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[visual heath]

yes, I'm already storing it, but my logic is broken, and the clients only have display and minimal information about objects, while the server has logic that is stored on the host. Therefore, I need a separated option, and I need to know where everything goes. If you have written what I need, you can send me the documentation. After reading the netcode documentation for gameobject, I haven't found a solution, and I may be blind.

[amber pagoda]

Allow player to choose file directory

[visual heath]

Simply put, I need something like this

public class Client : NetworkBehaviour
{ 

    [Rpc(SendTo.Server)]
    public void SendMessageToServer(string message)
    {
    }

    public void RecieveOnClient(string playerName)
    {
    }
}

public class Server : NetworkBehaviour
{
    private void ReceiveOnServer(string message)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(message)) return;
        string messageToClient = await serverRelease.ReleaseEvent(message);
        SentdToClients(messageToClient);
    }

    [Rpc(SendTo.ClientsAndHost)]
    private void SenddToClients(string response)
    {

    }
}

[timber tide]

There's a multiplayer sample aka BossRoom you can tear apart

[graceful dome]

I have a player gameobject where i'm trying to make it spawn in the center of the generated map (100x100). Whatever i did (from what i know) in my code it ignores to spawn at the center (which should be 50-1-50). It always goes to the location what is written in the player transform 15-1-15. Im lost for now 🥲

[timber tide]

show instantiation code

[visual heath]

OK, I hope this helps.

[timber tide]

I mean it is an official unity project by the devs of netcode for gameobjects

[graceful dome]

    {
        GameObject player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
        if (player == null)
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("No Player GameObject found with 'Player' tag!");
            return;
        }

        // Spawn in center - try to find an Air tile
        int centerX = worldWidth / 2;
        int centerZ = worldHeight / 2;

        // First, try to find a walkable spot near center
        for (int radius = 0; radius < 10; radius++)
        {
            for (int x = centerX - radius; x <= centerX + radius; x++)
            {
                for (int z = centerZ - radius; z <= centerZ + radius; z++)
                {
                    if (x >= 0 && x < worldWidth && z >= 0 && z < worldHeight)
                    {
                        if (worldGrid[x, z].IsWalkable())
                        {
                            player.transform.position = new Vector3(x * tileSize, 1f, z * tileSize);
                            Debug.Log($"✅ Player spawned at: ({x}, {z}) - Distance from center: {Vector2.Distance(new Vector2(x, z), new Vector2(centerX, centerZ)):F1} tiles");
                            return;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }```

[wintry quarry]

what is the log printing?

Also does your player object have a CharacterController component on it?

[timber tide]

If it's an agent too you usually want to use the teleport method it has as it can rubberband you back to previous location

[graceful dome]

My player has player controller and mining controller.
This is the log, according to the log everything is good but my character is still at 15-1-15.

[wintry quarry]

show the inspector of your player object

after that, the code of those scripts may be relevant

[graceful dome]

There you go

[wintry quarry]

Ok and your player controller script, can you share the code?

[graceful dome]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController3D : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("Movement Settings")]
    [SerializeField] private float moveSpeed = 3f;
    [SerializeField] private float rotationSpeed = 10f;
    
    private Rigidbody rb;
    private Vector3 moveDirection;

    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        
        // Lock rotation so the player doesn't fall
        rb.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints.FreezeRotation;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        // GET Input (WASD / Arrow Keys)
        float moveX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float moveZ = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        
        // Moving in 3D area (Y stays 0, we move over the ground)
        moveDirection = new Vector3(moveX, 0f, moveZ).normalized;
        
        // Rotate character in direction (optional, later for animations)
        if (moveDirection.magnitude > 0.1f)
        {
            Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(moveDirection);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        // Movement via physics
        Vector3 newVelocity = moveDirection * moveSpeed;
        newVelocity.y = rb.linearVelocity.y; // Keeps gravity/vertical speed
        
        rb.linearVelocity = newVelocity;
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

player.transform.position = new Vector3(x * tileSize, 1f, z * tileSize);
                            Debug.Log($"✅ Player spawned at: ({x}, {z})```

your log says "spawned at x, z" but the actual code is multiplying by tileSize

Debug.Log($"Player position is: {player.transform.position}"); would be a good idea after you move the player too

[timber tide]

I would just remove the for looping atm and just reposition by exact points

[graceful dome]

Didn't work, tried it multiple times.

[graceful dome]

yes, deleting tilesize doesn't change anything either. It is as if the code is ignoring my giving player.transform value

[wintry quarry]

Did you try the Debug.Log thing I said?

[timber tide]

it's more likely you are changing it but some other system/script is changing it right after on that frame

[wintry quarry]

If it prints the right position after that then either:

• You have some other code or component moving the player after this code does
• You're misinterpreting the numbers in the inspector and it has a parent object

[timber tide]

I would even go as far as removing the rigidbody but doesnt seem like the problem

but not that I've not done that before ;p

[graceful dome]

All my player code is the only one i sent you which is the PlayerSpawn. It might be a parent object problem, how can i check that?

[wintry quarry]

does your player object have a parent or no

The numbers you see in the inspector are the object's local position. If the object has a parent that is translated, rotated, or scaled away from the origin, the local position will not be numerically equal to the world space position

[graceful dome]

It doesn't

[wintry quarry]

then it's not that

See if adding Physics.SyncTransforms() right after the position setting code helps

and/or setting the Rigidbody position instead of Transform

[graceful dome]

this fixed it

now it does spawn at the given log location

[wintry quarry]

setting the Rigidbody position directly instead of the Transform would also do it then

it's best to avoid Transform modification for Rigidbodies in general. This is also a bit problematic:

transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);```

I'd recommend rb.rotation instead

(what you have right now will break interpolation)

[graceful dome]

How come the rigidbody is overruling the transform location of that which i don't understand.

Alright i'm looking into that.

[graceful dome]

Damn, now my character runs smooth. I love that thank you!

[timber tide]

Ah so it was the rigidbody. I know that messing with the position could rubberband it, but surprised the rotation is actually tugging at it too

[onyx geyser]

Anyone use Cinemachine here? I'm trying to figure out a way I can make an "enemy" I can drag out, and whenever the player interacts with the enemy, it'll switch to the CombatCam, but I don't wanna attach a new combat cam to every single enemy and would rather just use something that connects each enemy to a specific combat cam

would i just use a Cinemachine brain for this?

[ripe shard]

#🎥┃cinemachine

[vale blade]

Any way to get these tooltips to show up from the summaries?
Feels a bit much to constantly duplicate the text between the tooltips and the docstrings

public class Director : MonoBehaviour
{

    [Tooltip("All gameplay modules in the game. Non-sequential.")]
    [field: SerializeField]
    /// <summary>
    /// List of all gameplay modules in the game. Non-sequential.
    /// </summary>
    public List<GameplayModuleData> _gameplayModules = new();

    /// <summary>
    /// Public readonly getter for all gameplay modules in the game.
    /// </summary>
    public List<GameplayModuleData> GameplayModules => _gameplayModules;

    /// <summary>
    /// The gameplay module that should be loaded upon game start.
    /// </summary>
    [Tooltip("The gameplay module that should be loaded upon game start.")]
    [field: SerializeField]
    public GameplayModuleData StartingModule { get; private set; }
}

[oak aspen]

Is there a way to get the text from the current TextMeshPro page?
Tried finding it in the documentation and on the forums but had no luck with that so far.

[naive pawn]

what exactly are you trying to get?

[oak aspen]

I'm trying to get the text that is on the current page
Putting a debug statement with the text value of TextMeshPro only gives me the first two lines, skipping the third one, even if I've changed the page

[naive pawn]

seems like something the folks in #📲┃ui-ux would be able to help with

[oak aspen]

Alright, thank you

[hot wadi]

I don't think u can customize XML doc, but may be the other way around is possible

Tooltips are meant to show inside Unity editor

[sand condor]

Hey I'm trying to do things with Unitys spline package. I see no option to get the t-value of the splines knots. Which means I'd have to loop over the knots, get their position and then use spline.Evaluate to then do things with the result. This feels like a waste of computational power, is the value accessible somewhere? It's not in the BezierKnot struct but I also can't find a function in SplineUtility and the likes.

[lavish maple]

Hi , quick question , maybe not such a short answer, I am new to Unity and game dev in general and am looking to start a pet project myself for a small remake of a much loved old PS2 game.

I have been doing the C# coding myself and have got to the stage where I need to start thinking about a damage system for units - Before I start it I wanted to check if this was perhaps the correct thing to do or should I be looking for and implementing a pre written script at all?

sorry if any of that comes across as if I have no clue what I am doing....As I dont 😄

!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

[sand condor]

I think the answer to the question depends on what you are trying to achieve. I'd scan the asset store for potential fitting assets, but also check out YouTube as there are some good tutorials that can help you get started.

The asset store probably gives fine solutions, but tweaking them might be a lot of work.
Tutorials can only get you far, depending on your skill level and what your goal is there might be a lot of work to do to get the system to do what you want it to.

Sorry if that is not the most helpful answer, but the question is kind of broad 😅

[lavish maple]

Thanks for the fast reply!

And don't be sorry was actually the exact guidance I needed for what was indeed a super broad question xD! I suspected I would need to either create it or amend an existing one - really I just wanted to ensure there was not some default script for RTS style damage systems.

In short I just need to create a script to handle:

• Instances of Damage
• A damage table to calculate the actual damage a unit takes.
• Armor/Resistance modifiers
• Event hooks and callbacks for animations and such.

And I imagine actually much much more , I will have a look to see if anything fits in the asset store and look into amending it to fit , in the meantime Its youtube time I guess!

[vital vault]

how to fix my float var getting like 9th digit inaccurate while calculating? it should only go to first digit after point

[wintry quarry]

Floating point error is a part of life. Why do you feel like it needs to be "fixed"?

What's the context and the end goal?

