💻┃code-beginner

[wary sable]

and heres what an item in game might look like:

[shell sorrel]

type switch or is statement

if (item is Armor) { or if you need to access stuff on Armor
if (item is Armor armor) {

[cosmic dagger]

what Passerby said, but why are you adding them to separate lists?

[shell sorrel]

if you got more cases you can do the same with a switch where the switch is on the object, and each case is a type

switch (item) {
    case Armor:
        break
    case Weapon:
        break
    default:
        break
}

can also have it cast for you if needed by adding a name after the type like in the if example

though in your graph notice your subtypes do not have actual new or different fields on them

[wary sable]

I decided to go this way because I want to avoid having to sort the list by type, and I want to display different inventories* at different times. Ideally, when the player clicks on an armor slot the inventory area will display the armor of that type, same goes for weapons. If no slot or filter is selected, the inventory will show a list of their generic items. Green = Inventory space, red = specific slots

[shell sorrel]

so might also just model this all in data not in inheritance

[wary sable]

I left a lot of them empty since there are no "physical" items to build just yet. I am trying to get a working / scalable interface before I start adding actual items with proper data attached to them

and some are literally just there to define a type, like with armor.

[shell sorrel]

either way the type checking via if or switch like i showed will work

[wary sable]

yeah I switched the method to is already, but I am Definity considering switch especially if we end up adding more

[shell sorrel]

its also very good for cases where you got a parent type, and need to check what subtype it is to act on the extra data

switch (item) {
    case Armor armorItem:
        // do stuff with armorItem
        break
    case Weapon weaponItem:
        // do stuff with weaponItem
        break
    default:
        break
}

for example

[wary sable]

gotcha

id assume you have to provide an argument for the switch beyond 'Type'?

[hearty ivy]

anyone know how to fix lines in tiles glitch

[shell sorrel]

you are providing the instance you are checking the type on

[hearty ivy]

nvm

my atlas was being dumb

[twilit trail]

so my game runs just fine from the play button but when i try to build it i'm getting this weird NRE that's in the editor codebase not my code, what's going on?

  at UnityEditor.Rendering.AnalyticsUtils.DumpValues (System.Collections.IList list) [0x0000c] in .\Library\PackageCache\com.unity.render-pipelines.core@14.0.8\Editor\Analytics\AnalyticsUtils.cs:97 
  at UnityEditor.Rendering.AnalyticsUtils.GetDiffAsDictionary (System.Type type, System.Object current, System.Object defaults) [0x00106] in .\Library\PackageCache\com.unity.render-pipelines.core@14.0.8\Editor\Analytics\AnalyticsUtils.cs:185 
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallGlobalEventHandler ()

Error building Player: Exception found while parsing UnityEngine.Rendering.HighDefinition.DiffusionProfileSettings[] m_Value, System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at UnityEditor.Rendering.AnalyticsUtils.DumpValues (System.Collections.IList list) [0x0000c] in .\Library\PackageCache\com.unity.render-pipelines.core@14.0.8\Editor\Analytics\AnalyticsUtils.cs:97 
  at UnityEditor.Rendering.AnalyticsUtils.GetDiffAsDictionary (System.Type type, System.Object current, System.Object defaults) [0x00106] in .\Library\PackageCache\com.unity.render-pipelines.core@14.0.8\Editor\Analytics\AnalyticsUtils.cs:185```

[teal viper]

From a quick google, it seems like the diffusion profiles list includes some null values:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition@14.0/manual/Override-Diffusion-Profile.html

Check your volume components for any diffusion profile lists that might be culprits.

[twilit trail]

I only have a single volume, my starting Sky and Fog Volume, and I don't see anything about diffusion anywhere on it

....it just worked even though i didn't change anything

weird but ok

[fickle plume]

For weird unexplained errors you might want to try restarting editor, removing affected package in Library or regenerate entire library folder if some meta data borked.

[faint osprey]

hi for some reason my code whenever i instantiate an object it does it twice. once as a child of the parent i told it to go to and one just in the game not under a parent

any ideas?

[cosmic dagger]

need to see code . . .

[faint osprey]

            {
                Instantiate(genTube, cylinder.transform.position, cylinder.transform.rotation, instanHolder.transform);
            }```

thats in the update loop

[cosmic dagger]

is this the only code?

[faint osprey]

no the only code that mention instantiate

[cosmic dagger]

place a log before Instantiate and see if it appears twice from the console . . .

[faint osprey]

oki

[fickle plume]

You are not showing the important part where you set it to false to lock it. Also Debug.Log is the first thing you need to do with objects reference parameter as well to check if you don't have other copies of the script.

[faint osprey]

i wont be able to tell if it appears twice or not

cause as soon as thats activated it will call it every frame

[true surge]

I need some assistance for a game jam due tomorrow

[cosmic dagger]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks
Large code blocks should be posted as links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/
https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code
Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.
```cs
// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[cosmic dagger]

use a paste or bin site to share your code . . .

[true surge]

https://gdl.space/ivewaqedoz.cs

Alright

The issue I am having; it is destroying my tank, when I want it to shoot out of the enemy at my player tank. The aiming seems to work, but it is not shooting, or maybe it is but instantly destroying my tank, the mouse down part works, but it seems like the just regular shooting one isn't; I've used multiple different ways, just this is due later today, and my "group" for my game jam provided me with 2 tiles in total for a 7 man group, so I'm trying to build the whole game in my first 2 weeks

[wary sable]

Im not sure how your game works entirely, but is it a possibility that your bullet object is colliding with the tanks own mesh and killing it?

[true surge]

I believe it's shooting inside of the tank, and destroying it as well. I can set the health high and remove the 2d collider to test

[cosmic dagger]

where does the bullet shoot out from?

the spawn position used for the bullet should be at the tip of the cannon . . .

[true surge]

The bullet shoots out of my tank perfectly fine, but the other one I don't think is even shooting come to think of it

[true surge]

There are two sprites, a robot used for shooting at my tank/trying to stop him from completing the level, and the tank, who shoots bullets

The getmousebuttondown if statement is for the regular tank, and the timer one is for the other

I was trying to make it shoot from my laser prefab, but realized it can't hold gameobjects (not sure if it's true but looked like it), so I moved it into my managerscript which handlesmy other bullets firing and thought if I changed the values to what I thought it would work.

It appears when I shoot though it destroys the tank, so I must've done something wrong with colliding

[true surge]

https://gdl.space/watuqupadi.cs
I put it into a seperate script, maybe something will stick out to someone?

[distant horizon]

does anyone know how i can get this directory in vscode? ive been trying to unlock vscode editor in package manager and it keeps locking itself. is there some save option i gotta do in package manager than i cant see?

[summer stump]

Check the dependancies tab

Do you perhaps have the Engineering package?

Also, vs code now uses just the Visual Studio package, not the vs code one, since august 8th

[distant horizon]

idk where the dependancies tab is but i do have the engineering package, if thats what this is

wait really?

oh

[summer stump]

Dependencies tab is in your screenshots here
#💻┃code-beginner message

On the right

[distant horizon]

i thought vscode and vs editor were two different things

oh

[summer stump]

They are, they just both use the same package now

[summer stump]

Remove the engineering package to unlock those packages

[distant horizon]

okie

[silent valley]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks
Large code blocks should be posted as links to services like:
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https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code
Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.
```cs
// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[silent valley]

https://hatebin.com/rwwuiunufv

Hi

How can I have it so I can edit my update text in the inspector itself?

[distant horizon]

i still dont see the dropdown directory (and im only screenshoting cuz its a vscode thing)

(in the middle of typing TransformDirection)

[summer stump]

Go through this
https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code-configuration

[distant horizon]

alrighty

couldve sworn i enabled the vscode option

[summer stump]

You want a string variable, and you set the TMP_Text to that variable, if i'm understanding you right

public string textIWant;

[silent valley]

like this. I did think that. Just didn't know how to implement it into my script

[summer stump]

updatetext.text = answer;

Do you mean like that?

Just setting the text?

[silent valley]

omg. I think I have having a stupid moment. I should of known that. Thank you.

[summer stump]

Yeah, it feels weird sometimes doing somethingTEXT.text
Just keep in mind that TMP_Text is the component, not the actual text field.

I get it though. Happy I helped!

[silent valley]

Yes. I know this. I've been spending like 12 hours a day studying C#. I've just woken up. That is my excuse. Thank you though. You are extremely helpful and is very appreciated

[faint osprey]

if i disable a camera

will it automatically display the other one in scene

[rancid scroll]

if the other is active, yes

[faint osprey]

ok great thank u

[faint osprey]

its not switching to the other camera

when i set it to active = false;

i just get no display rendering

[lofty vault]

Trying to set camera background colour to Color(99.0f, 99.0f, 99.0f, 255.0f) and it gets set to Color(191.0f, 191.0f, 191.0f, 255.0f) instead. What might be happening?

[keen dew]

Color values are between 0 and 1

[lofty vault]

Thanks! I thought they went all the way to 255. Weird that the values are being set to 191 instead of 255. Anyways, thanks again!

[keen dew]

If you want to use 0-255 there's Color32

[compact ibex]

Hello, i would like to make a simple camera script in first person where the camera rotates up and down and the body rotates left to right but instead of the player being always straight up he can be in any rotation, for example the camera should work as a normal first person camera when the player is tilted 90 degrees and standing on the wall, I have this for the body rotation, where frame velocity is the amount of rotation in 1 frame from the mouse :
character.Rotate(cam.transform.up, -frameVelocity.x);
But it doesn't work

[daring sinew]

how do i reference script's float value from another script?

[timber tide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymq2AUckws0

[lavish fractal]

does anyone know what is wrong with line 70

[fringe pollen]

Error seems to suggest that dateOld (not _dateOld) can't be converted because it isn't a valid string for ToDateTime. Log dateOld and tell us what it is

[fringe pollen]

?

[fringe pollen]

^

[spark ember]

anyone know why my trees in my terrain look blurry and grainy but when i get closer they good more high quality

from this:

to this:

[fossil drum]

It's billboarding to save the frames. You can increase or decrease from the distance it does that.

[spark ember]

its at 5, do i increase it?

billboard start

[fossil drum]

Its somewhere in your terrain settings, afaik. Check the docs or #⛰️┃terrain-3d
I put everything high for my game, so it only billboards in the distance.

