archived-code-general

[thick socket]

any way to make sure it actually backs it up to git?

[leaden ice]

Are you using VS as your git client?

[thick socket]

yessir

[leaden ice]

basically you can just check git status with any other git client

but it's unlikely git would be confused

[lime vale]

hello I am working on a dash mechanic and I have it implimanted but I want it so when you dash your keybinds are blocked and you cant change the direction

[quaint rock]

file -> save project in unity

[thick socket]

thanks, was able to get it to save by adding an item to list

saving

then removing from list

and saving

[warm night]

Hey, i have a box collider which is triggered. I want it to collides with the layer "Platform", but not with my player, how can i do that?

[leaden ice]

set up layer based collisions in physics settings

[balmy schooner]

Does anyone know how to add bloom effect to a singular game object?

[quaint rock]

its a little complicted but doable

more or less need to write that object into its own buffer so the post processing can bloom just it

how you do it heavily depends on what you are using render pipeline and post processing wise

[warm night]

It works thanks

[balmy schooner]

What's a buffer🤣

[quaint rock]

really only a easy thing if you already know how render features work or have wrote post processing effects

[balmy schooner]

I'm basically a fresh beginner at unity, I'm not really sure about any of that, how would I learn about it?

[hasty canopy]

Unity's YouTube channel has a pretty nice playlist for "tutorial for beginners"

[thick socket]

item.ID = spriteCollection.Armor.Single(i => i.Name == item.ID).Id;

how can I change this so if it doesn't exist it doesn't try to set it

Im not great with linq

so not sure where to put the ? (everywhere I've tried has thrown errors)

[leaden ice]

if what doesn't exist

what is Armor?

what is spriteCollection

[thick socket]

sorry yeah that might be important

its a SO with Armor category and this inside it

[bold terrace]

Since TerrrainData cant be serialized/deserialized with newtonsoft json.NET. How else can i save TerrainData so it can be loaded after my game has been quitted and started again?

[thick socket]

I would guess a list....but no source code as its a dll

item.ID = spriteCollection.Armor.Single(i => i.Name == item.ID).Id;

want to make the top code do what the bottom does

foreach(var tmpItem in spriteCollection.Armor)
            {
                if(item.ID == tmpItem.Name)
                {
                    item.ID = tmpItem.Id;
                }
            }

[strong ravine]

I've posted this on the Webgl but no one answered so I gonna put it here.

Ok, I can't find what is causing the following bug

https://gdl.space/oniwosikug.cs

[lime vale]

Hello I need help in a dash mechanic, I want it so when it dashes it blocks the keybinds of movement so it dosen't change direction

[thick socket]

could just set a bool when you dash

and only allow keystrokes when not dash

[ember cedar]

no matter what i change the shooting always happens 90 degrees of, how can i change it so that it shoots towards mouse

but im not yet good with angles and rotations in c# so theres probably some stupid bug

[orchid bane]

If I have something like

_event += M1;
_event += M2;

M1() => _event -= M2;
M2() => Debug.Log(1);

Will I never have the debug?

[late lion]

I don't think so, but it's easy to test.

[orchid bane]

Just tested, somehow both are called

[thick socket]

@late lion you tend to be awesome at programming...any chance you know how to do this 😄

[potent sleet]

https://youtu.be/-bkmPm_Besk?t=364

[ember cedar]

thanks

[potent sleet]

vector3.forward is for 3D

[naive swallow]

So, I have an algorithm for Levenshtein Distance, that helps me check fuzzy equality, but how would I use it to implement a fuzzy search? Like, if I am searching for the word fnce, how might I get it to find the string barriers_perimiter_outer_fence? It'd find fence since it's close to fnce but there's a lot of extra letters that need to be added and that makes the Levenshtein score drastically drop.

[late lion]

I suspect what you want is:

item.ID = spriteCollection.Armor.First(i => i.Name == item.ID).Id;

But technically your foreach does it for each element that matches, so only the last element actually sticks.

[thick socket]

ah first instead of single

there should only be 1 instance...or 0 instances

where there were 0 it was erroring which was the issue

[orchid bane]

Idk when I use linq it NEVER works

[thick socket]

throws error on no matching element so not quite what I was looking for 🙂

[late lion]

Would you want barriers_perimiter_outer_fence and barriersperimiterouterfence to end up with the same distance? Would you want that score be smaller than just fence or outerfence, for example?

[naive swallow]

Removing the underscores would increase the score slightly, so I thing barriersperimiterouterfence would be closer. I think I'd want something shorter to have a higher score than something longer containing a string similar to the search query

[late lion]

I don't think there's a one-liner for this. If you want the exact equivalent to your foreach, it would be:

var match = spriteCollection.Armor.LastOrDefault(i => i.Name == item.ID);
if (match != null)
{
    item.ID = match.Id;
}

[thick socket]

fair enough thanks 🙂

figured idk how linq works so there was probably a way to do it in 1 line

[naive swallow]

I wish I could just use this editor space function in a build
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Search.FuzzySearch.html

Annoyingly makes it hard to find a library that does this because "Unity FuzzySearch Library" just keeps bringing this back up

[late lion]

What about "C# fuzzy search library"? This comes up:
https://github.com/JakeBayer/FuzzySharp

But I'm surprised there aren't more libraries for something like this.

[naive swallow]

I'm not sure how to install a separate solution into Unity in a clean way. Do I just drop the whole source folder into the project somewhere? I'd need to make sure that licensing doesn't cause any trouble

[late lion]

It's on NuGet and you can download the package manually, open it as an archive and find the .dll that best matches Unity. In this case it would be netstandard2.0 or netstandard2.1:
https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/package/FuzzySharp/2.0.2 (this link will start the download)

[naive swallow]

I don't really know a lot about licensing I just know that as a blanket rule anything in the package manager is okay

I'll see if I can use this one

[late lion]

MIT License on GitHub, so you should be good

Should be able to open it in 7-Zip or WinRAR

[naive swallow]

Perfect.

I'll probably still have to run it by the higher-ups but if there's no issue with including it I will do that

[late lion]

In that case, the safest option would be to clone the repo and build the DLL yourself, since you can't really guarantee that one hasn't been tampered with.

[fresh merlin]

I have an enemy, facing a direction. I'd like to be able to get the direction of the player, relative to the direction the enemy is facing. How would I go about doing that?

I was thinking getting the angle the player is facing and the angle the enemy is facing and getting the sum, but that doesn't work as a reproducible formula

[leaden ice]

enemy.InverseTransformDirection(player.forward)

[fresh merlin]

Really? That's it?

There's a function for it?

[hollow osprey]

How would i go about making a script that choose 1 random animation to play ?

[prime sinew]

you can start by looking up

1. how to play an animation through code
2. how to randomise a number

[modern creek]

Remind me again - coroutines can't be started (successfully) in OnEnable (right..?). If I want an animation to start as soon as the object is enabled.. where should I put that code? Do I have to do some silly wait one frame stuff?

[prime sinew]

why not? i dont think OnEnable would be an issue

[modern creek]

Ah.. I think I know what it is.. maybe? My OnDis/Enable looks like this:

        private void OnEnable()
        {
            StartCoroutine(IsShaking ? StartShaking() : GentleMoveCoroutine());
        }

        private void OnDisable()
        {
            StopAllCoroutines();
            DOTween.Kill(GenericUnityUtils.ShipTweens);
        }

And due to a weird way I'm initializing this object I'm setting it active, inactive, then active again (in the same frame)

I'm betting if I stop a coroutine and then try to start it in the same frame, it's failing..?

[prime sinew]

oh. maybe.. all i do know is coroutines stop when the object is disabled

[modern creek]

Yeah, I got that much.. that's how I started down this bughunt - the tween was getting killed from OD and I didn't think I was disabling it

but I realized my .. navigation system disables everything then enables the tab I want to view - which was borking up my animations

But.. it seems like it should just start again with the subsequent OE

[prime sinew]

I'm afraid you might be more informed than I am on this, so I dont think i can help

[modern creek]

hm I wonder if this is the issue

I don't know if StopCoroutine just "marks it as stopped" for later stoppage (in the same frame) or something.. meaning the StartCoroutine wouldn't work

Yeah, pretty sure there's weirdness if you start/stop/start a coroutine in the same frame. Just added a flag to Update(), all the coroutines set the flag to true, ondisable sets it to false. Works fine.

[quaint rock]

it takes a handle to a running coroutine, and stops it from running its next iteration

though in that code if you are starting coroutines OnEnable and stopping them OnDisable it should not be coroutine

you are just recreating a update loop at that point

[azure heath]

Folks, this code only appears to be drawing one red circle (or many overdrawing each other), though it should be drawing a line of them along a list of vector 3s. It's inside OnDrawGizmos.

Handles.color = Color.red;
            for (int i = 0; i < PosHistory.Count; i++)// += 25)
            {
                Debug.Log("Drawing Handle at i: " + i + ", this is position: " + PosHistory[i]);
                Handles.DrawWireDisc(PosHistory[i], -Vector3.forward, 0.1f);
            }

Any ideas?

[thick socket]

print out all the values of PosHistory to see if they are all the same value

[azure heath]

Yeah, doing that as I iterate through it...

(If I understand you correctly!)

[stark plaza]

I have a player object that moves around the map, when over a specific tile I wanna trigger an event. Right now I'm checking every frame like an idiot. What's a good way to handle this? Observer pattern?

[modern creek]

@quaint rock Found the issue, was unrelated to the coroutines at all. DOTween.Flip() does not work correctly or .. as advertised. Lots of debug diving to find that out.

[modern creek]

Not really for this situation.. it's sort of a rudimentary queue animation.. or .. FSM animation, perhaps

GentleMove -> StartShaking -> Shaking -> EndShaking -> GentleMove

Actually, DOShake has the note I needed but.. Flip() didn't. 😦

"no from version"

poo.

Anyone got any ideas on how to emulate a shake over 3 sec ramping up in vibrato? Short of doing several constant shakes for short durations...

[quaint rock]

just shake it using perlin noise or something similar, while increasing the amplitiude over time

would just make my own coroutine to do it, instead of using dotween

[charred root]

any1 know any good scripts for dynamic 2d movement i want something that feels clean

[karmic stratus]

does anyone know why this is giving me a WebException: Error: NameResolutionFailure?

public static class ApiHelper
{
    public static Root GetDefinition()
    {
        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://wordsapiv1.p.mashape.com/words/hello/definitions");
        request.Headers.Add("X-RapidAPI-Key", "api_key_goes_here_yes_i_tried_with_the_api_key");
        request.Headers.Add("X-RapidAPI-Host", "wordsapiv1.p.rapidapi.com");
        HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
        string json = reader.ReadToEnd();
        return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Root>(json);
    }
}```

[prime sinew]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/webexception-error-nameresolutionfailure-only-on-android-mono-builds.365905/

[karmic stratus]

thanks, but now it's giving me this error: WebException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

does it havbe something to do with my api key?

[prime sinew]

yeah maybe

that usually means you can connect, you're just not.. authorized I think

[karmic stratus]

ok i'll look into it :)

[thick socket]

https://dbrizov.github.io/na-docs/attributes/meta_attributes/show_hide_if.html
Is there a way to combine more than 1 condition and using an enum value as a condition?

I want to use multiple enum values as a condition

[modern creek]

Sure, make a method that returns true/false on that condition.

[ShowIf("IsFancy")] public int MyFancyInt;

public bool IsFancy()
{
  return x > 1 && y < 5 && up < down && left == right;
}

[thick socket]

thanks!

hadn't considered that

[wary ferry]

anyone know where I can find info on the diffrent brushes for the tile pallette tool? I'm having a lot of trouble finding things that talk about them

[azure heath]

@thick socket , not sure if you saw my console readout? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763495187787677697/1066071270543855687/image.png

[eager aspen]

hi, im working on a system where you have a car, that you can add blocks on to. The Issue is that when I spawn them in (as a child of the car) it messes up the rigidbody. all of a sudden the car wont drive anymore, and Im not really sure why, the blocks just have a box collider (on a layer set not to collide with the car itself) so im not sure how to fix this. any help appreciated.

[thick socket]

no clue then man

[thick socket]

seeing code helps a lot

[fervent siren]

So, via code, say you get an animation clip, and then you getcurvebindings of that clip so you can see the "objects" (aka the binding.path), attempting to set the binding path to another object (or rather, the path of it) doesn't seem to update the animation file. There any way to go about that?