[vital vault]

because it fricks up my hud

[wintry quarry]

That's what number formatting is for

[vital vault]

i want to see values like 0.5 on hud, not 0.50

[wintry quarry]

Display it in your HUD with an appropriate number format

[vital vault]

how

i use tmp

[wintry quarry]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-numeric-format-strings#FFormatString

Check the code example

TMP is irrelevant

[subtle ore]

hello i have a problem im creating a 2d game and i added a weapon system that shoots projetiles but the projetiles are not showing if im playing i added sprit render and all the stuff but its not working

can someone help pls

[onyx lark]

Do the game objects themselves spawn? Does sprite renderer have the correct sprite? Does prefab (if you're using one) shows the projectile correctly?

[hot wadi]

We need to see your scene setup and your code

[onyx lark]

Code would maybe be useful too. I'm guessing it might have something to do with incorrect projectile rotation

[subtle ore]

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class ProjectileController : MonoBehaviour
{
// Settings
private int damage;
private float speed;
private Vector3 direction;
private float lifetime;
private bool piercing;
private int maxPierceCount;
private GameObject hitEffectPrefab;

// State
private float lifeTimer;
private int currentPierceCount;
private HashSet<GameObject> hitTargets = new HashSet<GameObject>();

public void Initialize(
    int dmg,
    float spd,
    Vector3 dir,
    float life,
    bool pierce,
    int maxPierce,
    GameObject hitEffect
)
{
    damage = dmg;
    speed = spd;
    direction = dir.normalized;
    lifetime = life;
    piercing = pierce;
    maxPierceCount = maxPierce;
    hitEffectPrefab = hitEffect;

    lifeTimer = lifetime;
    currentPierceCount = 0;
}

private void Update()
{
    // Movement
    transform.position += direction * speed * Time.deltaTime;

    // Rotation
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(direction);

    // Lifetime
    lifeTimer -= Time.deltaTime;
    if (lifeTimer <= 0)
    {
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{
    // Ignore player
    if (other.CompareTag("Player")) return;

    // Ignore already hit targets
    if (hitTargets.Contains(other.gameObject)) return;

    // Hit enemy
    if (other.CompareTag("Enemy"))
    {
        hitTargets.Add(other.gameObject);
        ProcessHit(other.gameObject, other.transform.position);

        // Check piercing
        if (piercing && currentPierceCount < maxPierceCount)
        {
            currentPierceCount++;
            Debug.Log($"[PROJECTILE] Pierced! ({currentPierceCount}/{maxPierceCount})");
            return; // Don't destroy
        }

        // Destroy projectile
        SpawnHitEffect(other.transform.position);
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
    // Hit wall
    else if (other.CompareTag("Wall") || other.CompareTag("Obstacle"))
    {
        SpawnHitEffect(transform.position);
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}

private void ProcessHit(GameObject target, Vector3 hitPoint)
{
    // Apply damage
    Enemy enemy = target.GetComponent<Enemy>();
    if (enemy != null)
    {
        enemy.TakeDamage(damage);
        Debug.Log($"[PROJECTILE] Hit {target.name} for {damage} damage");
    }
}

private void SpawnHitEffect(Vector3 position)
{
    if (hitEffectPrefab != null)
    {
        GameObject effect = Instantiate(hitEffectPrefab, position, Quaternion.identity);
        Destroy(effect, 2f);
    }
}

}

this my projetile controller

[hot wadi]

!code

[radiant void]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[subtle ore]

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

[onyx lark]

If it's a 2d rotation, I'd set euler angles with atan math

[hot wadi]

This code is only controlling the projecting, not instantiating it

Where are u instantiating it?

[subtle ore]

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

[onyx lark]

I'm currently not on pc. But it seems you only need z rotation, x and y will make your projectiles rotate in a way where you will often not see them.

I might be wrong tho as I don't use quaternions often and they often caused issues for me in 2d

[subtle ore]

hmmm.. oke you know a better way ?

[naive pawn]

is this coming from java? c# has properties, you don't need all those public getter methods lol

(not an issue, just something you could utilize to make it more concise)

instead of a field and a method:

private float x;

public float GetX() => x; // shorthand for `{ return x; }`
```you could use a property:
```cs
public float x { get; private set; }

[onyx lark]

You take direction x and y and set your object's euler angles to new Vector3(0,0,Mathf.Atan2(y, x)* Mathf.Rad2Deg);
Also you don't need it on update, only rotate once on spawn

[wintry quarry]

You can just do transform.right = direction;

(for the object you want to rotate)

[onyx lark]

Oh fg

[wintry quarry]

No need to do all the trig yourself

[onyx lark]

Well it's more fun with manual labor but I didn't realize I could do this too

[onyx lark]

Did it help?

[subtle ore]

im tying it rn

[onyx lark]

If it doesn't work there are also these questions. #💻┃code-beginner message

[subtle ore]

can i send pic off my scene ?

[naive pawn]

sure

[rich adder]

why is X your "forward" 🤔 aren't you doing 2d

[naive pawn]

that is definitely pointing in the wrong direction

(if you can't tell what's wrong, try changing to the 3d scene camera at the top of the scene window)

[subtle ore]

ohhhh crap

i think i found the problem

thx how can i fix this

[onyx lark]

What's the current rotation code?

Just paste the part here with
```
```

[naive pawn]

wrong quotes

[onyx lark]

Fixed it!

[naive pawn]

(also add cs)

[onyx lark]

Am on phone. All quotes are the same

[naive pawn]

they most definitely are not

[onyx lark]

Mostly

[naive pawn]

...yeah, no

[onyx lark]

Initially they seemed to look the same 🥲

[naive pawn]

a language for the codeblock would also be appreciated
```cs
// your code here, on a separate line from the fences
```

[naive pawn]

oh yeah, fair enough. you'll probably get used to it if you use them enough. ive found i use more muscle memory for getting different quotes rather than looking on mobile

[subtle ore]

is this right float angle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.y, direction.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
proj.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, angle);

[naive pawn]

doesn't seem wrong, is this the code you were previously using?

(make sure to save first)

[naive pawn]

(also please format code properly as described here)

[subtle ore]

no its new code

[naive pawn]

perhaps try it before asking 😉

[rich adder]

you can just do what Praetor suggest and do transform.right = myDir

but you gotta fix your orientation properly

[molten cipher]

kinda hard to explain
but basically i have a Ground Check for a rigidbody

isGrounded = Physics.CheckBox(groundCheck.position, checkBoxScale, boxOrientation, groundLayer);

i also use a RigidBody based character controller.. and i have root motion animations.
when i perform the "Roll" animation.. when just before it ends the animation the "isGrounded" CheckBox is getting collided with the ground mesh.. and for a 0.1 second it feels bad.. like a glitching.. or hitting the Air.. i'll try to send Gizmos as well...

the locomotion animation logic with groundcheck

        //-- locomotion animator
        if (isGrounded)
        {
            float targetSpeed01 = moveInput.magnitude; // from 0 to 1
            animator.SetFloat("BlendSpeed", targetSpeed01, 0.1f, Time.deltaTime);
            animator.speed = moveSpeed;
            animator.SetBool("Falling", false);
        }
        else // play animation for the Falling and stop the movement. 
        {
            rb.linearVelocity += Vector3.up * Physics.gravity.y * (fallMultiplier - 1f) * Time.deltaTime;
            animator.SetFloat("BlendSpeed", 0, 0.1f, Time.deltaTime);
            // animator.SetBool("Falling", true);
            StartCoroutine(DelaytheFall(fallDelay));
        }

        // --- JUMP ---

        if (jumpPressed && isGrounded)
        {
            animator.SetTrigger("Jump");
        }

the one more interesting fact is that the Glitching effect stops if i play at 4k resolution... idk if this info is usefull...

can you help?

[rich adder]

it just looks like the animation making go under the ground then the physics snaps it back up ?

or actually other way around

it floats for a bit then gets pushed down when gravity activates / rigidbody

[molten cipher]

yeah but i have constant gravity applied at the rigid body also when i jump off a block it still is making that animation linearly.. so root motion isn't applying gravity it seems...

[rich adder]

why would it? root motion overrides the transform

[molten cipher]

i'll try to disable root motion as long as jumping is active

[rich adder]

personally i just time it through code instead of relying on root motion when i got physics

[molten cipher]

yeah i thought about it but i wanted to add custom animations for it later... but i think i should , as you said, time it trough code later and keep the simple animation.. yeah probably will be less of a brainrot.

[rich adder]

[peak helm]

could I get some help with my code? I'm pretty new and as the code is written right now, it obviously changes the colour very fast at high framerates and very slowly at low framerates. Could I get a pointer as to how I could make it tied to a certain amount of time? Like, if I want B to go from 0 to 255 in 4 seconds, how could I do that?

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class Hunter : MonoBehaviour
{

    public SpriteRenderer rend;
    //for changing the renderer in unity

    public float R, G, B;
    public Color currentColor;
    //for colors

    void Update()
    {
        if (Human.blueDead == true && B < 255)
        {
            B++;
        }
        
        if (Human.greenDead == true && G < 255)
        {
            G++;
        }
        
        if (Human.redDead == true && R < 255)
        {
            R++;
        }

        currentColor = new Color(R/255, G/255, B/255);;
        rend.color = currentColor;
    }
}

[rich adder]

you need Time.deltaTime

[peak helm]

i figured, but I don't really know how to add it

[rich adder]

also you can use a for loop for this too

maybe even a coroutine

[peak helm]

i forgot about for loops but i dont know what a coroutine is

[rich adder]

I think it has an example of this too

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/Coroutines.html

[naive pawn]

you could use a scale from 0 to 1 instead of counting up to 255

that way you can use fractions

basically you'd specify how much time it should take overall, and then you'd keep track of how much time has passed

[peak helm]

yeah this was the fastest and easiest way I thought of, just to make sure it works first. But then i realized I have no clue how to actually do it properly

[naive pawn]

dividing the latter by the former, you'd get a value from 0 to 1

[peak helm]

that's exactly what I'm looking for

[rich adder]

for future ref myvalue += speed * Time.deltaTime //independent of framerate

[naive pawn]

right now the ++ is basically what's counting up, 1 each frame
but you'd want it to count up some amount each second instead
that's what deltaTime is, a conversion factor - it's seconds per frame

[peak helm]

thanks

I'm not sure I fully understand yet but I'll try reading the coroutines page and test some stuff out. I'll return if I get stuck again. Thanks y'all <3

[rich adder]

you don't really need coroutine, just putting it as an option as well

Update will be fine too

[peak helm]

yeah I know but it seems like a tool that would be useful to learn for the future

[rich adder]

oh fo sho

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Coroutine.html
this a bit more clear

personally i don't use WaitForSeconds but it is quick. I just use. DeltaTime there too with my own timer / while loop.