[spark ember]

thanks

ill try find it

[solemn dagger]

hey guys I was following the Game Maker's Toolkit tutorial to make my first game, a flappy bird type game and while trying to implement character death I changed the if statement on line 27 so that my command will only register if the boolean on line 11 is true i got no errors but now when I run the game I have no input as in I press the spacebar and no upward velocity is added to the bird

[fossil drum]

You made birdIsAlive public, so it's serialized in your editor, aka you can change it in your editor, and it is probably on false. It completely ignores the values you set in your script if it's serialized.

[solemn dagger]

ohk

ty

[solemn dagger]

i changed it to private, didnt fix, then just cut out the private, but that didn't fix either

[fossil drum]

Hmm, well, there is something weird that you have a constructor, are you sure you don't have any errors in your console?

Move that part to either Awake or Start

Constructors don't work with MonoBehaviours, so I'm not sure why you did it this way, is that in the GMT tutorial?

[fossil drum]

Also, private is the default state, so if you don't put any access modifiers it's private.

[spark ember]

is there a specific style that this has

[fossil drum]

Probably a #archived-lighting or #💥┃post-processing question, nothing to do with coding

[spark ember]

ahh yeah

sorry

[wooden minnow]

How do I turn a rigidbody's velocity and rotational velocity to 0

Since resetting it's rotation with quaternion.identity makes it keep on spinning

[cosmic dagger]

what have you tried or searched?

[wooden minnow]

Same with resetting it's position

[wooden minnow]

Not much really

I think I have before and just decided to fix other bugs before that

[wooden minnow]

I was sure that returned a read-only error

[cosmic dagger]

sure, as in, you tried it or just guessed?

[wooden minnow]

Pretty sure I tried it but as I said it was a while ago and I don't remember

[queen adder]

Hey guys, I need to find a way to save player progress.
I searched for some tutorials, but everything that I tried didn't work, can anyone help me find a good way of saving player data?

[buoyant knot]

do you need saving between play sessions (ie application closing)? or just within a play session (ie respawning)?

[verbal dome]

Saving to a JSON text file is pretty common

[buoyant knot]

between play sessions, the two main options are: 1) PlayerPrefs package (which you have to download). Playerprefs is good for quickly saving really small bits of info separately, like “This tutorial textbox has already been shown once on this save file.”
2) Save a JSON/BSON text file to persistent application path. Better if you need to save a big thing, like inventory

[verbal dome]

Is playerprefs a package now?

[buoyant knot]

i got it off openupm

idk if we have a built in playerprefs. I just saw it on openupm and snagged it

[verbal dome]

PlayerPrefs is in the UnityEngine namespace builtin

[slender nymph]

yeah PlayerPrefs is built in. not really suitable for save data though

[verbal dome]

I use it for debug settings, thats pretty much it

[buoyant knot]

from what I understand, PlayerPrefs is best for one off tiny little things

[cosmic dagger]

PlayerPrefs was the original way for saving stuff. it's been there since the beginning . . .

[slender nymph]

i too enjoy bloating the registry with random bits of data instead of saving it to a file somewhere
/s

[buoyant knot]

🤷‍♂️

that’s what it’s marketted for

and it’s ridiculously popular

[slender nymph]

it's not though. it's meant for preferences for the application (aka player). hence the name

it's random tutorials that "market" it for saving in-game save data

[slender nymph]

this is not unity's player prefs

[buoyant knot]

because “score” is a preference to be saved

[verbal dome]

What is the name of that package

[buoyant knot]

i’m not talking about unity playerprefs

Unity PlayerPrefsEx

that’s the full name

i wonder if they needed to add the ex to avoid the conflict?

[cosmic dagger]

☝️ oh, you never said the before . . .

[rancid scroll]

ew PlayerPrefs.

[buoyant knot]

i said it was an openupm package

which is by definition, not unity built in

[verbal dome]

Well it wouldnt make sense to call it PlayerPrefs since it already exists built in 🤷‍♂️

[buoyant knot]

i didn’t know playerprefs was a built in unity thing tbh

[slender nymph]

yes that package is just an "extension" for it and still uses unity's PlayerPrefs under the hood. so it's just saving your data as json strings in the registry

[rancid scroll]

do yourself a favor and learn how to save properly, to a file

[buoyant knot]

i only save things to JSONs right now

[rancid scroll]

that's all you need

[buoyant knot]

PlayerPrefsEx mostly promises to help save really small random bits of data so you don’t need to code a bunch of crap to save a random bool

like “TutorialTextbox420AlreadyDisplayed”

ie one off little things

[rancid scroll]

You're gonna have a bunch of random strings in your registry for bools?

[buoyant knot]

that’s what it’s marketted for

[rancid scroll]

yuck

[slender nymph]

yes, that's what this package is marketing itself for. however it is still using PlayerPrefs under the hood which is not meant for save data as has already been explained

"i'm using this tissue box as a shoe. i wrote 'shoe' on the outside of it because i want to market this as a shoe"
none of that makes it any saner to be using a tissue box as a shoe

[rancid scroll]

lmao i just pictured someone walking with shoes made out of tissue boxes

ty

[buoyant knot]

i’ve yet to give it a whirl, but given it has a ridiculous number of downloads, apparently it is being used a lot

and I can’t envision people using it for something outside of saving little knick knacks of data

[polar acorn]

There was a pretty recent controversy about Kerbal Space Program 2 using player prefs because it left users with gigabytes of data in their registries that wasn't cleared out when the program was uninstalled and could only be removed manually.

If you're going to be saving any more than like, a bakers dozen atomic pieces of data, you should be using a custom solution that puts the file somewhere the user can easily delete

[cosmic dagger]

how much are they paying you (just kidding)? 😆

[rancid scroll]

Oh wow, thought PlayerPrefs had a 2KB limit

[buoyant knot]

was KSP saving like a whole level’s of data to playerprefs?

[slender nymph]

i think only webgl has an actual upper limit for amount of data that can be saved to player prefs. though if there is a 2kb limit then it is probably per key

[buoyant knot]

i’m talking about something like maybe 300 bools/ints max for a gigantic AAA project.

[rancid scroll]

ahh ok was about to say.

that makes more sense. Per key, but still why would they do that (KSP) lmao

[polar acorn]

Because it's easy

[rancid scroll]

good point

lol

[polar acorn]

Doing things the right way is harder

[buoyant knot]

there’s nuance that got lost in translation lol

[polar acorn]

Unity really should add in a data saving package or something at this point because the player prefs system has been abused for over a decade at this point

[rancid scroll]

yeah really wouldn't even take much..

[polar acorn]

It was a very early feature added back when unity was mostly a novelty and it's an albatross around the neck of modern games

[north kiln]

That would be wonderful, if they actually worked with console manufacturers to make it a shared API there, 🤤

[polar acorn]

Make that the keystone feature for unity 2024 and I'm sure people would reconsider sitting on their current version

[north kiln]

People who are considering sitting are already missing out on a lot

[cosmic dagger]

great, now they're going to start a new feature. i wonder what gets put on the back burner? 😆

[polar acorn]

A twelfth render pipeline

[cosmic dagger]

@languid spire don't you already have smth like this?

[languid spire]

you wanna do PlayerPrefs right use
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/player-prefs-lite-222004#description
and it's free

[cosmic dagger]

aye!

[swift crag]

I think Unity should be able to install a game directly into the Windows Registry

store allllllllll of the game data in there

[rancid scroll]

cries in MacOs

[languid spire]

I think you need to go and lie down in a darkened room

[swift crag]

.plist time

[languid spire]

In the history of Microsoft making bad decisions, the Windows Registry almost certainly ranks as the most badly thought out, badly designed and badly implemented decision of them all

for which we pay the price every single day

[twilit pilot]

it's kind of insane there isn't a Unity standard for it, it's invariably one of the first significant hurdles that trips up people using the engine, shortly followed by a google search "how do I save my game in unity", and then into a string of scuffed youtube tutorials using awful shortcuts and misuses

[silent valley]

I'm trying to access my sanity script from my flashlight so i can increase my sanity when it's on. Any reason I cannot access the script?

[swift crag]

and what is the error?

[swift crag]

well, there you go

sanitybar is presumably a GameObject variable

[languid spire]

yep, hence
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/save-for-unity-core-242812
and the rest of the Save for Unity eco system

[swift crag]

you can't put a SanityManager into a GameObject

round peg, square hole

[silent valley]

I'm assuming cause it's a UI? it's a slider

[swift crag]

no, it's because a SanityManager is not a GameObject

that's it

I presume SanityManager is a class you created.

that extends MonoBehaviour

GameObject is something you can attach components to (and MonoBehaviours are a kind of component)

If you want to store a reference to a SanityManager, then make your variable hold a SanityManager

[twilit pilot]

yeah, kind of off-topic question for this channel but how do you feel about Unity missing what I'd think would be core features for a game engine, and offloading that to people like you who can sell the solution? would you mind if Unity implemented it and cut into your asset use?

[languid spire]

Not at all and you know why? Because Unity know less about their own engine than publishers like me and put less time and effort into providing solutions to problems that actually work

[languid spire]

But to come back to the crux of your question, I have designed and developed more custom game engines over the years than I care to think about, not one of them left me without having a save/load system. The fact that Unity only has PlayerPrefs and JsonUtility I find totally unacceptable and just shows the lack of understanding of game dev that I have come to expect from them

[silent valley]

That makes sense. Thank you for teaching me something new. I'm just a bit confused because I'm grabbing similar scripts onto other scripts if that makes sense?

[swift crag]

I don't know what you mean by that.

Did something similar work before?

[twilit pilot]

have you ever had contact from them about bringing your tools into the engine, similar to TextMeshPro?

[languid spire]

Nope, Unity don't like me, I criticize too much

[twilit pilot]

haha, fair

[silent valley]

Kind off? So I have 2 scripts. 1 handles my sanity(SanityManager) and the other I drag onto anything with a box collider and by using the unity events, I can lower, raise sanity via on trigger enter/stay/exit. I'm now trying to get my sanity to raise when my flashlight is on. Shall I share my codes for the 2 sanity scripts and the flashlight?

