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[meager siren]

I plan to make the Main Camera bob

[rich adder]

yes I understand

[meager siren]

and etc

[rich adder]

I'm just letting you know if you notice most fpv games animate whatever you're holding / arms

[meager siren]

wdym?

[rich adder]

which part you're confused on?

[meager siren]

this

[rich adder]

a lot of fpv sell the effect with animating the meshes instead of cam

depending on game, but so usually it doesn't mess with your aiming

weapon moves but camera is static

[meager siren]

oh

mines not a shooter

I have extra stuff for the head bobbing

the games going to have sanity and the higher sanity you have the harder you will bob and what not

[rich adder]

either way, i've given you already these two options

sin/cos or like use the built in noise from cinemachine

[meager siren]

yeah, I just dunno how to use them

do you know how to explain it?

and make it repeat?

I think I understand a way for it to repeat

actually

I can use a while statement correct?

[rich adder]

no need

just like use sin with Time.time for example that should give you a simple up and down then multiply it by some val

[meager siren]

Time.time?

wait

your telling me

theres a better way. To do

timers?

wth man

[rich adder]

https://youtu.be/3OuSls0rmcM?t=58

[meager siren]

tysm

im back in school

[rich adder]

I'm sure if you lookup any these headbob things they have sin somewhere

[meager siren]

I wanna make it myself

[rich adder]

though I personally prefer cinemachine as it gives more randomized noise added on

[meager siren]

instead of copying

[meager siren]

alright

I'll just go with Sine

for now

[meager siren]

wait its unlisted?

where'd you get this

[rich adder]

I had it in my YT playlist for unity since a couple years

[meager siren]

alright

[vocal orchid]

Hi

How can disable the gameobject Parent since all the gameobjects childs are disable

[rich adder]

what child have to do with parent? just reference the parent and disable it

transform.parent.gameObject.SetActive(false) but its kinda dirty to do..

[meager siren]

should I use euler angles or transform.rotation of the camera

[vocal orchid]

Ok

But when all the gameobjects are disable

Example

[rich adder]

uh if you want it to go up and down it should probably be position not rotation

[vocal orchid]

The gameobject parent have 3 gameobjects childs

When the 3 gameobject childs are disable, the gameobject parent is will disable

[meager siren]

alright

[rich adder]

so in the object that keeps count of disabled child have reference to the parent

[rich adder]

what are you even showing me here?

[vocal orchid]

Script of gameobject Parent

Script of the gameobject child

[rich adder]

so is working ?

[vocal orchid]

More and less

Script to active the gameobject parent

So, this active the gameobject parent but, not their gameobjects childs

[rich adder]

well yeah each gameobject has their own active states

[vocal orchid]

So, I create this script

[meager siren]

Not entirely sure on how to do it ngl

[vocal orchid]

But I still not working

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs1612

[meager siren]

Do I have to make a variable for it then?

im guessing

[rich adder]

read whats in the link and you'll understand what the error is telling you

[meager siren]

Its fixed but it still doesnt move at all

[rich adder]

you never assign cameraPosition back.

[meager siren]

ah

Im supposed to

man I have dumb moments lmao

[rich adder]

value types only copies the values, messing with a copy wont do much if you dont assign it back to something

[meager siren]

alright

Do you mean like this

or Should I be doing +=

[rich adder]

try it but you would also need to return to "normal" if not moving

[meager siren]

doesnt work

[rich adder]

https://youtu.be/5MbR2qJK8Tc
maybe this will steer you a bit to something workable

[vocal orchid]

Still not working

[rich adder]

whats not working? & what are you trying to achieve exactly? this seems overdone where there could be a simpler solution

[meager siren]

Anyone understand how to make a camera lag behind whilst rotating it?

[zenith harness]

i think thats an option in the camera settings

[meager siren]

seriously?

well

the scripts in cameraholder

[slender nymph]

obligatory: use cinemachine

[meager siren]

how

[zenith harness]

my speed variable doesnt work.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class asd : MonoBehaviour
{
public float speed = 500f;

private float movX;
private float movY;
private Rigidbody rb;

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

void OnMove(InputValue movementValue)
{
    Vector2 movementVector = movementValue.Get<Vector2>();
    movX = movementVector.x;
    movY = movementVector.y;
}

void FixedUpdate()
{
    if (Camera.main == null) return;

   
    Vector3 camForward = Camera.main.transform.forward;
    Vector3 camRight = Camera.main.transform.right;

    
    camForward.y = 0f;
    camRight.y = 0f;
    camForward.Normalize();
    camRight.Normalize();

   
    Vector3 movement = camForward * movY + camRight * movX;

    
    rb.AddForce(movement * speed);
}

}

[naive pawn]

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[zenith harness]

oh mb im new

[naive pawn]

what's speed set to in the inspector?

[zenith harness]

its set to move a sphere on this absalutly wonderful plane

it moves, it just doesnt scale

@naive pawn

[polar acorn]

What's the speed set to in the inspector

[zenith harness]

it was set to 0. i fixed it and set it to 20, thanks for pointing that out

now how would i double the gravity of the ball

[naive pawn]

set the gravity scale to 2

[mortal folio]

[Error :Il2CppInterop] During invoking native->managed trampoline
Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at (il2cpp -> managed) Tick(IntPtr , Single& , Il2CppMethodInfo* )

Anyone able to help with this?

I have a BepinEx plugin working for preventing loss of Hunger, Thirst and Temperature for the player, and I have the objects (clone)'s for NPC villagers but when I try to apply the code to both somewhere along the line it's resulting in this being spammed in the console before I've even loaded into my save

I've tried using ChatGPT to try to troubleshoot this but it seems unable to

[placid jewel]

BepinEx is a modding tool, yes? This server doesn't allow modding discussion, best to find somewhere else to ask

[mortal folio]

Developers for ASKA literally allow mods

[sour fulcrum]

unfortunately it's still not allowed here, iirc because it breaks terms of service

[mortal folio]

But whatever, be facist, I'll just let people know

[sour fulcrum]

why are you being weird about it homie

[placid jewel]

#📖┃code-of-conduct, it's in the box at the top

[fading swan]

What a weird childish response lol

[tired python]

i have a question related to architecture...currently, i have a script which spawns units manually(i press certain keys to spawn them), and i wanna automate it in the future. I have another script which controls when the unit gets destroyed(when it goes outside the map). I wanna be able to animate the units in a certain way based on which direction it's currently moving in. for that, i am currently calculating the t ratio inside the script which controls when it gets destroyed. should i make another seperate script for its animation and attach it or just build it inside the destruction script that's already present

[placid jewel]

I think it might be easier to make a separate script for the animation, and either use the t value of the first script or recalculate it, but that's just based on ease of readability and not on any kind of performance estimations

[tired python]

aight, then i might as well reference it. i guess i need to make a method to return the t ratio in the destruction script for the animation script to use...

[hardy blade]

Hey guys, I have a very beginner question

I want to enable all children of a gameobject, that have a mesh filter, I thought I did it right, but apparently not

[placid jewel]

if you've got a public variable storing the t value in the first script, you can access it directly via a reference to the script
like:
TestScript has

public int my_int = 28

Then
SecondScript has

public TestScript otherScript
Debug.Log(otherScript.my_int) //will output 28

[tired python]

will i ever require the t ratio in any other circumstance?

prolly not...

[placid jewel]

You're only setting meshFilter to be active, and not instances, I'm not 100% sure but I'd guess that's the issue

[placid jewel]

Are you not planning to use the t ratio to get the direction the object is moving using EvaluateTangent?

Or is that no longer necessary

[hardy blade]

Aaaah, so, how do I get the gameobject from the list of Gameobjects with mesh filters and enable that?

Do you know?

[tired python]

i can just evaluate tangent in the destruction script

[sour fulcrum]

@tired python personally from reading your stuff i would do something like this

[placid jewel]

I don't know exactly, but what it looks like you're doing is, creating an array of mesh filters that contains the children of your gameobject, combining them all into one mesh called instances, then activating the parent. I'd assume you'd just refer to the gameobject of instances.

[sour fulcrum]

actually i'd go one step further and say instead of the unit killing itself, the unit asks the manager to kill it

[tired python]

so, if i get this right, the Unit has a script init which is responsible for both?

[frail hawk]

keep in mind: Only active child GameObjects are included in the search, unless you call the method with the includeInactive parameter set to true, in which case inactive child GameObjects are also included. The GameObject on which the method is called is always searched regardless of this parameter.

[sour fulcrum]

yeah each hard-edge box would be a monobehaviour or some script in general

[hardy blade]

Ooooooh THAT must be it, because I wanna search through deactivated gameobjects and enable them if they have a meshfilter

[frail hawk]

i know, you said "enable" them

[sour fulcrum]

You may want to split unit stuff into seperate components later down the line if certain units have notably differing behaviour but if your early on i'd just say 1 script per responsible "party" if you feel me

[meager siren]

Anyone know how to use direct raycast?