[molten cipher]

Update:
Fixed it trough adding the Delay for Actual jump.. and baked the Y position for the Root Motion...

    [SerializeField] float jumpForce = 5f;
    [SerializeField] float jumpDelay = 5f;

        if (jumpPressed && isGrounded)
        {
            StartCoroutine(HandleJump(jumpDelay));
            animator.SetTrigger("Jump");
        }

    IEnumerator HandleJump(float delay)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce * Time.fixedDeltaTime, ForceMode.Impulse);
    }

thanks for your help nav

[rich adder]

[molten cipher]

🫡

[rich adder]

I don't think the deltaTime will be necessary there esp an impulse

AddForce already moves it on fixed physics tick*

[slender nymph]

if you're trying to sync up the actual force with an animation use an animation event rather than a specific delay so that you can sub in any animation with the event and have it correctly synced rather than needing to adjust the timing manually.

also yeah, don't use deltaTime with forces. you'll likely need to reduce the jumpForce in the inspector after removing that extra multiplication

[rich adder]

^true animation event will be much easier

(just make sure transitions don't skip it)

[slender nymph]

oh and if you want consistent jump height it's usually best to also reset the vertical velocity to 0 right before adding the force

[tight fossil]

 string chatName = allDataInMessage[4].Substring(1, splitPoint - 1);```

How do I change this so chatName equals the 2nd half of the message rather than the first

[naive pawn]

Substring(splitPoint + 1)

[slender nymph]

i feel like there's definitely a better way to do whatever you are doing here though

[naive pawn]

but splitting would probably be easier to work with

is the first character always a = here? (somewhat unrelated)

[tight fossil]

no actually "=" is in the middle of the two strings, this is older code im trying to change up to adhere to the array ive now set up

[naive pawn]

also, is the end not exclusive?

[naive pawn]

why is 1 there in IndexOf and the start of Substring then

[tight fossil]

yep that did it, thanks

[slender nymph]

would splitting a string rather than just working with a custom type that has the info already separated into relevant properties be easier though? because from what little they've shown, it seems like this is probably stuff sent over the network for a chat message and they can, and probably should, just use a custom type instead of packing it all into a single string and manually splitting it

[tight fossil]

ill be honest a friend went through it with me cuz im struggling to understand, and it worked fine until the string im parsing through got bigger, so this code is not relevant to what I'm doing now

[naive pawn]

oh it's a length. im too used to slicing

[tight fossil]

but your solution worked so thanks :)

[rich adder]

struct {
string author
string message

[naive pawn]

oh that'd definitely be better, i wasn't thinking about changing the input

[tight fossil]

you mean this?

                allDataInMessage = message.Split(new String[] { ";" }, StringSplitOptions.None);

                for(int i = 0; i < allDataInMessage.Length; i++)
                {
                    Debug.Log(allDataInMessage[i]);
                }```

[slender nymph]

i mean, actually defining a type that you put your data into so that it isn't all in a single string

[naive pawn]

that's not what i was referring to either

[hot wadi]

Don't iterate a string if not neccessary

[rich adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message

hell you can even put date, modified time whatever other types in it

[tight fossil]

i dont understand what your message means, the whole message arrives in a single string, how do i split it without splitting it?

[slender nymph]

you put it into your custom type at the sender, not at the receiver

[rich adder]

Its not gonna be a single string... it will be its own type

[slender nymph]

then just deserialize it at the receiver back into that type

[rich adder]

like ChatMessage chatMessage = new()
chatMessage.author = "username "
chatMessage.message = "whatever"

if you want it to be compatible with not just c# you can probably just make it into json easily

single string then splitting shit is absolute nightmare

if your message has symbols you defined as split string symbols you're gonna have a bad time and account for that

[slender nymph]

public struct ChatMessage 
{
    public string Name { get; private set; }
    public string Message { get; private set; }
    public DateTime Time { get; private set; }
    //etc
    
    public ChatMessage(string name, string message, DateTime time, etc)
    { //assign to properties }
}

void SendMessage(string message)
{
    var chatMessage = new ChatMessage(name, message, DateTime.Now, etc);
    
    //logic to actually serialize then send the message over the network
}

void ReceiveMessage(ChatMessage chatMessage)
{
    //this is the end point that has already deserialized the data back into a ChatMessage
    Debug.Log($"[{chatMessage.Time}] {chatMessage.Name}: {chatMessage.Message});    
}

basically that, but obviously not the stripped down version that this is

[tight fossil]

and how do i grab the giant string of data coming in and parse it into these variables if not with a .Split?

[rich adder]

where is the data coming from ? if its a json its easy to convert into object

[slender nymph]

you don't because you don't use a giant string of data in the first place. you use this ChatMessage struct and serialize that, then send the serialized data over the network, then at the receiver you deserialize it back into a ChatMessage. at no point do you construct a giant string of data that will need to be manually split

[naive pawn]

-# well, clearly not json with ; and =

[rich adder]

yeah so they're probably writing the data in the first place, so don't write it as giant string lol

I meant if its needs to be a long string, json at least is formatted

[tight fossil]

im getitng the data from StreamReader using the twitch client GetStream

reading chat messages sent on Twitch

[rich adder]

I only worked with discord, but pretty sure twitch also has some type of sdk or api you can get the message properly formatted

[slender nymph]

presumably it's sending json from its api so you would just create a type you can deserialize that json into

[molten cipher]

feels nice! finally works without major glitches. spent whole day .. LOL

[rich adder]

https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/chat/send-receive-messages/
ya this does say they come in as JSON / and sent

[tight fossil]

i think im good guys, this is just a personal project anyways

[rich adder]

nice!

[slender nymph]

just looked up the api, and yes. its endpoints all return json that just needs to be deserialized so all of this manual parsing of the messages is pointless and just serves to waste time and performance

[tight fossil]

im just a beginner man why you gotta be so mean

[slender nymph]

at no point was i being "mean" here, i am simply pointing out facts. it takes just a few minutes to look up how to deserialize json, and unity even has some built in tools that should be able to handle this easily

[rich adder]

especially because you're new, its better to learn proper from the beginning and knowing the better options you have available to you especially with a type-safe language

splitting strings can be also very error prone

[tight fossil]

sure thing guys, ill talk to a coder friend of mine when theyre free about how to deserialize the message

[rich adder]

https://json2csharp.com/

though with stuff like Newtonsoft you don't need ALL the fields

[tight fossil]

but calling someone's honest effort a pointless waste of time and performance is mean, even if you don't think so or even meant it

[slender nymph]

if you cannot take constructive criticism, then perhaps don't ask for help online 🤷‍♂️

but manually parsing these strings does take more time than simply learning how to deserialize the data properly. it's also going to take more performance to do so because of the number of times you are querying these strings

how did you even get these strings into this format in the first place? because with the data being sent as json there shouldn't even be any = or ; to split on unless those are in the actual chat message (which means your split is breaking, hence the extra time to figure out how you can avoid wrongly splitting the string)

[tight fossil]

what do you mean by json, im getting this data as a string through the code.

reader = new StreamReader(twitchClient.GetStream()); + string message = reader.ReadLine();

is giving me the message as a string

[rich adder]

ohh I was trying to figure out the same thing for a bit during the unity jam but the IK made it extra annoying 🥲
but yeah Animation event simplified things lol

[tight fossil]

with twitchClient = new TcpClient("irc.chat.twitch.tv", 6667); using other strings to get the twitch stream in question

        writer.WriteLine("PASS " + password);
        writer.WriteLine("NICK " + username);
        writer.WriteLine("USER " + username + " 8 * :" + username);
        writer.WriteLine("JOIN #" + channelName);
        writer.WriteLine("CAP REQ :twitch.tv/tags");```

[rich adder]

is there a reason to use TCP client instead of the API ?

[tight fossil]

every tutorial online ive seen does this okay, don't ask me

[slender nymph]

so you're not using the api of a very similar name then. you need to actually provide this info up front, you can't just expect us to intuit that you are doing things like this

[tight fossil]

i only asked how to split a string the other way around man...

you kept prying about it 😭

[rich adder]

people often want to know more so they can give you the best solution to a problem, no reason to get defensive

[slender nymph]

because what you are attempting to do is incredibly fragile and will break

whoops someone's message contains a character you're splitting the string on, now your entire setup is broken!

[naive pawn]

https://xyproblem.info this page explains what's going on here pretty well

the X here being getting info over a network
the Y here being the condensed info string with manual parsing, when the better option would be proper serialization and deserialization (what nav/boxfriend are trying to explain)

[tight fossil]

you know what, fuck it, i cant change how you think.

anyways, thanks Chris ill check it out 👍

[dull pine]

Hi! I need some help. Who can help me with my project? I have some problem with my navmesg in procedural maze

[rich adder]

seems you tried moving agent without being near a valid navmesh

[dull pine]

Can i talk with you in voice chat pls?

ohhh (

[dull pine]

but i have navmesh

[rich adder]

your navmesh agent is not near it / its not valid for it

without showing the setup you got goin its hard to offer any other suggestion

more than likely this might not even be a code question but a #🤖┃ai-navigation

[dull pine]

But i think its code becouse we have procedural gen maze. In screenshot you can see room who build maze

I can send code if it can help

Its all codes for generation

[rich adder]

yes but the issue is with you trying to navigate a navmesh agent while a navmesh isn't available

[dull pine]

I dont understend how it work( enemy cant go to another blue place bcs have chasm

I dont know how to fix it

[rich adder]

you need to learn more about how navmesh works

[cosmic quail]

why are there gaps?

