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[spiral oak]

Yeah that would work

[wraith hornet]

it tried and it worked in the past

but this time, it doesn't

[spiral oak]

does the renderer have several materials?

[wraith hornet]

    {
        spawnedObjects = new GameObject[numberToSpawn];
        for(int i = 0; i < numberToSpawn; i++)
        {
            spawnedObjects[i] = Instantiate(
                    objectToSpawn,
                    GetRandomPosition(spawnRange),
                    Quaternion.identity
                );
            SetAnimation(spawnedObjects[i], clipsData);
        }
    }
private void SetAnimation(GameObject spawnedObject, ClipsData clipsData)
    {
        Material animationMaterial = spawnedObject.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().material;
        
        ClipData clipData = clipsData.clipsData[Random.Range(0, clipsData.clipsData.Length)];

        animationMaterial.SetFloat("ClipStart", clipData.clipStart);
        animationMaterial.SetFloat("ClipEnd", clipData.clipEnd);

        animationMaterial.SetFloat("AnimationTimeOffset", Random.Range(clipData.clipStart, clipData.clipEnd));
    }``` . is there any problem ?

[wraith hornet]

no there is only 1

[spiral oak]

what's the problem, is animationMaterial null?

[wraith hornet]

no, there aren't errors and warnings

but there isn't material that changed when the game start

but all materials are (instance)

[spiral oak]

should every farmer be different?

[wraith hornet]

yeah

[spiral oak]

then just to make sure, do ClipStart and ClipEnd change at all when you start the game?

[wraith hornet]

they didn't, all of instanced material are as same as in prefab

nothing changed

[ruby python]

Might be worth Serializing your AnimationTimeOffset in the shader (make it an exposed property) and then pause the game and have a look on each instance of the character to see if it's offsetting properly?

[wraith hornet]

i fixed, thanks u guys

the name of variable are wrong, i forgot "_"

[lethal bolt]

Why dosent the game object show in the Inspector?

[languid spire]

because you have a compile error

[summer stump]

Because there is an error in the script

[deft grail]

you see red, and you think nothing of it?

[summer stump]

Position is already a vector

Why pass it into new vector?

[lethal bolt]

Ik why its red but i didnt think it had something about the gameobject

[wraith hornet]

the constructor u used is wrong

[swift crag]

Unity can't do anything with your code until it can compile it.

[wraith hornet]

there is not Vector3(Vector3 v3)

[languid spire]

ANY compile errors will stop the inspectors updating

[swift crag]

It can't just ignore the error and try to compile the rest

[lethal bolt]

Oh

[gentle flint]

'```
void Start()
{
LoadLevels(0);
Respawn();
}
void LoadLevels(int id)
{

    GameObject Level=Resources.Load("Levels/Level"+id.ToString()).GameObject();
    Instantiate(Level,Level.transform);
} ```

When i start the Game there are two Levels0 in the scene, is Instantiate() running twice?

[deft grail]

you have the script on multiple objects then

[lament sable]

can anyone help me when I use a .blend file in unity it does not give all collers but only white and black what do I need to do to fix it ?

[gentle flint]

I had the script on the GameManager object twice thank you so much

i would never have though of that lol

[polar acorn]

Instead of using the .blend you should open it up in blender and export it as FBX
https://all3dp.com/2/blender-to-unity-how-to-import-blender-models-in-unity/

You'll have more control over what gets exported, and be able to adjust it so it uses the proper axis orientation

[lament sable]

it doesn't work it is till white

[polar acorn]

On the import, you can click "Extract Materials" and choose a location to put them in the project, then you can apply those materials to the mesh

[lethal bolt]

Why does the rotation Scale things when they are a child? of an empty?

[frosty hound]

Because the root object isn't uniform scale

[lethal bolt]

Oh. Is there an aviable sulotion?

[lament sable]

it has collor but now I get dis eror

[frosty hound]

Make the root object uniform scale

[warm condor]

Hi guys, I have been trying to program the player to slide using animation curves, and it did not go the way I expected to go. When I am sliding here, my velocity drops down to a very low value instead of staying at a higher value, even if I change the graph of the animation curve. Here is my code:

        SpeedDown(slideRate);
        speedDuringSliding = slideCurve.Evaluate(deccelerationProgress) * initialHorizontalSpeed; //Multiply the initial horizontal speed to start sliding at the current velocity 
        rb.velocityX = speedDuringSliding * direction;

    private void SpeedDown(float rate = 1) {
        deccelerationProgress = Mathf.MoveTowards(deccelerationProgress, 0, Time.deltaTime * rate);
    }
    ```

[lethal bolt]

Thanks!

[warm condor]

is there a problem with the way I am coding this or is there something else at play here?

[summer stump]

So, for one thing, you are moving from right to left on the curve. Is that what you wanted? Also, the x value is from 0 to 1, so maybe it is just very quick?

[candid rune]

is it possible to access a script from another scene and use variables from it?

[summer stump]

If the scene is loaded, yes, if not then no

[candid rune]

yikes okay, so creating a slider to change a variable used in another scene is a real pain then?

[wintry quarry]

It's very simple when you understand references and how to manage them in Unity

[summer stump]

If the scene is loaded (like additively or in ddol) it is very simple
If it is not loaded, then it simply does not exist of course

[warm condor]

yes, but I have decided to move from left to right which is why I have made it go from 1 to 0. It doesn't really make a difference if I change it.

[summer stump]

0 is left. Right is 1

[warm condor]

oh yes sorry. But my point still stands.

[summer stump]

But yeah, hard to say. Maybe it is going very quick, was my suggestion

[candid rune]

okay ill give it a go

[warm condor]

I have changed the value of rate, but for some reason, the speed is still dropping down way too fast

[summer stump]

It's hard to even know the problem from just what I've heard honestly. Try debugging the x value and the return of evaluate

[warm condor]

ok so I have debugged the deccelerationProgress value and the x velocity, and the result was that as the deccelerationProgress drops down, the x velocity becomes 0 before deccelerationProgress even reaches 0

the curve that is being used here is a linear curve, so it doesn't make sense something like this is happening

I have a similar function that uses the same code that accelerates, and this one works as intended

[tall torrent]

!vs

[eternal falcon]

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[trail gull]

    private void ApplyExplosionForce(Vector3 explosionPosition)
    {
        Collider[] colliders = Physics.OverlapSphere(explosionPosition, explosionRadius);
        foreach (Collider hit in colliders)
        {
            if (hit.CompareTag("Floor"))
            {
                Rigidbody rb = hit.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
                if (rb != null)
                {
                    rb.AddExplosionForce(explosionForce, explosionPosition, explosionRadius, upwardsModifier, ForceMode.Impulse);
                }
            }
        }
    }

I have an explosion force which im putting on a navmesh enemy, once I apply the force the navmesh just keeps moving back and never stops to come target me again, how would i make it so that the navmesh is pushed back by the explosion force then targets me again when it stops moving or the force is done

[lethal bolt]

Shouldnt this Rotate the object?

[queen adder]

guys ima misspell continiueue

[swift crag]

this rotates it by 0 degrees on each axis

[polar acorn]

What are you expecting it to rotate by

[lethal bolt]

Lol

I thougth it sat the rotation to 0 on all axis....

[swift crag]

Read the documentation to find out what functions do.

[lethal bolt]

I do

[rich adder]

transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0,0,0)

[trail gull]

could anyone help me with my navmesh problem?

[rich adder]

maybe. what is the problem tho?

