archived-code-general

[thick socket]

normally I use it the other way

however in this rare case I need to see if it has a value

[rain minnow]

if the value is in the dict, then it has a key . . .

you're just comparing the wrong thing, that's all . . .

[thick socket]

right, there isn't a dict.ContainsValue() iirc

[lucid valley]

there is .ContainsValue()

[thick socket]

wat

wow

[lucid valley]

worse performance than a key check

[thick socket]

been googling for like 20m 😭

thanks

[rain minnow]

yes, there is . . .

[lucid valley]

doesnt give the key, if you need that as well then you'd need do the ContainsValue manually

[rain minnow]

uhh, just google: dictioanry c#, click on microsoft link, click methods on left-side scroll bar and search through all methods . . .

[woeful leaf]

()

[thick socket]

I was googling the actual question and not just dictionary c# which was the issue

[rain minnow]

always google what type or class you are using. you'll get the actual link to the class (type) and all of its members . . .

[simple egret]

If you're going to use it backwards more, you can make two dictionaries with the key-value pairs swapped and act on both at the same time

[thick socket]

good to know thanks

I think I'll stay with my foreach loop...just have to store the values I want to change and wait until Im outside the loop to modify the dictionary

hmm

I wonder if I just throw a break if it wont be mad at me (it was mad at my modifying EquippedList while doing foreach on it)

    foreach (var items in EquippedList)
        {
            if(items.Value == item)
            {
                tmpList.Add(item);
                EquippedList[items.Key] = null;
                break;
            }
        }

if I have a break here it will break the loop and not the if statement right?

[simple egret]

break only acts on loop constructs, so yeah

Depending on your code editor if you click on break to put the editing cursor on it, it'll also highlight the loop it acts on

(VS22, was also the case for VS19)

[lucid valley]

        foreach (var items in EquippedList)
        {
            if(items.Value != item) continue;
            
            tmpList.Add(item);
            EquippedList[items.Key] = null;
            break;
        }

Can also remove the nesting if you find that more readable

[rain minnow]

☝️ reverse this to exit early and remove the scope . . .

[thick socket]

that makes sense

for some reason I thought using continues like that was bad practice or something

[simple egret]

I find the version with continue way less readable

Adds complexity on where the execution flows

[lucid valley]

i'm the opposite lol

[rain minnow]

it's like asking for a flavor and someone telling you what they do have instead of a simple yes or no. so always exit early to avoid that conversation . . .

[thick socket]

fair enough

is there any way that when the game is running and you change code everything doesn't break and you have to re-click play?

I assume not but figure I ask 😄

[lucid valley]

nope, Unity doesnt support hot reload

[wicked river]

Hey! I am having a world of trouble spawning an equipped weapon|item into the characters hand at the correct orientation and position. I would love some advice on the topic please.

I have tried setting a weapon slot empty gameObject in the palm of the player as well as setting an empty gameObject on the grip of the weapon to perhaps attach it that way but I can't seem to get the rotation right and I really don't want to using hardcoded values as I will have more than one weapon and some are 2 handed as well.

[thick socket]

2d?

[wicked river]

3D sorry

[thick socket]

unfortunate, I could kind of help you if it was 2d lol

[wicked river]

All good

[wary ferry]

I have a tile map collider on a tile map made out of rule tiles. Somehow I set it so only the tiles on the edge got the collider and I can't figure out how, does anyone know what setting this is?

like this

[leaden ice]

super easy to do with an empty GameObject that is properly positioned/rotated

public Transform theEmpty;
var instance = Instantiate(myPrefab, theEmpty.position, theEmpty.rotation, theEmpty);```

[obtuse canyon]

How can i detect a change in value.
For example a character is set to lerp to an object and i want an animation play only when he is moving

[wicked river]

Do you care to elaborate. theEmpty.pos & theEmptyRot will be the palm GO correct?

[leaden ice]

theEmpty would be an empty object that is a child of the palm and oriented properly (or if the palm itself is the empty you want to use, sure)

[wicked river]

ah, like this I assume

[leaden ice]

sure

[wicked river]

so the position and or rotation is dependend on in my case where I put the WeaponSlot. I need to just play with the empty gameObject to find the right position in the palm and right rotation

[leaden ice]

yep

[wicked river]

🥳 Thank you .

[proven plume]

Unity does support this. There are certain requirements that must be met for it to work related to serialization of game state during the hot load of the updated assembly. These notes are old but still relevant: https://gist.github.com/cobbpg/a74c8a5359554eb3daa5

[thick socket]