[dull pine]

all ... i dont khow how it work in unity bs i work in un4

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[polar acorn]

!learn

[radiant void]

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[molten cipher]

love the dithering effect. 🔥

[thorn holly]

I’m adding an enemy to my game that i want to move using transform.translate since I don’t need it to have physics collusions. However, it does have a trigger collider attached to it so it can hit the player and deal damage. If I move it directly with transform translate, is this incompatible with the hitbox detection?

moved this from unity talk cause accidentally posted in wrong channel

[rich adder]

its sketchy because colliders are still physics

[nocturne kayak]

hello guys i'd like to know how to make a good raycast that will shoot from the middle of the screen i have tried to shoot from the camera but its not really accurate :) In case you need it, here's my script. RaycastHit hit; Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, CameraDirection.transform.forward * 10, Color.red); if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, CameraDirection.transform.forward, out hit,10))

[thorn holly]

so should i just make it kinematic and set velocity directly

[rich adder]

translate can work with triggers but it has to "catch up" and can yield inaccurate results
you still need a rigidbody between the two

[thorn holly]

player has a rigidbody

should they both have a rigidbody?

[rich adder]

u only need 1

[slender nymph]

ideally your origin would also be the camera's position, not this object's position, that way it does accurately shoot from the center of the screen in the direction the camera is pointing

[rich adder]

kinematics by default dont have velocity (in 3d physx at least)

[thorn holly]

so as long as player has a rigidbody i can use transform translate on the enemy

[thorn holly]

oh whoops

[rich adder]

check this chart
https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/trigger-matrix-3d

[nocturne kayak]

ooh

[thorn holly]

so wait should i:

1. not give the enemy a rigidbody and move it with transform translate
2. give the enemy a kinematic rigidbody and move it with transform translate
3. give the enemy a dynamic rigidbody and move it by setting velocity

[thorn holly]

cause it seems like all of those would work accroding to the chart

[nocturne kayak]

wait if the transform is the camera then it should work well no ?

[rich adder]

if player has a rigidbody and collider, it should work

[slender nymph]

it would. but that's clearly not the case here. this component is attached to the player, not the camera, right? (hence why the ray originates at the center of the player and not the camera's position)

[thorn holly]

as in all of them should work?

so i should do the first one for simplicity?

[rich adder]

depends what you need to do, generally a rigidbody per enemy can be taxing depending how many enemies you will have

[nocturne kayak]

uhm , i have attached the camera to the player , but the camera still move right ? i dont know if this is the good thing to do tho 😆

oh no i'v done transform.position

i think i might be dumb

[rich adder]

if you want enemies to get hit with a trigger and do damage, then you need the trigger that hurts them at very least to have a rigidbody

[thorn holly]

ah wait looking at the chart closer the player hurtbox doesnt have a rigidbody

so ill give the enemy a kinematic rigidbody

[thorn holly]

unless its better to give the player hurtbox a kinematic rigidbody

[nocturne kayak]

okay. my fault , it works now thank you for your help :)

[rich adder]

if you're dealing damage to player the player trigger is the only thing that needs rigidbody, the enemy that hits it can just have another trigger

[thorn holly]

ok so all my hurtboxes should have a rigidbody and all my hitboxes shouldnt?

does this create problems since the player already has a dynamic, is not trigger rigidbody for collisions with the ground?

[rich adder]

player hits a trigger to hurt it , you dont need a rigidbody on the hurtzone

if player has rb

[thorn holly]

yes but the player has 2 diff colliders

one is a dynamic not trigger rigidbody and collider for where it can collide with the ground

[rich adder]

iirc the rigidbody counts child colliders are part of rb but I could be wrong

[wintry quarry]

As a rule of thumb any object that has a collider and is moving should:

• Have a Rigidbody (it can be kinematic)
• Should move via the Rigidbody (rb.MovePosition in FixedUpdate for kinematic)

[thorn holly]

got it

thanks

[queen adder]

ive got a script that activates another gameobject after some time, how can make it so that the gameobject does something upon activating from code attached to it(the gameobject)?

[slender nymph]

put a component on it that has the OnEnable method

[wintry quarry]

One option is to directly call a function to do the thing

myObject.SetActive(true);
myObject.GetComponent<MyScript>().DoSomething();```

another option is - as box said, use OnEnable

[queen adder]

i think onEnable would be good

ty

[warm sequoia]

Hi, so im a bit stuck, my PointerEventData does never run for some reason, everything should be setup right so I dont really know what to do

[wintry quarry]

my PointerEventData does never run
What does that mean?

PointerEventData is a class. Classes don't "run"

[warm sequoia]

It means that this method wont run:

[wintry quarry]

Ok you mean OnDrag won't run then

[warm sequoia]

yeahh

[wintry quarry]

You need to show how you set up the scene

And the rest of the script

!code

[radiant void]

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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[warm sequoia]

Wait does the name of the method do anything?

[wintry quarry]

I don't really know how to answer that question

The name is required to implement the interface you should be implementing

You need to show the full script

[warm sequoia]

Yeah, so here is the code for the InnerImage: https://paste.mod.gg/mjsgwepbbrrk/0

My setup (see image)

[wintry quarry]

Can you show your console window while the game is running?

(and preferably while or after you drag)?

Also show the inspector for the InnerImage object

[warm sequoia]

Here if I click space for example

[wintry quarry]

https://paste.mod.gg/mjsgwepbbrrk/0 This code doesn't look like it would compile to me

Have you saved your code?

You have IPointerDownHandler but there's no OnPointerDown method implemented, that should be a compile error

[warm sequoia]

Yeah it doesnt exist

[wintry quarry]

What doesn't exist

[warm sequoia]

THe IPointerDownHandler

in the class

I forgot to remove it

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like you haven't saved your code

[warm sequoia]

I have 🙏

[wintry quarry]

Ok so can you show theinspector of that object?

InnerImage

[wintry quarry]

Why does it have a BoxCollider

[wintry quarry]

UI should not have colliders

[warm sequoia]

becouse I just tried in a hour to fix this thing with chatgpt

and he said I needed it

[wintry quarry]

remove the collider

[warm sequoia]

for some reason

[wintry quarry]

Because you confused it with world space physics objects

you don't need that for UI

You also have an Event Trigger component that may be interfering

[warm sequoia]

both are removed now

[wintry quarry]

Can you show your canvas inspector too

[warm sequoia]

yeah

[warm sequoia]

BackgroundImage:

[wintry quarry]

hmm i do wonder if the mask is doing something here 🤔

If you put IPointerEnterHandler/IPointerDown on the script does that work?

[warm sequoia]

Yeah im wonder where the logic is in this stuff

[sour fulcrum]

thats a very small image

[wintry quarry]

Also yeah can you actually see this image?

[warm sequoia]

image?

which image

[wintry quarry]

Wdym which image

the thing you're trying to drag

InnerImage

[warm sequoia]

this image?

[wintry quarry]

Idk

what is that

[sour fulcrum]

.. in the scene

thats the asset preview

[warm sequoia]

the image of the innerimage

[wintry quarry]

In game view when you're actually playing the game

[warm sequoia]

💀

[wintry quarry]

yeah but in the game itself

Also is this a first person game?

[warm sequoia]

when I click space yes it comes up

[warm sequoia]

yes

[wintry quarry]

So it's a first person game?

Ok that's possibly the issue

[warm sequoia]

yes

[wintry quarry]

Pointer events with a locked/hidden cursor don't usually work

are you unlocking/showing the cursor when bringing up the map?

[warm sequoia]

I mean its still hidden so I dont think so

but I dont want it to be shown either

[wintry quarry]

Yeah that'll be why. Search for "Unity eventsystem IPointer locked cursor"

[wintry quarry]

what are you trying to do with this code then

mouse dragging doesn't make much sense to me with a hidden cursor

[warm sequoia]

this:

[wintry quarry]

I would just read the mouse delta input directly and move the map based on it.

this isn't pointer dragging behavior, since there's no pointer

[warm sequoia]

Do you mean the innermap?

innerimage

[wintry quarry]

whatever you want to move

yes

[warm sequoia]

Would it result in this then?

[wintry quarry]

sure

honestly don't feel like I would use canvas/UI for this at all. I'd probably use a quad with a material and change the texture offset

but same difference

[warm sequoia]

Is that easier

becouse if it is, I want to do it

becouse im stuck

[wintry quarry]

it's easier for me.

Try this:
make a new material.
Add your map image as the albedo image on the material
Add a basic quad to the scene
Put the material on it, you should see the map on the quad.
Then modify the offset in the material inspector

and see what happens

you should get the basic effect you want

it will require a little tweaking after that for scaling and stuff but should get you most of the way there

Then once you want to do it in code you use this on the material:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Material-mainTextureOffset.html

[warm sequoia]

Should the material be under the main camera then?

[wintry quarry]

Materials don't go in the scene

they are just assets

[warm sequoia]

ooh

[rich adder]

the quad is the thing that goes under the cam instead of Canvas

[warm sequoia]

im dumb but where do you find albedo image in here?

[rich adder]

Base Map

[warm sequoia]

which section?

