archived-code-general

[faint relic]

can anyone help im trying to make a weeping angels script and i cant seem to get it to work

[hard sparrow]

Coding Riddle: Guess what hrt stands for.

[simple echo]

i want to make a score system in my 2d game. so if the player collects power-ups their score increases and if the player collides with enemies their score decreases. i want to display their current and high score on a leade board. does anyone know how i should go about starting to implement the score system? is there a database of any sort? ive heard about process data base

[leaden ice]

use a singleton to keep score

have your objects call out to the singleton when necessary to increase/decrease the score

[simple egret]

Heart? If not, then try naming stuff better so the usage can be guessed at first sight.

[hard sparrow]

Lmao. I named it like that for the riddle

Pft, no one's guessing. No fun. Answer = HexRuleTile

[simple egret]

And those cases are not even in binary, weird

Maybe that's just how Unity handles it anyway

[hard sparrow]

The position of the int maps to directions. That way you can reverse the int and check for mirrored positions

[simple egret]

Position of the int? Reverse?

You mean where the ones are in the number?

[hard sparrow]

You check to see if the bitcode is here, if not:

(I think it's kind of clever)

That way you need half as many cases and half as many sprites

[leaden ice]

shouldn't these be 0b000011 etc? Otherwise this is literally the number 11, which is 1011 in binary

[hard sparrow]

Nothing in the code actually is reading binary

[leaden ice]

likewise you can make the enum use those bit patterns directly and then you would't need this switch at all.

[hard sparrow]

it's just checking to see if the northeast tile matches, if so add 1 to the bitcode

[hard sparrow]

What do you mean?

If you tell me my clever solution sucks, I will be both grateful and salty

[simple egret]

To be honest it's not really clear what's happening here

[leaden ice]