tryBackButton = root.Q<Button>("tryBackButton");
        if (tryBackButton == null)
        {
            Debug.Log("backbutton null");
        }
        tryBackButton.clicked += GoBack;
``````cs
void GoBack()
    {
        //MainMenu.instance.CloseMe(root);
        root.pickingMode = PickingMode.Ignore;
        root.style.display = DisplayStyle.None;
        Debug.Log("backclicked");
    }```

am I missing something obvious here?

the button isn't clicking/doing the GoBack

[rain minnow]

just call/invoke the event manually . . .

[rain minnow]

add a log when clicked is invoked to see if it actually runs . . .

[thick socket]

I've got the debug.log set inside of GoBack...which isn't firign

so yes, atm its not clicking

not sure if I set something up wrong or wacky type or ui toolkit being dumb

[rain minnow]

that checks if the button is null, not if the event was actually fired . . .

[thick socket]

I dont quite follow how I would do it otherwise?

I have a debug to see if its null(its not) then another debug for the event that fires when its clicked

[orchid bane]

What is the purpose of using Strategy pattern instead of simply using implementers of the corresponding interface? In other words, why create the Context class?

[thick socket]

figured it out anyway, stupid UI toolkit stuff

[proven plume]

If you want to manually trigger the even on a specific UI element and you have the reference, you can invoke that directly (the exact call will depend on what event and ui type you are using). If you want a general way to fake input and mimic what the event system is doing, what you found on google is correct but would take a bit more setup. It's how input modules work.

[wispy wolf]

I have an object that I want to move in a spiral pattern outward while maintaining the same linear speed. How would I approach this?

[woeful leaf]

Math

[brisk otter]

Can someone explain to me why local variables are useful? Isn't it always going to me more efficient for the computer to declare them as regular fields?

[woeful leaf]

For loop would be one example

[brisk otter]

But even for for loops isn't it still better to declare them properly at the top of the script?

i feel like they just encourage lazy coding

[woeful leaf]

Not really then a variable would have to stay in the memory

And you’d also have to manually reset the non-local variable

And even if there is a performance difference, it’s practically non-existent

[brisk otter]

witch c# does automatically right

[woeful leaf]

Unless you keep doing a GetComponent and store that in a local or smth then it is

[woeful leaf]

For a non-local? Of course not

[brisk otter]

for a local*

[woeful leaf]

I said non-local on here

[woeful leaf]

But for a local yeah, cuz it gets redefined

Which is why it’s good for for loops

[brisk otter]

Im just thinking, cause each time you create a local var in the update function, you are really allocating and deallocating memory every frame, when you could have just allocated it once when the program started and ended

[brisk otter]

ah gotcha

[woeful leaf]

It’s not a big deal really

I’d

If you want to know more

[rain minnow]

each field adds memory to the class. adding fields just to use for methods can easily bloat a class, especially, if you use one or multiple local variables for a number of methods . . .

[brisk otter]

I think i had a bit of a misunderstanding about how local vars worked

it makes sense more now

[rain minnow]

nope. local variables are placed on the stack. this is faster and more efficient than grabbing the (reference type) field from the heap for each access to it . . .

it's smarter to declare the local variable outside of the loop instead of inside though. no need to create it every iteration . . .

[rain minnow]

this is true, but it depends on the type of variable. a large collection or complex class is better off as a field, but small data and structs — preferred — are mainly used for local variables as the memory comes from the stack, not the heap. local variables are disposed of once the method exits but a field will need to be reset (unless its value is meant to remain the same) . . .

[brisk otter]

got it

thanks so much!

[rain minnow]

sorry, forgot about this. the second parameter must derive from BaseEventData but you supplied a DragEnterEvent type as the argument. if you don't need to pass any data then use null . . .

[cedar pivot]

How can I know in advance where the ball will land?

where will it touch the ground

[ionic yew]

something along those lines

[prisma birch]

How can I set the rotation of the scene view camera manually? Like I would like to set the euler angles directly rather than free rotating?

I managed to select the scene camera but it looks like none of the properties are editable

[proven plume]

assuming drag is turned off so that horizontal velocity is constant, projectile motion equations can calculate that. A simple case is straight forward but terrain with uneven height would make that more challenging since you would need to know where the projected arc intersects with a solid object at an arbitrary height.

[ionic yew]

like in code? or in the UI

[prisma birch]

Either, I just want to set the euler angles to something specific

[cedar pivot]

its plane not uneven height terrain

Thx

[steady moat]

Raycast on the projectile path. Or, you can use equations of constant acceleration motion.

[azure crescent]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 5f;
    public float jumpForce = 10f;
    public float wallJumpForce = 10f;
    public float wallStickTime = 0.5f;
    public LayerMask wallLayer;

    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    private bool canJump;
    private bool canWallJump;
    private bool isSticking;
    private float stickTime;

    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) && canJump)
        {
            rb.AddForce(new Vector2(0f, jumpForce), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
            canJump = false;
        }

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) && canWallJump)
        {
            rb.AddForce(new Vector2(wallJumpForce, jumpForce), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
            canWallJump = false;
        }

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) && isSticking)
        {
            stickTime += Time.deltaTime;
            if (stickTime >= wallStickTime)
            {
                isSticking = false;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            stickTime = 0f;
            isSticking = false;
        }
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        float moveX = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(moveX * speed, rb.velocity.y);

        if (rb.velocity.x != 0)
        {
            speed += 0.01f;
        }
    }

    void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Ground"))
        {
            canJump = true;
        }

        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Wall"))
        {
            canWallJump = true;
            isSticking = true;
        }
    }

so i have this code when i try to add it to my empty i get a text box saying...

[steady moat]

The script and your class does not share the same name

One is called playercontoler while the other is called PlayerController

[vagrant agate]

Also float moveX = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"); inside of Fixed Update can have undesirable results.

[azure crescent]

i didnt see that cuz im dumb and tired

[steady moat]

I mean, there is a lot that is wrong with this code. He is going to figure it out.

[azure crescent]

what should u should i use instead

[steady moat]

You don't need to make anything in the FixedUpdate.

[vagrant agate]

You should always check input in Update not fixed update

And just another tid bit of info. Look into how to use enums instead of all your booleans for player state. It will untangle spaghetti boolean logic

[steady moat]

StateMachine is a most for a controller

[steep scarab]

Does anyone know how to refer to the trees of my terrain via script? I currently have a script getting a navmesh agent to take cover at positions working and I want to add the positions of all the trees on my terrain to a kd tree.

[vagrant agate]

i believe what you are looking for is https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TreeInstance.html

[steep scarab]

ah thank you!

[vagrant agate]

var terrain = Terrain.activeTerrain;
var trees = terrain.terrainData.treeInstances;

[azure crescent]

ok i think the brain rot is getting to me but how should i rewrite this cuz im still abit new to the coding part

[vagrant agate]

The general rule of thumb, is player input is detected in update not Fixed(because of the fixed framerate) And dealing with force/rigidbody is added in Fixed Update mainly for fast moving objects.

[vagrant agate]

just store that in a global variable and apply forces in fixed update

I believe the main reason is using Update instead of Fixed Update for fast moving objects can crap out at very high speeds. I'm not saying that is the case here. But getting in this habit isn't a bad idea.

[azure crescent]

better?

[viral marlin]

I'm using resharpner and everything works mostly fine a part from autocompleting unity's inbuilt functions, e.g onCollisionEnter shows but when I try to autocomplete it I just get onCollisionEnter and nothing else while without resharpner it autocomplatets it with whatever is needed. I am also using visual studio

[vagrant agate]

no let me give you a short example of what I mean.

[jagged pilot]

Hi everyone, I'm making progress on my hidden character game and the next pattern I need to create is making all of them bounce off the sides of the camera/screen/game area. I have a game reference as MP4.
And here is a generic reference of a bouncing DVD logo screensaver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mGuCdlCcNM&ab_channel=RaúlBlanco
I don't believe there is any difference in behavior between the game reference and the generic reference.

I have a script that can instantiate all the characters onto a grid and give them their own unique direction and speed to transform. I think that to produce this pattern, I need use the cross product to get a vector perpendicular to the original vector of the character and the side of the game area, then replace the character's vector with the perpendicular vector. Then we just need to repeat it every time the character runs into a side of the game area right?

If it hits a corner, what vector should be used? I'm unsure about that.

[vagrant agate]

public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody2D _rigidbody2D;
    private bool _isGrounded;
    private bool _jump;
    private float _jumpForce;

    private void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && _isGrounded)
        {
            _jump = true;
        }
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        ApplyJumpForce();
    }

    private void ApplyJumpForce()
    {
        if (!_jump) return;
        _jump = false;
        _isGrounded = false;
        _rigidbody2D.AddForce(new Vector2(0f, _jumpForce), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Ground"))
        {
            _isGrounded = true;
        }
    }
}

Take the concept, not the best code. @azure crescent

[vagrant agate]

You could also get the world coordinates of the screen and move some long rectangle objects that form the box of the viewport that have colliders on them. I do this on mobile games all the time.

[vague tundra]

Depending on how you implement it, hitting a corner is successfully solved by performing the 'bounce' (cross product) of one side, and then using the resultant vector immediately in the calculation of the other side

[placid ridge]

Hi! I'm trying to goto a position, but i want to be stopped by colliders along the way, like the example image. Is there any way i can do that?

[vague tundra]

Are you using rigidbodies on your peoples?

[placid ridge]

Yes.

[ancient cloak]

physics is just math. it's a function of position over time. you know the mass of the object, you know the force of gravity. you know where the ground is

and you know its instantaneous velocity

[placid ridge]

(I am trying to make a dash mechanic which teleports the charector, but i don't want to clip into a wall)

[jagged pilot]

Yes that is an idea I was considering. This would mean I need to use forces instead of translating. I think I could do that. It's just that most of the other character movement patterns I've made use translate so I'm looking for a way to do this and keeping the movement consistent across patterns.

[jagged pilot]

Okay it seems like cross product would be the way to go. I'll test it.

[azure crescent]

im getting weird errors when i try this im going to go to sleep cuz my eyes hurt then try to do this when my brain works

[viral marlin]

you could possibly do a raycast which is limited in length

[warm rose]

Why can't I jump in unity
