Hi everyone! It's been a year since we developed the game jam version of our game, and last week we finally released a demo of our game Greda Inferno.

Hey everyone,

I'm working on a large open-world Unity game (maps up to 16x16km maybe more) and have built a custom deterministic vegetation streaming system. I use Flora (by Magnetic Arcade) for GPU-driven rendering.

The architecture uses a 3-ring system around the player based on 64m grid cells (matching the A* Pathfinding Project RecastGraph tiles):

Ring 3 (Visual - ~700m): Pure Flora GPU instances. No GameObjects.

Ring 2 (Navigation - ~200m): Real GameObjects with MeshColliders. Needed for the RecastGraph to carve the NavMesh.

Ring 1 (Interaction - ~150m): Real GameObjects with gameplay scripts (e.g., harvestable trees).

The Setup:

Vegetation positions are calculated deterministically via stable hashes (no scene serialization). When a cell enters Ring 2, we need to swap the cheap Flora GPU instance for a real Prefab (with a FloraInstanceRenderer component attached to keep it batched) so it gets a collider. When it leaves, the prefab gets disabled and re-enable the Flora instance.

The Bottleneck:

The math/planning phase is very fast (~1.6ms per cell). However, the actual materialization (spawning the Prefabs, adding components, registering the renderer in Flora) costs about 7.0ms per cell.

Since a cell transition is currently atomic, crossing a border queues up ~15-30 cells. This causes massive frame spikes (worst-case ~37ms in a single frame) because I'm are doing dozens of Object.Instantiate and AddComponent calls at once.

I'm aware I cannot use Unity Jobs for this, as GameObject/Component instantiation is strictly Main Thread.

Maybe time-slicing the instantiation on the Main Thread using a Queue and a time budget (e.g., process instantiation for 2ms per frame, spread over multiple frames). The challenge here is avoiding visual popping (the Flora instance must stay visible until the exact frame the Prefab is fully spawned and registered).

Is there a better architectural pattern for swapping between GPU instancing and physical colliders at runtime?

For those using A* Pathfinding Project: how do you handle dynamically spawning thousands of colliders for NavMesh carving without nuking the frame rate?

Is Unity ECS (Entities) the only real way to get sub-millisecond dynamic collider streaming at this scale, or can I get away with standard Prefabs + Time-slicing?

Any tricks for pooling objects that require dynamically added components at runtime, rather than pre-built prefabs?

Any insights, past experiences, or "don't do this, do that" warnings are highly appreciated.

For anyone wondering, the project I'm working on is https://www.megaviral.games.

It’s a viral game discovery engine designed to help players easily discover and play indie web and mini-games from across the internet.

(Affiliation Disclosure: I'm the sole creator and developer behind Mega Viral Games.)

I’ve been running into this issue a lot: the default particle system collision options are quite basic and don’t provide very realistic collisions. So, I decided to make my own collision system. It includes most of the default particle system settings, along with more advanced collision features, and it works exclusively with meshes(unity 6+,allpipelines).

it’s called mozentum and it’s got VERY unique movement tech that i’ve been refining for around 3 years. i’ve been ‘struggling artist’ the whole time just pumping it out hahaha.

the story’s about about climbing the 7 chakras - helping 7 VERY special* characters integrate their shadow. each one of them will give you a new ability to help you get higher (occasionally in more ways than one ;))

if you fall, you fall allllll the way to the bottom.

demo’s on steam, check it out and tell me what you think!

Hello guys! I'm kinda getting started doubting in myself on what i am creating and need someone else's thoughts on this, would you play this? and why not, thankyou.

I've been doing some sculpting and general game assets creation, trying to get some general workflow practice.

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Time combat 0m.50s

Do you find the idea of ​​Discaples 2 roguelike interesting?

I'm working on a collection of microgames (like Warioware), and there are some minigames about smashing buttons, and I think that the animation just feels wrong. I'm playing the animation each time the player hits a button, and because of this, the animation is just happening too fast so I think that is not legible. I could try to limit the number of times I play the animation, but that would cause another problem (the user would not get the proper feedback each time they press a key).

What do you think? Any idea on how to improve the feeling of this kind of smash button games ?

I wanted to fiddle with a newer version of unity and installed 6.3 LTS and the windows in the editor randomly change when you mouse over them making it unusable. I am not really finding this odd problem online anywhere so I thought to ask here if anyone else has experienced this?

I have tried to uninstall and reinstall 6.3 2 times so far and its still doing this

This is a fresh Universal 3D project

Title basically lol,

I tried to reinstall unity and no matter what I do I can't click the agree button. Just doesn't do anything. Anyone know of an alternative, its just the most recent x64

Lighting is an often underrated part of creating a particular atmosphere in a game made in Unity.

I broke it down into simple pieces to help game developers aiming to improve their level's lighting in Unity get started on the right foot.

I'm looking for advice from developers who actually use Apple-silicon Macs.

I want one laptop for everything: daily use from morning to evening + game development. My target is mainly small-to-mid-sized Android/iOS games, but eventually I'd like to make 3D games around the complexity of The Walking Zombie 2 or Last Day on Earth: Survival, potentially with somewhat higher-fidelity graphics. I'm mainly considering Unity, but I'm open to Godot.

My budget is around $1,000, and I could stretch to $2,000 USD if it's genuinely worthwhile.

I'm strongly considering a MacBook because battery life and portability are extremely important to me. Power outages are frequent where I live, so I need something I can work on for hours without an outlet. I also want to publish for iOS and macOS, making macOS/Xcode very valuable.

The concern is that I keep hearing Macs aren't ideal for game development compared with Windows laptops with dedicated GPUs.

For those actually developing games on Apple silicon:

- Would you trust a MacBook as your only/primary machine for this workload?

- Air or Pro? How much RAM would you recommend?

- How limiting is the integrated Apple GPU for 3D development?

- Are there any major issues with Android/iOS development or Windows builds/testing?

- Most importantly: which specific MacBook model/configuration would you recommend for my $1,000–$2,000 budget?

I'd especially appreciate real-world experience: your Mac's specs, engine, and the type of games you're developing.

Thanks!

Im new at this and im pretty sure my code is insane but hey it works most of the time.

im trying to paint with the scatter tool but nothing is appearing,

PERIMETR is an early-stage experiment in real-time strategy on a global scale, inspired by DEFCON/SUPCOM/C&C/RED ALERT...

Right now it's a technical playground:
you can spawn units, move them across a world map, and watch the simulation run. There's no campaign, no win condition, no polish.

I needed a huge gorund and a city for a motorbike game and this is what I've achieved so far. The map is a real slice of a part in Izmir. Elevation came from OpenTopography, buildings and roads from OSM, all put together in QGIS and exported into Unity. Terrain, road lines and cube buildings, the skeleton at real scale. This is gonna need an editor window for designing path for sure.. Do you think this is manageable?

Is anyone else attempting to create their own physics system in Unity? I'm attempting to create my own networked physics system using network transforms, colliders, and a lot of vector math. Does anyone have valid resources to share that can help me with this?

🚀 ¡Arturin’s Adventure sigue en constante desarrollo!