💻┃code-beginner

[limber turtle]

aron's a* doesn't work with platformers, i think. unless you mean just using them for the more intelligent flying enemies in which case yeah that should be doable

[hexed terrace]

I don't see why the genre matters.

grounded enemies, going left and right.. why would they need path finding?

[limber turtle]

fair enough

all i would need to make them do is jump at walls or ledges

that's if i even want them to jump

hollow knight got away with it, right?

[hexed terrace]

no idea

[limber turtle]

hollow knight enemies are very stupid outside of the bosses and big enemies

some of them just kinda walk or run at you

not much else

some of them don't even do that, they just act like mario enemies

i'll get on with aron's a* for now then

since flying enemies need to actually know what the hell they're doing

[kind cave]

I was never this hopeless, I had push notifications but now it no longer works and I still don't know why... In logcat it throws java internal error and then it hangs. I tried to re-upload google-services.json and checked settings several times but still nothing

[grand snow]

i presume this is firebase?

[kind cave]

Unity Push notifications package, and yeah, it is powered by firebase

[grand snow]

These are 2 different things

the unity package lets you schedule notifications locally, firebase lets you push notifications over the internet

[kind cave]

That's mobile notifications package, something different

[grand snow]

Oh the unity cloud one?

[kind cave]

Yes

[grand snow]

strange, why do they do it via firebase when you can just use firebase for this to begin with...

Make sure that external dep manager is working correctly and if using proguard then you need custom user rules to prevent issues

[kind cave]

I checked it, force resolved it and in building process it didn't throw any errors

[grand snow]

Whats the error it gives?

[kind cave]

Let me check

[limber turtle]

if i'm making a grid graph for a roguelike game with multiple rooms like tboi, should i have the grid encompass the whole area where rooms could possibly generate or should i change the grid based on where my rooms are located during generation?

i feel like the former would be far easier but the latter would possibly be more useful

[rocky canyon]

tough call then

i like my grids to extend out into the fog of war

but its just all about what u plan for ur game.. make it easier on urself if u can

[limber turtle]

alright

i think my rooms should be generated as units on a 6x6 grid so i should just be able to multiply out for the width i want

but i haven't even gotten to generation yet so i could just make sure i know what i'm doing with the one room

[kind cave]

Here. 2025.09.27 16:10:07.257 6261 6362 Error Unity at com.unity.androidnotifications.UnityNotificationManager.initialize(UnityNotificationManager.java:106)

[grand snow]

How unhelpful 😂

[kind cave]

Wait, that was not full, sorry. ```2025.09.27 16:10:07.257 6261 6362 Error Unity at com.unity.androidnotifications.UnityNotificationManager.initialize(UnityNotificationManager.java:106)
2025.09.27 16:10:07.257 6261 6362 Error Unity at com.unity.androidnotifications.UnityNotificationManager.getNotificationManagerImpl(UnityNotificationManager.java:129)
2025.09.27 16:10:07.257 6261 6362 Error Unity at UnityEngine.AndroidJNISafe.CheckException () [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0
2025.09.27 16:10:07.257 6261 6362 Error Unity at UnityEngine.AndroidJNISafe.CallStaticObjectMethod (System.IntPtr clazz, System.IntPtr methodID, System.Span`1[T] args) [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0
2025.09.27 16:10:07.257 6261 6362 Error Unity at UnityEngine.AndroidJavaObject._CallStatic[ReturnType] (System.IntPtr methodID, System.Object[] args) [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0
2025.09.27 16:10:07.257 6261 6362 Error Unity at Unity.Notifications.Android.AndroidNotificationCenter.Initialize () [0x00000] in <00000000000000000000000000000000>:0
2025.09.27 16:10:07.257 6261 6362 Error Unity at Unity.Notifications

[grand snow]

Maybe this is a class not found issue but the error doesn't really say anything specific

[kind cave]

Yeah, it's a logcat error

So I also don't know where the issue is

I tried lowering the version from 4.0.2 to 4.0.1, we will see what happens now

[patent kite]

Sorry if this is the inckrrect tab to place this but Im working on a horde AI system but im pretty unskilled and unknowledgable in the grand scheme of game design. Is there any AI experts willing to DM me to go over what ive built? I want to know if what i have is original and feasible or if I just rediscovered old tech that isn't used for some reason. Currently, in my unoptimized state, I can have 200 capsule enemies on the map and fully active with a dip to 45fps. None of them have a behavior tree or a FSM on them. I think its a clever system but I am very far from an expert. Barely even a hobbyist. I just want to know if what I have is worth pursuing before I push to optimize it and try to make it better.

[limber turtle]

do you normally have the nav grid nodes on the corners of tiles in tilemaps or in the middle? i'm not sure which one i would need for what i want

[rocky canyon]

nah i typically just grab the vector of the tile

[limber turtle]

oh

[rocky canyon]

i dont actually use th tilemap system so anything related to that im unsure of sorry

[limber turtle]

i don't know how to do that, i've only just started using aron granberg's a* solution

[fading barn]

It's a weird question but is it ok to use chatgpt for making unity scripts? Or should I code everything myself. As long as I know what scripts are doing is it ok for me to use LLMs to generate code to speed up development process as a solo developer. Or is chatgpt bad for optimized code/ steals code from open source projects so is wrong to use?

[limber turtle]

i wouldn't, personally

[cosmic quail]

it's bad

[limber turtle]

learning the code for yourself is both far more satisfying and lets you do far more later on

[rocky canyon]

its great as as tool..
i wouldn't have it generate code for u tho

[limber turtle]

skipping out on that for what boils down to something that googles simple solutions to what it thinks you're trying to do isn't a good idea

[rocky canyon]

use it to brainstorm..
learn of concepts and terminology
maybe have it refactor ur own code..
but i wouldnt trust its hallucinations

[hot wadi]

Use AI to learn, and develop your own skills

[limber turtle]

besides, if it gets anything wrong then it would probably just self destruct

[rocky canyon]

its a snowball

1 little bity mistake will just get worse and worse unless u hold its hand

[polar acorn]

If you're going to need to learn the things well enough to fact check it why not just cut out the middleman and use that knowledge to just make it correct without consulting the spam oracle?

[rocky canyon]

also https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1352599815770341479

if u learn how a chatbot actually works its almost incredible it can build any script

[fading barn]

I know how to code but like I know gameobjects are made of components and I can add components make custom components and manipulate components and gameobjects but for eg I am building a flight sim I have not studied physics and on my own would end up copy pasting a tutorial or open source code so instead should I use chatgpt as it can give me more personalized results

[polar acorn]

If you're intending to make a flight sim you're gonna need to learn the physics

there's not really a way around that

Or at least hire someone who knows the physics

[limber turtle]

chatgpt can be used as a tool to learn, but never to do in this case

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exf8TkLLMPA
https://github.com/gasgiant/Aircraft-Physics/tree/master

check this out if u wanna build a flight sim

[hot wadi]

Nobody actually copies open-source codes and it works instantly

[rocky canyon]

its a really cool project to look thru and see how hes doing it

[fading barn]

Using ai generated code and tweaking variables to costomize it wouldn't be enough

[polar acorn]

1. How would you know the generated code is right
2. How would you know what needs to be tweaked

You're gonna need the knowledge at some point

[rocky canyon]

u might get it to build a simple arcade aircraft sim but thats about it unless u micromanage it extensively lol

[fading barn]

Your name is reversed cool haven't seen that a lot

[rocky canyon]

umopapisdn

[hot wadi]

There is a better way, buy a flight sim license from the store

Technically just the engine, if u want to skip the hard part

Nothing is free

[fading barn]

Asset store?

[hot wadi]

Yes

[fading barn]

Wdym license isn't asset store item called an asset

Are you referring to any specific asset?

[fading barn]

What does that even mean

[hot wadi]

Every asset has a license

[fading barn]

Oh

Didn't knew that

I am a solo dev

[hot wadi]

As am I

U should also study copyright law if u want to pulish ur games

Just the surface stuff

[rocky canyon]

upsidedown
umopapsidn

[hot wadi]

So u don't get in trouble

[fading barn]

Ohhh now I get it

[rocky canyon]

for copyright stuff just pay attention to the Licensing you have for the assets

if it doesn't have a license don't use it.. just to be safe simple as that

[fading barn]

Yeah I need to learn that like how to make something generic like a car that is inspired in design from a real world car but isn't a direct copy and looks different. For eg cars in gta games. How do I make it in a way that I wouldn't get sued from the car manufacturer

Infernus car in gta looks like Lamborghini for eg but doesn't infringe copyright for eg

[rocky canyon]

don't make any money 😉

a. they only care if u start making money
b. or, you somehow tarnish their brand / hurt their sales

all about that money 🤑

[hot wadi]

For instance, u can simply not put the logo of the brand in the model. They would likely notice the similarity but they probably don't care, except Nintendo

[rocky canyon]

but yea that would be something u should look up if ur making a car game..
and any of ur models have a "Likeness" to popular car brands

something to watch out for 👀

[fading barn]

Imagine having real cars in gta and being able to shoot rpg on them

[limber turtle]

is anyone here experienced with using aron granberg's a* project

the beginner's guide is telling me to use "Follower Entity" but it's just not there

[rocky canyon]

ive experienced it as in checking out its example scenes

[rocky canyon]

search for it in the project window..

it may not show up in the Add Component menu if its in a namespace for example

would be like Pathfinding.FollowerEntity

[limber turtle]

the docs aren't telling me the actual name

idk what i'm looking at

[rocky canyon]

if its called Follower Entity that'd be the class and filename as well

use Pathfinding when u look for it

[limber turtle]

https://arongranberg.com/astar/documentation/stable/followerentity.html

[rocky canyon]

last i checked they're all inside that namespace
using Pathfinding;

[limber turtle]

this is what i'm looking at

[rocky canyon]

ohh are u using ECS?

[limber turtle]

i think so?

i haven't seen any prompt telling me to install it yet

so i just assume it's installed already

[rocky canyon]

ohh, im not familiar with it..

throws me off a bit

i don't know much about it but i can install it and see if i can find it.. until someone else helps..

.. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[limber turtle]

it's saying this, i tried looking for ecs in the package manager window but i didn't find anything

[rocky canyon]

#🤖┃ai-navigation maybe guys over here would know more about it

[fading barn]

Is ecs only useful in games that have huge amounts of gameobjects to manage

[limber turtle]

thank you

[rocky canyon]

ive never used ECS

to me it gives me anxiety just thinking about it

[rocky canyon]

ya, i think thats the reason to use it

[fading barn]

Would a walking sim benefit from ecs

[rocky canyon]

from what little i know

[slender nymph]

You do not need to know anything about ECS to be able to use it.