First person 3D
I followed a tutorial because I couldn't get it to work
But it still doesn't work
Idk if its just my computer
Could someone please help

[viral marlin]

and then hav ethe player go whereever the raycast hit

[placid ridge]

Code?

[placid ridge]

Alr

[ancient cloak]

this is what i'd do. fire a raycast forward the length of your tp and go wherever it lands

[viral marlin]

yeah

[placid ridge]

k

[viral marlin]

I'm not to sure how to do it myself but I do know it is possible

[warm rose]

Here it is: https://gdl.space/iraqitawex.cs

Couldn't fit on discord so here

[ancient cloak]

good boy

just use the keycode. also IMO you should use rigidbody.addforce with ForceMode.Impulse

ALSO

does that even compile?

[warm rose]

Yeah

It let me enter playmode without any errors

[viral marlin]

have you tried making the radius larger?

[warm rose]

Ok I will try

[ancient cloak]

no shot

[ancient cloak]

well the exlamation point on the right hand side of isGrounded isn't doing what you think

[warm rose]

Wdym

[ancient cloak]

tell me why its there

[polar marten]

"this character is grounded NOT"

[ancient cloak]

this suit is black NOT

[polar marten]

"i make joke!"

"this character is grounded, pause, not"

[vague tundra]

I'm struggling with a similar problem - controller my character such that it can respect collisions

You could manually control the objects velocity and then sit it to 0 when ur not moving.

What I'm trying currently is to use a CharacterController component on my player. It lets you perform a Move that will stop when it hits collisions

[viral marlin]

this works, it looks cursed but it functions the same as it if were on the left

[ancient cloak]

ugh yall drive me crazy

[viral marlin]

😛

[viral marlin]

you could also apply a force to the player in the direction of the mouse

[ancient cloak]

can yall just let me be right

the exclamation mark is only a negation when a value follows it. when a value precedes it, it has another function, one i know you didn't intend

[polar marten]

i mean obviously you're right

the null forgiving operator came out after brackey's though

[ancient cloak]

stands to reason that it's incorrect

[viral marlin]

you are right

the test I did was actually really dumb

[warm rose]

So what should I change to make my player be able to jump?

[viral marlin]

I just saw that 🙃

[polar marten]

did you know typescript and csharp are designed by the same person?

[viral marlin]

put ! at the left side

as at the end it doesn't really do anything

[ancient cloak]

well the line i showed you has the exclamation mark on the wrong side of the variable. so that's a gimme. why don't you explain how it's misbehaving

have you debugged to see if the jump section of code is being hit? here

[warm rose]

It didn't change anything when I moved the exclamation, still no jump

[ancient cloak]

either put a breakpoint and step through to see what's happening or put debug logs to confirm what you think is happening is actually happening

[warm rose]

Nothing is happening

It's not being detected

[ancient cloak]

if literally nothing is happening then press play. you should be able to debug your code

what values are you logging?

and where are you logging them

[warm rose]

This If statement

To see if its detecting my jump

[ancient cloak]

okay

try replacing "Jump" with Keycode.Space

using string literals for input detection is cringe

[cosmic rain]

Did we already confirm that isGrounded is true?

[ancient cloak]

^ could log it

[warm rose]

I gtg now, Ill see later

Thanks for helping

[steep scarab]

anyone know of a good kdTree script I can yoink?

[wild nebula]

https://lukaschod.github.io/dots-plus-docs/manual/collections.html

[steep scarab]

ty ty

[wild nebula]

Its in DOTS Plus asset's collection library

Been loving it, can be used in gameobject too

Never regretted getting it!

[vague tundra]

Is inheriting from Monobehaviour the thing that allows you to create instances of a class?

[rain minnow]

only a class derived from MonoBehaviour can be attached to a GameObject . . .

[vague tundra]

So a class that derives from nothing cannot?

[dusky spear]

If I wanted to write a custom lighting system for a 2d sidescroller, what system would I want to use for that

I already know how I’d calculate the shape of the light, I just don’t know how I would go about getting it into the level as actual light

My original idea was just to use Freeform light2ds and have the script change the light shape but after some quick forums scrolling I have come to the come to the conclusion that that is not possible

What would you guys recommend

Btw this would need to be capable of updating dynamically

How do I go from a list of vertices of a shape in a script to the level being lit in that shape

Just being able to set the shape of Freeform light 2d would work for me so if anybody knows a way for that to be possible dynamically that would work great

[neat lagoon]

that is what that means, yes

but understand that creating an instance of a class and attaching to a gameobject are very different things

one is fundamental to C# and another is just some random Unity functionality

[vague tundra]

I see, I see

How can I provide a scriptable object with a reference to a class/script?

The class/script is not an instance

[full scaffold]

So static?

I would assume just the name of the class

[dusky spear]

I want to do something like this, and I understand this article well, but once I get the light shape, how do I actually get it to render ingame https://ncase.me/sight-and-light/

[full scaffold]

Create many many many... ray casts

[dusky spear]

Nononononono I know how to actually do the calculations

Once I have the list of vertices that make up the shape of the light

How to I get it to actually display as a light ingame

[full scaffold]

Mesh renderer

[dusky spear]

Kinda like a Freeform light2d, but something able to be updated thru a script

[full scaffold]

I mean you can use like a shader or something

[dusky spear]

I wish the Freeform light 2d just let you set the light shape in the script

[vague tundra]

How can I get a reference to a non-instanced script on an instance of a scriptable object?

[cosmic rain]

Wdym by "non-instanced script"?

[vague tundra]

I'm not sure how to correctly refer to it...
A script that I dont need to put on any specific game object.

But I want a reference to the script from instances of my scriptable objects

[cosmic rain]

A plain C# class you mean? Not inheriting from MonoBehaviour or ScriptableObject?

[vague tundra]

I guess that is exactly what I'm getting at, yeah

But I only want it accessed by the scriptable objects i give it to

[cosmic rain]

Well, you can access it the same way as any other class field. Make it public(don't), expose it with a property or a getter method.

[cosmic rain]

How are you "giving it to the scriptable object"?

If you only want it accessible in the class it's declared in, then just make it private🤷‍♂️

[vague tundra]

Mmm, I wish my brain was larger so I could accurately explain what I was after...

Let me come at this from another angle

What are the requirements for something to accepted into this slot:

[cosmic rain]

It needs to be a serialized reference by unity(probably wrong wording). Basically, it needs to inherit from MonoBehaviour or ScriptableObject.

[vague tundra]

I see, hmm

[rare tendon]

can someone help me with an audio issue? im trying to detect the audio level from the main microphone, but unity doesnt have a built in way of doing this. i found this: https://forum.unity.com/threads/check-current-microphone-input-volume.133501/ but when i try it the output doesnt actually correspond to how loud my voice is. My code:

private static float LevelMax(AudioClip clip, int window)
    {
        float levelMax = 0;

        //get the position to start checking from, which is a window starting from current pos and extending backward by 'window'
        var micPosition = Microphone.GetPosition(null)-(window+1);
        
        if (micPosition < 0) return 0;//if we dont have sufficient data yet, return 
        
        var waveData = new float[window];//array of floats representing the waveform of the captured window
        clip.GetData(waveData, micPosition);//populate wave data with data from the audio clip
        
        // Getting a peak on the last 'window' samples
        for (var i = 0; i < window; i++) 
        {
            var wavePeak = waveData[i] * waveData[i];
            
            if (levelMax < wavePeak) 
            {
                levelMax = wavePeak;
            }
        }
        return levelMax;
    }```
This is being called in Update(), and it just returns a random float around 0.0025, with no bearing on the volume of my room

[cosmic rain]

It can probably inherit from unity Object, but there's not much point in doing that.

[vague tundra]

So in my setup, Wooden Sword (Equipment) is a ScriptableObject. (An instance of a scriptable object i think would be correct to say).

I want Ability to be a class that contains a single method.

I want to be able to give different Equipments the same Ability, doing so thru the inspector

[cosmic rain]

Then Ability needs to be an SO as well.

[vague tundra]

Wonderful, thank you. That makes sense!

Oh, wait. Frick

How would I implement a different method for each Ability?

This is kind of the code setup I'd be looking at. ExampleAbilitySwordSwing is not being accepted into the highlighted slot in the previous picture

[leaden ice]

Are you trying to drag the script itself?

You'd have to create an asset from the SO and drag that

[vague tundra]

I see, cool. So for every ability, I'd have only 1 corresponding SO?
Is that a good way to do it?

[halcyon nimbus]

Ahh, a perfect conversation. I was just about to come in and ask about how people would implement something like the keywords on magic the gathering cards.

[cosmic rain]

It's an okay way. There are people that oppose it radically, but in my opinion it's okay.

[halcyon nimbus]

what are the alternatives?

[cosmic rain]

Hardcode it.

[halcyon nimbus]

where?

its hardcoded into the SO isnt it

[vague tundra]

Mmm... I think SO's are the wrong thing to use for me here.
I'd be creating 100 scripts that inherit from Ability, then adding CreateAssetMenu to them all, but then only ever creating 1 SO per script. mmm

[vague tundra]

Oh interesting, sounds pretty similar. Information that isnt tied to any specific GO, but can be used by any GO

[halcyon nimbus]

Really I want to do something a little different, but that is the closest I can get to explaining it with what I know

[vague tundra]

Lmk if you get a good solution(:

[halcyon nimbus]

for mtg, there are lots of reused effects and it would be nice to be able to reuse them in the edittor as well rather than hardcoding the same thing onto different cards

[void basalt]

Is there a good way of disabling an object's visual rendering, but still display shadows?

[vague tundra]

Yeah righto I reckon that sounds like what I'm after actually

I want abilities than can be given to weapons that can be equipped by the player, allowing player to use the abilities

[broken light]

any one know how to correctly rotate an object for the rotation handle in unity?

for me it goes way too fast

im not sure how to correctly use the quaternions to fix it

this is my code:

var q = Quaternion.LookRotation(Vector3.forward, Vector3.up);
var forward = Handles.RotationHandle(q, data.Position) * data.Forward;
data.Forward = forward;

not sure why its so damn crazy fast for such a small amount of rotation - how do you fix it?

ah i fixed it

[vague tundra]

Was it a degrees/radians problem?

[broken light]

no i was using the wrong forward to multiply the rotation

[lethal plank]

hmm where should i ask about animation rigging?

[main shuttle]

#🏃┃animation probably

[lethal plank]

lemme try

[swift falcon]

maybe its a stupid question, but how do I put a gameobject on top of the cursor? In a position that the camera first sees that gameobject and behind it its the cursor. I am trying it but it seems that the cursor always stays on top.

[plucky inlet]

You mean like picking up an item and then hide the cursor while holding the item?

Either let each door side check with a raycast or stop movement when a collision happens? sth like that

[swift falcon]

I want to have a gameobject in front the Windows cursor, hiding the cursor. But the cursor needs to still be active and functioning, just behind that gameobject.. And I cant just change the cursors sprite for what I need.

and If I do Cursor.visible = false, the cursor its still in front

[plucky inlet]

the cursor is still in front if you disable it?

[swift falcon]

I dont want to disable it, just hide it in front of a sprite. I dont know if Im explaining it right, sry for my english. Something like take the Z coordinate of the cursor and put my gameobject in front of that, in a 2d game. But It doesnt seem to work.

[plucky inlet]

