archived-code-general

[plucky inlet]

Then you have to split it yourself

[modest ether]

That's what I assumed

[lethal rivet]

Just learned a super interesting C# feature, operator overloading
If you have a custom data class (e.g., a vector3) you can overload something like + for your class, so you can do things like VecA + VecB

public static Vector operator +(Vector v1, Vector v2)
{
    return new Vector(v1.X + v2.X, v1.Y + v2.Y, v1.Z + v2.Z);
}```
```cs
Vector v1 = new Vector(1, 2, 3);
Vector v2 = new Vector(4, 5, 6);
Vector sum = v1 + v2; // sum = (5, 7, 9)

[glad solstice]

So im making a mod for a game I have a mavmesh agent on a game object and it follows the target positions fine until it goes through arch ways where the gap is to small even though the game object it self can go through normally
Idk how to fix

I can't add any nav mesh components to the walls or floors
Any solutions by chance?

[glad solstice]

Huh that could be useful

[main shuttle]

Make the navmesh agent smaller?

[glad solstice]

How do I change the agents size?

I haven't messed with navmesh much

[main shuttle]

Depends on your version, its either on the gameobject or in windows > AI > navmesh and then agent as far as I can remember.

By default its 0.5 unity units wide.

[glad solstice]

I don't have access to scene editor

It's all c#

I will have a look around for the size though

[main shuttle]

Well, you bake for a specific width, so unless you can rebake the navmesh, I don't see a solution, even if you could change the agents width.

[mystic ferry]

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

it seems like there are a few "hidden" vector fields given to Transforms. the "forward" vector and the "worldUp" vector being just two listed here. Are there more? what are they and where can I find them? is there a list of them somewhere?

[thin aurora]

I would suggest you only use it for very commonly used types on which it makes sense to overload some operators, like the Vector struct for example. It's a very confusing feature since the overload is never really explicitly shown in the code

[main shuttle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.html you can just read the Transform docs

[mystic ferry]

oh nice lol

thanks @main shuttle

[lethal rivet]

Of course, I don’t think it’s a good idea to do something like Child = HumanA + HumanB

[main shuttle]

.left .backwards .down doesn't exist, its the negative variant of the ones that do. So -forwards = backwards. Its a common questions for people reading this.

[mystic ferry]

seems intuitive

[vague slate]

When I run methods like this, will it early return as soon as one returns true or will it combine bool out of all and then return?

                return TestDirection(cur, tarX) || TestDirection(tarX, tar) || TestDirection(cur, tarY) ||
                       TestDirection(tarY, tar);

[mystic ferry]

|| means or, so why would it only return if they were all true?

if you want that, it would be &&

[vague slate]

that's now what I asked

I mean

how internally will it get compiled

will it early return and not run another TestDirection is true was already given or will it run them all and only then return result?

[main shuttle]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/boolean-logical-operators#logical-or-operator-

[craggy veldt]

early return yes

[mystic ferry]

well the calls are ran linearly

[main shuttle]

Microsoft says no?

[vague slate]

oh

[mystic ferry]

that's bitwise or, not logical or

[vague slate]

so that's the difference between | and ||

or?

[main shuttle]

The conditional logical OR operator || also computes the logical OR of its operands, but doesn't evaluate the right-hand operand if the left-hand operand evaluates to true.

[mystic ferry]

| is used against binary comparisons, not bools

[main shuttle]

So yeah, Slim was right, the logical one returns if the first one is true.

[vague slate]

yeah, early return

nice

[vague slate]

it's boolean operator though

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/boolean-logical-operators

[mystic ferry]

do you know how bitwise operators work?

[vague slate]

sir, I do. But this is also used in booleans as you can see

so you can't just say it's only for bit operations

[atomic bone]

what would be the good approaches for accessing all the assets had been loaded from the remote server?
store all of them into dictionary and get them by the actual file name? or?

[thick heron]

my text mesh pro text isn't appearing

pls help

[craggy veldt]

tbf he didn't ask for bitwise OR at all 😄

[main shuttle]

Yeah my bad, I was too fast to link the first one...

[thick heron]

Pls help guys

[thin aurora]

Please don't bump linke this.
Provide more info about your issue and provide the related !code so that we can help.

[tawny elk]

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[thin aurora]

With more info we mean any unexpected behaviour or errors

[thick heron]

🤓

[mystic ferry]

"I ask a stupid question and then get triggered when I get called out about it"

how are we supposed to help with "my shit don't work. Help now."

[thick heron]

um, actually...🤓 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[thin aurora]

Oh boy

[mystic ferry]

we can tell you're never gonna ship a game

unless I'm just biting bait

[thin aurora]

Surprised you spend energy on such a person at all 😄

[mystic ferry]

it's fun imo, because I like to see how sad they are

[thick heron]

💀

[vagrant blade]

@thick heron If you're just going to do silly emojis instead of actually providing details like one would in normal conversation, then refrain from using this discord. It's really not that hard.

#854851968446365696 has a guide to asking questions if you aren't able to formulate one properly.

Also, unless it's a code question, UI and such goes in #📲┃ui-ux.

[elder zenith]

How would I go about adding an extension method to Gizmos?

I want to add a Gizmos.DrawLine() variation that takes a (Ray ray) as input instead of (Vector3 from, Vector3 to)

I've used extension methods before, just a little lost on how to do this with the whole Gizmos integration

Or is it not possible and I just have to create and use my own class?

[steep jacinth]

I made a script that during run time will be added to my player. That script has a SerializeField for a ScriptableObject I created, I then selected the SO for it in the editor. But then when I run the game and add the script, the SerializeField variable with the ScriptableObject is null. Does anyone knows why and if theres a workaround for this?

[main shuttle]

On a new run, the script component doesn't know that you changed it in the editor. You could add a reference to the SO and assign that to the script once you add the script to the player.

[late lion]

It's not possible.

[steep jacinth]

How can I add a reference to the SO? like this SomeScriptableObject so = Resources.Load<SomeScriptableObject>("SO/" + someResource); ?

[main shuttle]

I would just make a serialized field of the SO and drag it in there. You could probably also do it your way, but I'm not sure if your current code is valid.

[ashen vector]

help i try to change ui text to time but i cant

[main shuttle]

Help with what? Read the #854851968446365696 on how to ask a question.

[thin aurora]

Please explain properly on what the issue is instead of just sending "help"

[ashen vector]

ok

[thin aurora]

The problem is that you are logging a Single type and it won't properly show like this.

[ashen vector]

?

[thin aurora]

You should change it to Debug.Log(timeTake.Value.ToString())

[ashen vector]

ok but ui

[thin aurora]

This way it will display the string equivalent which would be what you want

[thin aurora]

I have no idea what you mean

[ashen vector]

textMesh.text = timetaken.ToString();

[thin aurora]

Same thing

You display timeTake.Value.ToString() instead

[ashen vector]

ok

[thin aurora]

Right now you display the networkVariable type

[ashen vector]

i learned it today from video (my friend wanted multiplayer for my game)

[thin aurora]

Well you're close, but you pretty much call ToString on the wrong thing

[dapper schooner]

Hey, I am setting up some animations and I was wondering what happens if I have an objects animator playing an idle animation and then in a timeline play say a talking animation ? Will it return to playing the idle animation at the end of the timeline?

[desert halo]

This is regarding this video (not trying to debate whether singletons suck or not):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDgtRNK2VE

In this context, what would be the issue with using static classes as the event channels instead of scriptable objects? SOs seem like much more to deal with

[frosty pawn]

Hi! When I use ScrollRect and then disable gameobject inside scroll rect which was under scroll in scroll start moment then scroll jumps up. How can I fix it?

[fleet furnace]

Well. SOs are designer friendly. But IMHO most designers should be able to code basics so unless your team is designer heavy then just use a static class 👍 especially if its just you.

[ashen vector]

hi anyone knows how to teleport clients(players) to position in multiplayer game?

[pearl swallow]

How might I be able to do damage over time?

[mossy minnow]

hey everyone. im trying to make a movement controller. rn, i have ApplyMovement(Vector2 dir, float acceleration)
the problem im running into is making the movement relative to the players forward direction.

[oblique spoke]

Tell whoever has authority over the position of that object to move it somewhere #archived-networking

[pearl swallow]

How do you have the player movement set up? Could you send the script?

[mossy minnow]

        accelerationMagnitude = UnitInput().magnitude * maxAccel;
        //Mathf.Clamp(acceleration, 0, maxSpeed);
        accelerationMagnitude *= Time.deltaTime * surfaceFriction * speedMult;
        float veer = accelerationMagnitude*(rb.velocity.x  + rb.velocity.y);
        float addSpeed = accelerationMagnitude - veer;
        //Mathf.Clamp(acceleration, 0, addSpeed);

        if(accelerationMagnitude <= 0) accelerationMagnitude *= BrakingDeceleration;

        ApplyMovement(UnitInput(), accelerationMagnitude);
    }

    void ApplyMovement(Vector2 dir, float acceleration){
        Vector3 v3 = new(dir.x * acceleration, 0, dir.y * acceleration);
        rb.velocity += v3;
        rb.velocity = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(rb.velocity, maxAccel);
    }```

ive tried following a blog post, but i have trouble understanding it

https://projectborealis.com/movement

[pearl swallow]

Is it a 3D or 2D gain?

[mossy minnow]

3D

[dapper schooner]

Or should I just use timeline signals

[pearl swallow]

And what controls the movement? Mouse, keyboard, console controller?

[mossy minnow]

keyboard rn

[pearl swallow]

And it's just not moving based on the direction the player is supposed to be facing?

[mossy minnow]

its functional, but only moves along the world axes#

[pearl swallow]

Does the character rotate at all?

[mossy minnow]

ah, it doesnt. the camera controls are part of a child

[pearl swallow]

        float x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float z = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        Vector3 direction = new Vector3(x, 0f, z).normalized;

        if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f)
        {
            float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.x, direction.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg + cam.eulerAngles.y;
            float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity,turnSmoothTime);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f);

            Vector3 moveDirection = Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetAngle, 0f) * Vector3.forward;
            controller.Move(moveDirection.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime);
        }

I see, this is how I have my character work when it comes to where the camera's position is.

[desert halo]

Thanks

[pearl swallow]

It'll automatically rotate and move in the direction of where the camera is facing.

[stuck beacon]

Why don't you just try it? But after the Timeline stops playing, if it isn't set to hold, the animator should take over again

[pearl swallow]

Do you have a character controller? @mossy minnow?

Note that mine is for a third person camera