[lunar lynx]

does anyone know how to create a bulk drag/drop field in Unity inspector?
kind of like a public List, except instead of assigning each slot individually, I can just drop all stuff in at once

[thick socket]

idk if you already know this

but if you lock the inspector

you can do that

can click like 3 things and drag them all in at once

[lunar lynx]

oh. my. god.

[thick socket]

ikr

[lunar lynx]

i just drag it on top of the list name

LOL

thank you!

[thick socket]

yeah np!

[lunar lynx]

thanks @thick socket

oh it doesnt do the karma thing?

[thick socket]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[lunar lynx]

🙏

[azure heath]

Thanks anyhow.

[eager aspen]

That's the thing though. After it's spawned in there is no code. It's literally just a 3D cube set to be a child of the car. That's it

[thick socket]

I mean, the cars movement is probably a script?

but if its not really script related I would move to #💻┃unity-talk

they may have a better idea there if its a rigid body issue

[eager aspen]

Yeah, the only script on the car itself is that it's adding a torque based on horizontal axis and a force based on vertical axis

[south forge]

Hey guys, i want the code to realise that its trying to access elements outside of the array and do something in response however im not sure what to place in the condition parameter of my if statement to account for this

[thick socket]

if x > array.size?

something like that?

or not what you mean

[south forge]

yes how do i reference the current index of the array?

[graceful patio]

meshes in unity im confuse with 💀
how would the work exactly?

are there sperate game Objects for everything and require scripting to stay with the main body of a mess or are there one game object are a sprite

[ionic socket]

Code style question: do you prefer "public T myVar {get; private set;}" or "[SerializeField] T privateVar; public T PrivateVar => privateVar" to provide access to variables in other classes? Is one way explicitly better than the other?

[thick socket]

are you looping through the array?

[ionic socket]

in your for loop: for(i = 0; I < array.Length; i++) { blah... } "i" (or whatever you name it) is the index. If you're using a Foreach on a List, you can YourList.IndexOf(value) but it will return the first index if there are multiple entries with the same value.

[graceful patio]

one question abt meshes if u import a model into unity would the eidtor know what stays seperate vs what doesnt stay seperate

do meshes in unity work like this

U have a mesh
u created using blender import the mesh into unity, and the blender file is formated so unity can know the seperate vertices and such.

but for the mesh todo stuff u have to add code to each vertice unity detects

is that how meshes work?

or seperate shape unity detects

Idk. I dont do 3D i only know 2D geomtry

[south forge]

i realised i keep getting errors because im trying to get the index but that index that doesnt exist lol

is there a way to say if this is equal to null but for if the integer is equal null if you understand what i mean

[south forge]

what do you mean

like using a for loop? or going through the array in a loop like going back to the first index once ive reached the end?

[crimson rune]

Hey, my tiles are not being rendered. ```cs
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class GridManager : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private int _width, _height;
[SerializeField] private Tile _tilePrefab;
[SerializeField] private Transform _cam;

void Start()
{
    GenerateGrid();
}

void GenerateGrid()
{
    for(int x = 0; x < _width; x++) {
        for(int y = 0; y < _height; y++) {
            var spawnedTile = Instantiate(_tilePrefab, new Vector3(x, y), Quaternion.identity);
            spawnedTile.name = $"Tile {x} {y}";

            var isOffset = (x % 2 == 0 && y % 2 != 0) || (x % 2 != 0 && y % 2 == 0);
            spawnedTile.Init(isOffset);
        }
    }

    _cam.transform.position = new Vector3((float)_width/2 -0.5f, (float)_height/2 -0.5f, -10f);
}       

}

[jade heart]

Hi everyone, so I have a problem regarding Shader Graph, basically the material is not being rendered as you can see in this image.

How may I fix the issue?

It's weird to me since previously I haven't got this issue.

Also, if I'm talking in the wrong channel let me know and I will use the correct channel for the next time.

[regal marsh]

so i have a spawner and i want it to only spawn up to x items. my plan was to keep track of the items it has spawned in a list and then once it hits max, check every frame to see if any of the items have been destroyed. is there a better way?

[jade heart]

Ngl, that sounds a bit unoptimized (considering that the spawner has to check every frame), but I'm a newbie on this so I can't give a better solution unfortunately.

[regal marsh]

it sounds very unoptimized lol

wait i have another idea hang on

[soft shard]

Not knowing the full context of your use-case, I would suggest maybe using events instead of Update/checking every frame, either send a System.Action or delegate to some manager before you destroy the object, or "broadcast" the destroy event with for example a "Publisher-Subscriber" pattern, then the object doesnt need to send anything to a manager, but the manager can listen for when something gets destroyed and update your list accordingly

[blissful ore]

why on the connection approval example it uses ConnectionApprovalResponse member variable "Reason" which does not exist for that class?

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/connection-approval#server-side-connection-approval-example

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.1/api/Unity.Netcode.NetworkManager.ConnectionApprovalResponse.html?q=ConnectionApprovalResponse

[crystal kite]

anyone know how to render just part of a render texture onto a raw image?

[pastel wren]

can someone help me with this new character i imported from asset store, how do i make the character perform a certain one of these animations

[velvet quartz]

_animator.SetLayerWeight(1, Mathf.Lerp(_animator.GetLayerWeight(1), 0f, Time.deltaTime * 13f));

--> Time.deltaTime * 13f // This value indicates how fast the transition does ?

[proper oyster]

you could use the Tiling and offset of the UV rect on the raw image to select what part you want to reender

[celest condor]

Hi I need some help. The game works fine, but when I build it, the camera stays in the starting position and is not moving with the player. How do I fix it?

[swift falcon]

have u coded that in @celest condor

[celest condor]

I just built the game again and the problem is fixed

Unity moment lol

Thanks anyway tho

[quartz folio]

vertices are in local space

If you wanted to get them in world space you would have to transform them https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.TransformPoint.html

[gilded grove]

I've read that, but didn't understand how to update the transform. Knowing that's the right direction, I'll look into it again. Thank you

[karmic stratus]

anyone know what this error means: ArgumentException: Could not cast or convert from System.String to RandWord.

im trying to call an API but whenever i deserialize the json it gives me that error

here is my deserialization code:

 HttpWebRequest randrequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://random-word-api.herokuapp.com/word");
        HttpWebResponse randresponse = (HttpWebResponse)randrequest.GetResponse();
        StreamReader randreader = new StreamReader(randresponse.GetResponseStream());
        string randjson = randreader.ReadToEnd();
        List<RandWord> randresult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<RandWord>>(randjson);```

[celest condor]

Could anyone help me find a bug in a movement code?

The code is bit longer though

Nevermind. I figured it out

[swift falcon]

yo trying to make my first game! i want to make a horror game but where can i get a good fps controller from that you import and it instantly works without changing anything

[celest condor]

The default Unity one is pretty good

It even has sounds

[swift falcon]

where can i get that from?

or is it the preinstalled one?

[buoyant crane]

links are pinned in #💻┃unity-talk

[stuck forum]

Anyone who is familiar with DateTime, is it possible to write this but with hopefully one line only? Or do I really need to break it up into parts like I am currently doing?

dateText.text =
    DateTime.Now.ToString("MMM", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToUpper()
    + "." 
    + DateTime.Now.ToString(" dd", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
    + DateTime.Now.ToString(" yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Also for time, if I use the en-US culture thing, it says for example 2:23 AM, but I'd like the AM part to be in front instead

[quaint rock]

can you not do a DateTime.Now.ToString("MMM. dd yyyy").ToUpper() ?

[stuck forum]

Oh that worked, honestly I never used the format parameter thing for ToString so didn't know you could combine them

thanks!

[quaint rock]

well these are a special case of ToString for formatting dates

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-date-and-time-format-strings

[robust osprey]

Hi all, I am having trouble painting to textures in code, I posted over in #🖼️┃2d-tools but really not sure where to look for expertise on this. Basically trying to use .SetPixel (r,g,b,a) on a 2D texture in a 3D game ... but finding that a (alpha channel) does nothing, here's the post:
#🖼️┃2d-tools message

[swift falcon]

How do i make the lightning dark?

[warm wren]

lower the intensity of your light object

[swift falcon]

but im using the first person template

nvm got a effect i like

[viscid plover]

I'm having difficulty trying to create a dashing ability that is aimed via a thumbstick. What I'm attempting right now is using the global position of the reticle minus the position of the player, normalized, and then adding force. But I'm getting some really funky behavior (shooting me straight down or straight up no matter what position the reticle is in). I've also tried:

`Vector2 direction = new Vector2(reticlePos.x, reticlePos.y).normalized;

player_rigidbody2d.velocity = new Vector2((direction.x * 10), (direction.y * 10));`

Is there a simpler way to shove my character in the direction of my reticle?

or... any way to do so, simple or not. 😛

The reticle is a child object of my player prefab, and has its transform altered as I move the thumbstick. It's a constant distance from my character, in a circle. If that matters.

[vital thorn]

Does anyone know how to deform a mesh based on a binary mask? Wherever the mask is white I would like to contract/shrink the mesh

[velvet quartz]

When and why use a public variable instead of private? Shouldn't we always use private and have a Set / Get function if necessary? So what is a public variable for?

[zinc parrot]

so if I have this
and I do Object[] A = Resources.LoadAll(smallCampfireVDB);
why is the length of A 0? even tho that folder is filled with text files

[somber nacelle]

You are 100% correct, but sometimes you just prefer a public variable over a property even though it is almost always better to use a private variable exposed to other objects through a public property.
You can also ignore what that other person said about making it public to set it in the inspector since you can use the [SerializeField] attribute to expose a non public field to the inspector

[tawny rose]

how to detect the if the letter is on the slot in onenddrag

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

public class DragDrop : MonoBehaviour, IPointerDownHandler, IBeginDragHandler, IEndDragHandler, IDragHandler {


    public static bool InSlot = false;
    [SerializeField] private Canvas canvas;

    private RectTransform rectTransform;
    private CanvasGroup canvasGroup;
    public GameObject self;
    public bool canSetPosition = true;

    public void Check()
    {
    }
        

    private void Awake() { 
        rectTransform = GetComponent<RectTransform>();
        canvasGroup = GetComponent<CanvasGroup>();
    }

    public void OnBeginDrag(PointerEventData eventData) {
        Debug.Log("OnBeginDrag");
        canvasGroup.alpha = .6f;
        canvasGroup.blocksRaycasts = false;
        InSlot = false;

    }
    void SetPositoin()
    {
        self.GetComponent<Letters>().setPositon();
        
    }
    public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData) {
        //Debug.Log("OnDrag");
        rectTransform.anchoredPosition += eventData.delta / canvas.scaleFactor;
        
        //SetPositoin();
    }

    public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnEndDrag");
        canvasGroup.alpha = 1f;
        canvasGroup.blocksRaycasts = true;
        List<GameObject> slots = GameManager.Slots;
        Debug.Log("--------->" + slots);
        bool isOnSlot = false;
        foreach (GameObject slot in slots)
        {

            if (self.transform.position == slot.transform.position)
            {
                isOnSlot = true;
                Debug.Log("-------------------------------> Same Posiiton");

            }
        }
        if (!isOnSlot)
        {
            SetPositoin();
        }
    }

    public void OnPointerDown(PointerEventData eventData) {
        Debug.Log("OnPointerDown");
    }

}```

some pls help

[prime sinew]

where do you store the slot data

[tawny rose]

ggamemanager.slots

[prime sinew]

never mind, i'm confused

[tawny rose]

ohh u mean the drop handler??

[prime sinew]

you can't just dump a whole script without context on what your structure is

what do you mean letter, what slot?

what are you trying to do? what isn't working?

[tawny rose]

u want the github link

[prime sinew]

no. i want your explanation

again, no context for what you mean by github link

link to your own repo? the github to the tutorial you got this from?

[tawny rose]

my repo

https://github.com/Meghanadh12/Predicto2.git

[prime sinew]

so what do you want to do, and what isn't working?

[tawny rose]

soo im trying to implement replace(where u take a block and place it on top of a slot thiat is occupied and the tile in the slot goes to its original position and the new tile snaps into place)

does it make sense??

