop showing on the other side? I have rotated some decals so it smoothly blends on corners and I cant seem to stop it from showing on the other side of the wall and it looks ugly.

[lilac gust]

I'm running into a weird issue with tris counts in probuilder

I've got this subdivided plane that I'm using for a bit of terrain here

as it stands, the plane's mesh has about 608 triangles in it, a pretty low amount

However, in the game scene, for whatever reason this same plane is apparently responsible for about **9000 **triangles, over 10 times the amount in the mesh.

The scene with and without the plane enabled

This seems to be happening to a bunch of probuilder objects, and it's driving the polygon count to be way higher than it should be for a fairly low poly scene

Any ideas on what could be causing this?

[young vapor]

Not really a code question. What happened when you reduce the depth of projection?

[sage sinew]

When I reduce the depth of projection it doesn't show the decal where I want it to be and it stops showing on the other side

I need it to show where I want it to be and not show on the other side

[young vapor]

play around with the projection cube, I'm sure it just needs some fine tuning

[ocean sequoia]

https://i.imgur.com/8jYpwql.png
Any way to populate this with more tools? Looking to put on the Edge loop cut

Also Alt-U is such a terrible hotkey for it

[ocean sequoia]

Oh, you can right click for more options. Alright got it

[ocean sequoia]

Well, new bug in 6 it seems. After you brick your mesh by doing an invalid fill/cut/collapse operation, probuilder itself becomes unresponsive, even if you undo the operation.

[verbal ridge]

Anyone else having problem with say, combining gameobjects such as walls or floor, into one gameobject, and then put it to Static to have lighti bouncing of them, but it dosen't work :D?

[sage sinew]

Try probuilderizing your objects before merging

Just did a quick search that might help maybe 🧐

[fervent terrace]

ok i figured it out

[sage sinew]

When using probuilder it has either a text or icon display to make it easy for you

Here is a nice tutorial that's helpful @fervent terrace

[sage sinew]

https://youtu.be/YtzIXCKr8Wo?si=BD4l2ii5GtfOIVwB

[fervent terrace]

yeah thats one ive seen
1:40, the probuilder window option is not there

id send a pic but manjaro hates screenshots when a dropdown is open

[sage sinew]

You have to install it first..

[fervent terrace]

the TAB is there
some random probuilder options under a "probuilder" tab
but no window option

[sage sinew]

Take a picture

First of all let me ask what are you trying to do?

[fervent terrace]

h .

[sage sinew]

@fervent terrace

[fervent terrace]

convert a square edge into a rounded edge

[sage sinew]

You can't do that in pro builder

[sage sinew]

You should do that in blender

It's easy to do in blender

[fervent terrace]

that much i know

tho last time i asked a blender-adj question i just got told to use probuilder

[sage sinew]

Well it depends on what you're trying to make. If you're aiming to make something rounded the easiest/fast way is blender. But you can use the poly brush in unity to round edges if you want

[sage sinew]

Do you know how to use the poly brush tool?

[fervent terrace]

no

i just bevel'd the edges and called it a day

[sage sinew]

Here is a quick video I made of me using it making a cave. https://youtu.be/DERk9q-t9gk?si=fr8k827JFi8Buo1I

[fervent terrace]

am hhaving the issue rn of "how do i cut a hole in the thing" tho

• circular

[sage sinew]

I don't think you can

[fervent terrace]

pain

[sage sinew]

I think you can tbh

Just make a normal hole with loop cuts

And with the poly brush just smooth it out 🤷

That might work 🧐

[fervent terrace]

how do you do tjat

[sage sinew]

Make loop cuts on both sides of the object then select one of the faces and extrude it in then delete face then with the other face extrude it in as well but not all the way it then delete face

It's kind of hard to explain

I'm out right now when I come back I will show you if you haven't figured it out yet

[fervent terrace]

y4ah just tell me which button is the loop cut and ill prolly figure it out

cuz cant find it

[sage sinew]

It should say it in the probuilder window

If your using icons then I don't know

I use the text one

[haughty sonnet]

did you watch this? probuilder has changed in unity 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv4e8fH2kQs

[fervent terrace]

fogured it out

make a cylinder and boolean it up

[hushed bridge]

unity 6 just installed, im holding ctrl and its not snapping. any clues?

fixed by changing "local" to "global"

[hushed bridge]

Both of these are at the same height.. I click on one, scale it up whilst holding ctrl. I click the other, scale it up whilst holding ctrl. They aren't snapping to the same values even though they started at the same. Anyone know why?

One scales to 2.85 the other 2.80

Meanwhile both starting at .70

Recreated it, not sure what happened I think one of the probuilder shapes were made on a different axis or somethin

Ffs I hate building shit in unity, I take a floor. Copy it, move it up. And it's not at the top even though I've used ctrl this whole time

Perfect, copy paste it. move it up. ah yes

And probuilder in unity 6 sucks

I make this wall on this floor, ctrl+d move it over.

[visual niche]

Does anyone know the last version that was made before the unity 6 version

I cannot with this insufferable workflow. You cant even extrude edges anymore

Nevermind the last one with a window doesn't work with unity 6 anymore :(

[young vapor]

pretty sure it still works fine

yes the UI got funked but you get used to it

[visual niche]

Yeah I found out shortly after that you could right click for a quick context menu lol

I thought you had to manually go to the top bar and go through all the options

[crisp lichen]

probuilder masters: any way to easily construct the thing im trying to achieve?

i have my basic terrain hex. in addition to the central (grass) hex, i want to have six segments that come in two variations that i can turn on and off as needed:

• a sheer segment (like as seen at the bottom of the hex unit) that will be used in all cases unless
• the height difference of adjacent is one lower, in which case i will use the sloped segment

maybe a better explanation of what im trying to do:

hope is with three meshes (hex, sloped segment, flush segment) i can programmatically turn on and off the proper segments

and then in mission setup, i can procedurally generate the hexgrid, use simple adjacency+altitude logic to determine which edge segments to turn on and off (slope or flush), and then bake navmesh allowing my tiny fighting men to use ai-navigation to move from hex to hex and look more natural

[crisp lichen]

ok this feels "good enough"

[dense heron]

Not using Probuilder but realtime csg, and i've got a small problem. Am I able to ask here real quick anyways?

[haughty sonnet]

maybe in #💻┃unity-talk

[tame canopy]

hi! i have a question, upon collision, how can i get the vertex color of the face that was hit?

[tame canopy]

or a way to have different groups of faces with some kind of tag that can be read in a collision?

because i'm trying to make a surface with walkable regions. I tried to use vertex colors to select which faces are walkable but i can't retrieve the color of the face that was hit

[hollow gust]

Yeah it's either a bug or a missing feature in the Unity 6 version of Probuilder. No idea why beginning vertices aren't allowed to snap anymore

[tame canopy]

for anyone interested, the solution was to take the triangle at the faceIndex index and loop through it vertices, if all where from the color that indicates that the face is walkable then use the face, otherwise ignore it. The result looks something like this.

here's the code i used:

//I used this because i'm using ContactPairHeader.
//Search how to obtain the FaceIndex/TriangleIndex for your case.
int faceIndex = unchecked((int)pair.GetContactPointFaceIndex(i2));
Color32[] colors = pair.otherCollider.GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh.colors32;
int[] triangles = pair.otherCollider.GetComponent<MeshFilter>().mesh.triangles;

//If all vertices are of the default color (White), an empty array is returned. This is to prevent OutOfRange exceptions.
if (colors.Length == 0){
    continue;
}

bool isWalkable = true;
//Loop 3 tiems because triangles have 3 vertices.
for (int i3 = 0; i3 < 3; i3++){
    //Triangles are an array of 3 vertex indexes (Ex.: [1,2,3]) and an array of triangles are just the list of vertex indexes
    //(Ex.: [1,2,3,2,3,1,3,2,1...]). Multiply the triangle index by 3 to get the first vertex of a triangle, add 1 to get the
    //second and add 2 to get the third.
    //Using Hex for consistency.
    if (ColorUtility.ToHtmlStringRGBA(colors[triangles[faceIndex * 3 + i]]) != "93FF93FF"){
        isWalkable = false;
    }
}

[hollow ice]

Hi I am using unity 2021.39 and I am not able to end editing my poly shape. I tried pressing enter, space, clicking on another objects, I am able to create new poly shapes but can't get this one to stop being in "edit" mode. Is there something i can do to stop editning the poly shape ?

[hushed bridge]

.. Escape?

[hollow ice]

doesnt't work too

[hushed bridge]

Uh perhaps try removing the component and seeing if that works

[hollow ice]

what do you mean? remove it and create new one ?

[young vapor]

Ayee

[ebon saddle]

can anyone please tell me why im getting this flicker with probuilder? it started happening when i extruded the cube face and then now whenever i move the camera around it looks like the lighting is flickering and bugging out

as soon as i stop the extrusion it goes away

[ebon saddle]

@lyric mauve sorry to ping you but do you know what the solution to this is?