[trail gull]

here

[rich adder]

alright so you're mixing Navmesh Agent with rigidbody , you're going to have to show the complete script
So far is not looking good, since you want to disable the navmesh agent while doing the "push back"

[trail gull]

thats the complete script

[rich adder]

send it via link 🔽

[eternal falcon]

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[trail gull]

oh

[trail gull]

https://hastebin.com/share/ogoyuboguy.csharp

[rich adder]

so this is what adds the damage effect or whatever?

where is the actual enemy script

[trail gull]

yeah its the script which is attached to the bullet

[trail gull]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.AI;

public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("Enemy Settings")]
    public int moveSpeed = 4;
    public int minDist = 5;
    public int maxHealth = 30;

    public float lookRadius = 10f;
    public Transform target;
    public NavMeshAgent agent;

    private bool isPushed = false;
    private Rigidbody rb;

    void Start() 
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        agent = GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>();
    }

    void Update() 
    {
        if (!isPushed)
        {
            float distance = Vector3.Distance(target.position, transform.position);
        }
    }

    void OnDrawGizmosSelected()
    {
        Gizmos.color = Color.red;
        Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(transform.position, lookRadius);
    }

    public void TakeDamage(int damage)
    {
        maxHealth -= damage;
        if (maxHealth <= 0)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }

}

[rich adder]

ok well lets start with the biggest problem, nowhere are you actually disabling the navmesh agent , not even sure how the addforce worked in the first place

You want to
-DisableNavmesh agent
-maybe go from Kinematic RB to Dynamic
-Add Force
-After certain time or distance, Turn back to kinematic, and turn navmesh agent, assign new destination

[rich adder]

also where is the SetDestination here?
Btw the bullet thing can just be

   if (collider.TryGetComponent(out Enemy enemy))
        {
            enemy.TakeDamage(15);
            InstantiateBloodEffects(collider.transform.position);
        }```

[mystic chasm]

I'm trying to create a gravity switcher mechanic and I'm failing to use quaternions/rotations to reorient and remap player input to handle movement.
Would someone hop in 5min call so I can show current state and ask questions?

[trail gull]

Ah okay

[rich adder]

very unlikely you get someone on a call

[wintry quarry]

Please don't crosspost. Pick one channel and stick to it, instead of asking everywhere.

It's unlikely people will jump in a call with you, but if you post your code and maybe some video and explain the issue, people will help to the extent they can

[trail gull]

So would I have to detect the bullet in the enemy script?

Then disable the navmesh

[rich adder]

ideally you put the pushback as a method in the enemy yes

simply call that method when the bullet thingy hits enemy

[rocky canyon]

ya, why spend 5 min showing just (1) person ur problem..
rather than spending 5 minutes.. to type up a solid summary of the problem, with links to !code, screenshots, and videos

[eternal falcon]

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[rocky canyon]

then many many people have a chance to pop in and help ya

[trail gull]

ah okay ill give it a try

[rocky canyon]

thingy needs to be a mock-up component 😄

[trail gull]

what does going from kinematic to dynamic do?

[rich adder]

haha yeah I used the technical terms my wifes' used in the past lol

[rocky canyon]

kinematic doesn't respect collisions/physics

[summer stump]

It will react to forces

[rich adder]

You dont want a dynamic rigidbody on a navmesh agent

it helps not fight it out with navmesh agent

they both override the transforms by setting it

[rocky canyon]

thingy-ma-bob, ma-jig, do-dad, whatcha-ma-call-it,

[trail gull]

ah i see

[rich adder]

it is acceptable for certain use cases, if you lock all the constraints though, to keep it dynamic,
its a cheap way to get Navmesh agents to interact with Rigidbodies around it

I had doors that were physics based on a hinge, and navagent would pass through, with a dynamic rigidbody and constraints locked, the navmesh agent can "push" the door

although this can be cleaner and easy to solve with Physics queries/casts

[rocky canyon]

i use this setup for my agents to push dynamic props out of hte way

i don't modify the rigidbody ofc

it is acceptable for certain use cases
oh, ok i see u agree

[rich adder]

yeah tbh as long as the constraints are locked, its not an issue

a dynamic rigidbody without it though will be fighting for the Transform component

You ever try to move navmesh agent manually with the arrows? doesn't happen, it just goes back where it was last before you moved it manually

hence to teleport it you have to do the same thing you do with Character Controller (disable-move-enable)
or use navMeshAgent.Warp

[swift crag]

Reduce the minimum movement distance on the CharacterController

The default is a bit too high.

I'm not sure if there's any problem with setting it to 0

I guess it saves work if your controller is getting extremely tiny move commands

like from a smoothed input that takes a long time to actually hit zero

[rich adder]

is that not the default ?

[rocky canyon]

Just wrote me a little Mouse Follow script..
Made it work as 2d plane, 3d plane, and raycast into world space, (+normals)
awesome little addition to my snippet collection..

question: has there been any new addition to inspector stuff maybe attribute to make it soo only some booleans appear dependent on other booleans?

soo for example.. when 2d is false then options like the use normal would be visible..

[rich adder]

you need a custom inspector

no way built in rn

[formal escarp]

that´s a pokémon.

[rocky canyon]

not too performance heavy would it?

[rich adder]

nahh

[rocky canyon]

okay good.. i can do that 👍

[rich adder]

If possible try using UIToolkit but the old GUI works just fine

[rocky canyon]

i'll look into that. i havent tried it yet

i was coding editors the other day 🙂

feeling a lot more comfortable with them now

[rich adder]

aye!

editor scripting is fun

[rocky canyon]

i agree... it took me WAY too long to realize I could just make a function to do all the tedious stuff

[rich adder]

hmm its not animating

[rocky canyon]

my last editor script had dozens and dozens of GUILayout.Begin, .End, etc

then i realized if i used a function instead.. it cleans it up alot

[rich adder]

from my sprite extractor asset

all UIToolkit

[rocky canyon]

oohhhh bb.. very nice! 🙂

i havent done anything with a scrollbar yet

unless you count this..

[rich adder]

I was trying to add more custom stuff in the table entry but was a pain 😅

[rocky canyon]

🤣 which was actually the default scroll bar..

and some bad scaling issues

[rich adder]

omg twitchcity

[rocky canyon]

i cant figure out how to solve the issue..

the component by itself.. doesn't do it.. b/c the scroll is dependent on how large that (1) component is

[rich adder]

oh yeah this is inspector, so its a bit different

[summer stump]

It's beautiful. Just leave it

[rocky canyon]

but once u have a stack of them together..

it kinda is hit or miss

[rich adder]

mine isn't a custom inspector, but a custom window

[rocky canyon]

if u have them expanded.. the scrollbar makes it jitter

[rocky canyon]

OHH!

i havent done any of those either

[rich adder]

are you sure thats from the editor script and not your Unity

[rocky canyon]

have you done any of the in-scene window type ones?

[swift crag]

Overlays?

just poking atthat right now, actually

[rocky canyon]

like w/e these are called is that that?

[rich adder]

yeah I wass trying to find out but wasnt sure what to add in the first place

[rocky canyon]

yesh!

[rich adder]

ohh i was thinking this

[rocky canyon]

with the new Unity6 utilizing them soo much

[rocky canyon]

i want to get into them myself

looks fun

[rich adder]

can you believe thats where probuilder is now

[swift crag]

that's also an overlay

[rocky canyon]

its about time

[rocky canyon]

ive always disliked probuilders cartoony window 😅

[sleek pond]

Hey can you guys help me with instantiate

[summer stump]

Maybe

[rocky canyon]

wont know til we know

[sleek pond]

I want to delay the process

[rich adder]

it was nice to have everything in one window, takes a bit to get used to doing everything by right click menu now

[summer stump]

Coroutine or a timer in update

[sleek pond]

Am using visual scripting

[summer stump]

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

[summer stump]

Well, then I guess timer in update. No idea what vs has

[rich adder]

wrong channel then #763499475641172029

[rocky canyon]

it is.. b/c the image is scaled unless it has room... soo 400 pixels wide for example.. it can't get any bigger than that.. but it can be scaled smaller..
soo in that one specific circumstance.. the scrollbar pops up.. (makes the image scale down) and then it fits... soo the scrollbar disappears.. (now the image can scale back up.. so it does..) then the window is too small so the scrollbar pops back up..

and it cycles.. 😄

[sleek pond]

Okok

Thank you

[rich adder]

Ohhh so the image is causing it?

[rocky canyon]

mmhm..

i found a sweet spot where it doesn't happen very often

[rich adder]

might have to nest it into something else

[rocky canyon]

my only other alternative (that i can think of) is to just make it a fixed size

[rocky canyon]

oh thats a good idea

i'll try later when i make my rotation back to editor stuff lol

[rich adder]

UItoolkit also has interesting functionalities that are css-like

flexbox and all that

[rocky canyon]

        if (spawnScript.logoTexture != null)
        {
            float inspectorWidth = EditorGUIUtility.currentViewWidth;
            float logoWidth = Mathf.Min(inspectorWidth, MaxLogoWidth);

            float aspectRatio = (float)spawnScript.logoTexture.height / spawnScript.logoTexture.width;
            float logoHeight = logoWidth * aspectRatio;

            GUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            GUILayout.FlexibleSpace();
            GUILayout.Label(spawnScript.logoTexture, GUILayout.Width(logoWidth), GUILayout.Height(logoHeight));
            GUILayout.FlexibleSpace();
            GUILayout.EndHorizontal();
            GUILayout.Space(10);
        }```

im not well versed in the editor stuff...

but im adding to me list of things i know about as i go

[timber tide]

imagine being a web dev and having enough patience to use UIToolkit

[rocky canyon]

ohh lord... css makes my skin crawl

[rich adder]

isn't there something else instead of a Label ?

