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[cinder crag]

im having a problem on where im trying to combine daves and danis grappling hook + Affax grappling hook rope animation into one grappling hook with 2 modes and a nice rope animation but im having problems and i really dont know how to fix them

https://paste.ofcode.org/3c3q8YExriic7YYhdyqKSJ2 playermovment script
https://paste.ofcode.org/vDh7SC3HHbav4Y7YAejMJn grappling hook script
https://paste.ofcode.org/xmFxDn4MdkEHaYBKmFSD4r grappling hook rope animation script

also the errors im getting:

also the vids if needed

https://youtu.be/8nENcDnxeVE?si=nysbKGRLDhhZ5znC
https://youtu.be/TYzZsBl3OI0?si=ccS5LW06_U3qEYQ_
https://youtu.be/Xgh4v1w5DxU?si=_2xBejyRBzpf5wX5

please someone help , im losing my mind ngl

[polar acorn]

First error: You're creating a monobehaviour with new. You can't do that. Look at the line the error is on and don't create a component with new
Second: pm is null
Third: You're attempting to set the position of a point on the linerenderer that doesn't exist

[sharp bloom]

Somewhat unrelated tangent: I don't particularly like tutorials such as these where the guy is just saying "ok, so this is a little too complex to explain but just copy this"

[swift crag]

[pastes the entire source code of Minecraft]

[sharp bloom]

This just leads to situation where you are unable to fix anything yourself

I've been there

[polar acorn]

(It's because they don't understand it and attempting to explain it would reveal that fact)

[sharp bloom]

Yup

[swift crag]

[cinder crag]

idk why , i dont like that as well , i like it when they explain lol

[sharp bloom]

Basically you should be on top of this pyramid to know you've really learned something

I'm like in the middle somewhere

[cinder crag]

first error seems like if removing the new will make the Sping() red underlined but in the guys vid seems like it was working fine
second error i fixed it with just findingthe gameobject tagged with player and getting the player movement script
third error i really dont know how to fix it ngl even tho the line renderer exists

[swift crag]

but in the guys vid seems like it was working fine

well, we haven't seen what he did

you'll need to show us

[polar acorn]

You can't just remove the new. You cannot create an instance of a complonent like that. The only way to create one is to add it to an object

[polar acorn]

The line renderer exists, but does the point you are trying to set

If you're trying to set the third position of a line renderer with two points in it that's going to be an error

[cinder crag]

so i should put where the position size to 3 and not 2?

[polar acorn]

You need to make sure that when you're setting a position of a line renderer, it has at least that many points in it

You'll need to check the error to find out which script and what line its on

because the screenshot did not provide any context

[cinder crag]

they are over here and the script is the grappling script

[crisp token]

Do you have to declare override in the header for c#?

[swift crag]

there are no "headers" in C#

and i'm not sure what you're referring to

[crisp token]

I see people writing stuff like public static override method

[wintry quarry]

that's not a header

that's the method definition

[polar acorn]

Which one has the error? How many points does your line renderer have in it to start?

[wintry quarry]

also static override are never together

[crisp token]

Yeah

[cinder crag]

both of them have an error and it has 3

0, 1 , 2

[wintry quarry]

but yes if you want to override a method you have to write override, and also the method you are overriding must be virtual or abstract

[crisp token]

I’ve never heard of virtual before?

[shell sorrel]

its the other half of override

[swift crag]

well, the virtual keyword (along with abstract) is mandatory for using override!

any abstract method is implicitly virtual

[shell sorrel]

lets you mark a method as being overridable on the extending class

[swift crag]

and override is only used when your parent class defines a virtual method

[crisp token]

Ah, okay

Why is it so specific in c#?

Readability I guess

[shell sorrel]

what do you mean

[wintry quarry]

because they learned from the mistakes of Java where things were just done implicitly and it caused errors

[shell sorrel]

C++ has very similar rules, its just divided between header and source file

where C# only has source files

[swift crag]

C# methods are non-virtual by default.

[shell sorrel]

also rather declare virtual, then have to declare final like java

[crisp token]

Yeah makes sense actually

[polar acorn]

Add this line before each of those:

Debug.Log($"Line Renderer {lr.gameObject.name} has {lr.positionCount} points");

[crisp token]

You don’t have to declare final in Java dk you?

[shell sorrel]

yes to prevent overrides you do have to declare final in java

[wintry quarry]

If you want the default behavior of C# in Java you have to use final

[crisp token]

Oh

[cinder crag]

oh-

[crisp token]

I have a separate question. Let’s say you have a bunch of methods that will only ever be called in one class, but for the sake of organization you want them to all be declared separately in some different area. Would you use a separate class, class hierarchy, etc?

Defined*

[shell sorrel]

would just make them private methods of the class they are called in

[polar acorn]

I would say stop wanting that and just put them in the class they're used in

[shell sorrel]

worst case make regions or just visually organize the code

[cinder crag]

how can i make the grapple gun have 2 or 3 points

[polar acorn]

Add 2 or 3 points to the line renderer in the inspector

[crisp token]

Yeah but if I have an already complicated class handling something like CPSR I’d prefer a separate area to have all the server checks I want to do on the received info

[shell sorrel]

if you classes are getting that big and comlicated maybe its doing too many things

and should be multiple purpose build classes or components

[crisp token]

It’s not big just complicated

[shell sorrel]

then whats the problem

[cinder crag]

like this?

[shell sorrel]

just clump them all togeather in the class that uses them then

[crisp token]

I iust feel like it’s bad practice but I guess not

[polar acorn]

Yes

[shell sorrel]

would say you are over thinking it, just solve the problem that needs to be solved and move on to the next task

feel creating a heiarhcy of classes just to separate out some methods that are call called in the same place anyways is more messy then just tossing them in where they are used and hides intent more

[swift crag]

at one point, I had a class that was easily over a thousand lines long that did everything for my game's main enemy

I decided the solution was to use partial classes, splitting the class definition across five files

It was awful. I could never find anything.

[cinder crag]

it still says i have 0 points

[shell sorrel]

@swift crag feel in that case i would use composition

[swift crag]

Bingo

[polar acorn]

Then you likely have code emptying the list

[cinder crag]

and the error still appears

[swift crag]

I rewrote the entire game to be composition-based

[crisp token]

Back when I started my movement code files were 2k lines

[swift crag]

everything is now an Entity with a Brain and Locomotion and Modules

[polar acorn]

Or the one you changed isn't the one you're referencing in the code

[swift crag]

Entity.cs is still 700 lines long, but it's just bookkeeping for the other systems (and a bunch of debug visualization code)

[shell sorrel]

also composition does not always mean components, it can be as simple as your MB instantiating a few regular C# classes to do other things within

[swift crag]

bonus: i can now play as any entity in my game

the original player, the enemy

a light switch

[cinder crag]

it is lol

[timber tide]

composition to me means to just declare the variables even if you're not goingto use em

[swift crag]

yeah -- I went with MonoBehaviours everywhere so that I could serialize references

[cinder crag]

the only thing im worried is on how do i make the rope have the animation since i have this in the grappling hook rope animation scriot

[shell sorrel]

like a character in my game, has a ton of components, that way stuff like managing its appearance, pathfinding, aniamtion, stats, avatar rendering in ui etc selecting what behaviours to run are all different components,

[polar acorn]

Well, according to your log, the length of the list is 0, so at the time the code runs, there are zero points. Either you're setting the wrong one or it's becoming zero after starting the program

[crisp token]

Ok just let me paint this picture cause I feel like it really makes sense to have separate classes: I have a couple classes responsible for managing network time and sending, receiving, and verifying network states. (It’s just standard client prediction ). Instead of having a bunch of anti cheat checks all thrown into the class responsible for verifying, receiving, and sending states, why not have a separate class with flyCheck(), speedCheck(), combatCheck() etc…

[cinder crag]

im looking through the script and i dont see anything that clears the length of the list

[shell sorrel]

well what i said eariler was one class if its for 1 purpose, but that 1 class should not be handling many many different types of things

[cinder crag]

i maybe be blind cause i dont see it so idek

[shell sorrel]

like tend to have 1 class one purpose

[sharp bloom]

Wow I managed to send my objects to the shadowrealm

[crisp token]

Ik the sending receiving and verifying states sounds like a lot but just picture this class is like the overhead that manages these things

[polar acorn]

Look for anywhere you set positionCount or call SetPositions with an empty list

[crisp token]

It’s only 200 lines

[shell sorrel]

like a character at work, has 6 components, and maybe 10 or so regular C# objects in it for managing other things

[ionic zephyr]

if I have a prefabe with a serialize value which needs a script why can´t I assign it in the editor?

[shell sorrel]

the seperation has nothing to do with how much code, its with purpose and what depednencies are needed at what time

[icy sluice]

Vector3 dampingFactor2 = new Vector3(
    Mathf.Max(0, 1 - Damping2 * Time.fixedDeltaTime),
    Mathf.Max(0, 1 - Damping2 * Time.fixedDeltaTime),
    Mathf.Max(0, 1 - Damping2 * Time.fixedDeltaTime)
);
Quaternion CamDir = cameraTransform.transform.rotation;
Quaternion gunDir = gameObject.transform.rotation;
Vector3 acceleration2 = (((CamDir.eulerAngles - gunDir.eulerAngles) * Stiffness2) - Vector3.Scale(currentVelocity2, dampingFactor2)) * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
currentVelocity2 = Vector3.Scale(currentVelocity2, dampingFactor2) + acceleration2;
currentPos2 += currentVelocity2 * Time.fixedDeltaTime;

gameObject.transform.eulerAngles = currentPos2;

having a problem with rotations, if i could get some help?

[cinder crag]

i found this in the draw rope func of the grappling hook rope animation script

[polar acorn]

So, chances are it's getting set to 0 when you don't expect it to be

[cinder crag]

i also found this still in the DrawRope func

[cinder crag]

oh damn , do i remove the if lr positioncount == 0 then set it to 0?

[ionic zephyr]

I cant any script assign to the Slider

[polar acorn]

You should consider when you want to change it and why

[polar acorn]

What are you trying to drag in there

[ionic zephyr]

an object with a component

but I cant

[polar acorn]

Which object

[ionic zephyr]

a slider which is in the actual scene

[polar acorn]

This appears to be a prefab. Prefabs cannot reference objects in scenes

The prefab can exist anywhere. The scene object only exists in that specific scene

you'll need to set it after spawning in an instance of this prefab

[ionic zephyr]

and how could I assign it

by code?

