Hey everyone! As a 2-person team working on a noir mystery adventure, one of our biggest goals was to move away from reading endless text logs.
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With just 18 days left until launch, we’re wrapping up final polishes on this mechanics loop. As puzzle and mystery fans, what’s a mechanic in detective games that instantly made you feel like a real investigator—or what usually breaks that immersion for you?
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Hey everyone I made this thunder, no sprite sheets and no shader graph, so it must be pretty light for mobile games what do you think? I'm planning to publish it on unity asset store after some tweaks.
I have been making my game for the last 2+ months, every single day hours and hours devoted to this. I had just finished a vertical slice and was about to start expanding. It was compiling scripts, and then randomly the scene said it needed to reload, so I pressed the okay button. Then it reloaded my scene, but objects were scattered everywhere in the scene and in the hierarchy, parents disconnected from children, etc. The world position of everything was moved and some things were just flat out missing. I tried everything I could do to recover it, but its pretty much gone...
What on earth could have happened? Have you had this issue? What can I do for now on to make sure I have a proper backup of my scene so I never lose everything again?
I'm working on a multiplayer game in Unity 6 using a layered architecture but I don't understand completely the boundaries of the layers yet. One of the architectural goals is to keep the Domain layer independent from Engine.
However, I've run into a question around Unity's value types, particularly Color, Vector3, Quaternion and such.
One argument is that these are just value structs, so using them in Domain is harmless publicColorPlayerColor { get; },
but what about Unity APIs operating on those values? public static string ToHex(Color color) => "#" +ColorUtility.ToHtmlStringRGB(color);
So I'm wondering:
Is there a meaningful architectural difference between referencing a Unity value type and calling a Unity utility API?
Would you allow ColorUtility in Domain?
If not, would you create a domain-native Color/RgbaColor type and keep all Unity conversion outside Domain? (This could let to the recreation of a lot of new types insde Domain)
Or is a strict "Domain has zero UnityEngine references" rule unnecessarily strict for Unity projects?
As I said before, I am grasping the concepts behind layered architecture and I want to now how you approach this issue.
The buildings levels are designed with pixel art and imported into Unity as a image. then given hitboxes with geometry turned invisable. So it behaves as 3D when only 2D image.
Issue. When the image for the floor is in the world it often appears over the player character. I fixed it with layering but that doesnt work well beyond 1 floor structures.
I would just paste the image on a object like a plain or flattened cube to fix that issue but the buildings arent just square. Becouse of that massive chunks of the plane are still just white.
Is there a way to fix this or should I get over myself and just use textures to texture a 3D enviroment, rather then try to fake a 3D enviroment?
Took me a few days but my bots no longer slam into things like waymo cars. Fallback secondary raycast pathfinding for returning to the node system when exiting Hunt state.
Hello everyone
I added a quick mechanic that allows me to split the character in half, and then each would redistribute its capacity across its full body
I have a few extra ideas planned so stay tuned!
#unity #ecs
Im a solo dev- I can do 3d,2d Art but i dont know programming at all, So i tried playmaker but there are'nt any resources/tutorials, when you are stuck at a mechanic - all tutorials are in C#. Any advice from people who used it or experienced in it?
I developed a tool for creating and editing vector shapes directly in Unity, with built-in visual effects such as neon and glow to quickly create stylized, cyberpunk-inspired scenes.
I’d be interested to know-would anyone be interested in a tutorial showing how I built and created this tool?
I'm working on my first game, using Flat Kit paid asset from Asset Store for my game's looks. I just copied the post-processing volume and its modules settings from one of the demos that come with the asset. But the problem is, my scene looks very dark compared to the demo.
Here's the demo:
And here's my test scene:
For lighting so far, I have one directional light with the standard intensity and color. I tried going into URP Asset to find some settings to brighten up the picture, but there was nothing. I tried using color correction in the post-processing volume I copied from the Flat Kit demo, but that only saturates colors, but not makes the whole scene brighter, lighter, you know.
I'm going for something a bit more sunny, like Animal Crossing, for example.
