make a thread.

[gleaming burrow]

oki done that now but now when i press add nothing happends in the video i should get more options

nvm ity was slow i got this now

[gusty yarrow]

i dont have eyes on your screen so you would have to show screenshot because I have no clue

click Initialize

[gleaming burrow]

new one of theese

[honest pelican]

click locate and find the folder for your game

[gleaming burrow]

oki its thinking 😄 i guess this is gonna take a while so i go walk my dogs now 😄

noipe same message again

[gusty yarrow]

huh?

[honest pelican]

interesting

[gleaming burrow]

new adress though but thats where im getting it from

[gusty yarrow]

something is wrong with your pc or github desktop

[honest pelican]

onedrive?

[gusty yarrow]

ahh..

dont use onedrive

[honest pelican]

is that not cloud based

[gusty yarrow]

that crap messes with your files in bad way

microsoft so insidious with that bs

[honest pelican]

use a normal folder for your game

in the C: directory

or

on desktop

[gleaming burrow]

eh my entiere desktop is there:P Skrivbord = desktop

[honest pelican]

on onedrive??

[gusty yarrow]

horrid

[gleaming burrow]

appently if you check the adress

[honest pelican]

yeah dont do that

thats why

[gleaming burrow]

i havent on purpose

[honest pelican]

you are having issues

[gleaming burrow]

this is how i got my computer installed from the store

[honest pelican]

really? interesting

well theres your issue

[gusty yarrow]

because they try to get you to use their bs software

[honest pelican]

dont fall for it

[gleaming burrow]

oki so how can i fix it?`

[gusty yarrow]

who knows what bloatware you still got too

always make a clean install when coming from a store bought PC

[honest pelican]

well you would move your files over to your pc

or

make a new folder for your git

[gusty yarrow]

just move the project to the C:/unityprojects or something

delete any old Git folders, and gitignore and start new

(make sure Show hidden files and Folders is on)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/view-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-97fbc472-c603-9d90-91d0-1166d1d9f4b5

[honest pelican]

also to reinstate dont move all of your files over to your pc, you can if you want but it may cause problems

[gleaming burrow]

oh oki this is gonna take a while 😛 better go walk my dogs first 😛

[honest pelican]

i cant believe companies still use onedrive for garbage lke that

[gleaming burrow]

can i just cut out the rootfolder and put it on the other harddriver where i from now will save all my projects`?

[gleaming burrow]

how long can the first load take? when the game is big?

its just spinning 😛

been doing for 15min now

[honest pelican]

just let it do its thing

[gleaming burrow]

yea but can i do something else while i wait or does it disturb as it does when downloading stuff?

[honest pelican]

you can still use your pc when its doing this

[gleaming burrow]

oki so not like a download 😄

[honest pelican]

just dont close out of it

[gleaming burrow]

oki but if it take more than 2hours i have to 😛

if this works i will get so fking annoyed it basicly would mean that, i have given up cause i thought i did something wrong and noone understood what. and all it was. A god damn onedrive..

[gleaming burrow]

srsly""""

ive been at my computer watchjing netflix all thje time

no los of connections at all

[gusty yarrow]

did it create the repo

[gleaming burrow]

i guess this couints?`

so i guess i just press publish to github now?

[gusty yarrow]

looks correct

[gleaming burrow]

so just publish this to github now and it should keep track of my changes?

[honest pelican]

you dont already have it on github?

also please set up a gitignore

[gleaming burrow]

i only have something looking like this

[honest pelican]

it will make your files go from 23000 files to like 100

[gleaming burrow]

what do you mean byt setting up gitignore? i press the unity gitignore?

[honest pelican]

when you make a new github repo it says if you want to add a gitignore

you add it

[gleaming burrow]

yes and i did and i chose the unity one

isnt this gitignore?

[honest pelican]

yessir

but you need to configure it

[gleaming burrow]

how? how should i know what to do?