[polar acorn]

With =, usually

[ionic zephyr]

but how should I reference that object?

[polar acorn]

Instantiate returns a reference to the thing it creates

[ionic zephyr]

what? sorry i dont understand

[cinder crag]

maybe change the position count to 2 here?

[ionic zephyr]

like what line of code should I write

and where

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html
It returns the object it just created. You can use that reference to set whatever you want on the new object

[polar acorn]

That would make the error go away, but maybe you should consider the rest of your logic and see why it isn't already at 2?

Something no longer having errors doesn't mean it's actually working as intended

[cinder crag]

im thinking but my brain fried , idk anymore

[cinder crag]

ikik

[ionic zephyr]

but I instantiate an empty object which englobes all of this gameobjects

but this little objects are the ones I need to pass teh script onto

[polar acorn]

Then instead of doing that, put a script on the object that you can use to reference the other components in the prefab

[cinder crag]

also the error doesnt go away

cant i use the drawrope func so the rope has the nice animation?

[ionic zephyr]

what?

[polar acorn]

Make a script on the main prefab object that has the references you want

[ionic zephyr]

oh ok

sorry it was easy to understand

[polar acorn]

then, you can spawn the prefab with that script and use the returned reference to it to get the other objects you need

[ionic zephyr]

but should I create a new script with references?

[cinder crag]

tried it , doesnt seem to work sadly

[ionic zephyr]

but how do I pass them to the script in the object that is inside the prefab?

[polar acorn]

Those you can just drag in

A prefab can easily reference other things inside of itself

[ionic zephyr]

sorry I dont understand

I mean

[ionic zephyr]

Should I make an entirely new script which only has references?

[cinder crag]

daves and danis grappling hooks are a bit diff , danis uses joints but daves uses raycast. maybe is that a problem ig? idk i hope someone can help me with this problem

[polar acorn]

yes

[swift crag]

yes -- it's a good idea to do this instead of doing a ton of GetComponent/Find/etc. hackery

[polar acorn]

Maybe instead of frankensteining code from unrelated systems, you should absorb the how of all of these videos and come up with your own method

[cinder crag]

I could try but I'm too dumb too make my own method

[swift crag]

so how on earth do you hope to be able to smash together multiple slight variations of the same idea

[polar acorn]

Then you're definitely not ready to be debugging a hodgepodge of three people's disparate methods

At the very least, pick one and stick to it

[whole idol]

What are all these errors?

[swift crag]

did you just rename that file?

i've seen warning spam after doing that

[swift crag]

(and if you did, did you just change capitalization?)

[ionic zephyr]

why do I get this

[swift crag]

because you're still trying to reference a scene object from a prefab

[ionic zephyr]

but how can I reference that object otherwise?

in a prefab

[polar acorn]

Because either you changed the type of the object that field referred to, or your prefab is trying to reference a scene object

[swift crag]

by doing what digi suggested

[ionic zephyr]

Okay so I think I should explain all the context

[swift crag]

public class SomePrefab : MonoBehaviour {
  public ThingToConfigure configureMe;
}

...

SomePrefab instance = Instantiate(prefab);
instance.configureMe.someField = somethingElse;

[summer stump]

That is usually a good thing to do when starting to ask a question

[polar acorn]

The object spawning the prefab should get a reference to a script on that prefab. That script should have a reference to the object you want to set the slider on. The thing that spawned the prefab should then set the slider on that variable

[cinder crag]

You mean disperate?

[cinder crag]

Damn I guess that's for the better for a beginner

[polar acorn]

No, I mean disparate

[swift crag]

it's spelled with an "a"

[cinder crag]

Oh mbmb

Got confused

[ionic zephyr]

I am generating rooms with empty objects which group different gameobjects which depend on others objects by references

[cinder crag]

Welp there goes my cool idea of having a grappling gun with two modes

[ionic zephyr]

but how should i get the reference if it is not by the editor

[swift crag]

"which depend on other objects by references" is extremely vague

[polar acorn]

Instantiate returns a reference to the object it made

[swift crag]

so all I can do is say to do this

[polar acorn]

Use that reference to get access to the other things in the prefab

and set the variables on them

[ionic zephyr]

it is an object that needs the compoinent in a slider which is in the UI

[acoustic crow]

Where can I find the Unity tutorial, is there a level?

[swift crag]

Okay, so whoever instantiates the prefab needs to have a reference to that slider.

[swift crag]

!learn

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[ionic zephyr]

how

[acoustic crow]

thanks brother

[swift crag]

by existing in the scene from the start

if it doesn't exist in the scene from the start, then someone needs to give it a reference

[whole idol]

how can I share this unity game file with a friend on discord for example?

[ionic zephyr]

it does

[polar acorn]

Send it

[swift crag]

zip up the "Super Capsule" folder and send it

[whole idol]

Just the .exe application?

[ionic zephyr]

it exists in the scene from the start

[swift crag]

No. The entire folder.

[polar acorn]

No the whole folder

[swift crag]

Okay, so give it a field that can hold a slider

and assign the reference in the inspector

[whole idol]

I have to zip it first though right?

[ionic zephyr]

thats the thing

i cant

[swift crag]

Of course you can.

[polar acorn]

So then have that object reference the slider you want. Then, when you spawn the thing, set that thing's slider variable to the one the spawner has

[swift crag]

It's part of the scene.

[polar acorn]

why not

[ionic zephyr]

look

[summer stump]

Don't show a tiny cropped picture
Show the whole editor

[polar acorn]

you just said they're both in the scene at the start. Why can you not just drag it in

[polar acorn]

What does this have to do with anything

[ionic zephyr]

the only thing in the scene at start

is the sldier

[polar acorn]

This is not what we are talking about

[ionic zephyr]

the room generats in the Awake

[polar acorn]

so then why did you say the thing spawning the prefabs was in the scene at the start

we cannot help you if you outright lie about what is happening

[swift crag]

Then who creates the rooms?

[ionic zephyr]

A gameManager in the awake

[swift crag]

Something must exist in the scene to instantiate the prefabs.

Okay, great. Give the GameManager a reference to the slider.

[polar acorn]

Cool, we're getting somewhere. Does that object exist in the scene before the game begins

[whole idol]

They have to have Unity? Otherwise I can't send them a playable game file?

[polar acorn]

Send the whole folder

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, I have it

[polar acorn]

everything in your screenshot

[wintry quarry]

No they don't have to have Unity.

[swift crag]

zip the "Super Capsule" folder. send that.

[polar acorn]

Now, when the GameManager spawns the prefab, set the slider variable on that prefab to the one you've just dragged in

[ionic zephyr]

And how do I "pass" that reference

[polar acorn]

=

[swift crag]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[ionic zephyr]

but is there a way to access to that specific object inside of the prefab

[polar acorn]

Yes, by doing the thing we explained a while ago where you make a script and drag in the references

that you said you did

[ionic zephyr]

the references are dragged

[polar acorn]

Make a script, put it on the base object of the prefab, and drag in the things you want

[swift crag]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

Cool so now you have them

done

use those

[swift crag]

did you read the code that I wrote

[ionic zephyr]

yeah but i do no tunderstand it

[swift crag]

then ask questions about it instead of just silently ignoring it

what part of that code do you not understand?

[ruby python]

Evenin' all.

So I have a 'quadsphere' and some XML that I need to translate into a Shader (Not a shader question lol). The xml includes Lat/Long coordinates, would anyone have any idea (or be able to point me towards a resource) that would let me figure out how to apply/assign long/lat coordinates to my quadsphere? (not sure if I made any sense with that. lol.)

[wintry quarry]

I can't tell if you're asking how to work with your QuadSphere data structure or API or if you're asking how to parse XML

XML shouldn't be involved in the quadsphere part

presumably you parse the data and then move on

[ruby python]

The quadsphere is a model, no coding involved. 1 sec.

[swift crag]

if the sphere's UVs are just a rectangular unwrapping, it should be trivial to go from coordinates to UVs

just remap latitude and longitude into the 0..1 ranges

[ruby python]

It's made up of 6 'faces' and then manipulated in my modeller to spherise it. So it has 6 'flat' UV's

[swift crag]

ah, it's a quadsphere, right

a subdivided cube

[ruby python]

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[ruby python]

Parsing the XML isn't an issue, I know how to do that (xml structure below)

<Rule>
  <Layers>
    <Layer Material="OceanIce" Depth="20" />
  </Layers>
  <Height Min="0.0" Max="0.43" />
  <Latitude Min="0" Max="90" />
  <Slope Min="0" Max="1" />
</Rule>

It's more trying to figure out how to make use of the Latitude (assigning values to the QuadSphere)

[wintry quarry]

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[ruby python]

Sorry man, not sure what you're asking.

[wintry quarry]

not asking anything

pointing you to the solution

[ruby python]

Not understanding what you mean then sorry.

[swift crag]

how is your sphere UV mapped?

assuming that you're trying to do something involving textures or the sphere's material

if not, i need to know what "assigning values" means

[ruby python]

6 faces (top, bottom, front, back, left, right). And yeah, the image I posted above is the sphere mapped with heightmaps for each face. I'll be creating a shader to colour the 'planet' based on the XML values and the heightmap.

[swift crag]

okay, so you need to write data into a texture

you need a method to convert from lat-lon to UV coordinates

[swift crag]

I don't know how you would do that off the top of my head

[ruby python]

Yeah, teh height and slope I can figure out how to parse/apply, it's the longitude value that I'm not sure about.

[swift crag]

I guess you could shoot a raycast at the sphere and get the UV coordinates from the hit.

[cinder crag]

does someone know how i can use the same key to change modes of the grappling hook? since rn im using F for swinging mode and G for normal mode and i wanna just use F , does someone know?

[swift crag]

instead of just setting the mode, check which mode you're in and set the other one

if (mode == Mode.Swinging) {
  mode = Mode.Normal;
}

e.g.

[low path]

could also use a state machine. input f = change mode. for each mode define the action taken by change mode

[wintry nimbus]

Hey, probably a beginner's mistake, but I'm having trouble with some errors. For a bit of context, this is my first 2D game where, for now, you can only move around, collect some points. I'm trying to add enemies, but those 2 errors comes up. I also sent the LogicScript, and the 2 scripts of points and enemies. Anyone knows where it comes from ?

