Any Unity experts here?

[ranger_lennier]

I know Matt hates Unity, but a lot of indie developers near me use it, and it does seem like it should make game development much easier, even if you lose some efficiency and flexibility. So, I've been trying to learn it. Specifically, I'm making an isometric game--3D environment, orthagonal projection, and 2D sprites for the player character. I started getting these really strange bugs when I added certain animations to the player character, like every object turning magenta, while other animations done the same way, just with different images, worked fine. I won't go into too many details at the moment, but if anyone thinks they might be able to provide some guidance, please let me know.

[matt]

Did you check the logs? Are there any errors? I think when objects turn magenta, it means that the objects don't have their materials set up correctly - perhaps the shaders are incorrect or the texture references are bad?

I'm sorry I can't help more!

[ranger_lennier]

Any error messages were disappointingly vague. But a couple members of our local dev group did finally figure out that it was running out of memory. I know now to downscale images before importing them, rather than just doing it within Unity. Thanks for your comments.

[matt]

Ah. That's weird that Unity couldn't downsample them. :-/ Another reason for me to dislike Unity. hehehe