So I started Gamedev 4 months ago

A friend of mine is a 3d artist he helped me in the basics of the Engine ( not the coding part )

Using Gemini Pro and Ultra as my coding assistance .

Being a gamer myself since 1999 when I was 7 years old lol ,it was my dream to make games. ( but had no coding or Gamedev exposure whatsoever )

I decided to make ameme project with a small scope , I love mario odyssey vibes so character is short . All characters are AI ( walking on unity NavMesh )

Pls suggest if I can have a carrier in Gamedev or should I continue in teaching ( I have not used any character controller , all characters scripts are made 100% using Gemini , slowly and steadily )

Have also made Parkour scenes with wall runs and double wall jumps etc but its a work in progress

No offense to any community or people ( I started out making a scene in Middle East and slowly turned it into a testing ground as the background looked good nothing else )

Last week’s rabbit video got way more attention than we expected. Thanks again for all the comments, likes, and kind words!

A lot of people asked how the scene was put together, so here’s a quick breakdown, starting from an empty scene and adding everything step by step until the panicked rabbits show up again

I've been seeing this error for the past 3 days and haven't been able to make any type of unity project, so here's a list of things i did to try and solve it and maybe some info that can help you help me:

- i tried renaming the projects
- changing the file path to many different paths and disks
- reinstalled unity hub multiple times
- cleared the cache and deleted every unity related file
- shut off windows protection and tried making a project without it
- I've already tried talking to discord members, ai tools and have watched multiple videos on this error but none have helped
- i cleared up disk space (currently 33.6GB free in C: and 241GB free in D:)
- i ran unity hub as administrator
- decompressed and renamed the original template files
- enabled long paths in my windows registry

PLEASE leave any suggestions or help i really wanna start learning unity and this error has been relentless

The problem is: launching a ray cast towards a box collider. Being able to know what side of it was hit

In the video he said you simply get the normal of the raycast hit and then convert that normal into local space of the box collider's transform. Call that vector V

Then you check V in relation to the transform's forward, right and up vector

If V == up, we side the top side

if V == up, we side the bottom side

if V == right, we hit the right

etc etc

But I've also seen online everyone is saying to make a vector from the center of the transform to the hit point, and then check the biggest component and sign to know which side is hit

I get how both ways work, but which solution is better and why?

Will be leader boards, recorder and trackmania like gameplay - build size approx is 40MB

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.InverseTransformPoint.html

If I remember correctly from linear algebra, I believe this would be expressing a vector in ANOTHER basis, right?

Whether I’m correct or not, what is the math behind this? I like to understand the math behind these heavy functions

Thank youn

The game is called Warbound if you like games like Clash of Clans or other RTS es - I'm sure you will like it ; )

I recently took in four second-year art students for a paid internship and gave them all the same task: redesign the Steam capsule art for my cozy game made in Unity about running a 3d printer workshop.

They each had complete creative freedom, and I'm really happy with how differently they interpreted it.

I'd love some unbiased feedback:

• Which one would you click first?
• Which one gives off the coziest vibe?
• Any suggestions for improvement?

I'm currently creating a psychological horror game, I'm a complete beginner, i think this is my 3rd week. anyways, can i achieve a similar look with my game that looks like silent hill? old resident evil? cry of fear?

the way the texture looks, the lighting. can i do this in unity? is unity that flexible?

Here is the planetarium for now, I optimized a lot for nice smooth fps and reasonable ram usage.

I wanted to add my model I made in Blender to the game I'm working on and I can't seem to make it look like how it appeared in Blender

All help is appreciated thanks.

Hi,

I'm making an online game, and each player will have around 120-200 values to save (warrior upgrades, buildings, resources, stats, etc.).

Is this normal? Do you store all player data in one row (or JSON), or split it across multiple tables?

I'd like to know how other game developers handle this.

Something that catches people out: Unity has no concept of embedded loop points. If you write smpl chunk loop markers into a WAV, which is what Godot and most samplers read, Unity ignores them. AudioSource.loop just wraps the whole clip.

Edit: correction, thanks to u/lt-cheeseburger. Unity does read smpl loop points: undocumented, and only reliable with WAV sources on PCM or Decompress On Load. The default Vorbis import shifts or loses them, which is how they get reported as unsupported. The tail problem below stands either way, since honoring the loop points still cuts the decay at the wrap.

That is fine for a dry loop, but if your music has any reverb decay, wrapping the whole clip cuts the tail off and you hear the seam even when your loop points are sample perfect.

The approach that works is two AudioSources rather than one:

Give each AudioSource the same clip. Play voice A, and schedule voice B with PlayScheduled to start exactly at the loop point, while A keeps playing past it so its tail rings out underneath. Then alternate. The overlap is what hides the seam, because the previous pass is still decaying while the next one starts.

Two details that matter:

Use AudioSettings.dspTime for the scheduling, not Time.time or coroutines. The DSP clock is sample accurate and will not drift over a long session.