[honest pelican]

is your main folder with your assets in another folder?

[gleaming burrow]

all tutorials just say press the button and its fine

[gusty yarrow]

if you added the gitignore from the wizard it should be fine

double check its contents if you want

but if you dont see the Library folder in the commit then you know it worked

[honest pelican]

its not working correctly unless he actually has 23,000 files to commit

[gleaming burrow]

i dont even know what this means

[honest pelican]

show me the github page

[gleaming burrow]

i might have that many its a rpgbuilder game. so its a full on rpg with alot of stuff that i can do with alot of stuff

[gusty yarrow]

its possible

esp with .meta files

[honest pelican]

gitignore is supposed to ignore them

mine does

[gusty yarrow]

its not

[gleaming burrow]

still only this

[gusty yarrow]

.meta files are very important

the references would break without them

[honest pelican]

ah then idk what mine does lmao

[gusty yarrow]

did you actually publish from github desktop

[honest pelican]

thats your repo?

[gleaming burrow]

haha its tobig 😄

its gonna take a while 😄 i got 1hour before i have to redo everything 😄

[honest pelican]

this is what mine looks like

thats why i asked if your main folder with all of the assets is in another folder

[gleaming burrow]

this is the full adress

but im not really disturbed about the huge number of files, because the rpgbuilder in it self is huge

[honest pelican]

ah, then i guess you actually have 23,000 files

thats nuts

[gleaming burrow]

😛

[honest pelican]

well yup just wait then

[gleaming burrow]

😄

A totaly other questions. Do you guys know of a good workflow with making maps in blender and getting them to unity and still use github?

[honest pelican]

well make the map then export them as FBX or OBJ format into unity

then commit if not to big

ofc with all of the textures

[gusty yarrow]

I prefer using Probuilder for this

when you are ready to finilize the meshes, then you can clean up in blender

this way you spend less time during iteration/grayboxing. Exporting each time you make a change is painful

[gleaming burrow]

im asking for a friend but i have a hard time understanding him 😄 hihihi

got this after 90%

and no change in github

[gusty yarrow]

can you try a simpler repo first

narrow down the issue not being Github desktop client etc.

[gleaming burrow]

oki

[honest pelican]

maybe export half your project or something, 23,000 files is a ton of work for your router to be doing

[gusty yarrow]

all in shot maybe depending on speed/sizes

[honest pelican]

exporting isnt the most painful thing when using blender for maps, its usually texturing

for me at least

[gleaming burrow]

ill try one of my vfx projects. it might still be to big 😛 but well see 😄

just need to move it to the right place 😄

[honest pelican]

i do kinda agree a little bit with probuilder

[gleaming burrow]

The thing is I´m not sure entirly what he wants to do. but for somereaons he hates probuilder and he doesnt want to export huge files all the time. since he is building the entire map in blender with textures and all. for a CS´like game

[honest pelican]

if he wants some halflife/1/2 or quake movement he can check out my free package

once it upload (shameless plug)

[gleaming burrow]

no we have the game and we even have multiplayer and stuff. now its just a god damn hassle with new maps 😄

[gleaming burrow]

i might check that out though 😄

[honest pelican]

you can look at the trailer on my website

[gleaming burrow]

link?

i can look at that while i wait for my slow repo creating computer 😄

[honest pelican]

https://decves.github.io/DecVesWEB.github.io/
the first video is the trailer and the second video is the updated showcase version

i gotta make the website look more professional though 😅

[gleaming burrow]

just make an AI image for background and your sound 😄

looked good

[gusty yarrow]

oh god no AI images

[gleaming burrow]

they can become really good actually 😄

for background stuff

[honest pelican]

no ai in my website

lol

[gusty yarrow]

its using plagiarized material

[honest pelican]

not tryna get sued

[gusty yarrow]

stealing from other artists who actually make good shit lol

[honest pelican]

cant do that rn

[gleaming burrow]

hihi maybe, but so does every artist 😄

nothing is ever new

[gusty yarrow]

mimic a style and stealing work are two different things

[gleaming burrow]

