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[spice ivy]

ohhh alright I'll look up about this timer stuff thanks

well i never thought about that

[teal viper]

Yes. You usually want ui decoupled from the game logic. The ui can just set some kind of index that some manager would read and use it to spawn the right character later.

[spice ivy]

ohh yeah i understand a stage system seed > sprout > littleplant > Fully grown I'll see which one looks better

[signal vine]

Ah that makes sense, thank you for your help hopefully I can figure that part out

[chilly vigil]

i don't konw what string is off becuse llline 23 seems right to me. it is from tutoirall i followed

[cosmic dagger]

currentEscapeStages is a string. Did you write the scene name inside that variable from the inspector?

If not, then it is empty. You don't assign a default name in the script . . .

[chilly vigil]

i think the tutoial i followed was unity 2021

[cosmic dagger]

That doesn't matter . . .

Did you read my previous message and check the variable?

[slender nymph]

that is irrelevant. you needed to assign a value to your variable in either version

[chilly vigil]

yea i did

[ivory bobcat]

Show the inspector field

[ivory bobcat]

SceneManager.LoadScene(...);
Debug.Log($"Next stage: {...}",this);```where `...` is the stage etc

[frigid sequoia]

If I am using this system to hold the data of the damage dealt, if I clear the damageLog, do the recountEntries, that no longer have any reference to them, keep occupying space in memory or it's fine?

[burnt vapor]

The .NET Garbage collector will collect the classes when they have no more references to them

So yes, clearing the list would eventually have the GC collect it when it runs

[frigid sequoia]

I guess it's not worth for me to even try to do it manually right?

[burnt vapor]

Do what? Clear it from memory? No

One thing you could do is improve how memory is managed. Things like class pooling or using structs can help since references are less abundant and you reuse them for different purposes, but this is also specific to what you need and might not fit your use case (i.e. I believe you can't serialize a struct like you have there, and it can't be shown in the Unity editor (probably could with a lot of extra steps though))

The best thing is to have the GC run as little as possible. Every run slows down your application.

But know this is mandatory. Realistically you can't work without the GC ever running

[red rover]

When assigning a listener to this button, I am using the iterator variable

void Start()
  for (int i = 0; i < buildOptions.Length; i++)
  {
    print(i);
    newBuildTile.GetComponent<Button>().onClick.AddListener(() => StartBuilding(i));```
But when I print it later it always gives me the max index of the loop for some reason, as if it's overriding all the events for the previous loop iterations??
```cs
public void StartBuilding(int option)
{
  print(option); // Always gives me buildOptions.Length```

[keen dew]

https://unity.huh.how/anonymous-methods-and-closures

[red rover]

Ohhh I see, so it's basically just keeping a reference to the iterator, and calling upon it's final value when printing it.

Thank you very much!

[hexed terrace]

posting in the wrong channel for a start 😄

Delete and ask in #🏃┃animation

[bitter pine]

for some reason when i execute this, the rotation of said door goes to (-90, 0, -90)

[vital otter]

Whoops
Forgot to change channels
I think I did on my pc, but im on my phone now

[plush zealot]

After dashing twice I get this error message that interrupts the game test (im assuming this would be the game crashing in a finished build)
in this script at line 431 I have a function that should make the momentum carried after a dash slow down smoothly to feel nice. This works flawlessly on my Laptop but not on my home pc for some reason.... the laptop runs on Ubuntu and the PC on Windows 10 not sure if that's relevant

this is the formula I use to slow down the momentum after the dash

[candid coral]

So i need some assitance with this because i just cannot find a consistent answer because of the fact that unity changed its input system and people are either using the old one or they have made their own

this is the movement script ive written

and these are the sprites, I just want it so that when the direction keys are pressed the currently show sprite is swapped to the one of the direction the player has pressed

where you see sprite render.sprite = upsprite thats an attempt i made to get the sprite renderer to change sprite so ignore that

[plush zealot]

you don't need to do that

you can just change the x scale *-1

so just put a - before it and it will flip it around for left and right

for the new input system I can recommend "game code library" 's tutorials on youtube they helped me understand it too

[candid coral]

my sprites arent asymetrical. so something on the right hand side of the player sprite wont be on the left so i cant just invert the sprites

so the cat sprite facing the camera is the walking downwards and the one facing away is walking upwards. its a top down isometric

[plush zealot]

fair enough

well I can show you a method of handling input if you want using the player input component

the sprites you can do in different ways

either with an animator or if you really just wanna change the sprites you can load them out of the resource folder

[candid coral]

the resource folder one is what im looking for. the game doesnt have any actual animations. its just static images facing cardinal direction

could you point me in the right direction so i can figure this out please

[plush zealot]

you can do this:
image.sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite>("CatSprites/CatfacingLeftSprite")

the path starts in your Resource folder meaning anything you wanna load this way you want to put in the resource folder

hope that helped

[eager elm]

loading a sprite every frame is probably not ideal. You can just reference the 4 sprites and assign them in the inspector:

public Sprite upSprite;
public Sprite downSprite;
etc...

The assigning you did with spriteRenderer.sprite = upSprite; should work fine, you just have to add the other 3.

[shell sorrel]

the input handling is kind of flawed as well since more then 1 key can be pressed at a time

[candid coral]

i did the old input method of input.getaxisraw and all that but i believe im using the new system. but apparently not

[eager elm]

well, you want errors if you are missing a sprite, no? Better than wondering why it doesn't work.

[shell sorrel]

that code looks like new input system, but most people do not try and access key inputs directly, but setup action maps which can include a vector2 movement action

[versed stump]

If the issue is still ongoing: I'm pretty sure f turns to NaN once x is larger than momentumCurveTimeVar, since Mathf.Sqrt of a negative number will return NaN

[eager elm]

you also should calculate the move vector from the inputs. X is left/right Y is up/down, than you can normalize it and use it to translate your transform.
Because right now your character is moving "faster" if you move in two directions at the same time (like up and right).

[shell sorrel]

other reason to get it as a vector and map a proper action for it

[runic hedge]

Hello fellow humans, I need to learn a bit of C# to work in Unity, I need for college, do you recommand looking for an tutorial that can teach me C# or are there any good tutorials that teach you specifically for Unity?

[shell sorrel]

can have the input system normalize it for you or just do it in code after

[rocky canyon]

!learn will teach u specifics of unity

[radiant void]

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[grand snow]

BUT will not teach you c# because thats its own thing as a programming language

[runic hedge]

Oh alright, thanks! I will start learning from there!

[plush zealot]

ah I think I know what the Issue is then

[runic hedge]

I don't know literally anything about coding 💀

[grand snow]

Yea then you wont understand anything!!!

please dont

[runic hedge]

At the end of the block they will interview me how I made it, so I can't pass it xP

[grand snow]

I already know my stuff so im good

[runic hedge]

Even if I use ai I need to understand what the ai is doing

[winged ridge]

110%

[grand snow]

Yea then you try to make it do something with some obscure lib and it just makes up non working code

yea i do 😆

[shell sorrel]

AI rubbish can only do the easy parts, and then just leaves you without the proper background to handle real issues

[grand snow]

I guess you can go talk to claude then instead of us

[fickle plume]

@wooden cypress This is a learning community, don't send people to LLMs. If you are just here to troll you are welcome to leave.

[queen adder]

Does anyone know how i can call CloudCode from a Server sided Entity System?

All the functions seem to be async and public void OnUpdate(ref SystemState state) I cant make this async cause of ref

[bitter pine]

how do i fix raycasts going through walls? below is my raycast hit script (all thats needed)

if(Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactionDistance, interactionMask))
{
    InteractionText.text = "Press '" +InteractionKey.ToString() + "' to interact.";
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(InteractionKey))
    {
        RcHitOBJ = hit.transform.gameObject;

        if(RcHitOBJ.gameObject.CompareTag("Door"))
        {
            DoorMain doorScript;
            doorScript = RcHitOBJ.GetComponent<DoorMain>();

            doorScript.OpenCloseDoor();
        }

        if (RcHitOBJ.gameObject.CompareTag("Holdable"))
        {
            DropHeldItem();
            
            HeldItem = RcHitOBJ.name;
            
            RcHitOBJ.gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().isKinematic = true;
            RcHitOBJ.GetComponent<BoxCollider>().enabled = false;
            RcHitOBJ.transform.parent = objectHoldStorageLocation;
            RcHitOBJ.transform.localPosition = Vector3.zero;
            RcHitOBJ.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 90, 0);
        }
    }
}```

[rocky canyon]

well right now ur using a mask to only hit those in that mask

so if ur walls aren't included it shouldnt be hitting them anyway

thats the reason.. its going thru the walls.. as well

[bitter pine]

what i mean is if im behind a wall and i have a door on the other side, it will allow me to open the door

[rocky canyon]

yea.. b/c its only hitting the layermask which i guess the doors included..

its going to ignore walls (if they're not included in the mask)

[bitter pine]

how would i remedy that

[shell sorrel]

they raycast does not see walls at all due to the layer mask so walls can not block it

[rocky canyon]

you would ^ include w/e u want in the mask
and then check each object and see if its a wall (ignore)
or something with the doorscript (open)

a TryGet works well here

[bitter pine]

TryGet?

[rocky canyon]

its like a GetComponent.. but better (it'll only run the code block if it can get that component)

[queen adder]

Damn its so backwards, to call async functions via an authoratitve server i'd have to make a mono behaviour and do the async call there, then my server sided system would have to just poll that monobehaviour through a singleton :S

Spaghetti

[twin oriole]

Hello, I found one error when I update to the 6.2 version today.
I tried to edit an array within another array in a scriptableObject file in the Unity interface. It all bugged, and the console displayed an error. The console error and the ScriptableObject code are in the link below because they are large: https://paste.mod.gg/zycabokifqer/0

[bitter pine]

alright, i think i got it. how do i check if something is a certain layer?

would i do if(hit.transform.gameObject.layer == interactionMask)

[rocky canyon]

not exactly.. a layerMask is not the same as a layer

[bitter pine]

bc this wont work for me, i have multiple things using this interaction raycast. its not just for doors its a general interaction raycast

[grand snow]

Thats true, a layer mask is meant to signify potentially multiple layers

yes it can either be an int for its index or an int where a single bit is the layer.

[bitter pine]

so how am i checking if its in a layer?

yes, i did that it didnt wanna work 😭

[rocky canyon]

    void Update()
    {
        // Create a ray from the camera through the mouse position
        Ray ray = mainCam.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);

        // Shoot the ray into the scene
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit, rayDistance, rayMask))
        {
            EdgeHud currentEdgeHud;
            if (hit.collider.TryGetComponent(out currentEdgeHud))
            {
                Debug.Log("Found an EdgeHud on: " + hit.collider.name);
            }
        }
    }``` if u use a `TryGet` u can compare and find out if the hit has a certain Script

[bitter pine]

yes, im not adding a script to everything i wanna interact with so this is a no go

[rocky canyon]

like in this example its looking for a scritp called EdgeHud ^ if it finds one it can do something with it if not it just continues code

[grand snow]

a gameobject can only have 1 layer so compare the layer value to a stored value say from NameToLayer
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/LayerMask.NameToLayer.html

[rocky canyon]

u can use TryGets w/ interfaces as well..

[bitter pine]

thats what it is rn

[rocky canyon]

so 1 script could call a function from every script w/ the same interface ..

just giving a bit of knowledge.. u don't have to use it.. but TryGets are better than GetComponents <-

if u end up using GetComponents its teh same line of thinking

[bitter pine]

{
    RaycastHit hit;
    Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);

    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactionDistance))
    {
        if(hit.transform.gameObject.layer == 6)
        {
            InteractionText.text = "Press '" + InteractionKey.ToString() + "' to interact.";
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(InteractionKey))
            {
                RcHitOBJ = hit.transform.gameObject;

                if (RcHitOBJ.gameObject.CompareTag("Door"))
                {
                    DoorMain doorScript;
                    doorScript = RcHitOBJ.GetComponent<DoorMain>();

                    doorScript.OpenCloseDoor();
                }

                if (RcHitOBJ.gameObject.CompareTag("Holdable"))
                {
                    DropHeldItem();

                    HeldItem = RcHitOBJ.name;

                    RcHitOBJ.gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().isKinematic = true;
                    RcHitOBJ.GetComponent<BoxCollider>().enabled = false;
                    RcHitOBJ.transform.parent = objectHoldStorageLocation;
                    RcHitOBJ.transform.localPosition = Vector3.zero;
                    RcHitOBJ.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 90, 0);
                }
            }
        }
    }
    else
    {
        InteractionText.text = "";
    }
}```

that is the function rn, i go check it in game (the function is being called in update) it doesnt work. yes 6 is the interaction layer

[grand snow]

Is your mouse locked or unlocked?

[bitter pine]

locked

[grand snow]

I forget if its forced into the screen centre when locked

[rocky canyon]

it is

[bitter pine]

it is

[grand snow]

Cool then lets presume the raycast is hitting someone else, the layer is not set on the object with the collider or the distance is too small

Perhaps some Debug.Log() s will help or you can try to use a Debugger if comfortable

[rocky canyon]

Debug.Log($"Always debug your hits: {hit.collider.name}");

[bitter pine]

i shall figure this out later cuz i gtg

[rocky canyon]

if(hit.transform.gameObject.layer == 6)
doorScript = RcHitOBJ.GetComponent<DoorMain>();

hardcoding layer comparisons and using GetComponent
yet :

yes, im not adding a script to everything i wanna interact with so this is a no go
in regards to using TryGet..

odd.. that statement doesn't make any sense as that's what you would need to do w/ the GetComponent

(if u have more interactables.. for example)

is the hit a door?
is the hit a switch?
is the hit a lever?

each interactable would need a new block of logic

[shell sorrel]

i just make Interactable a interface, can use TryGetComponent to check if something can be interacted with then each thing can implement that interaction how it wants

[cosmic dagger]

Use an interface so that every interactable has a standard method to call . . .

[rocky canyon]

public class Door : MonoBehaviour, IInteractable
{
    public void Interact()
    {
        Debug.Log($"Interacted with {gameObject.name}");
        Debug.Log($"Its a Door");
    }
}

public class Switch : MonoBehaviour, IInteractable
{
    public void Interact()
    {
        Debug.Log($"Interacted with {gameObject.name}");
        Debug.Log($"Its a Switch");
    }
}```

and then:

```cs
public class InteractRaycast : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Camera mainCam;
    public float rayDistance = 100f;

    void Update()
    {
        Ray ray = mainCam.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit, rayDistance))
        {
            if (hit.collider.TryGetComponent(out IInteractable interactable))
            {
                if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E))
                {
                    Debug.Log("Found an interactable on: " + hit.collider.name);
                    interactable.Interact();
                }
            }
        }
    }
}```

[shell sorrel]

well i would key check first unless you are changing UI or something

and return early as needed to reduce nesting

[rocky canyon]

i think he's misunderstanding...
i mentioned TryGet and he says nah, im not adding code everytime..

but then rocks the layer comparisons and GetComponents anyway

but he'll sort it out later 👍

[rocky canyon]

hmmm I just realized something
protection level doesn't seem to matter on functions within interface
is that an accurate assumption?

public void
private void

[shell sorrel]

it does in some cases like if internal

but yeah not really, now there are two ways of implementing the interface though

[rocky canyon]

ohh okay.. but POCO it doesnt?

well i mean its not concerning for basic use?

[rocky canyon]

interesting..

[shell sorrel]

like when implmeneting it you can do it publically or do InterfaceName.MethodName to do it in such a way you can only see the method from the interface

[rocky canyon]

All methods declared in an interface are implicitly public.

ohh okay.. so I can't actually put private void Interact()

i mean I can.. but the raycast script that calls Interact() doesn't compile

learn something new everyday

[shell sorrel]

well think about it

would need public or internal

[rocky canyon]

yea i just did

ignore me.. coffee still in standby

[shell sorrel]

now there is a trick to hide the method for things that have only the concrete class and not the interface

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/interfaces/explicit-interface-implementation

can be useful sometimes if do not want to clutter up auto completions

and guide people on usage more if its only used from your own lib code

[rocky canyon]

A. cs hit.collider.TryGetComponent(out DoorMain currentDoor);
B. cs hit.collider.TryGetComponent<DoorMain>(out var currentDoor);
C. cs hit.collider.TryGetComponent(typeof(DoorMain), out Component comp); DoorMain currentDoor = comp as DoorMain;

📌 This is something I need more experience with..
the whole generic stuff.. dynamic type, known type, & so on

[shell sorrel]

just always use the generic ones

A and B are the same thing

[rocky canyon]

this is my go-to

just seems to most simple

[shell sorrel]

C is mostly for cases where you get a type a different way and need to pass it

[rocky canyon]

ahh okay

[shell sorrel]

like if you got it via reflection etc

[rocky canyon]

yea.. lol we'll hold off on that a bit longer 😅

[shell sorrel]

A and B are the exact same thing

[rocky canyon]

will do 🫡 thanky sir

[rocky canyon]

ya, 1 just has a variable it can use
and the other just creates one real quick

i get those two... it was really C. i struggle with

[shell sorrel]

both are creating it

not creating it would be if you declared it above and did not add the type / var part in

[rocky canyon]

ohh u right.. my screenshot is where it just uses an existing one

#💻┃code-beginner message this one

[shell sorrel]

yeah existing or not is just about how you want it scoped

[rocky canyon]

as long i dont need to use the C one too often im good lol

thanks for the insight passerby 👍

i always look for tryget snippet to copy and paste.. and they always
seem to be more complicated than the one i use

TryGetComponent(out whateverReference)) is the one i can never find..

have to start off with auto-complete in the IDE and just remove the bits until i get clean syntax 😅

[naive pawn]

they should matter, it just has a different default

class members default private, interface members default public

so just like private in classes technically doesn't do anything, same for public in interfaces

[rocky canyon]

yup yup.. thats the part i learned today

interesting.. i never even knew

how do we check if a raycast hit is null or not?

[hexed terrace]

hit.transform == null

[rocky canyon]

i can't think this morning 😩 a

[rocky canyon]

🤦‍♂️ 🫠

[frail hawk]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[hexed terrace]

or hit.gameobject

[rocky canyon]

hit.transform's good for my intentions 👍

[lunar coral]

hi,I'm trying to make a boosted effect for my player and I've done everything the way I thought would work, but once I pickup the gameobject that's allowing me to use the power, I get an error in the console saying I'm still trying to access the destroyed gameObject, https://paste.ofcode.org/3a7D2rV7vW3nYdXuEB5ZrWe, https://paste.ofcode.org/s5jumWbtsBM6ZdudKJmAzV, https://paste.ofcode.org/eJH6KVD98pKuUJntBnYYeE

all those 3 scripts work together for this

[hexed terrace]

and the error is in which one

[lunar coral]

it doesn't include any of this

[rocky canyon]

once u pick it up.. do u destroy the "pickup" object?
and if so.. is there any of ur code that might still be trying to access it?

[hexed terrace]

sure it does, show us the error in the console. Have the error selected so the callstack is visible

[lunar coral]

yes I destroy the picked up GameObject but I don't see anything still trying to access it

[rocky canyon]

👉 #💻┃code-beginner message

[hexed terrace]

that is not what I asked for, only half

Click on the error... it displays more information (the call stack) in the section below

[frail hawk]

could it be this line? currentBattery = null;

after he destroys the object

[hexed terrace]

no, that's setting the currentBattery null, not trying to use it. It wouldn't cause an NRE on this line

[lunar coral]

this one else if condition is for Batteries, the one for the boosted player effect is else if (hit.collider.CompareTag("invicible")){}

I'm sorry I forgot to include this

[hexed terrace]

you destroy invincible, but still try to use it here -> https://paste.ofcode.org/3a7D2rV7vW3nYdXuEB5ZrWe

assuming invincible is the same game object across the two classes

[lunar coral]

OH yeaaaaaa

tyy so much,I forgot this one was in the Update() function and I wasn't even looking at it

[hexed terrace]

that error wasn't very clear (it may show further down that's cropped out which one of your classes it starts in). I worked it out from the UnityEngine.GameObject.SetActive(System.Boolean value)

[lunar coral]

....I'm really sorry

my brain is cooked after school

[hexed terrace]

there you go.. class and line 😉

[rain solar]

if i move the frustum, causing a bunch of chunks to be queued in the async chunk loader thread then i do a 180 flip with the frustum so now all those chunks that are being loaded are no longer needed, how should i handle the logic to prevent the queue from getting clogged or loading data that is no longer needed?

[rocky canyon]

#💻┃code-beginner message

soo, whenever you get back to working on this check out what I mentioned and then the replies afterwards from other people.. You can build it however you want, of course, I just wanted to clarify what i was saying a bit..