public enum hrt {
  alone = 0,
  NE = 10000,
  E = 01000,
  ... etc, matching what you have in that switch
}```
Then instead of that big switch you literally can just do:
```cs
return (hrt)bitcode;```

[hard sparrow]

Well the hrt.X are sprites. I assume you still need to do some kind of switch case to get the correct sprite

[leaden ice]

Oh I assumed it was an enum

well you could use a dictionary, but whatev

[hard sparrow]

Hex tiles can be a pain in the arse, lol

Oh you're right, a dictionary would be more performant I suppose

Yeah I'll do that

[leaden ice]

eh

it'll probably be the same

the compiler will create a jump table for it

[hard sparrow]

Well then I'll make it a dictionary just to not look like a noob, lol

[simple echo]

okay thanks ! do you think that will require sufficient coding? i want to learn coding whilst creating the game :))

[hard sparrow]

There are a lot of tutorials on making singleton

It's pretty simple

It just means you can access it anywhere without reference

[simple echo]

ahh okay! i want to use something that is not unity's built in. so was intially thinking of Postgress

[leaden ice]

back up

you're jumping ahead to the leaderboard part
you need to get scorekeeping working in the first place first, just in the local game

[brazen junco]

Depending on what you mean, Postgres might not be a good option here. Postgres is a DBMS that would run as a separate process. This is no problem on the server side where you have everything under control, but on the users device, it would really be a hassle to make sure that Postgres is installed, and that it runs, and to restart it if it gets stopped, and to stop it when not required anymore, etc.
If it's really just about a highscore on the players device, something like PlayerPrefs would be an option (even though they have downsides), or saving into a file in the filesystem (a bit more elaborate, but more flexible). A DBMS would be rather overkill, but if really necessary, I'd go for an embedded database like SQLite.
For online scores, this is a different matter, but the game shouldn't directly write into the database anyway.

[steep scarab]

Hey guys, I'm currently trying to get the horizontal angle between two points in degrees but I'm having some trouble. Currently "angB" is returning me numbers between 0 and 1. I understand this is because vector3.normalized just brings x, y and z to a magnitude of 1, however after converting newDir to a quaternion and setting angB to that quaternion.eulerAngles.y, I am STILL getting values between 0 and 1. Does anyone know of a quick way to get this value in degrees? I know this question is kinda poorly worded but I'm trying my best.

        Vector3 newDir = (testFront.position - testBack.position).normalized;
        float angB = newDir.y;
        Debug.Log("b: " + angB);

I was thinking of using trigonometry to find the angle but that seems somewhat arbitrary in future cases, just wondering if there's a built in method for finding newdirs y eulerAngle. (and also does anyone know why converting newDir to a quaternion and setting angB to that quaternion.eulerAngles.y doesn't work for some reason and instead returns values between 0 and 1?)

Also, sorry for the double question but I didn't get any response in #💻┃code-beginner

[simple echo]

okay great thanks

[leaden ice]

I'm currently trying to get the horizontal angle between two points in degrees
You'll have to elaborate on this some more. The code you posted doesn't seem to be doing anything with angles. Could you draw a picture of what you want?

What is a "horizontal angle"?

[steep scarab]

the angle around the y axis

as in

imagine a transform facing another point in space

the y euler angle

of that transform

[leaden ice]

ok then you want:

float angle = Vector3.SignedAngle(a, b, Vector3.up);```

[steep scarab]

thank you

[leaden ice]

oh wait I just realized what you want and it's not what I gave you

You want this:

Vector3 dir = testFront.position - testBack.position;
float angle = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, dir, Vector3.up);```

[steep scarab]

ah thank you

[orchid surge]

I'm looking for opinions on a couple of scriptable object patterns. I am on the fence about using scriptable objects to share variables or keep track of sets of objects at runtime because I don't like the feeling of using the inspector to assign variables like "IsPausingAllowed" to the PauseController and GameLoopController. It doesn't seem like this meaningfully decouples the systems at the cost of making more room for error. But it still seems like a solid alternative to direct references between the classes or raising a game-wide "Action<bool> IsPausingAllowedChanged" in the GameLoopController. Am I overthinking this or is there an interesting question in here?

I am definitely overthinking this, but there still might be a good question here.

[hollow stone]

I don't understand what the purpose of having a SO is in your case?

[orchid surge]

To share the variable and respond when it changes. But the SO definitely doesn't do anything that can't be done otherwise.

I think I got what I wanted from this exchange lol. SO doesn't add anything and I listed the problem. I needed to follow my heart and just do this the normal way like I had it before.

[hollow stone]

I only use SOs as readonly in my projects, but I know there are patterns https://unity.com/how-to/architect-game-code-scriptable-objects where they use to write in runtime to have different systems read the value.

[orchid surge]

I typed out a paragraph about SOs as runtime sets and kinda answered my own question. I probably want to drop the SO part cause I don't like the manual half and I'm working solo so there are no designers to account for. But I need to think about what my options are cause I don't really want to make a singleton service to access a list of player controlled characters.

[hollow stone]

Personally I don't really like the idea of disconnecting the variable to such extent that it complicates following the code where it reads and writes to it (having generic float SO). And it can also lead to bad behavior of having all your variables as SOs in project. Instead I would create a data/model that decouples different systems that wants to read from it.

[steep magnet]

Whats the best way to go about putting an object in here that is in a different scene?

[somber nacelle]

you can't. you'd have to add the listener at runtime when both objects exist at the same time

[brazen junco]

Put very simply: you can't (directly). What you can do instead: call something on a different script and then locate the other instance to call a method on and execute it (assuming it's loaded already).
The Question is just: what do you want to use this for? There might be a better solution then the one you're looking for.

[steep magnet]

i have an object on the player that updates their hydration. i want to call the function that sets it to max when the player picks up the water bottle

i figured i could probably just create a gameobj to put there that the hydration script checks if i wasnt able to do it the prior way

[worthy turtle]

Hi all , Im using Unity Render Streaming package and getting this issue when I build webGL , I'm sure the problem has something to do with assembly references as earlier had missing assembly errors in the console fixed by adding an assbly reference in the script folder. Now getting no build errors but this in web console. Any ideas?
A scripted object (probably Unity.RenderStreaming.RenderStreaming?) has a different serialization layout when loading. (Read 32 bytes but expected 184 bytes)
Did you #ifdef UNITY_EDITOR a section of your serialized properties in any of your scripts?

[orchid surge]

I think that is the conclusion I am working toward. Can you elaborate on the data/model decoupling?

[lucid valley]

Reading the docs it seems WebGL isn't supported

Not in the platforms list:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.renderstreaming@3.1/manual/index.html
And in the FAQ section:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.renderstreaming@3.1/manual/faq.html UWP and WebGL are not supported.

[swift falcon]

FindObjectOfType<>() - does that search all opened scenes?

or just the main one (where the calling monobehaviour is)?

[leaden ice]

all objects loaded into the game world.

[leaden ice]

Note that there is no "calling" MonoBehaviour for that function. it is a static function

[hollow stone]

Like any MVC like pattern. https://blog.unity.com/games/level-up-your-code-with-game-programming-patterns

[solemn raven]

hi
Im building my own UI and pagination
I wanna round up small floats like 6.1 to 7 ( 7 pages )
how do I do that ?

[leaden ice]

Mathf.CeilToInt

[solemn raven]

Thanks ❤️

[swift falcon]

why Linq Where returns me a bool array instead of GO array?

i think its different Where, not the one in LINQ

[lucid valley]

yeah double check as it shouldnt do that

[swift falcon]

https://i.imgur.com/BLIfpcZ.png

i see

so it doesnt know which Where to use

is there a way to specify?

[lucid valley]

uh, i guess you could call the static method itself

[brazen junco]

I can't reproduce this issue locally, for me it resolves to the expected Where. Is it possible that you have another extension method in your project which returns the bool[]?

[lucid valley]

Linq.Where(GameObject.Find...(genAroundTag), tt => ...).ToArray(); ... where the rest of the code is as i didnt want to type it out

[lucid valley]

yeah, i can't find that ICollection.Where that returns bool[] in the C# docs

[orchid surge]

Thanks

[wide mural]

What would be the best way to display an action on object? I already have a raycast to detect what the player can do with near object (pick up for example) but how would i do to display an icon?

Like on this game

(with a third player camera)

[polar marten]

usually these games use a component on their UGUI-like canvas

[fresh yarrow]

can y'all help me with this script (i've done walking part, now i need help with jumping)

[polar marten]

that toggles

into the "active" shape when your pointer is over an object of interest

the position of this ugui object would track the 3d object

does that make sense?

[fresh yarrow]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{ _controller = GetComponent <CharacterController>()
private CharacterController _controller;
float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
float verticalInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
Vector3 direction = new Vector3(horizontalInput, 0, verticalInput);
_controller.Move(direction);
// This is a reference to the Rigidbody component called "rb"
public Rigidbody rb;

public float forwardForce = 000f;    // Variable that determines the forward force
public float sidewaysForce = 00f;  // Variable that determines the sideways force

// We marked this as "Fixed"Update because we
// are using it to mess with physics.
void FixedUpdate()
{
    // Add a forward force
    rb.AddForce(0, 0, forwardForce * Time.deltaTime);
    
    if (Input.GetKey("d"))    // If the player is pressing the "d" key
    {
        // Add a force to the right
        rb.AddForce(sidewaysForce * Time.deltaTime, 0, 0);
    }

    if (Input.GetKey("a"))  // If the player is pressing the "a" key
    {
        // Add a force to the left
        rb.AddForce(-sidewaysForce * Time.deltaTime, 0, 0);
    }
}

}

can y'all help me with jumping?

[wide mural]

So basically i should be doing this on my Canvas and somehow track the position of the object?

[polar marten]

yes which is pretty straightforward

[coral kestrel]

Hello. Just to preface this I am pretty new to coding so my problem is 100% just a result of my lack of knowledge. I'm making an adventure game and I'm using the Inventory scripts from one of Brackeys' RPG tutorials, but I'm also using a save/load system from another tutorial and the two are not cooperating.
My issue is that everything works as intended so long as I don't switch to another save or exit the scene, at which point everything goes haywire and the result is what can be seen in the images - the items in the inventory are carried on to the other save, even though they've not yet been collected, and the pickup is active. Whenever I click on the pickup the whole inventory gets filled up with copies of the item.
Here's a link to the scripts, which I think are related to my issue: https://paste.myst.rs/luwxb9w4
I've been hitting my head against the keyboard for some time now trying to figure out a solution so any and all help is welcome!

[cyan hill]

i'm wanting to connect to an sqlite db from a Unity script. i've got the DB and the code written, but I can't get the plugin to work. I've copied several versions of the Mono.Data.Sqlite3.dll file from various folders in the Unity editor folder to my Assets/Plugins/ folder, but I get an error when actually running the code each time. It's been three different errors. I've tried to pull from the unityjit-win32 folder, 4.0 folder, and one more. any clear instructions on how i can get this to work properly? thanks!

[rain minnow]

If you're pretty new to coding I'd checkout and ask in #💻┃code-beginner

[cosmic rain]

Start from addressing the errors in your console. It's likely that they're causing some of the issues.

[cosmic rain]

Maybe start from explaining what library exactly are you trying to get working..?

[polar marten]

use an asset store package

there ar efree ones for sqlite

there is probably also a github package

[cyan hill]

Mono.Data.Sqlite

[cosmic rain]

Ok, and what are the errors?

[cyan hill]

Sorry, had to pop out. Will ask again tomorrow when I'm at the PC again for enough time. Sorry about that.

[wide mural]

So just trying to display the position of a 3D objects into my canvas ui with WorldToScreenPoint.

But the position doesn't seem to be the same. Thought it might be related to resolution/scale of Canvas so I did this (image)
But that does not work.

Is my code wrong? could it be related to using cinemachine?

[cosmic rain]

Why are you dividing and scaling it?

[wide mural]

Scale it back to the current resolution?

If its different

[cosmic rain]

It should map to your screen pos correctly without any additional math manipulations.

[wide mural]

Well it doesn't, would it be due to cinemachine?

I know I have the right 3d world pos since I can literally see the raycast

[cosmic rain]

I'm not sure. What do you get from just WorldToScreenPoint?

[wide mural]

U mean what value for screenPoint?

[cosmic rain]

Yeah. Well, visually, how does it correspond to the world pos?

[wide mural]

1st image is in game, i used simple unity icon for now xd
2nd image is the raycast in scene

so the point is at the branch

These are my canvas settings

this is the position i get

[cosmic rain]

Take a screenshot of the scene view with the canvas visible and the image selected.

[wide mural]

you mean like this?

[cosmic rain]

Yeah. So, I might be wrong, but since you set the anchored position and the image is anchored to the center of the screen, you get in the wrong position.

Try setting transform.position instead.

[wide mural]

thank u that worked

I guess that makes sense, stupid mistake

[modern creek]

I have a particle system, a starfield - with particles that have long lifetimes and no movement. Can I change the values of their speed while they exist somehow? It seems as if I change the main module parameters just fine but it only applies to new particles.

            var spsMain = StoppedParticleSystem.particles[0].main;
            MinMaxCurve spsMinMaxCurve = spsMain.startSpeed;
            spsMinMaxCurve.constantMin = 100f;
            spsMinMaxCurve.constantMax = 200f;
            spsMain.startSpeed = spsMinMaxCurve; // no effect to particles already emitted

[leaden ice]

There's a whole velocity over time module

[modern creek]

Hm.. I thought I checked that module.. I'll look again

Nope! this should be what I need.. just ramp up the speed modifier of that module, I think

[leaden ice]

You're looking at start speed only

[modern creek]

I'm not quite sure if these modules are playing nice with the UIParticle library though

I mean, "nope" as in "nope I didn't check here earlier"

[leaden ice]

Start speed is just that - the speed when the particles spawn

[modern creek]

looks like the VelocityOverTime.SpeedModifier (whatever the actual ones are claled) is what I need - i'll just tween that up and it should work fine

thx

[shrewd obsidian]

Is browser game performance significantly affected by the PC running the browser? I always assumed they weren't but the browser build of my game runs fine while the mobile build runs terribly.

[leaden ice]

Of course the device hardware matters a ton

WebGL is no exception

[modern creek]

Have the stars accelerating nicely with that, thanks @leaden ice.

[tepid juniper]

Dear friends, could anyone help me with namespaces?
So I have a asset which have namespace, have it own folder and etc. In different folder I created different script with namespace. I would like to access classes that are in my own namespaces. However when I try to use that namespace visual studio states it doesnt exists. So I assume as it is because namespace fil is not in the same folder. What should I do?

[wary dirge]

I am using trying to place an object with user touch using raycastmanager to get the position and rotation but after placing the object using instantiate the model is shaking and sometimes floating. Can anybody help me with this

I don’t want the model to move it should be at that place until destroyed

[leaden ice]

it has nothing to do with namespaces

unless you are simply not including the appropriate using directive.

The problem is your asset likely has an assembly definition file

[tepid juniper]

I am including using NameSpace. In all other scripts it works, but not in asset I mentioned.

[leaden ice]

in general though you shouldn't be modifying asset code unless you have a really good reason

[leaden ice]

^

[tepid juniper]

well asset lets you create custom JS code to handle specific streaming service, but I cant pass parameters to C#, as it requires more data than others. So that is pretty reasonable reason to edit asset code. Trust, I wish I shouldn't.

[sterile tendon]

how do I run python scripts in c#?

all it does is return a string

[leaden ice]

I cant pass parameters to C#
What do you mean by this?
What parameters do you need to pass and why can't you pass them?