[polar acorn]

Duplicate script

[swift crag]

You can't declare two classes with the same name.

[wintry nimbus]

even the Start ? So how can I make it ?

[polar acorn]

Don't make two classes with the same name

[swift crag]

Start is not a class.

Start is a method.

target1script is a class.

[wintry nimbus]

oh right mb

Thanks

[sharp bloom]

With some trial and error

[orchid trout]

I am having a problem with unity's EventSystem. I have an element I want to re-select immediately after deselecting it. It's a text input field.
After onSubmit is called, I've tried to reselect the field but it keeps not getting reselected.

eventSystem.SetSelectedGameObject(gameObject); is what I am calling to try to select it.

I've tried calling this:

• immediately after onSubmit is called
• on Update
• on LateUpdate
• the next frame through a co-routine

but every time the field gets deselected because the field calls "DeactivateInputField" on itself for some reason

[cinder crag]

why does this error appear

[orchid trout]

Whats the correct way to reselect it? Its a text field element. I want it to act like any text field a chat engine uses like when I hit enter on my keyboard right now here on discord, the field remains selected and further keypresses continue to fill this field

[safe root]

!code

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[wintry quarry]

Like it says, you're trying to use an instance reference to access something that should be using the type name

Also I'm assuming this is an enum, in which case that line makes no sense at all

I would expect something like:

if (currentMode == ChangeGrapplingModes.Swinging)```

[low path]

did you try this? https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Selectable.OnDeselect.html

[safe root]

I'm making a dash machine for my game and right now. My character only moves to the right and doesn't do the same to the left. No matter what it will head left. Does anyone know why?

https://gdl.space/maqakodoze.cs

[orchid trout]

Try it in what way?
I am not sure how to try it in this context. Its also important that it be possible to deselect it when selecting something else, I don't want to foricibly always have it be selected, I want it to be only be selected when the user calls OnSubmit on it, not just on any deselect event

[wintry quarry]

move right or dashes right?

[safe root]

Dashes right

[cinder crag]

oh dammit im dumb , didnt check my player movement statehandler lol

[wintry quarry]

is the Flip code ever happening? Is the scale getting inverted?

[safe root]

AH, I forgot to call it.....

[swift crag]

I'd use IDeselectHandler and check if the user just submitted

(IDeselectHandler requires you to implement OnDeselect, so this is roughly what Hambones suggested)

[orchid trout]

trying this now, if it also fails Ill try implementing that handling

[swift crag]

also consider

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem.html#UnityEngine_EventSystems_EventSystem_alreadySelecting

this will tell you if you're already attempting to set a selected game object

I'm not sure if that will be true whilst OnDeselect is running as the text field unselects itself

[tribal minnow]

hey guys, i need help with using play asset delivery.
normally my game is consisted of 3 scenes, but its size was somewhere around 1gb, so for me to upload it on google play store i need it to be less than 200 mb, for that i decided on using play asset delivery, i have this code right here that is supposed to download the asset bundles and then have 3 different functions for loading the 3 scenes, is it correct ? and if it is how should i do the build and how am i supposed to try it ?
https://gdl.space/soriqihawu.cpp

[orchid trout]

Oh that will be useful

    {
        if (reSelectOnSubmit)
        {
            eventSystem.SetSelectedGameObject(gameObject);
            reSelectOnSubmit = false;
        }
    }```
also forgot to add the i\f statement so that it doesnt always reselect

[swift crag]

watch out for infinite recursion there

select -> deselect -> select -> ...

[orchid trout]

It didnt infinite, it just didnt reselect 🤔

[tribal minnow]

or if you guys dont know, is there anywhere i can get help with uploading my game on google play store? that would be appreciated

[orchid trout]

I feel like I must be missing something because I cannot get it to reselect ever, not on update, late update, co-routine next frame

[low path]

did it call reselctonsubmit?

[orchid trout]

ReselectOnSubmit never got called, debug texted just now

scratch that, it does get called but not when expected

but it also doesnt work

[low path]

try implementing IDeselectHandler in your script

[orchid trout]

it doesnt get called OnSubmit, but it does get called when I click off of it, and even though the bool evalulates true, " eventSystem.SetSelectedGameObject(gameObject);" this simply doesnt work

[low path]

put it on the input field and define OnDeselect in the way you did "reselctonsubmit"

[orchid trout]

I think the problem is that eventSystem.SetSelectedGameObject(gameObject); is not how you select something in the event system

Ill try that handler next but if it still doesnt work I think that is the problem, because calling that line thusfar never selects no matter where/when it gets called

ill try changing it from gameObject to a more explicit reference to itself maybe?

[wintry quarry]

that should work fine - depends which object you're passing in there though

If it doesn't have a Selectable on it, that might be a problem

[swift crag]

ah, so it just errors on you if you try to do that!

good to know; i was a bit curious about that

[orchid trout]

changing it from gameObject to a reference to (myThing.gameObject) gave that error

before no error at all which wasnt useful

[swift crag]

I guess it just silently ignored your object that didn't have a Selectable on it

[orchid trout]

ah yeah it didnt

[swift crag]

I'd set a field when you submit and when you deselect

If you deselect after you submit, then reselect in Update

[orchid trout]

my code is being run in the script but hooking into the input field

[swift crag]

I bet the deselect happens in the same frame as the submit

in that case, you'd just check if both happened, then reset both bools to false

[orchid trout]

Ill try this now, since it didnt work before on update but maybe I was selecting the wrong thing, there was no error before

[swift crag]

I kind of wish selection worked on a Selectable, rather than a GameObject

I guess it could be ambiguous with multiple selectables on one game object

[low path]

honestly unity is nice in a lot of ways but ugui is a huge pita. i feel like i learned it a couple year ago and then somehow lost all knowledge...

i remember having an epiphany about anchors and positions and whatever and i have no idea how it works anymore

[orchid trout]

this DOES get called, but it doesnt select the field, and it doesnt give an error

and when I try to step into it, I cant for some reason

[charred heart]

hi! how can i enable baked navmesh in editor view?

[timber tide]

probably your gizmos in the top right corner there is off

[orchid trout]

trying tihs now

It says its selected, but its not selected

[wintry quarry]

just out of curiosity where is this eventSystem reference coming from?

[orchid trout]

Inspector, its a dragged in reference to the scene EventSystem in the scene

[charred heart]

I think I've already turned it on.

[orchid trout]

Maybe my understanding of 'selected' is whats flawed here

[low path]

i kind of doubt it

[orchid trout]

This is what I am trying to achieve without needing to reclick the field each time

[orchid trout]

I assumed that the input state that recieves inputs would be selected but I never tested that assumption and am not sure how to 🤔

[timber tide]

Hmm, not too sure then as I've not used unity's navmesh tools for a while, but I do remember running into a similar problem.

[low path]

the most braindead way to test this would be to put csif(input.getkeydown 'whatever') Debug.Log(thisthing.selected);

you can probably also have a debug textbox that just periodically polls whatever values you're interested in

[pallid verge]

Dont they match?

[orchid trout]

Right sorry what I meant was how do I check if that blinky line input state is being selected
I can debug log the event system and I can see if the field is selected, which is True, but its not in the blinky line input state

[low path]

but i think you'll find that indeed, a textfield IS selected when you are inputting it

[orchid trout]

Yep

[hot wave]

I have a public int itemType; in the interactable code (to set as 1, 2 or 3), but it cant seem to relate with the dictionary in interactor or how to approach it rotationDictionary.Add(1, new Vector3(-30, 0, 0)); rotationDictionary.Add(1, new Vector3(-30, 0, 0)); rotationDictionary.Add(2, new Vector3(20, 0, 0)); rotationDictionary.Add(3, new Vector3(0, -10, 0)); I added a private Dictionary<int, Vector3> rotationDictionary = new Dictionary<int, Vector3>(); before void start, but i dont know how to make it work @-@ or if this is ok in update inside raycast but im not sure foreach (var kvp in rotationDictionary) { if (kvp.Key == itemType) { Vector3 rotationValue = kvp.Value; interactable.transform.Rotate(rotationValue); foundRotation = false; } }

[low path]

um... blinky line input field?

[orchid trout]

hm maybe I have to call something on the inputfield to set it to the blinky line up

[orchid trout]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874004401586176/1214279444202659880/reselection_behaviour.gif?ex=65f888db&is=65e613db&hm=6c7feb8d82904f83610a476370c4c55906ac041dd9e334c2e1f04305de0ce7a6&

I mean like any text field when you are able to type the bar blinks

even here in discord

which Im starting to think is a state separate to just being selected

[timber tide]

I remember running into that issue and I think how I fixed it was just not use select/deselect

and just appended directly to the text via input events

[orchid trout]

"inputField.ActivateInputField();"

this exists, ill try calling this

Yep that was it. I had to call ActivateInputField, not just selected 🫠

the issue in the end was my assumption that being selected = input field active

[low path]

ugui

[orchid trout]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/727587457046151301.webp?size=44&quality=lossless

[timber tide]

more just tmpro having 10000 methods

[orchid trout]

I cant think of a use case where I'd want the field selected but not edit active, but I am sure someone somewhere needs it that way

Sweet I can move forward now at least, thanks for helping me debug 👍

[timber tide]

my word game I dont ever need to select/deselect it (should always be active) so my hacky way works for my requirements

[low path]

that was more duck debugging as you solved the problem yourself

[orchid trout]

still helped, take the credit 🦆

[cinder crag]

i am not sure why the hell my character is still hanging in the air when the rope is gone , this only happens with the normal mode of the grappler

let me get a vid rq

i really dont know why this happens lol

[weak zinc]

does anyone know how to make random terrain generation? iam trying something, it kinda works but iam not getting the final thing i want, iam currently working at school project, i chose Survival game so iam trying to make great random generation

[lost anvil]

why is it when i call my static bool on my cameras zoom script, that it only zooms a little bit?

https://gdl.space/yavamatifo.cpp (i dont care that its messy i just slapped it together)

[cinder crag]

seems like this is the block of code that makes that problem

[wintry quarry]

What to you mean by "when i call my static bool"?