[swift crag]

If you need a reference to the SanityManager, then change your variable to hold a SanityManager

you can then drag the SanityManager into that field in the inspector, or get it at runtime with GetComponent

once you have it, you can do whatever you need to with it

[languid spire]

@twilit pilot I've got a new asset in the works, Real Time Collaboration, something Unity should have done long ago, hopefully this time they will sit up and take notice

[silent valley]

could you dumb this down for me. I do apologise. :/

[twilit pilot]

yeah, sounds like a big one, looking forward to seeing it

[languid spire]

even better, the basic version will be free

[stoic spear]

hey, im trying to make a security camera rotate within set limits, but im not sure how to do it really

[radiant nimbus]

Hi I am a beginner and was wondering what updating unity did with existing game files? can you still open them? how does that work?

[stoic spear]

so theres a v2 with the limits, and a float for the rotation speed

[rancid scroll]

which existing files?

[rancid scroll]

using Clamp

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Clamp.html

[radiant nimbus]

I mean my existing projects

[rancid scroll]

Your prooject files are associated to a particular verision of Unity

whatever you used when creating the project

You can upgrade a project to whatever version you want but with caution, if the version is too drastic.
Ie 2021 to 2022 . Depends which packages you have.

[radiant nimbus]

ah okay and if you update unity, will you just be able to open the older projects in another version?

[rain grail]

What do you guys use for a c# script???

[cosmic quail]

why is 2021 to 2022 too drastic? what changed?

[cosmic quail]

visual studio

[rain grail]

like you can use note pad but what third party software should i use

[rain grail]

ok

[cosmic dagger]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
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• JetBrains Rider
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*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[rain grail]

thanks!

[rancid scroll]

Not much core wise, but some assets (custom ones usually) depend on a particular version of editor

anyway you should alwasy be using Git / Version control anyway before any updates

[cosmic quail]

i prefer making a copy of the project folder into a different folder. who needs git

[rancid scroll]

thats not very smart to do lol

[cosmic quail]

why?

[rancid scroll]

you're probably also copying the Library folder

[cosmic dagger]

that's old school, for sure . . .

[rancid scroll]

so your backups must be gigabytes

[rancid scroll]

because it doesn't keep track of your changes

[sand glen]

there is reason why git is standard everywhere. trust the standard practices

[cosmic quail]

ive never needed to though

[sand glen]

i had .bat script when i started which copied folder and saved it as zip but its not efficient at all

[cosmic quail]

what if github pulls a unity and claims all the code posted on it as their own? 😱
all the people who are leaving unity for trust issues should think about this

[rancid scroll]

Microsoft is making enough money from github to not do such a thing

how else they will train github pilot 😛

they need free code

i mean repos

[swift crag]

git is not github.

[cosmic quail]

they're using our code to train AI? 😱

[swift crag]

if you don't understand that, then i'm not sure you're in a position to make sweeping statements about the value of version control

[cosmic quail]

well whoever owns git then.

[rancid scroll]

more likely , hey not everything is free

[rancid scroll]

no one "owns" git per se

github is just a host

like bitbucket

etc

[swift crag]

i think my point is making itself here.

[polar acorn]

You own git

[cosmic dagger]

guess who? yes you
wait me? couldn't be . . .

[polar acorn]

If github were to be suddenly deleted right now all that would happen is I'd spend the next hour going through all my repositories and doing a git push --set-upstream [some other web URL]

and that's it

[swift crag]

I use git entirely locally for a number of small projects

[polar acorn]

I have a git repo for my house that I have various tax and financial documents with the repo server on a WD external hard drive I have plugged into my router

[swift crag]

I self-host a server

[polar acorn]

Doesn't have to be online, doesn't have to be code

[swift crag]

i need to redo that webserver. it is uh

aging

[swift crag]

what're you using for the server, btw?

i could use something that's not a full GitHub clone

[polar acorn]

I don't actually need a server, all the computers that can access it have it as a network hard drive. Effectively every computer is using a "local" git repo, but that local copy is a different drive so I have redundancy

[swift crag]

Ah right.

I've done that occasionally: clone from a local repository

it's distributed!

[rancid scroll]

reminds me of Llama academy

[polar acorn]

If the house like, explodes, I'll lose the repo, but if that happens I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be too worried about my 2017 tax returns

[swift crag]

put the hard drive in a lead-lined fridge

[unborn veldt]

Is there a way to turn a dictionary into an array without iterating every item (or, better, a way which is computationally cheap) or a way to copy a dictionary without iterating or at least cheaply?

[swift crag]

not really. the internal structure of a dictionary is not a neatly packed array

maybe the keys are

[cosmic dagger]

a dict has a list of its keys and values . . .

[unborn veldt]

It hasn't, it can be turned into list

but it iterates

[unborn veldt]

need the values T.T

[wintry quarry]

why do you need it to be an array

can you not just use myDict.Values directly?

[unborn veldt]

Also a list

[wintry quarry]

what are you trying to do with it

[wintry quarry]

there's basically no way to do something to N elements without doing N operations

[swift crag]

I guess you could reach into the dictionary and steal its Entry[], but that sounds abysmal

explain your actual problem

[unborn veldt]

No, sadly not - they need to be merged with another list of the same type as the values

[unborn veldt]

argh, it's waaay bigger and harder to explain that

i'll try..

[wintry quarry]

can't you just do theOtherList.AddRange(myDict.Values)?

[swift crag]

if you can't explain your problem to us, then you probably haven't given it enough thought yet to be implementing a solution

[cosmic dagger]

we know but you can just add them to another list . . .

[unborn veldt]

It lags. That's what I'm trying to avoid by creating a copy of the values and sending both lists to a different thread, then sending it back to the main thread merged and finally using the list.

[wintry quarry]

creating the copy itself will be an issue. I believe we were discussing this before.

but you can't create a copy without iterating them

impossible

[unborn veldt]

Worked flawless until I encountered some error because the KeyCollection actually didn't copy the dictionary but it was a reference to it, so when the main thread and the other detatched thread used it in the same moment, it crashed

[wintry quarry]

Yes I was helping you the other day with that issue

[unborn veldt]

I can, it's simply large

I'll try

[unborn veldt]

Ahh! I remember

tysm for some days ago

[cosmic dagger]

dealing with references across threads?

[unborn veldt]

it's the same probelm though, just hadn't time to find another way, today I spent some time to try to find a solution but couldn't find any

Basically, I've got a dictionary of type GameObject, NavMeshBuildSource. Every object of my game (many, many objects) that has a collider will be carved into my navmesh. It's added in this dictionary to be easy accessible to its navmesh, so I can add and remove obstructions into the navmesh simply by adding and removing the sources inside the dictionary with a gameobejct. This works perfectly well, it simplifies a lot everything. Problem: for many reasons, I have another list of navMeshBuildSources. The dict contains most of the objects, the list contains some external objects that could not be added directly for many reasons to the dict (for example, they were not linked to gameobjects). The code worked like this: every object that needs to add a navmeshbuildsource simply uses the dictionary. When it's time to build (some conditiosn trigger thsi event, like adding or removing an object or a chunk) the dict and the navmeshbuildsource list are merged into one in a single navmeshbuildsource list. Once it's done, I just call UpdateNavMeshDataAsync with the freshly new list as an input, and it simply works. Everything is cool until I try to optimize my game and realize that both the creation of a list from my dict and the addRange used to add the other list take a lot of time, because they got on average 20k objects total inside. What did I try? I created a thread that listens to new calls ready to merge the two lists. When the main thread has the buildNavMesh method called, it prepares the data (e.g. it copies the two lists in a thread safe list, a ConcurrentQueue), sends it to the detatched thread, and continues to do its business. The detatched thread detects a new list to be merged in the ConcurrentQueue, merges it, and sends it back to the main thread, flagging a thread-safe boolean. The main thread then checks on the bool and takes back the merged source, finally calling the UpdateAsync method.

[queen adder]

dude what?

updatetext is for a string what would i put a debug.log inside of it

[polar acorn]

Put a debug log inside the updatetext function. If it prints then this code is working and the issue is in playerui

[unborn veldt]

But now I can't find a way to create a copy of the dict to be sent inisde the thread, where it can be safely merged.

[queen adder]

brother i know what are you saying

[unborn veldt]

If I create a copy iterating it (like a list), the whole point of reducing the lag is lost

can I paste my class in pastebin?

so you can better understand the code

explaining it it's pretty hard 😛

[amber nimbus]

LookRotation on a child object

[buoyant knot]

if you need to iterate fast and frequently, dictionary isn’t the best data structure

[unborn veldt]

Yeah but changing it would make all the adding/removing navMeshBuildSources extremely hard to code

I mean it does its work

[queen adder]

@polar acorn dm please

[unborn veldt]

I can add and remove objects easily, the only problem is when I need to create a list from its values 😦

[buoyant knot]

let’s start from a simpler position

1. how many entries usually go in the data structure (non-empty things)

[unborn veldt]

about 10-20k

[polar acorn]

no.

[buoyant knot]

2. What features need to be called most

ie add, remove, call by key, index, iterate, sort…

[queen adder]

nvm i got it to work 😂

[unborn veldt]

Well, add and remove, which is done always with the key (I add the gameobject and its navMeshBuildSource, then when the gameObject is being deleted I just call .Remove() on the dictionary with the GameObject passed as a parameter, so it gets removed)

[buoyant knot]

maybe it’s better to ask: which features get called a lot every frame?

iterating a dictionary once is ok. iterating a dictionary every frame is sus

[unborn veldt]

uhm... none? relative to this

it's not iterated every frame

it's iterated every time the navmesh needs to be baked

That's an example of the profiler

every time I need to iterate it, 10ms are taken away

[buoyant knot]

which is like every 1-2 seconds?

in a worst case or so?

of player constantly doing as much as they can to fuck with the navmesh?

[unborn veldt]

it really depends, it goes by distance (if I travel and a new chunk spawns), or if I place or remove an object. It's a sandbox survival

[buoyant knot]

what is the most reasonably forseeable worst case

of how frequently we call

[unborn veldt]

if 10 trees fall down in the same moment, might be 10 times in a frame. Which is nto bad, if I remove this iteration

but it might also be 0 times per minute, maybe the player is in the base not placing or removing any obj

Also currently the thread that merges the two lists sleeps for 100ms if the merge queue is empty

[buoyant knot]

first, we probably should never call more than once a frame. your navmesh should probably wait for changes that frame to finish before baking

[unborn veldt]

so in this precise moment worst case scenario is once every 100ms

[cosmic dagger]

have you tried using a ConcurrentDictionary?

