The game I have been working on came out of Early Access this week. Surviving the Abyss is an atmospheric survival city builder set deep underwater.

https://redd.it/1gnf7hw
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New input system driving me insane!

I am trying to set up a simple inventory management system. And all my schemes and inputs seem to overlap, I've tried many different checks and cool-downs, to no avail.

Essentially I'm aiming for the functionality of GetButtonDown.

Expected behaviour:
Rightclick from player scheme = open inventory.
Set to UI scheme.
Do your inventory stuff.
Rightclick from UI scheme = shut inventory.
Set back to player scheme.

I have all my inputs set as "on press", I have tried setting the input actions in my code to "started" I have a specific noscript managing all my scheme changes to ensure no overlaps etc, and no matter what I do the inventory only stays open for the duration of my initial open inventory button press.

Ive even tried literally adding the "canceled" action just to trigger the change to the UI scheme. To try and manage any left over inputs.

If anyone has any pointers or possibly a lobotomy?

https://redd.it/1gnjqwk
@r_Unity3D

What takes up most of your time when developing projects in Unity?

I develop utilities for Unity and making things that will really help people is my top priority. Since I mostly develop mobile puzzle games, I don't know what kind of problems developers of other genres encounter. So I want to know them and if I can, I want to develop a product that solves their problem.

Like, I needed a tool to add objects or assign components to multiple scenes with a single click, so I created a tool that does it. It saved me from opening dozens of level scenes and doing it one by one. I need problems like this to solve.

https://redd.it/1gnkdfe
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Is this over optimising? Using trigger colliders to turn (grass) particle systems on and off when the player is not in range

https://redd.it/1gngtkb
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Making destructible and simulated pixel terrain.

I am currently working

https://redd.it/1gnn3ux
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Destructible and simulated pixel terrain
https://redd.it/1gnnyr1
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I'm so proud of this shot (Update)

https://redd.it/1gnjok6
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Makinom, ORK, and the impulse to just code everything yourself.

For context: I am planning out a 2D retro turn-based, tile-based strategy game I would like to make. While bumming around through tutorials on tile-based movement and such I stumbled on the ORK Framework. Based on the screenshots this looked like something that could very much speed up my development time - it looked like it had all the features I could want. Then I saw the price tag and balked, before I noticed it has a free version for non-commercial use.

I pulled down the free version and started the 2D strategy game tutorial. It had me import some packages and assets, stating it would work in Unity 6 so I tried that. But I kept getting errors related to a UI package in something called Makinom. So I looked that up and that's where I brain-locked.

What I expected with ORK: a package of code libraries containing classes pre-cooked to support RPGs and turn-based strategy games.

What I got: a package of libraries building RPG elements on top of Makinom, which is a separate package that provides a visual development interface for making games in general, running under a completely separate heavily-customizable editor.

Why I'm a bit flummoxed: I was expecting to have to learn how to leverage some classes and pre-built components added to basic Unity, when instead I'm expected to learn a new tool, separate from Unity but integrated with it, and then after learning that go ahead and learn another tool build on top of the new tool, and then start building my game.

And maybe this is actually a good way to go, but my initial reaction is "Why would I do that when I can just code the bits I need the way I want them to work?"

I want to be clear that I'm not trying to insult ORK or Makinom here, they seem like well-thought out products and the company offers them as freeware to let you get up to speed with no major limits on features. That's good stuff! Kudos to Gaming is Love.

But finding ORK blind to what it was and cracking open the Makinom interface for the first time was daunting, and that's after becoming reasonably competent in RPG Maker. There are a ton of game component options on top of an interface that itself is highly customizable and configurable to an intimidating degree. The immediate impulse is to turn around and get back into the guts of Unity, rather than learning a toolset that may or may not end up having limitations or problems that would lead to me abandoning it and starting from square one.

So, I guess what I'm asking is: Have any of you used Makinom or ORK before? How did you find them? And, is this sort of thing the norm when it comes to add-ons for Unity? Do packages exist that are just convenience libraries, or are full-blown toolsets more common? And are these toolsets worthwhile, or is it better to just implement desired features yourself and then do code reuse via copy-paste if you need it later?

https://redd.it/1gnruaq
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Rotating sprite in animation from unity animation tab

Hi, I started with unity this week. I've downloaded some random pre-made sprite to mess around. It has a "down", "up", and "right" sprites. I watched a tutorial about animations but they had sprites for all four directions, I believe it was asymmetrical. Now I know I have two obvious choices: onee is to just copy paste and flip the right sprite and get a left sprite and just use that. The other is to add code so that it flips when going left. But just for idk, symmetry sake, I want to flip it inside the animation key frames. It kinda feels weird to just have code for flipping left. I know you can just tick the flip X checkbook in the inspector, but how do I check it while "inside" the key frame for the left animation? What's the most common practice, assuming both profiles are identical?

https://redd.it/1gntnld
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(Free) Metroidvania /roguelike pixelArt Tamplate
https://xthekendrick.itch.io/roguelike-metroidvania-tamplate-all-in-1

https://redd.it/1gnuvfh
@r_Unity3D

isometric RPG

Hey, guys,

I've been wanting to make an RPG for a few years now. I haven't made much progress, and the big obstacle has been the programming. I know Javanoscript and a bit of python, so I'd need to learn the Unity engine and C#, and I'm finding that for a personal project, where I'm just meant to be enjoying myself, I just really don't want to do that. I'm really just interested in writing the story and creating the art.

Because of this, I purchased RPG Maker, but I've yet to find out how that works and how limited it is - but the first thing I'm seeing is it only has top down view, and not isometric. That's already a major concession for me, on top of the fact that the dialogue tree software I'm using has a built in pipeline for Unity.

I'd rather not switch away from Unity if I can help it, for the reasons listed above. Are there any isometric RPG templates with pathfinding, controls, sprite swapping, dialogue boxes, all that stuff ready to go out of the box? Maybe I suck at searching, but I'm kind of surprised how few relevant results I'm finding on Unity Asset Store.

https://redd.it/1gntk3x
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Will this lag my multiplayer unity game?

Im making a multi player game that has a certain enemy that only moves when not being watched. I made a noscript where 100 raycasts are being sent out to detect if a puppet is being looked at. Will having 1000's of raycasts across multiple players. Will this lag the game/server?"

public Transform camsubstitute;

public float maxDistance = 10f;

public int rayCount = 50;

public float coneAngle = 30f;

Vector3 directionToTarget = transform.forward;
for (int i = 0; i < rayCount; i++)

{

float randomAngle = Random.Range(-coneAngle / 2f, coneAngle / 2f);

Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(randomAngle, transform.up);

Vector3 rayDirection = rotation * directionToTarget;

Debug.DrawRay(camsubstitute.position, rayDirection * maxDistance, Color.red);

RaycastHit[\] hits = Physics.RaycastAll(camsubstitute.position, rayDirection, maxDistance);

foreach (RaycastHit hit in hits)

{

if (hit.transform.CompareTag("puppet"))

{

Debug.Log("puppet");

}

}

https://redd.it/1gny19q
@r_Unity3D

Toon Boom Gaming SDK integration with Unity trouble: "Could not create sprite from a xxxx texture"

https://redd.it/1gnz346
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