[wintry quarry]

Think about it:

        if (isZoomed == true || interactZoom == true)
        {
            GetComponent<Camera>().fieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp(GetComponent<Camera>().fieldOfView, zoom, Time.deltaTime * smooth);
        }

        if (isZoomed == false)
        {
            GetComponent<Camera>().fieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp(GetComponent<Camera>().fieldOfView, normal, Time.deltaTime * smooth);
        }```
What happens when interactZoom is true, but isZoomed is false? Both of these blocks will run each frame.

[neon ivy]

I have a gravity direction, a vector3 of magnitude 1. and I'm wondering how to calculate the global direction of my movement which is a vector2. for a second I thought I just had to multiply but that sounds wrong. for instance if my movement is (0,1) so w is pressed and it should move forward and when gravity is (0,-1,0) so down. it needs to somehow apply a force of (1,-1,0) assuming no rotation and a g of 1. but when the gravity direction is (0,0,-1) the movement would be globally down so it'd need to be (0,-1,-1)... I think. I don't get this

[polar acorn]

If interactZoom is true and isZoomed is false both lerps run

[cinder crag]

does anyone know why this happens?

[wintry quarry]

i don't understand the relationship between gravity and what direction your w key should move you in. Can you explain how your game is supposed to work? Normally the two are not related.

[weak zinc]

i need help, now it looks like its working, but i dont think this is usable as terrain for world

[timber tide]

unless you need predetermined trajectory, usually gravity just acts on the objects independently throughout your update loops

[rich adder]

looks like water lol

[frigid flume]

hello, do you know why this doesn't work ?
https://hatebin.com/chlfhnlyku script where inventory is defined
https://hatebin.com/nyiwwzmhob script failed to load it (screenshot is from this one)
thanks in advance ^^

[weak zinc]

i dont know how to make it look like terrain, iam not going outside to see world that much T_T

[neon ivy]

I want to have more control over my player's gravity and thus, if I change its gravity and rotation to walk on a sphere for instance, I need to set the player's gravity direction towards the center of the sphere. then to walk forward I need to change the direction based on which way gravity is right?

[rich adder]

i would spread the noise a bit more

[timber tide]

just play with the noise for an hour or two

[wintry quarry]

I don't know - what does "forward" mean?

I would think forward is either the direction your camera is facing or the direction your player is facing

Is this a 3d game?

[neon ivy]

yes

[weak zinc]

man i dont even know how i made this, i just yeeted random equasions that made something like this

[polar acorn]

If that screenshot is the line the error is on, then inventory is null

[rich adder]

inventory is null

[wintry quarry]

So you're walking on the surface of the sphere? Basically forward should either be the direction your player is facing, or your camera, or along the tangent of the surface you're standing on

you need to decide which

[frigid flume]

do you mean UpgradesInventory ?

[timber tide]

adding a layer of texture sampling for the noise is my goto solution to add some variance

[polar acorn]

no

we mean inventory

[rich adder]

public NEWSCRIPT inventory; in ProductionUpgrades

[polar acorn]

that's why we said inventory

[weak zinc]

ill try that, idk how to do it but i will try

[rich adder]

also whats up with NEWSCRIPT as a name lol

[frigid flume]

oh yes ok thanks

[timber tide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbpMiKiSKm8

[neon ivy]

I'm just wondering how you calculate this. an uneducated guess was a matrix transformation but I wouldn't really know :I

[wintry quarry]

calculate what
which part?

[weak zinc]

i watched this, but it got too complicated for me, but thanks

now its doing this , its too flat

[timber tide]

honestly pretty straight forward video, abit long, but it's as detailed as you're getting

[rich adder]

honestly the best videos on this subject is def the ones from Sebastian

[weak zinc]

ok thanks, imma watch it again

[timber tide]

can replace the noise map generator and grab fastnoise package and use that instead

[pallid nymph]

you get your camera (or something) forward, project on plane with normal being your up (that's minus gravity direction), then normalize - that's your sphere tangent forward... then you cross that with up and that's your right... then you multiply the horizontal input with the right and the forward input with the forward and that's your direction... and then there's the down which you add to that vector for gravity

[weak zinc]

i have to make something impressive for that project, yeah i wanted to do that, but teacher said NUH UH

[neon ivy]

the input part of my movement vector.
so I have gravity which is simply multiplying the g value with the direction of gravity.
the input from the player and I combine these vectors to get the global velocity I should set rb.velocity to

[wintry quarry]

Again it depends on which of the things I mentioned you want

I mentioned three possibilities

[neon ivy]

I guess the direction the player is facing

cuz it's a third person game

movement is very important for this project so I'm just trying to understand and learn to get it right

[frigid flume]

so how can i access this correctly please ? still don't work (i may be dumb)

[neon ivy]

I'm just a bit overwhelmed trying to do math I have no experience with xD

[pallid nymph]

direction player is facing sounds weird... unless by that we mean camera direction... if you're looking at the player from the side and press W, where does the player go? where the camera is looking or where the player is looking?

(do you have control over camera?)

[rich adder]

did you assign inventory in the inspector?

also why do you have two scripts do the same JSON utility saving

[frigid flume]

no but i can't put anything in the field

[rich adder]

if you can't add NEWSCRIPT in the field for inventory then one of them is a prefab and another belongs in scene ?

[frigid flume]

only one need to do it it was for a test

they are form different scenes

[neon ivy]

yes. but I guess it makes sense that when you are looking at the character from the front, w should rotate them 180 degrees and make them walk away.
I guess I do want camera direction

[frigid flume]

i don't think anyone is a prefab

[pallid nymph]

and then I assume you don't want to actually try to go down through the "curved plane" that is the surface?

[rich adder]

you cannot reference between scenes

[neon ivy]

yes? sorry I might be in over my head xD

[frigid flume]

then how can i do it ? it was the purpose for me to use json

[pallid nymph]

character controllers are pretty tricky, yeah 😛 but! back to my initial reply to you 👆

[frigid flume]

i tried to use json to access data across scenes

[rich adder]

what does json have to do between 2 scripts referencing each other

[frigid flume]

idk how to do another way

[warm pawn]

can somebody help me with this error code?
Animator.speed can only be negative when Animator recorder is enabled. Animator.recorderMode != AnimatorRecorderMode.Offline
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
ElevatorDoors:YouAreChosen () (at Assets/scripts/ElevatorDoors.cs:19)
UnityEngine.GameObject:SendMessage (string,UnityEngine.SendMessageOptions)
PlayerInteract:Update () (at Assets/scripts/PlayerInteract.cs:18)

code:https://hastebin.com/share/ixototicoq.csharp

[rich adder]

If you want to preserve data between scenes why not just make a Singleton with a DDOL

[pallid nymph]

ElevatorDoors:YouAreChosen sets animator.speed to a negative number. That's not supported.

[rich adder]

and which one is line 19 ? since you omitted the namespaces

[warm pawn]

19 line is _Animator.speed = _f;
and i want it to be - since i want to play it backwards

[rich adder]

ah yes like Pulni pointed out, negative animator speed is not supported

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator-speed.html

Negative playback speed is only supported when the recorder is enabled. For more details refer to Animator.recorderMode.

[rich adder]

i think you can just invert the animationClip/state speed itself no ?

[swift crag]

Note that individual animation states can still run backwards

You just can't play the entire animator backwards

This would require it to actually run transitions backwards, which it can't do

[pallid nymph]

lazy animator... 😝

[warm pawn]

yea it just that thers 4 of them

less code

[rich adder]

I just duplicate the clip and put with -1 speed and call it a day lol

[warm pawn]

ok thx

yea i just wanted to know if theres a way

[wintry quarry]

Then it's basically:

Vector3 forward = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(cameraForward, surfaceNormal);```

if you want a Quaternion (which you can use to transform your input vector you can do:

Quaternion rot = Quaternion.LookRotation(forwrad, surfaceNormal);
Vector3 rotatedInputDir = rot * inputDir;```

[neon ivy]

if I'm not on a specific object but simply gravity is set to something other than down, can I just use that vector, multiply by -1 and input that instead of surfaceNormal?

[wintry quarry]

yes

[neon ivy]

ok cool

quaternions are scary but I think I can work with this

[chrome wadi]

Is it better todo that with a json or Xml file ?

    private void LoadDialogues()
    {
        string path = Path.Combine(Application.streamingAssetsPath, "Dialogues.json");
        Debug.Log("Pfad zur JSON-Datei: " + path);
        if (File.Exists(path))
        {
            string jsonString = File.ReadAllText(path);
            JSONObject dialogJson = JSON.Parse(jsonString).AsObject;
            foreach (var key in dialogJson.Keys)
            {
                JSONArray dialogArray = dialogJson[key].AsArray;
                string[] dialogLines = new string[dialogArray.Count];
                for (int i = 0; i < dialogArray.Count; i++)
                {
                    dialogLines[i] = dialogArray[i].Value;
                }
                dialogues.Add(key, dialogLines);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogError("Dialog JSON datei nicht gefunden " + path);
        }
    }

[wintry quarry]

Is it better to do what? Parse JSON? I would never try to parse an XML file as JSON

[swift crag]

i wish they just named it Rotation

[wintry quarry]

yeah and made the internals private

[swift crag]

you don't have to think about matrix algebra or quaternion arithmetic

you just use the Vector3 and Quaternion methods

[chrome wadi]

no im mean in general what is better

[wintry quarry]

JSON IMO, it's simpler and faster.

[neon ivy]

tbh I have no clue how to make or read a quaternion. I just know they magically do rotation stuff xD

[wintry quarry]

you don't need to read it

[neon ivy]

my knowledge on them ends at them being a vector4

[wintry quarry]

you make it through the static methods here:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.html

all they are is a variable that holds a rotation

[chrome wadi]

Okay thanks . i was confused about that a lot people in a forum mean that xml is better for performenced

[wintry quarry]

don't worry about anything else

[wintry quarry]

XML is known to be much slower to parse

[swift crag]

e.g. Quaternion.AngleAxis(45, Vector3.up) gives you a rotation 45 degrees around the vertical axis

[wintry quarry]

(clockwise around it)

[chrome wadi]

my opinion ;D thanks

[neon ivy]

oh so it's just a directional vector with 1 more float for axial rotation?