If its the hardware cursor, it is ALWAYS on top of everything unless you make it non visible. But if you have a custom sprite attached to your mouseposition, you could offset that in the layer depth. So, what cursor are you using?

[swift falcon]

Its the hardware cursor, I didnt know that, thank you!

[plucky inlet]

And if your cursor is always visible, even if you set it to false, that is somehow weird. Did you test that in build? Just to be sure its no editor limitation

[grizzled trail]

I've got a question about building from the command line for macOS. In the build window you can select macOS for the target platform, and Intel 64-bit + Apple Silicon for the architecture. What's the equivalent of setting these in the command line? The docs say -buildTarget OSXUniversal and -buildOSXUniversalPlayer respectfully but I don't seem to get anything built, and my logs don't show an obvious error. I unfortunately can't share the logs, but anything to look for / go off would be really useful.

[grizzled trail]

🧐

[plucky inlet]

It was build setting wise, not sure it helps you in command line. I can post again

// It is not visible in any of the managed assemblies, you will never, ever find this
#if UNITY_EDITOR && UNITY_STANDALONE_OSX
// Intel amd64:
UnityEditor.OSXStandalone.UserBuildSettings.architecture = UnityEditor.OSXStandalone.MacOSArchitecture.x64;
// Apple Silicon/M1 ARM64:
UnityEditor.OSXStandalone.UserBuildSettings.architecture = UnityEditor.OSXStandalone.MacOSArchitecture.ARM64;
// macOS Universal or Fat binary:
UnityEditor.OSXStandalone.UserBuildSettings.architecture = UnityEditor.OSXStandalone.MacOSArchitecture.x64ARM64;
#endif

Did you try ARM64 ?

[grizzled trail]

ARM64 isn't an option according to the unity docs under build arguments

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.2/Documentation/Manual/EditorCommandLineArguments.html

This is the command I use (or rather that teamcity generated, but that i've verified doesn't work running it manually.)

"C:\Program Files\Unity\Hub\Editor\2022.2.2f1\Editor\Unity.exe" -batchmode -projectPath "/my-app-name Project/" -buildTarget OSXUniversal -buildOSX64Player D:\Builds\my-app-name\App\Builds\54_develop_20230126_10391194\MacOS\my-app-name.app -executeMethod Editor.BuildScripts.BuildComponents.TeamCity_PrepBuild_Development -versionFile "C:\BuildAgent\tools/Development MacOS_version.json" -quit -logFile D:\BuildAgent\temp\agentTmp\unityBuildLog-9300905772748481244.txt

The windows equivalent works fine

[plucky inlet]

and the universal thing does not output anything?

[grizzled trail]

Absolutely nothing, and the log doesn't say anything about the build succeeding or failing either

[plucky inlet]

Is it correct to use buildTarget AND buildOSXUniversalPlayer ?

[grizzled trail]

yeah, setting the build target tells unity how to load the project. same as if you go to the build window and click "switch platform" as far as im aware

[plucky inlet]

Did you try with only -buildOSXUniversalPlayer ? Just guessing here while googling 😄

Oh wait, you are trying to build for mac on a windows machine?

[swift falcon]

How to properly destroy a DDOL GameObejct from another script? I thought Destroy(Class.gameObject) would do it but it gives me a NullReferenceException

[plucky inlet]

you need to get the instance of that class, not the class itself

[swift falcon]

I already have an instance variable in my DDOL class, can I make it public and use that? Is that safe?

[plucky inlet]

it needs to be static to be a correct instance

Otherwise its not a singleton as what you would DDOL use for

[swift falcon]

It's private static at the moment

[plucky inlet]

public static and then Class.instance.gameObject can be destroy

[swift falcon]

Great thanks

[plucky inlet]

I am not sure you can easily build for mac from windows. did you try through the build settings?

[grizzled trail]

yep, and I know it works

[plucky inlet]

Weird, but maybe you cant build for M1, only OSX universal

[grizzled trail]

Nope

You can build for everything, I've done it, verified it works

Even have it running on our dev mac

[plucky inlet]

yeah, a m1 mac is good at emulating standard intel mac builds

[grizzled trail]

Command line will just not write a binary

[grizzled trail]

No, i've verified it's not running under rosetta

[plucky inlet]

Okay, then this is either lacking Unity who are behind of command line tools or we are missing some weird thing here 😄

[glacial halo]

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction on this as it's driving me nuts. lol.

I have a particle system which gets instantiated when a ball hits the walls of a tunnel (to 'simulate' a type of shield hit).

The problem I'm having is getting the particle system to 'align' with the geometry of the tunnel.

I have the system set to 'Local' space, but it keeps dinging up with random 'directions'.

Anyone have any ideas? 😕

`private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
if (collision.gameObject.tag == "ShieldWall")
{

        Debug.Log("Ball Impacted");
        Vector3 impactPoint = collision.contacts[0].point;
        Quaternion impactRotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, collision.contacts[0].normal);
        GameObject shieldHit = Instantiate(shieldParticle, impactPoint, impactRotation);

        Destroy(shieldHit, 1);
    }
}`

[grizzled trail]

Actually thinking about it yesterday I did an apple silicon only build and it built and ran fine

I'm leaning on the side of command line seriously lacking, but it should still output a binary.

The alternative is I just have build scripts for each build I want, load Unity in batch mode and run the build script. Kind of defeats what I'm going for but at least it might work

[cosmic rain]

Try pausing when the particle system is instantiated and check it's inspector. Does it correspond to what you expect? Is it positioned and rotated the way you make it in code? Printing the relevant values before/after the instantiation might also be useful.

[glacial halo]

This is what's happening when my car hits (using the car to test)

[atomic wasp]

I would check whether collision contact array returns the correct normal, and then try some other way of calculating the impact quaternion - Quaternion.LookRotation or even Quaternion.Euler

[glacial halo]

Well, I just tried with a plane with material on it, and it works fine, so I'm just gonna go with that approach. lol.

[atomic wasp]

Also if the ShieldWall object was modelled in blender, it's worth it to check it for backfacing polygons that happen to have their normal turned around, hiding the backfaces

(if it has a nonconvex mesh collider)

[unreal valley]

Is using Reflection a bad way to save and load data?

[slow crag]

Does anyone know how I can capture the bounds (frustrum) of a 3d camera, so that I can set the ortographic size of another 2D camera to always be just large enough as what the player sees?
I've got this code from ChatGPT:

float perspectiveFov = main3DCamera.fieldOfView;
float aspectRatio = main3DCamera.aspect;

// Calculate the vertical size of the frustum at the camera's distance from the plane
float frustumHeight = 2.0f * Mathf.Tan(perspectiveFov * 0.5f * Mathf.Deg2Rad) * main3DCamera.transform.position.y;

// Divide by the aspect ratio to get the horizontal size of the frustum
float frustumWidth = frustumHeight * aspectRatio;

// Set the orthographic size of the lighting camera to half of the frustum width
lightingCamera.orthographicSize = -frustumWidth * 0.5f;

However, it only takes into consideration the zoom of the perspective camera. It also changes perspective (angle) by changing transform.rotation.x, so it can see more of the plane ahead of it, effectively going from top-down to 2.5D

Here's an example:

You can see that at a certain angle of camera rotation the lighting camera's orthographic size is too small so there is no lighting (shadows get lost)

[steady moat]

You could use reflection for saving data. If your save is small and not being made each frame, reflection wouldnt be an issue. In fact, most serialising library use reflection.

BUT, if you want clean code, you need to separate your saved data, from your game data.
BUT, if you are saving large word, reflection could add a decent amount of time.

You could use partial class to generate save procedure in each class and use BinaryStream.
You could use System.Reflection.Emit, which is faster but would be harder to implement.
You could, and should, use 1st/3rd party library for saving data. (JsonUtility)

[unreal valley]

I have EzSave but I just didn't feel like implementing it because my game is also Networked. I want the capability of saving locally and also sending to the cloud

[steady moat]

Which only implies manipulating the resulting files and has no impact on the save data itself.

[proud juniper]

Have a Quaternion question. Let's say I want to rotate a gameobject like a spaceship that may have it's Y axis not pointing up. If it's rolled onto its side and I'm in it and want to turn to the right... how could I manipulate a Quat to do this? I tried just doing transform.TransformDirection(0, 1, 0) (for yaw) and then doing Euler off of that and multiplying the existing rotation by the new rotation, but it is not working as intended

goal is a 6 degrees of freedom control, kind of like in the game Descent, X4, really any space game that lets you roll your ship

basically i want Euler() to take into account the existing rotation

nvm, I think it was working all along. sigh

    transform.rotation *= incrementalRotation;```

turnVec is from mouse input

[thin aurora]

Can't you ask ChatGPT again?

Makes me wonder if you understand what the code does at all

[steady moat]

Your issue might be beyond your code you are showing. Is the light camera being rotate as well ?

[main shuttle]

#💻┃code-beginner pinned in the top right has starter courses/tutorials.

[plucky inlet]

Is it possible to get params for lets say transform as an enum, so rotation, position, scale? Or should I just do my own switchcase with a custom enum. I want an animation scriptable object, that can actually select, what I want to modify on the gameobject I put it on

I guess easiest way is to just get my own enum here

[devout nimbus]

Why would you need it as an enum?

Can't you use if(transform.position.x == i) and such?

[plucky inlet]

Lets imagine a function, where you can pass in the transform.position or rotation as a "value". Based on that and an animationcurve you create, you can then animate that value

[golden vessel]

Hey, I'm struggling to find to make a container fit my text (tmp). I found text.bounds which seems to work, although sometimes the results isn't perfect, larger than needed. Is there any other easy to set up way to do it?

[unreal valley]

Show a photo?

[golden vessel]

Ignore the bubble behind, i only set the bounds of the text here

[unreal valley]

So you are trying to make the bubble fit the text?

[golden vessel]

Yeah basically

[sage charm]

hey can i ask questions regarding photon here?

[unreal valley]

I'd say ask in #archived-networking

[sage charm]

ok thansk

[plucky inlet]

#📲┃ui-ux Id say

No need for coding here

[golden vessel]

The solution would be code but sure whatever

[plucky inlet]

You do not need code to fit your container to the text. all done with UI components

[golden vessel]

And that would fit it dinamically?

[golden vessel]

I'm setting the string of the text through script

[unreal valley]

I think you would have to child the bubble to the text and set it to expand. I believe

[plucky inlet]

Then the bubble is above the text

UI Text fit dynamically

[next seal]

Why cant I use ScriptableObject.CreateInstance with a custom type SO ? It just says that it cant be converted from CustomSO to unityengine.SO

🤔

oh its because my class doesnt derive from SO

[leaden ice]

Good chat

[craggy nova]

Debug.Log(Physics.Raycast(landingRay));```
why might this return false when the object is above a cube with a collider?

It probably is a stupid thing that I keep missing

[daring cove]

Hey,

How can I get the current renderer in an LOD Group?

// truncated
public GameObject tree;
// truncated

MeshRenderer meshRenderer = null;
LODGroup lodGroup = tree.GetComponent<LODGroup>();

[autumn cipher]

is it possible to access a gameobject inside the prefab from the scriptable object?

[leaden ice]

transform.position could be more than one unit away from the box

[leaden ice]

Everything's possible, as long as you understand how references work and how to pass them around

[autumn cipher]

When I reference a GameObject on ScriptableObject, it only accepts a prefab format due to being scene independent

maybe I can just do GameObject.Find() or something

[leaden ice]

#archived-code-general message

[craggy nova]

I thought Vector.down was only direction and had nothing to do with the length though in either case that doesn't seem to be the reason

[leaden ice]

It's a vector pointing down with length 1

[craggy nova]

