archived-code-general

[terse venture]

i disabled 1 of my enemies that was flooding console ( i havent assigned its animation controller yet ), to check that it was putting it in console (which it was), and it just suddenly started working

thanks for the help anyways

@lucid valley

[lucid valley]

yeah that error might have stopped it somehow. Always fix/catch errors

[terse venture]

Just did some further testing, and weirdly it only destroys half the time when colliding. Thats a bug i shall now fix

[mental rover]

yeah, just any piece in the new section would do, as you'll end up needing to do some kind of bfs/graph search to find all connected pieces to it, and that will find any/all of them

[rain saffron]

BFS?

YES

[mental rover]

breadth-first search

[rain saffron]

That's exactly what I'm after!

Thank you, this will be an immense help 😄

[mental rover]

you may want to look into other graph algorithms as well as there's a lot of very helpful and powerful things 👍

[devout solstice]

how could i have a proper drop-down menu, not that thing where you click the dot, and detect which option is selected out of the drop-down

[modest jay]

if (CanMove(speed))
        {       
            _animator.SetFloat(SPEED, _id == 1 ? -speed : speed);
            Debug.Log(_id);
        }
            
        else
            _animator.SetFloat(SPEED, 0);

This function returns values between 1 and -1 but if I add the player controller script and a second player using input system the function only returns values between -1 and 0 never +1. It works as expected if the player controller script is not used.

Here is the full code:
Movement controller: https://hatebin.com/isrhtubukh
Player Controller: https://hatebin.com/scfmvqmgyb

[devout solstice]

then i’m sure it’s something with your player controller. Are they talking to each other?

so when you add the player controller it seems like it’s never reading the speed as positive

least that’s what i’m interpreting

probably not though i don’t see how that could be

[swift falcon]

imgUI[i].sprite = Sprite.Create(filtered[i].normal, imgUI[i].rectTransform.rect, imgUI[i].transform.position);

Im trying to give my uimage one of my default textures types… this has no errors but isn’t working either

Help

[devout solstice]

@swift falcon you might get better luck here #🧰┃ui-toolkit

[short badge]

Hey guys, so I've got an orthographic camera with a zoom that is managed by altering the orthographic size, but I'm facing a problem with Audio Sources. Essentially, I need to adjust the volume of world placed Audio Sources depending on how zoomed in the camera is. At the moment, the volume doesn't change since it's just effecting the size of the camera instead of the position. Anyone advice would be much appreciated 👍

[woeful leaf]

Then change it based on size?

[spark flower]

hey guys

why is tghis giving me null refrence? line 100

the stages.length is 4 as it shuld be

[short badge]

There’s quite a few different audio sources in different positions across the world so manually adjusting isn’t really ideal

[woeful leaf]

I didn't infer to manually adjusting it

Take the variable that changes and base your volume on that

Which you seem to imply size in this case

I might be understanding your issue wrong though

[main shuttle]

You print out the same stuff here.

[spark flower]

thats irelavent to the issue

[main shuttle]

You make the stages array the length of the keys

[spark flower]

doesnt that make instances or something

[main shuttle]

Afaik, you currently have an array that can have Stage objects in it, it currently has 4 places in that array, and they are all null.

Just set a breakpoint there. And check what's in the array.

[spark flower]

ok

[short badge]

Would I be able to do that since it’s in a 3d space though? The size of the camera doesn’t necessarily mean it’s closer to said object in my case as they’re all in different position.

[woeful leaf]

Do you want it based on position or size?

Does the position remain the same for the camera during the entire scene? But each have their own position?

Same goes for the size?

[main shuttle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioListener.html
Just Lerp the .volume depending on the zoom level?

[woeful leaf]

(if the cameras remain on the same position for the entire scene, you only have to run it once in start, for each seperate camera)

[short badge]

The camera is controlled by the player so it changes, but they also can zoom the camera in and out (affecting the size). As is the audio sources are based on position. I need to basically simulate the size/zoom as getting physically closer to the audio sources.

[short badge]

Okay thanks guys, I’ll give it a try and see if it fixes my problem 👍

[lethal plank]

guys im having problem
unity error log told me that the UpdateValue is the problem

[prime sinew]

show the error

[woeful leaf]

Also cache the getcomponent

[lethal plank]

uhhh i miss pressed enter
its too soon
im opening unity xd

[gray fjord]

Where can I ask questions related to license?

[prime sinew]

#💻┃unity-talk

[lethal plank]

its look like it cant get this component

ohhh i see

[prime sinew]

are you going to show the error or not

[lethal plank]

because i put the call before set parent so it cant get component in parent

[lethal plank]

it say wpnBase is null

[prime sinew]

show the error in the console

[lethal plank]

alright that might be long
avg open project time is about 25m xd

but i fixed it bro

oh nvm

[coarse umbra]

anyone knows how to combine some sprites with their positions and sizes to a one sprite?

[devout solstice]

anyone know how i could get a proper drop-down box in the inspector and check which option is selected?

[woeful leaf]

You can use Enums

Else you'll have to use #↕️┃editor-extensions

[woeful leaf]

Afaik Enums are the only thing that create a dropdown in Unity's Inspector

[devout solstice]

could you show me how to do that?

[woeful leaf]

Google can

It's quite simple though

public Enum MyEnum
{
  One,
  Two,
  Three
}
[SerializeField] private MyEnum myEnum;

@devout solstice

[devout solstice]

Alright

And how do i check which is selected? And most importantly how do i assign what each selection does

i tried to look it up but couldn’t figure it out

[lethal plank]

{
  One = 1,
  Two = 2,
  Three = 3
}
[SerializeField] private MyEnum myEnum;

private void Update()
{
  switch(((int)myEnum) 
  {
    case 1:
    Debug.Log(1);
    // code block
    break;
  case 2:
    Debug.Log(2);
    // code block
    break;
  case 3:
    Debug.Log();
    // code block
    break;
  default:
    break;
}

it will be longer if use string xd

[devout solstice]

Oh and that’ll return a bool?

[lethal plank]

yes

[devout solstice]

ok

[rain minnow]

you can look at enum vids and blogs in beginner c# tutorials . . .

[lethal plank]

very weirdo

working on Instantiate object is pain

assigned from this

[rain minnow]

no need to cast to int, just use the enum as the case MyEnum.One: . . .

[lethal plank]

i usually use it while using 2 enum

[rain minnow]

#💻┃code-beginner error explains the problem and fix . . .

[rain minnow]

you need to check if the value is null, it will return null if nothing is found . . .

[lethal plank]

like this

lemme check

[lethal plank]

hmmm it found
and assigned but very freaking weird

[bitter valley]

Hey guys, can't seem to find informations about Unity's grid system. I have to use if for an educational but can't find any ressources on using it in a 3D space, can someone help me do that? The goal is making a sokoban 3D where I need a grid to know wether there's a wall or the player for example in a cell at any given moment

[leaden ice]

what issues are you having with it?
Information is here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Grid.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Grid.html

[bitter valley]

I just can't seem to understand how to initialize it in a 3D space and how to manage it

I can't use rigidbodies or colliders in the project

[rain minnow]

make sure you don't have any duplicate scripts in the scene . . .

[devout solstice]

what’s with the breaks?

[leaden ice]

It's a component

you put it on a GameObject like anything else

[rain minnow]

look at a tutorial for switch statements. it explains everything . . .

[leaden ice]

WDYM by "manage" it?

[bitter valley]

Ok but how do you use it after that?

[leaden ice]

I just linked you the documentation

you interact with it through calling its methods of course

[bitter valley]

There's my problem, even after reading the documentation a couple of times, I don't understand how to use it

[leaden ice]

what are you trying to do with it

[bitter valley]

I'm trying to create a game board

For a sokoban game but in 3D

[leaden ice]

it's just there to give you the ability to convert to and from world space positions and grid coordinates.

that's all

[bitter valley]

I would like to use the grid to detect where is the player, walls and limits of the board at any given time so I can restrict movements

[leaden ice]

The main methods you will interact with are:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GridLayout.WorldToCell.html
and
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GridLayout.CellToWorld.html

[leaden ice]

this seems like a wrong use of it

it's not going to "detect" anything

[lethal plank]

it will stop another case i guess
it was a long time i didnt use it
but if you dont use it
it will be broke

[leaden ice]

your game logic should simply take place on a 2d coordinate system

[devout solstice]

huh

[leaden ice]

the point of the grid is to just help you translate that 2D coordinate system into 3D positions @bitter valley and vice versa

[lethal plank]

break; will stop another case :0

[bitter valley]

So it would be better for me to find another way to use it?

[devout solstice]

well i’ve never seen break being used in c#

[leaden ice]

you should use it as I mentioned

to just help you translate that 2D coordinate system into 3D positions and vice versa

[bitter valley]

Yeah but right now I can't think of a way that would help me for the project I'm working on ^^"

[lethal plank]

ye thats right but its necessary for switch case statement

[devout solstice]

ok

[leaden ice]

I'm not sure how to help more than that

I think it seems obvious to me

[bitter valley]

Ok thank you for the infos 🙂

[steady granite]

Not sure where to ask for help, I have world space UI that partially disappear when moving/changing resolution, looked into pixel perfect features but this requires screen space overlay and removes size scaling from what I understand

[golden vessel]

Is there a way to make a sprite brighter? I can set RGB so that the sprite is darker, but not brighter. Is that a feature of RGBA?

[leaden ice]

SpriteRenderer Color is multiplied by the base sprite colors

you can't make things brighter through multiplication, only darker

You'd need to brighten the original sprite asset

[golden vessel]

Interesting, thanks for the info

[golden vessel]

That was the back up plan ^^

[late lion]

If SpriteRenderer.color allowed for HDR colors, as in not clamped between 0-1, this would be possible. (and I think it should)

[leaden ice]

yeah not sure if it allows hdr or not

[golden vessel]

Isn't there something for that? On the sprite renderer's material

[leaden ice]

possibly

also with a custom material/shader anything is possible

[late lion]

If your material allows for HDR colors, you can multiply it there too. But SpriteRenderer.color definitely clamps.

[golden vessel]

I thought so ^^ I'd rather not use material just for that, I'll work around it. Thanks 🙂

[echo steeple]

please help, unity says: error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'WebGL' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[rancid jolt]

I created a function for enemy to shoot when the ray hit the player. Enemy is not shooting. The ray is not hitting the player despite of everything is aligned.