Not for a first person

If yours is a third person you should be able to use this.

[mossy minnow]

oh yeah this is for first-person

[pearl swallow]

Well, Vector3.forward controls the direction of where the GameObject is facing.

My stuff here should work... I think for what you have.

Since I don't think it explicitly says that it is only for third person, jsut the video or where I grabbed was.

Just how I configured it might be different because I use cinemachine.

You could have the camera rotate on the axis of the mouse, but lock the player's rotation to only move about the Y

Just reference the camera's transform when doing the rotation.

transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f);

This control's the player's rotation.

Because your character doesn't rotate, or I assume does not rotate because there's nothing saying it, it is moving "correctly"

Your inputs are correct, to me at least, but without the player rotating based on the camera's rotation, it doesn't work.

Also

Be sure the camera is facing where the camera is facing.

Otherwise it you basically have eyes at the back of your head, literally.

[crystal holly]

hey guys, i am using HDRP and i am creating a room geometry procedurally at runtime. i'd like to have a bit more of a realistic lighting. currently everything that is not directly lit but the sun is super grey. some indirect light would be amazing. i don't know much about HDRP and lighting in unity in general but from what i think i picked up is that the whole procedural thing is a bit tricky since most of the lighting magic is prebaked. does anyone have any tips or resources for me?

[plucky inlet]

Did you checkout realtime global illumination and other topics, I am sure there are some hdrp tutorials about lighting from Unity or 3rd party creators?

[crystal holly]

yeah i did check quite a few tutorials on that. but no one seems to be creating their geometry at runtime..

[idle rose]

So this is my file heirarchy

Lets say I want to grab a reference to ChoppableData asset inside the Script at runtime.
I also want to do this through code, without having to manually connect anything in the Inspector.

Is there any way to do this without using the Resource folder?

[fleet furnace]

yeah. Realtime GI is the way to go.
There are a few asset store solutions AFAIK.

What you want is basically ray tracing.
OR compose and light your scene with realtime lights only

[plucky inlet]

you could use Resources folder to get that or StreamingAssets or Addressables

[idle rose]

I will look into StreamingAssets and addressables

[crystal holly]

yeah i have raytracing enabled already. but still things a looking strange

[plucky inlet]

Guess you gotta up the shadow quality and also the resolution

#archived-hdrp might be agood place to get further into

[crystal holly]

It's not really about the shadows but the objects not being lit directly appearing all grey

Like there is just light and no light

[crystal holly]

ok, thanks i'll take it there

[fleet furnace]

Am guessing its probably your skybox doing this. 🤔 But not an expert. Instead of #archived-hdrp try #archived-lighting 👍

[dapper schooner]

Wasn't in front of the project. -_-. Just trying to preplan how I should set things up

but thx for the information

[rocky jackal]

why does my function just decide to end early

[main shuttle]

Hard to say, do you go into the catch?

[leaden ice]

Probably accessing Unity Engine objects in a background thread

[rocky jackal]

im not going anywhere with 19 compiler errors

its all starting with this

[main shuttle]

https://docs.unity.com/lobby/en/manual/create-a-lobby
The example says to do it otherwise, why are you doing it this way?

CreateLobbyOptions options = new CreateLobbyOptions();
options.Data = new Dictionary<string, DataObject>()
{
    {
        "ExamplePublicLobbyData", new DataObject(
            visibility: DataObject.VisibilityOptions.Public, // Visible publicly.
            value: "ExamplePublicLobbyData")
    },
};

[rocky jackal]

i saw a tutorial that did it that way

[main shuttle]

I would follow the manual. But it's still strange that you don't see any error in your IDE.

[rocky jackal]

okay

yeah my visual studio instalation is really buggy since i updatet to vsc 2022

[clever laurel]

Can anyone help me understand how one of my FixedUpdate() functions is running before a Awake(), should be impossible?

[main shuttle]

Its impossible, in the grey boxes the order can change afaik, but between the grey boxes it's not able to.

[rocky jackal]

when i try to acces the joinCode data unity tells me that JoinCodeData doesnt exist in the current context

[clever laurel]

I know it is supposed to be, yet i am getting a null error from a fixed update, before my awake funtion is called, i am debug logging it

[main shuttle]

Can you show your code?

[rough shuttle]

How to move array items up?
so I remove an item from index 4, how to shift 5 and 6 up?
also if I remove a few items from different indexes, how to move everything up to fill the empty spaces?

[main shuttle]

If you don't want to support empty spaces, why not just use a list? Then it would do the things you describe automatically.

[rough shuttle]

The thing is I'm using an inventory system by asset store @main shuttle
so I can only make an extension of it to overcome this

and the whole system uses array not list

[clever laurel]

I am getting a null error in the second code piece, before any dbeug output from the first one.

If i move it to onEnable isntead it works

[main shuttle]

I'm not sure, you seem to be doing some overriding stuff, the left part seems to be inherriting from something, you FindAnyObjectByType that could cause issues and I'm not sure when both scripts are called. If it works in OnEnable, just keep it there.

[still mica]

alright so i've been slowly losing my sanity trying to do the single simplest thing on earth which is to literally just change the parent of a gun to an empty gameobject and reset the gun's localposition (with code)

but no matter what i try, it's just not working

it always keeps the world position

no, no other scripts are modifying the gun's transform or anything like that

[main shuttle]

Not sure then, normally it's pushing and popping, but C# doesn't seem to support that in arrays. You could of course program it yourself.

[rough shuttle]

ok thank you

[oak plover]

How do you use !code again lmao can't figure it out

[tawny elk]

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[oak plover]

My smol brain can't understand

[leaden ice]

myGun.parent = newParent;
myGun.SetLocalPositionAndRotation(Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity);```

[upbeat fulcrum]

Hello, I have a problem since I can not access the play mode by an error, someone could help me thanks. I have come to wait more than 30 minutes and it has not worked for me, any solution?

[leaden ice]

• try restarting Unity
• if the problem persists, perhaps you have written an infinite loop in your code, which is freezing the application?

[upbeat fulcrum]

This is the code

[leaden ice]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[still mica]

didn't work

[leaden ice]

it works. if it's not working you have some other external issue going on

[still mica]

that's the thing

it's supposed to

but it's not

[leaden ice]

^

[still mica]

should be the case

but i tried disabling everything

[leaden ice]

you have to share more details if you want more help

you are no doubt missing something

[rocky jackal]

how do i read the data now ?

[main shuttle]

I don't understand the question, what data? options.Data is the dictionary you put in.

If you want the lobby data, go to the next part of the manual

[rocky jackal]

i added the join code to that data now i need to read the join code

[main shuttle]

But you already have a variable holding the join code 🤔

I'm so confused...

[rocky jackal]

the other person who joins the lobby needs to read it so they can connect to the same relay

its for multiplayer

[wicked night]

I was trying a new approach for movement code, but the code below is running framerate-dependent meaning the movement speed varies depending on the fps. It... shouldn't be like that, right? I'm multiplying by delta time in the MoveTowards function's maxDelta parameter and am multiplying the overall movement amount at the end by delta time as well.

I've done this kind of thing a thousand times before in dozens of projects and it feels like I'm missing something here. I am incredibly sleep deprived right now, so maybe that's it and I missed something. Any help would be appreciated

vel.x = Mathf.MoveTowards(vel.x,strafeSpeed * Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"),accelStrafe * Time.deltaTime);

vel.z = Mathf.MoveTowards(vel.z,speed,accel * Time.deltaTime);

transform.position += vel * Time.deltaTime;

[rocky jackal]

we have the person who creates the lobby they add the join code for the relay to the lobby so other people who join the same lobby can get said code for the relay and when both are conected to the same relay they should in thorie be able to play together using unity netcode

[main shuttle]

I don't know then. Maybe ask in #archived-unity-gaming-services since it's Lobby.

I would assume the manual would explain this

[leaden ice]

this looks... ok I believe... Can you share more code?

[wicked night]

Yeah it's so strange. I've removed every single thing in the scene except for this one script, a player object, and a flat "track" to see the movement + a line to print the current speed, and it's still happening. All I have to do is maximize/unmaximize the game tab to see the effect of the framerate dependence.

The script is as simple as it gets -

using UnityEngine;

public class Movement : MonoBehaviour
{
  public float speed;
  public float strafeSpeed;
  public float accel;
  public float accelStrafe;

  Vector3 vel;

  void Update()
  {
    vel.x = Mathf.MoveTowards(vel.x,strafeSpeed * Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"),accelStrafe * Time.deltaTime);
    vel.z = Mathf.MoveTowards(vel.z,speed,accel * Time.deltaTime);

    transform.position += vel * Time.deltaTime;

    // Print speed
    print((vel * Time.deltaTime).z);
  }
}

I just thought using MoveTowards would be nice to simplify acceleration/deceleration operations, and it works perfectly atm with just 3 lines of code except for the FPS dependence...

[main shuttle]

vel * Time.deltaTime; and speed,accel * Time.deltaTime accelStrafe * Time.deltaTime
You Time.deltaTime the vel twice? 🤔 Shouldn't be the problem in my head, but it's still weird for me.

[vapid grove]

does anyone know how to set up mediapipe for unity by any chance? i need some help

[junior sorrel]

If key pressed and this function run, it doesnt work?

[leaden ice]

Any chance it's just a perception thing and you're interpreting a movement of more pixels on screen as "faster" in game world, when it's actually not?

[wicked night]

It should be correct afaik. MoveTowards linearly moves one float towards another at a fixed rate (my acceleration variables). So need to multiply the acceleration value by delta time in my MoveTowards calls, since I'm doing it every frame. Then, at the end, I'm going to actually move the transform by the resulting velocity I have, so I also need to multiply by delta time there as well. Am I wrong about it? 🤔

[main shuttle]

Or it's the actual camera that's lagging, depending on how you set that one up.

[leaden ice]

I think the code is OK. Though since you're doing your own acceleration I would probably use GetAxisRaw instead of GetAxis

[wicked night]

Check the bottom left of the screen if you can see it. That's the print call from my previous message printing the speed we're moving at. It changes when I go from a small game view to the maximized game view, and it's pretty clearly changing speed to your eye as well. Idk I'm wondering if I'm going crazy or don't understand how something works now...

[main shuttle]

Lets say you want to go 1 to the right, and 1 forward every second, you Time.deltaTime both, and get 0.02, 0,02 as a vel and then you Time.deltaTime that again. I think it's wrong, but it should just be a lot smaller then the actual value, it still shouldn't stutter.

[leaden ice]

that's not printing the speed you're moving at. it's printing the distance you move in one frame

