archived-code-general

[plucky inlet]

Welp, looks like you cant from the default animator methods

I mean, yuo can probably with reflection and editor tools, but thats not gonna work on runtime

and you want that enum to reflect the states in your animator?

You should make a transition then and check the next state

Why do you even use the animator then?

just use the animations you throw into it

It all depends on your animations tho

but your animations are clips inside your animator

every state holds an animation, right?

If you do not use the animator for anything transition like from one state to the other, you can just use the Animation itself, the AnimationClip

Or you just create an ANimationState on the fly and throw in the clip as state clip

just add an ANimation Component to your object instead and add your clips to the list

[void glade]

Hello, not too sure if this is the right place to ask this but, Im new to Unity's AR foundation, and I am trying to add an image as a background so that it shows behind the users face, Im trying to use the Custom material in the AR Camera Background but ll im getting is a black screen when I enable it. If anyone can help with that would be much appreciated.

[plucky inlet]

#🤯┃augmented-reality is your place 🙂

[void glade]

Oh thank you , I dunno how I missed that channel 🤦

[elfin tree]

Is it possible to modify this template so that it accepts interfaces too?
Or the interfaces so it's known that they are inherited by ScriptableObjects?

public abstract class LootTableBase<T> : ScriptableObject where T : Object {

[plucky inlet]

I was 😄

[plucky inlet]

What exactly are you trying here? Pass in a generic type?

Interface != class

[elfin tree]

So there's no way around this you think?

[plucky inlet]

I do not even know what you want exactly 😄 can you elaborate in more detail?

[elfin tree]

I'm trying to intergrate this into my code, but I'm using Interfaces on ScriptableObjects for my different type of loots

While this thing from Github expects ScriptableObjects

[leaden ice]

Wdym by this and what does it have to do with your generic type

[plucky inlet]

to use an interface.

So you can use that interface of type ILootable or what not to do what you want

[elfin tree]

I'm not quite sure what the question is, let me add a bit of information. I am already using interfaces on my scriptable objects, is called Lootable, but if I try to use it as is then I get the following:

[leaden ice]

you have a type constraint on your generic

that it must derive from Object

(UnityEngine.Object)

[elfin tree]

Yeah, but could this be changed to not have that?

[leaden ice]

sure, delete the type constraint

[plucky inlet]

remove where T:Object

[elfin tree]

Alright, I'll import the whole code base then and try to modify it, thanks!

[plucky inlet]

public class Test<T> : ScriptableObject, IEnumerable
{
    public IEnumerator GetEnumerator()
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }
}

public class SubTest : Test<IEnumerable>
{
}

[elfin tree]

Didn't want to get into it if it wasn't doable, it might break somewhere else but atleast it's a thing

[formal quest]

Is there a way to get Application.isMobilePlatform to return true; or Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.Android when running the game in simulator mode?

I have simulator setup to use Samsung Galaxy device, but both of these return false.

[elfin tree]

What would I replace T : Object with though?

[elfin tree]

Not sure I get what you mean here

Okay yeah I can just remove it haha

Just had to remove it in many places

[leaden ice]

nothing

[swift falcon]

Does unity have built in multiplayer modules?

I havent dared to mess with multiplayer yet

[leaden ice]

Unity has lots of packages for lots of things

depends what kind of "multiplayer modules" you mean

[swift falcon]

Like, a basic way for 2 people to connect to the same server

[leaden ice]

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/about/index.html

[swift falcon]

Thank you

[leaden ice]

There's nothing "basic" about networking or multiplayer in general

[swift falcon]

Yeah thats why I havent messed with it lmao

[swift falcon]

What does this line indicate?

I am accessing the unity classes in the vs anyways. I dont think theres any better experience than having a configured ide

[sage latch]

As the warning says, go to settings and set vs as the external code editor. It'll give you better syntax highlighting, intellisense and autocompletions

[candid trench]

Alright, after having googled and thought about it for a long time, its now time to ask the awesome folks of discord for an answer to my question.

Im procedurally generating a mesh in my scene to act as a debug overlay in development.
The overlay is showing all the "tiles" of the map. This works great for one color.
But now my question becomes, can i have more than one color on one mesh?
And i dont mean two colors that blend, i mean two colors at two different spots in the mesh.

Do i have to somehow procedurally generate a texture and apply it?

[swift falcon]

already did that earlier though

ahh maybe needs a restart

[sage latch]

Why are you on ancient unity

[swift falcon]

I'm one of them, Ancients

[sage latch]

Probably has to do with the 6 year old version

[plucky inlet]

yep 😄

[swift falcon]

Restart did nothing *presses the Do Not Warn Again and continues life*

[sage latch]

Is there a reason you use that version of unity?

Cause I highly recomend updating if there's no reason

[west lotus]

You could use vertex colors instead of doing uvs and a procedural texture

[swift falcon]

This is the only version that can run for my 2013 laptop

[sage latch]

Fair enough

[swift falcon]

We can CTRL+Scroll on vs 😯 I might actually love vs

[steady moat]

Yes, you need to duplicated your vertices so the colour does not blend. If you want colour in specific spot that are inside a triangle (does not correspond to a whole triangle), then you need to use UVs.

[candid trench]

So effectively making two different meshes?

[steady moat]

No, just making sure your triangle does not share any vertices.

[candid trench]

how do i then assign a specific material to the triangle?

[steady moat]

Use vertex colour.

[candid trench]

and youre right btw, i dont need different colors inside of a triangle, single colours are good enough

ill check it out ty.

[candid trench]

I am only now understanding that you meant the same as Simferoce :>

hm, one question, this seems to use the Color class rather than a Material class. Am i correct?

[chilly beacon]

hey dude sorry for such a late reply i was in school the code you gave completely demolishes the procedural generation

this is the map it creates

[steady moat]

Colour vertex use none of them. It uses Mesh.colors. (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mesh-colors.html) You then need to find or create a shader that use color vertex.

[cobalt wave]

its okay and hmm I understand it has to do with the "checkCellNeighbour" function since that one needs all of them to be generated

[mental pine]

hi, when I import models from Sketchup, my character can walk right through them, meaning they are not solid objects, how to fix?

[steady moat]

Add a MeshCollider or other type of collider on the object.

[chilly beacon]

@cobalt wave is this is the map i get when i generate with my code

[cobalt wave]

basically, ths part that uses the checkNeighbourCells needs to be in a seperate loop, after the generation. but also, if you really want speed you could also try writtinf a compute shader, those like to be fast. im tired atm so ima go sleep noa

ill look into it when i waje up

[chilly beacon]

gave a good sleep dude, and i will look into compute shader

[mental pine]

tysm

[elfin tree]

Hey, so for a few hours I've been trying to refactor this code so it can accept Interfaces too, my issues is that, even though my interface is of a ScriptableObject, which would work with the rest of the code, I'm unable to properly figure out what to do.

What I've done so far is refactor T : Object for T : INameable which has a GetName() method, but it becomes an issue because a lot of the code is based on Editor Serialized property so I get a lot of errors even though it builds..

The interfaces are always of ScriptableObjects but I'm not quite sure how to make that clear in the code, if it's possible.

https://github.com/Kellojo/Unity-Simple-Loot-Table

[fringe ridge]

Any ideas why the font I downloaded displays as white squares? I tested it online and it is fine, but in unity with text mesh pro it just doesn't work

[rocky laurel]

Hello, voice chat is quieter in some places, but in the centre of the map, it is really loud? How do I fix this? I use Photon VR Voice

[leaden ice]

probably related to where you put your audio source

[steady moat]

Maybe you are looking for https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/where-generic-type-constraint. But beware, I am not sure the inspector handle well generic type. In fact, it might not even be serialise correctly.

[elfin tree]

Mhm, that's what happen'd.. I was hoping there was a way but I think at this point I'll just use ScriptableObjects..

[rocky laurel]

they are in the middle of the map

[leaden ice]

ok so problem solved

[rocky laurel]

players spawn in the house in the sky

[leaden ice]

that's why it's quieter farther away from it

[rocky laurel]

how do i get it to follow players

[leaden ice]

make it a child of the player

[steady moat]

You can use SerializeReference also. It might work for your use case.

[candid trench]

@steady moat mesh.colors worked wonders, helped me squash my pathfinding bug in no time, thanks!

[rocky laurel]

do you reckon this affects it too?

[leaden ice]

yes

do what it says

[regal marsh]

How hard would it be to programmatically quiet everything but the announcer group here when something from that group plays?

[steady moat]

Pretty easily, you would just need to set the volume to everything at -80 for the given time the announcer is talking. Even better would be to make an other node that regroup everything except the announcer.

Note that the AudioMixer as a non intuitive API and you may want to read on how to change the volume in script.

[regal marsh]

Okay, thank you. I'll let you know if I have more questions

[rocky jackal]

i have an object wich is a child of another object sometimes and i need to make it os the chil is always rotated upright. I tried it like this but it gave me very buggy results. what could i change ?

[neon plank]

How can I use NavMesh.SamplePosition in a two story building?
The method is sampling from the wrong floor.
Is there any workaround?

[rustic ember]

Do scriptable objects reset their data when the game is quit and reopened?

[west lotus]

Yes

But in a build not in the editor

[rustic ember]

Interesting. Thank you

[hard sparrow]

Hm, this is changing the color correctly, but it isn't changing the alpha

(the debug is showing the correct alpha number though)

[dusk apex]

Relative to naming conventions, you would be changing the color of the prefab.

Maybe you're wanting to change the color of the instance instead?

[hard sparrow]

No it was just bad naming. Should be instance

the color does change, just not the alpha for some reason

[dusk apex]

Might have to do with the settings of the material

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/StandardShaderMaterialParameterRenderingMode.html

[hard sparrow]

It's just the sprite unlit default material

[uncut plank]

calm down, it's been 2 minutes and you already crossposted it in 3 channels

post it in one channel and just wait

[true vessel]

ok

[regal marsh]

I am having some trouble with lerping my game volume. I am setting the values in Wwise and my mixer group, but although both of them appear to have updated when I debug them, they don't actually change in game.

https://pastebin.com/vETYmB1Y

Here is my log

As you can see the values when I get them directly from where I set them are updating correctly, but they are not actually changing at all when I play the game. I am testing this by calling it in Start. Does that not work? Or is there another problem?

