💻┃code-beginner

[timber tide]

try again

[rich adder]

it most certainly works

most common way its done..

[quiet hazel]

Maybe I am doing it wrong, how do you do it

[timber tide]

you've got playerprefs otherwise if you only need to store like a level index

[rich adder]

show what you did and we can tell where it went wrong

[polar acorn]

I'd store data in a json and then load the json when I need it

[quiet hazel]

I works kind of but it doesn't save everything

Like it saves almost everything, but it doesn't remember what other scripts do, I don't know how to explain it

[rich adder]

how about show the code?

we can't do much with vague statements lol

[quiet hazel]

I don't have the code, I tried it in a different project which I deleted a while ago, it's just before I try it again, I want to get it right

[rich adder]

roughly

//save
string jsonData = JsonUtility.ToJason(dataToSave, true)
File.WriteAllText(pathToSaveFolder, jsonData);

load do the inverse

its that simple

[teal viper]

There is no one objectively "right" way. It would depend on your project needs and personal preferences.

Neither of which we know, so we can't really give you the right answer.

I suggest: Google and find what ways there are. Then try them out or research their ups and downs and decide which one suits you better. Then try it out and see if it fits you for sure.

[quiet hazel]

Alright, I'll try something and update you

[teal viper]

Any more specific questions along that path can be asked in the community and you will likely get a better answer than to the current generic question.

[quiet hazel]

Okay, thank all you guys anyway, I'll keep you updated

[rich adder]

speaking of which Unity also had a resource on this
https://unity.com/blog/games/persistent-data-how-to-save-your-game-states-and-settings

[nova kite]

Thank you I’ll give it a shot then🥲

[pulsar plover]

What is the difference between public and serialized fields?

[rough granite]

public can be accessed by other scripts serialized fields are privates just shown to the inspector

generally better to keep variables private and use encapsulation to change / get them, though not like i do this myself 90% of mine are public :/

[brave compass]

A serialized field is a field Unity serializes. Unity has a few rules for which fields are serialized. The type of the field must be serializable and the field must either be public or have the SerializeField attribute.

[rocky canyon]

private variables are normally hidden in teh inspector
serializing it makes it exposed in the editor
but the functionallity of it is the same as a regular private variable

[pulsar plover]

Is that why not all fields are serialized? What does it mean for a field to be serializable? Or does it just encompass certain types of fields?

[rich ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/script-serialization.html

[rocky canyon]

hehe, 90 of mine are serialized privates (but i used to do the whole public everything until it was time to refactor)

[rough granite]

probably only half of them for just this script :/

[rocky canyon]

very nice lol

[rough granite]

going from 10 to 177 (ignoring that half the lines are the [] thingys

[rocky canyon]

i hope all those values match the inspector values 👀

[rough granite]

nope not at all

[rocky canyon]

it'd suck to accidently break it and recompile

🍀

[rough granite]

i doubt even 10 of them are :/

[rocky canyon]

😬 i used to take screenshots and / or keep lots of recordings while working on my CC controller.. b/c lots of my values changed and i couldnt be arsed to set the defaults to match

now i have the default values branded in memory

[rough granite]

it's just easier to change em here and not wait 40 seconds

[rocky canyon]

ohhh cool those tabs are awesome

[rough granite]

yeah little feature of Odin Inspector but when havign this many variables (theres another like 8 scripts kinda like this) having the object selected while in play mode brings me from 150 fps to 25 fps

[brave shadow]

I'm having difficulty overriding a value,and I'm having difficulty finding a solution online

I have a class called "weapon", with a line like this:
public Vector2 direction = new Vector2(1,0);

And I want to change this value in a child class called "DiagonalWeapon"

How would I do this?

[rocky canyon]

weapon.direction = someValue;
should work fine
just make sure the weapon class isn't overwriting it back.. (like if weapon is setting it to something in Update)

[brave shadow]

thing is, if I do something like that:

{
    Weapon.direction = new Vector2(0.71f, 0.71f);

}

I am told "weapon" does not exist in this current context

[rocky canyon]

oh an inherited class

not sure how ud do that one

wouldnt it just be "direction" = then?

[acoustic belfry]

Hey i have a question. I have a lot of different tabs, and wich i need to modify every single each of them and their text. The only way i know how to do so is if i make a referencial value and configurate each single one of them, is this the only way? Or is there another?

[acoustic belfry]

Its ok for a code to have A LOT of values?

[frosty hound]

As in, will it cause issues? No it won't

[acoustic belfry]

but i mean, it wouldn't be like, too tedious or smt?

or unprofessional

idk

i mean, i just dont want my codes to suck

but if others proyects do it, then i guess i will not worry

[rocky canyon]

if its inherited wouldn't u just change direction on the DiagonalWeapon class itself since its inheriting Weapon, it should have its own instance of the variable? not sure exactly what ur doing
but seems to work

the original script keeps the original value.. and the inherited script gets the new value (I set it in Start() for the example)

[brave shadow]

unfortunately, it defnitely isn't so easy. To get no error to be thrown, I placed that change in an Update, although it didn't actually change the behavior.

[lofty mirage]

Typically you'd use constants instead of "magic numbers"

if that is the question

for text however, it's fine I believe

[acoustic belfry]

what do you mean constants

[acoustic belfry]

and what about an army of bools
like
a staticObject that stores a bool per enemy/npc that is set true when you met/kill it

and by so, if that value is true, then it would make that specific button in the Codex go setActivate = true

[rocky canyon]

could probably do something like that w/ a function codex.Discovered(enemy); and not have any booleans

[brave shadow]

Well, it compiles. Let me show you where this value is actually used, maybe that can help?

As unforutnately the "direction" of my projectile isn't actually changing

[rocky canyon]

ya, i think some context would help greatly.. altho i may not be the guy to help b/c i dont use inheritance that often

so im probably not the best person to know.. but the more info u provide the better for anyone that sees

[acoustic belfry]

... how?

[rocky canyon]

like ^ have the codex make the button visible or not or whatever

[acoustic belfry]

another idea that i had but wich is slighty paradoxic is having an int, if number is higher than X, display some tabs

issue is, i should present all stuff in order, or else it would "spoiler"

[rocky canyon]

u pass in the enemy when u meet or kill it..

the codex takes the enemy.. finds the appropriate button.. does things to it

[brave shadow]

Here, I have this script called "PlayerAttack" that has a list of objects that have "weapon" class scripts attached.

The only place I can find in it where "direction" is referenced is here:

    {
        //This is where the weapon is rotated in the right direction that you are facing
        if (weapon && canAttack)
        {
            if (weapon.weaponType == Weapon.WeaponType.Melee)
            {
                weapon.WeaponStart();
            }

            else
            {
                GameObject projectile = Instantiate(weapon.projectile, weapon.shootPosition.position, Quaternion.identity);
                projectile.GetComponent<Projectile>().SetValues(weapon.duration, weapon.alignmnent, weapon.damageValue);
                projectile.transform.localScale = new Vector3( projectile.transform.localScale.x * (scale.x / Mathf.Abs(scale.x)), projectile.transform.localScale.y, projectile.transform.localScale.z);
                //projectile.transform.localScale = new Vector3(projectile.transform.localScale.x, projectile.transform.localScale.y, projectile.transform.localScale.z);
                Rigidbody2D rb = projectile.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
                if (player.transform.localScale.x > 0f)
                {
                    rb.AddForce(weapon.direction * weapon.force);
                }
                else
                {
                    rb.AddForce(new Vector2(-1,0) * weapon.force);
                }
                


            }

            StartCoroutine(CoolDown());
        }
    }```

You can ignore the "melee" secion, I am not using it

[acoustic belfry]

but how specificly? i mean, do you mean by killing the enemy the tab should be turned to true?

[brave shadow]

And the projectile currently shoots horizontally, as the Weapon class direct (the vector direction for the default Weapon class is [1, 0])

wait, i got it.

I think it's that else, add force step.

yeah, I can shoot diagonally to the right now, at least!

I think that's it

[rocky canyon]

so like for example ur enemy could have a ID number or something that corresponds to the button that represents it