[rocky canyon]

doubtful

but then again no clue lol

[fading barn]

What?

[rocky canyon]

he was talkin to Robaster i believe

[slender nymph]

that is in regards to the follower entity component. it says that right on the page that was linked

[fading barn]

What is lacking in built in unity navigation that made you use an external package

[limber turtle]

2d

idk how to make unity navigation work

[slender nymph]

they are using 2d which navmesh does not natively support

[limber turtle]

i've never really used it before

[fading barn]

Does 2d pathfinding even exist in unity?

[limber turtle]

i'm a he

i just have my pronouns set to that on discord bc i'm dumb

[fading barn]

They/them

[limber turtle]

don't ask me

i hardly know anything

[slender nymph]

there is nothing built in for it, no.

[hot wadi]

Tell us what u are to do and may be we can offer a simpler solution

[fading barn]

Doubt

[limber turtle]

:|

[slender nymph]

if the issue is that the component does not exist when you try to add it, it's likely because you are using the free version but that component is only available in the full, paid, version

[limber turtle]

if that was the case i'd have thought it would specify in the guide

it did for the graphs

[languid pagoda]

is there a method in unity that returns an array of GameObjects within a certain radius if they have a certain layer?

[slender nymph]

physics queries like OverlapSphere/Circle?

[languid pagoda]

Thank you

OverlapSphere exactly what I was looking for

[willow iron]

Is there a way to make world space ui more convex? Like for an old CRT screen

[polar acorn]

Render it to a render texture, slap that render texture on a mesh and you can make it whatever shape you want.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/RenderTexture.html

[tender onyx]

I'm trying to cook up a Half-Life 1 styled FPS game and need a little help with the weapons system. You can pick guns up, they all fire, and do important gun stuff. Only problem is my method of equipping different guns involves and int to simply activate/deactivate children of my weapon manager. If the weapons are picked up in a different order, the key binds / selection order changes.

Is there a good way to assign each weapon a dedicated int so it's always in the same slot (Lists, Arrays, Etc)?

(Or give it a dedicated child position in the manager)

[vale karma]

I cant find out why or how to get IInteractable called from a raycast. much like interacting with an object by looking at it. I have the code and reference here https://paste.ofcode.org/HUSvbVkGzHm3cCxZDn8ZqY

nvmd. LayerMask was private

[languid pagoda]

What is the process to make animations align with other objects?

like is the answer just to play with position and rotation of where the animation is played at until i get it where I want it? that doesn't seem correct

[half notch]

Hello, what is the best way in order to have a clean code, to have a player and some HUD (like health bar or something), going through differents scene (some different levels). I was thinking about DDOL which is kinda mandatory in my opinion, but I wanna know if using singletons is a good practice. (I precise that player and canvas will spawn each time the player start his game, to respawn where he was in the good scene)

[cosmic quail]

in the weapon script, you can make an int and change it for each prefab

[final depot]

Why can I not get this to work, I'm trying to tip something over when it gets hit, and it just ain't working.

I've got a duck, it's a 2d sprite renderer with a rigidbody, and a box collider. The "hit" on the duck is registering fine, but my code to make it tip over essentially makes zero change to it's X rotation.

public void OnHit()
{
    
    rb.isKinematic = false;
    rb.angularVelocity = transform.right * Mathf.Deg2Rad * fallSpeed;

With the fallspeed set at 30 (should be 30 degrees per second, so 3 seconds to tip over)

I also tried using the add torque option, and it doesn't seem to do anything either

[languid pagoda]

using singletons in c# in general is bad practice. gets even worse when using unity as it produces untestable code and also breaks hot reload

[final depot]

It will happily spin on other axis if I don't constrain it, so I'm wondering if transform.right is the problem

[half notch]

Okay thanks, so what do u recommend me then ?

[sour fulcrum]

singletons are fine

tbh

They are used very commonly

[half notch]

I'm developing a metroidvania game, so i think it can be ok to test code easily, because player can spawn where he rested for the last time

[languid pagoda]

If you do not want to use automated unit tests and the hot reload function of the editor a singleton will be ok but really do not see a reason why youd need a singleton for this.

[sour fulcrum]

no clue what your on about hot reload wise

and a overwelming majority of anyone coming into this channel is not unit testing

[half notch]

I guess it's when u update a script and u reload while playing mode is active

[sour fulcrum]

i know what hot reload is

[languid pagoda]

Yep

[sour fulcrum]

i dont know why they think singletons as a concept break it

[languid pagoda]

Then you should know hot reload breaks them

[half notch]

Yeah, but with singletons, when u reload, singleton is passed to null after reloading

[sour fulcrum]

so you use a getter that null checks?

[half notch]

yeah but if u need the singleton in the code u're currently writing, it won't work lol

[sour fulcrum]

no?

[naive pawn]

doesn't sound like that would work for behaviour singletons

[sour fulcrum]

oh they mean like hot hot reload

fuck that

[languid pagoda]

or you could just stop being lazy and do it right instead of spending more time adding bandaids to fix the problem

[sour fulcrum]

or you should know your audience

people are making indie games here

[half notch]

I just asked for a clean structure code for this kind of stuff I wrote guys, chill x)

[sour fulcrum]

unity's biggest games use singletons

[languid pagoda]

That doesn't mean its the right way to do something

[sour fulcrum]

and your free to hear it! Just providing another opinion

[languid pagoda]

he came in here specifically asking for the right way to do something

[naive pawn]

man what is going on lately...

it feels like so many chats are chaos lmao

[half notch]

dude idk i just asked a question, i didn't expect that at all

[sour fulcrum]

I just think mentioning unit testing as a major factor in the context that this is code-beginner is just not really relevant to the extent the comment implies it might be

unit testing is great but like

[naive pawn]

singletons (both the c# and the unity kind) are not bad practice, singletons are just a pattern
misusing the pattern is bad practice, and some patterns are easy to accidentally misuse - singletons kinda fall into that category

[languid pagoda]

If a patterns only benefit is convienance but it breaks features of the framework youre using it in its a bad practice imo

[sour fulcrum]

hot reloading breaks the features of the framework your using it in 😄

[naive pawn]

cool, but singletons aren't that...?

aren't necessarily that, anyways

[sour fulcrum]

also your kinda downplaying the value of that "convenience"

[naive pawn]

having a single static known reference to the only valid instance of a component/class isn't a "convenience" thing, i'd say

[half notch]

So if i understand well, singletons is not a bad practice, but if we can misuse, can you give me some advice to not fall in misusing the pattern? (sorry if that sentence is bad, i'm not really english 😭 )

[runic lance]

if you're not doing dependency injection and you're handling domain reloading (or lack of it), I don't see why the singletons would be bad

[naive pawn]

well, as russell mentioned, don't use it out of convenience
design the structure and logic flow, and only use the pattern if it makes sense (for example in the situation i mentioned)

[languid pagoda]

They''re brittle and cause hidden dependencies, you can also wind up with stale data in editor because static fields dont reset between runs, they survive scene swaps as well which can be undesired. you cant replace an implementation without editing the callers I could go on and on

You can make a nice cleaner solution with interfaces/scriptable objects that have none of these problems

[naive pawn]

about your original question, i don't think a singleton really fits in there at all? the player can just manage itself

[naive pawn]

static fields dont reset between runs
isn't that the point of reloading the domain
they survive scene swaps as well which can be undesired
that is also kinda the point of a singleton

[half notch]

So for example i have my player with a playerhealth script, and a canvas (the entire object will be in DDOL), i can do PlayerHealthUI as a singleton, to call it like PlayerHealthUI.Instance.UpdateUI(healthValue); directly ?

[naive pawn]

if they're DDOL, why not just maintain a reference to it directly

what benefit is the singleton giving you

[cosmic quail]

what if you want to reference the player from a non DDOL script?

[naive pawn]

that's.. not what the question is about

not sure why you're asking that

[half notch]

in my case, the player and the canvas is in DDOL

[naive pawn]

it's not even about referencing the player

[half notch]

so i can reeference directly ?

[naive pawn]

yeah

[half notch]

oh really, i didn't know that, that's crazy man

and if i load a new scene asynchronoously, it will work ?

like the reference won't disappear ?

[naive pawn]

yeah, the DDOL stuff is effectively in its own scene

[languid pagoda]

the reference will only disappear if the object is destroyed, and a singleton wont change that either.

[cosmic quail]

i'm just curious

[half notch]

yeah but generally I use singleton only if i can't use references

[naive pawn]

then a singleton might have a use - depends on the structure of your game

[half notch]

For example, a game manager script can be singleton, because drag a game manager everywhere can be a problem

[naive pawn]

for example in my project, my structure has "central" stuff in a central scene with a GameManager singleton (where the central scene is kept loaded, like DDOL)

the gamemanager then controls references to important objects like the player and the camera

there's a lot of ways to design it

[half notch]

Oooh i see, that's a nice point of view

And another question (yeah i have many, because i didn't see anything about this when I googled this), is it better to have multiple canvas with some objects in each, like one canvas for HUD, one canvas for pause menu, etc or have one canvas with everything

[naive pawn]

in terms of structure or performance?

[half notch]

performance, because structure might be quite the same i guess

[naive pawn]

iirc there's some stuff about dirtying canvases and batched draw calls in terms of performance, i don't really recall which is better

[cosmic quail]

yeah multiple canvases is good for performance, but you can have them all as a child of a parent canvas

because changing something within a canvas dirties everything else in that canvas

[naive pawn]

i personally have them in separate root canvases just to make it easy to modify them, but that's with my preferred editing style

[half notch]

U mean having one canvas component, and the children of this object are also canvases? i don't understand

[naive pawn]

your mileage may vary

[cosmic quail]

yeah that's what i meant. you can also keep them separate as chris said cause i dont think it matters

[half notch]

Yeah but having a canvas like this

Object (parent) -> Canvas component
- Object (child 1) -> canvas component
- Object (child 2) -> canvas component

The canvas component on the parent is useless no ?

[cosmic quail]

well keeping them separate actually requires you to set the settings for all of them, but the child canvas will inherit from the parent canvas, so it's easier to keep them all under one canvas i guess

[half notch]

Oh wait the text is really bad with the dots 🙁

[naive pawn]

just commit to the list!