[tepid juniper]

First of all it is Webgl, so half of code works on C# and other on JS. it is AvPro asset meant for showing videos. Normally it requires only path, as HLS streams don't need anything else. But WebRTC stream needs Login information. I have scriptable object, that have all data needed, and Javascript which works when data is hardcoded. But I cannot pass the scriptable object to the AvPro monobehavior. References don't work as it cant see that Scriptable object class. I also cannot use FindObject and then get data from singletons, as they are also invisible for this AvPro monobehavior.

So only reason I can see, that either the AvPro monobehaviour is in folder Runtime, and somehow it puts it in other order of compiling or idk....

But anyways I am running out of ideas, only idea left is create custom script that will pass string values to that AVpro monobehavior at the runtime on awake. Anyways this hacky solution is annoying.

Other solution pass Javascript data from different scripts, but that not ensures of JS compiling order and might not see correct data.... halp.....

[leaden ice]

I have scriptable object, that have all data needed and Javascript which works when data is hardcoded

You can pass data from the C# side to the JavaScript side.

[tepid juniper]

Yes, but that would mean AvVideo pro will have all logic javascript, and another script will have parameters on it. How I can be sure that in javascript side the parameter javascript will be written before AvVdieo pro javascript? 50/50 chance is not of my liking.

[leaden ice]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean

why would there be a question of execution order

are you not creating/configuring these objects/components in your own code?

Can't you just:

1. pass data to JS
2. initialize the AvVideoPro stuff

in that order

[tepid juniper]

isnt JS compiled on build with all classes and stuff?

[leaden ice]

Well first JS is not compiled at all, but second what does when it is compiled have to do with anything?

[tepid juniper]

what do you mean it is not compiled? JS is created from all unity scripts in your project and placed in one big ass JS file. And JS does care about order.

[leaden ice]

regardless

you control when the code executes, no?

and "placing js in a file" is not the same as compiling but I digress

[tepid juniper]

I control when code is executed. I can make sure my script runs before asset script. But does Unity tracks then when it is CREATING the JS file? As on browser you will just get error that your parameters are null or dont exist.

Regardless, I chose to go with most retarted way, to pass bunch of string on awake to that asset, and use that data when needed. But still I wish I could be able to add references to script from other namespaces 😭

[leaden ice]

again it's not a question of namespaces

it's a question of assemblies

You could do it if you set up your assembly definitions. But it's much more of a pain than is worth this issue. Better not to modify libraries if you can avoid it

[thick sail]

Hey guys, new to Unity (not to software development), I'm having some trouble finding canonical methods to do TDD in Unity, could someone point me to any useful resources? Thanks!

[leaden ice]

https://www.kodeco.com/9454-introduction-to-unity-unit-testing

[thick sail]

Awesome, any books or articles to go along with it? I'm interested in snapshot testing, replays, etc as well

[surreal phoenix]

what do i have to do to make my scriptable pipeline visible in the project's pipeline picker?

[spring basin]

hello I need with a hole physics, I painted a hole in a terrain and would like the ball to fall into the hole, if it passes through it

but there's a weird interaction when only the partial ball is on top of the hole space

the sphere cuts through the terrain texture instead of falling into the whole due to its mass (something like a side spin because of the weight of the sphere inside the hole)

I feel i made a mistake in how I push the ball forward?

ballBody.AddForceAtPosition(new Vector3(0f, 0f , explosiveForce), Vector3.forward, ForceMode.Impulse);

[leaden ice]

you sure you want to use Terrain here instead of just like a ProBuilder mesh?

[spring basin]

😮

ProBuilder mesh?

i wasnt aware of it

will check it out

[vague slate]

Is there any way to view scene including all hidden objects?
I uninstalled URP and now it constantly throws warning about missing scripts (meaning there are some garbage objects hidden in a scene)

[leaden ice]

also why are you doing AddForceAtPosition and then using Vector3.forward as the position?

[spring basin]

whats the variable

name

i was trying out the different

ah

i shouldnt use Vector3.forward?

[leaden ice]

Why are you not just using normal AddForce is what I mean

[leaden ice]

as a position to add force to the ball? Seems weird

[spring basin]

okay will try that once and write back

AddForce has the same interaction

[leaden ice]

yeah the interaction has nothing to do with how you're adding force

I was just commenting on it being very weird

[spring basin]

oh okay 😛

how do I configure my setup to behave on the weight?

of the sphere

[hexed pecan]

Choose the correct ForceMode:
https://i.redd.it/6y8myu3ruxo71.png

[toxic fog]

I wanna look something up but I don't know what it's called
it's like, a click map? I want the cursor to do different things when clicking on different sections of an image/screen. the areas would likely be amorphous shapes.
like, if I wanted to have a "pet the dog" system and based on which spot of the head you pet it'd interact in different ways.

it looks like it could be done with raycasting, but can raycasting distinguish more than one color at once?

Also, could raycasting pick up the color of an image that's invisible to the player somehow? So I can hide the interaction map, and it'd just look like you're petting a dog, and not petting a dog-shaped blob red, blue, green, etc

[main shuttle]

How we fixed an issue like this years ago was 2 images on top of each other. 1 image fully visible for the user of your dog, 1 image invisible behind it which you colored in over the dog. So you made the head part of the dog fully red, aka 1, 0, 0, the ears fully blue aka 0, 0, 1 and you raycast on the colored image. You can check what color you actually hit.

Technically you could also hide the value in the alpha channel of your pixels. Then you wont need the second image, but that's just an idea I though of now.

[toxic fog]

Yeah I'm looking into that! I just wasn't sure if I could force raycasting to pick up on an image layer that's invisible to the player.

[pastel patio]

I'm making a 3d hack&slash action game, but I have trouble with weapons ignoring collisions when low frame rate/swinging extremely fast, anyone have experience with this issue please? It's bothered me across a lot of attempts already

And... Also, weapons could sometimes be swinging slowly, which is why I can't even use a custom mesh collider, as the weapon would hit target before it visually did..

[main shuttle]

Just hide the layer that image is on of your camera, but do raycast against that layer.

[toxic fog]

Yeah, all I needed to know was that it was possible! I'm excited now c:

[elder temple]

How do I calculate direction of enemy object from player, but only 4 basic direction( east, west, north, south) ??

[west lotus]

I would calculate the direction vector from player to enemy. Then do a Dot product with the 4 cardinal directions, closest result to 1 is your answer

[elder temple]

Tnx....gonna try it

[swift falcon]

does it matter what scenes are open in unity when u build?

or only build order in build settings?

[rigid island]

only in build settings

[keen eagle]

Hi I have a image with opacity of 25% but when I use the image as background in unity the opacity doesn't take effect

[main shuttle]

If you mean transparency, then select that image and check its format. It probably is a version without an alpha channel: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TextureFormat.html

[deep fable]

If I use Instantiate(myScriptableObject) will I receive a shallow copy of the scriptable object?

[lucid valley]

i think its a deep copy

[main shuttle]

If you mean that if you Instantiate it 10 times and that it will point to the same one then no, of course not.

[lucid valley]

^

[deep fable]

If I have a variable which is of type MyClass inside the SO, will it also clone that variable? (making it point to another heap allocation)

[lucid valley]

if you just want the same one then don't instantiate it just use myScriptableObject

[deep fable]

It's not the SO itself, it's the variables inside it that I want to clone

[lucid valley]

pretty sure it's going to deep copy and do new allocations

[main shuttle]

Yeah, every variable in a class will have its own value. Unless its static of course.

Just like the normal behaviour.

[lucid valley]

if you don't want that then you'll need to make your own cloning function for that SO

[wicked scroll]

consider, though, that your 'runtime' versions of things may deviate from their 'config time' versions, so passing those properties into a similar but non SO class is often the way to go

[swift falcon]

https://gdl.space/ojucitucoq.cpp The scene is called once I press play and runs as intended the first time, when the scene is called the second time during the same run, the text doesn't iterate through and gets stuck on the first text, please someone help

[main shuttle]

How would that even work? I don't see any way to be honest, can you even do that with components?

[lucid valley]

like create a blank one from the type (though i think that'll still allocate for serialized fields) using CreateInstance(typeof(SOType));
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ScriptableObject.CreateInstance.html

and then set the references to the fields again

[deep fable]

Ok thanks to everyone

[deep fable]

Why UnityEngine.LayerMask is not marked serializable? It's an int..

[rain minnow]

Bc it's a bitmask, not an actual integer number . . .

[main shuttle]

You can serialize a Layer type, and use that as a mask.

[hexed pecan]

uint could work too

[lucid valley]

Naughty attributes has a inspector thing for layers
https://dbrizov.github.io/na-docs/attributes/drawer_attributes/layer.html

Odin inspector probably does too, though i never used it

[sage pike]

Hi, how can i set visual studio such that when i click on 'F1' on my keyboard it will open unity document? right now it's not working...help please

[zenith dirge]

How does FlowMap UVs work?
I know, on the X (U) axis, 0 is left, 0.5 is middle (stopped) and 1 is right
On the Y (V) axis, 0 is down, 0.5 is middle (stopped) and 1 is up
But I can't seem to find the correct combination to make a curved spreading flow on this mesh
I want the flow to go from the larger edge to the smaller and spread out in a circular pattern, like at the end of a river meeting into an ocean
How can I do this?

[rustic ember]

What does the flag mean?

[lucid valley]

might be a bookmark

[rustic ember]

Thank you for answering. How do I get rid of it?

[lucid valley]

https://www.educative.io/answers/how-to-bookmark-code-in-visual-studio-in-windows

huh, maybe right click on it? I'm not using VS currently

[rustic ember]

Thanks. this was great: Ctrl+K

[idle meteor]

Hello, now I am developing a ui system. But I ran into a problem. I close the UI window opened in my update method under UI Manager when the escape key is pressed. But on the other hand, I am trying to open the pause menu in my update method under Game Manager. The two conflict and the pause menu closes before it even opens. How can I prevent this?

Additionally, do you know of a good UI management system? Or a tutorial on how to do it?

[leaden ice]

Add an additional condition that the game must currently be paused/unpaused as appropriate

[lusty dragon]

Hey everyone, I am trying to move a go but its child containing the sprite does not move with it. any idea?

[idle meteor]

Well, suppose I didn't stop the game. So instead of the pause menu, he wanted to open the player inventory. Then what path will I follow?

[leaden ice]

A similar path

Use a bool variable

[idle meteor]

OK, I'll try. Thank you for your support.

[lusty dragon]

does the following move the objects children as well?

transform.position = pathCreator.path.GetPointAtDistance(distanceTravelled, endOfPathInstruction);

[leaden ice]

moving a parent always moves the children unless another script or component counteracts said movement

for example dynamic Rigidbodies will overwrite any such movement

[lusty dragon]

public class PathFollower : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public PathCreator pathCreator;
        public EndOfPathInstruction endOfPathInstruction;
        public float stoptimer;
        public float speed;
        float distanceTravelled;
        

        void Start() {
            stoptimer = 0;
            if (pathCreator != null)
            {
                // Subscribed to the pathUpdated event so that we're notified if the path changes during the game
                pathCreator.pathUpdated += OnPathChanged;
            }
           
        }

        void Update()
        {
            if (pathCreator != null)
            {
                distanceTravelled += speed * Time.deltaTime;
                transform.position = pathCreator.path.GetPointAtDistance(distanceTravelled, endOfPathInstruction);
                //transform.rotation = pathCreator.path.GetRotationAtDistance(distanceTravelled, endOfPathInstruction);
            }
            if (stoptimer > 1000)
            {
                speed = 0;
               // stoptimer = 0;
            }
            if (stoptimer < 500) speed = 0.2f;
            if (stoptimer > 1200) stoptimer = 0;   
        }

        // If the path changes during the game, update the distance travelled so that the follower's position on the new path
        // is as close as possible to its position on the old path
        void OnPathChanged() {
            distanceTravelled = pathCreator.path.GetClosestDistanceAlongPath(transform.position);
        }

[leaden ice]

What am I looking at here?

[deep fable]

How can I find all the types that implement a specific interface? Because I am doing this:
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetTypes().Where(type => type.IsAssignableFrom(typeof(IEffectConfigData)) && !type.IsInterface).ToArray(); but it returns me nothing (but if I log all the types in Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetTypes() I see the types that implement the IEffectConfigData interface)

[leaden ice]

you have that IsAssignableFrom backwards

Where(type => typeof(IEffectConfigData).IsAssignableFrom(type) && !type.IsInterface)

[deep fable]

Oh thanks!

Is there a way to call a static function after script compilation? I remember seeing an attribute from a video, but I don't remember its name

Because [DidReloadScripts] doesn't seem to work (or at least on a scriptable object)

Oh I found it (it's [InitializeOnLoadMethod])

[lusty dragon]

This is the code that makes the tranform changes for the position

[hexed pecan]

What is the question though?

[leaden ice]

ok but - as I said above, yes children will move with their parents under normal circumstances.

[woeful leaf]

(Also !cs)

[tawny elk]

You can format your multiline code block with C# highlighting! Just add cs to the start of it. Highlighting example below!

class Fluffs : FluffyCat
{
    public void PetCat ()
    {
        Debug.Log ("Petting Cat.")
    }
}

[lusty dragon]

somehow, it worked. I dunno why. sorry if i wasted your time. and thank you

[hexed pecan]

Lol all good

[pallid warren]

I need help. I have a script that instantatiates some prefabs. I ctrl+C ctrl+V one prefab and change its name. My script can't find that prefab to instantiate but all other are ok. What is going on?

[leaden ice]

that object doesn't have the GallerySelectorFrame component on it

[somber nacelle]

also you can pass the component reference to Instantiate and it will clone the entire object and return a reference to the instance of the component so you wouldn't need to do Instantiate(frameRess.gameObject).GetComponent<T>(); you could just do Instantiate(frameRess);

[woeful leaf]

Why am I getting this? I have no errors

Restarting VS fixes it, whack

[deep fable]

Can I serialize a variable (of type MyClass) like if all its fields were actually of the class containing it? Basically "flattening" the variable in the inspector

[lucid valley]

yes, [Serializable] on top of MyClass and then the variables inside can be serialized like usual

[lucid valley]

Or if you don't need to actually separate it for logic reason then if you have the Naughty Attributes package you can do:
https://dbrizov.github.io/na-docs/attributes/meta_attributes/foldout.html

[deep fable]

Yeah but there is a dropdown menu if I do like that (I want to remove the "drop down" menu)

[lucid valley]

i thought you wanted that?

oh, so you want the opposite

uh, maybe with a custom inspector

[polar marten]

it looks like you are doing a lot of editor tooling faff

what are you trying to do?

what is this all for?

[deep fable]

I am creating a card game and I have an abstract class Effect and multiple classes inheriting it. Each effect has some config data (like duration, radius...) and I have made an Explosive struct that is inside the Mine and Bomb effects (because they share a lot of things). Now I would prefer to not see Explosive inside the inspector when editing the fields inside the Explosive variable

(The [DidReloadScripts] thing was to automatically instantiate Card scriptable objects for each effect I have in the project, but I've solved it)

It's like removing that red circled thing

[soft mica]

Are there any libraries or assets out there which allow one to add new bones to an existing armature at runtime?

I'm looking for something simple where I can specify a radius of influence and a falloff for the bone. It probably needs to leave the existing bone weights intact as well. I'd like to be able to drop an empty game object in a location, with this component attached to it, set a few values on the component, like the radius, falloff type, and mesh to deform, and have that game object act like the bone, moving the vertices with it when it moves.

[cyan hill]