[prime sinew]

okay, so what's the trouble here

[tawny rose]

soo the trouble is it dosent call ondrop when the slot is occupied so i need to detect in onendrag

[prime sinew]

i dont see an ondrop anywhere

[tawny rose]

it is in a script named item slot :

using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting.Antlr3.Runtime.Misc;
using UnityEditor.UI;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class ItemSlot : MonoBehaviour, IDropHandler
{
    public GameObject self;
    public GameObject Slot1;
    public GameObject Slot2;
    public GameObject Slot3;
    public GameObject Slot4;
    public bool isFilled = false;
    public GameObject baseLetter;
    public GameObject b;
    public void OnDrop(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnDrop");
        if (eventData.pointerDrag != null)
        {
            if (isFilled && baseLetter != null)
            {
                baseLetter.GetComponent<Letters>().setPositon();
                isFilled = false;
                Debug.Log("Chaning");
            }
            eventData.pointerDrag.GetComponent<Letters>().FillObjectList();
            baseLetter = eventData.pointerDrag;
            eventData.pointerDrag.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition = self.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition;
            Debug.Log(self.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition);
            isFilled = true;
            DragDrop.InSlot = true;
            Letters.a = false;
        }
    }


} ```

@prime sinew ^

[prime sinew]

I see

easiest way is to just move the detecting image on top of the itemslot, above the block that's occupying the slot

and it checks if the slot is occupied or not. if it's occupied, then get the block that's in the slot and yeet it out

if not, then place the block you're dragging into the slot

[tawny rose]

sorry had a meeting

no but im not able to detect the block on top that @prime sinew

[prime sinew]

what I mean is, put this script on an image that's above everything else in the slot, including blocks

[tawny rose]

no it is on the slot itself

[prime sinew]

yes, and i'm telling you.... make it not on the slot

the slot is blocked by blocks

so you cant have the dropping part be detected by the slot itself

separate the slot logic from the drop detection part

[swift falcon]

I am trying to update the Z position when I click on a game object so what I did is
transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, 1.3f);

but for some reason nothing happens

[prime sinew]

show how you're making the gameobject detect a click?