[lyric mauve]

no, I dont use Probuilder and do not ping random people #📖┃code-of-conduct

[spiral latch]

I haven't seen this with ProBuilder, but I recognize this visual problem

It's caused by bloom. I've seen it with objects with a scale of 0 on one axis

Try turning off post-processing in the scene view. It's the dropdown menu three buttons from the left here.

[ebon saddle]

god bless you

[spiral latch]

I also have this problem in my VRChat worlds when global illumination hasn't been baked

It's very weird

[restive snow]

Is there a way to adjust the tiling of a material applied to a single face of an object? I’m trying to apply images to individual walls of a room, but the size of the image doesn’t match the wall.

[haughty sonnet]

open the uv editor

[restive snow]

I was just coming across this. Stretch?

[haughty sonnet]

probably, you can change the scale manually too if you want

[restive snow]

Thanks!

[unborn marsh]

Okay, so I managed to get the basics of movement down but now I've kinda hit a roadblock in trying to make a house for my horror game. I managed to make a floor and four walls but I have no idea how to make a hole for a door or a window. Chatgpt (sorry) suggested ProBuilder or Blender, and both are kinda frustrating atm

How do I make a hole in the wall for a door or a window to go into?

[young vapor]

You cannot cut unity primitve meshes, you use probuilder instead and use Edge loops to create cuts. Plenty of Tutorials on this

[unborn marsh]

Thank you

[chrome fjord]

Hey, I am tryna make a house too and also for a horror game, can you by chance send me the code or design if you are fine with that? That can help a ton, thx

[unborn marsh]

I just have a floor and walls 😭
Like, I can't even make one room yet lol

[chrome fjord]

Even a image of that is good, like literally a screenshot can help me see what mine should look like

My games looks too basic so I need help fr lol

[unborn marsh]

Alright, I guess
I'll send a screenshot after I'm done cooking and eating dinner

[chrome fjord]

Thx man, that will really help me, like actually appreciated!

[quasi oasis]

Hello, I'm trying to make "an isosceles triangle prism with an arcuate base". I know this is a horrible name. I'm basically trying to make a melee attack collider shape. I'm facing an issue when trying to make an arc base for this prism. Any tips?

[forest vortex]

Would be easier to construct from the circle shape with radiated lines to the center. Turn segment of the circle into a side of this shape, then extend it.

[quasi oasis]

would you mind showing an example? I'm a beginner on ProBuilder

[forest vortex]

I don't have project handy with package installed.
Look at this shape https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@5.0/manual/Cylinder.html
Set higher side count as you need. Delete everything except the triangular faces in the shape you need. Then extrude them to create prism. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@5.0/manual/Face_Extrude.html

[leaden falcon]

is probuilder good for making rooms?

or like lets say a whole house

[haughty sonnet]

yeah

[leaden falcon]

alright

[opal forum]

Does anyone know where to find a tool to merge?

I couldn't find the tool, I did try watching some YouTube but I can't find it

If you are confused I'm saying. In blender I'm talking about this tool.

[hollow grove]

This might be an entirely dumb question, but I feel the need to ask. When extuding with probuilder, is it possible to keep the materials applied based on where they are? What I mean is, when I extude, all new polygons are one material type. So if I am making for example, an interior, I have to keep reapplying the walls, floor, ceiling, etc. Thanks everyone for any help you may can give. Have a great new years!

[hushed bridge]

Probuilder is shit for unity 6000

The snapping is pissing me off, things are NOT grid snapping properly. The settings are all in random placed, bring back the old ui.

I make a floor using grid snap, make a wall using grid snap, duplicate that wall and grid-snap it over. IT AINT WHERE IT SHOULD BE

[whole prawn]

That looks like what I'd expect for where the pivot is

[tame star]

Where’s Boolean the one that subtracts object from object making a cut out

[young vapor]

are you building in center mode? Thats not good. You're best bet tbh is having the pivots at the corner of the walls. Ie the corner vert

[young vapor]

You could've googled btw
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@6.0/manual/boolean.html

[tame star]

Yep could of done even tho it doesn’t show up in experimental and I don’t even have existential so that’s why I asked to see if they have made it not experimental that’s why I’m doing the thing in blender

[young vapor]

wdym doesnt show in experimental?
you just enable experimental in the probuilder prefences and its there

[severe sedge]

How can I edit a line on pro builder

These buttons aren’t showing up

I am trying to edit a singular line

Nvm found it

[vale carbon]

you can downgrade it in the manifest

[thorn moss]

In ProBuilder Unity 6, how do I change the plane axis so that Y is the height and not Z? I don't want to solve it by rotating the Transform because it'd involve modifying more shader code. The Z is forced to be 0.001 or higher (can't set it to 0).

[haughty sonnet]

maybe this can work? https://discussions.unity.com/t/probuilder-how-to-rotate-pivot/1505939

[thorn moss]

ah it kinda works with Freeze Transform (the Z turns into a very small value 3.72529e-09) I'll try it out more

One side-effect of Freeze Transform is after rotating the X by -90 and clicking Freeze Transform, the plane goes "weird"/rough (it was a perfect line before that), this is reproducible with all 3 materials I tried out e.g. UI Default.

[ebon widget]

Hi all! Been awhile, sry, busy 🙂 Good news though ... used the weekend to whip up a whole new batch of tutorials specifically for ProBuilder 6, since the UI/UX has changed a good bit. Hope these help, and let me know if you'd like to see any specific other tutorials, I can try for time next weekend! 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJfHfcFkLM_a0jRCedjV2vJMcCSUHgb-

[ebon widget]

Hi Lola - PB isn't quite as fancy as Blender, but you can use a couple options for this:

1. Select the vert pairs to be merged, right-click in the scene, and choose "Collapse Verts"
2. Or, use the Scale tool to pull them all tight to the center, then right-click and use "Weld Verts" ... you might need to delete those inner faces first, though, otherwise PB might leave them there.

[ebon widget]

Digging back a bit, but just in case I can still be helpful 😛
... video for that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBa_opm3_GM

[leaden falcon]

Thx

[young vapor]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJfHfcFkLM_a0jRCedjV2vJMcCSUHgb-
this is a good series! @ebon widget 🙏

maybe mod can pin this in the channel ?

[whole prawn]

I'd pinned it already

[cursive flint]

Hey guys so I just started tinkering a bit with probuilder to start learning level design and eventually create one of the levels for my first game. I just wanted to know if it's possible or if there is any option to select faces and turn those into a different shape. For example. I'm trying to create a two story level and those stories would be connected by two flights of stairs. The way I started doing this level was by creating a cube and started extruding it to create the first story and then created blocky stairs downwards to connect to the other story of the level. Now I have really big blocky stairs that don't look very natural obviously and I wanted to know if there is anyway to directly alter these into the Stair shape or if you guys have any tips or tricks to make this workflow a bit easier. Thanks in advance for any help 😄

[ebon widget]

Hey @cursive flint !

• Similar question above, this might help 🙂 #🛠️┃probuilder message
• As a general rule, don't try to connect everything. It's much better to stay flexible with your world, keep the stairs, floor, etc as separate objects. Sounds like you are trying to model them all as one chunk?

[cursive flint]

Yeah that is what i was trying to do haha. Thank you very much for the help!

[minor palm]

Hey

How to get probuilder's window in Unity 6?

[young vapor]

probuilder 6 doesn't have that, its all part of the unity context menus. When you select a probuilder brush the tools come up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv4e8fH2kQs

[minor palm]

Oh I see

[indigo pecan]

Can someone pls help me with my probuilder map?

I made this edit ages ago, I subdivided faces, then deleted them. How do I get the faces back so theres no hole in the wall?

[young vapor]

You can try select all the edges and do Fill Hole

[indigo pecan]

ok

[indigo pecan]

Thats what happens

@young vapor ?

[young vapor]

I meant only select the 3 edges by the door

[indigo pecan]

I did.

call me, ill show u

[young vapor]

make a vid

[indigo pecan]

aight

[young vapor]

you can also try to extrude(hold shift while move) the top edge to the bottom part

[indigo pecan]

I only select the 4 edges

It wont let me send the vid

I only select the 4 edges, I hit cntrl e, then that happens @young vapor

[young vapor]

https://streamable.com

[young vapor]

did you try only the left and right edges of doorway

[indigo pecan]

nope

[indigo pecan]

Didnt work. Did the same thing

[young vapor]

not sure then. Try the extruding

[indigo pecan]

alr did

i tried it the best i could, but there was still tiny gaps in the wall

[young vapor]

why would it be a gap? is the top not the same width ?

[indigo pecan]

nah

its too hard for me to explain in text 😭

[indigo pecan]

I want the faces back to EXACTLY how they were before I deleted them

[young vapor]

I get it

I told you what I would try to do, if it doesn't work I'm not sure

[indigo pecan]

can u hop on a call so I can show u?

Smh i made it worse

[young vapor]

I'm kinda busy sorry

[indigo pecan]

algs

[young vapor]

just extrude the top to bottom while its grid locked

[indigo pecan]

how tf I grid lock it?