[rich adder]

Albeido is the name for Standard materials

[rich adder]

Surface Inputs

texture goes in here

[warm sequoia]

but I can only change color... image? png?

oooh

ohhh

[rich adder]

if you don't want the quad / map be affected by lighting you can also make it Unlit instead of Lit

[warm sequoia]

NOOOO unity I hate you, why do you remove all my stuff when I pause the game after having it on 😭 😭 😭 😭

[wintry quarry]

To be honest you'll probably want a (simple) custom shader for this to insert white pixels at the edges or something, but if you set the wrap mode on the imported image to "Clamp" you'll get a decent result to start with

[rich adder]

what helps you recognize you're in playmode you can use play mode tinting in the preferences (if you mean the changes reverted from play to stopped)

not sure why its not default

[warm sequoia]

my quad doesnt want me to drag the material to it

it just shows this symbol: 🚫

[rich adder]

can you show a quick video

[polar acorn]

Are you dragging the material onto the quad or the texture

[warm sequoia]

ooh, wait I did drag it to the mesh collider

nvm

but should it be the mesh render?

[wintry quarry]

yes

[polar acorn]

A renderer has a material.
The material has a texture.
The texture is your image file.

[wintry quarry]

press the little > on the materials part

there's a place to put the material inside there

replace the default one with your custom mat

[warm sequoia]

yoo this is cool stuff

[rich adder]

you probably wont need a mesh collider for this

[warm sequoia]

wait how?

[warm sequoia]

cool

But as I want right now do I want one white image and then a inner image, how should I do that now?

[warm sequoia]

like in this video

[rich adder]

clone it maybe ?
or you could make the mesh have 2 materials but you probably would need to figure this one in blender

[warm sequoia]

blender?

why would I need blender

[warm sequoia]

oh, so like two quads then?

[rich adder]

could work, but remember you don't need mesh collider otherwise other objects that move like an enemy might bump into it

or even your char

[warm sequoia]

btw, I cant really hardcode the map image, because the player will upload it

[rich adder]

thats fine you can assign textures to materials at runtime

do keep in mind that this is a world object so if you run into an obstacle and your player collider not big enough it will phase into object

for that you can set this layer into its own thing then use a Renderer Feature that allows you to make this object appear over everything else so if you bump into a wall you don't have the map phase through it

[warm sequoia]

I take that when it comes

I think

[rich adder]

unity has one built in its pretty good
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.1/manual/renderer-features/renderer-feature-render-objects.html

[warm sequoia]

but I still dont really understand how to do the backgrund image thing

[rich adder]

did you try duplicating the two quads, one with whit bg and one with texture??

[warm sequoia]

but why would I need to objects (two quads)?

[wintry quarry]

that's what I was mentioned above with a custom shader

it would be a very simple custom shader

but for now I would just recommend setting your image to Clamp

[sour fulcrum]

you want two things

theres many ways of doing that

[warm sequoia]

Im counfused should I make a shader or two quads or both?

[wintry quarry]

one or the other

but the shader will be a simpler setup overall

and two quads would require a masking technique

[warm sequoia]

what will that do=

[wintry quarry]

have you tried changing the texture offset yet?

Did you see what happens?

[warm sequoia]

yeah it dissperad

or wait

if the value is less then 1

it moves

But I want to be able to rotate the image

also zoom in / out

not just offset

is that what the shader is for?

[rich adder]

yes

use the shader graph you can make those into variables you can mess with

[wintry quarry]

yeah that's why you need a shader

you can probably look up a simple rotatable/offsettable shader

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@6.9/manual/Rotate-Node.html

[warm sequoia]

okey, I will do that tomorrow, but how do I detect mouse interactions in this cause?

[rich adder]

its 1 node with ShaderGraph

[wintry quarry]

depends which input system you're using

but that's an input handling question

[warm sequoia]

this one I think

[wintry quarry]

since you're using the new input system you'd make an input action for the mouse input

and then read it

[warm sequoia]

I google how to do that tomrrow ig

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] private InputActionReference mouseAction; // default actionmap should already be there for mouse if input system is installed, drag the action "Look" here in inspector
Vector2 mouseInput;
void Update(){
mouseInput = mouseAction.action.ReadValue<Vector2>();

[wintry quarry]

you've presumably already done it once to handle mouse looking around in first person view

[warm sequoia]

I guess this maybe

[wintry quarry]

that's the old input system

but - if you're using both, then yes

you can do that

Seems like your project is probably using both

[warm sequoia]

old youtube tutorial lmao

[warm sequoia]

the other one got genereted when I created the canvas

Thanks for the help god night

[rich adder]

configure your IDE proper at some point, it will be handy for underlining errors / showing you the available methods, properties etc

[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

[warm sequoia]

Is rider good?

I have the student package from jetbrains (which contains rider I think) because I’m using intellij for my Minecraft plugins

[rich adder]

I don't use it but heard good things from it, if you have it for free with student pack go for it

idk if student license allows commercial projects, look into it (if you plan on making money from this game)

[solar hill]

but also whats stopping you from just switching to a different editor pre release 🤔

[lavish maple]

I’m trying to use additive async multi scene loading using the built in save /load scene system but running into some issues .

Firstly , the scene transition worked fine when just using standard save / load new scenes but since trying to make it additive I run into alot of errors .

I just wanted to check it there were any key “ rules “ around using Save and Load scene in this way .

I believe my issues stem from duplicated cameras and event scripts but not 100% . Just wanted to see if there were any known Do’s and Dont’s - thanks for any help in advance !

[solar hill]

pretty sure you have to make sure that each additive scene only has one active event/camera controller

i think

[lavish maple]

That’s sounds about right in regards to the errors I got

[solar hill]

but im not too familliar with the workflow so i would stick around for someone else to give a better answer lol

[lavish maple]

Ha no problem thanks anyway though . I’m brand new to unity so it all helps !

[slow blaze]

Hey guys I wanted to ask
How would I go about connecting things (like a node system) in unity?
I would connect the ins and outs of gates like this to do some operation based on t he connected data

[wintry quarry]

It's unclear to me if you're asking about:

• An abstract data structure
• a UI for representing such a structure
• and in-game system representing such a structure maybe with visible connections

[solar hill]

like visual scripting or are you talking about implementing a system from a gameplay perspective

[wintry quarry]

like - are you trying to make a boolean logic gate game, is that the question?

[slow blaze]

yeah basically
I just want to make a UI to represent the structure as you said, as I have made the class already, and use the UI to get the input (and current gate being used)
so pretty much just a boolean logic gate game

[wintry quarry]

I wouldn't use UI, for one

[slow blaze]

a system from a gameplay perspective

[wintry quarry]

So I guess my question is what part of this are you struggling with?

The visuals?

The logic?

the data structures?

[solar hill]

youre basically inventing a low level symbolic programming language

in a way

[slow blaze]

what do you mean by logic?

[solar hill]

im guessing approach and implementation of said systems

from a technical standpoint

[wintry quarry]

logic - like... the actual code that evaluates the results (and maybe the intermediate results at each node)

[slow blaze]

No that I got hang of
I'm more struggling of getting the input from user if that makes sense?

Like I have the code and function ready, I just dont know how to use it when unity comes to play
to show these things in game

[wintry quarry]

That's up to you, and is sort of a gameplay design decision.

You could have a node that just outpiuts a solid 1 or 0, and have the player place those in the game world

or just have them there automatically

and have the player place or connect other nodes

I could see this being done by allowing the player to:

• Place nodes
• connect existing nodes
• change the type of existing nodes

or all of the above

but that's a gameplay design decision

[slow blaze]

yes thats what I had in mind
I'm struggling with (connect existing nodes)
I'm confused by how to make that happen and how to get data from node connections

[wintry quarry]

well presumably your nodes have some list of "input nodes"

[slow blaze]

that is true

[wintry quarry]

when you make the connection, you add your node to the input node slot for the node you're feeding into

like a simple example:

class OrNode : AbstractNode {
  AbstractNode[] inputNodes = new[2];

  public void SetInput(int index, AbstractNode node) {
    inputNodes[i] = node;
  }

  public override bool Evaluate() {
    return inputNodes.Any(node => node.Evaluate());
  }
}```

[vital vault]

how to serialize/deserealize list of objects?

like this

{
  "objectData": [
    {
      "id":1,
      "name":"object 1"
    },
    {
      "id":2,
      "name":"object 2"
    }
  ]
}

[rich adder]

with JsonUtility is tricky but you can create two classes, one for the object and another for List wrapper

[vital vault]

thats what i want

what do i write in my root obj

[rich adder]

[System.Serializable]
public class MyObject{
    public int id;
    public string name;
}```

[vital vault]

no

i know that

this is object code

now smth like

[System.Serializable]
public class Savefile{
    public List<MyObject> objectData;
}``` i guess?

[rich adder]

pretty much

[rich adder]

you can use Newtonsoft and not deal with wrapper

[vital vault]

whats newtonsoft

also i want to make my project as independent as possible

[rich adder]

its actually called Json.Net but

[vital vault]

anyway im comfortable with jsonutility

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json@latest

[vital vault]

because im used to it and well...

i already have a project to copypaste savefile manager from

[rich adder]

jsonutility is fine just annoying to work with especially with properties, dictionaries you have to always make wrappers

json.net gives more granular control

[vital vault]

imagine what, i have to make my system with error from the past

2 jsons in one file

like it has 2 root entries

[rich adder]

pretty smelly but yeah iirc json.net can handle that with ease

[vital vault]

how can i switch?

[rich adder]

you mean this ?
https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/ReadMultipleContentWithJsonReader.htm

[vital vault]

yea when i received the tech docs i also almost falled from my chair :\

[vital vault]

its like this

{
  "somecrap":"fdihdffd"
}
{
  "someothercrap":"bruh what"
}

[rich adder]

thats why I said its pretty powerful tool but make sure to read the docs

[vital vault]

heh

i remembered a joke

a monkey is calling the devs of a lib instead of reading the docs

dont be dumb as monkey

continuation: monkey is actually smart because nobody wrote the docs

[rich adder]

ouch lol

dev who puts a tool without docs, is not tool I'd wanna use anyway

[vital vault]

but there are some tools that dont need a doc

[rich adder]

“Why do you keep calling us?”
And the monkey just shrugs:
“Why do you keep shipping undocumented features?”