- parent
  - child 1
  - child 2

[half notch]

Usually for my health part I wanted to use an event on playerhealth, and playerhealthUI listens to it on OnEnable() method , and unsubscribe from it on OnDisable() method. However, i don't think if it can works with DDOL

[naive pawn]

why not

[cosmic quail]

Object 1 (canvas component)

• object 2
• object 3
• object 4 (canvas component)
• object 5

for example this works too
if object 4 has lots of stuff happening and you dont want to dirty the other objects whenever object 4's children change

[half notch]

I've already seen some OnEnable() not working due to script order or some stuff like that

so since this problem i'm kinda not using those two methods

[naive pawn]

that sounds like a misdiagnosis

[half notch]

oh i see okay thanks 😉

[naive pawn]

OnEnable will be called when an component gets enabled, including as part of its parent object getting activated

[half notch]

oh okay, yeah I was using OnEnable() method with SomeClass.Instance.OnAnCertainEvent += Method
and the instance is not created yet

I did that for the InputController in which i manage all of the inputs, so i put inputcontroller before all the scripts, and that fixed my problem

[naive pawn]

so OnEnable is working, it's the subscription that isn't

[half notch]

yeah yeah true, i didn't explain correctly mb

[naive pawn]

if it's a singleton, could you perhaps just make the event static

i don't recall if that's a thing you can do

[half notch]

huh yeah true

I kinda really like using some event handler

[lunar coral]

hi,I'm moving a door by script, a script I've made months ago that worked really well,it's basically rotating a"pivot" parent gameobject of the door that's in a good position, but this time I've simply exported the prefab of the door from a project and imported it into another project and now, when I try to open the door, the door moves,I can go thru, but the mesh doesn't,basically,I don't see the door move, but my player can go through it and collides with the part where the door should be when it's opened

[dreamy scarab]

hi again

i think its not really a beginners code question...
but how can i show a object type variable in the inspector?

[rich adder]

you're going to have to show the full setup if you expect any practical help

[dreamy scarab]

only with custom editor?

[naive pawn]

you mean like, System.Object?

[rich adder]

"object type" is very vague

they're all technically objects..

[dreamy scarab]

lower case object

[rich adder]

would you mind explaining the usecase ?

[wintry quarry]

no

[polar acorn]

What are you intending to actually use for this in the inspector?

[dreamy scarab]

not the class one the variable one

[polar acorn]

What kinds of things are you expecting to set this to?

[naive pawn]

yeah ok that's the same as System.Object

but no, it's not a serializable type, unity won't serialize it

[dreamy scarab]

fck ._.

ok ok

[wintry quarry]

what aree you trying to do

[naive pawn]

this sounds like an x/y problem

[dreamy scarab]

im doing a custom if else system for nodes on unity

[naive pawn]

https://xyproblem.info (hence everyone asking why you want this)

you would probably have some base type that you've marked serializable for that, no?

[dreamy scarab]

ok, wait

[polar acorn]

Considering that you'd need an inspector equally capable of referencing "The enemy that's on the left side", "7", "False", and "The vague notion of a burrito", you'd need to have a pretty damned good idea for a UI for this to make a custom inspector

[dreamy scarab]

from the page i saw

im explaining things badly again

let me try again

[naive pawn]

take a second to collect your thoughts first

[lunar coral]

while taking screenshots of the setup,I figured out they were set as static, it was a dumb question, sorry

[dreamy scarab]

im making a date sim.

to make my other teamates lives easyer im also making a custom dialogue system with nodes.

the node system is tied with a scriptable object that have all characters data on it.

so every image, sounds are in this scriptable object and the node system has a quick acess to it, making it more easy to acess...

currently im making the characters savables (idk how to say it) stuffs... like how many times the player gives a flower to a character, if the player has done a X action with the character and so on...

from the idea of the game most of the variables are unique (not all characters have the same variables)... so thats why im making it this way

i was checking on the class insted of the node to see how the class i maded was show in the inspector

and its only displays the variable name

[polar acorn]

So, what kinds of things do you expect to set "value" to

[polar acorn]

Like, strings, numbers, etc. or are you going to have to refer to specific game objects

[dreamy scarab]

thats why im using object...
idk all the stuffs they want to place

/ store

/ save

from the node itself i can filter it and give it a proper field

[polar acorn]

You're not going to be able to design a system without first thinking about what kinds of data is going to pass through it

[dreamy scarab]

but i wanted a quick display on the inspector as well

[languid pagoda]

So am I understanding you right when I say you have a different script for every character and you want to use object so you can assign any of them to it?

[dreamy scarab]

actualy no... but in some ways yes

all npcs have the same class

to dont fuck with the dialogue display

but i needed a independent variable storage

let me give a example

[languid pagoda]

https://github.com/rybakatya/Utility/blob/main/Runtime/CustomData.cs

try this

and this goes in editor script folder
https://github.com/rybakatya/Utility/blob/main/Editor/CustomDataDrawer.cs

[dreamy scarab]

oh

let me give a shot

[languid pagoda]

I think thats what you're looking for

[dreamy scarab]

^-^

[languid pagoda]

just put public CustomDataContainer customData; in one of your scripts and check it out in the inspector

[dreamy scarab]

sorry for the delay, i had to made some ajustments, but i worked ^-^

tks

[simple hawk]

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

I was following a tutorial and came across a section where the guy made some code to make it so when the player hugs a wall and moves diagonally, they actually move (lines 36-60). I followed the code down to everything, but for some reason my charactter isnt moving, the input values and boolean are working but the character wont move, what did I do wrong?

[languid pelican]

Hi guys I don't know if that's the right channel to ask, but I am really trying hard to build my game but I am so bad at programming, does someone know how I can do a camera which works like the one in genshin impact ? I wouldlike to do a camera like this in my game

[wintry quarry]

look into Cinemachine

[wintry quarry]

you need to start debugging your code

what's with the #regions around your comments btw

And for god's sake don't write comments like this: //we need this method for the setbool code in playerAnimator, whenever it is run, it will return the value of the isWalking variable you're absolutely wasting your time

[simple hawk]

That's just so I can refer to the code if I ever get stuck and understand it better

[simple hawk]

How do u mean?

[polar acorn]

Put in some logs. See what the values of the variables are

[wintry quarry]

debugging is the process of using ddebugging tools such as log statements or a debugger to step through your code and see what's going wrong.

[simple hawk]

Oh, debug.log, mb, no idea why that confused me

[wintry quarry]

Debug.Log is one technique for debugging, yes. I just mean you need to debug your code in general

[simple hawk]

Ye, will need to do more research on that, debug.log is the only one I know

Thnx

[summer wren]

Anywhere I can talk about NodeJS and NetCode server handling? It involves a lot of C# Unity too xD
My project it is close. Just missing something and cannot pinpoint the issue.
Would appreciate very much if perhaps someone familiar with backend code could message about it, considering this may not be the correct channel to post in for backend coding.
It just relates a lot with my Unity project.
My issue is basically about NetCode Player synchronisation in Unity clients with NetCode.
Players they just forever go in the same direction from last input!
So one clicks D to move left and X+ forever

[ripe shard]

Nobody here talks about node stuff.

[summer wren]

Ah thanks. Is this strictly C# Unity channel?
Sorry just learning about Discord stuff xD

[ripe shard]

Make a thread in #1390346492019212368 and see if anyone there can help you with the unity specifics of your issue.

[ripe shard]

It is strictly about unity. And in unity-land, ‚nobody‘ cares about node. But some have in their previous/other lives, so you may get lucky.

[summer wren]

Ty for posting this channel and apologies again! XD

[quiet hazel]

How can I get a canvas Unity to adjust itself to the players screen so that if someone else is playing the game the UI is not all over the place?

[wintry quarry]

Read this to understand the basics of RectTransform layout: https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation//Manual/UIBasicLayout.html

Not a code issue though - next time use #📲┃ui-ux

[languid pagoda]

Why is it sometimes the door/hand animations sync and other times they dont?

  var st = anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0);
  var nxt = anim.GetNextAnimatorStateInfo(0);

  // Ensure we’re in the target state
  int activeHash = st.shortNameHash;
  float t = st.normalizedTime;
  if (inTransition && nxt.shortNameHash == stateHash) { activeHash = nxt.shortNameHash; t = nxt.normalizedTime; }

  if (activeHash != stateHash) break; // left the state

  // Phase = 0..1 in the current loop
  float phase = t - Mathf.Floor(t);

  if(phase >= 0.08f)
  {
      vehicleAnimator.SetInteger("doorIDX", vehicle.entranceData[idx].index);
  }

  if(phase >= 0.55f)
  {
      vehicleAnimator.SetInteger("doorIDX", -1);
  }

[wintry quarry]

This looks like the kind of thing you should be usinbg animation events for

[languid pagoda]

Not really an option with my current setup. The code that is applying the animation is in an abstract class and unity doesn't let you apply an animation event to a method in an abstract class

[wintry quarry]

unity doesn't let you apply an animation event to a method in an abstract class
Um what? This is an artificuial limitation if I've ever seen one.

At worst you have a glue script that calls the abstract method

it can absolutely be done with an animation event

[languid pagoda]

It can but its going to be a pain in the ass. Is there a reason why my current code is providing inconsistent results? almost seems like its framerate dependant or something which doesn't seem correct cause all the code is doing is playing an animation on a different animator when the currentAnimation is at a certain time.

[wintry quarry]

yes of course it's framerate dependent

you're trying to do things at specific points/times in the animation

but that's just not how frames work

this is precisely what animation events are for

[wintry quarry]

the other thing is there's nowhere here that you're passing the "phase" into the other animation

you're just starting it fresh whenever you see it

and since Unity doesn't have a fixed framerate, that's going to be at different points in the animation each time

you would need to pass in the actual animation progress and match it on the other animator

[languid pagoda]

All phase is is the current percentage the animation is at. in 0-1 range. Im confused why the other animation would need that info. I am just trying to play an animation when the current one is 8% complete, and then another when its 55% complete.

            var st = anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0);
            float t = st.normalizedTime;
            float phase = t - Mathf.Floor(t);

I guess that is why I am surprised its framerate dependant

because its going off percentage completed not time.

oh wait I understand now. If animation is running at 30fps and its a 60 frame animation it will take 1 second to complete at 60 fps so the percentage complete is going to be wrong cause its using normalizedTime to calculate it.

[granite cedar]

I am new to Unity and I am working on a program for school where I need to add UI that appears on the camera view and shows the buttons for movement, could anyone help me with this? I cannot find any tutorial for it online, although i may not be searching the right thing. Thank you!

