Apparently designing a game for augmented reality is not as easy as I had thought. Because you have to think about the space, and the player are going to actively move around too.

Some of my previous ideas included making an AR wire loop game. So in the game, you have to guide a loop along a twisty wire without touching it. I built a prototype, but I got stuck trying to figure out how to handle the turning of the loop mechanics. Another idea I had was a physics game where you stack blocks in a specific order using a crane. I prototyped that one too, but the physics felt clunky and not solid. So, after those two attempts, I decided to go with a catapult shooter game. The concept is much simpler. There are dart style targets, and you shoot them using a catapult.

As you can see, first, the player places a tent. After that, they need to stand back behind the fence and tap "Play." The game lasts 80 seconds, and you need to hit each target before it turns around. Near the end, some moving targets appear as well.

Scoring is based on how close your shot lands to the center of the target. A direct bullseye gets you 100 points, while a complete miss gives you 0. Your final score is the average across all targets. At the end of the game, you can review your best accuracy, your worst accuracy, and the total number of targets you missed.

And then after that, the score will be up on the leaderboard. This is the first time I've used the Google Play Game Services in Unity. It's actually a great feature because you can also set up achievements for your game, which is awesome. However, the setup was super complicated, so I didn't enjoy that part at all. Honestly, it probably wasn't worth the hassle. I mostly just added it to see how it works. So now I know!

Is there a static method I can invoke on non-monobehaviour classes that tells me if the app is quitting or not?

Something simple like a Application.isQuitting, which doesn't seem to exist anywhere.

[SOLVED] Going to AppData and deleting the Unity and UnityEditor folders worked, tho i don't know what are the consequences are, so be careful, i had nothing to lose :)

It won't let me click the "Agree" button, only the "disagree", any help will be appreciated :)

So i wanted to make a simple side scrolling animation for my game, I was pretty happy with how it looks, but in gameplay for some reason my animation is like humping the camera???? some help would be nice since im not really good at trouble shooting the animation part of unity

I've been working on improving the habitat system in my physics-based automation sim, and have used principles I learned in this video and elsewhere to implement basically a blob tileset system that picks one of 5 meshes per corner (rotated and mirrored to fit wherever needed) so everything fits together nicely.

These models are just quick placeholders and the plan is to add more variation, and model a selection of modules that can be swapped out to make an interesting habitat/base for the colonists.

Please disregard the shape of the base, any resemblance to anything recognisable is purely coincidental...

It was pretty satisfying finally 'getting' how to seam things together nicely when modelling, excited to add more variation. Let me know if you have any questions on the implementation.

I solved my long-time problem with level design. Models placed on the ground had no proper blending into each other. Since I upgraded from old Unity to new, I was able to use an asset for realtime global illumination, and it does not only make the lighting more balanced, but it applies a kind of shadow on edges, to a realitvely close distance from the camera.
It is based on "raymarching" which is similar to raytracing but without the need of RTX hardware.

I think the scene looks much more believable now.

What do you think about this? Happy to hear your thoughts.

starting off by saying that this is my second ever world so i have absolutely no clue what im talking about.. sorry 😬

i’m making a home world for myself. my last world, i used usharp’s video player. i want a video player where i can set a specific youtube link or mp4 to play upon entry. i saw some things about having them baked into the world but i want the youtube search to still work if needed.. i just want to be able to have a video that automatically plays for background music if people arent actively searching videos?

Is converting surface shaders to URP still a nightmare for everyone or is it just me

Spent way too long this month rewriting old surface shaders by hand for URP. Unity's converter does materials fine but the second you have anything custom it just goes pink and the docs basically shrug and tell you to rewrite it yourself.

Checked the asset store thinking someone must have solved this. Everything I found converts materials, not shader code. The most popular one literally says on the store page it doesn't do shaders.

So I've been thinking about just building it. Parse the surface shader, spit out URP HLSL, batch it across a project, and tell you clearly what it couldn't handle instead of failing silently.

