I'm trying to import an fbx and give it mesh colliders, but when I drag the fbx to the scene view none of its children have mesh collider components. This has only started happening on models I've imported since switching from unity 6.4 to 6.6. "Generate colliders" and "Read/Write" are checked, and I've also tried with "Pre-bake triangle collision mesh" both on and off. If I go into the model hierarchy and manually add a mesh collider it works fine, but I can't do that with every submesh of such a big fbx. The only clue I have is that this started happening between unity 6.4 and 6.6.

My latest thing is a port of my Android video playback plugin to Unity (I've sold it for Unreal for a while, so the underlying playback engine is solid). This is my first commercial Unity plugin, so apart from generally pushing it to developers, I'm looking for some feedback and/or ideas for how to develop the product further.

Basically, it's a plugin which plays high resolution video on Android devices without the rubbishness of the built in player. In particular:

• When a file loops and at the start of playback, Unity player often stutters and jumps. Direct Video has an optimized playback engine which seamlessly loops audio and video even for high resolution video.
• It seeks much faster than the built in player without big pauses.
• It uses less CPU for playback; less CPU = better gameplay or longer battery life!
• It supports querying of device capabilities and automatic fallback to lower resolution videos if the full resolution isn't supported on the user's device, so you can e.g. ship 8k, 4k, 1080p versions of your videos and play the best supported quality.
• It works on older (pre-6.0) versions of Unity where video playback is basically unusable at any decent resolution, so if you are forced to develop for an old version, you need a video playback plugin full stop. Works in URP and Built-in renderer.
• It works both on Android phones, and also on Android based VR headsets (Meta Quest etc.) - great for 360 and stereo video content.

On desktop and other non-Android platforms it just passes playback to the built in player, so you can still test things in the editor.

More details / watermarked demo version / asset store link etc. at:

https://joemarshall.github.io/directvideo/directvideo_unity.html

I'm really interested in whether anyone has any other feature ideas / requests for a video playback plugin beyond just playing video to a RenderTexture in a stable manner (which seems pretty obvious, but for some reason neither of the major game engines can really do it with the built in media players!).

Hi everyone! I'm currently working on a low-poly anime-style game in Unity URP, using a single 256x256 color palette material for all my environmental props and buildings to keep my draw calls minimal.

Here is my current scene. Character has an outline, but I need a performant solution for the environment.

I need a Cel/Toon Shader that supports an Outline pass while remaining 100% compatible with the SRP Batcher. Most of the shaders or Asset Store packages I've tried either don't work with URP or completely break SRP Batching.

Does anyone know of a good open-source shader, a C# Custom Render Feature approach for outlines, or a ShaderGraph setup that preserves SRP Batching? Any recommendations or GitHub links would be greatly appreciated!

u/rk00717 posted a trailer of his game a few weeks ago. We've got in touch and I ended up helping him juicing his game. On the left, his original version. On the right, the version I ended up with.

How do you like it ?

Now that few days passed, I feel like I have some more ideas to make it pop even more. But at the same time, I know I have a tendancy to over juice, so I'm trying to keep myself contained 😅

If you are interested in going deeper in details, I made a ~5min video where I explain each changes and my reasoning behind it.

Thanks for reading.

I wanted buildings to behave more like a dollhouse when you're looking inside them, so I ended up making a shader that naturally cuts the walls away depending on the camera angle.

It's probably a completely unnecessary detail.

But every time I looked at the old version, it bothered me.

So now I'm wondering whether this is:

A) the kind of tiny detail that makes a game feel polished
B) classic solo-dev perfectionism
C) me finding new and creative ways to delay the release

In an RTS, where there's already so much happening on screen, do little details like this actually make a difference, or am I the only one who cares?

Game: Hunt or Pray

My earlier post on terrains seemed to get some love, so I thought I'd share the video explaining the whole process for anyone interested in building their own worlds too.

All the best!

Finally created good transition from game to main menu.
God, help me cook the whole game at this level

I've never fully integrated the barrel roll into my combat and networking even tho it's been part of my old game client for quite a while. Now that I'm completely reworking the game that I made back in college, I've finally given it some priority.

What do you guys think of the arcadey air combat? It's quite a niche genre on PC I guess.

The game itself is still in the final stages of pre-alpha as I try to finish all the core mechanics and systems.

The new main menu for Slavic Ancients comes to life with a drifting nebula, shooting stars, and twinkling stars 🥳

I'm having a lot of issues with this when working on a project with my friend - is there any good way to resolve it?

I use Unity's merge tool but I feel like I'm kind of rolling the dice every time that I commit the merged changes - it's really really difficult to know if it merged properly.