public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int codexID;
}```

when u meet it or kill it or w/e you'll probably have a reference to it..
soo you could call a function from the CodexSystem and shoot that reference over to it
```cs
    public void Unlock(Enemy enemy)
    {
        if (unlockedEntries.Contains(enemy.CodexID)) return;

        unlockedEntries.Add(enemy.CodexID);

        // Enable matching button
        codexButtons[enemy.CodexID].interactable = true;
        Debug.Log($"Codex unlocked: {id}");
    }```
then the codex script would just check if its unlocked already.. or interactable already and if its not it does it..

i mean thats just a simple example. but Functions/Events and stuff can do things directly without having to check abunch of bools or something

[acoustic belfry]

oh, i think makes sense, well, thanks

[rocky canyon]

no problem.. it takes a bit to get used to that kinda workflow tho..
when i first started i'd use bools for everything.. especially inventory..
hasPistol, hasShotgun, hasBlueKey, hasRedKey

and it would end up with long if,else statements

now i just make a class called Key for example.. give it an ID or a Color.. then i just make a list of those..

[brave shadow]

thanks @spawn ! I got things working as intended now!

[rocky canyon]

run thru the list.. checking the colors.. instead of a bool for each 😅

[acoustic belfry]

wait, how do i reference to codexButtons?
like this?
public GameObject[] codexButtons;

i mean so it get the numbes for the enemies's IDs

[rocky canyon]

yea

an array of buttons would work

with each index meaning a different creature or w/e

[acoustic belfry]

oh, well, thanks :3

[rocky canyon]

np 🍀

[acoustic belfry]

btw interactible means the click works?

[rocky canyon]

yea, its whether or not the button is greyed out and/or clickable or not

[acoustic belfry]

cool, thanks

[acoustic belfry]

just as final question, the Unlock function must be on a StaticObject, right?

[rocky canyon]

wouldnt need to be.. makes it easier tho

[acoustic belfry]

i mean for make this permanent

[rocky canyon]

as long as u have a reference to it you could just call it
codexReference.Unlock()

but a static class or a singleton would make it more universal.. (like a game manager)

[acoustic belfry]

yeah, i mean, for make it permanent

cuz i need it to be permanent after all

[rocky canyon]

ya, id go ahead and make it a static class or a singleton then...
have all the logic you'll need from the codex there in the class
and itd be easier to call it from anywhere and from anything..

[acoustic belfry]

thanks :3

[rocky canyon]

u could have like HasEncountered(Enemy enemy);
HasKilled(Enemy enemy); etc etc

u could even simplify it and just have those methods take ints.. if the monsters or w/e will always have the same ID number..
that way it wouldnt even need an enemy class or anything.. just a number

HasEncountered(int monstersID) or something..

but i think u get it 👍 just gotta work it all out now

[acoustic belfry]

well, thanks a lot :3

[stoic summit]

hi, with this code, the lerp is completing rotations long before timer is equal to 1. I'm honestly clueless as to why the fuck it's doin this

[polar acorn]

Do the logs show timer is increasing at the rate you expect?

[stoic summit]

yes

https://pastecode.io/s/vth4650p

full code

Quicklerp function is junk, just haven't written over it yet

[stoic summit]

timer goes from 0-1 in a number of seconds roughly equal to usespeed, takes the lerp ~1/10th of that time to complete

makes 0 sense to me

[ivory bobcat]

Show the logs

[stoic summit]

that's towards the end

fully goes from 0-1

lerp completes while it's around .2

[ivory bobcat]

Print other data that may be important such as the current position and rotation

And normally, you'd use the initial value as the first argument of lerp rather than the current value

[stoic summit]

I'm aware, trying to rotate from current position

all .50000 from there down

increased steadily before that

[ivory bobcat]

var init = ...
var target = ...
...
while(...)
{
    ... = ...Lerp(init, target, timer);
    ...
}```etc

[ivory bobcat]

That would not produce a linear interpolation then.

[stoic summit]

mmmm wise

yeah I'm fuckin dumb

figured out the fix I believe, gonna test it in a second

appreciate the help homie 🙏

yup, works fine now

just had to move these outside the while loop so the position wasn't being updated every iteration

[frigid sequoia]

I know you are gonna ask me why would I want this, but, can a class hear to its own event?

[bright zodiac]

sure why not

also a bit unclear, proly add more context to it

[naive pawn]

technically classes don't get events, delegates get called, and it doesn't matter where the delegate comes from

[hot wadi]

Do u guys often use singleton? I mean, I get on just fine without it, and it does not seem to have a great reputation

[sour fulcrum]

good use of singletons is very useful yeah

[hot wadi]

There are too many cautions for such a basic pattern

[sour fulcrum]

says who

[gilded isle]

Does anybody own a gtag fan game?

[naive pawn]

overusing then is bad - then again, it's bad to overuse anything

[naive pawn]

not really the space for that

[sour fulcrum]

Is there a proper term for doing this kind of thing?

    private float RemapLerp(float targetMin, float targetMax, float sourceMin, float sourceMax, float sourceVal)
    {
        return (Mathf.Lerp(targetMin,targetMax,Mathf.InverseLerp(sourceMin,sourceMax,sourceVal)));
    }

[bright zodiac]

its some sort of normalization.. I mean in a way

[north kiln]

Remap is one term for it, it has many terms

[rocky canyon]

i also just call it Remapping

[naive pawn]

arduino just calls it map (src)

[rocky canyon]

i think ive also called it some kind of Scaling before too

[naive pawn]

i suppose that could get confusing with the map data structure though (or not, since c# calls it Dictionary)

(fwiw i don't think i'd call it remap lerp - you're remapping linear ranges, using linear interpolation to do it, rather than actually remapping the interpolation)

[sharp bloom]

Why does the FindComponentInParent method check the current active object for the component as well as the parent? Seems like a silly thing to me.

If I have two Images for example, and I want to get the parent image from a script called in the child, this method does not return it

[eternal needle]

then call this method on the parent object instead...

[sharp bloom]

Yes but I fail to understand why is this method implemented like that

If I wanted something from self, I'd just use GetComponent normally

[eternal needle]

because unity chose to do it like this. im sure if they implemented how you suggest, there would be someone out there complaining they need to call GetComponent and GetComponentInParent afterwards in their use case

[sour fulcrum]

tbh the answer is just an accurate name would be too verbose

[sharp bloom]

Accurate name should be something like RecursiveFindComponent

[eternal needle]

either way tbh, i find that this method is something you should never be calling. drag in the reference you want. have the parent do the logic instead.
there are many options here that dont involve a child randomly trying to search a hierarchy which it shouldnt be doing

[eternal needle]

ok that sounds like something that searches down the children rather than up the parents

[sharp bloom]

Tru

[eternal needle]

you should really try to put yourself in a scenario where you dont need this function. im not sure what you're doing here, i imagine this is dynamically adding children to a parent given that you need to call this rather than dragging in a reference

in which case you can still just pass the reference you want when the child object is instantiated

[naive pawn]

so you don't need multiple calls for trying to get strict parent components or own components

[viral flax]

Very quick question: Should I be using float3 instead of Vector3 in monobehaviour code (even if it uses managed types, thus isn't Burstable) - is there any benefit to their performance?
I know in some cases you can enforce that certain checks are not being used with float3 (e.g. normalize vs normalizesafe), but are there other benefits

[sour fulcrum]

i dont like know this but im assuming you shouldn't be

on the basis that if there was a benefit unity wouldn't be using them

[viral flax]

Well, Vector3 is an older legacy option, float3 came later with Burst. Though, the conversions between the two are presumably performance-intensive, so it's one or the other.

[eternal needle]

its not the legacy option, it is the option you use if working with gameobject. if you're using dots then you'd likely be using float3 more

anything like transform.position or scale are stored as Vector3

[viral flax]

Yes, and the conversions between the two might be (according to the documentation) wasteful. But your code, that doesn't directly read from some of the builtin function, can use float3 just fine. And considering the mathematics library is better optimised than the legacy Mathf, it is in many cases beneficial

[woeful coyote]

I don't think float3 struct itself is more performant than Vector3. It's the methods that operate on float3 (like those in unity.mathematics) that are more performant than those that operate on Vector3 (like Mathf)

[grand snow]

I think it exists purely for the new math functions usable in burst/jobs

the mathmatics package has some nice additions though

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.mathematics@1.3/api/Unity.Mathematics.bool3.html e.g.

I also make use of its Random struct when doing threading
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.mathematics@1.3/api/Unity.Mathematics.Random.html

[eternal needle]

beneficial how? you should profile and see if you even have a performance issue related to operations on Vector3 in the first place. i imagine itd be quite awkward especially for others if Vector3 and float3 were just randomly used in different files for the sake of hopefully saving nanoseconds
if you're using it in jobs or the mathematics functions, then thats different

[viral flax]

Well, if one option is generally more performant than the other, it only makes sense to prioritise it going forward, rather than to rewrite the entire codebase when it's too late. It's not unreasonable to do such 'micro-optimisations', if it's only a matter of habit, since in this case it doesn't cost you anything to write Vector3 vs float3

[eternal needle]

when the performance gain is almost nothing, or could even be worse depending on how you're using the float3 (given it might have to be converted constantly) then id say it does not make sense at all. especially if you're working with others.
consistency > the false hope this will even be an optimization

[woeful coyote]

performance impact of converting between float3 and Vector3 is like negligible. other things will matter way more.

[eternal needle]

yet it would still need to convert. the whole point is that they think its better to use float3 when they can, even if a micro optimization

theres always the argument where things could be better. "I could follow better design patterns" "I could optimize to save 1 cpu instruction". And it's always hard to argue against it because yes it is better, but it's a waste of time to even think about

[sour fulcrum]

surely on a level where the difference here would matter you should be profiling anyway?

[eternal needle]

my whole point here is that there is no difference or world where this even matters. if theres a reason to use float3, then it is because you're using it with systems that expect a float3 in the first place

aka like the things rob sent above

[woeful coyote]

i basically agree.

float3 only exists because the functions that use float3 are more performant, and the functions that operate on Vector3 are not performant.

