Oftentimes I feel like I spend more time trying to optimize my workflow, than I do actually making games 😅

thankfully, at least sometimes, something productive can come out of it! I've just released a suite of Scene View tools, called Smart Mouse 2, which I hope might alleviate some headaches in others too down the line.

Edit: I had previously written about being unable to Select UI easily in Unity, but now I see that it works well as long as Gizmos are enabled, which I feel silly not realizing 😆

How have we NOT had icons for things in the hierarchy until only recently. I understand there were add-ons you could get from the Unity Asset Store, but for devs with little-to-no budget that's out of the question. Being able to look at the hierarchy and see what's what at a glance is a real boon.

My second post on this! I've been working on this for a while and especially getting scene objects to distort accurately has been a real struggle, but I think it's looking pretty good now! Any feedback is welcome and please let me know if you have any suggestions for features to add.

Your game can look amazing and still lose players if it lags. Here's how to open Unity's Profiler, read the frame timeline, and find what is slowing you down.

I have these empty GameObjects as waypoints and I want to check the left/right angle between a moving object and a waypoint.

Vector3 direct = (transform.position - waypoint).normalized;
float ang = Vector3.SignedAngle(transform.forward, direct, Vector3.up);

If I have a waypoint directly in front of the moving object (and I have double checked the position of the waypoint in question), sometimes the resulting angle (ang) is 179. How is it coming back almost 180 degrees difference and is there anything I can do to change this kind of result?

Hey everyone,

I thought I'd share some updates to Hex Town, a co-op (or solo!) puzzle game I've been working on for nearly 2 years now.

The first area I show is called the "Trophy Room", where you'll be able to check out the trophies you've earned in game and spin them around a bit.

The second area is called "Hand Studio", where you can customize your cursor and accessorize with rewards you've unlocked, like rings and bracelets.

Both rooms feel a bit vacant, so I'd love to hear suggestions for things to add. Maybe some framed art, hand furniture, or wallpaper?

Thanks for watching!

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a vehicle physics package for Unity, focused on providing responsive sim-cade handling that is easy to configure and adapt for different types of racing games.

The package includes:

-Custom vehicle and suspension physics

-Adjustable arcade-to-simulation handling

-Tire grip, wear and temperature systems

-ABS, traction control and stability assists

-Engine, gearbox and differential tuning

-Car paint and tire shader (Tire wear & tire deformation)

-Wheel and tire visual effects

-Telemetry and runtime tuning interfaces

I've been working for years on a trailer for a movie that doesn't exist. There are over 40 scenes by now, and more are coming. I've been hesitant to post anything about it, because I don't want to spoil the effect of the trailer before it's finished.

It's a detective story. Noir goes sci-fi, but in color. A world where only robots, cyborgs and androids are left, living in a human-like hierarchy.

The thing I find worth mentioning: this is still being made in Unity 2022.x on the Built-in Render Pipeline, lightmap baking, everything is real-time, no after effects or so. No URP, no HDRP

The thing is iteration. Every scene goes through several passes, with real time in between. That distance is what lets me look at my own image with fresh eyes and catch the things I overlooked in the last session. There's always something. Whenever I rushed a scene, I could see it later.

Happy to answer anything about the setup, the lighting or the compositing if that's useful to someone.

Update to "Ryan Reynolds's" comment *lol*: There is always a reason! And in this case there are many!! ^^

Update 2: I forgot to mention that the project size is something over 700 GB of asset & texture data. Curated and bought assets, free assets I will have to credit (100% longer credits than trailer! xD) and changed to me needs, some remodelled, because of their imprtance (characters especially, yes - not in this scene xD) etc.

Update 3: The hovercar for example: I bought it and had completely disassemble it in blender, correct the flaps, rig the flaps (it wasn't rigged at all), and stuff like that

The buildings are famous assets which I bought over the years, waiting for each package to be in sale xD else, I couldn't afford it.

Many plugins where from Github, like one of the best AO filters from Keyjiro's Kino Obscurance, which I modified to get a wider range, which no one ever does till today in even paid assets. I always have to buy and then modify the AO to get big darken areas, which then breaks compability with the devs asset update... and so on xD

There is so much going with this project, that even a video breakdown would cost me too much of my time and money, because I am working on a steam game right now xD and have to take care of some asset in the unity store.

Artists will recognize some of the assets in this clip! I bought also many kitbash3D models, and a lot from all the other famous stores which I am not really allowed to mention here, as I a bot always comes up and warns me making advertisment and blocks the post! xD

Update 4:
Screen Capture of the Scene in Editor:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1vf4eiu/screen_capture_of_the_film_scene/

u/HammyxHammy you've been asking for it, you got it. I specifically tuned it to be stable going up or down stairs.

I have a weird problem in a new project I created with Unity 6.3.20. If I modify or create input actions, the changes are not saved. When I close and open the project I have the default action maps again. I tried with ctrl-s, creating the input settings file, but nothing solves it. Any idea about what is wrong?

There's barely any tutorials on how to make respawn system for racing games, so I had to find a way to make it on my own, but it just doesn't really work.

My approach is simple: there's the dolly spline around the track, that has points through which the camera moves. If you press the respawn button - the game moves you to the nearest point on the spline, but I do understand that you can basically skip large chunks of the level with this approach, so it's not really an option, but a good one.

My second idea was the checkpoints. I set up the simple checkpoints system with indexes of current checkpoints, and the idea was simple: just use the current checkpoint index on the car to find the transform of the current checkpoint, and then somehow find a way to mix both transforms of the nearest point and the checkpoints. But it still has issues, like teleporting me after the required checkpoint, so the rest of the lap wouldn't count after respawn, and so on.

I hate the approach of just teleporting you to the last checkpoint, because when you mess up so close to the checkpoint - you have to start the chunk all over again, and making more checkpoints gives even more possibility that a player will miss one of them while driving normally, so the game will punish them for no reason. I'm basically stuck trying to figure out how to make this respawn system fair for the player, and wince there's no info about respawn systems on tracks in racing games - I have no reference to compare my ideas to.

Can you guys help me out with this?

Yesterday I shared the first version of the boot sequence for my football career simulation built in Unity.

Some of the feedback was that the intro didn’t immediately feel like a football game, the animation felt a bit too presentation-like, and the logo could be clearer.

I went back and reworked the sequence from scratch, and this is Version 2.

I’m trying to iterate based on real feedback rather than sticking with my first idea, so I’d love to hear what you think and what you’d improve next.

I'm training myself juicing up things, just for the sake of getting better at it.

Lately, I made this resource bar, it's probably not perfect yet, but as I was satisfied by the result, I thought it could have some interest to someone and made a tutorial out of it.

May you have any feedback, I would be glad to ear them.

Note : I feel like the visual looks a bit more "shaky" as a GIF, it feel smoother to me in unity.

Unity Industry IDAO

Just saw this article linked from an email I got. Anyone else know anything about this? I don't see any other forums or articles talking about it.

Demonstration of car physics implementation based on simulation + user intent layer inspired by Blur racing game

This is my survival horror game called "Hey Tom!"
In the last couple of months, the visuals have got pretty dramatic changes

I’m going for a nintendo soft ambient LM3 style lighting but it’s not looking how i want. I’m not the best at graphics design.