[young vapor]

use the Grid

also just moving shift moving the green arrow to extrude should go straight down

[void tendon]

Hey, guys! I want to edit and work with pro builder but I really cant find the edit and building tools that needed for this purpose because I am using Unity 6. Could you please help?

[young vapor]

the probuilder winow nolonger exists had you scrolled up, now its done through Context menu

[void tendon]

You mean that the editing tools are in here?

I see only two options

When I am clicking on a cube for exampole

example

[young vapor]

you have to click a proBuilder mesh and it wll show up as the extra button up top

its yellow

make new shape here, select it. You will see the new button

[void tendon]

Oh I found it

Thanks!

[craggy spear]

Anyone know why i cannot make my cubes bigger with probuilder? As you can see in the image i am trying to make the cube bigger in z axis but nothing happens even tho i pull the scale tools thingy. Every other axis works but if i wanna make the cube just longer, wider etc nothing happens... I might be doing something wrong its my first time using probuilder haha

[young vapor]

just grab the face and use move tool to extend it

You should check out this series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrJfHfcFkLM_a0jRCedjV2vJMcCSUHgb-

[craggy spear]

It is not moving in the first picture i am pulling the face with scale tool but as you can see the tool is just moving but face does nothing

Or do i need to use move tool when editing faces..?

[young vapor]

you should use the move tool, not the scale tool

since you're moving the face to extend the shape

[indigo panther]

as u can see the walls are made of 3D cube, at corners the 3D cubes are designed that way.

My question is, you have a plane/mesh inside the boundary which fits inside, how do u make that? and the differntly shaped cubes as well?
Can u do this with probuilder?

also there can be many levels? which is the optimal way

[young vapor]

are you saying you want to make a floor or walls this? Kinda confused what this image supposed to show

maybe you want the PolyShape tool ?

[indigo panther]

i mean this

[young vapor]

those are regular unity cubes no? What do you want to do here exactly

[indigo panther]

to fill a mesh/plane inside the imaginary boundary formed by cubes

whatever might be the shape, it should just fill inside

[young vapor]

afaik probuilder can't do such a thing

[indigo panther]

so what can?

[young vapor]

You would need some type of flood fill algorithm or something

[indigo panther]

omg whats that, would that work in 3D

for mesh and plane

[young vapor]

It would have to be custom built or get an asset that does it, its not an easy thing to do, the algorithm has to know all the bounds first then attempt to fill the area.
If you are looking to automate it the least you need is a script

[indigo panther]

i see, thanks!

[young vapor]

best of luck

[civic oxide]

Hey guys, quick question, is there a way to set probuilder to only create shapes that line on a grid.

I know about holding Ctrl for set gradations, but I'm thinking even further, when you start building a shape the first point will be in a precise location, I'd like even that first point to be constrained by the grid interval I set, is that possible?

[young vapor]

If you have your grid snap on it should be able to, make sure you put the pivot mode to Global though. iirc Local doesn't work just yet

[civic oxide]

hell yea, that was the missing link, thanks!

[dusk ingot]

I just updated to ProBuilder 6 ...where is the window with the functions?

[young vapor]

no such thing anymore . Its all done through context menus , the probuilder tools come up when you select a probuilder mesh

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@6.0/manual/whats-new.html#whats-new-in-version-60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv4e8fH2kQs

[dusk ingot]

Thx!

[grizzled mortar]

Hello, anyone know the way to "split" a part of an object, based on selected faces? i have this selected, and i want to seperate it into a stump mesh

i tried boolean with a seperate object, but it cant seem to do a round face, so parts of it arent there

[young vapor]

Detach Faces

[grizzled mortar]

thank you nav, i may of not been very smart by not reading about the tools before trying to use them

[faint carbon]

Does anyone know of any tutorials or videos or guides of how to make buildings in probuilder?

[young vapor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBa_opm3_GM

[faint carbon]

Thank you

[young vapor]

what does UIBuilder have to do with Probuilder ?

#🧰┃ui-toolkit

[sinful cloak]

Hello guys, I'm needing help.

I'm trying to build a wall with probuilder. So I place a cube, it is perfect.

But I need to do a corner, so i created a pillar that you can see.

And after this pillar, I recreate (with shift) another cube that I extend.
But this time, it is doing not like the first wall.
Can someone help me (ps: I'm not really good)

[young vapor]

are you extruding or stretching ?

its hard to see from this prospective what you did exactly

[sinful cloak]

I did press shift and slide move cursor

[young vapor]

on the face ?

like you extruded the face?

[sinful cloak]

yes

[green jacinth]

What's the best practice if I edited some asset with probuilder, should I export it as an asset? as obj? or is it completely fine to ship probuilder objects in production?

[junior sorrel]

export as asset or obj, probuilder meshes get recreated when instantiated (performance overhead), they also don't cooperate well with prefabs. Consequently they are not suitable for release.

[dusky yarrow]

is there a way to separate a concave mesh into convex elements automatically?

[junior sorrel]

No

[clear root]

@sage sinew something like this

not exact.. but u get the idea

[sage sinew]

are you using probuilder?

[clear root]

not for that video no.. its quicker to use blender

ud need to probably manually drag the lines/edge-cuts upwards 1 by 1 w/ probuilder

make cube.. extrude 1 side -> | then again -> | then again -> |
until u have enough loop cuts