[tired python]

the enemies more or less are gonna have the same type of script running...so pretty sure they ain't gonna have very different scripts

[sour fulcrum]

having UnitManager be in charge of middle-manning every job of "managing" the units allows the units, your input manager and whatever automation you want to touch the same system in the same way

[placid jewel]

Since they're both going to be in one script under this setup, you don't have to worry about sending the t value back and forth anymore

[frail hawk]

what is that

[placid jewel]

What do you mean by "direct"?

[tired python]

ya...that was one of the options

[hardy blade]

I know how to do that using visual scripts, but not code

[meager siren]

well. just 3d raycast then

[placid jewel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Physics.Raycast.html

[meager siren]

ty

[placid jewel]

one more thing that's not explicitly covered by the docs (but is visible in the first example script) is, if you want to get a reference to the thing the raycast hit, you can add out hit to the parameters when you call it. Then when you write hit afterwards in your code it will refer to the object hit.

[meager siren]

I think I know what I'm doing wrong ngl

[placid jewel]

Yeah, I just realised as you sent that you need to define RaycastHit hit; beforehand

[placid jewel]

It was my mistake in the way I described it

[meager siren]

wait

hold on

[placid jewel]

So like this

[meager siren]

I'm trying to make sure the door checks if the player is close enough

[placid jewel]

(you also don't have to call it hit lol)

[meager siren]

and if it is we can open it

I think I'm doing it wrong ngl

and I might have just figured it out

[tired python]

{
    float tratio = aniSpline.ElapsedTime / aniSpline.Duration;
    float3 tangentVector = spline.EvaluateTangent(spline, tratio);
    Debug.Log($"Ratio t is: {aniSpline.ElapsedTime / aniSpline.Duration}");
    Debug.Log($"The tangent is: {tangentVector[0]}, {tangentVector[1]}, {tangentVector[2]}");
}```
``No overload for method 'EvaluateTangent' takes 2 arguments`` is the error that's popping up...

[placid jewel]

For the direction field, you'll probably want transform.position - player.position

[meager siren]

oh alright

wdym error

[placid jewel]

Are you using SplineUtility?

[placid jewel]

out can't go on its own

[tired python]

oh...gotcha

[meager siren]

I cant do hit as well

[placid jewel]

did you define hit beforehand like I said here? @meager siren

[meager siren]

oh thats what you mean

my fault

[placid jewel]

this is an example of how it might look from the docs

[naive pawn]

could also declare it inline

[placid jewel]

with out RaycastHit hit in the raycast?

[naive pawn]

out RaycastHit hit or out var hit for example, in the argument position

[placid jewel]

Yeah

Either method works the same, unless there's a reason to use one over the other that I'm missing

[meager siren]

Its not working

[naive pawn]

it makes it clearer what initializes it and what scope it belongs to imo, but it's mostly a preference thing

[placid jewel]

What should it be doing? Currently there's an if statement with no body

[meager siren]

oh

right

LMAO

I CANT SEE AND READ

[naive pawn]

you basically have nested ifs here

[meager siren]

its meant to be like this

[meager siren]

Im guessing I shouldnt do that?

matter of a fact

I dont even know what nested means anymore

dont even think I ever knew

[placid jewel]

If you leave out the brackets does it just act as though there's a { directly after the if and a } at the very end of that nesting level (don't know the right word)? I've not done it before

[placid jewel]

It means an if within an if, or any kind of control statements inside other control statements

[placid jewel]

What you've got there is nested ifs

[meager siren]

Ah, so I did know that. :p I forget things a lot.

[meager siren]

Imma be honest he just confused me

I have prior coding experience to C#

Ive done python before. My teacher taught me nested if statements

and I forgot

but thanks for reminding me

[placid jewel]

There's nothing wrong with the concept of nesting, but currently it might be hard to tell where the problem is, seeing as two conditions have to be fulfilled for the innermost line of code to be executed

[meager siren]

yeah

[placid jewel]

If it's not working the best way to debug it is to put a Debug.Log in each level of the nested if's, with different messages, to see exactly where the code gets to

[meager siren]

yeah

[placid jewel]

And then you'll know which condition fails

[west sonnet]

When the player changes to a new gun, the gun is instantiated for the player to use. I'm trying to set the "WeaponAnim" value on the player, to the Animator that is stored on the Weapon and the Weapon ScriptableObject. It is being assigned, but my animator is not playing and I'm not sure why.

I have a trigger called "ShotFire" which is being called whenever the player mouse clicks, and I've used Debug.Log to ensure it should be being called. But my animator never starts and I'm not sure why. Can anyone help please?

[naive pawn]

not quite

you know single-line if statements?

this is basically that

[tired python]

@placid jewel

using UnityEditor.ShaderGraph.Internal;
using UnityEditorInternal.VersionControl;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Splines;

public class DamnDeseDucks : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    [SerializeField] private SplineAnimate aniSpline;
    [SerializeField] private Spline spline;
    void Start()
    {
        aniSpline.Completed += onComplete;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        CalculateTangent();
    }
    
    void onComplete()
    {
        Debug.Log("Duck will be destroyed.");
        Destroy(gameObject);
        Debug.Log("Duck was destroyed.");
    }

    void CalculateTangent()
    {
        float tratio = aniSpline.ElapsedTime / aniSpline.Duration;
        float3 tangentVector = SplineUtility.EvaluateTangent(spline, tratio);
        Debug.Log($"Ratio t is: {aniSpline.ElapsedTime / aniSpline.Duration}");
        Debug.Log($"The tangent is: {tangentVector.x}, {tangentVector.y}, {tangentVector.z}");
    }
}

somehow, the Debug.Log($"The tangent is: {tangentVector.x}, {tangentVector.y}, {tangentVector.z}"); is printing (inf, inf, inf)

[meager siren]

wait how tf do I bring back the console

help whatd I do

[tired python]

window->panels->console

[meager siren]

wth man

why now

[placid jewel]

In your t value Debug.Log, can you change the value from aniSpline.ElapsedTime / aniSpline.Duration to directly debug tratio?

[meager siren]

you can bring it back right?

[placid jewel]

Just in case it's somehow not working

[meager siren]

right?

[naive pawn]

check the general tab

[meager siren]

tysm

Yeah it's just not hitting overall

heres the funny code

[placid jewel]

I think I might have given you the wrong vector direction to use

[meager siren]

oh vector direction

[placid jewel]

Vector from points A to B is b-a

[meager siren]

oh

testing now I guess

[placid jewel]

So player.position - transform.position

[meager siren]

alright

it works

its just the door not opening

does Mathf.Lerp work for Sin

[naive pawn]

@placid jewel the format of ifs (and control statements in general) basically goes like if ( condition ) statement
that statement could be anything, including another control flow statement, the empty statement ;, or a block statement { ...statements }

to my knowledge, all c-syntax languages obey this

[naive pawn]

they're both just math, they don't care about each other

if you use them correctly you can use them together fine

[placid jewel]

So
if (condition) block of code that was meant to be outside the if
is the same as
if (condition) { block of code that was meant to be outside the if }
right?

[frail hawk]

debug the name of the hit object you willsee why, hint (use layermask)

[meager siren]

wait I just realized what I just typed

[meager siren]

I'll use that for Multiplayer. I'll keep that in mind. And for enemies but thanks

[naive pawn]

basically, there's probably some scoping things that make that not exactly equivalent

[meager siren]

Yeah, I used them here

[naive pawn]

but itll apply to just the immediate statement

[naive pawn]

that's wrong lerp, fyi

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

[meager siren]

oh

Never knew that

[naive pawn]

sine and cosine basically already have smoothing built in, what is the extra lerp smoothing supposed to do?

[meager siren]

its for head bobbing

[naive pawn]

that's not what i asked

[meager siren]

I'm not entirely sure. This is the one thing I did not write

Since I couldn't figure it out myself

[placid jewel]

Where did you get it from?

[meager siren]

youtube

somewhere

idk

[placid jewel]

Damn

Someone put it up for people to use

[meager siren]

yeah

[placid jewel]

With it being the wrong application of lerp too

Does it work? Like exactly as you want it to, not just a close approximate?

[meager siren]

yep

works perfectly. there is more to it

[placid jewel]

Because if so don't worry about it for now and come back when you feel a bit more confident to figure it out on your own I'd say

[meager siren]

yeah, I've gotten more confident fast

[naive pawn]

have you tried just using the smoothing from sin/cos instead of adding the extra lerp smoothing?

[meager siren]

No, cause I dont know how to do that

[naive pawn]

the wrong lerp means the result will be framerate dependant

[meager siren]

How bad would that be?

[placid jewel]

Ideally you'd want to do it in a coroutine right?\

[meager siren]

just a geniune question

[meager siren]

wdym. Idk what coroutine means

[naive pawn]

lerp smoothing is basically a = lerp(a, b, dt) where b is the target
you already have smoothing on b, so you could just do a = b

[placid jewel]

Players with a very high framerate would have their head bob much faster than slower framerates

[naive pawn]

what would that do? it's already running every frame

[meager siren]

ohh

Many friends accompanying me lmao

[tired python]

oh ya it's working

tratio is getting printed

[placid jewel]

I mean instead of running it every frame, but I guess not since it's continuous back and forth motion and that becomes a little more complex. I like to use a coroutine if it's a one time move

[meager siren]

honestly, currently I'm just well. lagging a lot for some reason

[tired python]

one thing to note though, while the tratio debug does stop printing, the infinity debug gets printed

[placid jewel]

To be honest I'm not exactly sure why it would be printing inf, inf, inf in that case

[placid jewel]

wait what do ou mean? stops printing when?

