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[wintry quarry]

yes - use your equipment system

no, it was renamed to CinemachineCamera

[grand snow]

Well yea I think you need to do it a good way to achieve what you want
trying to take a shortcut by "finding all uses of the sprite rn" will surely backfire

[wintry quarry]

Also #🎥┃cinemachine

[drowsy flare]

I'm using the game data to perform the actual spells and stuff, but here I just want to do a simple thing in the presentation layer, that's why

[twin pivot]

the most permanent thing is a temporary solution and all that

[dark laurel]

my visual studio is having a fit today 😐 constant stream of errors, visual studio installer not finding the installation.. grr

[drowsy flare]

Okay @grand snow and @wintry quarry and @dark laurel , thanks for your advice. Guess I'll do it the "real" way and not use shortcuts ...

[drowsy flare]

You're right

[dark laurel]

I mean, you can do it however you want.. but I promise that if you do something like foreach gameobject in my entire scene every frame, your game's framerate will quickly go to a flip album and you'll wonder why

[fervent bramble]

I am so confused becasue like 20 people are telling me diffrent things can you sned me the whole script because I have been told 20 diffrent other things and am having a brain anurism

[twin pivot]

last time i ignored that i ended up with a vector2 called realplayerpos that had 0.5f added to the y position for some reason

[drowsy flare]

I guess I've already done the hard part, where the wizard can cast spells that all the other players are carrying. I just hoped for something simple and rewarding now, where I draw a simple line between the wizard and the spell items on the other players

[grand snow]

I personally think the previous suggestion to use layers to locate the head (so you can show/hide it) was unwise.
Ideally its best practice to use serialized variables (which you should learn about early on when using unity) to locate and do stuff to certain objects.

[dark laurel]

@fervent bramble All the advice you've been given is correct and while overwhelming.. just needs some time (on your end) learning. 🙂 Just go back to the editor, read the advice, google what you don't understand, and try again and you'll get it.

[wintry quarry]

ideally your system has quick and performant ways to find the corresponding presentation layer objects for the data model objects in question

[drowsy flare]

Hmm that shouldn't be too hard to create, thanks for the clarification

Should actually be doable in like half an hour, thanks again

[untold shore]

Hey, don’t know if you’re still on, but I’m a little confused on the y => . Would you basically check if the enemy is inside the enemy list?

[dark laurel]

This is called an "expression lambda" if you want to google it up. In this case, the two methods (OrderByDescending() and FindFirstOrDefault()) take a parameter that restricts what they search for, but conveniently plop it into a variable you can use yourself.

public class Thing
{
  public int Speed;
  public int Size;
}

...

List<Thing> allTheThings = ...;

var speediestThing = allTheThings.OrderByDescending(x => x.Speed).First(); // assumes at least one thing
var speediestThingBiggerThanTen = allTheThings.Where(x => x.Size > 10).OrderByDescending(x => x.Speed).First(); 
var fattestThing = allTheThings.MaxBy(x => x.Size);

the "x" just means "declare a variable named x that is a Thing for the parameter"

[grand snow]

To be more exact, lambdas are a way to define "anonymous functions" which can be used as delegates
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/delegates/

[fervent bramble]

i figured it out all i had to do was make the camera a child of the player head under armeture not the mesh and i didn't evenneed a script

[dark laurel]

It's also not at all necessary for your code (like, it's unrelated to unity.. it's just a fancy C# thing to reduce code). Simpler code, if you're used to for loops, is something like this:

Thing biggestThing = allTheThings[0];
for (int i = 0; i < allTheThings.Count; i++)
{
  if (allTheThings[i].Size > biggestThing.Size) biggestThing = allTheThings[i];
}

[untold shore]

Gotcha. Still have a little bit of learning to do with this, but this definitely helped. Thank you so much!!!

[granite nimbus]

is it normal that my character's position.y is 0 but when i test the game it's set to something like 0.07999989 and no matter what i did i couldnt keep it 0

[slender nymph]

are you certain it is actually 0.079 and not a number in scientific notation that just happens to start with 0.079 then has E-(some other number)? because that would just be floating point imprecision and is effectively the same thing as 0

[twin pivot]

Check the parent

[granite nimbus]

it's exactly that much, it was higher but when i changed the character controller settings a little, it dropped down to that point

[granite nimbus]

it's parent object

[slender nymph]

it sounds like you are applying some sort of gravity to your object and it is simply falling to touch the ground

[granite nimbus]

i used claude for my playercontroller script but i checked it and not sure what does that

[slender nymph]

well you'd have to show the code, but you'd also have to find someone willing to help you debug AI generated code

[twin pivot]

!learn

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[granite nimbus]

so people still code their scripts by hand, i thought everyone uses ai then debugs the code for scripts

[weak cloud]

I find AI is sorely lacking in a lot of things, and being competent is one of them
It's never actually helped me once in programming

Only use I have for it is for it to be my rubber ducky and help me explain my issue better

[twin pivot]

The companies usually just steal work so im just generally against it

[granite nimbus]

i can write my own code too but it's usually like 10 times slower since i'm beginner

[weak cloud]

People who use AI tend to not learn and lean more on the AI to do the thinking for them, I can't say this for certain with everyone because I don't know everyone but if you're starting out using AI is probably worse for you because it makes things that look correct

[lime sigil]

heyo was wondering, as i'm having a little hard time understanding
i have bones in a skeleton as a prefab in the scene, a standard character

if i need to get the children of a parent bone in that hirearchy is there a way with a specialized bone class or it's a matter of hirearchy sifting?

couldn't find much online

[twin pivot]

How about giving the bone a tag

[lime sigil]

a tag?

[twin pivot]

Should be next to layer

Sorry its 7 30 am and i havent slept XD

[twin pivot]

How are you selecting the bone btw?

[lime sigil]

oh wait i see what you mean
no worries
i don't think that's a way to go tho
i have the parent bone game object reference directly
i'm struggling tho to navigate from there

this is working with importable characters meaning relying on a pre set tag wouldn't really work

[lime sigil]

i have the user directly pass the game object from a displayed prefab hirearchy
via drag and drop

[twin pivot]

How about shooting a ray and using an interface

[lime sigil]

oh this is for the editor i should have mentioned
which thinking about it
not sure if i should have posted this in editor extensions, thought being a beginner question it would fit here more tho
tho i'm not sure anymore

[twin pivot]

Im sorry but im too tired to understand what you mean XD

[lime sigil]

i'm extending the unity editor with a plugin
but i thougth the how to navigate a bone hirearchy was a beginner question so i thought this was the more fitting channel

[twin pivot]

Oh idk much about that you'll need to ask someone else sorry

[lime sigil]

yeah no worries, was my bad for asking editor extension stuff in the non-editor extension channel, cooked by the hour too almost 2 am, thanks tho^^

[tardy lagoon]

hi i would like to know why i got these errors bc i think i did same as in the vid

[polar acorn]

Show the vid

[tardy lagoon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtQMytORBmM&t=146s

11 min in

[polar acorn]

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 196
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2025-10-14

[valid violet]

puplic

[polar acorn]

Configure your !ide so you don't make spelling mistakes like this

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[valid violet]

puplic line 5 use public instead

your first error link to line 5

[tardy lagoon]

oh shi mb yo im dum

[north kiln]

You need to configure your IDE

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[polar dust]

Take this as a good opportunity to learn how read the console. It prints text there for a reason.

Going by the very first command shown here, what is it telling you?

[sour fulcrum]

@wicked venture can't blame you for asking that kinda question as it's absolutely something that can be done in a bunch of varying ways.

I tend to have them instansiated or enabled/disabled living somewhere under a UIManager esque object. In your specific example it sounds like you have just the 1 instance to manage but in more involved cases something like this may warrent some sort of object pooling too.

You also mentioned re-using in multiple scenes, Depending on the way your game is setup you may want this UIManager to live in a scene that is always loaded (via additive scene loading) or existing in the DontDestroyOnLoad scene

I think some people have messed with UI Toolkit nowadays for this kinda thing since I believe it's less gameobject/component based?

I spent some time tinkering with Unity's older GUI stuff to see if it was worth it but there's some issues with the lack of batching and font scaling that put me off it

eg. this little test gif was entirely powered by Unity UI/IMGUI stuff with no canvas or anything

[wicked venture]

yee I tried first the instansiate method but for some reason the icon could not leave the borders of the item I am hovering on (probably some sorting layer method or something i am missing ) , yeah I will just instansiate it when I hover and destroy it when I move my mouse away won't leave clutter behind

[wicked venture]

I am completely Ignorant on unity Toolkits in general I am new to unity only used UE4 before for college projects thats why I am still not sure on whats the best way to do things here

[wicked venture]

wow this is what I want to do yeah , is there a link for examples on how this was created

[sour fulcrum]

I'll have to chuck my example project up on git, I'll let you know if I do. Although overall I do recommend against this route for the reasons i've described

[sour fulcrum]

If you detail the problems you we're running into here it might be the fastest way to resolve your issue

[wicked venture]

Yeah I will have to rewrite it since i deleted all the work after it did not work , but in general I wanted to confirm the right path if instansiate is one of the correct solutions I will go with that again

also checking ui toolkit might learn something new that will help me in UI in general , its about time i learn about UI

Ok that UI tookkit is insane wish I knew about this way sooner thanks man

[primal lagoon]

i just installed hdrp package and all the shader graphs i made are purple now help

[sour fulcrum]

shadergraphs are built to target either built in, urp or hdrp pipeline

you would need to remake/adjust/modify them in order to replicate the same behavior in the differing pipeline

[primal lagoon]

ok

[fringe leaf]

Anyone have any idea why my textmeshpro button and texts are gaining focus whenever I hit a TMP dropdown? I have a 50% opaque background applied on my SettingsPanel and it is getting overriden in just the text and button spots. Maybe something to do with layers or tags? A bit new sorry, any help would be appreciated, video a bit laggy but you should get the point

[rugged beacon]

what the different between these 2

[rugged beacon]

u can change what canvas appear ontop via the sort order ther

[fringe leaf]

is that like a zIndex essentially?

[rugged beacon]

zindex?

higher number mean its on top

[fringe leaf]

Sweet, this worked perfect, thank you so much!!!! @rugged beacon

[cosmic dagger]

Hard to tell, without the context for the methods? What is being cleared or disposed?

[rugged beacon]

in here
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Pool.ObjectPool_1.html

im just looking a way to release all

[cosmic dagger]

Okay, so it's for the ObjectPool class. That helps . . .