[buoyant crane]

this is probably supposed to be in a coroutine. otherwise the while loop runs to completion immediately (in a single frame)

[floral coral]

How can I access one of two box colliders on a game object with GetComponent<>()? (one is a trigger, the other is for physics)

[knotty sun]

That is not a Lerp, that is a go from A to B the difficult way

[leaden ice]

Don't use GetComponent. Use a direct serialized reference (drag and drop)

[floral coral]

what's that
and how that

[leaden ice]

It's unity 101

one of the first things you learn

declaring public variables and assigning them in the inspector

[regal marsh]

How would you suggest it then

[floral coral]

I don't think I can do that, this is my code

public void Place(GameObject part)
    {
        partBeingPlaced = Object.Instantiate(part, new Vector3(), new Quaternion());
        // select one of the two box colliders of the game object "partBeingPlaced"
    }

[leaden ice]

You can absolutely do that

put a script on your prefab, and add public fields to it. Assign those fields in the inspector

[regal marsh]

That would make sense

[leaden ice]

new Quaternion() is not a valid rotation btw - use Quaternion.identity

and Vector3.zero

[regal marsh]

Because I'm pretty sure this does work, just not in start or awake which is kind of a weird bug

But based on how pumpkin described it, it makes sense

[floral coral]

idk what's going on there, it requires a Quaternion and it sets it to zero, no errors, so I'm ok with that

[hard sparrow]

It's because I had opacity set to 50 when alpha is actually supposed to be between 0 and 1

[leaden ice]

Quaternion.identity is the correct way

you probably get a warning with your current way.

[floral coral]

I don't

[leaden ice]

Trying to teach you better practices, that's all. You don't have to accept them.

[lunar forum]

Is there some dumb reason that I'm missing as to why I cannot add new tags?

[deft fossil]

Can someone give me a hand? I'm trying to assign randomly a total of 26 tags to Instantiated gameObjects, but its assigning the first tag only, going over the limit.```cs
public GameObject floors;
private int MaxFloors = 26;

public Material Enemy;
public Material Weapon;
public Material Empty;


string[] tags =
{
    "Monster", "Empty", "Weapon"
};

int[] tagCounter = { 14, 5, 7 };

int index = 0;

void Start()
{
    for(var i = 0; i < MaxFloors; i++)
    {
       GameObject newFloor = Instantiate(floors, new Vector3(i * 20.0f,0,0), Quaternion.identity);
        for(int j = 0; j < tagCounter[index]; j++)
        {
            newFloor.tag = tags[index];
            index++;
            
            if(index >= tags.Length)
            {
                index = 0;
            }
        } 
    }
}

[leaden ice]

You don't need or want the inner for loop

delete the inner for loop

[fringe ridge]

Any imported fonts in current project have 0 characters and glyphs when converted to tmpro asset. Now on another project, they are working fine. Any ideas?

[deft fossil]

its not tagging now

If you need more context, I need 14 of Monster tag, 5 of empty and 7 for weapon

[leaden ice]

Then you would need a second variable to track where you are in the tagCounter list

[coral hornet]

i instantiate an object, i place an object with a collider for its child, i begin creating more objects as its child, i try to raycast from outside inward to see where it hits and try to place the child there, but it wont intercept a single collider despite it clearly intercepting colliders

im probably just not seeing something very simple that im overlooking

but ive debugged the ray, i can see it intercepting the collider, i checked that theres a collider on those objects, i dont believe the Z axis is interfering with the operation, i really dont understand the issue

i printed how many RaycastHit objects its returning and its telling me 0

so its just not hitting anything

but i can see the debugged rays hitting the objects, and honestly im just confused

my only real guess is that they might have inversed direction?!?

but wait.. that cant be because the origin value is set as the origin of the ray, i wouldve clearly seen if the direction was inversed because it would go the opposite direction from the origin value facing away from the object

im confused :/

[leaden ice]

The physics scene doesn't update until the next physics simulation step.

But you can force it to update with https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.SyncTransforms.html

So if you're placing colliders etc you won't see them with raycasts until either the next physics sim or you call that^

[coral hornet]

oh.. alright thanks

so every time i instantiate an object i have to sync transforms?

or do i do it after i position the object?

since it has to do with transforms

ill do it after positioning just to be safe

hey it works! thanks a ton, wouldve never guessed that

[leaden ice]

I'd say do it right before you do a physics query

[coral hornet]

alright

[regal marsh]

Back on this, they were right. How should I lerp this?

[lunar forum]

There was a dumb reason. The tag already existed.

[proper nymph]

How do developers approach programming their games? I'm aware that the potential answer will be "It depends on the project," but I'm more so referring to the common things people do when developing code for their project. How much online research do you find yourself doing to code something specific vs figuring it out on your own?

I've had experience programming outside of Unity and I tried to figure out how to answer programming questions from classes on my own save for very specific questions i wanted to find the answer to on stackoverflow. But those questions were pretty simple while doing a unity project is a lot more involved. A common thing I see online is that most of programming is looking up what your asking to code and then basically copy the answer to your own code base, but I'm worried that's going to develop bad habits.

If the question is confusing and need to specify anything please let me know.

[rustic ember]

I try to figure out a solution by myself, but will afterwards look for others' implementation if my code is too slow. Don't look too much for a single solution. I have found it to be better to ask for pointers. These pointers will introduce me to new concepts that I can then look up and experiment with. Examples could be dictionaries, Unity events, or singletons. All of these things I wouldn't know existed without asking people for help / looking up other people's code.

This is just my own experience, keep that in mind

Also, showing your code to other people and them telling you: "You suck! X is a much better way to do it", is what I learn the most from

[proper nymph]

lol glad you took it in stride. Thanks for the advice!

[deep fable]

How can I switch the noise profile of a cinemachine virtual camera from handheld to 6D shake from code?

[clever lagoon]

"A common thing I see online is that most of programming is looking up what your asking to code and then basically copy the answer to your own code base, but I'm worried that's going to develop bad habits." Agree, this is awful, at least if one is copy/pasting the exact code- one learns nothing, and introduces possible problems. Of course, there is nothing wrong with finding/learning an efficient way to do something, and applying that pattern in your code. The one exception to using others' code- well vetted libraries/packages: you don't want to spend time re-inventing the wheel when you can use a perfectly good one.

[tidal shadow]

what could be a better practise than showing a visual guide of a specific task after getting a hearing guide on how to do it?
not sure using an IEnumerator is such a good practise, but im not sure it isnt either

[uncut plank]

☝️ that

[cerulean oak]

how do I set the TextField size to a number, and it's label to fit?

editor TextFields

[leaden ice]

#📲┃ui-ux #↕️┃editor-extensions #🧰┃ui-toolkit

as appropriate

[rustic ember]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Assertions.Comparers.FloatComparer.html What does the "absolute error check" mean vs "relative error check"?

[leaden ice]

not totally sure but here's the code https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/61f92bd79ae862c4465d35270f9d1d57befd1761/Runtime/Export/Assertions/Assert/Comparers/FloatComparer.cs#L55

[rustic ember]

Thank you

That makes sense

Where do you find the code? Do you look through the github, or is there a link in the docs?

[leaden ice]

I search their github org

[knotty sun]

@rustic ember This may be interesting
https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/3362/relative-comparison-of-floating-point-numbers

absolute (abs(a-b) < eps) as well as relative (abs(a-b)/max(abs(a), abs(b)) < eps) 

[rustic ember]

Not really what I was looking for, but certainly interesting. Thank you

[lost night]

Hey, I wanted to ask how I can detect collisions while an animation. Thanks for any help

[leaden ice]

wouldn't you just use normal collision detection techniques?

[lost night]

On collision enter does not work for objects moved by an animation. Suposably because it overites the reansform instead of using physics. But i am not sure about that one.

[leaden ice]

OnCollisionEnter only is going to work for dynamic Rigidbodies period

animation or no

obviously if you're using an animation to move it, it's not dynamic

[rustic ember]

What would be a smart way to let the player select a character before going into a level/changing scene and let the GameManager in the level scene know which ones (characters) were chosen?

[leaden ice]

keep a GameState or GameData object around on a DDOL object which contains all information about the current state of the game

including chosen characters, equipment, etc...

[lost night]

How do I change that then?

[leaden ice]

you wouldn't change that

you just can't use OnCollisionEnter

[rustic ember]

Thank you. I totally forgot that DDOL was a thing

[lost night]

What can I use instead?

[rustic ember]

Can a DDOL object have a singleton script attached?

[somber nacelle]

sure, why not? in fact making a singleton DDOL is a common pattern

[leaden ice]

OnTriggerEnter
Direct physics queries (Raycast, OverlapBox etc...)

[marble halo]

So i've almost got my player to slide down steep slopes

However the way the player slides down is a bit bumpy

        {
            var normal = player.hitNormal;
            player.velocity += new Vector3(normal.x, -normal.y, normal.z) * 2;
        }```

mainly on really steep slopes

[fluid lily]

Wait does RaycastAll return hits ordered farthest first???

[somber nacelle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.RaycastAll.html

Note that the order of the results is undefined

[fluid lily]

What why unity!😭

[simple egret]

Probably because of physics engine optimizations

You can still order in your own code though

[rustic ember]

I know that I could just rename the script, but is there a way to override the built-in and avoid the warning?

[knotty sun]

yes, change the namespace in your script

[fluid lily]

Yeah just gonna write a static extension that orders them, just weird that it wouldn't be ordered but I am not familiar with how physics engines work so \(-.-)/

[rustic ember]

How? What do you mean?

[knotty sun]

do you not know what a namespace is?

[rustic ember]

Yes. but wdym "change the namespace in my script"?

You mean not use UnityEngine?

I still need the MonoBehaviour part

[knotty sun]

if you have 2 CharacterControler scripts, you can seperate them by making one of them MyNameSpace.CharacterController, thus removing the warning

[rustic ember]

public class CharacterController : UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour

[rustic ember]

Oh smart. I didn't know

[rustic ember]

This seemed to work as well

But will kind of suck in the future

[knotty sun]

only becaue you have spelt it incorrectly

[rustic ember]

?

What? I don't think so

[knotty sun]

Controler does not have a double l

[rustic ember]

You're joking right?

[simple egret]

It does have two l's

[knotty sun]

sorry, my bad

[rustic ember]

Anyway, thank you

Is the C# version different from Unity versions?

[simple egret]

Yes

[rustic ember]

Great!

I should probably upgrade some of my projects then

[simple egret]

Though Unity controls the project file, so they are linked

[somber nacelle]

it actually depends on the unity versions. for example 2021, 2022, and 2023 are all on c# 9

[simple egret]

Can't bump the C# version alone, as Unity will override it when the project file is regenerated

[rustic ember]

Ah, ok. I figured something like this was the case. How can I see which language versions the different editor versions use?

[somber nacelle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.3/Documentation/Manual/CSharpCompiler.html

[simple egret]

It's listed online

[rustic ember]

Thanks. Why are there two?

[somber nacelle]

because it depends on the scripting runtime version selected in your project settings like the text directly above that table says

[rustic ember]

Right, sorry. How can I see which is the default?

[somber nacelle]

you can check the setting in your project to see which it is currently on. if you've never changed it then you know that is the default

but also is there a reason you are using 2018 and not a more modern version?

[rustic ember]

I am using 2020 for my new projects

[somber nacelle]

the table you linked is from the 2018 page 🤔

[rustic ember]

Yeah

I have a few old projects

[solemn raven]

Hey,
what is the right way to Convert string to int ?

[leaden ice]

int.TryParse

Should only be done if you're handling user input basically

[solemn raven]

it did work , thanks ❤️

[coral hornet]

so uh advanced seems pretty dead right now so i guess ill ask here

[vagrant blade]

No, that's crossposting.

