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[rich adder]

expose it

[languid timber]

I mean the SetActive is false when the game begins, so ehh

donno

[quick pollen]

just make sure u use the Reference name not the actual name

[rich adder]

uh oh

but what about when you call GameSaved/GameLoaded

[languid timber]

then is is set to SavingNotifier.SetActive(true);

[shell sorrel]

what about your GameSavingNote anything destroy or change its active state

[summer stump]

#🖱️┃input-system

There is a mouse delta binding though

[rich adder]

wtf

weird timing

[lusty flax]

In my spritesheets, do all of my sprites need to be encased in equally-sized squares? will it work if I save space by making them be in rectangles?

[languid timber]

it should not, the script is on a parent that NEVER gets destroyed and It is 100% not being called in other scripts

[frigid sequoia]

I mean I was trying to create the typical effect of changing the opacity of any object blocking sigth of the player, I downloaded a bunch of script that did that, but doesn't seem to work with anything else that is not the standard Unity mats. So since just the walls can get into the player view I decided I should just adjust the mat so it can be manually set to be transparent, but I don't know what else to do from there 😅

[rich adder]

yeah it will be fine, as long pivot matches

[languid timber]

like this

[lusty flax]

yes to which part

[rich adder]

will it work if I save space by making them be in rectangles?

[shell sorrel]

looks fine there, then would just add logs at every step

[lusty flax]

k so how can i unstretch my sprites

[rich adder]

and ur certain Pause Menu does not disable ?

[rich adder]

Ohh I thought you meant the Sprite Editor..

[languid timber]

I did that, will do a test round and come back with results

[rich adder]

then in that case no making them rectangles will resize it @lusty flax

[shell sorrel]

yeah the PauseMenu Gameobject will need to stay active all the time

otherwise it will prevent hte coroutines from running

[lusty flax]

k so i remake the spritesheets but with spacing this time?

[shell sorrel]

that counts its parent being disabled as well

[rich adder]

wdym with spacing?

[lusty flax]

(to make each sprite a square)

[rich adder]

make them rectangles there if you want to modify their "borders" of the rect transform

but in sprite editor

[languid timber]

nope, the child background pauze does, Ive checked it

but as thought the give it a sec does get loaded

but the Invoke does not https://hatebin.com/ypfaagmcqu

[rich adder]

so its working...

oh wait nvm wrong log srry

are you modifying the Timescale ?

might have something to do with it

[languid timber]

Yes!

[shell sorrel]

ah

[languid timber]

I indeed am

[shell sorrel]

WaitForSecondsRealTime

instead of WaitForSeconds

[languid timber]

wiil do it?

[rich adder]

*for coroutine

[shell sorrel]

because your pause was setting timescale to 0, WaitForSeconds was also pausing

[languid timber]

aha!

[shell sorrel]

WaitForSecondsRealtime ticks forward no matter what timescale is

[languid timber]

but where do I put that in exacty?
because its not here yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);

[languid timber]

gives me an error

[shell sorrel]

you replace WaitForSeconds with WaitForSecondsRealtime

exact same place, it takes the same args

yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(1);

[languid timber]

wait now it does work haha

it just did not

Holy bimbus the monkey it works!

[rich adder]

[languid timber]

thanks all! appreciate the effort you put in for me :)

[summer stump]

Ahh, just came back in to see it.
Dang timescale! Didn't even consider it

[shell sorrel]

yeah no one clued in till they saw other pause related things

[languid timber]

like the menu

[shell sorrel]

atleast was a easy fix once found, just replace the yield step

[languid timber]

btw nice profile, listening to them now XD

[clear seal]

so basically my code says there is an error form the tutorial i made but i dont see an error it's perfectly the same

[shell sorrel]

its a Gojira album art right, been a while since i listened to any but great stuff

[languid timber]

does the Invoke method also work whenever time.timescale = 0 if you use some trick to let it go by the timescale 0?

[languid timber]

indeed

[queen adder]

What does the error tell u gold?

[queen adder]

Its a very simple mistake

It should say something about this method doesnt have a overload

[summer stump]

Yep, From Mars to Serius

[clear seal]

VEctor3 does not contain an constructor that accept argument 4(translated)

[rich adder]

Saw them live, They are amazing

[queen adder]

Ok what can tell you from this

You put in 4 arguments

[shell sorrel]

any how many things are you passing into it

[languid timber]

I would bet they are, they make great stuff. but thats awesome

[languid timber]

KleeREEE

[rich adder]

exactly ! almost got KOd twice in the pit

[queen adder]

Gold look over ur code

How many arguments are u passing into the constructor

[languid timber]

oof, only brooses I hope?

[rich adder]

haha yea nothing major

but yeah offtopic sorry 😛 lets move onto code

[languid timber]

good good

[languid timber]

I just wanted to say the same hahaha (but a bit of fun can be happening at times)

so is the StartCoroutine better than the Invoke?

because I donno what would be smart

(just in general speaking now)

[shell sorrel]

Coroutines give much more control

[rich adder]

its good for other things too

[shell sorrel]

and do not involve stringly typed bs

can pass it args, and can do many things with it

[rich adder]

esp good replacement if you are using InvokeRepeating and need a way to stop the loop/coroutine in general

[shell sorrel]

can wait on time, frames, or a condtion or what ever you want

[clear seal]

i dunno...

[languid timber]

hmm I see

[clear seal]

i tried replay it to understan

[languid timber]

well thanks! I will take all off this into consideration

[shell sorrel]

a Vector3 has 3 components to it, x y and z you tried to make one with 4

[clear seal]

i SEE IT NOW

[rich adder]

oh and they can be stored inside a variable Coroutine so it can be stopped any time.

[languid timber]

but I am tired as hell, wanted to fix my bug and now its 3 in the mornin

[clear seal]

yay :)

[queen adder]

haha lol

[clear seal]

i typed too fast

[queen adder]

It was telling u the whole time

[clear seal]

:/

[queen adder]

Slow down and read the error more carefully

[clear seal]

he can now move correctly

[queen adder]

They usually tell u the exact error

[languid timber]

like if it is being activated it could just be told NO and it will stop performing the delay?

[rich adder]

yeah it can be stopped while WaitForSeconds is going on for example
or before it

[queen adder]

good to hear! Looks dope

[languid timber]

thats very usefull! thanks

but imma go now, thanks again for all the help :)

[supple citrus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763495187787677697/1211106170107076698/image.png?ex=65ecfd84&is=65da8884&hm=621b68dc74dd09335b4f62006ba79e4081fc70ee15c03ec686fdee2875111fcd&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763495187787677697/1211106177505562664/image.png?ex=65ecfd85&is=65da8885&hm=6d333289bf58d0b9bf9f4f7f8550b8417aca65d12fc5896d43772a499efb58ca&
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763495187787677697/1211106479034073198/image.png?ex=65ecfdcd&is=65da88cd&hm=fdea2b79bd8ff359cd8e159675aca7df7cbc871934e5a068bbafdc72bcf9f9b7&
I have a camera focussed on only the red box but ReadPixels() returns a screenshot of the entire screen rather than just the bounds of the camera. What parameters do I pass to make it only capture the camera's region? Or is there a different function that does it? Anything really.

erm

I thought they would have embedded

awkward

[rich adder]

uhhh im wary of clicking random cdn links

[clear seal]

now animation part

[rich adder]

What I would do instead is using a Render Texture

[clear seal]

:)

[rich adder]

then export that as the Screenshot

[supple citrus]

I thought thats what ive been doing

[rich adder]

which camera has the RT ?

i see 2

[queen adder]

Whats up gold?