[potent sleet]

debug ur rays make sure they are where u think they are

[potent sleet]

show the code

[potent sleet]

can share code the right way #854851968446365696 dont screenshot code

[echo steeple]

sorry, of course https://gdl.space/mutotiriti.cpp

[potent sleet]

alr so where exactly did you see to use using WebGL namespace

[echo steeple]

i have two gameobjects which are webgl

2 nativeinputfields

[potent sleet]

explain

wdym 2 objects are webgl
webgl is a rendering engine

[echo steeple]

i think the problem is unity doesnt recognize webgl as it says it couldnt find it

wait

[potent sleet]

WebGL is a class at most.. Never seen WebGL in a namespace.

[potent sleet]

is that supposed to say InputField ?

where did you get this from...what is it for,

[echo steeple]

i dont know, the guy in the tutorial told me to lol

[potent sleet]

so you're copying things you don't understand?

[echo steeple]

well how am i supposed to learn

[potent sleet]

show the tut..

[echo steeple]

im just learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udcJ0iMELZc&list=PLGSUBi8nI9v907UWXEXAi2wTtfUcBip1s&index=27&ab_channel=CryptoGrounds

[obtuse cedar]

    IEnumerator EmitRoutine(ParticleSystem.EmitParams @params, ParticleSystem.ShapeModule shape)
    {
        print("starting emit routine");
        float timer = 0;
        print("time at emit start is " + Time.time);
        float timestart = Time.time;
        float particleDur = ParticleDuration * 60;
        print("particledur is " + particleDur);
        while (timer < particleDur)
        {

            shape.rotation = TargetTransform.rotation.eulerAngles;
            @params.position = TargetTransform.position;
            Particles.Emit(@params, ParticlesToEmit);
            print("timer is " + timer + " at " + (Time.time - timestart));
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(EmissionRate);
            timer += 60 * EmissionRate;
            //yield return null;
        }
        print("time at end is " + Time.time);
        float timediff = Time.time - timestart;
        print("time diff is " + timediff);
        print("emit routine finished");
    }

I made this coroutine for intermittently emitting particles but the time difference is about 1 second longer than the duration I specified
I'm guessing I should rely on delta time and check if I passed a certain amount of seconds instead of relying on waitforseconds?

[potent sleet]

WebGlNativeInputFields must be custom components

[echo steeple]

so, what now?

[potent sleet]

https://github.com/unity3d-jp/WebGLNativeInputField

[potent sleet]

follow a better tutorial ?

these dont teach you shit tbh

just "do this and this and this , now ur done"

[echo steeple]

how did you learn

[potent sleet]

i learned the fundamentals before ever watching videos like this

having a configured IDE

etc

[echo steeple]

i know those

the fundamentals

[potent sleet]

idk I've made many WebGL projects, never Did i have the need for WEBGLNativeInputs

this some weird shit rn

[echo steeple]

oh btw, what am i supposed to do with this

[potent sleet]

you are in #archived-code-general and said know the fundamentals. I expect you should know how to proceed next

[echo steeple]

yes, i know the fundamentals, but could you please elaborate

[potent sleet]

talk about a contradiction...

[echo steeple]

come on, dont be like this

im trying to ask nicely

[potent sleet]

do you want me to hold your hand the whole way, If that is the component then you add it in..

just like you add any other custom component

[echo steeple]

what component?? you sent me a github link

the last one?

[potent sleet]

dawg you know the fundamentals and cant even read the description of the video ur watching ... comon dawg make an effort

they even link the package u need in description..

[echo steeple]

I have that in my project!

i put the folder in!

(sowwy for being an idiot)

[potent sleet]

then you didnt install it correct, you should be able to see the component

ur intellisense in VSCode is not even configured...

how would you even know if script is reading the component..

did you put this folder in Assets ? @echo steeple

[echo steeple]

yes

[potent sleet]

can u show it shows up in Add Component in inspector

[potent sleet]

ok so now fix the spelling

[potent sleet]

this isnt addComponent

"I know the fundamentals"

you see why it's annoying when ppl lie

[echo steeple]

i have no idea what you mean 😟

[potent sleet]

its unity 101

look itup and come back when you know what inspector and add component button is

and please stick to #💻┃code-beginner next time..

[polar marten]

uh oh. i see you are trying to do something impossible

are you trying to have a text input field on a mobile webgl game?

[echo steeple]

its not mobile

[polar marten]

hmm

why aren't you using a regular input field?

if you have input system handling set to both, it works.

i can add that to my tips and tricks

[echo steeple]

ok i think i can do that without breaking the game i will try

[polar marten]

okay

i actually am authoring a fixed input field righ tnow

[swift falcon]

does anybody know a tutorial for a 2d bomb explosion tutorial? I can't seem to find except for one which won't work.

[polar marten]

the underlying issue with input fields on webgl and many of the odd platforms is that tmp_inputfield and inputfield both use IMGUI Event to poll characters instead of input system. @heady marten but yet again, the cantankerousness of ticketing all of this and getting to a conversation with a unity engineer that isn't sales-led is so dire

[echo steeple]

it works!(for now '~' ) thank you for actually helping ^.^

(and putting up with my stupidness)

[kindred flower]

I'm researching showing html elements over a full screen web unity instance but can't get things working. I'm unable to find a way with absolute position and/or zindex. The elements render on top of the game when not in full screen, but disappear once the game is full screen... has anyone done this before?

[polar marten]

no problem

@echo steeple you can take a look at my forum thread https://forum.unity.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-using-webgl-on-desktop-and-mobile-tested-up-to-2021-3-11f1.666121/ for more info about webgl

[echo steeple]

sure ^.^

[royal radish]

how can i setup vs code to work with unity?

[leaden ice]

#854851968446365696 has a configuration guide

[rain minnow]

Just look for creating a bomb tutorial, or an explosion tutorial. Don't be too specific. Anything else you need, like a timer, etc., you should search for separately then combine them together . . .

[devout solstice]

pretty simple, unless you’re asking about the explosion effect itself

[orchid turtle]

Hello, I would like to ask

I'm drawling lines with GL

why does it only show when gizmos is on?

in game view

[leaden ice]

Are you calling it in Update or something?

Check the documentation for a code example and the appropriate place to call GL functions:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GL.html

[orchid turtle]

I

I want to send a screenshot of unity and

it stuck in

[orchid turtle]

anyways, I'm calling it in OnRenderObject

I know that if u put it in camera, it's OnPostRender(), but I need to easily change it's place

so I opted for gameobject

the gameobject

[leaden ice]

Can you show the code?

[orchid turtle]

hmokay, it's pretty long thoguh

[leaden ice]

#854851968446365696 for how to share code here

[orchid turtle]

okay

does gists work?

[leaden ice]

sure

[orchid turtle]

https://pastebin.com/msjeQmey

here's the code

the function responsible for drawing the lines is

drawLines()

o, I did do it in OnDrawGizmos()

my bad'

but why didn't OnRenderObject works?

[leaden ice]

yeah was gonna say

OnRenderObject probably isn't working at all

[orchid turtle]

okay, I am gonna check

[leaden ice]

Idk the docs are confusing. They say one thing and the code example does something else

[orchid turtle]

GL isn't talked as much, sad, so I harder to find wha ti Wnat

yeah, OnRenderObject isn't being called

alright

okay, turns out it needs a renderer

[earnest gazelle]

How do you name tags in git? v1.1.1?
what about if you build your app for several markets? market/v1.1.1? market-v1.1.1?
I prefer v1.1.1 but how I can distinguish them between markets?
Should they have same version?

[orchid turtle]

I should've checked properly before asking, oh well

[alpine oasis]

Let's say we're making a large number of, let's call them pokemon-style attacks

Lots of moves that can alter the battle in as-of-yet unpredictable ways, such as damaging, applying status effects, modifying stats, creating ongoing passive effects, placing traps, etc

The point is that I need to be making a lot Nouns that will each be performing multiple Verbs that may affect an ever-growing list of types of Nouns

And I'm trying to figure out how to represent that

Right now I'm imagining a few- or potentially a lot- of ScriptableObjects all inheriting from the same base class that represent actions, potentially even ScriptableObject scripts that are only expected to be used once since their exact effects are so specific

But I'm having trouble working out the nuances of having all that polymorphic behavior, with many different function signatures, often requiring state information about the battlefield, be represented as something I can pass an entity as like, a list of Actions they're allowed to take

I guess more specifically each "Action" could be made up of multiple "SubActions" performed at once (attack, modify stats, inflict status effect) so as not to have to make an SO script for each fiddly combination, but details, details

[leaden ice]

yeah the way I do this is prtty generic and doesn't use inheritance at all.

A few pieces:

• an enum for "effect type" (e.g. damage, chance to inflict status effect, etc..)
• an "Effect" object. It's basically an EffectType + a number.
• An attack just has a list of effects.
  So a particular Attack would be something like:

Fireball
  pp: 10
  effects:
    - Damage: 50
    - BurnChance: .5

Then to execute this you just loop through the effects and each enum value is mapped to a function. You can essentially think of that just as a big switch statement

you can easily mix and match any list of effects you want this way

Then it's just one ScriptableObject per Attack (The SO has a name, a cost, a PP amount, and a list of Effects as above)

[orchid turtle]

fixed ( for URP user ), Solution: https://answers.unity.com/questions/1545858/onpostrender-is-not-called.html

[alpine oasis]

I suppose I am having a hard time coming up with a "weird attack" that couldn't in some manner be put in a list of status effects or a list of Battlefield Effects

[alpine oasis]

Do you ever feel like that central system which executes those effects could grow big enough to be cumbersome?

[orchid turtle]

nvm, not fixed lol, it's fixed in game view in unity but not fixed in .apk in andorid

[leaden ice]

Yes but that system could be modularized somewhat easily.

[leaden ice]

It might get weird with multi turn attacks, something like... Dig, or Fly? You'd probably have to model that as putting a status effect on yourself, and then handling the delayed attack kinda weird, right? You'd have to pass the stats for the attack to the code that later executes the "delayed" attack part

In my case I'm using my system for a tower defense game

[alpine oasis]

Mmhm

Interesting. Yeah, this should work.

Hey, it's been months since last time, but I always see you around here and it's always really helpful talking through things with you. Thanks for that.