we'll need to see where you called that code

that code alone seems fine

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.
```cs
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Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[prime sinew]

but I can see you're using OnMouseDown

that's all I really needed to know

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

OnMouseDown requires a collider on the object

[cunning shard]

Is there any way to change lang version to C# 9 on unity < 2021?

[swift falcon]

everything works expect the Z position update

[somber nacelle]

technically you can upgrade the roslyn compiler, but it's not recommended. why not just update to 2021 if you want to use c# 9 features?

[swift falcon]

line 32

[somber nacelle]

look at line 37

[cunning shard]

I can't update it due to internal issues, how would I update the roslyn for Unity?

[somber nacelle]

lol "internal issues" prevent you from updating the editor, but not bastardizing the editor to do what a more recent version would do anyway?

[cunning shard]

Unity must be 2020.3.36f1

Still, I need C# 9 syntax sugar

[somber nacelle]

well it's a good thing that's all you would get. but anything you can do with syntax sugar in c# 9 should be doable in other ways in previous versions

but have fun figuring that out, i'm not going to give directions just for you to go and break your project 🤷‍♂️

[plucky karma]

Seeing this as a general for coding - Has anyone seen that ProgrammerHumor posting about Dutch's open source government tool on loading bars?

[cunning shard]

Alright, will try my best to break it then

[somber nacelle]

the cluster of if statements? it's honestly not a terrible way to handle that, it's super readable which is the main benefit and not really any slower than the alternatives

[plucky karma]

Made a version in rust lang 😄

[thick gale]

at what point should a script be broken up into multiple? How often does too much stuff being in one code cause issues?

[somber nacelle]

keep your classes to a single responsibility. once you start making it do a thing unrelated to its original purpose is when you split it up

when a class does too much, it becomes harder to debug as well as to maintain

[thick gale]

simple enough, appreciate the insight

[cunning shard]

Solved, just in case anyone wondering -> https://github.com/mob-sakai/CSharpCompilerSettingsForUnity

[sour trench]

Should I use uint instead of int when I don't want negative values to be possible? Are there any memory concerns I should be aware of? I've been reading different threads on this this morning but I can't seem to come to a conclusion since everyone seem to have their own opinion 😅

[prime sinew]

uint and int take the same amount of memory. Just that since uint doesnt consider negative values, it can go to higher positive values

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/integral-numeric-types

[maiden fractal]

You could but you dont have to, I myself and many others dont bother writing that extra "u" when it doesnt matter, when you want to go to values higher than 2.1 billions, usually 4.3 isnt enough either, so in that case long or ulong would be the way to go. The decision between int and uint has nothing to do with memory or performance, that sign bit is used to support about 2x larger values (both use 32 bits of memory) and modern CPUs can perform calculations with both really fast

[potent glade]

question, in this next code the debugger is showing me SUCCESS, but the deserializedProduct doesn't have the ID value.. what is the reason??
(the class Deserialized has the same fields as the received information and in the same spelling and same upper/lower case.... I made sure of that multiple tmies)

            UnityWebRequestAsyncOperation operation = www.SendWebRequest();
            while (!operation.isDone) { await Task.Yield(); }
            if (www.result == UnityWebRequest.Result.Success)
            {
                string jsonData = www.downloadHandler.text;
                Debug.Log("success");
                Debug.Log("Form upload complete!" + jsonData);
                Deserialized deserializedProduct = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Deserialized>(jsonData);
                Debug.Log("recieved result: " + deserializedProduct.id);
            }

[maiden fractal]

Tldr: it doesnt matter. One point tho is that you should stick with one type in your code as int + uint for example is not possible without conversion

[sour trench]

@maiden fractal I'll probably stick with int then, just annoying to know that values can be less than zero and you have to handle it everywhere..

[prime sinew]

you could use a property to help you handle that

[sour trench]

@prime sinew Like [Min(0)] you mean?

[prime sinew]

uh no, like a custom getter/setter

[sour trench]

@prime sinew Ah, yeah not a bad idea I guess.

[potent glade]

can someone help me with this??
I am trying to take a class object

{
    "name": "poker",
    "email": "[e-mail]",
    "id": 1
}

this is what I am trying to get and this is how I made the class (I tried using id as a string or int)

public class Deserialized
{
    public string name;
    public string email;
    public int id;
}

[crimson atlas]

whats the best way to store scriptable objects of type to be loaded at runtime?
canne use Resources.Load as that goes kaput when building.
canne use AssetDatabase as that goes kaput when building.

is the only way to slap an array of the type on a monobehaviour component in the scene, add all the objects to that and call it a day?

[somber nacelle]

Resources.Load absolutely does work in a build. obviously AssetDatabase won't. but your other options are addressables, or direct references

[crimson atlas]

oh damn ive only ever had nightmares trying to load stuff from resources in a build haha!
been using streamingAssets to store things like tilemaps and json files n stuff

[somber nacelle]

as long as you follow the law of the Resources folder it should work just fine

[crimson atlas]

Every force has an equal yet opposite force acting against it?

[somber nacelle]

the objects loaded using the Resources class must be within a folder named Resources

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

[wild vigil]

I'm placing objects in the scene by script using a raycast. Can't figure out how to rotate each object on its local up. Any ideas?

[somber nacelle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.RotateAround.html

also, literally first result on google: https://answers.unity.com/questions/288948/rotate-around-local-y-axis.html

there's also just Transform.Rotate with the Space parameter

[crimson atlas]

so something like this should work? and its gonna ignore all the .meta files?

[somber nacelle]

it will not load meta files, correct

[crimson atlas]

woo danke danke

[somber nacelle]

also don't include the extension in the path

[crimson atlas]

on it boss!

[wild vigil]

Sorry, I don't have a transform to work with. Its just a point and a rotation value.

[somber nacelle]

then you worded your question incredibly poorly because you implied that you were trying to rotate the objects you are spawning. and if that is not the case, please provide more information

[wild vigil]

Yeah, I guess I could have worded it better. Your response was pretty snarky as well. rough day?

[somber nacelle]

well the actual question you did ask was easily googleable, notice how i provided 3 pieces of information all super quick like that?

[crimson atlas]

;-; insert gif of cat from puss in boots going oooooo
but dont because i think it against rules
possibly a popcorn gif too?

rooting for u boxfriend u save my nea!!

[wild vigil]

Nah, nothing to see here.

I worked it out. Just needed to convert my raycast normal into a quaternion and multiply by another quaternion for the rotation.

[sour trench]

Why is data null here despite being set in the editor? Is this some weird timing issue I'm not aware of?

    public NPCData data;

    // constructor
    NPCController()
    {
        Debug.Log(data);
        attributes = new NPCAttributes(data);

[quartz folio]

Deserialization cannot occur before a constructor

You should use Awake or Start generally

Any work done to serializable fields will be overridden after the constructor runs. And Unity doesn't like many things happening in that time too

[ancient cloak]

you shouldn't be using the constructor in scripts essentially

think of Awake as the constructor, Start as like a "late" constructor if you depend on other initialized scripts

[sour trench]

@quartz folio @ancient cloak I see. So no constructor use when using MonoBehaviour basically.

[quartz folio]

Generally not advised

[sour trench]

@quartz folio Not ideal in other scenarios I found, such as this one:

public PlayerController() {
        skills = new BaseSkills();
        attributes = new PlayerAttributes(skills);
        equipment = new PlayerEquipment();
        inventory = new PlayerInventory(this);
}

If I have it in Awake then any changes made in the editor is gone when I launch the game, I know this would be solved with data persistence (which I haven't added to the player yet) but when that isn't enabled it would be very annoying to work with temporary player state cuz I would have to always set it after I launch the game.. 🤔

[quartz folio]

If you're wanting to initialise things via code don't serialize them

Make them private, or mark them as [NonSerialized]

If you're wanting what is serialised in the editor, don't set them via code

[ancient cloak]

also if you're instantiating scripts via script you shouldn't construct them, you should use GameObject.Instantiate

[wild vigil]

Can I lock a gameobject transform from being moved or rotated?

    {
        transform.hideFlags = HideFlags.NotEditable | HideFlags.HideInInspector;
    }```

I've got this little gen that hides it in the inspector

[ancient cloak]

move that to awake, not onvalidate

not your question though sorry continue

[sour trench]

@ancient cloak None of the scripts in the constructor are MonoBehaviour scripts though. @quartz folio I basically want to initialise via code but change values via the editor (or code at runtime for adding items to inventory/equipment for example). Thoroughly confused how to achieve that based on what you said 😅 Maybe the best way is to remove the "dependencies" from PlayerInventory and PlayerAttribute, that way I don't have to initialise via code..

[ancient cloak]

oh i wasn't sure since you were constructing the script

[quartz folio]

Why are you initialising them via code

[wild vigil]

looks the same to me. Amy way to turn off the gizmos in scene view?

[ancient cloak]

it looks the same but OnValidate is triggered whenever you edit a value in the inspector. it doesn't make sense to set your hide flags every time the editor is modified

you could also do it in update

you could do it 500 times every update

makes just as much sense as doing it in onvalidate

[sour trench]

@quartz folio Because I need a reference to PlayerController in PlayerInventory for example:

    public PlayerInventory(PlayerController controller)
    {
        this.controller = controller;
        storage.MaybeCreateSlots();
    }

    public void UseItem(BaseSlot<ItemData> data)
    {
        data.itemData.Use(controller);
    }

Otherwise how does PlayerInventory get the reference if not via its constructor? Only way I see is what I said and make PlayerController controller a parameter of UseItem instead.

[ancient cloak]

private void Awake()
{
  _playerInventory = new PlayerInventory(this);
}

[quartz folio]

If it's not also serialized and set in the inspector, then you can just make a method that you call with those non-serialised parameters

[ancient cloak]

there's also a design consideration of - why does your inventory need to know how the player uses an item?

[quartz folio]

Just allow the editor to create serializable things, and then set anything extra in Awake via methods or properties. You could also choose to separate the serializable representation from the one you construct entirely

[ancient cloak]

do you have a little gremlin in your backpack

logic would dictate that you treat the inventory as either a simple construct - a container of values, or a class with Add/Remove/Sort functionality etc

[lament sentinel]

Is there a way to create a generic type method to return either a Float, Vector2 or Vector3 ?

Example

public Object ProgressValue<Value> ( ) where Value:  UnityEngine.Object{
            Value value = null;
            switch ( tweenType ) {
                case TweenType.VECTOR3:
                    value = progressOfVec3;
                    break;
                case TweenType.VECTOR2:
                    value = progressOfVec2;
                    break;
                case TweenType.FLOAT:
                    value = progressOfFloat;
                    break;
            }
            return value;
        }

[ancient cloak]

IMO your inventory should only be responsible for things that an inventory does. not what things do with the items in an inventory

[quartz folio]

But none of those things are UnityEngine.Object types

So that constraint makes no sense

[sour trench]

Because the item is in the inventory, makes more sense to have it there than the PlayerController I would say. I have a general class that handles the storage (add, delete, find etc) that can be applied to other things that isn't the player's inventory, such as a storage chest or whatever you can think of.

[lament sentinel]

That's why I'm asking. Is there a way to do it.

[quartz folio]

The convention says generic types should start with T

So you would return T and cast what you return

[ancient cloak]

@sour trench but why does the inventory need to tell the player how to use an item

[wild vigil]

The point was it was not accomplishing what I wanted it too. I found "Tool.current = Tool.none;" Only issue now is that I only want the tool off for one object in the scene, not all of them.

[ancient cloak]

why can't the player just take an item from the inventory

[sour trench]

@ancient cloak You mean when I click an item in my inventory, why the UI script doesn't just call Use directly?

[mental rover]

sort of, but it's not clear why you'd want to - seems you'd end up in a mess of branching and casting where you check each type explicitly anyway

[ancient cloak]

your inventory is caching a reference to the player that owns it, specifically so it can tell the player how to use an object

does'nt make sense. that's something the PlayerController is doing in reality

and beyond that, the item is taking a reference to the player controller so IT can tell the player how to use IT

[dense hamlet]

An idea how to be able to add muscle growth to my character?

[ancient cloak]

thats super vague

_muscleValue++;

[sour trench]

@dense hamlet Protein powder and lots of hard work.

[wild vigil]

Use shapekeys/morphtargets

[sour trench]

It's because each item has its own method that determines what it does. And if it doesn't have a reference to the character that uses the item, how can it apply the effect?

[wild vigil]

could also blend in a normal map that shows muscle definition.

[ancient cloak]

that's potentially valid, but there's no reason for the inventory to have a reference to the player

the player should just remove the item from the inventory and use it directly

you can do what you want, it's just unnecessary coupling. now you have to refactor or duplicate your code if you want anything besides a player to have an inventory

like a chest or an npc

[wild vigil]

Is there a monobehaviour function that recognizes focus in the hierachy?

[ancient cloak]

what are you trying to accomplish

[wild vigil]

I'll try asking in editor-extensions

[ancient cloak]

why

just answer my clarifying question and i can answer you better

[wild vigil]

its more of an editor I guess

[ancient cloak]

are you trying to make an object that nobody can modify in editor or something that wont' be affected by physics or game logic

[wild vigil]

correct

[ancient cloak]

that was an or question

[wild vigil]

cant be modified

[ancient cloak]

make it static

[wild vigil]

make it static?

[ancient cloak]

you can also make it unselectable

[wild vigil]

yeah, I'll try that one

[ancient cloak]

either by locking the object individually in the hierarchy or locking an entire layer

click the hand icon next to the gameobject and it'll toggle to unselectable

[west lotus]

Ive never had a use for this but https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/HideFlags.HideInHierarchy.html

There is also this

[ancient cloak]

it makes debugging easier when you have a thoroughly tested prefab. it's not necessary to view its full hierarchy

so i make a habit of modifying "finalized" prefabs so their children get hidden

[west lotus]

I have had a use of the show not serialized field from here https://github.com/dbrizov/NaughtyAttributes

Maybe this is more of what the guy wants

[wild vigil]

Yeah, so I can still see and drag the transform arrows when I lock the hand in hierarchy