i've been trying to connect to a sqlite3 database from a script. i have the code written up, which should be ok. the problem is that I need to load Mono.Data.Sqlite for it to work, but it won't load. checking online, it said i needed to copy the .dll from the editor folder, so I grabbed it from \Editor\Data\MonoBleedingEdge\lib\mono\unityjit-win32 (i've tried a few other locations, too). the error i still get is:

DllNotFoundException: sqlite3 assembly:<unknown assembly> type:<unknown type> member:(null)
Mono.Data.Sqlite.UnsafeNativeMethods..cctor () (at <113d9163ee3244aba7dbd348e28f7f70>:0)
Rethrow as TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Mono.Data.Sqlite.UnsafeNativeMethods' threw an exception.
Mono.Data.Sqlite.SQLite3.Open (System.String strFilename, Mono.Data.Sqlite.SQLiteOpenFlagsEnum flags, System.Int32 maxPoolSize, System.Boolean usePool) (at <113d9163ee3244aba7dbd348e28f7f70>:0)
Mono.Data.Sqlite.SqliteConnection.Open () (at <113d9163ee3244aba7dbd348e28f7f70>:0)

i've tried moving it to different nested folders, the base folder, Plugins/x64/libs/, no dice.

basic code, as well:

        IDbConnection dbConnection;
        string connectionString = "URI=file:" + Application.dataPath + "/main.db";

        dbConnection = new SqliteConnection(connectionString);
        dbConnection.Open();

        IDbCommand dbCommand = dbConnection.CreateCommand();
        dbCommand.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM abilities";
        IDataReader reader = dbCommand.ExecuteReader();

[cinder basin]

hey guys

does anyone know if it's possible to do gpu instancing for animations while also keeping animation layers?

[polar marten]

what do you mean?

this isn't sounding like a coding question yet. what is your objective?

[polar marten]

last time i tried to reply to you you didn't really answer the questions

did you try using a sqlite asset from the asset store?

the error message is telling you you don't know how to put sqlite into unity

copy the .dll from the editor folder
this doesn't sound right

[cinder basin]

my objective is to have 1000 animated skinned meshes (or converted somehow) with different animations for different layers while also having a nice fps

there's a technique for gpu instancing animations, but all I've found so far was batching/creating shaders, but none of the methods are allowing for animation layers

[polar marten]

okay, is this for some kind of battle simulator game?

[cinder basin]

yes, pretty much

tbh I might have even a 100, but even that number of skinned meshes causes fps to drop drastically

so I'm looking for a way to optimize it as much as possible without sacrificing features

[polar marten]

hmm

i don't know anything about this stuff sorry

i've seen cool demos with DOTS

[cyan hill]

yes, i also apologized later for that.

[cyan hill]

no, i'd prefer to not rely on an asset from the store

[cyan hill]

this is what every guide online i found said. have you used sqlite in unity yourself?

not trying to be combative, just genuinely curious. it seems like using sql in unity really shouldn't be that hard

here's an example: https://www.mongodb.com/developer/code-examples/csharp/saving-data-in-unity3d-using-sqlite/

but i actually did just find the solution, i missed a step to download a separate .dll and also add that to plugins folder

thanks!

[floral needle]

Hey guys, I'm making a grenade that creates sort of a "force field" that slows down time inside it. Is there any way of limiting a Time.timeScale change to a particular location, or do I have to make a different multiplier for the things that I want to slow down?

[prime sinew]

The latter

[floral needle]

Figured, thanks

[prime sinew]

Easiest way is probably to use a public static float and multiply that with the things that need to be modified

[woeful leaf]

I've this code and it does run the print, but it doesn't play the audio but I don't get any errors, what could be the problem?

    private void OnPressed()
    {
        print("I should be playing");
        sound[1].Play();
    }

[floral needle]

yhea I'm most likely use a custom Time class instead of the default one, which I multiply with that public float

[prime sinew]

You're playing it over and over, causing it to restart without playing it out. Just a guess. No idea where that's getting called

[woeful leaf]

On the onClick event of a button

I think I already know the culprit though

[prime sinew]

Idk then. Try playoneshot

Okay cool

[woeful leaf]

I'll

[woeful leaf]

That didn't work, it's probably because I disable the gameObject afterwards, Ig I'll just turn of the rendered instead, that should fix it

[steady moat]

The big issue with those type of project is that SkinnedMeshRenderer cannot be batch natively and are done on the CPU which result of high CPU usage and high draw call number. Fortunately, there is some people that worked on a GPU Base Skinned Mesh. https://blog.unity.com/technology/animation-instancing-instancing-for-skinnedmeshrenderer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GGVlzAcWgA&ab_channel=Dr.ShahinRostami

Note: It is not a magical solution, it shift the load from the CPU to the GPU and you lose a lot of functionality.

[woeful leaf]

Problem, how can I just disable the renderer? Do I have to get all the renderers from the children from the parent?

[somber nacelle]

yes you would need to disable all renderers on the object for it to be invisible. of course you'd probably want to disable any colliders as well

or just make the audio source a separate object that doesn't get disabled

[woeful leaf]

I'd probably have to restructure a lot of code if I want to do it that way

Would it be bad to just move out of the screen?

[somber nacelle]

if that is the case then your code is probably too reliant on where an object exists in the hierarchy

[woeful leaf]

No, every object is in charge of itself

There's no main controller

[somber nacelle]

you don't need any sort of "main controller" to be able to have the audio source separate from the renderer and stuff

[woeful leaf]

Well they'd have to reference to an object besides itself

[somber nacelle]

so?

[woeful leaf]

Which that'd be a "main controller" of sorts, since all point towards it

[somber nacelle]

no . . . it would simply be a reference

[rigid island]

no it's not

[swift falcon]

how to get a reference to an object in different scenne?

.Find and .FindObjectOfType and scene.GetRootGameObjects doesnt work

maybe Tag wouldnt work but i dont wanna add a tag just for that ...

[subtle herald]

grab the scene first

SceneManager.GetSceneByName()

then access the object in it

with GameObject.Find()

keep in mind, this target scene has to be in your build settings to be accessible at runtime

[swift falcon]

i see, it wasnt loaded yet

it needs a delay

[subtle herald]

[leaden ice]

all of these things work regardless of scene

and yes the scene needs to have been loaded first naturally

These methods are quite slow though

using a singleton would be faster

[regal marsh]

do audio sources in unity automatically use surround sound? Like if I code an enemy to have its own audio source, will the audio play relative to where the listener is?

[somber nacelle]

you have to adjust its settings
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-AudioSource.html

[simple egret]

Yes, as long as the source has 3D sound enabled (not a code issue)

[regal marsh]

alright i'm asking in code because i have a problem

i have an sfxmanager class i made myself

and it has functionalities that I can just call from anywhere. i've got an IsPlaying() method that used an audio source attached to the same object as the sfx manager, but if I want to do surround sound, I need to pass in different sources. I tested this and it works, but how can I check and see if a certain sound effect is playing from only one audio source at a time?

i'll send the code real quick

https://pastebin.com/jUeZ8cw9

[polar marten]

but how can I check and see if a certain sound effect is playing from only one audio source at a time?
why?

[regal marsh]

i have zombie enemies that i don't want to be making the same sounds all at once. unless i can do surround sound based on a certain gameobject with the audio source attached to the manager

[simple egret]

Why not attach a source to the zombie?

[regal marsh]

i did

and i am passing it in

that's my problem though

[polar marten]

i think you can limit the number of sounds

that are playing simultaneously

[regal marsh]

of a specific type?

[polar marten]

using the existing unity audio tools

[regal marsh]

or specific file?

if not that's fine

[polar marten]

i am confident you can do it however you want

but i odn't know much about unity audio

you would have to read the docs

[regal marsh]

anyways more on this, i am, i'm passing it in to the manager so that the manager uses it, but when i check to see if a sound of a certain type is playing, i don't know how to check every single possible source.

or if that's even what i'd want to do

oh shit hang on i have an idea

[regal marsh]

if that doesn't work, thank you for telling me about this, i'll be sure to use it.

i don't want to limit sound effects in general, i just want to limit the number of sound effects of a specific type that can play at a time

[polar marten]

yeah

i think you're supposed to use the audio mixer for stuff like that

[regal marsh]

oh ok

[polar marten]

i'm not sure

[regal marsh]

i just found out that PlayClipAtPoint is a thing and that's basically exactly what i need lol

[tawny elk]

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[fluid moat]

Hi, I have a functional save system that saves data in binary (local) and need upload to DB, there its a simplest way to just upload that files on db? like "save that on that path instead of this one", Im struggling a little, with the info that I found works for saving data on tables directly but not at all what I looking for

[proven plume]

It seems like you don't want to be using a database if you aren't putting the information directly into a table?

[leaden ice]

you'd have to explain a lot more about what you're trying to do:

• What kind of data is this?
• What is the data associated with? (a particular user? A particular match? A particular virtual object?)
• What kind of database are we talking about?
• Do you want structured data or just a binary blob?
• What kind of access patterns will you have?

[fluid moat]

Ok foa I have a simple crane system where you can grab obj (containers) that have types and depending on type, a score (ex: metal, wood, etc).

You can grab and move around that containers but if you put them on a certain area, you win score (that is irrelevant actually)
My boss asked me to make a save system to save obj "last position" (also types) so I burned my brain to make a save system using binary formatting and in simple words it works like this: Get all containers in scene and their data, and save it (locally), when you Load that data it instantiate new obj with that data so basically it clones them (first delete the old ones and create the new ones in their saved positions)

I know that its not optimizated at all but it worked so...

my last task was in words of my boss "yeah but If a someone play I want to store that bc if another player use the app it recover the first player state"

(the app is on webgl)

so p1 -> plays on him pc -> exit -> p2 plays on his pc -> load p1 state -> continue -> repeat

that is the reason that I need to implement DB but not throw the save system that I have T.T

I tried with simple mysql projects but their just write directly on DB table, Im already saving a file so I want to:

Instead of saving that file on localrow bla bla in a blob table that has the columns defined for that files

save system p1

savesystem p2

[simple egret]

Oh well, good thing you want to change that

BinaryFormatter is insecure and opens vulnerabilities for your app, it should not be used anymore

[fluid moat]

yep but is a proto, btw I quit friday but need to figure how to save that files on db without throw everything

some help? any advice?

[simple egret]

What does the DB look like right now? What DBMS are you using? SQL? NoSQL? Do you have tables already created? Do you have an API that will relay the game state to the DB and back?

It's quite a bit of work to switch from files to a database

(you can scrap the API if your database is local or embedded like SQLite)

[fluid moat]

rn im using MySQL and created a table with blob type for the files, dont get me wrong, know that bin is not good at all but dont wanna burn myself working on a new system, just being able to upload that files directly (idk if via http request or something)

[simple egret]

The computer that has the MySQL server, is it local or remote?

You'll also have to download and install a MySQL connector library, so you can query directly from the code.
I found this: https://www.mono-project.com/docs/database-access/providers/mysql/
Not sure if it's still maintained though. Unity doesn't make things easy when it comes to third-party libraries

[fluid moat]

at the moment is local, but in the wet dreams of my boss it would be a server

thanks i ll read that

[simple egret]

On a server you'd basically want an API to interface the database, so you can add validation, auth and various other security checks

[leaden ice]

If this is really your ultimate goal, having Unity talking directly to the database is not going to be feasible

[simple egret]

And you'd also want a proper database structure. One table where you dump binary data is not really the use case for a DB, in that case you'd just have an API that reads and writes files on the filesystem directly

[austere surge]

I have a small coding question ig, I am not entirely sure in which channel it belongs and since I am not much experienced with coding I guess its alright to ask here xd

I am currently trying to learn about Character Movements in Unity. And for that I had to create different States for the character. In the tutorial I am watching the youtuber is writing some code. And he swapped the MonoBehavior to something else. (in this case he named it "IState"). My problem now is that whenever he does that the letters are yellow though mine just stay white. I marked the specific line in the screenshot with a comment.

[leaden ice]

IState is an interface he created

But yours are white because your IDE is not configured

You need to configure Visual Studio to work with Unity properly

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

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*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[austere surge]

yeah he said something about the ide

ooh

i'll check it out, thank you!

[austere surge]

Well it turns out I just had to restart visual studio xd I checked and everything was installed etc.

somehow the unity api wasn't connected to vs

thank you :)

[rain saffron]

    private RaycastHit hit;
    private Ray ray;

    private void Update()
    {
        ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);

        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit))
        {
            print(hit.triangleIndex);
        }
    }```

What would cause this to return -1?

Works with a cylinder, but not a cube.

[leaden ice]

As per the docs for triangleIndex, it only works for MeshColliders

not for any other kind of collider

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RaycastHit-triangleIndex.html

[rain saffron]

Oh oops!

Didn't realize I'd not switched it out

Thank you 🙂

[simple echo]

Hi!

So I want to create a maze using the depth first search recursive backtracker algorithms.

I have the code for the algorithm but have a bunch of errors in it. I wanted to ask, if this algorithm would generate the walls of the maze ? Or is that something I have to draw using assets ?

[simple egret]

Can't say without seeing the code, I guess

Some algorithms just draw the maze in a 2D array in C#, then you have to replicate it physically in Unity

Some do it all at once

[simple echo]

Sure I’ll send a screenshot of the code in a minute

[simple egret]

No screenshots please

[simple echo]

Oh

How do I send it then. copy paste ?

[simple egret]

Post code according to the !code guidelines

[tawny elk]

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[simple egret]

Consider "large" as greater than 20 lines

[scenic creek]

Is there a way to ignore rotation around a given axis?
I have a camera which takes the player's rotation and adds onto it. So if the player is sideways, the camera is sideways. If the player is upside down the camera is upside down. The problem I'm having is that the player turns based on the camera's direction. This is creating a feedback loop. I want to make the camera use the rotation data of the player minus their local y rotation.

By feedback loop what I mean is that if you move mouse to look left, it will continuously move left and never stop.

[leaden ice]

Vector3 projectedForward = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(player.forward);
camera.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(projectedForward, Vector3.up);```

[zinc parrot]

was there a way to change the #define of a shader from a script?

[scenic creek]

I think this does the opposite of what I'm asking...? It will take only the y rotation of the player and ignore everything else. I need to ignore only the player's local y but take the rest.

I have this in the camera script update method

input = cameraInput.action.ReadValue<Vector2>();
if (invertX) input *= Vector2.right * -1;
if (invertY) input *= Vector2.up * -1;
input *= sensitivity;
//input = new Vector2(1, 1);
yaw = (yaw+input.x) % 360;
pitch = Mathf.Clamp(pitch-input.y, minPitch, maxPitch);
Quaternion baseRotation = Quaternion.Euler(aimTarget.rotation.eulerAngles.x, 0, aimTarget.rotation.eulerAngles.z);
Quaternion rotationDelta = Quaternion.Euler(pitch, yaw, 0);
Quaternion rotation = baseRotation * rotationDelta;

Physics.SphereCast(aimTarget.position, camera.nearClipPlane, rotation * Vector3.back, out RaycastHit hit, distance, hitLayers);
if (hit.collider)
{
    transform.position = hit.point + (hit.normal * camera.nearClipPlane);
}
else
{
    Vector3 offset = rotation * Vector3.back * distance;
    transform.position = aimTarget.position + offset;
}
transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(aimTarget.position - transform.position, aimTarget.up);

and this in the player controller.