        ^   ^ 
``` then you'd select the middle of the arches pull them up the most
then the two outside of those a little less..
then the last ones would make the little arch posts or w/e

[sage sinew]

your a genius I'm trying this right now

[clear root]

just simple modelling brain 🙂

best advice:
start with the most basic shape of the thing ur trying to create..
add loop cuts as needed (but only as needed)

then u end up with a nice low-poly model

[sage sinew]

I added some loop cuts and moved them up and it looks good but how do I get a more rounded shape?

[clear root]

should go from this -> to this -> to this

[clear root]

close.. u need 3 edges to form the bottom of each arch

rather than the single one u have now..

[sage sinew]

I'm so confused wdym 3 edges? this is what I got so far lol

[clear root]

just study this image.. each green line is a LOOP-CUT.. or one of those blue lines u got up there..
select the bottom edge only.. and move it up..

(but u need atleast 2 to be the same level vertically to make the bottom of each arch post or w/e)
instead of ur screenshot where u only have 1 (making it a point)

see this is fine..

this wasn't lol

[clear root]

anyway.. this image should be good enuff reference to build what ur trying to build

you need atleast (5) going around the arch to make it something other than a hard corner..
i think (7) is a good number

[sage sinew]

which one should I move up? I might be doing it wrong.

[clear root]

grab the yellow one at the bottom. move it up halway of the block..

then the one to the right and the one to the left of that.. drag those up 1/4 of the way up..

[clear root]

take ur time.. and think about it

• the top of the arch needs to have as many edge loops to the left and to the right..
• you need atleast 2 edges to make the bottom parts flat..
• the rest (the ones in the middle of those two form the arch
• the more edges you add the more u can smooth out that arch

[sage sinew]

Bro did it I get what you mean now but it comes out looking un even

[clear root]

more loops = more smooth

[sage sinew]

thanks im going to mess around with it XD

[clear root]

np, 🍀 good luck..

practice makes perfect 🙂

[sage sinew]

Do you do this for each one? @clear root

https://streamable.com/qnuosg

[clear root]

to be faster and symmetrical u can select both of those at the same time

so they're identical when u move them

shift + click

but yea thats the idea..

and its probably better to make (1) arch.. and use it like a prefab

just snap them together to form ur bridge or w/e

[sage sinew]

your the best ❤

[clear root]

aye! see wasnt that hard 🙂

[sage sinew]

Its SOO EASY

I thought it would be hard

it was only hard cause I was just confused lol

THANKS!

[clear root]

nah, super simple

u can make all kinds of shapes w/ cubes

make a loop anywhere theres an angle.. and just drag around the outside lines to get the shape u want 😉

[sage sinew]

It looks way better than before!

To make these shapes should I just reduce the size on the Y?

[clear root]

the little cobble stones?

id probably place them by hand.. (new objects)

• start basic (sillhouette)
• slowly add detail
• stop before u add too much detail

[young vapor]

See Console for more details

[wet atlas]

in the new probuilder, how can I see how many edges I selected?

I used to be able to see them in the probuilder window

[formal relic]

says thw same thing

[wet atlas]

anyone else connect vertices tool is broken on Unity 6?

[formal relic]

I will have to restart my project not since this isn’t being fixed

[formal relic]

can't make any projects at all

[junior sorrel]

How much free space do you have on that drive?

[formal relic]

200gigabytes

[craggy spear]

Why is it creating those faces/walls or whatever called inside the cube when i make it bigger 😄

Never had it do that before

[cunning jackal]

What do you mean? Are you talking about a two sided face? If so, that's either because of your material (doubled-sided enabled) or because you're in the debug draw mode in your scene view (evident from the screenshots).

[craggy spear]

No. Whenever i extrude multiple faces at once it generates that ”wall”/face inside the piece as seen in the first picture. And it has never before done that so is it some setting etc and how do i turn it off haha

[craggy spear]

It is definitely that double sided issue, because when i select a face there is a grayed out ”set double-sided” option, but in another project where this issue is not happening does not show that option at all anywhere😄 How do i fix this, the material used does not have double-sided toggled on.

[craggy spear]

Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

[grizzled mortar]

Hello, ive looked everywhere, and there doesnt seem to be a scriptingAPI Doc reference for probuilder? im wanting to looking at all the methods it provides, such as filling holes, subdivide faces, detach faces, select loop

[young vapor]

hm ? https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@6.0/api/index.html

[grizzled mortar]

guess i didnt put in the right keywords. im sorry for my uninformed question. when i searched up probuild scripting api none of the results showed them.

[young vapor]

ya google is weird sometimes. Usually if you can find the manual version like the package i click here

[craggy spear]

Nav, do you have any ideas what might be the solution for my issue that i explained couple messages up? Still have not figured it out 😄

[young vapor]

ill take a look when i get back in unity im not at workstation, cant verify

[cunning jackal]

instead of extruding, try simply using the move tool to move the face forward, because extrude generally will create a new face extruding out from the existing one

[craggy spear]

I am doing that 😄 I am not using the Manual option but just pulling but still it does that. It only does on this specific project, in others no.

[cunning jackal]

maybe theres multiple faces in that same spot, try moving the extra face

[obsidian pecan]

Hi there! I'm trying to subdivide a Poly Shape created with probuilder, but I'm having a hard time doing this. Is it even possible to subdivide it? just clicking on subdivide object, it comes out a little bit weird, ends up not being what I need to add textures to it

When creating a shape with just the "new shape" option, the plane will have plane settings wich include height cuts and width cuts but I don't see this anywhere with poly shapes.

[forest vortex]

Have not used ProBuilder in a while, but just a reminder, if you find some options limiting, you can always drop the mesh into another editor like Blender and modify there.
Mesh can be integrated back into ProBuilder with "Probuilderize" command.

[obsidian pecan]

Hmmm yeah, interesting. Thanks!

[grizzled mortar]

Hello, whats the major difference between probuilder vertexs and regular vertex's? when looking at the docs the probuilder has position, normal, tanget, and uv1-4, but in regular mesh, vertexes are just vectors3 in local space (Just the position)? do i have to worry about any of the other properties when changing the position of vertx?

[junior sorrel]

probuilder mesh representation has topology information used for a nicer modelling experience, unity meshes are geared exclusively for render performance and have zero topology info stored, just the raw data needed to know where a triangle is.

[craggy spear]

Does Probuilder offer any hidden face automatic deletion tool thingy? I just selected very big part of my build to extrude it at once but apparently Probuilder DECIDED TO PLACE 30 OVERLAPPING FACES under every single face. So its very enjoyable to spend one minute to spam delete/select on one face at a time....

[hallow folio]

Why does my mesh keep resetting?

I don't get it

Is this plugin broken? Or abandoned?

[young vapor]

no?

[haughty sonnet]

when

[covert coral]

anyone know how to fix this? i cant delete this one face from a plane i cut it out from no matter what i do

edit: nvm i just redid the walls :I

[hallow folio]

Anytime I make mesh changes it reverts to the original, I give up, it's too unstable vs just using Blender

[half horizon]

Is there any documentation related to why probuilder stuff can inconsitently just explode when in the context of a prefab instance

[void tendon]

Hey, guys! Do you know why this is happening when I am trying to create a cube in pro builder?

Two faces of the cube are black but the other two faces are just fine white

I think the problem has to do with the directional right

[junior sorrel]

what problem?

[barren oasis]

That lighting problem is unreleated to probuilder

[void tendon]

What I mean is why the two sides are black and the other are white?

All of the faces should be white instead of black

[barren oasis]

It’s because of your lighting in your scene, it’s not probuilder

[visual spire]

How do I optimize the process of building? Right now I'm doing this, and it feels super not-optimized.
Is there any way to make this more efficient?

Say, I want little variation in the platform height, like, 0.01 variation, how do I do that Not manually

[junior sorrel]

select all the relevant objects and type R(-0.01, 0.01) into the y-field of the transform to randomize the y-value in the range -0.01 to 0.01, you can also distribute positions of selected objects in a range by using L(start, end)

[visual spire]

Huh. Interesting.
Is there docs for this where all such commands are shown?

Would I enter L(start,end) in the X position field?

[junior sorrel]

you can do all the stuff that the ExpressionEvaluator class can handle. L and R are specific to the editor usage to generate numbers based on selected objects. https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/ExpressionEvaluator.html

[visual spire]

Is it just L and R there? Where did you find about the R and L? R being Random and L being Length?
I'd like to read more about this, but nothing's online.

I don't see the L and R in the docs.. It seems to be in general for math expressions.

I'd be thankful if you could help me find All theh commands I can do from the Editor.

I found it, so no worries

Thanks for the pointing

For anyone wondering, was here:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/EditingValueProperties.html

[warm echo]

Can someone help me out, I have no option to see the pro builder window in my version of unity. It is driving me crazy trying to see why this is happening to me:
I am selecting a probuilder cube but I dont see the window there by my inspector any idea whats going here?

https://discussions.unity.com/t/probuilder-window-missing-in-unity-6/944138/6
This is it wow that sucks might have to go back to unity 5 then

[gentle lake]

Hi, when I create a Polyshape from a perfectly perpendicular angle (or close enough), it doesn't create an object, leaving an unselectable pinkish version of my shape. Anyone know how to fix this?

[haughty sonnet]

or just get used to the new workflow? also going back to a unity version from 10 years ago seems like an overreaction

[young vapor]

maybe they meant Probuilder 5

tbh thought I'd miss the old Window but when working on 2022 projects , turns out it is indeed quicker with the context menu because you always get the relevant options without losing focus on the object by looking at another tab/window

maybe if you're used to Icon mode it does throw you off.
Reading the labels to always find something related does distract real quick having to scan through the list

[tender ridge]

Is there a way to have the probuilder window in unity 6 by downgrading or something? I've used it for around 3 years now and it's nearly impossible to switch

