Where is the create 2D triangle sprite option

I am looking at this doc which claims to be valid for version 2020.3, my apparent version.
https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.3/Documentation/Manual/SpriteCreator.html

I want to make a 2D triangle sprite to apply a material to but I cannot find the option. Instead I can find square, circle, capsule, etc. under Assets/Create/2D/Sprites.

 

If you right click in the Project tab, go to create, sprites then there should be an option for a Triangle

 

I see the same menu as if I click assets on the top. No triangle option and the sprites option is in a different place then in the docs. Is there a setting or a different mode I'm in or something?

 

Oh I think it's different because your in 2d, i'm in 3d right now. Just give me a couple minutes to figure it out

 

I was wondering the same - I can't find triangle under the sprites menu in my 2D or 3D project, using Unity 2020.3.5f1

 

same problem bro did you got solution?

 

I don't think that there is a default triangle sprite included in Unity, but you could easily create one by going to a drawing program, drawing a triangle, and importing it into your game. If you wanted to add a triangle under the Sprites menu I would suggest looking at the MenuItem attribute, but that seems pretty unnecessary for you situation.

 

But... why? It was SO easy to create a triangle before (Which I would consider the most fundamental sprite primitive, conceptually speaking). We had it, now it's gone. I simply don't get why you would ever make an update to Unity, and then remove such a thing..?!??

 

And not be able to say: "It's been removed... because..."

 

Can we please get the triangle back?

 

Agreed! Bring back the triangle!

 

We want triangle back

 

Joining triangle gang here. Bring back the triangle!

Or even better - offer an n-sided polygon option.

 

gib triangel

 

Thank you Ted.
The triangle could be used for countless different things, for example spike enemies, or a player sprite, or anything your imagination leads you to. This diverse shape can be quite important for unity users that are just starting out, and making small projects (like myself).
I reckon downloading a drawing program, or entering the sprite editor just to add such a fundamental object (which doesn't even work or scale properly as you showed by cutting a square in half), would be sad, especially when it was previously available in the game engine.

 

An equilateral triangle can be used for a variety of reasons. You could use it to indicate a direction when you are testing object rotation scripts. You can use it for things like placeholder player, enemy, projectile, or floortile art.

I personally used the triangle in the past in order to prototype bullet hell games, as the triangle allows you to easily see the direction, something that the rest of the shapes do not allow. The diamond is not good enough as it identical in 180 degree slices. The square look identical in 90 degree and 180 degree slices. The hexagon in 180 degree slices. The triangle has distinct orientations in all 8 directions (up down left right and all combinations of these), so it makes for a great debugging tool for applications that require rotations in 4 or 8 directions.

The fact that the triangle was equilateral also allowed it to be tiled in a formation only possible with an equilateral triangle. The procedure to create the triangle that you showed in your post is for a right triangle which has wildly different tiling.

Using your point, I could create a hexagon with 6 equilateral triangles, so why was the triangle removed instead of the hexagon?

On top of this, we already have 2 hexagons. One of which is just a rotated version of the other. If you are trying to save space by removing the triangle, why on earth do we have 2 of the same shape, just with different rotations?

I would understand the reluctance to add the shape to the engine if it was a brand new feature request, but this was something the engine already had available in the past, so I do not understand why it could not be added back.

 

We still want triangle!

 

You can make your own triangles. Personally I use triangles to make slopes/ramps and add round corners for walls using tilemap editor. I see alot of people just rotate a rectangle to form a ramp, but that looks kinda ugly in my opinion.

 

You can take the hexagon pointed tip and hide a have of it then it looks like a triangle

 

I dont have create sprite option at all. Where can I find it?

 

Hi, I was trying to make a triangle and after reading all posts here I can confirm I have 2D Sprite Package in my project however I can´t edit a square as suggested with Sprite Editor because a message says "Editing is disable because asset is not editable".

 

triangle (1 tile):

https://i.imgur.com/8dhYniM.png

 

Take your time on fixing this! I know you have a lot on your hands considering you have 30 million other deprecated assets you're planning to "look into re-adding"

Jokes aside, I love this engine, but please add the triangle back.

 

I appreciate the effort, but it's really hard to make squares with equilateral triangles:



If you could also add a right triangle with two 45 degree angles, that would be awesome! I'm so close to upgrading... just need this, and then maybe the implementation of the automatic weight generation fix

 

This is great news! I'm gonna go check it out ASAP.

This was just a joke haha, please ignore me.