Vector3 forwardFromCamera = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(sd.camera.forward, upDirection);
Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(forwardFromCamera, upDirection);
rigidbody.MoveRotation(
    Quaternion.Slerp(
        transform.rotation,
        targetRotation,
        Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, targetRotation) / 360
    )
);

[solemn raven]

Hey, is it possible to clone a gameobject that is not a (PREFAB) ?
meaning it's already a clone in the scene

[pearl radish]

Yes, Instantiate it

[sage tundra]

hey, why is my script not able to draw the square? (this script is applied to a UI canvas, parent to a rawimage object.) everything works as intended, but calls to Texture2D.SetPixel() don't seem to work? none of the safe checks that throw exceptions get triggered, so I don't know what's wrong.

[solemn raven]

I thought instantiate only works on prefabs ( a gameobject that has a file on the drive ) , can it also clone a gameobject from a clone on playmode?

[pearl radish]

It can Instantiate any UnityEngine.Object

Components, GameObjects etc

[solemn raven]

ok cool , thanks a lot 🙂

[fluid lily]

I have the fallowing code.

    public struct Handle : IHandle {

        public UnityEngine.PropertyName _id;
        private IHandle _decorator;
        IHandle IHandle.Decorator { get => _decorator; }
        PropertyName IHandle.ID { get => _id; }

        public static readonly Handle Handle_Null = default(Handle);

        public Handle(string id) {
            _id = new UnityEngine.PropertyName(id);
            _decorator = Handle_Null;
        }

        public Handle(string id, IHandle decorator) : this(id) {
            _decorator = decorator;
        }

        string IHandle.HandleString => throw new NotImplementedException();


        public Handle Last() {
            if (_decorator is object && _decorator != Handle_Null as IHandle) {
                return _decorator.Last();
            }

            return this;
        }
    }

My question is on the Last() willthe _decorator != Handle_Null as IHandle work? I know struct is value type, so will the as mess with the comparision?

I imagine also implementing an isNull bool prop would solve that issue, and have it only be set to true on that one Handle. So then I can call isNull on the interface.

[simple egret]

You should be able to just do

if (_decorator != default)
  return _decorator.Last();

Members of interface types that are not assigned are null, so you could also do != null or is not null or is IHandle

Hell, push it further with a one-liner

return _decorator?.Last() ?? this;

[fluid lily]

I have to assign it before exiting the constructor. But that does work nicely. Still a little foggy on how default works in general I guess.

[polar marten]

what is this

what are you trying to do

[simple egret]

Yeah it all depends on the type you pass to it or what it inferred. default alone will try to infer to the type being compared or assigned, here it evaluates to default(IHandle) which is null since interfaces can be null

[polar marten]

what are you trying to do?

[scenic creek]

I just talked to a friend and think I have an idea to fix my issue. If not I'll be back.

[fluid lily]

I am making an identifier, that can be "decorated" of sorts by other identifiers. I need a null reference to know if there are no decorators.

[polar marten]

yes, but why

what is this for?

what is the y of your xy problem

[simple egret]

(you don't need the null-ref static field anymore, just assign null or default in the constructor)

[polar marten]

right now it looks like complete warble garble

like it was made by an AI

i have a feeling you are translating something from e.g. C++

or some other idea

like just say what this is for

[simple egret]

Yeah ngl this seems wonky, the mix of regular interface implementations and explicit ones does not help

[fluid lily]

I am making a notification bus of sorts, there are multiple receivers for a base handle(like "Player.Actions") and then there can be sub handles(Like "Jump"). A notification can decorate itself so any Receiver looking for all handles "Player.Actions" can receive it, as well as any Receiver looking for "Jump" Handles. The PropertyName is for interactions with the Playables API.

[polar marten]

okay...

the Playables API

this game, it's like a narrative game? are you saying it's a quicktime events game?

like Heavy Rain or whatever

or what kind of game is it

[fluid lily]

This is just a system within the game? I have IoC to decouple code, and this notifications system allows code to hook into these Events or notifications without knowing anything about the code. The type of game is pretty irrelevant.

[polar marten]

They type of game is pretty irrelevant.
hmm...

well what is your goal?

we can talk about a good way to approach game architecture, or you can talk about exactly what you want to talk about, which may not necessarily make any sense, not in any concrete context anyway, like a video game

it's up to you

i am personally not super interested in talking about stuff that doesn't make sense

[fluid lily]

To have a decouple systems? There is the player graphs system already, but the notifications is pretty rudimentary. For example I can have the player "interact" with a scene load object, have that object send out a notification to the root scope for what scene to load, and any system listening for a scene load to do what it needs to do. I also can decrease the number of listeners by having them specify what scopes they listen on.

[polar marten]

To have a decouple systems?
hmm... but why?

like what is the game

[fluid lily]

Okay? This makes complete sense to me, I just needed to know how to use make a null struct.

[polar marten]

what are you trying to do?

[polar marten]

i think if i polled all the senior unity developers i know, they would pretty much agree, without a doubt, that what you're doing doesn't really make sense

and i've only seen like, one snippet

so it's up to you

you can have a conversation* or not

you can tell me what the game is

or not

maybe there isn't a game

is there a game?

is it like a vrchat sort of thing?

that's still a game

like is it a casual world lobby?

alright well i gave it a shot good luck on this journey

[fluid lily]

Wou I am busy I am not ignoring you

[simple egret]

You can feel free to ignore them. Doc is the type of questioning design patterns rather than pure problem solving

(They do this all the time)

[fluid lily]

My current game I am making is a simple point and click just to work out the kinks(and this is way over kill for), but this system is something I have been making for a longer time, and something I will continue to iterate on. The specific Handle probably can be done in a better way, but the notifications system is pretty standard design from like .net. As well as a bit of just faafo. None of the IoC systems I have seen have made me happy for Unity(though if they ever upgrade to .net 6 there are others I like), and this current problem is because of Unity's Playable system needing PropertyName, where I was happy with type comparison personally(so you can just have a Jump type that inherits Notificaitons.Actions).

If there is a better way around the problem with Unity's Playables system I would love to know as I am pretty annoyed with having to deal with it already.

[fluid lily]

Also to be fair IoC hasn't made it's way into game development as for the majority of situations it isn't worth the time and complexity.

As well Service Locator is IoC and is easy, but I am not a fan.

Likewise though Player Graph technically would be a NotificationsBoard it just sends every notification to every reciever, leaving the checking logic to the receiver which it really shouldn't have.

[fluid lily]

I would be interested in knowing what you are thinking, and why that type of game specifically you saw this as being used in?

[polar marten]

I am making is a simple point and click... work out the kinks(and this is way over kill for)
well whom is this for? what is the idea?

are you making a library? for whom or for what?

[fluid lily]

_decorator = default(Handle);
Ah like that. Yeah that makes more sense.

I was going off of what Unity did for PlayableHandle class, and now not sure why they did that?

[fluid lily]

I mean if it is good and works I will release it as an IoC library yeah. For any video game that wants DI and a more complex Notifications system(though will have those as separate modules). My DI gets all references of INotificationReciever, and with a custom attribute will assign them to the associated handler for their DI scope. My future game I want to make is a multi player game like Fallout/skyrim(trinket goblin) so stuff needs to be done through notifications or some way to network the calls(not finalized but more the faafo approach as I am a one man team at the moment). Like wise I have been studying programing architecture and this has been a great way of having it make sense.

[polar marten]

My future game I want to make is a multi player game
okay, so you want to make a networked, realtime multiplayer FPS in unity

that is your goal?

[fluid lily]

more or less yeah.

[polar marten]

do you feel comfortable writing C++?

it's okay if the answer is no

like i don't like C++

just a simple yes or no

[fluid lily]

I had classes in college, but since then haven't touched it as much. I know the concepts and could switch over to it if there was a much easier way.

[polar marten]

gotchya

well unity is sort of one of the worst engines ever written for making a realtime, networked multiplayer fps

the gulf between what it alleges it can do and the tools it gives you to achieve a networked multiplayer fps, and actually writing one, is actually bigger in many cases than writing a basic one from scratch with a more barebones engine

if you wanted to do this, you should start learning DOTS, which is basically like learning a different game engine entirely

[fluid lily]

Fair, having faced problems with the lack of multithreaded/async support already on other projects.

[polar marten]

and the C# in DOTS isn't really C#

unity in general is a very poor fit for realtime multiplayer games

it actively gets in your way, because all of the nicest parts of its toolset are explicitly incompatible with a networked FPS, like the physics engine

IoC and Handles will not bring you closer to this goal

even if you used Unreal, you'll discover that the out of the box multiplayer is also kind of garbage, despite seemingly being a real multiplayer FPS engine.

the last two big 3rd party engine networked FPSes were valorant and apex legends. valorant they spent like 7 years developing, and they needed 20 people to more or less rewrite the state of unreal they had at the time, to behave as well as CSGO did, a truly ancient set of ideas

apex legends was made by a much smaller team on the source engine

if you put a gun to my head and said, make a networked multiplayer FPS, i would use the source engine

but i would also not aspire to make that kind of game

you can study how the source engine works and try to port those ideas to unity, but you'll be rewriting a game engine from scratch

if you are imagining a game with a design space of like overwatch

you know, no single person is going to be able to deliver that

[fluid lily]

I went head long into this as I needed to learn DI anyways, and figured it would at least give me a fun tool for other smaller games I wanted to make that could benefit from a local notifications system(like time control from undoing command pattern type stuff). The target game idea is a long ways off, and have approached all this knowing that, though each smaller game I have been making is to make pieces towards that ultimate idea. I appreciate the advice though, and definitely am not gonna need to know all that for now.

This Notification system was actually done, and then I wanted to add integration for the Playables systems. Was extremely nice to use, if not a bit performance heavy for the time being.

[polar marten]

unity already has SendMessage and BroadcastMessage. there's also unirx

and FindObjectOfType

for "service discovery"

it has all this stuff

[fluid lily]

Have used unirx and wasn't a fan, like wise for the SendMessage and BroadcastMessage have always been clunky to me. Good DI also should make life much easier than that(coming from .net side of stuff), and decouple code rather than couple it more, where the stuff in unity ultimately couples it more.

Anyways I have to go, though thank you again for the feedback.

[sharp ingot]

Would anyone happen to know what could be causing this error?

[fresh yarrow]

is there anything wrong with this script?

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class CharacterController : MonoBehaviour {
private Rigidbody rg;
public float speed = 10.0F;
public float jumpspeed = 10.0F;

void Start () {
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    rg = GetComponent <Rigidbody> ();
}


void Update () {
    float translation = Input.GetAxis ("Vertical") * speed;
    float straffe = Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal") * speed;
    translation *= Time.deltaTime;
    straffe *= Time.deltaTime;
   
    transform.Translate (straffe, 0, translation);
   
    if (Input.GetKey (KeyCode.Space)) {
        Vector3 atas = new Vector3 (0,100,0);
        rg.AddForce(atas * speed);
    }
   
    if (Input.GetKeyDown ("escape"))
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.None;
   
   
}

}

[sharp ingot]

there is already a Unity Defined CharacterController class, no?

[stable rivet]

what do you think is wrong with it? what's the issue?

[sharp ingot]

I figured it out.

[timber snow]

I'm writing an editor script that generates a palette and an indexed image from a source image, and i need the script to save the texture2Ds i'm building as PNG files
texture2D.EncodeToPng(); gives me a byte[] that i can write to a file, but to do that i need to use System.IO to write that data to a file
but the file system is different between System.IO and unity's AssetDataBase class
is there a clean way to save a PNG as a unity asset using AssetDataBase? I can do CreateAsset(path, texture) to save the generated Texture2D, but this isn't a PNG

[keen eagle]

I'm planning this to use as background using sprite renderer. Image has 20% opacity but my problem is unity doesn't recognize the opacity. What can be the problem?

[vagrant agate]

On the Sprite Renderer Component => Color => Change alpha

[keen eagle]

already done that but doesnt work

[visual flare]

what's a more condensed way to write this, without linq?

[leaden ice]

I mean that's pretty much as condensed as it gets

Other than removing whitespace and brackets

Maybe h.dirty = h.hull == null; but that's logically slightly different behavior.

[mossy wadi]

Does anyone know where Texture2D.EncodeToPng() went? I'm using 2021.3.16f1 :/

[cosmic rain]

This perhaps?
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ImageConversion.EncodeToPNG.html

[mossy wadi]

thanks, i'll have to find a way to obtain that because as it stands i dont have that namespace

[cosmic rain]

Seems to be in this module:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/UnityEngine.ImageConversionModule.html

[cosmic rain]

You need to make sure you have the module.

Package manager?

[mossy wadi]

cant seem to find it 😦

Oh, I found it!!

Thanks!

man, they really over-complicated that one!

[cosmic rain]

Where did you find it?

[mossy wadi]

I found it in Built-in packages in the package manager. I just complain because it used to be so easy, but I guess this works. Just needs better visibility and direction imo

[cosmic rain]

I think it should be included by default.🤔
Did you upgrade from an older version perhaps?

[mossy wadi]

Nope, not at all

this is a fresh project

[cosmic rain]

Weird. But oh well.🤷‍♂️

[void basalt]

is mouse Input.GetAxis the delta of the last frame or the last call?

[visual flare]

ah yeah, weird i missed that, I always do that.

there

but yeah like you said it's not exactly the same because it always overwrites .dirty so it could be ternary instead like h.dirty = h.hull == hull ? true : h.dirty or just h.dirty = h.hull == hull || h.dirty

or even

[cosmic rain]

Pretty sure that's Linq though🤔

[cosmic rain]

Of the last frame. I've yet to see unity API that returns different values from last call.

[leaden solstice]

ForEach is not Linq 😉

[cosmic rain]

Hmm

I guess it's not then.😅

[leaden solstice]

However it shares downside of Linq, slower than foreach and closure allocation

[leaden solstice]

Could do h.dirty |= h.hull == null if you want shortcoding

But what are you trying to do

[polar marten]

check alpha is transparency in the import options?

[nimble kernel]

Does anyone know how to access the audio source component's listener distance value? It's calculating it for the component but it doesn't seem to be exposed. I shouldn't have to calculate it a second time so that I have my own copy of it.

[tough osprey]

FFS. Working with BatchRenderGroups and Shaders and thinking my issue is my lack of understanding of those concepts ... then I see it ...

for (int i = 0; i < _numInstances; i++) {
    Matrix4x4 matrix = Matrix4x4.Translate(computeTransform(i));
    matrices[i] = matrix;
    objectToWorld[i] = new PackedMatrix(matrix);
    worldToObject[i] = new PackedMatrix(matrix.inverse);
    terrain[i] = Random.CreateFromIndex(1337).NextInt(0, 2);
}

I couldn't figure out why I wasn't reading the Terrain value of 0 or 1 on a per instance basis and I was instead always reading the same value ... at least it feels so good to have it working now ...

[keen eagle]

already did but doesn't work

[sick compass]

Hello

[simple mountain]

How do you make a svg file from a string and upload it to a spriterenderer?

[stray solstice]

Anyone knows if there's a way to check if a Directory.Exists using Application.streamingAssetsPath on Android?
There's BetterStreamingAssets plugin that helps with some utility methods, but it only has GetFiles and no HasDirectory

[eternal bear]

I need help fixing this error code

Assets\Scripts\PlayerMovement.cs(203,44): error CS0103: The name 'Math' does not exist in the current context

[proper oyster]

Do you mean Mathf?

[eternal bear]

Ye

[grand hemlock]

guys how do i declare a list of tuples?

is it just

List<Tuple> blabla
```?