[unborn veldt]

It's a good improvement for the future, but this would courrently change literally nothing 😦 it happens extremely rarely (currently never happened)

[buoyant knot]

true, but just saying that would need to happen

it seems to me like part of the issue is that you have so many things in your dictionary to iterate through

[unborn veldt]

No but I don't need it: objects inside the dictionary doesn't need to be extracted. They must stay

[buoyant knot]

not that you are using a specific data structure

[unborn veldt]

yeah, that's always what everyone say. "You can't have so many objects loaded! Reduce your count" always seems to be the answer to my problems. Still, I always fixed every problem without reducing the loaded objects count. "Reduce your count" seems the easy solution when you want to sacrifice features for performance, but the hard solutions make you perform better with the same features. I look for those ones.

[late burrow]

is !false is true and !true is false?

[buoyant knot]

i’m not talking about reducing your count

i’m talking about reducing the amount you need to count at once

[polar acorn]

Yes that's literally the definition of the not operator

[unborn veldt]

uhm, what do you mean?

Maybe reading, idk, 100 objects per frame?

[late burrow]

yes but thought it only works in ifs not that i can for example setactive(!false)

[polar acorn]

ifs literally just take in a boolean. There's nothing special that if statements do that you can't store in a boolean

[unborn veldt]

I considered it, that's the approach I do to things that can't be sent in a different thread (like the Instantiate method - it needs to be called once per object, and I got thousands of them, so I created an instantiate queue) but the problem is that an object could be added or removed during the reading phase, potentially creating nullpointerexceptions or other issues

[buoyant knot]

let me better understand what you are doing: is it: Dictionary has everything; and then you iterate to filter to make a list of just what is relevant?

[unborn veldt]

Dictionary has everything but the chunks, which are added manually every time I try to build the navmesh

[buoyant knot]

is that why you merge and unmerge? like, what is going on

[unborn veldt]

That's an example of the completely built navmesh

[unborn veldt]

wait

[buoyant knot]

like the dict has everything really loaded, and the list has things loaded out of range which are relevant?

[unborn veldt]

Row 202 is where I add both the terrainSources (the "base" of the navMesh) and the objectSources.keys (currently in an array format).

[unborn veldt]

yeah, the list has around 30 objs, which are the active chunks

the dict is updated at runtime by other scritps

[unborn veldt]

an object simply calls the Add or Remove method of this script, which itself adds or removes the gameobject and the navmeshsoruce from the dict.

Never lagged with an add or removed

[unborn veldt]

you can ignore row 174 to 183, it's just for testing purposes when the game is not loaded via the menu but it's in the playground

[buoyant knot]

i’m feeling like this merging might be the problem

[unborn veldt]

well - if I could pass only the objectSources.Keys, and they're not iterated when I pass them, it would probably not lag and I wouldn't even need a second thread

but I need to somehow add the terrain, and they haven't got a single gameObject so I can't add them to the objectSource dict.

It would also be a problem to remove them

[buoyant knot]

is the final output you need a list of navmesh build sources?

[unborn veldt]

yes

[buoyant knot]

i’m wondering if it would be possible to make the final output an enumerator instead

[unborn veldt]

that doesn't depend on me, the UpdateNavMeshData takes it as an input

[buoyant knot]

so the enumerator just first iterates through the list, passing each entry one at a time, and THEN it iterates through the dictionary

i’m just wondering if we could get an iterator in here instead, or a custom IEnumerable

[unborn veldt]

I think not

right?

[wintry quarry]

it's so unfortunate they used List here and not IList or IEnumerable

[buoyant knot]

do we have the source code?

like, could we make an extension method to fix that

[unborn veldt]

I think not..

can't find any

[swift crag]

so is the problem that it takes too long to create this list?

[buoyant knot]

see if Visual studio can lead you to the source

[unborn veldt]

Tried, it doesn't

[buoyant knot]

He wants to iterate over a dictionary’s keys and a list (combined). But his dictionary is massive, so making an separate input list with everything combined is expensive as shit

and UpdateNavMeshDataAsync (the built in function he needs) takes in a list, and not an IList or IEnumerable

understand the problem?

[swift crag]

if you can avoid modifying the dictionary for a while, you could build the list in a coroutine

smearing the work out over several frames

(any modification to the dictionary would invalidate its Values enumerator)

[buoyant knot]

i’m thinking that there’s gotta be a way to avoid the needless and expensive operation in the first place

[swift crag]

indeed

e.g. keep a HashSet and a List of whatever these values are

if you decide something needs to be updated, add it to the set and list if it's not in the set

(that will be more efficient than checking if it's in the list, but will also give you a list, rather than just a hashset that you have to transform into a list)

[buoyant knot]

that might be the way. A very shitty but necessary way, if we can’t get the source code

[swift crag]

I've done things like this before.

[buoyant knot]

we probably can

[swift crag]

Using one data structure to signal that I can put things into another data structure

If you just clear the list and hashset instead of creating new ones entirely, you also shouldn't have garbage problems

you'll just have one very big hashset and one very big list

[buoyant knot]

but with a dictionary of 10k-20k elements, you need to make sure everything stays synced, and you also double the cost of using a dictionary in general to update everything

so you can get weird bugs if the two things get desynced

that’s why I try to avoid double saving the same data as much as possible

the easiest fix would be to get the source code for UpdateNavMeshDataAsync, and then make an extension method with an IList or IEnumerable as input

or even an IEnumerator

IEnumerator would actually be the cleanest imo

[swift crag]

IEnumerator (non-generic version)

💥

[buoyant knot]

i have yet to use IEnumerator<T>, but I want to

can’t find the best guides for it tho

[swift crag]

i mean, it's just like returning IEnumerator, except you yield something more specific than object

    public static T Draw<T>(this IEnumerable<T> enumerable)
    {
        int count = enumerable.Count();

        if (count == 0) {
            throw new System.Exception("Empty enumerable.");
        }

        int choice = UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, count);
        return enumerable.ElementAt(choice);
    }

i wonder if this is actually iterating over the entire list if I call this on a list

i'm a little fuzzy on how that shakes out

[buoyant knot]

it sucks that some of unity’s code gets injected from C++ behind a black box

[merry spade]

My Plattform effector doesnt work properly that if i fall of the stage and i walk into the side of it that i slip down but its not working can anybody help?

[buoyant knot]

what do you mean? platform effectors normally get rid of side friction

[merry spade]

yeah but this one doesnt

[buoyant knot]

check the dropdown on the platform effector under “Sides”

does it have removing side friction enabled?

[merry spade]

"Use Side Friction" no checkmark
"Use Side Bounce" no checkmark

[buoyant knot]

i forget which way that reads, but i’d first try flipping the checkmark

[merry spade]

didnt work

[buoyant knot]

and on side walls, you’re seeing the player get stuck (0 speed) or slow down (falling slower, but not zero speed)?

[merry spade]

0 speed

[buoyant knot]

that doesn’t sound like a friction issue

that sounds like a collider got snagged issue

I would quickly make a dynamic rigidbody (lock Z rotation) with circle collider, and give it a constant force component going right. make sure rigidbody has gravity. Put that right next to the side of the platform

tell me what you see

it probably also helps to make the platform very tall to have lots of testing area to work with

if you only see issues at corner, it is an edge effect. if you see issues in the middle, then it is not

make sense?

[merry spade]

yeah i started unity like yesterday but i will try

[queen adder]

if i was you i would read the documentation

will help you alot

[merry spade]

its crap

just examples

[queen adder]

eh still

[merry spade]

no explanations

[queen adder]

i started unity 6 years ago

and it did help

[merry spade]

I will look into it after i solved this bug

[buoyant knot]

the documentation is vital to your success

[merry spade]

ok i did this circle

now its just stuck

[cosmic dagger]

i'm making documentation right now. i think i went a bit overboard though . . .

[merry spade]

should i send a video?

[wet trench]

how do you only have scripts in a scene run when the scene is active?
i have an ingame timer for a game level, but i notice it still runs in the background even when the scene isnt loaded

[wintry quarry]

your scripts will not run unless they are loaded into the game

unless you mean you have multiple scenes loaded

You'd have to show how you implemented this timer though

the normal Unity way would be:

float elapsedTime;

void Update() {
  elapsedTime += Time.deltaTIme;
}```

[wet trench]

    public class WaveSpawnerLogic : MonoBehaviour {
        [SerializeField] public int MaxGameTime; // in seconds
        public TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI text;

        public GameObject[] targets = { };
        int currEnemyCount = 0;
        public float gameTimeLeft = 0;

        public static System.Action<GameObject> onTargetSpawn;

        private void Start() {
            gameTimeLeft = MaxGameTime;
        }

        private void Update() {
            if (gameTimeLeft <= 0) {
                SceneManager.LoadScene(0);
                return; 
            }
            UpdateTimer();
        }

        private void UpdateTimer() {
            gameTimeLeft = Mathf.Clamp(MaxGameTime - Time.time, 0, MaxGameTime);
            text.text = System.TimeSpan.FromSeconds(gameTimeLeft).ToString(@"mm\:ss\:fff");
        }
    }```

[wintry quarry]

Well you're just using Time.time which is https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-time.html

This is the time in seconds since the start of the application

[unborn veldt]

I can also try with the dict and another list! That's a wonderful solution

[wet trench]

ohh

[wintry quarry]

Maybe you mean to use something like this? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-timeSinceLevelLoad.html

This is the time in seconds since the last non-additive scene has finished loading.

Though I would recommend just using a timer with deltaTime like my example above.

[unborn veldt]

I can do some checks in the update to be sure it stays sinched and correctly debug if it gets unsynced

[unborn veldt]

I'll try that now

[wet trench]

yup, i for some reason didnt think to do that. thats a lot better. thanks

[unborn veldt]

Ok that solution worsened the problem: the Remove() function iterates through the dictionary T.T

[unborn veldt]

The remove of the list iterates 😦

[swift crag]

Are you both adding and removing constantly?