I know what it is. But you need 2 points to draw a line don't you?

[leaden ice]

Yes and?

What's your object this script is attached to

Is it a capsule?

[craggy nova]

yes

[leaden ice]

By default Unity capsules have a height of 2

And pivot in the center

Meaning a ray with length 1 won't clear the size of the capsule

[craggy nova]

I extended it to 100 units before answering

[leaden ice]

Make your ray longer or start it from a point lower down

[leaden ice]

How? Show that code

[craggy nova]

Ray landingRay = new Ray(transform.position, Vector3.down * 100);

[leaden ice]

Ok good

This still doesn't work?

Show the scene setup and the inspector of the box/cube if not

[craggy nova]

A ray is an infinite line starting at origin and going in some direction.

[hasty canopy]

Just a stupid dumb question, wouldn't the ray hit player itself if there's no layermask query

[leaden ice]

In Unity this isn't true in all cases

For Raycast there's a separate parameter for length of the ray

It does default to infinity though

[craggy nova]

I am quoting Unity doc
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Ray.html

[leaden ice]

In 3d it doesn't hit a collider it starts inside

[leaden ice]

And yet, it's not true in all circumstances

In this one it is.

[hasty canopy]

Ooo ok

[leaden ice]

For Debug.DrawRay the length of the ray matters for example

[leaden ice]

#archived-code-general message

[craggy nova]

yeah, I learned that while trying to find out the problem

scene is just this

well, the box is just a box honestly as a place holder for ground there is nothing specific about it

was I supposed to just send links of the pics?

as for layers, everything should collide with everything

player is an empty object at (0, 0, 0) position and the capsule collider is a component of the cylinder which is a child of the player

[leaden ice]

if player is at 0,0,0 where is the box?

is the raycast starting inside the box?

[craggy nova]

the box is at -.5 with the y scale =1

[leaden ice]

put it lower

[craggy nova]

hmm, let me check that one

[leaden ice]

that may have the raycast starting slightly inside the box

[craggy nova]

fck

thank you

that was the problem

[daring cove]

Hi,

Why does it seem like that static batching is not working?

[leaden ice]

maybe share some details? DOesn't seem code related thouh

[daring cove]

Doing this doesn't work. I'm running it for 192 objects.

gameObject.isStatic = true;

[leaden ice]

I don't think you can make them static at runtime and get static batching to work

you have to do it in the scene at edit time

it's the kind of thing that's baked in the editor

[craggy nova]

you can probably have 2 of the same object, one static one dynamic and use them interchangeably instead

I never used static batching so don't really know if there would be any point

[daring cove]

I'm optimizing terrain by putting every tree in a giant mesh and setting it to static, but it doesn't seem to work.

I'm still getting the same amount of draw calls.

[next seal]

I have the issue of this not working, not working as in I cannot type anything in the text field, this is an editor script and yes its in the editor folder, every other text field is working fine,

Is it just that you cannot store string temporarily in this function (which is OnGUI) and all the other text fields link to some otehr SO? If so how do I solve this

This is what it looks like right now, cannot type in this field

And then it also fails when I actually go and try to create the asset with the code you can see there, I thought maybe its because I am not giving it a name so I added that functionality, but idk why at this point

[leaden ice]

you're declaring that as an empty string right there

string newObjectName = "";

every time it renders the GUI it will make it empty

[next seal]

I thoguht im just decalring it in order to say well this is a variable, be prepared for it to come up

[leaden ice]

that's an actual string

[next seal]

T_T

Okay how would I change this

[leaden ice]

and you pass it in to populate the text field

store that string somewhere more permanent

in the Editor object itself or whatever serialized asset you're editing here

[next seal]

out side of OnGUI?

[leaden ice]

yes

[next seal]

should I already set it as = "";

or just

string newObjectName;

I got this rn

[leaden ice]

you'll want to initialize it yes

[next seal]

and then it gets populated with whatever I put into the text field?

wont it stay in the editor script forever then though? >_>

[leaden ice]

Only for the life of that variable, which is the life of whatever object this is

some editor

[next seal]

until i like manually delete it that is

because ideally i want it to be empty as soon as I hit the + button

[leaden ice]

try it

[next seal]

okay

[leaden ice]

then do newObjectName = ""; in the code for the button

[next seal]

Well I am still getting the error cant create object

[leaden ice]

you never mentioned that error

what error is that

[next seal]

UnityException: Creating asset at path failed.
DialogueEditor.OnGUI () (at Assets/Scripts/Editor/DialogueEditor.cs:61)

[leaden ice]

so what's that path

print it out

[next seal]

Uhm yea one sec

[leaden ice]

probably that folder doesn't exist

[next seal]

yea

[leaden ice]

that doesn't seem right lol

[next seal]

its trying to find a folder that would really be an asset

OHHHH I KNOW WHY

the way i get the path is

"Just take the path of the currenlty selected Object, and then just add the name.asset"

so thats why its wanky

But how can I get JUST the path and not the Test.Asset

Test is the currently active dialogue object

im edting that object in the editor basically

I cant very well be like "Get the path and then remove the last bit"

[leaden ice]

well you could but that's kinda hackyish

[next seal]

Can I somehow say "place it in the same folder as this file"

[leaden ice]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.path.getdirectoryname?view=net-7.0#system-io-path-getdirectoryname(system-string) perhaps

GetDirectoryName('C:\MyDir\MySubDir\myfile.ext') returns 'C:\MyDir\MySubDir'

seems promising

[next seal]

I'll try that thank you

[tough osprey]

Is there a way to auto manage delegates based on an interface without constant scanning of objects and without explicit registration copy and pasted everywhere?

What I want is that when CustomHandler is created, it finds all objects that implement HandleMe and registers them (this can be a complete scan). Then all new Objects that implement HandleMe should then register themselves (this is the part I can't figure out without duplicating code).

class SomeObject : HandleMe {
    public void doWhenHandle() { }
}

class CustomeHandler {
    public delegate Handle;

    public void Awake() {
        \\ Find all existing objects that should be added
    }

    public void Update() {
        if (something) handle();
    }
}

For the registration of objects created after the fact, I could do something in their Awake method but I want to avoid having to code that every time. I thought about using default methods in the HandleMe interface but that would then hide the methods if the object wants to actually do something in Awake.

[leaden ice]

Who or what is creating the objects?

If it's being done from one place maybe you do the registration there?

or make the thing that creates them fire a static event

and CustomHandler listens for that event

[next seal]

Ohhh myy gooddd PraetorBlue youre the best, youre the MVP of this server, no matter who needs help you like always find the solution, thank you!

[tough osprey]

So the fun part is that I'm using Photon Fusion so it may be instantiated by Fusions Spawn functionality. There's Spawned() and AfterSpawned() methods that are similar to Awake, but I'm not sure if I have access to automatically do something on every Spawn.

[halcyon nimbus]

So its possible to serialize a class and create new instances of that class from the inspector. In the example below you would be able to populate the items array in the Shop class from the inspector.

[Serializable]
public class Item {
  public string name; 
  public string price;
}

public class Shop : Monobehaviour {
  public Item[] items;
}

But what if I wanted to to the same with various types? Is there a way I could make a dropdown that shows the type and then shows the correct fields once selected?

[Serializable]
public class Potion : Item {
  public Color color;
}

[leaden ice]

yes but it would require two things:

• the use of [SerializeReference]
• a little custom editor code to create the UI to create the objects as desired
  See #↕️┃editor-extensions

[warm rose]

Yes, I logged it and its true

[warm rose]

Doesn't work

Anyone know what to do?

[halcyon nimbus]

ok cool, thanks. I saw the SerializeReference page, but I didnt understand it. Got me thinking either way

[wild vigil]

I am adding elements of one list to a new list, and I want to make sure that as I add them that they do not already exist in my new list.

[leaden ice]

Maybe the new list should be a HashSet?

Do you need the order to be preserved?

[wild vigil]

order is not important

[hasty canopy]

Can't we just use
if(!list.contains(object)) list.add(object);
Here?

[wild vigil]

I will try that

[leaden ice]

sure but that's really fucking slow

[hasty canopy]

No I'm asking praetor lmao

[leaden ice]

HashSet is the right way to do it

[hasty canopy]

Ahh alright

[wild vigil]

The list will only ever be a handful of objects

[leaden ice]

doesn't matter much then, but HashSet is still semantically cleaner

[warm rose]

Why can't I jump in unity

[leaden ice]

you just do:

myHashSet.UnionWith(myList);``` and you're done

[hasty canopy]

Because you didn't make a script to do so

[leaden ice]

or myHashSet.Add(newObject);

no checking required

[warm rose]

I did

I also followed tutorial cuz my script didn't work

And the tutorial didn't work

Could It be a problem with my system itself

[rain minnow]

HashSet contains no duplicates, therefore, eliminating the need to check for an element before adding . . .

[mental rover]

no

[warm rose]

So how should I fix it?

Should I send my code

[rain minnow]

how else would anyone be able to check and see what the problem is? also, this sounds like a #💻┃code-beginner issue . . .

[hasty canopy]

Ah ok, will look it up for study later tonight, thanks!

[rain minnow]

never the issue. make sure your code matches the tutorial code and your objects are setup correctly inside the editor . . .

[warm rose]

Yea i checked multiple times

Its the same code

https://gdl.space/oyixikideg.cs

Here's the code

I tried logging it

But i dont even think its detecting my space key

[hasty canopy]

Can always check that with a quick debug

[warm rose]

I have checked

Nothing shows up in debug

[hasty canopy]

Then it's probably isGrounded issue

[warm rose]

It's not

I logged that

And it showed up in the debug

Everytime I hit the ground

[hasty canopy]

Ok so let's do 2 things

Check for "isGrounded" and Check for "jump" seperately, and see if you get debugs for both of them

Also can just make isGrounded bool serialized so we don't have to debug that, and can just look at it in inspector

[warm rose]

IsGrounded works

Jump doesn't

In debug

[hasty canopy]

Maybe "jump" doesn't exist in the valid inputs, did you try using KeyCode.Space?

It's frankly better than string comparison anyway

[warm rose]

It says it does not exist in current context

[wild vigil]

How does hashset work? Thanks for the suggestion - it appears to be working. I just don't know how.

[hasty canopy]

Spelling mistake maybe, is your IDE configured?

[warm rose]

Oh wait

That might be the problem

IDE

I don't see underlines

[hasty canopy]

[warm rose]

I'm gonna try

[rain minnow]

move to #💻┃code-beginner and check the #854851968446365696 on how to configure your IDE . . .

[warm rose]

Ok sorry

[dusky spear]

Would it be possible for me to make something like freeform 2d light but have the shape be able to be edited by a script?

[leaden ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@15.0/api/UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.Light2D.html#UnityEngine_Rendering_Universal_Light2D_shapePath ?

[fervent burrow]

Hello there, I have a problem where my boss (acting like a turret) isn't aiming down to the player properly, it points at the player direction, but with the wrong rotation

looks like this

[dusky spear]

Some people in a forums discussion I was looking at say that you cant edit that

[fervent burrow]

https://gdl.space/kafibegivo.cpp

this is the code I have for the turret/boss

[leaden ice]

really? Not even if you call this? https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@15.0/api/UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.Light2D.html#UnityEngine_Rendering_Universal_Light2D_SetShapePath_UnityEngine_Vector3___

[dusky spear]

Ah cool!!!!

But can I update this while the game is running for dynamic lights?