[main shuttle]

Google: "how do i declare a list of tuples C#" it will tell you everything about it.

[grand hemlock]

its not actually showing me how to declare one

[main shuttle]

This is the first answer for me in google.

[grand hemlock]

all it showed for me was Tuple Deconstruction

[simple mountain]

How do I check if a point is on a line from a to b given a thickness variable?

[main shuttle]

What part of the declaration isn't in this example? You could just omit the data if you want.

[grand hemlock]

is it a straight line?

because u could use gradients

[simple mountain]

for now yes

[main shuttle]

SphereCast from A to B and check if the start of the line is hit and the end of the line is hit.

[grand hemlock]

aka ratio between the x and y position

i think it was smth like

Vector2 gradient = new Vector2(B.x - A.x, B.y - A.y)
float ratio = gradient.y / gradient.x

[simple mountain]

Can you explain how you would find out weather the point is on the line using a sphere cast?

[grand hemlock]

make a bunch of balls

[main shuttle]

Well the sphere cast wouldn't hit the check this, so it's not in the line from a to b.

[grand hemlock]

this only works if a point is exactly in the line

to make it simple just use colliders

[simple mountain]

oh so you mean I draw a box from a to b and check if [CheckThis] is inside it?

[simple mountain]

oh I thought this would reaturn some bury result

[simple mountain]

so what I understand you are basically making a mathematical function with k*x?

[grand hemlock]

i dont know what its called in english because i didnt study in an english school but i think it was smth like
y = mx + c

[simple mountain]

yes

that s what I learned too

I'm just not sure how I could apply it to this usecase

so you are making a function m*x where A is coordinate origin?

[simple mountain]

you think this is a valid aproach?

[flint orchid]

Hey gang, would anyone have a minute to help me with some strangeness regarding SetTemplateCustomValue and WebGL templates?

[grand hemlock]

sorry i had to do smth

you can check

whether BC is parallel to AB

if it is

then C is in the line AB

unless its behind B

[simple mountain]

yes that is actually what I was trying to do here

[grand hemlock]

idk abt the width part tho

[hexed pecan]

@simple mountain Make (or google) a function that finds the distance from a point to a line

And check if that distance is less than the radius

[simple mountain]

Yes i m trying to make one

[hexed pecan]

Its basically a capsule check

[hexed pecan]

Some examples here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51905268/how-to-find-closest-point-on-line

[grand hemlock]

if ur struggling why not just use triggers?

[simple mountain]

Triggers?

[grand hemlock]

colliders

[simple mountain]

I'm trying to make a shader..

[hexed pecan]

You dont always want gameobjects and components for calculations like this

[grand hemlock]

u never told me that tho

[grand hemlock]

its the easiest way to do it. Not the most efficient tho

[simple mountain]

ye sry

[grand hemlock]

yea idk anything abt shaders

[simple mountain]

It s just math

[hexed pecan]

You'd want something like

float DistanceToLine(Vector3 point, Vector3 a, Vector3 b)
{
  return Vector3.Distance(point, NearestPointOnLine(point, a, b));
}```

@simple mountain Does that make sense

Not shader code but you get the point

[simple mountain]

yes that makes sense I'll just have to find out what NearestPointOnLine does on it s inside

[hexed pecan]

Just yoink one from here

(You want the finite version)

[simple mountain]

Ye thank to both of you

[grand hemlock]

guys when i try to loop thru the contents of a dictionary this error pops up
Assets/GenerateDungeon.cs(84,73): error CS0122: 'KeyValuePair<Vector2, float>.key' is inaccessible due to its protection level

here is the code which is causing the issue

        foreach (KeyValuePair<Vector2, float> entry in corridors){
            GameObject new_corridor = Instantiate(corridorObject, entry.key * distance, Quaternion.Euler(0,0,entry.value));
        }

[cold parrot]

Capitalize that k in key

[grand hemlock]

ohh

[cold parrot]

And set up your ide

[grand hemlock]

im using vscode for a little bit

[cedar pivot]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7aVLRUl-z0 what do i need to learn for making like this football dribble system

[grand hemlock]

its temporary

[grand hemlock]

i think inverse kinematics and blend trees

[cold parrot]

That’s a very advanced thing. Basically everything relating to animation and character control

there is no single right way to do it and it depends a lot on the specific game

[cedar pivot]

hmm got it thanks

[simple mountain]

works suprisingly well

[lusty dragon]

I need to wait MoveCameraToHouse() to finish before showing the tutorial. Any Idea what kind of Wait<>() I need to use?

 IEnumerator InitializeGame()
    {
        MoveCameraToHouse();

        ShowTutorial();

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f);

        MoveFamilyToHouse();
    }

The code in MoveCameraToHouse() is the following (if that helps):

    void MoveCameraToHouse()
    {
        LeanTween.moveX(camera_go, 4, 5); //package
    }  

[grand hemlock]

guys why is unity showing this error despite RoomObject is clearly declared in the inspecting
UnassignedReferenceException: The variable roomObject of GenerateDungeon has not been assigned.

[lusty dragon]

Oh , I can use the time in the function which is the third parameter. 😛

[grand hemlock]

this is the line causing it

GameObject new_room = Instantiate(roomObject, pos * distance, Quaternion.identity);

roomObject is not mentioned anywhere else

[prime sinew]

show where it's declared

wait, it's saying it's not assigned

so, where is it supposed to be assigned?

[thin aurora]

It clearly is not

Make sure that it is assigned and that a prefab overrides its values, should you use that

[muted idol]

I was able to virtual click the button with ExecuteEvents.Execute but I'm having some problem on how to do virtual mouse dragging event. Anyone know how to do it?

[lusty dragon]

Is update of fixed update the one that is going to have the same time for every device?

[main shuttle]

FixedUpdate is 50 times per second by default on all devices afaik. There might be a difference in phones that are 30 FPS maxed, don't know what the FixedUpdate will do then.
Not sure what you are trying to achieve, but you can make Update framerate independent too.

[lusty dragon]

I have a game for kids that has a house with several electrical problems that occur randomly in the building. So every now and then I need a countdown to finish for every device and a warning to popup. I want the countdown to be the same for every device and not make the .exe with a result of a countdown that is slower/faster than in the editor.

[prime sinew]

you just need to multiply your timer with Time.deltaTime in Update

[lusty dragon]

Alright. Got it thank you

[prime sinew]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/how-to-make-countdown-timer-in-unity-minutes-seconds/

[brave violet]

hey folks, does anyone have experience with save data being corrupted when the system loses power? I need to support a situation where the PC will be turned off at the power source without being properly shut down but my game's save data gets corrupted. any help or experience would be appreciated 🙂

I've made a forum thread with a little more info here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/saving-data-when-system-power-is-lost.1397206/

[west lotus]

There is a reason even AAA games say do not turn off power while saving indicator is on. All you can is a timed autosave a minute before they kill the power. If they do it at a reliable time, or just autosave every 5 mins and hope for the best

You can also keep the last save so have a autosave and a autosave_old and fallback to the old if latest is bad

[brave violet]

thanks for the reply. I am doing periodic saves, and this isn't a case where it's killing the power WHILE data is saving.

but data is being lost nonetheless

[brave violet]

how would I detect if data is "bad"?

[west lotus]

you cant do anything about that exept dont overwrite the previous successful save

[west lotus]

that depends very much on how you save it. I would do a hash of the data once my write has finished and save that as well. Then when I read the data back I can check if its hash matches the stored one

[brave violet]

apologies, I'm not too experienced with data writing. what does it mean to "do a hash of the data"?

[west lotus]

lets say your save data is a json string. You would put that json string into what is called a hash function(there are many). That function will give you a bunch of numbers and letters as a result

then if you put the same exact string again at a later time you will get the same sequence of numbers, if it's different by even one letter you will get a wildly different sequence

this is essentially called a checksum you can read up on it

[brave violet]

ah OK, so you would have some constant value that should never change, and you can use that to check if everything is saving correctly?

[west lotus]

yes

you can put the checksum at the end of the file, or the begining

or even have it be the filename

[brave violet]

gotcha

[prime sinew]

not sure what you mean, but have you used the rigidbody constraints in the inspector?

[oak topaz]

var rot = Quaternion.FromToRotation(transform.up, Vector3.up);
rb.AddTorque(transform.forward * new Vector3(rot.x, rot.y, rot.z).x * TiltSpeed);

[crude jungle]

do i ask here for help ?

[oak topaz]

yep

atleast i think

[cosmic rain]

If the problem is code related and somewhat of an intermediate level.

[crude jungle]

well basically i wanna implement a system but i can't figure out howww

[cosmic rain]

Go ahead then.

[crude jungle]

ok so basically I have a ball and I want to like make it dash to the position of where I clicked with the mouse ( or tap on the screen ) i also want it to slow down by time

Also how do i make the controlling look like this , like the more you push the mouse the higher speed you get ?

for now i have this and what it's doing is just launching the character in the direction of where i click the mouse

using UnityEngine;

public class Dashing : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float dashSpeed;
    private Vector2 dashDirection;
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    private bool isDashing;

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

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            Vector2 mousePos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
            dashDirection = (mousePos - (Vector2)transform.position).normalized;
            StartCoroutine(Dash());
        }
    }

    IEnumerator Dash()
    {
        isDashing = true;

        while (isDashing && (Vector2)transform.position != dashDirection)
        {
            rb.velocity = dashDirection * dashSpeed;
            yield return new WaitForFixedUpdate();
        }

        rb.velocity = Vector2.zero;
        isDashing = false;
    }
}

[cosmic rain]

Does it need physics involved?

[crude jungle]

wdym ? ( im kinda new so xD )

if you mean falling and gravity then ye

[cosmic rain]

Does the movement need to be physics based?
If you're new, then why post here? Didn't I say that this channel is for around intermediate level?

[cosmic rain]

Okay. Then I don't understand.
Your movement needs to both move to a point you click and be affected by gravity?

Does it not need to reach the target point?

[crude jungle]

ok so let's for example I want to make it like that , where you click and like pull the ball i guess , and it moves to that direction based on how far you pulled the line ( there should be a limit for the line ofc )

[candid mist]

just in terms of best practice, should i handle sensatory checks from an ai in a behaviour tree, or elsewhere?

[cosmic rain]

It moves in that direction? Not exactly to the point where you pulled it to?

[crude jungle]

yup

[cosmic rain]

Ok, so you've got the movement part working. Is it just the scaling of velocity based on the drag distance that you miss?

[crude jungle]

true

also the draging system

[cosmic rain]

For dragging, you need to cache the position of the pointer on pointer down, then get the position at pointer up. You can use the distance between these 2 vectors as a multiplier for your velocity.