[rocky canyon]

lmao

[sleek pond]

Well no one is on vs

[rich adder]

css is neat. Although I almos always use a utility like Bootstrap or Tailwind

[sleek pond]

So should I also switch to coding

[rocky canyon]

it be like that sometimes ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[summer stump]

Definitely

[rich adder]

if you know visual scripting, the logic is the same

[timber tide]

coding makes you better at vs

[rich adder]

you're just typing it instead of graphing it

[polar acorn]

Honestly yes. It's actually easier to learn real C# code because you have a lot more resources to find answers. Bolt is Unity-specific, but C# is used everywhere. A lot bigger knowledge base to draw from

[rocky canyon]

yup, visual coding is just little snippets of code contained in a node..

[sleek pond]

Ohh

[rocky canyon]

if u know which nodes connect. you'll be just as good coding it by hand

[sleek pond]

I have started learning c#

[polar acorn]

Visual Scripting is kind of a "noob trap". It feels easier to learn, but since it's so specific in scope it's actually harder to find good information about it

[sleek pond]

True

[queen adder]

could someone help, i tried doing this but it keeps saying that it cant add the score because AddScore protection level is too high to access

[sleek pond]

That looked so easy when I first tried

[timber tide]

vs is useful for general tools, but if you think you can just make a whole game using it, ya kidding yourself

[rocky canyon]

i learned HTML before CSS was a thing.. I remember styling tables and stuff by inline stuff
style sheets were revolutionary at first.. and i enjoyed them..
but it eventually outpaced me.. and now theres just soo much i dont know

[rich adder]

you cannot access private Functions from another script

[polar acorn]

is it public

[queen adder]

idk how to make it publc

[summer stump]

Write the word public

[queen adder]

where

[polar acorn]

you write "public"

[rocky canyon]

private -> public

lol

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/access-modifiers

[polar acorn]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/access-modifiers

[summer stump]

Same as the other methods where you wrote private, but the word public instead

[polar acorn]

DOUBLE KILL

[rich adder]

when you dont specify access modifier, defaults to Private

[queen adder]

oh oops wrong script pic

[rocky canyon]

the answer is the same

[summer stump]

THAT is actually the wrong script

The issue is with the other one

LogicScript

[stuck palm]

how can i make changes save that i make in the editor in play mode?

[rocky canyon]

public void AddScore

[queen adder]

Make the the AddScore method public in the LogicScript class

[rocky canyon]

you copy the component.. stop the editor and then paste in the values u copied during runtime

[queen adder]

oh thx

it works now

[rich adder]

million dollar question

[rocky canyon]

if your changing Scriptable Objects i believe they stay changed.. but im foggy on that

[rich adder]

Cinemachine can fucking do it, why dont we have an option already

[rocky canyon]

^ oh that one too

[stuck palm]

aw i thought there'd at least be an attribute or something lol, cinemachine has that

[stuck palm]

yeah lmao

[stuck palm]

thanks

[void thicket]

Did you see how Cinemachine implemented it? 😄

[rocky canyon]

Paste Component as Values

[void thicket]

That's a HUGE mess

[rich adder]

is it ?

probably shit tone of reflection

[queen adder]

this is the best game in unity 100%

[void thicket]

Let me fetch it

[rich adder]

I smell asset money

just a nice checkmark on each component to "Keep changes after play"

[rocky canyon]

🤫

[rich adder]

10/10 graphics too realistic

[rocky canyon]

i feel like it could definitely be a double-edged sword

[void thicket]

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.cinemachine/blob/c90babd99b13c4d6ac7c81f95bf0a48b8d4f14b7/com.unity.cinemachine/Editor/SaveDuringPlay/SaveDuringPlay.cs

[rich adder]

Holy mother

[void thicket]

Who's idea was it lol

[stuck palm]

what are interesting states lmao

[stuck palm]

what is reflection

[rich adder]

gotta be outta necessity lmao

[rocky canyon]

lmao @queen adder wtf is ur deal? why u being all toxic on my message?

i wasn't even talking to you.. me and navarone were talking

[queen adder]

what?

what do you mean

[rocky canyon]

are you high? wtf do u mean what do i mean?

[queen adder]

yes

[rocky canyon]

makes sense..

[queen adder]

actually no-

[rocky canyon]

where is this?

i google'd InterestingStates and i can't find anything

[rich adder]

its like away to inspect all your assembly contents and do stuff with it during runtime etc
binding stuff together etc.

[stuck palm]

the cinemachine saveduringplay thing

[rocky canyon]

i thought i may find something

[rocky canyon]

thanky 👍

[queen adder]

Reflection is also used to get metadata about an object

[rich adder]

iirc when you do Gameobject.Find that uses reflection

[stuck palm]

thanks, unrelated but this KCC is so GOOD man its got literally everything i need for my characters after changing some things 😄

[queen adder]

bruh im

bored

[summer stump]

Stop

[rocky canyon]

that tracks with the performance aspect

[rich adder]

quit spamming the channel and find somethign productive to do

[strong wren]

@queen adder This isn't the server for this sort of crap

[queen adder]

Lmao

[queen adder]

i know?

[swift crag]

then you know to not do it

so stop.

[summer stump]

What kind of ridiculous response is that

[rich adder]

I believe so.
Reflection is pretty much avoided when possible for that major reason, its very slow

[swift crag]

that doesn't sound right -- Unity is just looking through all of the game objects for one with the right name

Reflection is necessary when you don't know what you're looking for ahead of time

and have to dance around the type system

[rocky canyon]

ya, im thinking rn how would that fit into Find()

[rich adder]

I do remember it was a certain function that used reflection, I dont remember which one tbh

[queen adder]

Yeah I didn't think Gameobject.Find used reflection but I didn't wanna say anything to avoid looking stupid lmao

[swift crag]

SendMessage, for sure

as well as Invoke

[rich adder]

ah yeah that makes more sense

[queen adder]

Invoke() uses reflection to

[swift crag]

these are calling a method by name, and so by definition have to do reflection at some point

(you can cache the results, at least)

[rich adder]

the Monobehavior one yea?

I'd imagine

[queen adder]

Yeah

[summer stump]

There was a conversation on reflection here yesterday too
#archived-code-advanced message

[void thicket]

I mean Start and Update is called with reflection in the first place

[queen adder]

Really?

[rich adder]

interesting

wouldn't that be Awake ?

[queen adder]

Aren't they just derived methods?

[rich adder]

iirc Awake uses Messages or Event

[rocky canyon]

there are people that say they're using reflection for finding properties of classes.. soo they can access them via URLs

but idk

[void thicket]

Every event messages. How else Unity will call the private methods.

Unless they have dedicated interface like some event handlers

[rich adder]

anything prefixed with On is event in MB right ?

[swift crag]

Nope.

note the lack of override

[queen adder]

Omfg

[rich adder]

Unity also lists Awake as Messages

[queen adder]

I'm so dumb

[mystic chasm]

@wintry quarry ok, ty. Posted on #archived-code-advanced

[void thicket]

Anything that is called without you calling 😏

Awake OnEnable whatever

[rich adder]

had no idea those were "Messages" instead of Event

[queen adder]

Yeah me either ^^

[rich adder]

makes sense though it needs to be broadcasted to all the gameobjects

[swift crag]

well, "event" isn't really a thing you'd implement in your class at all

[queen adder]

That's why I love this channel my head is constantly blown

[swift crag]

that'd be a delegate that you add your own methods to

[void thicket]

Unity had this.. design decision long times ago when SendMessage is a preferred way

[swift crag]

hey, we all had our blunder years

would you like to see my deviantart OCs

💥

[queen adder]

Wdym that's fire!