[supple citrus]

the smaller box

it should capture just the red box in the first image

just the simulation

and i have that region as a rect called SimBounds

But i couldnt get that to work either

[rich adder]

oh ok , and ur certain that simCamera is the smaller cam

[supple citrus]

As in passing SimBounds as a parameter would do the whole screen too

Yea 100%

[rich adder]

instead of read pixels maybe copy the image directly from the RT to the texture

using GPU

[supple citrus]

How does one do this

[rich adder]

Graphics.CopyTexture

[supple citrus]

I was following a tutorial for the capture method. I'm not rendering the image to any texture I just want to export the image as a file so I don't know if half of the code i have is necessary

[pallid nymph]

they need the pixels anyway to save the image to file

[rich adder]

true

wait no

Texture class has a method to Save iirc

[pallid nymph]

yes, but it needs to read the pixels to do that

[supple citrus]

All the saving stuff is working fine

Its just not capturing the right area

Im guessing it does the whole screen as a default when you enter something invalid

but I dont know what ive done wrong

[shell sorrel]

did you call apply

you need to do it after ReadPixels

[rich adder]

if the textures was already copied directly from GPU you dont need it(read pixels) to Save
https://docs.unity3d.com/560/Documentation/ScriptReference/Texture2D.EncodeToPNG.html

[pallid nymph]

show screenshot please

also try the other camera

[supple citrus]

the other camera is main camera and its the whole screen

im 100% certain Im using the right camera

[supple citrus]

whats this

[rich adder]

ah yes

[shell sorrel]

its a method on your Texture2D

[rich adder]

to apply the data you just read

[shell sorrel]

call it after ReadPixels

[pallid nymph]

apply is the thing that sends data to GPU

[supple citrus]

so thumbnail.Apply() ?

[pallid nymph]

so you don't need it

you're not writing pixels and sending them to GPU, you're doing the other direction

[shell sorrel]

_camera.Render();
RenderTexture.active = RenderTarget;
outTex.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, RenderTarget.width, RenderTarget.height), 0, 0);
outTex.Apply();
var bytes = outTex.EncodeToPNG();

is how i normally do this

then i just shove those bytes into a file

[pallid nymph]

show one screenshow and I'll go check my code for this in the meantime 😄

[teal viper]

Did you try debugging the pixel width and height and confirming that it corresponds to the expected area?

[supple citrus]

Apply() doesnt change anything

It was correctly screenshotting and saving the image just not capturing the right area

[supple citrus]

What does 0,0 even mean

What corner is that lol

[rich adder]

maybe because because ur passing in the camera size instead of RT size

[supple citrus]

But wouldnt they be the same since I want the image to be exactly what the camera is seeing

[night grove]

hey im new what should i learn first?

[teal viper]

Lower left corner:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Texture2D.ReadPixels.html

[shell sorrel]

RT size is the pixel size of it

[pallid nymph]

you're missing the camera.render() bit

[shell sorrel]

that is only needed because i use a disabled camera

[rich adder]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[shell sorrel]

i tell it when it capture a frame

[night grove]

oh ok ty

[rich adder]

start with the Essentials path @night grove

[night grove]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[night grove]

ok

[shell sorrel]

your Texture2d how is it created

what size and format

new Texture2D(RenderTarget.width, RenderTarget.height, TextureFormat.ARGB32, false)
made my the size of my render texture

[pallid nymph]

I think it's more about controlling which camera is rendered at the time

[shell sorrel]

it is not that part is based on where you assigned the rt

[pallid nymph]

(because I have it too 😄 but that's code I wrote ages ago, so 🤷‍♂️ )

[supple citrus]

Does it even matter which camera its using, as long as I pass the correct region as a Rect into the ReadPixels function, no?

[teal viper]

Do you though?

[shell sorrel]

keep in mind the Rect will be pixel coords into the RT

not Screenspace coords

[supple citrus]

Oh my rect is in the Screenspace i think

Since the width is 8.7f

[shell sorrel]

textures are all about pixels

[supple citrus]

Can I convert the rect at once or do I have to redefine it with pixel coords

[shell sorrel]

well you can just figure it out

its your RT you know its res

[supple citrus]

No I dont

[shell sorrel]

and what that is relative to your screensize

[supple citrus]

I have no idea what a rt is loool I just want to export a screenshot as a file

[frigid sequoia]

Ok so... this the script that is supposed to change the oppacity of the object that is blocking sight; if I de-comment like 131 it does set the oppacity to the value that it is indicating (through a shaderGraph variable directly connected to the alpha) AND in lane 146, the debug in the loop is showing the alpha value change properly, so.... why it isn't working, can I not the change the whole alpha value in the color of a shadergraph mat or what is going wrong? I don't get it

[rich adder]

:squinting

[supple citrus]

IF simbounds was the correct region, would this work

[ivory bobcat]

How to post !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use 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 format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[shell sorrel]

well the rect arg is the rect in the RT you want to read, the other 2 zeros are where to put it in the texture

[queen adder]

I keep seeing this

[frigid sequoia]

The issue is in that block for sure, but if you insist in seeing the whole code....

[supple citrus]

ive used SimBounds elsewhere and it definitely is the right region.

But the code gives this

[pallid nymph]

maybe the shader does not support alpha? 🤷‍♂️

[supple citrus]

And im guessing this is a screenspace/pixel issue

[frigid sequoia]

https://gdl.space/gajagunici.cs

[ivory bobcat]

We can't see the line numbers.. and the image hurts the eyes.

[queen adder]

Time.deltaTime shouldnt not be used for timers right?

[frigid sequoia]

The shader is being modified by the keywords to allow for transparency

[shell sorrel]

nothing wrong with using it for that

[queen adder]

But thats not the actual time and wont the timer change depending on frime rate?

Shouldnt the timer always be consistent?

[rich adder]

no the timer will be consistent

across low / high fps

[shell sorrel]

though there lerp looks all wrong

its last arg should be elapsedTime / duration

[queen adder]

Hope u guys dont mind

But im gonna test so i can set my mind to ease

Ill post results here

[rich adder]

go for it

you should always test things anyway

[supple citrus]

Since I have no idea why its capturing the wrong area, is there a way I can just crop the image after lol

[pallid nymph]

don't trust randos on the internet

some are absolute trolls!

[frigid sequoia]

Don't trust yourself, sometimes you are an absolute troll

[pallid nymph]

just find out what the problem is! 😄

[supple citrus]

Ive been trying for days lol

Im so lost with this

[lusty flax]

i made animations using spritesheets. How do I implement them now? How do i make them play when the player does a certain thing?