Here's the setup for using Interfaces and a TryGetComponent() --

• ur interactable objects can just use an interface like: public class Door : MonoBehaviour, IInteractable and public class Lever: MonoBehaviour, IInteractable
• they must all share similar methods since its an interface.. you can have a method called Interact()
• the TryGet() would call Interact() on any script that uses that interface (this way ur not remaking the code over and over... when you have a new object thats Interactable you simply make it use the IInteractable interface or w/e you call it..

    IInteractable currentInteractable;
    RaycastHit hit;

    void Update()
    {
        Ray ray = mainCam.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, rayDistance))
        {
            if (hit.collider.TryGetComponent(out currentInteractable))
            {
                Debug.Log("We successfully cached the Interactable");
            }
            else
            {
                currentInteractable = null;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            currentInteractable = null;
        }
    }

• when the raycast successfully "gets" the Interactable you just cache it (store it in a variable)
• then u can use Input to check if theres something cached.. and if there is u just call the method on it (Interact())

[rocky canyon]

hows the logic look as it is now?

[rain solar]

i send a request for a chunk through a pipe, the pipe sends the chunk back

i guess its not a pipe if its between threads

sender thingy mechanism

[rocky canyon]

ahh yes, the sender thingy 😄
is async chunk loading considered beginner?

[rain solar]

i thought my one sentence question was because it involved no code and is just abstract implementation ideas

[rocky canyon]

maybe someone smarter than I has an answer.. i know very little about async or chunking.. 🍀 good luck tho

[grand snow]

If you have a limit to how many loads can be happening at once, you need to somehow figure out which ones can be killed first to make space. Id think you want to kill those that are less visible/not visible at all anymore first.

[rain solar]

its limited by disk read speed so i cant load an infinite amount at one time. The issue is how does a non-needed chunk know its no longer visible/needed after its already been called for load

[grand snow]

perhaps you dynamically update some kind of priority on them as the camera moves and you can use that to kill off those who go below a threshold

e.g. angle from view

[rain solar]

once i send it to the load thread i dont think i can like update the priority cause its no longer existing on the main thread

[grand snow]

ofcourse you can

its not a seperate process

presuming these are not stack allocated only

[rain solar]

so every time the frustum moves, i mutex lock the entire queue and validate each one again?

[grand snow]

then you can infer this data without any writes when refreshing what loads can be kept

Perhaps then you can dequeue, check if the load should even happen, if not discard and continue

which then removes the need to do extra work to each queued item

[lunar coral]

hi, what could be the reasons InputGetKeyDown(KeyCode.M) doesn't get detected?

All my Inputs work well except for M, and the problem doesn't come from my keyboard

[cosmic quail]

a dot between Input and GetKeyDown 😛

[slender nymph]

either you're calling that method from somewhere that isn't run every single frame, or you need to restart the editor. it's probably the first

[lunar coral]

https://paste.ofcode.org/dGJLnRPgKjzKjsXxpxK2AU

[lunar coral]

https://paste.ofcode.org/dGJLnRPgKjzKjsXxpxK2AU, it's called in the Update fonction

[slender nymph]

consider logging both conditions

[cosmic quail]

did you check if hasRedBull is true?

[lunar coral]

and yes I'll try to restart the editor

[lunar coral]

yes its

[slender nymph]

how have you actually confirmed that

[lunar coral]

and I've also tried to see if M KeyCode gets detected by logging it

[lunar coral]

in the inspector variables

it's set to true Once I pickup the redbull GameObject

and regarding the KeyCode,I logged it and it doesn't work

[slender nymph]

log both conditions at the same time, do not rely on the inspector because you won't see if the condition is false for a frame or two. and if it is and those frames happen to be the ones you initially press the M key (because it checks for initial press, not if it is currently pressed) then the if statement will be false

[lunar coral]

okay,I'll do this just after the editor is restarted, thank you

[slender nymph]

also you don't happen to be using some non-qwerty keyboard layout, right?

[lunar coral]

I'm using Azerty...

I'm not from the USA...

[hexed terrace]

qwerty isn't just for that third world country!

[slender nymph]

see that's useful information that you should provide up front when dealing with input issues like this. i'd bet if you pressed the key that would be the M key on a qwerty board it would work because you probably have Use Physical Keys enabled

[lunar coral]

but I don't think it'd change something, this is only for the first letters that it changes something

[lunar coral]

ohh

[rocky canyon]

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.M))
        {
            Debug.Log("Input has been snatched!");

            if (PlayerInventory.instance.hasRedbull)
            {
                Debug.Log("Player has Redbull!");
            }
        }``` try it this way (same logic but nested instead of combined)

ohhh Azerty 👀

[lunar coral]

Well I think someone hacked my pc

[lunar coral]

I didn't add any emojis to this

[lunar coral]

and added one to this

the one I put got deleted

and the one I didnt got there

@rocky canyon @slender nymph

[rocky canyon]

sir?

[lunar coral]

the logs don't work

neither of the two

[rocky canyon]

well.. thats not good

[lunar coral]

NAHH

I mean M only

the INput one

[slender nymph]

and have you tried pressing the key where the M keywould be on a qwerty keyboard?

[rocky canyon]

is this a new issue?

like, ur saying all the keys work but the M key?

[lunar coral]

yes it works with ,

","

sorry for the time I've wasted but I saw 4 malwares in malwarebytes so I've just deleted them

but yea M is , in azerty, it's annoying, are there solutions?

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/class-InputManager.html
It's the use physical keys thing that's causing this

[lunar coral]

disabling it would solve everything?

[bitter bobcat]

hey folks, think yall can help me out ?

[hexed terrace]

this is a code channel, if it's a code question then 👇

!ask

[radiant void]

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[bitter bobcat]

it is, just a second

[rocky canyon]

DebugKeypress/ Input class

        // update
        foreach (KeyCode kcode in System.Enum.GetValues(typeof(KeyCode)))
        {
            // debug/print each *Down* Keypress
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(kcode)) Debug.Log($"Pressed: {kcode}");
        }```

little helper function that prints out the input keycodes /enum
but yea the issue i believe is what boxfriend has keyed in on

[lunar coral]

tyyyy bro

and yea it fixes it

but my commands for moving still are ZQSD instead of WASD

[rocky canyon]

Azerty guys.. amirite 🤪

[lunar coral]

fr

[rocky canyon]

i think its neat.. i'd be awful at typing and working with one tho 😅
i didn't even know that was a thing that boxfriend was talkin about

well.. i kinda did but never woulda guessed that was the case

[lunar coral]

lol

[compact hare]

how do i reference TextMeshPro UI in code
public Text ScoreText; doesnt work

[hexed terrace]

Text is the legacy component

You want TMP_Text

[compact hare]

it says type or namespace couldnt be found still

[hexed terrace]

so add it

[grand snow]

💡 use your ide to help

[hexed terrace]

it should have auto added it when you typed that, have you got your IDE configured?

[bitter bobcat]

I have this glitch where Im constantly jumping and moving backwards I think it has something to do with the code aspect

[compact hare]

nvm got it working i forgot to add using unityengine.UI

thanks!

[hexed terrace]

still.. it should have auto got added, have you got your IDE configured?

[compact hare]

i dont think so.. i already had vs code installed and installed unity it didnt auto load c# file when i clicked is so manually import the scripts folder by locating it!

[hexed terrace]

!vscode

[radiant void]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[hexed terrace]

There's a handy guide for you

[compact hare]

thanks!

[bitter bobcat]

think yall can help me out ?

[compact hare]

still not working

[hexed terrace]

I can't help beyond pointing you to the link... VSCode is / was a pain in the ass to get working with Unity. I'm on Windows so just use VS

[compact hare]

yea no need im fine working like this

[hot wadi]

That canMove bool, do u change its value anywhere else? Or it's just true all the time?

[compact hare]

if anything ill switch to vs later on

[hexed terrace]

It is a requirement to get help on this server to have your IDE setup. You're pretty much coding with your hands behind your back without it! Switching to VS (or Rider) would be better

[compact hare]

i guess im an old school guy

i guess its alright for now cuz im using a tutorial and just remembering and typing it out

[bitter bobcat]

true all the time

I can still move whilst jumping and moving backward

but the jumping and moving backward is unpromted

unprompted

the moving backward thing is fixed, but the jumping is still an issue

[hot wadi]

It's likely due to movementDirectionY u use to try to reset the vertical direction when grounded

[bitter bobcat]

alright, how do I mitigate this

[hot wadi]

Remove that variable. Check if it's grounded, then inside that statement, another nested if to check for jumping
If it's not grounded, apply gravity

{
    if (Input.GetButton("Jump") && canMove)
    {
        moveDirection.y = jumpPower;
    }
}
else
{
    moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
}```

[bitter bobcat]

doesnt work

do I need to add a rigidbody or ?

[cosmic quail]

to a charactercontroller? no

[bitter bobcat]

then how do I proceed ?

[cosmic quail]

make your own isGrounded check, maybe that's what's broken. cause the default one is pretty bad

[bitter bobcat]

how ?

[cosmic quail]

raycast down by a tiny amount and if it hits something then it means you're grounded

[hot wadi]

It works fine for me most of the time. I just find it weird to multiply the entire input axis with the direction vector

[bitter bobcat]

yeah, mayhaps, I used the code ya gave me, and it didnt work, I added a rigidbody to the capsule and it just started spinning

[hot wadi]

U can just put those 2 values as float for x and z of the direction vector

May be u should put a Debug.log message to check when it jumps

[bitter bobcat]

it might be sold

solved

[soft lotus]

Is this the right place to ask questions about popular assets such as DoTween?

Or is there some other chat, or maybe, an official server that would be better suited for such questions

[steel lantern]

When I call Instantiate to create a new object from a prefab at the same position my Player is at, the new object's OnCollisionEnter gets called immediately. I've tried right after the Instantiate disabling the collider on the instantiated object but it still happens. What is the way to do this? My torpedoes must be allowed to swim.

[wintry quarry]

OnCollionEnter will not get called immediately. It won't happen until the physics update phase.

Disabling the collider should work, as should using Physics.IgnoreCollision

[steel lantern]

I've set collider.enable = False right after the Instantiate call though.