[meager siren]

Hey, how do I make it so that I dont have to hold down interact so I can just click it instead?

[tired python]

the tratio stops printing when the temporary object gets destroyed, but, the (inf, inf, inf) is always getting printed

lemme send you a vid

[placid jewel]

Both are still printing

Wait

[tired python]

exactly

[placid jewel]

How is it set up? What objects have what scripts?

[placid jewel]

I think I know the issue maybe

[placid jewel]

Can you add a Debug.Log(spline) line somewhere with the other debug.logs?

You don't need to use a formatted string like the others it can just be put like I wrote

[placid jewel]

Yeah

What does it print

[tired python]

oh wait, ratio is 0 keeps printing

[placid jewel]

Yeah

[tired python]

everything is printing at all times

i guess it has to...cus its part of the update()

i don't even check for whether the gameobject exists or not i guess...

[placid jewel]

Wait, is Spline assigned properly under enemyAni?

[placid jewel]

Can you click the arrow next to Spline

[tired python]

wait what the hell

[placid jewel]

Is it not assigned?

[tired python]

demn it's not

[placid jewel]

It makes sense since the only time you got an error was the only time you use the Spline itself

You're taking the t value from aniSpline and using it to check something in spline

[tired python]

then...wouldn't evaluatetangent make a null ref error if spline is not even assigned?

[placid jewel]

Evidently not

[tired python]

why O_O

spline gets assigned a default value or smth?

[placid jewel]

Presumably it doesn't check if the spline exists and still tries to do math with it

It's not explained on the docs

Anyway are you able to assign it and if so does it work now? @tired python

[tired python]

i was told to first try to research myself, and then ask questions here...so i am still looking it up

[placid jewel]

Alright fair enough

[naive pawn]

looks like it's assigned fine? it can't be not assigned, it's serialized

it's just the default value, like ints being 0 or Vector3s being 0,0,0

the spline does exist, it just doesn't have any data

[tired python]

but it's prolly not the spline i am working with

[naive pawn]

if you already have a spline referenced somewhere else, why is this one serialized

[tired python]

sry, terminology error

[tired python]

i don't have it referenced somewhere else...

not a single code of mine does that...

[naive pawn]

i don't think it was tbh, you mean like it was null right?
stuff serialized by value can't be null

[naive pawn]

so what do you mean by "spline i am working with"

[tired python]

check out my previous images, you might understand.

this spline object that i am using, isn't a copy of the spline i made inside the scene

[naive pawn]

what's the type of spline

[tired python]

Spline

[naive pawn]

ok, so how did you make that spline

the one in the scene

[tired python]

i..drew it

[naive pawn]

is it a value in a component on some gameobject?

im referring to how it exists, rather than how you drew it

[placid jewel]

It's kind of visible in the first image here

At least it's referred to by SplineAnimate

So probably possible to get in the required script via reference to that one

[naive pawn]

(you wouldn't be getting a script, but sure)

oh wait, i skipped over the "in" lmao

mb

[tired python]

holy crap, i got scared, i accidentally thought i deleted the spline objects when i went to check it....i didn't realise i cut and pasted it onto another script

[naive pawn]

sooo did you find out what component holds the data of the spline you drew

[tired python]

Spline Container

[naive pawn]

might be SplineContainer, considering SpliteAnimate refers to it

ah yeah

so you'd need to get a reference to that container and get the spline from that

[tired python]

oh ya...

[naive pawn]

and SplineAnimate seems to have a reference to the container, so you could use that existing reference you have

[placid jewel]

Yeah I don't think Spline is a type that can naturally (easily) be assigned via drag and drop in the editor

[naive pawn]

then you can remove the serialized spline field, it's not doing anything (you could just make it not serialized and use it to cache the spline though)

[naive pawn]

yeah, it isn't a UnityEngine.Object, it's serialized by value rather than by reference

[tired python]

colour me surprised, cus that's what i initially wanted to do and i ended up deleting the spline xD

[tired python]

ok, i have reached my wit's end, i need your help.

so i added a Spline Container component onto my duck prefab which currently has a list of all my knots

like so

now, i am trying to get a list of these knots using this

BUT, KnotLinkCollection returns a KnotLinkCollection data type, not a Spline data type

damn my eyes are droopy

@placid jewel @naive pawn

wait a sec,i think evaluatetangent is a method of SplineContainer too

[stark meadow]

ive scoured the internet but im yet to find a soln for this. when playing looping tracks through the audiosource, there is always an audible click sound when the track loops, even when the track is seamless. anyone knows how to fix that?

[placid jewel]

Can you not just refer to the spline using the already defined one in SplineAnimate? I don't see why you're making a new spline

[grand snow]

So you know, Spline and NativeSpline can be sampled due to the spline utility extensions
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.splines@2.8/api/UnityEngine.Splines.SplineUtility.html#UnityEngine_Splines_SplineUtility_Evaluate__1___0_System_Single_Unity_Mathematics_float3__Unity_Mathematics_float3__Unity_Mathematics_float3__

and yes SplineContainer also has an evaluate function for ease of use

[tired python]

guys, i have encountered a problem

i swear i was just copy pasting the same spline container onto Duck and enemyAnn

[grand snow]

Due to differing scales and positions

(inherited from parent gameobjects)

Also damn your spline is way more complex than needed, i presume you dont know about changing the in and out handles to alter curvature

[tired python]

was my first spline...so yeah

my pc lags whenever i try to select all of the knots

[grand snow]

you probably only need 6 points in that spline

[naive pawn]

holy hell that's an insane spline

[polar dust]

I'm not an audio guy so I dont know the exact technical reason, but its something about both ends of the waveform not matching perfectly. The individual samples might go from the lowest frequency to the highest frequency, so to the human ear picks up on that.

If you open the file in audacity, theres a way you can manually edit the waveform

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/draw_tool.html

[grand snow]

You want to use bezier mode and then move the handles to adjust the curve

[tired python]

aight, i can't fix this, the temporary duck that get spawned, they spawn at a completely diff area cus the spline itself is very far.

[grand snow]

you need to correct the scale of parents or where you position the spline

[tired python]

the prefab is positioned perfectly

its the damn clones that are doing this messed up thing, not only that, now, its the damn spline that moves, it's not even the duck it's the actual spline that moves

why do i need to have so many problems with my duck spawning. leave my ducks alone

[grand snow]

There should be 1 spline and thats it

and the ducks would be spawned, connected to the spline in the scene and animated along that

What is the setup you actually have?

[tired python]

bruh, the duck became microscopic, it's there, you just can't see it

[grand snow]

Doesn't answer my question

You probably aren't doing this in a smart way

When you scale objects to make em bigger/smaller it's easy to get these issues

Ideally we have a parent with 1 scale and then children we scale up/down

[tired python]

that's the problem, i didn't scale anything.

[tired python]

wait wot

[grand snow]

Check your transforms

[tired python]

it's at 1

actually, nvm, my initial img is microscopic

just spent 30 mins doing nothing

[tired python]

not pinging, i will be resting now. just so that its easier for me to look at it.

[slender nymph]

don't cross post. and consider posting the actual code you need help with instead of expecting people to watch a tutorial to know what you are trying to do

[orchid pasture]

sorry meant to delete from this channel

[frail minnow]

Hey everyone, look im pretty new to unity cause ive been working in a diff engine for years (no not unreal), and im trying to code a shader that uses my existing shader i use for triplanar materials for terrain materials, anyone know how i could achieve/go about that?

I tried coding one just using albedo, but i get

[grand snow]

Error seems clear to me, the texture size must be incorrect for the tex array. Double check the size the array wants and what size your texture2d is.
Ask in #1391720450752516147 in future

[past nacelle]

// Apply Anti-aliasing setting
var urpAsset = GraphicsSettings.currentRenderPipeline as UniversalRenderPipelineAsset;

    if (urpAsset != null)
    {
        switch (temporaryAntiAliasingMode)
        {
            case "off":
                urpAsset.msaaSampleCount = 1;
                urpAsset.antialiasing = AntialiasingMode.None;
                break;
            case "fxaa":
                urpAsset.msaaSampleCount = 1;
                urpAsset.antialiasing = AntialiasingMode.FastApproximateAntialiasing;
                break;
            case "taa":
                urpAsset.msaaSampleCount = 1;
                urpAsset.antialiasing = AntialiasingMode.TemporalAntiAliasing;
                break;
            case "smaa":
                urpAsset.msaaSampleCount = 1;
                urpAsset.antialiasing = AntialiasingMode.SubpixelMorphologicalAntiAliasing;
                break;
            case "msaa4x":
                urpAsset.msaaSampleCount = 4;
                urpAsset.antialiasing = AntialiasingMode.None;
                break;
            case "msaa8x":
                urpAsset.msaaSampleCount = 8;
                urpAsset.antialiasing = AntialiasingMode.None;
                break;
        }

Hello 👋
Setting up my first video settings menu and can't seem to figure out what definition to call from UniversalRenderPipelineAsset to switch on FXAA, TAA, & SMAA respectively.
Using urpAsset.antialiasing = doesn't seem to work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. ^^

[rich adder]

why are you replying to a someones post from 2022 🤔

[past nacelle]

Was looking through searching for similar code to see if a solution was already in here before I sent in a question.