[ivory bobcat]

If you're looking for someone to work with you, try collab

!collab

[radiant void]

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[wintry quarry]

because your frame is not going to happen at exactly those points

it's going to happen at a random point between them

so you will need to fast forward or rewind the other animation to sync with the point the animation is actually at when your frame happens

[ivory bobcat]

If you're needing help with something specifically, post the necessary information and question in one of the appropriate channels

[languid pagoda]

Yep this suggestion fixed it

Thank you

[shell orchid]

for some reason when i walk on a slope it slows me down but i can still go up them. when i walk up terraign thats high it stops me. Is there any way to make the slopes be treated like flat ground. the tutorial i followed had the guy go up slopes just fine and i have everything he has applied https://pastebin.com/NVf7eMiC

[vale karma]

Is this a bug? idk why i cant enter anything into this scriptable objects char variable. Why will it let me to everything else but this one char entry?

[winged ridge]

Are you able to convert them from char to string and enter data that way? Also why is there a bunch of variables on 1 line in one of your scripts, is this AI generated code?

[vale karma]

i changed it to a string and it seemed to fix things. Idk why it works in the last script im pulling it from but not in this one. weird

its not ai, handwritten. Im converting my project to Unity 6.2 and also upgrading some stuff and pulling it over is a bit difficult

[winged ridge]

It would be easier if each variable had a line, it may be a bug with char but odd if it is... If it works as a string and you are happy going forwards with that then do so. However if it's literally just for selecting states IE is state a do X then enum, that's what it's there for.
As for converting.. unless you went from pre 2022 to 6.2... a lot of your code should be fine

[eternal needle]

this just looks like a unity bug, you should report it and maybe itll get fixed later. theres nothing wrong with the code unless you're using some custom editor logic thats clearing these values (which id imagine you remember writing if so)

[eternal needle]

it doesnt matter if its on one line, its the same. its just not a commonly used way of declaring variables but has been valid for a long time and in other languages too
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/statements/declarations

You can declare multiple variables of the same type in one statement, as the following example shows:
string greeting;
int a, b, c;
List<double> xs;

trying it myself it also is a bug in 6.1 so its been there for a few months at least

[winged ridge]

I agree it doesn't matter, but for bug fixing and changing your code. It's easier if it's not and that's what I was saying.

[eternal needle]

<@&502884371011731486> spam

[eternal needle]

yea I never use it either, i get what you're saying

i dont see any posts online about this bug either so it really is worth reporting too

[winged ridge]

It seems an odd bug.. can they be attributed in the code itself and then show up in UI or as a debug log? Or is it just UI bug?

[eternal needle]

you can still assign the value in code yes. It seems that also allows you to change the value to another char but not actually remove the value (cant go from 'a' to ''). Anyways its up to unity to solve if they are merciful enough

im also making a bug report

[winged ridge]

If you can, don't forget the how to replicate part.. as obvious as it seems.. I work with buggy software daily and wish they had bug report features that allowed it

[autumn osprey]

hey, need some help with UI. i'm getting a null pointer with "object reference not set to an instance of an object." narrowed the issue down to the following lines of code:

        Text startText = startMenu.GetComponent<Text>(); //also tried GetComponentInChild
        startText.text = "text";

where startMenu is just

    public GameObject startMenu;

my goal is just to get access to the text object in here to edit it. what's wrong with the way i'm trying to assign it? getcomponentinchild is what most people are suggesting to use to pull a child out from what i can tell

[eternal needle]

something is null and you are trying to do something with this null object. your error messages will clearly tell you which line it is. If its the first line, then startMenu is null. If its the 2nd, then startText is null because theres no object of type Text on your game object

unless you're using legacy text, that should likely be a text mesh pro component

[autumn osprey]

oh it's startText, sorry for not specifying

oh wow i just really did not comprehend text and textmeshpro were entirely separate from eachother 😭 thank you so much

okay nevermind it didn't fix anything

my bad on that one, i think i may have implemented it wrong but i do think it probably has something to do with this