Regardless, it wasn't even an advanced level question. It's beginner at best. You look up how to do AI. That's where you start.

[coral hornet]

so i should remove it and post in beginner?

because ive looked it up and i dont understand a thing

[vagrant blade]

You don't need to post, the answer is: figure out the rules for your AI and implement it. Research as well.

There's no one way.

[coral hornet]

i have so many "rules" that im just sorta puzzled, i guess ill try my best

[coral hornet]

my issue is that i dont really know where to look, theres so many resources on AI but they all talk about specific algorithms that all have very different ways of "learning" so to speak, and i dont really know where to start

if you could atleast reccomend an article for where i could look it would be much appreciated

[visual flare]

If the image is off center in the camera, is there a way to center it without moving the camera?

[coral hornet]

wdym "image"

like a ui element?

[vagrant blade]

I'm not going to look online for you. You can start with State Machines with regards to AI.

[visual flare]

3d world stuff, centering this capsule

you'd do it with tilt shift lens IRL

[velvet quartz]

ContactPoint contact = collision.GetContact(0);```
Why first line exst if on the doc they said to not use this method ?

[quartz folio]

GetContact was introduced as of 2018.3

[toxic notch]

Whats the best way to scale movement between two different ranges? If I have 1 m arm and I rotate it so it's level with the base and then I want to take that distance that I rotated and apply it to a 10m arm but scale it in a way so that the 10m arm moves to be level, how would I do that?

[velvet quartz]

how you know

[quartz folio]

it's in the documentation

[velvet quartz]

ok

[velvet quartz]

ok

[cosmic rain]

Assuming these are vectors, lerp rotation and magnitude, then combine

Or slerp

[polar marten]

you can use camera perspective editor from the asset store if you want to easily do this

[stray blaze]

Hey! So I had something I've been trying to figure out for the past 2 days, I have prefab clones which are instantiated into my scene after the App has launched, part of these clones is a button that is supposed to disable a component of another gameobject that already exists in the scene from the start, but I'm not able to directly connect it through the inspector to the button click event due to it not existing in the scene, is there a straight forward method to assign it? Or would it have to run through a coded method in order to access that component?

[onyx mango]

I have a script that contain this line of code Application.targetFrameRate = 60;
and I have attached it to an empty game object and I also have like 5 different scenes on my game, do I have to attach this script to a game object in every scene ?

[hearty lagoon]

so i an using [ExecuteInEditMode] to place prefabs in my scene and give them a name related to their position.

        for (int PosX = 0; PosX < Width; PosX++) {
            for (int PosZ = 0; PosZ < Length; PosZ++) {
                GameObject tempTile = PrefabUtility.InstantiatePrefab(tile, transform) as GameObject;
                tempTile.transform.position = new Vector3(PosX, 0, PosZ);
                tempTile.name = PosX + "-" + PosZ;
            }
        }

it get disabled afterwards so it doesnt run the next time i click play. however the next time i click play all the prefab's custom names get reverted to the original prefab name. how do i fix this?

they dont change their name anywhere else

[visual flare]

very cool, thanks

[proven plume]

You only need to do it once. I would recommend not using targetFrameRate, if possible. It's implementation is a bit shoddy and can cause issues in some specific cases.

[leaden ice]

Do you have any more information about that? I feel very uneasy leaving framerates uncapped by default (unless you recommend vSync instead or something?)

[lunar forum]

Would this be the right place to ask for recommendations on my singleton implementation?

Or would that go in Advanced?

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

public class GameManagerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    private static GameManagerScript instance;
    private static int points = 0;
    private static bool havePackage = false;

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (instance == null)
        {
            instance = this;
        }
        else
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }

    public static void AddPoints(int p) { points += p; }

    public static int GetPoints() { return points; }

    public static void LoadGameOver()
    {
        points = 0;
        SceneManager.LoadScene("GameOver");
    }

    public static bool CheckHavePackage()
    {
        return havePackage;
    }

    public static void SetHavePackage(bool hp)
    {
        havePackage = hp;
    }
}

So, that's currently what I'm doing. I suppose all the other methods aren't important, but I honestly just don't understand singletons.

[leaden ice]

Seems like a just-fine minimal singleton implementation

it doesn't use DDOL so it won't persist between scenes but that's not always desired.

although

you should NOT make all your variables static

I just noticed that

[lunar forum]

Oh. I thought you had to.

[leaden ice]

the only thing in this whole script that should be static is this:
private static GameManagerScript instance;

everything else that is static should not be static

You should also make a public accessor for that field

[lunar forum]

Interesting. A video I watched about it said otherwise. Or maybe I just misunderstood.

[leaden ice]

public static GameManagerScript Instance => instance;```

[leaden ice]

you misunderstood

or it was a bad video

remove static from everything except instance, and make instance public

then you're good to go

[lunar forum]

Awesome. I'll do that. As for DDOL, where would I implement that if I wanted that feature?

In the awake method?

[soft shard]

The idea of a static Instance is so you can call any public variable/function from the Instance directly, if you wanted to call data from the GameManagerScript class itself, then making other parts of the script static makes sense, though in this case it doesnt seem youd want that

[leaden ice]

in Awake, yes

[lunar forum]

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

public class GameManagerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static GameManagerScript instance;
    private int points = 0;
    private bool havePackage = false;

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (instance == null)
        {
            instance = this;
        }
        else
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
        DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
    }

    public static void AddPoints(int p) { instance.points += p; }

    public static int GetPoints() { return instance.points; }

    public void LoadGameOver()
    {
        points = 0;
        SceneManager.LoadScene("GameOver");
    }

    public bool CheckHavePackage()
    {
        return havePackage;
    }

    public void SetHavePackage(bool hp)
    {
        havePackage = hp;
    }
}

woops

forgot to remove a couple of static references

But this is what I have now.

[leaden ice]

DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject); should only be in the if statement right after instance = this;

[proven plume]

Do you have any more information about

[lunar forum]

Perfect. thanks!

So, okay, follow up question. Since I removed the static references, when I want to call one of the methods in my singleton, I'm have to say GameManagerScript.instance.[some method]();. Is that the expected way to reference methods from my singleton?

[leaden ice]

yes

[lunar forum]

kk

[leaden ice]

that's the typical way to use a singleton

[lunar forum]

thought so, but wanted to double check.

[leaden ice]

It's not generally good naming convention to use the word Script at the end of your class names

We already know it's a script

that isn't adding anything

in fact it's not a script. The type represents a GameManager instance itself

not the script.

[lunar forum]

I only do it cause I named a script "Camera" one time and it messed me up for days.

I'm just paranoid I'm going to name a script something that is already a reserved word and frustrate myself for days again.

Otherwise I agree. I don't like adding that word, but keeps me from using reserved words by accident.

[leaden ice]

Camera is not a reserved word, it's just the name of an existing class. If you get comfortable with the use of namespaces, it's not a problem at all. You can also just very easily see which type is being used in your IDE by hovering over it or cmd clicking it

that's a mistake you only really make once

(the mistake is not naming your script Camera, but not realizing what the issues was for so long)

[lunar forum]

I mean, yea, I think I'd recognize the issue a lot quicker next time at the very least. I'll have to try the cmd clicking thing you mentioned. Never done that before.

[leaden ice]

(ctrl if not on a Mac)

basically get familiar with your IDE

it's a tool to make your life easier

it has all kinds of features that let you jump around the code and understand the code you're looking at more easily

[soft shard]

If it helps, I try to name my scripts based on what they do, just naming a script "Camera" on its own doesnt describe what it does, if it moves the camera based on input, maybe "CameraController" makes more sense, if it takes screenshots from the cameras position, maybe "CameraSnapshot" makes more sense, this way you know both what the script is intended to do by its name alone, and hopefully wont run into issues of confusing reserved names

[lunar forum]

Does this mean that you would also then use multiple scripts on the same game object depending on the functionality that the scripts offered?

I think that's why I've named my scripts the way I have - I have wanted all functionality for the player object to be contained in one script, which then contains all the functionality for the player object. So, naming them on the function they provide hasn't been very obvious for me (unless a script I've written only provided one function in the first place).

[soft shard]

Typically I would, yes, I have a specific naming convention that helps me know the general intention of most scripts I write, which may come with time and developing your own naming convention that makes sense to you, but its actually easier when you get used to using multiple scripts instead of trying to have 1 script do everything - for example, if I wanted to make a playable character, I might have a "InputManager" to detect movement keys, and a "PlayerController" to hold functions for movement, maybe a "CharacterController" if I wanted to control the physics of movement, maybe a "AudioPlayer" if I wanted to have footsteps when you move, etc

This way if theres a problem with say input, I know which script its in and I dont have to scroll through a 2000+ line script to find 1 function, it also lets me reuse parts of a script for other systems - say I wanted to add AI, they move, I could reuse the "CharacterController" and "PlayerController" since the "player" only moves from input, while AI doesnt, but physcally moving is the same

[waxen jasper]

I posted this in the network channel as well but I'm casting a large net :D. Whats the best approach to sync clients joining a session in progress? The issue I'm currently facing is all the network objects that have been destroyed are frozen in place at the place they were destroyed at before the client joined. I'm using a ClientRpc as well as a ServerRpc to return objects back to the pool. There's also some other weirdness happening on the client but I'll tackle that next. In the screenshot you can see frozen missles left over from the host(on the left) on the client(right).

[plucky karma]

If it wasn't for MonoBehaviour inheritance, GameManager would've be as easy as calling

public sealed class GameManager {
  private static GameManager _instance;
  public static GameManager => _instance ??= new GameManager();
  private GameManager() {} // to avoid accidentally ctor elsewhere. Also - should not invoke any expensive ops.
}

[solemn raven]

Hey ,
why does the following sample fails sometimes ?

float _temp = default;
float.TryParse(textMeshPro.text, out _temp );
_temp = _temp + 0.1;
textMeshPro.text = _temp;

the function above is a response to a click of a button, the error I get ( not a console error but a visible one )
it works fine several times , the number is increasing 0.1 on each click , except that some times it increases 0.10000001 , whcih appears on the display instead of 6.2 > 6.20000000001
what is wrong with it ??

[craggy veldt]

that's normal due to floating point precision..

is the format 0.00000000 necessary? if not you can just do ToString() with an overload to format it so you don't need to do roundings etc

[solemn raven]

textMeshPro.text = _temp.ToString(); ?

[craggy veldt]

but with an overload to your floats

[solemn raven]

what do u mean ?

[craggy veldt]

myFloat.ToString("0.00")

[proper nymph]

Gotcha. Also apologize for delay computer crapped out on me

[solemn raven]

Ohh ok , thanks , first time to learn abou the string formates ^^

[craggy veldt]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-numeric-format-strings?redirectedfrom=MSDN

[lusty kite]

Guys how can i calculate this spawn location. The black circle is the map size. The red circle is radius from the main player. I want to randomly spawn enemy in the green area where is it not out of bound of map area (black circle) but also not in the area of main player. The player will always be inside map area.

i have a way to brute force the solution where i just find a random location inside the black circle, can calculate the distance to the player. If the distance is smaller than the radius from player, find another random location.

this seems really slow and inefficient in the worst case that it might keep randoming inside the red circle.

is there better way to do this mathematically?