[rich adder]

 public float Timer;
 private void Update()
 {
     if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha1))
     {
         Application.targetFrameRate = 4;
     }else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Alpha2))
     {
         Application.targetFrameRate = -1;
     }
     Timer += Time.deltaTime;
 }```

[opaque bough]

This may be a stupid thing to say: but I occasionally use Microsoft copilot to help me write code when I scroll on YT for hours and can't find anything. . .you could try that. 🤷‍♂️ I'm a noob anyway so maybe don't listen to me

[queen adder]

My class is similar to that

public sealed class DeltaTimeTest : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void Awake()
    {
        Application.targetFrameRate = 60;
    }

    float _real_time;
    float _delta_time;

    private void Update()
    {
        _real_time = Time.time;

        _delta_time += Time.deltaTime;

        print($"Real Time is {_real_time}");
        print($"Delta Time is {_delta_time}");
    }
}```

[pallid nymph]

I recommend against - if you wanna do this (programming / game dev), you need to learn to code and to debug and all that

[queen adder]

I didnt think about switching framerates on the fly like that tho. Thats smart im about to steal

Something wrong with mine?

[opaque bough]

Very true, however sometimes I'm just too stupid to figure it out on my own

[rich adder]

why you say that

[shell sorrel]

what does this prove though people do the deltaTime add when you want to start tracking time from a certain point, and wnat it to start at 0

[queen adder]

No no im asking before i test

[shell sorrel]

so create for driving lerps

since you can easily do elaspsedTime/duration

[pallid nymph]

okay, so try adding the camera.Render() just in case... also, make the camera size VERY different, like a 200 x 200 square at the top right corner - see what happens, understand more about what's going on and why

[rich adder]

btw Time.time is total time since simulation ran

[shell sorrel]

pretty sure they are just gettin confused with screen coords vs coords into the render texture and texture

[queen adder]

My point is that the timers should be consistent across all frame rates with time.deltaTime the timer wouldnt be consistent depending on frame rate

[rich adder]

right thats why Time.deltaTime

so its independent

[supple citrus]

Render() changes nothing and it returns the entire screen no matter what size or where the camera is. I just don't know how to pass the SimBounds rect I have to ReadPixels() because every time I do it returns some error

[pallid nymph]

quite possibly... so yeah, they should play with them until they understand what's going on 😄 that's what I'd do and suggest at least

[pallid nymph]

it "returns" error?

[shell sorrel]

well do you ever assign the render texture to the right camera

[queen adder]

Maybe im overthinking it

[rich adder]

Github Copilot > Microsoft CoPiLoT

[pallid nymph]

What's your worry?

[supple citrus]

is that this? :v

[opaque bough]

Never used it so I cant say

[shell sorrel]

no, that is just the active target for the readpixels call

[rich adder]

well one is actually helpful, the other just makes stuff up most of the time

[opaque bough]

Lol

[queen adder]

Something stupid dont mind me tbh

[supple citrus]

I dont actually want the texture to be rendered onto anything though I just want to save the image as a file

[frigid sequoia]

No, so apparently changing the alpha of ShaderGraph Mat does absolutely nothing for some reason, at least on mine

Why is that? Is that normal?

[pallid nymph]

potential problem with deltaTime is if framerate drops really low (so that the step becomes larger than max time step allowed)... only then you'll have lost time

[ivory bobcat]

What is a fading object? If it follows the general unity convention, you'd normally need to assign the new materials back:cs var materials = renderer.materials; ... renderer.materials = materials;https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Renderer-materials.html

Note that like all arrays returned by Unity, this returns a copy of materials array. If you want to change some materials in it, get the value, change an entry and set materials back.

[pallid nymph]

depends on the shader, maybe it's not using the mat for alpha 🤷‍♂️

[queen adder]

Results

[shell sorrel]

will want to get the activeTexture from the camera

[frigid sequoia]

This is a fading object: https://gdl.space/ilenosuvow.cpp

[shell sorrel]

set that to rendertexture.active then read that into the texture 2d

[queen adder]

Now im gonna change frame rates

[shell sorrel]

that does not really prove anything, since Time.time of course starts earlier

since its not based on when that script started updating but the engine loading

[ivory bobcat]

Make sure to read the rest of what I wrote

[rich adder]

try testing against a real life timer lol

[pallid nymph]

I'm not sure that's correct... now I wanna try it 😄

[rich adder]

i telling you its pretty accurate maybe few ms off

[queen adder]

There different!!

At the 60 fps deltaTime was half its value

[rich adder]

you're comparing apple and oranges

[pallid nymph]

yours re suspiciously off, tbh

[shell sorrel]

i cant see what your test is trying to prove though

[frigid sequoia]

I mean any of the color parameters on my graph do anything to the alpha value of the shader; but I though the main color overall (_Color) that comes by default would have its alpha value linked to the alpha value of the shader

[queen adder]

I could be...

[shell sorrel]

like what are you expecting your test, to test?

[queen adder]

Im testing to see if .deltaTime is good for timers

[frigid sequoia]

I did, this is working perfectly fine with any default material in Unity, even if they are many in the same object, that should not be the issue

[queen adder]

Like if deltaTimes...time is actual time passed

[rich adder]

compare the Time.deltaTime += float to a realTimer

[shell sorrel]

to get them to match on Start you would need to cache Time.time to a var so you can subtract it wehn printing the result

[rich adder]

like the one on your computer

[shell sorrel]

that will differ too, since deltaTime is frame based a system timer is not

[rich adder]

deltaTime is nothing more than "compensating" for the frames.

[queen adder]

Ill test deltaTime with a timer on my phone

[rich adder]

strange they were pretty close for me

maybe few ms off

delaying in my clicking mostly

[shell sorrel]

will be close but up a frames worth of time off

and can accumlate

[rich adder]

true

ya you're still depending on the Update loops at the end of the day which is still tied to FPS no ?

[shell sorrel]

deltaTIme is how long the last frame took, time.time is just summing all of that since startup

[queen adder]

Ok at a 144 fps there pretty close

few ms off

[shell sorrel]

thing is the usage you saw that start all of this

the real time passed does not matter

since it was for a lerp and things inherently tied to frames

[queen adder]

Oh wow

Im just crazy

Same thing at 60 FPS

[rich adder]

I mean i did test it at 4fps before and it was pretty close to 60fps too

[shell sorrel]

also the different in time and deltaTime you see is related to startup time

[rich adder]

but yeah like mentioned wont be totally accurate.

if you need real accuracy use Datetime and compare those

[shell sorrel]

that or any of the system timer classes

will be more tied to your systems clock then frames

[rich adder]

oh yeah StopWatch works too right ?

[shell sorrel]

yeah

that would not effected by frames

well aside from that you are starting and stopping it in unity code

that is frame based

[queen adder]

Thats true

My mind can finally rest

[shell sorrel]

but some wavier will happen in that too, like time.Time does not change because you check it later in a frame

but a stopwatch would

[opaque bough]

Deep stuff

[ivory bobcat]

Time.deltaTime shouldnt not be used for timers right?
That would be the delta between each frame. If you add all of the deltas up, it would yield how long the app has been running (excluding the instructions done this very frame before the line of code has been called)

[queen adder]

Yeah i realize that now

It just felt off for some reason

[shell sorrel]

and assuming you started adding it up at the same point time.time starts ticking

[pallid nymph]

it's good enough if you're measuring things in seconds, I guess

[shell sorrel]

well it all depends on why you are measuring things

like good to 16ms for the most part assuming 60fps

but why you are measuring things always matters

in this and real like, like i dont use machinist tools for measuring wood

so if its a timer for driving a lerp, only frame accuracy matters

really a timer for most gameplay related things only that matters

[ivory bobcat]

Expect some floating point errors though if you're simply accumulating values and comparing it to total elapsed time
Refer to time stamps with caches of Time.time, if the precision is important.