the question isn't what type do i use (float3 vs vector3). it's what library do i use (Mathf, Vector3 methods vs unity.mathematics)

[nimble apex]

is there a way to register custom virtual joysticks to new input system?

i have a working joystick that reads value, but i want to integrate it to new input system

but because this joystick cannot be properly invoked by on-screen stick component, i think i need to code it

[naive pawn]

it does cost you being able to use the rest of unityengine's api which works on Vector3

Bounds/Rect both still think with Vector3/2, and colliders and rigidbodies use those (or vectors)

[naive pawn]

you already are using UnityEngine, so you would just use those instead of branching off into mathematics where you gain next to nothing and lose interop with everything else

[naive pawn]

perhaps ask #🖱️┃input-system

[nimble apex]

ok

[bright zodiac]

GetRoot or GetRootParent.. iirc uitoolkit uses this terms to get the highest parent in the hierarchy so proly that

[naive pawn]

that's what a root is, yes

getting a root or parents is indeed recursive, but so is getting children

[bright zodiac]

Unity doing specialiation to mathf apis. They're hardware accellerated (il2cpp, nor sure if mono)

[eternal needle]

id say thats an even less accurate name than what was proposed, and what the current name is

[bright zodiac]

use whatever suitable for the job...
we will have new fancy vector types once unity done moving to coreClr such as Vector<T> and Vector128/256/512. SIMD is so much easy in coreClr

[grand snow]

Will be great but I presume il2cpp already improves on this (depending on the cpp compiler)?

[obsidian grove]

bit of a silly question but the documentation on Color mentions all these crazy colours in the Color struct:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Color.html
but I can only see the basic ones (red, blue, magenta etc)
am I missing something? haha

[slender nymph]

are you using 6.1?

[obsidian grove]

yep, knew it was a silly question 😅

[acoustic belfry]

hi. i have an issue, this code of a codex is supossed to unlock InfoTabs depending on who calls it, but, the tabs are reutilized in 3 different categories depending on the int cassielIndexType. i mean, in UI are 5 tabs, yet, lets say you discovered 1 Leyend yet 3 Enemies. when cassielIndexType is 1, it must display 1 tab, but when cassielIndexType is 2, it must displays 3. Reutilizing the same 5 buttons

this is the code

    {
        if (unlockedInfo.Contains(codexID)) return;

        unlockedInfo.Add(codexID);

        codexButtons[codexID].interactable = true;
        Debug.Log($"Codex unlocked: {codexID}");
    }```

[grand snow]

what you said is hard to understand but if you need to reveal or hide something depending on some int then each can have a list/hashset of the ints that will show it.
if contained, show, else hide. Is that sufficient?

you would need to loop over them all to update their visibility ofc

[naive pawn]

make sure to set docs to the version you're using

[acoustic belfry]

i think i have found a more easier aproach yet i dont know if exist, how i can make the objects inside a hashset to be activated or deactivated?

[grand snow]

you would re design to have a list of a new type such as List<UITab> and then loop over and both access this "visibility" list and then set its visibility

a hashset is just a collection that uses hashing to disallow duplicates and provide fast Contains checks

[acoustic belfry]

Then i should make a list?

[grand snow]

well yea, a list of your tabs

and the tab type can have its OWN list/hashset of the ids that can show it

[acoustic belfry]

... Wat?

[grand snow]

You want to show some tabs depending on some input int right?

[acoustic belfry]

I mean
I want to show some tabs depending on an int and if discovered

Cuz the thing is

If the player finds something that adds info, like killing an enemy, it must make that tab activate. Issue, im reusing tabs, so when is on the category of A, it should display what discovered of A, if is category of B, display what discovered of B

The Hard part is the unlockinh and hiding tabs part

[grand snow]

Then why does what I suggested not work?
Tab A (1,2,3)
Tab B (3,4,5)

2 -> Tab A
3 -> Tab A + Tab B
is this not what you need?

perhaps you need to better explain what "tab" even means, is it some UI button? is it actually some other UI that can show many elements?

[acoustic belfry]

True. I investigated english and i think tab is wrong. Is not tab the word

Is button

The categories are the tabs

Tab controls Ints

Ints controls info and Buttons

[grand snow]

Do you mean the buttons can open different things depending on some category?

[atomic sierra]

hi im trying to kickstart my game dev journey, and I was wondering if I should sign up for these short game jams get myself up and running, or shud I sign up for these longer game jams? is there a difference to how much work is required to build your game depending on the length of the jam? or is it just based on how much time you have available for yourself?

[grand snow]

wrong channel

[acoustic belfry]

Yes

[grand snow]

If this is the case, have some configuration to define what these buttons do depending on the "category", perhaps with scriptable objects using an Enum for the category

then you can configure what button a, b and c do depending on the category

[acoustic belfry]

The category is just an int

[acoustic belfry]

But the issue i have is the unlocking part

[grand snow]

then use an int but there is a reason why enum exists (so we can give names to magic numbers)

[acoustic belfry]

I know how to hadle the info

The issue is the unlocking part ;^;

[grand snow]

then how does "unlocking" work or mean?

we just went from changing what a button does to something else

[acoustic belfry]

Cuz is the ingo part is easy
If (category = x)
{
If (index = x)
{
Info
}
}

[grand snow]

whats index?

[acoustic belfry]

The info

The buttons only purpose is change index int

The info part doesnt matter

I think im overcomplexing stuff

[grand snow]

If this is meant to be some UI list of objects the user has "unlocked" then this should be trivial, check this state when creating/updating the list

[acoustic belfry]

Unlocking is when the player for example kills an enrmy

An idea i had was that on each Category Block, it set all the UnlockedCategoryButtons to activate

But i dont know how

[twilit jolt]

this might be insanely weird and simple, but it's making me loose my mind cus i can't figure out why it happens, so some help would be appreciated

i have this extremely simple code, that calls a game win function if the growTime gets above 1

if(growT > 1){
    Debug.Log($"Won At {growT}");
    GameManager.instance.WinGame();
}

but for some reason it detects the value, and even logs the value above 1, when in reality it's way below it

[sour fulcrum]

in reality it is that value

when that log happens

[grand snow]

haha it must be

[hexed terrace]

1.000399 > 1

[sour fulcrum]

not a dot

unless regional diff?

[grand snow]

It sounds like you hand make the UI with all these elements that represent all enemies right?
Something like this would ideally be dynamically made to show all configured enemies. It would also therefore be able to react dynamically to player data (such as changing visual state depending on if its 'unlocked' or not)

[twilit jolt]

that's what i'm thinking too, but the value shows normally when i serialize it, and i use it for some visual stuff, and the visuals don't jump around when the win get's triggered

[hexed terrace]

make sure growT is 0 at the start, before this is reached

[hexed terrace]

I assumed regional diff. Even if not, it's still greater than 1

[sour fulcrum]

i mean i appreciate the context here but

it is that number when that log happens

period

what changes it?

[twilit jolt]

a per frame addition

growT += growthSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

and nothing lowers the value
so even if it somehow jumps to above one, it shouldn't return to below 1, like it shows on the value property

[sour fulcrum]

are you looking at the right one?

[sour fulcrum]

this could absolutely lower the value :P, what's growthSpeedrn

[polar acorn]

The object logging the value and the object you are looking at in the inspector are different objects

[acoustic belfry]

i suposse

[twilit jolt]

oh my god, ur so right, i'm actually so dumb

i have multiple ones with random speeds, and i forgot to disable the win logic, on the non important ones

damn 😭

[grand snow]

What you want is not hard really, if things are set up correctly its trivial to do what you want.
Even if you hand make the UI, if each "enemy element" has an id to specify what enemy it is, you can loop over them all and do what you wish depending on their unlock state.
Open ui to category -> refresh UI to show/hide/update enemy elements

[twilit jolt]

thank you guys for the help btw :)

[polar acorn]

Logs never lie, the issue is always on the monkey's end rather than the machine

From there you can eliminate all possibilities that the number is anything but what was logged and all that remains is the simplest answer: it's two different numbers

[acoustic belfry]

my plan was that the enemy or events call the function and put on in the int parameter

but the thing is how i can do the refresh part

[grand snow]

Its easy and I think you have this funny vision of some weird ass method of doing it that is falling apart

[acoustic belfry]

;-;

[grand snow]

I make this kind of UI all the time and what you are saying is making no sense to me

If I have a UI that needs to show things (e.g. "unlocked enemies") then on Initialization I get all the enemy configuration entries and the player data. I make elements for each enemy and init it with that enemy entry. I then perhaps change how it looks based on if its recorded as being unlocked in the player data.

[acoustic belfry]

how

[grand snow]

I can sub to some click event on my enemy element to react to its click and cus I know what enemy its showing, I can use this

You write it...

[warm palm]

Turns out the issue was capital letters, I didn't know capital letters affected anything (Because I've never opened Unity or written code in my life until yesterday) and just had to change some stuff from capital letters back to lowercase and vice versa.

[acoustic belfry]

no but i mean, how you get all entries, and how you unlock it, is im just getting slighty confused. Sorry

[grand snow]

public void Init(Config config, PlayerData player)
{
    foreach (var enemy in config.enemies)
    {
        var enemyElement = Instantiate(enemyElementPrefab, enemyElementParent);
        enemyElement.Init(enemy, player);
        enemyElement.OnClick += OnEnemyElementClicked;
    }
}

[acoustic belfry]

huh

[grand snow]

you have some place of storing all of this information like a configuration object or a list of enemy data objects

[acoustic belfry]

i dont...get it

what i just do is a lot of ints for record stuff

[grand snow]

then you should change it

[rough granite]

That wasnt to issue shown in this photo but if it works it works #💻┃code-beginner message

[acoustic belfry]

i know, the thing is, i do it, cuz i dont fully know how to handle the other ways

also i can do a lot of bools

[grand snow]

If you have any additional information associated with an "enemy" then you should ideally have a way to store this right?

e.g. health, sprite

Scriptable objects are GREAT for this

[acoustic belfry]

is just in the enemy

[grand snow]

Then move it to a scriptable object that the enemies reference instead

[acoustic belfry]

huh?

[rough granite]

Scriptable object cant be used as components can they? (Asking cause ive never used them, i just used base classes)

[acoustic belfry]