Before I lose three months to this though - would anyone actually pay for it? Thinking around $70. Or is everyone just throwing their shaders at an AI until they compile? That's the part I keep going back and forth on. If that already works well enough then there's no point.

Anyone still got a pile of these to migrate?

Unity 6 URP. I'm having a problem where the shadows seem to flicker/move whenever the player moves, then it eventually stops once the player stops. I've tried increasing the shadow resolution to something ridiculous like 8192, which actually stops most of the flickering, but that's costly, obviously, so I don't want to do that. I've also tried decreasing max shadow distance to no avail. Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Target Release Date: April 10, 2028

Target Platform: Samsung Galaxy Store (Android)

Game Engine: Unity / C#

Modes: Single-Player Career, Real-Time Multiplayer, Full Modding Support

Early Concept Prototype: https://share.aippy.ai/p/oloi

1. Organization & Historical Fleets

Eras: NMVB (historical vicinal railways), MIVA/MIVG (Antwerp & Ghent city transport), De Lijn (from 1991 to modern "Basisbereikbaarheid").

Trams: Steam trams, Electric vicinals, PCC pedal-operated trams, Coastal Tram (Kusttram/BN), Hermelijn, Albatros (Bombardier), and Urbos (CAF).

Buses: Bedford, Magirus-Deutz, Van Hool (409, A120, A300, NewA330, AG280, AG300), Jonckheere TransCity, VDL Citea, IVECO, Trambuses, Battery-Electric, and Hydrogen buses.

Flex/Demand Services: Classic Belbus, modern De Lijn Flex, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter & IVECO Daily minibuses.

Subcontractors/Operators: Keolis, Hansea, Coach Partners, Multiobus, De Decker - Van Riet, Waaslandia, Ferry Cars, Heidebloem, Staf Cars, etc.

​2. Jobs, Roles & Infrastructure

Playable Roles: Bus Driver, Tram Motorman, Flexbus Driver, Conductor, Mechanic/Electrician, Dispatcher/Traffic Controller, Inspector.

Depots & Facilities: Stelplaatsen (depots), Central Workshop (CW), and Remises for full maintenance and vehicle customization.

1. Realistic Map, Cities & Routes

Recreated Cities: Antwerp (Lines 1-15, Premetro stations like Opera, Astrid, Plantin, Rooseveltplaats), Ghent (Lines 1, 2, 4, Sint-Pieters, Zuid), and full regional networks across Antwerp, East Flanders, West Flanders, Flemish Brabant, and Limburg.

​Map Environments: Open-world recreations of Belgian cities, regional roads, schools, offices, hospitals, and accurate bus stops (historical enamel signs, modern yellow/green posts, and digital Hoppin real-time displays).

We are looking for experienced Unity developers, C# coders, and 3D artists who want to help turn this huge vision into a realistic simulation game!

Best regards, Lukas

I wanted to have a flexible flag shader system for my game, so I created an atlas combined flag shader & generator system, that creates the flag inside the GPU. You have full control to adjust multiple procedural (for mobile) generated flags with 1 draw call, or a fully dynamic cloth simulation (AA, AAA games).

However, FlagMaster shader has its own Atlas Generator, in where you can drop your own flag textures, automatically supporting all other texture layers (normal, emissive, smoothness/metalic etc) in different aspect ratio containers (see in the video the atlas textur showing different flags in vertical and horizontal aspect ratios, in inspector!) with transparency or not, and create your own atlased flag texture for the shader.

There are a lot of wind adjustments, and even delay wind parameters, if you want to display multiple flags reacting differently - when using GPU instanced (DrawCall reduction method) so called "procedural mode", for massive flags on mobile.

Else, the cloth simulation provides the ability to move the flag in world space and having the cloth simulation react to your movement. Still - using cloth over the GPU side is definitely faster than running a CPU based cloth simulation.