it's normal and expected for that to be different, since the frame durations are different.

what you should print is vel itself

or vel.magnitude

or vel.z

[wicked night]

oh my god I am too sleep deprived

I've just wasted y'alls time

[leaden ice]

get some rest

[wicked night]

thank you and sorry for being super dumb LOL

yeah you're 1000% right it's working fine

I think the editor frame skipping or whatever was making it look like it was moving faster in the smaller window, and since I was printing the speed the wrong way it was "confirming" my theory

never felt more mortified in my life rn

[leaden ice]

If this is the worst, you've lived a blessed life.

[main shuttle]

Sleep is good, working while sleep deprived is bad. Nice lesson of today.

[civic igloo]

my rigidbody based player character has different jump heights on different pcs, i'm guessing it's because of the different frame rates, for jumping im setting the players y velocity as the needed jump force

[mystic ferry]

this is why you take inputs from fixedupdate and consume them elsewhere

or better yet: use events

[civic igloo]

well i tried putting OnButtonDown in fixedupdate but then it just ignored the input most of the time

[mystic ferry]

it's a good idea to assume when something doesn't work that it's your misunderstanding rather than the engine not working correctly

[civic igloo]

and i just realized it may be an issue of drag changing later

[mystic ferry]

I mean, the reality is that you should never use physics values that change

unless there's a direct reason, there's no sense in making your jump force anything other than an int or float

SerializeField it, and change it from the inspector

for more advanced physics I use things like AnimationCurves, or algebraic functions

[civic igloo]

oh the jumpForce doesnt change, drag changes though

[copper matrix]

i have a function that deletes an instantiated prefab if the "is_clicked" bool is true (the bool is in another script inside the prefab) but it only works for one object in scene, if i have more then one an error occurs how do i fix it? here's the full script : https://paste.ofcode.org/n3w5VdJ2hgZjANv2VvR4Ep

[fleet furnace]

A: How are you calling the delete method
B: what is in the "spawned" variable
edit: nevermind did not see the paste of full script. One sec

Yeah. So.
Your spawned variable will only ever contain the latest added workout.
I guess what you want to do is on custoum_workout_clicked() you should assingn whatever was clicked as your "spawned" variable. (and rename it to "selected" probably)

[copper matrix]

that worked, thanks

[twin crystal]

Anyone know what the best practice is for a complex inventory system using scriptable objects in regards to item stacking? In my list of items would I add another instance of the item scriptable object for each? Or would I store an amount somewhere, for example a static count property on the scriptable object? I am new to inventory systems, so please feel free to correct me if I have anything wrong here

[clever laurel]

Anyone who have experience making Controllers using ScriptableObjects? I played around with it a bit and seems like more problem than benefit

[fleet furnace]

Why make it a scriptable object in the first place?
And yes you should just keep track of the count in a variable. No need to create instances. But why make it a static? Can't more people own a stack of an item?

[fleet furnace]

Yeah. Most likely it is. What are you even using them for? By "controller" I assume you mean translation of input into commands for a character right?

[clever laurel]

Not so much the translation of input, more the actual act of moving objects and performing basic actions.

[fleet furnace]

Jeez. Why make it a scriptable object? What led you to that?

[twin crystal]

The items themselves are scriptable objects. I may have worded my original question in a confusing way, my bad. Your reply answered my question though, and I have a pretty good idea of how to move forward now. Thank you

[clever laurel]

The entire unity component system just seems very clunky to me haha

[cerulean oak]

I need to interpolate between points to make a curve, and sample more points to smoth the lines. (In 3d)
I planned on using splines, with tangent control points, but I cant find any tool for unity to create the splines. I found a package, but it seems to be discontinued

this is what I want to do

what can I use?

actually I think its a bezier curve

not a spline

yes its a bezier

[leaden ice]

Unity has an official spline package:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.splines@2.1/manual/index.html

[cerulean oak]

its not in the package editor

seems to be discontinued or smth

[leaden ice]

it's not discontinued

it's brand new

you have to add it by name

com.unity.splines

[cerulean oak]

oh

[leaden ice]

^

[cerulean oak]

ty

[cerulean oak]

I cant find how to sample it .-.

like, just getting a vector3 at a specific length

[leaden ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.splines@2.1/api/UnityEngine.Splines.ISpline.html#extensionmethods

[cerulean oak]

oh

I was looking in the spline class itself

thanks

any way to sample between two knots tho?

like, 0.5 of the way between knot 1 and knot 2

.getCurve() seems to get the individual beziers, but again I cant find the method to sample it

im sorry, im usually not this bad at moving through docs and code not my own

[leaden ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.splines@2.1/api/UnityEngine.Splines.CurveUtility.html#UnityEngine_Splines_CurveUtility_EvaluatePosition_UnityEngine_Splines_BezierCurve_System_Single_

this package isn't organized in the most user friendly way I'll grant you that

I only happen to have a little experience with it

I've found that the API is pretty thorough, if complicated.

[cerulean oak]

it seems very complete, has so much stuff, but also pretty confusing

thanks again

[leaden ice]

yea

[cerulean oak]

that should be everything I need, hopefully

[frail meteor]

Is it possible to convert an Mp3 into a Wav at runtime?
I'm trying to integrate amazon Polly to get text-to-speech but I can't directly receive a WAV, so far I request,get and save the speech as mp3, now I need to convert it before playing it through the audiosource

Seems that unity can't directly do that, I found some suggestions redirecting to something called NAudio but can't find the dll anywhere...

[cedar pivot]

how can i make a football ball dribble system with blend trees

[lucid valley]

probably a nuget package

[paper stone]

is there a way to destroy game objects from a list? I am trying to figure how how to make it so the player can instantiate objects, but only a certain amount of them. The instantiation is going fine, but the destruction is not.

[leaden ice]

Destroy will destroy whatever object you pass to it.

It doesn't matter if the object is in a list or not

note that if you destroy an object in your list, you should probably also remove it from the list, otherwise you have a reference to a destroyed object in there.

[paper stone]

when i try that- i get the error “Destroying assets is not permitted to avoid data loss”

[leaden ice]

Sounds like you're trying to destroy a prefab

don't do that

only destroy instances in the scene

[paper stone]

ah yes- how do i destroy the copy

[leaden ice]

Destroy(theCopy)

as opposed to Destroy(thePrefab) < this is bad

[paper stone]

fair play

thank you

[leaden ice]

is your question "how do I get a reference to the copy"?

[paper stone]

yes

yes that is my question

[leaden ice]

Instantiate returns such a reference

var theCopy = Instantiate(thePrefab);```

[paper stone]

thank you so much

that worked

[dry dagger]

Hello. What is the best way for me to switch scenes after an animation has played 5 times?

[main shuttle]

The SceneManager: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.html

[pseudo moth]

!learn

[tawny elk]

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[dry dagger]

I am aware of the scene manager. However I need the scene to change after an Animation has played 5 times.

[main shuttle]

So count, and then change scene

Or is the question actually about how to see if an animation is done playing?

[dry dagger]

that, and how to count it.

[main shuttle]

You could just add an animation event that counts up at the end

[neon junco]

+1 to a int?

int equals 5 perform the action

[dry dagger]

Didn't think about that, its been a long time since I've needed animation events. I will try it out!

[main shuttle]

It all depends on your setup. You could also start a coroutine that starts the animation and waits for it to finish and then +1. Many ways to Rome on this one.

[dry dagger]

I made an animation where the player digs with a shovel. The whole idea is that once the player shovels 5 or so times, the scene will transition to where the player has a shelter.

This is a sequel to a game I made a year ago where a militia soldier is stranded in the Swiss mountains and supposedly froze to death

[maiden breach]

sounds like a cutscene. could just do it all in timeline with a signal at the end to switch scenes

or you saying the player has control over the individual shovellings?

[dry dagger]

the player holds the Space key to start shoveling

like this

and the shelter would just be a simple hole in the wall of snow, and then a emergency blanket on the door to keep heat in while keeping cold out, and maybe some candles or something

[clever laurel]

I have been stuck on a weird null error for a while now.
Essentially the jump function crashes on null erros if called as a delegate, saying that my Player object (this) has been destroyed, but it works fine if called manually through the script...

[leaden ice]

sounds like you subscribed it to a delegate somewhere and never unsubscribed when your player object was destroyed

[clever laurel]

The thing is my Player object is not destroyed, i am 200% sure. Any object i try to log in the function through the delegate is null, while i can log them from anywhere else after and they are not. i put OnDestroy logs on to check to make sure. I fixed the problem but it still makes no sense to me. If i assign the delegate function through another class, with a reference to the class containing the functions, it doesnt work

[leaden ice]

Your player will be destroyed if you load a new scene, for example

[tardy basin]

Is there a way to convert a ScriptableObject into a struct?

[leaden ice]

this question doesn't make sense

[leaden ice]

https://xyproblem.info/

[clever laurel]

No new scene loaded, it is anything i try and log through the delegate function, if assigned through another class.

[leaden ice]

you'd have to show your code, scene setup, and error message etc.

[tardy basin]

that was quick

not very helpful tho

[leaden ice]

Tell us what you're actually trying to do

[tardy basin]

I need to store weapon stats as a struct so that they can be synchronized in multiplayer, but I would like to also store them as a ScriptableObject and then read them into that struct, so that they dont get deleted if for example I remove the Component holding the struct from my gun game object

[leaden ice]

Make the struct that contains the data.
Make a ScriptableObject containing such a struct

[Serializable]
public struct MyData {
  // stuff
}

public class MySO : ScriptableObject {
  public MyData data;
}```

[tardy basin]

okay, thanks, I didnt think about that

[pure dragon]

Is there a cleaner way to write a command system like this?
https://pastebin.com/MpMUjdry

[leaden ice]

yes

make a tree structure of commands

[pure dragon]

how would you go about doing that/ could you link me to a reference on how to do it or something?

[leaden ice]

quick and dirty example is something like:

public class Command {
  public Dictionary<string, Command> childCommands;
  public Func<CommandResponse> execution;
}```
Then you build it like:
```cs
Dictionary<string, Command> tree = new() {
  { "debug" : new { 
     childCommands = new () {
       "devsight": new {
         childCommands = new() {
           "disable" : new { execution = () => return new CommandResponse("Devsight Disabled.");}
           "enable" : new { execution = () => return new CommandResponse("Devsight Enabled.");
         }
       }
     }
}```
Then just do a loop over your arguments list and traverse down the tree until you find the one to execute