[shell sorrel]

well even time.TIme is only 32bit

[hybrid gust]

Any ideas why I'm getting a UnauthorizedAccessException: https://pastebin.com/hcgJ5UWK

[shell sorrel]

so will get weird for long sessions

[pallid nymph]

there's timeAsDouble now, no?

[shell sorrel]

ah did not know about that

[rich adder]

usually that means bad path

didnt look at code yet though

[hybrid gust]

In this case my path is a folder inside the project files

[abstract pelican]

I added a virtual camera, now when the player moves for some reason the sight is twitching, how to fix?

[shell sorrel]

but yeah worrying about sub frame timing for most game related thigns is like trying to measure up wood for framing a house with a caliper

[frigid sequoia]

So.. since _Color does nothing, I guess I will do this shit that is terrible cause only work if the inital alpha es exactly one and the shader has an _alpha value conected to the alpha, but I guess it gets the job done....

[rich adder]

print the path, also make sure its saving as a file instead of just the folder

[ivory bobcat]

Arithmetic with floats will likely yield a value different from what you'd expect. Aassignments and differences would be a bit more accurate.

[hybrid gust]

Assets/Scenes/Inventory Icon Screenshot Tool/Screenshots

[shell sorrel]

well yeah would never want to do direction comparisons

and why no one uses float or double where you need to be perfect

[rich adder]

no file name ?

also are you taking screenshots of inventory items ? I got a tool I made a while ago if you need that

https://github.com/navarone77/Screenshotie

[queen adder]

Should be Application.PersistentDataPath

[rich adder]

its editor tool

[hybrid gust]

I could kiss you

[rich adder]

my cats will be jealous idk

just reminded me I should probably update this tool to UIToolkit and cleanup some stuff

[abstract pelican]

Help guiys pleaes

[queen adder]

Wdym twitching?

[abstract pelican]

It twitches when moving, this came after I started using the virtual camera to track the player

[hybrid gust]

Possibly my fault, but your tool isn't compiling for me

[queen adder]

Might have something to do with ur camera settings? Also does ur character have a rigidbody or character controller?

[rich adder]

interesting, can you tell me what you mean by "not compiling"

[queen adder]

Well first off

[hybrid gust]

Sorry should probably have said "endlessly compiling"

can't open the editor

[queen adder]

Interpolation on the Rigidbody should be set to interpolate

And Collision detection Continous

[abstract pelican]

2d game?

[rich adder]

did you just drag the Unitypackage inside Unity Project window ?

and it started endlessly compiling?

[queen adder]

Still needs to be set to interpolate

[rich adder]

let me test this q

[hybrid gust]

Double clicked, then I got some post processing something or other for like 2 min

[queen adder]

have u ran the game?

Did that fix ur issue?

[rich adder]

huh that is strange. Im gonna test it again on 2022, but should still work fine..

[abstract pelican]

yes

[queen adder]

Still twitching?

[abstract pelican]

the scope jerks when I aim and when I walk.

It's not me that's twitching, it's my scope that's twitching when I'm aiming and moving.

it came out after the virtual camera

[queen adder]

Show a video of the problem so i can make sure, were talking about the same thing

[lusty flax]

why does this cam follow script not work?

void Update()
{
    gameObject.transform.position = new Vector2(player.position.x + xOffset, player.position.y + yOffset);
}

when I run it, I see nothing from the camera, even with a y offset of 0

[queen adder]

Needs more context. Is that script on the Camera or the player?

Ok on my end it pretty much looked shaky the whole time

How are u moving the player?

[queen adder]

Use cinemachine

[abstract pelican]

WASD

I told you it started after I added the virtual camera.

[queen adder]

Not u for cinemachine the other guy

Omg

[supple citrus]

THANK YOU

it was camera.Render() after all

I didnt realise i had the camera disabled by default

[queen adder]

use cinemachine

[lusty flax]

ok

[abstract pelican]

so I uninstalled the virtual camera and the twitching went away.

[queen adder]

Did u ever have a camera follow the player before cinemachine?

[abstract pelican]

How do I fix this? I want to track the player and aim without jerking.

[abstract pelican]

no

[queen adder]

I dont think its cinemachine it always works for me in 2D projects

[lusty flax]

why doesn't it work though? I saw that cinemachine is a better alternative, but i'd like to know what the error was?

[abstract pelican]

I've always used a virtual

[queen adder]

Whats that script supposed to be on?

Ok show me ur playermovement code offshore

[hybrid gust]

Idk if this translates, but I had an issue when I had my virtual camera directly attached to the game object it was supposed to follow. Try making the virtual camera and the thing you want to follow different gameobjects?

[queen adder]

Oh yeah that could be it

[hybrid gust]

Had that same twitching, except in 3d

[ivory bobcat]

As is, you're teleporting some fixed pixels per frame. Perhaps consider using some sort of smoothing?cs transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, mousePosition, speed * Time.deltaTime);https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.MoveTowards.html (initial behavior would be a slow down so adjust speed as needed)

[queen adder]

Heres my playermovement code if u want to just copy it

[abstract pelican]

What does this have to do with the virtual camera? If I don't aim, I move normally too.

[abstract pelican]

the whole point is the coordinates when moving when the camera is always following the player.

[queen adder]

I do _rigidbody_velocity instead of hard coding the position

[abstract pelican]

There's clearly a problem with the fact that I'm using Camera.Main in the code, not the virtual one

[ivory bobcat]

The player is moving with physics whereas the camera (assuming this input callback is being done on Update) isn't so you'll get jerks/micro-teleportations

[abstract pelican]

Most likely the movement is causing it to calculate the wrong mouse coordinates.

[queen adder]

Like Mayo said is the camera a child of the Player gameobject?

[abstract pelican]

I don't have any jerks or anything, I have a problem with aiming.

[queen adder]

Ur not setting the position of the camera in that code u sent ur just accessing a method

[abstract pelican]

no

[queen adder]

Does ur crosshair influence player movement at all?

[abstract pelican]

I'm specifying that the camera follow the player at all times.

[queen adder]

We know lol

[abstract pelican]

Because of this it seems to me that the camera when moving behind the player because of this the position of the mouse is dislodged

[queen adder]

But the rigidbody and camera run on different update ticks which could cause jittering

[abstract pelican]

and when the camera is static, the sight does not twitch and everything is normal with it

the problem occurs in the movement of the camera

what does moving a player have to do with it?

[teal viper]

Are we solving the jittering or the character not moving in the direction of the cursor?

[ivory bobcat]

The only thing we see moving in code is whatever crosshair is.

This doesn't have enough context

[abstract pelican]

if there's nothing wrong with the static camera? It's only a problem when it's dynamic.

[abstract pelican]

WASD

[teal viper]

WASD?

[abstract pelican]

If I remove the player tracking and run, the sighting will be fine.

[teal viper]

Oh, so you're moving the character with direction keys? The cursor is unrelated?

[queen adder]

Ofc there is no jitter to a static camera?

Its the way ur moving ur character thats causing the jitter

Does the cursor influence the characters movement at all?

[abstract pelican]

as you can see the problem disappeared as soon as the camera became static.

[abstract pelican]

No

[ivory bobcat]

What you see and what occurs in the physics frame are different.