[rocky canyon]

https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/10000-update-calls

[void thicket]

But they still haven't fixed it 😢

[rocky canyon]

so-called Messaging system

[rich adder]

also did you know empty Update methods still allocate

[swift crag]

well, still get run

[rocky canyon]

i did not

[rich adder]

because they still call to the C++ code

i only know because of the Unity PDFs (trying to find it)

[gaunt cosmos]

hi guys!

[rocky canyon]

i have a good chunk of Unity's docs printed out in a notebook in my car...
for those times when im stuck out somewhere and need some reading material..
i haven't reached that part yet 😄

[queen adder]

Any of the empty methods will still get run Awake, Start, Fixed Update etc. I personally try to avoid having empty methods or just comment them out

[rich adder]

yea I don't leave any empty methods

also my "newscript" template is without those Start/Update. I delete them anyway

[queen adder]

^^^put them on😆

My new script template is
" Using UnityEngine.

Public Sealed Class ClassName {
}
"

New script template option is underrated

[rocky canyon]

using UnityEngine;
    #ROOTNAMESPACEBEGIN#
public class #SCRIPTNAME# : MonoBehaviour
{
     #NOTRIM#
}
#ROOTNAMESPACEEND#

[queen adder]

Yeah that's mine^^ except I seal my classes

[gaunt cosmos]

why??

[queen adder]

Classes should be sealed by default

If you don't plan on deriving them it should be sealed

[rocky canyon]

theres actually a Empty C# template

[gaunt cosmos]

and you guys don't use regions??

[rocky canyon]

not sure how u create an empty c# script tho..

[queen adder]

Yeah we use regions?

[gaunt cosmos]

i never do, is there any plus?

[queen adder]

A very very very small performance boost

[rocky canyon]

no, i do..

mostly for variable walls

[queen adder]

But apparently on some phones there is a considerable performance boost when sealing classes / methods

[rocky canyon]

40 line KO

[gaunt cosmos]

never tried that, wouldn't keeping the template blank do the trick?

[void thicket]

I don't think there is any performance boost

[queen adder]

There is

[void thicket]

It's just preventing yourself and other people from inheriting that class

[queen adder]

Omg I haven't coded in like 2 months

Whats the language C# turns into after compiling

It's intermediate something

[void thicket]

IL

[gaunt cosmos]

what do you guys do?

[queen adder]

https://youtu.be/d76WWAD99Yo?si=6MM01Xz4wvErUr8O

[void thicket]

I guess one thing is that if you seal your method, and call that directly, that might be some boost because the call does not have to be virtual anymore

[eternal needle]

No, infact it can be a major pain. Lots of dev's do not like it. Skimming through code and then not being able to find something cause 100 lines are collapsed is so annoying

Oops

I thought we were talking about region not sealed

[gaunt cosmos]

[languid spire]

fyi, using internal and sealed can improve compilation times on a large code base

[void thicket]

And yeah seems like same case as what I mentioned, however you don't get anything from just putting sealed keyword on class without virtual method

[queen adder]

Ooooh yeah that makes sense

Hold on im looking for the one unity posted about sealing classes

[amber spruce]

is there a way to make a number go to the power of 2

[void thicket]

1 << x

[amber spruce]

and im assuming 1 is the number that gets put to the power of x?

[void thicket]

No 1 is 1 and x is power

1 << 8 is same as 2^8

[amber spruce]

so if i have a variable that is a float and its called damage and i want to put it to the power of 2.5 what would it look like

[void thicket]

Then you use Mathf.Pow lol

[amber spruce]

k thanks

[rocky canyon]

ya, i don't actually know how to create a script using that template tho.. I just modify my NewMonobehaviour template..

[rocky canyon]

are there any cons to sealing a class?

[void thicket]

I think creating "empty C# class" was a thing at some point lol

[queen adder]

No you just can't derive anything

[rocky canyon]

ya, cant find it anymore

[gaunt cosmos]

dont think so

[queen adder]

But once you do decide to derive you just delete the keyword lol

[gaunt cosmos]

yeah lol

one constraint that too can be changed if need be

[queen adder]

I've had intense arguments with other programmers on why sealing class is terrible design but all you have to do is delete the keyword lol

[gaunt cosmos]

don't seem to be issue

[rocky canyon]

yea, i was thinking it may hide/ disable some intellisence stuff..

[void thicket]

You spend few more bytes on your code 😄

[rocky canyon]

but if not deriving is the noly con.. i dont consider that a con..

[gaunt cosmos]

what are counter points?

[zenith cypress]

Sealed my beloved

[gaunt cosmos]

aayee

[eternal needle]

My counter point is that I simply dont want to

[rocky canyon]

lol

valid point

[zenith cypress]

In Rider I default all my structs to readonly and all my classes sealed

[gaunt cosmos]

[void thicket]

verbosity

[queen adder]

There points where it should be open by default because they are more than likely going to derive the class in the future and it limits what you can do with the class

[zenith cypress]

Limits sound good to me

[gaunt cosmos]

not that good of a point tbh

[queen adder]

But bruh if you want to derive in the future just delete the keyword. You also shouldn't being planning to make everything deriveable

[rocky canyon]

innovations are born from limitations 😉

[gaunt cosmos]

bawsi got better point lol

[queen adder]

Literally lmao^^

[swift crag]

Your public API should clearly express what is and is not permissible.

[void thicket]

I mean it should be "default" and there should be keyword for "breaking seal"

[queen adder]

Had they just said they don't want to I would've respected that more

[rocky canyon]

lol.. i couldn't if i wanted to

[swift crag]

If you give someone a sealed class, you are telling them that this class cannot be derived, and that you should not expect to be able to derive from it

If users have to send you an email saying "Hey can you unseal XYZ class for me", that's a bonkers API

[rocky canyon]

makes sense

[zenith cypress]

Any time I try to inherit when it is sealed, I instantly reconsider why I wanted inheritence in the first place, then unless I actually need it, I do it a different way

[queen adder]

That's a good point

[gaunt cosmos]

good point fen

[swift crag]

It's like if you made everything in your library internal by default and only exposed them when someone asked you to

sure, that minimizes your public API surface

but you've missed the forest for the trees

[zenith cypress]

pulls out most unity apis :)

[queen adder]

Damn bruh stop making second guess myself

[swift crag]

😉

[rocky canyon]

ya, if u look at it like that.. there really isn't a con to sealing it

its sealed b/c its meant to be

[swift crag]

not me embedding Cinemachine so I can reach into something internal

[void thicket]

Good library should work without needs of user inheriting or access internal stuffs

[gaunt cosmos]

vee get to unsealing everything bro

[candid rune]

okay so I'm trying to load two scenes additively and set the first scene that is not being loaded additively as the active scene. It says that the scene I want to be active is active but I end up controlling the scene being added additively.

[swift crag]

I'm not sure what you mean "controlling"

[queen adder]

Hahaha

I just might actually LMAO

[swift crag]

A scene being "active" doesn't mean too much, really

[candid rune]

i have a character controller in the second scene and im controlling that instead of the first scene

[swift crag]

It's just where new game objects go

and a few other things

[gaunt cosmos]

its ref

[swift crag]

You need to deal with input switching on your own

[candid rune]

okay

[gaunt cosmos]

you got controller in both?

[candid rune]

it's a main menu in one and a character controller in another

[eternal needle]

You could honestly leave it for now, and just not continue the practice in the future. Unless you're working in some team itll just be a waste of time

[swift crag]

It matters much less if other people aren't using your code.

[summer stump]

All additively loaded scenes are going to respond to input

[swift crag]

I've started thinking about this while working on an an asset pipeline (okay, a Blender add-on and a Unity importer)

[eternal needle]

If "what is exposed" is a concern in your solo indie dev project, you probably have to reconsider your concerns. People go way too hard in the design aspect sometimes

[swift crag]

I'm already mad at myself for breaking changes

imagine how OTHER people would feel

[candid rune]

even if i set one to active?

[swift crag]

Yes.

[summer stump]

Correct

[candid rune]

got it, thanks

[swift crag]

Most code doesn't care about the active scene at all

[gaunt cosmos]

there should be better input handling

[swift crag]

some kind of...new input system

[swift crag]

Are you using the new input system with PlayerInput components, by chance?