[wintry quarry]

no

don't worry about how it's represented internally

that's just one way to make one

look at all the functions in there

there are many ways to craft them

[safe root]

How should I make it so my character go dash up, down, up the right, up to the left, etc?

https://gdl.space/ozicatefeq.cs

[wild cobalt]

I found a solution to the problem with overlapping events in the blend tree:

I found another solution to the issue with overlapping sounds when using blend trees which is to use the blend weights. The function that the animation event calls can take one parameter, which can be the animation event itself, so you can pass it into the step function and access the blend weights from there to get the audio to only play when it crosses a threshold.

How do I pass the animation event as a parameter?

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationEvent.html

er, that doesn't show an example of it being received, though

you just accept AnimationEvent as the single parameter for your method

[vapid void]

// For a value type action.
// (Vector2 is just an example; pick the value type that is the right
// one according to the bindings you have)
var v = action.ReadValue<Vector2>();
} I was wondering how you use this, I was confused by the documentation

[lost anvil]

would it be a tween sequence?

[swift crag]

i'm unclear what you're confused about

given an input action, this reads a Vector2 from it

that's it

are you unsure how you'd get an InputAction in the first place?

[wintry quarry]

you use it however you want. In this case v will be the current value of the action. What you do with that depends on what you're trying to do.

[safe root]

So my character can only dash left and right but I want more dirction like up and down. I also do wish you can go at angles and my game is 2D as well

[wild cobalt]

Thank you!

[vapid void]

what should I do for vector 2, should I keep it like that?

[neon ivy]

nice o: the difficult part for me is that due to the ideas I have for this game, there might be multiple gravitational forces working on an object xD so I need to calculate everything acting on an object and then set the rb.velocity to all of it combined xD gravity alone is already giving me trouble though xDDD

[swift crag]

this question doesn't make any sense

if you want to read a vector2, then..read a vector2

[swift crag]

That should be fine -- figure out how to calculate the force vector for one object

then you can just do that many times

[edgy prism]

Hello, I am working on some stuff for screen touch if I use IPointerDownHandler I can test with simulated touch screen but when I use input.TouchCount I cannot does anyone know how I can test input.TouchCount code on my PC?

[rich adder]

don't think you can simulate multi-finger touch with PC

I could be wrong though

[edgy prism]

Tbh the code im using is just for one touch, its just that in my experience the touch count is never greater than 0 when I test on PC

[neon ivy]

tbh applying the force vector for something like a spell effect that simply sucks in stuff is super easy. just (objectPos - attractorPos).normalized * attractionForce. only the actual base gravity should give me trouble

I got this

[low robin]

how do i trigger button click from code?

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class ButtonClickWithRaycast : MonoBehaviour
{
public Toggle toggleActive;

void Update()
{
    // Check if Left Mouse Button is pressed
    if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
    {
        // Create a ray from the mouse position
        Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
        RaycastHit hit;

        // Perform the raycast
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit))
        {
            // Check if the raycast hits a UI element
            if (hit.collider != null && hit.collider.GetComponent<Button>() != null)
            {
                // Press the button if it's clicked
                ExecuteEvents.Execute(hit.collider.gameObject, new PointerEventData(EventSystem.current), ExecuteEvents.pointerClickHandler);
            }
        }
    }

    // Check if Left Shift key is held down
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
    {
        // Activate the toggle
        toggleActive.isOn = true;
    }
    else
    {
        // Deactivate the toggle
        toggleActive.isOn = false;
    }
}

}

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean by "the button click"?

[rich adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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

[edgy prism]

Can I be annoying and ask if theres an event system based handler i can use to do the same thing?

[rich adder]

Haven't experimented too much on this yet. I typically connect my android to my PC to test

[low robin]

what happens when you click a UI button

[edgy prism]

Ok no worries ill just check for mouse clicks in the code too, thanks for your help

[wintry quarry]

just make a function that does what you want.

Call that function from both the button and from your other code.

[low robin]

i have this many buttons.

[wintry quarry]

Thanks for telling me how many buttons you have.

[low robin]

yeah, because its impossible bruh.

[wintry quarry]

What's impossible?

[low robin]

adding the funtion like you said

[wintry quarry]

it is not impossible by any means

[low robin]

oh

[wintry quarry]

Also I don't understand this code. Why is it doing a physics raycast for UI elements

and you haven't explained under what circumstances you wish to call your function

[low robin]

because i am using XR input module for VR UI support but it doesent work in PC.

i have PC support because i get tired of putting on the vr headset and taking it off so mutch

[wintry quarry]

but what's the question? You're trying to just support the buttons on PC?

[low robin]

yea

[wintry quarry]

So why are you doing physics raycasts? What's wrong with the normal input module and event system stuff?

[low robin]

because vr is alreaddy there

[wintry quarry]

You can add both

[low robin]

oh

i dumb

[wintry quarry]

physics raycasts are never going to work for UI though

[queen adder]

I wanted to ask if i am making a pathfinding enemy for a procedurally generated maze and I want to use A Star algorithm for the path finding whats the best way of doing this?

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean by best way?

[weak zinc]

i need to change values of MapGenerator, but since i added this line of code it just shows this GENERATE BUTTON line" [CustomEditor(typeof (MapGenerator))]"

[wintry quarry]

Write the algorithm and use it

[weak zinc]

is it something in setting?

[wintry quarry]

you made a custom editor. It is drawing your custom editor. What's the issue?

[queen adder]

I have but I've also been told to download assets and try it and i came to ask abt that

[pallid nymph]

You need to call DrawDefaultEdtior or something, if you also want the default stuff

[weak zinc]

on that video he sees both the values and the button

[wintry quarry]

Or just use NaughtyAttributes instead of writing a custom editor
https://dbrizov.github.io/na-docs/attributes/drawer_attributes/button.html

[low robin]

is this good?

[pallid nymph]

you tell us 😛

[low robin]

i don't know

[weak zinc]

iam trying to do it like that video you sent, cuz iam totally confused what is he talking about

but this is what he ses

idk if its cuz its old video or cuz something is off in my settings

[wintry quarry]

yes it's been explained to you twice now

[weak zinc]

oh didnt noticed

sorry

thanks

[delicate portal]

Hey, the error is Only server can spawn NetworkObjects

[low robin]

um you have to be the server host i think

[delicate portal]

Well okay, but how do I spawn a player from clicking a button?

[swift crag]

You're just calling SpawnPlayerObjectServerRpc

[low robin]

thanks unity

[swift crag]

if you're a client, you run the method

ah, no, I am incorrect: it should execute that on the server if it has the ServerRpc attribute

but since it calls SpawnPlayerObjectClientRpc, that's sending an RPC to...everyone

and they all then try to run SpawnPlayerObjectClientRpc

[delicate portal]

Yes but if they only run on the server the client doesnt get recognized

Its just a prefab

As host

[wintry quarry]

do you have a graphic raycaster on the canvas? Do you have some other UI element blocking everything?

[low robin]

yes

[dusk minnow]

I have a Problem with collision detection, i want something to happen when colliding, but when my game Object(cube 3d) collides with a platform (long cube 3d) only on an edge, it doesnt detect a colission,why?

[wintry quarry]

• How are you trying to detect a collision? Can you show the code?
• Can you show the inspectors for the two objects involved?

[low robin]

i think you need a rigidbody it always works for me

you can turn off use gravity

[dusk minnow]

private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)

[low robin]

make shure both the objects has isTrigger off.

[wintry quarry]

• Show the full code
• show the inspectors of the objects please as I asked

[low robin]

if you want trigger turn trigger on on them and use OnTriggerEnter

[dusk minnow]

wym with inspector

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UsingTheInspector.html

[dusk minnow]

https://paste.ofcode.org/TyzqrkQ2YgmvqQhCdUejmV

[wintry quarry]

So you need to first put a Debug.Log at the very start of the OnCollisionEnter to make sure it's not actually running

because right now there's if statements etc

[low robin]

yea start debugging it

[wintry quarry]

Debug.Log will save your life kid

[low robin]

that feels wierd for both of the objects

[vapid void]

horizontal = LeftAction.ReadValue<Vector2>(1.0f, 0.0f); there is an error at ReadValue where it says that read value cannot take two inputs, how do I make it so that the parenthesis attatch to the vector2?

[wintry quarry]

Why are you passing parameters into ReadValue?

Readvalue doesn't take any parameters

how do I make it so that the parenthesis attatch to the vector2
This doesn't make sense

[dusk minnow]

wym with if?

[wintry quarry]

if (...)

an if statement

your code is inside control things like that

add Debug.Log to your code to see which code is running and when

[dusk minnow]

yes ok imma log it

[wintry quarry]

and to print out values

[dusk minnow]

what values? like collided

[wintry quarry]

like the name of the object you collided with

[dusk minnow]

alr

[meager raptor]

does anyone know why there's a swiggly red under takedamage and attack?

[swift crag]

read the error message

[polar acorn]

What's the error say

[swift crag]

you have a second error on baseStats.attack

this is probably messing up the method invocation

[polar acorn]

Does PlayerUnit have a function named TakeDamage

[lost anvil]

with this tween sequence i have setup the nail goes back into the wall no matter if i make the value for moving it a negative or positive number idk why

https://gdl.space/itutobebac.cpp

[meager raptor]

that was the error, thnx, i guess i just cant read error messages

[polar acorn]

You should probably start doing that

they're quite relevant

[tame mist]

So I'm using a CinemachineVirtualCamera with the AIM setting to POV. now i see that when you use a freelookcamera there are properties you can access to disable and enable users mouse input to rotate the camera, for example -
public CinemachineFreeLook cameraLook;
cameraLook.m_YAxis.m_InputAxisName = "Mouse Y";
cameraLook.m_XAxis.m_InputAxisName = "Mouse X";

i see the properties in the CinemachineVirtualCamera script for the X and Y input axis names but i can't seem to figure out how to access them through code.
anybody know how to access those properties?

[short hazel]

<@&502884371011731486> Scam link

[short hazel]

If you can see them in the code but they aren't public then restrictions are in place and you might not be able to access them from your own code.
You'll know that when they won't appear in the completion list, and referring to them will produce the following error:

'XYZ' is inaccessible due to its protection level.