[ancient cloak]

you shouldn't be able to select it

sec i need to open unity now

[wild vigil]

nah, you are right

it doesnt move

Is there a way to flag that in code?

[ancient cloak]

you really don't want to edit it at all no matter what? sheesh

[ExecuteInEditMode]
public class UneditableObject : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void Awake()
    {
        gameObject.hideFlags = HideFlags.NotEditable;
    }
}

there you go, if that's what you really want

[wild vigil]

beutiful

beautiful

[ancient cloak]

keep in mind once you add that script it's uneditable

including being able to remove scripts from it

so have fun with that

you'll have to edit this script in order to gain control back

[wild vigil]

There is just a single script on it

[ancient cloak]

as you can see once you add it you can't take it off

[wild vigil]

😆 - perfect

[ancient cloak]

a way around that might be to create a scriptable object that acts like a "scene lock" so you can modify the hide flags of any value that has the script but the scriptable object itself isn't locked so you can turn the hide flags back off

[wild vigil]

I'll look into that

I want to use a scriptable object now to store my list

[ancient cloak]

it would be something like

[CreateAssetMenu(menuName = "SceneLock")]
public class SceneLock : ScriptableObject
{
  [field: SerializeField] public HideFlags HideFlags {get;}
}
[ExecuteInEditMode]
public class SceneLockObject : Monobehaviour
{
  [SerializeField] private SceneLock _sceneLock;  
  private void Awake()
  {
    gameObject.HideFlags = _sceneLock.HideFlags;
  }
}

might need onvalidate for this implementation

[wild vigil]

I should pay you to help me out. Things would go a lot faster.

This struggle is good for me. No pain no gain.

[ancient cloak]

it's not a terrible idea. sounds like you have a moron designer. and i'm all for disabling moronic designers

[wild vigil]

Yeah, I am the designer 😆

[ancient cloak]

oh

[wild vigil]

You are not far off.

[ancient cloak]

i developed something that honestly i should add to the asset store

a [Required] attribute that enforces a serialized value to have an assigned value in the inspector

because in grad school i had a freaking moronic designer who refused to learn that you need to pull down before pushing code

so he BLASTED my UI changes 6 times in a row the day before we were presenting

[wild vigil]

ha - guy was doing what designers do best

[ancient cloak]

fr

[wild vigil]

artists and designers should be kept away near any deadlines

[ancient cloak]

low key, so i have a coworker, and i hate throwing shade cause he's an awesome guy

but we have this system at work that we read in csv files and generate assets, serialize them and send them to a database. the tool exists in the game project itself to convert the csv files and upload them to the DB

and he has been updating the CSV's for months and just not committing them to version control

so the conversion tool is useless for everyone but him

[wild vigil]

he holds the infinity stones. Smart guy.

[cold parrot]

Sure way to get fired

[ancient cloak]

and we had a problem recently where the db got corrupted and i was like "oh no big deal i can just run the conversion tool real quick" that was rough

[cold parrot]

is it an actual tool or more like a glorified script?

[ancient cloak]

when asked why he didn't commit them, he said he still hasn't figured out sourcetree. we just shipped a few months ago

[sour trench]

So in my BaseController I have a public BaseAttributes attributes field, but my derived classes NPCController and PlayerController need to have two different types; NPCAttributes and PlayerAttributes respectively. How do you actually make them create the correct class without manually initialising them? I guess what I'm looking for is some sort of virtual/override pattern but for fields (or properties).

[ancient cloak]

@cold parrot it's a scene with a suite of editor scripts

[cold parrot]

I mean, is it robust, so that it isn’t dangerous to use?

[ancient cloak]

enough. it's like a foundational framework for whats going to be a standalone tool

our tool dev is pushing to make it a web tool. but like it's so frustrating because if it's an internal tool why not just make it a standalone unity exe. why bother making an asp.net web app or a standalone wpf app

the data has to go back into unity anyway

im ranting

hosting costs are a real thing. why pay for a server for something that 3 people are going to use

i've noticed there are people with like google brains and people with startup brains

[wild vigil]

I've heard far worse tales than this one bard.

[ancient cloak]

you know NASA spent millions of dollars designing a pen that can write in space? russians brought pencils

[soft shard]

You could use the constructor of those classes if the BaseController is not a MonoBehaviour - if it is, you could maybe try making it a BaseController<T> and making a new instance of your attributes, otherwise you could make a virtual Init function and pass what you need to it, but since they may be different types, it may be harder to generalize it that way, depending on what makes your attributes different, aside from file names

[cerulean sierra]

yo can someone help me out unity says sum thing is wrong with my grappler code it says warning CS0108 'GrapplingGun.camera'hides inherited member'Component'. Use the new keyword can some one help me fix it

[cold parrot]

Maybe because it’s a best practice in large companies to eliminate the security/platform/update issues you get with desktop tools… but obviously that’s an overhead that isn’t always relevant especially for small teams

[ancient cloak]

i had to launch and maintain 3 api's and a mongo server last cycle because we didn't have a web guy, and i'm like you want MORE web tools?

[cold parrot]

Google brains are the worst 😂

[ancient cloak]

especially since there's like 12k google brains without jobs now

[cold parrot]

the whole web world rn, in their practices are pretending they are Google/Netflix

[soft shard]

That means you have a variable called "Component", but Unity also has a variable called "Component" thats part of the MonoBehaviour class, so its suggesting to either use a different name, or if you intend to override their "Component" for yours (which I dont think you do), then use new so the engine uses yours instead

[ancient cloak]

or put it in a different namespace

[cerulean sierra]

ok thanks

[ancient cloak]

making namespaces match your folder structure is super handy

[wild vigil]

I'm an artist thinking about starting a comp sci degree.

Would likely take me a decade.

[cerulean sierra]

soooooo how do you do that

[soft shard]

I tend to try and put all my "system" code or base class type code in namespaces then have things that inherit from it or use it in some way have using My.Namespace, just to keep things organized and remind my dumb brain when I might be "overstepping" functionality

[ancient cloak]

comp sci i sn't that hard. most difficulty in learning is lack of faith in yourself

[soft shard]

Like if I wanna reference the audio system, and VS suggests "do you want your character controller to use the audio namespace?" it reminds me "do I really NEED it to? I must have done it this way for a reason"

[mental rover]

because the chance of small fragments breaking off from the pencils and potentially harming or killing the expendable crew was of little concern for russians ;)

[wild vigil]

I've been dabbling in tech art for years

[ancient cloak]

@cerulean sierra so you have a root namespace that matches your project name, say "Foo". then you have your Assets/Scripts folder as your root folder for all your scripts. then say you have a UI folder in Scripts. then any script in that folder would be like:

namespace Foo.UI;
public class MyUiScript
{
}

the unscoped namespace is a c#10 feature actually my bad

[cerulean sierra]

mk

[soft shard]

^ Youd have to encapsulate the class in the namespace though

[ancient cloak]

pre c#10 yes

so

namespace Foo.UI
{
  public class MyUiScript
  {
  }
}

[soft shard]

Oh, didnt know you can do that in 10, C# 9 and 10 seem to have a lot of very nice features

[ancient cloak]

yeah i think it wasn't even until like c#8 where you could bake in nested namespace scopes

back in c#4 i remember writing

namespace Foo
{
  namespace UI
  {
    public class MyUiScript
    {
    }
  }
}

so people would have gross conventions where they wouldn't indent any nested namespace scope and it looked terrible

[soft shard]

Ohwow, I actually thought the dots was just the "path" you want to give it (like the "path" of a CreateAssetMenu), I guess it makes sense its technically nesting namespaces, that is very gross though for namespaces lol

[ancient cloak]

yeah it technically is a path, tha'ts why c# changed it because it became such convention to have very narrow namespace resolution to minimize aliasing

makes it super helpful if you're using a lot of 3rd party assemblies. type aliasing is a huge bitch

cause then you gotta reach out to the 3rd party companies, make a feature request or ask for an exposed source code option and then you're boned if you ever need an update cause you gotta propagate your changes

[soft shard]

Daam, we come a long way-since

[cerulean sierra]

honestly bro can i give you the code so you can see

🥲

[ancient cloak]

Sure

[cerulean sierra]

mk

[wide fiber]

public class S_BossSpawnManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] LevelSO[] Stage;
    [SerializeField] int stageSelect;

    private void Start()
    {
        stageSelect = 0;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        SwitchingLevel();
    }
    void SwitchingLevel()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            stageSelect = Random.Range(0,Stage.Length);
        }
    }

    void onThisLevel()
    {
        switch (stageSelect)
        {
            case 0:
                Stage = 0;
                break;
        }
    }
}
--------------------------Scriptable object script--------------------------------------
[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "Stage0", menuName = "Stages", order = 2)]
public class LevelSO : ScriptableObject
{
    public GameObject stages;
}

hi sorry, under "switch" there's seems to be an error. How do i select a certain stage under LevelSO?

its a scriptable object

[prime sinew]

Please share what the error says if there is an error

[vocal merlin]

Stage is an array, you're trying to assign an int to it

[wide fiber]

on the script itself under Line32 switch (stageSelect) { case 0: Stage = 0; break; }

Cannot convert int to LevelSO[]

[prime sinew]

Someone already told you what's wrong

[wide fiber]

oh... erm

[prime sinew]

Stage is an array. It holds a collection of ints

It is a container holding ints. You cannot say it is an int

It is a container

So what you're doing doesn't make sense. What are you trying to do?

[wide fiber]

sorry haha i just that stage to spawn when stageselect = 0 got called. 🤔

i think i do this Stage[0]; but still got error

[vocal merlin]

Stage is an array holding LevelSO scriptable objects

[prime sinew]

#archived-code-general message

Sorry, didn't see the type

[wide fiber]

oh. ok i think i should have change that SO

wah ok i think i over-engineer things

[vocal merlin]

I would assume you need something like a public variable that is LevelSO currentLevel and set that from the array

Or return the LevelSO from the omThisLevel function instead of void, no need for the switch statement, you could just say return Stage[selectedStage]

Obviously checking that selectedStage is inside the array before hand

[wide fiber]

oh ok i think i understand this abit. thank you so much!! wytea ty too! okok

i will try this

[mental rover]

it might also help to explain what you're aiming for here with more context - are we spawning a boss if the current stage is a certain stage? trying to keep a state for what stage we're on? etc

as it is the code doesn't make much sense at all and you might be better helped in concept rather than specific syntax here

[wide fiber]

yea 😅 really trouble understanding here. okok i will study more of this method.

[wary prism]

Any recomendations for a something to use for a simple 3 online game (lightweight for just me and friends)
I tried photon but it seemed outdated, or maybe I was using the wrong version or something idk

A youtube tutorial would be perfect too

(@ me)

[pulsar root]

Hi there! I have a weird problem in Unity Build (which not happens in fast build) which I cannot find a solution. If my document is initialy disabled in scene (doc.enabled = false) and then I try to query an element in Awake, OnEnable, ... for example var winMenuSection = doc.rootVisualElement.Q<VisualElement>("WinMenuSection"); it is null for some reason

[pulsar root]

I see that if I don't disable it's working in both fast build and build and run

public void changeWinMenuVisible(bool isVisible)
{
if (isVisible)
{
doc.rootVisualElement.visible = true;
UnityEngine.Cursor.visible = true;
UnityEngine.Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
}
else
{
doc.rootVisualElement.visible = false;
UnityEngine.Cursor.visible = false;
UnityEngine.Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
}
}

this works but I don't like it since document disabled is more efficient to handle than a hidden view

[rain minnow]

What script are you calling Awake and OnEnable from UIDocument?

[pulsar root]

Hello, I have the hierarchy in the top i'm calling it in WinMenuUIController

[karmic stratus]

anyone know what this error means: ArgumentException: Could not cast or convert from System.String to RandWord.
im trying to call an API but whenever i deserialize the json it gives me that error
here is my deserialization code:

HttpWebRequest randrequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://random-word-api.herokuapp.com/word");
       HttpWebResponse randresponse = (HttpWebResponse)randrequest.GetResponse();
       StreamReader randreader = new StreamReader(randresponse.GetResponseStream());
       string randjson = randreader.ReadToEnd();
       List<RandWord> randresult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<RandWord>>(randjson);```

[pulsar root]

how you usually show a menu in UI Toolkit becasuse documentation is very bad and it has no sense that i cannot disable the document initially if it has not to be used initially

The only workaround works for me is to have it enabled by default

    {
        if (isVisible) 
        {
            doc.rootVisualElement.visible = true;
            UnityEngine.Cursor.visible = true;
            UnityEngine.Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
        } 
        else
        {
            doc.rootVisualElement.visible = false;
            UnityEngine.Cursor.visible = false;
            UnityEngine.Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        }
    }```

And then do that...

[pulsar root]

This is because the api you are using https://random-word-api.herokuapp.com/word is not a list of objects is a list of strings

So you have to do that

List<String> randresult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<String>>(randjson);

Since it's a **value and not a key value **

[karmic stratus]

ok thanks. I tried this but now I can't access my RandomWords variable

randword = randreader[0].

[pulsar root]

What is RandWord

a class? which structure has it?

[karmic stratus]

sorry, shoulve given some context lol

public class RandWord
{
    public string[] RandomWords { get; set; }
}```

[pulsar root]

Don't get at all what you are trying to do here. First of all you get a list of words from the api which is a single word as far as I can see for example ["literateness"]

so doing that -> List<String> randresult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<String>>(randjson);
you are converting "["literateness"]" to -> List of strings which contains that word at the first position of that list

So to access the word itself you have to do String word = randresult[0] and you will get that word "literateness"

Class RandWord is not needed here since the structure of the result of the api is not that one

[karmic stratus]

yeah but since it starts with two brackets it is seen as an array. if i deserialize it without using List<Root> it gives me an error that it cant deserialize an JSONarray so it has to be in the form of a JSONobject

hopefully that makes sense

[pulsar root]

Yes but this -> List<RandWord> randresult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<RandWord>>(randjson);

is this -> ```[{RandomWords: ["hi"]}, {RandomWords: ["hi"]}]````

[karmic stratus]

ahh I got it to work. thanks for the help! yeah I kept thinking i would have to do randresult[0].something_here

thanks :)

[dense cypress]

hi gang

i have a chunk based procedural system that calculates all of the noise, generating around 8+ chunks per second around the player. i tried to implement pooling in a queue but when they are pulled off the queue all the chunks become a single and repeated chunk. any ideas?

