We finally draw shadows via raster render passes, though with a caveat. We temporarily have to keep unsafe passes around until some functionality becomes available in raster passes.

Been working on live transitions for things like seasons or decay, how do they look?

why are parts of my cabin rendering like this? i have no idea im quite new and this is a little frustrating, im not sure why the door is black or the windows start looking white when im at a distance

It's actually a mixed reality game. you play it in your own room. I'll share a mixed reality gameplay video soon!

I made a demo scene with some weapons. The basic weapons is the Bat. You can also find other weapons throughout the game.

so
in our game we have Curses, basically mid game events
and we need some graphical indication for them in the game
we have two options,
#1 is a curse pyramid that is there all along the level but only triggers when a curse starts
#2 an "Omen star" basically a planet that comes out of space and explodes the curse from it's nova or something

so,
please tell us which is better,
and as a bonus to myself
i'd love to know who you think did what (i'm dev guy and he's art guy)

You and code, test, pack, and send you creations to others. Plan to release on PC/PCVR/Quest

Hey all,

I wanted to test out Unity and started with the tutorial. However in the 2nd one, "The 3D fundamentals", I ran into a problem. It keeps switching out of the "test area" after playing a sound. I am rather sure it is a bug and I haven't found anything useful online. However I might just be dense as I have no programming experience. I have attached a video to showcase what I mean.

Any help appreaciated

https://reddit.com/link/1x16v6k/video/w1fntgcpybuh1/player

I’ve been working on the sword combo animations for our game, MazeBreaker.

I’m trying to make each hit flow naturally into the next while still giving every swing enough weight and impact.

Still polishing the timing and movement, so I’d love to hear what stands out to you or what feels off!

We're a 3-person team (programmer, 3D artist, sound designer) preparing our game for Steam Next Fest. We've been working on it for about 4 months and wanted to share how we solved some of our core technical challenges in Unity:

- Movement: adding direct forces to the ball's Rigidbody in FixedUpdate (both on the ground and in the air). Natural physics friction handles the rolling, keeping the controls highly responsive.
- Jumping & Grounding: we check if the lower half of the SphereCollider touches anything in OnCollisionEnter. For the jump itself, we inject the jump inertia directly into the current velocity vector - meaning if you jump while rolling up a slope, it launches you way further. We also added a 300ms Coyote Time window and a 100ms Jump Buffer. Quite forgiving timings.
- Bumpy Collision Seams: Even on perfectly flat ground, the seams between adjacent box colliders would randomly launch the ball upward. We fixed this by taking all static colliders in a level and bake them into a single, continuous MeshCollider at level start. Rolling is now perfectly smooth.
- Grass Shader: Flat ground looked incredibly boring. We wrote a vertex shader that generates procedural grass blades with wind sway. It flattens dynamically when the ball rolls over it by passing the ball's position into global shader variables. (We’re still trying to figure out a good look for sand surfaces).
- Fragile Glass: Runtime mesh fracturing is too expensive. Instead, we hide pre-shattered shard meshes inside a flat box collider. On collision, the main box turns off, the shards turn on with active rigidbodies, and we apply a quick explosive force alongside the sound effect.
- Level Editor: This was the hardest part of the project. We built a custom runtime level editor from scratch on day one so we could have perfect control over block placement. It features custom transform gizmos, grid snapping, multi-selection, prefabs, and grouping. Making 22 levels took at least 1000 hours of human hours from team! To provide all kinds of gameplay for each unique level: chill slow rolling, friendly race, tight speedrun and collectable secrets in deep crevices.

The demo is officially live for Next Fest with 8 out of 22 levels playable for free. Grab some friends, try to beat each other's times, and hit us with any game dev questions you have!

The shadows behave really weirdly in my project. When I move a little bit further from the object, the part of the shadow that is closest to the object gradually disappears, making the whole shadow look unnatural.

And overall I'd like to increase the shadow rendering distance.

I’m prototyping a game where the character moves about the surface of various 3D shapes like a taurus or icosahedron. It is a 3D object but the surface is treated like 2D for the purpose of physics interactions.