NVM i figured you are right..... it did steal i was just bad at googling as usual 😄

it worked with my vfx

[gusty yarrow]

hmm
try deleting the git folder n related files in the other one, rename the project
try making the other project not have so many spaces in the folder names , not sure if it matters tho

[gleaming burrow]

ok i will try that tomorrow 😄 now i need to go sleep 😛

thanks alot for the help. i will use you two with my noob coding questions later 😄

[honest pelican]

alrighty

[gleaming burrow]

how do i remove stuff from here?

[honest pelican]

remove projects?

like delete them?

[gleaming burrow]

yea

half of them are just me trying to get github working before your help 😛

Anyways my noob questions is. I´m trying to learn programming, and im trying to make a pingpong game. since someone said it should be easy. but i cant get the ball to do what i want. i tried to make a picture 😄

[honest pelican]

you can delete them via going into the repo and going to settings -> delete repository which is all the way at the bottom

[honest pelican]

best bet is to ask in the discord itself

to get answers fast

[gleaming burrow]

oki you mean from desktop ap or inside github it self`?

[honest pelican]

in github itself

[gleaming burrow]

ah thats annoying..... you have to type each name again to delete it 😦

[honest pelican]

yeah

[gleaming burrow]

I still gett the internet loss error

[honest pelican]

try splitting project in half

[gleaming burrow]

what you mean how ?

[honest pelican]

like commit half your project

then another half

so you can actually commit

[gleaming burrow]

but how do i choose?

[honest pelican]

well you make a new repo and put half or a quarter of your project in there

once that commits

commit another half/quarter

etc

[gleaming burrow]

ok will try that next time 😄

asking my question in discord did not get any answers at all just one that didnt understand me 😛

[gleaming burrow]

hehe just for reference my projects contains 70k objects 😛 so i will try to maybe do it in quarters or something 😄

[honest pelican]

yeah, you could probably lower than number a ton by importing all of them in blender and doing some cleanup

as long as its 1 big map

[gleaming burrow]

oh my github and the blender thing is two different things 😛

[gleaming burrow]

for my github problem. can i split the assets folder in 2 or more? i tried puting one folder up at the time but both my assets folder and library folder is giving me my internet loss thing after 90% im starting to think it might be something inside somewhere that is fking it up

[gusty yarrow]

library folder?

you should not upload library folder to github at all

[gleaming burrow]

library is inside assets folder....

and its HUGE

so what is library anyways?

[gusty yarrow]

what.. that doesnt sound right

library is usually at root of the project

show your assets folder

[honest pelican]

library folder meaning a folder you made?

[gleaming burrow]

no i havent made it

[honest pelican]

library is something that unity creates automatically, since you have a ton of objects its creating a lot of stuff to do whatever unity needs

you dont need to import it at all

[gleaming burrow]

oki, can i somehow split my assets folder ?

[honest pelican]

split it in what way?

[gleaming burrow]

like make it assets1 and assets2 so i can upload half and half to github. since the entire folder doesnt work

[honest pelican]

yes probably, im not 100% sure though only because i dont want you to corrupt your project accidentally

[gleaming burrow]

im almost thinking of redoing 1year of work,,, and start with github froim the start 😛 but not sure i can be bothered some of the implementations like armor and weapons was kinda tedious (spelling) 😛

[gleaming burrow]

why does it show red this time? it says deleted, but its not deleted....

[honest pelican]

you moved the files from the library folder?

[gleaming burrow]

no i made a own assets folder in github folder. and just took half the folders and tried to commit them.

this happend in the desktop right after i moved them

[honest pelican]

if you move assets it will say it deleted them

but it will say you added assets back into a folder

dont worry about it

[gleaming burrow]

oki 😄 so just try to commit this half than the rest and hope to god its not to big still 😄

[gleaming burrow]

thats just wrong though but oki 😄

god damn still the same error....