[candid rune]

yuup

[swift crag]

Each PlayerInput corresponds to a different player

[void thicket]

I bet Unity will eventually add new-new-input-system and new-ui-toolkit 😦

[swift crag]

If you have two of them enabled at once, the input system thinks you have two players

[rocky canyon]

nooooo

[swift crag]

I think you can just disable the PlayerInput you don't want to use.

emphasis on think..

[zenith cypress]

That'll come after Unity 7: 2026.2.3f1

[queen adder]

Personally....I like the new input system lol

[swift crag]

I love the new input system

[rocky canyon]

the New Input system will become the Input System and old Input class will be Legacy

[candid rune]

okay ill try it out hahah

[swift crag]

my game supports mouse and keyboard as well as gamepad (with steam deck gyro input!) input

[queen adder]

I think people like the old one because it's simpler

[rocky canyon]

im just now going on my blinddate with it

[swift crag]

I can pull up sprites for any input control, showing the correct sprite for the current platform (well, that's my code)

[queen adder]

But you can do so much more with the new oje

[gaunt cosmos]

i dont use unity's input system

[swift crag]

and show appropriate hints based on your control scheme

[queen adder]

Do you use a package?

[summer stump]

Have you tried it? It is very worth it
It really isn't that hard

[swift crag]

maybe I should make this into a package

[zenith cypress]

Old one is nice for quick testing, but is such a hassle if you need any kind of multi-device support

[queen adder]

Exactly

[rocky canyon]

^ thats the transition point for me

[gaunt cosmos]

never felt need to. will check it out

[swift crag]

I wrote an editor script to turn individual sprites into groups

[rocky canyon]

if im only writing for mouse and keyboard i'll use the Input class all day

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message
It seems like you see the need for it at least

[rocky canyon]

as soon as i think about 2nd control devices its a must

[swift crag]

I ask my system "what's the sprite for <Keyboard>/a?" and it fires the appropriate sprite at me

[gaunt cosmos]

wdym

[queen adder]

Yeah and the new input system makes it ez via raising events for which controller is being switched to. So if they switch to keyboard then all of the UI sprites for keyboard will show and vice versa

[swift crag]

Yep.

[rocky canyon]

is it possible to use 2 input devices for the same map?

[summer stump]

You said there should be better input handling. And there is! It's the new input system

[swift crag]

An input action map is just a collection of input actions.

But yes, you can have multiple devices providing input at once (hey, that's mouse + keyboard)

[rocky canyon]

yea,, like using a joystick in one hand. and numpad for the other

[queen adder]

I also like the idea of my game having actions that are called rather than inputs

[zenith cypress]

Oh yeah I did something like that too for my game. Swapped fonts/sprites/etc based on the input device (and refreshed in place).

[gaunt cosmos]

oh i meant input handling in that person's project

[swift crag]

I set up my gamepad control scheme to also allow for a mouse. That lets me use the gyro input on a Steam Deck.

[zenith cypress]

Huh never thought of that

[summer stump]

Ahhh, gotcha. Misunderstood

[gaunt cosmos]

np

[rocky canyon]

lol.. 🤦‍♂️ me when i realize mouse and keyboard are two different peripherals

[swift crag]

It'd be nice if I could do that more directly

but I guess this isn't Steam Input.

[stuck palm]

im using a kinematic character controller, how can i make it so when it hits a wall or a ceiling it sets vertical or horizontal velocity to 0?

[zenith cypress]

I assume that stops the auto-switch to the keyboard+mouse map if you never touch the keyboard

[stuck palm]

right now it just keeps going up

which sucks

and feels bad

[gaunt cosmos]

i dont use it, how would i know if its good or bad lol

[summer stump]

It is good
And at that point it sounded like you just didn't know about it

[swift crag]

Correct.

[queen adder]

Kind of incredible how accessible all of these features are and they are free. I could only imagine having to write all that shit myself

[rocky canyon]

collision event.. -> set velocities to achieve desired result

[swift crag]

Which I'm not a huge fan of, but...ah well

Correctly handling both gamepad and mouse interaction in your UI is fun

On my Deck, the pointer winds up causing random buttons to get highlighted

(even though it's invisible)

maybe I should just lock the cursor when you enter the gamepad control scheme

[zenith cypress]

Focus things with a virtual cursor instead

[rocky canyon]

i have a flight sim where i like to use my joystick. but i also use my numpad for hotkeys..
problem with it is.. when i use the hotkeys.. it disconnects the joystick.. and i have to flick around the joystick a few times to get the gamepad working again..

[swift crag]

aeugh

[rocky canyon]

if i use the new input system.. i just want it to not do that

[zenith cypress]

I actually need to make that for my point-n-click-esque game to even support gamepad

But I am lazy

[swift crag]

I just make sure to have good explicit navigation

[stuck palm]

but like how would i determine whether i've hit something horizontally or vertically?

[gaunt cosmos]

i will use it when i pick up something new, currently stuck on grids 😑😑

[queen adder]

You mean like A*?

[rocky canyon]

combination of colliders and logging the velocity u currently have when u do collide

[languid spire]

just build a generic dynamic input system based in the new input system but without using any of the Unity high level crap. works perfectly

[rocky canyon]

ahh good to know its possible and simple 🙂 i'll do some further testing.. Thanky 🙂

[zenith cypress]

sounds like you just need to include the numpad into the same control scheme

[rocky canyon]

ya, that was kinda my original question..

[void thicket]

Yeah.. Editor integration is confusing

[swift crag]

Correct.

[rocky canyon]

wasn't sure if that was a common practice w/ the new system

[void thicket]

Steve has the point 😄

[gaunt cosmos]

how much experience do you guys have??

[rocky canyon]

2.57 yrs

[zenith cypress]

~7 years

[gaunt cosmos]

damn

[languid spire]

this is my prototype GamePad function selector

[summer stump]

Unity specifically like 7 year? Not even sure anymore. Coding almost 10

[gaunt cosmos]

very specific

[rocky canyon]

steve is on up there too

[swift crag]

You can also just not have control schemes

in that case everything is used all at once

[zenith cypress]

Makes sense for flight sims probably

(not having multiple)

[languid spire]

almost 50 years

[swift crag]

where the average person has about 30 trillion inputs

[zenith cypress]

Lot of fingers

[gaunt cosmos]

wth, you were making games on paper or what

[queen adder]

LMAO

[rocky canyon]

lol.. he was programming on Commodore64s

getting his code from a black and white magazine

[languid spire]

before your parents were born, guess what we had computers

[rocky canyon]

😄

[languid spire]

before that

[queen adder]

Man was turning light switches on and off by hand

[rocky canyon]

thats as far as my context goes

[languid spire]

funnily enough, they were called plug boards and, yes, I've worked on them

[queen adder]

Wait really steve? This is personal question but how old are you bro?

[languid spire]

nearly 70

[gaunt cosmos]

he wrote the instructions on paper for that probably and gave other guy to do it😂

[rocky canyon]

my dad showed me some of the old magazines he'd buy and it would have programs/games code in a little article.. that u would just copy over to ur commodore.. and boom.. free game

well - the cost of the magazine

[queen adder]

Bro i wouldve nevered guess you have a young personality

[gaunt cosmos]

damn ARE YOU FOR REAL??

[summer stump]

To be fair. I write pseudocode on paper before starting to code usually
As well as graphing the architecture

[rocky canyon]

i'll do that with flow-charts and mindmaps

[queen adder]

Thats honestly cool af i hope to be coding by that age

[rocky canyon]

but not code

[languid spire]

and guess what, I still spend 18 hours/day 365 datys/year designing and developing systems

[gaunt cosmos]

you got 7, not that far ahead

[rocky canyon]

ya, the architecture

[summer stump]

What?