[leaden ice]

You'll also want to think about how to handle "typed" damage, and things like "status effect type". It could either be different effect types, e.g.:

• Fire Damage
• Electric Damage
• Normal Damage
  etc...
  OR you could add a third field to the Effect which is like a "tag".
  So you'd have e.g.:
  EffectType: Damage, Amount: 50, Tag: Electric
  or
  EffectType: StatusEffectChance, Amount: .5, Tag: Burn
  Something to think about

assuming that matters in your game

[alpine oasis]

Mmhm, we'll see if I decide to go forward with implementing that

I am notorious for complaining to my friends that elemental damage in games like D&D and Dark Souls are mostly pointless and not a fun moving part to deal with

[plush abyss]

Hey everyone,

I need help with disabling my parallax effect in Unity when my screenbox is disabled, so it doesn't disrupt my UI. Tried using SetActive() and disabling components but nothing seems to work. Any Idea? I'm sending the code 😄

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class ScreenBoxManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject frame1;
    public GameObject frame2;
    
    
    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collider){
    if (frame1.active == true){
        frame1.SetActive(false);
        frame2.SetActive(true);
        //disable parallax layers
        var parallax = GameObject.Find("ParallaxBackground").GetComponent<ParallaxBackground>();
        foreach (ParallaxLayer layer in parallax.parallaxLayers)
        {
            layer.gameObject.SetActive(false);
        }
    } else if (frame1.active == false){
        frame1.SetActive(true);
        frame2.SetActive(false);
        //enable parallax layers
        var parallax = GameObject.Find("ParallaxBackground").GetComponent<ParallaxBackground>();
        foreach (ParallaxLayer layer in parallax.parallaxLayers)
        {
            layer.gameObject.SetActive(true);
        }
    }
}

}

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
 
 [ExecuteInEditMode]

 public class ParallaxBackground : MonoBehaviour
 {
   public ParallaxCamera parallaxCamera;
   public List<ParallaxLayer> parallaxLayers = new List<ParallaxLayer>();
  
   void Start()
   {
       if (parallaxCamera == null)
         parallaxCamera = Camera.main.GetComponent<ParallaxCamera>();
       if (parallaxCamera != null)
         parallaxCamera.onCameraTranslate += Move;
       SetLayers();
   }
  
   void SetLayers()
   {
       parallaxLayers.Clear();
       for (int i = 0; i < transform.childCount; i++)
       {
           ParallaxLayer layer = transform.GetChild(i).GetComponent<ParallaxLayer>();
  
           if (layer != null)
           {
               layer.name = "Layer-" + i;
               parallaxLayers.Add(layer);
           }
       }
     }
     void Move(float delta)
     {
         foreach (ParallaxLayer layer in parallaxLayers)
       {
           layer.Move(delta);
       }
   }
 }

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

 [ExecuteInEditMode]
 public class ParallaxCamera : MonoBehaviour 
 {
     public delegate void ParallaxCameraDelegate(float deltaMovement);
     public ParallaxCameraDelegate onCameraTranslate;
     private float oldPosition;
     void Start()
     {
         oldPosition = transform.position.x;
     }
     void LateUpdate()
     {
         if (transform.position.x != oldPosition)
         {
             if (onCameraTranslate != null)
             {
                 float delta = oldPosition - transform.position.x;
                 onCameraTranslate(delta);
             }
             oldPosition = transform.position.x;
         }
     }
 }

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

 [ExecuteInEditMode]
 public class ParallaxLayer : MonoBehaviour
 {
    public float parallaxFactor;
    public void Move(float delta)
    {
        Vector3 newPos = transform.localPosition;
        newPos.x -= delta * parallaxFactor;
        transform.localPosition = newPos;
    }

 }

If anyone have an Idea how to cancel the fact that my Layer are moving when the Box is inactive or help me find how to change the Axis position when I enter a new box, It would be really great !

[leaden ice]

what are frame1 and frame2? What do they have to do with the parallax things?

you've kinda dumped a ton of code here without context

[plush abyss]

frame 1 and frame 2 are two ScreenBoxes

and My problem is that when frame 1 is active, the Layer of frame 2 moves even if it's off

so I wonder I someone have an idea how to change the Parallax axis when the frame changes 😄

[leaden ice]

     void Move(float delta)
     {
         foreach (ParallaxLayer layer in parallaxLayers)
       {
           layer.Move(delta);
       }
   }```

isn't this the code that's moving them?

[plush abyss]

yes it is

[leaden ice]

I don't see anything here that would care about whether the frame objects are active or not

[plush abyss]

well I tryied to check it with IsActive() but it didn't work either

[leaden ice]

I don't really understand what you're trying to do here tbh

why not just remove the ones you don't want to move from that list

[plush abyss]

I'm trying to have different boxes into a scene likeso they are not too many object and the player isn't lagging

[plush abyss]

because It's a general script for all my layers

[leaden ice]

maybe you need a separate list for "currently moving / active layers"

[plush abyss]

I want them to move but frim a different axis only when the box is active

[plush abyss]

I'll look at this, good idea

but it doesn't fix the Parallax Axis :c

[plush abyss]

It's not working either because my background Parallax is already different for each screenboxes so the script shouldn't be active when the script isn't active either

[polar marten]

why do you have execute in edit mode set for these

they mutate their transforms... you don't want to do that in edit mode

that's not going to work

first remove execute in edit mode

before anything else

[plush abyss]

okk I used it to see where to put my colliders 🐸

[polar marten]

you are also adding event listeners and never removing them in an executeineditmode script

which is really bad*

the delegate is not an event either. it doesn't have to be but that's surprising

[plush abyss]

well I removed them

[polar marten]

onCameraTranslate is redundant

don't use an event at all

setlayers is also surprising

what is a screenbox? what do you mean a disabled screenbox?

a bunch of your issues are coming from this event

don't use them

it is surprising to you

[plush abyss]

well a screenbox is a box that have a part of the scene and is only active when the player enter inside it

It's usefull not to generate everything at the same moment

[polar marten]

void LateUpdate() {
 if (transform.position.x == oldPositionX) {
  return;
 }

 foreach (var parallaxBackground in parallaxBackgrounds) {
  parallaxBackground.Move(transform.position.x - oldPositionX);
 }
}

don't use the delegate, it is what is causing your issue

the delegate ( the event) is still going to execute even if a game object is inactive

[plush abyss]

but even without that my problem is about the parallax axis when I enter a new place because It keep his first position and don't know how to change it

[polar marten]

well

a lot of the problems you are having are Programming

you have to deal with all these issues

[plush abyss]

haha

[polar marten]

nobody said parallax would be simple lol

[plush abyss]

Okk, will try to find my issues this evening then

[junior bobcat]

Android question here, I'm trying to use the System.IO to read the filesystem on an Oculus Quest.... but I keep getting permission error. I added the code below into the AndroidManifest.xml but I don't see the pop up for permissions when I launch in debugger and I still get the Permission denied error.... What could I be missing?

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

[leaden ice]

what part of the file system are you trying to read from?

also WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE seems like it's for writing only

what about reading?

[junior bobcat]

READ is implied with it

/

[leaden ice]

I don't think any app is allowed to read/write to / under any circumstance in Android

[junior bobcat]

yes, they are

[potent sleet]

?https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission#READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

why would this be a thing then

[junior bobcat]

The Quest 2 is running Android 10, tried including android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true" but still doesn't have the permission pop up

are permissions supposed to pop up when running in debug mode?

I supposed if you only wanted to READ and not write?

[potent sleet]

wait..

[rain minnow]

what about it?

[potent sleet]

guess it is explicit with WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

[junior bobcat]

I know it's possible to at least read root... Skybox VR does it and I know that's running unity

granted, it has the permission pop up when you open the app

[potent sleet]

doesn't package manager take care of permissions ?

[junior bobcat]

which is from the AndroidManifest.xml..

[potent sleet]

do you have to grab those values from the manifest ?

[junior bobcat]

the OS grabs it

[potent sleet]

ok so they're injected in but don't you still have to make a request on whatever components you declared wanting permission from

[junior bobcat]

yes.... I am using System.IO

[potent sleet]

I don't think that one works does it ?

you need the native method

[rancid jolt]

I have changed my strategy and instead using ray now I am using viewPort to check if the enemy is visible in the main camera or not. if it is visible it should start shooting to the player. But it is shooting even when it is not visible in the main camera.

[potent sleet]

I'm seeing this pattern often

[junior bobcat]

hm... I could try to verify if it's working... but I'm wondering if I'm misunderstanding what WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE means here. I just found this in the player settings

[potent sleet]

I've only exported to APKs to playtest, never actually messed with permissions tho 😫

you can try your luck in #📱┃mobile

[potent sleet]

did you read through this ?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/android-RequestingPermissions.html

looks like unity took care of the methods and have a Permission class..

[swift falcon]

android 10+ requires special permission

MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

[hasty haven]

When detecting collision with OnTriggerEnter() is it possible to check the layer of the other collider or would it be more performant to just use tags and CompareTag()?

[woeful leaf]

Probably doesn't matter much

Unless you're doing some extremely whacky major collision events

[hasty haven]

Mostly for differentiating things like hitting a wall, character, boundary, etc

[woeful leaf]

In which case you should use the profiler to determine it

[woeful leaf]

Yeah that really won't matter performance wise

Unless you plan on building an absolutely massive game

[devout solstice]

is there a way to cut out part of a block without editing the model file obviously

[hasty haven]

This is for a (networked) projectile system so I'd like to make it as performant as possible.

I have already stress tested it with a shotgun that shoots 100 projectiles 10x a second in the past.
this iteration should be a lot more performant on the network side too

I disabled the on hit effects in this video

But you can see all of that info going over the wire no problem

The sort of square ish breaking on the end has to do with tick rate

In general players wont have more than a few dozen projectiles active at once

[unique jolt]

Hi guys, somebody can help me with this error please?🙈

[leaden ice]

Try Window -> Layout -> pick one of the presets

[simple egret]

It's not an error. It won't break anything, but if you want to solve it, reset your window layout.

[autumn cipher]

public GameObject LoadoutButton;
    public GameObject[] LoadoutButtons = new GameObject[20];
    public override bool Active
    {
        get => base.Active;

        set
        {
            base.Active = value;

            if (value)
            {
                List<byte> notNullindexes = new(), Nullindexes = new();
                for (byte k = 0; k < LoadoutButtons.Length; k++)
                {
                    if (LoadoutButtons[k] != null)
                    {
                        notNullindexes.Add(k);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Nullindexes.Add(k);
                    }                    // player.playerData.LoadoutDatas.Count is dynamic, could be 20 max                                    
                    for (byte i = 0; i < player.playerData.LoadoutDatas.Count; i++) 
                    {

                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }```

I'm trying to create buttons based on player.playerData.LoadoutDatas.Count

to avoid any index out of range errors, I've instantiated LoadoutButtons' size as 15 and made two Lists that contains null/not null indexes separately

[leaden ice]

what's the question

and why would the array contain null elements?

[autumn cipher]

basically creating player.playerData.LoadoutDatas.Count amount of LoadoutButton gameobjects

and remove the extra ones if LoadoutButtons has more buttons than player.playerData.LoadoutDatas.Count

[leaden ice]

What part are you struggling with though?