what even are scriptable objects, sorry

[warm palm]

It was, for example "movementx and movementy" should have been typed as: "movementX and movementY"

[acoustic belfry]

you mean like a singleton?

[warm palm]

I'm surprised nobody helping noticed that

[grand snow]

You can just reference it on your component 😐

[acoustic belfry]

a file that you call using "instance"

[warm palm]

I'm especially suprised the guy that likes typing in italics didn't notice that

[acoustic belfry]

i mean, i have an static object that stores the player's health, for the next scenes

[warm palm]

anyway, back to my tutorial

[grand snow]

Its important to seperate static data like this to make our lives easier when looking at this information in other places like UI

[acoustic belfry]

is that what you meant?

[sour fulcrum]

i do not know what you are trying to refer to as a file here but it's not accurate

[rough granite]

No no it wasn't the problem on line 24 was the vector3 you didn't have a space between the Vector3 and movement and we did notice we just didn't give you the answer cause your IDE should if it worked.

Edit: though what you changed was a second problem with the code that if your IDE was configured would've also pointed out which is why they were try to help you with it.

[sour fulcrum]

statics are not objects, that is the point of them

[acoustic belfry]

i mean, the script is on an object btw, that just exists forever, this is how the player calls it in update for the health

        soul = ValeriaMemories.Instance.memorySoul;```

[sour fulcrum]

i am gonna keep nitpicking your wording, please don't be offended

scripts are not on objects

instances of scripts are on objects

[acoustic belfry]

oh

makes sense

[sour fulcrum]

a static reference to an object != a static object

[frigid sequoia]

A random thougth just came to my mind, like... why does Unity save the enums you set on the editor as the Index of the enum and not the "id" of it, which is like basically the whole point of enums?

[rough granite]

He did he didn't point it out cause he didn't want to spoon feed you, holy.

[acoustic belfry]

but i have it on the scene, like an object

[sour fulcrum]

For niche reasons it's niche for it to be "dumbed down" as an int anyway

[rough granite]

Enums are beautiful

[grand snow]

@acoustic belfry we want to seperate out the data like this so your UI can also reference all "enemy data"

public class EnemyData : ScriptableObject
{
    public int health;
    public Sprite sprite;
}

public class Enemy : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializedField]
    EnemyData enemyData;
}

[acoustic belfry]

im getting pretty lost.....

[warm palm]

Spoon feed?

[sour fulcrum]

static objects do not exist

a singleton is a static reference to an object

[acoustic belfry]

o h

so in theory, this object exist forever thanks to a singleton.....

this is slighty more complex than i thought

[sour fulcrum]

again this is more of a nitpick but wording is pretty important in troubleshooting

[grand snow]

I earlier said "static data" as we expect configuration data about enemies to mostly remain consistent at runtime

[acoustic belfry]

but why would you need that data btw?

no offense

cuz im the one confused and dumb

[grand snow]

If i want to show all enemies in some user interface I can look at my list of EnemyData and do it dynamically

[sour fulcrum]

if your trying your not dumb

[warm palm]

Are you comparing someone to a baby or something for being a complete beginner that knows nothing about Unity?

[acoustic belfry]

thx ✨

[warm palm]

Spoon feed wtf is that

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, but like, I hate that if I add a new item to the enum, it has to be at the end of it, cause else the whole project get messed up with stuff that had a value for it assigned in the inspector, it's kinda unnecesarely shitty tbh

[acoustic belfry]

i have all info i wanna show on my UI manager

MoonManager (name's related to lore)

[rough granite]

i feel like this should be self explanatory

[sour fulcrum]

The trick is to not use as many enums 😄

[acoustic belfry]

i think it means to give you the thing in a golden plate

i mean

give you all stuff easily

[rough granite]

no it means to not just give out answers but let the person asking to learn their mistake and fix it themself guided by others

[grand snow]

yea but you seem to be unable to work out how to simply show unlocked enemies in this so you have clearly designed it badly
you came here to ask for help. I have worked on many games with external data configuration and there is a reason why its done this way...

[acoustic belfry]

just saying what i think it means

[grand snow]

god damn please guys stop

[acoustic belfry]

so i have to put all information on my Static Script?

lets call it Memories

[delicate portal]

Hey what can I do about this?

[sour fulcrum]

scripts cannot be static

[acoustic belfry]

i mean

the script that exist forever, this thing, y'know what i mean

[grand snow]

I think i have given you all the help I can. With good design we can make UI reactive to game configuration and game state without too much effort.

[acoustic belfry]

i mean

[sour fulcrum]

instance or object is the term you wanna use there

[acoustic belfry]

the script that the singleton has

[sour fulcrum]

the script is just the file with the code in it

[grand snow]

Sorry for being the only one actually wanting to help you 😆

[acoustic belfry]

its ok xdn't

[sour fulcrum]

im trying to help a different thing 😔

[acoustic belfry]

i mean, the UI in theory works, everything works, is just the unlockable part that sucks

[grand snow]

Yea as I said, you probably designed it in a bad way that makes this simple task (change some visibility or style to reflect some unlock state) hard

[acoustic belfry]

but i mean, why?

this is the code btw

[grand snow]

you tell me because I cant see what you have done soo far

[acoustic belfry]

  {
      if (cassielIndexType == 0)
      {
          if (cassielIndex == 0)
          {
              cassielJournalName.text = "Bitácora de Cassiel";
              cassielJournalDesc.text = "El acceso a la informacion almacenada en la Base de Datos de Cassiel. Aqui puedes leer informacion sobre las leyendas que encuentras, la historia de gente que conoces, o como derrotar a los enemigos y sus significados";
          }
      }
      else if (cassielIndexType == 1)
      {
          if (cassielIndex == 0)
          {
              cassielJournalName.text = "Prismas";
              cassielJournalDesc.text = "Infodumping";
          }
      }
      else if (cassielIndexType == 2)
      {
          if (cassielIndex == 0)
          {
              cassielJournalName.text = "Valeria";
              cassielJournalDesc.text = "Infodumping sobre los personajes";
          }
      }
      else if (cassielIndexType == 3)
      {
          if (cassielIndex == 0)
          {
              cassielJournalName.text = "Mortem Trooper";
              cassielJournalDesc.text = "saracatunga";
          }
      }
  }

  public void setCassielStyle(int cassielJournalStyle)
  {
      cassielIndexType = cassielJournalStyle;
  }

  public void setCassielIndex( int index)
  {
      cassielIndex = index;
  }

[sour fulcrum]

piratesoftware

[grand snow]

yea that looks terrible, hard coded data using ints?

[acoustic belfry]

wat

[acoustic belfry]

;-;

[delicate portal]

anybody knows what can I do about this?

[acoustic belfry]

sorry

[naive pawn]

hey lists and dicts exist btw

[acoustic belfry]

dicts?

[rich ice]

not a code question

[delicate portal]

what is it then?

[rich ice]

shader error, ask in

#1390346776804069396

-# guh, new keyboard, # and enter key are swapped

[grand snow]

@acoustic belfry
You can have a scriptable object type that is used to define the name and description for all these "cassiel" things and dynamically show this data:
#💻┃code-beginner message
https://unity.com/how-to/architect-game-code-scriptable-objects ⬅️

[rough granite]

Dictionary you can keep data in key, value pairs so they are easily referenced

[acoustic belfry]

oh!

[delicate portal]

how do you do this

[rich ice]

no clue, manufacturer just gave up half way through designing it i guess

[delicate portal]

no I mean how do you make that formatting text mate

[rich ice]

god damn it again

[delicate portal]

😄

[rich ice]

-#

[acoustic belfry]

but what would list do in the operation?

[acoustic belfry]

but how do i make an scriptable object, in here says how i can use it, but not how to make one

[grand snow]

You make your new scriptable object class type. You then give it the [CreateAssetMenu] attribute. This lets you make a new asset of your scriptable object in your project. Then you can edit the asset to give it the data you want (e.g name, description text)

Scriptable objects are a custom asset essentially that hold data and references to other assets

[sour fulcrum]

They are like materials where they are assets in your project except you decide what goes in them

[acoustic belfry]

the reference part is the one i get trouble

[grand snow]

I presume you are having trouble thinking how to "reference all of these assets"
You can have a serialize list on your UI script and assign them all there

E.g a list of weapon scriptable objects

THEN we have access to all of our data

[acoustic belfry]

what exactly ScriptableObjects do?
you mean i just reference it drag and drop like other all objects i have?

[sour fulcrum]

Like materials 😄

[grand snow]

Yea because you create assets of the scriptable object in your project

Using the right click create assets menu

Like when you create a new material we instead create a new "cassiel" instance

No idea what that is

[acoustic belfry]

is the only way i know, i dont know other, and putting important lore stuff on the editor i feel it slighty volatile cuz what if something goes wrong with the proyect, meanwhile if all infodumping is on the script is safe

[grand snow]

Its no safer in a script file

[acoustic belfry]

i dont know how materials work, and cassiel is the name of the codex

[grand snow]

you should be using source control to back up your project

e.g git or unity version control

then your data will be safe

[naive pawn]

it would make the entire if tree unnecessary

[acoustic belfry]

h o w ?

[acoustic belfry]

richt click where

[grand snow]

HERE

e.g.

yay new assets

[acoustic belfry]

oooh on the scriptable part

[grand snow]

yay data

[acoustic belfry]

is below monobehaviour

[grand snow]

you need [CreateAssetMenu] for that menu option to exist

[CreateAssetMenu]
public class TestScriptableObject : ScriptableObject
{
    public string name;
    public string desc;
}

[acoustic belfry]

btw what diferences scriptableObject and Monobehaviour i know is big, but im gertting slighty confused

[acoustic belfry]

ok

[grand snow]

scriptable objects are assets
mono behaviours are components

[acoustic belfry]

oooooooooooooooooooh

[grand snow]

now go my child and fix your data problem with scriptable objects ✨

[acoustic belfry]

ok

but i still got confused on the activate-deactivate buttons thingy, the scriptableObject will just for make my wiki code dont suck

but ok

[sour fulcrum]

you didn’t explain the one thingo about data in scriptableobjects

[acoustic belfry]

wat

[acoustic belfry]

they did, i guess

[sour fulcrum]

Data in them doesn’t reset when you exit play mode

ScriptableObjects are good for things that are not going to change throughout the game

[acoustic belfry]

wait what

data in them dont reset?

then for what do static objects EVEN EXIST?!!

i got confused

i mean

scriptableObject's data is eternal?

[sour fulcrum]

well no

[acoustic belfry]

t h e n

[sour fulcrum]

in a component, if you put a value in the inspector 2 to, then play the game, the code changes it to 9, you exit the game, the value is back to 2