[pure dragon]

interesting approach. I will definitely look into that, thanks.

[swift falcon]

I'm trying to Tile.SetColor but it seems like Tiles have the LockColor flag enabled by default, preventing that. I disable it in the code through a mask, but it doesn't kick in until I reload, and only lasts so long as I don't quit Unity. How can I set LockColor to false once and for all?

E: fixed, solution was to use RemoveTileFlags

[heavy lynx]

is it possible for a script to access the properties and attributes of a child object of the object it is attached to

[tall fog]

Hello, how can I transform a cubemap shape from Cube to Sphere?

[swift falcon]

say, would someone with rigidbody collision forces experience know if/what to do if I want to find the force being exerted on another object? like, if I want to find the velocity being imparted on a rigidbody from the collision of the two.
Reason being I want to be able to include that in jump forces to impart some of that momentum into a jump, but I need to be able to set the jump force directly because I don't want to factor in current player y velocity since I'm changing gravity directions

[latent latch]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.html
Check out the public methods

[charred root]

does any1 know how i can change the input this object gets with a different one in my assets?

[latent latch]

Are they all inheriting from card?

Rather, a different variation of card

[charred root]

uh sorry im bad at explaining things but pretty much my end goal is whenever it loads the upgrade screen i want it to set this value to a random object from a list

i have like different presets for it

i just wanna know how to change the object to something random from my assets folder

[neon junco]

random.Range ?

[dusk apex]

Are there particular assets you're wanting to switch to?

[latent latch]

Right, so you have a prefab called Card, but you're setting the SO initially on the inspector. If you want different values on this prefab, you'll have to pass that information in when you init the prefab.

[charred root]

im fine with doing the random part

[golden vessel]

I think you want to put those prefabs in a list, and pick one at random when you instantiate the prefab

[charred root]

its just the swapping it to an alr created present

so would i make the list by adding each card to the script

and swapping

cuz i thought of doing it

[dusk apex]

[SerializeField] Card[] cards;
public Card card;```

[charred root]

yeah

[golden vessel]

^

[neon junco]

Don't use a list just use a array. Lists can't be modified

[charred root]

okok lemme try that thanks guys

[golden vessel]

What do you mean by that?

[dusk apex]

It's the opposite

Either should be fine.

[golden vessel]

Yeah, lists is better imo just cos if you go through it you won't have a null at some point

But probably irrelevant for that problem

[charred root]

sorry for another question but how would I change this object with one from the list

[golden vessel]

Drag it

[charred root]

i meant with code

[golden vessel]

card = cards[something]

[swift falcon]

to better clarify my question: I'm attempting to get a vector as a result of a collision between two rigidbodies. I know they generate contact points, and I'm looking at the documentation on that, but I'm not sure what returns information I'm looking for.
It's not the velocity of the object, it's the velocity projected from the surface normal of the contact point that I'm looking for
I've found things like ContactPoint2D.normalImpulse, but that's a result of the momentum of objects colliding I believe, and not a static force (meaning if I ram one object into another this number fluctuates based on the initially collision speed) and I'm looking for a force exerted by the object simply based on that point's movement vector,

head hurts

[golden vessel]

card = cards[random.Range(0, cards.Length)] should give you a random prefab out of those you put in the list

[neon junco]

Sorry I did get it backwards Lists are what you should be using.

[charred root]

i take in the card prefabs here

[golden vessel]

I actually don't know why, does that have to do with memory allocation?

[charred root]

then i want to change this object to one from the list

im just unsure of the code and cant find anything

I tried firstCard.Card = card;

after i set card

[golden vessel]

You might have to put [serializefield] in front of each field

So you can fill it in editor

[neon junco]

No lists are just much better in the end of things to do a lot more. If he makes a mistake in using arrays then he will be to recode all over. They do the same but Arrays hold a fixed number of items and can not be changed via code to be manipulated.

[golden vessel]

That's what I don't get, Can't you reallocate them in code? I actually never tried

[neon junco]

Honestly my experience with Arrays have been only once and I had to rewrite my code because i needed to change and sort etc which arrays can not do.

[golden vessel]

They have their use for specific problems tho, I use them for equipments or spells since the amount never changes and it's easier to make an empty slot

[soft shard]

If "card" is of type Card, then "firstCard" should be of the same type, if your goal is to set the card to another specific card type

[charred root]

im really bad at explaining what im trying to do

[neon junco]

In my game i had to sort a certain plant price and health of the plant by the int as i collected them and I maybe spent 2/3 days trying to make it work but never could until i was told i was using a array and arrays can't do any of what i wanted to do. So from then on I only use lists because in my mind lists are almost the same with arrays just no cap unless you program it cap like remove 1 off when it gets to a certain count

[golden vessel]

Probably cos you don't understand it well enough, but it's ok. I don't know what to tell you without directly giving you the solution, which won't make you understand :p

[soft shard]

Well, whats the issue that your running into currently? And whats the outcome, in a perfect-world scenario that your looking for?

[charred root]

im making it so when you press or a button (later on opening chests) it loads 3 upgrade cards that are random to player. Everything is done but swapping 1 object which is this

my code takes in the upgrade cards objects here

i just need a way to say hey firstcard.card = card;

[leaden ice]

you should be using an array or List

not three variables

[charred root]

this is so hard to explain over text

i have an array here

[half oyster]

this is probably rlly simple so im sending it here (ik i switched channels thats cause im not rlly a beginner but im not like the best)

i have these sprites inside my player prefab, which can be changed in the avatar editor. when you hit save, the player becomes a "dont destroy on load" but once you go back to the avatar scene theres another player still there, how do i delete the original player and swap its place with the edited one?

[charred root]

cards are the list of the different upgrades

the firstCard secondCard etc are the display

which change once their object card changes

[golden vessel]

card probably doesn't need to be public or serialized. You don't want to see it in editor, since you'll only use it through code

[neon junco]

Use a scriptable object and load that when you go back and forth between.

[leaden ice]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/singletons-in-unity-the-right-way/

Or just store the data about the player somewhere and have the actual player object just read that data at scene load

[golden vessel]

Then make a list/array of cards that you do serialize, and fill it by dragging your prefabs in it in the editor

[leaden ice]

rather than the player itself being DDOL

[half oyster]

bc i got like half of this but now bc its not in the actual scene the editor cant find the sprites

[charred root]

ima screen record an explanation and send it if thats alright

[leaden ice]

this will be a lot easier to do with an array instead of three variables. something like:

for (int i = 0; i < cardDisplays.Length; i++) {
  cardDisplays[i].Show(GetRandomCard(cardsList));
}```

[cursive knot]

I have a question regarding rotations if anyone is able to help. I'm trying to rotate a cube as I move it but the rotation is getting messed up for different configurations. It works when moving in only the x direction, or only the z direction, but when I use both the y rotation starts changing, cant figure it out, my code should be simple: https://paste.ofcode.org/jq7muVBw4nFgVsTv6ZnjgA

[leaden ice]

what's the desired result?

[neon junco]

What its doing is when you load a scene its bringing back the old sprite as what its programmed todo when you go to that screen if u don't want a new character just save the character as a scriptable object and it will always stay there or you could just have each item as a item code and write it to a Json file and than load that file to add all the prefabs.

[charred root]

https://streamable.com/4o9s35

here if sm1 can watch that and kinda understand what im trying to do

bc idk how else to explain it

[neon junco]

I know what ur trying to do but don't think ur understanding us.

You want to create a box that you open and when it opens 3 cards will appear but you want the cards to be random from the list of cards you have already made. Correct?

[cursive knot]

The desired result is that the cube will be oriented based on direction of movement. It's a die, so if I move it right, if the number 1 is on top, it is rotated so now one is pointed right, move right again it is on the bottom etc. This works when the rotation of either x or z is zero, can move it any times in z direction and it rotates properly, or any direction x and its great, but if I move it one time in the x, and one time in the z, the rotation no longer works properly, instead of rotating the number on top will stay the same and rotate around the y axis

[leaden ice]

Don't you just want this then?
https://paste.ofcode.org/SJwJyLZZAab7FJiJ8HXdmX
Why are you doing like... additive rotations?

[charred root]

yes i have all of that done but swapping the object to a new card

[golden vessel]

Should I use WaitForSecondsRealTime when dealing with audio?

[neon junco]

Put a button in and when you press it than you will random roll another card ?

[leaden ice]

Oh wait I see what you're saying, it's a die like "rolling" around

[cursive knot]

exactly

[leaden ice]

wdym by the y rotation starts changing? Is the die actually rotating improperly? Or are you just getting upset about the numbers you see in the inspector?

Note that euler angles are not really reliable or useful since there are infinitely many equivalent euler rotations for a given orientation

[neon junco]

Why not Mathf.Clamp the values on x, y & z?

[golden vessel]

The axis of rotation should change according to previous rolls, is that what you mean?

[charred root]

in my code i call on first card which is the "Card" in the hierarchy and it takes an input "Card" as you can see is currently magic damage. Im trying to change MagicDamage to a different card with code

[neon junco]

By pressing a button?