[tame mist]

never mind i got it figured out. had to grab the POV component from the script i guess
CMvcam1.GetCinemachineComponent<CinemachinePOV>().m_VerticalAxis.m_InputAxisName = "";
CMvcam1.GetCinemachineComponent<CinemachinePOV>().m_HorizontalAxis.m_InputAxisName = "";

[lost anvil]

why wont my hammer move to the nail?

hammer script: https://gdl.space/ifibumabob.cpp
nail script: https://gdl.space/rukujamowu.cpp

[slender nymph]

why do you have so many static variables?

also ScrewInteract.nail has absolutely no relation to HammerInteract.nail

[sharp jay]

static

[lost anvil]

for the mechanics

[slender nymph]

you're also starting so many DOLocalMoves since you start one per frame once that static bool is true

[summer stump]

I don't see a reason for ANY of those to be static

[slender nymph]

that is not an explanation. nor does any of this need to be static

[buoyant knot]

could you explain how the mechanics lead you to make those variables static

[lost anvil]

so you cant interact with the nail after you already interacted and stuff like that

guess i could just disable the script on it for that

[buoyant knot]

what does that have to do with a variable being static

[summer stump]

That is a poor reason, and makes it harder for you

[lost anvil]

yeah i dont know mate i was just using this to try and learn about sharing variables

[slender nymph]

i have a sneaking suspicion that they think making a variable static makes it have anything to do with some other variable of the same name and type on a different object that is also static (which of course it does not)

[summer stump]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[eternal needle]

this is some cursed code. also it doesnt even look like these scripts are related or do anything to each other

[buoyant knot]

static means something is tied to the definition of the class, and not to an instance

[lost anvil]

how do i fix it then lol

[slender nymph]

you start by learning how to [get a reference](#💻┃code-beginner message)

[buoyant knot]

learn fundamentals before you try fixing something

you cannot fix what you do not understand

[lost anvil]

this is why i was trying to make this so i can understand

[eternal needle]

there is a LOT to fix, your best solution is honestly learning the basics first and then coming back to remake these scripts. this current way of coding is not fixable

[lost anvil]

ok

[buoyant knot]

yeah, we’d just be teaching you the basics of the language, which you can learn from many different tutorials

[lost anvil]

i know most of the basics just this is confusing to me

[slender nymph]

not enough

[buoyant knot]

static variables are a part of the basics

[summer stump]

Referencing is one of the most basic things to know.

[lost anvil]

cheers

[summer stump]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[buoyant knot]

references are core to C#. this is something you need to know very well

[lost anvil]

ok sound

[eternal needle]

just as a summary for things to learn more about,
as others pointed out, the static variables are a problem. learn to get a reference to an exact object that you want. the link posted to you by others is a good resource
the scripts seemingly arent related (not sure if thats intentional) but i cant see where you even call half these methods.
comparing the name of an object is pretty bad/fragile obj.name == "Item_Hammer" . someone accidentally naming something the same name or accidentally changing the name of this object will break your game.
in the HammerInteract script, you are calling Animate every frame if nailInteracted is true. this looks like something you would only want to do once, when you set the value of nailInteracted.

[native seal]

Is there anyway to make my pixel perfect camera use less pixels to handle rotations? idk exactly how to explain it but i want the arrow to be more jagged

[low robin]

i don't think there is a way

at least without modifying the image

[native seal]

it has nothing to do with the image as it is 16x16

[low robin]

oof

[native seal]

its how the camera handles it

[low robin]

i dont think there is a way then

[native seal]

ive seen a lot of games do it

[timber tide]

secondary camera without pixel perfect?

[native seal]

wdym

[summer stump]

In the future #🖼️┃2d-tools

[summer stump]

Render the arrows through the non-pixel perfect camera

[native seal]

it doesn't work

nvm figured it out, use "upscale render texture"

[sour fulcrum]

Think im goofing with dicts, any reason why this wouldn't be setting the value in the dictionary? (this code is running and the value is int)
currentRound.activePlayersDictionary[winningPlayer] = currentRound.activePlayersDictionary[winningPlayer] + 1;

[polar acorn]

Have you tried logging the value after setting it to make sure the code is actually running

[quasi rose]

Is there a way to do?

    public float DashCoolDown => _dashCooldown;
    private readonly WaitForSeconds _dashCooldown = new(3f);

obvious type mismatch here, but there's no like .Seconds or anything.

only thing i could think of is a create another variable for the time as a const float, and pass that in to both.

    public float DashCoolDown => time;
    private const float time = 2f;
    private readonly WaitForSeconds _dashCooldown = new(time);

meh guess so.

[eternal needle]

seems weird to need a const float here, since you wouldnt be able to change this value. You can just keep track of the value without const and then assign _dashCooldown in Awake/Start.

[quasi rose]

yeah but i want to access DashCoolDown elsewhere, but based on the _dashCoolDown time.

Which boils down to:

    public float DashCoolDown { get; private set; }
    private const float _dashCoolDownSeconds = 2f;
    private readonly WaitForSeconds _dashCooldown = new(_dashCoolDownSeconds);

But lmk if you're seeing something I'm not 🤔

[slender nymph]

if DashCoolDown is only meant to expose _dashCoolDownSeconds, why not just make the latter public? it's const so it's not like something else can change it

[eternal needle]

its more like you want to access DashCoolDown and have _dashCooldown be based on the time

[quasi rose]

ah true, with the const, you're right.

[quasi rose]

oh weird, const is not exposed to other scripts though. huh

[slender nymph]

it's not an instance member, treat it like static

[quasi rose]

Ah gotcha

Thank you.

[hushed hare]

Guys what is Good tutorial on unity? And should I learn Roblox Lua first I'm split between Roblox or unity

[swift crag]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[abstract finch]

For status effects do you create a class for each one combined with the usage of an interface or do you go with scriptable objects?

[night mural]

whynotboth

an SO for each effect which implements OnApply, OnTick handlers is a totally valid approach

for something as generic as statuses though it can be nice to have them be more like simple tags and handle the effects where they happen, depending on what kind of game you're making and how consistent your statuses will be

[shell sorrel]

to me would depend if its more logic or more data driven

if more data, and just a bunch of numbers defined for each effect, or each category of effect SO's can be nice for saving those numbers

if they are all very different and require different logic, a interface to apply them and a new class that implements it for each one

[night mural]

yep, i generally avoid that SO approach because 'statuses' tend to be a generic enough concept that it might do all sorts of stuff from preventing actions to preventing death to granting an ability and coming up with a consistent api for all that isn't worth the trouble

[shell sorrel]

yeah why i mentoned SO's for data driven or just a interface otherwise

Apply could take in a instance of the player and mutate it as it sees fit

[night mural]

definitly one of those systems where there's a few valid ways to go with pros and cons and what works for you really depends on what you're trying to do

[swift crag]

I've liked using SerializeReference to define effects

public class StatusEffectDefinition : ScriptableObject {
  [SerializeField] LocalizedString label;
  [SerializeField, SerializeReference] List<Effect> effects;
}

where Effect is an abstract class

with methods like Apply(Entity target)

[night mural]

is serializereference good? i used odin from before it existed and haven't tried to switch over cause i don't know if there's any weird gotchas

[north kiln]

The [SerializeField, is redundant

[shell sorrel]

it has nothing to do with odin

[night mural]

i know, but before you could do it i used odin to accomplish what it does and so i still do that

but maybe i don't need to!

[shell sorrel]

its just a way to reference plain old C# classes that are serializable

instead of the normal SerilaizeField where its a copy of the data

[north kiln]

SerializeReference has no inspector for null values and that is one of the reasons why it's annoying

[night mural]

exactly the sort of information i was looking for

[shell sorrel]

yeah generally needs custom ui

cant really have a inspector for null, since it does not know what shape the data is

[north kiln]

And making a generic inspector that also supports property drawers and doesn't override the default editor is a pain in the ass, but I have a drawer that does it

[shell sorrel]

since it accepts interface types as well as concret types

[north kiln]

well, you can just have a selector of those subtypes, or a specified section of those subtypes

[shell sorrel]

somewhat easy if its a list thing

will just make the add make the correct data

[north kiln]

https://github.com/vertxxyz/Vertx.SerializeReferenceDropdown
I haven't touched my drawer in a while, but it's a huge pain in the ass

[shell sorrel]

i do find SerializeReference to be ultra fragile though

few months ago had what should be a perfect usecase but it was too fragile to long term use

no guid for the type, so a refactor can break all the references

[night mural]

yeah i am very way of any of my game data being in a state where it will break if i rename a class or move a namespace

i've been traumatized and take that divide probably too seriously now

[north kiln]

You can refactor the type fine using UnityEngine.Scripting.APIUpdating.MovedFromAttribute

[night mural]

odin has the same issues though

yeah but you have to remember to do that beforehand!

[shell sorrel]

you can will co workers do that, prolly not

[night mural]

you can revert and then do it if you notice early enough

[north kiln]

And Find and Replace is pretty good for it

[night mural]

but i didn't notice the stuff that had broken until i'd already done a bunch of other stuff and it was pretty rough

[north kiln]

But yeah, it is more fragile than others

[swift crag]

I've used this sucessfully before

i also explicitly reserialize everything after making such a change

[pseudo frigate]

i have a top down 2d tower defense game and when i create the level im using the following code to create the bounds for the camera

    public Vector3 maxTile;
    public void SetLimits()
    {
        Vector3 worldPoint = GameManager.Instance.mainCam.ViewportToWorldPoint(new Vector3(1, 0));
        xMax = maxTile.x - worldPoint.x;
        yMin = maxTile.y - worldPoint.y;
    }

and then this in update to clamp it

 transform.position = new Vector3(Mathf.Clamp(transform.position.x, 0, xMax),Mathf.Clamp(transform.position.y,yMin,0),-10);

this was working fine until i tried to introduce zooming in/out (changing the cameras orthographic size). i figure i need to recalculate the limits when i zoom in/out, but everything ive tried so far isnt working right, any suggestions? thank you

[swift crag]

i don't like having "old" serialized data lying around my project

[night mural]

huh what do you mean by that?

[swift crag]

I'm considering moving all of my code into assemblies, so I'm going to have to rewrite a lot of serialized references

i might just find-replace it...