[teal viper]

Since they both have the same description, I'd assume that these are just aliases(calling the same api internally) for backwards compatability or something. There's a slight chance the docs are being dumb though. Maybe browse to the source code and compare both.

[cosmic dagger]

It is a bit confusing. It seems they both have the same functionality to clear the list for later use. Typically, Dispose is used to clear up (memory) resources for an object no longer in use . . .

[hallow acorn]

hey i made this marching cubes algorithm and i also tried interpolating it but i always get these weird artifacts idk how well you can see the in the image. i dont know how to fix it or whats wrong but its very annoying

these are the most important pieces of my code:
https://paste.mod.gg/lueynfznykew/0

also these artifact lines are always on integer y values

[burnt vapor]

He did that just fine, you can see the error is vague.

[upper fable]

Is there like an easy way to have one canvas on top of another?

Aka like its priority is higher?

But i still need both of the canvases active at the same time

Nvm theres a sort order setting

[floral garden]

Does unity run a script event if it is not in play mode ? Like the drawgizmo

[grand snow]

yes it will execute those functions in edit mode

and if you add [ExecuteAlways] then it will even run Awake/Start/Update/OnEnable/OnDisable/OnDestroy in edit mode

[floral garden]

Oh

[grand snow]

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

[floral garden]

Thanks

[sullen epoch]

i don't know much about marching cubes so i'm more then likely wrong, but in your code you're rounding your values to ints, then interpolating the rounded values. this could possibly be causing your edges to share the same value if they're similar enough?

[scarlet pasture]

Hey, can i ask here 2d Coding Quastion?

[hexed terrace]

yes

[scarlet pasture]

also 3d?

[hexed terrace]

read the topic.

[scarlet pasture]

where can i find it? im using Discord not often. Most of the time my Brother.

"Ask questions and discuss anything related to beginner coding concepts in Unity?" this?

[hexed terrace]

yes, that is the channel topic.

The below bot msg is gonna be useful for you too.

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[scarlet pasture]

Thank u

[fathom tartan]

Guys this is my code, I want my movement script for the character to be in a separated script, how do I do that?

[sour fulcrum]

a pdf is a new one

[fathom tartan]

xd

what was I supposed to do, paste the whole code in here?

[fickle plume]

!code

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[fathom tartan]

oh xd

[fathom tartan]

Anyone have answers?

[teal viper]

Maybe when you share the code properly

[fathom tartan]

sure give me a moment, I am trying to understand how to use paste.mod

How do I share it?

[hexed terrace]

the url will change when you paste your code, copy that

[fathom tartan]

https://paste.mod.gg/

[hexed terrace]

ok.. that's obvs not done it

[fathom tartan]

wdym?

[hexed terrace]

I mean.. look at the url, it's obviously not a unique address that's going to take us to your code..

Click the save button, top left, first.

[fathom tartan]

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

there we go

mb xd

any idea on how to separate the movement part into it's own script?

[hexed terrace]

yeah, create a new script.. then cut and paste all the movement code into that

[fathom tartan]

no shit, but idk which parts to separate

don't wanna mess up the other things going on

[hexed terrace]

make a backup, so you can play freely with it

[hallow acorn]

Yea i thought of that too but when i use the raw unrounded noise data it results in 7649 errors

[sullen epoch]

what does it say?

the error i mean

[fathom tartan]

Can someone tell me how to separate the movement script to it's own script without messing up the rest of the code. Pretty pls ❤️

[keen dew]

I don't see anything other than movement related stuff in that script. What exactly do you want that should stay in the old script?

[fathom tartan]

I want the camera movement, animation stuff, friction, etc to stay. I want the character movements only to be moved to another script

❤️

[keen dew]

Why?

[fathom tartan]

easier to understand + can add more things easily, also need present this in school so would be nice for them to be separated to not cause confusion.

[keen dew]

Lines 82-103 are the ones that handle specifically the character movement so you can copy-paste them to another script but then you have to set up all the communication between the scripts and references in the new script so IMHO it just becomes more complicated for no real benefit

If you want to make it cleaner and easier to expand you can just move it to another method but still keep it in the same script

[fathom tartan]

hmmm how would I do that

[fathom tartan]

true... 🙁

[keen dew]

The same way you've made the UpdateAnimations method. Make a new method (void HandleMovement() { }for example), move the code there and call the method where the code used to be

[fathom tartan]

ahhhh okkk

[keen dew]

Although the code looks AI generated so you probably didn't make it

[fathom tartan]

sadly I didn't do all of it, I had ai help with camera movements bcs character movement and camera movement were colliding with each other

[sour fulcrum]

please dont ask for help with code you didn't write

[fathom tartan]

I literally wrote most of it, I don't see the issue

[hoary heath]

Hello there,
Quick question :
For handling asynchronous operations, I have a cubic game where I generate chunks of voxels. The generation takes time aswell as the instantiation in Unity, so I can't make it in the main thread.

What would be better :

1. Async/Coroutine tasks for each chunk
2. Second thread that generate each chunk

I'm not sure if the first or second one is better, I would think the second one would make less overhead for large amount of chunks generated, but the first one could be easier to code

Also, is their a way to force an execution to slow to takes less CPU ? For instance i don't want the CPU to overload If i want to generate 100 chunks, I want it to slow down but the general execution of the game continue with low impact.

[scarlet pasture]

Hey

why should i learn coding or make a Game?, i have that feeling in my Stomach that everthing i try to learn is usless because? Why would sombody ply My Game? there is hundreds of better Games.

are u guys also struggelying with this feeling?

[keen dew]

CPU overloading isn't something you need to worry about. It's typical that games take up all the CPU resources they can use. The OS will start limiting it automatically if it the processor gets too hot for example

[ivory bobcat]

You probably shouldn't if you've got no reason to

[hoary heath]

Its more like, i want to limit the chunk generation thread to ensure it doesn't reduce performance of the main thread that much

Its like seeing chunks generating in the distance but without having a lot of frame laggs

[scarlet pasture]

i have, i dream since im a Kid to make a Game. I Never startet... Now im 19 Years old, i dont have much time enymore, im getting old and i need to invest in my Future. But this Dream i have consitently "Remmbers" me on my thought i had as a child. But evertime im sitting and Code Somthing the problem rise again. Like "Why would sombody in the World play u game"

sorry for Bad Englisch

i have the feeling the i maybe lose to much time for somthing thats nobody cares

[keen dew]

Most computers have multiple cores so what you do on one thread won't affect another

[tardy lagoon]

im learning it bc it seems fun idc about people playing my game

[hoary heath]

I'll say it in another way for you to understand, at 23, why learning how to paint, sing, dance if you can't be a professionnal because everyone started much earlier and are better ?
Why ? because its a habbit and its pleasing to you, if you do it for the money its not probably the best idea, if you want to do it for the fun/learn, then go for it

[hoary heath]

So to come back to the first message, it would be better to make it in a thread instead of async/coroutines ?
If i have a lot of instances of async/coroutines, it would swarm all the threads

[scarlet pasture]

u probobly right. i guess im try to the best of it. i mean its fun just the Drawing kills me evertime

so i will Continue, thanks G u really dont know how much that helped me even it is basic reasons? (sorry for my Bad Englisch Skills)

[keen dew]

Coroutines aren't threaded

[tardy lagoon]

when i put the "myRigidbody" in the "if" statement it stopped working

[scarlet pasture]

its not in the Updatze function i thinl

im also new..

[teal viper]

What's going on with the brackets..?

[scarlet pasture]

HAHA

[hoary heath]

Didn't knew that, any better ideas of what i've said to generate meshes async without puting the fps down too much ?

[teal viper]

They're not just for decoration, you know

[scarlet pasture]

put u code in the Update Function, inside of the Brackets

    {


        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E))
        {
            Debug.Log("Ich springe!");
            rb.velocity = Vector2.up;
        }
    }````

[digital hawk]

Hi ! I want create a good characontroller for a platformer 3D in Unity 6 but I don't know how to take me.......

[keen dew]

There's the job system: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/job-system.html

[naive pawn]

!ide

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[naive pawn]

please don't spoonfeed, btw.

[scarlet pasture]

what is spoonfeed?

[naive pawn]

providing full code like what you did - it takes away agency for the asker to actually learn themselves

[sullen epoch]

3 bits of advice

1. its not something you can half commit, you have to give it your all and make sure you're making an effort to retain what you lean.
2. if your goal is to just make money then you're going to fall for a trap that many people do. if you focus all your time on one big project then you're going to get burnt out quickly, start small and try to make a variety of different things
3. do the little things that might seem pointless. like taking notes, explain to yourself out loud, or to someone what lines of code do, this helps you commit to memory what you've learnt. and once you've learnt a little bit, always attempt things yourself before asking for help. it might seem silly leaving notes, but trust me they are like gold.

[naive pawn]

it results in askers/beginners relying on answers rather than learning how to fix issues

[scarlet pasture]

ahhh, i understand what u mean. I mean its the same code from him. i just triyed to say that he need to but it in the {}

[naive pawn]

wdym they won't affect each other lol, they still share a large chunk of memory

[naive pawn]

it isn't the same code though

[rocky canyon]

one of these is not like the other 😄

where theres an opening bracket { there must be a closing bracket }

u have 1 that doesn't have an open

pair them up... and find the one that doesn't fit..

its a rogue bracket

[naive pawn]

it changes the behavior, without really explaining the core cause
imagine they just copied the code replacing their Update

they could leave or remove more brackets than necessary, leading to the same issue
if they did place it correctly, they'd now have different inputs and different outputs, and no guarantee that they actually understand why it worked

support servers aren't just answering machines, there's somewhat of a duty to teach here as well
@scarlet pasture

all that aside - their ide isn't configured.
if it were, there'd be a lot of errors complaining about what's wrong lol

[scarlet pasture]

yeah i knwo

[naive pawn]

don't forget - the first step is a configured ide (#🌱┃start-here)

[rocky canyon]

ya, config ur ide real quick... can't really work professionally w/o it

[red cedar]

Hello, does anyone know how to make this wheel rotation smoothly? I'm rotating using z but it's a little bit off

[naive pawn]

make sure the pivot is set up correctly - it's most likely a #🖼️┃2d-tools/#🔀┃art-asset-workflow thing, rather than a code thing

[sweet bough]

hi, i made this script to make any object that block view to the player transparent, almost everything works fine (material changes to the instance, the settings are all ok) but in the game i cant see the opacity change of the material until i update any setting manually
making it with layers changed nothing, i use URP

https://paste.myst.rs/wp09um3f

[naive pawn]

!code

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[naive pawn]

is it really a code thing though

seems more of a #1390346776804069396 kind of question

[sweet bough]

idk

if i do it manually it works fine

[rocky canyon]

change the pivot so its centered

[naive pawn]

there are also probably existing ways to do so, like near plane clipping

[sweet bough]

added the code link

[rocky canyon]

If you only change .sharedMaterials or modify the shader without reassigning the renderer’s material array, Unity won’t push those changes to the renderer until a manual refresh (e.g., when the inspector reserializes or scene repaints).