What if you just update more regions than are strictly necessary?

so that you never remove single items

[unborn veldt]

Every time I add or remove to the dict, I do that to the list

[unborn veldt]

can't do, and even removing a single object lags now

[wet trench]

when a scene is reloaded after you unload a scene, and all the game objects in it are cleaned up, how do you get new references to the new objects?

im getting a MissingReferenceException cuz my script doesnt get new references

[wintry quarry]

which script?

You have a DDOL script I guess?

[wet trench]

whats that 😃

[wintry quarry]

dont destroy on load

usually used in the context of a singleton

[wet trench]

how do I check?

[wintry quarry]

Well you would be calling DontDestroyOnLoad in the script on its gameObject

and the object would be moved into the DontDestroyOnLoad scene

without that I'm not really sure how you are managing to have references to destroyed objects sticking around

or maybe you're using a static event?

You really need to just show your code and show the full error message

[wet trench]

sure, i didnt because its long. i will return with a pastebin

https://pastebin.com/ATp81CXJ

ERROR OUT:
MissingReferenceException: The object of type 'BeamRifle' has been destroyed but you are still trying to access it.
Your script should either check if it is null or you should not destroy the object.
MyGame.BeamRifle.Aim () (at Assets/MyGame/Scripts/BeamRifle.cs:39)
PlayerInputs.Update () (at Assets/MyGame/Scripts/PlayerInputs.cs:24)

in the script i commented where the error is originating from

        private void Aim() {
            isAiming = !isAiming;
            if (isAiming) {
                transform.SetLocalPositionAndRotation(Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity);
            } else {
                transform.SetLocalPositionAndRotation(initialPos, initialRot)// line39;
            }
        }```
line 39

[wintry quarry]

you'd have to show the PlayerInputs script

[wet trench]

using System;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerInputs : MonoBehaviour {
    
    public static Action shootInput;
    public static Action aimInput;
    public static Action reloadInput;


    [SerializeField] private KeyCode reloadKey = KeyCode.R;

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update() {
        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0)) {
            shootInput?.Invoke();
        }

        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1)) {
            aimInput?.Invoke();
        }

        if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(1)) {
            aimInput?.Invoke();
        }

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(reloadKey)) {
            reloadInput?.Invoke();
        }

    }
}```

[wintry quarry]

I see the problem

Yeah It's like I mentioned before

you are using a static event

but you are forgetting to unsubscribe from the event

you need to do this:

void OnDestroy() {
    PlayerInputs.shootInput -= Shoot;
    PlayerInputs.reloadInput -= StartReload;
    PlayerInputs.aimInput -= Aim;
}```

[wet trench]

ohh okay

[wary sable]

hello, im having more of a conceptual problem that I could use some advise on... I am making an inventory and I have gotten most of the visual items done. If you walk over an item it will add it to the inventory and you will be able to see it etc. My problem is Moreso with how do I store the item's data?

[rich adder]

in a class / struct

[wintry quarry]

that's up to you. You need to decide what data needs to be stored

then just... make a type that captures that data and store it in your inventory

[wary sable]

I made a flow chart to sort of show the system that I currently have since compiling all of the scripts and pasting them here would probably be hard to track

[rich adder]

blinded

SO is good too

[wet trench]

this disabled the gun. is there something else i need to do

[wintry quarry]

I would guess you copied it incorrectly

it will not disable anything

this will only unsubscribe when the gun is destroyed

[rich adder]

seems you got something going , go with it

[wet trench]

        private void Start() { // event subscriptions
            initialPos = transform.localPosition;
            initialRot = transform.localRotation;

            gunData.currentAmmo = gunData.magSize;
            PlayerInputs.shootInput += Shoot;
            PlayerInputs.reloadInput += StartReload;
            PlayerInputs.aimInput += Aim;
        }

        void OnDestroy() {
            PlayerInputs.shootInput -= Shoot;
            PlayerInputs.reloadInput -= StartReload;
            PlayerInputs.aimInput -= Aim;
        }```

[wintry quarry]

yeah that looks fine. What do you mean by "disabled the gun" then?

[wet trench]

when i added that, it seemed to disable the event subscriptions. making the gun do nothing

[wintry quarry]

like it's not working in the first place now? Or perhaps it's not working after the scene reload?

[wary sable]

well the problem that I am running into is that since there are many different types all with different fields, making a generic SO to store them seems not right (struggling to find a word lol)

[wet trench]

i commented that code out, and things went back to normal

[wintry quarry]

this code won't run until the gun object is destroyed, so that will only happen if you're destroying the gun

[wet trench]

destroying.... hm.. im not doing anything of the sort. but that script is a part of a scene thats loaded by the main menu

does that affect anything

[rich adder]

is Item a regular class or inherits from SO ?

[wintry quarry]

no

[wintry quarry]

Start using Debug.Log and see what's going on

[amber nimbus]

Question: Why does this code slow down the turrets rotation more and more as it approaches the target rotation? I though this was only a problem with Lerp

[wintry quarry]

which code is running when, etc.

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/specifics/lerp/wrong-lerp

[wary sable]

ItemSO is an actual SO, but Item (the parent class for all items) is just a class

[amber nimbus]

But I am not using Lerp

[rich adder]

Ohh thought you said you had problem with lerp

I can see code well, can you send codeblock

[amber nimbus]

But yes the problem is the same one as the lerp it approaches, doesnt reach the target

[wet trench]

lmfao well, im not sure what changed, maybe i just forgot to press CTRL S in vs. it works now. thanks

[amber nimbus]

What is a codeblock

[rich adder]

like this ```

[polar acorn]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks
Large code blocks should be posted as links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/
https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code
Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.
```cs
// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[amber nimbus]

https://gdl.space/tosuzuxeli.cs

[rich adder]

hmmm maybe you can try Quaternion.Slerp

I think linear interpolation does that slowing down / speed up effect on rotation. Don't quote me on this tho..someone might have a better answer

[brittle sandal]

Hi all, I'm trying to create a sort of hover-ship controller, I have most of it working fine but having issues with surface alignment.
The alignment is currently done via Quaternion.FromToRotation() and Quaternion.Lerp(), which aligns the ship to the surface
However, it also results in the player not being able to turn the ship, because its Y-axis is being modified every frame to match the surface's Y-rotation

How could I go about rotating the ship so it's Y-axis remains unmodified / still controllable by the player?

[wary sable]

Would I be able to make a copy of the class and store it in the SO before it gets deleted (and or transfer the instance)?

[amber nimbus]

Yeah it does reach the target now but is still slows down, I am trying to just keep it the turret at the same speed

[rich adder]

why not use normals

[brittle sandal]

I will post what I am doing, already using the surface normal from a raycast :)

    private void AlignToSurface()
    {
        if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, out hit, 30f, settings.WorldMask))
        {
            transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Lerp(transform.localRotation, Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, hit.normal), settings.AlignSpeed);
        }
    }

[rich adder]

if you switch it to SLerp make sure you do the interpolation correctly (use a Coroutine)

the one you did for rotwatetowards doesn't work well

[wary sable]

drag?

[rich adder]

hmm I think create a vector3 as target and add the ships rotation as the Y instead

I'm trying to remember how I did my hoverboard year ago

[wary sable]

or would it be better to make multiple SO's inheriting from the base one?

[rich adder]

wdym storing into a SO?

typically is the other way around

[wary sable]

item data, IE(damage, animations, etc.)

atm when something is added to the inventory the game object is destroyed, thus the class instance that stores all of that information is as well

I need to store that data so it can be reinstantiated into the game when equiped

[rich adder]

do the stats change ?

[wary sable]

I would like to give them the ability to, for scalability

[rich adder]

I would use regular class for that , If you change 1 SO all the gameobjects that use that SO will change with those stats

you pretty much already have the object template

so if both player and enemy use same Sword SO , if you increase stats on your player SO sword it will change enemy sword

best to make a copy of base stats of a sword into a POCO then mutate that

[wary sable]

sorry could you elaborate on that, im not familiar with POCO

[rich adder]

is just a class

plain ol object

[polar acorn]

Plain Old C# Object

As in, doesn't inherit from MonoBehaviour or ScriptableObject or anything at all

A container for data with some methods on it

[wary sable]

gotca

so before destroying the object just create a new (POCO) class instance...

[rich adder]

You can store the POCO that is already on the object to have a blueprint for later what to recreate

[brittle sandal]

I've implemented the Vector3, however the ship now no longer aligns to the surface, although the Y is still modified / aligned with the surface.

Vector3 target = Vector3.up - hit.normal;
target.y = transform.localRotation.y;

transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Lerp(transform.localRotation, Quaternion.Euler(target), settings.AlignSpeed);

I'm assuming that this has to do with my target calculation not being the equivalent of whatever FromToRotation() does

[wary sable]

how do you go about storing a class?

[final kestrel]

Guys there is something I dont understand. If we can not inherit more than one base class. Why not just use interfaces? What is the point of inheritance then?

[brittle sandal]

As I understand interfaces act as 'contracts', wherein you have to explicitly implement all the members of the interface for each class, whereas with inheritance you can inherit base members (e.g. default methods)

[wintry quarry]

you cannot inherit data from interfaces.

nor behavior

it's merely a contract that guarantees you have certain methods

[rich adder]

I'm kinda lost on this one tbh, I have rigidbody with Dynamic active. Basically each raycast on the corner of my hoverboard keeps the board level with ground

[wary sable]

basically a template

[final kestrel]

Hmm all right. Thanks

[rich adder]

@brittle sandal :\

did it completely different :\
Thought i leveled the board rotation but I just let dynamic rigidbody take care of it basically

[brittle sandal]

hmm
so you are using a physics-based approach wherein you apply forces depending on the surface
mine is basically non-physics related and the surface height correction is done via lerping

[rich adder]

iirc when i did the first option it felt to stiff for what I was after since mine needs a springy feel to it with suspensions

[brittle sandal]

yea

[rich adder]

you only need X rotation or both X and Z?

[brittle sandal]

I want to align the x and z so that the ship and camera rotates to face the surface (done)
but without affecting the y, so I can still turn the ship

I will try post a video of what's happening

EDIT: Found a solution thanks to Sebastian Lague's planetary FPS controller video, I simply needed to multiply my Quaternion.FromToRotation() result by my ship's transform.rotation.
I also changed it from modifying the ship's localRotation to it's standard rotation.

[rich adder]

yeah post video if possible

im gonna try some code rq too

[honest prawn]

Hey everyone, I'm making a top-down game and I'm using Blend Trees to set the player's movement animations based on x & z input vectors.
However, the player rotates to look in the mouseWorldPosition, and so the values passed to the animator blend tree should be relative to the position the player is looking (i.e. if the player is pressing right and looking to the right, it should play the forward animation). Does anyone have any idea on how I could solve this problem?

[queen adder]

you can rotate your player towards your player velocity vector

[honest prawn]

The player rotates to where the mouse is, I can't rotate it to the vector direction.

[queen adder]

well what u want exactly

[fossil drum]

Been long since I did that, but out of my head:
You multiply the quaternion you are looking at by the input vector3 you create from your x & z input.
That should give you a vector that you can use in your blend tree.
Do note that it needs to be Quaternion * Vector3, and not the other way around, that's not supported.
Also, quaternion math is not really #💻┃code-beginner anymore

[solar arch]

anyone know how to fix this line of code, its saying that the object reference is not said to an instance of an object. playerPanels[0] has a TextMeshProUGUI component, and im trying to edit the text of ClueText

[queen adder]

try checking for angle between ur input for example (0,1,0) and ur current rotation, so if its less then something, ur facing towards it and when u press w while under some rotation angle, then u move forward with animation, for example

[buoyant knot]

I have an issue with reference frames again. I have a dynamic rigidbody parented to a kinematic rigidbody. Kinematic rigidbody moves using MovePosition, but dynamic rigidbody does NOT move with it.If I move the kinematic rigidbody in editor, dynamic rigidbody moves along with it.

and I made a test dynamic rigidbody with no other scripts. Just collider, rigidbody, and spriterenderer to see. Still same issue.

[wintry quarry]

either playerPanels is null or playerPanels[0] is null
the screenshot on the right doesn't really tell us anything

[solar arch]

this is playerPanels, the Player0 is the same Player0 as in the right screenshot

[honest prawn]

Oh my bad! I'll try it out and post the question on #archived-code-advanced if it doesn't work out! Thanks for all the answers

[wintry quarry]

wwhich line is actually throwing the exception?

[solar arch]

107 where i try to use clueTMP

[fossil drum]

I would try #archived-code-general first 😉

[wintry quarry]

oh then Player0 just doesn't have that component on it

TextMeshProUGUI

[fossil drum]

Anyhow, did my solution not work?

[wintry quarry]

You can even see in your screenshot - the text is probably on one of these child objects

[solar arch]

ClueText is seperate to Name Button if thats what you're meaning

[wintry quarry]

I mean you are trying to get a text component from Player0

which doesn't have a text component

[solar arch]

how would i access it then

[wintry quarry]

The right way to do this is that Player0 should have a script on it

[solar arch]

getComponentInChildren?

[wintry quarry]

like PlayerPanel or something

[wintry quarry]

this way is horrible/fragile

put a script on Player0

call it PlayerPanel

give it a function called SetName() or whatever it is you're trying to do

let PlayerPanel internally handle its references to text elements etc

[wintry quarry]

and this PlayerPanels list should be List<PlayerPanel>

so you don't need to deal with GetComponent

[solar arch]

okay ill try that thanks

[buoyant knot]

I think I figured out my reference frame issue kind of? If I change transform.position and NOT rigidbody.MovePosition, the parenting works perfectly

but it's my understanding that I really should not do that

[honest prawn]

sort of! It works exactly as it should when the player is looking up or down, but get inverted if the player is looking to the right or left.

[fossil drum]

Strange
Are you working in 2D or 3D?

[honest prawn]

3D, i could post some ss if that'd help

[fossil drum]

Yeah, and can you post the !code snippit too

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks
Large code blocks should be posted as links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/
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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.
```cs
// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[honest prawn]