[vital vault]

like this piece of code (one of the worst type of protection for savefile in the game):

static public string ProcessSavefile(string input)
{
    string output = "";
    for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++) {
      output = output + (char)(input[i] ^ key);
    }
    return output;
}

yea its basic XOR key prot

[rich adder]

ohh protection ?

[vital vault]

kinda

[rich adder]

I just create a hashing system xD

[vital vault]

but its really dumb to encrypt json savefile with xor

[rich adder]

if it don't match the hash, sorry you fucked up your savefile.. I dont accept it

[vital vault]

scince any json must begin with {

[vital vault]

if its json you cant protect it

[rich adder]

from tampering no, but you can verify that it was fucked with through hashing

[vital vault]

also without obfuscation il2cpp dumper + dnspy + ida goes skidddd

[rich adder]

i create a secret copy of the original save file, if you mess with the one from the common user folder. I just restore it from the "secret copy"

[vital vault]

LMAO

[rich adder]

in most cases they can find where you save that too though

so if you brick your save, sucks for you

[vital vault]

lets be real: you can just use handle list

[vital vault]

btw afaik minecraft does same thing with level.dat (yes worlds are called levels)

[rich adder]

hm interesting.. I never checked their code

[vital vault]

not code

[rich adder]

ofc you can always make your game "always online" and use servers, thats pretty much tamper proof

[vital vault]

but you can then make a hack by making game offine

there is no unhackable system

but some systems are taking longer to hack

its a game of cat and mouse

[rich adder]

yes thats the point, you have to make it as tedious as possible.. indeed nothing is truly hacker proof. thats why these AAA studios spent tons of money on

[sour fulcrum]

Why try and safeguard the save file in the first place

[rich adder]

remember Fallout 76 and all that bullshit with the Devrooms

[grand snow]

checking the hash of a local save wow 😆

[rich adder]

heh make these fuckers regret messing with their file!

[thorn holly]

If its a single player game honestly dont bother making it tamper proof

People will appreciate the extra freedom ngl

[grand snow]

that was their fault and things are alot better now. Most legacy weapons are gone now

[rich adder]

hard lessons learned Im sure

[grand snow]

Yea people will either find a way to do it properly, mod the game or just hate you

[sour fulcrum]

i would hope it was their fault would be abit worrying otherwise 😅

[rich adder]

ya true as well.. depends how devious you're feeling 😈

it can mess with the pacing of your game though in some cases

[vital vault]

unity = easy to hack, godot = easier to hack, clickteam fusion = overpriced and overrated bs (easiest to hack) ue = hard to hack custom game engine = almost impossible to hack without spending your whole life

[rich adder]

clickteam fusion holy shit

[grand snow]

native language without reflection moment

[vital vault]

thats what i meant

[grand snow]

i know!

[vital vault]

like if you write your game from scratch in C++ and asm and then vmprotect it, it will be more practical to drop it

[sour fulcrum]

Almost impossible is coward talk people are starting to decomp gamecube and wii games 😛

there will always be psychos

[vital vault]

how can i transfer from jsonutility to json.net

[rich adder]

get the package lol

use JsonConvert.SerializeObject instead of JsonUtility.ToJson

etc

[vital vault]

how do i convert my types

[Serializable] classes

[rich adder]

wdym convert?

https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/SerializingJSON.htm

[vital vault]

so i can just use my jsonutility typedefs for json.net?

[rich adder]

yes

only changes which methods you use, you can keep everything else the same. As mentioned you also wont need most wrapper bs you need for JsonUtility

[vital vault]

ok

[rich adder]

the only thing you need to be careful with is Vector2/3 struct as it causes weird error

cause it creates a Self-referencing loop error

easy fix tho

[grand snow]

You can use float3 from unity mathmatics as an alternative

[rich adder]

or make your own struct too

[grand snow]

they have implicit conversions to Vector types

[rich adder]

but yeah that also works

more info on this
https://stackoverflow.com/a/8711702

[vital vault]

im kinda new to serializing, how to represent this:

{
    "playerData":{
        "x":21,
        "y":56,
        "z":53,
        "ry":82,
        "rx":24
    }
}

[grand snow]

make class

[rich adder]

https://json2csharp.com/

[vital vault]

how can i make an object in json that can be dynamic?

i need to save object data, but diffirent types of objects have diffirent properties

[rich adder]

like polymorphism ?

[vital vault]

yea kinda

[rich adder]

or maybe use a dictionary

[timber tide]

Depends if you do want to develop these constructors, but I would just keep everything typed correctly

[rich adder]

json.net also offers JObject type

[vital vault]

like one object (a gun for example) has properties like ammo left in clip, but a basket can have a list of items in it

[vital vault]

i will need to expand it in the future

[timber tide]

Really just make as many structs/classes as you need

[vital vault]

no

not what i need

        {
            "Id":"Gun",
            "id":71929404,
            "pos":{
                "x":-7.31680632,
                "y":-1.62211561,
                "z":6.726395
            },
            "rot":{
                "x":-0.00672015827,
                "y":-0.9603869,
                "z":-4.31004446E-05,
                "w":-0.278589338
            },
            "data":{
                "ammo":12
            }
        },
        {
            "Id":"Basket",
            "id":-133609697,
            "pos":{
                "x":-5.947119,
                "y":-1.24142826,
                "z":7.639765
            },
            "rot":{
                "x":-0.000139048585,
                "y":0.999806643,
                "z":-0.0003319612,
                "w":0.0196609721
            },
            "data":{
                "items": [
                  {
                    "Id":"Gun",
                    "data":{
                      "ammo":12
                    }
                  }
                ]
            }
        }

thats what i meant

gun has ammo in its properties, and basket has another gun inside with 12 ammo

[timber tide]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[vital vault]

yeah what i meant

i think dictionary could work here

but can i make Dictionary<string, Object>?

[rich adder]

you can make Dictionary<string, object> sure

[vital vault]

and it will parse correctly?

[rich adder]

thats pretty much what Unity uses for Unity cloud for PlayerData

[timber tide]

newtonsoft yeah but JsonUtility follows similar editor serialization rules

[rich adder]

sum like this might be a lil cleaner though

public abstract class SaveObject {
    public string id;
}
//Gun
public class GunSave : SaveObject{
    public int ammoLeft;
    public int clipSize;
}
//etc.```

```cs
var objects = new List<SaveObject>();
objects.Add(new GunSave { id = "gun1", ammoLeft = 6, clipSize = 12 });
objects.Add(new BasketSave { id = "basket1", items = new List<string>{"apple","knife"} });
string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(
    objects,
    new JsonSerializerSettings {
        TypeNameHandling = TypeNameHandling.Auto
    }
);```

[vital vault]

so if i have

{
  "someShit": someOtherShit
}

it will parse down to

{
  "someShit": {
    "someOtherShitProperty":"xD"
  }
}
```?

[hasty dragon]

i made this scene to learn navmeshes, just two capsules, setting their destination to the target position it works fine, but am i getting frame drops and why does this scene have 8k tris

[vital vault]

where is the toothbrush

[timber tide]

don't recalc every frame

[vital vault]

but if be serious mark all immovable objects as static

[timber tide]

also #🤖┃ai-navigation (?)

[vital vault]

it will save some drawcalls

[hasty dragon]

im not having issues with the ai, its more of a optimisation issue

[rich adder]

are you sure thats cause fo slow down ? Check the Profiler

[hasty dragon]

i see

[timber tide]

can't say about the 8k tris (not a problem really) but turn on wireframe

[rich adder]

doesnt look like much going on visually to be slowing down

unless for some reason you really are building navmesh every frame, that'd be insane

Profiler will pinpoint the cause tho

[hasty dragon]

i know but this doesnt look like 8k tris 😅

[timber tide]

capsules a little dense there

[sour fulcrum]

hey they are trying their best

[timber tide]

lel, actually yeah unity capsules are pretty high poly

[vital vault]

still better than this

[hasty dragon]

this is my first time using the profiler, i dont feel like the graph dancing like that is normal in a game with so little going on visually

[rich adder]

switch it to hierarchy mode and sort by ms

Deep Profiling also will show any code/methods as well

[hasty dragon]

how do i do that

i figured it out

whats semaphore wait for signal

[rich adder]

Cpu thread waiting for another GPU/CPU thread iirc

[hasty dragon]

so that jump is normal

[rich adder]

are those the only processes showing ?

[hasty dragon]

yeah

[rich adder]

weird normally is shows if its playerloop or editorloop

[rich adder]

oh and btw found this .. so I was almost correct lol
https://discussions.unity.com/t/semaphore-waitforsignal-causing-performance-issues/775762

so yeah its a symptom but not the cause

[hasty dragon]

random question

what unity version do you use

[rich adder]

6.0.33f

[hasty dragon]

knew it

these issues started when i upgraded to 6.2

i never opened a profiler cuz i never found the need to

[rich adder]

could be , idk these "recommended" versions are pretty buggy

they're not final anyway

when 6.3 drops. 6.2 is already considered out of support

[hasty dragon]

yeah im installing 6.0 back

[rich adder]

LTS are usually more stable

[coral patio]

Hey! We have a small minigame in our game where people have to click rather quick. We do play a hit sound. However we have the issue that sounds are quiet delayed after some time. In code I already added:

• Instead of playing each per OneShot() over one audio source, i added a pool of audio sources and play the events over them (apparently thats better? but doesnt fix the issue)
• changes audio to preload and PCM to maybe improve load time cuz i thought its bcs of that
• added a small delay to play the sound

but doesnt matter what i do, it always starts lagging out after 10-15 clicks... not sure what else i could do here? i mean ego shooters play multiple sounds per second with weapons, i cant even get 10 to play in 2-3 😄

[rugged beacon]

is this in a new project? have you tinker with any quality setting cause default in a default urp 3d project it already set to high quality

[languid pagoda]

isnt there currently no lts versions due to the security exploit?

scratch that

my unity hub has not been updated

now there is a version without the security alert as well.