Maybe there is idk couldn't find it.

XD

[rich adder]

things have probably changed since that URP version..

what exactly isn't working ?

[rich adder]

AntiAliasing afaik is in CamData not urpasset

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.2/manual/universal-additional-camera-data.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.2/api/UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.UniversalAdditionalCameraData.html

[past nacelle]

Thank you very much. 😄
My bad I didn't find it in the documentation myself.

[spark knoll]

can anyone help me with a small issue with coding please?

[wintry quarry]

!ask

[radiant void]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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[spark knoll]

Don;t know how to fix these errors, ik it is common and easy but it's killing me!!

[wintry quarry]

you have a duplicate BearData script

or you defined the class(es) twice in that file

either way - you need to find and delete the second copy

[spark knoll]

I can't find any honestly

is there a way to share them?

[wintry quarry]

share what

just open your IDE (code editor) and search for "class BearData"

you will find two

delete one of them

[pine heart]

    {
        if (groundCheck == null)
        {
            groundCheck = transform; // fallback
        }
        isGrounded = Physics2D.BoxCast(coll.bounds.center, coll.bounds.size, 0f, Vector2.down, .1f, groundMask);
        //nearLedge = 

        if (currentPath == null || targetIndex >= currentPath.Count) return;

        Vector2 targetPos = currentPath[targetIndex].worldPosition;
        Vector2 dir = (targetPos - (Vector2)transform.position).normalized;

        // If about to fall off a ledge, stop or jump
        //if (isGrounded && targetPos.y <= transform.position.y)
        //{
            //rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(0, rb.linearVelocity.y);
            
       // }

        // Move horizontally
        rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(dir.x * speed, rb.linearVelocity.y);

        // Jump if target is higher and on ground
        if (isGrounded && targetPos.y > transform.position.y + 0.5f)
        {
          rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(0, jumpForce) return;
        }

        // Proceed to next node
        if (Vector2.Distance(transform.position, targetPos) < 0.3f) 
            targetIndex++;
    }```

any idea why this crashes my game when the character jumps?

[wintry quarry]

Can you show the full script? I don't see anything in here that should crash the game

when you say "crash the game" what happens exactly?

[ivory bobcat]

Most likely the problem is elsewhere

[pine heart]

    {
        if (target == null)
        {
            if (GameObject.FindWithTag("fruit") != null)
            {
                target = GameObject.FindWithTag("fruit").GetComponent<Transform>();
            }
            else if (GameObject.FindWithTag("Enemy") != null)
            {
                target = GameObject.FindWithTag("Enemy").GetComponent<Transform>();
            }
            
        }
        if (target != null)
        {
            currentPath = Astarbrain.Instance.FindPath(transform.position, target.position);
            targetIndex = 0;
        }
    }```

[wintry quarry]

nothing here that would crash things either. BTW you never need .GetComponent<Transform>(), you can just write .transform

[ivory bobcat]

Is isGrounded a property?

[wintry quarry]

Just share the full script!

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[pine heart]

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

[wintry quarry]

Can you describe again what you mean by "crash the game"?

Does the whole program freeze and need to be shut down manually? Or something else?

Another question would be - what is Astarbrain? Is that a plugin? Or something you wrote yourself?

[ivory bobcat]

The path finding looks very concerning

[pine heart]

yes, it needs to be shut down through task manager

[wintry quarry]

I'd say most likely it's an issue in Astarbrain

probably when you jump it can't find a path

[pine heart]

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

[wintry quarry]

but it isn't handling that correctly and is perhaps entering an infinite loop somewhere

[pine heart]

astarbrain

[wintry quarry]

while (openSet.Count > 0)
Yeah this is probably it

It's possible there's a bug in the code here and this loop is never terminating

To test if this is the problem can you see if commenting out InvokeRepeating(nameof(UpdatePath), 0f, updatePathInterval); for the time being stops the crashing?

though I guess it seems like your jumping is not manual

RetracePath could also be the problem

If there is a cycle in your graph

[pine heart]

doesn't crash until the player jumps over the target

[ivory bobcat]

I'm going to assume jumping isn't the problem but something that's dependent on not being displaced by jumping is

[wintry quarry]

right so something is probably breaking in the pathfinding when the player is in the air

[pine heart]

It can jump until the target is below it

[ivory bobcat]

Try commenting the invoke repeating line out like suggested

[pine heart]

I commented it out, player can't move anymore

[ivory bobcat]

Or rather, check if commenting out the Find Path statement removes the crash

[pine heart]

character just stands there

[ivory bobcat]

Right, you should be able to manually place the player where you'd normally crash via Editor and attempt jumping

[pine heart]

oh

doesn't crash

but doesn't move either

[ivory bobcat]

So it's likely #💻┃code-beginner message

It's most likely an infinite loop with your while statement

Where open set count is never less than one

Or retrace while (currentNode != startNode)

[pine heart]

just commented out:

        {
        //    path.Add(currentNode);
          //  currentNode = currentNode.parent;
        }```

and it crashed as soon as the target fell below the player

[drowsy tiger]

well, it would, because if the while loop has no exit condition

[ivory bobcat]

Try limiting how often this line can runcs while (currentNode != startNode && path.Count < 1000)

If this while loop was the culprit, it should remove the crashes at the expense of not behaving how you likely want it to behave

[pine heart]

still crashes

[wintry quarry]

int iterations = 0;
while (openSet.Count > 0 && iterations++ < 10000)
{
// blah blah
}
if (iterations >= 9999) {
  Debug.LogError("Too many iterations");
}``` do this too

[languid pagoda]

i am sure this doesn't exist but maybe unity does have this data posted some where.

What are the most common apis used in the engine? implementing all of them in my scripting language isn't realistic but id like to make sure I get all of the popular ones.

[ivory bobcat]

You've got a lot of potential crashes as your looping a whole lot

[wintry quarry]

What do you mean by "get" them all?

Like understand them?

[drowsy tiger]

you're making your own scripting language? or you would like to learn about them?

[languid pagoda]

no lol i want to implement all of the most common ones in my scripting language

[ivory bobcat]

Sounds subjective

[ripe shard]

Generate forwarding to everything automatically.

[drowsy tiger]

Your language...is for a game engine? or a game?

[ripe shard]

you can also look at what bolt supports and work with that subset.

[languid pagoda]

brother wtf would I be in the unity game engine discord for if I was making an engine ima just go ask chat gpt cause yall annoy me sometimes

[drowsy tiger]

Bolt supports almost everything, and most of it is generated

[wintry quarry]

that doesn't really make sense. Unity is a game engine, not a scripting language

[drowsy tiger]

Sir, I asked, because I have had experience with making a scripting language parallel to C# in unity, which was basically calling C# methods via reflection.

Now, that required the entirety of unity's APIs

Do you require all of it? What is the purpose

[languid pagoda]

sure it does. I am making a game that is moddable. To do this I added a scripting language so players could share mods that do not contain malicious code.

Now I am wondering if there is a list of the most commonly used apis so I can expose them to said scripting language

[wintry quarry]

I see so you're looking to expose a subset of the Unity API through your modding language

Definiutely nobody has such a list

[drowsy tiger]

Dunno much about mods, but if you're open to pure C# as your scripting language, this might be a good lead
https://github.com/scottyboy805/dotnow-interpreter

[wintry quarry]

other than perhaps Unity

[ivory bobcat]

So... are you like.. needing to lookup Unity's implementation of certain functions or... ?

[ripe shard]

fwiw, the answer to your original question is: it depends an what someone needs, no list exists

[languid pagoda]

Appears so, I am sure unity has that data tho

[wintry quarry]

A general list for all game types is probably not that useful to you anyway

[drowsy tiger]

start with basic types, Transform, Gameobject, Object, Vector3, Quats. And... Mathf. That should get you started....maybe

[wintry quarry]

I bet it depends on the genre or camera style or other things

[languid pagoda]

very true

[languid pagoda]

This wouldn't really be secure from what I could tell when looking into it before chosing a different route.

[drowsy tiger]

Well, its not secure, but it can be made secure.

[ripe shard]

It makes little sense to approach this statistically. I believe you have to compose that list with personal understanding what’s useful and needed

[slender nymph]

i mean, where would that data come from? it's not like every type and function is phoning home

[drowsy tiger]

In this, you can override functions, that you feel are insecure to block them.. essentially. Example anything File.X or Application.X, and so on

there's also this, https://www.hybridclr.cn/en/

but, I just know about it, havent used it

its original function is different, but it can be used as a mod enabler

[languid pagoda]

https://github.com/namazso/PawnX64

I wound up using this

its been being used since like 2002 without any security holes

[languid pagoda]

That still isn't fully secure the only fully secure way to run c# since CAS was deprecated is to to run it in a separate process as a non privileged user. You can also use webassembly and can code in c# but it gets compiled to .wasm either way.