I just got it to work!! Although i'm not entirely sure how, lol.

Vector3 inputDirection = new Vector3(-inputVector.x, 0, inputVector.y);
Vector3 animationDirection = transform.rotation * inputDirection;
        
playerAnimator.SetFloat("InputX", -animationDirection.x);
playerAnimator.SetFloat("InputZ", animationDirection.z);

What corrected the strange behaviour I described was inverting inputVector.x and also animationDirection.x

Not exactly sure where I messed up so that I needed to inverse these values, will need to dig into it later...

[fossil drum]

That's strange indeed.
My guess is that you have your InputX on 1 to be Left, instead of Right.
Anyhow, glad it works, but it shouldn't need the double negative. Good luck

[oblique torrent]

ChessPiece CreatePiece(int file, int rank, char type)
{
    ChessPiece piece = new()
    {
        //stuff here
    };

    Instantiate(piece, new(file, rank), Quaternion.identity);

    return piece;
}

im getting a message in the console saying "You are trying to create a MonoBehaviour using the 'new' keyword. This is not allowed. MonoBehaviours can only be added using AddComponent()." what does this mean i dont rly understand

[honest prawn]

Yeah, maybe I did that somewhere... Thanks a lot for the help! :)

[polar acorn]

You cannot create a MonoBehaviour with new

They do not exist unless they're on a game object

[fossil drum]

Well, constructors and MonoBehaviours don't work well together.
You just need the Instantiate with a piece. You could just add a public Transform yourPiece and add your piece there. That should fix it.

[polar acorn]

so you create them by adding the component to a game object

[cosmic rapids]

Hey there I’m coding for a game for a school project rn, I’m able to make something in a few days but then realised I might need to account for ECB documentation.

Can anyone give me a brief idea of how entity control boundary works in video games?

[oblique torrent]

yeah just did that thanks

guys

[swift crag]

Never heard of the concept.

The entity-control-boundary (ECB), or entity-boundary-control (EBC), or boundary-control-entity (BCE) is an architectural pattern used in use-case driven object-oriented programming that structures the classes composing high-level object-oriented source code according to their responsibilities in the use-case realization.

this sounds like what you do when you don't want to actually do any programming

:p

[cosmic rapids]

HAHHAHAH welcome to my Uni life 🫠

[swift crag]

reminds me of my software engineering courses

i only did a few

[cosmic rapids]

It was so much easier to understand it when it was just websites

[swift crag]

i have several books on the shelf that i never actually read

[cosmic rapids]

Oooo online courses?

Self taught, I respect that

[swift crag]

nah, this was at college. I did self-teach most of gamedev-related stuff though

[gaunt ice]

my software engineering doesnt even provide a text book

we dont need textbook....

[cosmic rapids]

Ahhhh same here

[swift crag]

I guess you need to figure out how to map actors, entities, boundaries, and controls to concepts you'd find in a Unity game.

[cosmic rapids]

Yeah I also don’t really need textbooks too, I just use notes and official documentation

[swift crag]

This reminds me of MVC

which I also don't really think about much

[cosmic rapids]

Oh from I heard ECB is very similar to MVC

[cosmic rapids]

Well I mean I guess it’s a start, maybe I can start plotting some use case diagrams down. Thanks for the tip

Damn I just hope that my prototype game isn’t too hard to refactor though

It’s a simple game but I still worry hahahah

[ashen ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DMkTRdOoro how did bro do this thing looking to fire up another project to make some destructible tanks but tracks scare me

[solid coral]

After the build, triggers on android do not work. objects don't have Rigidbody

[tender stag]

can someone help, this is a bit complicated, so for GetAmount and Remove i have to exclude the current cell, how do i do it?

this bit of code is on the inventory cell
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/usifufusut.pgsql

this is the inventory
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/eqocotojel.pgsql

i cant stack items which are in cells that are behind the current one

thats how the slots go

when i click on this, its wont quick stack

but here it will

because there is the same item BEFORE it

[hidden citrus]

can try get component fail even if it gets a component? I have a weird scenario where it keeps bypassing the first check.
I even tried a if (!other.TryGetComponent(out HealthComponent iHealth))) but its bypassing the false check (even when returned?)

Tried putting the return in the InterfaceDamage -> Take Damage as well, so that it would check at the moment of applying damage on the living object, but that also failed.

The failure point seems to be on try get, but the component exists on all objects that can take damage...

I even saw some weirdness where it "failed" then "succeeded", but somehow called the !other.TryGet before the other.TryGet though the fail check is AFTER the try get true. It's not making any sense. order of operations seems to be out of whack

  private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
        {

            // GOD MODE CHECK
            if (other.TryGetComponent(out HealthComponent iHealth))
            {
                if (iHealth.isGodMode)
                {
                    Debug.Log($"Object [{other.gameObject.name}]: isGodMode, ignored Projectile!");

                    // IF HITS PLAYER, EVADE
                    if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
                    {
                        PlayerObject.Instance.onEvade.Invoke();
                    }
                    return;
                }
            }

            if (other.TryGetComponent(out IDamageable iDamage))
            {
                Debug.Log("Dealing Damage");
                iDamage.InterfaceDamage(1);
            }

        }

[polar acorn]

What do you mean by "fail"? Is it giving you an error somewhere?

[hidden citrus]

i put an else/else if and tried the !other.TryGet and it returned the debug "Failed to get component" (custom debug)
but it's failing to get it at random intervals. It'll work for alot of hits, then out of nowhere it starts skipping the try get healthComponent and goes right to iDamage.
No errors, just returning "false" on tryget when it should always be "True"

[polar acorn]

You should show that code

[hidden citrus]

ok, what would be the correct "inverse" of the other.Tryget? would "Else" work or do i need else if !other?