[oak topaz]

cant you just get the distance between the pointer and ball then apply the distance value on the "rb.velocity = dashDirection * dashSpeed;"

[oak topaz]

ok nvm i got this working so nvm this

[potent glade]

help please im getting "ios version hasn't been set up correctly"... i made my game on android (using windows) then imported the files into a mac... I made a new project in man, replaced assets.. project settings and packages with the old ones ... and started to build ... is there anything wrong with the steps i made

[lusty dragon]

I run this in Update():

void FollowThePath()
{
  // Check whether the pathCreator exists
  if (pathCreator != null && isAllowedToMove)
  {
    // Move accordingly
    distanceTravelled += speed * Time.deltaTime;

    // Apply that movement towards the next point and until the end of the path
    transform.position = pathCreator.path.GetPointAtDistance(distanceTravelled, endOfPathInstruction);
  }
}

how'd you guys check whether my agent has reached its destination?

[vagrant blade]

Check the distance between it and your destination is small enough

[quartz folio]

if the path has a distance property then you could compare it with distanceTravelled

[keen eagle]

Hi I tried creating a custom material but it turns into pink

I already set the Scriptable Render Pipeline Settings to URP

[leaden ice]

You are using the Standard shader which is not a URP shader

hence the pink

it's not compatible with URP

Also this is not a code question at all, you're in the wrong channel

[keen eagle]

oh sorry

[worldly hull]

im asked to create a quite complicated quest function where certain quests can only be unlocked after a real life time delay

for example, after i finished quest A, quest B needs to wait for 3 hr to unlock (like 4PM - > 7PM), i already have a server that can allow me to store it , but still quite dont know what to do

if anyone here played genshin before, u will know what im talking about, certain quests needed to wait for next day for it to unlock

[olive crypt]

One solution could be to start a long-running task that will await the amount of time before unlocking the quest(s)

Note, however, issues may occur if the user closes the app.
Therefore, when the user logs out of the app, you would cancel the long-running task, and set some sort of flag to check the quest refresh duration the next time the user opens the app - if the user logs back in and they haven't waited long enough, simply start the long-running task again for however much time is left.

Just to say this is a solution and not the solution, I don't know if anyone else has any better ideas :)

[thick socket]

isn't that really bad for performance?

[worldly hull]

my team project is the simplest mini-game u can ever imagine, yet i was asked to create some hardest system for it

lmao

[west lotus]

Hashing is really fast Im not sure what you mean. Its not like he will be doing it every frame

[worldly hull]

the team lead wants to use hard systems to compensate the blank mini game nature of it

[olive crypt]

Haha, I get where you're coming from
I'm making a 2D shooter and I'm really pushing what I actually want out of what would otherwise be a simple project

[thick socket]

huh, not sure what I was thinking of then

[west lotus]

Good talk😀

[swift falcon]

how can i get a variable/reference/value from unity's default assembly inside some asset's namespace so that i can use it in its scripts?
i think i need to make another assembly and include it in the asset's scripts

[leaden ice]

Uhhh can you name specifically what you are trying to reference? Not sure what you mean exactly

[swift falcon]

I create physics scene in a script without namespace

and im trying to work with it in (to send the value to) scripts with namespace

but they dont see it cuz assembly

[leaden ice]

Can you be more specific?
Namespaces are generally not an issue at all.
Assemblies can be for sure

Are you trying to make changes to unity's code or something?

[swift falcon]

No just to an asset from unity's store

[leaden ice]

generally you should try to avoid making changes to them

[worldly hull]

i think i will break the system to small steps first

[leaden ice]

especially since now if you want to create a backreference from their assembly to your assembly you will end up with a circular dependency

[worldly hull]

guys how to get current time? the time obtained must not be affected by timezone and devices, because this app will be used by ppl from few different countries

[swift falcon]

the asset im using is using default raycasts but they dont work in Physics Scenes (i need them for the sake of my project)

so i kinda have to edit it (and replace default raycasts with PhysicsScene.Raycast)

[oak topaz]

Time.deltatime nah ijk tbh i also wanna know how to do that but im dum

[worldly hull]

im so dead rn

[oak topaz]

Ik lol ijk but srsly tho.. how would you do that

[oak topaz]

Pov: its 11 pm and you have class tmrw

[oak topaz]

What asset are you using

??

[leaden ice]

I would say rather than creating references to your code specifically, edit the package code to take in whatever parameters you need insteead

such as the physics scene

then you won't have any assembly issue

[west lotus]

Just use the server time. You care about how much time has passed not what exact time it is.

[worldly hull]

u mean my team's server, but its not C# lol

ok i will keep a look at it

wait i found something like datetime

[west lotus]

Well if you check time on a users device they can manipulate that

[worldly hull]

maybe it will help

[west lotus]

You can do a request to some of the time servers on the net

Like a NTP server

[swift falcon]

Yea but the only way to get a physics scene reference is to create it i believe... which means i would need to create the physics scene from within the asset that is only using it but is not actually a part of it, and it wont be the only script using it either
it just feels more clear to me if I dont do this

[leaden ice]

Why can't you create the physics scene outside and pass it in? Aren't you already creating it outside?

also if you have a GameObject that is in the physics scene, you can get the physics scene reference from that without any additional parameters etc

[swift falcon]

oh i think I can..

[worldly hull]

ok thx👍

[brisk marsh]

Heyo

[olive crypt]

Hi guys, I find myself running into the same issue over and over but I can't describe it well enough that it's accessible via a Google search

It's presenting itself at current whilst I'm trying to make a weapon attachment system - I need to be able to specify which types of attachment are valid, so I added a List<Attachment> validAttachments; to my AttachmentPoint class.
The issue I see here is that that is a list of instances of attachments, not a list of types of attachment - this requires an instance of every attachment which will just take up memory, and does not seem intuitive
To my understanding, it also doesn't make sense to use List<Type> validAttachments; because there isn't a way to edit that within the inspector
I then thought about using enums but I don't particularly want to edit an enum for every new attachment I add to the game
Finally, I thought I could use interface implementation to have a string constant for each attachment type that could be checked, this seems somewhat feasible
If anyone has any solutions or examples of how to create a list of valid attachment types it would be immensely helpful, I run into this problem in many other aspects of the game :)

[brisk marsh]

Got a question - Is it possible to bypass using the MenuItem attribute and directly create a new Menu Item through C#? (moved from Code-advanced because it's not advanced)

[deft pebble]

Using strings is a bad practice. But you could make a custom editor that would serialize your attachment types and make them visible in the inspector

[rain minnow]

an enum is a simple way, but you'd only edit/change the enum if you create a new type of attachment, not a new attachment . . .

[olive crypt]

I see what you are saying, although I will likely not, for example, have every attachment of type scope accessible on every weapon
Which would result in a very long enum

[thick socket]

just add to each item like

enum thingytype
{
scope
clip
rail
etc
}

when when seeing you can just check the type

[timber cloak]

I have a dictonary int as keys and an 2d array of the type cell as the value. When i am making the array i do Dictionary.add(int, new Cell[10,10]), but when I am accesing x,y it says that it is a null. But when initelizing the array should it not make thoose automaticly. or do i need to do something else becasue of it is a special class

[rain minnow]

a more advanced way is to use SO enums, this way you don't need to edit an enum if you want to add a different type. you'd create a new SO asset that represents a type of attachment. these SOs will be used like an enum field . . .

[hollow stone]

It's possible to set things up with SOs you'd keep the set of SOs for different attachment per gun.

[thick socket]

(if you don't want each type of scope for each weapon) just have like scope/reddot/holosight for enums

[thick socket]

I mean yes...but easier to just be a tiny bit more detailed in your enum

[hollow stone]

I dislike enums with how its so easily breaks with serialization so I almost always go for SOs in such setups.

[thick socket]

I mean, if you need to add another item to enum just put at end

then it doesn't break serialization

[hollow stone]

And then you are more people working on the project adding at the same time and bam you have bad enums all over the place^^

[thick socket]

for the most part you shouldn't be changing enums anyway

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[olive crypt]

Hm yeah I suppose a list of SOs could work, for a while I was trying to avoid them however it is along the lines of how I want the system to work

And although I get what you are saying with the enums, Hawk, it's quite possible I would need to specify every single item as an enum :)

[rain minnow]

@thick socket for this reason i like to use SO enums to avoid the hassle. it is a different approach though . . .

[thick socket]

how would that look like?

main reason I use enum is so it will autofill and I don't have to worry about typos with something like strings

[hollow stone]

For sure! For things that are by nature unchanged like directions, states etc I would go for enums. But for something that should be extendable enums has always been a pain to work with in non-solo projects^^

[thick socket]

how would you do that for SO? not sure how that would work exactly

unless you are using Strings...which I don't like cause typos

[rain minnow]

basically, it's an SO used as an enum value. instead of selecting from a enum dropdown, you drag the SO into your type field and compare that instead. it's versatile because you can write code inside of those SOs to do specific things. it's a great replacement for using an enum with a switch statement . . .

[cedar pivot]

using UnityEngine;

public class Movement : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Player player;
    private Vector3 moveDirection;

    private void Awake()
    {
        player = GetComponent<Player>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (player.IsControlling)
        {
            player.State = Player.PlayerState.Controlling;

            float xDirection = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
            float zDirection = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

            moveDirection = new Vector3(xDirection, 0, zDirection);
            moveDirection.Normalize();

            if (xDirection != 0 || zDirection != 0)
            {
                player.IsControlling = true;
                player.State = Player.PlayerState.Controlling;

                HandleMovement();
                HandleAnimation();
            }
        }

        else
        {
            player.IsControlling = false;
            player.State = Player.PlayerState.Idle;
            HandleIdleAnimation();
        }
    }

    private void HandleMovement()
    {
        if (moveDirection != Vector3.zero)
        {
            transform.Translate(moveDirection * 8 * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);

            Quaternion toRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(moveDirection, Vector3.up);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, toRotation, 800f * Time.deltaTime);
        }
    }

    private void HandleAnimation()
    {
        if (moveDirection != Vector3.zero)
        {
            player.PlayerAnimator.SetFloat("forward", 1);
        }
        else
        {
            player.PlayerAnimator.SetFloat("forward", 0);
        }
    }

    private void HandleIdleAnimation()
    {
        player.PlayerAnimator.SetFloat("forward", 0.1f);
    }
}```

Guys... WHY IT DOESNT STOP RUNNING

[thick socket]

but its like a SO with a list of strings?

or what would actually be on the SO?

[hollow stone]

You don't handle animation when its no input

[rain minnow]

no, the SO represents one of the values of the enum. from your example earlier, you'd have an SO asset named Scope, Clip, Rail, etc. . . .

[cedar pivot]

how

[thick socket]

ah, so you would have a SO for each type of enum

[cedar pivot]

i didnt understand

[thick socket]

why not just 1 SO with 10 Lists? (each named 1 of the values)

[hollow stone]

when both xDirection and zDirection are 0 you are not calling HandleIdleAnimation or HandleAnimation

[thick socket]

curious if its just cause SO get laggy after awhile or if another reason

[thin aurora]

Well, one of the possibilities is because you're not comparing floats the right way. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Approximately.html

So fix that first

[fresh cosmos]

how can i correctly parse a character of a number into the number its displaying`?

[hollow stone]

Not sure what you mean here?
As example this is what I would do in your case:
WeaponDefinition : SO

• List<AttachmentDefinition> allowedAttachements

AttachmentDefinition : SO

Create instances for all different attachments and weapons in inspector as assets, and add them in inspector as allowed.

[leaden ice]

float.TryParse or int.TryParse depending on what you are trying to do

[fresh cosmos]

nice. thanks

[thick socket]

public class FireBall : Bullet
{
    protected override void Start()
    {
        base.Start();
        speed = 10f;
    }
}
public class FireBolt : Bullet
{
    protected override void Start()
    {
        base.Start();
        speed = 20f;
    }
}

if I want a bunch of different types like this...is there a better way of doing this?

(Im going to want to use Pooling for Fireball/FireBolt)

[leaden ice]

this seems pointless

[thick socket]

If feels like I can't leave them all as bullets with an enum if I want different types for pooling?

[leaden ice]

why not just do:

public class Bullet : MonoBehaviour {
  public float speed;
}```
And set the speed in the inspector

[regal marsh]

This might be a bit of a stupid question but i'm gonna ask it anyways: Does calling WaitForSeconds(0)/WaitForSecondsRealTime(0) essentially skip it?