[acoustic belfry]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

so makes static values eternal

sounds good

[sour fulcrum]

you know what sure 😄

try them out you'll figure it out

[acoustic belfry]

but yeah, then yea staticObjects are still usefull tho... xd

[sour fulcrum]

static references!!

objects are not static 😄

[acoustic belfry]

yeah that

static references

[sour fulcrum]

😄

[acoustic belfry]

[teal viper]

SOs are immutable in the game. Not during editing time. Playing in the editor is part of the "editing time".

[acoustic belfry]

wat

[grand snow]

Yea they should be used to configure data in editor and just read at runtime

[acoustic belfry]

like the info of a wiki

[grand snow]

Such as doing game configuration for things like weapons or spells or a wiki of data

[sour fulcrum]

it's a good example yeah

[woven dawn]

Hey can anyone pls recommend a good tutorial where I can learn Unity C#

[acoustic belfry]

btw just asking, what diferences exactly would do, i mean what improvements i will see, if i replace the journal's hardcoded data with the scriptableobject data?

cuz i mean, the code would just be similar just that for the text it would reference the scriptableObject

[grand snow]

Your UI can be constructed at runtime, you can make an element for each scriptable object asset meaning it's much easier to maintain

[acoustic belfry]

Makes sense. Well, thanks

[grand snow]

Because the data is in one place it can be referenced in many places
Do make sure you look into source control to correctly back up your project so you don't loose data

[rustic stump]

anyone know how i access these settings? they are greyed out for some reason#

[slender nymph]

not a code question. and the built in materials are readonly, you need to create a copy of it and modify that copy

[polar acorn]

You can't edit the default material. Create one and assign it to this object

[rustic stump]

Oh, sorry

[sharp mirage]

whys this thicker than usual

[polar acorn]

press insert

[acoustic belfry]

But what if i dont need it in any places

[grand snow]

thats okay, its a lot better than what you were doing before

the situation may arrise and then you will be glad

[acoustic belfry]

But also something that i feel slighty odd

Ok, the Information is on the ScriptableObject. How i can make the Journal on the UI manager use it?

It would be the same Int tree
Just that instead of hardcoded text, it would be

Desc.text = ScriptableJournal.Desc;
?

[grand snow]

Make an element via Instantiate() for each journal and initialize it:

public void Init(ScriptableJournal journal)
{
  Desc.text = journal.Desc;
//...
}

Presuming you have a layout group and or scroll area of similar looking elements

[rancid lily]

How can I check if StartClient() succeeds or not? Function is returning true even though there is no server to connect to

public void onConnectButtion() {
        if(int.TryParse(portInput.text, out int port))
        {
            NetworkManager.Singleton.GetComponent<UnityTransport>().SetConnectionData(
            ipInput.text,  // The IP address is a string
            (ushort) port // The port number is an unsigned short
        ); 
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log($"Attempted conversion of {portInput.text} failed");
        }
        
        Debug.Log(NetworkManager.Singleton.StartClient());
        gameObject.SetActive(false);
        lobbyMenu.SetActive(true);
    }

[eternal needle]

#1390346492019212368

[rich adder]

thats cause the bool returns if the NetworkManager itself was started in clientmode .
can't you just check IsConnectedClient ?

[rancid lily]

Ah I see. I've now found OnClientConnectedCallback which I think is what I need

I'm now looking for a callback which fired if it fails to connect

[rancid lily]

OnClientDisconnected does this, which is a bit strange as it was never connected in the first place but ig it works

[slender nymph]

#1390346492019212368

[rancid lily]

I've figured it out now so no need

[umbral bough]

Hey, is there a way to freeze the rigidbody rotation for a bit without losing the angular velocity?
If I set velocity to 0, I lose the velocity, if I freeze the rotation I lose the velocity, and if I store the velocity in a variable and reapply it after unfreezing it's not accurate as it didn't update.
Is there a built in way to achieve this?

[naive pawn]

well freezing would make it not accurate to the simulation, yeah?

you want to make it stop for a sec before continuing with whatever angular velocity it had before?

sounds like you would just do that - store velocity, set it to 0 now, set it back to the original velocity later

[umbral bough]

No, close but no.
I want it to continue calculating the rotation while frozen so when it resumes it resumes w velocity it would have as if it never stopped to that point.

[naive pawn]

so like, stopping the graphics but not the actual simulation?

[umbral bough]

maybe, depends on how you see it

if I was rotating for 50 on the x axis and froze, I don't want to resume after 5 seconds at 50 velocity on x but instead what it would be if the simulation was running that entire time, so maybe 20

[naive pawn]

so with damping/friction applied?

what is the context here?

[umbral bough]

yes

[naive pawn]

what are you trying to achieve?

[umbral bough]

I am controlling a flying object that can flip(with user input), and I want to stop that flip while the user is moving the mouse to pan around, but resume when the user stops giving input.
Not sure if it will feel good or bad just wanna test it.

I initially didn't change the velocity at all and that felt weird when user was trying to pan against it, then tried fully stopping it which felt weird when you stopped moving the mouse as there was no rotation at all so I wanna give this a try, lmk if you have a better idea.

[naive pawn]

oh god a UX question, im horrible with these

[umbral bough]

yep, so am I, I just try stuff till something works

[naive pawn]

im usually better at identifying/guessing UX issues than fixing them, so.. may as well try

my first thought is that the immediate stop/start would be jarring - so maybe smooth the stop/restart?

[naive pawn]

(with this logic, except with smoothing)

[umbral bough]

yeah, that's a decent idea, lemme give it a try

[rancid lily]

Any ideas why this is always throwing an error? portInput is a TMP_Text component

Debug.Log(portInput.text);
        if(int.TryParse(portInput.text.Trim(), out int port))  // Set the socket
        {
            NetworkManager.Singleton.GetComponent<UnityTransport>().SetConnectionData(ipInput.text, (ushort) port); 
        }

Debug output seems normal

[naive pawn]

what's the error

[rancid lily]

The converstion fails and returns false

[naive pawn]

that's not an error, but ok

have you tried checking portInput.text.Length to see if there are chars you aren't seeing

[rancid lily]

good idea. Will do that now though I did Trim()

[naive pawn]

there are some invisible non-whitespace chars too

i would hope they didn't get in there but im not ruling it out yet lol

[rancid lily]

yep 😅

eol? I would have thought that would be trimmed

And is there a better way of getting a number of from an input?

[polar acorn]

Ah this fuckin thing

The TMP_Text of an input, and specifically of an input, has an invisible non-printing character that isn't removed by Trim

Lemme check my post history for what the unicode of that was...

[rich adder]

OnValueChanged on it then keep track of it in separate string

put the InputField mode to numerics only it has its own regex thing built in

[polar acorn]

.Replace("\u200B", "")

It tacks on a \u200B character at the end of the input field. If you're ever getting .text from it, you need to replace that with empty string

[naive pawn]

ah of course, ZWSP

....whyyy?!

[rancid lily]

so I just used a TMP_InputField object instead of TMP_text and that works lol

[rich adder]

why do you get text from a TMP_text in the first place lol

assuming you had inputfield in the first place 🤔

[rancid lily]

I was doing it like this

[naive pawn]

wait, ZWSP is whitespace though apparently it isn't.

[polar acorn]

In my case it's because I'm generically getting info from a UI panel containing both fixed values and user-entered ones, so I just get all the TMP_Texts in the panel and go through them

[polar acorn]

For whatever reason, .Trim() doesn't remove it

[naive pawn]

because i lied it isn't whitespace

thanks unicode

[rancid lily]

so has a serializedField for TMP_Text instead of TMP_InputField and passed the text component in directly instead of the input field. I thought that would be more direct and therefor easier

[rich adder]

ohh I would assume one would have the values to the textfield , before displaying it to UI

[polar acorn]

In my case it's two different processes, one that reads in data and puts it up on the UI, and another one that exports it, and since some of the data is user-editable I thought I could just shortcut the process by letting TMP_Texts be the Source of Truth and reading them at export time

[umbral bough]

yeah that worked flawlessly, it feels truly good to use now, thanks!

[rich adder]

interesting.. first time I've heard, I'm sure you got specific needs for it.. for me feels icky in a sense , kinda goes away from an MVP type pattern I'm used to

[naive pawn]

first try 😎

[rich adder]

using playmaker

[spiral narwhal]

Addressables.LoadAssetsAsync<GameSettingsSo>(BASE_SETTINGS_KEY).Completed += handle =>
            {
                if (handle.Status is AsyncOperationStatus.Succeeded)
                {
                    DeclaredSettings = handle
                        .Result
                        .OrderBy(settings => settings.LocalisedTitle.GetLocalizedString().Length)
                        .ToArray();
                    InstantiateIfEmpty();
                }
#if UNITY_EDITOR
                else
                {
                    Debug.LogError("Could not load base settings");
                }
#endif
            };

How am I supposed to do this if Unity doesn't allow that? :( Exception: Reentering the Update method is not allowed. This can happen when calling WaitForCompletion on an operation while inside of a callback.

[ruby shoal]

What am I doing wrong here?
I am using playmaker, and I have a polygon collider2d on the object.
However, its as if the game doesnt even detect the mouse. Am I missing something?

[rich adder]

we dont even know how Mouse OVER works in playmaker context

this is a coding channel

[naive pawn]

purely guessing, but - it may be using old OnMouseOver events, which wouldn't work with the new input system, which is set by default as of v6.1

[rich adder]

OnMouseOver uses raycast for colliders no ?

[naive pawn]

i thought the OnMouseX messages just didn't work with new input system?

i haven't tested, but that's what ive been seeing other people say

[rich adder]

hmm let me test that rq

[frail hawk]

i had that yesterday, i think Chris is right, it only works with the old one

[rich adder]

yeah you're right

just tested

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.14/manual/KnownLimitations.html

MonoBehaviour mouse methods (OnMouseEnter, OnMouseDrag, etc) will not be called by the Input System.

[rich adder]

shit.. you would think they now put that on the OnMouse docs 🙄

[slender nymph]

they really should for unity 6.1+ since the input system is the default there

[rich adder]

"we gonna switch you to new input system but tell you nothing about old methods not working in docs for OnMouse"

[frail hawk]

would be something i would expect too

[rich adder]

guess now its a good time to click this

[spiral narwhal]

You could use both input systems

[rich adder]

yes, its just a weird oversight for unity not to mention this change in the new 6.x docs for OnMouse