[polar acorn]

tryget just returns a boolean

true if the component exists

false if not

[summer stump]

So, else

[hidden citrus]

so else { return }? would that protect the damage from running if component not found? wouldn't make sense to deal damage to something that doesn't have a damage receiver

[summer stump]

That would rerurn from the method if you didn't get the component

[hidden citrus]

i think that would make sense logically

if the health class doesn't exist, dont bother running the damage check

if it does, try and check for god mode

[shell sorrel]

think i would make god mode or not up to the thing that is taking the damage

[hidden citrus]

from the looks of it, it was failing (doing nothing) then skipping to deal damage (which applies no matter what)

[shell sorrel]

the thing doing the damage just looks for the interface to do damage and calls it

[hidden citrus]

yea, its grabbing that off the health component, but the TakeDamage also has a check inside

        public void InterfaceDamage(int amount)
        {
            TakeDamage(amount);
        }

snippet of takeDamage

     public void TakeDamage(int damage, bool isPureDamage = false)
        {
            Debug.Log("Dealt Damage");
            if (health.isGodMode)
            {
                Debug.Log("Damage Negated: GodMode Active");
                return;
            }

            damage = Mathf.Abs(damage);

take damage is within the living object class, so it can see the health class, so it shouldn't fail ever

[shell sorrel]

this feels like more indirection then needed

why would the health component not just implement the interface directly

[hidden citrus]

hmm good point

so its more like health.TakeDamage. trying to see if there's scenarios where thats unecessary

[ashen ferry]

do your items have some sort of ids? or just show InventoryCell class

[tender stag]

i mean they have id's

but i dont use them

like i just compare item data

the SO

like here for example

[hidden citrus]

ah figured out why, so i had two components registering the ontrigger enter. It was hitting some other gameObject on the player first, then the player. makes sense, easy fix

[tender stag]

in the Add method

[dusk minnow]

Hey i need some help i wanna change the alpha of a panel but it doesnt work rn, heres the code part: https://paste.ofcode.org/UdvaKELNePjz5LnXTefJjr

[tender stag]

this was just my thoughts when i was in college```
make a list of cells in the inventory

and in the Add method in inventory specify which list you are adding to

on the players inventory have cells for the inventory slots which you can add items to, so all inventory slots + hotbar slots
and also equipment slots

when quick stacking items specify check all of the cells list, and if the cell type matches the one on the item, quick stack

and on a furnace have like the fuel slots cells, input slots cells, and output slots cells

think about the remove if you should pass the cells array in, and same for GetAmount```

[ashen ferry]

I know whats the issue but I cant figure out a good solution to fit in ur code lmao

[tender stag]

like make this

and in add, remove and getamount

add this parameter

if its not null, make it add the items to the specific cells

like a specific cell group

and in my Quick Stacking i could make a new cell group with every cell in the inventory excluding the one

[ashen ferry]

to double check you want double clicked item to stack to the most top left slot with same item type? Like opposite of what currently happens?

[tender stag]

like

hold on

when i double click the blue

here

i want red to stack to blue

but at the moment its not happening

it only works when i double click the red item

then the blue gets correctly stacked to red

its because GetAmount and Remove is also checking the blue item

and here i have to somehow not check the cell clicked

[ashen ferry]

nah too much thinking what Ive got to say is make method in inventory manager QuickStack(Item item, int amount) and make double clicked item send itself to that method then start looping through inventory and if you find same type item add to it you can skip double clicked item just comparing class instances

[tender stag]

i dont understand

[tender stag]

im thinking the best way would be this

in each method like Add Remove and GetAmount have a parameter passing through

and if its not set then do all cells

and if its set do the specific cells

[ashen ferry]

you definitely want QuickStack method specifically created for this action alone dont confuse urself

[tender stag]

u sure?

[ashen ferry]

also you kinda control inventory from item tiself https://hastebin.skyra.pw/usifufusut.pgsql here

items shouldnt edit inventory thats what inventory manager is for anyways maybe someone else will take over cause I cant really say something very specific to fix here

[tepid cove]

HI, i have these two codes and when bullet hits the bear i want it to trigger the ragdoll, but in game the bullet passes right on through and it doesnt ragdoll

[wintry quarry]

If it passes through sounds like you don't have a collider or it's a trigger collider

[tepid cove]

hmm i dont think its got a colider, is there a way to make the model the hitbox?

[wintry quarry]

Also it seems like OnCollisionEnter is on the wrong script? This looks like the script that fires the bullets

You need it to go on a script on the bullet itself

[wintry quarry]

Sure you can use a mesh collider but it's usually fine and more performant just to use a Sphere or Capsule or Box

[tepid cove]

i would but i intend to make it accurate for the hitboxes

[daring tundra]

For some reason I'm getting a big frame drop when using an event for enabling UI text when the game ends. Anyone knows why? If I disable the event specifically for activating the text there's no lag

[tepid cove]

even them, shouldn't my ragdoll script for bear use the ragdoll hitboxes it made?

[wintry quarry]

I'm talking about a collider for the bullet

[tepid cove]

it bounces of the ground and cubes

[wintry quarry]

Show the bears collider

[tepid cove]

ye it has a box collider

[ashen ferry]

run profiler and look there what happens at the spike but I guess its redraw canvases thing

[tepid cove]

weird

i did the ragdoll last night and added an idol animation

but now its not showing the coliders and joints in the parts list for the bear like it did yesterday

but it still does the idol animation so it should be there?

[wintry quarry]

I wanted to see the collider(s) not whatever this is

Animations aren't related to colliders

[tepid cove]

id show you but they dont seem to be there, but i cant see anything, cant see the coliders or joints but saw them there yesterday after i ragdolled it??? im confused

[wintry quarry]

If you don't have colliders the bullets will have nothing to collide with

[tepid cove]

yeah

idk where the colliders went?

do i just re ragdoll it

[wintry quarry]

You're problem just looking in the wrong place? Why not search the hierarchy

t: Collider

[daring tundra]

I used something else to enable the text and it still framedrops so the cause does seem to be the text. Is 'SetActive(true)' on UI text very performance heavy or something?

[tepid cove]

bear didnt come up so it doesnt have any

weird

[daring tundra]

I used SetActive(false) in the start void function of the UI text to disable the text when the game begins and that also causes a major framedrop

[ashen ferry]

look up what is profiler u need to work with that to see wtf is going on

tho yeah sounds weird idk

[tepid cove]

i re ragdolled it and now it has colliders and joints, idk why it didnt save that was weird but now they are here

[wary sable]

Halo, I'm back with more inventory questions... Since last I have taken a step back and thought about my current system, and think that it would be a good Idea to get a fresh start. (not that I'm totally against my old system, I just feel like starting fresh will open some new avenues that were not there before).
Bascially,
I want to make a player inventory, that inventory will contain all types of items in (currently) 4 categories, weapons, spells, armor and generic. For UI purpouses I still think it would be good to keep these types in separate containers...
ATM I am thinking of switching to using dictionaries instead of Lists (for the main inventories), and arrays for the equipment slots.
I want to be able to have the potential to have multiple of the "same item" but with different stats, especially for weapons and armor.
I also want to be able to destroy the gameObject on pickup of items, this means that any components of said items will be destroyed...
I know I've asked this before but I think I need some further expansion, how should, or in what ways can I save item data (for various types of items) so I can later initialize the item back into the scene from the inventory?

Ive seen a lot of good tutorials out there, but none really answer that last question, or rather they all use a system which is not scalable whatsoever and disallows for things like weapon leveling / armor modifications... any thoughts?

[tepid cove]

@wintry quarry the bullet hits and bounces off the bear but now the animation doesnt play and the ragdoll doesnt trigger

[wintry quarry]

Well... #💻┃code-beginner message

[timber tide]

ATM I am thinking of switching to using dictionaries instead of Lists (for the main inventories), and arrays for the equipment slots.
That's fine.

I want to be able to have the potential to have multiple of the "same item" but with different stats, especially for weapons and armor.
Doable, but the more complex you make an item, the more you have to break down your serialization.

I also want to be able to destroy the gameObject on pickup of items, this means that any components of said items will be destroyed...
That's as easy as making a temporary wrapper which you can add and remove without affecting the actual item reference.

I know I've asked this before but I think I need some further expansion, how should, or in what ways can I save item data (for various types of items) so I can later initialize the item back into the scene from the inventory?
Keep data very specific early on where you can simply apply IDs for serialization and deserialization if that's what you're asking.

[tepid cove]

i made a new script and put the code on the bullet @wintry quarry

[wary sable]

thank you so much for the answers!
would you mind expanding a bit on #3, do you mean to have a script component that just runs the constructor of another detached script?

[wintry quarry]

And the result? Make sure the code is running with Debug.Log and also watch the console for any errors

[timber tide]

Well, it depends on how you're doing your items. If they derive from a mono, then you can pretty much keep all the functionality on the item itself. But, if you are using plain data objects then you need some wrapper that inherits the mono for a scene presence.

[wintry quarry]

Also note this assumes the same object with the collider has the bear script, and not a parent object for example

[swift crag]

I designed an inventory system where the inventory items are distinct from the actual in-world items

They both reference an "ItemSpec" object that actually contains the item's stats

[daring tundra]

Not using textmeshpro and using a different canvas seems to have fixed the issue

[timber tide]

I don't think the overhead for them all being mono's is a bad thing, but I've not really took the effort to compare it all, but preferably you do want your item data disconnected from the scene when it's not being used.

[tepid cove]

nothing, the caode is fine but it doesnt do anything so i think im just missing something, and just have a code that doesnt do anything

[tepid cove]

sorry what does this mean? i need to find a way to link both scripts?

[wary sable]

yeah the inventory system I had, the data was connected to the actual object but not the inventory, so the only thing that was really being stored was its name and icon.

I guess making that relationship go both ways using a generic class pointing to a "data" class would make things a bit easier

and allow for some for varried functionality across item types

[summer stump]

No, just that the bear script must be on the same object as the object you run trygetcomponent on. It has the be the same object as c.collider. You can't, for example, have it on a parent or child object as is

[tepid cove]

so i put the bear script on the bullet script?

[wary sable]

Im so sorry I dont want to keep pressing too much, but could you just break down a way to preserve a monobehavior off of an item that has been destroyed?

[summer stump]

No, I don't think so. Is the bullet script attached to the same object as BulletRagdoll? You want the bear script on the object that the one with BulletRagdoll HITS

[ashen ferry]

arent u supposed to save what u need as poco class and assemble ur monobehaviour from that class

[wary sable]

or, would it just be advisable to instead of having a bunch of inherited classes for item types, just having a bunch of inherited SO's

[tepid cove]

no bullet attache to the gun, the radoll is a seperate thing its an npc

[late yew]

Any idea what's causing this issue? I can't work it out.

[SerializeField]
private int _itemID;

public int ItemID { get { return _itemID; } set { _itemID = value; } }

[swift crag]

ItemReference is a type

did you mean to do this.ItemID or something?