[queen adder]

Try changing ur movement code

[abstract pelican]

the player is controlled via WASD, what does the control have to do with the problem with the dynamic camera?

[teal viper]

It's clear that your character jitters. It's just more obvious when a camera is following it

[queen adder]

Dont hard set the players position

[ivory bobcat]

If you have the camera follow the player your position with crosshair will no longer be accurate if it isn't occuring on the phyics frame.

[hybrid gust]

Doesn't cinemachine have a composer setting to keep an object in frame or smth? Instead of hard setting it

[queen adder]

Try this instead

[abstract pelican]

how do I fix it?

[clear seal]

hello i am back :(
i was connecting the movement with animation and then my character doesn't work anymore
i used the blend tree in the animator and the animation i made were coming in models

[queen adder]

_rigidbody_2D.velocity = new Vector2(_move_direction, _rigidbody_2D.velocity.y);

Instead of MovePosition()

[ivory bobcat]

Have whatever crosshair is move in the fixed update loop as well.

[queen adder]

Well in this case you can just do velocity = _move_direction;

I dont think his crosshair matters

[queen adder]

Its his player movement code

[abstract pelican]

You see, the problem is it's tied to the new input.

[abstract pelican]

stop please

[queen adder]

Alright lol

[summer stump]

I try to never have actual movement in the callback methods

Just cache values

[abstract pelican]

It's not about control if it's about the dynamic camera.

[summer stump]

Then USE them in Update or FixedUpdate

[queen adder]

The camera follows whatever movement ur doing

If ur movement is jittery the camera will be to

The camera just follows whatever the player is doing

[teal viper]

It seems like you have interpolation disabled on your rb. That would make it jitter.

[queen adder]

he turned it on

I asked him to earlier unless he turned it of

[teal viper]

Then it must be broken due to how they move.

[queen adder]

Thats what ive been saying lol

[teal viper]

I don't think character movement code was shared yet, was it?

[queen adder]

It was

Here

[queen adder]

Here

[clear seal]

can someone help me pls🥺 👉 👈

[queen adder]

Gold does ur player move at all?

[clear seal]

i does not move at ALL

[queen adder]

Ur using the wrong PlayerInput

[clear seal]

how

[queen adder]

Show me ur Player Gameobjects inspector

[queen adder]

Im surprised you dont get error?

[clear seal]

i do

[queen adder]

Whats the error say

[queen adder]

It only glitches when u aim it at a certain position?

Gold

Again

Read the error

[abstract pelican]

It glitches when I aim on the move.

because the camera follows the player

If the camera is static and I run the character and aim, everything is fine.

[queen adder]

Right i understand it follows the player

[clear seal]

i red it again i dont see the error

[queen adder]

What does the error say

[clear seal]

oh

[abstract pelican]

The camera follows the player

[clear seal]

my mesh does not have an animator?

[queen adder]

Thank u i needed that clarification actually

Were u not aiming in that clip?

[teal viper]

Then what the heck happens when you're aiming? How is that related to camera movement?

[abstract pelican]

I was aiming for all the clips

[queen adder]

But the clip you just sent looked fine?

[abstract pelican]

Look at the video where the camera is standing still and as the aiming takes place the scope is not twitching there, and look where the camera follows the player and how the scope is twitching there

[teal viper]

What does "aiming" mean in your game? What does it do?

[queen adder]

The clip you just sent the camera was following the player so it wasnt static. And it wasnt jittering

So what did u do differently that time

[abstract pelican]

the last clip where the camera follows the player and the scope jerks.

[abstract pelican]

is that the scope appears and I can shoot.

[queen adder]

You mean the crosshair is jittering

Ok i see that

[teal viper]

How is it related to camera or movement?

[queen adder]

No no were confused

[clear seal]

these are half of my expectation

[abstract pelican]

watch closely as the scope twitches.

[queen adder]

His crosshair is jittering

[teal viper]

Ah, okay

[abstract pelican]

yes

[queen adder]

Dont assign the crosshairs position via the event system

[teal viper]

So the problem is not with the character

[queen adder]

Do it in update

[abstract pelican]

it happens when the camera is dynamic.

[queen adder]

Oh

[teal viper]

Wdym by "dynamic"?

[queen adder]

Follows the player

[abstract pelican]

If the camera is static, there's no twitching.

[teal viper]

So, when the camera moves?

[queen adder]

Ive caught up with his leango

[queen adder]

When he says static he means it isnt moving

[abstract pelican]

Follow

[teal viper]

Jittering happens when an object is not moving(relative to the camera) at the same rate as the camera is rendering.

So, either you move the crosshair at the incorrect time, or the camera moves at the incorrect time.

[clear seal]

they don't animate

[teal viper]

If you make both update during a regular update, the issue should be fixed

[queen adder]

I would just assign the crosshairs position in Update instead

[teal viper]

Also, Smart update is not reliable imho, since you don't know where it updates after all. Select a different option(preferably update or late update)

[queen adder]

Your updating it on the Inputs Event System from the cameras LateUpdate, which is following a players movement that gets called on FixedUpdate

[abstract pelican]

I don't want to use updates, I'm using the new management system.

[queen adder]

We know what ur doing bro lol

[abstract pelican]

what's the problem with using it here?

why then a new control system if it can't handle such a task why sit on the old control system?

[teal viper]

That statements doesn't make sense. You can cache your input as you do now and only apply it in update. This is the correct way even with the input system.

[queen adder]

Do u still have the error first and foremost

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message
You WANT to use Update (and FixedUpdate) with the new input

[abstract pelican]

I've selected different modes, it doesn't work.

[teal viper]

You seem to be mixing things up. The new input system doesn't change how you move objects. Only where and how you querry input.

[clear seal]

nope

foremost?

[queen adder]

just a saying

[teal viper]

Because that's only one possible factor..? The more important one is what vee is talking about.

[queen adder]

Is ur animator active?

Hows ur blend tree set up?

[clear seal]

same as before

nothing changed

[queen adder]

Let me see ur inspector for the blend tree

I cant help without more context

[queen adder]

Again try moving ur mouseCurosr Position in Update instead

The new input system wasnt built to replace using Update. It was introduced for better input handling

Whats the value of the move vector gold

[clear seal]

this?

[queen adder]

Whats the value when u press a button

[clear seal]

(A)left = -1x and (D)right = 1x
(W)front = 1x and (S)back = -1x

[queen adder]

Debug.Log(inpt.move.magnitude)

[clear seal]

in the update?

[queen adder]

Yes

[clear seal]

wait are we talking about animation or movement

[queen adder]

Ur input code influences ur animators parameters

So i need to know if ur getting a value from input at all

[clear seal]

done

[queen adder]

What does that print

[clear seal]

from what i understand it's the move stuff in input manager

[queen adder]

Thats fine. What does it print when u press WASD

[abstract pelican]

In general, thank you who helped, had to make the sight on Update, did not know that unity has such problems

[queen adder]

Welcome to the game engine lmao

Its somehow the best and worst game engine ive used

[teal viper]

Unity doesn't have a problem. The problem is caused by you moving the objects at wrong timing:
#💻┃code-beginner message

[summer stump]

It's not really a problem, just the way it works.
Those merhods you were trying to do it in are CALLBACKS

[queen adder]

I can see how that would be confusing tho

[summer stump]

Even outside of Unity, you don't want callbacks to handle things that need to be done smoothly

[clear seal]

it says the value

of x and y

[queen adder]

Which is ???