        TextMeshPro startText = startMenu.GetComponentInChildren<TextMeshPro>();
``` is what i changed it to

[keen dew]

TMP_Text

[autumn osprey]

thank you both so much it's 100% working now

[keen dew]

You can also just have [SerializeField] private TMP_Text startText; and drag the text element there so you don't need GetComponent at all

[autumn osprey]

oh yeah this is fair, main reason i wanted to do this way is because i have a handful of different menus, and they will each have a lot of text that will need to be changed within them from this script. i would need to drag every individual objs in

unsure if this is the most efficient way to change the GUI and i would likely alter my approach if I needed this for anything larger scale, but GetComponents is saving my life atm

[light cave]

im dumb

how to check if a cube and a sphere touches eachother

i put the script on the cube

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Basketball"))
        {
            //Reset the basketball position 
            GameObject basketball = GameObject.Find("Basketball");
            basketball.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().useGravity = false;
            basketball.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = Vector3.zero;
            basketball.transform.position = new Vector3(0, 1, 0);
            //Reset Score
            Bounce.score = 0;
            GameObject.Find("ScoreText").GetComponent<TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI>().text = "Score: " + Bounce.score;
        }
    }
    void Update()
    {
        OnTriggerEnter(GetComponent<Collider>());
    }

is this dumb chat

[versed light]

for graphics api you can render submeshes with different matrices is there a way to do that for mesh renderer or would i have to seperate the submesh to its own gameobject

[naive pawn]

if it's supposed to be colliding with the basketball, why not just use other.gameObject/other.attachedBody instead of the Find

[light cave]

because i dont understand this shit engine

[naive pawn]

you also don't need that OnTriggerEnter call in Update. that's not how messages work

is that supposed to be a deflection, or...

perhaps step back and take some time to get that understanding first, then

[fiery marlin]

Question, not sure if this is the correct place. I'm having trouble to wrap my head around a good/practical way of implementing a cutscene. Just to sketch the situation. There are 3 phases

• Intro - Includes flickering of lights and spawns an NPC
• Dialog - The player is shown text and needs to confirm to continue
• Ending - npc goes away and a menu appears

How would you approach this?

Edit: I've looked at using a big timeline for all the phases with a pause or time machine (austin 2017 - A Terrible Kingdom (Scripting for Timeline)), having different timelines for each section or none for the dialog. Doing everything with scrips, etc etc. Kinda lost in the woods 🙈😂

[hexed terrace]

timeline(s) with signals

[fiery marlin]

What tutorial can you recommend for this approach? I'm worried of losing overview if the timeline becomes too divided.

[hexed terrace]

I haven't watched any timeline tutorials for years, so none come to mind. If you haven't touched them before then start with whatever !learn 👇 has

!learn

[radiant void]

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[hexed terrace]

You'll want to find newer stuff, I think. Something from 2017 won't have signals - they didn't exist then

[fiery marlin]

Alright, thanks 🙏

[full axle]

Hey can someone help me with my assignment if you’re free

I really don’t understand collision with the coins or collision with the potions

[naive pawn]

ask about specific issues rather than "help me do my assignment" please

also, https://screenshot.help

[full axle]

How do I get a sound effect to play in the code and how do I update the inventory for each potion. Where do I call update data and game manager

[naive pawn]

those are gonna be quite specific to what code is already given to you

[full axle]

Wdym

Isn’t that basic stuff

[naive pawn]

as a start, you can use collision messages to listen for collisions as a whole
for 2d: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnCollisionEnter2D.html
for 3d: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnCollisionEnter.html

[full axle]

Thank you

[naive pawn]

i mean, if you think they are, sure. but there are multiple ways to do them, so which method is appropriate depends on how your project is already structured. it sounds like you've already been given a project with some scaffolding, is that correct?

[full axle]

Yeah we made some prefabs called “potions” but other than that there isn’t any prior information

[naive pawn]

you don't have a script with an inventory system?

or an existing audiosource, stuff like that?

[full axle]

Nope

I can just get an audio file from online but not an audio source

[naive pawn]

yeah an audiosource is just a component in unity, why would you get it online lol

[full axle]

Yeah lol I just don’t understand the coding itself I understand where to get an audio source

[naive pawn]

have you tried googling just something like "how to play sound effect unity"

[full axle]

Yeah I have it’s mostly just the update inventory and calling the update data and game manager that is confusing

[naive pawn]

you gotta ask more specific questions man

[full axle]

How do I update the inventory for the three prefabs I have

[naive pawn]

that wholly depends on how the inventory itself works

you aren't really giving us much info to work with

[full axle]

When the player object collides with the potion prefabs it’s supposed to add to the score of how many potions the player has in the UI of the canvas

It’s supposed to start at 0

And whenever the player touches a potion it goes up by 1

[naive pawn]

so sounds like you have an UpdateData method that is supposed to handle that

[full axle]

Wdym supposed to handle that

[naive pawn]

...manage the inventory?

what else would i mean

[full axle]

How would I type that out

[naive pawn]

you call UpdateData, the method that it's telling you to call, with the appropriate parameters

i'm not over your shoulder, i'm not psychic lmao. i don't magically know the entire project structure

if you can't figure out how to call a function, there are beginner c# resources pinned in this channel

[full axle]

Does this help?

[naive pawn]

not really, no.

images of screens are just horrible to look at, code should be shared as text, and this isn't even the context i'd need to help you lmao

you gotta put in some effort into understanding what you need to do, or at least explaining what you actually need help with

im not playing this game of telephone to tell you what you need to pass to a method that you know of

[full axle]

The game manager picture is not loading

That’ll help you with more context

Sorry where I’m at right now I can’t send the code as text

Is it making more sense now?

[grand snow]

!screenshots

[radiant void]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[grand snow]

you can use discord in the browser

[full axle]

Why would I do that though

[grand snow]

so people want to help you?

its unplesent to read code from a cruddy picture of a screen

[full axle]

No I mean like how does that change my ability to send screenshots

[grand snow]

then you SEND CODE AS TEXT

[rough sluice]

Do someone know why player is unable to contorl vehicle?:

[full axle]

Idk what you mean I dont think there’s any way to send my code from my computer to my phone

[naive pawn]

!code

[radiant void]

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/

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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.

[naive pawn]

you can use paste sites

[rough sluice]

Ok

[naive pawn]

you can also open discord in browser, as previously mentioned

[grand snow]

good lordy, you do it on the same pc 😐

if its not yours then try to use a paste site still

[rough sluice]

Codes:
https://paste.mod.gg/yeidjwemdduw/0

[full axle]

You’re not very patient are you

[shell sorrel]

they are simply asking to be met halfway, vs providing help while the information is provided in the worst way possible

[grand snow]

many people ask for help here. the one asking should try to make receiving help easy

[full axle]

Idk what you’re talking about because he didn’t help me with my original problem he told me to use my browser

[full axle]

That was a good response

[shell sorrel]

so code as a screenshot is terrible to read, and even worse in your case where its a picture. Its way easier for others to read and edit it, and talk about it with line numbers on a paste site or as tiny snippets in chat

[hexed terrace]

you should share the full class, not just Update()

[rough sluice]

Ok

Full codes:
https://paste.mod.gg/lyuranzzghug/0

[full axle]

Yeah that’s true

[hexed terrace]

your inputActions are setup for your player in Start() .. it's not enough to swap the player/vehicle controls components. You need to find out the correct way to swap input actions (ask in #🖱️┃input-system )

[turbid plover]

Im wondering how can I make or configure lighting on through script?

Im trying to make an impact frame and as for my past developing experience that's how I do it outside unity

[hexed terrace]

"impact frame" ? Like a flash of white ?

If that's the case, you'd be better off doing that with either:

• a white image (UI) that covers the screen and you change the alpha of it. Though this is a cheap, meh way.
• Use post processing for that "impact frame" and lerp the weight from 0->1->0 in whatever timeframe you need

[turbid plover]

Impact frame is technically a flash of white but it focus some defined effects and focus on the subject

Lemme explain how I do it outside unity

when I want to focus it to an object I make the saturation -1 to make it black and white and make a kinda like fog effect that's black to focus on its surrounding, then optionally highlight the focused Object

[polar acorn]

You are the one who needs assistance. Why make it difficult to offer any?

[turbid plover]

Now im asking if you can configure lighting through script hehe

[hexed terrace]

you'll be needing to do this with post processing then, and maybe shaders for the highlighting + other effects - possibly with lighting too

You can configure lighting through code. Your scene lighting won't be what you want, you'd need to have a list of all the lights that will be affected by the impact.

[turbid plover]

Thanks, really help

[full axle]

I’m not able to take a screenshot rn I said that

I’m not intentionally making it difficult I didn’t think people cared how I sent my work until someone told me since it’s basically the same thing just not completely flat like a screenshot

[polar acorn]

So then send the code as text in a bin site which is the preferred way anyway

People can't Ctrl+f a screenshot

People can't copy out a screenshot to their own installations to check something in their own setup

[turbid plover]

One more though,

Lets say I have a script that doesnt inherite something, how do I attach an object or define an object to that? Since there's no variable to pass it through

[hexed terrace]

A class doesn't have to inherit from something to have variables. You'd just access the class as you would any other and have a property or method with parameters to give it the values you need to

[eager spindle]

An example of a script that doesn't inherit anything:

public class SaveData {
  public Vector3 lastPosition;
  public float money;
}

You don't attach this to a gameobject. You can reference it in another script like such:

public class SaveManager : MonoBehaviour {
  SaveData data;
  public void Load() {
    // Set data to the data you've saved somewhere.
  } 
}

[turbid plover]

Yes,,,

Lets say I wanna get an object in a normal class, not in a MonoBehaviour class

How do I make a reference with that?

does GameObject.Find work the best?

[hexed terrace]

Never use GameObject.Find .. and if it's not a MonoBehaviour (on a gameobject), that wouldn't find it anyway

[eager spindle]

How would you create this object?

GameObject.Find finds GameObjects

[rich adder]

unles the class is like static, you'd need an Instance of it.. usually thats inside a MonoBehaviour or something

[shell sorrel]

depends on the type of design people are doing, very large portions of the game i am on are not using mb's

[rich adder]

hmm yea thats true depends on the project and what you're trying to do

but yeah Find is def horrid..don't use that lol

[turbid plover]

Alr

[eager spindle]

public class SaveData {
  public Vector3 lastPosition;
  public float money;
}
public class SaveManager : MonoBehaviour {
  public SaveData data; 
}

public class PlayerData : MonoBehaviour {
  [SerializeField] SaveManager saveManager; // drag your SaveManager in here!

  public void Start() {
    Debug.Log($"The player has {saveManager.data.money} coins!"
  }
}

SaveManager has a reference to SaveData, which doesn't inherit anything. SaveData has money property.

Since you have a reference to SaveManager, you can access the SaveManager's saveData and then access the money from there

[rich adder]

I usually have SaveData living on a DataManager singleton or something most times
so i just do DataManager.Instance.SaveData

hmm yeah so like [SerializeField] is your best bet usually, unless you need cross-scene or runtime references

[turbid plover]

I mean im just trynna do OOP for absolutely everything but what im thinking now is making new Class with a variable/argument we need for it to work

I guess this knowledge isnt that big of a deal so you guys can rest now lol

[rich adder]

that would technically be saveManager.data.money

[eager spindle]

yes

[turbid plover]

I mean yk them

Var var = new Var()

Yeah

[rich adder]

this is how you create a new Instance of a Poco yes

[turbid plover]

Yep so im right? good thing my Java and C++ Knowledge are helping me with ts

Does that work the same?

[rich adder]

c# is basically Java

[turbid plover]

Yea

[rich adder]

*improved java (arguably)

[turbid plover]

public class Class 
{

Class() 
{

}

}

Does it also work this way?

[shell sorrel]

i would say greatly improved java

[rich adder]

sure but you dont need to specifiy constructor if you're not doing nothing inside

[shell sorrel]

like java did not even have value types outside of primitives for a long long time

[turbid plover]

Yeah ik im just trynna see if technically thts the same structure

Appreciate you guys for helpin me lol

[rich adder]

speaking of value types, you also have struct you can use instead of class

[silk night]