you have to find it in the new input system docs which most newbies wont know about right away

[spiral narwhal]

Oh absolutely

[rich adder]

hell even a nice in-editor message
"we detected you are using OnMouseOver with new input system , this will not work" or some shit

[rancid lily]

Trying to make regex for ipv4 input validaton. For some reason I can type this in the input field, but when I go on regex101 it does't accept. Any idea what the discrepencies are about?

[rancid lily]

it's definitely partially working as I can't type letters

[naive pawn]

because that doesn't fit your regex

you limit consequtive digits to 3 max

[rancid lily]

Right, which is what I want

[naive pawn]

oh i misunderstood your question

[rancid lily]

but for some reason I can type 4 consecutive digits in the input field

[naive pawn]

yeah this is not a code question

use #📲┃ui-ux

[rancid lily]

aight thx

[slender nymph]

pretty sure that's validating individual characters, not the entire string

[rancid lily]

ah, it does say 'character validation'

[foggy marten]

Is there a way to make it so a script file takes all floats written in it with only 2 decimal places? I don't wanna use Math.Round() for every multiplication between such variables

[rich adder]

if its just for display use F2

[foggy marten]

I need them for calculation purposes, not presentation

[polar acorn]

It's generally better to just let the math happen with the real values and only round at the end

[rich adder]

floats preserves full precision until you round or truncate it

[foggy marten]

Yeah that is true, but some of them create veeery long float values, with .0000000001 thats throwing out my script

[slender nymph]

that shouldn't throw anything off unless you are doing something silly like comparing floats using the equality operators

[polar acorn]

Mathematically, that's basically identical to 0, how is that throwing off the math?

[foggy marten]

Well, about that...

[polar acorn]

Do the math, then round the result

[polar acorn]

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

[slender nymph]

yeah so the issue isn't that you need to change the math, the issue is that you are doing comparisons wrong. use Mathf.Approximately to compare floats rather than the equality operator

[foggy marten]

Well, technically I'm using the more/less operators, not the equality one

[slender nymph]

then if somehow regular floating point imprecision (which will not be solved by simply rounding the floats) is throwing off that, then compare with an epsilon

which Mathf.Approximately is doing for equality

[foggy marten]

Basically, In one of my methods, I have if statements, where it compares the current position of an object and the outer bounds of a box it is in

[slender nymph]

did you know you can use the Bounds struct for that instead of manually checking

[foggy marten]

Not sure if I can use that for my current script

[fresh rampart]

Can you tell me if this is optimized code, or else I have a memory leak?

[slender nymph]

i'd bet you could

[foggy marten]

Honestly, it's better to explain my problem with the context included

[slender nymph]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 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.

[slender nymph]

it almost always is because this ended up being an XY Problem

[rich adder]

if you posted the code properly..also are you even sure what a memory leak is ?

not seeing anything drastic that would cause memory leaks..

[polar marsh]

Hello I am new in Unity So I know how to use Unity because of Blender but I don't know about coding So I watched Roll a boll Tutorial on Unity learn and only understood some basics like Start, Update, Vector3 and Variables so many things I didn't understand so can anyone tell me what should I do next? Should I watch the same tutorial again Or something else?

[rich adder]

you should watch the tutorials a couple of times , its not going to make sense right away

[fresh rampart]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 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.

[rich adder]

check the stacktrace and see where they are coming from, otherwise you need to use the memory profiler or something like that to check

[rich adder]

you're meant to read it not spam the command again..

links for large code

this is not likely the code you shown

[polar marsh]

Ok I will try

[fresh rampart]

https://paste.mod.gg/kitmjmfegwnr/0

[rich adder]

also have you looked at these other one https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer

this is explains a lot more than Roll a Ball iirc

[rich adder]

not seeing anything here that would even touch the Jobs systems or create a memleak

after clearing log window do they show up ? did you try actually removing the script and see if the warning come back after clearing ? etc.
debug starts with simple steps to isolate where issue comes from

[polar marsh]

Ohh yeah I thought there is only one coding tutorial thanks for the link roll a ball tutorial was kinda robot

[rich adder]

yeah these are more detailed , you will probably have better luck.. Also yeah it usually takes a few passes to let it "click" its a lot of stuff but with patience and time you will start getting the hang of it

doesn't hurt to also do some focused on c# specific tutorials, unity ones is trying to teach you both the API and C# at same time it might be overwhelming for some

things like "what are functions, how do we write the syntax" etc. I havent seen the entire learn course but not sure if it covers those

[polar marsh]

Specific tutorial where? On YouTube?

[rich adder]

ehh youtube is a gamble. You can find the resources straight from the creators of the language https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/
there's plenty there too

I'd recomend you start with simple apps like a small calculator, atm system, or like grades for students etc.

[sour fulcrum]

specifically these are great because its

handle user input

do logic with values from input

visualise logic output

which is all games end up being if you reduce them enough 😛

[polar marsh]

These things will be same in Unity? Like same functions?

[sour fulcrum]

Unity might/will have varying prefered ways of doing things but you can use everything there in unity

[rich adder]

everything you learn there will be transferrable to unity

except for specific Console app quirks like Console.WriteLine etc.

Unity have their own function for that like Debug.Log

but the concepts and variables will be the same

[polar marsh]

I know how to use Debug.log so no problem

[rich adder]

good , thats like the best first line to learn in unity

make it a priorty to print everything you're doing so you can see your results

Console app is just quicker because you work directly in the "Log window" without worrying UI or cameras etc. Balance it out
now you got online compilers anyway so you can easily do it all in browser like the learn courses on .net

[fresh rampart]

When I turn off each script, I think I found a creak that causes me to get a leak https://paste.mod.gg/hranmwvnfmzt/0

[stoic summit]

is there a better way to do nullchecks than the wholeass if statement every time? seems really inefficient
but also I'm dumb

[rich adder]

no idea why it would unelss you got some weird recursion going on or something, how are you certain ?

[sour fulcrum]

Depends on the check

[rich adder]

wdym a "whole ass if statement" lol

whats wrong with if statements

[stoic summit]

they make me angry

yeah I'm just being dumb then imma say

[sour fulcrum]

You'd have to provide an example or two

[polar marsh]

Hmm I am using Vs code

[rich adder]

they are literally the base conditional for the language and most logic.. lol

[naive pawn]

if it's a UnityEngine.Object (components, GOs, etc) then you can just use the boolean conversion if you want a shorter version that does the same thing

[polar marsh]

Yeah I do

[stoic summit]

that's so fucking wise

[naive pawn]

no it's just... a shortcut

[rich adder]

VSCode can also do Console apps, the window is just nested in the app instead of a sepearate window like VS

[polar marsh]

Ohh

[rich adder]

just make sure you have the proper plugins. if you install Unity plugin it will install the rest

[polar marsh]

Yes I have

[eternal needle]

for unity objects, you need to explicitly use an if statement if you want to do logic based on if an object is null.
that is with if(myObj == null) or if(myObj) though i tend to write out the full version for consistency
For regular classes (stuff that doesnt derive from monobehaviour or unityobject) you can use operators like null conditional or null coalescing ? and ??

[stoic summit]

makes sense, thanks homie

[rich adder]

good , you should see it there then

[vapid copper]

yoooo nav we talked yesterday about the whole database thing

ive decided to go with .net and use apis and make web requests for data. currently its just local but if it were to go live id get a server or something

do you have any objections? or think this is a good idea

[rich adder]

yes this is basically what i originally suggested, its better to make a seperate server app to interact with the DB directly and only make RESTful calls

Your Unity app should never have Credentials to anything , especially a database connection string etc.

anything on client can be decompiled and stolen

[vapid copper]

ah i see gotcha. yea so the way this is setup is that its a different project.

[rich adder]

so yeah a nice WebAPI with .net core is the way to go

[vapid copper]

do you still think hard coding passwords in there is unsafe?

[rich adder]

not as risky if its just living on the server but should never store in code itself but inside environment variables / key systems

[vapid copper]

ah ok so something like azure

Ill probably just go with azure for safety eventually

[rich adder]

azure has keyvault or something like that yea , also if you use a VPS to host the api that can also just store it in the OS with ENV vars

[vapid copper]

ok bet

thanks man

[rich adder]

np. goodluck 🫡

[glossy crystal]

What do I need to learn to build a basic online game (using a client server model)? I’ve done a few unity projects, but my university coursework and internship so far dont have anything to do with networking so I’m lost

Is there a good resource or book that’s relatively up to date I can read/work through?

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@2.4/manual/tutorials/get-started-with-ngo.html

[glossy crystal]

Thank you

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I have a "serious" issue with a null reference, like everything was fine I didn't have wrong syntax or whatever when getting the component of the game objects and basically everything was fine, but at the end I found that the problem was in timing and what I mean is that the scene needed like 1 second or so to load the game objects and I had to create a coroutine for this purpose because I am currently on my project using data persistence approach because I want a game object to persist between two scenes and really the problem I have sometimes it that I cannot find what is causing the null references sometimes when they aren't obvious. What do you think how I am supposed to deal with them maybe some professional advice?

[rich adder]

check the stack trace

[sage mirage]

Yes of course but sometimes it isn't really obvious I mean it isn't especially when code is getting larger and larger

Maybe I have to use if statements

to check null

[rich adder]

hows it not obvious'? it tells you the exact line that caused NRE

[sage mirage]

For example now I had an issue

With timing

[rich adder]

sure but that can be a band-aid sometimes to a much bigger problem

[sage mirage]

I wasn't able to find the null issue

what was causing it

[rich adder]