[honest pelican]

try importing quarters

[gusty yarrow]

can you show all the files its trying to commit

[gleaming burrow]

they dissapear after the error.... so i have to redo it 😄 give me a sec

im gonna try with just 2 folders now 😛 its still 20k+ objects 😛

[gusty yarrow]

just show the files its trying to commit

[gleaming burrow]

you wanna see the files in desktop or files inside the folders that im moving?

[gusty yarrow]

desktop app

[gleaming burrow]

oki than you have to wait a bit it takes some time for desktop app to register that i have done something

more comming

oh dekstop app just delete half of it ....

now it saying only 2413 objects....

[gusty yarrow]

are they all from the "Assets" folder

[gleaming burrow]

yea its only assets-ariga-blink folders.

[gusty yarrow]

i wonder if doing it through the cli would work better..could be desktop app being dum

btw did you give it a Summary when you tried committ ?

[gleaming burrow]

no do i have to?

[gleaming burrow]

what you mean?

[gusty yarrow]

yes , see it says (required)

[gleaming burrow]

oh sorry. yea i did

[gusty yarrow]

using the CLI ?

Command Line Interface

your error is coming from github desktop right?

[gleaming burrow]

yes it does it says i lose connections. i dont know how to use command line interface:P i will have to watch tutorials on that and make 100misstakes before i can try 😛

[gusty yarrow]

yes, its pretty simple really

just like when you type code in the editor to make a script

you learn how send the commands

[gleaming burrow]

oki so google something like " command line interface to git " or ?

[gusty yarrow]

they have git which you need installed on your pc

and you can also install the CLI for github

https://docs.github.com/en/github-cli/github-cli/quickstart

git and github are two different thing

git is the actual repo software

github just hosts repos, there other sites

[gleaming burrow]

oh right i keep forgetting 😛

[gleaming burrow]

sorry i dont understand this linke at all. have 5 different things just choose one?

[gusty yarrow]

you just need it so you can login and do it via cli

this one just makes it easier to connect to github

[gleaming burrow]

need what its 5 different things?

[gusty yarrow]

wdym 5 different things?

[honest pelican]

CLI basically uses GIT BASH which is a command line to commit items

its very easy to do

[gleaming burrow]

what i have git bash installed but never used it

[gusty yarrow]

go into terminal

type git

if it says not valid you need to install it

[gusty yarrow]

ok

now just get the github CLI

which lets you sign into github

[gleaming burrow]

which one? there are 5

[gusty yarrow]

use winget

you might need to install it if you never used it

you can also get the MSI

but its better to learn how to install such package managers

[gleaming burrow]

remember i have 0 knowledge of normal computer stuff.. i have to google half of what you are talking about 😛

[gusty yarrow]

I mean if you plan on coding a game this is pretty basic stuff lol

googling will help you its good to google

(winget is basically package manager for windows)

the same app you use to remove/install apps

[gleaming burrow]

apperntly so basic that noone teaches it

[gusty yarrow]

not anymore I suppose, but in a way it helps if you're also interested in these powerful calculators and how they work 😛

[gleaming burrow]

i got a zip file from the link. does it matter where i extract it?

[gusty yarrow]

which link I have no idea what you clicked

[gusty yarrow]

hmm i just isntalled it via terminal

extract it iges

[gleaming burrow]

but how can i install something from the client without having it on my computer?

[gusty yarrow]

wait make sure u dont have it already

go to your terminal and write winget

[gusty yarrow]

https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/download/v2.55.0/gh_2.55.0_windows_amd64.msi

alternatively you can just get the .msi install

[gusty yarrow]

oh so its there alreayd

[gleaming burrow]

how the hell is this even possible 😛

[gusty yarrow]

probably because its part of windows already

type winget install --id GitHub.cli

close terminal after that

then open again and see if gh command works

[gleaming burrow]

oki closing now

think it works..