[spiral dagger]

Does anyone know if it is problematic to have more than one terain combined?

I would like to avoid mixing the natural ground of the trail with the bush.

[neon dock]

Probuilder is almost perfect imo

Just not as fast enough like TrenchBroom or even Blender

[young vapor]

!collab

[rustic mauve]

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[orchid nest]

Only english or French ?

[grizzled mortar]

Hello! With UV: Manuel Mode, is there any way to insert vertexs on a mesh so that the uv map also automatically subdivides, when you have to move the vertex positions yourself? basically trying to get a set of vertexs that share a commen y value on a slanted mesh.

[sly summit]

Hey, I need to inset this part, I know if I have to press SHIFT and select the scale tool but I wanted to ask if there's a way to do that by setting values instead of using the scale tool which is not precise enough 😬 please ?

[bleak elm]

Guys... attention question
what is the best and most convenient addon for unity, for level design
At the moment I use Pro Builder and GSC Realtime, but their use makes me sad
Pro Builder, after some update became less intuitive and inconvenient, and in general does not cover all my needs as a level designer and an artist designer
And GSC Realtime... convenient, almost like in UE5... BUT, it hasn't been updated for a long time and it constantly throws up errors and bugs that are difficult to solve
is there really not a single full-fledged tool for unity that would help a level designer

[karmic jungle]

genuinely the source 2 hammer editor is the best map making tool i’ve ever used, i’d look into it

[bleak elm]

but how... for unity

[karmic jungle]

you can export directly to FBX, you just need a source 2 game to access it which is the only sorta annoying part

export to fbx, use the fbx file in unity like a model file

done and dusted

it has really good UV tools and a really good grid system i kinda felt stupid for not using it before

i have to use it more to get a good workflow down but it’s absolutely useable

[bleak elm]

Are you really using it for Unity?

[karmic jungle]

yeah, i can show you an example one sec

[bleak elm]

Yes, go ahead, I'll be very grateful

[karmic jungle]

https://streamable.com/l07rj5 unrelated video but this little environment was made as a test with hammer

i think you’d have to weigh if it’s worth working through something that wasn’t really
made specifically for that workflow but for my purposes so far it’s worked really well

it’s made by valve so it’s just insanely high quality

[bleak elm]

designers at many levels say that it is unprofessional "not in Unity" to do blocking, since it takes too much time

[karmic jungle]

personally i’d try stuff and see what works best for you before what’s “professional”

[bleak elm]

anyway, thanks for the info, maybe if I need complex geometry, I'll try hammer 2.
(addition) I once made maps in hammer 1 for garrys mod, I wanted to hang myself from its inconvenience: )

[karmic jungle]

oh i know lol, they really improved hammer for source 2 it’s kinda nuts

probuilder honestly also makes me want to jump which is why i went looking for another solution, but it’s whatever works best for your workflow really

[haughty sonnet]

imo if you do blocking in unity but later have to go to another program to recreate all the blocking you've done takes 10 times as long, doesnt it? or are they doing it differently

[ocean sequoia]

Is there a way to reposition verts by coordinates exactly? Trying to smooth a group of verts after collapsing them is a pain in a butt

[mighty gyro]

yes,

[fallow saddle]

Hi im new to this discord and im a unit student currently creating a stealth platformer game in Unity for my final year project. Currently struggling with how to just have a consistent concrete texture for the ground. can someone help?

i just want the whole level to have a concrete ground, on which i can later decide to put grass or other floors on top of

[haughty sonnet]

Tools > ProBuilder > Editors > Open Material Editor
this lets you add a material on it and then use Open UV Editor to change the UVs

[cyan dawn]

hellow, im new in here
i made a game its a simple proyect, and i made a build of the proyect but when i run the .exe file, its start with the unity logo and then it stays loading in a grey screen}

[haughty sonnet]

is this related to probuilder? otherwise go ask in #💻┃unity-talk

[hybrid island]

Hi I've been trying for the past 3 hours to execute probuilders "Merge Objects" via script. Basically I want to merge all children of a parent. I haven't written the destroy all children part since I haven't been able to get the first part working

    public void MergeProbuilderizedChildren()
    {
        ProBuilderMesh targetMesh = this.gameObject.GetComponent<ProBuilderMesh>();
        if(targetMesh == null)
        {
            this.gameObject.AddComponent<ProBuilderMesh>();
            targetMesh = this.gameObject.GetComponent<ProBuilderMesh>();
        }
        List<ProBuilderMesh> meshesToCombine = new List<ProBuilderMesh>();
        foreach (Transform child in transform)
        {
            meshesToCombine.Add(child.gameObject.GetComponent<ProBuilderMesh>());
        }
        List<ProBuilderMesh> resultMeshes = CombineMeshes.Combine(meshesToCombine, targetMesh);
    }

this is the function I have so far.
plz ping me if anyone has a solution

[deep river]

First off I normally don't respond on here so bare with me. So what is happening, I might be the idiot here but I am going to need more info, is it running and not doing the task is it only partially working or is it not compiling?

Just a tip but "The correct way to check for nullity is if(data != null)" it seems a little pedantic but its not.

[hybrid island]

The code I have is basically not working at all. No compile errors though according to VS

Based on the documentation I assumed that I input list and set output target and I'll work but apparently I'm doing something wrong

[deep river]

Yeah the documentation can be a slog, so I feel you there. Unfortunately it is quite the norm when dealing with Unity as there is so much under the hood and the documentation assumes you know C# seperately although it is wholely possible to code in it with little understanding. But give some time as I am pretty sure I have run into this exact issue before but I need to be sure.

[hybrid island]

this is the documentation I tried to base off of https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@5.0/api/UnityEngine.ProBuilder.MeshOperations.CombineMeshes.html

yeah I definitely agree I consider myself a coding and c# novice so the documentation feels like a runic language to me

[deep river]

Even if I can't figure it out I will get back to you about it, no worries okay. I just get busy.

[deep river]

Side note: If you’re using ProBuilder at runtime make sure that in the ProBuilder preferences “Strip ProBuilder Scripts” is disabled.

[deep river]

It looks as though there are a few issues but lets focus on getting it to run. I was only trying to get the code to compile so I changed as little as possible. There is an un-needed list addition that is preventing you from accessing the function "Combine()". In short you tried to pass a list to a function expecting a single variable and would need further code to tell Combine() which of the list objects you wanted to send it or loop through them to send each one. I am not suggesting you do this only explaining the situation for completeness. If this was intended as a list I would need to know more about what you were doing to rework it for said purpose.

"ProBuilderMesh targetMesh = this.gameObject.GetComponent<ProBuilderMesh>();"

Try commenting out this line ^^^^ and replace it with this line. "ProBuilderMesh targetMesh = new ProBuilderMesh();"

Hope this helps.

[cyan dawn]

hi again im having issues in my proyect, all my rigid bodys doesnt work

even if a create a new scene, and put a rigid body, in a cube , when i hit run , the cube doesnt fall , the rigid body has all to fall , gravity, mass, unchecked the kinematic.

that is on a character

but i also tried on diferente thing and it didnt worked

[hybrid island]

I think you got the wrong chat, #🛠️┃probuilder is for specifically this unity tool called Probuilder
(https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@6.0/manual/index.htmlunity) pro builder not a abbreviation for pro unity builders even though it should be lol.

You can try #💻┃unity-talk or #💻┃code-beginner or #⚛️┃physics to get help.

[hybrid island]

Could you explain the difference between data!=null vs data==null just curious? to me the look the same but just reversed. does it have to do with performance or something?

[hybrid island]

ProBuilderMesh targetMesh = new ProBuilderMesh(); is invalid use of constructor. ProBuilderMesh inherits from monobehaviour it cant be created with new it has to be AddComponent if i want to make a new one

[hybrid island]

I'm making an editor script so it doesn't need to run during the built version so script stripping setting shouldn't apply right?

[hybrid island]

got it to work! yay

[deep river]

Yes to your last question and congratulations on your hard work.

[deep river]

The concept of "null" in C# can be problematic because it represents a lack of value or an absence of an object reference, which can lead to unexpected errors and exceptions in code. One of the main issues with null in C# is the potential for NullReferenceException errors. This can crash your program so you usually want to prevent a null from entering code by using some kind of try catch statement if you're going to look at it. Try catch will throw the error you tell it to when it hits a null but won't crash your program allowing you to get feedback and troubleshoot a piece of code that isn't working. This isn't true for all languages though and this makes it complicated, not to mention some will use something called a null object to check for null as you can set all objects to equal your null object then check for that and because a null object is not an empty variable it won't crash anything. So don't feel bad this is so much more complicated than it first appears.

[deep river]

! Can be added to if statements to check the opposite.

== Is this equal to
!= Is this not equal to.

Something == null, is undefined as there is nothing to grab to make the comparison.

Something != null, is checking if there is anything there.

[hybrid island]

ProBuilderMesh inherits from monobehaviour and is effectively a script type object so it is nullable. I don't see how my previous case can cause a null ref exception.

bc if it is null then im adding the ref.... im not trying to ref something that is null

[deep river]

I might have not said it properly yesterday. I was meaning in practice. Not that in your case at the moment it will cause a crash which is why I suggested it and didn't include it in the code revision.

It's something that I picked up from programming outside of unity. And I realize that it's probably not useful in unity for the most part.

My bad

[hybrid island]

oooh okay yeah that makes more sense. I learned a similar thing in Matlab before too

[steep oyster]

Hi everyone. Quick question, instead of using ProBuilder, if I make the "Visual map" on Blender/C4D and import it has a full obj. without doors, windows, etc... (added in unity) would it work? If not, why?

[young vapor]

why not try it?

who said it wont work

You can use whatever modeling software you want as long as it exports into a format unity uses.. Probuilder isn't a requirement