[pine heart]

@ivory bobcat it works now

[mild citrus]

Can someone please help me with this error

[slender nymph]

!input

[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.

[mild citrus]

thank you

[rich adder]

also

!vscode

[radiant void]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[pine heart]

@wintry quarry your suggestion stopped the crash, but it still won't move once above the goal

[thick tusk]

!ask

[radiant void]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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

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

[thick tusk]

does anyone know how I would go about making parry, blocking, and attacking animations better in a 2d game (only x movement not y movement)? Would really appreciate the help.
I could not find much about it only other than people sharing there devlog, if there are any videos or something that I can use to code these mechanics knowing of them would be really helpful.

[tough lagoon]

I doubt there is much, as thats fairly specific. The last game I did it in, I just used a state machine and animation controller. But im sure there are smarter ways

But if i come across anything ill ping you :D.

[thick tusk]

Thanks, and honestly I have never heard of a "state machine" I am familiar with the animation controller a fair bit now but I will check that out now thank!

[tired python]

damn, it actually worked out. thx a lot!

[wintry quarry]

Then you have a bug in your pathfinding code

[subtle cape]

Hi there i want to make a simpel silksong type 2d game just to try and learn making games for fun but im wondering what the best way is to start because i really have no idea how to make games

[rich adder]

!learn

[radiant void]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[ashen trail]

Im getting this error even though there is a variable named deathCount in basicEnemyMovement

[rich adder]

you didnt save or you have more compile errors

[ashen trail]

thanks idk how these little things keep happening to me

[rich adder]

gremlins in your pc messing with you

[ashen trail]

lol

Im getting an error on this line of code and I have no idea what it means, anyone know the problem?

[rich adder]

if this is line 17 in that script it means it cannot find a gameobject with tag enemy, therefore you cannot GetComponent on a null object

[ashen trail]

but there is a gameobject named Enemy

or do prefabs not count as gameobjects

[sour fulcrum]

names are not tags

[rich adder]

notice I said, Tag

also please tell me you're not running this in Update 😵‍💫

cache it once in start or sum

scanning every object in the hierarchy every frame is not efficient

[ashen trail]

ahh.... nooo... ofcourse not

not at all

[rich adder]

bit rhetorical tbh. I already know lol

[ashen trail]

also I miss spoke, the enemy prefab has a tag of Enemy

[rich adder]

well if that line is running before you spawn a prefab with that you get the error

[ashen trail]

ohh,

I'll just put a prefab in the scene then ig

[rich adder]

I mean you want only 1 specific Enemy? there is probably a better way to whatever it is your doing, if you explain it then its easier to suggest something

[ashen trail]

okay so I have an enemy prefab and I want the score on a piece of text to go up every time the enemy is killed

[rich adder]

so just increase the score on the enemy death method

[ashen trail]

I made a new script to keep score, could I have just done it in teh script where the enemy dies, wouldn't like connecting the text and that script be hard

like if I keep one enemy in the scene it works

[rich adder]

yes just connect the score with the text, why does enemy care about the text

something like
enemy
Awake(){
scoreThing = FindGameObjectByTag("Score");

Death(){
scoreThing.AddScore(1);

or even better search the component not a tag Awake(){ scoreThing = FindAnyObjectByType<ScoreScript>();

scorescript
AddScore(int amount){
score+= amount;
//update text too

[ashen trail]

i did that, but then in a different script I go, i go

scoreText.text = "Score: " + basicEnemyMovement.deathCount.ToString();

to update the score

[rich adder]

why?

why is there a death count on an enemy..

[ashen trail]

so that I can put that count in the top corner of the screen(dont mind the assets)

[rich adder]

that doesn't really clarify why would you track that in EnemyMovement ?

[ashen trail]

because thats where I detect if the enemy has died,(very new to unity btw, ik alot of my code looks dog)

[rich adder]

well you're creating a very overcomplicated thing.

spaghetti af

at most you'd add the score from enemy on death into a scriptscore tracker

like i shown above

[ashen trail]

i did that i think...

[rich adder]

no you're trying to access an int on a specific enemy

[rich adder]

ok but why does enemy have deathCount

how many enemies you gonna have ?

[ashen trail]

so I know how many times the enemy died, then I can give a goal of a certain amount of deaths for the player to reach

[ashen trail]

one

if I had more though would I have to change code?

[rich adder]

well yeah you're literally searching for a specific instance

if you destroy it now you got an error until you spawn another and so on

its good to start separating these in the beginning, enemy should do enemy things not deal with tracking scores or deaths

[ashen trail]

okay this is 100% a dumb solution but what if I put an enemy prefab in the scene where the player cant reach him then freeze the enemy

[ashen trail]

I'm going to start doing that in the future

[rich adder]

its temporary until it breaks

I would just let enemy know score/death tracker "Hey I died"
thats it

[ashen trail]

okay

[rich adder]

if enemy dies it doesnt implode the thing searching an enemy tag , every frame especially

[waxen torrent]

why is this happening, ive been trying to figure this out for like 4 hours now lol i cant figure out animating

[rich adder]

this is a code channel..

[waxen torrent]

i dont see an animation channel

[rich adder]

you mean the one labeled #🏃┃animation

[waxen torrent]

that didnt appear for me until you shared me ill post it there tho ty

[eternal needle]

you might need to enable more channels then id:browse

[thick tusk]

I've seen a lot of people use velocity over linearVelocity which one should I be using?

[rich adder]

they're the same thing

linearVelocity is just the newer renamed version

[thick tusk]

thanks.

[waxen torrent]

i figured it out myself. If anyone cares, unity doesnt recognize type metarig, had to generate the actual rig for unity

[mild citrus]

How do I get that Scratch like scripting in regular Unity that I saw in Unity Studio?

[keen dew]

It's not available for normal Unity. The closest equivalent is Visual Scripting

[mild citrus]

Thank you

[drowsy tiger]

Is this a known thing where the console stops auto scrolling randomly when you have a bunch of logs spitting out in Unity 6.2.X? Or have I managed to change some setting

[real thunder]

I meant to use Array.Exists just to check if a class is already in an array am I? That looks bit too elaborate

nvm Contains seems to be the one

[grand snow]

List.Contains() is the better choice to see if some object is in a list
Array.Exists() does the same but uses a predicate delegate for you to customise the check

[real thunder]

yeah thanks that's bit confusing

almost like a C# devs screwed up with naming a bit

[grand snow]

Then best to stick with a List

[real thunder]

Contains works with an array too it seems

[grand snow]

Its an extension method using IEnumerable so not a perfect replacement

for speed you would want to use a list and Contains() or loop over the array yourself

again, if this confuses you stick with List

[keen dew]

If you just want to check if an element is already in the array then Array.IndexOf(array, element) > -1. Only works if it's the exact same element and not an object with same values

[real thunder]

that would work too but I don't get it why would contains work worse

[keen dew]

Contains is a LINQ extension so there might be a small overhead. Not enough to care about it probably

[glass summit]

Could anyone check if i have any errors with my code or am i all good?

https://paste.ofcode.org/5W5Qp2yJMc7C5FJEB5yKeq

[night raptor]

Probably not, test the code, if it work it works. Try to run different edge cases where it might not work

[elder canyon]

My character is a first person shooter and it uses a character controller. A rigidbody cube basically attaches 5 units in front of the character.

By 'attaches', what I've done is I created a magnetic field 5 units infront of it and the cube basically tries to get to the desired point(ie 5 units in front of the character).

The logic works perfectly fine. But the movement seems slightly jittery. I suspect it is due to different update cycles?

Anyways this is the cube gameObjects logic https://paste.ofcode.org/qze5qJ6Pa2Q6uhytM5PKYF

[real thunder]

in general I don't like the idea of keeping a gameplay state in a bunch of coroutines

[real thunder]

character controller moves in Update while rigidbody moves at FixedUpdate

so I guess

have you turned on a rigidbody interpolation tho? might help

[brazen aurora]

im making a tower defense game right now and im trying to stop the towers being able to be placed ontop of each other. Right now whats happening is that it will place but if it ever comes close to an invalid spot, that tower will never be able to be placed.

