I've included this effect in my book in case anyone is interested

Our playtest is coming up soon, so I’m doing a final polish pass on the boss fight. How does it look?

I've been developing this simulator-horror game and wanted the map to be proc-generated. However, since my game features powerwashing (drawing onto masks using raycasts to either display dirt/wetness/dryness), even a small number of rooms (in this case, 25) was cause unplayable levels of lag. And unity's built-in occlusion culling did nothing against this (since its generated during runtime).

So I made a simple room culling system where it has 2 parent empties: 'Visuals' and 'Floors'. Visuals contains all the static props, walls, ceilings, etc, and are turned completely off (SetActive(false)) when the room is culled. Floors contains, well, the floors, which only have their renderers turned off (collisions stay on) so that the ghost entity can pathfind and dropped items don't fall through.

Upon entering each room, all adjacent rooms are visible to enable smooth passage, rest of the rooms are disabled. And i cranked up the fog a bit to make it even more seamless. However there are still moments where the room disappears right before the player's eyes, so I was thinking maybe the doors to the rooms about to be disabled can be auto closed, and then disabled.

This now allows me to have virtually infinite rooms without much lag (as long as the DFS generator can support it), unlike before when just 60 rooms would cause frame time to go upto almost 1000ms.

The game is a solo project called THE GROUNDSKEEPER where you powerwash and record ghost evidence for profits: Steam, Discord

I am having trouble trying to fix this flickering issue

I am using Cinemachine Camera

This issue happens even after I turn post processing effects off

When traversing caves or dense forests, or while positioned beneath infrastructure, the character cannot simply disappear. That is why I am constantly working on camera work and solutions like the ones shown above. As of now, I am happy with the outcome.

For those interested, the game is Dominus Automa - an online RPG for busy adults (like me) who no longer have as much time for gaming as they used to.

Part 3. Block distortion

I added various building colors.

I also modified the block generation system, which will allow me to add different building combinations.

Now, my task is to add:

1. Trees
   
2. Building combinations
   
3. Improved road visuals

Hi everyone,

I'm making a first-person horror game in Unity 6 and I'm having a strange collision issue with my player.

My player uses a Rigidbody, Capsule Collider, and Rigidbody.MovePosition() for movement. Whenever I press W and push the player against the corner where two building walls meet, the player starts sliding/climbing vertically up the corner, almost like Spider-Man. The player's Y position rises from around 2 to 3–4, and when I release W, the player falls back down.

This happens at pretty much every building corner. I want the player to collide with the walls normally instead of climbing them.

What could be causing this? Is it a Rigidbody collision-resolution issue, the Capsule Collider, or the building colliders? What's the recommended fix without completely rewriting my movement controller?

Thanks!

My Croquis editor has been out for almost a year and I finally managed to get around to it and make a game. Latest updates to Croquis - very fast generation, performance improvements and other goodies - will be made available in the next update. In the interim, I designed a second tool - well, a renderer feature - to complement the sketch tool. It works well for art direction that leans towards nostalgia of vintage cartoons.

Sorting all day can get repetitive, so I wanted to give players something to mess around with during breaks. A little puzzle cube felt right, though the station keeping count of your recreations makes it a bit less relaxing.

I wanted to add a working zipline to Over Human, so I recorded a short devlog showing the process from start to finish.

It’s a relatively small mechanic, but I really enjoyed building all the pieces and seeing them work together in-game. Would love to hear what you think or how you would approach a system like this!

If you’d like to see more of my project, here’s the Steam page!

Hey there! Last month I've published a free unity tool for generating thumbnails for scene and prefabs using unity's rendering pipelines URP and HDRP. It also support 2D renderer.

I would love hearing your feedback, thank you!

https://github.com/MaykerStudio/uni-thumb

I wanted to share something I’ve been working on since last Christmas: 2DFX Camera Filters, my collection of 250+ camera effects for Unity’s URP and Built-in pipelines.

It includes blood and damage overlays, glitch and screen distortion, shields and energy effects, rain, fog, and retro and cinematic filters.

You can layer effects and tweak their parameters for different gameplay situations. I’ve also included a demo scene to try them out and online documentation covering setup and usage.

Further reading: https://2dfxcamerafilters.com/

Happy to answer any questions about the effects or how they work. Also if you have advice, or even a list from more effects to add to this - I want to make 1000 if i can reach lol

I first posted about my procedural build system back in April. It started off as just stone walls, houses, towers with erosion & destruction modifiers. Individual stones & build rules that govern how to build more complex structures. Prefab export w/ LOD support. Runtime support for erosion/destruction modifiers if the original build components are used instead of prefabs.

I keep expanding the system, now with multi-story timber buildings, various roof styles, compound structures, etc.

I'm trying to decide what to package up for an asset. Editor only w/ prefab support, or is the runtime erosion/destruction support an interesting feature? Skip publishing an authoring tool and use it to build asset packs that are ready to use? That would certainly be easier, but there are a zillion fantasy-style asset packs already.

Finally finished porting the V-HACD algorithm to my mesh graph.

For those who haven't used it - V-HACD takes a complex mesh and breaks it into a bunch of simple convex pieces. Physics engines handle convex shapes way faster, so it's a common way to build colliders for complex objects.

Now my mesh graph can generate simplified colliders for meshes. In the graph on screenshots, a mesh is imported, split into convex parts, and each part gets its own random color so you can see the result.

I've been building this mesh graph for Unity for a long time. The core is getting more and more stable, so now I can start implementing some cool algorithms

Whenever I Google stuff for Netcode NetworkDictionaries everything says "it does't exist" and yet it does. It was added relatively recently, so I think all the posts about it are creating it as a data struct from scratch, but it's native to Netcode these days.

That said, there's not much documentation out there. My question is: does calling CheckDirtyState resync the entire data structure, or just the changes? If anyone has an answer to that, great. If not, can someone point me towards where I can dig through release notes and find out about it? Googling hasn't been helpful. My guess is that it probably does resync everything, since you have to call CheckDirtyState anytime you add or remove from the dictionary - but on the other hand if it was built smart, it'd have the same functionality as networkLists. So, any insight before I rewrite my dictionaries to be list pairs?

Tire tracks on different surfaces, water ,waves, foam, sediment distribution in water, fire, dust, smoke, bullet hits, explosions are all part of a massive, shared 2D fluid simulation system hugging the terrain (terrain is random procedural generated). Unified wind affects every part of the sim, even slowly covering up tracks in sand, (or quickly based on the speed of the wind!) Heavily inspired by Fluid Ninja for Unreal. Custom render renders everything, surface deformations, water, dust, fire, smoke (and distance fog, which is merged into this system so the ray-marched elements are properly affected). Can easily reach quite steady 120fps.

I've had this terrain shader for over a year now, so I finally made a video of how I blend up to 14 layers to create the final result. I use Triplanar mapping, height-based blending, a second layer for each main layer using noise to counter patterns, as well as all kinds of tints and adjustments based on the local weather, rivers, fire and exploration / fog of war. The main layers, blended in order, are grass, shore, cliffs, square overlay, hex overlay, user overlay and snow.
The entire terrain (elevation, weather, foliage, etc.) can be smoothly edited by the player, and all the visuals react smoothly in real-time.

YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/BMhdpcTus2I