[haughty sonnet]

if its really big then you have to keep in mind that all of it is loaded at all times (culling doesnt work) so you have to split it up into multiple parts if you want culling to work

[slender perch]

Can I make a 3d text without having to use Blender ?

[young vapor]

if you find an asset that can do it then yes

https://github.com/Ikaroon/TMP3D

[half roost]

i'm having some issues with probuilder - whenever i press probuilderize, the model's textures seem to bug out (notice the stripes here and there). Anyone know what's going on?

[half roost]

This channel is so dead I’m cooked lmao

[timber bluff]

when I am using probuilder in unity 6 and I press CTRL to snap the cube in place why does it not work?

[young vapor]

it be wise if you showed what your current snap settings are set to

[young vapor]

Your snapping is off. you don't need to hold Control for that one

also you should not use Center when building, use Pivot

[timber bluff]

still doesn't work

[young vapor]

what doesn't work ?

[timber bluff]

the snapping

[young vapor]

works for me on Local. You can switch it to Global though

[timber bluff]

why does it do that?

[young vapor]

put pivot on the corner piece (Pivot mode First Vertex instead of Center)

and your other map was made it probuilder?

you most likely didn't align those to grid

[timber bluff]

Its not perfect at all

when I used probuilder in unity 2022 the snapping was perfect

[young vapor]

its a bug in Unity 6 pb

place it with the middle pivot then change it to corner pivot

[timber bluff]

that's dumb, so I can't accurately place them? like place them perfectly on the grid

[young vapor]

just fix the pivot

[timber bluff]

ahh thanks it works now idk why you need to do it that way would have been better to hold ctrl instead 😦

[young vapor]

Ctrl only snaps when the Grid isn't on, but thats nothing to do with the current PB bug

the current bug is Probuilder puts the First Vertex at the middle instead of a corner so it creates this weird snap to middle rather then corner

if you right click a vertex you can assign it as pivot

@timber bluff

[void tendon]

Hey, guys! How to create bezier shape?

I am just wondering

I found it

[turbid wyvern]

Good Morning! New to Unity and am struggling. I am trying to scale cube to have both sides go inward equaly, but one side is angular and the other is concaved. What can I do to prevent this?

[haughty sonnet]

idk what exactly ur hoping to achieve but just move vertices instead of scaling

[turbid wyvern]

They do it with that too

Ive tried like ten different things. Vertices, Faces, Edges, Merging, Separating

Both sides do that weird angling thing

But Ive also got like, less than 10 hours in Unity and I dont really have guidance except the youtubes 🙂

I used a totally different piece and got it to work

[haughty sonnet]

cuz its an "invalid" face. it gets triangulated automatically, causing this

[turbid wyvern]

Is there a way I can convince it to let me have my way with it?

[haughty sonnet]

you can triangulate it yourself

[turbid wyvern]

I will youtube this! You are fantastic John

[haughty sonnet]

all you have to do is this https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@5.1/manual/Vert_Connect.html

select the 2 vertices you want the line to be between, and do this

[turbid wyvern]

❤️

[stray sail]

why is it when i try to remove the room object that i made using pro builder it turns everything to yellow? what seems to be the problem?

[haughty sonnet]

your camera's background color is probably set to yellow

you can change it if you click on your camera

i assume its a child of ThirdPersonPlayer

[stray sail]

thanks it was i dint notice i have set it into uninitialized

thank you one of the problem has been solved

[stray sail]

hi i encounter a bug while adding pro builder, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEdVam1KHs0

it keeps getting these weird lights where i dont know where they came from during play mode it doesnt appear in the other scene where i dint use a pro builder but whenever i add a pro builder this light keeps appearing, does anyone know how to fix this?

[haughty sonnet]

looks like this https://discussions.unity.com/t/modifying-probuilder-geometry-when-using-bloom-post-processing-creating-flashes/948493

[stray sail]

thanks

[raven pine]

What would be the best way to make grass (top) blend into the sides (dirt) a bit?

[hollow gust]

Are you using a triplanar shader for this? If so, you can try adding a bevel to those edges to blend the textures

[raven pine]

It's simply a ProBuilder cube with long Z, and I added a grass material on top face and dirt material on the side faces. Does ProBuilder have any easy way to do it without needing to write a custom shader?

[hollow gust]

I can't remember the steps off the top of my head, but I followed a shadergraph tutorial for a triplanar shader that allows for different textures for top and side faces. When faces are at an angle, they have a blend so you can use that along with beveled edges to create a smooth gradient between.

The alternative would be to create a texture sheet that has a defined top, blend, and bottom texture and then use probuilder's uv mapping to assign it properly

[normal saffron]

should I use blender or unity to make the game map

cuz I tried using blender and when importing to unity it buggy and for some parts my character jus falls through the map -_-

and materials don't load correct

[raven pine]

Personally, I prefer using ProBuilder since it's very easy and fast to use. At the very least, you can consider using it to build out a prototype layout and then make the final version in Blender if that's what you need. Though you can even use ProBuilder for the entire final layout too, which is what I'm doing.

[normal saffron]

ah ok

[normal saffron]

is it like blender?

[raven pine]

I think it depends on the features you're using in Blender. I recommend watching a tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV2o1D1uWgE
Note that older tutorials will have different UI of ProBuilder. The tutorial I linked is for the new ProBuilder 6 version.

If you need sculpting/painting features as well, there's also a different tool called PolyBrush for that.

[normal saffron]

can u extrude and subdivide in it?

those the only features I need lol

[raven pine]

Yep

[raven pine]

Is it normal that ProBuilder objects (e.g. cube) show up invisible in the prefab thumbnail in file browser? (works fine otherwise)

[fossil storm]

hello

i have a problem with

my uvs

i acidentally probuilderized my map

and now i have streched uvs

and i have no clue on how to use probuilders uv

and i want to fix the streched part of my material

[median narwhal]

Hi everyone!!!!
"I'm experiencing severe lag in the Unity 6(HDRP) editor when working with a scene that contains around 40 meshes created with ProBuilder. The issues only occur in "Editor" mode, while in Play mode, the scene runs smoothly at over +60 FPS. This suggests that the problem isn't due to a large number of polygons.

However, every time I press Play or exit Play mode, Unity takes several minutes to execute the action. The scene is empty except for the ProBuilder meshes, so it's a very simple and lightweight scene.

Do you have any ideas on how to solve the problem and what might be causing it?"

[forest vortex]

It might indicate that one of the meshes creates intense calculations and maybe malformed. Remove them one by one and figure out which, then recreate cleanly.
Can also try exporting to obj and converting it back with Probuilderize to try to fix.

[median narwhal]

Okay! Thanks. I'll investigate with your guidance.

A quick question

Can you create prefabs for objects created with ProBuilder?

That is, the Game Object with ProBuilder components so you can continue modeling its shape after dragging the prefab into the scene. It's like creating a prefab for a "base" model, then changing it and creating new prefabs with the new changes when editing the mesh again with ProBuilder.

Or can doing this cause problems?

Do you understand what I mean?

[turbid wyvern]

I am trying to make a slope with this piece but am running into this problem. How do I keep it from concaving or bowing out?

[haughty sonnet]

well i remember reading about some problems that happened with probuilder stuff being turned into prefabs but dont really remember, it might have been fixed, maybe not, but you can google "prefabs with probuilder" you'll see what people have said about it

[haughty sonnet]

currently its an invalid face, with your vertex positions its impossible to have that kind of shape (its not just a probuilder problem, its impossible everywhere), if what you're trying to accomplish is the shape you have on top but sloped, you have to make it slope evenly on all sides

[turbid wyvern]

Would adding additional vertices/edges fix this?

[haughty sonnet]

dunno where you want to add those but just make it slope evenly on those 2 corner vertices too that you havent selected that are visible on the image

[turbid wyvern]

Ive done it once before, but have no idea how

[haughty sonnet]

that's because they're sloped evenly on all sides.

[turbid wyvern]

It took me awhile to understand, but thank you. I figured it out with your help 🙂

[ancient onyx]

im having an issue where probuilder uv wont tile a texture no matter what I do...

nvm figured it out

[coral lintel]

Hey, how can I make sure a probuilder asset is readable at runtime?

It seems like they are readable in editor, but not runtime 🤔 The outline script I use thus does not work at runtime

Interesting, for some reason the outline works on another probuilder asset

[coral lintel]

Found the problem: it seems like if the object is static, its mesh will be read only in build. Pretty strange.

[raw sphinx]

Hello everyone, I did this shape with ProBuilder, I wanted to do a dark area when the player didn't buy it yet, but it's ugly like that, any idea how to improve that? I tried to play with the light as well but didn't work (it has to be a gameobject that I'll desactivate when the player buy it)
(I'm using URP)
Thanks !

[coral lintel]

wall-like shader maybe

[whole zodiac]

hello, do you guys know how to build a roof?

i made a house , but It needs to have a roof and I can't figure out how to do it

i tried to extrude the middle parts but it doesn't look great

[young vapor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBa_opm3_GM

[whole zodiac]

I watched it, thank you

but all the modes he's using aren't in unity anymore

or I can't find them

he can select 2 faces at the same time etc

he can select edges too

[young vapor]

everything should be there exactly the same, they only changed a few things for version 6 for UI. If you want to know more about those changes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv4e8fH2kQs

[whole zodiac]

thank you a lot, I just didn't see the options mode was above the scene

[flint pagoda]

Hey btw im new to modeling assets for games, Ive only modeled for animations and stuff.

Just wanna know about poly count how much is too much and stuff

so far this one of my fence poles ill have like 10-20 in a building and there are like 10-15 buildings thats like 300poles and 288,000 tris

Ive done my best to reduce as much polygons as possible before it was 864,000 tris in tottal

The game is meant for PC and base expectation for specs would be prob GTX 1060 ? something

[karmic pawn]

look into instancing, and other optimization techniques. Mesh Baking may help. this is not a probuilder question.

@flint pagoda