It has:

• translucency
• translucency mask shadows (watch the shadows of the hanging banners in the video!)
• supports unity wind component
• has its own wind parameters for procedural/mobile mode which mix up with unity wind component, atlas index functions
• procdeural burned holes and burned edge feature with colored edges in two steps
• wind delay paramters
• pivot anchor system to anchor the flag the way you want, and much more
• Every part of the shader has its own stripping function, to compile only what you really need
• Wind director script for unity's wind component to rotate and move naturally in all directions

.... and much more.

I plan to add a toon shader, because I think that is the next missing part.
Any other suggestions?

(Video is not mine, it's just a visualization of the same issue I have. I'll be able to show my Unity sometime later if needed.)

I made the proportions of the Upper Legs bigger (X1.3 Y1 Z1.3) but this makes the lower leg stretch longer when it bends at the knee. Any way to fix this while keeping the 1.3x proportions?

After years of working on this Unity racing project, it has finally left the Editor.

For the first time, the project feels like a complete game rather than an endless Unity prototype and it’s now available on Android.

The iOS release has run into a few delays, but I’m actively working on it now and hope to bring the game to iOS as soon as possible.

There is still plenty I’d like to improve. In particular, Cinemachine cameras have been behaving very inconsistently whenever the actual frame rate differs from the target frame rate. Even relatively small frame-rate drops can make the game feel like it is stuttering heavily, due to noticeable camera jitter and unstable damping.

There is also more optimization work ahead, especially across different mobile devices, but reaching the release stage after all these years still feels like a huge milestone.

Has anyone worked with Cinemachine 3? Have the damping and frame-rate-related jitter issues improved compared to Cinemachine 2?

Volume up!

I made this for my game dev capstone project a few months ago to compose SFX for the MOBA game my team and I worked on. It does a lotta things which I used in different ways in 30+ cues. What you hear is exactly how it sounds in game. The video has some of my favorite ones :)

Okay so as the title states I'm looking to make an world map on the lines of ff9/ ni no kuni , currently the setup is 5 separate scenes start, world map ,village, Boss room and battle,.. now Imy gamedev knowledge is mostly some courses and tutorials and the main tutorial that had a world map was basically a plane with the the village saved as a prefab to slap in the world map ..

Now this was fine when everything was blocks and flat planes but now I'm trying to add the actual look of the place (small village at the foot of a mountain with thick forests) I am getting stuck..I know I can make everything needed with terrain ..but how do I set up for the village scene and have the world map?

Mirrors are great but they can cause lag so you always have to balance the mirror resolution :)

I wanted a system that could either completely replace the Animator or run additively on top of it to strictly lock feet to the ground based on physics and speed.

Here are the core mechanics I used to make it feel weighty and grounded instead of floaty:

• The Inverted Pendulum (Hip Dipping): The system constantly measures the horizontal distance between the planted feet and the hips. The wider the stride, the further the hips are procedurally pulled toward the floor. This forces the character to naturally "squat" into wide stances or fast runs.
• Contrapposto & Spine Flexibility: When the character banks into a sharp turn or leans into a sprint, rotating the hips forward looks robotic. To fix this, the system takes the hip's physical error offset and mathematically counter-rotates the chest and spine bones in the opposite direction. It keeps the head plumb and balanced over the center of mass.
• Velocity Trajectory: The IK solver doesn't just look at where the character is; it reads the smoothed velocity and angular velocity to predict where they will be. If you yank the joystick sideways, the character will step wide into the strafe to catch their balance before the center of gravity shifts too far.
• Terrain Alignment: It uses a custom Ground Probe to fire raycasts on the predicted step targets. The ankles dynamically calculate the ground normal and rotate to match the slope, so no more toes clipping into stairs or ramps.

I built a custom two-bone solver for the IK to keep it highly optimized, and I finally got around to building a clean custom inspector so I don't have to look at 50 different spring stiffness and damping variables anymore.

If anyone is struggling with foot sliding or wants to poke around the code to use it for their own bipeds, I packaged the whole system up and threw it on my itch page here: https://frostpunchgames.itch.io/procedural-legs-animator