[swift crag]

    [MenuItem("Pursuit/Reserialize Identifiables", priority = 10)]
    public static void ReserializeIdentifiables()
    {
        AssetDatabase.ForceReserializeAssets(AssetDatabase.FindAssets("t:Identifiable").Select(guid => AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(guid)));
    }

Unity doesn't proactively update your assets

it updates them whenever you make a change to them

[north kiln]

It will resolve all the MovedFrom and FormerlySerializedAs stuff, instead of doing it when you touch the assets

[swift crag]

I think it also just doesn't get rid of removed fields at all? not sure

[north kiln]

yeah they stick around

[swift crag]

yeah -- so I can then immediately get rid of the attributes

modify code, migrate data, done

It cuts down on version control churn, too

I hate when stuff just...changes

[night mural]

ok yeah i have run into that but didn't think to look for a fix, that's excellent

[swift crag]

reserializing EVERY asset does take a while lol

[swift crag]

i have a few of these for different categories of asset

    [MenuItem("Pursuit/Reserialize Entity Prefabs", priority = 10)]
    public static void ReserializeEntityPrefabs()
    {
        AssetDatabase.ForceReserializeAssets(AssetDatabase.FindAssets("t:Prefab", new string[] { "Assets/Entities/" }).Select(guid => AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(guid)));
    }

notably

I also have some editor scripts that validate categories of assets

it's nice to be able to automatically check if you forgot something

[night mural]

yeah those i do have these days, at build time and/or as part of custom editors

[limber narwhal]

in editor log, is the last build details at the bottom?

[night mural]

you probably have to do some math (e.g. if you are zoomed in 50% of the way, your bounds should be 50%...more? less? however it should be)

[swift crag]

Yes.

If the log is way too long to deal with, just restart Unity so that it writes a new log

[limber narwhal]

mine is definitely too long lol i'll do that now ty

[wicked stratus]

I have a sprite sheet that has 300 sprites on it. (it's a map that is split into a grid.) If I split it and handle it via spriteatlas, can I access each sprite via an index? if not, what would be the easiest way to do this? I need to have each sprite assigned an index

can I do this via code as well

it seems i'd have to refer to my resources, but i've seen varying opinions as to whether that's a good idea or not

it just would be a pain in the bum to manually drag all 300 into a slot and potentially make a mistake esp if code can do that for me

oh, especially cause i need to do this for 3 or 4 separate sprites

[timber tide]

it's what they're for, but no one says you can't make multiple sheets

[wicked stratus]

would it be more efficient that way

i mean for the computer. or is the price about the same

i guess it doesn't matter much

[night mural]

i would go with whatever feels easiest to you for now

until you run into something objective you're trying to solve

[hushed hare]

Guys do you know any good torurials

For fps

[tame mist]

probably not the right place to put this but I don't see a channel for Unity Profiler questions.
anyways I was wondering if someone could help me read this profiler data, this is my first time using the Profiler.
it looks like a script is causing me a huge lag spike when it turns 9am in my game.
at 9am my TimeOfDayController script Invokes an even that several or more other scripts listen to. that 9am unity event also activates 3 pooled car objects and run one or two methods on one of their components.

I'll include the code I'm specifically profiling -

    {
        carsForPurchase.Clear();
        Profiler.BeginSample("For Loop Online Cars");
        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
        {
            int randomInt = UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, carIndexesAvailable.Count);

            var spawnPoint = spawnLocations[i].transform;
            GameObject obj = cars[carIndexesAvailable[randomInt]];
            obj.transform.position = spawnPoint.position;

            obj.AddComponent<CarDriveForwardArcade>();
            obj.GetComponent<CarDriveForwardArcade>().arcadeVehicleController = obj.GetComponent<ArcadeVehicleController>();

            obj.SetActive(true);
            obj.GetComponent<CarStats>().RandomizeCarColor();
            obj.GetComponentInChildren<CarStats>().RandomizeCarResellPrice();

            handleActiveCars.AddCarToList(obj);

            //carsForPurchase.Add(obj);
            buyingCarsOnlineController.AddCarToCurrentCarsForSaleList(obj);
            carIndexesAvailable.Remove(randomInt);
        }
        Profiler.EndSample();
        ResetCarIndexList();
    } ```

[woven crater]

my movement script https://pastebin.com/B2nzCgvc

why does it stuck to the wall when i press move toward it?

[frigid sequoia]

Cause friction, reduce the friction of the wall

[woven crater]

material?

[summer stump]

A friction material can do that, yeah.
That is the normal way to create friction

[woven crater]

okie thank

[eternal needle]

can you collapse some of those and see whats taking a majority of the 256 ms? in the current code, the only areas that could really take awhile is the method calls whos implementation which we cannot see

[vale karma]

this has been eating at me all day. I cant figure out what i did wrong in the tutorial. I get this error:
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
DisplayInventory.AddEvent (UnityEngine.GameObject obj, UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventTriggerType type, UnityEngine.Events.UnityAction`1[T0] action) (at Assets/Player/Inventory System/Inventory/Scripts/DisplayInventory.cs:83)

at this line of code: AddEvent(obj, EventTriggerType.PointerEnter, delegate { OnEnter(obj); });

https://paste.ofcode.org/cmyu9yGZBaSeZMH75hnJTC

[wintry quarry]

trigger is probably null

[gaunt ice]

trigger.triggers.Add(eventTrigger);

[wintry quarry]

I.e. there's no event trigger component on the object

[gaunt ice]

three possibilities: trigger is null, triggers is null or both of them

[vale karma]

he wrote the reference thru code, but im not seeing it trying to catch glimpses

[wintry quarry]

Based on the code you need to have an event trigger component on your prefab

And it seems like you probably don't

That's not a code thing

[wintry quarry]

It's a "how you set up the prefab" thing

[vale karma]

I put the event trigger on the inventory background basically, shoudl i have put it on the button/slot itself?

[wintry quarry]

I don't see an event trigger on the prefab here

[wintry quarry]

Based on the code it should be on the prefab

[vale karma]

its on the bottom right, im guessing i have it on the wrong object. I will try it on the prefab and get back toya

OMG i love all of you

come here

mwah

[potent nymph]

I'm trying to add an onclick listener to buttons that simply log out its index in the buttons array, but it's logging the length of the array instead. Here's the code:

    [SerializeField] private Button[] hairSelect; //8 buttons total

    private void Awake()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < hairSelect.Length; i++)
        {
            hairSelect[i].onClick.AddListener(() => HairSelect(i));
        }
    }

    void HairSelect(int index)
    {
        Debug.Log(index); //logs 8. Expected 0, 1, 2, etc

    }

[teal viper]

This would capture the i variable, so it would always be the last value it had. Assign it to a local int variable before passing it in the lambda.

[potent nymph]

@teal viper worked wonderfully, thanks!

[tame mist]

had to redo the profiler test so values will probably vary from the first pic

[fiery badger]

Hi guys, if i put a script in a Child gameobject and want to get components in Parent gameobject in Start(). How to do that?

[north kiln]

Why get them in Start, why not just assign them in the inspector?

[fiery badger]

Just wondering if its possible

[north kiln]

Sure, GetComponentInParent

[fiery badger]

Alright i will test it out thanks

[teal viper]

I'd try profiling a build to see if that happens there.

[teal viper]

That being said the JIT could be misleading. I bet the main cause is the crazy amount of GC allocations.

[crimson ibex]

Hello. I am unable to find correct way to calculate "touch" position in 3D world. Here I have added 30f randomly to get it closer. camera.transform.position.y also does not get correct value. All youtube tutotials use input.mouseposition or are 2d games 😦

[gaunt ice]

screen point to ray
then raycast for 3d game

[crimson ibex]

ohhhh !! is that so ! thank you so much

[solid sail]

If II have a class A and B, Like this but this get an error public class A<T> : B<T, A<T>> I want to pass A<T> and T both to B how do I do it?

[thin hollow]

I have a question.
i am instantiating a game object with a script. that gameobject has a script component that takes in a variable called Character_Class, which is a scriptable object.
I have a scriptable object named "knight" in my Assets folder.

is there a way to create an instance of knight and add it to that new gameobject?
i Tried something like

Job job = newChar.GetComponent<Job>(); var cc = ScriptableObject.CreateInstance("Knight"); job.characterClass = (CharacterClass)cc;

[crimson ibex]

It worked. I thank you with tears of joy.

[gaunt ice]

why you need to do this?

[solid sail]

I have a class need to inherit singleton, in addition, I need this class to inherit another class

I cant inherit 2 class the same time

if I use parent class to inheired singleton.It will create parent class instance.That's not what I want

Maybe there're some solution or some alternative?

[teal viper]

That doesn't make sense. Generics don't change how inheritance works in C#, and you can't inherit from 2 classes.

And I'm not sure if this kind of recursive generics are even allowed. I wouldn't mess with them too much.

[gaunt ice]

abstract class Singleton<T> where T:class{}
abstract class Middle_0<T>:Singleton<T> where T:class{}
class Leaf:Middle_0<some class>{}
```child class having all properties parent class has (an "instance" of parent class is created but stored inlinely), no idea what do you mean by "dont want parent class instance" but you want child class inherits parent, instance of child class can be treated as instance of parent class

if you mean by stopping others create an instance of that parent class, use abstract

[solid sail]

...
GoldenLeaf.Instance.func().....```

This will create Leaf instance instead golden leaf

I want to create goldenleaf instance

[teal viper]

GoldenLeaf is a class. "Create goldenleaf" doesn't make sense in this context.

Unless you mean an instance of GoldenLeaf

Oh, misreading the message again lol

This wouldn't create anything. It accesses the Instance and calls it's func

[solid sail]

       where T : MonoBehaviour
{
    private static bool applicationIsQuitting = false;
    private static T _instance;
    private static object _lockObj = new object();
    public static T Instance
    {
        get
        {
            if (applicationIsQuitting) { return _instance; }

            if (_instance != null)
            {
                return _instance;
            }

            if (_instance == null)
            {
                _instance = FindObjectOfType<T>();
            }
            if (_instance == null)
            {
                lock (_lockObj)
                {
                    GameObject go = new GameObject("[MonoSingleton]" + typeof(T).Name);
                    _instance = go.AddComponent<T>();
                    DontDestroyOnLoad(go);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                DontDestroyOnLoad(_instance.gameObject);
            }
            return _instance;
        }
    }```

Singleton class will create gameobject then attach component to it

[teal viper]

Okay, yeah, that would create and return a component of type T, so what's the problem?

[gaunt ice]

please replace the leaf to your actual implementation....
it is just a place holder.... (the leaf node in your inheritance tree....)

public class MyMonoSingleton<T> : MonoBehaviour
       where T : MonoBehaviour
```no need to constraint T as monobehaviour

everything inherits from this is monobehaviour

[solid sail]

I was intened to split the code into 2 class. Dont want them crowd in a single class tho

Abstract may be impossible

[teal viper]

You could use a partial class, but I feel like there's a bigger design problem due to you overcomplicating

[solid sail]

If that case,how to create a gameobject and add component...