doesnt seem able to add the data the same way as when i create a new object

[mental rover]

how are you trying to set the data?

[dense cypress]

c = new Chunk(chunkPosition, textureAtlas, prefab, chunkfab);
              c.chunk.name = n;
              c.chunk.transform.position = chunkPosition;
              c.chunk.transform.parent = this.transform;
              chunks.TryAdd(c.chunk.name, c);```

instead of:

              if (chunkPool.Count > 0)
              {
                Debug.Log("Loading chunk from pool");
                c = chunkPool.Dequeue();
              }
              else
              { 
                Debug.Log("Creating new chunk");
                 c = new Chunk(chunkPosition, textureAtlas, prefab, chunkfab);
              }

              c.chunk.name = n;
              c.chunk.transform.position = chunkPosition;
              c.chunk.transform.parent = this.transform;
              chunks.TryAdd(c.chunk.name, c);```

[ancient cloak]

oh god

use a paste link please

read the #854851968446365696

[dense cypress]

oh u mean a code thing for visaging da codus

code block no good?

ill read that

[ancient cloak]

small code blocks are fine with syntax highlighting

cs after the first 3 ticks

[dense cypress]

done

[ancient cloak]

can you show your whole code

i can't tell if you're running a coroutine or not or where you're triggering it

[dense cypress]

    void BuildChunkAt(int x, int z)
    {
        int posx = (int)Mathf.Floor(player.transform.position.x / chunkSize);
        int posz = (int)Mathf.Floor(player.transform.position.z / chunkSize);

         Vector3 chunkPosition = new Vector3((x + posx) * chunkSize, 0, (z + posz) * chunkSize);

          string n = BuildChunkName(chunkPosition);
          Chunk c;

          if (!chunks.TryGetValue(n, out c))
          {
              // check if there are any chunks in the pool to reuse
              //if (chunkPool.Count > 0)
              //{
                //Debug.Log("Loading chunk from pool");
                //c = chunkPool.Dequeue();
              //}
              //else
              //{ 
                //Debug.Log("Creating new chunk");
                 //c = new Chunk(chunkPosition, textureAtlas, prefab, chunkfab);
              //}
              c = new Chunk(chunkPosition, textureAtlas, prefab, chunkfab);
              c.chunk.name = n;
              c.chunk.transform.position = chunkPosition;
              c.chunk.transform.parent = this.transform;
              chunks.TryAdd(c.chunk.name, c);
          }
    }```

the commented out code is where i tried to swap in the queue system

[mental rover]

when you dequeue, it's not going to call the constructor again as the object already exists

[dense cypress]

gotcha

how do i do that my lovely friend

[ancient cloak]

you can use an actual object pool

[mental rover]

simplest way would be to move all initialisation into an Initialisation method, call that from the constructor, and also call it after being dequeued

[ancient cloak]

object pools have callbacks for construction and retrieval

[dense cypress]

hmm can u point me in the right direction

is that the proper one with the whole <T> business

[mental rover]

or what Stropheum is suggesting, it would be nice if that sort of thing is handled in the pool system itself

[ancient cloak]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Pool.ObjectPool_1.html

[dense cypress]

just to clarify, there is no way to call the constructor again as the object already exists?

nothing straightforward i mean

[ancient cloak]

you can override it with a new allocation

defeats the purpose of preallocating them

[dense cypress]

caveat

roj

that makes sense though guys thank u so far

[dusk apex]

Maybe move the contents of the constructor into a method and call that with both the constructor and whatever that needs the calling of the constructor thereafter.

[dense cypress]

so a true object pool system would solve this?

[ancient cloak]

yes, because you can use ontakefrompool to configure the already allocated chunk

[mental rover]

depends on what you mean by solve - it would be a wrapper that does these standard methods in a generic fashion for every object so you can reuse the pooling structure in other code

[gentle hinge]

How can I reduce wobbling on a configurable joint being used as a spring?

[mental rover]

you don't need that complexity in a one-off case

[gentle hinge]

I want the main object to move smoothly towards the other instead of flying around the joint

[ancient cloak]

show

[dense cypress]

i was doing this to create objects in my queue

   // void CreateChunksInPool(int amount)
   // {
   //     for (int i = 0; i < amount; i++)
   //     {
   //        Vector3 fakePosition = new Vector3(0, 0, 0);
   //         Chunk c = new Chunk(fakePosition, textureAtlas, prefab, chunkfab);
   //         chunkPool.Enqueue(c);
   //     }
   // }```

just double checking that i didnt do anything wrong there

[ancient cloak]

the solution for your existing code is to wrap your queue in code that detects a queue pop and does some initial setup. but why not just use a data structure that already optimally preallocates memory and supports callbacks for every phase of interaction

[dusk apex]

Google a tutorial and return after getting some working system that's got issues or concerns.

[dense cypress]

i take it its just a limitation for the reasons you guys said

its bypassing the constructor right

[ancient cloak]

there's no bypassing

any object is constucted one time and one time only

[mental rover]

you can fiddle with the settings a bit - spring force will make the spring more responsive and less ragdoll, damping will reduce wild changes, increase both and you'll end up with something more like a pneumatic robot arm

[karmic stratus]

how do I loop back if I catch an error? my random word api has a larger dictionary of words than my dictionary api so sometimes I got a 404 word not found error. I'm trying to implement a try/catch that will loop back to the random word api and try again. I have two problems: 1. the try catch isnt working. 2. I have no clue how to loop back (maybe a goto)? here is my code:

void Start()
    {
        HttpWebRequest randrequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://random-word-api.herokuapp.com/word");
        HttpWebResponse randresponse = (HttpWebResponse)randrequest.GetResponse();
        StreamReader randreader = new StreamReader(randresponse.GetResponseStream());
        string randjson = randreader.ReadToEnd();
        List<string> randresult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<string>>(randjson);
        randword = randresult[0];

        try
        {
           request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/" + randword);
        }catch(WebException)
        {
            Debug.Log("error");
        }
        HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
        string json = reader.ReadToEnd();
        List<Root> result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Root>>(json);
        defText.text = result[0].meanings[0].definitions[0].definition;
    }```

[dense cypress]

will this create much additional overhead?

[mental rover]

depends on what you're doing in the initialisation - if this is some class that's setting up a bunch of arrays, meshes, etc in its constructor, and you're going to do that generation again when you grab one from the pool, then pooling isn't going to help with that much

you want to do the expensive stuff once, in the constructor, and the initialisation, i.e assignment of values or populating existing arrays of a pooled object, in another method that you can call after grabbing it from the pool

[ancient cloak]

i would recommend setting up your API to return alternative words. but you could just put your request in a do/while(response.result != success)

[hot yacht]

hello i want to ask for opinion regarding Task, is it good to place 3 Task method and Cancelation token on update?
for example

private Task updateRoom
private CancellationTokenSource roomDetail

private void Update()
{
  // There will be three of this. 
  if(updateRoom is null || updateRoom.IsCompleted)
  {
    updateRoom = GetRoom(roomDetail = new CancellationTokenSource())
  }
}

private async GetRoom(CancellationTokenSource cancellationToken)
{
  // Call API
  // Doing some stuff, like checking if user in room or set image for user if they in room or not. etc
}

This will be on mobile phone, is there will be any performance issue in here?

[ancient cloak]

no clue what updateroom is

so couldn't tell ya

but you're going to fire off GetRoom every single frame until the first one returns. that's how async works

not to mention your code won't compile

[hot yacht]

aah i see thank you, anyway is there any downside to doing this? like crash? or freeze when playing on mobile?

[ancient cloak]

you're using async improperly

if you're assigning the result you want your calling code to "await" the async method, which you can't use in unity lifecycle methods. you're better off using a coroutine if you want it to be fired in update

[hot yacht]

errrm but what happen if just do this?

private Task updateRoom
private CancellationTokenSource roomDetail

private void Update()
{
  RefreshRoom();
}

private async void RefreshRoom()
{
    // There will be three of this. 
  if(updateRoom is null || updateRoom.IsCompleted)
  {
    await (updateRoom = GetRoom(roomDetail = new CancellationTokenSource()));
  }
}

private async GetRoom(CancellationTokenSource cancellationToken)
{
  // Call API
  // Doing some stuff, like checking if user in room or set image for user if they in room or not. etc
}

this could works too right?

[ancient cloak]

you gotta understand what async actually means i think

[hot yacht]

ok, anyway thank you for your information have a great day...

[ancient cloak]

so those black liines are your calls to refresh room happening every frame. meanwhile updateRoom still has no value

eventually the first thread will complete and assign updateRoom to something, but you still have n threads running that are doing the exact same thing because they were fired when updateRoom still had no value

because even though RefreshRoom is async, your calling code isn't awaiting it. because Update can't be async because it's running on the main thread

[hot yacht]

oooh wow still had much more to learn... Thank you so much.

[ancient cloak]

thats' why i say you should use a coroutine. it runs on the main thread but you're able to yield to the main process

[hasty haven]

I've been trying to use OnMouseOver() for a collider for some 3d ui elements on their own layer, however with how layers are set up, things will often obstruct the mouse call.
Is there a way to do this on a specific layer or should I just use raycasts from the screen position for the 3d UI layer?

Just adding a simple click-to-rotate model feature, it works fine on a blank scene with no obstructions but since its spawned on its own layer, cant guarantee there wont be obstructions

    void OnMouseOver() {
        if(customizeGui && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0)) {
            customizeGui.StartModelDrag();
        }
    }

I think it would be wasteful to do repeated raycasts so maybe wait for input down in Update() then cast it

[cursive talon]

iirc its possible to define specific operator behaviour for classes
for example to define the sum of two instances of class A in the following example

class A {
    // <-- There should be an operator definition here
    public int Data;
}

class B {
    public A a1, a2;

    public A foo() {
        a1.Data = 1;
        a2.Data = 2
        return a1 + a2; // <-- The operator should work in such a way that this results in the sum of the Data fields
    }
}```
this is not a problem of defining casts, i know how to do that.
problem is i cant remember the name of defining such an operator so i cant really look it up.
any idea what this is called again? or am i completely mistaking and this is not possible

[hasty haven]

Are you talking about overloading operators?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/operator-overloading

[cursive talon]

yes thank you, dont know why i couldnt find that

[hasty haven]

Np, its not a unity-specific thing since a lot of languages allow doing that

[knotty sun]

btw you never create instances of class A for a1 and a2 so you're going to get null ref exceptions

[cursive talon]

ok good point xD

[knotty sun]

you cannot do this

 UIManager UIM = new UIManager();

on a Monobehaviour class

[dusk apex]

Or reference the proper way instead of static etc unless it's meant to be s Singleton.

[knotty sun]

no, a Monobehaviour is a component, so add it in the gameobjects inspector then use GetComponent to reference it

[dusk apex]

Use instantiate then

[knotty sun]

it looks like you have totally misunderstood the singleton pattern

you want simple or you want correct?

simple is easy,
drop the : Monobehaviour from the class declaration of UIManager and make it static

correct is more complicated, read up on using the singleton pattern

[grim marlin]

Is it possible to do a playerInput manager in Unity that call corresponding script/action when needed ?

And would it make sens to do so

[knotty sun]

this is programming, literally anything is possible. And yes, it would make sense to do so

[hasty haven]

SIngleton pattern is really useful if you dont overdo it.
Can be really useful in multiplayer games for referencing a player roster

Can also spawn a GUI separately from the player and link the player up to it from a singleton

[humble kraken]

I am making a component-based spell system. The idea is that I have a list or behaviours and I mix and match these behaviours. These behaviours are executed OnSpellStart. My question is how can I make a timer behaviour, where I can have a behaviour that sets a timer, for example, for 1 min and then the next behaviour executes ones the timer expire?

[swift falcon]

Hey so in C++ it's possible to push values to a variable from a string, I'm trying to parse a file format and one section in the file is formatted as follows:

[ 0 1 0 0 ] [ 0 0 -1 0 ] 0 1 1

If I was using C, I'd be able to use

printf("[%f %f %f %f] [%f %f %f %f]\n%f %f %f\n\n", VARIABLES TO ASSIGN HERE);

Could I potentially do the same in C# in some way?

[cerulean mist]

Hi everyone. I am awful with Quaternions! Basically, I am spawning a blood splatter decal on the floor which is supposed to face away from the player. I am using Quaternion.FromToRotation to get it on the ground, now I just need to rotate it towards the player. Any ideas?

Here's a picture demonstration. The red box outline represents the enemy, the black line representing the bullet, and the decal which is pointing away from the player

        if(Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, out RaycastHit hit, 10)) {

            GameObject decal = GameManager.Instance.SplatterPool.SpawnDecal(new Vector3(hit.point.x, hit.point.y + 0.01f, hit.point.z), Quaternion.identity);
            //decal.transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(from.transform.position);
            decal.transform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(-Vector3.forward, hit.normal);
        }```

[stuck cobalt]

Hello, so I was wondering maybe someone could help me :
I just checked a video on FiniteStateMachine where you create new class that doesn't inherit from monobehaviour to partition states of a GameObject for example. The only problem is that i usually use a lot of references in my classes from other scripts i wrote and i use the inspector or some monobehaviour methods to get the references. With a script outside of monobehaviour i don't know how to do it. Thx

[prime sinew]

it's the one using the animator, isn't it

[prime sinew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjV7E9WITKQ

you should just be clear on what the class inherits from if it's not monobehaviour

[hasty haven]

Is there a reason I'm getting hits from objects from other layers with RaycastNonAlloc?
Sensormask is set to only include one specific layer but i'm getting results from others as well.

    void CheckForMouseOver() {
        if(!customizeGui || !cam) return;

        ray = cam.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
        int numHits = Physics.RaycastNonAlloc(ray, hits, 20f, sensorMask);
        for(int i=0; i<numHits; i++) {
            Debug.Log(hits[i].transform.gameObject);

            // If hit self, start dragging
            if(hits[i].transform.gameObject == gameObject) {
                customizeGui.StartModelDrag();
                return;
            }
        }
    }

[wild vigil]

How would I create and save a scriptableobject from my editorwindow?

    {
        ScriptableObjectList newItem = ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<ScriptableObjectList>();
        newItem.prefabName = "name";
        AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(newItem, "../Data/"+newItem.prefabName+".asset");
    }```

[knotty sun]

normally you would add a MenuItem attribute

[wild vigil]