[sweet bough]

the problem is camera might be far from player's model, so i would like to make the blocking objects transparent

[sweet bough]

let me try

[rocky canyon]

try copying the material.. changing it and applying the copy

just to test real quick if im right

[sweet bough]

yeah it works if i check the fallback check

[rocky canyon]

• Renderer.sharedMaterials edits the shared project asset (not instance-specific).
• Renderer.materials makes runtime instances that can be updated per object.

not 💯 this is correct (google overview) but i do recall needing to copy it out

You might want to consider trying to cache the materials n things you need — so you’re not constantly creating new instances all the time

[sweet bough]

is there any other way i can do that?

[visual linden]

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

[rocky canyon]

^ oh yea i forgot bout that

[lunar axle]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/modular-first-person-controller-189884

u can use the assets store.

[rocky canyon]

its better to learn how movement works

as a bare necessity.. nothing wrng with using assets as referenece..

but i wouldnt build off that

[lunar axle]

well if they asked to make one then ill just throw them a link

[rocky canyon]

and they asked for a platformer..

not many first person platformers i know of

[scarlet pasture]

Hey, how can i check if the Player runs. I want Play the idle Animation.

from my Player. im also using 3d and only Character Controller

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx7AKmQhxJFYC6IBfqiu8x6BV-wcNfYOy maybe check out this series..

don't discount learning basics tho !learn

[rocky canyon]

easy.. check if ur applying the run input?

[scarlet pasture]

Applying the run Input?

[rocky canyon]

yes... when ur input is running.. u just mark a flag/boolean
like isRunning

[scarlet pasture]

        float ix = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float iz = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        Vector3 inputDir = (transform.right * ix + transform.forward * iz).normalized;

how would i manage that=?

[rocky canyon]