    {
        if (!spawned.gameObject.GetComponent<TowerBehaviour>().isInvalid)
        {
            spawned.gameObject.GetComponent<TowerBehaviour>().isPlaced = true;
            spawned.gameObject.GetComponent<TowerBehaviour>().isInvalid = false;
            spawned = null;
        }
    }```

something seems to be happening here as if i release the mouse button then it cant be placed

[night raptor]

Couple points that I can see by quick readthrough:

yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.05f);
yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
```The two lines above don't seem particularly useful. Is there a reason not to just wait 1.05 seconds once to begin with?
You are using GetComponent quite extensively. It is not inherently bad but in this case I would think getting the two text elements once in `Start` (store them in variables) would be better for both readability and performance. Whether the code logic actually works I cannot comment on really since I don't know what it is supposed to do.

[nimble apex]

throw new InvalidOperationException("Insufficient Gold!");```

invalid op wont show as an error on terminal?

[real thunder]

I hope you are not using that for gameplay but only as an internal sanity check or something

this line of code making me chuckle

I am not having a solid grasp on that but if you throw an exception that's a damn error and it's not meant to happen and it will get shown in console likely

[elder canyon]

Can anybody look into this please

[nimble apex]

its an sanity check, i have a custom logger that will pop UI windows out

[glass summit]

yeah it works just fine

[warped sierra]

what the he...bro

https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1437423739380699146

[cedar jolt]

@compact roost

[polar acorn]

Don't ping people for no reason

[compact sandal]

for (int i = 0; i < roomSpawns.Length; i++)
{
GameObject[] currentWaveSpawns = new GameObject[10];
for(int j = 0; j < roomSpawns[i].transform.childCount; j++)
{
Transform currentChild = roomSpawns[i].transform.GetChild(j);
if(currentChild.gameObject.tag == nestSpawnTag)
{
_nestSpawnPoints.Append<GameObject>(currentChild.gameObject);
}
if(currentChild.tag == antWaveSpawnTag)
{
currentWaveSpawns.Append<GameObject>(currentChild.gameObject);
}
}
_antWaveSpawns.Append(currentWaveSpawns);
}

im trying to get children based on their tags but for some reason both the ways to get their tag return untagged while they should be tagged. (nothing here is null)

[grand snow]

First mistake is using tags

If you had a custom component you could just GetComponentsInChildren()

[verbal dome]

Also what type is _nestSpawnPoints

[timber tide]

I applaud you for using superior for loops

[verbal dome]

I don't see why you'd use Append instead of a list + add

[compact sandal]

c++ programmer :)

im quite new to unity itself so i did know of add before

[grand snow]

Wait till you hear what accessing tag does then

[compact sandal]

they're just gameobjects

[grand snow]

It will allocate a new managed string each access

[compact sandal]

oh god

[grand snow]

CompareTag() exists for this reason

[vital fractal]

yeah lol why the hell does that work like that?

[grand snow]

Because the tag value is stored native side so a managed string copy needs to be created when you access it in c#

[vital fractal]

thats bs

lol

[grand snow]

No its just how it works

[compact sandal]

damn alr

[vital fractal]

no no i mean, the way it works is bs

i get it

[grand snow]

native <-> managed crossover has its challenges

[compact sandal]

but anyways, do i add like an empty component to each of the children and use that as identification?

[grand snow]

I would and the moment you wish to add some data to store you already have a component!

[vital fractal]

yeah i get that too, but if you create something that has such behaviour that people usually dont expect, its objectively not very viable...

[verbal dome]

You can alternatively have a component on each roomSpawn, and that component would store a list of the child transforms you want

[compact sandal]

appreciated

[verbal dome]

This way you get only 1 extra component

[grand snow]

Its fine because past the beginner stage you basically never touch tags again

[compact sandal]

alright. Ty guys

[vital fractal]

well yeah thats fair, but assuming tags were meant to be used bast biginner (which i think they meant to make them for that too), then they done fucked up

also, what is your alternative @grand snow ?

[grand snow]

Components always

[vital fractal]

you TryGetComponenet?

also, @compact sandal let me poison you for a sec... but here are 2 falid ways of nesting for loops:

for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
    for (int j = 0; j < length; j++) {
        for (int k = 0; k < length; k++) {
            for (int l = 0; l < length; l++) {

            }
        }
    }
}

for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
    for (int ii = 0; ii < length; ii++) {
        for (int iii = 0; iii < length; iii++) {
            for (int iv = 0; iv < length; iv++) {
            
            }
        }
    }
}

[compact sandal]

0_o.... poison was effective

[vital fractal]

hehehe

[compact sandal]

if i have a component from a gameobject, how do i get its object?

NestSpawnPoint currentNest = GetComponentInChildren<NestSpawnPoint>();
_nestSpawnPoints = currentNest.gameObject;

this doesnt seem to work

[naive pawn]

how exactly is it not working?

(though btw, do consider serialized references)

[compact sandal]

on the second line

[naive pawn]

so it does work

you're just assigning it to a variable that expects an array

[compact sandal]

this is the error it gives me

[naive pawn]

sorry, shouldve been clearer

the .gameObject does work

it's giving a GameObject

the assignment doesn't, because _nestSpawnPoints is a GameObject[]

[compact sandal]

omfg yeah, mb

was stupid

[vital fractal]

im still actually curiosue how you apply this, its pretty relevant for me currently as im on a problem involving tags and wanna see if your way would be viable for me to also implement

[grand snow]

You either pre assign the objects via some Serialized list/array or as i said, have a component on each child object

Then you already have access to them all or can locate them easier

[vital fractal]

fair enough, so its basically just a custom system

[grand snow]

Everything we do is custom

[vital fractal]

would it actually just be faster to make a manager for this and put references of types of objects in seperate lists in that manager?

cuz that does seem really easy to make

[grand snow]

Thats like asking if its better to write code to make something work (ANSWER IS YES)

[kindred dome]

so if I have like a thousand npcs that are all going to try to update a variable in a different script, what would be the best way to do that?

right now I just have them all doing it but that doesn't seem super efficient

[vital fractal]

lol fair, but im asking as apposed to using unity's default tags and .CompareTag optimization wise

theoretically

[grand snow]

The best solution is not even using tags

Because they are not useful enough

[kindred dome]

i was wondering if you would use something like a mutex?

[vital fractal]

alright, so how would i go about knowing if a player collided with a wall or with ground?

[grand snow]

only needed if using threading which I doubt you are

[grand snow]

A monobehaviour that responds to physics events and forwards this event to somewhere else

how tf would a tag be sufficient here anyway

[grand snow]

The only performant solution for having many thousands of entities is to use ECS

[vital fractal]

well its the basic tutorial way of explaining how to handle on collision detection:

void OnCollisionEnter(Collider other) {
  if (other.CompareTag("Wall"))
}

but i do despretaly want to get out of that system as its wierd and annopying

[grand snow]

Id use layers here instead

[vital fractal]

like, im way past the point of hardcoding yet this is still hardcoding

[grand snow]

or you try get component.
If the detection is done the other side (by the wall) then a monobehaviour for that makes sense

[kindred dome]

any idea where to find good tutorials for using that?

[peak umbra]

hello

[vital fractal]

thats fair, i been using those more lately and am liking them.
though, im still currently targeting layers by getting the mask with the string names of the layers, i assume there is a better less hardcoded way to do this?
i was thinking to just make a constents script where i define the layers i have but there must be a way to just fetch it from unity right?

[grand snow]

If you are not very comfortable with c# it may be tricky to learn and use but its the best and most performant way to handle and manage many instances of an object
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@1.4/manual/index.html

[grand snow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/LayerMask.NameToLayer.html

Or use a serialized layer mask

[peak umbra]

helo

[peak umbra]

helo

[grand snow]

<@&502884371011731486>

hello spam

[runic lance]

you can also check for the component directly or check for interfaces

        if (TryGetComponent(out IFoo foo))
            Debug.Log(foo);

[vital fractal]

maybe he just wants to be greeted
/j

[vital fractal]

yeah true, thats what i been doing more so, but thats not a very good system if its more dynamic though

like you collide with any object, and the object can be many different things where x can have all different components of y

[grand snow]

Then perhaps a common component that has this data in it?

[vital fractal]

yeah exactly

thats what i was cooking up just now

[grand snow]

As soon as an idea goes past "is this thing x" you realise tags no longer work

[vital fractal]

true

thats where im at for a while now but im also trying to do less custom stuff as im super good at over engineering stuff that doesnt need it

[cosmic dagger]

That's essentially what interfaces are for . . .

[vital fractal]

mhh, ive never used an interface in c# before and dont really understand what they are used for overall...

[grand snow]

because c# cannot do multi inheritance we can use interfaces instead

public class Door : MonoBehaviour, IInteractable

^ Now my door can implement the interface and keep its current base class

[vital fractal]

oh shit right, i know what interfaces are and used them, i just completely forgot about them...

[cosmic dagger]

You can check for shared functionality between unrelated objects . . .

public interface IAttack
{
        public void Attack();
}

public class Gun : IAttack
{
        public void Attack()
        {
                Shoot();
        }

        public void Shoot() { }
}

public class Rock : IAttack
{
        public void Attack()
        {
                Throw();
        }
        
        public void Throw() { }
}

public class Sword : IAttack
{
        public void Attack() { }
}```

[vital fractal]

also, anything that lets me use less of c# inheritance is good cuz im super done with abstracting more and making everything more complicated for no benefit...