[charred root]

do u see how in the Card Display script it takes in a card

[charred root]

yes i alr have the button function done

i even

call first card

OKOK wait

lemme show an example bc i do it using textmeshpro

[neon junco]

You got to put it in a Method and make it public

[charred root]

here

do u see how i take in nameText

and change the value

im trying to do that

but with a different object thats not textmeshpro

if u watch the full video

i show everyhting

the button alr works

the list alr works

its just setting the current card to a different one

like the object

[golden vessel]

I think I understand where your problem comes from actually. As your object rotates, the axis of rotation moves with it.

[neon junco]

Do the same thing with random range ? you can put ints in for numbers and make ints stand for strings or objects etc

[golden vessel]

You're still doing the same thing, like rotate again in the x axis, when the x axis is not the same one. Doe s that makes sense?

It's the same one for the die, but not from your perspective

[cursive knot]

The first two directions I move die its fine, rotation of x and z work perfectly, but when I move once in the z direction then move to the x it breaks, I don't mind changing from euler angles, but using other rotation methods weren't working, this was as close as I could get what I wanted

ahhh video didnt post correctly sorry

[golden vessel]

I think the easiest way to solve it is to deal with it in a absolute way, store the value of each rotation to the corresponding face of the die, and change rotation from the last rotation (that you stored) to the new one

Dunno if all I'm saying makes sense ^^

[cursive knot]

https://streamable.com/jbtivd

[golden vessel]

See when the die is on 4 and doesn't change? That's because it's rotating around that axis

[soft shard]

It sounds like your looking for a GetComponent on your object that has CardDisplay, when you pick your random value

[golden vessel]

You can actually see the other faces changing

[charred root]

yes

i found another way to do it

[cursive knot]

Yes, I understand its rotating around the Y-axis after moving once then in a different direction after, I'm just seeing how I can fix it

[charred root]

however im now having trouble calling a method from another script

[soft shard]

Is that other method public?

[charred root]

    public void setCard(Card input)
    {
        card = input;
    }

this should be fine right

its just in a different script

[dusk apex]

Make an array of cards, drag every available card into it and then randomly select a card in code.

[charred root]

the script im trying to call a method from is on this game object

[golden vessel]

Maybe deduce the new axises of rotation at each turn

[charred root]

and i call it by using firstCard.setCard(card);

[soft shard]

What type is firstCard?

[dusk apex]

Just set the field? firstcard.card = card.

Assuming it's public

[charred root]

i have firstCard as GameObject

this is first card

[half oyster]

why wont this work- i want it to make its parent anything with the tag "List" on awake but it stays on DDOL

[soft shard]

A GameObject wont have access to your public function, youll have to access it with either GetComponent, or make your firstCard the same type as the class that has your public function your trying to access

[charred root]

can u show me an example of how I would use GetComponent it kinda confuses me

[swift falcon]

Rigidbody2D.GetPointVelocity (declaration: (public Vector2 GetPointVelocity(Vector2 point)) with "point" being the global space point to calc velocity for)
I already am getting a collection of contact points when colliding with objects to do ground check stuff... If I want to examine those contacts and then getpointvelocity information from them, does anyone know what I should do?

[dusk apex]

What doesn't work? The stuff before and after but are not related.

[soft shard]

For example:

void SomeFunc()
{
someObj.GetComponent<RigidBody>().velocity = Vector3.one;
}

someObj being a GameObject, and Rigidbody being the class I wanna access velocity from

[dusk apex]

Just have it referenced as the correct type to begin with.

[half oyster]

i want it to like keep the object when transitioning the scene and then i want it to parent it to the object with the tag "List" right after

[dusk apex]

if player doesn't exist
    set instance
    set exit
    set parent
    parent set DDOL
else
    destroy gameObject```The parent has to be a DDOL object as well.

[half oyster]

took me a while but i finally got it!

thank you!

[half oyster]

had to add some stuff to this and i finally got it working

[swift falcon]

How do I serialize a field in a component such that said field is clamped between the values of 0.0 and 100.0 and utilizes a visible slider?

[leaden ice]

[Range(0, 100)]

[swift falcon]

Ooh... 🤔

[zinc parrot]

Is there any other way? cant really export that as a package for the asset store

[swift falcon]

Thanks man. 😄

[golden vessel]

Hey, I'm trying to change music on the next beat after an event.
Does that look right? It's hard for me to check, I suck at rhythm. (bpm is 100)
float timeToWait = (float)(AudioSettings.dspTime - MusicManager.instance.startBossMusicTime) % (60f / 100f);

I guess there's missing info, that's the time I want to wait between the event and the next beat

MusicManager.instance.startBossMusicTime is the time when the music was first started

[leaden ice]

break it down so the math is easier:

float bpm = 100;
float secondsPerMinute = 60;
float beatInterval = secondsPerMinute / bpm;

float beatNumberOfEvent = 10; // you decide which beat number the event happens on. 0th beat is the start of the song.
float eventTime = beatNumberOfEvent * beatInterval;```

then I suppose:

float timeRemainingUntilEvent = eventTime- AudioSettings.dspTime;``` assuming dspTime is the current playback time of the song

[golden vessel]

the number of beat before the switch is unknown, it's turned based RPG, the music changes at the end of the fight

[leaden ice]

what is "the switch"

[golden vessel]

Switch in song

[leaden ice]

Are you saying you want to know what time the next beat is, given the current time?

[golden vessel]

Or I guess in audio

[golden vessel]

Basically yeah

[leaden ice]

int mostRecentBeat = Mathf.FloorToInt(currentSongTime / beatInterval);
int nextBeat = mostRecentBeat + 1;
float nextBeatTime = nextBeat * beatInterval;```

[golden vessel]

I agree with what you said tho, I think I sacrifice readability for number of code lines too often ^^

[leaden ice]

This is how I do all my complex calculations

I like it to be so stupid simple a toddler can read it

not literally I guess but

[golden vessel]

Understandable, also increases adaptability

Putting in raw numbers is meh overall ^^

Alright, thanks a lot for the advice 🙂

[swift falcon]

Is there a way I can make certain serialized elements in a component enabled/disabled pending the value of a certain boolean?

[leaden ice]

Download NaughtyAttributes

It will make your life easier

[swift falcon]

I'll look into that.

Is it in the Unity Store?

[latent latch]

Github

[leaden ice]

https://dbrizov.github.io/na-docs/attributes/meta_attributes/enable_disable_if.html

Then you can use this ^

[half oyster]

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

public class ClickToMove : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    [Range(2, 12)]   //slider

    //MAKE SURE U TURN OFF GRAVITY OR IT WONT WORK
    
    
    
    private float speed = 4f;

    public Animator animator;



    private Vector3 targetPosition;
    private bool isMoving = false;
    
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
        {
            SetTargetPosition();
        }

        if (isMoving)
        {
            Move();
        }
    }

    void SetTargetPosition()
    {
        targetPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        targetPosition.z = transform.position.z;

        isMoving = true;
    }

    void Move()
    {
        transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, targetPosition, speed * Time.deltaTime);

        if (transform.position == targetPosition)
        {
            isMoving = false;
        }

    }

    
    void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        //Check for a match with the specific tag on any GameObject that collides with your GameObject
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "StopPLR")
        {
            //If the GameObject has the same tag as specified, output this message in the console
            speed = 0f;
        }

        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "StartPLR")
        {
            //If the GameObject has the same tag as specified, output this message in the console
            speed = 4f;
        }
    }
}

this is my characters walking script, a click to walk type thing, and i have a question, how come the animations playing disables the player from being able to move

[leaden ice]

Sounds like your Animator is animation the position of your character's root object

Either make it only animate a child object or turn on Root motion

[half oyster]

oh ok tysm!!

[half oyster]

i did root motion and now its just glitching from side to side

[leaden ice]

I recommend making your sprite or model as a child object and animating its localPosition

[half oyster]

how do i make it a child object

[neon junco]

putting in under a parent object?

[oak plover]

hey so im trying to do animations for hurt and death how would i go about taking damage and dying i cant figure it out any ideas?

[maiden breach]

Dont crosspost. Also #archived-game-design

[winged sphinx]

hey is there a generally accepted standard character for separating strings for splitting?

[maiden breach]

It all depends on what youre trying to split. No standard.

[half oyster]

my script wont enable my walk anim

shouldnt this work

animator.SetBool("Walking", true);```

nvm i did it!!

[winged sphinx]

Card names. I'm currently second-guessing what character I'll guaranteed never use.

[maiden breach]

\n?

Semicolon is a common one too

Why are you creating the string you have to split though? Why not just store it in structured data from the get-go?

[winged sphinx]

I'm saving a deck recipe with playerprefs. probably not what I should be doing but it's how I know how to do it and it's fine if it's temporary.

[oak plover]

how do you declare a trigger thats in your animator to you player script lmao

i might be having a stroke or not rn

[swift falcon]

Is there a way to create projection matrix for a given field of view, without creating a camera?

[half oyster]

why will my scenes not switch in a build 🗿

[void fog]

ASCII Character code 7... 😛

[void fog]

Commas, Tabs, Pipes... eg. CSV.

Found out that the new System.Text.Json isn't available in unity due to it being framework/net standard but it might have access to something gross that i like to use for delimiter parsing

using Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO;

        public static IEnumerable<string> SplitCSV(this string source)
        {
            using (
                var parser = new TextFieldParser(new StringReader(source))
                {
                    HasFieldsEnclosedInQuotes = true,
                    TextFieldType = FieldType.Delimited,
                    Delimiters = new[] {","},
                    TrimWhiteSpace = true
                })
            {
                parser.SetDelimiters(",");

                while (!parser.EndOfData)
                {
                    var fields = parser.ReadFields();

                    if (fields == null || !fields.Any())
                        continue;

                    foreach (var field in fields)
                        yield return field;
                }

                parser.Close();
            }
        }```

this textfieldparser is super slow though

[hollow karma]

hey guys

I have this 2d character controller

[winged sphinx]

Comma is likely to appear in a card title somehow eventually. (this is a mtg-type game). Pipes work though I'm looking for something between common enough to not have to look up the ascii code when I constantly forget it and something I won't use in perpetuity. For now underscore is good enough.