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
{
    isRunning = true;
}
else
{
    isRunning = false;
}
``` something like this

[scarlet pasture]

can i just say "If the Player isint pressing somthing like WASD he is not Running?"

[rocky canyon]

u could also just check if ur movement is greater than something..
using its magnitude

[scarlet pasture]

this!

how to i do that?

[hot wadi]

U might wanna learn blend tree

[rocky canyon]

say ur end movement vector is movement
it'd be

if(movement.magnitude > x){
//ur running
}
else
{
//ur not running
}```

magnitude is always positive no matter which direction ur going..

[scarlet pasture]

i dont like them, i only need a few Animation like maybe 3 or 4 for a Horro Mobile Game. I Animatet the Players "Breatch Animation" and i need to play it correctly otherwiese it would overwrite my Camera Script

[scarlet pasture]

Thanks U!

[rocky canyon]

debug the value at first just so u can get an idea..

if any movement counts as running u can just check if its greater than zero

or some small value like .01

that way it'll ignore any tiny input (deadzones for example)

[scarlet pasture]

i will Check, is he Pressing Somthing and a small value he need to be faster to count as Running

[hot wadi]

Ok? If it's overwriting your camera then there is something wrong with your code. Just saying

[scarlet pasture]

this would be safe?

[scarlet pasture]

Really, i thought if i Animate the Camera rotation and Position it gives me some dumb Rections

so i need to fix my code not my Animation?

[rocky canyon]

could just check if(inputDir == Vector3.zero)

[scarlet pasture]

Nice!

Thanks u so much!

But why is my Code bad if the Animation of the Camera overwrite my Code?

[rocky canyon]

may want to check the x and z seperate tho..

if u have verticallity.. wouldnt want to count that as running/animation

[rocky canyon]

well, if it doesn't break anything its fine..
but if u want ur camera moving w/ code only.. then animating it's gameobject will overwrite or lock up the code

so instead u'd do something like animate a empty gameobject
put the camera inside it.. and run code on the camera..

that way the animator isn't controlling the actual camera's transform..

but it would still influence it.. b/c its moving its parent

[digital hawk]

OMMMG thanks

[digital hawk]

THANK YOUUUUUUUUU

[rocky canyon]

theres hundreds more on the asset store if that one doesn't fit ur needs

best just play around with them.. inspect the code.. see how they work..
do a little research urself.. ask around parts u dont understand..

eventually you'llwant to know it inside and out.. and how it all works

movement code is the backbone of most games

[digital hawk]

okayyy thanks for your help I'll try to watch all that, I found videos on state machines do you think it would be good to use them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt8aZDPzRjI

[scarlet pasture]

So the breathing „animation“ would be better if I coded it?

[patent wedge]

hey is there any way to subtract the last frame's platform velocity and the current one?

[naive pawn]

record it each frame and then update it after using

[rocky canyon]

if ur doing platforming tho. u might want to find one that has momentum.. or find out how to do that urself (like aircontrol)

[rocky canyon]

100 percent..

do what chris say

[patent wedge]

i've tried
rb.linearVelocity += (TargetVel - LastPlatVel) * Time.fixedDeltaTime;

[naive pawn]

basically:

var oldValue;

void Update() {
  var currValue = getValue();
  var difference = currValue - oldValue;
  // ...
  oldValue = currValue;
}

[naive pawn]

you sure you need the Time.fixedDeltaTime in there?

it's already a velocity delta between frames

[rocky canyon]

i do.. breathing is prettty simple sinwave or mathf.pingpong
i use seperate containers to keep my logic seperate to avoid conflicts and frustration..

main root gets rotated left right
then down one object moves up and down
then i have my "bobber" or cam breathing code..
andthen finally the final child is the camera.. (nothing is actually running code in it) just all its parent containers

[patent wedge]

it's just what i see most velocity calculators use. also the value is extremely small and i've tried many configurations with no avail.

[naive pawn]

are they perhaps applying deltaTime to acceleration

[rocky canyon]

log ur values like i said earlier...

get an idea of what values ur working with

[naive pawn]

make sure you actually understand what's happening rather than just copying blindly

[rocky canyon]

Debug.Log(movement);
Debug.Log(movement.magnitude)
Debuig.Log(etc)

[naive pawn]

TargetVel - LastPlatVel is a delta of velocity
if you multiply in deltaTime, you end up getting a value that represents how much extra distance the new velocity travels compared to the old one

you'd be adding a delta position to linearVelocity

[scarlet pasture]

Ahhh thanks I will need to make some research about that

Thank u Rental

[rocky canyon]

Actually use string interpolation so i can mark what they are
Debug.Log($"Movement of player is: {movement}");
Debug.Log($"It's Movement Magnitude is: {movement.magnitude}"); and so on

[rocky canyon]

good luck

[patent wedge]

CurrentVel: (1.32, 0.25, -4.60) LastVel: (1.28, 0.24, -4.63) Final: (0.04, 0.00, 0.03)

[naive pawn]

what is Final there

the delta?

[patent wedge]

TargetVel - LastPlatVel

[naive pawn]

cool, then that's probably what you want

remember, that's the delta per frame/tick

[patent wedge]

yeah the value's barely move the player.

[naive pawn]

what is the goal here exactly?

im really confused

you're getting the acceleration and applying it to the player as velocity?

yeah that's.. that doesn't make sense come to think of it lol

[rocky canyon]

ya, im a bit confused too.. i thought we were talkin about magnitude for animations and stuff.. i got lost when u started talkin about platforms

[patent wedge]

i'll link the last conversation. #💻┃code-beginner message

[rocky canyon]

anyway on a side note.. i'll throw ya a bone 🦴 https://paste.myst.rs/kap36emz here's the CameraBob affect the video i sent shows:

float yOffset = Mathf.Sin(Time.time * bobSpeed) * bobDistance; being the Sinewave i was talkin about @scarlet pasture

[naive pawn]

ok yeah big https://xyproblem.info there lol

[naive pawn]

there are 2 different people asking here

[rocky canyon]

ohh okay

oh damn, confusing lol

[rocky canyon]

lmao.. i wouldn't have noticed thanks 👍

[scarlet pasture]

Hahaha im Bad_GameDev the guy with the camera breathing

Thank u for the code and the commentary’s

So I can understand the code also better

[rocky canyon]

lol, #💻┃code-beginner message yea i figured it out eventually

[naive pawn]

ok going through the math - it seems like there would be / deltaTime and then * deltaTime, so no deltaTime is correct

[naive pawn]

is the platform already moving when your player gets on it?

[patent wedge]

yeah.

[rocky canyon]

and whats not working exactly?
is it still when it changes directions?

[naive pawn]

and do you add the platform velocity to the player when the player gets on?

[patent wedge]

well if it has a massive change of velocity and that get's applied to player and slides off. it's fine when it's at a constant speed.

[jaunty wing]

I'd just use a rigidbody to make it less complicated, but basically, if you want to do it, you get the floor's position, and match it to your player position

[patent wedge]

i am using a rigidbody.

[rocky canyon]

ya, but if it has any kind of horizontal movement u wouldn't wanna overwrite ur players movement

[rocky canyon]

unless u lock it to the platform (not allowing movement)

[jaunty wing]

I mean, if it doesnt use velocity anyway, you add a position already when you use wasd

[naive pawn]

@patent wedge do you have this

[jaunty wing]

you need a kinematic rigidbody then I think

for the platform

[naive pawn]

that seems... detached to the issue

[patent wedge]

yeah that works but that would be un-optimal and the player can walk on moving rigidbodys(props).

[naive pawn]

soo are you gonna answer this

the previous answer about transform positions was.. not relevant to the question lol

[patent wedge]

yeah i am currently applying the platforms rigidbody when your own it.

[naive pawn]

that's not what i asked

the moment the player gets on - is the platform's existing velocity applied?

is that baked into the delta check?

[patent wedge]

yes! i am checking the rigidbody's velocity using hit.rigidbody.GetPointVelocity(hit.point)

[naive pawn]

the platform following code is on the player, right?

[patent wedge]

yeh.

[naive pawn]

sidenote, this answer seems.. weird
kinematic rbs can move, and making platforms kinematic doesn't affect props either

we can get back to that though

[naive pawn]

and have you debugged that to make sure that's applied correctly?

also, check how you're moving the player, make sure you aren't resetting the velocity or anything

[patent wedge]

what do you mean? the fact that moving kinematic rigidbody's work?

if so yes!

[naive pawn]

was that meant to reply to my previous message?

im so confused

[tulip stag]

Hey, how do I open the Windows system dialogue to allow the user to select/upload local files?

[patent wedge]

yes.

[naive pawn]

i don't think making the platform kinematic would really affect.. any of this logic
just that you'd have to retreive/manage the velocity differently

but again - leave that for later

focus on the actual issue

[naive pawn]

have you debugged the velocity applied when you first get on the platform

[patent wedge]

what do you mean when you first get on? i don't have extra logic that handles the frame you get on. do you mean about how the last platvel will be zero before the player gets on? also that maybe an oversight but it's not the main issue rn.

[tulip stag]

        {
            string json = "";
            // Open file dialog to select JSON file

            IOManager.LoadSpellsFromJson(json);
        }```

Very simple snippet

[naive pawn]

consider a platform that's moving at constant speed. deltavelocity is always 0.
where you do apply that speed to the player initially when the player gets on the platform

it could be with the lastplatvel thing

or it might be the GetPointVelocity you mentioned?

at this point you're just being cryptic, just share the code so we actually know what's going on lmao

!code

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[grand snow]

Unfortunately unity does not have something usable for this outside of the editor. You can use the win32 API to do this or a third party cross platform file picker

[jaunty wing]

Raw C#

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.directory?view=net-9.0&redirectedfrom=MSDN

[patent wedge]

i'm going to make a thread and show my code ok.

[naive pawn]

where's the file picker

[jaunty wing]

Director Class is what is used to create custom file pickers

[naive pawn]

they asked for the windows system dialog though

[grand snow]

https://github.com/gkngkc/UnityStandaloneFileBrowser

[patent wedge]

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1428033349997297725

[tulip stag]

Awh ok!!

[tulip stag]

I'll give this a look

[sweet bough]

so, i rewrote the script, now it works fine only if the og material is transparent and not opaque, so what i have done wrong?
https://paste.myst.rs/kvo0da4d

maybe i forgot smth

[scarlet pasture]

Absolutly Greate, Thanks Again!

[dark laurel]

@tulip stag https://gist.github.com/cdanek/16d6d8e805b87a757863a680b7f88803 - I wrote this a few years ago but it works pretty well for me since figuring out the comdlg32.dll bridge is a bit of "wasted learning" (ie, learning that's hard that you'll do once and forget about.. as I have) for most people

Note that this was for local use - ie, not public facing. If you're planning to give something like this to users it might need some more bulletproofing and error handling.

[grand snow]

Good old win 32 com

[dark laurel]

imho this ought to be something that exists somewhere in the unity API.. seems like a file selector is pretty common for apps (maybe there is one on asset store 🤷 )

[grand snow]

There is something for editor use but not runtime

Probably because it's only applicable for desktop

I did use a cool in unity file browser before but forgot it's name

[dark laurel]

File browser on ios/android seems useful too though.. maybe not often for games but certainly for "apps"

[grand snow]

Well for android it's complex and too different

For iOS id presume even worse

[scarlet pasture]

Hey, im trying to implement my Camera System for my First Horror Game. I dont understand why the Lean Effct dont work? can it be that the HeadBob overwhrites my Lean Effect? and how do seperate them? how do Unity Devs do that?

[naive pawn]

!code

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[scarlet pasture]

i dont have the Premium version. i can send code over 2000 characters

sorry

[naive pawn]

use the large code blocks section

[scarlet pasture]

how can i use it?

[naive pawn]

click one of the links, paste your code there, hit the save button, copy the link here

[scarlet pasture]

Okay!

https://paste.mod.gg/epvjbxsubsft/0 here is the Link

thank u Chris

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[naive pawn]

you never use targetRot anywhere

[scarlet pasture]

i did use target Rot

oh u mean i need to lerp it?

[naive pawn]

you're only assigning to it. you aren't using its value anywhere

[scarlet pasture]

ahh i only defind it but never used it

[scarlet pasture]

Yeah i dont know why i dont saw that, Thanks u Again!

[naive pawn]

just inexperience, you'll learn to check for that kind of stuff as you get more experience

[scarlet pasture]

yeah, i will give my best. I learn everthing more about code

[hallow acorn]

how bad is it to have 31k tris and 95k verts per chunk in a procedurally generated open world? (16x16 units)

with 16 chunks thats nearly 300k tris and 1mil verts

[cosmic dagger]

You'd have to test that. No way to tell; especially without the environment models . . .

[hallow acorn]

okay thats 400fps with ease on my 2070 super

thats not even that bad

except id have to render or atleast load many many more for a viewdistance that isnt equivalent to minecraft on a raspberry pi

[sullen epoch]