But they have magnificently long namespace names available to crush any line length limit!

[rich adder]

its debatable on benefits but I usually prefer struct over class when dealing with just value types contained
also its more efficient / a requirement sometimes for net..

[shell sorrel]

look its jsut a sign your display is not wide enough

[shell sorrel]

well would depend on how its passed and mutated

[turbid plover]

Considering that I only knew a fraction of whole C family this is good to know

[shell sorrel]

C# is not really part of the C/C++ family

[turbid plover]

Really?

[shell sorrel]

its Microsoft Java

[naive pawn]

i mean it kinda depends on how broad you're thinking

[rich adder]

ya lots of things in software is
i' just so used to certain frameworks that prefer structs
(netcode in unity doesnt let you use classes for NetworkVariables / INetworkSerializable for example )

[turbid plover]

Ive cursed Microsoft a couple thousand times

[naive pawn]

syntactically, the c/c++ family encompasses c#, java, js too

[shell sorrel]

by that def more then half of all langauges are C family

that is like C or Lisp that would cover everything

[ancient quail]

Hello, I am new at Unity. Does anyone know why I can't set tilemap's tile anchor values? I cannot add a new layer because of this.

[rich adder]

mp4 to embed in discord

[silk night]

please convert to mp4

[rich adder]

also this is a code channel

[turbid plover]

Python is made in C, is it technically at C descendants lol?

[rich adder]

#🖼️┃2d-tools . #💻┃unity-talk @ancient quail

[eternal needle]

you can basically write stuff in java and itll be valid c# a lot of the time. The real differences will be smaller details like in how comparing strings work for example

[naive pawn]

right, and it's useful when talking about syntax, but not for say, ecosystems
different definitions have different uses

[rich adder]

we splittin atoms here

[shell sorrel]

i was just mentioning since its not a superset like C++ and works on very different principals and is managed unlike actaul C and C++

[naive pawn]

also syntactically there'd also be the if..then and if : groups

[naive pawn]

yeah im not saying it isn't like that, just saying "c family" is an ambiguous term that can mean a few different things

[rich adder]

all I know its a pain in the ass sometimes working with Marshalling and Goddamn C/C++ structs to c# structs 😵‍💫
...embedded systems..

[turbid plover]

Ahh at the end of the day it all just convert it to binary

[shell sorrel]

lol you have not done that in Java, C#'s version of that is like worse then like C/C++, Zig and Go but way easier then like Java and Python

[rich adder]

Yeah I admit I never touched Java like that so I'll take your word on it and count my blessing, still sometimes you're rippin hairs wondering why the hell I have to learn about how certain hardware deals with incoming data "offset" and things that affect the final data

"oh yeah my value for xPos is now 128328123" wtf

[shell sorrel]

well because systems are 64bit not 8bit

[turbid plover]

The first programmer was a woman prolly why we're all debating what is on or what is with lol ( no offense for all woman out there dont unalive me)

Peace be with yall, imma go out with ma baddie

[rich adder]

yeah and apparently even how macs and windows process them differently too.. all my data was getting different results on my win vs mac machine

[silk night]

Lets convert to punch cards again!
Where bugs are physical and the world was better

[naive pawn]

sounds.. fun

let me guess, endianness also reared its ugly face lol

[rich adder]

ah yea i think that was the keyword I think "endianness"

[shell sorrel]

assuming endianness you ran into

[rich adder]

now you somewhat know my pain

[naive pawn]

oh my god i just realized

[shell sorrel]

i have ported older games to new engines before, so had to get all the old file types working

[naive pawn]

damn that's way off topic, not sure i can adequately summarize it avoiding a tangent lmao

[rich adder]

I bet it was joyous wasnt it...

[naive pawn]

i once wrote a solution to a competitive programming thing and i used a char[] representing 48-bit numbers (32 bit had overflow, 64 bit used too much memory)

im just now realizing i couldve just used an array of a struct of 3 chars and that wouldntve used extra memory for alignment and i couldve had a method to read out 64bit values for math easily

[shell sorrel]

it always starts out slow with a lot of wtf's but you get used to it and a rhythm after a few days, any time i done porting or backwards engineering stuff

[rich adder]

true. luckily for this one project just dealing with some minor data transfer , I ended up learning a lot though.. made things simpler and ended up just using json for this one project since it was esp32 so it was easy to find a json serializer for it lol
in case they plan on using that data into another backend / front end like javascript

[delicate laurel]

I followed unity guide, but use Rider instead of visual studio. I have tried to add project Class Library inside unity project Solution, but it disabled in Solution view. Also it inform me that it deleted project, why?

[grand snow]

dont bother modifying vs/rider/whatever projects because they are generated by the unity editor so any change will be lost

and they have no affect on code compilation

[wintry quarry]

all that matters for the source generator is the DLL you produce

use a separate C# project for developing the source generator and use it to export the DLL

[mild furnace]

Any clue why VSCode makes use of ripgrep when tabbing back into unity?
Its maxxing out my cpu causing the editor play to take about 20-30 seconds. Closing vscode makes it almost instant

I've disabled all the AI features, and use of symlinks.
This project is fairly large but I've had no performance issues until recently

Iteration time is way too slow now

[hardy wing]

that is indeed the case

[mild furnace]

Should I switch to Rider?
I'm running short on time, tired of updates making tools unusuable

[hexed terrace]

Rider and VS are "better" than VSC.

Rider isn't free though.

[slender nymph]

well, it is if you're using it for non-commercial or open source work

[rich adder]

doesnt hurt to try.. I'm using VSC but have no such problems, are you sure its not some extension you got thats causing issues

[grand snow]

none are free

for individuals its usually fine but otherwise no

[rich adder]

ya VSC C# Devkit and VS both have the same license.. but at least you can do commercially.. until you need to use the enterprise edition

[mild furnace]

I’m using the suggested C#/Unity/Devkit by itself, no other extensions

Big cpu spikes on processes relating to ripgrep.exe every time I tab from vsc back to the editor

[rich adder]

ohh then thats..weirdd.. if it helps I havent updated c# extension since like May

[mild furnace]

I’ve turned off background analysis which seemed to lower the general cpu usage, but not these spikes

Idk if it’s the “hot reload” settings in c# dev kit

[rich adder]

sounds more of Windows issue.. I search ripgrep.exe some old from 2022 VSC forum posts also come up..

[rich adder]

idk about devkit itself cause latest causes me no issue but, I use this old version of c# maybe you can try rolling back and see if there are no issues

[hallow acorn]

hey what can cause my OnTriggerEnter not to get called?

[naive pawn]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[hallow acorn]

thanks it works now

[rocky canyon]

Rider is only free for non-commercial use
keep that in mind b4 swapping over

[hexed jungle]

hi

[hexed terrace]

this is a channel for help with code. Im not sure if this question is even relevant to this server.. if it is delete from here and ask in #💻┃unity-talk

[hexed jungle]

ok sorry

[frosty surge]

Hi guys, im from italy and i have some questions to do to someone who knows about netcode and how to do a multiplayer game.
Just have some questions about it and i absolutely dont want to disturb anyone, if someone want to help me, please dm me
|| (idk if i can ask this thing here, tell me if im wrong or something else) ||

[slender nymph]

#1390346492019212368

[polar acorn]

Also it's a good idea to just ask the questions instead of looking for one-on-one support

[frosty surge]

yeah i know that, but i wanted to have a conversation with someone about it

[formal swan]

Hi, I have just begun learning Unity, I was writing the scipt and an error CS0103 showed up. It said the name "spawnPipe" does not exist in the current content, but the name is literally established below this. Why is that?

[polar acorn]

You have a function in your function

[brave robin]

It's contained within your Update method, so nothing outside the Update method can reach it

[polar acorn]

SpawnPipe exists only inside of Update.

[formal swan]

what does that mean?

hmm how do I fix that?

[polar acorn]

you put a function inside a function

Chances are, you don't want to do that

[brave robin]

Move SpawnPipe() outside of Update(), right now it's within its enclosing brackets

[formal swan]

Ok let me try

How about now? Think it's gonna work?

[polar acorn]

[formal swan]

yayyyy its workingggg :0

hm the tutorial did it the previous way, so that was confusing

[shy iron]

Hello everyone. I have a good idea for a 2D game, I think. But I don't have any experience creating it. There are only a couple of artists.
If anyone is interested in creating my idea, you can message me. I don't speak English.****

[cosmic quail]

you sure?

[formal swan]

Thx guys! Also, since im still grasping the basics, the words in the script r sometimes colour-coded in yellow, green or blue. What do those represent?

[slender nymph]

!collab 👇

[radiant void]

:loudspeaker: Collaborating and Job Posting

We do not accept job or collab posts on Discord.
Please, use Discussions to promote yourself as job-seeking, advertise commercial job offers, or look for non-commercial projects to participate in:
• ** Collaboration & Jobs**

[formal swan]

Yea 👀

[shell sorrel]

the exact colors different depending on your editor and theme, but its just to help you tell things apart. makes it easy to tell whats a comment or a string or a keyword etc

[shell sorrel]

look closely

SpawnPipe is after the closing brace of Update

[formal swan]

ooohhhhh i see it now, it's so hard to catch XD

man, coding for the first time makes me feel dumb lol

[polar acorn]

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 193
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2025-10-02

[shell sorrel]

it does not come natural to anyone, and is a lot of information to learn upfront

it gets easier once you been at it for a while

[polar acorn]

192 other people have made similar mistakes, and those are just the ones I've noticed

(yes this is a real counter)

[formal swan]

lmao u actually counted

thx guys, it's rly helpful^^

[bitter bobcat]

hey folks, can yall help me a fix somethin, shouldnt take too long

[eternal needle]

!ask

[radiant void]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.

-# For more posting guidelines, go to #🌱┃start-here

[bitter bobcat]

I have this weird glitch where I built an interaction system, but it would only register from one side of every object

[slender nymph]

did you end up configuring your IDE yet? because if so i can tell you what your issue was

[bitter bobcat]

I think so

[slender nymph]

show it

[bitter bobcat]

how do I check

[slender nymph]

screenshot your entire vs code window

[noble rover]

trying to edit the unity starter third person template to work with root motion jumps what's the best way tot do this I can figure it out for the life of me need the character controller to attach the player when jumping or something https://pastebin.com/6JCw1Rms

[bitter bobcat]

did I do it ?

[slender nymph]

still not configured. https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code

like, you can literally see on your screen why it isn't configured too, so consider actually paying attention to the information presented to you

[rocky canyon]

yes ^ what box said..

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/animation/animation-event/receivers

[noble rover]

Oh i know about the error there im not actually using the animation event thats why it gives the error but has nothing to do with the root motion jump

[bitter bobcat]

Im downloading a net sdk

hope it works

[rocky canyon]

after its finished and installed make sure to stop and restart..
thats the best bet to make sure its fully set-up and ready

but from what little we can see the .net was the reason it wasn't configured correctly

[slender nymph]

the link i provided also has thorough troubleshooting steps to get it fully working

[soft lotus]

How do i parse a hex string (like, lets say "00ffaa") into an actual colour struct?

is there an easy method, or do i have to do parse it as individual r, g and b values and then combine em into the struct

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/ColorUtility.TryParseHtmlString.html

[ripe shard]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/ColorUtility.TryParseHtmlString.html

[soft lotus]

THANKS

[bitter bobcat]

K im back, lemme see if it worked out

how should it look ?

[slender nymph]

you should now have syntax highlighting for unity types as well as built in stuff

[bitter bobcat]

doesnt seem to be workin out

[slender nymph]

still not configured. make sure you have completed all of the steps. then go through the troubleshooting steps if you are having issues getting it configured
https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code

you'll know it's working when MonoBehaviour, Transform, Input, Ray, RaycastHit, and Physics are all the same color as IInteractable since they are all types

[bitter bobcat]

fucking finally

[slender nymph]

great! now your issue is that you are using Vector3.forward for the direction of your Ray, that's forward along the world Z axis and will never change. presumably you want it to point the same way your interactorSource is so use its forward

[bitter bobcat]

how do I determine its foward

[slender nymph]

hint: look at the docs for Transform

[bitter bobcat]

so I change it to vector3.interactorsource ?

[rich adder]

no

[slender nymph]

no, that would make 0 sense at all

[bitter bobcat]

I suppose youre right

[slender nymph]

did you look at the documentation for the Transform class yet? considering InteractorSource is a Transform?

[rich adder]

interactorSource is a transform, just use its direction

[bitter bobcat]

how do I do that

youll have to walk me through this one

[rich adder]

did you look at the docs like suggested ?

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform.html