[plucky karma]

You'd have to write your own equation to deduce a value between 0 to 1 , which can be used to receive a random range value and receive a valid location coordinate from that call.

Anything wasted would be a wasted call.

Could consider SDF, or reclamp value to nearest?

[flint sage]

instead of finding a point then caculate it, how about you give it condition first then find the point later?

[lusty kite]

im trying to calculate this. Find green area to spawn. But i havent found a way yet.

[flint sage]

I tried asking chatGpt but seems like it does exactly like what you did

which is kinda inefficient

[spice frost]

you could maybe do a similar approach but instead of trying new random points every time. Take the old "wrong" coordinate and shift it towards the black circle center. so in a sense you would use the initial random position as a seed and then trying to correct it. in some cases you might have to shift it away from the black circle center. So i would take the first random position, then try both moving towards the circle center and away from it. then try a different distance if that wasnt successful. the trick is figuring out the sweet spot of how far to move and where. But im 90% sure that in all cases theres a solution by either moving away or towards the black circle center.

[spice frost]

hope that gives you an idea of something different to try

[simple edge]

I reckon there's a lot of edge cases with this approach
E.g. generating a point directly on the red circles pivot, or to the far edge of the black circle, which the red circle overlaps

[spice frost]

hmm there might be, where there would definitely be some is if you move towards/away from the red circle center. i have to be honest i cant visualize edge cases for moving away/towards black circle center, but ill take your word from it. I mean once you get the distance just right i think it would work. I think they might also be able to figure out a safe min/max distance for this method with some geometry. If they simply move away enough to be further from red circle than red circle radius they're in the green zone. either away or towards the center, or anywhere if red circle and black circle share a center. once again, I may be missing cases though

[ruby fulcrum]

this is what i have in mind

bascailly the blue arrow representst he opposite direction from the player

[spice frost]

thing is with this it may put the enemy out of the black circle. imagine spawning just northeast of the red spot, it would move the enemy out of both circles

[ruby fulcrum]

if the enemy is pushed out of bounds, make it go in the same dir from the player to the new location

to prevent things like the enemy moving weirdly around the map, make an invis gameobject that calculates the location for the enemy and make the enemy go to that spot

[molten saddle]

I'm trying to draw an XYZ axis and label for an empty gameobject in the editor window.

The sphere is a Gizmo so that I can click it and select the object.
The sphere and axes are also Gizmos so that they are hidden by objects in front of them.
I'd like to use Gizmos to draw the label as well, but it seems that you can only do that with Handles.

My problem is that the Handle.Label is always behind the gizmos.

How can I draw the label on top of the gizmos? Is there some other way to do this?

public class SpawnPointGizmo : MonoBehaviour
{
    private const float AxisLength = 0.5f;

    private void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        // X axis
        Gizmos.color = Color.red;
        Gizmos.DrawRay(transform.position, transform.right * AxisLength);

        // Y axis
        Gizmos.color = Color.green;
        Gizmos.DrawRay(transform.position, transform.up * AxisLength);

        // Z axis
        Gizmos.color = Color.blue;
        Gizmos.DrawRay(transform.position, transform.forward * AxisLength);

        // Sphere
        Gizmos.color = Color.white;
        Gizmos.DrawSphere(transform.position, AxisLength * 0.25f);

        // GameObject name
        Handles.color = Color.white;
        Handles.Label(transform.position, gameObject.name);
    }
}

[simple edge]

Have you tried zTest?
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Handles-zTest.html

[molten saddle]

Yes, I tried a few of the options for that, but it didn't help.

It also says Default value is Always., which I took to mean it's always supposed to be on top

I'm assuming that Gizmos just aren't included in the zTest.

Edit: I tried all 9 of the CompareFunction options and none of them drew the label on top of the gizmos
Here's the setup I used

Handles.zTest = UnityEngine.Rendering.CompareFunction.Never;
Handles.Label(transform.position, gameObject.name);

[spice frost]

i believe i see what you mean now, given a big enough red circle it might not always work

[clever lagoon]

shot in the dark- for the handles: Handles.BeginGUI(); GUI.depth = 1; //stuff Handles.EndGUI();

[molten saddle]

No change unfortunately. The sphere gizmo is still on top of the handle label.

// GameObject name
Handles.BeginGUI();
GUI.depth = 1;

Handles.color = Color.white;
Handles.Label(transform.position, gameObject.name);

Handles.EndGUI();

Oddly, if I put the gizmo behind an object, then it will show the label on top.
I guess that's because the gizmo gets occluded but the handles don't

[plucky inlet]

Your issue is, you want to show the gizmo on top everytime?

[molten saddle]

I want to show the Label on top of everything. It's a Handle instead of a Gizmo, and the Gizmos are showing on top of it

As far as I know, the only way to show text in editor like this is with Handle.Label

[plucky inlet]

Cant you just offset the label in z axis towards the camera?

I suggest not using label then. Maybe something like this https://gist.github.com/Arakade/9dd844c2f9c10e97e3d0

[molten saddle]

That sounds like it might work. I'm not sure how to translate the position towards the camera like that

[clever lagoon]

^ not gonna be Z axis in world space if your camera has turned- but I agree .. moving toward camera is a good idea.

-camera.transform.forward would work tho

[plucky inlet]

yep, but as said, you could also just not use Label but use GUI and draw on top of everything with the script I pasted. different approaches

[warm fractal]

Making an RPG: In the past I had used enums to reference and figure out which stats to effect by code, and them being a hard-coded allowed me to directly reference them without issue. At some point it was suggested either by tutorial or a video or whatever to use ScriptableObjects in place of enums, so I was wondering if anyone had input on replacing enums with SOs for the purposes of something like stats in an RPG?

To be clear I've already been using SOs to at least initialize them, but I've reached the point where its becoming a bit tricky to deal with as I can't hard-reference certain things that I would normally need to. Was hoping someone had some thoughts as to the design philosophy

[clever lagoon]

The way to access each stat would still be "hard" coded in an SO, they would be the names of each of your stats, as a member of the SO derived class. But honestly , I'm not quite sure what your doing with the enums.

[plucky inlet]

If you are using SOs as Data Templates, you have to make your methods work in a more generic way. Instead of switching through an enum, you rather just have a method that handles your dataSO and just uses that data. Now you have to separate the selection of your datasource to another point in your script that passes in the correct SO to your method afterwards.

[soft shard]

One way would be to use Linq and call .ToArray() on Knots, then access the index that way, though the position I know is not a Vector3, rather a float3 so you may need to convert or use each individual axis as needed, otherwise I think the type being a IEnumerable there may be other ways to access it

[plucky inlet]

Are you planning on changing the SO values on runtime to store stats or just as template for base things like items or character roles?

[warm fractal]

Well for example, my SO for a StatType declares a localized string name for the stat, min/max value, and a start value. I have one for things like MaxHealth, AttackSpeed, and so on.

The thought process originally was if there was a stat I hadn't considered that I may need, adding it would be as simple as creating a new SO.

But I'm finding it difficult to sort through them for a specific stat, leading me to think of things like sorting through all the SOs for things like an "ID" which then resembles me hard-coding it anyway.

[plucky inlet]

So you want to add the "Attribute" Health as a new SO, later maybe the Attribute AttackSpeed and so on?

In this case, you would rather have to categorise your attributes to get your values taken into account rather then hardcoding the attribute itself. You gotta decide some base values in the end, otherwise you would try to make a full generic system which is not going to work well 😉

[warm fractal]

I wondered as much. I guess I'm still not confident in my coding skills despite my years of doing it.

[plucky inlet]

It is more about deciding at some point. Maybe refactor later as you learn that the system is not fitting your needs. But trying to make it generic all the way from A to Z because you are scared to make something wrong will just block your progress

[clever lagoon]

This is what a Dictionary<K,V> is great for- you can replace K and V with any types you want.. e.g K could be an int/a string/an enum/whatever, and V could be a reference to your attributeSO.

as long as you are consistent with the keys, you could even save them, rather than the whole SO object- when you save the game state

[warm fractal]

I use Dictionaries a handful, as it turns out. I have some DamageTypes connected to a DefenseStat class so that I may sort through quickly for whatever relevant defense is needed.

[clever lagoon]

ah, I must misunderstand the goal 😭

[warm fractal]

Finding that my "attributes" simply aren't a good fit for this methodology though.

I mean thats basically what I was doing up until now for them

[plucky inlet]

You might want to combine that enum with a scriptable object. You might have the Health type in your enum, and you can create SOs with that type that affect your health. But base values as a SO does not sound the best way, actually thinking you can add base elements later on does not sound like the right thing to go for, but maybe I am missing something

[warm fractal]

No, I had been ruminating on the thought of things like Health or AttackSpeed being separate for a bit now. It'd make things much simpler/easier/faster to work with, and its doubtful that I'll need to worry about it too much later on.

Thank you all for the correspondence, you've been most helpful.

[rain minnow]

so, you create an SO that is a StatType and it's the name of the stat, is that correct?

[warm fractal]

Among other things, yes. As previously mentioned, Min/Max stat amounts and base amounts.

[rain minnow]

sorry, just joined, what problems were you having with searching for a stat?

[warm fractal]

While I could search for a stat, it'd be little to no different than hard-coding it in the first place.

[rain minnow]

using an SO as an enum is not a bad way of doing things. i do smth similar. makes it easy to add any amount of types without needing to update a file or an enum . . .

[warm fractal]

Yeah the conclusion was that it wouldn't work well for replacing core gameplay stat mechanics; i.e. max health which may need to be later referenced directly as opposed to "searched" for.

[molten saddle]

I tried a couple of the solutions in here and they had the same issue, the Gizmo spheres draw on top of the Handle labels.
I tried moving the labels closer towards the camera, and it is also not making a difference. @clever lagoon

Handles.color = Color.white;
var view = UnityEditor.SceneView.currentDrawingSceneView;
Handles.Label(transform.position - view.camera.transform.forward, gameObject.name);

I appreciate the help, but it is looking like Unity just draws Gizmos on top of Handles here.
In that solution they are using UnityEditor.Handles. Is there a different way to draw text in the editor aside from Handles?

[plucky inlet]

The problem is the wish of being able to extend the base stats later on with new stats but nowhere in the code are they referenced then (what he means with hardcoding)

[plucky inlet]

GUI.Label is another option

[rain minnow]

i think the problem is how your base stats are modeled or the access to it. you can have a c# Stat class and a StatType SO to use for the name of any stat(s). any script that needs to access a stat will have a reference to the StatType SO and it'll pull the corresponding Stat from your dictionary (if i understand your issue) . . .