Or does it need to happen only at the beginning

[leaden ice]

I don't see why not

[dusky spear]

Cool

[earnest gazelle]

Do you prefer to merge git feature branches with -no-ff?
what about main/develop to master or hotfix to master?

[fervent burrow]

can someone help me, I´m not figuring out how to fix the boss head rotation towards the player

[dusky spear]

Atan2

[fervent burrow]

where would I put that in my code?

[swift falcon]

Is it good practice to put conditions on the calling of a function rather than inside? I'm thinking ground check for a jump function and such. It would improve performance right?

[knotty sun]

Any performance improvement would be negligible, however, having the conditions inside the called method ensures that you have a consistent usage

[swift falcon]

It also makes it easier to understand and fix errors so I'll them inside. Thanks 💯

[dusky spear]

Is this 2d or 3d

[fervent burrow]

3D

[fervent burrow]

.

[fervent burrow]

code

[steep scarab]

I'm hardstuck on this. I'll gift nitro to whoever can figure out whats wrong.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75242716/unity-engine-using-kd-tree-to-search-for-nearest-transform-is-not-returning-any?noredirect=1#comment132775149_75242716

NEVERMIND I GOT IT WORKING OH MY GOD

[fervent burrow]

I got it almost working, but the head is facing sideways

even if I rotate it, the head still faces that way

[hasty canopy]

Are there multipl objects with "player" tag in the scene?

[fervent burrow]

nop

[hasty canopy]

In that case i would recommend caching your player with serializeField first, and for testing pull the "lookat" line outside the if condition to see if it's working correctly

[swift falcon]

Is it possible to check the inspector of a different scene during runtime? My checkpoints objects seem to be surviving the Destroy() function that's called on SceneLoad

[leaden ice]

That will happen if:

• You marked them with DontDestroyOnLoad
  OR
• You laoded your new scene additively

not sure what you mean about "checking the inspector of a different scene"

[next seal]

Can an editor window make an event call (tahts just what im calling an event happening) and a scriptable object listen to said event?

Because I need a way to update a node that is a scriptable object but I cant use OnGUI because that is editor based

and I have an editor that COULD theoretically call an event but im unsure if that interaction even works

All I need is for the Scriptable object to always access a certain Editor Window and check what is the currently active object in it, but idk what I should use for that, the Editor WIndows active Object obviously only gets updated once in a while so IDK what exactly to use to update that "active object" in the scriptable object

[swift falcon]

Class Goal handles the Scene loading and it's a regular LoadScene() to get back to the main menu
Class CheckPointManager has a singleton to keep the CheckPoints through Scene reloads
Class CheckPoint sets the transform.position

My problem is that from the main menu when I go back into the level, it loads at the last checkpoint. I assume it's because my PlayerManager's Awake() function loads the last transform.position from the CheckPoint class as it somehow survives? I'm not sure to check if the singleton is properly destroyed

[leaden ice]

Class CheckPointManager has a singleton to keep the CheckPoints through Scene reloads
^um

is this a DDOL singleton?

Naturally it lives through scenes

[feral gorge]

Greetings, how do I create a 'DestroyAfterTime' script to be triggered after another specific script?

[leaden ice]

Destroy() already has an overload that takes a float time

which will delay the Destruction for that time

not sure if that's what you're asking for

after another specific script
is kinda vague so not sure what you mean by it

[feral gorge]

I want it to trigger only after JointDismemberPhysics

Ill paste the script

[leaden ice]

what is JointDismemberPhysics?

[feral gorge]

It's a script for dismembering ragdoll joints after a strong collision

[leaden ice]

a script, or a method?

[feral gorge]

yes

one sec

[leaden ice]

which one lol

[hasty canopy]

Yes

[simple egret]

inclusive or

oh god

!code

[tawny elk]

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[feral gorge]

apologies

long story short, I'm trying to combine the two scripts at the end of the day

[leaden ice]

which scripts

[swift falcon]

Destroy(CheckPointManager.instance.gameObject); will not Destroy it?

[feral gorge]

JointDismemberPhysics and DestroyAfterTime

[leaden ice]

sure it will, but you'll want to set CheckPointManager.instance to null too, otherwise you're keeping that orhpan object around (with all its data)

[leaden ice]

Are you planning to show the code?

[feral gorge]

yes

[swift falcon]

Ok ok dope thanks

[feral gorge]

under the visual scripting channel?

[leaden ice]

Are you using usual Visual Scripting? (Bolt)

[feral gorge]

Visual Studio actually

[leaden ice]

that's...

no

not the Visual Scripting channel

that's for Bolt

[leaden ice]

#archived-code-general message

[feral gorge]

ok Ill try again

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

[RequireComponent(typeof(Joint))]
public class JointDismemberPhysics : MonoBehaviour {
[Header("Parameters")]
[ReadOnlyField(true)]public float breakForce = 1000;
[ReadOnlyField(true)]public float breakTorque = 1000;
private RagdollDismembermentVisual visual;
private Joint joint;
private float sqrBreakForce;
private float sqrBreakTorque;

private void Awake()
{
    sqrBreakForce = breakForce * breakForce;
    sqrBreakTorque = breakTorque * breakTorque;
    visual = GetComponentInParent<RagdollDismembermentVisual>();
    joint = GetComponent<Joint>();
    visual.OnDismemberCompleted.AddListener((string name) =>
    {
        if (name == this.name)
        {
            joint.breakForce = 0;
            Destroy(this);
        }
    });
}
private void FixedUpdate()
{
    var sqrTimeScale = Time.timeScale * Time.timeScale;
    if (joint.currentForce.sqrMagnitude* sqrTimeScale > sqrBreakForce ||
        joint.currentTorque.sqrMagnitude * sqrTimeScale > sqrBreakTorque)
    {
        BreakJoint();
    }
}
public void BreakJoint()
{
    visual.Dismember(name);
    enabled = false;
}

}

[simple egret]

Nope, still not right

[leaden ice]

So you'r e just going tto completely ignore it?

!code

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[feral gorge]

ok

Ill Try creating a save as clone to experiment

[simple egret]

If you don't understand what this says, say so

You're not making much sense right now

[hexed geode]

how do i clamp the magnitude of a vector without normalizing it?
i'm making a player movement script and i'm just doing this

float x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
float z = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

Vector3 move = transform.right * x + transform.forward * z;```
but because of that, you go faster if you hold, say, W and D at the same time, and i don't want that, but just using move.normalized wouldn't work

[jaunty needle]

Hello guys, I have this function but it's not working as intended

    void Zoom()
    {
        Vector2 distanceFromCursor = (cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - cam.transform.position);

        if (Input.mouseScrollDelta.y < 0f)
        {
            cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize += 0.1f * sensitivity;
        }
        else if (Input.mouseScrollDelta.y > 0f)
        {
            cineMachine.transform.Translate(distanceFromCursor * Time.deltaTime);
            cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize -= 0.1f * sensitivity;
        }

        cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize = Mathf.Clamp(cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize, 1f, 100f);

        GameManager.orthoSize = cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize;

    }

[potent sleet]

!code

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[jaunty needle]

Yes yes, I misclicked

Anyways, so what I want is a zoom that tracks the position of the mouse

So it doesn't zoom to the center of the screen all the time, but it feels off, I will send a video (also I'm using cinemachine)

[potent sleet]

set your cam to temp look at set target where mouse is

[jaunty needle]

void FollowPlanet()
    {
        if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1))
        {
            Vector2 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
            Ray mouseRay = cam.ScreenPointToRay(mousePos);
            RaycastHit2D hitInfo = Physics2D.Raycast(mouseRay.origin, mouseRay.direction);

            if(hitInfo.collider != null)
            {
                cineMachine.m_Follow = hitInfo.collider.transform;
            }
            else
            {
                cineMachine.m_Follow = null;
            }
        }



    }

Like here?

[potent sleet]

similarly, yea does it not work when u zoom onto this target?

[jaunty needle]

yes... but how would I make it temp follow?

or temp look

[potent sleet]

set the follow target to be a temp zoom target you create

or create an empty transform since I think follow target only uses transform ?

then make that follow mouse pointer whenever you're zooming

[jaunty needle]

hmm alrighty imma try that

wait can I just create a new gameobject reference and instantiate that?

I forgot how to create an empty transform...

[hexed geode]

any way to do/fix this?

[somber nacelle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.ClampMagnitude.html

but to fix your issue you just normalize the vector then multiply by speed

[next seal]

can someone explain to me why the upper version is wrong even though I thoguht thats how we have to do it? just trying to learn here c:

[potent sleet]

and whats the error tell you

[next seal]

well it says that its trying to convert a void into string or the other way around but I just dont see it

[somber nacelle]

EditorGUILayout.LabelField doesn't return anything so it cannot be assigned to something else

[next seal]

What kind of void I havent even written a void here

[next seal]

ohhhh

I thoguht the top line was saying

[potent sleet]

LabelField returns, a void

[next seal]

"take the i value of this item, then for that number do this thing"

like for example I thought it would take the first object and in the first line display the field, then so on for the rest

but alas I have been wrong

thanks for teaching me guys

[misty blade]

Hello! I'm working on a 2D "decal" system for a pixel art game. Code below works almost perfectly, but every decal is moved by a half pixel. Do you know how to fix that? (The green stuff on the pixture are the decals and grid behind them is a testing object)

private void SnapToPixelGrid()
    {
        transform.localPosition = new Vector3(
            RoundToNearestGrid(transform.localPosition.x),
            RoundToNearestGrid(transform.localPosition.y),
            transform.localPosition.y);
    }
    float RoundToNearestGrid(float pos)
    {
        float xDiff = pos % pixelGridSize;
        pos -= xDiff;
        if (xDiff > (pixelGridSize / 2))
        {
            pos += pixelGridSize;
        }
        return pos;
    }

[hexed geode]

oh beautiful, clampmagnitude is exactly what i needed
(the second way didn't work, i tried it)

[somber nacelle]

clamp magnitude is not the solution you are looking for. it is the answer to your first question. the solution you need (and has been proven to work thousands of times now) is to normalize your input before scaling it by your desired speed

[hexed geode]

but the Horizontal and Vertical axises smoothly go from 0 to 1 and back the when you're pressing the buttons, so normalizing the move vector would mean that you would still be moving when you release the move buttons because the axis value would still need to go from 1 to 0 unless you mean normalizing the vector even before multiplying it by Horizontal and Vertical axis which i have just realized you might've meant

        float x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float z = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        Vector3 move = (transform.right + transform.forward).normalized;
        move.x *= x;
        move.z *= z;

i suppose doing this is better?

[somber nacelle]

no

you're still not normalizing your input

[hexed geode]

why would i need to normalize my input

[somber nacelle]

btw you can use transform.TransformDirection to convert the direction to be relative to the rotation of the object instead of multiplying the transform.right and transform.forward

[somber nacelle]

to prevent literally the exact issue you are facing. if you don't normalize a Vector containing your input then you will move faster diagonally than on any single axis

[hexed geode]

no i need to normalize the vector with transform.right and transform.forward
if i don't normalize it, it will have the magnitude of sqrt(2)

[somber nacelle]

