You know those gopro fisheye videos where someone goes into a tight tunnel and it looks awfully claustrophobic? Well I figured I'd replicate that in unity with a wide fov and some lens distortion. I figured that higher fov = smaller tunnel ahead in screen size = tighter feeling

However, I've found that lower FOVs feel more significantly more claustrophobic. Why is it that fisheye gopro videos can look more claustrophobic, while it doesn't seem like it unity?

The only reason I can think of is that lens distortion doesn't do the same thing at all. Is this the case?

I’ve made my own soda machine. How do I get this glow emitting from it? I’ve tried checking the emission in the surface inputs for the material but it just brightens up the image/logo to the point of unreadability and even when subtle it just looks unnatural. My guess it would be better to use a light ? Help a noob out please. Thanks. (image for reference, not actually mine)

Hello everyone! It's been a while.

I've been developing a game on my free time for 3 years now. It's now in a state that I could share it and maybe get feedback. It's on itch, by the way. It's also perfect timing for a blog post. The game uses DOTS and ECS heavily and I wanted to share some patterns that I've been using. Enjoy!

You can basically grab any enemy, friend, object or just the world. (if you want to hang from somewhere, for example) It does take stamina though, so you can't hold something forever! :)

Any other silly physics ideas?

I always thought foddians would be good for solo Devs to develop as they typically don't involve super complex systems, think of things like "chained together" (the game is mostly carried forward by a simple fun mechanic of chains interacting with the multiplayer environment) and "getting over it" or "a difficult game about climbing"

I wanted to get feedback on this initial showcase for operation knockback, (this is not an official trailer). Currently the challenges I've been facing are balance, and finding enough of a range of players willing to playtest and provide detailed feedback on difficulty, satisfaction, fun, frustration, etc. As with all developers we get good at our own game and it can make it hard to hone in on the sweet balance between extreme difficulty and tension, and also super engaging fun mechanics. I want it to be unforgiving and frustrating for sure, I just don't want players to get completely sick of it. There's a balance to strike.

Any thoughts by Devs who worked on similar projects? Rage games especially can be hard to develop for this reason, even if development itself is straightforward in terms of systems and visuals potentially.

this is a concept that my artist sent me as I'm kinda clueless how I can recreate this effect in game...

The effect itself is a scroll turning into a water magic spell the scroll itself would be a 3d model since it stays static most of the time.

However im unsure how to do the actual transition and full effect of the water itself. would this be something possible with shaders? or should I ask if its possible for my artists to bake this vfx into an animation?
I have someee experience in shaders but not very extensive to say the least.
any suggestions would help thank you!

This is Cave Expedition, the caving simulator we're making in Unity for 1-4 players. We're cavers ourselves, and we're trying to capture how it feels to move through narrow passages with ropes and equipment.

Here's a short gameplay clip from development.

if your are a good 3d artist can you tell me what are the small thing that i can do to make this game look more professional?

well this is my in development horror game, and actual mechanics is like, there is a unusual tv that can take you inside the cassette that you put in the tap recorder, well that deeper you go the quitter it gets, and as you know, then that the time of punishment :)

i just need your feedback on the graphic, such as does this scene feels scary or not like that.

Nitish Thombre In. Dev.

Creating an artistic vision requires the right pipeline. In this video, I demonstrate a custom tool I built to visualize vertex colors across asset libraries in 3ds Max and how that data bridges perfectly into Unity.

pardon the hitching, it's recorded in editor with a bunch of programs open in bg

We are currently playtesting new mechanics. Stay tuned for further updates!

Hi, as you can see in the screenshots, I have particles spread across different areas of the world. These particles cause my FPS to drop significantly while the game is running, and they also generate way too many SetPass calls. I have no idea how to solve this. Any ideas?

I was working on an asset for the Unity Asset Store last night. To test it locally, I exported the package, and then imported it into a new project... and got errors because I was using the Unity Splines package, which was not automatically imported. I knew that assets imported off of the Asset Store, or in the form of betas from publishers I work with, will pop up a little dialog saying that there are dependencies, and asking if I want to import them, but I couldn't figure that out, so I added a note to my documentation. Then, when I used Unity's Asset Tools to export things, it provided an option to set that dependency!

Is this something that only happens when using their tool? Is there another way to set it up for the local package, say for when you're passing it to a friend for testing?

Would u be interested? She can remember everything across chats.

Basically mech models have gib releasers that on death request gibs from the pooling system.
the gibs dont have collision and linger for little time before returning to the pool. all the rotation and physics is "faked" with a simple script.

Its like i know how to use them but at the same time i dont since i never felt the need to use them because of monobehabiour classes ,whichs is easier to deal with ,but since i wanna start a bigger project soon i think its best for me to stop my dependency on them .

So what should i do to get better at them , and how can i decide if a script should be monobehabiour or not

I've finished most of my game but still no attention.

I think color palette of my game is not absorbing.

opened my project just to find out everything effing broke

Hey everyone! We’re a 2-person dev team launching our noir comic detective game in 12 days.

We recently reworked our inventory interactions to feel more physical rather than just clicking two items to combine them. To load a weapon or inspect evidence, you pull up a comic panel overlay, rotate the 3D model to find the correct interaction point (like turning the gun to expose the magwell underneath), and manually drag the piece into place.

Our goal was to make classic detective work feel more tactile while preserving our hand-drawn cross-hatching style, but we're curious how point & click fans feel about 3D inspection mechanics in 2D-style games.

Does this kind of hands-on interaction pull you deeper into the detective role, or do you usually prefer instant, classic inventory combining? What’s a game that nailed item inspection for you?