[abstract pelican]

I'm still wondering why no such guides are recorded, all I've seen is the old input and no virtual camera

[clear seal]

1, 0 or -1

[abstract pelican]

Youtubers, take a note that you need a video like this.

[queen adder]

Well ur speed parameter should never be -1

[clear seal]

1 when pressed w or d and -1 when a or s is pressed

[clear seal]

well yes

[slender nymph]

magnitude can never be less than 0

[clear seal]

it can

why not

[queen adder]

lmao

[clear seal]

it :(

[queen adder]

I cant remember if its supposed to be normalized or magnitude

Hold on Gold

Actually yeah

[clear seal]

see it's because s is the contrary of w and A is the contrary of D

[queen adder]

magnitude is the length of a vector

Lengths cant be negative

[clear seal]

yep

well hold on

do you know the plan stuff

[slender nymph]

aren't you supposed to be telling what your Debug.Log is printing, not what you see in the inspector for your Move variable?

[clear seal]

the debug does not say it

[slender nymph]

if the log is not running then you have errors in your code that you are ignoring

[queen adder]

Gold

Bro i thought we fixed the error

Show me ur console rn

[clear seal]

no like it does not say if there is negative

[queen adder]

Show me ur console

[summer stump]

Magnitude is the length of the vector. If it is pointing 1 unit one way and shrinks to 0, then starts growing the other direction, the magnitude goes UP from 0 (still positive)

[slender nymph]

again, magnitude cannot be less than 0

[queen adder]

So it does say the value

[slender nymph]

it is mathematically impossible to be less than 0

[clear seal]

i tough of that when i heard the lenght stuff and negative

[queen adder]

Thats not the length of something

Thats just a X Y Coord

Length isnt even 2D?

[summer stump]

If a vector is at 0,0 and ends at -10, 0 the magnitude is 10

[clear seal]

that's what i tought of

[queen adder]

All good

Then theres something else wrong

[clear seal]

what is it

[queen adder]

Rename ur animations

[clear seal]

ok

[queen adder]

And make sure they arent the same thing

[clear seal]

um i imported the animation like that

[queen adder]

Wheres the other animation?

[clear seal]

i gotta do quick tho cuz it'S almost midnight

[queen adder]

Also thats a prefab not a animation?

[clear seal]

ik

just th problem is i imported the prefab with the animation

[queen adder]

I dont think thats right

Go to ur animator tab click on the blend tree state then click on one of the states inside of it

Click on the reference to the animation from the inspector

[clear seal]

ye

[queen adder]

Send me a screenshot of the entire inspector please

[clear seal]

i cant rename it tho

[queen adder]

Do u see the animation clip

[clear seal]

ye

[queen adder]

Screenshot it

[queen adder]

Thats just a preview window

Show me a screenshot of the animation clip. Its a Asset

[clear seal]

directly from blender or

oh ok

[queen adder]

There we go

Can you play those animations in the animation tab

Make sure theyre different

[clear seal]

walk animation

[queen adder]

Are they different?

[clear seal]

well i did not make an idle animation i just took an animation next to it that did not do anything

[queen adder]

Ok

Go to the animator Tab Go inside the blend tree

Play the game press the WASD keys the speed variable inside the animator should change

[clear seal]

ya

it changed

to 1

[queen adder]

Share a video

[clear seal]

but then i need to compress it

so it will take time

[queen adder]

Ok nbvm

Do u have windows?

[clear seal]

yep

[queen adder]

press printscreen and then screen record

[vast ivy]

How can I set the y coordinate of a cube to spawn on the top of a plane? I have a Tree prefab made up of 2 cubes and I want to place the tree ontop of the plane. I tried adding the height of the Tree prefab to the plane.y.max but it still didnt work

[queen adder]

The file shouldnt be that big

[teal viper]

You can record a short video with OBS studio, No need to compress anything if you have the correct format and settings set(the default should work)

[clear seal]

i honeslty dont think these guy will let me

[clear seal]

i dont have obs

[queen adder]

U can just use prtscrn and screen record then

[teal viper]

You can download it. It's free

[queen adder]

What toaster are u on?

Jk jk

How much ram do u have?

Are u on a laptop?

[clear seal]

idk all it says is 94%

[clear seal]

ye

[queen adder]

Makes sense

Unity is pushing ur GPU to its limits

But anyways

[clear seal]

i think even more

[queen adder]

haha lol

[teal viper]

Depends on the pivot points of the objects. If they're at the correct position, you just need to get a point on the plane and use it as the spawn position.

[queen adder]

Does the speed parameter reset to zero when u release WASD

[clear seal]

ye

[queen adder]

Idk then

Theres something wrong the animations then

The code part is fine

[vast ivy]

I can set the y=2.4f which is the correct y coordinate but I was trying to avoid hardcoding it as I am trying to dynamically place it depending on the height of the terrain

[clear seal]

well the animation does not play at all

[queen adder]

Thats because theres something wrong with them

Its not a code issue anymore

[teal viper]

Do a raycast down to the terrain and use the hit point position.

[queen adder]

its something wrong with the hiearchy or animation

[clear seal]

i might reimport the animation

[queen adder]

Because the parameter is doing whats its supposed to

[clear seal]

but tmrw

[queen adder]

dont do that

Well then have a good night

Ill try and help u again tommorow if i can

At least the code issue is gone

[clear seal]

i did not leave my seat for 10 hours straight

[queen adder]

Same tbh

Ive been here all day

I gotta touch grass and get a life

[clear seal]

same

anyways see ya tmrw

[queen adder]

Have a good night bro

[fringe plover]

Sup, i tried to use rb.MovePosition instean of rb.velocity for my character controller, but now character just go trough some other objects, is there any way to fix that?

It multiply current position with input, so, i can use rb.Addforce and etc

[teal viper]

MovePosition doesn't really respect collisions and should be used with kinematic rbs only.

[rich adder]

custom physics queries

[fringe plover]

Oh..

Okay

[teal viper]

There shouldn't be any reason you can't use velocity or add forces

[supple citrus]

The box on the left is itemPrefab

How come when i instantiate one, its massive? lol

[teal viper]

It's probably a ui element on a canvas which is in screen space and the rest of your game is in world space

[supple citrus]

That is exactly what it is

ty

How do i fix it :v

Changing canvas render mode to world space gives an error when i run it

[teal viper]

You don't. There is no problem

[supple citrus]

How do I instantiate one of the same size as the referenced one

I thought that would be the default

[teal viper]

Not sure what you mean by that.

This is the default.

Did you have a look at the game view?

[supple citrus]

In the first image, the i made the box manually at the size I wanted it

Then i referenced it in a script and instantiated it

And the instantiated one is hundreds of times bigger

How do I instantiate one of the same size as the original one that I referenced

[teal viper]

Did you check how it looks in game view?

[supple citrus]

I thought when I instantiated a referenced object, it would be the same size as the referenced object itself

[supple citrus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874004401586176/1211178958843027526/image.png?ex=65ed414e&is=65dacc4e&hm=5ac4dc9463911310bc7c2349af22c999956f4d22127b67f61e51ee261b977cc4&

the game view is in the red circle

lol

[teal viper]

No, I mean the game tab

[supple citrus]

Well you cant see it

[teal viper]

Can't see what? The ui or the other stuff?