again, don't even bother using those, use the TransformDirection method instead

but if you don't normalize your input then it will also be (1,0,1) when moving diagonally

[maiden fractal]

But then it will also ignore the acceleration of input axes which may not be wanted. ClampMagnitude is the solution I think solves that

[hexed geode]

exactly that

[maiden fractal]

Just clamp the magnitude of the input vector to 1

[hexed geode]

the input vector?

[maiden fractal]

Vector3(Horizontal, 0, Vertical)

[hexed geode]

but you just said it'll ignore the acceleration of input axes

[maiden fractal]

It doesnt if you ClampMagnitude. Normalizing does

[hexed geode]

Oh I see ye

But I think normalizing the (transform.right, 0, transform.forward) vector is better though

or using TransformDirection like boxfriend said

[maiden fractal]

Id clamp the input then multiply it by speed and deltaTime and in the end convert from local to world space using TransformDirection

[long fox]

Does anyone actually know hood tuturials for vr coding

[hexed geode]

would you really need to clamp the input if you're using TransformDirection?

[leaden ice]

I don't think they do a lot of VR coding in the hood

[somber nacelle]

yes, you will still need to clamp/normalize your input

[hexed geode]

ok fair

[jaunty needle]

That didn't work as well for me, I tried it

I still think the translate method could work

[potent sleet]

wait just realized you're using m_follow

I think it should be the lookat target

[jaunty needle]

hmm ok

[cinder ether]

Hello, rider can't find the Resources class from UnityEngine, even with a using UnityEngine; in my files
I explicitly need to type UnityEngine.Resources to make it work, but what's disturbing is that happened suddenly, before, everything was fine...
Any idea ?

The error: The type or namespace name 'Load' does not exist in the namespace 'Resources' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

[proper oyster]

probably a missconfigured IDE / corrupt solution files

[simple egret]

See it interprets Resources as a namespace instead of a class, something's wrong here

The compiler picked up the wrong one, do you have your own Resources namespace?

[cinder ether]

Mmh no, I don't think so

Oh maybe

Yep that was that

[simple egret]

You'll need to fully qualify the name UnityEngine.Resources.Load<T>("...") if you wish to keep your own Resources namespace

[potent sleet]

tested it, I think I used wrong looked at :p plus Im in 3D.so maybe moving it might be better than lookat

[cinder ether]

No that's ok. What happened I think is, because my script files are stored in a Resources folder, rider created the Resources namespace for me when I created a file

I usually create files from explorer or unity, that's why it didn't happen before..

[simple egret]

Ah yeah that's why, Unity applies their own script template which dumps everything into the global namespace

[cinder ether]

Yup

[lucid valley]

why store your scripts in resources?

[jaunty needle]

Are you panning with something else?

[cinder ether]

I may not need them to be in Resources, but since i put every asset in Resources, I said maybe why not storing scripts here too

I guess that's wrong

[potent sleet]

im only moving target transform in inspector and changing ortho size

[lucid valley]

yeah try not to

[cinder ether]

Okay, gonna clean up all this once

[jaunty needle]

Hmm I think I'm gonna use an alternate method

[cinder ether]

Otherwise, you guys know how I can remove this error from spamming my Console ?
[Collab] Collab service is deprecated and has been replaced with PlasticSCM
I uninstalled the Version Control package, but it keeps spamming this error every second

that's not blocking me from building the project or whatever, but it's annoying

[jaunty needle]

Ok so my previous method works but I just had to scale up the vector to keep up with the zoom

However, this skips a lot cause of the mouseDelta

Is there a workaround for this?

        {
            Vector2 mousePos = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
            cineMachine.transform.Translate(distanceFromCursor * Time.deltaTime * zoomSpeed);
            
            cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize -= 0.1f * sensitivity;
        }

The piece of code btw

zoomSpeed is the variable I can change and the larger it is, the faster it zooms in butt it skips a lot

Acc nvm it's not that big of an issue

[fossil moat]

hello, i want to make a map in the style of avorion, ie : a big square map divided in a lot of square, i want to be able to visualise the whole map at once, being 50x50 or even 100x100 or maybe more. each tile would have to contain data about what is in this tile and be able to show it when i click with my mouse on it.

The main issue i have is that i don't really know how would i approach that, there's the tile system but i'm not sure it fits that purpose really well.
The other option i had was making every tile be a gameobject and have a script to generate the map randomly assigning stuff to each tile. that option would lead to having a lot of displayed gameobject which isn't optimal.
Another way i'm thinking about would be to have few gameobjects but the data is accessed by looking at where the mouse is on that gameobject which could allow to have only 1 gameobject for a square map and i would just have to find a way to put highlights on the tile i am looking at.

My question being, i feel very confused and don't know which of these options is suitable or would work, which do you think is better or is there another way i didn't see?
Also here's kinda what it will look like on a very bad sketch

[swift falcon]

I'm completely lost trying to manually destroy a DDOL class from another class when a new scene loads.

Currently I have Class cpm
Destroy(cpm.gameObject)

However it just does not work

[mental rover]

cpm inherits from MonoBehaviour and is a component attached to a GameObject with DDOL, and calling Destroy on that GameObject doesn't destroy it? are you sure it's not just being created again in the new scene?

[swift falcon]

I have a PlayerManager that sets the player position to whatever lastCheckPointPos is. By default lastCheckPointPos is a set Vector2 at the beginning of the level.

However after the scene changes to the main menu and I go back into the first level, I spawn at the last checkpoint. My CheckPointManager is the class with DDOL

[mental rover]

I'd try to hold on to the idea of separating the logic of your game from the representation of it - your data for each tile and what each tile does can be entirely written with simple C# classes. You could then start with the idea of having a GameObject for each tile just as a point of interaction to access the tile data class underneath such as handling OnClick events, etc, and if performance becomes a concern the data layer will be intact and you can just change how it's represented

[mental rover]

you might need to share your code for PlayerManager & CheckPointManager

[swift falcon]

My CheckPoint script is where I set the transform.position

[mental rover]

your PlayerManager isn't interacting with CheckPointManager here?

[swift falcon]

No

[mental rover]

so why would destroying CheckPointManager do anything?

[swift falcon]

My checkpoints object are children of my CheckPointManager

[mental rover]

the lastCheckPointPos is what you need to look at resetting when the scene starts/returns to main menu

this doesn't look like it has anything to do with the object you're trying to destroy

[swift falcon]

Ok ok

Actually makes sense now that you say it, thank you!

[fossil moat]

A normal c# class would be able to store the data or would i need to use scriptable objects or something else to retain the data from each tile? ( Haven't coded in a while i have to admit )

[jaunty needle]

How do I have this accelerate over time?

Right now it's constant and it doesn't feel as good

[mental rover]

yes, though you wont be able to set values in the inspector - you'll need to think about how you're saving/loading the data of your game, lots of ways to do that via Json, CSV, SO's, etc

[knotty sun]

Do you have a basic understanding of mathematics?

[jaunty needle]

Oh god what did I do

...yes

[hexed pecan]

Are you updating currentOrthoSize though?

[knotty sun]

increase the value of orbitZoomSpeed * Time.deltaTime over time then it will accellerate

[jaunty needle]

Yes

    {
        while(true)
        {
            float currentOrthoSize = cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize;
            cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize = Mathf.MoveTowards(currentOrthoSize, expectedOrtho, orbitZoomSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            if(cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize == expectedOrtho)
            {
                break;
            }
            yield return null;
        }

    }

Ok yeah I think I can do it

[simple edge]

Why are you getting the currentOrthoSize every time?

[hexed pecan]

Looks like it should work, unless the == fails because of floating point imprecision

[jaunty needle]

Oh yeah mb

[jaunty needle]

Yeah I thought about that too but it's fine

[hexed pecan]

Could use Mathf.Approximately to be sure

[jaunty needle]

Nevermind, this is necessary

[knotty sun]

no, this is bad in this context

[jaunty needle]

I mean, it broke when I removed it soo

Unless you have an alternative

[knotty sun]

set it once not every time in the loop, you are almost implementing a lerp

[jaunty needle]

But I can't cause I need it to lerp

[potent sleet]

keyword almost

[jaunty needle]

            cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize = Mathf.MoveTowards(currentOrthoSize, expectedOrtho, orbitZoomSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            orbitZoomSpeed += 1f;
            orbitZoomSpeed = Mathf.Clamp(orbitZoomSpeed, orbitZoomSpeed, maxOrbitZoomSpeed);

Unfortunately this did not work either

[knotty sun]

yes because this orbitZoomSpeed * Time.deltaTime is wrong, as I pointed out 10 minutes ago

[jaunty needle]

You mean here?

Wdym by wrong

[knotty sun]

yes

it is a virtually constant value, it shouldn't be

[jaunty needle]

soo, what should it be then?

[knotty sun]

I did ask if you understood basic maths

[jaunty needle]

I do, however I do not understand it as well when it comes to C# and Unity, I'm barely surviving here

[knotty sun]

you need a value that goes from 0 towards 1 incrementing every loop, to accelerate you need an additional multiplier to make that acceleration

[jaunty needle]

Don't blame me, blame this guy, he also used speed

[knotty sun]

well dont follow what idiots do then

[jaunty needle]

I...ok

How am I supposed to know he's an idiot?

[knotty sun]

basic maths

[jaunty needle]

        float maxDelta = 0f;

        while (true)
        {
            cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize = Mathf.MoveTowards(currentOrthoSize, expectedOrtho, maxDelta);
            maxDelta += 0.1f;
            maxDelta = Mathf.Clamp01(maxDelta);

            if (cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize == expectedOrtho)
            {
                break;
            }
            yield return null;
        }

    }

Idk man but this don't work

[knotty sun]

i give up

[jaunty needle]

Lemme just tell you, you are not a very patient person

[potent sleet]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/

[simple edge]

Tbf I'm starting to second guess myself
Mathf.MoveTowards(current, target, maxdelta);
I might have been thinking of lerp where you'd want a constant starting point and endpoint
I have been drinking though..

[jaunty needle]

Now I'm extra confused

[jaunty needle]

I'll read this tho

[simple edge]

Are you sure you're calling this correctly? And orbitZoomSpeed is an high enough value (since you multiply it by about 0.01)

For testing purposes you could try throwing in a really high value orbitZoomSpeed, and that should get clamped to the expectedOrtho

[hexed pecan]

You don't need the currentOrthoSize variable at all, you can just plug the OrthographicSize there

cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize = Mathf.MoveTowards(cineMachine.m_Lens.OrthographicSize, expectedOrtho, someSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

Edit - changed maxDelta to a value multiplied by deltaTime

Idk what the others are saying. This is not Lerp, it is MoveTowards

[potent sleet]

I just threw a link, suggested they use lerp instead

[hexed pecan]

Yeah but Steve was talking about 0..1 range which is a lerp thing

[hexed pecan]

Didnt this version work just fine?

[potent sleet]

yes Idk if I'd call Taro an idiot xD

[simple edge]

public class test : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Start() => StartCoroutine(SmoothOrbit(200, 10));

    IEnumerator SmoothOrbit(float expectedOrtho, float orbitZoomSpeed)
    {
        while (true)
        {