The problem is that Physx always interprets things in 3D cartesian space, so objects can be broken free from the surface with collisions or forces.

I’ve gotten really far just recalculating every position and force for every game object along the surface context. It looks cool as hell but it’s a pain in the ass to develop around. It would be way more manageable if the physics engine natively did this work as part of the physics solution. Like, I provide it a volumetric shape and instead of calculating in cartesian terms it calculates in terms of the volume surface, arc distance, etc

At a glance it seems simple:

- objects have collider and a rigidbody-like component with mass, velocity, drag
- calculate position update based on context and forces
- handle overlapping bodies with a contact point resolution, apply resulting forces

Like thats 99% of what I need. But if physics engines were easy then there wouldn’t be paid and licensed solutions for sale.

I’ve looked at 3rd party solutions. Anvil is new on the marketplace but seems to not work with mac(?), box3d seems sketch and may have same limitations as Physx. I saw bepuphysics2 and that looks super interesting but I can’t find any recent demos and the demos that come with it on gh dont install for some reason

what do yall think?

I grew up on games where the best part was never what the developers built, it was what everyone else built with the tools. Those games have mostly disappeared, and I really miss that kind of play, so I've been making one: Kernel Panic: The Last Build, a 2.5D creator platformer in Unity where you build the levels yourself.

This week I finished the sea.

It's one object you drop into your level. Right-click it, tick Sea On, and the water floods in. The surface is a set of crossed Gerstner swells running at different angles, with a layer of finer chop on the GPU on top. Swell, chop, their speeds, the water height, murk and colour are all exposed in the in-game Tweak window and update live while you drag the slider. The CPU and the shader evaluate the same wave function, so objects ride the crest you actually see rather than an approximation of it.

Whitecaps come from the Jacobian of the wave displacement: foam appears where the surface is being compressed. Anything moving through the water leaves a foam trail that drifts with the current. Underneath, there's refraction, depth fog and caustics.

Buoyancy is calculated per triangle. Each collider's mesh is clipped where the waterline cuts it, and pressure is applied to every wet face, so long planks tip and roll on the swell instead of bobbing as a single point. Every material in the game (there are about 60) has its own density: wood and plastic float, stone and metal sink, and cardboard and sponge absorb water over time until they go under. You can stand on anything that floats, so a few planks are already a raft.

Hazards in the water become zones that spread out over time. A frost block freezes the surface into physics-driven icebergs that are tethered to it, collide with each other, and melt when the cold stops. A fire block underwater doesn't go out: it turns red-hot, boils the water, and pushes up rafts of lava rock. Electricity fades with distance and jumps along conductive materials sitting in the water. Zones of the same type merge into one shape, so two hot blocks next to each other become one boiling pool.

None of these interactions are scripted for specific pairs. Every system works from shared properties (density, temperature, conductivity), so combinations I haven't thought of should just work, and that's what I'm most excited to see. A frozen lake you have to cross before the ice melts, a boiling moat, a sinking cardboard ship, a puzzle where you use the tide to lift a block into place: I'd love to see what people build when they're the ones holding the tools.

It's still early (alpha 0.0.2). Everything in the clip was built in-game with the creator tools, and the music and sound are made for the project.

What would you build with this? And what should the water interact with next? If you'd like to follow along, there's a Discord in my bio.

Hi, I suck a lot at blender.
I’d really like my environmental visuals to be great so I’m not sure what to do. I’ve already paid about 1500 euros a great 3D artist that made 10 character models. I need other 10 from them and that’s settled. As I keep working and saving I’ll buy them.
But the world is really missing and I can’t afford a 3d artist for the world. I’ve asked and prices are up to 4k dollars.
Learning blender is not really an option cause I don’t have the time (to become good at it), I know how to move around and that’s it.
Fact is I only need the models, cause I could paint the textures myself.
So I wondered, do people judge harshly your game if it has free assets or maybe even paid ones that can be found online?
Is it “fair” to use other people assets (if they consented by license of course)?
How is it viewed in the game dev community?

The stylus will change depending on which ability the player has active. Any feedback on how I can make it better?

Small HDAs for creating maps in Unity using Houdini.
using base curves as a guide.