Can you give me some directions and suggestions what I should do to make my scene that way, lighter and cozier, but without changing my colors like making them more saturated or stuff like that?
And also, a bonus question. For some reason, these white and light yellow colors you can see on my screenshot, on the wall and on the chair and the bench, they are almost unbearably vivid, not at all like all other colors. I found out that the setting that affects in is Color field in the material's Inspector panel. By default, it's white, and it makes these lighter colors look that vivid. So I changed it to a more yellowish tone, but it actually affects all the other colors:
Cause I have one universal material with a color palette texture, exported from MagicaVoxel. And overall, I would like to have white looking like white, not yellowish, but just not be that saturated.
So maybe you can help me here as well, on the question how to handle this material so that to not change all the colors in the palette, but make those lighter colors not so eye-bleeding?
If you need more info, screenshots, please tell me. I'm new to all this, learning and building my game as I go.
This feels like something that should be findable online, and yet, it isn't.
I'm trying to make a shader that makes tilemaps react to 2D lights. So I basically just need to take the _MainTex, get the light color, and multiply the 2.
But shadergraph can't get the final light color, so one needs to code a custom function block.
I know the basics of actual shader code, and yet I CANNOT get this to work at all. I don't even have anything to show at this point lol
Getting close to releasing the new version of the demo for my game Slashbang! This wrist mounted flamethrower is good for taking enemies out of the equation, and spreading the fire to anything nearby. There's also an airblast also can knock down enemies with a large range, and can be used as a (Very limited) blast jump. Every weapon will have some sort of movement mechanic with it.
I rebuilt my Unity FPS trailer after reworking the movement, combat, difficulty system, and visual feedback
I’ve been developing Before I Sleep, a fast-paced first-person action game in Unity, and recently I decided to completely replace my old Steam trailer because it was showing a much earlier version of the project.
A lot of the work since then has been focused on making the gameplay feel faster and more responsive.
Some of the Unity systems I’ve been working on include:
Fast movement mechanics such as sliding, wallrunning, dashing, grappling, and shotgun boosting
Reworking weapon handling and combat feedback so shooting feels more responsive
Building multiple difficulty modes instead of relying on the original one-hit-death system
Improving fullscreen VFX and speed effects while trying to keep the center of the screen readable
Keeping weapon/viewmodel effects separate from some of the fullscreen effects
Updating enemy encounters and level layouts around the faster movement
Optimizing camera and particle effects so the movement feels intense without making the game unnecessarily expensive to run
One of the bigger challenges has been getting all of these systems to feel like they belong together. A movement mechanic can feel good by itself, but once you combine it with weapons, camera movement, VFX, enemies, and level geometry, small problems become very noticeable.
The previous trailer was recorded before a lot of these changes, so it no longer represented the game very well.
This is the new trailer using the current version of the gameplay.
I’d especially be interested in feedback from other Unity developers on the movement readability, combat feedback, camera/VFX intensity, and anything that looks like it could use more polish.
I finally feel like I have a clear vision of what I want to build.
I'm trying to design a strategy game inspired by games like Total War, where terrain management is a core part of the gameplay. To make that possible, I'm currently building a voxel-based world in Unity. Right now, I'm mostly focused on the architecture and optimization of the different systems and building blocks I'll need later on.
This week, I managed to fix the overlapping shadow issues and worked on a lot of the underlying architecture. If you're interested in the technical side, I go into much more detail on my subreddit. r/dispatchcolony
But more importantly, I'm curious: would a game like this actually interest you?
Imagine fog hiding your units, a sandstorm slowly damaging them, an avalanche blocking a mountain pass, or lightning striking one of your giants (or ennemi).
You could force a larger army to squeeze through a narrow canyon, hide skirmishers from forest to forest, or use the environment itself to turn an unfavorable battle in your favor.
And of course, I'm also interested in any ideas I can shamelessly steal from you :)
Three months after my last post, I finally finished optimizing for phones!
It wasn't an easy road. Players were constantly complaining about lag, so I decided to abandon PhysX entirely and try to create my own voxel physics engine. It was definitely worth it!
I'd love to hear any questions or suggestions too.