i'm researching reference types, in particular, classes, i already know how they work, but i've always wondered, when do you opt to use a class as opposed to just using a second script? or is it purly prefernce? i know that making a new script creates a new class anway, i was just curious if there are circumstances where it needs to be allotted into the same script

[slender nymph]

a class as opposed to just using a second script
this doesn't make a lot of sense. your scripts presumably contain classes (or other types if you are them)

if the distinction is "defining a class within the same file" vs using a new file, then you should prefer using a new file as that keeps your code organized better and more easily searchable at a glance

[sullen epoch]

sorry for the weird phrasing, you essentially answered my question 😅

[naive pawn]

alternatively - if a class only really pertains to a single other class, you could have them nested, potentially even inaccessible from the outside, for example in something like this

public class LinkedList<T> {
  Node<T> head;
  private class Node<T> {
    T value;
    Node<T> next;
  }
}

[boreal frigate]

Anyone know why my sprite has another outline when I export it into unity? It happens as soon as I put it in unity so the settings are all default.

[naive pawn]

this is a code channel, ask in #🖼️┃2d-tools

[boreal frigate]

ok thanks

[zenith wren]

I don't know why this is happening but out of nowhere whenever I set an object to the player it starts floating away whenever the player moves, this wasn't an issue before and only started happening after updating from the security risk.

[twin pivot]

Send script for the object plz

[zenith wren]

using UnityEngine.PlayerLoop;

public class Pickable : MonoBehaviour, IInteractable
{
    public Interactor player;
    public BoxCollider Collider;
    public Rigidbody rb;

    public BaseScriptableObject objectData;

    private bool isHeld = false;

    public bool Interact(Interactor interactor)
    {
        player = interactor;

        isHeld = !isHeld;

        if(isHeld && !player.isHolding)
        {
            transform.position = player.pickupLocation.position;
            transform.parent = player.pickupLocation;
            transform.rotation = player.pickupLocation.rotation;

            player.isHolding = true;
            rb.isKinematic = true;
        }
        else if (!isHeld)
        {
            transform.parent = null;
            transform.position = player.dropLocation.position;

            player.isHolding = false;
            rb.isKinematic = false;
        }

        return true;
    }
}

[twin pivot]

Maybe some funky interaction between setting the transform before setting the parent?

[zenith wren]

maybe

lemme switch em

[twin pivot]

Try swapping the order for that and if it doesnt work im not too sure

[zenith wren]

it was not an issue before, this all started happening after I updated from the security risk editor

[slender nymph]

you're not using something like Rigidbody.MovePosition to move the object, right?

[zenith wren]

no literally just setting postion and parenting

[slender nymph]

i see that in this component. i mean in a different component. because MovePosition is how you move a kinematic rigidbody so simply making this object kinematic won't stop that from working

[zenith wren]

I can send the interaction code as well if that helps

[naive pawn]

parenting a rigidbody to a moving object would count as moving via the transform wouldn't it

which would be a physics desync

[zenith wren]

so making it kinematic just does nothing?

[slender nymph]

no, it certainly makes it kinematic. whether that has any impact on preventing your existing code from working on it is unclear because you've not shown how you normally move that object

[naive pawn]

it keeps the rigidbody from falling due to gravity

[naive pawn]

they're letting the parent transform move the object's transform

[zenith wren]

this is how I move my player, don't know if it affects it or not

{
    Vector2 input = movementControls.action.ReadValue<Vector2>();

    Vector3 finalMove = new Vector3(input.x, 0, input.y); //Converts 2D movement to 3D

    if(canMove)
        controller.Move(finalMove * playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime); //Moves character by world time

    float smoothing = 10.0f;

    if(finalMove != Vector3.zero)
    {
        transform.forward = Vector3.Slerp(transform.forward, finalMove.normalized, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);
    }

    //If Player not grounded apply gravity
    if (!controller.isGrounded)
    {
        controller.Move(new Vector3(0, gravity * Time.deltaTime, 0));
    }
}```

[naive pawn]

you should not be calling Move more than once per frame, btw.

[twin pivot]

Also shouldnt you be using fixedDeltaTime for this kinda stuff?

[naive pawn]

you shouldn't check isGrounded to apply gravity either, you kinda need gravity to check for the ground continuously

[naive pawn]

no, that's a charactercontroller, it's framebound

(also might want to add normalization to the input)

i'm getting off track, these issues can be fixed later 😅

[zenith wren]

and what's weirder is before it worked perfectly, didn't change any code relating to player or objects

[slender nymph]

and even if it weren't a CC, deltaTime returns fixedDeltaTime when accessed in FixedUpdate anyway so the distinction would mostly be pointless

[naive pawn]

that was likely by coincidence if i had to guess

[naive pawn]

im pretty sure (though not 100%) that it's kinda a case of this

[zenith wren]

I used to just set the position every frame but that was dumb in so many ways

[naive pawn]

it's fighting the physics engine, but the physics engine tries to cope
and it was surviving the other times you tested, but not now

not sure if it has to do with the update though

[zenith wren]

if only I could disable rigidbody during play

[naive pawn]

i did find this... maybe could work as a bandaid?
https://discussions.unity.com/t/attach-a-kinematic-child-rigidbody-to-a-parent/916865/8

apparently joints might help? im not familiar with those, but might be worth looking into

[zenith wren]

omfg

I got it

I did change something on the objects

I set the rigidbody interpolation to interpolate

setting it to none fixes it

[naive pawn]

i mean for most cases i believe it should be interpolated

im frankly scared to find out why that "fix" works lmao

[slender nymph]

and we're absolutely certain that there's no MovePosition calls happening on this object during this time frame?

[teal ice]

Can somoene can help me … like tomorrow evening bcz i started today and i am really lost …

[zenith wren]

would that be a line of code?

[twin pivot]

Thats when you ignore the red flags and move on untill you have to redo the entire thing in the future XD

[slender nymph]

!ask 👇

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[zenith wren]

then no, I don't remember typing anything of the sort

[marsh canyon]

so in Visual Studio.... if I do Rename, it seems to impact the same name on multiple files? Is there a way to easily change all the names only on the same file?

For example if I have the same name "bottomAd" in Script A and Script B.... but I want to change "bottomAd" to "botAd".... it'll apply it for both Script A and B even though I only want it for Script A

[zenith wren]

also what is the difference from interpolate and extrapolate because extrapolate works but interpolate doesn't

[naive pawn]

make sure your ide is configured so it can follow references i guess?

[grand snow]

you miss understand, its updating the var where its used smartly

so use find and replace to not do this

[naive pawn]

you could just find&replace for more control (checking individual instances) i suppose, but vs should be able to track references accurately

[slender nymph]

if the ide is properly configured it should update that specific variable in all places used and not anything that just happens to have the same name but is unrelated

[polar dust]

surely it renames the references in both files, because those are all part of the same reference. It wouldnt allow for a partial rename because in the other file it'll have a broken reference

[grand snow]

Yea exactly

[naive pawn]

ive seen it just do a find & replace all in contexts where it can't figure out references (uninitialized project kinda deal)

[grand snow]

Hm thankfully i havent had it be that dumb yet

[polar dust]

Something I wonder is they say that A and B have a property with the same name. Suppose that the properties dont actually reference each other, would visual studio then have ctrl+r+r rename both of them?

[slender nymph]

it would not if visual studio is properly configured. whether it would do that when unconfigured is not entirely clear

[fickle bane]

Hey everyone, Im new to unity and Im taking this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYREq2OmHA

Would someone know why my wheels are spinning in circular motion and not adhering to the parent (Car).

please se video attached.

[jagged leaf]

hello guys im hoping to get some help with a small bug thats driving me insane
i made this character controller script and attached a cinemachine free look camera to the player
everything works fine and dandy but when i move laterally left and right, the character doesnt go in a straight line but like curves slightly (look video)
ive been struggling to find out what is causing this
https://paste.myst.rs/jjx6iut7

[naive pawn]

the behavior is possible, but maybe not put into that feature
i remember using rename in vs code with c++, it brings up a window letting you select which instances are renamed (which is just by reference by default, but it shows instances even in commented code)

[naive pawn]

!code

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[jagged leaf]

my bad ill fix it rq

[fickle bane]

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

[fierce edge]

Hello, I am new to C# and learning is going smooth. However, I am curious on how I should handle cleanup when it comes to lists and arrays of objects? For example, if I instantiate a prefab a few times into a list, do I need to clean that up, by destroying them and clearing out the list, or let the garbage collector handle it? I don't think Unity will tell me if there's a memory leak (I don't know that for certain).

[hoary heath]

Hi guys, I'm currently working with jobs, and I have an issue.

Here is the problem :
I have a quite big data input that is stored in a class, this class (in the job) is only used to read data
The job returns values.

However in jobs, you can't have managed variables (ie, classes)

I don't want to transform this class into a struct because its used elsewhere where I would like to preserve references. And also because I don't want this big data copied over and over.

Is their some key words or stuff like that where i would be able to use that class as readonly without reworking the whole code ?
Or some other ways ?

[grand snow]

Use c# threads instead

[keen dew]

It's in general very difficult to create a true memory leak in C#. You don't usually need to worry about that, just do what the game needs to do anyway (i.e. destroy gameobjects that aren't needed anymore) and let the garbage collector do its thing. When a scene ends everything inside gets cleaned up and while working within a scene it's best to reuse things instead of destroying and creating new stuff

[grand snow]

It is a pain that with how jobs are designed we are restructed to blittable/unmanged types even without burst

[hoary heath]

I had counter suggestion for Nitku xD

[hoary heath]

Well, its generally good, but sometimes its hard to make it work as you want.

[keen dew]

Well you asked for options and that is one option, up to you to figure out which one is the best

[grand snow]

The job system is better suited for unity related components/apis but general data doesn't have to use it

UniTask makes it easy to use a thread pool and await results on the main thread

[hoary heath]

yup ^^

That's also why i'm asking this rn, i've dug a lot into the job system and I don't know all of the keywords and stuff like that.
I vaguely remember some Ref readonly stuff for things you don't wanna copy (mostly because the guy worked with ECS too)

But i don't know if its a good path to go

[rich adder]

its used elsewhere where I would like to preserve references
Just curious what you meant here, struct store the pointer address of reference types in struct

[hoary heath]

In short, i want to use the job system to generate chunks meshes without running them in the main thread. And then instancing them in main thread

[grand snow]

Ah right then the job system may be best as I know there are structs made for this. I guess you can make a struct to hold this input data

[hoary heath]

That's the issue, I have a class named Chunk which handle all the voxel's data and will handles some triggers
It will be called if the user clicks to add or remove voxels for instance

In the same time, i have to send the chunk to the mesh optimization algorithm to be able to work with. Because a chunk is 50x50x50 voxels, copy/paste using struct (value type) can be bad for the memory
And because its used in jobs, the burst don't want unmanaged types anywhere in the algorithm

[rich adder]

yea I mean, if it was just data (normally value types) why not have it as struct

[grand snow]

you can use ref to avoid copies in some places

unusable with async though

[polar dust]

C# is pretty smart when it comes to memory management, afaik it was probably a core principle for the language when they designed it.
Unless you get into the more technical aspects of managing data, think of memory management more like "objects (every type,class in C# is an object) , really only exist if and whenever you need them too" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/automatic-memory-management says

Automatic memory management can eliminate common problems, such as forgetting to free an object and causing a memory leak, or attempting to access memory for an object that has already been freed.

[rich adder]

C moment

[hoary heath]

Because its a big data, having a struct would mean each time its passed to another function, the data is copied, so if the chunks have a nativeArray inside to match the job system requirements, it would overload the memory quickly

