Where on this forum can I find the most common newbie questions for Unity users?

Where on this forum can I find the most common newbie questions for Unity users?

I was just made admin of: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3d_help/

I think Reddit is a great way to help new Unity users and I want to make an FAQ.

 

For beginner questions. probably "Getting Started"
https://forum.unity.com/forums/getting-started.82/

Also, "Scripting", "General Graphics", and "Editor & General Support"

Really, the only way to see what the most commonly asked questions are is to keep reading the forums over a few months. You'll see certain questions getting asked over and over again.

The most frequent questions i see in scripting are about null reference and index out-of-bounds exceptions and how to fix them.

In graphics I see people ask

1. Why their model has holes or is inside out, caused by the meshes having flipped normals or are creating procedural meshes and don't know about triangle vertex winding order.
2. Why the texture does not map properly on their mesh and instead shows as only a solid color- This is caused when their mesh has no UV coordinates.

People ask these same questions over and over every few days, not realizing that they've been answered before.

Most common questions I've seen on "Editor and General Support" are "Why do I already have dozens of error messages when I just created a new, empty project?" and "Why do I get dozens of error messages when I install a mobile build module?"

And the absolutely most frequently asked questions is "I copied a random script off the internet and it doesn't work. How do I fix the two dozen compiler errors that come-up?"

 

I'll tell you: "Null Reference Error - what is this and how do I fix it?"

 

Pretty common are plain and simple syntax errors. Wrong braces, missing semicolons, using classnames instead of variables, such things.
Subscribe to General Support and you‘ll get the most beginner‘s questions.

 

"I copied the script exactly, and..."
Well, they almost certainly didn't. There's almost certainly a spelling or syntax error that they haven't learned to see, yet.

"I changed my script and nothing happens in Unity."
A few possibilities here. It didn't compile, they didn't attach it to an object, or they're changing a value which has since been serialized are common ones.

"I put a thing in a while loop, but it happens all at once anyway"
Not sure if this one is actually common? In any case, if something needs to animate it has to happen over multiple frames, not in a loop in one frame.

Edit: Not super common, but comes up occasionally so could be worth mention: "How do I put my game on my retail game console?"

Also: "I'm using euler angles and my rotations do weird stuff. What's up?"

 

Should definitely have a warning about never to use the Binary Formatter.