[supple citrus]

The instantiated preset, its off the screen and massive

Maybe i am misunderstanding

[teal viper]

Not it's not

[teal viper]

You are

[supple citrus]

Inside the red circle is the camera that you see. The massive instantiated object is outside the red circle

Why would i be able to see it in game tab

[teal viper]

Yes, because it's in screen space

[teal viper]

Because screen space canvas renders independently from the camera

[supple citrus]

But why is the original one normal

Normal sized on both Game tab and Scene

[teal viper]

Probably becasue you scaled it down. It wouldn't be visible in the game tab.

It would occupy like a 1-2 pixels on the screen.

[teal viper]

Canvas ui renders in screen space, meaning it's size is in pixels on your screen. If you want it to occupy half of your screen at 1920 x 1080, it would have a size of 960 x 1080 units. World space objects rendered by the camera, are measured in units and occupy different space on the screen, depending on their distance from the camera as well as the camera size(if it's orthographic). If your camera size is 10, and you want a world space object in front of it to occupy half of the screen, it would need to have a size of 5 units.
Now, when you look at things in the scene view, your world space object is 5 units, but your ui is 960 units wide despite both occupying half of the screen in the game tab.
Makes sense?

[supple citrus]

But When I changed the Canvas' render mode to world space theyre still massive

[teal viper]

Yes, because now your ui is measured in world space, not in screen space.

Understanding?

[supple citrus]

No because if its massive when the Canvas mode is in Screen Space and its also massive when the Canvas mode is in World Space, then I dont understand the difference or how to make it not massive lol

[woeful seal]

i am in an organization and my friend is inside the project, and i have full access and a seat, but how do i join the project itself and help him in real time?

[teal viper]

You'd need to adjust your canvas size in world space.

[teal viper]

Ideally, you want it to be massive in screen space and not touch it.

[teal viper]

Doesn't sound code related.

[woeful seal]

no one answered in general

[supple citrus]

I want to instantiate multiple of them to be in a scrollable though

And i dont know what to do because in scene space theyre massive and in game view theyre invisible

[woeful seal]

this is literally the only active channel

[teal viper]

Wait a bit more. Or clarify your question.
Check #854851968446365696 on how to ask questions properly and maximize your chances of getting an answer.

[teal viper]

If no one answered there, no one is gonna answer here and it doesn't justify breaking the server rules...

[teal viper]

With what setup?

[supple citrus]

Im confused about everything

Im just asking how do i instantiate one the same size bruh

[teal viper]

They are probably the same size.

[supple citrus]

Because the one on the left is the same size in both scene and game view

[teal viper]

You should share more info though, because nothing is clear from that screenshot

[supple citrus]

like what

I havent really done anything yet

except make the object

[teal viper]

Well, the editor window. I've no clue what screenshots depict a scene view and what depict game view. It's also not clear what object is selected and what components it has. Or it's transform position/size

basically nothing is clear

[supple citrus]

The entire thing is preset Item

Preset thumbnail is the white box, its going to be an image

name and date are the 2 texts

I want to instantiate an entire preset Item

[teal viper]

Can you just take a screenshot of the whole editor window..?

[supple citrus]

scene or game

[teal viper]

Both

[teal viper]

Where's the inspector?

That's not the whole window

[supple citrus]

if its too small ^

[teal viper]

What's too small?

[supple citrus]

If the writing in the image was too small

I sent a zoomed ver

[teal viper]

It's 193 x 175 units. Assuming it's on a screen space canvas, it should be visible in game view.

[teal viper]

Ah, it's fine

[supple citrus]

Yes this is the original one that I made

When I instantiate one, I want it to look exactly like htis

This one is visible in both

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of the instantiated one then(the whole editor window again)

[teal viper]

It's size seems fine but the position is way off

Also the scaling is off

The orignial has a scale of 1

This one has a scale of 61

[supple citrus]

Yes... its massive

That is my issue :v

[teal viper]

Well, figure out what makes it's scale go up

[supple citrus]

I have no idea lol

this is literally all of the code

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of the prefab

[supple citrus]

I just named it weirdly

[teal viper]

Also, where is that code?

What component/gameobject is it on?

[supple citrus]

I stuck it on a scroll view

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of the scroll view as well then

[teal viper]

And of the prefab(I asked it earlier)

As well as of the canvas

[supple citrus]

There is no prefab

I just named it this because I am stupid

[teal viper]

Okay. Then the canvas

[supple citrus]

I tried setting Render Mode to World Space but nothing changes

Well actually it gives an error and corrupts the scroll view

So i have to delete it and replace it lol

[teal viper]

The issue is probably due to it instantiating outside of the canvas with normal scale. Then when you parent it to the canvas(which has scale of 0.01), it tries to keep the previous size by adjusting the local scale.

You should really use a screen space overlay canvas if you want as little problem as possible.

Alternatively, pass the parent into the instantiation method, instead of parenting later manually.

[supple citrus]

oh

This worked lol

same size

ty

[south jay]

ive used Debug.Draw to show when the Raycast is true or false. For some reason it will be true even when it passes through a box(has a collider) that it previously was false to.

public class RayCast : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Vector3 direction;

    [Header("Customizations")]
    [SerializeField] private float distance;
    [SerializeField] private float amountOfCasts;
    [SerializeField] private float timeInBetweenEachCast;
    [SerializeField] private bool showCastAttempts;

    private float hitNumber;
    private float castNumber;
    void Start()
    {
        hitNumber = 0;
        StartCoroutine(Raycast());
    }

    //coroutine that casts the ray
    IEnumerator Raycast()
    {
        direction = UnityEngine.Random.insideUnitCircle.normalized;
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, direction, distance);
        castNumber++;
        if (showCastAttempts)
            print("Attempt#: " + castNumber);

        if (hit.collider)
        {
            hitNumber++;
            print("Hit" + hitNumber + ": " + hit.collider.name);
            Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, hit.point, Color.red,2f);
        }
        else
        {
            //Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, direction * distance, Color.green,1f);
        }

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeInBetweenEachCast);

        if (hitNumber < amountOfCasts)
            StartCoroutine(Raycast());

    }
}

I have the number for "hitNumber" in inspector set really high so it continues on for the sake of troubleshooting

[teal viper]

Where do you draw the green ray?

Why is it commented out?

[south jay]

I have the green ray draw in the direction that is randomly decided by this code :

direction = UnityEngine.Random.insideUnitCircle.normalized;

and it continues on for the "distance" which is set in the inspector

[teal viper]

Try moving the raycasting logic to an Update or fixed update.

[south jay]

okay

[teal viper]

I meant in code. I see that it's the commented out line now. I just skipped it since it was commented. Don't modify your code when you share it(in the video it clearly is not commented out).