[nocturne parcel]

Also, the GC probably knows more than you do, so don't try to outsmart it.

[polar dust]

you can mess things up, but eeehhh, i dont think its ever become a concern for me in all my time using c# (im no spring chicken)

[hoary heath]

That's the kind of things i searched, i just don't know how it works

[grand snow]

Well unless c# can do copy elision but I doubt it

[grand snow]

when using ref we can force a reference to be passed to a function instead of a copy.

[polar dust]

if anything the only thing that i have had to deal with in C# is the ability to make infinite loops that hang the process 😆

[fierce edge]

Thanks for the replies. I am comming from a ancient history of c++, where if you make an object and use it, you have to free it. Also more recently, my coding skills have been with Python and variants of it. Another thing I noticed, is that when I run my game and close it, the memory in task manager increases for Unity, which makes me wonder; but it gets all cleared out when I fully close everything.

[grand snow]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/ref

[rich adder]

Luckily this is all done for you... the only time its an issue if you create an inifinte loop the memory will keep growing until it crashes (unless you forced Task End early)

[hoary heath]

C# is pretty smart when it comes to memory management
Yes and no, it has a GC which can "easily" be passed and have a lot of leaks, that's a thing I both like and dislike with C# compared to C or C++
Its managed automatically but its not perfect nor intelligent, the compilation doesn't provide optimisation in these areas.
Compared to C and C++ where you have to handle all, but at the same time you can pinpoint where the leak is from

A basic thing we can't do in C# is static size arrays, you can't have a fixed sized array, it will always be handled like a variable size. Technically you can use Span or stuff like that but you'll have to explicitly write unsave and also its a pain to work with

[jagged leaf]

🥹

[rich adder]

You can still cause memory leaks, is just very very slim
(mostly when dealing with events and not cleaning properly)

[hoary heath]

Thanks !

[grand snow]

Thankfully we can do things like stack allocated arrays with span but tis a shame its not easier

[fierce edge]

If arrays were dynamic, I wouldn't need List 😛

[rich adder]

Lists are just arrays anyway 😛

[fierce edge]

Doesn't matter, clean up is the same if I have to handle it. It's only a concern to me when a scene changes or app closes.

[grand snow]

wait till you learn about manged shell objects

[rugged beacon]

Vector3 moveDirection = (camForward * _movementInput.y + camRight * _movementInput.x).normalized;
your movement is dependent on the camera, you need to seperate these 2 out

[fierce edge]

I am also trying to understand another quirk. While running the game (roll a ball), I notice dips in the fps which is capped at 60, whenever a instantiated object is deactivated and reactivated (i am using pooling). But I noticed the exact same thing when I was creating and destroying prefabs. So is using activateSelf creativing over head similar to creation/destruction?

[rich adder]

no there should not be cause all the items are loaded into memory

its also hard to judge exact numbers in the editor, the editor has overhead and even interacting betwen windows will cause spikes up/down

If you want accurate numbers you should always run it on a build

[fierce edge]

I'll have to figure out how to make a debug build (that shows info), thanks. I just thought, because prefabs were being activated/deactivated and moved, that it was causing it. Maybe it was a coincidence.

[rich adder]

yeah maybe.. I'd keep in mind the script itself can still have runtime operation that could cause other garbage

[oblique ridge]

complete coding noob following the programmer pathway here:

managed to get WASD movement for an isometric controller (script screenshot attached)
but my 'player' phases through solid objects with enough pressure,
even though it has a collider (tested with both box and sphere presets) & rigidbody.

additionally, i've also been unable to get normalized vectors to work (prevent character moving faster diagonally)

things i have tried:

• change the character collider from sphere to box
• increase invisible bounds' collider thickness
• make the character move slower
• implement player control the rigidbody way, using AddForce (specifically Velocity.Chang) & increase linear damping to reduce 'slipperyness'
• but Input.GetAxis + transform.Translate still feels the best for what im trying to achieve, just a simple 8 direction movement with no jumping

[rich adder]

well Translate will phase through solid objects no matter what you do with colliders

you're literally bypassing the physics

[oblique ridge]

oh that seems right
sucks though because rigidbody feels so unnatural and i haven't been able to get a good combination of parameters to fix it

[rich adder]

you get a weird time where it does collide cause it has time to "catch up" from the physics scene

[oblique ridge]

should i move back to rigidbody AddForce(Vector3, ForceMode.VelocityChange)?

[rich adder]

you could probably use .linearVelocity and get a similiar feel to Translate

[fierce edge]

I think of translation like warping to the point, so there is no collision happening, you're just there.

[rich adder]

remember the physics are running in a separate scene

normally PhysicsMove/Simulate => Pass information to the Transform

if you do Transform -> Rigidbody you get weird inaccuracy because the physics is trying to catch up

[oblique ridge]

it's actually on a separate thread?

oh my god

[rich adder]

threads got nothing to do with it

is just a "separate scene"
there is even a class for it
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/PhysicsScene.html

[jagged leaf]

how could i do that?

[oblique ridge]

i don't see a force mode for that though

[rich adder]

thats because you're overriding any force types / mass and other external forces like Drag
so there is no "force" its just "bam start moving now idc how much you weigh, how much friction the floor is etc"

[rugged beacon]

idk havent done this kinda thing before
but you can see your camera rotate left right abit which affect your left right movement

[jagged leaf]

youre right, i wanted the player to move with the camera

ill just try a bunch of stuff

[rugged beacon]

maybe stop rotate the camera when you move left right like that

[oblique ridge]

so it's the default mode when you don't specify anything?

[rich adder]

just set the x move to the player transform.right ?

or maybe
camRight.y = 0;
should be
camRight.y = transform.position.y

[rugged beacon]

yeah i think camera forward is enough

[jagged leaf]

excuse my stupid ill try that right now

[oblique ridge]

yea collision solved
BUT sideways AND diagonal movement is still way faster

[jagged leaf]

camRight * transform.right
cant multiply transform.right with camRight

and setting the camright to that just makes my character jump repeatedly lmao

[rich adder]

have you tried clamping magnitude like ?
move = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(move, 1f);

[rich adder]

no I meant
transform.right * _movementInput.x

[oblique ridge]

nope
but this is what i wrote to get the correct movement in relation to a diagonal camera

[rugged beacon]

moving transform twice is first i have seen
usually you combine the direction and move that direction

[jagged leaf]

..oops

[rich adder]

yeah you outta combine those

[jagged leaf]

yeah no that makes it so when rotating my camera the player just keeps going in that initial direction

grtrrrr

ill just turn off x axis damping for now i cba

its the slight camera follow that messes it up

ill need to rewrite that part to be independent it seems

[rugged beacon]

if you rotate the character already then left right dont need to depend on the camera rotation

[jagged leaf]

when they dont then i just end up going in one direction, it only rotates the player when moving forward

[rich adder]

wait shouldnt this be
Vector3 moveDirection = (camRight * _movementInput.x, 0, + camForward * _movementInput.y).normalized; ?

[jagged leaf]

ill give it a try

[oblique ridge]

alright im gonna go watch some more tuts

thx for da help

[jagged leaf]

i love getting stuck on the smallest things!! truly

[rich adder]

better than something complex where you take days to figure out 😭

[oblique ridge]

oh i didn't even see this

how?

[rich adder]

also yeah you should only call a move method once

[rugged beacon]

idk havent dont this movement based camera before i would just spam a few tutorial and see what work then comeback later

[jagged leaf]

takes me back to a boss i made for an elden ring clone
absolute nightmare

[oblique ridge]

how does one merge movement directions and still specify where to go with what keypress

[rich adder]

the example is similar to what I sent above
finalMoveDir = new (moveHorizontal * speed, 0, moveVertical * speed)

[rugged beacon]

add sidway and forward ig

[jagged leaf]

whered you get the 0 from

[rich adder]

the Y movevement should be 0

vector 3 is (x, y, z)

if you put another number it will move up/down

[jagged leaf]

Cannot convert initializer type '(UnityEngine.Vector3, int, UnityEngine.Vector3)' to target type 'UnityEngine.Vector3'

i hate vectors ive always hated vectors

[scarlet pasture]

hey in a top Down Game, how can i Attack in Diffrent Direction, With the Mouse? What is the Logic behind?

[rich adder]

wait can you show what you wrote exactly

[rugged beacon]

you rotate and you shoot

[scarlet pasture]

like top right, top left, down left and down right

[jagged leaf]

Vector3 moveDirection = (camRight * _movementInput.x, 0, camForward * _movementInput.y);

[rich adder]

put = new ( etc.

[rich adder]

get the direction from (mouseWorldPos - currentPosition).nornalized

[jagged leaf]

new Vector3, no?

Vector3 moveDir = new Vector3

[rich adder]

that works too, you can omit that in newer versions of c# 9 +

Vector3 moveDir = new Vector3 ( 
Vector3 moveDir = new (
var moveDir = new Vector3 ( ```
these all work

[jagged leaf]

Vector3 moveDir = new Vector3(camRight * _movementInput.x, 0, camForward * _movementInput.y);

Argument type 'UnityEngine.Vector3' is not assignable to parameter type 'float'

interesting

where did the float come from

ah the .x

is a float

[rich adder]

v3 is 3 floats

[jagged leaf]

then im confused at why im getting the error

[rich adder]

what is camRight a float or v3 ?

[jagged leaf]

camRight and camForward are all v3s

[oblique ridge]

oh and then i send this final direction to the ClampMagnitude method?

[rich adder]

ahh thats why..

i thought they were floats mb

[jagged leaf]

so im cooked?

[rich adder]

then you just need
moveDir = camRight * _movementInput.x + camForward * _movementInput.y);

myb I'll take a look rq on a computer now I'll better be able to give a solution, was hard on mobile lol

[rich adder]

yea

[jagged leaf]

thats what i had earlier haha

[rich adder]

did ya ? I think I accidentally clicked someone elses link lol

can you send the codebin link to it

[jagged leaf]

https://paste.myst.rs/jjx6iut7

this is the original code i came here with

and heres the video if you havent seen it

but yeah i noticed when i turn off damping in the cinemachine camera it stops doing that so its gotta be something with my cam setup

[rich adder]

weird..are you sure its not the lookat

[jagged leaf]

honestly its just some code i grabbed from a 50 second short showing how to do billboarding

[rich adder]

wait nvm i thought it was the sprite tilting but that shouldnt affect the movement cause its seperate

[jagged leaf]

i wrote the rest of the movement based on another project of mine

but its the first time i use cinemachine

so i dont know the lil quirks

[rich adder]

does it work fine if you remove transform.Rotate

[turbid plover]

Waut that's how it technically works? Damn

[jagged leaf]

interestingly, the behavior doesnt change at all

its definitely got something to do with my billboarding
since the camera damps, and the sprite always looks towards the camera

it just conflicts

lowkey might have to write my own camera script 😮‍💨

[rich adder]

I think it might be cause of conflicting rotation

[jagged leaf]

im 100% sure thats the case

[rich adder]

as you move your char left - right your camera is rotating too

but your camera is trying to fllow player at the same time

so its a weird circular thing going on

[jagged leaf]

im gonna need to find a different solution or turn off x damping entirely

[rich adder]

ya I can see why the damping is causing that

[worthy gale]

man guys I need some very specific help, i used a character controller to make my guy move, and now Im making moving platforms, and now I have no clue how to make my character stick to the moving platforms

[rich adder]

needs specific help, doesnt ask help in specific/exact way.. 👍

[worthy gale]

Sorry, about to drop my code

just sorting the paste out

https://paste.mod.gg/kqjpdqmrddbk/1

I believe the issue lays with how character controller moves in world space, and as a result anchoring movement to a locally moving object is kind of difficult/or I am not seeing a hacky fix before me

[rich adder]

btw with character controller you can normally just parent it to the platform

[worthy gale]

Parenting?

[rich adder]

make the player child of the platform

[worthy gale]

Ahhh ok, I will see to it

[teal panther]

hello

should i use vs22 or rider?

for unity of course

[slender nymph]

rider is generally considered "better" (mostly because of its better UI and analyzers), but they are both tools that get the job done so use whatever you like

[teal panther]

thank you, rider it is

[slender nymph]

just note that rider's licensing is more restrictive than visual studio's is. you can only use rider for free if you are working on a non-commercial or open source project

[teal panther]

i am aware

i get the license from my uni

[worthy gale]

So I could attach the character to become a child of the platform in the code when the player makes contact with the platform?

Huzzah!

[rich adder]

yes