[wintry quarry]

You can also use layer based collisions

[wintry quarry]

Can you show your code? Maybe you disabled the wrong collider

or maybe there's more than one collider on the prefab

etc

[steel lantern]

GameObject weaponGO = Instantiate(config.prefab, startPos, startRot); 
WeaponController controller = weaponGO.GetComponent<WeaponController>();
if (controller != null)
{
    Collider weaponCollider = weaponGO.GetComponent<Collider>();
    if (weaponCollider != null)
    {
        weaponCollider.enabled = false;
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

It's possible your if statement(s) are failing

the outer if statement and GetComponent seem pointless

Can you show screenshots of the prefab inspector

Debug.Log would help you here too

[steel lantern]

Well I did trim down the code a bit so you didn't have to look at the non-collider things.

[wintry quarry]

basically it's very possible this code will do nothing, depending on how your prefab is configured in the engine

[wintry quarry]

Does TorpedoController derive from WeaponController?

[steel lantern]

Yes

[wintry quarry]

And does the object have any other colliders, perhaps on child objects?

[steel lantern]

oh.. hmm... good question. Its from the asset store (I have no artistic or animation ability). I'll look at that.

dang it. All day I've been messing wthi this 🙂 Thanks.

[wintry quarry]

More debugging could have told you this 😉

[steel lantern]

So is the right thing to do to spin through the instantiated object finding all the colliders and disabling them?

[wintry quarry]

Well for one, are you sure you need more than one collider?

Something like a torpedo I would expect to maybe have a single capsule collider on it

[steel lantern]

I guess I do not.

I didn't realize it already had one.

[wintry quarry]

for two - I would make this the responsibility of the TorpedoController or WEaponController itself

it's pretty common to have an Init() method on a script that you call immediately after instantiation

[steel lantern]

Yes I have one of those.

Thanks for the help!

[maiden drum]

Why does Shader.Find("Universal Render Pipeline/Unlit")
return null in a build, but not in the editor?

[grand snow]

Could be that it was stripped because unity found no uses of URP unlit
usage in code cannot be detected during builds

[maiden drum]

that's probably right, unfortunately i can't find it in the always include shaders section

any idea what's it called?

[grand snow]

have a material asset pre made and modify it

or you use a shader variant collection asset to ensure certain shaders + variants are included

best way is to have a material ready made to use/modify as that is most reliable

[maiden drum]

gotcha, so instead of shaders.find i'll just use my material?

[grand snow]

Yea (e.g. via serialized var) and that then introduces a dependency that ensures the shader + variant needed is kept

[fathom tartan]

Yo any 2d programmers here?

I tried to make my sprite character move with a script but it didn't work

[hardy wing]

I'm a big despisor of this pattern btw. Wouldn't it be much better to let a in-between factory method handle this? The way I see it is: an Init() call can be forgotten, calling factory.Create() can't be.

[grand snow]

We dont make monobehaviours so for them its the second best way to perform an Init with args

you could have a factory that spawns and does the init so it wraps both steps

[ivory bobcat]

Try logging the value of delta.
If it's zero, try figuring out why.
Either input isn't detected or move speed is zero etc

[static terrace]

In Android Version of Unity, how can I write a file into the User's Download folder? Like downloading a file

[fathom tartan]

okk ill check that ty

[static terrace]

and I need the External Storage Permission yes, I saw two methods to check and request, but how do I make it wait till the User accepts/denies

[loud remnant]

It's been 3 hours, ive tried everything, not a single download works.
Turned off windows security
idk what to do now

[rich adder]

this isn't a code question
#💻┃unity-talk

[loud remnant]

💀

[static terrace]

Permission.RequestUserPermission(Permission.ExternalStorageWrite); is async, and I want to wait to see if the user denies/accepts

[fathom tartan]

I debug logged delta and it was responding, same for movespeed, weird, maybe it is an input problem. I don't know how to fix that other then just rewriting almost everything

Yeah I am just gonna rewrite the code with "input.GetKey", it will be easier that way.

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe it's due to your setup https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.15/manual/QuickStartGuide.html

[carmine summit]

trying to make a shader that indexes from a table:

#ifndef GETLAYERCOLOR_INCLUDE
#define GETLAYERCOLOR_INCLUDE

uniform float4 layerColors[10] = {
    float4(1, 0, 0, 0),
    float4(0, 0, 0, 0),
    float4(0, 0, 0, 0),
    float4(0, 0, 0, 0),
    float4(0, 0, 0, 0),
    float4(0, 0, 0, 0),
    float4(0, 0, 0, 0),
    float4(0, 0, 0, 0),
    float4(0, 0, 0, 0),
    float4(0, 0, 0, 0)
};

void GetLayerColor_float(float2 UV, out float4 LayerColor)
{
    LayerColor = layerColors[0];
}

#endif```
`layerColors[0]` makes the output float4 black (all zeroes) but doing `LayerColor = float4(1, 0, 0, 0)` outputs correctly; how come layerColors[0] isn't returning the element at index 0?

(this is a custom function in a URP shader graph)

[teal viper]

First of all it's a #1390346776804069396 question.

[carmine summit]

oh

apologies

[river sandal]

Hi im looking to find a way to track the players last frame not the current frame, but the one before that is there a way to do that?

[eternal needle]

Track what about the last frame?

[river sandal]

the location

then ill be able to track the speed of a vr controller

[slender nymph]

grab its location at the start of Update before you move it. that will be its position from the previous frame. then after you move it you can use its new position and the previous one

or grab its position in LateUpdate if you don't have control over how it moves

[eternal needle]

I dont use VR but id really assume there's a way to get the speed if thats something commonly needed.
Otherwise there's a few ways to go about it. you just need to make a Vector3 for the last frames position and write the value as the last thing you do in update or write it in late update

[river sandal]

right

[river sandal]

how can i grab its position before update

should i use start(); ?

[slender nymph]

i didn't say before Update, I said at the start of Update. as in, the first thing you do in Update

[river sandal]

Oh i see now so get the location of the current frame and then i can get the location of the next frame ty ty.

So now im getting a curious

is there a way to grab it from the last frame

it probably wouldnt be useful now that im imagining it

[slender nymph]

i feel like you didn't actually comprehend any of what was told to you

[river sandal]

I did

dw

[slender nymph]

then your question has been answered

[river sandal]

right i was just curious

if you COULD grab the last frame

but i got my answer anyways

so thanks

[slender nymph]

grab its location at the start of Update before you move it. that will be its position from the previous frame
literally the first thing i said

[river sandal]

Okay.. maybe i need some sleep lol

[slender nymph]

of course, this is dependent on you getting the location before you do whatever moves its location that frame

[river sandal]

so would late update be the next frame

[slender nymph]

no, LateUpdate is the end of the frame

[river sandal]

i see

so update is the first part of the frame and lateupdate is at the end

[slender nymph]

if you store its current location in LateUpdate then when you get it in the next Update it will be the previous frame's position no matter what

[river sandal]

ill need to make the numbers very sensitive if its happening withen the same frame

thanks

[river sandal]

oh

i see

ty ty

[sudden cypress]

Hi

Can I learn to code 3d games here

[slender nymph]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[sudden cypress]

Wow

Nice

Thanks

[rancid cloak]

Idky I’m having trouble with this but is there any good way to define tiles over a sprite - like say ur positioning shapes which are sprites like these into a grid you’ve defined and need to check if they can be placed in grid bounds without overlaps

Needs to be checked dynamically too tho like if ur generating shapes to be placed in a grid

[night mural]

well if you have a grid, you use grid math, so decide where the origin is and then check that plus the right 3 grid squares for the red shape

or whatever shape you want

you do need to know their 'grid size' which you probably want to just set manually because there aren't that many shapes and that's simple

[haughty forge]

Hello, how to script to avoid copyright, it feels hard to do my own, idk how to code.

[teal viper]

What kind of copyright are we talking about? Generally copyright is hard to enforce with coding. As long as you'd don't decompile games and copy paste the decompile code, but just learn from other people's code and adapt it to your needs, you don't really need to worry about copyright.

[teal viper]

And if you don't know how, then just learn.

[haughty forge]

Ok

[hot wadi]

We copy codes all the time

[naive pond]

There is a first person movement script that's on the assets shop. Idk if I should just apply that script to my "bean player character" or would it be better to make the first person movement myself?

[frank beacon]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/input-management/mini-first-person-controller-174710

[naive pond]

Thank you so much for the help

[naive pond]

I've ran into a problem and I can't seem to fix it on my own so im just going to ask a question on how I would go about fixing this.
Am I allowed to share a picture of my problem?

[keen dew]

Yes. Unless it's code, in that case 👇

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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

[naive pond]

It is an error message that im trying to show but I have no idea how to add a comment? With a line number? Idk what that even means im just so tired and my head hurts

[naive pawn]

it just means adding a little // <== line [n] here in your code, signifying where the error came from

if it's not an internal/editor error, the error message will tell you what file and line it came from

start with showing the error

[naive pond]

Like in a picture? And also where do I put the error message do I put it where the word "line" is? I need you to speak to me in crayon eating terms please, my brain is so worn out from trying to figure out code it's also like 3:00 am

[wintry quarry]

You just define your shapes as a list of 2d integer offsets, and check them all

[naive pawn]

in that case you should probably just go rest first

that will lead to much higher productivity in the future

[naive pond]

Yeah you're right I need to rest first before I try to do anything more. Thank you I'll talk later

[grand snow]

There are no good official docs on urp lit shaders (non graph) so you may have to look at lit/simple lit and fudge in support if you are willing to try yourself

[warm rover]

hello could someone teach me c# pls?

[naive pawn]

there are resources pinned in this channel

[warm rover]

oh

wich one do i click? there are like 8 links 😭

[hard pecan]

just pick one of the links like geez dude

[warm rover]

😐

[hard pecan]

I said just click one links at the time

[warm rover]

im not gonna watch a tutorial or read a tutorial 😭 i allready know my dumbass will run into a stupid issue that the tutorial doesnt cover. and ill get softlocked. i tried following tutorials EXACTLY once. and ran into an issue 😭

or i'll prob make a typo in the code and just brick the whole project and spend 30 minutes finding the typo 😭

[hard pecan]

dude just stop crying and get better at it it will be worth it

[frosty hound]

Then this hobby isn't for you. Nobody here will be a personal tutor, if that's what you're seeking you'll have to find and pay someone elsewhere.

[hard pecan]

trust

[hard pecan]

fair

I know about unity and I am new to it but I do know about c sharp

[tender mirage]

Hey there. I'm kinda stuck with an error saying "Optional parameters must appear after all required parameters"
i don't get why that's happening, am i doing something incorrectly?