look at the Properties

[bitter bobcat]

alright

lemme see

does it have somethin to do with the EulerAngle functions ?

[rich adder]

not at all no

[bitter bobcat]

localrotation

[rich adder]

you want a direction not a rotation

[slender nymph]

stop guessing and read what i told you then read the properties of the class

[rich adder]

only the "Properties" section is important, you can ignore the rest.. Look carefully

[bitter bobcat]

I can only find rotations and positions

dude, please

[slender nymph]

i already told you exactly what property you need, you just need to fucking read what i said

[rich adder]

hint hint: keyword you're looking for the word forward

[bitter bobcat]

Damnit

[rich adder]

based on what was said to you .. if its not Vector.forward then it must be.....

[bitter bobcat]

Vector.localrotation ?

[slender nymph]

jesus christ

[bitter bobcat]

Yeah, I get it, fuckin hell

[rich adder]

Vector struct is unrelated right now..

thats why Transform was mentioned

its literally one of the top results in the doc page I sent

com on man lol

[bitter bobcat]

InteractorSOurce.foward ?

[rich adder]

there we go..

[bitter bobcat]

thanks for the patience

means alot to me

[rich adder]

if you click the docs for it

Returns a normalized vector representing the blue axis of the transform in world space.

Unlike Vector3.forward, which is a constant direction in world space, Transform.forward is the local forward direction for this GameObject. Rotating this GameObject will change the Transform.forward direction.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Transform-forward.html

[bitter bobcat]

Yeah, Ill be looking through those and trying to piece it together next time

bookmarked the docs already

have a nice day

[golden solar]

Is anyone getting issues with fields appearing invisible in the inspector in Unity 6.2 (6000.2.6f1)? Happens often when I click on a game object

[slender nymph]

seems there are a bunch of issues with the inspector in that version. you can try restarting the editor, if that doesn't work then close the editor, delete the Library folder from within your project, then open it again and it should hopefully work properly again

[brave robin]

I'll have to try that tonight. It also spams a lot of errors to console related to its own inspector UI

[golden solar]

Unfortunately the issues still occur after deleting the Library folder. Same with getting errors log in console relating to the UI

[rich adder]

that version is probably busted

[slender nymph]

yeah seems that way, i've seen a lot of issues with it from people

[rich adder]

lots of people seems to be having issues with inspector not drawing properly

[slender nymph]

!bug file a bug report 👇 then maybe switch to another version and test that

[radiant void]

Reporting bugs

🪲 To make bug reporting as quickly as possible, we made a bug reporting application for you. When running Unity choose Help->Report a Bug in the menu, or you can access it directly through the executable in the directory where Unity is installed. It will also launch automatically if you experience a crash.

📝 If your bug report is to do with Documentation, either an error, typo, or omission, you can report it by scrolling to the bottom of the page where you found the issue and click ‘Report a problem on this page’!

💡If your report is to do with a new feature idea, you can check the Unity Product Roadmaps page to see if your idea has already been planned.

For more complete instructions on how to report bugs, access: https://unity3d.com/unity/qa/bug-reporting

[golden solar]

Bug sent 📧➡️

[desert temple]

It's been a little while since I was on Unity for a student project, and certain systems seem to have changed in that interim. I've got:

public class Paddle : MonoBehaviour
{
    public bool isPlayer1;
    public float speed;
    public Rigidbody2D rb;

    private float movement;

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (isPlayer1)
        {
            movement = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        }
        else
        {
            movement = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical2");
        }

        rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(rb.linearvelocity.x, movement * speed);
    }
}

I'm getting:
'Rigidbody2D' does not contain a definition for 'linearvelocity' and no accessible extension method 'linearvelocity' accepting a first argument of type 'Rigidbody2D' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

There's probably something I'm missing, but I'm not sure what it is since things have changed from the tutorial I'm using.

[polar acorn]

linearVelocity is new in Unity 6

[slender nymph]

make sure your IDE is configured so you don't make silly spelling mistakes like that

!ide

[radiant void]

💡 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

[polar acorn]

Ah, right, that's it

I hadn't even noticed

[bitter bobcat]

Maaaa, I need help

[dusty trellis]

Whenever I boot up my game, these error messages come up. They dont affect anything but I was wondering how I make them stop popping up every time I open my project?

I tried deleting the Serialization file but that didnt do it

What happened is I paid a friend to write a script for me, then he changed the names of things for the second revision.

[bitter bobcat]

I dont know why, but I keep jumping without me pressing the key

I also seem to be going backwards

[desert temple]

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to get it to work. My IDE being Visual Scripting 2019 was working too, so I wasn't sure what else was wrong.

[slender nymph]

if your IDE was configured then you would have been able to autocomplete the name of hte property so that you didn't make the simple spelling mistake that is the source of your issue

[polar acorn]

Is it underlined in red in your IDE

[ivory flower]

Is this array Im facing same problem it's like glitch or bug there another window +, - when you click on it's flicker also when you drop down sometimes it's not show exactly object you add try add, delete until it's show object name also it's give red error

[desert temple]

It was, but I've now fixed it to both of them being just standard velocity and they're working fine now...theoretically. Except now I've got this error, when I try to go live.

[polar acorn]

https://unity.huh.how/input/input-system/input-handling

[hexed terrace]

configure your visual studio to work fully with Unity!!

!vs

[radiant void]

Visual Studio guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[desert temple]

I just did! I just went through the entire process, and I do get error messages and stuff, but if there's something I'm missing I'm not understanding it.

Wait, why did it change back to linearVelocity...?

[hexed terrace]

that's what it is now, Unity will auto change it - but it prompts first asking you if you want

[desert temple]

This whole process is what I mean by configuring and IDE.

[hexed terrace]

If the screenshot you shared is after you configured it.. you've not finished, as that is a screenshot of an unconfigured VS

scrolling up, I see now others have said about this, I'll leave it there

[desert temple]

Okay, I'm trying to find the extension in visual studio.

[hexed terrace]

Which extension

you don't install any extension in VS, there's a.. module? that you install with VS through the installer.

[desert temple]

I'm looking for the official one, but it ain't showing up, which is frustrating.

[hexed terrace]

You don't need that, it has nothing to do with VS being setup correctly. It's just additional if you want it.

[hexed terrace]

literally just follow this guide..

[golden solar]

Yep same thing!

I've sent a bug report

[carmine summit]

what should i use if i want to recolor segments of a 2d Sprite according to data from the GameObject (i.e. a table of colors which changes over time)? in other words, tinting different parts of the image on the left to make the image on the right (ignore the stuff that's not the cylinder)

i think shaders might be what i want here but i don't know how i'd make the color data accessible to a shader

..also i've never written a shader

[vital otter]

having trouble learning animator
for some reason, I cant have the rigidbody affect a sprite unless root motion is enabled, but if it is enabled the animator wont animate the transform. How do I fix this?

[wintry quarry]

Yes you'd use a custom shader potentially using a mask texture for coloring the pixels from the primary texture

[desert temple]

Alright. Having followed those instructions and having seen that everything is in the right place, this is pretty much what I've got. I think I've got the IDE set up?

[slender nymph]

now you can correctly use linearVelocity (provided you spell it correctly this time)

[polar acorn]

You're good. Now you can see those underlines and they'll tell you the problems

[maiden drum]

Does anyone has an easier way of finding all objects within a bounding area that doesn't include iterating over all objects in the scene?

Iterating over all objects can take a considerable time if there are thousands of objects.

And they don't have colliders, for physics.bounding

i know potentially i can make my own n tree, but i assume that unity has it's own for collisions

[slender nymph]

give them colliders then you can use a physics query like OverlapSphere

[shell orchid]

for some reason when i walk on a slope it slows me down but i can still go up them. when i walk up terrain thats high it stops me. Is there any way to make the slopes be treated like flat ground. the tutorial i followed had the guy go up slopes just fine and i have everything he has applied https://pastebin.com/NVf7eMiC

[slender nymph]

you've already got a thread for that in #1390355039272439868 , rather than crossposting it to here you should just bump your thread

[shell orchid]

you can do that

howq

[maiden drum]

Is this performant?, i'm talking about >10k objects

[slender nymph]

just post something in the thread and it bumps it up to the top

[shell orchid]

oh so repost it ight

ty

[slender nymph]

well it's certainly more performant than iterating through all of them. otherwise you should register their positions into some quad tree that you can query yourself (this is basically what physics queries do)

[slender nymph]

no, not repost. just post in the same thread

[languid pagoda]

Is there a method that I can use to determine if a position is possible to be reached by a navmeshagent?

[slender nymph]

you probably want to be using this https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/AI.NavMesh.SamplePosition.html

[languid pagoda]

Use a spatialhash or a quadtree if the objects are static.

https://github.com/rybakatya/SpatialHash

[delicate laurel]

When I build in separate scope and copy dll into unity project, it coplains about missing dependecies (in my case Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Csharp). How could I automate dependency importing in unity project to use dll?

[languid pagoda]

thats not what I am looking for unfortunately 🙁

Thank you anyways tho!

im trying to see if something is blocking a destination

[slender nymph]

did you know that you can use sample position and if the position you pass isn't the one returned then that means that position is technically not reachable?

there's also CalculatePath which will calculate the whole path

[languid pagoda]

Ok you are right I can totally use SamplePosition then thank you!

[slender nymph]

unity ships with the codeanalysis dll already, you just need to make sure your source gen project uses the right version of it

[maiden drum]

Tried it, tanked my fps to 3

[maiden drum]

looks cool, however i see that it's bucketing instead of quad trees, any idea why?

• if there is a quad tree implementation in unity

[maiden drum]

that i can access

[languid pagoda]

Yeah there are tons of them on github

that is what you need

spatialhash is better for dynamic objects

[maiden drum]

sounds cool, i never heard of this data structure

[languid pagoda]

https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/spatial-partition.html

I use the one I linked for a level streamer

[maiden drum]

yeah looks like what i'm looking for, essentially I want to find the objects to apply a force to in a spring mesh

[languid pagoda]

Its quiet a handy data structure tbh

[delicate laurel]

Text

Assembly 'Assets/ExampleSourceGenerator.dll' will not be loaded due to errors:
Unable to resolve reference 'Microsoft.CodeAnalysis'. Is the assembly missing or incompatible with the current platform?
Reference validation can be disabled in the Plugin Inspector.

[slender nymph]

and you've made sure that your source gen project (the actual c# project, not your unity project) has the correct version of the code analysis nuget package installed? and that you've set up the settings for the dll in unity correctly?

based on the error, the latter is the issue

[static terrace]

I got a parent with Vertical Group Layout, and it stores some kind of cards and those stuff, but if I have too many cards, it will go over the screen, how do I make it that you can scroll down to see them?

[grand snow]

use a scroll view

and have the content use a vertical layout group

#📲┃ui-ux

[delicate laurel]

Documentation says to do

Under Asset Labels, click on the label icon to open the Asset labels sub-menu.

Create and assign a new label called RoslynAnalyzer. To do this, type RoslynAnalyzer in the text input field
of the Asset labels sub-menu and press enter. This label must match exactly and is case sensitive. Once created, the label appears in the Asset labels sub-menu from then on. You can click on the name of the label in the menu to assign it to other analyzers.

But there is no Asset Labels in inspector

[slender nymph]

okay, and what about the first part of that message you are responding to?

[delicate laurel]

I am blind, I didn't notice it on the very bottom

[delicate laurel]

Version of NuGet package is 4.3.1

[slender nymph]

and which version of the editor are you using

[delicate laurel]

6.2

[slender nymph]

then, assuming you've applied the label, you've done everything correctly

[delicate laurel]

I don't get why, but after applying the label, there is no error

how does it work?..

[languid pagoda]

So what if the spot is on the navmesh but just has some obstacles surrounding it? it will still return the position right?

[slender nymph]

yes, but i gave you an alternative that you can use

[languid pagoda]

yeah looking into that now just was making sure I was reading it correctly

[true nacelle]