Use Instantiate(somePrefab) to create them

Destroy to destroy the excess

Just put them in a List

not sure what all this nullIndexes and nonNullIndexes thing is about

Don't use an array when you want something resizable

[autumn cipher]

oh one more thing, the most important part

I'm trying to keep the button indexes fixed

that's why I did that list crap

[leaden ice]

not sure what that means or how it's related

why would the indexes change?

also why byte for the indices 😵‍💫

[autumn cipher]

my brain feels like mashed potato right now

brb in few mins

[full scaffold]

Confused

Is it meant to be some sort of inventory

[autumn cipher]

yes

basically the create a class system from call of duty

trying to replicate it

[full scaffold]

Probably explain your approach

I would have used SO or something for the data then utilize it under a separate place

[autumn cipher]

alright so I have these scriptable objects with a LoadoutData struct

 public List<LoadoutData> LoadoutDatas = new List<LoadoutData>();``` got this

created 10 of them

but this amount may change

so I'm trying to make a UI system that will bring me the right amount of buttons related to those LoadoutDatas indexes

each button will open the respective LoadoutDatas

[leaden ice]

the simple approach is something like:

MyButtonScript buttonPrefab;
List<MyButtonScript> buttons = new();

void SetLoadouts(List<Loadout> loadouts) {
  for (int i = 0; i < loadouts.Count; i++) {
    MyButtonScript theButton;
    if (i >= buttons.Count) {
      // we need to add a new button instance
      theButton = Instantiate(buttonPrefab);
      buttons.Add(newButton);
    }
    else {
      // we already have an instance in the list.
      theButton = buttons[i];
    }
 
    theButton.Initialize(loadouts[i]);
  }

  // now make sure we don't have any _excess buttons_
  while (buttons.Count > loadouts.Count) {
    Destroy(buttons[buttons.Count - 1].gameObject);
    buttons.RemoveAt(buttons.Count - 1);
  }
}```

[autumn cipher]

that's why I'm trying to keep the indexes of buttons fixed while also making the resizable

[autumn cipher]

omg you're a magician

thank you

I've been going nuts about this

thanks to everyone else as well

[zinc parrot]

Does anyone know a way to test if the z component of a normal map in unity is flipped automatically?

[leaden ice]

"normal map" is typically a texture used for "bump-mapping" in a shader/material. Are you talking about detecting if the normals of a mesh are inverted?

[zinc parrot]

no

I have a few normal maps but one is different from the others, for one of them to be correct in my program I have to do 1 - its z component
unity seems to handle this automatically and idk how

[leaden ice]

No idea. I feel like that'd be in the realm of like "Is there a way to tell automatically if the colors of a texture are correct?". Aren't all textures "correct"? It just depends on the intention, which the computer cannot know.

[zinc parrot]

thats fair

I just dont know how I can feed 2 normal maps to unity standard shader and they both display one thing
but if I use my compute shader project thingy to display them one of them has its y component wrong

[leaden ice]

that's a really good question and I have no answer for you

is the z component ignored by the standard shader maybe?

(you said z above and y here so not sure which you mean)

[zinc parrot]

sorry I mean z

since y is up in unity, I ignore that component

also theres no way to get like dxt render textures right? I need to compress these runtime created atlas's so that they aint like 3 gigs each

[formal coral]

I keep on getting this error that says that the enemy's script is destroyed, and to check if it is null, so I did that, but it still gives me the error and idk what to do

    //Stuff called from Actions
    void ChangeEnemySpeed(float change, float timeUntilNormal)
    {
        float initialEnemySpeed = enemySpeed;

        if (gameObject != null)
        {
            enemySpeed *= change;
            StartCoroutine(speedToNormal());
        }
        

        IEnumerator speedToNormal()
        {
            if (gameObject != null)
            {
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeUntilNormal);
                enemySpeed = initialEnemySpeed;
            }
                
        }

    }

[proper oyster]

what is line 100 ?

[formal coral]

starting the coroutine

StartCoroutine(speedToNormal());

[proper oyster]

wired
what object is that script on?
can you log what gameObject is in that case ?

[zinc parrot]

so is there a way to create a texture2d without causing a freeze?

[proper oyster]

why would the game freeze unless you are createing some Exteme big textures

[zinc parrot]

16k

i notice if i create a rendertexture it doesnt freeze for a second but if I do a texture2d it does

[proper oyster]

CPU VS GPU menory?

[zinc parrot]

I need texture2d instead of rendertexture because its much faster to sample a texture2d in a compute shader for some reason

hmmm

[formal coral]

the gameObject is an enemy that has the script attached to it

[proper oyster]

is there any reason the object could be destroyed when you are running that code?

[formal coral]

I just checked right now and it only happens when the enemy dies (it gets deleted)

[proper oyster]

mmm i currently see any good work arround if you cant work with a set of smaller textures

[formal coral]

but would that not matter since I already check if its null?

[zinc parrot]

I cant because I cant send an unknown amount of textures to the compute shader

cuz unity doesnt support bindlesss...

[proper oyster]

im not 100% sure the issue might be that the corutine does not directly runs when in update but after upadte
if the object is destoryd in the mean time that might cause a problem
could you add a log in OnDestory to check that?

[mossy snow]

are you checking if it's null before you try to start a coroutine on it? What's the context around that call?

[proper oyster]

#archived-code-general message

[formal coral]

You might be right since I have a function in Update() that checks if health <= 0, then destroys the object

but then what should I do to make the Coroutine work then

[proper oyster]

dont destroy the object you want to corutine to run on

[formal coral]

so would there be another way to do this then? since the enemy has to die if its health falls below 0.

[proper oyster]

or run the code on a different object

[formal coral]

I did that but instead I got an error that it couldn't access the enemy script

so I turned to this way and used Actions

[proper oyster]

why would you have to deal with the enemy script if the enemy is dead?

[formal coral]

It shouldn't

this function is called when one of my power-ups stuns the enemy it hits

so it shouldn't work against enemies already destroyed

[proper oyster]

you could stop the corutine when you are destroying the object
that would get rid of the error

[formal coral]

like StopAllCoroutines()?

[proper oyster]

that one option
or you save the Coroutine to a variable that you then can stop it via that
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StopCoroutine.html

[formal coral]

k thank you

[tawny jewel]

hey, so i have a floppy bird game where pipes are spawned every 3 seconds. i also have a powerup spawning on random timer, how can i make the powerup always spawn right between the pipes

[hexed oak]

How big is your terrain? might be imprecision, try breaking it up into smaller chunks and rebaking

[potent sleet]

maybe do a casting with rays, if the area is free then it should be spawned as that would prob be between pipes, clamp the Y pos in a range

[hexed oak]

if the pipes are every 3 seconds then only spawn a powerup if a timer counter mod 3 == 0

Maybe add a little wiggle room since it's unlikely to be exactly 0

[tawny jewel]

welp i want it to be roughly in a middle an that should be enough, i just dont want it to spawn on the pipe

so i could potentially spawn it only when, say, pipe counter is equal to 1,5

[hexed oak]

You could add an empty transform in between your pipes that is exactly where you want to spawn it

then if you're rng dictates to spawn a powerup, go ahead and spawn it using the empty's location

[rain minnow]

Depends . . . Are your pipes a) ways the same distance apart or are their small and large random gaps between them?

[tawny jewel]

welp theyre roughly always the same, theres a very simple counter spawning the pipe when it hits 3 and then resetting

[rain minnow]

The counter is irrelevant, we just need to know if the distance between them changes or not, e.g., when I made my clone, I had a min and max distance between them . . .

[tawny jewel]

nope its always the same

[hexed oak]

idk just the first thing that came to mind

[tawny jewel]

oh i apologise for misunderstatement, i ment between the pipe clones

so in a free space from before another pipe spawns

[hexed oak]

Yeah I'd try smaller sizes if possible. I've had that frustration before of little gaps

[tawny jewel]

thats a good idea tho, ill try that

[hexed oak]

if space stays the same then my pic doesn't matter, just use an empty gameobject position

space between bottom of rect and top of rect

[tawny jewel]

also, just as a side note, would that have a chance to work?

[hexed oak]

it will move up and down with the prefab clone

[tawny jewel]

i actually dont want it to spawn between top and bottom pipe, i want it to spawn horizontally in the middle between one pipe and another

if that matters

[potent sleet]

raycast and call it a day

[tawny jewel]

so basically like this

well more in the middle but yea

[tawny jewel]

alright i can try

[formal coral]

Anyone know why line 42 and 43 never run?
https://paste.ofcode.org/TfLt8pJHaY4d3HucgLPxv

[leaden ice]

looks like they're inside an if statement

presumably the condition is false

[formal coral]

i already checked that and the Debug.Log("running"); runs

[leaden ice]

they're also after a yield

[formal coral]

so it has to do something with the yield return new

[leaden ice]

a coroutine won't resume from a yield if the object running it is destroyed or deactivated

[formal coral]

That would be true but it doesn't even work for objects that aren't destroyed

[leaden ice]

so presumably your object is being destroyed or disabled

also check how long stunTime is

it's also kinda weird to use a local function for this

[formal coral]

I did a debuglog and it is always 2

so the time it takes should only be 2 seconds

[leaden ice]

Ok so... which GameObject is this script attached to

[formal coral]

an explosion that appears and disappears after a short amount of time

could it be because I Destroy() it after a second?

yeah that was the case

[leaden ice]

I literally asked you that lol

and you said it wasn't destroyed

[leaden ice]

or rather you said this which is kind of a non answer

[formal coral]

I thought you meant by like the enemy that it is colliding with was being destroyed

[leaden ice]

that doesn't seem relevant but alright

[twilit hamlet]

Hey im just trying to figure out how the save/load work flow works. I can turn all my objects into json and stick them in a string list but then how do i store the list of json strings to be read in by the loader?

[leaden ice]

list of json strings? Wdym by that?

[feral flax]

please help me

[leaden ice]

The general idea is you put all of the data you want to save in a big object like:

[Serializable]
public class SaveGameData {
  // whatever data you want to save goes in here. ALL OF IT.
}```
Then you just feed that object to the serializer and it gives you one json string. You write that string to your file. Done.

then reverse it to load

[twilit hamlet]

I was planning on having the loader read through the list and create each object, or is there a better way of doing that

[leaden ice]

you can do that but then put them all in a list

and throw them into the main save data object

[Serializable]
public class SaveGameData {
  // whatever data you want to save goes in here. ALL OF IT.
  public List<Whatever> whatevers;
}```

your loader can read through the whatevers list and instantiate GameObjects or whatever it needs to do

[twilit hamlet]

but you can use JsonUtility.toJson() on a list

[leaden ice]

You can use it on an object that contains a list

like my example

you can't use it directly on a list.