This is a very basic fade in script that i'm working on.

[ContextMenu("Fadeout")]
private void LaunchFadeIn()
{
    //only fade if not currently fading
    if (IsFading == false)
    {
        
        StartCoroutine(FadeIn(2, new Color(0.5f,0.5f,0.5f)));
    }
         
}

public IEnumerator FadeIn(float Duration = -1, Color FadeinAmount)
{
    IsFading = true;

    float Elapsed = 0;

    if (Duration == -1)
    {
        //Default duration
        Duration = 3;
    }


    Color CurrentColor = BackgroundRenderer.color;

    
    //Fade amount
    Color FadeAmount = new Color(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f);

    while (Elapsed < Duration)
    {
        Elapsed += Time.deltaTime;

        float Progress = Elapsed / Duration;

        BackgroundRenderer.color = Color.Lerp(CurrentColor, FadeAmount, Progress);


        yield return null;
    }


    IsFading = false;

    yield return null;
}

[hard pecan]

is there a problem if i may ask?

with this code

I kinda not the best at knowing the parameter

[tender mirage]

Yes, the function parameters are invalid

FadeIn(float Duration = -1, Color FadeinAmount)

[hard pecan]

but i'll let the mod and admin awnser that

[frosty hound]

Optional parameters are ones with a default value (the = sign). They have to go at the end of the list of parameters in your function.

[tender mirage]

Thanks alot, i really appreciate that

[hard pecan]

beside I think you will get better at this coding

[tender mirage]

Oh so unasigned paramaters must be written prior

is that so?

[frosty hound]

Try it. Your FadeIn function.

[tender mirage]

i will.

[tender mirage]

it works now. That's a rather odd restriction, i never knew that, is this exclussive to c#?

also thanks alot!

[frozen crypt]

Does Someone have a basic Tutorial for a 3d movement System i cant seem to find one

well i can find one but they are all ass

[rocky canyon]

most tutorials are gonna be ass
they're usually geared to just get u up and running and to start familiarizing urself with the concept ur working on
no tutorial is ever gonna be 1:1 exactly what you need

its up to you to expand on it urself and adapt it to what u want

player controllers are a big deal.. between that and the camera movement its probably the most important part of the game..

takes time to make one fit ur game.. if its from scratch, a template, or even a bought asset..

[rocky heart]

hey why is unity saying the type ro namespace IEnumerator could not be found IEnumerator OnRightArrowRelease()
{
if (horizontalInput = 1)
{
horizontalInput = 0;
}
else
{
horizontalInput = -1;
}
yield return null;
}

[rocky canyon]

did u add the using statement that IEnumerator requires?

[rocky heart]

ooooh

lemme try

ok thx

[naive pawn]

btw, that horizontalInput = 1 is wrong. if you aren't getting errors in your ide, you need to configure your ide

!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

[rocky heart]

huh oh yeah i realised its ==

[civic gust]

Hi. How to optimize drawing through a script? I have c# logic, was trying to draw it on a texture2D, but updating it every frame is very slow. I read people suggested to use Graphics.Blit or maybe shaders? I can't figure out how to connect it to a c# logic, and a bit lost. Blit function takes texture as an argument, so I will still have to set pixels first and I can't see the point there.

[valid violet]

You can update picture only on draw, when you draw

For example when you selected brush and pressed left mouse button

[civic gust]

I'm updating it through texture.SetPixels and texture.Apply. But doing it every frame will give me 20fps

[valid violet]

Why do every frame you just need to paste on draw

If you are not drawing texture is not changed nothing to update

[civic gust]

because it updates and moving every frame. I'm doing pixel stile particles with physics, something like falling sand or snow

[timber tide]

graphics blit is the idea yeah

[civic gust]

but I want it to be a pixel style and a plane picture, or look like it

[timber tide]

modifying the texture cpu side is slow af

[valid violet]

So you do not need to save texture at the end, you can use shader instead

[civic gust]

can you help me with how to use blit? Some example would be great

[pseudo frigate]

how come only two variables are exposed in the inspector here?

[civic gust]

is it possible to make a very specific logic in shaders? Im very noobie in it. I need to have control with every pixel. Know it location and state and update it. The whole size of a picture would be around 1000x1000 maybe

[timber tide]

Well, like hunter said are you sure that a shader wouldn't suffice here? There's reasons to modify the texture if you were to stick it into other shaders later on in the pipeline

[grand snow]

Going to presume you have compile errors

[cosmic quail]

are you on that broken unity version where you had to open its inspector multiple times to reveal more variables?

[grand snow]

That was a thing?

[pseudo frigate]

i dont, the game plays as well. im on 2022.3.62f1

[cosmic quail]

yep, that's the exact version

[grand snow]

Ha well time to update!

[pseudo frigate]

oh rip lol, well that explains it

thanks

[cosmic quail]

that's the last lts for 2022 though, they made more where they fixed it but that one requires unity pro 😆
sorry, enterprise or industry* not pro

[pseudo frigate]

its just some visual bug through where theyre not showing? i guess i can deal with that. not sure if upgrading to another version would cause more problems

[grand snow]

Ah dang is 2022 already out of support

[cosmic quail]

yeah you have to open its inspector multiple times

[rocky canyon]

ya its visual.. as long as u can access ur public variables from elsewhere in ur IDE its fine..

except for the annoying inspector

[cosmic quail]

they made a 62f2 for 2022 but i doubt they fixed it there

[valid violet]

@civic gust You can use shader to display changes but you will also need to save draws into texture

[grand snow]

That's for the cve fix

[valid violet]

I think from shader you can draw to texure Using GPU instead of CPU so it will loss less performance but I'm also not an expert didn't do such logic before

You can create compute shader to write to the texture using GPU instead of CPU.

[grand snow]

Probably too complex for them but yea a compute shader is the way to got to produce a texture

#1390346776804069396

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! How to create a camera-based crouching system like a simple one? Whats the main formula?

[grand snow]

What do you mean? how to move the camera? Usually the main parts to crouching would be move camera down, adjust collider height and adjust movement speed.

[rocky canyon]

cameraOffset = crouchHeight;

[sage mirage]

Yes I mean I know how to make it with character controller and the camera attached as a child to the player game object but what if camera isn't a child game object

There are different approaches probably you can do it with Cinemachine Cameras as well but is it meaningful to do so?

[grand snow]

The same implementation would be used, the camera is moved down/up depending on being crouched.
Usually the collider height is reduced so we would move the camera down too. Its pretty trivial to animate/change the y position relative to your player object.
If you are using cinemachine to follow your player then you can use a follow target that gets moved down instead.

You need to explain more about your current setup to get better help if you still need it

[sage mirage]

No I am just wondering because I have made crouching system only with character controller once

and I had the camera as a child of the player

its the easiest setup for crouching

if you have camera as a child

with camera I wanted to create

camera-based crouching system without character controller like only the camera to move down and up

I have searched some people suggest lerp others suggest to use move towards method

for this to happen

[grand snow]

well those are just choices you can make then

[static terrace]

How do I let the user choose a file on Android? Like on Windows you can click on something, it will open the File Explorer and let you choose a file and give it to the app. I want that but in Android.

[rich adder]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/runtime-file-browser-113006

[static terrace]

Thanks

[languid pagoda]

Question. Lets say all my code is split up into different assemblies via assembly definition files and lets say for example I build my project out to an exe for windows, if I decide I want to update the "PlayerController" assembly can I just essentially drag and drop the one modified dll? or does the entire game have to be redownloaded?

[grand snow]

It probably would work if class definitions did not get changed but if you are using something like steam it will just handle efficient updates for you

[still ingot]

Is there a way to properly connect keyboard controls to ui button for main menu screen? I tried and the keyboard only works when you click on the mouse button i would like it to just work once the game or project runs?

[slender nymph]

in the editor you need to focus the game window by clicking into it. a build should typically receive focus as soon as it launches

[languid pagoda]

wdym by if class definitions do not change? and honestly I am not releasing to steam. 30-40% cut just to sell my game is rediculous

So my plan was to have a post build script that will loop through every file in the output build and generate a sha256 hash and generate a json file. That json file will live on a webserver where the files will download from and then also on the client. The client will send a webrequest passing their json in and the server will compare what the player has versus what the server has and download the needed files. but just wondering if there is anything that will have to be changed each time regardless if the filehash changed or not.

[grand snow]

look up library linking

anyway if you have a dynamic file update system then the problem solves itself

because if one dll doesnt change hash then we know it didnt change

[languid pagoda]

going to do some reading into library linking

Is my overall concept correct on how things like this are handled though?

[grand snow]

maybe itch.io is a better platform if you want an alternative

[languid pagoda]

Honestly I was planning to go the tarkov route and force purchases through my website.

[grand snow]

I think as long as you only care about the most recent version it should work as you describe

[crimson pike]

how do you guys organize your namespaces for runtime classes/enums/interfaces etc

or do you even use namespaces outside of editor stuff?

[grand snow]

well if you do that make sure you have authentication otherwise anyone can pirate and steal the game

there is a reason why people pay for platforms to do this stuff for them

[languid pagoda]

Oh I understand but 40% is crazy talk.

But its not like your game cant be stolen/pirated automatically just because its on steam.

Hell there are multiplayer games that are being pirated and steam is being abused to support multiplayer still by utilizing steams default appid (spacewars)

[grand snow]

no but if you implement this yourself then you have more things to consider

[maiden drum]

Is there any way to average out profiler metrices?

[languid pagoda]

Not that I am aware of in the UI but you could easily write an editor script that does this.

[maiden drum]

oh dang it, it's good for analysing frame drops but oftentimes script take differing times so it's hard to know which one is slow

[languid pagoda]

frame drops usually caused by gc spikes

profile that first, especially if you're having a hard time pinpointing a script thats taking too long to execute

[maiden drum]

will do, thanks

[languid pagoda]

no problem. are you instantiating or destroying many objects at once in your game? what can happen is you can spawn 200 game objects destroy them but they will persist in memory until the gc does a sweep. Later in the game you might spawn 10 more objects and hit some limit that tells the gc to run and that is when youll get the frame drops.

[lusty prawn]

does anyone know a solution when tiles sometimes have a one pixel gap when the camera is in a certain position?

looks very glitchy

[cosmic quail]

pixel perfect camera

[lusty prawn]

i have tried that but that doesnt feel smooth

camera moves very odd then

[languid pagoda]

Yeah thats one big drawback with pixel perfect camera it restricts smooth movement

Chances are you can fix this with your import settings, is your filter mode on point?