[plucky inlet]

Imagine he wants to add MaxHealth as stat but later on another state like MaxAttackSpeed and so on. Like a full generic way of setting up the base stat system.

[rain minnow]

you mean later on during gameplay or in the development process?

[plucky inlet]

I think he means on development process, probably

[hollow cliff]

is it possible to somehow query unity services player accounts from asp.net core server to authenticate users making api calls?

[plucky inlet]

The issue is, that he has to hardcode at least a switch or something to know what the stats are for. ANd it sounds like, he is not quite sure about his own system yet, as it might hold anything from health relevant to attack relevant stats. I suggested combining SO and enum, so the SOs have stats and a enum for the type they target like health or attack base stat. But if the goal is to also create those base stats based on SOs, thats gonna be a hard time

[plucky inlet]

Are you talking about API Calls like oAuth ?

[rain minnow]

that what it will do. i just have a list of stats. when i want to add a new one, i add to the list, which creates a new Stat and then i drag the StatType SO that represents the name of the stat. during gameplay, it creates a dictionary based on the list using the StatType SO and their associated Stat class . . .

[hollow cliff]

yep, i want server to provide stuff that unity services cannot do

[plucky inlet]

But you did categorise the stats at some point, right? Or can you character hold Health, Endurance and another Character hold Health and Strength but not endurance?

[hollow cliff]

probably what i wanna do is impossible since players need to be able to play without login via anonymous authentication to unity services, but maybe it exposes some tokens for these "local accounts"

so users cannot perform web api calls in behalf of another accounts

[plucky inlet]

Then you might have to read about tokens and logins and see if Unity API gives you any oAuth option to get a token you can then use to create a user on your server based on that information

[hollow cliff]

user is there on server but i dont want to hold login data, only limited authentication based on unity user ID in token or something

[plucky inlet]

Did you read about unity game services then?

[hollow cliff]

another developer is kinda responsible for it for now, i have limited knowledge 😛

[plucky inlet]

well he should assist you then, because those services are actually the portal for what you need Id say

[rain minnow]

1. no, the stat does not know if it represents Health, Endurance, etc., the StatType SO you assign to that stat does
2. yes, you add whatever stat(s) you want for that object (using a StatController class: this can be derived to specific controllers, like a GunController) . . .

[deep path]

where ?

[plucky inlet]

yeah, you assign teh SO to a stat, so that StatType is known upfront, correct?

[rain minnow]

yeah, in the editor during development . . .

[plucky inlet]

Okay, so I think we have to know, does he just want to create them on dev, which is possible as you said.

[rain minnow]

i mean, if you're creating a stat, you have to know what the stat is for, that wouldn't make sense otherwise . . .

[plucky inlet]

And I am not sure, this is the case in the current OPs thoughts 😉

[rain minnow]

@marble fjord (message was deleted so i lost the reply/mention)
these questions can't simply be answered as they depend on how the character controller is coded/designed. performance is based off how you write the code, not so much with method is used. your pseudo-physics can be more cost intensive than regular physics

you'll always encounter glitches when working with physics and fast or large-moving objects. you test and set limits to avoid these issues. also, nothing will be glitch free

you can have full control using a physics-based (rigidbody) character controller or writing your own. you will still encounter glitches with your own character controller; not using physics or part of it does not omit any controller from that

the only concrete answer i see is physics should be limited or carefully maintained if developing on mobile . . .

[true vessel]

mouse click event is not working ?
because im using a render texture in my camara
is there any other way to mouse click event in render texture?

[plucky inlet]

You could use a second camera that receives the input for example.

[drowsy crest]

Whats the best way to have different build modes, eg. I want to do a slightly different version of the game - one for my level editor to use, one for my artist to easily replace assets, a Demo build to upload to steam etc. etc. I was thinking of something where I can make Unity set preprocessor directives just by choosing a different build option, eg. "Demo build" , "Level editor build" etc,

[obtuse plinth]

Please help me i want to disable automatic clean scene after every test. Chatgpt said something like that but i dont have this option 😦

Open the Unity Editor and go to Edit > Project Settings > Editor.
In the Editor Settings, scroll down to the "Test Runner" section.
Uncheck the "Exit Play Mode After Test Run" option.
Click the "Apply" button to save your changes.

[cosmic rain]

Maybe look at the docs instead..?😅

[obtuse plinth]

i tried

[dawn nebula]

Is Unity ECS actually good to use now?

[quartz folio]

It's still not out of preview

[dawn nebula]

Alright but that doesn't aaaaalways mean bad to use 🤔

[cosmic rain]

Good from what perspective?

[true vessel]

i tried its not working

[plucky inlet]

This does not seem to be coding related, so maybe #📲┃ui-ux and get some details in that channel how you are using the rendertexture exactly

[tender sphinx]

How do i make my character run speed increase as time goes on? like in temple run

this is my current code for the movement and speed

[plucky inlet]

!code

[tawny elk]

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// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[tender sphinx]

Oh sorry

Im new to this

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

[rustic ember]

            if (listPositionKeys.Any(item => item.key == _listPositionKey))
            {

            }``` Is this a lambda expression?

[river wigeon]

Does anyone have a link to a good outline package on asset store? Or is there a pre existing unity solution to produce an outline?

I'd like a blurred outline on 3d objects

[rustic ember]

Try asking in #💻┃unity-talk or #archived-shaders

I have a class that looks like this: csharp public class ListPositionKeyData { public string key; public int listPosition = -1; }
How can I do something like this: csharp int index = listPositionKeys.IndexOf(item => item.key == _listPositionKey)? I want to get the index of the element in the list of ListPositionKeyData where key == _listPositionKey

[mellow sigil]

If listPositionKeys is a list then .FindIndex

[peak pivot]

Anyone have experience getting CPU profiling to work with Pix? I can't seem to get it to read the PDB files 😐

I've tried adding all the paths I can find with pbd files in them.

Yet all I see is this

When looking at sampled functions

(I'm using Pix here rather than Unity profiler since I want to do a sampled function profile)

When I tried using VerySleepy it correctly displayed the function names to it feels like I'm just somehow failing at getting Pix to understand where to find the symbols

[peak pivot]

I think I figured it out

Apparently I had to add a source path to <game_root>\<game_name>_BackupThisFolder_ButDontShipItWithYourGame\il2cppOutput

[winged pulsar]

can someone help me find why I'm getting this error? I don't call SendMessage at all in any of my scripts, and I don't think any of the plugins I'm using do either. Is some other function I'm calling invoking it or something??

[leaden ice]

Well if you look at the full stack trace you can see what's causing it. Appears to be Unity editor related at first glance

[winged pulsar]

this is all it says (if this is what you mean)

[plucky inlet]

It seems to be called from OnspriteTilingPropertyChange. Is that anything your plugins use?

[winged pulsar]

I don't think so, even then I'm using a lot of sprites and it only seems to be happening when i create new prefabs with sprites (the 2 ones being affected now), it hasn't affected any of the sprites I had before. I can't recall any plugins I installed recently either

[plucky inlet]

So you create a gameobject, add a sprite and make a prefab out of that which fires the warning?

Id say this is a bug, you might call something on OnValidate or Awake or something, that triggers this or your plugins do

[rustic ember]

Thank you 🙏

[rustic ember]

Wait no

Umm

I have a string that matches a variable of one of the list elements. I need to find the list element with the variable that matches.

[winged pulsar]

Ok I think I actually found why it's doing that, its not when I create a new object its when I'm adding it to a statemachinebehaviour script in the inspector like this:

Once i remove it i don't get the error, but I don't do anything in Awake or Onvalidate or whatever unless its doing it within the statemachinebehaviour by default

[peak pivot]

Can you elaborate?

[mellow sigil]

.Find

[rustic ember]

Yes. Something like this. Is there a super simple way to do this? csharp List<string> keys = new List<string>(); for (int i = 0; i < listPositionKeys.Count; i++) { keys.Add(listPositionKeys[i].key); } int index = keys.IndexOf("My Key");

The listPositionKeys have other variables than key too. I need to find the one from only knowing the key

So I can get the rest of the information

[peak pivot]

Like Nitku said, .Find .FindIndex or just a simple for loop

[rustic ember]

How can I use find and findindex for this?

I think I probably don't understand what they do. Can I pass in a parameter to look for in .Find? I thought I needed it to be the same type as the list elements

[peak pivot]

listPositionKeys.Find(i => i.key == "My Key");

[mellow sigil]

Literally this code but replace IndexOf with Find

[rustic ember]

Wow. Okay, thank you so much. I totally misunderstood 😅

Thank you both 🙏 🙏

[steady granite]

Hi, anyone know how I would add a new item to the create context menu in hierarchy, inside UI for example?

[rustic ember]

Judging by this post: https://forum.unity.com/threads/simplest-way-to-add-an-option-to-right-click-menu.424987/ the question probably belongs in #↕️┃editor-extensions

[steady granite]

I'll have a look at it thank you

[flint needle]

Why would any of these instructions replace my mesh (on meshFilter) for an instance of the mesh?

                var colors = mesh.colors;
                var triangles = mesh.triangles;

                int triangleIndex = hit.triangleIndex;

                var c0 = colors[triangles[triangleIndex * 3 + 0]];
                var c1 = colors[triangles[triangleIndex * 3 + 1]];
                var c2 = colors[triangles[triangleIndex * 3 + 2]];

                float red = (c0.r + c1.r + c2.r) / 3;
                float blue = (c0.b + c1.b + c2.b) / 3;
                float green = (c0.g + c1.g + c2.g) / 3;```

[buoyant mural]

ChatGPT answer: None of the instructions you provided should replace the mesh on the meshFilter component. These instructions are simply retrieving data from the mesh and performing calculations on that data. However, if you have other code that modifies the mesh or the meshFilter component, it could potentially replace the mesh at runtime.

[flint needle]

Thats what i thought, but commenting those lines erases the problem, the rest of the code is just reading the red blue green floats and playing a sound that

                {
                    return Surface.Grass;
                }
                
                if (red > VertexColorTolerance)
                {
                    return Surface.Path;
                }```

Its just that

[buoyant mural]

What about this?

[flint needle]

the only code left, i then have a switch that plays a sound and thats it

[buoyant mural]

Hmm

So what's your problem rn?

What exactly isn't working?

[flint needle]

It replaces the meshFilter for a mesh Instance

So the collider and the Filter dont match

[buoyant mural]

Mm

Ok

[flint needle]

also this is the only new code and i never had this problem before, so it has to be. (It doesnt interact with anything else, its just a sound player)

[buoyant mural]

This ain't the problem too

[honest citrus]

Hello Unity peeps, is there a component for motion blur and animation frame rates?

[flint needle]

When does Unity create these mesh Instances by itself?