[twilit hamlet]

huh, ok so i would be creating a group object and json-ing that?

[leaden ice]

yes

your save/load code need not be any more complicated than:

string json = JsonUtility.ToJson(saveData);
File.WriteAllText(json, filepath);```
and
```cs
string json = File.ReadAllText(filepath);
SaveData loadedData = JsonUtility.FromJson<SaveData>(json);```

[twilit hamlet]

that just seems like more work to then have to decode the object then decode the data within that object, i feel like writing each on to an array would have been a faster way to save it to a text file

[leaden ice]

what lol

[leaden ice]

This is more work?

loadedData.whatevers < this is not work

this is one .

Work would be some crazy string concatenation scheme you probably are about to try

work with the parser, not against it

there's no further "decoding" to do

[twilit hamlet]

alright, Thanks! in Gamemaker I ended up having to make my own save format with nested arrays cuz it wouldn't support structs taking variables

do you mind if I ask, why are you always in here? Every time I come to this discord you are always on answering tons of questions in multiple channels. Is unity like paying you or are you just super motivated to help people?

[twilit hamlet]

or are you even real.... 🧐 just a super smart Q&A AI

[leaden ice]

procrastination

they should be paying me

tell them to pay me

[twilit hamlet]

LMAO!

[leaden ice]

I'm working on an asset store asset right now and my code isn't working as i'd like it to so instead of fixing it I'm in here fixing other people's shit

[soft shard]

I felt this on a peroneal level lol

[twilit hamlet]

That's mastery right there. I hope to achieve this level of productive procrastination some day

[void basalt]

So I'm writing a netcode framework and I'm working on audio, but I have no idea where to start. Looking for ideas.

If I literally roll back the audio source state, and fast forward it's time attribute during the rollback stage, do you think the audio will be poppy or glitchy?

There's like nothing on the internet about this stuff

[leaden ice]

would it help if I told you the asset store asset is itself procrastination from my day job?

[leaden ice]

How does audio relate to the netcode? Would audio not just be done completely locally?

Or are you talking about... voice chat or something?

[void basalt]

If I shoot my predicted gun, the state has to be rolled back

generally guns have a shoot sound

basically everything in my NetworkFixedUpdate() loop gets rolled back

so right now it would basically just play a bunch of overlapping sounds

since I don't know how to properly rollback audio

[neat lagoon]

you just dont play the audio while replaying from a rollback

[leaden ice]

I don't think you can really "roll back" audio but you can stop the clip that's playing in progress

[void basalt]

Yeah I thought about just skipping new audio playback during rollback

but how? Without a code generator?

If I disable the audio source, currently played audio stops playing even when re-enabled

[leaden ice]

I feel like you as the framework author just need to notify the user that their state was rolled back somehow and handling the audio consequences of that are up to the user

[void basalt]

I mean I could include in the documentation that you need to wrap your audio.play in a if (!Networking.isrollingback)

that just seems sort of gross

[neat lagoon]

usually you literally have a boolean for your game state logic like "isReplaying"

[void basalt]

alright yeah

I guess that works

Does Physics.Simulate() also tick particle systems?

the particle systems have their own Simulate() so I'm gonna assume it doesn't. The docs just don't state anything about it

[leaden ice]

probably not

[leaden ice]

Good news, I decided to actually debug my code and fixed it.

[twilit hamlet]

Hey, Congrats!

[hoary sparrow]

How would you like it to move instead?

I have a weird issue with Gizmos, as I'm trying to draw spheres in a circle, but at certain intervals they start not drawing a full circle, where did I mess up the maths/code?

(the third pic shows up how it should be)

[quartz folio]

You should make sure your divisions always use floating point maths

[safe knoll]

@void basalt Some ideas: You could have some sorta effects manager that you trigger your effects through. (sfx, vfx whatever you dont want to replay during a rollback). It could track the ID of a sfx and the frame it was played,
when you do a rollback and replay through the frames it will have the info to know that an sfx of that id was already triggered on that frame, so ignore it.

[hoary sparrow]

oh, so I just gotta add the "f", right?

[quartz folio]

360 should be 360f, yes

[hoary sparrow]

it works now, thank you!
I always forget about adding it

[potent sleet]

dont crosspost next time :p

[void basalt]

I definitely considered doing something like this as well

I wonder if its possible to directly alter the unity API. Like run some custom code right after AudioSource.play gets called

[cosmic rain]

Unless you have the The Enterprise license(I think), you don't have access to the source code. At least not to modifying it. So, no.@void basalt

[void basalt]

I read somewhere that the Mirror framework does some weird shit internally where they inject code into method calls, in order to give them networking functionality

all on a dynamic basis

[cosmic rain]

No clue about it. If you have actual link to that info, maybe we could figure it out.

[void basalt]

https://mirror-networking.gitbook.io/docs/guides/communications/remote-actions

Commands functions should have the prefix “Cmd” and cannot be static. This is a hint when reading code that calls the command - this function is special and is not invoked locally like a normal function.
I think you have to have access to the actual method body in the first place, so that might be impossible for what I'm trying to do

[pine coral]

So im sending data to unity through a serialport with an arduino, although while reading the line, it appears to be either reading it twice or somehow getting another line (which is giving me errors about the index being out of bounds)

[plucky karma]

I just want to point out that's some level of commitment. Can we be your rubber ducky? ❤️

[frigid anvil]

Throw some code on a page someplace, and we can see if there's any obvious software issues, but it's always possible it's hardware which would be harder to detect.

[plucky karma]

Couldn't you just inherit your class from AudioSource component instead? Or is that class sealed?

Or why not OnAudioFilterRead()?

[frigid anvil]

Heh; one of the things about hanging out here and helping out is that it always makes me feel better about my own work when I'm around folks who are intent on building things. It's a virtuous cycle, somewhat. But I do look forward to seeing what it ends up being.

[pine coral]

Well, im printing the data in the arduino ide and it comes out fine, when unity reads the code, it reads it fine, but also gets another set (of a shorter array) from I have no clue where

[devout solstice]

Im in a bit of trouble here

[pine coral]

So it logs 2 entrys, the main one which is right, then a second one that is just wrong and im not sure where its coming from

[devout solstice]

Its kind of hard to explain but I'll try

I have a rectangle right, and I'm trying to set the variable LoadingBarObjX to the rectangles current size, so I have it getting set every frame, however I also want to subtract a value from LoadingBarObjX and apply the new value to the rectangles current size

However it seems due to LoadingBarObjX constantly getting set to the current size I can't subtract the value

[frigid anvil]

Buffer overflow?

[devout solstice]

Actually might've just found something

[pine coral]

Well, I figured out the issue, just not sure why the issue occurs, I have 2 if statements that shouldn't be active, but for some reason, those not being commented out sends a shorter array in the debug log

But the thing is, the thing they send to the debug log isn't even what shows up

[frigid anvil]

Debugging: Why doesn't this work? Ah! I see the problem! Wait... Why did this EVER work? 😉

[devout solstice]

Ah shit nevermind still doesn't work

[pine coral]

Yea true, but im honestly confused because why do 2 if statements not being commented out send an extra array to the debug log?

[frigid anvil]

No clue; haven't seen the code. 😛

[pine coral]

Give me one moment

https://hastebin.com/cogikifitu.csharp

[devout solstice]

Anyone got any ideas for me?

[frigid anvil]

The two debug lines at the bottom?

[pine coral]

Yea, if I have those there, it adds an extra 0,0 in the debug log (since the above debug log sends 0,0,0 (or some version of 3 numbers)

[ionic socket]

me reaping: "I don't need to make these classes and function calls flexible for a wide range of uses, i'll just code up specific ones as needed. I'll be able to get moving faster, I'll come back and refactor them later!"

me sowing: "Aww man I did Step C like 5 subtly different ways, now I really need to refactor this code to cover the core use cases in a generic, reliable way"

[devout solstice]

I am beyond confused, I have variable LoadingBarObjX set to 1 and an if statement that should activate if LoadingBarObjX > 1 however when I put LoadingBarObjX > 1 in the if statement it doesnt work, what does work is LoadingBarObjX < 1

[frigid anvil]

Does sp.ReadByte block? Maybe you're running into something weird about Update being called while it's blocked... Because your if statements do have side-effects...

[pine coral]

I mean, I thought if the if statement was false, it would just do nothing, not send a random debug like that

[frigid anvil]

I think you have those backwards; unless it's a subtle threading joke. 🙃

[frigid anvil]

No, I think you misunderstand... sp.ReadByte is blocking...waiting for a byte...reading it... The byte is zero (or a string zero, which is not equal to 1/2), so it skips out, but it read the byte so it's not in the stream anymore so the next update it reads fewer bytes.

[pine coral]

Ah I see

[ionic socket]

naw i implemented like 80 various game commands in a only vaguely generic way and now it's like, oh i really should use the strategy pattern to configure this rather than custom classes that are 80% the same for everything.

[devout solstice]

Alright I figured it out for some reason the script thinks that the localscale x is negative

[devout solstice]

Is there a way to only activate a method when the script is added to an object? Not when the scene loads or anything ONLY when the script is added to an object, I want the method to be run once and that is it

[devout solstice]

Alright well I got it working how I want it

No there wasn't an easier way to make a loading bar fuck you

My loading bar is best loading bar

[ionic socket]

how to check if a List<T> is a list of any type (or a HashSet, Stack, etc)?

[leaden ice]

What exactly are you looking for

Do you want to know if it's an IEnumerable?
An IList?
An actual List?

[ionic socket]

oh jeesh lemme try to remember 😛

[leaden ice]

List<T> implements all of these interfaces

[ionic socket]

shorts answer is I wanted a List of lists where each individual list may be of a different <T>

[leaden ice]

List<IList> would do it

[ionic socket]

gotchya!

[obtuse cedar]

    IEnumerator EmitRoutine(ParticleSystem.EmitParams @params, ParticleSystem.ShapeModule shape)
    {
        print("starting emit routine");
        float timer = 0;
        print("time at emit start is " + Time.time);
        float timestart = Time.time;
        float particleDur = ParticleDuration * 60;
        print("particledur is " + particleDur);
        while (timer < particleDur)
        {

            shape.rotation = TargetTransform.rotation.eulerAngles;
            @params.position = TargetTransform.position;
            Particles.Emit(@params, ParticlesToEmit);
            print("timer is " + timer + " at " + (Time.time - timestart));
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(EmissionRate);
            timer += 60 * EmissionRate;
            //yield return null;
        }
        print("time at end is " + Time.time);
        float timediff = Time.time - timestart;
        print("time diff is " + timediff);
        print("emit routine finished");
    }