[hollow karma]

and I was adding walljumps

[void fog]

I highly doubt your card names will contain a tab /t

tab delimeted files are also very very common

[hollow karma]

if I spam jump while on a wall

instead of walljumping

sometimes it will do a regular jump

this is because my ground check triggers with the wall

even though it shouldn't

my theory is that the player goes through the wall for a split second because its moving too fast

so the ground check gets triggered

i know that the groundcheck is triggered by the wall, and thats what im basing my guess off of

[winged sphinx]

it sounds like your groundcheck is overshooting your character horizontally.

[hollow karma]

i thought it might

but its not

i think

here ill send a screenshot

oop

no you are right

LOL

look at this

wait nevermind

it dosent overshoot

i have a rounded hitbox

sorry i though the inner square was my collider for a second

[buoyant crane]

mind if you share a screenshot of your rigidbody settings?

[hollow karma]

sure

this bug happens even without interpolation

i have continuous col detection, which I'm pretty sure is as good as it gets

if you want ill share my code as well

[buoyant crane]

yeah i was seeing if you had that on

[hollow karma]

ill remove all the comments of my code and send it so it is easy to read

[hollow karma]

https://hastebin.com/share/eziyekoluc.csharp

here you go

i removed all comments

im gonna try using a boxy hitbox

and see if that changes anything

actually i figured it out

so im pretty sure my ground check needs to be behind the inner squre of my rounded hitbox

because if i decrease the edge radius back to boxy

now the ground chekc overshoots

is it bad to have the ground check be too tiny though?

[elfin vessel]

Has anyone figured out a good way to have an inline editor for a scriptable object? (I have Odin but InlineEditor does nothing)

[hollow karma]

ok this bug is rare usually so i may be wrong

[buoyant crane]

you’re sure the issue is with the ground detecting the wall right?

[hollow karma]

yes

because i had a debug log

that sent out what object the ground check was colidinig with

and when the bug happened it sent out one saying it collided with the wall

so im positive that its that

[buoyant crane]

ok, you could try moving your ground check code into FixedUpdate(), or try shrinking the horizontal size of the ground check

[hollow karma]

is ti bad if its too small though?

like lets say the player is making a big jump

and lands like right on the edge

i mean once they fully get on the platform the ground chekc will trigger

but like for that little bit of time it isn't

is that ok?

[hollow karma]

i use ontriggerenter/exit events for my ground check

[buoyant crane]

it might not be if it’s extremely noticeable. but try seeing if moving the ground check to FixedUpdate fixes it

[hollow karma]

i dont call groundcheck in fixed update

here lemme send a snippet of code

this is on my groundcheck trigger object

sorry for the screenshot its just a rly small amount of code

so i think these events already run in fixed update

if im not mistaken

i think the bug is fixed though

i will report back if it isn't

thanks!

[half oyster]

photon seems rlly outdated for my unity, what do i do:(

[soft shard]

What do you mean by that? Photon is also the name of the collection of their products, but I assume your referring to PUN 2 (Photon Unity Networking v2), or PUN Classic? Or a different product like Photon Fusion or Bolt?

[cosmic rain]

Wdym by outdated though?

[south gorge]

im trying to get my gun to shoot in the direction of my mouse

it only goes in one direction when I click the mouse

im pretty sure it is having a problem finding the location of the mouse

[void fog]

how are you updating the aim in correlation to the mouse?

are you detecting mouse position each tick and moving/rotating?

[south gorge]

i believe so but I am not 100% sure

i think its only when I click

[void fog]

you're seting shoot direction to 4 different values

the input position, you zero the Z, then you set it to a camera position based on the shoot direction

im not really sure what that is all doing

i assume Z is the same direction as your flat plane

eg. shoot along the plane

what is transform.position?

[south gorge]

thats the guns location

i think

[void fog]

what happens if you take out those shootDirection things and just have one?

see what different effects that gives?

eg. just have that first one and remove the other 3 (comment them)

id have the first two if the mouse position gives you a strange vertical value

[south gorge]

the bullets act different

I got it to update

the direction I didnt know how to check to see if it was working

but now it updates the values in unity when I move my cursor on screen

but when I click it just comes out the same side

and goes in 1 direction anyway

hmm it only updates 2 values

[neon junco]

Does the bullets fire from the gun end or just appear in middle of screen?

[south gorge]

from the end of the cube

there is a cube floating above my blue ball

i was trying to keep it simple for learning

looks like this

I just want to create objects on what ever side I click really

[neon junco]

Why don't you move the cube to the front of the ball and have the bullets fire from the cubes location and move the character with your mouse movement

[south gorge]

its a mobile game

I have a stick

[neon junco]

finger is same as a mouse input

[south gorge]

yes

the ball is suppose to roll around and the top part should shoot in the direction

its like a tank

the ball moves already

[neon junco]

have the box fixed on its axis so it wont move with the ball?

[south gorge]

i just have the cube locked at the moment because the ball rolls with the sphere so it keeps hitting the floor every time I roll

[neon junco]

i mean roll

[south gorge]

im just messing around for the sake of practice

but its a cool mechanic that i want to learn

[neon junco]

So works now?

[south gorge]

no

[neon junco]

Whats not working then

[south gorge]

here is a how the objects move

north

no matter where I click

1 sec

[neon junco]

Like i said move the box in front of the ball and have the bullets fire from the cubes location or a game object

[south gorge]

thats what a clip looks like

thats not what I want to do though hah xD

hmm

what if I can make a ring around the sphere

[neon junco]

U want it to fire from where the ball is facing?

[south gorge]

noooo

just where the the cursor clicks

the cube does not move at the moment

[neon junco]

have a ring around ur character and have the cube rotate to where mouse is

[south gorge]

rotate

yes let me try that

[swift falcon]

Has anyone here ever made an extension method for MonoBehaviour? This function compiles itself, but I can't use it anywhere
public static bool GetComponent<T>(this MonoBehaviour behaviour, out T component) where T : MonoBehaviour
{
component = behaviour.GetComponent<T>();
return component != null;
}

[neon junco]

like or moon orbiting the earth but just where the mouse/finger is

[south gorge]

its so close

i almost got it

[neon junco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKGsELBgpQY best tutorial for rotations.

[south gorge]

ty

[tulip sparrow]

does anyone know how to make a particles in a particle system go in specific rotations based on the direction they are going? I'm trying to make my attack look better

[neon junco]

you can turn down random and change the orientation in the inspector for the particle system and change the shape to a box not a cone for more control.

[swift falcon]

So I’ve been looking though System.IO special files/folders

I have found that you have Access to the windows folder, like the main system windows folder. Doesn’t that mean you can literally easily delete that folder thought the program?? Or will it just not let it do that. I wanna try it on a virtual machine

[neon junco]

Okay but why?

[swift falcon]

Why delete the folder?

[neon junco]

yes

[swift falcon]

I’m not saying I’m gonna make a game that’s randomly going to delete your windows lol, I’m just curious if it’s that easy to just delete important folders thought a simple script

[neon junco]

Reminder.. Don't buy Juka's game..

[swift falcon]

You die you get random ass files deleted form your pc

Personally sounds like a good concept to me

[ashen vector]

i added third person camera from starter assets and my project broke

[glossy granite]

Hello I disabled autorefresh to be able to use hot reload, but unity is still refreshing
Any idea how to solve it ? thank you

[thin aurora]

Have you tried to reopen the project?

Might have been an error that happens once

[cosmic rain]

Umm... Is that even the correct settings tab?

[quartz folio]

TryGetComponent already exists and does this already and more performant

[glossy granite]

Yeah autorefresh has been moved there apparently

[swift falcon]

oh nice, I hadn't come across that function before. Thanks!

[glossy granite]

Autorefresh not working

[elder zenith]

RaycastHit[] raycastHits = Physics.BoxCastAll(refCollider.bounds.center, refCollider.bounds.extents, transform.forward, Quaternion.identity, raycastLength, 0, QueryTriggerInteraction.Collide);

raycastHits = raycastHits.Concat(Physics.RaycastAll(ray, raycastLength, 0, QueryTriggerInteraction.Collide)).ToArray();```

My `Physics.BoxCastAll` and `Physics.RaycastAll` are not returning anything. Where am I going wrong? At first I suspected it was bc all the cars use trigger colliders, but I placed a default cube in the scene and the array length is still at 0. (Used concat just to see if either one is working)

the "refCollider" is the one you see in front of the car

[quartz folio]

0 is not a valid layer mask

[elder zenith]

..god damn it

[quartz folio]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/raycasting/layer-masks

[cosmic rain]

If you want a layer mask that targets all layers ~0 might work

[elder zenith]

~0? with the tilde?

[cosmic rain]

Yes

Actually maybe not.

You need a bitwise invert

[quartz folio]

Physics.AllLayers is much more reasonable

[elder zenith]

oh, lemme see if that works

Sure does! Big thanks

[quartz folio]

Physics.DefaultRaycastLayers takes the ignore layer into account

[orchid bane]

How do I utilize A* pathfinding in a way which would base calculations on count of travelled roads instead of distance between nodes in such a graph?

[cosmic rain]

Just set the same distance between nodes. Donno what A* implementation you're using, but there should probably be a way to pass in a collection of nodes and/or edges. When you create that collection you just set the same distance between all nodes.

[orchid bane]

It's just that for now my calculations of HCost are only between the currently processed node and the goal node. So I don't know how to calculate it this way if they are not neighbours

[cosmic rain]

What are you using for A*?

[orchid bane]

Messing with the algorithm in an asset actually, so not sure...
https://pastebin.com/zDnXM8ix

[cosmic rain]

How do you calculate the HCost?

[orchid bane]

For now it's

        private static float HCost(Node curNode, Node goalNode) {
            return Vector3.Distance(curNode.transform.position, goalNode.transform.position);
        }```
Which doesn't suit my needs

[tepid river]

Just return 1

Thats 1 cost per step

The algorithm doesnt care about the physical layout

[cosmic rain]

That and Map.FindValidPath should calculate the path distance based on the number of jumps.