[vital fractal]

so its like an abstract class but without the chance of predefining an virtual method that already contains functionality?

[peak umbra]

@grand snow From the unity badge of sleep John Kho ferri Bekam

[grand snow]

no, yes derp. abstract classes cannot be instantiated. Abstract members MUST be implemented by super classes. Virtual members can be optionally overwritten

[cosmic dagger]

Yes, since an abstract base class must be inherited. This avoids the hierarchical issue . . .

[vital fractal]

that doesnt quite click for me yet, but in the back of my head that does sound better and less complicated so i guess its time for me to dive back into some research

[grand snow]

yea i realised 😆

[runic lance]

interfaces are a bit more general than abstract classes, if you want to think that way

nowadays you can provide default implementations for interfaces too, so even in that sense they're not that different

[grand snow]

Its a contract that states "if you implement me, you need to provide x,y and z"

"i dont care how but you have to!"

super classes are different, its a way to extend a class and inherit functionality (and optionally override bits)

[vital fractal]

im also at that point of programming that im trying to learn more why things are used over other things, and honestly its a lot of fun but takes so much more time while programming as i need to stop and research the basics again but deeper this time...
like struct vs class and which one to use in what situation. learning that was really nice actually and i could apply it right away as there is now a clear reason why you should use one over the other.

[runic lance]

more general as in, if you have a struct, such as Vector3, it can implement interfaces, but it cannot inherit from any base class

[vital fractal]

ah right, so they are pretty identical to how golang does them, just a list of fields and methods that the class that inherits it will be required to hold and now you can relay on the fields being present at all times.

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[grand snow]

Yea and the fact that a class/struct can implement as many interfaces as you want makes them great for situations where you just want a common function or property.

IInteractable -> bool Interact()
IDamagable -> void Damage(float damage);

[vital fractal]

damn yeah that sounds like some good code security where you can write a lot of things tht are reused all over all the time

wait, can fields also be specified by interfaces?

instead of a method

[runic lance]

no, but properties can

[grand snow]

no only properties and methods
properties are just fancy getter and setter methods anyway

[vital fractal]

what do you mean by properties?

[grand snow]

so in reality its just methods 😆

[vital fractal]

oh right

fair, so then you can just make a field that is actually a property that is just a getter but then the class has to create the thing that is fetched?

thats a bit confusing, so that must be wrong

[grand snow]

Maybe i confused you

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

[vital fractal]

no your fine thats likely my own doing

[grand snow]

public float MyFloatProperty {get; set;}

thats a property with an auto get and set

[vital fractal]

yeah no i know what properties are

and fair, i did kinda forget you dont have to specify what get gets

so yeah then they can be used as fields

[grand snow]

Well they are not fields but yes "act" like one

they wrap a field behind the scenes

[slender nymph]

you only ever need to if you are adding logic to either the getter or setter
-# until we get C# 14 support with the nice field keyword

[vital fractal]

which means, if we try tying it back to that unity tag system problem, i can make an interface like so:

public interface ITag {
  public string Tag {get; private set;}
}

but thats dumb tho

but it could work

[ivory bobcat]

The secret truth is that properties are very much like methods under the hood

[runic lance]

interfaces only define public members, so you can remove the modifier public modifier and leave the private set; part to the implementation

[vital fractal]

oh yeah exactly

[vital fractal]

oh interesting

[runic lance]

but that example misses the point a bit, with interfaces you can have much more than tags
you have type safety and can declare specific functionality for each type

[timber tide]

tags are a failed concept

[vital fractal]

oh yeah i know, it was just me trying to tie it back to the previous topic we discussed

but its def not something i would actually do

[timber tide]

the idea around them were supposed to be editor friendly way to organize these objects but it even fails at that

[vital fractal]

yeah we had this discussion a little up already but yeah thats a good sum up of what was said

[timber tide]

godot has an interesting concept called groups where you can tag specific objects that all can have similar method calls, so it presents this interface idea onto the editor level, however they aren't type safe as the nature of its language

[forest wolf]

Hey, I do have 2 videos about interfaces if you want. With theory and practical use cases in Unity. Will that be helfpul?

[vital fractal]

oof

[vital fractal]

oh yes please, send them over

[forest wolf]

Here's an explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWj_mPUtuqw
then here is one more example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBD4r9UxLpQ
and then if you would rather use that in 3d game, here's a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx9y5TV3TS0

Let me know if that is what you were looking for :)

[vital fractal]

huge, ill def check these out

[vital fractal]

the funny thing is, the first video actually explains a problem that we were also discussing about how to replace tags efficiently, so very on topic.

[forest wolf]

Yay! Happy to hear that :D

[vital fractal]

wait, can you check if a class inherits an interface?

[timber tide]

They're useful for composition that's for sure. Usually you can get away with some abstraction

[sour fulcrum]

you can check if a class derives from anything

[vital fractal]

lol watsup @sour fulcrum

[sour fulcrum]

if (MyBehaviour is IExampleInterface)

eg.

[vital fractal]

huge i thought it may be something like that

thats makes them even better

[timber tide]

The one problem with interfaces with unity is that you can't serialize by them which does make abstract classes a bit more appealing

[vital fractal]

well fair, its only methods right

also cant you just semi serialize them by create private copies of fields for important values?

[sour fulcrum]

the instance of the interface itself is what you'd want to be serialized

eg. a list of IEnemy

[timber tide]

The problem is you can't specify the type when trying to serialize by the interface on the editor. There needs to be some extended option for the editor but Unity hasn't implemented a way for that. You'd have to make a custom drawer using serialized references

[vital fractal]

going with this example, would i be able to make a list<IEnemy> and then populate the list with class A : IEnemy but also add class B : IEnemy in the same list?

[sour fulcrum]

in c# yes, in unity inspector no, because no interface serialization

[timber tide]

You can however declare as an abstract type and present a more derived (non-abstract) object into these fields on the editor

[vital fractal]

oof right...

[vital fractal]

yeah its like always with c#
a good thing but with a catch that is solved by another good thing, and now you got to think of why you would use one over the other before writing it out...

[sour fulcrum]

interfaces pop up way more often if you were doing just straight c# since unity's component system tends to solve a lot of problems you'd otherwise look at interfaces for

[timber tide]

interfaces are easy to append to existing classes, while abstraction you are modifying the root which can change the behaviour of alll of these derived classes

[vital fractal]

yeah exactly, which is another thing to always consider, what unity does with the code you write

[forest wolf]

Yeah, this is a thing I miss the most. It would be so awesome to have interfaces in the inspector and then e.g. just select a type and have it instantiated at a runtime. I think you can do that with Odin

[timber tide]

usually you want to strive for composition as much as possible. You can dig yourself a hole pretty easily with abstracting everything as is the nature of OOP really

[vital fractal]

yeah i think odin does that, i can actually try it rn to test it out

[timber tide]

Yeah, I've yet to really play around with Odin but they've a bunch of things that you expect Unity would have natively

they should really buy them out, but seems like they've some partnership as of recent

[sour fulcrum]

some of odin gets abit weird tho tbf

like iirc they just say "dont use serialized dictionaries in prefabs"

[forest wolf]

Yeah, I am afraid of using this type of complex assets. Even though I like it, I feel like writing my own editor script is much easier and stable long term.

Because as you say there is always this one thing that doesn't work and you are always wondering - is it you or the asset

[vital fractal]

I really like odin for the simpler stuff they have, but yeah there is some weird stuff that sometimes comes with it... but overall its ability to orginize the inspector for each component a bit more efficiently is super nice

@forest wolf @sour fulcrum @timber tide
here is a good example of that:

its not a whole lot different from what unity can usually do, but its enough to not fully cover the whole inspector with a lot of fields that just usually dont apply for that situation

[lone thunder]

Cinemachine package. Player Index is that for local play? if there are multiple player like coop games? if im doign networking can i just ignore it?

[grand snow]

Do you mean this from InputSystem? https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.15/manual/PlayerInput.html

[lone thunder]

this on the cinemachine

[grand snow]

that says PlayerIndex

and it should be referring to local players

[compact sandal]

how do you get the length of a list in unity?

for some reason can't find it online

oh nvm, its count

[rich adder]

Lists don't have length because they are not fixed size

[forest wolf]

When it comes to Odin its license scares me a littl bit 🤣

[forest wolf]

.Count :) - this will get you the current number of items in the list (actually number of allocated items, because you can have nulls there, but you get the idea :D)

[vital fractal]

thats fair, i did not have to worry about that so far yet

[forest wolf]

Bloody hell, sorry! I wrote .size(), I am using different language at work haha! I fixed the message to show the correct property :D

[slender nymph]

just FYI, nav was explaining why List uses Count rather than Length like arrays use

[forest wolf]

Hah, sorry! I missed the point!

[vital fractal]

lol

@forest wolf did you participate in the jam?

[forest wolf]

Yes! I did! It was tough 48h :D - my entry is called La Maestra.

I need to disappear for a moment, I will be back in a while! See you soon guys! :D