I made this coroutine for intermittently emitting particles but the time difference is about 1 second longer than the duration I specified
I'm guessing I should rely on delta time and check if I passed a certain amount of seconds instead of relying on waitforseconds?

Or is my math wrong?

[south crag]

Anyone has code examples on how to update a mesh using the new API every frame that varies in #vertices? My concern is I'm not sure if I should recreate the VertexAttributeDescriptor each frame and set it via SetIndexBufferParams/SetVertexBufferParams, or there is other better ways. Would be nice to see what the optimal way of doing this.

[simple edge]

Your math is a bit wrong, but I would do like you said
You'd have to take into account that WaitForSeconds is not super accurate, and typically is slightly delayed by a few ms
I don't see what EmmisionRate is, but if this is very low, then eventually this may add up

[vague tundra]

Does anybody know where I can find a big list of Unity Exceptions?

[obtuse cedar]

emission rate is supposed to be a fraction of a second
like .1 for every 10th of a second meaning 10 particles every second

[merry sierra]

i am trying to load asset bundles from the server and now it downloads every time i open game any solution for this?

[thin aurora]

Timing in IEnumerable is inaccurate

If you want it to be accurate, rely on Time.DeltaTime within Update

You can replicate a second by doing something like this:

float _interval;
void Update()
{
  this._interval+= Time.DeltaTime;
  if (this._interval < 1) return;
  _interval -= 1;

  // Behaviour here
}

_interval -= 1; is important as setting is to 0 can still make it inaccurate, since it's never going to be exactly 1 second

I think this is as accurate as you will get it

[obtuse cedar]

ah cool I get it
thank u very much

here i was thinking i needed to use modulo

[sour trench]

I have a problem that I can't come up with a good solution for. Basically I have scriptable objects for my weapons, each weapon has a set of abilities it can perform. The problem is that some of the ability properties should come from the editor, such as icon, description and cooldown so you can easily change them without diving into the code, while the name and method have to be set through the code because I can't expose the method (it can't be a UnityEvent because I need a return type other than void). The issue I'm having is that if I create the abilities list in the constructor any changes later after the scriptable object is created it won't obtain. Equally with the OnValidate I have to check for existing abilities in the list before I attempt to add them or replace the list entirely, otherwise I will always lose info that I set via the editor.

One way I could work around this would be to have a separate list altogether where you specify the icon, description and cooldown which are then mapped to the abilities list. However I don't think this is optimal either if the abilities list changes then the lists would be out of sync instantly..

Does anyone have a good idea how I can approach this?

[thin aurora]

Don't think you can do it with modulo?

But yeah there are other ways. This is just what I thought of

[obtuse cedar]

yeah can't, i was just overthinking it

[thin aurora]

You can probably use Coroutines in some way too

[obtuse cedar]

yeah i got it working thanks

time difference is a lot better now

[frigid anvil]

while the name and method have to be set through the code because I can't expose the method
wat? This sounds like you're over-generalizing your weapons...

[sour trench]

@frigid anvil Not sure what you mean by that?

[frigid anvil]

What do you mean by 'I can't expose the method'?

[sour trench]

@frigid anvil Well if I could I would, but I can't get it to show up in the inspector without using UnityEvent, since I need bool as a return type and not void I have to use a custom delegate:

    public delegate bool MethodAction(BaseController caster, BaseController target, bool canPerformAbility);
    public MethodAction method;

    public AbilityInfo(MethodAction method, ... other stuff)
    {
        this.method = method;
        ...
    }

Which is then used like:

    new AbilityInfo(nameof(Stab), Stab);
    ...
    public bool BasicAttack(BaseController caster, BaseController target, bool canPerformAttack) { ... }

[frigid anvil]

Right, so you're trying to generalize your weapons to have an arbitrary list of abilities that directly correspond to different internal methods. That's what I meant by 'over-generalizing your weapons'. Why not have a single Attack(...) behavior for each, instead, for instance? That would allow you to eliminate some of the complexity which is causing you trouble in your question.

[thin aurora]

Just remember it's never exactly one second since you will always be frame depentent. So _interval can end up as 1.1 for example, because Time.DeltaTime was around 0.1 because of a lag spike, but there is no way around that as far as I know

[sour trench]

Well for enemies that is what I have and it works great. However, since player combat requires a UI to go along with it this is what is causing the issues. Enemies can simply perform their attacks since they're automated, but players have to manually cast abilities to perform the attacks, which is done with clicks on buttons in the UI.

[golden vessel]

Hey, got a question about code design. I'm struggling to think of a way to make my character not move because there's so many reasons why he shouldn't move. I initially had one boolean, but that doesn't work very well since multiple scripts interacted with it, for example quitting a dialogue would make him move while the player was still in a cinematic part. The way I make it work now is to have lots of booleans for the check on the condition, like if(inTransition || inDialogue || ...){movement = new vector2(0,0)}, but it's still very confusing. Any tips on how to make it simple?

[frigid anvil]

So...for instance, a player's gun would have...'shoot' and 'bash' options? I'm trying to see how it plays out. Also, what's the bool return used for, and is there some other way it can be communicated?

[golden vessel]

(there's supposed to be || instead of spoilers)

[sour trench]

Yeah or a sword could have "stab", "slash", "swirling tornado" etc etc. The bool is used to determine whether or not the attack was actually performed or not, which I can then act on:

        bool didPerformAbility = abilityToPerform.method.Invoke(GameManager.instance.player, currentTarget, CanPerformAbility);

        if (didPerformAbility)
        {
            if (abilityToPerform.cooldown > 0)
            {
                PlaceAbilityOnCooldown(abilityToPerform);
            }

            ...
        }

I'm trying to think if the CanPerformAbility logic should be refactored out of each ability though.. that way it could be possible to skip the return type because the ability would always be performed.

[frigid anvil]

So why isn't this bool didPerform = weapon.performAbility("ability_name_as_a_string", currentTarget, CanPerformAbility); ?

...and then leave it up to the weapon's performAbility code to figure out which ability to do? That pushes the behavior to...where the behavior lives, really, instead of pushing the complexity of behavior to...everywhere else.

[frigid anvil]

Just to be clear, I'm brainstorming with you, because you called it out as a problem you were having trouble coming up with solutions for. I don't want to question or undermine your design; if that's how you want it, that's how you want it. Right now I'm suggesting alternatives that might better fit with the rest of the system you're describing, but if that doesn't work for you, say so.

[slow tree]

can we trigger bake lightmap with code?

[sour trench]

@frigid anvil Yeah that is fine, usually if I run into a wall I have to do a complete rethink of the design which usually works out. I can't remember why I baked it into each ability to begin with, will check the possibility of breaking it out again.

[frigid anvil]

Yeah, me too. 🙂 When I get to a certain point, I'm like... 'Wait, what were my assumptions again? Are they still true?' And the one that kills me every time is, 'Do I really need that much flexibility?' I gotta stop writing mini-languages. 🤣

[sour trench]

@frigid anvil That rings too true.. 🥹 Trying to future-proof your code is not worth it I've found, still struggling to get the habit out of my system but I'm slowly getting there...

[solemn glade]

is there a way to save a dictionary to a json file?

[low scaffold]

You could use json.NET to do this, Unity's JSON system doesn't support dictionaries and I'm unsure if you can create contracts for it https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/SerializingCollections.htm

[main shuttle]

https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/serializedictionary.htm
Newtonsoft's JSON utility does support it by default it seems. Never used it though.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json@2.0/manual/index.html

[solemn glade]

thanks both of you ill try out :)

[frigid anvil]

I've used Newtonsoft's library; it's really good. Takes some getting used to, but I like it a lot.

[solemn glade]

yea ok

[vague slate]

How do I make a LocalizedString with specific arguments through code?

[hoary crest]

How can we save the light state between scenes?

[solemn glade]

thanks worked perfectly

[autumn cipher]

when you create different ScriptableObjects as .asset files, do the methods inside them also get instantiated?

holding methods on another regular class would be better I guess

[hexed pecan]

Methods don't get "instantiated", they are just instructions, not objects

They have the methods that that particular scriptableobject class has

[low scaffold]

You can open the .asset file in a text editor if you'd like to see exactly what it's doing. My understanding is that Unity only stores a reference to the ScriptableObject script and the properties of that object. Methods aren't stored on disk aside from in your Script file

What are you looking to achieve?

[autumn cipher]

ah great

[autumn cipher]

I was trying to prevent methods from "duplicating" across instances and taking up more space

even if that's what's happening

[low scaffold]

Nah, Unity uses ScriptableObject asset files more like a template for how to create your class. Not a fan of scriptable objects, very convenient but not very well documented and it's hard to understand what they're doing under the hood

[autumn cipher]

thanks

[plain yacht]

@autumn cipher If you have a method that doesn't require state then you can mark it as 'static', that way all objects will share that method.

[autumn cipher]

thank you

[plain yacht]

No problem!

Do keep in mind though that having objects that encapsulate both state and behaviour is what OOP is all about. If you want a set of data containers to execute methods defined elsewhere against then I think thats probably closer to the ECS way of doing things.

[autumn cipher]

do you think ECS is more organized than OOP?

[plain yacht]

As often in programming you don't get "more" you get "different".

[autumn cipher]

I want to learn ECS but I fear that not many employers might want ECS from me

so I'm doing it the common OOP way

[plain yacht]

Last I looked at the Unity dots/ecs side of things it didn't feel very mature.

But that was like 3 years ago.

[autumn cipher]

should be a lot better now but yeah, best to go with the stable way

[plain yacht]

ECS can be more performant, so if you want to build a strategy game with thousands of units on screen then ECS is a better fit.

[frigid anvil]

Yeah; that's the whole, 'Build it the old way, because you can get more help with it. If you ever get to the point that you need ECS, then you'll know you need it, and be better prepared to change to it.'

[autumn cipher]

what is a proper way to make a backup of the project, is it just copy pasting the folder?

I'll try implementing a networking solution so I wish to make backup in case it gets ruined

[thin aurora]

You should use version control, like Git

And push it to a repository over on GitHub

Git supports "branches" and your networking solution can be developed in a seperate branch whilst your main branch is left unchanged

[autumn cipher]