[south jay]

sorry i was troubleshooting after i recorded the video lol. I have absolutely no idea what im doing

public class RayCast2 : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Vector3 direction;

    [Header("Customizations")]
    [SerializeField] private float distance;
    [SerializeField] private float amountOfCasts;
    [SerializeField] private float timeInBetweenEachCast;
    [SerializeField] private bool showCastAttempts;

    private float hitNumber;
    private float castNumber;
    private bool cast;
    void Start()
    {
        hitNumber = 0;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        while (cast)
        {
            direction = UnityEngine.Random.insideUnitCircle.normalized;
            RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, direction, distance);
            castNumber++;
            if (showCastAttempts)
                print("Attempt#: " + castNumber);

            if (hit.collider)
            {
                hitNumber++;
                print("Hit" + hitNumber + ": " + hit.collider.name);
                Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, hit.point, Color.red,2f);
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, direction * distance, Color.green,1f);
            }



            if (hitNumber == amountOfCasts)
                cast = false;
        }
    }
    
}

[teal viper]

Change while to if.

Unless you want an infinite loop

[south jay]

yeah that makes sense

[gaunt ice]

no infinite loop
btw use for loop, no need to have a bool cast

[teal viper]

Ah, they were setting the bool in the loop. I thought it was set in the inspector.

[gaunt ice]

probably can enable the while loop back with a bool....

[south jay]

yeah the while breaks it, but there is no need for a while because it is in the update function

[teal viper]

Hmmm... Are you moving the colliders perhaps?

[south jay]

this is what happens when i replace the "while" with "if" still so significant improvements

[teal viper]

This is in update, right?

[south jay]

yes

[teal viper]

Can you take a screenshot of the object that emits the rays as well as one of the colliders?

[south jay]

and my problem here is that it works perfectly when its situated on (0, 0, 0) but when I move the entire hierarchy away from the origin it breaks

[teal viper]

How far are you moving it?

Also, are you moving it on the z axis?

[gaunt ice]

show the inspector of the rectangle

[arctic ibex]

!code

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[south jay]

I was watching a tutorial earlier and he used rigidbody 2d as well as the collider, but i didnt think the rigidbody was needed

the inspector is on the right

you have to click on the image

[teal viper]

What about how you're moving it?

[arctic ibex]

I have a distance joint 2D that is supposed to increase/decrease with the Vertical raw axis, but for some reason it moves in really slow jump skip things, instead of smoothly and quicklt. Any one know why? The code is in the Lasso() method

https://gdl.space/vaxefekege.cs

[teal viper]

How far are you moving it?
Also, are you moving it on the z axis?

And how are you moving it.

[south jay]

once the game starts none of the objects are moving, all i did was move it in the scene prior running it

[teal viper]

How?

[south jay]

by selecting everything in the hierarchy and using the move tool

[teal viper]

So the screenshots that you shared is after moving?

[arctic ibex]

It works fine in the inspector, but it does this when built and ran

[south jay]

yes, before moving (when it was working) the circle(player in this case) was on (0, 0, 0) the goal is obviously to have the player move and when i move the player the Raycasts seem to be aiming towards

[teal viper]

I think there is no problem actually.

[south jay]

how so?

[teal viper]

Adjust the green ray like that:

Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, transform.position + direction * distance, Color.green,1f);

[gaunt ice]

oh i didnt notice that

or replace it by draw ray

[teal viper]

Me neither. The fact that it worked at origin rang a bell though

[teal viper]

Kinda hard to visualize the issue without seeing it. Can you record a video?

[arctic ibex]

Yup, ten seconds

[south jay]

okay so that code was a test for a larger problem, and i tried your fix for that and it didn't work. Give me a few minutes ill explain

[arctic ibex]

First one is build test, second is inspector

if that wasn't obvious lol

[teal viper]

Did it fix the green rays going through the colliders though?

[teal viper]

So the issue is that it works differently in the build and the editor?

[arctic ibex]

Yeah

BU tin the build it does the movement in tiny slow jumps instead of smooth movement

[teal viper]

It's a common issue if your code is framerate dependent. Build and editor would have different frame rate.

[south jay]

this is the rest of the code that got cut off

[arctic ibex]

You see, I knid of knew that, but I can't figure out how it's frame dependent, it's multiplied by time.deltatime

[teal viper]

For starters, physics stuff should be in fixed update. Also, mixing transform movement/rotation with rbs is bound to cause issues.
Start from fixing these 2 issues: move Lasso method to fixed update and make sure that your rotate the rbs in a physically compatible way.

[south jay]

this happens only if the player(circle) is on (0, 0, 0) but if its anywhere else the enemies(dots) spawn randomly, the red boxes are also supposed to be obstacles in the world

[teal viper]

Please explain the issue first. I don't see any problem in the video

As well as confirmation wether the original issue is fixed

[south jay]

this is when the player is not standing in the origin

[teal viper]

And this?
#💻┃code-beginner message

Also, share !code properly

[eternal falcon]

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[gaunt ice]

it hurts my eyes
btw your ray seems not constructed properly

you define the spawn coordinate by dir*dist+tf.pos then raycast from tf with direction spawn coordinate
if i didnt misread

[south jay]

okay nevermind, i figured it out. Thank you

[south jay]

yes it fixed the issue

[magic pagoda]

I currently have this enemy script with NM+, and Im trying to make the enemy's sprite flip whenever it moves in the opposite direction, but its not really the most accurate (flips when its not supposed to sometimes)

anyone got a better way of doing this?
https://paste.ofcode.org/ktaMiDSksEg5m2BW8appqE

[south jay]

public class RayCast : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Vector3 direction;

    [Header("Preferences")]
    [SerializeField] private LayerMask worldObjects;
    [SerializeField] private float distance;
    [SerializeField] private float amountOfCasts;
    [SerializeField] private float timeInBetweenAttempts;

    [Header("Info")] 
    [SerializeField] private Vector3 spawnLoc;
    [SerializeField] private bool showAttempts;
    public GameObject[] mobs;
    private int rand;

    private float hitNumber;
    private float castNumber;
    
    void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(AttemptSpawn());
    }
    IEnumerator AttemptSpawn()
    {
        rand = Random.Range(0, mobs.Length);
        direction = UnityEngine.Random.insideUnitCircle.normalized;
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position,direction, distance, worldObjects);
        castNumber++;
        if (showAttempts)
            print("Attempt#: " + castNumber);

        if (hit.collider)
        {
            hitNumber++;
            if (showAttempts)
            {
                print("Hit" + hitNumber + ": " + hit.collider.name);
                Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, hit.point, Color.red,2f);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            if (showAttempts)
                Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, transform.position + direction * distance, Color.green,2f);
            spawnLoc = transform.position + direction * distance;
            Instantiate(mobs[rand], spawnLoc, Quaternion.identity);
        }

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeInBetweenAttempts);

        if (hitNumber < amountOfCasts)
            StartCoroutine(AttemptSpawn());
    }
    
}

this is the final code, and it works

[arctic ibex]

What does this error mean?

[gaunt ice]

consider

while(hitNumber < amountOfCasts){
  yield return 
}

[shut spade]

might be ure starting an non existant coroutine?

[arctic ibex]

Why is it non existant?

[gaunt ice]

what is startcoroutine("start")?
starting itself without any yield return?

[shut spade]

doesnt exist in the code

[arctic ibex]

Oh my god I'm so dumb

I just did the wrong name

I forgot I named the coroutine "Spawn", not "Start"

[gaunt ice]

you should call the method not using its name

[arctic ibex]

How?

[gaunt ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StartCoroutine.html

[shut spade]

also, r u working in a 3d game or 2d? cuz ure using vector3 and rb2d

[arctic ibex]

2D, why?

[shut spade]

nah, just askin