[buoyant mural]

By itself huh

[flint needle]

I didnt write any code for it afaik

[honest citrus]

Cancel that, found the answer

[buoyant mural]

I'll dm you that

[sweet inlet]

I create screenshots using a renderTexture and save them as png, as a result of my approach i get transparent borders around my image (need to make the camera big enough so that different things are always in the frame), is there a way to remove these transparent borders somehow?
I also noticed the colors are different than whats seen onscreens, so i am not sure what todo about that

public void saveScreenshot()
    {
        foreach (var hideObject in hideScreenshotObjects)
        {
            hideObject.SetActive(false);
        }

        gameObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().position = new Vector3(1372, 720, 0);
        gameObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>().localScale = new Vector3(1, 1, 1);
        
        mainCanvas.renderMode = RenderMode.ScreenSpaceCamera;
        mainCanvas.worldCamera = cam;
            
        RenderTexture currentRT = RenderTexture.active;
        RenderTexture.active = cam.targetTexture;

        cam.Render();

        Texture2D Image = new Texture2D(cam.targetTexture.width, cam.targetTexture.height);
        Image.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, cam.targetTexture.width, cam.targetTexture.height), 0, 0);
        Image.Apply();
        RenderTexture.active = currentRT;

        var Bytes = Image.EncodeToPNG();
        Destroy(Image);

        File.WriteAllBytes("Screenshot.png", Bytes);
        mainCanvas.renderMode = RenderMode.ScreenSpaceOverlay;
        counter = 0;
            
        foreach (var hideObject in hideScreenshotObjects)
        {
            hideObject.SetActive(true);
        }
    }

[hexed pecan]

Returns either a new mesh or a duplicate of the existing mesh, and assigns it to the mesh filter.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MeshFilter-mesh.html

sharedMesh doesnt do that

[flint needle]

Ooooh ff

That must be it let me try

[buoyant mural]

Shared mesh modifies every object with that mesh

Same for anything Shared like materials

[hexed pecan]

I dont see them modifying it, just reading

[flint needle]

But im just reading

yeah

[buoyant mural]

And reading shouldn't cause instance creation

Oh wait nevermind I just read his code

[flint needle]

It works yesss

[hexed pecan]

What do you mean with "shouldnt"

[buoyant mural]

Nothing

[hexed pecan]

It should, according to documentation

[buoyant mural]

I hadn't read the code

Correctly

You are right

Isn't it the same for materials?

[flint needle]

np guys its working, the return did indeed make an instance and assign it as the docs say. Just not in the mesh collider just the mesh filter 🙏🏻 🥹

[hexed pecan]

Its similiar to renderer.material vs renderer.sharedMaterial, yes

[buoyant mural]

Hm

[flint needle]

appreciate your help have a nice day

[stone rock]

Hello, i have an event that doesn't seem to get fired or it does but the subscribed function isn't getting called
This is a part of the code in my script handling general events, it is a singleton but also has static events since i ran into an issue with the update cycles so needed to make sure the events were accessible at any time.

public static event Action OnPause = delegate { };
public static void Pause()
{
    OnPause();
}

This is a part of the script for my pause menu

private void Awake()
{
    GameEventsManager.OnPause += ActivateMenu;
}

private void OnDestroy()
{
    GameEventsManager.OnPause -= ActivateMenu;
}

public void ActivateMenu()
{
    Debug.Log("The activate menu function is called");
    this.gameObject.SetActive(true);
    _resumeGameButton.interactable = true;
    _mainMenuButton.interactable = true;
    _quitGameButton.interactable = true;
}

So i tested with some debugs and in the function Pause() the debug message get's called but after that it can't work it seems

I think it's probably the subscribing were the issue lies i assume

[buoyant mural]

Yeah

It is

[hexed pecan]

Not sure what you mean with the transparent borders. Would changing the texture's wrap mode to Repeat help?

[buoyant mural]

This is how a subscription looks like

private void OnEnable()
{
    GameEventsManager.OnPause += HandlePause;
}

private void OnDisable()
{
    GameEventsManager.OnPause -= HandlePause;
}

private void HandlePause()
{
    // Do something in response to the pause event
}```

[sweet inlet]

can i post a screenshot here?

i get transparent borders and the colors are wrong, its not supposed to be that saturated

and these dark blue icons i added are way too dark aswell, not sure why

[stone rock]

this doesn't seem to be different than what i have

[hexed pecan]

I think you should set the camera to orthographic and match its size to the map

[buoyant mural]

Yeah

[stone rock]

i changed to on enable and on disable and it is the same

[buoyant mural]

That was an example

Don't change

[sweet inlet]

there are different maps, need to figure out a way to dynamically change the camera then

[stone rock]

But what could the problem be with my subscription, it's a static event so i don't think it should be a problem

[swift falcon]

I have an asset bundle which I want to reference it in a script. If I put "public AssetBundle myAssetBundle" and then try to add it from the inspector, I cant.

[sweet inlet]

nvm, i forgot to mention that everything is on the UI layer, so ortographic doesnt do anything here

[hexed pecan]

Where do you set the size of the cam.targetTexture?

[sweet inlet]

that's a texture i have in my resources folder

[hexed pecan]

Okay, then you probably need to match that texture's size to your map

[sweet inlet]

i can try that approach

actually a good idea, i think i have a working idea

[stone rock]

Is it correct that Awake isn't called on disabled gameobjects that are disabled in the editor so at the start of the scene/game?

[cold parrot]

yes

[stone rock]

Yeah, just found it in the docs

I need to remember that because this was my issue

[cold parrot]

its a good idea to treat edit-mode disabled game objects as if they don't exist by your runtime

[stone rock]

Yeah, i will make more use of disabling in awake or somethng if they don't need to be active or another method.
I just had an event i needed to subscribe to for my pause menu but the menu was disabled

[cold parrot]

its a very useful property that if you break it can make handling your project much more annoying... just my experience... might not apply in special situations

[stone rock]

yeah, it's just in this specific case that it wasn't that useful

[cold parrot]

i've found that disabling components is the more useful approach to disabling behaviour

[leaden ice]

You can also separate the visual aspects from the logical aspects. E.g. leave the root object enabled with its scripts etc but have the visual elements all under a child object which is disabled

[stone rock]

Yeah, i will do one of those in the future

[elfin tree]

Off the top, can you guys think of a cleaner way of doing this other than just having a method only for that in the _deckController?

                while (_deckController.RemoveCardByKeyword(Keyword.DISCARD)) {}

It returns true if a card was removed. Is this that bad?

[plucky inlet]

Not sure what exactly you think is "bad"? I just wonder about the while loop for smoething, that sounds like a trigger, but besides that

[elfin tree]

I don't get what you mean in the second part

[west sparrow]

It's hard to say without seeing more. I'm assuming there is a reason you are using a while instead of an if. But the slowdown is going to be in the desk controllers code if there is a slowdown. In of itself, as long as that isn't in an update, I'm sure it's fine.

I'd probably go a different route and use an event when a card is removed, but I'm sure it makes little difference in functionality

[elfin tree]

And I don't know, I usually try to avoid those for some reason

[elfin tree]

Alright, yeah I guess it just looked unusual to me, I'll go for it!

[mossy shard]

if i wanna make an entity go to a specifc coord, do i just add the force forwward to the entity in the direction in which the position is and stop it when it reached it?

does it seam like a good idea?

or is something better

[west sparrow]

While statements are risky because they can lock your editor.

[plucky inlet]

You say, this returns true if you remove a card, that "remove a card" sounds to me like a thing that happens and is done, no ongoing action, thats why I called it a "trigger" and was wondering about a while loop

[mossy shard]

can't you make them syncronized?

[west sparrow]

That's pretty common.

[mossy shard]

oh really?

i never got interested in seeing how it's done

i just assumed that's how

[west sparrow]

Yeah, one of our VR flying games, we abuse the bejesus out of add force. The client wanted a lot of unusual specific mechanics (bout 15 specific formulas he wanted to apply depending on hand movements), so manipulating the force that way was the best way while preserving physics

[mossy shard]

oh alr, thx

[rustic ember]

Can someone point me in the direction of an algorithm? I need an algorithm that is similar to A* search, except that it searches for tiles within a certain distance. All tiles reachable within fx. 5 moves should be returned

[leaden ice]

Just use BFS with a depth limit

[uncut plank]

Dijkstra's algorithm can work if you implement it yourself

or perhaps theres an existing implementation

[leaden ice]

djikstras if your graph has weighted edges

BFS if not

[uncut plank]

oh right

got the name confused

[plucky inlet]

there is a github repo with examples, but its 4 years old, not sure its still relevant

[leaden ice]

Djikstra is basically a modified DFS/BFS with edge weights and a shortest-path table

but they don't really need shortest path

they just want to get the list of tiles

[plucky inlet]

https://github.com/dbrizov/Unity-PathFindingAlgorithms

[rustic ember]

Thank you both all for the suggestions 🙏

[leaden ice]

Actually I just wrote this for someone on here the other day

https://hatebin.com/wjqkcypvno

exactly the same problem you are solving

they wanted to highlight walkable tiles in their hex grid

[rustic ember]

Wow! I am so lucky 😁

[leaden ice]

ofc it assumes some things specific to their grid implementation

o you'll have to adapt it

but it's just a BFS with a depth limit

[rustic ember]

Thank you. I really appreciate it

[leaden ice]

one thing you won't have is the neighbors() function

but it's just a function that returns the neighbors for a given coordinate

[rustic ember]

all 6?

[leaden ice]

yes

[rustic ember]

alright

[leaden ice]

#archived-code-general message

how it worked out for them and their final script^

[magic harness]

hey guys, im having some trouble with 2D collisions not firing

[leaden ice]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/physics-messages @magic harness

[magic harness]

What is my set-up?
2 prefabs with 2 childs each. Each child has a trigger and a script attachted to it.
The prefab has a kinematic rigidbody 2d

layers are set to collide

i have tried disabling trigger and just seeing it if collides, and it doesnt

just went through all if that troubleshoot and still nothing

i am moving it using transform.position

but it is kinematic, so it shouldnt matter

i just need the trigger to fire

at least in the scene view, the collider moves correctly with the game object

im very confused

[plucky inlet]

if you use transform.position, you ignore collisions

and are the colliders the 2d version of it too?

[leaden ice]

follow the guide here #archived-code-general message

[plucky inlet]

Ahh thanks for the link, I just couldnt find the unity how to thing 🙂

[magic harness]

it was probably cause i was using transform.position

but not it just moves to 0,0 at start

[plucky inlet]

things dont move by themselves unless with gravity 😉 so you seem to set it somewhere.