            Camera.main.orthographicSize = Mathf.MoveTowards(Camera.main.orthographicSize, expectedOrtho, orbitZoomSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            if (Camera.main.orthographicSize >= expectedOrtho)
                break;
            yield return null;
        }
    }
}

Just threw this together and it just works 🤷‍♂️

[hexed pecan]

The >= is a bit sus to me

What if it starts at a larger value already

[simple edge]

oh sure true

it was just for demonstration purposes, to show that there is nothing wrong with the logic

[hexed pecan]

So seems like Steve is the only one confused here lol

[simple edge]

like, you can throw that script anywhere in your scene, and you should just see an orthographic camera's size increase

[jaunty needle]

That's what confused me too...

[jaunty needle]

This version worked fine

[jaunty needle]

Yeah I tried that and replaced it with == (or mathf.approx

In conclusion, don't insult my boy Taro

[left narwhal]

I'm making a game with an infinite procedural world with randomly generated structures, objects, etc. The idea is that I add pathfinding so that NPCs and animals can move around and go inside of houses and such. The problem however is that the current method I'm using is too slow and unreliable. My current approach is to separate the world into chunks of 8x8 blocks that I'm using the A* algorithm on to generate a general path. Then I use A* again but this time I run it on the blocks that are inside of these chunks to generate a path.

My question is, what would be a better approach to this, or how would I be able to optimize (maybe using threading or something? No clue)...

[vocal merlin]

Have you seen this?
https://github.com/h8man/NavMeshPlus

[next seal]

Main Code
https://pastebin.com/YLDBCPuM
https://pastebin.com/Fm5kp8Lk

(Inherits from these)
https://pastebin.com/dZQukmaF
https://pastebin.com/H9TSpQv2
https://pastebin.com/Zw79eyuH
Can someone help me? I am absolutely losing my mind ive been at this for like hours.
All I want to do is get the Editor window automatically display parent
Dialogue Objects connected to its node on the left and child/answer Dialogue Objects to automatically display on the right with the connections

Everything that is required is theoretically there I just cant figure out this last bit where I have to feed the start and end pos into DrawNodeCurve T_T

Please feel free to DM me as this might not get solved immediately

I tried literally everything in the DialogueNode script thats why there are so many DEW things at the top

and its kind of a mess right now because I tried so many things ;(

This should theoretically get the start and end position and then draw the like connection between the nodes (each dialogue object being a node)

If someone finds this later and wants to help me just msg me DM

[left narwhal]

cant figure out how to make this work

as the wiki doesnt show how to use it besides setting it up

is it just a normal navmesh?

[vocal merlin]

No this is a 3rd party one, unity navmesh is only available in 3d

https://github.com/h8man/NavMeshPlus/wiki/HOW-TO

Did you look at that page?

[left narwhal]

yes i did

[vocal merlin]

I haven't used it myself yet, but I am planning to

[next seal]

If someone finds this later and wants to

[loud wing]

Hello guys, hope all is well. Can someone please help me connect my login scene to my register scene

[heavy nexus]

Hey uh - whats one of those sites where you can put ur code in for others to see

[loud wing]

github?

oh nvm ik what you're talkin about

i forgot

[heavy nexus]

its basically google docs with code formatting come to think of it

yea

[loud wing]

pastebin?

[heavy nexus]

thats the one

[loud wing]

kloak you know how i can connect my scenes in unity?

im new kind of need help

[heavy nexus]

Ive struggled with that in the past myself, Ive never figured it out aha

Alrighty - Hey so I made this kinda.. flying lump thing

I just wanted to to flying with acceleration and deceleration

[swift falcon]

pls somone help im trying to make car like beamng drive becasue i cant afford it
i made a car it has wheels window but they all fell apart
how connect all parts together

[heavy nexus]

and Im aware this is probably done really stupidly

[heavy nexus]

are they under the same parent?

[left narwhal]

it does not function

lmao

[swift falcon]

i put them under an empty object

[heavy nexus]

hm

[swift falcon]

is that ok

[heavy nexus]

weird

that sounds correct so far

[left narwhal]

        List<Vector4> openNodes=new List<Vector4>{new Vector4(startCell.x,startCell.y,0,-1)};
        List<Vector4> closedNodes=new List<Vector4>();
        int iteration=0;
        List<Vector2> exploredCells=new List<Vector2>();
        Vector2 resultCell=new Vector2(Mathf.Floor(endPosition.x*RegionHandler.chunkSize),Mathf.Floor(endPosition.y*RegionHandler.chunkSize));
        Vector4 pathResult=new Vector4(0,0,0,-1);
        while(openNodes.Count>0&&iteration++<2048) {
            if(resultCell==new Vector2(openNodes[0].x,openNodes[0].y)) {
                pathResult=openNodes[0];
                break;
            }
            if(!exploredCells.Contains(new Vector2(openNodes[0].x,openNodes[0].y))) {
                exploredCells.Add(new Vector2(openNodes[0].x,openNodes[0].y));
                for(int i=0;i<4;i++) {
                    Vector2 moveDirection=new Vector2((i+1)%2*(i>1?1:-1),i%2*(i>1?1:-1));
                    Vector2 newPosition=new Vector2(openNodes[0].x+moveDirection.x,openNodes[0].y+moveDirection.y);
                    if(!walkableCells.Contains(newPosition)) continue;
                    float gCost=Mathf.Abs(openNodes[0].x-startCell.x)+Mathf.Abs(openNodes[0].y-startCell.y);
                    float hCost=Mathf.Abs(openNodes[0].x-resultCell.x)+Mathf.Abs(openNodes[0].y-resultCell.y);
                    float fCost=gCost*.25f+hCost;
                    openNodes.Add(new Vector4(newPosition.x,newPosition.y,fCost,exploredCells.Count-1));
                }
                closedNodes.Add(openNodes[0]);
            }
            openNodes.RemoveAt(0);
            openNodes.Sort((a,b)=>a.z.CompareTo(b.z));
        }
        if(pathResult.w==-1) return null;```

[swift falcon]

i put rigid body on them is that ok

[left narwhal]

could anyone comment on how i could optimize this A* algorithm?

[heavy nexus]

Anyway I have this flying lump, I tried to do it with acceleration, and its probably really really overly complex,
It sometimes has this weird bug where the movement will be really.. not smooth

here is my code https://pastebin.pl/view/14911c6b

heres the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx9vLH2I1PE&ab_channel=Kloakk

you can see inconsistencies in the movement

around 13 - 15 secs in its rly obvious

[left narwhal]

i recommend you rewrite your code

[left narwhal]

you should use a Vector3 for velocity

[swift falcon]

help

[heavy nexus]

yyyyyeah I probably should

I just wanted to throw smth together in like 10 mins

[left narwhal]

also use a min max for your velocity i guess...?

[heavy nexus]

n Im not too great with vector3s yet

oh I do

[left narwhal]

and use += instead of currentVelocity=currentVelocity+acceleration*Time.deltaTime;

[heavy nexus]

ah ok

[left narwhal]

also i think its because youre

handling deceleration

based only on axes...

[heavy nexus]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[left narwhal]

i would handle it with rotation too

[heavy nexus]

wdym

[left narwhal]

basically something like

also deceleration from friction

is usually handled in factors

not with addition

[tardy trail]

can someone edit a script for me to set rotation for the object to the controller rotation (already included as gameobject bool) If yes dm me

[left narwhal]

so i would just say velocity*=0.98

instead of using a deceleration constant

[heavy nexus]

Ill give it a go

see if it does anything

[left narwhal]

basically

[heavy nexus]

basically... use vectors?

[left narwhal]

Vector3 shipVelocity=new Vector3(0,0,0);
float acceleration=0.03f;
float decelerationFactor=0.98f;```

//accelerating
shipVelocity+=new Vector3(movement.x,movement.y,movement.z)*acceleration;```

[heavy nexus]

blimey I have a lot to learn

[left narwhal]

where movement is a new Vector3

that you create

and set the x y and z to depending on the keys you use

0 is standing still

-1 is backwards

1 is forwards

repeat for all axes

[heavy nexus]

ah thats why I was confused

[tardy trail]

can someone edit a script for me to set rotation for the object to the controller rotation (already included as gameobject bool) If yes dm me

[left narwhal]

then just position+=shipVelocity

[left narwhal]

stop

[heavy nexus]

this might be a really dumb question right

[left narwhal]

yes

[heavy nexus]

actually no it is

[left narwhal]

right

[heavy nexus]

Ill give it a go

see how it does

[left narwhal]

also i recommend rotating this Vector3

so you can rotate your ship

[heavy nexus]

ah yeah, that was gonna be the next bridge to cross

[left narwhal]

mhm

[left narwhal]

whats your question

[heavy nexus]

when you said do a vector3 for each axis I thought do 3 vectors3s

[left narwhal]

haha why

[heavy nexus]

and then realised that would be stupid

honestly not a clue

[left narwhal]

Vector3 is already three axes

[heavy nexus]

indeed it is

unity is soup I am fork

[left narwhal]

its all right

how longve you been coding

reposted my question to #archived-code-advanced

[fringe valve]

Hey all, forgive me if this is the wrong spot to ask -

Created a 3D game, but need access to a Hexagonal Tilemap asset. The 2D GameObject menu is missing from my GameObject menu, of course.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Tilemap-Hexagonal.html

Having read online that you should be able to bring these into a project via a package import,

Anyone know where can I find the standard Unity 2D assets package so that I may do this?\

[left narwhal]

google

i guess

its literally

2d object>tilemap>hexagonal tilemap pointed top

in your context menu

are you using the last version of unity

[fringe valve]

I've spent a bit googling around for where I can find/download the 2D standard assets to no avail, I'm new, so I'm probably not referring to it correctly.

I've already said in the original question that it's not there, since this project was created as 3D.

[heavy nexus]

hey sorry. on an off a couple years, but mostly off. Ill touch it, learn something, and not code for a good 4 or 5 months and have forgotten everything by then

wbu

[left narwhal]

create a 2d project...

[fringe valve]

This is not a project that was created by me, and it already has significant work done on it guys. I asked a specific question here about how to find the unity standard 2D assets so that I can import them into any project. If you guys don't know this, you don't have to respond

[left narwhal]

then explain that in your question

no need to get passive aggressive

theres a reason you cant use standard 2d assets in 3d projects btw

[fringe valve]

Having read online that you should be able to bring these into a project via a package import,

Anyone know where can I find the standard Unity 2D assets package so that I may do this?\

Note the original wording

[left narwhal]

where did you read this?

[mental rover]

you can add them via the package manager I believe - create a temp 2d project to check which ones they are, there's a few

[fringe valve]

Sec, there was a post on the official forums I recall

[left narwhal]

https://docs.unity3d.com/560/Documentation/Manual/AssetPackages.html

[mental rover]

what are you trying to do that isn't currently possible/available in the project?

[fringe valve]

Yeah, something must be up with my setup currently; I don't have many of the things the docs here show I should have. Saw this before coming to here as well

[fringe valve]

See original question: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Tilemap-Hexagonal.html

[mental rover]

you will need to download the 2D Tilemap Editor package via the Package Manager.

[fringe valve]

I'll see if I can't figure out why I can't see standard assets in my import dropdown then, signs point to that being a potential problem/fix

Unsure if any of this is is due to the fact this project is checked out from source control and some dotfile somewhere is being .gitignore'd, but my package manager has nothing in it.

Possible red herring, but I also don't see any scoped registries here in Project Settings, is this supposed to be populated?

I promise y'all I'm not trying to waste your time or be obtuse here

[mental rover]

click the dropdown "Packages: In Project"

search the Unity registry for it

[fringe valve]

NICE! Yeah that's it

Beautiful, thanks so much

[left narwhal]

also i feel like this shouldve been in a different channel maybe

[wanton obsidian]

So, Anyone know why a characterController would return isGrounded false when I'm not moving but does return true if im moving and on the ground but even then sometimes it goes back and forth?