[flint pagoda]

Ahh okay okay thank you , and sorry

[karmic pawn]

Probuilder is a specific set of tools (an asset) built into Unity, so this channel is about that specifically

[real marten]

Hello, I've a little issue with probuilder. I have recently donwloaded it and when I press and hold ctrl, the grid snapping work perfectly, but not on my "first" click. As you can see on the video, I hold ctrl to have a nice grid/block build. It work but not on my first vertex, any ideas? Thx.

[junior sorrel]

For the first vertex you need to enable the regular unity grid snapping and make sure you’re in global (not local) pivot mode

[soft violet]

is there a way to make it so a plane is collidable from both sides

[junior sorrel]

add a box collider or add backfaces

[soft violet]

How do i use backfaces?

[formal depot]

does anyone know how to keep the layering of tilemaps consistent? I'm trying to make some levels for my game but my top tilemap keeps deciding that it's now on the bottom anytime something else in the level changes.

[young vapor]

what does tilemap have to do with Probuilder ?

[young vapor]

This is not a probuilder question..

[radiant fjord]

My bad sorry @young vapor is there a Chanel that would help with exporting things from blender into unity?

[young vapor]

you can try #🔀┃art-asset-workflow, or possibly just ask on the !blender discord

[rustic mauve]

A supportive community for Blender artists of all levels. Share your work, ask for help, and learn from others! https://discord.com/invite/blender

[radiant fjord]

Ok sweet thank u @young vapor

[real marten]

Thank you

[viral owl]

In ProBuilder there used to be when I moved my curser it would snap to the edges of every 1 meeter and or the center of the cube etc but it does not anymore, Does anyone know how I fix that

[rustic rune]

I have been having to uncheck the "Contribute to Global Illumination", is there a step I am missing after manipulating an existing mesh with Probuilder before I export it and use it in the scene? or is unchecking the Contribute GI because I hadn't exported yet and the probuilder scripts are still there?

[stray sail]

why does when i extrude a plane it results to these flashing lights when i move the camera? what fix should i do

[stray sail]

why is this happening? when i try to extrude a plane?

what is the fix for this?

[rustic rune]

learning to build with the least vertices by hand is the best, but you can also use a decimator asset to reduce the # of vertices/tris. and its a good idea to get used to making 3 levels of the models using decimation so you have LOD 1, 2, 3, depending on camera distance using an LODGroup. Most people will want them and they aren't hard to create and then you keep one model that may have a lot of tris but looks really good up close.. so if someone were making a mobile game they might not even use LODGroup and just use your lowest tris version and then PC games would use the LODGroup. So almost every model you make should have 3 versions of high tris, medium # of tris, and low # of tris/somewhat blocky looking.. and there are multiple assets on the asset store to Decimate Meshes for you.

[cursive sky]

anyone know why when i drag a material onto a selected face it replaces the material entierly rather than adding a new texture to the face

[cursive sky]

i also now do not have the settings menu when I extrude an object

[haughty sonnet]

dragging is not how you assign materials with probuilder, you have to use the probuilder material window instead

[viral owl]

Any reason why this might be happening and how to fix it I still havent solved it

[viral owl]

This

[blissful granite]

Hello, I am new to level design, Unity, 3d modeling, and pretty much all of this stuff

but I am trying to make a tunnrl with nearly the exact same geometry as is in the screenshot. If anyone here is willing to private call and help me, or just message in DM's, I'd be very grateful!!

(I'm sorry if this is the wrong channel!!)

[keen delta]

I'm currently trying to connect this crack in the wall to the next room, but they're 2 separate meshes, how should I go about this

my only idea right now is to just extrude the edges and make those the back wall

if this does end up being my solution, is there any way to merge these edges like I would a face

scratch that, I found collapse vertices

[regal sorrel]

You can go into Vertex mode, select a vert (do one at a time), then hold the V key and drag to a vert on the other mesh. It will move the vert to the position of that other vert. Might also help collapsing the two verts with less texture stretching issues too after.

[elfin oracle]

How does one make a square cut on a face with the goal to make a branch of a hallway

[young vapor]

like everything else, several ways to do this..
one can be where the face is selected then shrink the face while holding Shift this creates another square area within the square face
or You can use the traditional edge loop

[cunning lantern]

I have this probuilder cube rn, how do I extrude along the bottom without changing the angle?

also is there any way to by default select 1x1 sections of an area instead of the whole thing until I cut it?

[rustic rune]

did anyone have a suggestion on this one

[junior sorrel]

no

[junior sorrel]

Not possible

[pseudo rover]

why does this happen?

[young vapor]

you have to provide a bit more info than a screenshot, also what is the relation to Probuilder here?

[pseudo rover]

it is probably because of the geometry

the map was made with probuilder

anyways i fixed it

turning off HDR fixed the issue

[haughty sonnet]

these bright flashing lights seem to be a common problem with probuilder, seen so many people post about it asking how to fix it

[barren oasis]

You're better off doing that in Blender or some other 3D program, that seems quite complex

[untold marten]

Does everyone get console messages on Saving their scene from ProBuilder? The following asset(s) located in immutable packages were unexpectedly altered...

[barren oasis]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/probuilder-changes-to-immutable-packages-detected/1494242.
I get it too every once in a while from seemingly random things, it never caused real problems for me personally.

[heavy yacht]

I'm using probuilder to build a large MOBA-style map.
Is it generally better to use one shape and add/edit that? For example I have a floor, do I pull up the walls out of that floor?
Or is it generally better to create new shapes for separate objects?

[dark verge]

I ProBuilderized this model, why does the texture look so different?

[severe pelican]

are there any other tools with probuilder than can enhance level design or am i just missing something in probuilder

[half horizon]

The first step is accepting probuilder sucks

Your probably not missing any major thing

[severe pelican]

nah i personally believe its unity

like object snapping isnt a thing

grid snap works but not the way most people would want

unity visual bug also trolling

[barren oasis]

Unity isn’t made for modelling, so of course it would suck for modelling

[molten raft]

hey i have a question

why is there holes in my mesh but not in blender

[heavy yacht]

Is there an easy fix to get my material to line up here?

I also can't get it to show on the other side

[heavy yacht]

^ Unity 6 with probuilder

[hearty hill]

I use to use Probuilder alot and made lots of videos on it. I use UModeler X now, its a step up without diving deep into blender.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF570yxCXSA

[pallid patio]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@4.0/manual/auto-uvs-actions.html

maybe this wil help

[pallid patio]

You might have vertices overlapping

[glacial crypt]

Pretty basic question but I couldn't find anything specific online, is there a way I can edit existing models, I want to edit models I already have for animation purposes

I've used tool -> probuilder -> pro builderize and now have this but I can't find the tool it's mentioning to edit it

[green tendon]

guys how to fix this

[young vapor]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.probuilder@6.0/manual/modes.html
always check the docs

[glacial crypt]

I'll take a look, thank you

[formal relic]

project recently corrupted kinda of and had to reinstall every package and now probuilder did this to my map

object size is 0 0 0

[haughty sonnet]

try making the size 1 1 1 then? maybe that brings it back

if you mean the scale

[formal relic]

Can’t

It’s read only

[haughty sonnet]

oh, i thought you meant the gameobject's scale. well, im not sure how to fix this but now is a good time to learn about version control, to prevent a disaster like this from happening again

[formal relic]

heard thats kinda bad

[haughty sonnet]

you mean version control is bad?

[formal relic]

Yes

Other people said it not me

I cannot name them either

[haughty sonnet]

but it would have immediately fixed your disaster here

[formal relic]

Probably

[haughty sonnet]

did they give a reason?

[formal relic]

Idk

[sudden torrent]

Hey, how could i select the circled part without having to select each face manually

[young vapor]

you should be able to just left click drag selection box?

[jagged vapor]

Is all of that a single object? Did you just extrude? If so I don’t think that’s a good approach during development (for this reason)

I think you can zoom in to the point you want broken, and split it there, if I remember right pro builder has a splice/split or whatever tool

[digital finch]

just got started with probuilder yesterday, prior to using it everything was fine but now i simply can't align any object directly against the ground (ground was made before i started using probuilder). everything is always slightly floating above it or clipping into it and grid snapping or changing the Y position isnt helping

[haughty sonnet]

are the Y positions same? and can you post a screenshot?

wait you said its floating above it or clipping into it? that makes sense though, what's your intended result then?

[digital finch]

i just want to connect new cubes and stuff directly onto pre existing walls/floors (that dont have the probuilder components)

so theres no clipping going on

though after much research, i think i might need to redo the old stuff into probuilder versions

[haughty sonnet]

oh i get it now, if you set the Y position the same then it should just work, shouldnt it? if their origin is in the right place

[digital finch]

nah because with probuilder the Y positions work differently for some reason

not sure how id explain it

if i make for example the floor (old) and a new cube (probuilder) the same y level

they wont actually be positioned the same

[haughty sonnet]

look at their origins though

[haughty sonnet]

do their origins match up when you make the Y positions the same? then everything is working properly

[digital finch]

im figuring around with the origins

yes

i made them the same

and uhh

ok no im too confused to explain this

just leave it to me

thx for trying

[haughty sonnet]

maybe a screenshot will help

[digital finch]

here, i gave both the ground (old) and a cube (probuilder) the same exact origin

even at this point, moving the cube up can never get it properly aligned right against the ground

(that second inspector screenshot is the temporary probuilder cube)

[haughty sonnet]

if the cube is 1 meter tall, increase its Y by 0.5

it's as simple as that

[digital finch]

youd think so right

but no

unity is completely cursed

it still doesnt fix it

[haughty sonnet]