I want to handle it through my editor

[hasty haven]

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "New Head Cosmetic", menuName = "[Cosmetic System]/Head")]
For my scriptable object i put something like this right before the class declaration

You can right click -> create and see it

menuName is what it looks like on the drop down menu

and filename is the default name when you make one before typing it in

[toxic notch]

This triggers error: KeyNotFoundException the given key was not present in the dictionary. Any ideas why this is?
if (hitMaterial != null || bulletImpactDictionary.ContainsKey(hitMaterial))

[knotty sun]

this code will not generate that error

[wild vigil]

Thanks, but this is not the way I would like to do this.

[mellow sigil]

|| makes little sense there. You probably wanted && instead.

[toxic notch]

ya really though containsKey should handle null cases

[prime sinew]

that's what TryGetValue is for though?

[knotty sun]

no, dictionary cannot have a null key value

[toxic notch]

Ok not sure what would cause the not present then

That is the offending line

[knotty sun]

it should generate an invalid key exception rather than a not present exception

[toxic notch]

I've basically got a collision on a bullet: ```
void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
Debug.Log("bullet collision " + collision.gameObject.name);
ContactPoint contact = collision.GetContact(0);

        if(collision.gameObject.TryGetComponent<Renderer>(out Renderer renderer))
        {
            BulletImpactManager.Instance.SpawnBulletImpact(contact.point, contact.normal, renderer.sharedMaterial);
        } else
        {
            BulletImpactManager.Instance.SpawnBulletImpact(contact.point, contact.normal, null);
        }

then in that method: ```
public void SpawnBulletImpact(Vector3 position, Vector3 forward, Material hitMaterial)
        {            
            if (hitMaterial != null && bulletImpactDictionary.ContainsKey(hitMaterial))
            {
                DoSpawnBulletImpact(position, forward, bulletImpactDictionary[hitMaterial].GetObject());
            } else
            {
                //could do a default material but hold off for now
            }
        }

I dont get why it's generating an exception at all

Docs say it returns true if found, false if not

[hexed pecan]

What line causes the exception?

Maybe BulletImpactManager.Instance is null

Or the dictionary

[knotty sun]

that would be null ref not a Not present

[hexed pecan]

Oh right, I didnt read above, just assumed NRE

[knotty sun]

this
bulletImpactDictionary[hitMaterial]
this the only thing that should generate a not present

but with the if that should not happen

[toxic notch]

I just restarted it and am not seeing it triggered anymore

Not sure what condition is causing it

[knotty sun]

I think it was the difference between || and &&

[toxic notch]

Riiiight

that makes sense

Thanks guys

[smoky crag]

I'm trying to get an enemy to charge at the player by setting their velocity to the player's direction but sometimes the number goes into scientific notation and the enemy won't move

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this bc I'm out of ideas

[rain minnow]

Where do you assign velocityForTesting?

[indigo drift]

Can you edit Unity Events via code or just the inspector?

[potent sleet]

wdym by editing them

you can assign them in inspector sure

[indigo drift]

Like add/subtract methods in the code like an action or something

[hidden compass]

https://hatebin.com/awvumrhmdl

i got tutored on how to add unityevents in code

this is my shat little example

[indigo drift]

I'm using a unity event because I have a class that needs to use different methods from a main script, but after that event is done I don't want it to run again so I have to remove it

I don't know how to change unity events through a script or if you even can do that so that's what I'm asking

[proper oyster]

in the editor you can use this
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Events.UnityEventTools.html

[indigo drift]

Ooooh, are the listeners the methods in the event that are called?

[sudden meadow]

any clue what's missing when compute shaders wont trigger the intellisense?

tried deleting the .sln

[autumn cipher]

public class Player : MonoBehaviour, IDamagable
{
    public static Player player;
    void Awake()
    {
      player = this;
    }
}```
This is probably not good for making a multiplayer game, is it?

I got many classes related to Player (Movement, Weapon System and so on), I don't want to create a Player reference on each of those classes

do I have to or is there another way?

[hidden compass]

dont think so, only 1 static can exist, 2 players mean u'll end up having 2 player scripts

[autumn cipher]

if there are 6 Player Components on the scene, that static instance will still be only 1, right?

sorry for the beginner question

[polar marten]

you're at the beginning of a long journey

you probably want to start with a tutorial or asset

[hidden compass]

Also, in a Unity multiplayer game, the same code is executed in all instances of the game (host and clients). To let the players to control only their ships, and not all ships in the game, we need to add an If condition in the beginning of the FixedUpdate method checking if this is the local player (if you’re curious on how the game would work without this If condition, try removing it. When moving a ship in a screen, all ships should move together).```

https://gamedevacademy.org/how-to-create-a-multiplayer-game-in-unity/

heres the link from the exerpt

has alot of good info about how ud construct a Multiplayer title

[autumn cipher]

hah

[autumn cipher]

alright thank you

[smoky crag]

It's just the current velocity of the rigidbody2D

[wild vigil]

How can I destroy a scriptableobject from my editor?

[plucky karma]

You probably shouldn't? Scriptable Object are almost treated like a singleton monobehaviour objects. Just assign a different value or recycle that existing object for next usage.

[wild vigil]

Found it. "AssetDatabase.DeleteAsset()"

[orchid bane]

I have ContinuousDamager which has method DealDamage, event OnDamagingStarted and event OnDamagingEnded. Usually I subscribe to the first event with something like StartWork and to the second one with something like StopWork and then call DealDamage, but some ContinuousDamagers may not even fire OnDamagingStarted because of their internal preconditions, not even talking about OnDamagingEnded. Because of it I am still subscribed to the ContinuousDamager. How would I fix it?

[soft shard]

You could maybe make a call back or store a event as a param to your "start work" or "continuous damage" functions, if the condition happens during execution, you can use that stored event to "cancel" the subscribe, with a delegate that unsubscribes as the param, or when the call back returns a certain value - I think you will need a way to detect when your condition causes your "start" to either pause or cancel, if the condition is not set in the "start" function itself - if it is, you could have thst function be a bool return and check if its false, unsubscribe then-and-there

[gaunt garden]

Object.Destroy can destroy a scriptable object for you. Note that if it's a saved asset you'll need to use Object.DestroyImmediate(<object>, true). I recommend being careful with that though

For the second case DeleteAsset also works fine 👍

[ionic socket]

In Order to receive EventSystem events (IPointerDown, IDropHandler, etc) a gameobject must not only implement the proper interfaces, but must have a Raycast Target like an image. Is there a way to create a general zone (say, an area to drop playing cards) that doesn't have it's own graphic attached? I can make an invisible image but that seems like a hack.

[gaunt garden]

The raycaster specifically targets Graphic instances, so it has to be at least that

[ionic socket]

hmm is there another way to do it?

[gaunt garden]

I don't know of one, and the raycasting code early-outs if no Graphic elements are found for the targeted canvas

I would just put an invisible Image there

[rain minnow]

How do you display the general zone/area for them to drip the cards? I imagine it's a graphic, no? It can be an image with a low-transparent color. You don't need a fancy graphic . . .

[fallow abyss]

Anybody using Unity Netcode? How can I show worldspace UI only to players that triggers it?

[rain minnow]

But if you just want to get the screen position when the player clicks, you can check for input and grab the mouse position since it's already in screen space . . .

[clever lagoon]

not a biggie, but anyone know: Quaternion.FromToRotation do I have to normalize the vectors I pass to this, like in the example? (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.FromToRotation.html)

[ionic socket]

There is an underlying graphic. There are basically multiple areas the cards get sorted into after they're dropped, but I wanted to draw one big continuous zone where you could drop the card since they're all abutting each other.

[clever lagoon]

" I can make an invisible image but that seems like a hack." Thats how I do it.

you CAN roll your own, and check screen position against an otherwise empty RectTransform. But meh.

[ionic socket]

I'm learning that presently. What I do is essentially I have a player_ui that isn't a networked object and isn't synchronized, and any UI stuff for the player gets spawned there and then situated to world space, but not a child of the synchronized environment.

like im imagining a pop-up menu on an interactable object or something?

[fallow abyss]

Yeah. I have a chest and want pop up text on top of it. But can't really figure out how to have that text as a child of the chest and not make it network object

[ionic socket]

Don't make it a child of the chest. You can create an anchor that always references the chest position, but keep the pop-up out of synchronized objects.

[fallow abyss]

Oh that makes sense. Thanks

[ionic socket]

I'm still learning, btw. I'm working off this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yuBOB3VrCk

[clever lagoon]

if anyone cares, tests say: yes

[autumn cipher]

which one is more expensive for moving an object?
Lerping it on Update() with Time.DeltaTime
or
MovePosition() it with Rigidbody on FixedUpdate with Rigidbody's interpolation enabled

[dusk apex]

They're all affordable. Rigid body has got more things going on and regular update can occur less often than fixed update.

[autumn cipher]

I realized rigibody being a lot better since I'm gonna make a moving platform on a multiplayer game

yeah definitely, thanks

[simple mountain]

what s the intellisense?

[quartz folio]

!vs

[tawny elk]

Visual Studio guide

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

• Visual Studio: https://on.unity.com/vshubconfig (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio: https://on.unity.com/vsmanually (Installed manually)

[sudden meadow]

@simple mountain it's ok we fixed it, it was just vs not being set as the external tool so it didnt' build the proj files

[rancid frost]

what event triggers whenever you drag and drop data into a serialized field in editor?
I want to change a value in editor whenever a user changes a serialized field

[rain minnow]

OnValidate . . .

[fallow abyss]

Okay. so apparenly all I had to do was if(isOwner) 😄

[rancid frost]

Thanks, but what if your not using monobehavior?

[rain minnow]

I missed this but if the parameters are named with "direction" I would normalize them as a direction typically is

Thanks for the test results though. Did you try without normalizing (just to confirm)? I know some methods use or state a direction vector where all parameters don't have to be normalized . . .

[buoyant crane]

what is it then?

[quartz folio]

No memes/gifs.

[rancid frost]

Idk, that is why im asking lol

[rancid frost]

sorry

[clever lagoon]

yes! I was making an "always face camera" script. I tried NOT normalizing the camera-object offset.. result did FACE camera, but it "spun" the object around as I changed distance (changed "up")

[quartz folio]

No idea why dyno was so slow to get that one lol, I thought it was manually posted because it didn't get it

[buoyant crane]

if its a scriptable object it has on validate as well, thats why i was wondering

[rain minnow]

Then what are you using? I know it works for MonoBehaviour and ScriptableObject . . .

[rancid frost]

o, its just a normal class, with the iseriazationcallbackreciever

[rain minnow]

That normal class must be an instance on a MonoBehaviour or ScriptableObject, no? 🤔

[plucky karma]

ScriptableObject is MonoBehaviour Wink wink 😄

[rancid frost]

the class simply has 2 variables which I want to serialized
think of it like a struct

then in another class which has monobehavior, I want to use said class

Here is some code

 public class UIManager : MonoBehaviour
    {
        [SerializeField] private List<UIContainer> UIPrefabs;
          
        // I could call the validate here, but I rather note

    }

 public class UIContainer
    {
        public GameObject UIPrefab
        public UIPrefabName UIName;
    }

the problem with monobehavior and Scriptableobject is that I cant access those serializedfields

[simple mountain]

where is the issue, or rather how do I read that property

[quartz folio]

It's a method, not a property

call it properly. It returns nothing

[simple mountain]

so why is it even there

[quartz folio]

You can see its arguments in your popup, it has out parameters.

[rancid frost]

do this

int workers = 0;
int completed = 1;

ThreadPool.GetMaxThreads(out workers, out completed);

[simple mountain]

ou that s how it works

[rancid frost]

yes sir

when the function runs, your variables will be updated after

[simple mountain]

so it s basically the same as passing a refference, and changing the value of the refference to something else?

[rancid frost]

yea I guess, you might want to look at msdn for differences

one advantage of this is that if the function fails, usually your program doesnt crash since the variables are already initialized

[simple mountain]

I don t see why that would stop crashing but it seems like really great syntax stuff

[rain minnow]

That is where you call OnValidate (in the MonoBehaviour) and change/edit your variables . . .

[rancid frost]

yea...your right, It should just call it in the main function

[rancid frost]

Your right, normally they are used with alot of tryparse method which I presume was to prevent runtime errors

"out requires that the method accepting the parameter MUST, at some point before returning, assign a value to the variable."

[simple mountain]

well that s great so I will use out from now

do you know why Task.Run is so much faster than thread.start eventho from what I could see it does exactly the same?

[quaint rock]

they are not doing the same thing

Task.Run heavily depends on how things are setup for how it will work but generally it gets a existing thread from a pool to use but what it does depends on how the sceduler is setup

[scenic creek]

How can I have a vector that is clamped in magnitude, but can be greater in some directions? I want my player to have a greater forward max velocity than backward. On a graph the max speed would look something like this. Sorry for bad drawing, I'm using trackpad.

[hexed pecan]

Get the dot product and use that to lerp between different clamp values

[quaint rock]

would just keep it normalized, scale it larger when going forward

the dot product is a great idea too, since you can more or less make a mask for each direction with it

[wicked river]

Hey! I have two scenes. and a button that changes from scene one to scene two. How can I set the position the player needs to spawn at when scene two is loaded ?
I feel it should be as easy as setting an empty gameObject in Scene two and getting it's transform.position and just using that, however I am not sure how I can reference other scene gameObjects in my scene one

[scenic creek]

I know what dot product is and lerp, but I don't understand what you mean to use them together.

[gaunt garden]

If you want the very simple case of what you drew, something like this could work:
myVector + myVector * clamp(dot(myVector, Vector.up), 0, 1)

This would give you twice your vector when directly going up, and less as you start to deviate from the up vector

[scenic creek]

Wouldn't this give zero if going backward, so it would just nullify it instead of adding backward?

[hexed pecan]

No.

it is myVector PLUS extra

if facing forward

[scenic creek]

dot product of (0, -1) and (0, 1) is -1, which gets clamped to zero. whatever myVector is * 0 will be 0.

[hexed pecan]

Hence the myVector + myVector * ...

[scenic creek]

ok, so this sort of decomposes the vector2 into just the forward part, then only modifies that part.

[hexed pecan]

Hmm yeah

Base vector + forward

[scenic creek]

ok I think this works for me. Thanks.

[rain minnow]

The clamp will return 1 when facing forward and 0 when facing backward. Then you add your magnitude vector of 1, so if facing forward it becomes 2 and if facing backward it becomes 1 . . .