[gaunt cosmos]

there wont be coding in 50 yrs, prob not how it is now

[languid spire]

abso-fucking-lutely

[rocky canyon]

ya, mad respect for the OGs

[gaunt cosmos]

being ancient

[queen adder]

Epi means AI i think

[gaunt cosmos]

really

[summer stump]

I have no idea what you are saying
No need to insult people though, which is what that feels like

[queen adder]

Yeah Epi i love you bro but i dont know what ur saying

[rocky canyon]

that new langauge barrier thats forming 😄

[languid spire]

my brain is convinced that I'm still 24, by body tells it to fuck off and grow up very often (brain tends to ignore body)

[candid rune]

okay yeah nevermind i didnt have to load scenes additively, i literally only had to make my character controller accessible to both scenes and it works just fine. dumbest person alive right here

[gaunt cosmos]

[queen adder]

Sorry homie lol

[rocky canyon]

good way to stay young 😄

[swift crag]

ah, there you go (:

[rocky canyon]

not dumb if u found a solution

[gaunt cosmos]

happens

[candid rune]

it was a sensitivity slider so i just had to make my character controller an asset to access the script ig, i make things too hard for myself

[gaunt cosmos]

its cool

[rocky canyon]

its hard to code things exactly how you'll need them in the future.. hindsight is 50/50

next time tho, it'll be more str8 forward

[gaunt cosmos]

@languid spire do you find anything new to learn at this point??

[queen adder]

I think so lol. Comp Sci is such a vast field

[rocky canyon]

its a trade-off.. between the time u spend thinking about how a system is going to work..

and just doing it

[void thicket]

Industry has so many new things

[queen adder]

Yeah and theres always new stuff popping up

[rocky canyon]

ya thats what i was thinkn.. its a good field to be in if ur watching for innovation..

[gaunt cosmos]

yeah bro but think about the exp he got in having everything 50+

[queen adder]

Thats why you gotta respect the OGs

[languid spire]

Well, yes, as long as people like MS and Unity keep finding interesting ways of fucking up computers, I keep finding ways to get round them. The IT industry never stands still so neither do I

[gaunt cosmos]

true

[gaunt cosmos]

LOL😂😂

seems like this is how its ALWAYS been

[rocky canyon]

and always will be

[void thicket]

Now with AI ™️

[queen adder]

Whats everyones current project that there working on? Im trying make a Immersive Sim rn

[languid spire]

yep, before it was MS it was IBM, but the same applies

[gaunt cosmos]

i working on a makeover game 🥲

[queen adder]

Makeover?

[rocky canyon]

working on a Template project.. w/ universal snippet code that can be just dropped in to 3D, 2D, or 2.5D sets.. with materials, textures, and all ur basic stuff
player controller, mouse controllers, audio managers, ec

[gaunt cosmos]

merge grid game + makeover stuff

[queen adder]

Oh thats pretty neat!!

[rocky canyon]

everything except grids

[queen adder]

Let me know how that goes

[rocky canyon]

i hate working with grids lol

[queen adder]

Oooh thats pretty cool too

[gaunt cosmos]

its in production lol

[queen adder]

Gotta start somewhere

[void thicket]

In production means it's close to launch

[stuck palm]

am i using movetowards wrong?

if (Mathf.Abs(currentVelocity.x) > maxAirSpeed && !launched)
        {
            currentVelocity.x = Mathf.MoveTowards(currentVelocity.x, Mathf.Sign(currentVelocity.x) * maxAirSpeed, maxAirSpeed * dampSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            print("Damping to " + Mathf.Sign(currentVelocity.x) * maxAirSpeed);
        }

[gaunt cosmos]

it is on playstore

have 100k plus downloads as well

[queen adder]

Oh shit lmao my fault

[stuck palm]

it doesnt seem to be actually moving towards

[queen adder]

Wait really? Send me the link!!

[queen adder]

I dont think u can send it here

[rocky canyon]

ur print doesn't log what u expect?

[gaunt cosmos]

its shit bro

[queen adder]

Still i wanna support you

[gaunt cosmos]

just did it for my employer

[stuck palm]

no, it does say what i want it to, but i cant see the velocity actually changing to reflect what i want it to do.

[gaunt cosmos]

this game earns like hell bro, considering all the things

[queen adder]

Could you share the full class

[rocky canyon]

are u setting ur velocity directly somewhere else in the code?

[queen adder]

There might be other code overriding the velocity / position

[gaunt cosmos]

will pm you link later vee

[rocky canyon]

^ my guess as well

[queen adder]

Bet homie

[stuck palm]

wait i figured it out

its fine, thank you

[queen adder]

Glad i could be of help lmao

[stuck palm]

you made me look at the whole method so you did help in some way

made me spot the problem

[void thicket]

Rubber duckie

[queen adder]

Thats good at least. Always glad to help

[void thicket]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging It has dedicated page? lol

[gaunt cosmos]

its very famous lol so obv

[rocky canyon]

wonder what it was called before 1947 😈

[void thicket]

Steve might know

lol

[gaunt cosmos]

nope, i thing it IS steve's

[queen adder]

Leave the OG alone lol

[languid spire]

ffs, I'm not that old

[gaunt cosmos]

steve, sir, by any chance you got nickname bob??

[languid spire]

no, I dont do nicknames

[rocky canyon]

i keep my rubber duck w/ me at all times.. even in the project 😄

[gaunt cosmos]

keep an eye on it bro, looks like its planning to destroy you

[rocky canyon]

ya, hes mischevious for sure

[trail gull]

cheers to those who helped me earlier, got my code fixed

[glossy turtle]

I have heard rubber duck programmers are genius people I don't know what does that mean 😉.

[summer grail]

how do I set the individual x and y of a vector 2 while using the visual scripting system

[summer stump]

It just means you talk about it and figure out the solution. It comes from describing the problem to an inanimate object, like a rubber duck, to organize your thoughts and solve it

[summer stump]

There should be a vector2 node, which has x and y inputs

But I dunno. I recommend just moving to real code

[void thicket]

Split vector then change values and make another vector

[summer grail]

yea this is making me question if I actually know how to code haha

thanks tho

[glossy turtle]

Oh so talking and figuring the solution is rubber duck. Now I understood that.

[rocky canyon]

happens alot.. sometimes u can see someone typing.. and typing. and typing.. and then they just stop typing. and u never see 'em send the message

rubber duck action.. most likely 😄

[glossy turtle]

Oh I see that's a rubber duck got it.

[rocky canyon]

hmm, when other humans are involved its called confessional programming... interesting

[languid spire]

I just talk to myself, all day, every day. Most people would call that insanity

[rocky canyon]

nah, ive heard as long as u dont answer urself ur okay 👍

[swift crag]

i often point my arms around when figuring out anything involving vectors

[glossy turtle]

Why so Steve.

[rocky canyon]

get u some scratch paper man

[languid spire]

who the hell else would have a hope of understanding me?

[glossy turtle]

That's right other than you nobody.

[rocky canyon]

been lots of teetering offtopic today.. i guess no ones coding today 😦

imma get to it i guess lol ... Editor scripts calling my name (possibly UIToolkit)

[languid spire]

Giving a lecture tomorrow which I dont really want to do, preparing for it

[rocky canyon]

good luck 👍

ohh snap! tomorrows Payday! that'll give me some motivation

[glossy turtle]

Been doing it trying to make a scene portal. It's not easy trying to throw some objects from one scene to other.

[rocky canyon]

like a scene selection screen/menu

[summer stump]

Just store the velocity vector 🤷‍♂️

[glossy turtle]

No like a teleportation portal.

[rocky canyon]

ohh.. ya those can be tricky at times.. esp if u have first person controller / mouse controls

sometimes u gotta cache or offset ur mouse position.. so ur not looking in some odd direction

esp if u do any rotations

i imagine ur doing additive scene loading?

thats the way i'd do it..

just load in ur new scene, and unload the old.. keep ur player around

[glossy turtle]

Yes storing the velocity is working but for few it's like you see scene 2 from scene 1 and you can jump into scene 2 and making damages to scene 2 objects you see from scene 1 but I have decided to make probably upload a video after finish.

[hollow zenith]

How can I return a number that is within a range based on another range?
I think that I might need to normalize it first, but I dont know:
Example => I have power of 1 to 10(float) and I want to return a value between 5 and 50.(Power 1 = 5, Power 10 = 50)
How would I do that?
This has to allow numbers above/below those i.e. power -10 would just return 5(lowest value)

[wintry quarry]

Remap function

https://forum.unity.com/threads/re-map-a-number-from-one-range-to-another.119437/

[hollow zenith]

Thanks, I just found it too 😄

I guess that I just need to clamp the result?

[wintry quarry]

Some of these solutions already clamp it

some don't

For example this will clamp: https://forum.unity.com/threads/re-map-a-number-from-one-range-to-another.119437/#post-3451703

[hollow zenith]

oh this one looks nice too!