[vital fractal]

yeah see, you have what is called post jam brain, and you are excused. alsi am in the same boat and i will be checking out your game and rating it soon :3

[onyx gazelle]

Hi guys!

I've faced this problem a few minutes ago

The part of code was like this

And I solved it like this. Was this a decent solution?

[vital fractal]

what is the problem?

[onyx gazelle]

I mean there's no glitch existing now, so, is it maybe decent?

[onyx gazelle]

It must jump simaltuneously, but it stops when I press Space

[slender nymph]

why not keep the original horizontal velocity? why overwrite it with half the jump height?

[onyx gazelle]

Apparently the speed is being turned to 0

[onyx gazelle]

I tried to, but it still "hinders" at the moment of the jump

[slender nymph]

well yes, you were explicitly setting it to 0 in the first snippet

show how you tried that

[onyx gazelle]

Okay 👍 Let me

[vital fractal]

also, you should be using and else if instead of the second if statement i think

[slender nymph]

or just not using a separate if statement at all and using math to do the sign check

[vital fractal]

true

[onyx gazelle]

I guess you can see it guys 😅

I've altered it as you said

[slender nymph]

now show the code

[vital fractal]

i still dont really know what i mlooking at

[onyx gazelle]

It "hinders" when jumps, but it mustn't stop

[vital fractal]

so before we help you with your code, how long have you been programming in unity for total?

[slender nymph]

i said use its velocity, not the input

[wintry quarry]

What's wrong with this? Looks fine

[vital fractal]

thats good to know, ill adjust my answers based on that

[onyx gazelle]

When it jumps,x axis is being altered to 1, which stops the initial speed the object had before he jumps

[wintry quarry]

oh I was looking at the vertical

[onyx gazelle]

Sorry? 😅

[wintry quarry]

yeah i mean, just don't set it to 1

btw are you aware that Rigidbody2D has .linearVelocityY; which you can modify directly to completely avoid touching the x

[onyx gazelle]

Let me try that

[wintry quarry]

PlayerRigid.linearVelocityY = Jumpheight;

[slender nymph]

instead of using HorizontalAxis there, use the existing velocity there. or assign only the Y axis. or add force like you're doing for movement anyway

[wintry quarry]

(JumpHeight isn't a good name for that variable imo)

[onyx gazelle]

Thank you so much 🙂 It works well now. But isn't it better for me to comprehend the situation of this I can handle to become a better scriptwriter?

[vital fractal]

Also worth to mention that you really dont want to do a rigidbody.AddForce call inside Update()
isntead, that line should be inside a FixedUpdate() method as rigidbody.AddForce is a physics calculation and those should only happen in FixedUpdate.

[onyx gazelle]

Okay, I will read about those. Thank you for help guys 👍 I appreciate it

[wintry quarry]

yes you should understand the situation

[slender nymph]

doesn't really sound like a code question
is your camera perhaps not getting cleared? i don't know if that affects things in the UI, but that's one of the few things I think it could be. you'd have to show the inspector for your camera if you are unsure

[indigo thorn]

Ah sorry, I'm only seeing unity-talk and code-beginner channels, is there a better one to ask this? Here is my Camera Inspector.

[slender nymph]

id:browse to see all channels and their descriptions.
also are you rendering your UI to a render texture by any chance?

[indigo thorn]

Thanks for the channel tip! Here is my Canvas settings:

And the TMP settings:

[indigo thorn]

I posted my question in Rendering/2D, thanks again 🙂

[compact sandal]

I wrote the following coroutine to toggle a door. For some reason it only works when the door is alligned along the x axis and not when its alligned along the z axis.

private IEnumerator ToggleDoor(float dot)
{
Quaternion targetRotation = _closedRotation;
if(!_isOpen)
{
if(dot < 0)
{
targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0, _closedRotation.y - _openAngle, 0));
}
else
{
targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0, _closedRotation.y + _openAngle, 0));
}
}
_isOpen = !_isOpen;

while (Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, targetRotation) > 0.01f) 
{
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, Time.deltaTime * _openSpeed);
    yield return null;
} 
transform.rotation = targetRotation;

}

[rich adder]

multiple failure points here, check your values esp the dot.. and that lerp is also not written properly

also 👇

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[compact sandal]

how exactly is the lerp wrong then?

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp
almost though if you look at this example
https://unity.huh.how/lerp/coroutines

[compact sandal]

fixing the lerp didn't help

It's just weird that it works perfectly on some doors and doesnt on others$

[rich adder]

I never said the lerp would fix it, i just said you wrote it wrong

[compact sandal]

alr

[rich adder]

you need to check those values you're passing through

you'd need to show more like _closedRotation what values etc

[slender nymph]

you probably want to be assigning to the local rotation rather than the object's global rotation (assuming the object has a parent that it can pivot around)

otherwise you need to make sure that _closedRotation is the actual target world rotation (accounting for any extra rotation for the object at rest)

[compact sandal]

[SerializeField]
private float _openAngle = 90f;
[SerializeField]
private float _openSpeed = 2f;

private bool _isOpen = false;
private Quaternion _closedRotation;
private Coroutine _currentCoroutine;


public bool IsOpen
{
   get { return _isOpen; }
}
// Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
void Start()
{
    _closedRotation = Quaternion.identity;
}

public void Toggle(Vector3 pos)
{
    if (_currentCoroutine != null)
    {
        StopCoroutine(_currentCoroutine);
    }

    float dot = Vector3.Dot(transform.forward, pos - transform.position);
    _currentCoroutine = StartCoroutine(ToggleDoor(dot));
}

private IEnumerator ToggleDoor(float dot)
{
    Quaternion targetRotation = _closedRotation;
    if(!_isOpen)
    {
        if(dot < 0)
        {
            targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0, _closedRotation.y - _openAngle, 0));
        }
        else
        {
            targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0, _closedRotation.y + _openAngle, 0));
        }
    }
    _isOpen = !_isOpen;
    
    while (Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, targetRotation) > 0.01f) 
    {
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, Time.deltaTime * _openSpeed);
        yield return null;
    } 
    transform.rotation = targetRotation;
}

oh this looks better

[hexed terrace]

put cs after the 3 ` and it'll look even better

[rich adder]

oh no you're mixing quaternion and v3

like _closedRotation.y - _openAngle doesn't make sense

[mild citrus]

How do I fix this "setbool" error"?

[rich adder]

what are you trying to SetBool() on? apparently it doesn't exist

also

!vscode

[radiant void]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[mild citrus]

these are the bools, I even copied and pasted the name to make sure I spelled them both right

[rich adder]

that doesn't answer what I asked

what are you trying to SetBool() on?

as far as the computer knows, you want to call a method SetBool(). Apparently it doesn't exist

[mild citrus]

got it thanks

[blissful fable]

~~https://paste.mod.gg/~~ (link below)
I've been trying to fix this for 45 minutes now, I'm at my whit's end. It just doesn't make any sense.

For some reason, my controller inputs work completely fine. However, my mouse inputs...just don't? You can see from the 4 debug messages that no inputs are being detected when I try using the mouse (Rotation Input is always 0). Anyone have any ideas?

[rich adder]

the link is the homepage

[blissful fable]

oh both link to the same thing, one sec

oh

Well, lol

Do I have to save it?

[rich adder]

yes you must save to generate the link

[blissful fable]

Thanks

FirstPersonController: https://paste.mod.gg/yyhcpjxbwfxh/0

Player Controller: https://paste.mod.gg/pxwcabuoijjb/0

As far as I can tell, there's nothing different about how these are handled, I have no idea how one can work while the other doesn't

OMG

I FUCKING SOLVED IT ARE YOU SERIOUS

So uh

Turns out when you enable Keypad
It doesn't automatically enable the mouse 😆
And so even though Delta(Mouse) was under Keyboard&Mouse

I still had to explicitly say you can use a mouse :P

Welp

[eager stratus]

Exactly how close does Mathf.Approximately have to be in order to register as true? Because I was expecting it to consider 2.291054E-07 and 0 close enough and they're apparently not

[verbal dome]

Documentation says that it uses Mathf.Epsilon

[eager stratus]

As in the difference between them has to be Mathf.Epsilon?

Because I feel like I've gotten a positive value with a bigger margin of error than that before

[verbal dome]

Wdym by this?

[eager stratus]

I mean I feel like I've gotten it to return true when there was a bigger difference between the two numbers than that

[wintry quarry]

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/59b03b8a0f179c0b7e038178c90b6c80b340aa9f/Runtime/Export/Math/Mathf.cs#L290

With their Epsilon defined here: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/59b03b8a0f179c0b7e038178c90b6c80b340aa9f/Runtime/Export/Math/Mathf.cs#L183

[verbal dome]

Was trying to link that but github search is not working for me 🙃

[eager stratus]

And this should still account for any floating point inaccuracies sufficiently, right?

Because for some reason it's not for me

[wintry quarry]

"any" inaccuracies? no

it will account for such inaccuracies within that range they define

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/59b03b8a0f179c0b7e038178c90b6c80b340aa9f/Runtime/Export/Math/Mathf.cs#L16

[verbal dome]

It is sort of adaptive, so the epsilon depends on the magnitude of the input numbers

[wintry quarry]

public static volatile float FloatMinNormal = 1.17549435E-38f;
Definitely smaller than your e-07 number

[eager stratus]

I mean inaccuracies that should just naturally arise from floating point. If a difference is greater than that value then I should be assuming it's the result of something else, right?

[wintry quarry]

No, there's no way to guarantee that in general

Especially since it's easy for such inacurracies to compound over repeated calculations

there is no limit to how large your floating point error can be

It is also different depending on the magnitude of the numbers involved in the calculations

[verbal dome]

Yeah, the precision errors can also accumulate

[eager stratus]

This is what I have

if (Physics.Raycast(rb.position + Vector3.up * SKIN, Vector3.down, out RaycastHit metaHit, groundingMask) && Mathf.Approximately(metaHit.distance - SKIN, castLength))

{ grounded = true; }

else { grounded = false; }

if (!grounded) { print((metaHit.distance - SKIN).ToString() + ", " + castLength); }```