damn, it's time to dive into that git stuff

thanks

[thin aurora]

Git is important for literally everything. I'm surprised you haven't used it.

Not just code related either

[autumn cipher]

I actually tried once and failed miserably

or was it something else related to github? I don't remember

[frigid anvil]

Yeah, version control is...pretty key. Even for test projects, if I get to more than one or two scripts, or I start customizing assets, then I create a git project, and commit regularly, even if I don't push it anywhere.

[thin aurora]

Dunno. Git should be pretty simple

Init in a folder, add a gitignore for the language you use, and done

Optionally create a dev branch and start development

You can't really go wrong with it. Just fix your mistake and commit the changes

[rancid pond]

I am adding line renderer in runtime. The thing is that line is purple since there is no material getting added to line renderer component. how to fix this

[thin aurora]

Or, you know, revert

[hexed pecan]

Have a Material field and assign that material to the LineRenderer when you create it.

[frigid anvil]

Git has...some pretty spectacular failure modes, but for simple use, it should indeed be...simple. Just...commit regularly, and make sure all your assets are tracked in it. There are publicly available .gitignore files for Unity that will be very helpful, because there are folders you don't want to track.

[vast matrix]

Is there a way to combine a UploadHandlerFile with the multipart form data?

var webRequest = UnityWebRequest.Post(requestData.url, new List<IMultipartFormSection>() {
            // new MultipartFormFileSection("vanillaZip",await File.ReadAllBytesAsync(tempPath) , "0.0" + ".zip", "application/zip"),
            new MultipartFormDataSection("version", "0.1"),
            new MultipartFormDataSection("bundleHash", "asfasfas")
        });
        webRequest.uploadHandler = new UploadHandlerFile(tempPath);
        webRequest.uploadHandler.contentType = "application/zip";

e.g moving from the FormFileSection to the UploadHandler. The file in this case is large (1-5GB) and the file section won't chunk or stream, requires the entire thing in memory

[devout solstice]

that would probably go in #archived-code-advanced

[autumn cipher]

I should probably upload the resources on dropbox or something

nvm this is getting too out of topic

[frigid anvil]

That's what git lfs is for, but yeah...

[thin aurora]

Like Cyberfox said, this is why Git LFS exist

You can make a pretty big repo, but not push files like this in a regular repo

Although you might get an email from them if your repo becomes too big

[autumn cipher]

idk if they would allow a 10+ GBs repo, I'll just exclude the Resources folder and save Resources on somewhere else, maybe google drive etc

[thin aurora]

Why do you have a 100MB file anyway

[devout solstice]

how would i make a proper loading bar? because rn i’ve just got it so the dev sets how long they want it to load, how do i make the loading bar actually go based off how much has loaded?

[hexed pecan]

Looks like a model file with textures embedded.

[autumn cipher]

it's a 3d model stacked with animations I guess

[devout solstice]

I don’t even know if there would be a point in that because it seems like unity instantly loads everything

[hexed pecan]

You would need to do the loading in a coroutine or async method perhaps

[devout solstice]

really that’s it?

Oh wait

[hexed pecan]

Well, otherwise it will load in one frame

[devout solstice]

the loading

how tf would i do that

[hexed pecan]

What are you loading?

[devout solstice]

the scene

I want it like a loading bar you see in games

[hollow stone]

Scene you can load async and use the loading % to update the bar.

[hexed pecan]

Yeah
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync.html

[autumn cipher]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMj2qPq9CP8
This would help

also has percentage showing (optional)

[hollow stone]

Other loading operations you would need to manually compute how much you've completed and update the loading bar accordingly (in turn requiring it to be async to update the rendered bar)

[devout solstice]

I have a loading bar made just need to get it to go based off how much has loaded

wdym other loading operations? like loading scripts or something?

[hexed pecan]

Yeah so look at LoadSceneAsync and AsyncOperation.progress

[autumn cipher]

yeah the video also shows that near the end

[hollow stone]

E.g loading save files, generating map etc.

[devout solstice]

alright appreciate it

[devout solstice]

ohhh yea, idk how tf to save stuff in a script in unity let alone save files, idk how to stop unity from resetting the values in the inspector each time the scene is loaded and unloaded

which is kind of annoying but playerprefs is annoying to deal with and idk how else to do it

[hexed pecan]

If you want values to persist between scenes, you can use DontDestroyOnLoad

Or another way of saving

[devout solstice]

does that include stopping and playing the scene in the editor?

[hexed pecan]

Like entering/exiting playmode?

[devout solstice]

yea

[hexed pecan]

No, DDOL doesnt help with that

You need to save it to the disk

[devout solstice]

damn

[hexed pecan]

You can always learn to save data?

[devout solstice]

yea

oh also

[hollow stone]

Make the data you want to save serializable. Use a serializer, e.g. odin serializer (free). Save the serialized data to a file. Or use some asset from asset store.

[devout solstice]

How do i have a method in my script only run when the script is added to a game object? onenable seems to also run it when the play mode starts

[devout solstice]

oh alright

[hexed pecan]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.Reset.html

Im pretty sure anyway. Been a while since I used that

[devout solstice]

oh alright nice

idk it seems like it’s what i need

alright well thanks for the help

[mighty ivy]

Hi, is there a version of TryGetComponent where the output is a list/array of components? (e.g. used for getting all colliders from an object)

A bit like GetComponents

[hexed pecan]

Nope, but you can just use GetComponents and a for/foreach loop. If none was found, theres nothing to loop thru

[mighty ivy]

mmh okay thanks

like that?

[hexed pecan]

Yeah

[azure heath]

I've a basic form of Snake, where the body parts follow the player head position using a Vector 3 List of positions - however, as I pick up body parts, the distance between the body parts and the head seems to increase. Any idea why that might be happening?

// Move body parts
        int index = 1;
        foreach (Follower body in Convoy)
        {
            int queuePosition = Mathf.Min(index * Gap, PosHistory.Count - 1);

            Vector2 point       = PosHistory[queuePosition];
            Vector2 pointAhead  = PosHistory[queuePosition - 25];
            body.MoveFollower(curSpeed, point, pointAhead);
            index++;
        }

[merry sierra]

currently i am downloading the file which is in File format is there any way that we can change the format of that file in unity at runtime?

[main shuttle]

You are missing using statements? Your IDE should suggest which one you should be using.

If not, do you have the advertisements asset installed?

The piece of code you took must match the version you have installed in the package manager.

Are you following these: https://docs.unity.com/ads/en/ImplementingRewardedAdsUnity.html ?

So you do have the using statement then

This is getting rather confusing for me too 😅

I don't really know, normally you just follow the integration https://docs.unity.com/ads/en/UnityDeveloperIntegrations.html and it works.

Sorry, I can't help then. If you have the using statements, the package is installed, and the SDK is initialized that's all there is to it afaik. That last part isn't needed for it to recognize your interfaces. So I don't know 🤷‍♂️

[hexed pecan]

He said he does not have the using statements 🤔

.

[main shuttle]

Yeah, I would think that means he added them after noticing that. 😛

[hexed pecan]

I'd hope so heh

Nah you don't need System.Collections.Generic etc if you don't use those (List<T> etc)

[main shuttle]

This is fine, you have the Advertisements statement.

Is your IDE configured? If so, your code editor does recognize the interface.

I never know with VSC

[hexed pecan]

Also not sure how "Restricted mode" affects things, might wanna disable that

#854851968446365696 has a guide with all the steps for VS Code

If you cant get it to work, switch to VS 2022 or something

[blazing radish]

hello

[main shuttle]

Then it's not configured, VSCode is a pain in the ass to setup, that's why I would advise against it.

[blazing radish]

is there an coding help channel?

[main shuttle]

Yeah, #💻┃code-beginner is probably a good place to start, reading the #854851968446365696 before asking questions is probably a good idea

I have no idea, don't think the ids by itself are harmful, but you can delete them for safety

Don't hand out the passwords though 😛

[thin aurora]

I mean you probably just need to put using UnityEngine.Advertisements; at the top of your file

The docs that were linked mention it and it's pretty obvious since everything has their namespace

[main shuttle]

He has that, we checked.

[thin aurora]

Then he has not properly loaded the dll

[main shuttle]

Yeah, his IDE wasn't setup. VS Code again..

So either the code he used isn't valid with the advertisement package he downloaded, or the dll isn't loaded.

[blazing radish]

is there anyone familiar with photon?

[prime sinew]

#archived-networking and just ask your question. dont need to ask if anyone is familiar

[devout solstice]

How do i make my code look more professional? I look at unitys code and it looks like something idk what, and mine still looks like the code i was writing when i started learning c#

By that i mean the layout of it all

[vagrant blade]

You'll create your own style over time. The important thing is to be consistent with it.

[fringe ridge]

So, you cannot set a block of pixels on texture2d.SetPixels without having a huge array filled with colors? What if I need only one color to be set for a block of 200x200? DO i have to fill a 40000 array with just color32.black?

this seems just plain stupid

[rain minnow]

Consistency is very important. Your code style should look the same across your scripts. If you place fields at the top of the class, all scripts should adhere to that. Also, read up on SOLID and DRY principles. They help integrate good patterns and teach how to avoid bad design in your code . . .

[late lion]

That's what SetPixel is for.

[main shuttle]

Why not make it 1x1 then? And just let it stretch out?

[fringe ridge]

but that would still take 40000 iterations

it's just an example,

[late lion]

What if I need only one color to be set
you said you only needed to set one pixel.

[main shuttle]

Well, the example is weird, this is like saying a hammer is bad at cleaning a floor.

[fringe ridge]

no wait

[late lion]

Oh sorry, you mean you want to set the same color to all pixels?

[fringe ridge]

I need one color to be set on a block of pixels

this will need to be done a lot on blocks of 40 x 40, so i'm worried on performance

I really doubt i need to fill 1600 arrays with one color or iterate 1600 times to set a block of pixels to one color

[late lion]

I misunderstood, my bad.

[fringe ridge]

no worries

[woeful leaf]

(Though you should roughly adhere to C# coding conventions)

[late lion]

If you're looking for the most optimal method, I think a C# job and Burst will be fastest. With a parallel job, it will use all the available CPU cores and run optimized native code.

[fringe ridge]

ah, well thanks

I will have to find a better solution then, because killing old android phones just for a pixel art canvas sounds excessive 😄

I still don't understand how there isn't a better solution to setting a block of pixels to one color

[main shuttle]

Repeating information is always bad. So I have no idea why you think you need 40x40 of the same information. Just stretch it out when you use that information somewhere.

[devout solstice]

I just don’t want my code to look amateur, even though i kind of am an amateur

[wet furnace]