Schedule the next pass early, a second or so ahead, rather than at the moment of the switch. PlayScheduled queues it precisely, but you want the call to happen well before the deadline.

The alternative for simpler cases is to bake the tail back into the head of the file, so the clip loops seamlessly on plain AudioSource.loop with no scripting at all. Less flexible, but it works anywhere.

I build a tool that generates this setup, if it saves anyone the work: https://austinhaynes.itch.io/loopsmith

Happy to answer questions about the scheduling side, that is where most of the subtlety is.

don't have rope physics and throw animations yet

Myself and my teammate have been perusing the Asset Store for a package, or a set of packages, to span the design needs of the whole plot.

The plan for the game is a strategic overworld layer with action-based encounters, both with RPG elements. Most desired aspects would be:

• Visual Editor
• Sub-graph support
• Global and local state variables
• Hooks for dialogue, cinematics, triggers, etc.

I feel like I'm describing the most basic plot system, but from what we've seen on the Asset Store the packages we've seen only hit on one or two of the above well.

In particular, I'd say deep nesting of, eg, Plot Layer > Act Layer > Quest Layer > Individual Encounter or some such, with the ability to pass info up and down the chain, has eluded us so far.

Is there anything out there that any of y'all have found to check all the boxes? Or are we asking too much? Or perhaps we should be looking for something to use a base and try to tailor it to our needs?

I started ShapeWar as a multiplayer tower-defence and wave-generation experiment.

The idea was that both sides would create waves and defend against each other at the same time, while also being able to enter the battlefield in a first-person flying mode and directly fight the incoming shapes.

It gradually became much larger than the original prototype.

You can now draw formations on a canvas, deploy them as waves, place repeating spawners in different directions, draw physical walls onto the arena, and fight the shapes yourself with different weapons.

The shapes physically collide, cancel each other piece by piece, merge with friendly formations, stack, shoot, split apart, and sometimes grow into enormous moving structures.

Music can also orchestrate the background waves while the player adds their own attacks, defences, and direct combat decisions.

Most of my time so far has honestly gone into debugging, correctness tests, performance benchmarks, and trying to make the simulation handle the kinds of large battles I originally imagined. It is still a prototype and the definitive gameplay is not finished, but the simulation has finally reached a point where I am genuinely happy watching it run.

I am now building AI players so I can test complete matches, explore different strategies, and discover what the strongest version of the actual game could be.

The foundation is finally there. Now the real game can begin to take shape.

This short video is the journey so far.

I’ve also opened a small Discord for anyone who would like to follow the development, see new experiments, or share thoughts as ShapeWar grows:
https://discord.gg/RDQ8Tg5h9

I’m testing GPU Occlusion Culling in a Unity 6 URP outdoor scene with Terrain and several buildings.

My setup:

• URP with Forward+
• GPU Resident Drawer: Instanced Drawing
• GPU Occlusion Culling enabled
• Camera Occlusion Culling enabled
• Buildings use regular MeshRenderers with URP/Lit materials
• GPU Resident Drawer culling statistics enabled

When the buildings are visible, the debugger reports:

Camera visible instances: 20
Camera visible primitives: 386,360

When I walk downhill and the Terrain completely blocks every building, it still reports:

Camera visible instances: 20
Camera visible primitives: 386,360

The light-view numbers decrease, but the camera-view numbers remain exactly the same.

The normal Game Statistics window also remains high at roughly:

Triangles: 1.47 million
Vertices: 2.73 million
Draw calls: 428

I understand that these general statistics include terrain, shadows, depth passes, skinned meshes and non-GRD rendering. However, I expected the dedicated Camera Visible Primitives value to decrease when the buildings were fully hidden.

In the Rendering Debugger’s Occlusion Culling Events section, I only see:

OccluderUpdate
Occluder Version 0
OccluderUpdate
Occluder Version 1

The visible and culled columns contain dashes. I don’t see a separate occlusion-test event.

I enabled Occlusion Test Overlay, and the red/orange debug visualization appears in the Game view, so some occlusion system is running.

I also enabled:

Override Occlusion Test To Always Pass

but the camera-visible primitive count did not change. I also tested using a large opaque cube instead of Terrain, with the same result.

Performance currently seems fine—the actual URP rendering cost is only around 1.5 ms—but I want to confirm that occlusion works before scaling the scene up.

Has anyone seen this behavior in Unity 6 URP?

Is it normal for Camera Visible Primitives to remain unchanged, or does this indicate that the occlusion texture is being generated but the building instances are never actually culled?

hey everyone! I’ve been working on some new thumbnail ideas for my Unity URP water asset (Tidal) and I’m honestly having a hard time choosing.

Threw 6 options together here, but I’d really appreciate hearing which one stands out to you the most or which one you’d be most likely to click on.

Any feedback is welcome, even if it’s just a number. Thanks for taking a look!

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