[scenic creek]

If I want forward and sides and back to all be different strengths I would have to divide the whole thing by two then multiply by how powerful I want it to be right, so if I want forward to be clamped to 1.5 then it would look like

((myVector + myVector * clamp(dot(myVector, Vector.up), 0, 1)) / 2) * 1.5

except I have to use myVector.normalized inside the dot product.

[quaint rock]

think people assumed it was normalized from the start

[rain minnow]

You said your vector was clamped in magnitude, that sounds like it's normalized already . . .

[scenic creek]

Yeah, I don't want it normalized though because if the player is using controller, then input coming from a stick might be inside unit circle.

clamped just means its between two values. normalized means its magnitude is definitely 1.

Also the vector doesn't start clamped. The question is how can I clamp it, but not in a circle.

[rain minnow]

Earlier, they provided a result for front/back. You'll need another solution for left/right if you want it to be different . . .

[scenic creek]

Yeah, here's what I have now.

input = ((input + input * Mathf.Clamp01(Vector2.Dot(Vector2.up, input.normalized))) / 2) * forwardSpeed;
input = ((input + input * Mathf.Clamp01(Vector2.Dot(Vector2.down, input.normalized))) / 2) * backSpeed;
input = ((input + input * Mathf.Clamp01(Vector2.Dot(Vector2.left, input.normalized))) / 2) * sideSpeed;
input = ((input + input * Mathf.Clamp01(Vector2.Dot(Vector2.right, input.normalized))) / 2) * sideSpeed;

Oh i just realized something wrong lol

I think I should be multiplying the input by forwardSpeed before adding it.

[spare otter]

Why is my public bool isn't referenced in the unity script interface ?

[scenic creek]

You saved your code right?

[spare otter]

Yes

[scenic creek]

And no compiler errors

[spare otter]

No

[inland python]

is there a way to force unity to not save playerprefs on application quit?

[quaint rock]

this sounds like a XY problem

why are you putting stuff in it you do not want saved?

or if you need more control over saving why are you even using player prefs?

[inland python]

i was just curious if i could nevermind

[toxic notch]

Why would a collision be read between the gun and the bullet here? There is no overlap of colliders?

[thick gale]

sorry misread the first time, is that where it gets instantiated?

[toxic notch]

Yes

I did a getTag on instantiation and found the gun, then got all colliders and ignored collision on them and that worked

still not sure why it would trigger though

[hexed pecan]

You could always Debug.log the collision.collider to find out

Which one it hits

[rain minnow]

How are you checking for collision? Just set the initial position of the bullet at a point where it doesn't collide with the gun. You should have a spawnPoint child Transform for the gun . . .

[pine schooner]

I have a quiz game that every question (same scene and panel) changes the text and buttons, and I want to change the "pressed color " to green when it is the correct button, how could I do that?

[quaint rock]

Button has a property called SpriteState on it

you create a new one where its green for pressed and set it on the button

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.UI.Selectable.html#UnityEngine_UI_Selectable_spriteState

[pine schooner]

ty

i'll try

[proud juniper]

do all of the IEventSystemHandlers (IPointerDownHandler, etc) function the same in the new input system versus legacy input system?

[quaint rock]

iirc they do

but you need some more setup for the new input system

[proud juniper]

They seem to, so far, but I don't want to assume.

I may need to start checking which action map is active I suppose

[quaint rock]

i have not seen otherwise and recently ported a large project to the new input system since it was easier for me to add controller support with it

[proud juniper]

it also seems like it's easier to manage different game states with it by switching maps

[thick gale]

can you save a list of bools to json? or no

[quaint rock]

json supports bools and lists just fine

[thick gale]

alrighty, i need to review my code then haha

[rigid island]

Hey I have a list of Vector3Int, I am trying to do a while loop to add to this list random points only if the points are not the same points or the distance is less than < 2. Any help would be appreciated

I can show code what I have so far if it helps, the struggle is doing a foreach loop in a while loop

[somber nacelle]

what do you mean by "the distance is less than 2". like the distance from any point within the list? or do you mean from a specific point, if it's the latter just use a HashSet instead of a List and you'll never have duplicated entries

[rigid island]

yeah sorry I need the distance to never be less than 2 from any the points in list

tried to foreach through the growing list of random points but compiler yells at me

[somber nacelle]

you can use the Any method from linq to see if any of the objects in the list meet the condition

[rigid island]

yes I thought of linq I just not sure how to put that together in my while loop

let me show my horrible code so far one sec

 Vector3Int lastPos = Vector3Int.zero;
        while (randomMidPoints.Count  < pathPerSide)
        {
            var r = Random.Range(0, midTiles.Count);
            var currentPos = midTiles[r];

            Debug.Log($"Current Pos {currentPos}");

            if(randomMidPoints.Count > 0)
            {

                foreach (var pos in randomMidPoints)
                {
                    Debug.Log($"Last Pos {pos}");
                    if (currentPos != pos && Vector3Int.Distance(pos, currentPos) > minDistance)
                    {
                        lastPos = currentPos;
                        Debug.Log($"Last Pos {lastPos}");
                        randomMidPoints.Add(midTiles[r]);
                        GB.SetTile(midTiles[r], debugTileB);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Debug.Break();
                    }
                }
            }
            else
            {
                if (lastPos != currentPos)
                {
                    Debug.Log("sup");
                    lastPos = midTiles[r];
                    randomMidPoints.Add(midTiles[r]);
                    GB.SetTile(midTiles[r], debugTileB);
                }
            }```

the issue with this was iterating a foreach through growing list

aside from the horrible code

[somber nacelle]

if(randomMidPoints.Any(x => x != currentPos && Vector3Int.Distance(x,currentPos)))
would replace inner foreach loop and condition

[rigid island]

awesome!
let me give that a try

[quaint rock]

also why Debug.Break

[rigid island]

desperation

I normally put breakpoints and step through code

[quaint rock]

Debug.Break just pasues unity

[somber nacelle]

oh right, that also doesn't include the check that the point is already in the list you can use the same Any method just change up the condition a bit or use Contains

[somber nacelle]

take a look at where that error is and see if you can figure out what is wrong with it

[quaint rock]

its from the code you suggested

not comparing the distance to anything

[somber nacelle]

i know, and i know exactly what is wrong with it too

[rigid island]

Sorry this is like my second time using linq lol

[somber nacelle]

it's not an issue with linq

it's the condition

hint: one of the two conditions isn't actually a condition because it returns a float rather than a bool.

[rigid island]

oops

thanks needed the > 2

[rigid island]

collection was modified enumeration operation may not execute

dang

[somber nacelle]

you removed the foreach, right?

[rigid island]

ye

[somber nacelle]

show the current code

[rigid island]

.

[rigid island]

scratch that! im dumb

i didnt save it

Thank you!

oh its no error but doesn't work @somber nacelle

[somber nacelle]

#archived-code-general message

i assume by "doesn't work" you mean it is still adding duplicates to the list in which case ^

[rigid island]

duplicates has not been the issue hashset helped , the issue was not wanting to add a point that is less than 2 distance on any v3 in the list

[somber nacelle]

and that if statement checks if any point is less than 2 units distance so what do you think you could do there?

wait, actually you wrote the condition so it checks if any point is greater than 2, but you should check if any point is less than and invert the condition

[rigid island]

I just switched it and got infinite loop

gotta force close

[somber nacelle]

you'll have to share the current code if you want help with it

but you don't really do anything to handle if none of the points in that midPoint collection meet your conditions for being added to the set

[rigid island]

This is after I switched the <

Vector3Int lastPos = Vector3Int.zero;
        while (randomMidPoints.Count  < pathPerSide)
        {
            var r = Random.Range(0, midTiles.Count);
            var currentPos = midTiles[r];

            Debug.Log($"Current Pos {currentPos}");

            if(randomMidPoints.Count > 0)
            {
                if (randomMidPoints.Any(x => x != currentPos && Vector3Int.Distance(x, currentPos) < 2))
                {
                    lastPos = midTiles[r];
                    randomMidPoints.Add(midTiles[r]);
                    GB.SetTile(midTiles[r], debugTileB);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("sup");
                lastPos = midTiles[r];
                randomMidPoints.Add(midTiles[r]);
                GB.SetTile(midTiles[r], debugTileB);
            }```

[somber nacelle]

you forgot to invert the bool returned by Any

but you're still not handling cases where none of the points in the collection meet the conditions specified

[rigid island]

so would it be cs if (!randomMidPoints.Any(x => x != currentPos && Vector3Int.Distance(x, currentPos) < 2)) ?

[somber nacelle]

yeah because then if any objects in the collection have a distance of less than 2 it will fail the condition as you implied you wanted

[rigid island]

I would like the while loop to keep trying

until it is met and filled with let's say 3

[somber nacelle]

right, that won't break the loop, it just moves on to the next iteration

but you're not handling cases where the collection you are getting random objects from does not have enough elements that satisfy the condition you are checking to end the while loop

a quick/dirty way to do that would be to count how many times you have looped and if it passes some arbitrary number it breaks the loop (and probably logs info)

[rigid island]

is there a better way I can do all this ?

Just need 2 spawn points to never be close to any other spawn points. I think my approach was already doing too much there may be a while to baypass it or no

[astral oriole]

my controls somehow got turned into a visual studio's file, how do i change it back to an inputactions file?

[rigid island]

I need the list of v3 though because of the tilemap coords

[somber nacelle]

well you could start reducing the minimum distance required every number of iterations so that you can guarantee that spawn points will be added or whatever. you just have to do something that will eventually lead to the loop ending if not enough of the points in that initial collection satisfy the condition or else the loop will never end which is your current issue

[somber nacelle]

don't crosspost

[astral oriole]

sry

[somber nacelle]

also not a code question anyway

[ancient cloak]

anyone run into problems with animations and nav meshes? for some reason this sucker refuses to just REACH their destination and they start moonwalking in circles when they get where they're supposed to be
https://streamable.com/llw4qq
https://paste.myst.rs/akyhknrb

[low nymph]

how could i get it so when you shoot a tank it moves the tank back a bit

[ancient cloak]

is your tank using a non kinematic rigidbody

[low nymph]

yes

[ancient cloak]

then simply add a force

[low nymph]

would adding a force just be attaching a empty game object to the cannon then passing it in as the vector 3

[merry ridge]

Hey brothers. I'm programming a 3d game. Does anybody know the best way to rotate a character so they only face the 4 cardinal directions? The foloowing code is what i use to rotate my character using a character controller and the new input system.

Vector3 rotationVector = new(moveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>().x, 0, moveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>().y);
if (rotationVector != Vector3.zero)
{
                Quaternion toRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(rotationVector, Vector3.up);
                directionArrow.transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(directionArrow.transform.rotation, toRotation, float.MaxValue);
}

This works well, the only problem is that it allows the player, at least when using keyboard, face the ordinal directions. Anybody know any doe i could introduce that forces the player to only face the cardinal directions? Should i just drop the code above?

[rigid island]

😫 fuckin lists and linq ... whyy so painfull..

[quaint rock]

its meant to be a tool to help, if you find it harder to understand linq just use loops

[rigid island]

I did try that but it gave me an error that wasn't able to iterate through a collection that grows :\

[quaint rock]

well its weird being in a case looping while adding to the thing you are looping

unless you are doing a while loop

[hallow quest]

Hey guys, I'm seeing some strange behavior in my game. I'm getting different behavior on windows(gif) VS android(mp4).

I've included the codeblock in question

[rigid island]

while was just doing retries but I had a foreach that kept being added to each while iteration

 if (!randomMidPoints.Any(x => x != currentPos && Vector3Int.Distance(x, currentPos) < 2 ))
                {
                    currentPos = midTiles[r];
                    randomMidPoints.Add(midTiles[r]);
                    GB.SetTile(midTiles[r], debugTileB);
                    Debug.Log("Hello there");
                }``` this works but it doesn't account for Distance for some reason

[dusk apex]

My only guess is that input changed between the two platform.. where destination on the second might have been an unwanted Vector3.

[quaint rock]

would adding some logging, see if what you are passing to add force differs alot between them

[rigid island]

:\

[low nymph]

how should i calculate the direction to knock the player back, im thinking this.transform.position - endOfBarrel.transform.position

[rigid island]

wait this kind of does work I think If I put <=

if (!randomMidPoints.Any(x => x != currentPos && Vector3Int.Distance(x, currentPos) < =2 ))

but it's still adding duplicates I think

yup

[somber nacelle]

get rid of the first part of the condition inside the Any call

[rigid island]

do you mean x != currentPos

[somber nacelle]

yes

[rigid island]

what do I put instead to not get duplicates

[somber nacelle]

nothing

if it is the same point the distance would be 0

[rigid island]

I think....that...worked..

holy mushrooms!

@somber nacelle thanks alot! you saved me days of heartache fr

ty

[covert turret]

I'm looking into template programming in C# right now, I understand the statically declared use of Func<T> and delegate T fooFunction(T foo1, T foo2) but how do I make it so that I can pass any amount of parameters?

googling just comes up a mess of either the former or latter

[quaint rock]

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

[hallow quest]

Coming back to this - so the problem must be in my code. There's no differences between how an IENumerator works in Android vs Windows?

[quaint rock]

T fooFunction<T>(params t[] items)

also @covert turret C# has not templates its generics that do this which are more limited then C++ style templates

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/generics/generic-type-parameters

[covert turret]

yeah I was afraid that was the case, all good, thanks for helping clear that out

i'll make do with these

[low nymph]

is there a way to amplify addforce

[somber nacelle]

wdym by "amplify"?

[quaint rock]

multiply your vector by a bigger number

[low nymph]

ight

[somber nacelle]

i'd bet the issue is that they aren't using ForceMode.Impulse considering earlier they wanted a knockback for a tank or whatever. of course, until they explain we have no way of knowing which they need to do

[low nymph]

im using impulse but its still too little

[somber nacelle]

then yeah, use a bigger amount of force

or you are overriding it by assigning velocity every frame

[low nymph]

multiplying it did the trick

[somber nacelle]

do you use velocity for movement?

or do you actually use AddForce for regular movement?

[low nymph]

addforce for regular movement

[potent sleet]

there is a whole discord for it pinned in #archived-networking

[low nymph]

how would i rotate the tank cannon bone to the direction the player double taps (for a dash)