[gusty yarrow]

ok you should be able to follow the rest of the steps to login and you can start uploaing it via command line

hopefully that can give you better indication of where it goes wrong

just make sure you add the correct .gitignore into the root of folder when creating repo again

(just to be clear delete the old .git folder)

[gleaming burrow]

stuck at part one 😄

arrow keys dont work.

should i do the help one?

this is way to complicated allrdy you said this would be easy 😛 hihihi

did the help one aswell no help here at all

[gusty yarrow]

coding a game is not any easier 😛

try it without the Bash

[gleaming burrow]

so far it is 😄 this i dont understand at all

[gusty yarrow]

use regular terminal

[gusty yarrow]

whats there not to understand ? you're doing the same thing as the desktop app but in the command line

[gleaming burrow]

words the help one doesnt tell me anything.

[gleaming burrow]

and type the same command?

i hope powershell is a regular terminal cause thats all i got when is search for windows terminal

oki its doing something but asking stuff aswell 😛

reading about the two....

this is not correct.......

im not inTäby 😛

[honest pelican]

all its getting is the very rough location you are at

[gleaming burrow]

eh extremly rough 😄

[gusty yarrow]

also no need to show us your IP

[honest pelican]

yeah dont do that

[gleaming burrow]

ooops

[honest pelican]

people could use that very wrongly

[gleaming burrow]

true 😄

didnt really think it was my ip since it was so far off 😄

[gusty yarrow]

even so

[gleaming burrow]

this was not easy... 😛

[gusty yarrow]

nothing new is easy

[gleaming burrow]

i created a new repo now that worked fine. but what now? there is no more commands to use.

[gusty yarrow]

I meant you didnt have to make a new repo from blank, i mean make repo from your project just maek sure the delete the .git folder in there (its hidden)

keep the .gitignore inside root

[gleaming burrow]

allrdy made a new one 😛

but thats as far as i got. now im lost again

[gusty yarrow]

commit and push ( google or youtube this process if you're confused)

make sure its selected as your repo you're working with

[gleaming burrow]

will have to do that tomorrow.

im still a bit confused what is what atm 😄 and im tired

[gusty yarrow]

did you not code in unity yet ?

[gleaming burrow]

only the pingpong 😄

[gusty yarrow]

a lot of the c# coding are much more complex then some simple terminal commands lol

[gleaming burrow]

its not the commands in it self that is confusing. its the whole way of doing it that is confusing

[gusty yarrow]

all yyou're doing is using an app without a Graphical Interace (GUI)

its literally the same thing as github desktop

[gleaming burrow]

yes but the entire github is still confusing for me

[gusty yarrow]

just remmeber git is for the repository (keep track of the project forchanges)

[gleaming burrow]

so its not really the terminal and the command lines that is confusing. its all the other "normal computer stuff"

[gusty yarrow]

github is just a cloud hoster for such repos

imagine this software all its purpose is to track your project and its files for changes

when the changes are detected it tells you about it, then its up to you to commit the changes, then push the changes

I'm just assuming the github desktop app had a hardtime for some reason with your current project

but also I noticed some of your assets name are incredibly long and have lots of spaces and () , it could be cause of issue for commit

[gleaming burrow]

oh so next i maybe i should use _ instead of spaces on names for armor that doesnt show to the player. and only spaces inside whats actually shows to the player

to tire now cya tomorrow i guess 😛

[gusty yarrow]

👋

[gleaming burrow]

i cant even find a good tutorial that shows what i want to do 😦

[honest pelican]

for git SLI?

all it is like navarone said is the same thing as a GUI client

but you are commiting via command line

[gleaming burrow]

i cant find one single tutorial on how to commit... tried reading the commands but all i get is errors

[honest pelican]

git commit

should be like that

[gleaming burrow]

but how does it know what to commit?