[lusty prawn]

point (no filter)

[languid pagoda]

what about pixels per unit?

[lusty prawn]

32x32

so 32

[languid pagoda]

ok so your import settings make sense

[lusty prawn]

my temporary solution rn is i made it 31 ppu but it looks a bit odd

[languid pagoda]

You sure its just not low quality art assets?

[lusty prawn]

maybe.. but i think it just happend when i begun the project i didnt have it

[languid pagoda]

what happens if you manually set the resolution in the playmode window

dont touch the zoom just adjust the resolution and leave it where it is then press play

[lusty prawn]

in the camera?

or the pixel perfect camera comp

tbh ive tried everything even ai cant help me

[languid pagoda]

set a resolution

if its on auto it might misalign things

[lusty prawn]

alr i tried it on 1920 x 1080 which it was on which doesnt work and 4k also but i still have it

[languid pagoda]

weird

are the sprites from a sheet?

[lusty prawn]

yeah

this is what hapends btw

[languid pagoda]

is your sheet on an atlas?

[lusty prawn]

wdym

[languid pagoda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXc-H0pb668

[thorn vine]

Hello everyone ☺️

[versed stump]

Yes, with the Profile Analyzer. It's a separate package available in the package manager

[leaden hazel]

HELLPPPPPPPP HELP ME HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP PLSSSSS ME NO SPEAK ENGLISH ME ON MAC BOOK HELP ME PLESSSS

[rich adder]

known vscode issue

[true nacelle]

I'm trying to get to grips with the new Input System Package after initially learning the Input Manager, I'm mostly there with the basics I think, but there is one issue I'm having. I have a Button ActionType that is triggering both on key down and on key release, so each time I press space bar the event happens twice. Does anyone know a solve for this?

[leaden hazel]

how to fix

[rich adder]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/bin-and-obj-folder-auto-generated-everytime-new-file-is-created-in-vs-code/1683504/3

[leaden hazel]

but ok for mac?

[rich adder]

this isnt a platform thing. Its a new C# extension feature thing

[leaden hazel]

ok I will try tanks

[earnest wind]

AndroidJavaClass intentClass = new("android.content.Intent");
AndroidJavaObject intentObject = new("android.content.Intent");
intentObject.Call<AndroidJavaObject>("setAction", intentClass.GetStatic<string>("ACTION_VIEW"));

AndroidJavaClass uriClass = new("android.net.Uri");
AndroidJavaObject fileObject = new("java.io.File", FolderPath);
AndroidJavaObject uriObject = uriClass.CallStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("fromFile", fileObject);

intentObject.Call<AndroidJavaObject>("setDataAndType", uriObject, "resource/folder");

AndroidJavaClass unity = new("com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer");
AndroidJavaObject currentActivity = unity.GetStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("currentActivity");
currentActivity.Call("startActivity", intentObject);

i might need to make a dev version to see the errors

my original question since i asked in wrong channel

ignore the "using", i was testing smth but its not there anymore as i dont need it (edited the message)

[grand snow]

With that much JNI id just write this in java and invoke that

[earnest wind]

i mean yeah but whats wrong with the code 😭?

[grand snow]

Not sure, you want to open a file picker? Did you add the required permissions?

I do remember this stuff changed at some point so dont use an old api

[earnest wind]

no, just open the file explorer

smth like how u do it here

Application.OpenURL("file:///" + LevelPath);

but on android

[grand snow]

android doesnt really do such a thing

Its more complex now and requires extra steps to access files outside of your app https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage

[fathom tartan]

how do I fix this(Doing a 2d game right now)

[slender nymph]

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

[earnest wind]

why is it so complicated

😭

[grand snow]

because they tried to move away from apps having full access to all files so its better controlled now

[tough lagoon]

File provider examples

[tough lagoon]

Ill thread the message so it isn't a wall of text

[random patrol]

I updated my unity 6.0, and now I am getting errors about packages missing Unity Sentis?

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.ml-agents@2b4ded88494d\Runtime\Academy.cs(11,13): error CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Sentis' does not exist in the namespace 'Unity' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

What even is Sentis?

[rich adder]

Sentis was renamed thats probably why.. its a Language Model / neural network engine basically

now is called "Inference Engine"

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.sentis@2.1/manual/index.html

[rich adder]

you can try just deleting the library folder and refresh the project

delete the packages related to it first if you have any

[fathom tartan]

yo guys why isn't the sprite editor showing upp?

[ivory bobcat]

Doesn't sound like a code question, try moving the question to #💻┃unity-talk

[fathom tartan]

alr

[river sandal]

Hi i was trying to make a hand walking system. This script is supposed to track the distance from your hand from the last frame. I was wondering if I needed to declare currentHandPos again on LateUpdate;? I am on my school laptop so im not able to test it right now.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class MyScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Vector3 lastHandPosition;
    private Vector3 movementSpeed;
    private Vector3 handDelta;
    private Vector3 currentHandPos;
    private Vector3 newPos;
    private float distance;
    public Rigidbody playerRigidbody; // PUBLIC
    private float movementMultiplier = 1.3f; // adjust value to change movement power
    // called immediately when the script is loaded or something, before start.
    void Awake()
    {

    }

    // called first other than Awake
    void Start()
    {
    
    }

    // Can call at a fixed interval? How can that be useful lol.
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        
    }


    void Update()
    {
    lastHandPosition = transform.position; // the current position so it becomes the last position in the next frame
    }

    void LateUpdate()
    {
        currentHandPos = transform.position;
        distance = Vector3.Distance(currentHandPos, lastHandPosition) / Time.deltaTime;
        handDelta = currentHandPos - lastHandPosition;
        float movementForce = distance * movementMultiplier;
        Vector3 moveDirection = -handDelta.normalized;

        if (handDelta.magnitude > 0.01f)
        {
            playerRigidbody.AddForce(moveDirection * movementForce, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
        }
    }
}

i would assune LateUpdate(); -> Update();

because Update(); runs every frame, same as LateUpdate();

[teal viper]

Both update and late update happen in the same frame, and as the name implies, late one happens later, so your current and last positions are the same in update.

[river sandal]

so would is my code basically just redundant

[teal viper]

Yes

[river sandal]

🙏

[teal viper]

You should put everything in update and set last position at the end of the logic.

Ah, you're moving via physics...

If you're moving via physics you should be doing all of it in fixed update

[trail sky]

Howdy yall!

[river sandal]

right but I wanted to get the current frame and then when that frame passes it gets the hand position of the frame how would i do that without Update(); and LateUpdate();

CurrentHandPos -> NextFrameHandPos // then of course you just subtract them to find the total then apply the velocity

now im at a halt and i dont see how can i use fixedupdate. it seems useless since it can only update at a fixed interval. How can I get the current frame then save it, and then get the the next frame?

i was thinking of using a float then saving it

[river sandal]

Thank you! You helped me alot and I know what I need to do now. I will move all of my code to Update(); instead of FixedUpdate(); because sometimes the force being applied will be delayed and for a highly physicsal game I will be needing all of the optimization. Thanks!

I do have one question, would FixedUpdate(); be better at physics? If so can I just set the Interval to 1. So its better at physics and moving at the same time as Update();?

[neon forum]

for a multiplayer online game, how can I tell the host to spawn objects from the client? Or is there a way to enable distributed authority?

[trail sky]

I have heard FixedUpdate(); is speficly ment for physics
-# im not entirely sure, theres people with more knollage for sure

[slender nymph]

#1390346492019212368

[random patrol]

Did not fix it

[slender nymph]

make sure you've also updated all packages

[tough lagoon]

Sorta.
Yes, FixedUpdate runs on the physics execution time (runs a lot less often).

Most of the time just multiplying what you are doing by Time.deltaTime and doing it in Update is fine. It makes non-physics changes smooth, allows for input to be processed properly on the frame it starts/ends, etc.

Most physics operations are also fine to execute from Update as they are applied on the next FixedUpdate anyway (with a couple gatchas). But there are some scenarios where running it in the physics loop is important.

It's just rarely needed in practice and mostly misused (imho).

[cosmic dagger]

Yes, FixedUpdate is used for moving an object via physics . . .

[naive pawn]

lets you access input faster
this is not quite true. input is just framebound, they're updated per frame, so they should be read per frame - otherwise you're skipping data

[tough lagoon]

If you are checking input in FixedUpdate, it could check it 4 or 5 frames after the visual is processed.

And the input state may have changed

I.e. missing presses and releases

[naive pawn]

exactly. it's not "getting input faster", it's getting input correctly

[tough lagoon]

Ok, I reworded it, for what little point it is worth

[naive pawn]

fwiw i feel like it's kinda misleading to say you should just do everything in Update

rigidbodies have interpolation to make them not jittery even as they actually update in the fixed timestep

[tough lagoon]

So tell them to do something else

[naive pawn]

things that are bound to the fixed timestep, ie most physics stuff that isn't just an assignment, should be done in the fixed timestep

[tough lagoon]

If you have a practical reason you suggest they use fixedupdate, my suggestion is to tell em.

[naive pawn]

randomunityencounter already gave a sufficient answer tbh

i'm specifically telling you that your advice is misleading

[tough lagoon]

Ok 😉

[winged ridge]

Here is a resource for you to understand what people are discussing
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/execution-order.html

[hazy thicket]

doing ld58 rn, and im having trouble getting a rotation working, i have two vector3 world positions, and im trying to rotate an object on its local X axis to line up with the positions, feel like ive tried everything

[winged ridge]

.localRotation may help

[timber trellis]

is there a way to capture a windows desktop screen and duplicate it inside of unity ? i cant seem to have any luck finding something similar online, other than a couple of japaense libraries

[winged ridge]

In what sense? As in a live capture so if they move the mouse on desktop it moves in the editor or in game

For that your best bet is to look into C# and .Net libraries, unity itself wouldn't handle it since it's likely a system method

[tough lagoon]

What do you mean about line up? Like copying one to another, looking at, or something therein?

[hazy thicket]

align, match the rotation of the direction of the two points

[tough lagoon]

This may work in a pinch
https://github.com/hecomi/uWindowCapture

[timber trellis]

thats one of the japanese libraries i came across. i did some digging and i found the creator discussing it in a forum and according to him the performance was unsatisfactory so he didnt work on it further. Idk should i still try it ?

i came across this a few minutes ago

https://github.com/tylerwhall/desktop-duplication-sample

[tough lagoon]

Quaternion.LookRotation might be what you are looking for.