[magic harness]

they are kinematic

[plucky inlet]

So maybe you show your current script and where you debug log that it is not hitting

[magic harness]

so this is my move function which gets called on fixedupdate

protected void Move(Vector3 goalPos)
    {
        Vector3 direction = (goalPos - transform.position).normalized;

        Vector3 nextPos = direction * moveSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
        body.MovePosition(nextPos);

    }

and this is my very simples message callbacks

so... debug.log in the trigger enter is working actually. but they are just instantly moving to 0,0,0 position on start. kinematic rigidbody2d and gravity set to 0,0,0 in project settings

[plucky inlet]

did you debug log your direction and nextPos ? I assume they are 0 too at some point

[leaden ice]

shouldn't this be:

body.MovePosition(body.position + nextPos);```

MovePosition takes an absolute new position

not a direction to move in

also nextPos is kind of poorly named - as it's more like a movementVector or positionDiff, not a position outright

[magic harness]

holy... you are right

thanks

[sonic stream]

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        Vector2 playerDirection = (Player.position - transform.position).normalized;
        if (Vector2.Distance(transform.position, Player.position) > 1.6f)
            _moveBody.velocity = (playerDirection * _speed).WithY(_moveBody.velocity.y);
    }

so i am trying to make an enemy follow the player with an offset,but it keeps alternating between the player's right and left,any idea how to fix it?

brb video is black for some reason,gonna rerecord

[leaden ice]

you're setting the velocity - but on the frames you DON'T set the velocity, it's going to just keep flying in the direction from earlier

because of newton's first law of motion

"An object at rest remains at rest, or if in motion, remains in motion at a constant velocity unless acted on by a net external force."

[sonic stream]

        if (Vector2.Distance(transform.position, Player.position) > 1.6f)
            _moveBody.velocity = (playerDirection * _speed).WithY(_moveBody.velocity.y);
        else
            _moveBody.velocity = Vector2.zero.WithY(_moveBody.velocity.y);

would this work?

[leaden ice]

i mean... sort of? It's going to be very stuttery

also you didn't mention before but it seems you are only interested in the x position for this?

[tidal locust]

I dont know if this comes under coding, or it might. But does anyone know why this happens ?

[leaden ice]

most likely an internal unity editor bug

[tidal locust]

I see, how does one fix that ?

[sonic stream]

yes

[leaden ice]

Nobody can fix it except Unity

[sonic stream]

so how would i stop the stuttering?

[leaden ice]

you need to adjust your velocity to make sure it's not going to overshoot the offset

[tidal locust]

Right, buttt its stopping me from working, is there a work around :?

[leaden ice]

how is it stopping you from working?

Turn off Error Pause in your console

[sonic stream]

sorry,but what do you mean?

[tidal locust]

I mean I did that, u mean click error pause right ?

[leaden ice]

In your screenshot, error pause is enabled

that's why your game is stopping whenever that error happens

turn it off to stop that from happening

[tidal locust]

Alright did that, but now the game is super laggy :/

[hexed pecan]

The error looks like a memory leak

[tidal locust]

ahhh I see, how does one fix that ?

Go through all my scripts and try and fix them>

could that be doing it

[hexed pecan]

Probably unity itself, try googling that error

[tulip violet]

any unity dev with regards to generative ai?

[solemn raven]

Hi ,
what is the equivalent of Math.Round() in unity ?

[tidal locust]

I ran the profiler and found this ?

[solemn raven]

Math.Round() has overloards , but Mathf.Round() doesnt
is there is any other alternative ?

[tidal locust]

Something under LogStringToConsole

[leaden ice]

What are you trying to accomplish

[solemn raven]

round a float to 2decimal or 3 or 5 .. etc

based on the equation

[leaden ice]

Well you can use Math.Round

no problem

but you can also do that with Mathf.Round

[solemn raven]

It higlights Math as unknown , do I need to add something ?

[leaden ice]

Take a guess

and maybe mouse over it

and see what it says

you should be used to fixing this by now 😉

[solemn raven]

oh yeahhh 😄 , thanks actually , i need to trusth that hint 😄

I remember when I first started to learn C# that tip used to do things and add drivatives that I didnt understood and scared me, so I stopped using it all together lol, I will start trusting it again 😄

[solemn raven]

Thanks alot ❤️

[tidal locust]

Just clicking in the editor gives me them error messages

Alright so I have restart unity and see if that fixes it, it has for now. I dont know if that is a full fix

[simple edge]

Restarting can fix quite a few unity issues sometimes
Unity's terrain system providing memory leaks comes to mind

[tidal locust]

You think its the the terrain ?

[simple edge]

No, that was just an example
Idk how long ago that was, but it used to have memory leaks

[tidal locust]

Ahhh I see, alright. well I think I might know what the issues was. I think it was the old first person controller ?

because I moved my game from 2018 version to the 2021 version

Nope it happen again

Do I just drop down a version ?

[inner yarrow]

Is there anyway to make an overlay camera use an oblique projection matrix?

[lean elbow]

guys

oculus dev hub

[leaden ice]

You can assign any projection matrix you want to any camera in Unity: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera-projectionMatrix.html

[lean elbow]

im trying to upload a build to oculus dev hub but it gives me a API error

[leaden ice]

Not a code issue

#🥽┃virtual-reality

[lean elbow]

thanks

[inner yarrow]

I do already have the projection matrix that I need applied to it, but it doesn't seem like it's being taken into account for the overlay.

[leaden ice]

the fact that it's an overlay camera isn't really a factor

[inner yarrow]

Simply changing the near clip plane does have an effect, but I don't want it to always be flat, so I need the oblique matrix.

I'm using it in a camera stack. The preview for it is using the custom clip plane, but the image being stacked onto the main camera's view is not.

[elfin tree]

How can I find the element of a list with the highest value using a .Get() method on it in LINQ?

I know I want to use .Max (default list method) and .GetHP (specific to my context).

I know how to get the value, but I want to get the object itself.

This is how I would get the value in case it helps:
opponents.Max(o => o.GetHP());

[tiny delta]

Hey there folks, I've created a few math-related methods for myself that I can use for a bunch of different scripts, so I'm planning on putting them in a separate script where they can be called. Should these go in a struct or a class? I was planning on a class, but then I saw that Mathf uses a struct so I'm not sure anymore.

[hexed pecan]

I would use a static class

Not sure why Mathf is a struct or if its common for these kinds of method collections

If someone knows the reason let me/us know

[late lion]

Looks more mathy, obv

I don't know the reason. There's no difference in performance or anything like that. But in my IDE theme, structs are a different color than classes, so Mathf is the same color as Vector3 and etc... Which I like, but 🤷‍♂️

[late lion]

LINQ doesn't have a built-in way to do this, so I would recommend just doing it manually in a foreach. There are workarounds to get it working with LINQ, but they will be much slower than doing it manually.

[buoyant crane]

👀 #1037106904876462113 message

[hexed pecan]

Hahah okay so its just a relic. Thanks 👍

Sometimes I forget how old unity is... 2007 damn

[tiny delta]

Good to know, thanks!

[buoyant crane]

i remembered i bookmarked this post for the future so i could look at it again but i forgot about the bookmark and never looked to see if it had an answer but i’m glad it does 😅

pretty interesting

[tiny delta]

Oh that makes sense

[worn crystal]

so wondering, but is there any way I can overwrite the default behavior of serialization? so specifically for my case, I have a struct called UnlockableId and its pretty much a wrapper for a string. the problem is that when I apply Serializable to the struct, in the asset hierarchy it serializes like this:

_unlockableId being the field name thats to be serialized, but itll serialize the _value under it

is there any way I can make it so that itll be morelike _unlockableId: {value} rather than it like this?

same deal on deserialization

[floral coral]

How can I automatically subscribe to a public event (like OnClick() for the UI button) if I have a reference to the instance of the object with the script that has the event?

[late lion]

No, I've never heard of a way to customize serialization to that degree.

[worn crystal]

its in yaml so im trying to see if I can overwrite its serialization/deserialization behavior

[late lion]

You could probably overwrite the yaml afterwards, but how are you going to convert it back just before Unity reads it again?

[oblique spoke]

Can you elaborate on the automatic part? Would if object not null, OnClick.AddListener code in your other object not do?

[tepid river]

Serializable will serialize all members, including privates

But its not the only qay to serialize things

[worn crystal]

thats sort of what im trying to figure out, a way to have it read/write differently so when it tries to fetch it afterwards itll implicitly convert it to the struct

[floral coral]

OnClick.AddListener
Thanks!

[late lion]

Why do you care what's in the yaml?

[worn crystal]

also another reason i want to do this being im setting these values to firebase, so i dont want there to be a bunch of _value fields

^ biggest reason being this

firebase is json serialization so im confident i can customize that behavior before i sent out the request though

[tepid river]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/dotnet/standard/serialization/selective-serialization

[late lion]

Why do you want to rely on Unity's serialization for this instead of rolling your own?

[worn crystal]

hmm fair, something i should consider

also do note, i dont plan on directly sending out the entire yaml string to firebase or anything lol

but fair enough, ill make some changes

[sonic stream]

    private void Update()
    {
        if (IsCloseToPlayer && Time.time >= _nextAttackTime)
        {
            var enemies = Physics2D.CircleCastAll(transform.position, 0.5f, transform.right, 1.5f, _playerLayer);
            OnAttack?.Invoke();
            _nextAttackTime = Time.time + 1 / _attackRate;
        }
    }

so i am trying to make it so that enemies attack the player when he is close to them,but they have a weird attack pattern,any ideas why this is happening?

[tepid river]

I usually use container objects for serialization but tbh ive never built a full scale save system. Usually thatbwas only fornsingle components

[worn crystal]

this is for saving objects to firebase, so i need it to be as small and lightweight as possible (hence why im trying to remove the redundant field)

[tepid river]

In my experience using extra containers was the rught thing to do, since loading/saving is notnsomething you want to clutter your class with

And it makes mocking data for testing easier too

[worn crystal]

we arent making a save system

[tepid river]

Well same goes for networking etc

Anything serialization related

[sonic stream]

Any help anyone?

[leaden ice]

wdym by "weird attack pattern"?

[sonic stream]

in the video

[leaden ice]

I watched it

wasn't sure what I was looking at exactly

it seemed like it attacked on a regular interval

[sonic stream]

it randomly attacks when the player leaves and when the player is still close,it doesn't attack

[leaden ice]

but you also moved your character at that same interval

[leaden ice]

well you're not really sharing enough code to make sense of it

We'd need to see the rest of the script

[sonic stream]

private static Transform Player => GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;

    private bool IsCloseToPlayer => Vector2.Distance(transform.position, Player.position) > 1.3f;

    public event System.Action OnAttack;
    [SerializeField]
    private LayerMask _playerLayer;
    [SerializeField, Min(0.01f)]
    private float _attackRate = 1;
    private float _nextAttackTime;

    private void Update()
    {
        if (IsCloseToPlayer && Time.time >= _nextAttackTime)
        {
            var enemies = Physics2D.CircleCastAll(transform.position, 0.5f, transform.right, 1.5f, _playerLayer);
            OnAttack?.Invoke();
            _nextAttackTime = Time.time + 1 / _attackRate;
        }
    }

this si what is inside the class

[leaden ice]

private bool IsCloseToPlayer => Vector2.Distance(transform.position, Player.position) > 1.3f;

this seems like it does the opposite of what its name is

it's checking if you are at least 1.3 meters away from the player

don't you want < instead of >?