[summer grail]

I think I finally understand the feeling of not realising how stupid an idea is until you're too far in to quit

[slender nymph]

sunk cost fallacy. you can give up on a bad idea at any time

[summer grail]

Visual scripting is harder than actual code

[hollow zenith]

I wonder who uses visual scripting(like in real world in real projects)
Does it even make sense? I know there are blueprints in UE5 and I've seen people do well with those(similar to Unity shaders?)

[summer grail]

If anyone does I pray for their soul

[hollow zenith]

Its interesting, cuz gms2 used(or still does) market itself as being easy to access with visual scripting, but I wonder how many people actually use it.

[eternal needle]

Unreals blueprints are definitely more viable to a certain degree. But yea for anything large itll always be worse than code. Which is why shadergraph is so nice to use, I dont have to learn shit

[summer grail]

to be fair it isn't too difficult to do better. like 2 lines of code absolutely should not need more than 5 nodes#

[hollow zenith]

Can you create custom "functions" using nodes?
This way you can have 1 node that has multiple nodes inside?

[summer grail]

I dont think so

[hollow zenith]

I only saw something in Unity shaders, but I'd guess it would be logical to group nodes together into a "function" so you can reuse it.

[summer grail]

that would be so nice if it was a thing

theres like a whole tab dedicated to one very specific node though

just incase you find that useful

[hollow zenith]

I didnt play with that yet so idk 😄

[summer grail]

ill leave the fun to you

[young lava]

So I was messing around with abilities/relics for my 2D top down game. The problem I am running into has a very easy solution, but I'm just confused on something. So pretty much the problem is that FindGameObjectWithTag can't be called in a constructor, which is fine, but the confusing part is that I actually already did this for another script a while back, which did not generate any error. I'm just going to move the code to Awake rather than a constructor, but I was just curious as to why one constructor generates this error, while the other does not.

Error Code:

public Stoneskin() : base("Stoneskin", "Increases armor for a short duration.", "Basic", 125, 10f)
    {
        playerObject = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");

        armorIncrease = 5;
        abilityDuration = 3f;
        isActive = false;
    }

No Error Code:

public PreservedLifebloom() : base("Perserved Lifebloom", "Increases max health.", 15, RelicCategoryType.StatIncrease, RelicEffectTriggerType.Passive)
    {
        GameObject playerObject = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
        if (playerObject != null)
        {
            characterStats = playerObject.GetComponent<CharacterStats>();
        }

        maxHealthIncrease = 50;
    }

[void thicket]

You should not be using constructor for MonoBehaviors

It's fine for regular classes (non-MB)

[wintry quarry]

Are these classes MonoBehaviours? You should not be using a contructor for them at all if so

[stuck palm]

is there a library i can download to draw graphs?

[swift crag]

A constructor may execute at unusual times

[young lava]

oh sorry neither are mono behaviors

[wintry quarry]

But I think you are initializing one of these objects inside a MonoBejaviour field initializer

[swift crag]

I know that constructors can get called as part of serialization

[wintry quarry]

For example you have like public PreservedLifeBloom bloom = new(); in a MonoBehaviour

[young lava]

ohhh ya i do

[wintry quarry]

In which case you need to move that constructor invocation to Awake

[surreal basin]

QUESTION!! I have a 2D object at the top of my project's screen, and I want it to be frozen in place on the Y axis (while able to move on the X axis with player input, this I've already figured out) until the player hits a button the keyboard (space bar or e or something), which then allows gravity to effect it and let the object fall. I've been googling like crazy and going over the Unity Documentation, but I haven't been able to find anything to help me accomplish this.

TLDR: how to script to get a 2D Object to stay in place on the Y axis at start (not be effect by down or up gravity) BUT when the player hits an assigned key, the gravity effect resumes and the object is able to move on the Y axis (falls)?

[young lava]

public Ability testAbility = new Stoneskin();

This is in my abilityManager code xD this would be the issue right?

[slender nymph]

give it a rigidbody, either make it kinematic or set gravity scale to 0 until that condition happens then make it dynamic with gravity scale 1

[wintry quarry]

Yes. Move the new Stoneskin() part to Awake

[young lava]

tyty!

[surreal basin]

It has a rigidbody, how do I make the gravity scale change from 0 to 1 when a condition happens?

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D-gravityScale.html

[surreal basin]

Sorry, I'm extremely new to C# and coding in general, do I just put public float gravityScale; into a new script attached to the 2D object?

[slender nymph]

do you know what an if statement is?

[rich adder]

you would need to reference the rigidbody first to access its methods/properties, you need script attached somewhere on that object
I would probably start with !learn though

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[surreal basin]

I've done the Unity Essentials Pathway in Unity Learn, but I definitely still have more to learn! Was just trying to see if I could figure out this idea, but I'll try to dive deeper into the stuff available on Learn.

Thank you for your help!

[rich adder]

after essentials I say to do Programmer pathway at minimum

[surreal basin]

will do! Thank you :)

[rich adder]

goodluck!

[surreal basin]

I'm sorry, I don't! (or at least I don't remember if I did learn it before lol)

[slender nymph]

then 100% start with some beginner c# courses

[surreal basin]

makes sense to me, thank you guys again!

[queen adder]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[weak grove]

just started a c# course on udemy, how do you guys rate it as a learning platform for learning c# and unity ?

[languid spire]

if you are paying for it, a waste of money

[weak grove]

why is it a waste ?

[languid spire]

MS and Unity offer better tutorials and learning for free

[weak grove]

for some reason i couldnt get the unity learn site to load on my pc so i gave up and went for a udemy course for c# and unity

[languid spire]

did you try the MS site to learn c# ?

[weak grove]

no

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/

this ?

[languid spire]

yes

[weak grove]

ty for bringing this to my attention

🙂

[languid spire]

and this
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/csharp

[weak grove]

ty

how long have you "been in the game" ?

[languid spire]

me? 50 years

[weak grove]

nice

i have previous coding experience but in game dev im a 3 day old noob lol

[languid spire]

then you definitely need to try to get !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[eternal needle]

99% of paid courses are shit. I knew a guy who in his first year of uni published a python course while also not knowing what a loop is.
Courses, teachers, and "coding gurus" have become plagued with being the first and loudest.

[fickle plume]

It can be slow loading at times. Wait for it to load or try a bit later.

[weak grove]

yeah i have had some slow loading times that have made me give up with it

probably on my end

[queen adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[queen adder]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Assertions.Must;

public class Grab : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform heldObject;

    public Transform mainCam;

    public bool holding;

    // drag system goal when holding click the item is where the mouse is + get it to build momentum


    private void Update()
    {

        Vector3 mousePos;
        mousePos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        mousePos.z = 0;


        RaycastHit2D rayhit = Physics2D.Raycast(mousePos, mousePos);

        if (rayhit.collider != null && Input.GetMouseButton(0))
        {
            holding = true;
            heldObject = rayhit.transform;

        }
        else
        {
            holding = false;
        }




        if (holding && Input.GetMouseButton(0))
        {


            Rigidbody2D rb2d = heldObject.transform.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();



            if (rb2d != null) heldObject.transform.position = mousePos;
            if (rb2d != null) rb2d.AddForce((mousePos - heldObject.position) * 6f);
            if (rb2d != null) rb2d.velocity = ((mousePos - heldObject.position) * rb2d.mass);




        }

    }

}

[queen adder]

i want to make it so when im dragging a object it can build momentum and would get flung when let go any ideas?

[slender nymph]

you know you can put more than one statement inside an if statement, right? you don't need to check the same condition three times in a row

[queen adder]

im pretty sure i heard the same thing yesterday ill quickly do that

probably from u

[slender nymph]

you would be correct considering i just copy/pasted the exact message

[rich adder]

I also even showed you the TryGetComponent way

[queen adder]

i dont know what trygetcomponent is or how to use it

i can only presume what it does at the moment

[languid spire]

you might also consider posting the code correctly considering you pulled up the bot message

[queen adder]

steve how should i post it?

[languid spire]

'large code blocks'

[queen adder]

so i just paste it an send a link?