[leaden ice]

essentially skip what

[regal marsh]

do you just not wait at all

[leaden ice]

it waits for one frame

[regal marsh]

good enough

[thick socket]

Was thinking it would be easier to do it this way so I can have pools of FireBall/FireBolt since they will have different animations/sprites

[regal marsh]

thanks

[leaden ice]

if you want to wait for one frame just do yield return null;

no need to use what you have

[floral coral]

how can I convert between vector2's and float2's to use a compute shader?
Also, I want to simulate gravity between multiple rigid boides (2D), should I use a float2 array to hold the position of each body?

[leaden ice]

just make two prefabs

no need to make separate scripts

[deft pebble]

You can just do yield return null

[regal marsh]

well the reason i have it is because i'm calling it by passing in values for cooldowns depending on what i want, and some of those are 0 and some aren't

[leaden ice]

there is an implicit conversion between them, you don't have to do much of anything

[hollow stone]

My input would be to split the behavior of bullet to how it is moving^^ Bullet would be the final prefab name everything else is just component behavior.

[regal marsh]

i'm not using it in the way you'd use yield return null

[leaden ice]

if you want to not wait at all when it's 0 you can use an if statement:

if (waitTime > 0) {
  yield return new WaitForSeconds(waitTime);
}```

[thick socket]

wont I just have a pool of "bullets" so both the firebolts and fireballs would be inside the same pool then?

[leaden ice]

You will have whatever you set up

make two pools, and you will have two pools

[regal marsh]

i'll look into that

[floral coral]

So what does that mean?

[leaden ice]

it means you can just assign float2 variables to Vector2 values and vice versa

assuming you mean Unity.Mathematics.float2

[thick socket]

protected virtual void Start()
    {
        //rb.velocity = new Vector2(1f * speed, 0f* speed);
        rb.velocity = transform.right * speed;
     }

is it bad if I leave it as protected/virtual if I dont end up wanting to inherit from base class?

[leaden ice]

it makes it slightly slower yes

probably not enough for you to notice

[thick socket]

gotcha thanks

[deft pebble]

You should choose extendibility and readability over those nano-optimisations

[leaden ice]

i mean I wouldn't make a method virtual for no reason. That is not creating any kind of meaningful "extendibility"

it in fact makes you think there must be something overriding it, which reduces readability when there actually isn't

[floral coral]

Do compute shaders only use RWTexture2D as data to read from and write to with a C# script?

[leaden ice]

You can use general purpose buffers too. RWStructuredBuffer<WhateverStructYouWant>

RWTexture2D is specifically a texture

[thick socket]

public class BulletPooling : MonoBehaviour
{
    ObjectPool<Bullet> fireballPool;
    Bullet fireballPrefab;
    ObjectPool<Bullet> fireboltPool;
    Bullet fireboltPrefab;


    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Awake()
    {
        fireballPool = new ObjectPool<Bullet>(CreateFireball, TakeBallFromPool, ReturnBallToPool);
        fireballPool = new ObjectPool<Bullet>(CreateFirebolt, TakeBallFromPool, ReturnBallToPool);
    }
    void TakeBallFromPool(Bullet bullet)
    {

    }
    void ReturnBallToPool(Bullet bullet)
    {

    }
    Bullet CreateFireball()
    {
        var bullet = Instantiate(fireballPrefab);
        bullet.SetPool(fireballPool);
        return bullet;
    }
    Bullet CreateFirebolt()
    {
        var bullet = Instantiate(fireboltPrefab);
        bullet.SetPool(fireboltPool);
        return bullet;
    }
}

this feels repetitive and like I should be doing it differently

for each type I'll have to make a function that does the same thing but 2 different params

[leaden ice]

just make a Dictionary<ProjectileType, ObjectPool<Bullet>> pools;

you don't need to duplicate any code

and a Dictionary<ProjectileType, Bullet> prefabs;

then you can have like:

Bullet CreateProjectile(ProjectileType pType) {
  var bullet = Instantiate(prefabs[pType]);
  bullet.SetPool(pools[pType]);
  return bullet;
}```

no duplication

although really shouldn't the pools be handling instantiation?

[polar marten]

sounds like maybe your materials or something else is misconfigured

[leaden ice]

so wouldn't it just be:

Bullet CreateProjectile(ProjectileType pType) {
  return pools[pType].GetObject(); 
}``` or however the pool works

[thick socket]

from what Im watching from Jason Weimann, pools take like 3 funcs

one for making new item when there isn't one

[leaden ice]

yes

indeed

[thick socket]

retrieving it and returning it

[rain minnow]

one example i have is for a gun. most people use an enum for switching fire modes: auto, burst, single. i have an SO for each fire mode and switch between each fire mode SO when pressed. the SO does all the firing and bullet instantiating (pooling) based on its fire mode. this is a more advanced example though . . .

[true bramble]

I am using a vector2 field here in the inspector, how would I change the Y label to say Z instead

[leaden ice]

you can't use Vector2Field
you have to create your own

[thick socket]

I don't quite follow what you mean by this then?

[true bramble]

how do I create my own

[leaden ice]

I was just taking your example from above and adapting it

[thick socket]

inside the "create" function dont I need to return the item and instantiate a new one?

[leaden ice]

ah, yes

sure

[thick socket]

👍

[leaden ice]

really you'd use a lambda

[thick socket]

my issue was I forgot I could do something like this to pass in a param lol

        fireballPool = new ObjectPool<Bullet>(()=>CreateFirebolt("10"), TakeBulletFromPool, ReturnBulletToPool);

[leaden ice]

so you'd make a ObjectPool<Bullet> CreatePool(ProjectileType pType) function that creates a pool for a specific type

yeah

[true bramble]

could I just copy and paste stuff from whats happening inside vector2field cos I cant get the widths and stuff right

[leaden ice]

and it would do that with the lambda

[true bramble]

where would I even find what EditorGUILayout.Vector2Field(); is doing

[arctic ravine]

what is this error?, im trying to fix this for 2 hours but nothing works

[leaden ice]

you have compiler errors and/or your scirpt name doesn't match your class name

[true bramble]

what about using vector3feild and making the style of Y greyed out?

[thick socket]

 public Dictionary<BulletTypes, ObjectPool<Bullet>> bulletPools;
    public Dictionary<BulletTypes, Bullet> bulletPrefabs;

is there a way to set the 2nd dictionary in inspector?

[rain minnow]

also, if you want multiple attachments for a certain type, it may be easier to have a rank field for each attachments, like an int or another set of SO enums. some guns can attach rank 0 and rank 1 scope attachments, but only rank 0 mag attachments. this will avoid making a list of all available attachments, as you just search if the correct type of attachment was selected and if it has the necessary rank . . .

[arctic ravine]

found the error, just because the score wouldnt add up by 1 the whole game broke

[thick socket]

how could I set these prefabs in inspector? Don't see how to do it with NaughtyInspector...however I'm super new to it also

Google didn't give an answer sadly

[leaden ice]

Give your Bullet script a ProjectileType field

and just make a List or array of those

then loop through them in Awake to create the dictionary

[floral coral]

in the code

struct RigidBody2D_Data {
    int numberOfBodies;
    float2 position[];
    float mass[];
};

(for a compute shader)
how can I set the length of position[] and mass[] be numberOfBodies?
I think I can set it in a C# script, but unity gives me errors if I leave it like this.

[thin aurora]

#archived-shaders

[floral coral]

I thought it would fir here because this isn't about "shading" but for calculating gravity. I know it's a compute shader, but I'm not intending to use it to shade

[thick socket]

BulletPooling.Awake () (at Assets/Scripts/interactable/BulletPooling.cs:23)
UnityEngine.Object:Instantiate(Object)
BootStrapper:Execute() (at Assets/Scripts/DontDestroy/BootStrapper.cs:6)

void Awake()
    {
        instance = this;
        foreach (var bullet in bullets)
        {
            var tmpPool = new ObjectPool<Bullet>(() => CreateBullet(bullet), TakeBulletFromPool, ReturnBulletToPool);
            bulletPools.Add(bullet.bulletType, tmpPool);
//line23 is .Add line
        }
    }```

what is it throwing an error for?

I don't understand how it doesn't have an object...as it couldn't do the foreach without an object?

[rain minnow]

which is line 23?

[thick socket]

bulletPools.Add(bullet.bulletType, tmpPool);

sorry tried to toss the comment in to say which was line23 😄

[rain minnow]

did you initialize or assign bulletPools to anything?

[thick socket]

hmm, yeah I didn't do that thanks!

[rain minnow]

whenever you get a null ref just check if each reference type variable on the line is assigned. easy peasy . . .

[thick socket]

totally forget that I have to do New() on things I create lol

appreciate it 🙂

[timber cloak]

The problem is that on line 139 i get an NullReferenceExeption and i can solve it by putting Floors[i][i,j] = new Cell; but that feels uneffective to do for every element. Prevoius i had the array as an enum list only and then it worked. So i believe the problem is with the cell class. Floors is a Dictioary with int as key and Cell[,] as value

[late lion]

You can't define an array like that in shaders. You must specify a fixed length. If you want dynamic length, you have to use a ComputeBuffer, but those can't be referenced inside structs, same as textures.

[thick socket]

protected virtual IEnumerator ShootCoroutine()
    {
        // cooldown between multishots
        while (true)
        {
            if(pauseShooting==false)
            {
                // shoot for multishots
                for (int i = 0; i < attackStats.multiShot; i++)
                {
                    character.Animator.SetBool("Cast", true);
                    yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.15f);
                    //fireball = Instantiate(fireballPrefab, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation);
                    Bullet fireball = BulletPooling.instance.bulletPools[BulletTypes.FireBall].Get();
                    fireball.transform.position = firePoint.position;
                    fireball.transform.rotation = firePoint.rotation;
                    fireball.Fire(attackStats.attackDmg, gameObject.tag);
                    yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.15f);
                    //yield return new WaitForSeconds(fireCooldown - 0.15f);
                }
            }
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(attackStats.attackSpeed);
        }
    }

multishots is set to 2, each shot should be shot at the 0.15 mark to match my animation...the first shot is shot correctly. The 2nd shot is shot at the 0.3/0 mark and not at the 0.15 mark...any idea why?

I have 2 0.15f waits in...so why isn't it waiting 0.3f before 2nd fireball shoots?

[rain minnow]

you wait 0.15 twice: once at the end and again before you instantiate. the first shot only waits once, at the beginning . . .

[thick socket]

right

I should be firing at each 0.15s

so it waits 0.15s fires once...waits 0.15s (animation ends)...wait 0.15s fires 2nd shot

animation takes 0.3f

[rain minnow]

what happens if you remove the 2nd wait?

[thick socket]

shoots super fast again...I imagine it must be after just 0.15f

however my animation says it only takes 0.3f to finish?

[rain minnow]

this would probably be easier if you used an animation event that calls a method at a specific time during the animation. no need to try and time or sync anything up . . .

[weak nacelle]

I'm at a loss here, I have disabled almost all Intellicode functions, I have split up a ton of scripts for what seems to be no reason after all, Visual Studio's performance is cripplingly slow despite having tons of free resources on both RAM and CPU

Talking second long hangs every time you start typing or click with the mouse anywhere

[thick socket]

huh, didn't know that was a thing

i could try and look into that

[weak nacelle]

Visual studio is using basically no RAM and doesnt tax the CPU at all

[thick socket]

seems like if I do it this way I'll have to create a script whos entire point is to call the spawn function from a parent class?

[rain minnow]

the animation event can only call a method from a script attached to the GameObject with the animation. if you need to call a method from another GameObject, then yes, you create a proxy script with a method the animation event will call and that method will call the actual method you need to call on a different GameObject . . .

[glacial halo]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if someone could point me in the right direction on what would be the best way to deal with game map.

The idea is that the green circle is a planet (easy), the blue ring is a flat ring surrounding the planet with a texture applied to look like planetary rings (this I think I know how to do with a shader so that it fades based on distance to player). If you look at the full size image there's a red dot which signifies the player position. And the 'noisy' section at the bottom of the image is 'physical objects', such as debris, asteroids etc.

The part I'm not 100% sure on what would be the best approach is the physical objects section. It's a pretty big area, so would be a lot of objects. Instantiating/Object Pooling would seem to be the obvious choices but I'm not sure.

Would anyone have any suggestions to approaches would work best?

[thick socket]

fair enough thanks