[sudden meadow]

Is there a good alternative for [Header("Textures")] that will properly group together a group from a parent class with the same group in a class that inherits it?

in the inspector

[cosmic rain]

A custom inspector/editor!😬

[sudden meadow]

Was what I expected tbh

[oak plover]

can someone help me im so confused lmao

im doing animations and i tried to set up a death animations and im going down a rabbit hole

[plucky inlet]

Is your issue code related or rather just about animations? #🏃┃animation

[oak plover]

code related

[plucky inlet]

So whats the issue then?

#854851968446365696 carefully on how to ask questions 🙂

[oak plover]

ok

[cosmic rain]

@oak plover did you manage to solve the animation event issue?

[oak plover]

uhh so it got worse we can go into the thread lol

[plucky inlet]

Oh the issue was already known, sorry to ask then. If you got a thread, feel free to invite 🙂

[iron basalt]

how do i make a Func delegate take any type of parameter? (edit: this is a general c# question)

Func<AnyType, SomeType> function;

[vague slate]

How do I extract only Y axis rotation from quaternion?

I remember there's a way to do projection on plane

but I don't remember specifics

[cosmic rain]

Generics or object boxing.

[hexed pecan]

Quaternions have an eulerAngles property, if you just need Y you can get it from that

[vague slate]

I have two direction vectors and I rotate object between them on Y axis.
How can I know in which direction rotation would be faster?

As of now I do rotation using const offset and to make a turn left, object makes a turn to right until it reaches left 😅

For now it's just like this

                var rotationOffset = quaternion.RotateY(cs.rotationSpeed * deltaTime);
                transform.rotation = math.mul(transform.rotation, rotationOffset);

[cosmic ermine]

just need to save a function to something inside a struct, and to be able to call it later, what type should i use?

[cosmic rain]

A delegate that matches the function signature. Or a Func/Action.

[cosmic ermine]

how exactly would i use a delegate, been a while since i last touched them, and delegate void seems to not let me call the function for some reason

[cosmic rain]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/delegates/

If you need explicit help, share your code

[cosmic ermine]

nice, that is literally what I'm currently reading, I'll reread it though lol thanks

[cosmic rain]

Why not use a Quaternion helper method?

[vague slate]

which one?

[cosmic rain]

Either lerp or rotate towards based on your explanation.

[vague slate]

I can't use lerp, because rotation logic is stateless

[cosmic rain]

Then rotate towards

[vague slate]

eh, I can't really use it, since I need vectorization friendly functions. But looking at it's source gave me enough idea

[cosmic rain]

Wdym? It's not any different from what you're doing now.

[vague slate]

I use Mathematics package library

quaternion and math types

and it's quaternion doesn't have such methods

[hexed pecan]

Vector3.SignedAngle to find the angles towards those directions around a single axis

[cosmic rain]

Aah

[hexed pecan]

Simply checking Quaternion.Angle can work too but its around any axis

[cosmic ermine]

I cannot seem to get this to work, I know I'm doing something very wrong. but i cannot call the delegate void, it just won't let me, because i haven't done anything correctly lol. Could you link to some examples perhaps, as I'm very lost and google isn't pulling anything up...

[cosmic rain]

Share your code

[hexed pecan]

Huh, k

[vague slate]

cross product did the trick

[mossy minnow]

hey everyone, if i were to do rb.AddForce(dir * force);, how would i make the dir go from Axis space (like x = 1, y = 0 for forward, etc) into the actual direction that the object is facing?

[hexed pecan]

AddRelativeForce

[mossy minnow]

right now, it doesnt factor in the rotation of the object

ah that sounds like what i need

[hexed pecan]

Or multiply the force with a rotation

[cosmic ermine]

boiled down code, because my code is a mess: ```cs
struct SomeStruct
{
public delegate void SomeMethod(); //crashes visual studio's CSharpWrappingCodeRefactoringProvider upon typing
}

public void Nonsense()
{
//does something
}

public void Chaos()
{
SomeStruct Something = new();
Something.SomeMethod = Nonsense;

Something.SomeMethod() // cannot be used like a method

}

[mossy minnow]

how would i calculate how much force it takes to just overcome the friction so it stays the same velocity?

when in a non-accelerating or decelerating state

[sleek bough]

Delegate creates a type, you need to actually give it an object to use.

    private struct SomeStruct {
        public delegate void SomeMethod();
        public SomeMethod MySomeMethod;
    }

    public void Nonsense() {
        //does something
    }

    public void Chaos() {
        SomeStruct Something = new();
        Something.MySomeMethod = Nonsense;

        Something.MySomeMethod();
    }```

Not sure why it crashes for you though

[cosmic ermine]

ah ok thanks, so should i have a delegate void for each of the function fields i want to have on the struct, or is sharing 1 between multiple ok?

[sleek bough]

I prefer using Actions though, avoid whole declaration thing

[cosmic ermine]

Actions sound familiar, I'll look into them quickly then, thanks

[sleek bough]

https://www.dotnetperls.com/action

[cosmic ermine]

thanks

ah ok now the struct works, now I just have to see if it is possible to get a list or array of the struct! (probably won't be possible due to the fact that structs in lists have to be non-nullable value types, but I can try, and if it isn't possible then I can just redo my code to not need a list of it)

[craggy veldt]

mutable structs are bad, use class instead

[sleek bough]

What you have turns into this

    private struct SomeStruct {
        public Action MyAction;
    }

    public void Nonsense() {
        Debug.Log("Message");
    }

    public void Chaos() {
        SomeStruct Something = new();
        Something.MyAction = Nonsense;

        Something.MyAction();
    }```

And you can also subscribe multiple actions to one...

[cosmic ermine]

ooh fascinating, I have heard of mutable structs before, I'll look into it, thanks

[craggy veldt]

structs in lists... really, just use class

[cosmic ermine]

cool!

[cosmic ermine]

never have tried a list of class, so I'll try it thanks

[sleek bough]

Yea, if you are trying to store a bunch of methods just keep list of actions

or if you need to trigger all of them, subscribe them

[cosmic ermine]

just tryna clean up my code to be more readable, cause this is for ui, and each menu has a setup function and an every frame update function, and having them sprawled out everywhere is a nightmare, and having a nice simple WhateverMenu.SetupFunction, and stuff like that should make it more readable, thanks

[sleek bough]

myAction += myAction1;
myAction += myAction2;
myAction.Invoke();

[cosmic ermine]

if it was a class, it would be a reference type then, wouldn't it? So I'm probably going to stick with struct for now, atleast until i understand stuff a bit more lol, but thanks lol

btw is there anyway to force the struct to be non-nullable and a value type or am i going to have to get rid of the list and redesign some stuff?

[cosmic rain]

value types are non nullable by default

[cosmic ermine]

ah ok good, so now i just need to make the struct a value type then

[cosmic rain]

structs are value type

[cosmic ermine]

then why can't i have my struct in a list?

[cosmic rain]

Who said that you can't?

[cosmic ermine]

visual studio, also i probably should have specified that it was a native list, cause there might be differences between regular lists and native lists that i don't know, sorry

[cosmic rain]

That's a native list. You kinda forgot to mention the important part.

are you doing DOTS?

[cosmic ermine]

sorry, I often forget that native containers ain't the default... and yes I'm using dots

[cosmic rain]

Well, then you should also know that you can't use any reference types in DOTS(you can on the main thread, but seeing how you use a native collection you probably want to use it in a job?)

delegates are reference types btw

I think

Yeah, it is.

[cosmic ermine]

you can't have reference types? I have quite a few reference types in lots of places lol, ah well hopefully it won't do much harm...

[cosmic rain]

As long as they're not used in a job, it's fine.

[cosmic ermine]

ah unfortunate

[cosmic ermine]

ok that makes sense then, and I'm not planning to use this specific list in a job. Perhaps i should just use a regular list then, as I'm not going to be passing it to anything that despises managed code?

[cosmic rain]

Yep, a regular list is fine.

But then why not use a class as well?

[cosmic ermine]

ok thanks, sorry for my foolishness lol, and i have no clue what the difference is between making it a class vs a struct, but sure I'll use a class lol, can't do more harm than i have already

[cosmic rain]

The main difference is reference vs value type.

[cosmic ermine]

fascinating

[craggy veldt]

when you store it somewhere it makes copy...

[cosmic ermine]

ah, so like a foreach loop's inner magic thingy (I don't know the name), only for every time you put it anywhere? I think i get that, cool

[craggy veldt]

not quite sure about that, but carry on!

[ashen vector]

Not worked

[elder zenith]

if I cast e.g. 3.5f as (int), does it round down, up, or just discard the decimal part?

[knotty sun]

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

[elder zenith]

Ah fair enough

[half oyster]

sorry i was super tired and probably should’ve explained more but yeah pun classic, by outdated i mean i don’t know if it’s been updated in a while bc it’s not working how it should for me- like shouldn’t it first ask me for my app id? bc once i import everything it doesn’t and i’m not sure why

this is even when i import pun 2

i got it working!!

using Photon.Pun;
using Photon.Realtime;

[swift falcon]

Love you unity debugger

everytime

misses breakpoints too

[iron basalt]

(VISUAL STUDIO 2022 QUESTION)

how do i make it so that VS displays all params docs? (you currently have to fill everything slowly to see it)

not very important cuz you can just click it in VS to see full doc, but just curious

[half oyster]

why is this happening-

[quaint sierra]

trying to get my character to do a backflip but this code makes the character go crazy and fall out of the level. What am I doing wrong?

[mental rover]

probably more than one thing

• this sets a transform rotation, if your movement is using physics, you may want to consider rotation by adding torque instead
• you're comparing float values, the rotation may end up being very close to -360 but not quite and miss the condition
• other code may be interfering with this coroutine

depending on what you're aiming for here, I'd consider separating the visual backflip from any physics/movement controller. Make it an animation instead

[teal jetty]

hi

  public GameObject videoPlayerObject;

    private void Start()
    {
  
      Debug.Log("videoPlayerObject"); //WORK
       _socket.On("receiveVideoURL", (response) =>{
             Debug.Log("videoPlayerObject"); //NOT WORKING WHY
            var url = response.GetValue<string>();
            Debug.Log($"Received video URL: {url}");

            console.log(videoPlayerObject)

        });

so i can't .play() video

idk why

[cosmic rain]

What's _socket? is the callback called on the main thread? If it's on a different thread, some unity api, like Debug.Log would silently fail.