that means the floor's origin is not at the same height as the floor itself

[digital finch]

floor was acting a bit weird

anyways i managed to do it

not exactly sure how but with some configuring its perfectly positioned against the ground now

thx a bunch though

[tired wadi]

How to intentionally make the green gizmos appear without duplicating the object? (For some reason it turns on when duplicating the object and stays on permanently on that same object)

[fading fulcrum]

plz help why I can’t build a proper door

[next ridge]

Trying to make a fps level blockout.
I tried the probuilder, so far feels like blender but worse. I consider doing the modelling in blender and then importing to Unity and converting to probuilder object (so i can mess with the level).
Is that approach wrong?
also, is there a way to place a scalable grid texture on each object in blender like here https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/textures-materials/grid-prototype-materials-214264?srsltid=AfmBOorfdTkCr1zHB_ELcLwbiZwvaWbNeQ3WVNJLPmoELg4lWxa8FYX_?

[junior sorrel]

in the Unity editor you would only move the individual objects when you have modelled them in blender, not convert them to ProBuilder. ProBuilder is for dirty sketches/greyboxing/prototying, you would only in the rarest circumstances convert a blender object to ProBuilder.

[next ridge]

so to make something like this https://www.artstation.com/artwork/G8vrPV
i should be using probuilder?
if my game is low poly with mostly simple geometry (for example, like valorant). should i make a blockout in probuilder and when done testing go to blender and redo everything?

[junior sorrel]

yes, you could also do it all in blender,

• don't do blender greybox -> probuilder greybox++ -> blender final,
• do blender greybox -> blender final
• or do probuilder greybox -> blender final

[next ridge]

thanks. is there a way to see a grid on the object surface in Blender? like probuilder does

[hearty hill]

@next ridge - I would say there are different ways to approach block out to full modeling.
Probuilder is perfect blocking out without the complex use of Blender.
My Process is much different:
Blockout: Probuilder -> UModeler Final

This keeps everything in Unity without needing to export at all.
If you do export like me I use Substance Painter just to get the AO Map and Texture

[heavy yacht]

Anyone know of any guides or tutorials that teach how to set up a beautiful environment in Unity WITHOUT terrain? Preferably with ProBuilder.
Been searching YT, but nearly everything uses terrain.
Specifically looking for how to make it look good, not the basic probuilder setup.

Like I have 0 clue what I'm doing 🙂

[young vapor]

"making look good" is reliant on skill level

[heavy yacht]

my skill level in making things look good is basically -1

like I know what materials are, that's basically it

[young vapor]

plenty of level building tutorials that show common ways to compose a simple to complex scene, also helps having good assets

if you got money use Gaia or somethin

[heavy yacht]

where/how do I find these tutorials?

Gaia seems to be for terrain, I'm building a MOBA, so need a very specific flat map that I can mirror, probuilder is perfect for that, I just don't know how to make it look good

Hmm, I wonder if any of their pro products would work for my game

[young vapor]

blocking out then add details later
https://youtu.be/_vBVw9IUD7E
https://youtu.be/m1WeKlNffxg
etc..

[ebon widget]

I created PB, and I'll tell ya - don't use it for Terrain 😛 It just isn't the right tool. It's designed for mostly hard-edged prototypes objects, eg buildings/objects/real basic characters.

I believe @limpid thicket was working on a fantastic terrain solution in her spare time 🙂

[limpid thicket]

Hey there Unity Staff 😂

I've got terrain tool I wanted to release but I got busy with life. I should really get it out the door

[heavy yacht]

Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying, I'm trying NOT to use terrain, because PB let's me easily set up my arena.
But I can't find much about how to make that arena look good afterwards. Everything is so flat and straight and nearly all the tutorials I find are for terrain instead

Are you saying PB is bad for large environment setups?

[woven lake]

More that it isn't really designed for doing the detailed art pass. Really, though, it depends on your needs. You haven't really given a strong reason to use or not use terrain or any other tool.

Terrain can be used purely visually, with a flat playable area and sculpting in the unplayable areas, or could even be used as an efficient flat surface for painting ground textures onto.

Use terrain if you need the things terrain is for, if you don't need it don't. Figure out your needs and pick your tools based on that.

[heavy yacht]

What tools? I don't know any tools

So how do you go from a prototype with PB to an actual environment ready for publishing?
Do you rebuild everything with something else?

[woven lake]

Terrain is a tool for making a dynamically tessellated plane yiu can paint on and attach objects to. Probuilder is a tool to do basic geometry editing. Etc.

[heavy yacht]

yes I know terrain and probuilder, I don't need terrain for my project and I made my environment with probuilder
I'm asking for tools to make it look better

[young vapor]

"i drew this stick figure, how do I make a monalisa out of it"

[heavy yacht]

I'm asking for basic guides and tutorials on the subject, I don't even know what to look for

[haughty sonnet]

can you show an image of the look you're going for?

[heavy yacht]

But I would also have platforms on the sides of the lanes (high ground)

[haughty sonnet]

yeah probuilder can't do this 😄

[heavy yacht]

Game logic is fully 2d though

it can set up the ground & walls & platforms not?

it's basically just a large flat area with walls

[haughty sonnet]

you can do a basic blockout with probuilder sure, but you can't get it to look like this

[heavy yacht]

ok, so imagine I have a much simpler environment, similar to this, set up in probuilder
how do I get it to look good?

or are you saying that I should just delete my probuilder environment and use another tool to build it from scratch?

[half horizon]

years of experience

[heavy yacht]

experience with? how do I get started?

[half horizon]

making environments

[heavy yacht]

which brings me back to my original question from yesterday, where and how do I find guides and tutorials on building environments without terrain?

everything on youtube is about terrain

[half horizon]

you'll probably want to look for level design related things

[heavy yacht]

level design is extremely broad not?

[half horizon]

respectfully, so is your question 😅

[heavy yacht]

I've tried searching for stuff like "probuilder level design", but it just gives me basic tutorials on how to use probuilder, which I can do

[half horizon]

level design education is not specific to probuilder

here's a golden goose for ya, your welcome 😄
https://trello.com/b/AM3ZOmAd/level-design-compendium

[half horizon]

@whole prawn vibe check on making this a pin or something? Not unity specific but really solid collection of level design resources

[haughty sonnet]

first i'd start learning blender, you're gonna need it because probuilder can't do stuff this complex (probuilder is only good at doing mostly blocky stuff). if you want your environment to look the same as in your example, you're gonna need to focus on sculpting in blender (maybe look up stylized rock sculpting tutorials or something)
and to make the textures look the same as in your example, you'd need to become an artist too (that involves photoshop or substance painter or something)

[young vapor]

its totally possible to do everything shown in probuilder

but you might need also polysketch for the more sculpted ones

what makes it look "good" are mainly the textures

good hand painted textures go a long way

the only blocky / blocks only for PB is such a trope at this point lol. Sure at the end of the day you might find easier tools in Blender / cleanup there but PB is capable if you know what you're doing

[haughty sonnet]

actually it might be capable of complex non blocky stuff but it's way harder to make than in blender, and it will be very hard to texture it properly with probuilder's texturing tools

and this example picture i'd say is impossible with probuilder unless you import your probuilder stuff into blender or something

[young vapor]

tbh thats more subjective. I can probably pull this off in PB within a certain time, I would have no clue how to even approach this in Blender

it comes down to the "its not the tools that make a good artist but how the tools are used"

[haughty sonnet]

how would you texture the trees and rocks?

[young vapor]

basic shapes slap texture on UV map for it, you can't do UV unwrap like blender but it does create UV map for you

[heavy yacht]

so I need to learn to use textures

what else

[young vapor]

proper texturing is very important since most shapes are basic primitives (performance reasons)

what you shown, textures really elevate the art

thats why its important to seperate the Blocking out phase for proper scaling / level design etc to iterate over, textures and details come after all that is final

list which parts you think you will need to improve on and go from there.

at the end of the day this is exactly why 3D artists are a thing, they know how to elevate the simple blockouts to actual living environments

[haughty sonnet]

for a good texture you'd need to import the rock into blender or substance painter though at least

[young vapor]

for texturing yeah you're probably better off with those two, especially Substance was designed to create materials.. I don't disagree there, but was just addressing the modeling part , most of whats shown can be done in PB with enough patience / skill .
It doesn't seem OP has much modeled / blocked out though so it depends what stage they're at.

[heavy yacht]

@young vapor that greyboxing video you sent me yesterday is actually really interesting

[heavy yacht]

but what do you do after greyboxing? is it really "just" apply textures & lighting (I know that's a LOT)

[woven lake]

You literally linked a picture of a terrain with some trees on it and asked how to do it without terrain.

You CAN, sure, but it'll be less efficient.

[heavy yacht]

Terrain just seems huge overkill for a flat arena like that?
Also how would I make my map perfectly mirrored using terrain? Is that possible?
I also need some sort of platforms, guess with some effort I could do that with terrain. I just think it would be way harder to build my environment with terrain over PB

[woven lake]

And it isn't like probuilder and terrain are in some way mutually exclusive.

[heavy yacht]

wait really?

[woven lake]

Mirroring can be done via script, or by just editing the terrain height and splatmap.

[woven lake]

Yes. You can gave a terrain for the ground, with probuilder objects for buildings. And then probably importing trees, rocks, etc. from blender.

Also for mirroring, you could just make that map into 4 terrains, and have two of them just be rotated copies.

[half horizon]

Test

Iterate

Usually the prettying up of the level comes comparatively pretty late into the levels lifecycle

[heavy yacht]

test what??????

I'm asking what to do

how can I test without doing something

[heavy yacht]

I know how to build stuff with PB, I'm asking how to make it pretty, how do I get started, what do I need to learn? I don't know!

All I know how to do is add materials and slightly alter the UV, but it never turns out good