use a script OnTriggerEnter to parent and OnTriggerExit to unparent

[worthy gale]

I used simple raycasting to pass on velocity

might be hackier than needed but it works

[rich adder]

whatever works

[worthy gale]

yessir, I feel like a bethesda dev already!

I will test parenting tho just to get a proper grip on it, since this seems much easier than the hoopty way I did it

[rich adder]

depends on the game, passing velocity is the physics way normally

Character Controller is basically kinematic so you can get away with parenting also

[worthy gale]

Gotcha boss! And yeah thats what I thought as well and Im glad it worked out

[sour fulcrum]

Also worth noting that in general getting player controllers to work nicely on moving platforms is one of those things thats just really tricky to get feeling fantastic

If your struggling that's not necessarily a you issue 😄

[spare herald]

hi i have another problem
so my jumping and moving works pretty well
only thing is that theres a bit of momentum
like it keeps moving even after I let go
how do i stop that from happening

[rich adder]

depends on whats causing it, without at least seeing your specific setup how can we tell for sure

[languid pagoda]

Question if I choose to simply not await an async method will it still return a value or will it be null since I didn't wait for it to finish?

[spare herald]

should i send all of my code?

[slender nymph]

if you mean doing something like var x = SomeAsyncTask(); instead of var x = await SomeAsyncTask(); then your variable will contain the Task<T> rather than the result of the task

[teal viper]

Doesn't that depend on the return type?

[slender nymph]

it would have to return a Task<T> if it were awaitable and returning a value (or if relying on unity's built in stuff, return Awaitable<T>)

[spare herald]

 void Update()
 {
     if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isGrounded())
     {
         rb.linearVelocity = new Vector3(0, rb.linearVelocity.y, 0);
         rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);

     }


 }

 private void FixedUpdate()
 {
     Vector3 move = new Vector3(0, 0, 0);
     
     if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
     {
         rb.AddForce(Vector3.forward * force, ForceMode.Force);
     }

     if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S))
     {
         rb.AddForce(Vector3.back * force, ForceMode.Force);
     }

     if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))
     {
         rb.AddForce(Vector3.right * force, ForceMode.Force);
     }

     if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A))
     {
         rb.AddForce(Vector3.left * force, ForceMode.Force);
     }
 }

 public bool isGrounded()
 {

     return Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, 1.1f);
 }

heres my movement code

assume everything else is initialized fine

[slender nymph]

so no matter what the Task<T>/Awaitable<T> is returned by the method. then it's just a matter of whether that has been awaited or not

[teal viper]

Yeah, you're right. The compiler would throw an error at non task or void return types.

[slender nymph]

moving via forces means you need some counteracting force like linear damping (aka drag), friction, or literally an oppositely applied force using AddForce in order to slow the object down. not enough of that counteracting force will make it take longer to come to a stop

you probably want to move by assigning the velocity if you want entirely snappy movement with no momentum

[spare herald]

like .linearVelocity??

[slender nymph]

and if you go that route you'd want to consider using GetAxisRaw rather than polling the keys individually

[spare herald]

but then jumping doesnt work properl

[slender nymph]

don't overwrite the Y velocity then

[spare herald]

it wont use the momentum

[spare herald]

oh

how do i do that?

do i just to rb.linearvelocity.y?

SHITT i didnt think of that

[languid pagoda]

can you access variable.Result and read the return value of the method if you dont await it?

[spare herald]

GetAxisRaw only works for x and y though

right

[slender nymph]

yes, that would block until the task is complete though

[spare herald]

or am i tweaking

[slender nymph]

it's the same buttons though

[languid pagoda]

thank you

[spare herald]

ohh wait

Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical") would be forward and backward

[rich adder]

"Horizontal" a/d - left/right arrow
"Vertical" w/s - up/down arrow

[spare herald]

Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") would be left and right

[slender nymph]

also using GetAxisRaw will allow you to create a Vector3 from your input that you can normalize or clamp the magnitude of to prevent moving faster by moving diagonally

[gaunt zenith]

hello, can you help me about unity ai. i cant use it

[slender nymph]

#1202574086115557446

[tacit prism]

just asking how input buffering is implemented

trying to set up an attacking state and i have the input set up like so, but i want this to combo into a seperate light attack animation as well without having to press it at a specific time for it to work (as far as until the initial animation ends)

im just wondering how most people do it? timer with a bool? or like..whar

if my question isnt specific enough ill try to elaborate more, just kinda tired rn from running around all day

im using isAttacking as a bool for my walking state and targeting state to determine if they can transition into the attacking state or not, in case that causes any confusion

[spare herald]

finally fixed my jump

[analog pendant]

I know the basic structure of C

[analog pendant]

C# cool

[teal viper]

There are probably many ways you can implement combos. A simple idea I can think of is:

• have a combo manager that keeps a list of the recently recorded inputs.
• record the time of the first or last input in the list(design choice).
• have some kind of time threshold. When the time since the recorded time in previous point exceeds the threshold, evaluate the list of inputs, if the sequence matches any of the combo definitions, perform a combo, otherwise just the last attack/input in the sequence.
• after that clear the list.

There might be many nuances that you'd want to adjust or change in that logic.

[tacit prism]

thanks, i already have an attack index set up that has a list of the animations for the attacks, but i have yet to set them up or try to connect them. Hopefully i dont get overwhelmed by this but gotta learn stuff somehow

[tacit prism]

https://paste.mod.gg/jvulnnsfgjqj/4

Once again tearing my hair out because i dont understand whats wrong. Current Error being thrown is "Invalid Layer index -1" so i initially thought "oh so it doesnt like negative ones" so i removed all them from the code yet it still threw the same error???

ive fiddled with it for the last hour but i cant even get a compiling error out of this code anymore, it just hates that -1 and i have no idea what to do im sobbing

[spare herald]

hi i would like help with something

is there any way to rotate the camera when i collide with something?

what im trying to do is in the objects onCollideEnter() method Im checking if the player collides and if it does then turn the camera

but im not sure how

[strong wren]

Those CrossFade methods have a default value of -1 for layer https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Animator.CrossFadeInFixedTime.html. If you don't provide a value, -1 will be used.

[tacit prism]

But how does that affect my issue? It says the -1 is invalid.

Should I remove the = -1; from the ComboStateIndex in Attack.cs

I’ve already tried that though so that can’t be it

I’ve shut my computer off for the night anyhow, tired and don’t feel like ruining my scalp anymore with how much confusion I’m developing

It’s probably an issue with my assignment of values in unity knowing me

[thorn vine]

Hello everyone 🙂

[left reef]

How to learn unity

[eternal needle]

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[radiant void]

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[eternal needle]

you'd need to show the relevant setup/code. a script for growing plants and an object sliding sound completely unrelated so id assume you just have some rigidbody business going on in there

[surreal sable]

Does anyone use Unity Dialogue system by Pixel Crusher here? Would anyone be able to guide me on how to create a dialogue flow where.

The user speaks to the NPC. After 1 turn, the custom dialogue panel will open the panel to my custom survey.

Depending on whether the user has completed the survey / close the survey, my dialogue continues and the different dialogue conversation depending on whether the user has completed or closed the survey panel.

[frigid zephyr]

my visual studio randomly just vanished from my pc and so I installed Visual Studio but its not showing correctly in VS. does anyone know how to fix this?

[tender mirage]

could you show the full screen of visual studio?

[tender mirage]

I know the problem. You gotta download the purple visual studio. not the blue one.

When you do get the purple one tho. make sure to check on the unity addon

and uninstall this version

[frigid zephyr]

Im colour blind, is there an obvious difference between the two?

Ah I installed VSCode not VS?

[tender mirage]

oh god, yeah, their logo's as far as i can tell are identical

one simple way to tell the right version is to check if there's this assembly or mischiveous text on the left top corner

[naive pawn]

please do not send random .exe's here

[naive pawn]

the logos are different

left: visual studio
right: visual studio code

[tender mirage]

Sorry... just thought it would be convenient.

got careless.

[naive pawn]

fwiw, vscode does also work with unity. there's a bit more setup, but it's mostly a one-time thing.
it has less language/unity-specific features than vs, but if you're used to vscode you can use it just fine

also note that vs and vscode are not different "versions" of the same thing, they are completely separate apps.

blame microsoft for the confusing naming 😢 (it used to be worse, too)

[tender mirage]

Worse? how?!

[naive pawn]

there used to be another, "visual studio for mac" that wasn't a port of visual studio for mac, but actually just a different app with the same name and logo

it was deprecated/sunsetted a few years ago though

3 very different apps with "visual studio" in the name and similar logos

[tender mirage]

ah, makes sense considering how many apps microsoft has killed

now that i think about it.

[sonic dome]

Okay im back to unity after a very long time last i was using it the player input script was just added i used it and all worked fine but i didnt stick with it cuz i felt like the code approach was more controlling and better but now when im back after a long time i see people are using player input only is there a specifc reason as to that?

[night mural]

the new input system is intended to replace the old one and emulate it if needed, while also having support for/flexibility to do the sort of things you eventually need in a real game like key bindings

[sonic dome]

hmm understandable thansk

[cosmic dagger]

You still have the code approach with the new input system . . .

[sonic dome]

i see

thanks

[cosmic dagger]

Uhh, both images have it . . .

[sonic dome]

yea im blind

[cosmic dagger]

!collab

[radiant void]

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[sonic dome]

is this a good way to handle jump and stuff?

    [SerializeField]
    private InputActionReference move;

    [SerializeField]
    private InputActionReference otherMove;

    private Vector3 _moveDirection;

    private Vector3 _otherMoveDirection;

    [SerializeField]
    private Rigidbody rb;

    void Start() {
        
    }

    void Update() {
        _moveDirection = move.action.ReadValue<Vector3>();
        _otherMoveDirection = otherMove.action.ReadValue<Vector3>();
    }

    void FixedUpdate() {
        rb.AddForce(_moveDirection, ForceMode.VelocityChange);

        rb.AddForce(_otherMoveDirection, ForceMode.Impulse);
    }

[gentle trellis]

I wanna use monocraft (minecraft) font for visual studio code but it ended up looking like this, any fix?

(it's already applied)

[sand glen]

This is visual studio community not code, which may slow your search

[gentle trellis]

so I can't use it?

[sand glen]

It should work, dont use community for quite some time so cant help

Just saying if you were looking for fixes for code, it wont be the same

[gentle trellis]

oh okay

[sonic dome]

how can i access the linear damping from a rigidbody in code?

okay nvm it seems like my ide isnt able to fetch the methods

thats weird i can access the update and fixed void functions pretty easily

[hot wadi]

Wdym it can't fetch the method? Are u using the right rigidbody class?
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-linearDamping.html

[sonic dome]

i meant my ide itself coudlnt do it

like there was no auto complete when i was like rb.

[hot wadi]

Are u using vs code?

[sonic dome]

yes

okay i got it fixed now

[sweet bough]

hi, i have a problem with changing materials through scripts, the problem is i have this script (https://paste.myst.rs/kvo0da4d) that makes the material of object blocking view from camera to the player's model transparent, and if the original material is transparent it is working as intended, but if it is opaque it just doesnt show up in the game until i manually change any setting of the material (it is still changing from opaque to transparent in material's settings, but the changes are not visible in the game)

[silk night]

which code path is the one not working? a bit hard to grasp without debugging 😄

[sour adder]

I remember having the same problem with an object. I just set it to transparent with no transparency, but believe you don't want to do that. It was Unity 2021.3.

[silk night]

that is a bad idea to do on plenty of objects 😄

I can hear the profiler yelling from the corner

[mint swift]

Steam Game
I'm currently working on a steam multilayer game
I know the basics of Lobby , relays , NGO.. but like I wanna get the steam name of the player and after that just use it so on.. i searched the web for some guides they use mirror and idk what i don't wanna go into something not that good after all just need the way to start..