[sonic stream]

let me see

[leaden ice]

(also this line var enemies = Physics2D.CircleCastAll(transform.position, 0.5f, transform.right, 1.5f, _playerLayer); seems to be unused entirely)

[sonic stream]

it will be used when i add the health system

[leaden ice]

how so

you already have a reference to the player

Oh I see it's the attack range or whatever

[sonic stream]

well it worked,thx

[leaden wharf]

Hello, im making a 2d platformer and want one part of the collider of the tilemap to be disabled when if press "s". Can anybody help me?

[uncut plank]

I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyeb7c0-R8c

[leaden wharf]

Yes, but does this work for parts of a tilemap? Because i cant add components to them

[candid trench]

Got a bit of a problem i need solved.

I have > 25 "units" in my game.
on the prefab of each unit i have a camera that is assigned a RenderTexture as a target texture that is created via code when the unit is instantiated.
This rendertexture is then used in my canvas to display sort of what units are selected during runtime.

This is working great, exactly as i want it.
Now here's the problem.
All the cameras ofcourse render all units, not only the parent unit that it is attached too.

I thought of using the Culling mask option of the camera to only render the specific unit. But that'd mean that i have to create some +25 layers for each of the units.
Is there any better way of doing this?

[uncut plank]

dunno how that would work with tilemaps

[leaden ice]

• Set all the culling masks to render the "snapshot" layer only.
• Before rendering the "snapshot" to the RT, move your unit to the snapshot layer
• take the snapshot
• move the unit back to its normal layer

only one of them will be in that layer at a time, so the culling masks will work

[candid trench]

hm. good idea. But will the rendertexture change over time then? or do you mean to just take a "snapshot" to get a still picture?

[leaden ice]

I assumed you meant still pictures

[candid trench]

I suppose i can swap then in and out every frame

them*

[candid trench]

oh no, i want live rendering of the units

otherwise id just make an icon in photoshop or whatever

[candid trench]

Cant figure out how to do it still x) tried something, but didnt work. To be fair i dont quite understand the "-Before rendering the "snapshot" to the RT..." part

do you mean move it to the snapshot layer before i call Create() on the rendertexture?

[rustic ember]

When was this added to C#? csharp List<Transform> objs = new();, specifically the csharp = new();

Wait nvm, its 9.0

I'm on 8.0 still 🫡🔫

[leaden ice]

This thing is only going to work if you're taking snapshots

You could also do it with manual Render calls on the cameras

but it's going to be really slow

[near crown]

guys Idk why is my character behaving like that

All I added was a RB.AddForce ; but even removing it won't resolve this... help

[leaden ice]

looks like your code is messing with the vertical velocity

possibly setting it to 0 each frame

[near crown]

it isnt

the addforce

[leaden ice]

I bet you one chicken nugget it is

[near crown]

adds, doesnt it?

[leaden ice]

show your code

[near crown]

wait

it got modifyed

[leaden ice]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[leaden ice]

Post code this way^

[near crown]

ok

https://hatebin.com/jzfvkajlbp

I really tryed anything, the Rigidbody bahaves weird even without the script

[leaden ice]

yeah you have something else in the scene causing this

some script on a different object

[near crown]

and what is it^

[leaden ice]

try disabling all your ther objects in the scene

until it works normally

[near crown]

nothing

on an empty gameobject tho the rigidbody works normal

[leaden ice]

show your whole scene

you've got some other scripts around

[near crown]

um no

[candid trench]

cant even get the snapshots to work lol.

[near crown]

I don't

[leaden ice]

you must

[near crown]

I don't have other scripts that could mess with it

[leaden ice]

copy mario into another scene

[near crown]

okie dokie

[leaden ice]

also show what the script looks lioke int he inspector when you select it

maybe you forgot to save your changes

Like what's this "Player" script I see in your assets

[near crown]

Player script? You mean MarioMove?

[leaden ice]

no

I mean the one called "Player"

it's in your screenshot

[near crown]

ah that one

it just gets the new input system

btw Mario in a new scene works just fine

maybe smth with that camera script... let me check

[leaden ice]

sounds likely

like I said - probably one of your other scripts

[near crown]

I'll show you them all while I check wich scripts mess up the whole thing

[leaden ice]

show the camera one

[near crown]

https://hatebin.com/bbebsvrveq

[leaden ice]

RB.position = Position;

bruh

you're doing this

every frame

and you're confused about why you're seeing what you're seeing??

[near crown]

but it's on the camera

it has its own rigidbody

[leaden ice]

It doesn't matter where the script is

[near crown]

I belive

[leaden ice]

1. Why on earth would a camera have a Rigidbody
2. You're doing FindObjectOfType<Rigidbody2D>()

[rustic ember]

What is this for? cs out neighborDepth

[leaden ice]

that will find ANY Rigidbody2D

[rustic ember]

On line 13

[leaden ice]

not just the one on that object

[near crown]

okie dokie ty

[leaden ice]

just grabbing the existing depth from the dictionary for that coordinate

Sorry that can just be out _ @rustic ember - we don't actually care about it

[sterile tendon]

I'm trying to make a 4-track audio player that lets you swap out different "stems" of a song in real time, but I'm running into issues with getting the total amount of "beats" elapsed since the start. Since you can change the tempo in real time, I'm using
beatsSinceStart += Time.deltaTime * tempo.value / 60; which works on lower tempos but gradually becomes inaccurate with faster ones. is there any better way to do this?

[rustic ember]

Right, that's what I thought. Does TryGetValue always need an out?

[leaden ice]

Looking back that line should just be this:

if (depths.HasKey(neighbor))```

[leaden ice]

yes

that's how it returns the value

but we're not using it

so HasKey is better

[rustic ember]

Right, okay. Thanks again 😅

[sterile tendon]

oh nvm AudioSource.timeSamples exists

[leaden ice]

yea you should use this and/or dspTime whenever possible

[rustic ember]

I think it's ContainsKey on C# 8.0

[leaden ice]

plausible

[rustic ember]

Unless that is something differnt

[leaden ice]

I just pulled it out of my ass 😉

ContainsKey is probably right

[sterile tendon]

oh that's what I needed!

thanks

[rustic ember]

ahah okay. Where all the best knowledge is from'

[near crown]

Ty @leaden ice now the rigidbody works as usual

[candid trench]

actually managed to get memory leaks in a language with a garbagecollector. wonderful, good job me

[candid trench]

actually managed to create the effect i wanted. Using what you said about snapshotting and manual render calls on the camera. I'm not noticing any slowing down in my game either.
Hats off to you for the idea, thanks!

[rustic ember]

Is a Queue any different than a List where you .RemoveAt(0)?

[candid trench]

not to my knowledge

[rustic ember]

Alright. Thanks

[candid trench]

there might be some internal optimizations to queue tho. Since its kind of designed for that kind of thing.

[rustic ember]

Right. It looks like Queue.Dequeue() returns the item, while List.RemoveAt() returns void

[candid trench]

aye ofcourse, but thats just a quality of life sort of a thing. you can easily make your own dequeue for list

private Item Dequeue(List<Item> list)
{
  Item item = list[0];
  list.RemoveAt(0)
  return item
}

[somber nacelle]

single ` ` around text instead of triple

[candid trench]

or if youre using Linq you can use list.First()

or just save yourself the hassle and use a Queue if you intend to have a list that is a Queue ^^

[rustic ember]

Oh, nice. I like how clean the Queue thing is though

[rustic ember]

Yeah

[leaden ice]

yes it's faster.

list.RemoveAt(0) will be an O(n) operation

queue.Dequeue will be O(1) or O(log(n)) or something fast like that

[candid trench]

how is not queue a O(n) operation ? 😮

i may have forgotten something from my class in datastructures...

[leaden ice]

It's probably implemented as a ring buffer or linked list under the hood

[candid trench]

hm, right

[leaden ice]

with a list, RemoveAt(0) requires you to shift all elements of the backing array

[rustic ember]

I'll have to look up what a ring buffer is

[candid trench]

yea, thats what i asumed Queue was doing anyways

[leaden ice]

nah it's definitely more optimized than that

[somber nacelle]

when you remove from a list it has to shift all of the following elements down. queue just removes from the end without needing to perform any other operations and it always has a reference to the end position making it O(1)

[candid trench]

what about when you put something into queue then?

[somber nacelle]

also o(1)

[leaden ice]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.queue-1?view=net-7.0

This class implements a generic queue as a circular array
Yep seems like it's a ring buffer

[candid trench]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[simple egret]

It is, source code for anyone interested<

https://source.dot.net/#System.Private.CoreLib/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Collections/Generic/Queue.cs,18

[somber nacelle]

ah perfect, was just looking for that

[leaden ice]

        private int _head;       // The index from which to dequeue if the queue isn't empty.
        private int _tail;  ``` 
Basically it keeps these head and tail index pointers into the array to know where the ends are to add/remove from

[rustic ember]

What happens when it reaches the end of the allocated memory?

If that is even a thing

[leaden ice]

it will have to reallocate the array as a larger array

same thing List does

[somber nacelle]

https://source.dot.net/#System.Private.CoreLib/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Collections/Generic/Queue.cs,173

[leaden ice]

that's an O(n) operation but it's amortized across all add operations in the analysis so it's still considered O(1) to add

[rustic ember]

Damn. Computers are so cool

[candid trench]

haha, no. People are so cool

someone came up with it you know

😉

[rustic ember]

I guess

[neon plank]

Question: I'm using NavMeshSurface collect CurrentObjectHierarchy. How can I in addition to collect all objects from the hierarchy, to also include some cherry-picked gameobjects from outside?

[sterile tendon]

weird I'm still running into tempo issues

    void Update()
    {
        if (started)
        {
            float totalTime = (float)AudioSettings.dspTime;
            float newTime = totalTime - oldTime;
            beatsSinceStart += newTime * tempo.value / 60.0f;
            oldTime = totalTime;
            if (beatsSinceStart >= 32)
            {
                beatsSinceStart = 1;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            oldTime = (float)AudioSettings.dspTime;
        }
    }

could the fact that I'm changing the speed of the audioplayer be impacting precision?

[leaden ice]

I wouldn't even keep my own timer here.

[nova roost]

The Unity documentation for Input.GetAxis states that the value is frame independant. This doesn't mean we won't need to multiply by Time.deltaTime, correct? For movement it's still
float movementX = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
Is there a difference between GetAxis("Mouse X") and GetAxis("Horizontal") regarding this? I've noticed the values for the mouse exceed the -1 to 1 range. Is this a special case? Which line would be correct?

float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;```

[leaden ice]

Mouse axes are a special case

and they are mentioned in the docs

you should not multiply mouse input by deltaTime

it is already framerate independent

[nova roost]

Great!

[leaden ice]

Couldn't you do:

double songStart;

void StartPlaying() {
  songStart = AudioSettings.dspTime;
}

double beatsSinceStart => (AudioSettings.dspTime - songStart) / (songBPM * 60);```

[sterile tendon]

yeah but the tempo is controlled independently so I have to integrate it

or just add it every frame

[leaden ice]

oh right

[sterile tendon]

thanks though! this is really helpful

[leaden ice]

when you change tempo how does that affect the audio system