[slender nymph]

just update to a patched version

[vital vault]

why even bother

if you are making a singleplayer game that dont pull anything you can just ignore it

[languid pagoda]

You should turn on deep profiling and see what shows up. That is definitely not the cause of your lag.

[rich adder]

eh I just update the UnityEngine.dll binary

no reason to update all my projects to a new unity version if I can just patch the binary

[languid pagoda]

im making a multiplayer game with lots of user generated content. That exploit exists only for games such as my own.

[rich adder]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/cve-2025-59489-patcher-tool/1688032

[languid pagoda]

ive been on 6.0.2 but when I updated there wasn't any LTS versions showing. Unity hub needed an update is all.

[rich adder]

updating all my projects when I know im on a stable version for me, I have no desire to update it any time soon

[vital vault]

then ok

but in my case, where i make games that only pull data that is being stored locally by the game itself it doesnt bother me

[rich adder]

as mentioned if need be, you can use whatever version is working for you then just use the patcher tool 🤷‍♂️

updating 30+ projects for me just to use a patched version of unity that may introduce possible bugs I never seen is nonsense when a binary patcher exists

[languid pagoda]

you're actively maintaining 30 different unity projects rn?

[rich adder]

ya bro lol

[languid pagoda]

thats crazy

i could never be bothered to keep up with that many

most of my code is unity packages instead for that reason

[rich adder]

doesn't help when you have adhd

a lot are collabs too, or client projects. I'm still trying to put something of my own on steam tho but that gets delayed by paid projects 😮‍💨

[rich adder]

:\

(projects not editor)

not counting the ones on github that are not on disk 😅

[visual pond]

my

ball

(player) keeps bypassing the wall

they all have rigid bodys so whats wrong??

[wintry quarry]

Colliders are needed for collisions

[visual pond]

oh

[wintry quarry]

They also need to be moving via the Rigidbody

[visual pond]

but they have box colliders

[languid pagoda]

atp its time for a dedicated m2 drive

[visual pond]

is transform.position teleporting

or is it moving

thats probably why its going inside of it

[solar hill]

its teleporting

so its ignoring the collision

[visual pond]

dammit

so i have to use a forcemode?

[solar hill]

is the ball a rigidbody?

if it is a rigibody

move it using using velocity or using forces

[visual pond]

yeah it is

i have no clue how to use velocity lmao

only forcemods

[eternal needle]

you can either add force or set the linear velocity. Read the docs, follow tutorials/examples, and experiment so you'll learn how to use it

setting the velocity can function the same as using addForce

[rare hawk]

I'm trying to make a custom Playable for Rigidbody movement. It's my first time extending the Playables API.
I thought I could just give every PlayableAsset a reference to a Mover and a position, and then when the PlayableAsset starts playing I make sure the Mover gets there in duration time. However, as I see it, there isn't really a method that gets called when a PlayableAsset starts playing? Both of my PlayableAssets CreateGraph() methods are fired when the PlayableBehaviour is loaded in, and not when the PlayableAsset itself starts playing

[wintry quarry]

I think you mean AddForce

But you can use AddForce or set the velocity directly, either is fine

[blissful fable]

https://pastecode.io/s/8kievjr7
https://pastecode.io/s/fh5afhsq
I. DO. NOT. UNDERSTAND.
How the fuck you are supposed to link two scripts.
No matter how hard I try, I always get NullReferenceException, and when I eventually find out what I had to do, I never really understand it.
Like seriously, look at the picture! How is it possible that it's reading the variable right, while also being a NullReferenceException at the same time 😭

How in the actual *@!$ can these two both happen in the same script?!

[rich adder]

have you considered there could be two copies of this script ?

[blissful fable]

No, I suppose not

[rich adder]

type t:PlayerHealth in the hierarchy searchbar

[blissful fable]

oh my god you were right 😭

Welp
Yeah I suppose that would be the only concievable explaination

I still really don't understand if there's a best practice when linking scripts

[rich adder]

looks fine to me

[blissful fable]

private PlayerSpawnManager spawnManager;
[SerializeField] private FirstPersonController fpController;

Like in my very script

I have to do two different types of methods to link scripts

But like

Why?!

[rich adder]

wdym two methods

[blissful fable]

One uses spawnManager = PlayerSpawnManager.Instance;
The other uses fpController = GetComponent<FirstPersonController>();

[rich adder]

GetComponent isn't necessary especially if its on the same gameobject , stick with [SerializeField] private and link through inspector

only times you can't do that is linking prefab/or spawned objects fields to scene components, usually passing it through simple DI or maybe using singleton like you have on the first line there

singleton makes more sense for things like a spawn manager or whatever managers and you only need 1

[blissful fable]

Oh yeah, you're correct

so I can use .Instance if the thing is actually in the scene?

[rich adder]

.Instance is just a static field you have created to assign it a specific Instance

assuming you assigned it in awake or whatever

you don't always want to make everything a singleton and use Instance

[blissful fable]

Gotcha

[rich adder]

GetComponent or my preferable TryGetComponent is pretty handy when doing some sort of runtime Get like a raycast hitting a collider and you want to check if it has the type you want

[blissful fable]

Is there actually a place where I can read all of the ways people use to link scripts, lol

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[polar acorn]

That's the same method, setting a variable with =. Both PlayerSpawnManager.Instance and GetComponent<FirstPersonController>() are values that hold a reference to an object, so you can set your variable to those.

You can set a reference either in the inspector, or with =

[vital vault]

if im saving nested JSON parameter as object, can i just do serializer.Deserealize()?

[foggy rapids]

professor seems to not want to listen to me for help so i came all the way to the unity discord server

is there a way to call a variable in a game manager through a string? i want this script to be able to be used with various doors

[rugged beacon]

like a dictionary<string, your var thing>? but i think the door should know what key can be used on or key know doors can be used on instead of the game manager knowing the doors and keys

[rugged beacon]

if the class has the json fields i dont see why not

[wintry quarry]

It's unclear how this code or what you're trying to do would benefit from what you asked about

But basically, you're barking up the wrong tree most likely

[foggy rapids]

probably

[wintry quarry]

You can do what you want without the need for that

[foggy rapids]

changed to a switch case and i can do that

i will need to learn this properly eventually but i think this'll suffice for tracking wich keys i collected with one single script

[boreal mason]

Is there a channel for multiplayer related stuff?

[wintry quarry]

There's a #1390346492019212368 channel

[glossy turtle]

@wintry quarry do you know any solution for this.

if i have a sprite image is it possible to animate without using animation feature

like the hand movement

[wintry quarry]

Sure why not

Just write code to do it. And/or use a tweener

[glossy turtle]

tweener is that free asset

[night raptor]

Tweener is something that does tweening. There are free tweeners yes

[glossy turtle]

ok thank you guys

will be checking tweeners now.

[tiny island]

what can i use in universal 2D to fadeIn/Out a sprite based on a collision?

[hexed terrace]

alpha on the sprite?
alpha on the material?

[tiny island]

how can i call the alpha of the sprite in C#?

sorry if it's a dumb question i'm new to unity

i'm trying to have a sprite with a 2D box collider have a event when my player enter in his box collider but it doesn't work , what am i doing wrong?

[floral garden]

add a log and see what it collide with or is it trigger

[night raptor]

Sprite does not have neither color nor alpha (well the texture has per pixel) but the sprite renderer does: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/SpriteRenderer-color.html

[tiny island]

How can i add a log?

[crimson arch]

does the object that the script is on have a trigger collider?

[floral garden]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Debug.Log.html

[tiny island]

Yes

[rugged beacon]

at least 1 one object need rigidbody 2d

[tiny island]

it doesn't seem like the collision trigger itself works , i have my player with a rigidbody 2D and the sprite has a box collider Is Trigger so i don't know what i'm missing , would it be the scripting?

[vital vault]

ok

but how can i make "polymorphism"?

basically diffirent objects have diffirent properties

and some have properties like objects inside of a container

[rugged beacon]

ngl i dont understand
you serialize the child and deserialize as parent?

[cosmic dagger]

Are both the rigidbody and collider 2D, or did you mix 3D somewhere?

[tiny island]

they are both 2D

[rugged beacon]

in same layer? when you remove the trigger does the 2 collide

[cosmic dagger]

What method are you using for the collision check?

[tiny island]

OnTriggerEnter/Exit2D

[cosmic dagger]

Do you have a log to check if anything collided?

[tiny island]

i don't understand how logs works

[cosmic dagger]

Also, does the other objects have a collider?

[tiny island]

the player has a rigidbody2D and the sprite has a box collider 2D

[cosmic dagger]

Just lookup how to use Debug.Log. It's practically vital, as you'll use it to check and debug everything you do . . .

[tiny island]

i'm stupid

[cosmic dagger]

Okay, but does the player have a collider?

[tiny island]

i just added a box collider to player and now it works

the facepalm is real , tkx for the help

[cosmic dagger]

You can't tell if it collides without a collider. That's its boundary box . . .

