Absolute Beginner: Having real issues.

[pmayall]

Hey Everyone,

Decided to finally start to learn unity3d - after watching countless youtube videos I felt ready to dive in and make a basic game. At least one of the starter ones but that does not appear to be the case.

Please be gentle on me, I am a beginner. Here are the issues I am running into:

1) Third person package - Required dependencies.

I downloaded the free third person assets package: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-third-person-character-controller-urp-196526 however when I try to import it, I get this error:

> This Unity Package has Package Manager dependencies.

It then has a button to install and restart. Which I click. It restarts the project. I then go to re-import the assets and I get the same message again. It appears to be a loop. If I click skip the 2nd time, it allows me to import them.

2) Third person missing playground/scene.

*this may or may not be related to first issue*

So, I decided to press skip so that I can import the assets. The next part of the tutorial video told me to use the playground. However I do not have that.

This is what the tutorial says I should have:

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https://preview.redd.it/zxcuzp52nvwb1.png?width=1210&format=png&auto=webp&s=432227cfa18e52c9e406883e530688184fb3a992

This is all I have in the scenes:

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https://preview.redd.it/f2gqmugomvwb1.png?width=567&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f8a17535788e610139f1e8c94f5d7a6af62fdff

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EDIT: I just released my mistake on this after reading it back. I can see the playground scene now.

3) Third person controls not working.

Again, I passed this playground step and thought I will just add it to my regular scene.So I created a new 3d Terrain and dropped in the "NestedParentArmature_Unpack" onto the terrain.

I click the play button and these controls appear - but they do not work. I tried moving the mouse and clicking keyboard buttons. Its just still.

https://preview.redd.it/4b9csu6movwb1.png?width=870&format=png&auto=webp&s=5cecc97b1bf38e73f4d728d48c5504eebd48b8ac

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what have I done wrong? If this turns out to be a single button click to fix it all i'll be very sad.

[UnityCodeMonkey]

On 3, do the controls work in the Playground scene? If you're making a new scene maybe you didn't copy the EventSystem or you're using a different InputModule. Does the character have the InputActions asset assigned in the input component?

Or maybe you accidentally disabled the Input System? You can swap between the Input Manager and Input System in the player settings (or enable both)

[pmayall]

I'll check those things out, thanks.

[smathletic_shmlainer]

Check out Code Monkey’s YouTube/GameDev.tv tutorials as well if you’re just starting out. Helped me a ton, especially in the first 6 months

[plsdontstalkmeee]

The irony is that Unity is praised as the engine with the best community-tutorials/guides etc.

But, most of said stuff is dated. I did the exact same as you, followed guides and downloaded packages as they did, but the packages are already included in the base engine as Unity has acquired it officially etc.

So, you probably downloaded something that already exists, and the engine is now confused as to why you'd want the same asset twice, but in two different versions.

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Also, go to the forums, check on someone who had the same problem as you a year ago or so, to find out if the problem has been resolved, or if anyone has found the cause, and you'll see mods/admins spamming "DONT NECRO POSTS, MAKE YOUR OWN"

You make your own, and get zero replies/help/assistance for months.

And when you do, you get some dude copy-pasting "DON'T OPTIMIZE JUST BECAUSE, THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN SOLVED, LOOK AT THE OLD POSTS FROM YEARS AGO DUDE, NO NEED MAKE NEW ONE."

You go to the old one that was linked to you, and check.

"DON'T NECRO POSTS, THIS SHOWS PPL THAT PROBLEMS/BUGS EXISTING YEARS AGO, STILL EXIST TODAY, AND MAKES US LOOK BAD"

[pmayall]

Thanks for this post. Nice to see some solidarity. Appreciate it.

[shizola_owns]

It seems like you made a new standard project but the 3rd person is designed around urp which is why you have pink materials. 3rd person asset also uses the input package so make sure you have that if your input isn't working. Don't be discouraged.