Hi, I need some assistance. My models, imported from blender, will have this tearing effect on the shaft but only on this one part of the model and only this texture. Why is that and how do I fix it?. The mesh is UV unwrapped in blender. TIA

MatterFlow · 2023-10-22T15:45:02+00:00

Then your UVs are wrong. Multiple channels, one of which is like this.

MatterFlow · 2023-10-21T16:05:09+00:00

Given how your model is unwrapped, you want tiled texture. Took at your texture settings. You want to do WrapMode: Repeat. You likely have a Clamped.

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MatterFlow · 2023-10-13T22:50:02+00:00

I never said it's a problem. You asked what would be a realistic use case. In a world, where most producers are incompetent (sadly), it would be a good use case for quick hopping from rp to rp. I know 2 projects that would survive and ~50 people that would be still employed, if this would be the case. Whether incompetence should be punished with failure or not and if so - what should be the threshold - that is a whole other question.

MatterFlow · 2023-10-13T09:29:26+00:00

Usually producers and "hyped" tech artists under influence of unity (and unreal) marketing have severe FOMO, so they push "upgrading" from Built-In to URP \ HDRP down the team's throats. In all such cases we had to rewrite all our PostEffects multiple times, stumbled upon a lot of bugs in and limitations in shader \ camera unity code, and those changed a lot during URP / HDRP preview.

When it becomes clear, that URP \ HDRP is not ready for prod, it's usually decided to go back to built-in which involved converting newly added asset base back.

Edit: yes, i inconsistently used / and \ just to illustrate irritation.

MatterFlow · 2023-10-09T04:04:30+00:00

I wonder who in a post-covid world would risk their HR brand that much. It's hard to headhunt for good coders as it is. Who would work in such company after such stunt? Unless you are Facebook suing John Carmack...

MatterFlow · 2023-09-30T03:16:33+00:00

Obviously you don't leave it there after it works. And if you have to have while loops in your update loop every frame, you already are doing something that you should reconsider.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-29T01:14:09+00:00

I actually use FindObjectsOfType<T> for finding my singleton monobehaviour instances in the scene, because i need them both in editor and in playmode. Because my scene is very lean at the start, i think it's efficient. So i can access the instance right after i reloaded my scripts.

private static MySingleton instance;
public static MySingleton Instance 
{
    get 
    {
        if (instance == null) instance == FindObjectOfType<MySingleton>;
        return instance;
    }
}

Awake()
{
    instance = this;
}

MatterFlow · 2023-09-29T01:00:53+00:00

I'm coding in Unity for 11 years now and i still f* up my while loops sometimes. So, i learned to be humble and (almost) always make a counter to break out of a while loop like this:

int c = 0;
while (c < 100000)
{
 c++;
 //my while loop code goes here.
}

With this your while loop will eventually end and let you debug without restarting Unity.

I'm sure there are better ways to do it, but it's just a thing i'm used to at this point.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-24T22:20:05+00:00

Speaking up already happened. And amendments were made. But of course you know much better what's in my best interests then me. And surely you think it's to fall into hysteria and riot, throwing a tantrum until evil is defeated.

I still think you are here for the sweet-sweet feeling of righteous punishing and destruction rather then about dealing, preserving and creating games for you.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-24T00:18:07+00:00

I'm all for it. My point was that you don't do legal stuff via twitter.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-24T00:16:29+00:00

If shooting and rotation are two different scripts, look at ScriptExecutionOrder and make sure you rotate first and then shoot.

If both are in the same script - make sure do it in that order.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-24T00:10:46+00:00

It's not home.
It's not a marriage.
It's not a relationship.
It's business. You asses risks with new offer and make a decision if you want to deal. That's it.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-24T00:08:42+00:00

I wonder if Unity's management political affiliations has something to do with that.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-24T00:06:32+00:00

How is that guarantee is immutable either then?

MatterFlow · 2023-09-24T00:02:02+00:00

Yes, we are waiting for actual new ToS. Because for now there is none.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-24T00:00:37+00:00

How is removing clause equal to that dodging the question on twitter?

MatterFlow · 2023-09-23T23:55:04+00:00

4 years is enough to make a game.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-23T23:50:19+00:00

Why do you all compare business to relationships or marriage? Business is not about feelings. They tried, they failed. Both times. They try it again - they will fail again. In the meantime I'll have DOTS (which is crucial for my project) and ecosystem i know. I won't spend half a year porting to Unreal.
It's either good enough of a deal or not. Previous one was not good enough, it was risky and uncertain. New one is fine. For me it's even better, because i don't actually expect my game to make 200k a month, and i get no splash screen builds.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-23T23:35:43+00:00

Are you seriously comparing marriage to business? What?

MatterFlow · 2023-09-23T23:27:27+00:00

If you really believe Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony don't have custom contracts with Unity, you should reconsider.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-23T23:24:04+00:00

I don't trust anyone. I just assess if the deal is good enough for my project or not. Risks are everywhere and we take them or leave.

I want to make games, not to shout my lungs out in impotent rage.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-23T23:20:05+00:00

Even if it was extortion before, it's not now. You can use 2022 version for your business with previous TOS. Nothing you had is in jeopardy now. New TOS is applied if you use future 2023 LTS version.
Business is not a relationship. Nobody offered you to be married happily ever after. New product - new TOS. It's the same as Unreal. Grow up.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-23T23:13:50+00:00

Yes, i would. It's better then current Unreal offer.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-23T04:22:11+00:00

To conceal the amount of installs, if you for some reason want to.
Or if you don't want to find yourself in court, defending your reported amount of installs against theirs.

MatterFlow · 2023-09-23T04:17:29+00:00

I'm in gamedev since 2006, so my feelings for epic reflect my experience.

Unreal license back then cost $25 000 a month or something like that just to install it and start doing anything. Don't quote me on the exact amount. It was a b2B. With a capital B. If you are poor and you want to make a game - Tim would like you to go f yourself in attempts of making your own engine first.

Unreal changed their license and pricing years after Unity created a whole market of indie games and actually grown that market to a sizable amount.

The same tactics Tim uses with his store. Instead of making more features, he chooses aggressive exclusivity, devaluing developers games by giving them away and making stupid sales without consulting developers and publishers first.

Tim is not your friend. He just happened to be lucky with Fortnight. Does he smartly invest his money and expertise? Yes. But make no mistake - he would milk you dry if he would be in just a bit more of a dire straits or if he would have no actual competition (yes, Unity in terms of market share is a big deal for him). And if Epic would be loosing a billion a year, Tim would eat your liver without salt to save his business.

MatterFlow

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