[teal jetty]

It's not just the debugging, it's really everything that can't be called,

https://pastebin.com/rD0FjSSW

i send you a past

[cosmic rain]

Unity API

[teal jetty]

so how i can do it ?

[cosmic rain]

Many ways.
Raise a flag and consume it on the main thread for example.

[teal jetty]

Can you give me an example?

[cosmic rain]

Did you read the documentation of the SocketIOUnity?

Here. They even explain how to sync with main thread.
https://github.com/itisnajim/SocketIOUnity

[teal jetty]

Yeah, andthere are a lot of libs that don't work anymore, this is the only one I even looked at examples but I don't see

let seee maybe wrong doc

[cosmic rain]

Why not use unity transport btw?

[teal jetty]

UnityThread.executeInUpdate(() => {

[teal jetty]

coz i want a server control (nodejs) for action

[cosmic rain]

Hmm

Pretty sure unity transport should work as well.

It has it's own sockets implementation.

But maybe I'm wrong.

[tall fog]

Hello, quick question, how can I convert a cubemap into an sphere from code?

[teal jetty]

working with that @cosmic rain thanks.

[tepid jewel]

Hey! I need some help with meshes. I am currently migrating a project from three js to unity and I have a geojson with latlngs that I am using to make a three.Shape (https://threejs.org/docs/#api/en/extras/core/Shape) The shape has something called holes and this is very useful as I just give it a path for the outer bounds of the polygon that I have reformated from the latlng with mercator projection and then I give it the holes inside of this polygon (in the same format) and it calulcates everything for me, but I can't seam to find a good way to do this in unity. Can anyone help me out? I have multiple ideas, either to make multiple meshes and somehow "cut" one out from the other (like boolean in blender, this is they way I want to avoid) or in c# somehow calulate and triangulate it with the holes, but how do I do that?

[rocky jackal]

so i have made a build and send it to a friend to test multiplayer and i would like to see his log files but i cant find them anywhere and everything on the internet says something about a folder that i cant see

[worn gulch]

hey guys

[foggy granite]

ok wtf i just got chatgpt to write a first person character controller script for me wtf

[wraith cobalt]

I'm sure that microsoft will compensate you when you get it to generate code that crashes your project. 😄

[foggy granite]

true kek

[foggy granite]

it works 😎

[hot torrent]

I have severe crash issues, just managed to catch one crash while profiling, what could be causing that?

[hexed pecan]

Not directly related, but the WaitForTargetFPS is because you have VSync on

Looks like theres a lot of garbo collection going on 🤔

Also look at your crash logs to see if you find any clues

[hot torrent]

The game isn't crashing, plus where can i access those logs on android?

[hexed pecan]

What did you mean with crash issues then?

You mean it crashes while profiling?

[hot torrent]

Well... it`s not a "crash"

[hexed pecan]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LogFiles.html scroll down

[hot torrent]

it's hard to explain!

So, Sometimes, while the game is running (on my quest 2) it hangs itself up, it doesn`t render any new frames and is just stuck on one while sound is still playing, then if i put the headset on standby and back on, there is a terrifying visual glitch happening, as seen here:

At the end of the video you can see how it's supposed to look.

As you can see, the meshes get messed up aswell

[normal arch]

I have a question, how does the unity layer system work? I want to create my own similar to it because the way I want to do it won't work with unity's own layer system. Basically I want to make a 2d game that includes jumping and platforming, I haven't made the code yet but the basics of it are there is a jump button that increase the player's sprite renderer y value and a float called height level, when this jump is over gravity is set to 1, and when the height level is equal to the floor level (another float) the gravity = 0. When the player gets on a platform their floor is set to another value with an on trigger enter and exit 2d function, and that's it. I want certain colliders to be non interactable for certain entities based on that entity's height level. Is there any way I can do this?

[viral seal]

guys i have 2 errors im trying to implement unity ads and im using a template that already has unity ads. when i clicked the on button to monitize these errors popped up. any fixes?

[swift falcon]

anyone can help me?

[teal jetty]

not comptatible webgl i think fuck

[fervent furnace]

i see someone talk about a* above
are there any guys know what is the stopping condition of bidirectional a*?
i read some python codes,
one is just frontier of forward search==frontier of backward search,
some of them is max(top of two heaps) <= minimum predict value (i read a pdf on is similar to this but <= minimum predict value + certain value),
i wrote my a* based on second one but i am not quite sure

[tepid river]

wdym stop condition?
either you have reached all nodes or your stop early when you found what you were searching

ah nevermind, bidirectional

for dijkstra, the current node is always the best path so far, so with bidirectional you just stop when you meet.
a* uses a heuristic on top of that, sacrificing perfection for speed, so you can also stop when you meet and accept that it might not be 100% ideal path

if you want a perfect path, you shouldnt use a* anyways

[fervent furnace]

a* is complete if h is not overestimate ofc my h may not be perfect

[tepid river]

yes if you would let it finish. but im not sure about that if it meets inbetween

[fervent furnace]

i have considerd implement bidirectional bfs but it is quite slow compared with a*

although it guarantees return a shortest path

[tepid river]

bellman forde is worse than dikjstra and a*, only useful if you must have negative edge values

dont know your use case, but you can jsut scale back the weight of the heurisitic. the closer it gets to zero, the more A* turns into dijkstra. just try out and use what feels right

[fervent furnace]

it should independent from use case, the beauty of math and algorithm but i am poor in discrete math so i cant enjoy it

[tepid river]

you have to put restrictions in anyways. bellman forde has them too

it will crash on negative cycles iirc

[fervent furnace]

some paper on NBA* but i cant fully understand it...

[worthy brook]

I'm having some trouble getting Netcode for GameObjects to work, I managed to create a manager and run a host and have a client connect to it, and I added Client Network Transform and Network Object components, but the clients who connect to the host still can't move. Anyone know what the issue might be?

I'm following this tutorial for NGO btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yuBOB3VrCk

[latent latch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stJ4SESQwJQ

Try this one instead. Tarodev usually has the repo in the description available.

[worthy brook]

thanks! I'll take a look

[median folio]

Hello, I'm trying to wrap my head around some logic. I have about 10 cubes that moves from point A to B. I also have a separate manager class to control the logic of the level.

I was thinking about firing an event when each cube finishes moving from A to B and then my level manager can listen to this. The problem is that I would need a reference to each of those 10 cubes in my manager?

I'm trying to find a way to dev this that I can use that cube logic in any level without hardcoding too much. Any suggestions on how to go about this?

[civic fern]

One way to approach this is to use a script that can be attached to any game object that needs to move from point A to B this script can have its own event that is fired when the game object reaches point B your level manager can then listen to this event without needing a direct reference to each game object instead it can simply search for all game objects in the scene that have the moving script attached and subscribe to their events

[bronze rampart]

Should I be using scriptable objects for anything I intend to spawn in and out at a high frequency? Or for use cases that don't need to store more than a few variables should I continue to use pooled GameObjects with monobehaviours?

[civic fern]

for objects that need to be spawned and destroyed frequently, like bullets, particles, or enemies, using pooled GameObjects with MonoBehaviours can be more efficient, so depends what ur using it for

[median folio]

Ahh that makes a lot of sense! Thanks @civic fern ! I think I'm mostly there all I would need to do is add the code to find the game objects with the Movement script and subscribe to all their events and it should hopefully just work - I'll try this now!

[civic fern]

goodluck, keep us updated :D

if u need more help just ask

[bronze rampart]

Im spawning a bunch of projectiles that are affected by various forces non of wich I would like to get the rigidbody component for at runtime and before I start storing things other than gameobjects in my pooler I want to make sure im not going about it wrong. Its just a rigidbody for now but I use this pooler to pool everything that spawns at runtime more or less and would prefer it to be very lightweight and simple

[civic fern]

If you don't want to get the Rigidbody component at runtime, you could consider adding it to the prefab for the projectile, so that it's already attached when you instantiate the object this will be more performant than trying to add the Rigidbody component at runtime if you're concerned about the memory usage of storing other components in your pooler, you could consider using a lightweight alternative like structs or simple data classes to store the necessary information however keep in mind that this may make your code less flexible and harder to maintain in the long run ultimately it's up to you to decide what approach makes the most sense for your specific use case and performance requirements. If you're unsure, it's always a good idea to test and benchmark different approaches to see which one performs best in your game

[bronze rampart]

Im still getting the "Projectile" class with a getcomp call in that case though right?

[civic fern]

Yes, if you want to use the Projectile class for your projectiles, you will still need to get the Rigidbody component from each spawned projectile.
However, you can minimize the performance impact of this by caching the Rigidbody component after getting it once and then reusing the cached reference for subsequent updates. For example, you could add a private Rigidbody rb; field to your Projectile class and then cache the reference in the Start or Awake method

then in your update or fixedUpdate method, you can use the cached refrence instead of calling getComp everytime

[bronze rampart]

ok cool. That was more or less the plan I just wasnt sure of this was the intended use case for scriptable objects since ive avoided learning about them them like the plague

[polar marten]

do you have a screenshot of your game?

[polar marten]

Should I be using scriptable objects for anything I intend to spawn in and out at a high frequency?
no. you use a pool of prefabs

[bronze rampart]

Instance objects --> get components --> set active as normal now all that is at start but what's 300 getcomponents all at once? lol

or whatever my pool size is

much preferred to at runtime though

[polar marten]

scriptable objects make sense as data containers of string, float, int, struct fields. if they reference rendering data like textures and sprites, you are usually better off with a prefab. if they reference prefabs, you are making a design error.

if you are adding code to a scriptable object class, you are making a design error

[worthy brook]

sure do, let me just get it running

[bronze rampart]

TYVM! @civic fern @polar marten

[civic fern]

💟

goodluck

[polar marten]

you can make the manager a singleton, and the cubes call a method on it.

[polar marten]

you're at the start of a long journey

what version of unity are you using?