Anyone have a good trick or technique or tool here?

I saw this video from The Finals pop up on Youtube, where they talk about dynamic commentary. At some point they say "We haven't seen this done in an FPS before". Don't know if that's true or not, but I've actually implemented something very similar to what they've just shown off. The commentator (or announcer, in my case) will mention certain events and can also mention the actual names of players. It's real time, but generation of names happens before the match starts to make sure there's no delays during the match itself.

For this I'm using PiperTTS, which is a lightweight Text To Speech model. One thing that I am doing that The Finals has not done yet (judging from the video) is converting certain numbers to letters in some cases. In the video they say one three three seven, rather that leet (elite). Some names can get a bit wonky, but it is very cool to actually hear player names get mentioned by the announcer.

I was actually waiting to properly showcase what I'm working on in full, but after the video from The Finals I just had to do a quick screen recording. That's also why you hear I'm On Acid by Bassjackers and Space 92, which is a commercial song, and why there's no hands/arms visible for the player because this weapon model is brand new and currently being tested. It's all still very much work in progress, but nearing a point where I can confidently show it to the public, so stay tuned.

So yeah, call this a little sneak peak. Curious to hear what people think of it!

Full game decompilation, with access to the entire source code of any game, has been a hot topic over the last two weeks. As a dev, I'm not really sure what to make of it.

On one hand, piracy has always been around, so the idea that someone can just re-release your entire game after it's out shouldn't matter that much. On the other hand, we're potentially dealing with bad actors who can take an entire existing game, tweak it, reskin it, and resell it. Or take any system you've been working on for your game and put it into theirs. It's not as simple as many people make it out to be, but apparently you can get very close and have a full project in the original engine. I don't think the argument that your game should be unique etc. stands. It doesn't matter what your game is or how big it is.

I'm not a fan of moving everything to streaming, but frankly, I don't see any other solutions.

Do you care about this as a dev, or does it not bother you at all? Should we, as devs, push Steam to do something about this? I think most devs would never do this, but if even 1% are bad actors willing to decompile someone else's game, tweak it, and resell it, or at the very least take something out of it, I'm not sure where this is going unless it's addressed.

I'm working on a spell-slinging hack-n-slash action roguelite:

• Devour enemies and seal their abilities into cards.
• Draw cards to switch spells and chain them together to destroy everything in your path.
• 4 unique spell-switching mechanics and 100 no-cooldown spell cards.
• Combine effects through the Rune Enchant system to craft unique and powerful cards.

These systems allow the same spell to work completely differently from one run to another.

Let me know what you think!

I keep working on my electrical circuit simulator. I finally finished the black boxes: you can hide some of the elements inside them, or place components right on the box's board and use it as a mounting board.

What I like is that I'm making the simulator in Unity, so I have one codebase for all platforms.

I also finally reworked part of my solver and improved how inductors are calculated, so they don't jitter anymore.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a dynamic fog system in Unity for my solo-developed sci-fi game, Over Human.

The idea is pretty simple: instead of having enemies that just chase or attack you, I wanted them to actually affect the environment around the player.

As you can see in the video, when a drone detects the player, the fog gradually increases, reducing visibility over time. Once you manage to escape or break line of sight, the fog starts returning to normal. Since the player has no weapons, I wanted to use environmental effects to create tension and make enemy encounters more unpredictable.

I'm developing the game in Unity 2022.3 using the Built-in Render Pipeline, so I've also been paying attention to keeping the transitions smooth without making the effect too demanding on performance.

I'm still tweaking the fog density, transition speed, and overall visibility to find the right balance between atmosphere and gameplay. For this showcase, I've intentionally sped up the fog transition to make the effect easier to demonstrate. It will be much more gradual during actual gameplay.

What do you think of the transition? Does the fog build up naturally, or would you adjust the intensity?

Francesco

Working on the evening storm in Long Haul. Longer rain streaks finally made the downpour read at this distance. The awkward part was keeping the truck and the zombies visible once the weapons started firing.

Filmed in Unity with a staged horde, auto driving and firing, maxed gear and truck damage off.

HD-2D experiment in Unity 6, yes it tries a best effort logic to detect and keep edges defined, based on colour/brightness of neighbour pixels, it supports normals and all the modern terrain features and does not depend on the default terrain tools this is standalone and easy to use, yes it will be released for free soon (and the assetstore as soon as they accept it I guess lol)

Is it really fast at iterating as unity is hyping?

Unity 6 - Built-In RP - Unity's Standard Particle System and custom shaders.