Any suggestions?

[sour adder]

Are you asking how to get the steam name in Steamworks.NET?

[mint swift]

yeah , could I just stick to Lobby and relays and just get the name from Steamworks.NET?

[slender nymph]

you have to get the steam info from steamworks, and Steamworks.NET is one package you can use to do so. none of the other packages you mentioned have anything to do with steam (at least directly)

[mint swift]

https://youtu.be/7Eoc8U8TWa8?si=1rW8ZxBe-LGBXioq
would this Vid help me so?

[sonic dome]

why does it not log anything?

[slender nymph]

presumably the errors are causing the code to not work

!input 👇 and stop hiding your errors

[radiant void]

How to Set Input

To set Active Input Handling, go to:
Project Settings > Player > Active Input Handling

• Input Manager (Old): Use the original Input settings.
• Input System Package (New): Uses the new input system package.
• Both: Use both systems.

[sonic dome]

no errors here tho

[slender nymph]

is this even during play mode?

[sonic dome]

ni

wait

[slender nymph]

exactly

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[sonic dome]

i dont see active input handling

where is it

[slender nymph]

you do know there's not only a search bar, but there's also several folded categories there, right?

[sonic dome]

but this says its inside player only

[rocky canyon]

it is in there..

[sonic dome]

and even the search bar leads to player

[slender nymph]

yes, and inside the Player settings which you are looking at, you have FOUR folded groups of settings

[rocky canyon]

maybe in "Other" settings.. i wonder..

maybe in some of those other Menus that u havent expandded yet

[sonic dome]

okay i see

okay its restarting

thanksssssssss

[grand snow]

its interesting how many people now have this input issue but glad they still changed the default

[sonic dome]

the gravity feels really bad

any suggestions on how i can make it right

[hot wadi]

How are u applying it?

[sonic dome]

i made the default grav to -18 from -9.8 in project settings

feels right i suppose

what even is this

[hot wadi]

That changes the entire world's gravity for all objects

-9.8 is the real world gravitational acceleration.
It may fix your problem for now but may cause more issues if u want the game world to obey real world physics

[sonic dome]

noted

why m i getting these weird errors

[hot wadi]

A texture in your project does not have the imagery data to render

[sonic dome]

it was working a sec ago

i dint touch any textures

[hot wadi]

I think this is the editor problem

[sonic dome]

nvm it was the editor

i restarted

works fine now

thanks

[fringe crypt]

Damn, i got hacked by someone

Sorry guys if in this group got spammed

[fresh panther]

I've been trying to fix this problem for 6 hours.

[rich adder]

what did you try to fix it

also probably not related at all to #💻┃code-beginner

[hot wadi]

Looks like a common issue for new editor version?

[fresh panther]

1. Install different versions of unity
2. Search on the Internet
3. Run the program as an administrator
4. (What did you regret) ask the AI
5. Deleted the library folder
   I don't remember what else I was trying to do.

[fresh panther]

I have installed all versions of unity

[rich adder]

where did you install the editor at ?

[fresh panther]

C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\6000.2.8f1\Editor

[rich adder]

is this a new project ? what operation did you do when this error popped up ?

[fresh panther]

Yes, this is a new project. What action did I take that caused the error: Created a project

[rich adder]

You tried a plain ol PC restart?

[fresh panther]

yes

[fresh panther]

I've tried reinstalling the project, and I've tried reinstalling unity.

[rich adder]

wdym "reinstalling the project"

and which versions did you try

[fresh panther]

I deleted the project and then created a new one

[fresh panther]

all

[hot wadi]

It's likely tied to Visual Studio. Even if u install different editor versions

[rich adder]

what is "all"

[fresh panther]

Unity 6.2
Unity 6.0
Unity 2022.3 LTS
Unity 2021.3 LTS

[rich adder]

hmm then idk most likely something wrong on your PC... maybe permission issues or something not launching.. Check the logs and see what they say exact

!logs

[radiant void]

📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log
MacOS: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Editor.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log

Unity Hub

Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[rich adder]

you want to check "Editor logs"

if its too much stuff you can delete them, initiate another error then check logs so you get a more "clean slate"

[fringe crypt]

It's a bug?

[rich adder]

I'm on mobile lol I aint downloading all that.. check it and see any indications of issues with more recent timestamps to when you launched it

[hoary tangle]

aha

@hoary tanglehi

[rich adder]

did you tag yourself to say "hi" to .. wat? also no offtopic

[hoary tangle]

no it said on the green leaf next to my name to say hi

when I clicked it, it tagged me

then I addded hi

because it told me to say

hi

so that was why i

did that

[rich adder]

we can do without the spam

[fresh panther]

I can see that

bee_backend: error: Couldn't launch process
...
GetLastError: 5 (0x00000005)

[hoary tangle]

I usally like type many messages because I remember what I should say after I've typed done already

[rich adder]

can you refrain from spamming the channel with further offtopic crap idc about ? thanks

[hoary tangle]

ok

[rich adder]

which platform are you on ? btw this should probably be threaded and in the correct channel #💻┃unity-talk

[fresh panther]

Windows 11

[hoary tangle]

How do I make a simple movement system that doesn't glitch thru thin walls?

When I made my movement system a long time ago, I just went into walls and kept glitching out when walking against them.

How do I make an actaul good one? Just W = Forward, S = Backward, D = Right, A = Left and Space = Jump.

[rich adder]

making the colliders move proper

[hoary tangle]

What do you mean by that Nav?

I used the bean looking cylinder ish collider

[rich adder]

making sure the character is moving respecting physics

[grand snow]

• moving via physics instead of direct translation

[naive pawn]

...capsule collider?

[hoary tangle]

Yes the capsule collider

[hoary tangle]

What is translation? What is the diffrence

[rich adder]

so did you put a rigidbody and move it with its velocity

[grand snow]

if we just change transform.position (known as translation) we bypass physics and thus can easily move into walls and other colliders

We need to move via physics forces, velocity changes or using the character controller component to obey physics
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.html

[rich adder]

I would check for any type of antivirus blocking and all that..
also if you wish to continue make a thread in #💻┃unity-talk

[hoary tangle]

I just did playervector + vector3(1, 0,0) or something like taht

[hoary tangle]

Yes that was what I did

[twin pivot]

yea thats direct translation, add force/change the velocity

[hoary tangle]

Why is it called translation

[rich adder]

well you're skipping the physics, you're not gonna get proper collisions

[grand snow]

smart people said so

[rich adder]

colliders are physics

[fresh panther]

Windows defender? :?

[hoary tangle]

Yes I understand now, I will use forces instead. But why is it called translations?

[hot wadi]

It's like attaching a rope to your object and drag it instead of teleporting it to new position each frame

[hoary tangle]

Yeah

[rich adder]

its a Term in geometry iirc

translating / shifting the object's position in 3D space without altering its orientation or size

[grand snow]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_(geometry)#Application_in_classical_physics

[rich adder]

there ya go ^

[hoary tangle]

Thanks I will look at that

That seems logical

Okay now I know

How do you use forces then in Unity 6?

[hot wadi]

Someone said it with more details, but I'm just gonna list the methods u can use:

• Use a dynamic rigidbody and AddForce()
• Use kinematic rigidbody and set the velocity instead or MovePosition()
• Use character controller and Move()

[rich adder]

MovePosition does not respect colliders

other physics bodies will respect it, and its motion but not other way around

[eternal blade]

in the tutorial FPS micro game the hints show a hand,, that is in unity 2020, i have unity 6.2 i cant seem to progress its not clear what to click on,, the animation shows clicking on the hand,, which is now the pan tool i think but that does on unstick the tutorial

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk

[grand snow]

For 2d rigidbodies it does but for 3d no which is kinda annoying

[rich adder]

ohh yeah those interesting quirks of 2D engine.. hella weird.. also probably related to the fact that kinematic rigidbodies in 2D have velocity and in 3D they just get set to 0 every time

[hoary tangle]

What is the diffrence between a kinematic rigidbody and a normal rigidbody?

Does MovePosition add a force that pushes the object, or does that just do what it looks like when you read it. Just directly move it to a position in the world?

I responded to the wrong person

Now it's right

[rich adder]

Kinematic in a nutshell is a body not affected by external forces

[grand snow]

Its probably actually due to 3d and 2d not using the same physics engine (box2d vs physx [default])

[naive pawn]

there's not really a "normal" rigidbody - every one has a body type, either dynamic and kinematic.

dynamic rigidbodies are simulated, they respond to forces and collisions, and they drive collision detection
kinematic rigidbodies are not, they represent things that interact via physics but aren't themselves simulated through physics

[hoary tangle]

So basically if something comes at it with lightspeed and hits it. Nothing will happen?

[rich adder]

correct

[hoary tangle]

Okay thats is good to know

[hoary tangle]

Thanks

[rich adder]

thats why most character controllers are kinematic, you usually wouldnt want everything hitting your player pushing it

moving platforms, etc. all very viable for kinematic bodies

[hoary tangle]

Aren't moving platfroms more like not viable with kinematic bodies? If you stand on the moving platform, the rigidbody wont makes your character follow it?

Or do you mean it's very viable because you can move the player on your own with code, and simulate the physics better that what the dynamic rigidbody would do by itself?

[rich adder]

with character controllers it gets complicated a bit, but it will push another body up / down per say but not let that object stop it from moving up / down

[hoary tangle]

What is Global Volume object in the unity explorer?

[rich adder]

similar to just using translation but its "physics conscious" and other bodies respect it

[rich adder]

easy to lookup stuff you should use google for

is just Post Processing Volume, its set to "Global" by default meaning it affects the screen no matter what, instead of using "trigger zones" for camera
Old Post Processing (concepts are similiar)
new :
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.1/manual/integration-with-post-processing.html

[hot wadi]

Well, dynamic is just like real world objects. It obeys physics and interacts with other body types by default
Kinematic is like a blank canvas that lets u enable certain physics interactions by your own rule
For example, if u throw a dynamic rbody at a kinematic body, it won't push the kinematic body unless u let it to
But if u push a kinematic body at a dynamic body, the dynamic body will automatically react to that force

[hoary tangle]

Ok.

[crimson canopy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYEAwiKFKeg
following this tutorial because its the easiest one ive found on offscreen indicatiors, but im stuck around the 7 minute mark where he says to use an edge collider 2d on your camera, because he is working in a 2d project
i would need the edgecollider to have a space to spawn my indicator, but im not sure what the 3d equivilent of this would be, as far as i can tell using the edge collider 2d in 3d does not seem to work very well if at all when im trying to attach it to the camera view
does anyone have any further resources on this or another way i should be doing this?

[rich adder]

huh you probably dont need colliders for this

You should be able to just check if an object is outside the bounds of screen / camera

some like this probably https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Camera.WorldToViewportPoint.html

[hallow acorn]

guys how hard is it to rewrite an algorithm i took days to make using c# so it works with a compute shader? how much time did i waste?

[hot wadi]

Depends on its complexity

As long as u learn something. Otherwise, if u just need something that works, find a tutorial

[hallow acorn]

i made a marching cubes algorithm. could be squished to about 150-200 lines of code if i remove the noise etc used for generating terrain data

[hallow acorn]

thats the problem. there are like none

[rich adder]

#1390346776804069396

[crimson canopy]

i can this is rly easy its about finding the exact place i need to spawn the indicator in world space

in the tutorial he casts a ray from the object to the player and when the ray crosses the collider he uses that point to spawn the indicator

[rich adder]

I mean thats also pretty easy to do it with a lil math, without physics

[crimson canopy]

alr, should i just cast a ray from the object to the player and ask when the ray shows up in the camera to spawn the indicator then

[rocky canyon]

another way to do screen indicators
is by using a regular canvas and converting the worldspace -> ui-space

[rich adder]

as I said, that involves physics / colliders.. No need to use physics for that

[rocky canyon]

i haven't implemented the off-screen portion yet tho

[rich adder]

You can use Mathf.Lerp to get a point between two points Ie (left corner to right corner etc.) and see where the object is between that

[crimson canopy]

how do u best convert world space to ui space is there a doc i can read

[crimson canopy]

hm ok i will try this, ty

[rocky canyon]

simple as this