[summer stump]

Whatever BulletRagdoll is attached to needs to be a different object than what Bear is attached to. And bear script must be on the same object as the collider

Edit: wait... bullet is attached to the gun?

[late yew]

so, the script in the chat is in ItemReference

i should have clarified

[timber tide]

You don't necessarily need to preserve any monos is the idea. If you are to create an inventory of data objects and want to drop them, you'd temporarily place them into a wrapper that derives from mono and add some visual display to the GO. Similarly if you want to display a weapon on your character.

[swift crag]

which one? you posted two pieces of code

or are they both in the ItemReference definition?

[late yew]

the chat one, the image is from something different

[tepid cove]

it is

[swift crag]

well, you need an instance of ItemReference to get the ItemID from

you can't just ask the ItemReference type itself for an item ID. which item are you getting the ID of?

[tepid cove]

ill try that, just need to put bear script on the bullet, do i keep the bear script on the bear too?

[late yew]

public class ItemPickup : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D col)
    {
        ItemReference item = col.GetComponent<ItemReference>();

        if (item != null)
        {
            ItemData itemData = InventoryManager.instance.GetItemData(ItemReference.ItemID);

            string debug = (itemData != null) ? "Player has picked up " + itemData.itemName + "." : "ItemDetails is null!";

            Debug.Log("msg");
        }
    }
}

[swift crag]

okay, then just do item.ItemID

[summer stump]

Why would bear script be on the bullet? Why would it NOT be on the bear?

[swift crag]

you can't ask ItemReference for an ID because that's not a specific item

that's just...the concept of an item

that's why you got the error. ItemID is non-static, so you can only access it from an instance of ItemReference

[late yew]

ah right, obviously

my brain is fried TT

[wary sable]

sorry Im still super new to all of this, are you basically saying that instead of turning the item into data, you turn the data stored in a SO, or other to create a new GO. (instead of storing a refrence to data in the GO store a refrence to its prefab in the data?)

[wary sable]

would you happen to have a doc explaining how to do that?

[ashen ferry]

imo u gotta walk through simple json tutorial/example online to get the gist

[tepid cove]

bullet is a solo object, there is a script on the gun that fires it from the gun barrel. the bear is another seperate object

[summer stump]

Yeah... so don't put bear on the bullet

[green copper]

How do I make this match rotation of parent instead of world Axis?

[timber tide]

The data is just a plain data object which you have a specific instance of as opposed to an SO where you have only one instance of. A GO is an object that derives from monobehavior and isn't required when you want to store something as data without having a scene presence.

[tepid cove]

then whats my problem, i think i confused myself

[summer stump]

You are confusing me too lol. I'll break it down though. No worries

1. Bear object has a bear script

2. Bullet object has a bullet script and bulletragdoll script

3. Gun has whatever script shoots the bullet

4. Bullet hits bear object. Collider of bear AND bear script must be on same object.

Done

[tepid cove]

ohh i see

[swift crag]

transform.rotation would give you the rotation of transform

[tepid cove]

the script is on the main body

and the colliders are the sub limbs ragdoll

[summer stump]

Then you gotta get the bear script through their parent. c.transform.parent.TryGet or whatever the syntax for that would be

Is it ONE level up?

Alternatively, you could have scripts on the sub limbs that respond to ragdoll as well. And the bulletragdoll script would check for those (or an interface for them)

[wary sable]

would you happen to have an example and/or article? Sorry, I understand what you are saying from a "coding" standpoint, just not a "coding in unity" one. (if that makes any sense)

I just need to see it

[ashen ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNj2nvSyD4 I watched this like month ago on how to work with json not cherry picked one just what I watched since I know the dude from udemy so of course chinese spies showed this as top result 10min clip and u can save whatever

[tepid cove]

the main body bear script has a line of code to find the sublimb coliders from ragdoll tho

[summer stump]

But the bulletragdoll can't get to the bear script as you've written it. Because the colliders are only on the limbs, right?

It will only act on the objects with colliders

[tepid cove]

ohhhh

[timber tide]

I'm just explaining runtime concepts, but if you're looking for deserialization methods to reload the data then that's something else

[tepid cove]

so how do i do that?

[polar niche]

I'm adding a 3D object to my Unity 2D project with URP. I want to show this dice on top of the UI canvas elements. Would the best way be to just add a new camera for the 3D object separately?

[summer stump]

I explained here
#💻┃code-beginner message

Which part can I help with more?
Which route do you wanna take?

[timber tide]

are you basically saying that instead of turning the item into data, you turn the data stored in a SO, or other to create a new GO
No, you start from an SO and create a plain data object from that specific SO. But, when it's created, there's no point of it being a monobehavior unless it's on the scene is my point. When you drop an item in the scene, you will take that plain data object, create a new GO with a wrapper script, and stick that plain data object inside of it. When you pick up that item, you remove it from the GO and then destroy the GO while placing the item reference (which is still a plain data object) back into your inventory.

[wary sable]

ok, and to make sure we are on the same page, by plain data object you mean a non derived script/class?

[timber tide]

Right just a c# script

they don't need to derive from a mono to be used in unity

only if you want it to have some scene presentation

[autumn crypt]

yooo hi is this like the correct channel to ask questions i just joined cause ive been stuck on this for like the past 4 hours and im going insane

[ashen ferry]

nah u go to #archived-art-asset-showcase for that

[autumn crypt]

[polar acorn]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[wet trench]

what sorted collection would you use to store a history of player scores in descending order? does C# have anything like that? ive tried googling, but theres only SortedList which is more like a sorted dictionary requiring keys, and SortedSet which would not work

[polar acorn]

You could just use a list and sort it when you add something

[dull eagle]

Hey everyone, I've been having this issue with jittering in my 2d game. As you can see in the video whenever I move the player vertically and have the mouse cursor horizontally the cannon part of the player starts to jitter. Same happens if I'm moving horizontally and holding the mouse cursor vertically (it gets worse the closer the mouse cursor is to the pivot point of the player)

Here is the code for the player movement and camera tracking:
https://pastebin.com/SVkfmPhf

So far I have tried putting the camera tracking in update and fixedupdate but it doesn't make it better.
The player's rigidbody is also set to "Interpolate".
Would appreciate any help

[fair steeple]

Hey, out of curiosity, why can't you use a function that takes a bool parameter in animation events?

[timber tide]

Are you moving in the video? Either way, the input should be set in your update loop while rigidbody stuff is done in fixedupdate. As for the wonkyness for centering your mouse, you'll need to add a deadzone to ignore that input in your logic.

[swift crag]

I guess it was just decided that there's already enough options

[tender stag]

can someone have a look at this and try and help me, i've made comments of how i would want it to work

The one i need help with
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/esohuluray.csharp

The inventory script which handles Add function
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/gevutojaci.pgsql

[timber tide]

Looks pretty good, what's the problem?

[neon wedge]

can anyone tell me what this means?

[tender stag]

doesnt work

quick stacking

[slender nymph]

you need to configure your !IDE so that it shows you errors

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[tender stag]

you know how in minecraft it works like this

[timber tide]

You seem to have it working here, no? You just need to delete the original item after stacking.

[tender stag]

i would have this before

and it worked like this

[neon wedge]

what does that mean?

[slender nymph]

maybe take a look at the bot message

[tender stag]

i would also have this in the inventory

wait it broke completly

i wanted to send a video

[timber tide]

After stacking, check the original item's value and if it's 0 then remove it

[neon wedge]

i dont understand what it means

how do i download it

[slender nymph]

you need to configure your ide so that it will show you your errors. click the relevant link in the bot message and follow the instructions

[tender stag]

you see when i stacked it, it gets added to the hotbar slots again

which i dont want

i want it to stay in the same slot

[timber tide]

Why are you readding it to the slot then?

[tender stag]

this is what causes it

[tender stag]

what do you mean

[neon wedge]

is this what its supposed to look like?

[tender stag]

but i have to add the rest because i Remove the item from the slot

[slender nymph]

that's one part of it, yes. please read all of the instructions and actually follow them

[wide silo]

Yea

[timber tide]

You left click on item, check if your inventory has already a similar item, otherwise find first available slot. If you find a similar item, deduct from your current item onto the item already there. If the original item is now of value 0, then you just delete it.

[tender stag]

i need stacking from hotbar cells to the inventory cells

[wide silo]

Exactly

[tender stag]

and from inventory cells to hotbar cells

[wide silo]

So that's the 2nd problem

[timber tide]

Ok, so that was hotbar to inventory

[tender stag]

i need to keep this quick stack behaviour

[timber tide]

^

Usually you want to scan it first for an item already available, at least that's how most games do it. If not found, then you just put it into the most first available slot (which you can minimize scanning by marking it on the first scan)

[tender stag]

thats what i do in my add function

[timber tide]

You shouldnt remove the item from the slot unless it fully stacks* into another cell

[neon wedge]

i followed all the steps but there's still the error

[tender stag]

yeah

thats what i want

[wide silo]

You want to fix the error or what

[slender nymph]

yeah those steps don't fix the error. they just help make them visible in your ide so that you can fix the obvious errors

[tender stag]

but i dont know how to check if it fully stacks into the the vice versa cells

[neon wedge]

ye i want to fix it

[wide silo]

Could u send the jump function

Like the whole script

Bc there's a flipped or a curly brackets placed in the wrong place

[tender stag]

Mao brother please help

i wanna go to sleep man

lmao

[wide silo]

XD

[timber tide]

I'm trying to figure out in your code where you're readding the item

[slender nymph]

did you already see their code that they posted above? there's a lot wrong with it. they need to configure their ide before attempting to fix any of it

[tender stag]

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/cixeniyapi.csharp
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/hitafoyazi.pgsql

whole scripts

if it helps

[timber tide]

Here, you seem to stack it fine, so why don't you check after if the original item is 0 or not, and if so leave it alone, otherwise remove it, or is there something else im not seeing here.

[tender stag]

because i call Remove()

which gets rid of the item in the cell

[timber tide]

You should only remove it if it's 0

unless you're trying to stack it and place the remainder into the inventory as well

that's another step then

[tender stag]

im trying achieve this

like stack it, and then leave the rest alone