on the NRE message? which line does it say and which script

there is no doubt except if you have multiple reference types on that line

[sage mirage]

I know that

I know all of that you say

[rich adder]

not sure I get your question then

[solar hill]

if im understanding the issue it sounds to me like youl have to set up a Single Entry point script

[sage mirage]

I always view console for these purposes

[rich adder]

little confused then on hows it not obvious which one is throwing

[sage mirage]

and I dont ignore errors like this

[solar hill]

so wait it shows where its null but not why its null?

or

[rich adder]

the WHY is for you to find out, NRE will only tell you WHERE

[polar acorn]

Code can't show you "why" anything

[solar hill]

yeah im aware

i worded that badly

[naive pawn]

the why is just, either it was set to null, or it was never set to anything else

[polar acorn]

The why is always the same - because that variable is null

[sage mirage]

Now, it was first time I was dealing with null reference that wasn't really obvious to me like I had to call a coroutine because like I said I am doing data persistence and the objects weren't loaded at the scene load immediately and I had to create a coroutine to wait for one second for example

Because I was trying to get the component of a game object and it wasn't yet instantiated at the scene load and thats why it was null

[rich adder]

yes order of events is a common issue especially with poor design

[solar hill]

single entry point

[rich adder]

thats why you typically would use Event

an event will tell something else when its "ready"

instead of you timing it poorly / guesstimating

[naive pawn]

haha race conditions go brrrr

[sage mirage]

I was using Observer Pattern for this purpose what do you mean

[rich adder]

yes observer pattern are events, so why not fire event when its ready and assigned instead of a random coroutine with a timer

[solar hill]

yeah youre on the right track with the observer pattern it just has to wait not some arbitrary amount of time

but rather until the scene is ready

guaranteed ready to be exact

[naive pawn]

the objects weren't loaded at the scene load immediately
yet you were trying to access them then.

you might have it in your project, but you aren't utilizing them here

[rich adder]

it would help also if you showed us which line and some context for it

there are other events that you can use but without further details its hard to make a specific recommendation

[naive pawn]

in general you should try to design to not have race conditions as well

[sage mirage]

Yes you are right I was trying to use observer pattern but it wasn't complete, I think I have to create an event and just do what you said

[rich adder]

yes even that can have a flaw depending when you subscribe to the event . Eg is the event firing before other scripts that care for it subscribing after, and so on

[sage mirage]

Yes bro its all about good design without proper design its hard and when code is getting larger it will be harder and harder to track issues

And I think that's the most important part of programming like really structuring your code that way, so it will be maintainable, readable, efficient and well structured for you if working solo or on a team where things are getting more confused.

Its easy to write code but 👆 this is the hardest part

[rich adder]

yes exactly , thats the million dollar statement.

thats an art in itself

[naive pawn]

that's why software engineering is engineering

[rich adder]

comes with lots of trail n error IMO . Sure you can copy patterns online but it wont be exactly specific to your project, thats best done for you to try what works and what doesnt and eventually make your own bones

[solar hill]

its the most important but also the hardest part

in my opinion

[sharp mirage]

!paste

what are the common paste sites called again

[rich adder]

!code 👇

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 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.

[sharp mirage]

alr

basically my rigid body isnt falling after i made some coroutine code

lemme paste the code

https://paste.mod.gg/bvumlqiokbgo/0

https://paste.mod.gg/erkixriqnrud/0

heres some other code which is sort of linked to the co routine but probably isnt the issue

but when i click play i cant move my rigid body or anything

[rich adder]

dont see anything in these two scripts that touch the rigidbody movement ?

missing context

[sharp mirage]

what other info would u wanna know cuz tbh im not sure what else to tell u

ok now its falling wth

😭

[rocky canyon]

magic solution 🙂

[rough granite]

Magic where :?

[sharp mirage]

it was prolly broken in general maybe cuz my roll timer and roll threshold values were 0 in the inspector

[rich adder]

where is the code that actually moves the rigidbody ? are there errors in console ? etc.

[sharp mirage]

all good now for sum reason dw

[acoustic belfry]

im sorry but what you mean via Instatiate, or well, instatiate

QwQ

[polar acorn]

Surely you have called Instantiate at some point by now

[acoustic belfry]

i dont recall it

sorry for dissapoint.....

[polar acorn]

Have you used prefabs in your project at all

[rich adder]

pretty sure they have spawned things before lol

[grand snow]

Its such an important function you really should know it
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html

[slender nymph]

there are 15 separate results in their history of them demonstrating the use of Instantiate

[acoustic belfry]

yep

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

you meant this!
GameObject nuevoProyectil = Instantiate(balas, balasPos.position, Quaternion.identity);

[polar acorn]

Yes by instantiate we mean instantiate

thats why the word instantiate was used

[acoustic belfry]

no i mean, i forgot it was called instatiate

i dont see this code very oftern cuz is inside a method i always use

[grand snow]

long day im sure 😆

[acoustic belfry]

so i remember the method and not the word instatiate, i just call it, spawn

[grand snow]

hopefully it makes more sense now

next time just google "unity instantiate" and you will remember

[acoustic belfry]

ok

is just that i asked chatgpt and didnt worked... heh, sorry

[thick saddle]

Hey I'm making a top-down game and for some reason my projectile only bounces off of walls when the wall is not locked in place but when I set restrict the x,y values of the wall the projectile collides with the wall and just stays there

[slender nymph]

show relevant !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 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.

[thick saddle]

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
    
    Vector2 currentVelocity = rb1.linearVelocity; //Get the current velocity right at the moment of collision
    Vector2 reflectedVelocity = Vector2.Reflect(currentVelocity.normalized, collision.contacts[0].normal);
    speed = currentVelocity.magnitude;
    rb1.linearVelocity = reflectedVelocity * speed;
    rb1.position += reflectedVelocity * 0.01f;
}

this is projectile collision code

I don't know if there is any other relevant code but the walls have a tilemapcollider2d and rigidbody2d

[slender nymph]

hint: log relevant info such as the velocity used

[cold elbow]

hello everyone Ive been struggling with an issue for so much time now, Im making a pong game clone, and the provided code is the ball script and a ball spawner script attached to a ball spawner game object, the issue is as soon as the ball spawns the ball stays still and doesn't move at all, ive tried logging the velocity it still prints a non zero velocity in the console so I have no idea what the issue might be, here's the relevant code:

omg this is so annoying I cant send it

it's too long

[rich adder]

!code 👇 Large Code Blocks

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 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.

[cold elbow]

heres the ball controller script
https://paste.mod.gg/rzbmmrbktzbl/0

[rich adder]

good game btw from your pfp

[cold elbow]

heres the ball spawner script
https://paste.mod.gg/nkygczkdsfgv/0

[rich adder]

show also the inspector

[slender nymph]

ideally the entire inspector window when you have the ball object selected

[cold elbow]

wdym

[slender nymph]

which part was unclear?

[cold elbow]

you mean in unity?

[slender nymph]

yes . . .

[cold elbow]

ok

[slender nymph]

ideally the entire inspector window

[rich adder]

simulated is unchecked

[rich adder]

hence the warning unity gives you

[cold elbow]

omg I have no idea how I didn't see it

thx

it works perfectly

[rich adder]

[acoustic belfry]

the thing is, the buttons are shared. I mean, thats what made all of this mess

[grand snow]

how does it look?

I just imagined there was some large list/grid that is shown which should be easy to fill with elements automatically

[frigid sequoia]

Does a dictionary allow for duplicates by default? Like two different keys pointing at the same instance as a value?

[timber tide]

keys are unique values are not

[cold elbow]

alright now im running into another issue

[timber tide]

but not hard to make a wrapper and make unique value dict

just a comparison

Actually no, it would require iterations

[frigid sequoia]

So if I make like a dictionary that basically is a reference to the id of a gear prefab and its prefab, the id string should be the key or the value?

Doesn't really matter much right?

[grand snow]

er the id should be the key?

the key is used to get the value

[acoustic belfry]

are just 5 buttons, shared, by all information

thats why the tree

[timber tide]

Ah, you'd have a Hashset for the values to make a truely unique key/value

[acoustic belfry]

it ain't pulished by sprites for now, so except it to look ugly

three tabs for the categories
5 buttons that change depending on the category
a display of Info
of a photo
and of a name

[grand snow]

Is there a reason why these "Button" buttons are shared?

Do you press one to view information about the thing?

[frigid sequoia]

A hashset huh? Can you expand on how that would work?

[acoustic belfry]

if not, i would need to make an army of buttons

i mean

in theory would be

5 x 3 = 15 buttons

[timber tide]

Don't worry about it. What are you doing? Serializing/Deserializing? ID key -> Prefab value table

[wraith coyote]

Somehow i'm facing a situation where lighting does not work out of the box. I wonder why. Anyone come across this before?
(the cube/plane is not affected by the directional light)

[acoustic belfry]

yes

[grand snow]

You can just spawn buttons dynamically based on your wiki scriptable objects

[acoustic belfry]

wat

but how would you positionate them

[grand snow]

layout group

[acoustic belfry]

wat

[frigid sequoia]

Basically I want to have the gear set to an id that can be easily look for when having to save and load, so I can give each player the gear they had

[grand snow]

oh dear no wonder this didnt make sense to you

ugui has horizontal and vertical layout groups to auto layout children for you

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/script-VerticalLayoutGroup.html

[frigid sequoia]

So should I use a hashset for that or a dictionary is ok?

[eternal needle]

a dictionary is good here

[timber tide]

Hashsets are dictionary-lite

but you need to map an ID to a value do dict it is

[acoustic belfry]

and how do i add tabs to it

[grand snow]

If all those "tab" buttons do is change what is in the button list, you can just rebuild it when you "change tab"

[frigid sequoia]

The idea I have is to basically make the gear, when checking if it's valid in inspector, automatically send a call to the dictionary, for it to generate the id key as the name of the item, check if it's on the dictionary already and if it's not add it and look for the prefab on the folder with the same name as the value