Hi everyone! I'm a new Unity user, and I'm trying to have a score in a game. The player throws food and when food collides with deer, I want the score to increase. The score variable is in the PlayerController script, and currently I have a public method in PlayerController to increase score by one. the public method is called by the script that detect's collisions for the food. Is this the correct way to do this? Or should I be using serialized fields? Serialized fields are a new concept for me so I'm unsure how to use them.

[slender nymph]

serialized fields are not a replacement for what you are currently doing. you can use a serialized field to assign the desired references, but it wouldn't change the workflow for calling that method (with the exception of removing any Find and GetComponent calls)

[true nacelle]

Okay, that makes more sense now, thank you!

[molten vortex]

For handling UI, does it make sense to use visual scripting for this or no? Specifically I am talking about presistant overlay UI that shows with information on screen.

I also want a sub-ui to open when you click on objects at the cursor

[eternal needle]

This channel is more for c# code. In general it doesnt make sense to use visual scripting for anything if youre capable of writing c#

[molten vortex]

Got it

Same deal with state machines?

[eternal needle]

It applies to anything. Visual scripting will always be more limited as youre limited to the nodes that exist. The nodes may cover exactly what you need, it may not. Not many people here really use it to give you an answer. There is #1390346878394040320 but still if you can write c#, its better

[cosmic dagger]

What do you mean? Deal with what?

[molten vortex]

Like does using state machines make no sense if you can already use C#

[cosmic dagger]

You use C# to write your state machines . . .

[molten vortex]

Ah

[eternal needle]

You can write everything and more in c#. You use a state machine if you need a state machine

[cosmic dagger]

You need to create your state machine using code . . .

It has nothing to do with visual scripting . . .

[slender nymph]

state machine is just a design pattern, it has almost nothing to do with visual scripting vs actual code

[eternal needle]

In your UI goal, I dont really see the need for this to be a state machine though, unless youre referring to something else

[molten vortex]

State machine was unrelated to UI

For input actions like buttons, is there a way to listen for when it is pressed rather than checking if it is pressed every frame?

[slender nymph]

input actions
this implies you are using the Input System, and if so you can subscribe to the relevant action's performed event

[molten vortex]

How do I do that?

[cosmic dagger]

You should look at a tutorial. There are a bunch on using the new input system . . .

[ripe shard]

InputAction has events that get invoked when the action phase changes, see here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.14/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputAction.html#events

[molten vortex]

Thank you

[ripe shard]

fwiw, you should have a look at InputActionReference and understand that you can use that type to reference specific actions from your input action asset in any component. The documentation and most tutorials do not tell you that, but its the most useful way to work with InputSystem. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.14/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputActionReference.html

[molten vortex]

So that would replace using the interactAction = InputSystem.actions.FindAction("Interact"); method to get inputs?

[ripe shard]

yes

[molten vortex]

Got it

I assume that is better for performance or does it just offer more functionality?

[ripe shard]

it primarily avoids coupling code to data via arbitrary and brittle string names or hardcoding the input map through the code generator or static API

once you have the action reference, functionality is identical

[molten vortex]

But to find the reference there needs to be something to distinguish what input you're getting. I dont understand how it would do that without the name of the action

[ripe shard]

a InputActionReference is a scriptable object you can reference directly, you don't need to look up anything, you get the exact reference directly

[molten vortex]

Okay, so instead of searching for the origional action, I assume you would add it as a public variable to the script?

because the declariation: public static InputActionReference Create(InputAction action) Still require a inputaction, thats why I am confused.

[rain solar]

how do high distance renderers have enough RAM to load in that much data?

i know they use LODs but they arent cheap in memory

[teal viper]

What kind of data are you talking about? Aside from assets, it's mostly just transforms, gameobject data and similar stuff. This doesn't consume that much ram. Probably less than a kilobyte per object. With that assumption, a million of GameObjects would consume less than 1GB of RAM. And then there are various techniques to address that as well, like level streaming.

[ripe shard]

this is an InputActionReference, you do not (normally) create those manually in a script, the InputActionAsset contains them.

[molten vortex]

Ohhhh okay

Okay I got it working but I want to make sure I actually did this correctly:

public InputActionReference interactAction;
    private InputAction _action;
    
    private GameObject selectedObject;
    
    void OnEnable()
    {
        _action = interactAction.ToInputAction();
        _action.Enable();
        _action.performed += MouseClick;
    }

This works but is this leveraging the interact Action Reference appropriatly?

[ripe shard]

there is no need for the _action variable and the ToInputAction()., you simply use interactAction.action;

[molten vortex]

Got it

[rain solar]

minecraft data. you would need to store the mesh of each LOD chunk and meshes are expensive

[ripe shard]

the MouseClick handler is badly named, you are making an assumption about what the input action is, which contradicts the design intent of the whole InputAction abstraction.

[teal viper]

You typically wouldn't store the meshes. A grid of points with some metadata should be enough. It should be easy to generate the meshes at runtime.
If you do decide to store the actual meshes, you'd probably have some kind of asset/level streaming system that saves and loads from disk. In fact I think that's what Minecraft does.

[rain solar]

if you are storing a grid of data points isnt that also a ton of memory

[teal viper]

It's still less than a mesh. And you could use various compressions techniques to represent uniform areas. But yes, ultimately you want some kind of streaming solution.

[rain solar]

the issue im running into is when i turn the camera and move the frustum, the chunks cant load in fast enough

and it ruins the illusion

[ripe shard]

you can preload stuff.

[rain solar]

wym?

[ripe shard]

load before you move into view

[rain solar]

that creates a memory issue and also an issue of widening the loop that validates whether each chunk is still needed to be loaded

the loop is already slow

[ripe shard]

then maybe you are loading too much in the first place, sounds like your individual chunks are already too big or inefficiently implemented.

[rain solar]

my chunks are tiny

[ripe shard]

otherwise it should be a simple issue of tuning your chunk-load-trigger logic

[rain solar]

i trigger load on frustum change or player transform change

[ripe shard]

well, you may need to add some padding to that

[rain solar]

wym

[teal viper]

Pretty sure you can have a similar issue in Minecraft in certain scenarios.
But yes, there are ways to address it. Like starting loading the data before they appear in the frustum. Or maybe avoid unloading objects outside the frustum entirely and only have some distance based loading/unloading flow.

[rain solar]

i can load everything in a sphere around the player instead of frustum. But then how do i efficiently determine what needs to be unloaded or loaded. That involves a massive 3d chunk iteration over the enter render space

[teal viper]

How are you doing it with frustum then..?🤔

[rain solar]

loop the frustum's aabb

[teal viper]

This sounds more expensive than a simple distance check though.

[rain solar]

if i have to distance check a million chunks its not more expensive

[ripe shard]

also, maybe put your chunks into a spatial lookup datastructure

[rain solar]

does that work with LODs?

i havent implemented LODs yet

[ripe shard]

it IS LOD

[rain solar]

explain me

i have the big dumb

[ripe shard]

time for you to hit the google

[rain solar]

i have

it doesnt know

i searched all of google

every page

[ripe shard]

nobody here is going to give you a tutorial in algorithms and datastructures.

you've got the keywords and principles, you need to do some work on your own now.

[rain solar]

can you tell me the structure of the spatial LOD lookup thingy?

or if it has a name what its called

[ripe shard]

octtree, rtree, kdtree, bounding volume hierarchy

[rain solar]

oct trees dont allow moving a chunk from one branch to another

i have banned them from my vocabulary

you have to rebuild them constantly

[ripe shard]

well, you cannot have fast lookup and fast update, thats just the nature of things

but you can make update locally bounded, and octtrees are fantastic for that.

if you rebuild the entire tree, you need a better algorithm

or use another tree

[rain solar]

hmmm ok thanks ill try to implement this

[teal viper]

BTW, what you're doing is definitely not on beginner level. I'd suggest moving future questions to #1390346827005431951 instead.

[rain solar]

i dont like threads

wat

[teal viper]

I don't see what this has anything to do with likes/dislikes. This is simply not the appropriate channel for your questions.

Can you stop the spam?

I am very calm. I recommend checking the #📖┃code-of-conduct before you've been calmed by an actual moderator.

[rain solar]

its solved ish its fine

[teal viper]

<@&502884371011731486> theres seem to be a person having a problem with reading the community conduct here...

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[signal vine]

hey I'm currently trying to create a character selection screen for a game I'm working on, and I'm running into a weird problem where even though I can see the characters listed under the parent gameobject in the scene, I can't seem to see them in the game no matter what I do, I'm happy to check anything or get screenshots of specific parts if anyone has any suggestions or might be able to help

it's 2D, they don't appear even when theres no background image, the next character and last character buttons are working to disable/enable the prefabs correctly, I'm not sure what else to check

using this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qlRgICRoeA&t=110s

[teal viper]

Start from sharing screenshots of the issue vs when it doesn't happen. Ideally capture the whole editor window for us to have some context.

[spice ivy]

ohh man this is embarassing how do i make a script that makes a plant grow 😭 sorry im new and stupid

[signal vine]

The issue never doesn’t happen, I’ll get a screenshot rq of what the scene layout is and what it all looks like etc but I’m not sure it’ll help much

[rich adder]

what do you mean by "plant grow" just scaling the object or more like farming game ?

[signal vine]

here's the scene itself

[teal viper]

I feel like the issue is likely due to you mixing up canvas ui with non ui objects(character sprites).

As well as misunderstanding how canvas is working in the scene view.

[signal vine]

starting the game, then clicking play, then clicking next

[signal vine]

honestly probably, I've never done much ui stuff or messed around with scenes

the two players under the characters parent are prefabs of the full players with all of the scripts etc

[eternal needle]

break down the problem into steps. you need something to happen over time -> you need a timer. You need the plant to grow based on this timer or in increments. What does growing mean? Could be a matter of having multiple visual objects that you swap out at runtime. Could be scaling up an object

[spice ivy]

here is the thing i need to click on the seed and the seed will disapppear and plant model will appear it will slowly grow into a targeted scale

[spice ivy]

ohh thanks

[signal vine]

I don't know a lot but you probably need more context

depends on if you wanted animated growing, something to cause it to grow etc

not that I could probably help anyway but it would make it easier for people to help who can

[spice ivy]

nah thanks for talking about it appericiate it ima figure it out eventually

[winged ridge]

For context are you working in 2d or 3d

[spice ivy]

3d

[signal vine]

I thought I needed the actual character in there so that it would load the selected one into the game

[teal viper]

Yep. We'll, that's the issue. The ui is render by the canvas in screen space, but your character is rendered by the camera in world space. While they look to be in the same place in the scene view, the character is way outside the camera view in reality.

[winged ridge]

I asked because 2 different methods

[rich adder]

yeah should be easy to implement, break down each part you need to do into a smaller problem to solve then put it all together

[teal viper]

No, you don't.
A simple solution would be to use a ui Image component with the character sprite assigned.

[signal vine]

Ah so I need them to simply be sprites/images

[eternal needle]

are there more aspects supposed to happen on click, or is this some predetermined start where it must be clicked and then always grows over time?

[signal vine]

And a seperate script can deal with the actual prefab spawn?

[spice ivy]

for now its just click and then grow over time ill improve as i go later on

[spice ivy]

yeahh i just finished the tutorial yesterday so its a bit difficult

[signal vine]

Oh that worked perfectly, thank you for the help

[eternal needle]

if it always stays as click then grow, then the logic is pretty easy to setup. You would just need some sort of public method to indicate that the plant is now allowed to grow. Then in update you can do the timer if its allowed to grow.
If the logic is more complex in the future, you'd probably need to come back and refactor it entirely to allow for some list of actions to happen in order

depends entirely on your requirements so it's pretty good if you're able to sit and think about what you actually need in your game. Theres a world where you could just have each plant reference a "next plant" and replace the spawned object if you need some stage system