[gaunt ice]

if i have a class EnemyManager
which inherits from your singleton

class EnemyManager:MyMonoSingleton<EnemyManager>
```is it monobehaviour?

you didnt actually require T has any special properties (in this case you will need interface), you just need its type

[solid sail]

I actually have the "Network" class and "NetWorkClient" class. One is handle the socket and packet. The other handle state , time, replication and so on

[teal viper]

Okay, but how is that related to the question?

[solid sail]

I have NetWorkClient inherited from NetWork. And NetWorkClient need to be create instance and show in the scene

[teal viper]

I still don't see how it's related to the question? I wouldn't have these classes as singletons in the first place. And even if I do, I'd either implement it as Tina suggested or avoid generics entirely and just implement the singleong logic within it.

[solid sail]

I havent try interface yet.But I think my design has some limited. If I do A inheried from B, B inheried from Isomething, this may come back to class inheritance problem

[gaunt ice]

mb, nvm
it should be abstract function not interface

public abstract class Root<T>{
  public abstract void MethodA(); 
}
public abstract class TreeNode:Root<int>{
  public override void MethodA(){
    the implementation;
  }
}
```if you need child class to have some methods

[solid sail]

My 2 Class are sperate. there's no override

[ruby python]

Mornin' all, having the weirdest issue and can't see what I'm doing wrong. IDE (VS) is all configured properly, but for some reason it's not 'picking up' Random.Range. I've used it so so many times before, but it's just stopped recognising 'Range' 😕

[solid sail]

I found a way.I can use type of the get the type of A<B> (B : A), and B is exactly I want

[gaunt ice]

do you using System; or using Unity.Mathematics;?

[ruby python]

Usually I just use system

[gaunt ice]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs0104

[ruby python]

Weird. Genuinely never had that issue before, but using UnityEngine.Random fixed it.

[lavish gate]

Pretty common, make sure you have the error bar open though.

Pretty sure that tells you exactly what the problem is

For this error

Error list is the name

[tame mist]

i haven't profiled in a build yet, but i did test out a build to see if it still did the lag thing at the 9am event and sure enough the lag spike happened in the build.
and also why do you think there's so much GC? and how could i possibly fix that

[teal viper]

You'd need to share the code for me to be able to answer that question properly, but basically, you're allocating a lot of memory on the heap is the problem.

[tame mist]

I shared the code earlier but I can post it again.
this is the "For Loop Online Cars" profile test I made for the following code -

    {
        carsForPurchase.Clear();
        Profiler.BeginSample("For Loop Online Cars");
        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
        {
            int randomInt = UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, carIndexesAvailable.Count);

            var spawnPoint = spawnLocations[i].transform;
            GameObject obj = cars[carIndexesAvailable[randomInt]];
            obj.transform.position = spawnPoint.position;

            obj.AddComponent<CarDriveForwardArcade>();
            obj.GetComponent<CarDriveForwardArcade>().arcadeVehicleController = obj.GetComponent<ArcadeVehicleController>();

            obj.SetActive(true);
            obj.GetComponent<CarStats>().RandomizeCarColor();
            obj.GetComponentInChildren<CarStats>().RandomizeCarResellPrice();

            handleActiveCars.AddCarToList(obj);

            //carsForPurchase.Add(obj);
            buyingCarsOnlineController.AddCarToCurrentCarsForSaleList(obj);
            carIndexesAvailable.Remove(randomInt);
        }
        Profiler.EndSample();
        ResetCarIndexList();
    } ```

@teal viper ^

[teal viper]

I'd assume that AddComponent is the culprit here. Is CarDriveForwardArcade a heavy class? Does it allocate some stuff in the Awake/Start/OnEnabled as well?

[gritty wagon]

Hi guys, I am working on a little game, and I have made some animations for my character, however they are very delayed from when I press my input buttons, I can provide code and a video if needed.

My animation tree looks like the image, and I have removed exit time as I thought that might be the cause, but still nothing

[tame mist]

CarDriveForwardArcade is a pretty simple class, it has a car gameobjet go forward in one direction for a few seconds.
could possibly be the RandomizeCarColor() method in the CarStats script

[teal viper]

Can you share both?

[gritty wagon]

My code is the following: https://sourceb.in/xfJi5jjsd5

[teal viper]

Can you record a video of the issue with the animator visible as well, so that we see the transition in real time?

[gritty wagon]

oh ok ill record the animator as well

[tame mist]

I understand this method does more than what it should and I plan on refactoring it soon, but for now i would like to explain that i'm using the ES3 Easy Save asset. and the reason i'm temporarily saving to a different file and reloading it is because cars seem to drift better after they have been saved and reloaded. It's hard to explain but the car controller I'm using, pretty sure it's Arcade Vehicle Physics, will save a bit different and a car instantiated or set active in the scene drives a bit differently than a car that has been loaded from ES3. I couldn't find what or why it would change the car handling but it would so to keep the handling consistent on the vehicle i will save and load first and get rid of the temp save data in the temp file. anyways, here's my code -

 public void RandomizeCarColor()
    {
        float randomNumber1 = Random.Range(10, 90);
        float randomNumber2 = Random.Range(10, 90);
        float randomNumber3 = Random.Range(10, 90);
        randomNumber1 = randomNumber1 / 100;
        randomNumber2 = randomNumber2 / 100;
        randomNumber3 = randomNumber3 / 100;
        spawnColor = new Color(randomNumber1, randomNumber2, randomNumber3, 1.0f);
        oldCarMaterial.SetColor("_Color", spawnColor);

        metallicValue = 0.35f;
        oldCarMaterial.SetFloat("_Metallic", metallicValue);

        ChangeMaterialsOfCar();

        carID = this.gameObject.GetInstanceID();

        ES3.Save(carID.ToString(), this.gameObject, "tempCarData.es3");

        this.gameObject.SetActive(false);

        GameObject obj = ES3.Load(carID.ToString(), "tempCarData.es3") as GameObject;
        obj.SetActive(true);

        if (ES3.FileExists("tempCarData.es3"))
        {
            foreach (string key in ES3.GetKeys("tempCarData.es3"))
            {
                if (key.Equals(carID.ToString()))
                {
                    ES3.DeleteKey(carID.ToString(), "tempCarData.es3");
                }
            }
        }
    } ```

[teal viper]

For future, use the !code sharing guidelines:

[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.

[gritty wagon]

It looks like it can't exit an animation early

is there something I need to turn off or on?

[tame mist]

ok thanks, sorry about that

[gritty wagon]

With the jumping animation, if I only jump low, it doesn't have time to finish the jumping animation before falling and instead just plays the jump animation on the way down as well

[teal viper]

I've no clue what ES3 and what save and load methods do, but if they actually save and load from disk that would explain the lag spike. Disk operations are super expensive and isn't something you should be doing at runtime on the main thread. At least not with heavy objects, which your cars seem to be.

[teal viper]

Can't say for sure without seeing your transitions.

[gritty wagon]

oh might be the setting of fixed duration

let me just try

[teal viper]

Yeah, fixed duration would make the transition last a fixed duration

[gritty wagon]

okay the jumping is much better now

but the running is still weird

i think it might be because i check the velocity of the rigid body, I should probably check for user input

is GetAxisRaw just returning 0 or 1?

nvm -1 to 1

[teal viper]

Yes.

[gritty wagon]

aight ty

ig just checking if its zero or not will be what determines if i run

[gritty wagon]

Is there a way to stop animations from fully finishing before transitioning?

Almost everything works now, but if I stop running, it finishes the running anim fully before switching to idle, which causes the player to keep running in place for half a second, looks kinda odd

I can do another vid

[teal viper]

Share the transition settings to idle

[gritty wagon]

is it the exit time?

but i can't turn it off without any conditions

[teal viper]

Mmmm... I think it's the "Has Exit Time" checkbox

[gritty wagon]

But I can't turn that off as long as it doesn't have any conditions

[teal viper]

Yeah, you'll need some kind of condition. Otherwise, it would transition to it all the time.

[gritty wagon]

Should I just put the conditions that nothing else is on?

[teal viper]

Yes

[gritty wagon]

nvm i cant

with triggers

there is no on/off

[teal viper]

Ah, well, then you'll need to think about your setup overall.

In the first place triggers don't make sense for stuff like running, as it's a continuous state

[gritty wagon]

hm, i tried just using my booleans and if they were false, but that doesn't work at all lol, then it just spams idle

I know, I don't use it for running

I have it for Jump, Attack, TakeHit and Death only

[teal viper]

Then you'd probably need transitions from each state to idle

For example, Attack shouldn't transition to idle immediately, but Run should

You can't use one transition from every state as they all have different requirements.

[gritty wagon]

Oh okay

Can I setup different conditions with the "Any State", or do I have to do transitions between them?

[teal viper]

You can't since you don't know what state it would be coming from. You'd need to make explicit transition from other states to idle.

[gritty wagon]

Okay, I'll do that, thanks 😄

[tame mist]

yeah that was mainly the issue, saving and loading all three cars at the same time
now i only save and reload the car gameobject if it was purchased and is now drivable by the player and that seems to work pretty good for me so far

[lilac hemlock]

normalised time is correct. I think the issue is in curveDisplacement or the way the math works. However, i am not very good at 3d space math.

[icy grotto]

hi, is there a way to print two elements without using for loop?

[hexed terrace]

Debug.Log($"{sums[i]} and {sums[j]}");

[icy grotto]

thanks!

[tender stag]

what is the most optimal way of saving inventory

as a json file or player prefs

[timber tide]

player prefs no

[tender stag]

why not?

[timber tide]

persistency problems compared to just using json

[tender stag]

alright thanks

[timber tide]

also limited serialization, even though json utility isn't that much better

grab the newtonsoft package

[swift crag]

There are two different things to consider.

One: How do you turn the inventory into data?
Two: How do you store that data?

PlayerPrefs and a JSON file are how you store serialized data

But you still need a way to actually do the serialization

JsonUtility can perform serialization, as can Json.NET (and the latter can handle much more complex data)