[worthy veldt]

my enum method output becomes integer (enum index), even though i didnt cast it to int. this causes my if statement always false when comparing 2 enum

i used that same method to property return value and it worked just as I expected, so the method is fine.

public void CollectFloorItem(GameObject item)
{
    Location location = GetLocation(item.transform.position);
    
    for (int i = 0; i < areaScripts.Count; i++)
    {
        if (location==areaScripts[i].location)
        {
            //code never get through
            item.transform.parent = areaScripts[i].transform;
        }
    }
} 

its just a method to make the hierarcy clean

[rugged beacon]

if it same enum it would return same int too so it seem like the 2 doesnt equal

[keen dew]

Change it to this and show the console output:

public void CollectFloorItem(GameObject item)
{
    Location location = GetLocation(item.transform.position);
    Debug.Log("Location: " + location);
    
    for (int i = 0; i < areaScripts.Count; i++)
    {
        Debug.Log($"{i}: Comparing {location} and {areaScripts[i].location}");
        
        if (location==areaScripts[i].location)
        {
            Debug.Log("They are the same!");
            item.transform.parent = areaScripts[i].transform;
        }
    }
} 

[worthy veldt]

i have only set 1 area, repairshop is ites 11th element, and unidentified is 1st element

public Location GetLocation(Vector3 position)
{
    if (areas.Length <= 0)
    {
        Debug.Log("No area registered");
        return Location.Unidentified;
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < areas.Length; i++)
    {
        if (areas[i].bottomLeftBorder.position.x < position.x && position.x < areas[i].topRightBorder.position.x &&
            areas[i].bottomLeftBorder.position.y < position.y && position.y < areas[i].topRightBorder.position.y)
        {
            return areas[i].locationName;
        }
    }

    return Location.Unidentified;
} 
```this is getlocation

i set border gameobject on bottom left and top right (2D game), if the position is in between then its in the area

Areas is an array of struct, 2 border gameobject

[keen dew]

What are the types of areas.locationName and areaScripts.location?

[cosmic dagger]

Add a log before you return the location name . . .

Debug.Log($"Location: <color=cyan>{areas[i].locationName}</color>");```

[worthy veldt]

i just did actually, sec

[cosmic dagger]

Can you show us your enum file?

[worthy veldt]

roads is for npc teleportation onto another area, already worked

[unique matrix]

!vs

[radiant void]

Visual Studio guide

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

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

[naive pawn]

hm, that looks configured?

[worthy veldt]

the one worked (OuterInn) is used in my npc thats spawning public AreaManager.Location CharacterLocation { get => AreaManager.Instance.GetLocation(transform.position); }

btw i also tried to cast both if ((int)location==(int)areaScripts[i].location), it doesnt go through

[floral garden]

hi, is it safe to delete .meta file ?

[naive pawn]

no

they are metadata used to link assets

[floral garden]

how can I clear it then? as it is placed in the main folder but if we move the script, it is in the still in the same folder

[hexed terrace]

it'll get regenerated as well - probably with different info that breaks links

[floral garden]

oh but if we don't have link?

[hexed terrace]

Unity cleans up the meta files itself

[naive pawn]

once assets get refreshed it'll be moved too

or you can move it yourself

[floral garden]

oh?

i am blocked on this, is it normal?

[naive pawn]

what led up to this?

an asset refresh, pressing play, etc?

[floral garden]

i don't know when I was texting there it got this , but well it is over haha

[floral garden]

you mean this?

[naive pawn]

depends on if you have auto asset refreshed enabled (which it is, by default)

if it's enabled, it'll refresh (& recompile) when you refocus unity

if not, it'll refresh when you refresh manually with ctrl+R, or also upon play mode iirc?

not sure on that latter part actually, i'll have to check

[floral garden]

it deosn't work rip even when I press refresh

[naive pawn]

seems like no on that last point
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/AssetDatabaseRefreshing.html

[naive pawn]

what doesn't work?

[floral garden]

meta fils still there

[naive pawn]

those are all supposed to be there

[hexed terrace]

refresh of what?

[naive pawn]

also this is definitely not a code issue

[hexed terrace]

those are the meta files for the folders

[naive pawn]

every non-.meta file and folder has a corresponding .meta file

[floral garden]

yeah i know it but how can I make them move with the corresponding files ?

[hexed terrace]

they are where they're supposed to be.

[floral garden]

ok

[unique matrix]

anyone use linux mint with unity/visual studio code? i'm having trouble getting vscode to connect to unity as it says something like wrong slnx because dotnet only shows version 8 while wanting 9 and i've tried installing version 9 and 10 using a script from microsoft via the terminal but vscode still says i only have version 8 of dotnet installed, it was working fine last week. sorry if this isn't the right place to ask but idk where to

[naive pawn]

have you tried with the .NET install tool

also, just to make sure we're on the same page - vs and vscode are separate products, i saw you using the vs configuration command earlier

[woeful trail]

No I'm not into Linux I haven't had the time to learn that. I like moicrosofts operating system better

[naive pawn]

-# you can just.. not answer if you don't have any useful answer

[unique matrix]

i get 'ms-dotnettools.csharp: Trying to install .NET 9.0.11~x64~aspnetcore but it already exists. No downloads or changes were made.' and 'visualstudiotoolsforunity.vstuc: Trying to install .NET 9.0.11~x64 but it already exists. No downloads or changes were made.' on start up in vscode

[cunning owl]

Hello everyone, I have a question about the proper logic for my code in general
Let's say I have a player character in the scene that collects coin to gain money, is it better that the main code to collect the coin value is located in the player or in the coin ? Which one should collect the colliding data about the other ?

[naive pawn]

it's up to your design, really. either could work, but ideally it'd be consistent across different objects

[unique matrix]

i made the switch to linux last year which windows was easier but annoying. linux has only been troublesome when i update stuff, i should turn off checking for updates when things are running smoothly

[naive pawn]

consolodating all the logic in the player would probably be the easier option

[naive pawn]

but vscode still says i only have version 8 of dotnet installed
could you elaborate on what exactly is stating this?

[cunning owl]

Ok I will try this, thank you !

[unique matrix]

i start up unity, double click a script to bring it up in vscode, it looks right but then shows an error in the bottom right and all the code loses half the colors with no autocompletion. in the output i get 2 messages of trying to install .net 9.0 but already exists

thats the error i get in the bottom right

it seems to be a recent error cause i only found 1 report of it online and a response within the last day

[naive pawn]

hmm the former error was about 9.0.11?

perhaps try uninstalling and reinstalling .NET

(note that nothing about that is saying you have .NET 8, you just don't have .NET 9.0.200 or above, apparently)

[unique matrix]

from the terminal i try 'dotnet --version' or 'dotnet --list-sdks' and says i have 8.0.121

[naive pawn]

are you using .NET for anything else?

[unique matrix]

even though i ran some script from microsoft to install 10 and 9

[naive pawn]

if not perhaps just uninstall everything and try installing again, with the .NET install tool in vscode specifically

[unique matrix]

not that i'm aware of. maybe stable diffusion

or video games

[naive pawn]

this is the .NET SDK, specifically

used for developing stuff, not for running stuff

so, do you have any other (non-unity) projects using C# or other .NET languages?

(that would maybe need different .NET versions)

[unique matrix]

nah, i don't do much scripting outside of gamedev

so i'll try uninstalling stuff and try again. worse case scenario i just wait for a patch, i think

[naive pawn]

perhaps try this then yeah

and specifically don't use external installations

(not that that's bad, but using the .NET install tool has worked consistently, and there seems to be several things that can go wrong with external tools making them not link to vscode or something)

[worthy veldt]

i have found the cause, me commenting an element out messes with my stuff in the inspector, causing the border to have unassigned Location field.
someone said along the lines "then that means it returns null" before editing it out. i thought my enum cant be null and it will assign Unidentified as default... 11 is the unassigned enum

[naive pawn]

enums can't be null, yeah

[cosmic dagger]

definitely weird. i just ran a quick test and only received the 'correct' enum names when returning and comparing them . . .

[naive pawn]

commenting out the enum element makes all the values shift

unity serializes enum values based on their backing integral value

basically, enums are just integers with names

[cosmic dagger]

oh, you mean, the comment in the enum declaration, right?

[wintry quarry]

What you can have is an enum value that doesn't have a name. For example if you have:

enum MyEnum { A, B, C, D}``` and then you select D in the inspector, and then you edit the code to be:
```cs
enum MyEnum {
  A,
  B, 
  C, 
  //D
}``` then you will have an unlabled value in the inspector

or even if you did:

enum MyEnum {
  A,
  // B, 
  C, 
  D
}```

because the values will shift yeah

[naive pawn]

before, you had:

0: Unidentified
1: OuterInn
   ...
4: OuterCastle
5: InnerCastle
6: MeatShop
   ...
11: RepairShop
```after removing one of the elements,

0: Unidentified
1: OuterInn
...
4: OuterCastle
5: MeatShop
...
10: RepairShop

you generally don't want to be shifting enum members around, unless you specify a value for the members

[wintry quarry]

If you plan to shift/insert them you should give them explicit values and don't ever change them

enum MyEnum {
  A = 0,
  B = 1, 
  // C = 2,
  D = 3,
  E = 4
}```

C# lets you do this

[naive pawn]

to answer this,

enum method output becomes integer (enum index), even though i didnt cast it to int.
they're already ints, they just have names on top of the integer value

[wintry quarry]

Then to insert one:cs enum MyEnum { A = 0, B = 1, F = 5, // C = 2, D = 3, E = 4 }

[vale blade]

How does allowSceneActivation work?
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/AsyncOperation-allowSceneActivation.html

What does 'Unity stops progress at 0.9' mean?

does that mean everything has been loaded, and the scene just hasn't activated yet?

what happens in the remaining 10% ?

can that cause performance issues?

[unique matrix]

i fixed it by downloading the 9.0 binary files from microsoft and placed them in the folder where dotnet sdk is suppose to be, /usr/lib/dotnet. which i found the 8.0sdk still after i ran apt remove on the dotnet-sdk-8.0. i didn't use the install tool as it kept saying i had 9 installed but, god help me, i have no idea where. dotnet --version now says 9.0.307 aswell

[naive pawn]

did you try uninstalling via the .net install tool from vscode
it probably keeps its own stuff

well if it breaks again, maybe try the instructions i gave

[unique matrix]

i didn't try that, i went through apt remove to uninstall which .net install tool probably wouldve done it cleaner

cause i still see 8.0 files lol

[ocean quarry]

Hello i want to make a classic mario game to test my beginner skills how to make a circle move tho the right or left and that a camera follows

its c sharp

[keen dew]

Test failed

You'll have to go back to tutorials and courses before trying to make it on your own