[timber trellis]

and thank you so much for replying to my message 🙏🙏

[tough lagoon]

That looks promising, plus, there is source code for the DLL, so if it works you can modify it later if needed. I'd definitely give both of those a try

[timber trellis]

Hmmm oke doki. I’ll get on it as soon as i get back from uni 🫡

[winged ridge]

Literally Google it. It's a .net library and you save it to bitmap which is used for things where the image can change

[timber trellis]

i saw it, the windows graphics capture thing. i didnt see anyone using it so i was hesitant i thought if it was any food i’d see it pop up somewhere

[winged ridge]

People don't use it because they don't understand it or think it won't work, the best way to do any screen capture is the way the Developer of the code wrote... Any hack around will not be as good or flexible

[random patrol]

I find it infurating that Unity won't change things like their stupid custom null equality check for "backwards compatability" but then do stuff like this.

[sour fulcrum]

Changing the null check equality would be insane

[random patrol]

No it would be the smart thing to do, they even said they could have done it.

Because then you would fallow actual standards for the language instead of making up stupid stuff

?= doesn't work because of their stupidity

What is insane is that I have lost 2 days fixing my project because they wanted to change thier ML package name

[sour fulcrum]

ok

[timber trellis]

hmm, fair point. I’ll try it. Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏

[rich adder]

due diligence when upgrading a project into another version...& version control before any upgrades is a must

[winged ridge]

Alongside a backup before and after the upgrade

[slender nymph]

that's what the version control is for. just revert to the previous version if updating broke things

[languid pagoda]

how are multiplayer games on steam preventing people from stealing accounts if steam ids can be spoofed. I am not using steam just wondering what auth options we have

[winged ridge]

In theory, many authentication options, such as the whole Google play etc.. but a steamID isn't necessarily there to be a level of security, more a entry in a large database

[random patrol]

Agreed I have those

[random patrol]

I did, but I have to upgrade because of the security issues, so it is either now or later.

[strong wren]

Server can validate sessions with Steam https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/auth

[rugged beacon]

https://gist.github.com/krzys-h/76c518be0516fb1e94c7efbdcd028830#file-saverendertexturetofile-cs-L21
im using this script to save the render texture, but the result saved texture keep being set to 512 no matter what i do, is there any way i fix this

[tender mirage]

I thought this would've gotten every gameobject without tags, but it's giving me a null error instead.
i want to grab every gameobject that doesn't contain any tags.

GameObject[] AllNonetags = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag(null);

i'm guessing getting the scene might be a better idea

[gentle bone]

as im reading all gameobjects have a tag.. and when they dont have a tag the default is "Untagged" probably thats the problem you cant find all obejcts with "null" ^^

[tender mirage]

Ooh! i didn't think of that.

I'll test it out although i already wrote a scene manager get all root parts script.

[leaden hazel]

guys help plssssssssss

[grand snow]

the vs code bug strikes again!

the obj folder should be deleted. update vs code and the visual studio package in project.

[leaden hazel]

how do I do that I need more detail

[grand snow]

All assets for your project are in Assets/. Delete the "obj" folder in Assets/.
Update vs code if there is an update as its c# extension is making these files incorrectly.

[leaden hazel]

do I update vs code by deleting and downloading?

Cannot update while running on a read-only volume. The application is on a read-only volume. Please move the application and try again. If you're on macOS Sierra or later, you'll need to move the application out of the Downloads directory. This might mean the application was put on quarantine by macOS. See this link for more information.

what the

[grand snow]

no fuckin idea 😆
delete the obj folder for now and I believe there is a setting in the c# extension you can disable to prevent it happening again

[bitter pine]

hey, so ive been touching on interfaces, now it doesnt go through walls if u were here last time. but how do i get the name of the interface object?

ah, nevermind just remembered hitinfo is a thing 😅

[leaden hazel]

yea I think it worked

[grand snow]

Great. vs code spat out some files that unity cant compile hence the issues. Delete it again if it happens more

[leaden hazel]

alright thanks

[grand snow]

If you mean c# interfaces, you can still cast to MonoBehaviour and get the gameobject and name.
Or you can add a property to your interface that we know all monos already implement:
public GameObject gameObject {get;}

[bitter pine]

nah, its all good i got it working

[bitter pine]

so if im doing it this method how would i get the object from a raycast?

would it be better to use hitInfo or the interface to get the object?

[grand snow]

Get it from hitInfo because its easily accessable without a cast

[bitter pine]

ok

[grand snow]

as you see you already access the gameobject

[bitter pine]

ye, so it would be the same?

is it possible to get it from the interface?

[grand snow]

get the gameobject once and store in a var

[bitter pine]

prob would be smarter

[grand snow]

You can like I said but we can avoid doing that in this context

Its best to avoid repeated accesses with unity properties as many go to native code

[bitter pine]

ok

would a spherecast or a direct cast be better for interacting?

[grand snow]

But if you need to elsewhere you can do:

GameObject g = ((MonoBehaviour)interactable).gameObject;

[bitter pine]

thanks

idk if ill need to use that

[grand snow]

In the context shown above you dont

[bitter pine]

but ill keep it saved just in case

👍

[grand snow]

but good to know how to cast with () and as

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/types/casting-and-type-conversions#explicit-conversions

[bitter pine]

u may have answered this b4 idk but what one is better?

so like how a raycast points out, i want a sphere to be at the end of said raycast checking for an object in the general area, so that the player wont have to look at the object exactly to pick it up

[grand snow]

A raycast can be first used to look for an interactable, if not then if you hit the floor/some surface you can sphere cast there to find something close by.

[high wigeon]

So I'm using VS code but for some reason it doesn't identify errors. How do I enable that feature?

[grand snow]

!vscode

[radiant void]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[grand snow]

^ make sure you have things setup correctly

[high wigeon]

Thank you

[bitter pine]

so, my interaction does work. but it wont interact with some parts of the object

like say my door for example, it works on the upper half but not the bottom half?

[cosmic quail]

is the box collider covering the entire door?

[rocky canyon]

easy enough debug the raycast hit and see what it says when u hover the bottom half

[cosmic dagger]

Give the interface a GameObject property . . .

[echo copper]

guys, who's free rn?

[bitter pine]

yes

[cosmic dagger]

Don't ask to ask, just ask . . .

[echo copper]

okay

[cosmic quail]

could the raycast be hitting the player?

[bitter pine]

uhm, dunno if u just read that or if ur just ignoring the rest, but i solved it :3

[bitter pine]

maybe, actually

how would i stop that?

[cosmic quail]

raycast has a layer mask parameter

[cosmic dagger]

Yeah, I'm reading all the new posts from this morning . . .

[bitter pine]

yes but the reason i decided not to use it, is because it would go through walls if i used it

[echo copper]

i have this problem. if sonic stands on the joint of the platforms, he shakes like in the video. how to prevent this type of shaking? if you need the code, i'll send it

please

[bitter pine]

just fix the ground, when the character leans down it goes straight onto the flat surface, making it flat again

then it loops

[rocky canyon]

it appears its trying to angle b/c of something
and then trying to stay upright b/c of something else..

u have two ground/check thingies affecting it at once

[bitter pine]

make the ground connect properly and it will work

atleast im pretty sure

[echo copper]

okay, thanks, i'll try

[rocky canyon]

well it depends looks like he has two rays far away from each other

even if the ground is conncted.. if hes standing on the edge like that (1) is gonna have 1 normal and the other has another normal..

[echo copper]

yes, they're finding the right angle

[rocky canyon]

u could blend them.. or have 1 take priority

[bitter pine]

hmmm i notice that now

why are you using 2?

[echo copper]

actually it is

[rocky canyon]

green one says slant to match the ramp
the red one says nah bitch u standing upright

[echo copper]

i have the priority

[bitter pine]

why not just use 1 and put it in the middle

[rocky canyon]

^ that would be the easiest solution

[bitter pine]

just check what floor your on then change to that angle

[rocky canyon]

or u could take both of em abnd blend them togther.. so it tilts halfway between both of em

[cosmic quail]

no it wouldn't if you just make it ignore the player layer

[echo copper]

well, it works like red, ur distance is shorter than mine, ur main

[rocky canyon]

ahh okay

[bitter pine]

yes, how do i do that?

[cosmic quail]

make a player layer

[bitter pine]

would i put a layermask but put a ~ before it?

[cosmic quail]

just assign it in the inspector

[rocky canyon]

just select all the layers u want to detect but the player layer

[bitter pine]

ohhhh

i completley forgot u can select multiple layers for a layer mask 😭

[rocky canyon]

easier that way than inversing the whole mask

[echo copper]

just in future, how to prevent this shakin. i checked the other engines and they has this shake prevent system, idk how does it works...

[bitter pine]

alright, i understand it

[bitter pine]

elaborate on the shaking?

[rocky canyon]

its his tilt player to match ground normal

[bitter pine]

oh, its because the camera is connected to the player

so its gonna follow its axis

[rocky canyon]

he just has (2) of em working together.. w/ different normals causing it to jitter

[bitter pine]

so if he goes down then up again its gonna cause the camera to shake

i think if u lerp the camera it may work

or slerp

either one

[echo copper]

if there are 2 normals and distances of these visors is the same, it will take the average angle

[bitter pine]

slerp is more linear where as lerp will slow then speed then slow back down again

[rocky canyon]

i think using an average is a good idea to test

see if it fits ur style

[slender nymph]

or just use the slope from the two hit points

[bitter pine]

i dont think it is

because i did the layermask and it still wont select the top half

[cosmic quail]

maybe you forgot to put the player on the player layer
if not, then debug what the raycast hits then
or maybe you forgot to add the layer mask to the raycast

[rocky canyon]

this is what it might look like if u used the average of all the raycast normals
@echo copper

[bitter pine]

i dont think i forgot anything

[cosmic quail]

i believe you forgot to debug to see if the raycast is hitting something else

[rocky canyon]

if not, then debug what the raycast hits then
#💻┃code-beginner message

u should debug all the hits while ur testing anyway

[bitter pine]

im doing the debug now

[rocky canyon]

it will reveal whats blocking it

[bitter pine]

making a debug cooldown so it doesnt print something every frame

making it wait 0.5s before firing

[echo copper]

well, the other engine has the same problem, but sonic isn't shaking. maybe just the sprite interpolates somehow. well, mb the engine detects these shakings. how to do it?