[honest pelican]

it just commits whatever changes you made

i believe

[gleaming burrow]

but how does it know whichone and to where?

i cant even get the first commit to work, but im going for a shower now

[honest pelican]

you should have to pick a repo to commit, and it just commits it to the repos github

[gleaming burrow]

this just happends for me

or this

or this

[honest pelican]

i believe this commits, your second and third pictures are saying to track a file to be commited, the last picture is saying you added another repo inside an existing repo and the existing repo doesnt know what it is

you basically cloned it inside itself

best talk to navarone with this, i only know so much about SLI

[gleaming burrow]

ok ill wait for him 😄

[gleaming burrow]

i think i migght have figured it out its doing something atleast 😄

its spamming this

im gonna go walk my dogs and let it run

[gusty yarrow]

you have to tell it which repo you want to select

[gleaming burrow]

but how? and what did i just do?

and how can it not be one single tutorial on this? im so confused

[gusty yarrow]

wdym, there are dozens of tutorials on this..

[gleaming burrow]

show me one? that is actually showing me how to use it like i would be 5years old. all i can find is for ppl who allrdy understands the terminal

i tried theese

i watched them 2 ½ times

[gusty yarrow]

i dont understand whats confusing to you exactly?

[gleaming burrow]

no one shows how to actually tell the cli which folder should go where

you said i have to tell it which repo to select. but there is nowhere to be found how to do that.

[gusty yarrow]

man sometimes just look at the menual

https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_repo

https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_repo_list

https://docs.github.com/en/migrations/importing-source-code/using-the-command-line-to-import-source-code/adding-locally-hosted-code-to-github#initializing-a-git-repository

cd navigates you to your folders
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/cd

[gleaming burrow]

git bash didnt work for me so you told me to use my windows one and its power shell.

[gusty yarrow]

just use the regular command line yes

[gleaming burrow]

i got this far

but thats just my folder on my computer.. how do i tell it to actually go to my repo on github?

[gusty yarrow]

did you click the link i sent you ?

it explains it how to initialize a repo and send it to GH

[gleaming burrow]

im reading it.... but i dont understand it.

[gusty yarrow]

idk what to tell you then lol Making a game wont be any easier

these are very basic steps, it aint physics

basic computer steps 🤷‍♂️

[gleaming burrow]

there is nothing basic about this.....

it never does what it says its supose to

[gusty yarrow]

cause you dont follow instructions properly

I told you more than once before to also delete your old git folder and you did not do that

[gleaming burrow]

how can i delete something i dont know where it is?

[gusty yarrow]

honestly i got work today I cant be doing a 1v1. read the messages back carefully

you will see it

[gleaming burrow]

nps but i will read again but i wont notice it

[gusty yarrow]

I mentioned it more than once

its called .git

[gleaming burrow]

there is none

but you go work, there is no hurry in this

[gusty yarrow]

🤷‍♂️

[honest pelican]

to check hidden files, go to view and check "hidden items"

[gleaming burrow]

ok so now i made a totaly new folder, but when you say delete all my git folders. do you really mean all even those who i managed load to github?

[gusty yarrow]

i said to only delete git folder from the old project .. so a new repo can be created

[gleaming burrow]

oh i deleted everything 😛

i took this as delete everything and restart

[gusty yarrow]

yes but that was in context of the project that wasnt working

[gleaming burrow]

its still the same project i have my own backups of it like 3 of them 😄

[honest pelican]

From what im seeing, I believe the best bet for you is just to make a entirely new repo using a tutorial and importing your project quarters at a time since it is so big, just next time please set up git first then make a big project so this doesnt happen again, navarone probably has a tutorial suggestion as well since he makes them so you can watch either, this is the one i started with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpXxcvS-g3g&t=1s

[gleaming burrow]

yay got it to work on my huge project 😄 Thanks Alot for all the help 😄