[cold elbow]

The attached picture shows the inspector for both scanners right and left (ball inspector is above in the chat), the issue im running trough is that when the ball goes trough that edge collider it doesnt detect the collision therefore the log inside the if statement doesnt get printed heres the relevent code, the ballcontroller script and the ballscannerScript
https://paste.mod.gg/wnzxyfxlnijx/0
https://paste.mod.gg/dlajkzkbydvl/0

[frigid sequoia]

Is this a decent way of doing it?

[acoustic belfry]

rebuild? how i do it?

[timber tide]

if you're going to ID by name you can just use strings but the proper way here is to generate a GUID for each asset instead

[wraith coyote]

fixed, i had to mess around with my urp pipeline asset

[frigid sequoia]

A what? How?

[timber tide]

So is it editor or is this deserlization save/load in game

sounds editor so you can use Asset IDs too

[cold elbow]

this has been the major issue which had demotivated me to come back to this project

tbh

[frigid sequoia]

The gear is meant to be added to the dictionary on the editor, when making setting the parameters and all, yeah

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I was thinking of this too, like each component already has an id assigned by unity anyways right?

But I don't really know how to access it

[timber tide]

So what exactly is this ID and what is it for again? Is there a reason you can't just use references as the IDs if this is editor

[frigid sequoia]

Not really, no, it's basically meant to be unique and faster than looking by string on the prefab folder

[eternal needle]

should be fine to just use this
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.AssetPathToGUID.html
assign this as your key string ID, assign the prefab as the value

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.html
That's what you usually use for asset lookups and stuff if you're making some editor tools

[grand snow]

update what the buttons say and do each time you change "category"
you could destroy them all and re make them or re use the existing ones (hiding extra ones and spawning extras if needed)

This is what I do for UI like this that can be refreshed with changing data

[frigid sequoia]

Mmmmm, ok, so this basically would give me directly the path to that folder in the editor, but I wouldn't be much reliable to look for that on runtime right?

[timber tide]

You need to hardcode the ID into the asset if it's at runtime

what people do is usually have some OnValidate method and grab the asset ID and make a property inside of the asset for it

Or just use c# GUID library and generate your own

[sharp mirage]

why am i getting this when i try drag the rolling script onto the object

[timber tide]

You cut off the screenshot of the editor there. Show below asset directory there

[polar acorn]

Make sure there are no compile errors and that that file name and class name match

[sharp mirage]

yeah there were none

[polar acorn]

Show your console

[sharp mirage]

works now

[sharp mirage]

all good

oh

now im back to where i was before

very cool

[rugged beacon]

how do i select one prefab to load from resource?
like with text its resource.load(Levels/level2.txt)?

[frigid sequoia]

AssetDataBase.AssetPathToGUID() would return null if the path doesn't exist right?

[rugged beacon]

yea
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.AssetPathToGUID.html

[mighty pilot]

Creating a train game where you are placing down the rails. Would anyone be able to point me toward some guidance on how I could do the pathing on that? It is based on a grid and the track could loop back around and/or split (with player controlling direction).

[rocky canyon]

probably could use splines feeding the grid coords as positions along the spline

have the train follow that.. the rest just sounds like normal tile placement (having bends, splits, str8 pieces and whatnot)

[timber tide]

yeah if it's a grid then I expect you to just have a bunch of railroad assets instead of generating it via spline

not that you still cant use the spline tool, but you'd use it to figure out the indices to build for what indices it goes through

[mighty pilot]

Alright, took a brief look at splines, I am not totally sure how I would go about feeding the coordinates in the correct order. The order the train follows and the order of placement won't necessarily be the same so how would I go about knowing what order to feed them in?

Also I do plan to use grid based assets for the visual part. Splines does seem good for smoothing the movement with corners.

This is 2D top down btw

[timber tide]

Another idea is using a texture too assuming there is no y

1 pixel = 1 index

but would need gaps between so you'd probably have some flowfield instead

[acoustic belfry]

thanks :3

[grand snow]

If each button gets initialized in some way you just do it again when stuff changes

[acoustic belfry]

but, how do i storage what tabs should spawn

[grand snow]

Maybe each tab has a script that has a serialized list of the scriptable objects it shows?

many ways to do it

[acoustic belfry]

simplier?

[grand snow]

that is simple

[acoustic belfry]

no i mean, you said there was many ways to do it

[grand snow]

Oh, well another way could be each tab has an enum to specify its category and thats used to retrieve the list somehow

but may be a bit harder for you

switch(tabCategory)
{
  case TabCategory.Shoes:
    return shoeList;
}

[acoustic belfry]

this seems easier but what this have to do with the button-spawning/despawning

this just makes the tree more organized

[grand snow]

you need to see the bigger picture of how this UI could work

[acoustic belfry]

wich is good, but not what im having issues with rn

[grand snow]

we want it to show a list of information and you can change categories from a smaller list of buttons
therefore we need the category buttons to update whats shown when clicked

meaning we need our data to be sorted by these categories and we need to know what to show when the category button is pressed

[acoustic belfry]

yeah

like the tree

just more organized

i just didnt used this cuz.... i dont know why honestly, but yeah

state stuff

[grand snow]

e.g.:

public enum Category {Shoes, Cats}

public class CategoryButton : MonoBehaviour
{
  public UnityEvent<Category> OnClick;

  [SerializeField]
  Button button;
  [SerializeField]
  Category category;

  private void Awake()
  {
    button.onClick.AddListener(() => OnClick.Invoke(category));
  }
}

often helps if we make a mono that performs the button task and holds extra information

[acoustic belfry]

i dont follow ;-;

[grand snow]

it may seem daunting and complex. I would write a large example but i dont have the energy or will rn

[acoustic belfry]

ok

[sharp mirage]

im getting a logic error with my rolling coroutine which is supposed to negate fall damage if anyone wants to look at the code below, first link is the fall damage script, second link is the rolling coroutine script
https://paste.mod.gg/cidcphdzgawn/0
https://paste.mod.gg/fchpxgiywwaw/0

[sharp mirage]

i still take fall damage despite what the console says and the fall velocity is defo not 0 when i hit the ground so i suspect its smth to do with execution order

[polar acorn]

If the log says FallVelocity is 0 then it's 0

[polar acorn]

If the player is taking damage, try logging anywhere you change the player HP

Find out which one it's happening at

[sharp mirage]

i sort of phrased what i meant wrong mb, as in if theyre gonna take fall damage then it should print the value the fall velocity was before setting it to 0

if that makes sense

[polar acorn]

It will print the value of FallVelocity as it is at the time that log runs

[grand snow]

this may help you a little by demonstrating a reactive UI but using pre spawned elements
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/grouping-and-layout-techniques-for-ui-components-2019-3

perhaps you can do the same, have a category field on your "wiki scriptable objects" and the category buttons show/hide things depending on what category is selected

[acoustic belfry]

oooh nice

[obtuse crescent]

I have started to try things in a different project but i cant get my player controller to work, i keep getting this error code : You are trying to read Input using the UnityEngine.Input class, but you have switched active Input handling to Input System package in Player Settings
Unity input package has been uninstalled for a while and yet its still telling me i switched to it. Can anyone help?

[polar acorn]

Literally just plug that exact text into google and get a step by step guide to how to change the input mode

[cold elbow]

any help would be useful

[wintry quarry]

You need to set your active input handling mode to the old system

[acoustic belfry]

thanks :3

[nova kite]

omg making a state machine for a navAgent is SO much easier than for the player

not having to deal with all the input logic and just have it follow commands in each state

i finally understand it now haha

[eager elm]

I use Cinemachine set to Follow. I move my player in FixedUpdate with transform.Translate(). Once the camera "caught up" with the player it starts to jitter. If I move my player in LateUpdate() or I cap the framerate to 60 or 120 it is fixed, but I'd prefer not to do either of those.
Is there a third option?

[boreal plinth]

Hi! I've taken a class on C++, but I've never used Unity. I want to import a function to a script to be used by another script, and usually you would do #ifndef, but I don't think that works in Unity.

I made an empty object, put both scripts in the object, and get the error message of: "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
DateDisplay.Update () (at Assets/GAME/UI/Scripts/DateDisplay.cs:37)"

[teal viper]

Either move your player in regular update, or let physics move it(via rb) and enable interpolation on rb, or implement something similar to rb interpolation in your own logic.

Setting the cinema chine brain to update in fixed update might also be an option, but it might not eliminate the jitter entirely.

P.s. Honestly using transform translate in fixed update sounds like a terrible choice to me. I can't think of any reason to do that.

[teal viper]

Unity uses C#, not C++

[boreal plinth]

Oh

[teal viper]

Start from configuring your !ide to get ingellisense and error underlines.

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[teal viper]

Then I suggest going on some C# basics.

[boreal plinth]

I use visual studio

Unless you're asking me to update it

[teal viper]

Im telling you to configure it/your environment to work with unity correctly.

The bot message covers that.

[boreal plinth]

Ah

[teal viper]

When you're done, it would help if you share your !code properly too.

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/

📃 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.

[boreal plinth]

https://paste.mod.gg/ivvigzqcwpez/1
I connected the visual editor and it doesn't see any errors

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of your VS window with any script open, like before so that I can see that it's configured properly.

[teal viper]

Still not configured. Follow the installed manually guide and don't skip any steps.

As long as you see Miscelenious files here, it's not configured

[boreal plinth]

Wow. So all I had to do was capitalize the function name 😭
Thank you so much for the fast response tho because the new editor did let me know that

And it works now

[frigid sequoia]

So, the GearDataBase should be a scripteable object here?

Cause I kinda wanted to make it a static clase, but I clearly cannot, sicne I need to modify their values lol

[frigid sequoia]

Could like make the SO kinda like an singleton to access it wherever??

[eternal needle]

Yes