[bitter pine]

wait am i an idiot or am i an idiot?

i feel like im missing something

ive done cooldowns many times before but, i cant remeber whats wrong here

[polar acorn]

using System.Collections

[bitter pine]

brih

[polar acorn]

It used to be part of the default template but was removed in Unity 6

[bitter pine]

damn

ok

[polar acorn]

Since more cases don't need it than do

[bitter pine]

thanks, didnt realise

it was clearly telling me but i swore it was alr there

@cosmic quail

i firgured it out

feel like an idiot

its the triggers that are in front of the door that tell it what way to open :p

[cosmic quail]

gotta exclude those from the layer mask too 😛

[bitter pine]

its working now

one last problem though, that i need to fix

wait

no

i remeber now, it would only disable the door interact ui, not the text itself 😭

sometimes i just create the problems in my head and dont read my own spaghetti code 😭

[rocky canyon]

meh, thats how most of us learn the best 🙂

being told not to do something a particular way doesn't hit as hard as
actually doing something the wrong way and realizing it urself later on 😄

[gilded canyon]

Is it just me or does declaring an array as public cause lots of errors and warnings in the inspector using unity 6000.0.58f2

[rocky canyon]

its just .58f2 as well as a couple others ive seen...

public class s1 : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform[] transforms;
    public Vector3[] positions;
    public Color[] colors;

    [SerializeField] private Transform[] serializedTransforms;
    [SerializeField] private Vector3[] serializedPositions;
    [SerializeField] private Color[] serializedColors;
}

→ the editors are bugged out pretty bad..

📌 (reset ur layout as a work-a-round)

[gilded canyon]

Classic unity

[rocky canyon]

yup, jank for now

[gilded canyon]

It works!!

[rocky canyon]

just to take a few nice long slow breaths before compiling 🤣
this editor is bout testing patience ;D

[gilded canyon]

I'd assume it would take them about a week or 2 to iron out the quirks

Till then this should do

[rocky canyon]

lets hope 🤞 that security thing has em probably running around like chickens w/ their heads cut off

[languid pagoda]

I am using WASMTime as a scripting runtime for my game. It will allow players to mod the game and create custom scripts while staying sandbox. The library is multiplatform but I am unsure how the folder structure works for unity, how do I lay out the folder structure for a native plugin to support osx, windows and linux?

[rocky canyon]

https://paste.myst.rs/9g8k6a6g

heres a little editor script I just wrote that makes it a Hotkey
just save the script to a folder called Editor that way it doesn't get built or anything
then you can simply press Shift + F5 to reset the layout quickly

[languid pagoda]

what was the security vulnerability anyways?

[rocky canyon]

no clue.. some potential back door or something

https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01 heres all the info

[languid pagoda]

Seems odd to me tbh, we aren't sandboxed with the code we can execute so idk what the ramifications of it could be

[rocky canyon]

no one's exploited it yet.. but thats why they went thru the trouble of notifying everyone..
update as soon as u can.. and if you've built with any of those versions and its possible might want to port it over to a different version and re-release

are susceptible to an unsafe file loading and local file inclusion attack depending on the operating system, which could enable local code execution or information disclosure at the privilege level of the vulnerable application

[languid pagoda]

so essentially if someone has a virus on their pc and my game installed the virus could exploit the bug in my game to execute code?

[rocky canyon]

thats all i really know
im in the process of moving everything over to 6000.0.58f2
but seeing lots of people with editor / visual bugs with that version

soo i really don't know what im going to do... just wait and see for a while i guess

[languid pagoda]

Honestly im just going to stay on my current version until they iron out the issues.

[rocky canyon]

im not totally sure but that sounds reasonable to suspect

[languid pagoda]

If someone already has a virus on their pc their cooked anyways

[rocky canyon]

ya, i don't think it means Unity will give u a virus.. but yea
like ur saying.. if u already have one it may make it worse

just don't go downloading so much 🌽 until its fixed 🤪

[cosmic quail]

steam fixed it so if you upload your game there then it's patched anyways

[slender nymph]

steam did not patch the games. steam is only blocking the command line parameters only if the game is actually launched through the steam client

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I am making a camera-based crouching system. For one reason, my camera when I am pressing C button to crouch, it does tiny movements until the camera reaches the crouch height. I am not sure why. Also, another issue is that with my Update Camera Position By State method on Update() method the camera is falling down at the beginning of the game. Could you please review my code and see what is happening because I stuck?

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

[echo copper]

what does that means?

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/stackoverflowexception

[rocky canyon]

you overflowed ur stack 😄

void InfiniteLoop(){
     InfiniteLoop();
}```

check for Recursive update calls, coroutines calling themselves, or nested property getters

[tough lagoon]

If i read it right, there are 4 risks, the main one being an exploit to essentially let someone load a DLL to your game and execute something in it. Most likely someone installs a free game, it checks everything on the system to find exploitable games, and sits on the info a while.

From there its a lot more open what they can do with an exploited version (download a Trojan through your game for example). But its not exactly an easy thing to exploit. And 95% of games will end up not patched anyway.

What steam and others is doing is blocking the URI command to launch the game with the request to load the DLL. It can't stop something from running windows command line to do it.

At least, from what little I've read, that seems to be the risk.

[bitter pine]

where do i go for UI help?

[tough lagoon]

It seems quite convoluted to me as a risk, versus the bad app from just infecting the system directly. But the disguise is what they are mostly worried about

[rocky canyon]

#📲┃ui-ux

[languid pagoda]

Idk maybe i have no idea about how security works but I dont see how this is any issues. If someone downloads a unity game and wants to exploit this put a trojan the only pc at risk is his own. This exploit doesn't give him the ability to just infect everyone who has downloaded the game.

[tough lagoon]

Yeah exactly. Like there is a very very distant possibility (if you say have user generated content, and they really work hard on it, they could exploit that). But thats more of a mass user adoption game sized concern

[languid pagoda]

I mean even then user generated content should be being executed through a sandbox that should stop this from happening anyways.

I am actually as we speak embedding the webassembly runtime into unity so users can create/share scripts with each other without executing any malicious code.

Will allow users to create scripts in any language that can compile to wasm and be secure in knowing someone elses mods cant do anything fishy

[tough lagoon]

Pretty much. Yeah, that's what the exploit is trying to circumvent. In theory it lets the data be accessed by their own code outside of the developer and engines normal sandbox

But its still restricted to the permissions the game has

[languid pagoda]

Any games allowing mods through c# reflection are going to be the ones that have the hugest risks

but yeah I guess this is only a problem for games with user created content

vr chat probably scrambling right now

[tough lagoon]

Plus, they will need an intimate knowledge of your code base to figure out how to exploit it in most cases. So security by obscurity for most small devs.

Yeah i can definitely see it being a risk for vrchat

But we won't know for sure until someone actually exploits it. People are crazy innovative 😄

[rocky canyon]

i'd rather have the exploit than my editor being incapable of drawing correctly half the time..
#firstworldproblems

[tough lagoon]

Haha true, or not knowing what the patched executables breaking

[tender onyx]

Not 100% sure if this falls under beginner or not, but anyway... I'm making a survival horror / FPS game and I'm tackling enemy AI. They can see and hear the player to find them, but I'm wondering about smell.

If I made an invisible particle system that trailed behind the player, could I have the AI interact with / follow the trail of particles? TIA

(Any guides, videos, etc. are appreciated!)

[tough lagoon]

One ugly solution, is the particle systems can have physics attached. So you could actually have them hit colliders as a way of sensing smell

So yeah, you could use a trail of particles

And, that way, you could also make the smell "visible" at some point in the game

[tender onyx]

Solid, thanks lloyd!

[tough lagoon]

This may help
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/configure-particle-trigger.html

[loud remnant]

I've js finished the rollaball course
what course should I start now?

[languid pagoda]

now you should take the concepts you learned in that course and create a full game out of it and release it on the app store of your choice

[loud remnant]

the course taught nothing other than simple movement input, UI and some ai navigation what are you talking about.

how can I create a game out of that?

[icy quarry]

yo hello guys, how do I choose the gpu that my unity engine uses to run, rn its running the games in the editor on my cpu

my perfomance is terrible

[languid pagoda]

create a game about a basket ball trying to find its way home idfk but there are 10,000,000 games on the app store that contain very little additional coding than whats taught in that course

[true pine]

why is my game doing this?

[loud remnant]

and how can you prove that?

[loud remnant]

maybe you have the camera as a child to the player?

[true pine]

am I not supposed to?

[loud remnant]

no

update the camera rotation and transform via code

[true pine]

was following this guy's tutorial and that's what he was doing

[true pine]

alright

[languid pagoda]

https://www.tiktok.com/@karlinhaa_games/video/7282533708660329733
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dino.rolling.skyball.balance&hl=en_US

There is two one has over 50 million downloads

[loud remnant]

If you have your camera as a child then it's transform and rotation will be updated with the player
and you're also updating it's rotation via mouse move input
explaining the messed up movement and rotation

@true pine before doing what I recommend
make the function in the code of movement from void update to void lateupdate

and see if it works

[true pine]

hang on would it help if I sent my actual code

[loud remnant]

yes that one has even more stuff than the course even showed

[true pine]

I have pastebins for the mouse and movement scripts

[loud remnant]

I don't know much about code, but I know a lot of concepts and HOW to make them, just not HOW to code them

[languid pagoda]

yes and taking courses are not going to teach you how to code. Take the concepts from your entry into the engine and try to expand it on your own without following a video

[loud remnant]

whatever

[icy quarry]

bro please how can i choose the gpu that my unity engine runs, its using my cpu right now

[true pine]

I have the opposite problem; I can code but I'm just not well-versed in concepts

[loud remnant]

take a problem
turn it into multiple little problems
and then fix every little problem

[true pine]

maybe I didn't word that correctly

[icy quarry]

anyone know the helper team here, i want to get my stuff fixed

[true pine]

I'm not good at expressing what I'm talking about

[languid pagoda]

is your monitor plugged into your gpu? this definitely isn't a question for the coding channel.

[icy quarry]

laptop with dedicated nvidia graphics, i have set nvidia control panel to default my system to use the gpu tho

[true pine]

ok so, that didn't really do anything

it's really weird what's happening

[loud remnant]

oh, sry I couldn't be of help in some way

[true pine]

if I spam wasd while moving my mouse it freaks tf out, but then it just magically works normally for a few seconds

[loud remnant]

a few seconds?

[true pine]

I don't get it either