That is, if these two red objects collide with each other, then the objects, i.e. the black boxes, will be perfectly connected. firstChild.transform.position = secondChild.transform.position + Vector3 offsetValue (HOW calculate?) (it is 2d game)

[fringe ridge]

I need it to be drawn on users screen

[rain minnow]

Oh, quick question: I added Start and Restart methods, an OnRestart event, and suspended/resumed Timer when its host MonoBehaviour is disabled and enabled, but forgot which example you wanted added or explained to the Readme?

[rain minnow]

Read the Microsoft c# coding convention to see how style code guidelines . . .

[main shuttle]

So divide everything by 40, and all pieces are 1x1, and if you use that on a pixel perfect/no aniso/no compression texture it should still look the same.
Then you don't have to repeat anything and it's hundreds times faster.

[fringe ridge]

That might work. Dont have a lot of experience with textures, thanks.

[vagrant blade]

It will look amateur while you are an amateur, that's why you're an amateur. As I said, you'll develop a style over time, don't stress about it.

[devout solstice]

I’m not I just want my code to be neat and organized

and categorized, i probably want to categorize things too much

but to me categorized is organized

and it tells me what everything does and what it’s apart of

[woeful leaf]

I think it was example of like using NewDuration();? Like starting a timer with an already defined instance, but I suppose Start(); would replace that now?

[late lion]

If you're only ever writing to this texture and never reading from it, then it would be faster to do it with a RenderTexture on the GPU. You won't be able to read pixels, because it will be stored in GPU memory, but writing will be much faster because the GPU is designed for that. Then you can do something like:

RenderTexture.active = yourRenderTexture;
GL.Viewport(new Rect(x, y, width, height));
GL.Clear(clearDepth: false, clearColor: true, backgroundColor: Color.black);

The GL.Viewport will constrain the clear operation to the rectangle you specify.

[devout solstice]

what is record used for? Usually you guys explanations are easier to understand then microsoft

also what does mutable mean?

[late lion]

A mutable object can be modified. An immutable object cannot be modified after it's created.

[swift falcon]

you can read pixels from rendertexture tho

[late lion]

Sure, I might have exaggerated. You can read it if you're willing to wait a few milliseconds. The data is not as readily available as a Texture2D stored in RAM.

[devout solstice]

ah ok

So what i thought static was and then realized wasn’t

the actual definition of static

[swift falcon]

yeah have to access them on PostRender far as i remember

[devout solstice]

but what about this?

[late lion]

record was added to make it easier to define classes that behave like immutable value types, which has more obvious benefits in more business oriented software development, like interacting with databases.

record is a class, but automatically generates boilerplate code you would otherwise have to write.

[devout solstice]

Ok, god so much of this stuff isn’t what it’s name would suggest

[rain minnow]

Thanks, got it . . .

[woeful leaf]

I think in general it was just more examples of just using the instance without replacing the instance/without using all the static functions

(iirc)

[devout solstice]

what does this mean?

[leaden ice]

It means use () to make groupings of things explicit

[devout solstice]

oh wait i see

[leaden ice]

e.g. instead of a * b / c do a * (b / c) to make it clear

[devout solstice]

i didn’t read the example right

[devout solstice]

wait it would still work the same? i thought it would do a*b then / c

instead of b/c * a

[leaden ice]

sorry yes this will change it

[devout solstice]

yea

[leaden ice]

I'm tired

[devout solstice]

i was about to say oh shit my codes wrong

because i have something that needs to be divided and then multiplied by another number in that order and not divide the sum of the two multiplications

[azure heath]

I've a basic form of Snake, where the body parts follow the player head position using a Vector 3 List of positions - however, as I pick up body parts, the distance between the body parts and the head seems to increase. Any idea why that might be happening?

Relevant code's probably in Fixed Update...

[leaden ice]

can you share in a paste site, cannot read the full file this way

[prisma birch]

When making an array of a custom class or struct, Unity makes this messy looking inspector. Is there any way around this other than making the array [NonReorderable] ? That works fine but obviously you lose the ability to reorder which is nice 😅

[polar marten]

update your version of unity

this is a known bug in early 2021 LTS versions

[prisma birch]

Gotcha! Didn't know it was a bug. Do the more recent versions of 2021 LTS fix this?

[leaden ice]

yes

[trim schooner]

'twas fixed ages ago

I wanna say around 2021.3.5..?

[prisma birch]

Ha of course. I've been on 2021.3.4 forever

[polar marten]

i was just as livid as you

"how could this be around for 4 versions"

[prisma birch]

Thought that was just something I had to deal with! I've been making all of my arrays non reorderable

was getting sick of it

[polar marten]

i don't know dude. QA is a clusterfuck

[prisma birch]

Switched from Visual Scripting to proper C# after going on 2021.3.4 and haven't known anything different, just thought it was something I had to deal with lol

[azure heath]

Hey, sorry about that: https://0bin.net/paste/aLLMKuX0#IzGH4hpcrJ8yWEbgvK-ZNvFi5Hu2m1vWC1xjwRZpRW6

Also, can anybody remember what the parent class for a TMPro text component is?

[polar marten]

are you using Rider?

[leaden ice]

TMP_Text

[polar marten]

ugh i wanted to teach this man to fish!!

[leaden ice]

oh sorry

[polar marten]

lol

[azure heath]

I'm using Visual Studio - help me fish! =)

[polar marten]

i think Visual Studio has Show Hierarchy somewhere

[azure heath]

But I appreciate the fast response from Praetor, I'm trying to get this done.

[leaden ice]

The script for Follower would be useful to see too

[azure heath]

Wilco.

I've got 'View Call Hierarchy', but I don't think that's the same.

[polar marten]

do you have Resharper?

[azure heath]

https://0bin.net/paste/QVX52P3S#iqmRkfYg4o4s6XpPM9W-Ur38feVIoAEN5KCtQaI5+xR

Doctor, I don't know what that is. Is it fatal?

[polar marten]

it's the jetbrains C# plugin for visual studio

it was big even in 2013

give it a try if you like VS

[polar marten]

"Teach a man how to install VS Code, and he'll be stuck configuring for life"

[azure heath]

I'll look into it. I don't really have a preference for an IDE, happy to take suggestions.

[leaden ice]

I've been coding on an unconfigured VSCode for the past week because it keeps unconfiguring itself and I can't be bothered anymore. Also I'm using a mac and VS for Mac is a trash pile too.

Slowly coming around to the idea of paying money for Rider

[azure heath]

Either way, delighted to have TMP_text - I know you'd told me that before, Praetor, but I was wading through TMPro docs and trying to find that piece of info and going a little crazy.

Rider, c'est combien?

[polar marten]

it's like $25 or something

i don't know

[azure heath]

I'll look it up, thanks anyhoo.

[polar marten]

i'm trying to write the bit where it's the scene in full metal jacket where hartman's yelling at the recruits their assignments and "Rider" is supposed to be "Infantry" but it's really hard

[azure heath]

Eep:

[polar marten]

or is it that you finally configure VS Code and then shoot hartman?

i don't know

joker: "Are those... live prices?"
pyle: "seven six two euros... including VAT"
(pyle smiles grotesquely)

@leaden ice pretty nuanced

[azure heath]

Not looking to rush you, @leaden ice , just checking - are you taking a look at those scripts, or can I check in on an friend?

I'm gonna phone a friend, will check back shortly--!

[celest crystal]

Hello,is there anyone know how to convert quaternion from ue4 to unity?(I want to use the characters in ue4 to control the characters in unity to do the same action,tried many ways,but failed)

[honest plinth]

Hey. Can you tell me please how i can get child object (Blue Key) with Box Collider in parent (Object) with Box Collider by Raycast? ( Two objects have Interactable layer ). Try get name child object by 'hitInfo.collider.transform.name' don't work. You have any idea?

[sweet current]

GetComponentInChildren allows you to get components that are nested deeper.

But make sure to somehow use a layermask to make sure that you don't do that on everything. Like if you have a raycast-collision with a humanoid rig, GetComponentInChildren<Interactable> would search every bone that thing has.

[honest plinth]

but GetComponent in Update give bad performance when i will be see on parent object with 'Interactable' layer mask and if i will be have a few child objects in parent, i can't get child object which i need.

[sweet current]

Okay "bad performance" yeah. In tutorials, people tell you to cache components that **can **be cached, like your playerControllers rigidBody where you use the same component every frame, it would be a waste of processing power to fetch that thing every frame.

In other cases like when you run around in game and you point at things and you want to check if they are interactive, theres no way to have cached that, you need to GetComponent<> on that object your raycast hits, like you already do. That's okay.

GetComponentsInChildren can be more expensive, especially if it is used on objects with a bigger hierachy where nothing is found, so the whole hierachy is searched. That's why i recommended to use a mask to make sure the ray only hits gameObjects that are okay to search.

[crystal sky]

Hi Im Working on Script That Reset Player Stats Every Monday is This Will Work ??

[devout solstice]

idk i like visual studio code

[sweet current]

The code reset all data if the player logs in on Tuesday and if the last day played was not a monday, so no it doesn't. It will never reset if you don't play on Tuesdays.
I would calculate the days passed since last login and if thats more than the days since last monday, then reset.
Also you should format the date culture invariant and decode it via DateTime.TryParse.

[knotty sun]

#854851968446365696 for posting code

[honest plinth]

I didn't think thath I already use, but okay, my bad and I get it. But I still can't get the component I need from the child objects. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

[azure heath]

@devout solstice , whatever gets the job done, right? =)

[devout solstice]

Yea, i never configured visual studio code and it works fine for me

[azure heath]

Just to illustrate the problem I'm having...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/85593628650504192/1063143413937098772/image.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/85593628650504192/1063144371832233994/image.png
You can see in the second picture how the gap between the characters has increased as the convoy has become bigger and the movement speed has increased also.

[sweet current]

does your ray hit the parent object correctly? Is the child component activated?

[honest plinth]

Yes. In first image my child object (key) inside parent object (this is not working), but when i taking out of the collider (just moving up, second image) is working and i get component from child.

[spiral robin]

I'm trying to get the text from an Input field but I get the "Object reference not set to an Instance of an object" error. What's wrong here?

using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class GetFieldInput : MonoBehaviour
{     
       void Update()
       {

        Debug.Log(gameObject.GetComponent<InputField>().text);

       }

}```

[crystal sky]

How About Now ?

[hexed pecan]

InputField component probably missing. Maybe its the TMPro input field type?

[spiral robin]

It is

[hexed pecan]

Change InputField to the correct type

[leaden solstice]

So this makes the snake go faster:

curSpeed = MoveSpeed + (Convoy.Count * SpdIncrease);

But PosHistory saved for fixed frame rate and Gap is also fixed, like "following the position of 10 frame before" so if speed increases the spacing would get bigger, correct?

[spiral robin]

Solved, thanks