[rich adder]

oh nvm I only suggested it but not typed it, looks like stevesmith was right

[merry spade]

My Player should stick to the "train" when getting on it but its just standing still, I made the player a child of the train as soon as he gets into the hitbox and that works fine its just doesnt stick to it heres a video: (in the video the playerobject dissappears because it gets the cild of the train)

[polar acorn]

...did I travel backwards in time

[queen adder]

btw you mentioned a crashcourse any ones you would reccomend

[rich adder]

the microsoft ones for C# specifically, Unity learn for mix of both

[queen adder]

link?

https://paste.ofcode.org/XFNTH54Zkvy5wS6idPmwEB

[queen adder]

also where should i do this?

[slender nymph]

wdym where? there are three consecutive lines where you use an if statement that checks the same condition

[queen adder]

oh yeah thanks

[merry spade]

I also have a character controller on my player if that helps

[rich adder]

https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/

[queen adder]

ty

so does anyone have any actual ideas

[deft grail]

whats the problem

[queen adder]

not an issue

i just want it so

the object im dragging

can build momentum and when released it gets flung

[merry spade]

And my problem is that my player doesnt adjust its position although its a child object

[deft grail]

why would a player be a child?

[merry spade]

so that its sticking to a moving platform

but its not moving

[deft grail]

what have you done? just stuck it as a child and thats it?

[merry spade]

yep

[deft grail]

do you have a rigidbody?

[merry spade]

yes

[deft grail]

then you need to update the position on that i think?

[merry spade]

and character controller

[deft grail]

and on that also then...

[merry spade]

but a child object should copy the movement from its parent automatically shouldnt it?

[deft grail]

yes but you need to update the components because of the physics and stuff, im not sure exactly how it works but im pretty sure thats what you gotta do

[merry spade]

ok yeah but how do i find out how to do it because i have no idea either thats why iam here 🙂

[deft grail]

just .position on the rigidbody

i think same with CC but maybe not

[merry spade]

yeah but which value?

[deft grail]

the value you need to set it to?

i guess just transform.position

[merry spade]

but thats not moving thats the problem or do you mean the transform.position from the moving platform?

[deft grail]

oh right, try doing it the same as the platform? the X is all you need to change right? so that should be pretty simple

[merry spade]

hm that sound like a solution that will get me in trouble later

but sounds good

haha

[deft grail]

i mean you have to update the rigidbody somehow

perhaps just not make it a child and move it manually, im not sure exactly how moving platforms are supposed to be made

you could watch a video on it if you havent yet

[merry spade]

oh yeah i found one

very nice advice thanks(not ironic)

Ok the solution was: The moving platform has to move in the "FixedUpdate()" Method and not in the "Update()" Method it probably has to do with the charactercontroller updating as you correctly said

[spiral narwhal]

I just realised if an object falls with enough speed, it ignores colliders? Not sure if that's intended by Unity or not?

[deft grail]

yeah i mean same thing happens in most games?

[tender breach]

Whenever I try to rotate my gameObject, it spawns a clone of it. Here's the code: https://pastecode.io/s/09qwryx7 https://pastecode.io/s/z4i3hhyd

[spiral narwhal]

Does it? I would have expected it to maintain the collisions no matter the speed of an object

[deft grail]

i mean depends how fast, you can do things to make it better

[spiral narwhal]

Make what better

[deft grail]

the collision detection

like changing the collision mode on the Rigidbody

[spiral narwhal]

Basically I increase the gravity scale

So at some point of falling it's too much to register collisions

[frosty hound]

Don't crosspost. #archived-code-general

[deft grail]

yeah i think no matter what at a certain speed it will always avoid collision, but you can do things to make that speed of failing collision higher than normal

[polar acorn]

Neither of these scripts have any calls to Instantiate or new GameObject() so neither one can be spawning new objects

[tender breach]

It does in another script

[deft grail]

then SHOW that?

how can we fix a problem where we cant see the problem

[rich adder]

#archived-code-general message

[deft grail]

oh right it was a crosspost i forgot

[rich adder]

though these scripts are beyond saving or refactor. It should be redone as suggested

[tender breach]

https://pastecode.io/s/nwottz8w

[polar acorn]

Exterminatus is the only solution

[tender breach]

What's exterminatus?

[rich adder]

warhammer

[polar acorn]

Complete annihilation

[swift crag]

you do it when you think one person on the planet might have said something chaotic

planet explode

[summer stump]

A completely reasonable reaction to heresy

[amber veldt]

Any Tilemap enjoyers that could help for a quick question?

Documentation is so scarce geez

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap-origin.html

I have a question about the Tilemap Origin. It should pick the lowest point of the tilemap, but if I draw tiles and erase them, it keeps the lowest point that has existed. Is that behaviour expected?

[acoustic arch]

tips for having prefabs reference objects in scene?

i hear using Find is less than ideal usually

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[viral shadow]

hey guys, how do I get more fonts for text mesh pro? I'm tired of the default one

[frosty hound]

1. Download font
2. Add font to your asset folder
3. Create font asset: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@4.0/manual/FontAssetsCreator.html

[viral shadow]

where do I get the font from

wait can I just use any font family file??

[frosty hound]

Yes, you would use a normal font file

[viral shadow]

I see

is 512x512 enough?

[frosty hound]

You can generally just leave everything default

[viral shadow]

i see

[acoustic arch]

my font file type was called TrueType

[viral shadow]

now what?

where do I save this atlas?

[acoustic arch]

when i did mine i never had to make an atlas it let me use it as is

are you able to drag the font into your TextMeshPro?

or select

[viral shadow]

ah nvm I figured it out

[viral shadow]

thanks for the help

[timber tide]

What's usually the fix to prevent vibrating against walls by walking into them with rigidbodies using MovePosition

[amber spruce]

what is the 2d equivilant to Physics.OverlapSphere

would it just be Physics2D.overlapcircle?

[summer stump]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.OverlapCircle.html

[amber spruce]

thankls

[lavish magnet]

How would i access this material on my zombie and change the alpha all the way down?

[shy ruin]

My rigidbody's do not stutter if V-Sync isn't on. I don't get it, it seems that Time.deltaTime is very unstable and jumps to extreme values with V-Sync on. My character stutters when turning even with interpolation on, AND using CineMachine.

[void thicket]

Is this a code question?

[timber tide]

If ya doing rigidbody methods in update, those should be in fixed

[void thicket]

Physics should not be effected by VSync or framrate. Are you sure you are doing your calculations in FixedUpdate?

[shy ruin]

Yes this is a huge problem tons of people have and I can't seem to fix it

https://pastebin.com/bjV11Jty

This is the code for my player controller, I've had numerous conversations with people and we still haven't figured it out.

[timber tide]

first line of code you're using forces in update

[queen adder]

what unity class is this?

[shy ruin]

No I am not?

[lavish magnet]

Yes, WHen the zombie dies

I want to change the alpha down

[north kiln]

Gradient?

[lavish magnet]

To simulate it fading out

[summer stump]

I see addforce calls in update. The jump one is ok, since it is impulse, the other is not

[lavish magnet]

Not sure how to access that if i have multiple zombies tho, nmor why its bvlurred out

[shy ruin]

There aren't any other ones.

Oh

That one isn't even used as I never jump in the game.

Also it's adding force downwards.

[summer stump]

Yes, that is the one that is an issue. Not necessarily THE issue, but an issue

[queen adder]

dunno, imma just use it to make an image generator with perlin noise, is that doable?

[shy ruin]

Fine, let me try it.

Stilll have the problem.

[timber tide]

Can also try tossing the camera into other update methods besides late

cinemachine has its own toggles for that too

[queen adder]

dont have that class ig

[summer stump]

Camera could go in lateupdate

Instead of update

[shy ruin]

I did

[lavish magnet]

Gradient??

[shy ruin]

This is a video with camera updates in late update and no forces in update.

[timber tide]

seems like a typical rigidbody/camera desync problem + interpolation

[shy ruin]

How do I fix it then?

[timber tide]

idk those I just mess round with the camera update methods

[queen adder]

there should be a suggs if there is

[shy ruin]

I've had this problem numerous times.

[void thicket]

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

[shy ruin]

It's been 2 weeks of trying.

[north kiln]

Looks like your IDE might not be set up fully, but who even knows. I don't use VS Code

[lavish magnet]

if you just do public Gradient gradient and save it, does it error in unity?

[queen adder]

yea, seems like i just dont have it

[north kiln]

That's unlikely to be the case.

[queen adder]

hmm, then why i cant even new it 🥺

[north kiln]

Presumably because you're doing it wrong